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Jan. 6.
Ditton. |
To the chancellor of Ireland. Order to direct the sheriffs and other
ministers in Ireland who are addressed by writ under the seal used in that
land, not to distrain John Coterel for his homage, as he has done homage
to the king for the lands which he holds in chief both of his own inheritance and acquisition and of the inheritance of Eleanor his wife. By p.s. |
Jan. 12.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order, upon sight of these
presents, to cause all ships in the port of Southampton laden with corn to
be taken to parts hostile to the king, to be arrested and detained together
with the corn until they have received security from the merchants, masters
and mariners of the ships both by lawful men and by oath that they will
not take the corn to the said hostile parts, and will bring back letters from
the place where the unlading takes place, and the mayor' and bailiffs shall
certify the king of the security, in chancery, as the king caused proclamation to be made throughout the realm, that no merchant or other person
should take any corn out of the realm except to Gascony, Ireland, Flanders,
Britanny, Brabant, Spain, Holand, Seland and Almain, where a scarcity
of corn, it is said, causes it to be taken, upon pain of forfeiture of the corn,
and that the taking of the corn should be made in the ports of London,
Southampton, Exeter, Dertemuth, Bristol, Great Yarmouth, Lenn, Boston,
Kyngeston upon Hull, Ipswich and Newcastle upon Tyne and not elsewhere,
and that all those who took such corn should take an oath and find
security as aforesaid before the mayor and bailiffs of the town where the
corn is laded; and now the king has learned that several ships are now
laded with corn in the port of Southampton and ready to set out with a
favourable wind to parts hostile to the king, notwithstanding the
proclamation. By C. |
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The like to the sheriff of Southampton. |
Jan. 20.
Windsor. |
To Saier Lorymer, appointed to arrest ships laden with wool, wool-fells
and hides not coketted or customed, crossing out of the realm. Order to
cause those three packs of non-customed wool, found by him in a ship in
the port of Sandwich and arrested as forfeited to the king, as he has
certified in chancery, to be appraised by the oath of lawful men of those
parts in the presence of the mayor and bailiffs of that town, and cause them
to be sold at the highest possible price and to have the money arising
therefrom at the exchequer as quickly as possible to be delivered to the
treasurer there. By C. |
Jan. 18.
Windsor. |
To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to pay to
John Maurdyn, parker of the new park of Wyndesore, what is in arrear to
him of his customary wages from the time of the constable's appointment,
and to pay him such wages henceforth. |
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Jan. 24.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. John Lovekyn and
Richard de Kyselyngbury, late sheriffs of London, have shown the king that
although Thomas Bray the younger, who was lately indicted for non-coketted
and not customed wool taken out of the realm, and was afterwards outlawed
by process held thereupon before Robert Parvyng and his fellows, justices
appointed to hear and determine indictments concerning wool so taken, had
no lands in the ward of Algate or elsewhere in that city at any time, yet
because it was found in the extracts of thesaid justices sent to the exchequer
that on the day that Thomas was outlawed he had a certain tenement in
the said ward worth 40s. a year, and that John and Richard are charged to
answer therefor to the king yearly, the treasurer and barons caused the 40s.
yearly to be exacted of John and Richard, whereupon they have besought
the king to provide a remedy: the king, wishing justice to be done, sends
to the treasurer and barons under the half-seal the tenor of the record
and process of the outlawry and of the inquisition concerning the lands of
Thomas returned before the justices, which the king caused to come before
him in chancery, ordering them to inspect the said tenor and enquire upon
the suggestion made by John and Richard, and if they find that Thomas
held no lands in the said ward or elsewhere in the city on the day when he
was outlawed or at any other time, then to supersede the demand made
upon John and Richard for the said 40s. yearly. |
Jan. 24.
Westminster. |
To Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler. Order to deliver to Joan de
Carrue 6 tuns of wine of the right prise in the port of Bristol, for the
present year, after receiving from her so much as he is bound to pay to the
merchants from whom he caused the wine to be taken, as the king granted
to Joan 6 tuns of wine to be received yearly of the right prise in that port,
during the king's good pleasure, and afterwards he granted that she should
receive 6 tuns as aforesaid for life. |
Jan. 20.
Westminster. |
To Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place
in the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to Maurice de Berkele, 2 tuns of
wine of the right prise for the present year, by indenture, in accordance
with the king's grant to him on 14 May last of 2 tuns of such wine to be
received yearly for life by the hands of the butler. |
