Close Rolls, Edward III: September 1350

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: September 1350', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354, (London, 1906) pp. 267-268. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol9/pp267-268 [accessed 23 April 2024]

September 1350



Sept. 7. Westminster.	To the sheriffs of London. Order to release Richard Petyt of Wyndesore and John Fissher from gaol without delay, although the king ordered the sheriffs to arrest them and keep them in Newgate gaol until further order, for certain trespasses and contempts to the king and John de Alkeshull, the king's purveyor of brushwood and other necessaries for the works in the king's palace of Westminster and the Tower of London, in the presence of the bailiffs of Henle, as Richard and John have long endured the pain of imprisonment, and have satisfied the said purveyor for the trespasses, as he has acknowledged in chancery, and the king wishes to show favour to them for 1 mark which they have paid to the hanaper, and because Walter Pouchemaker of Wyndesore and Walter Sebern of Boveneye of London have mainperned in chancery that they will behave well henceforth.
Sept. 8. Rotherhithe.	To Bartholomew de Burgherssh, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover. Order to permit William fitz Waryn, with six yeomen and seven horses, to cross from that port on a pilgrimage to the city of Rome, with his expenses in gold, without any other apportum. By K.
	[Fœdera.]
	One hundred and seventy-seven others have like orders at different dates to set out on a pilgrimage to Rome with yeomen, horses, etc. [Ibid, reading Ed[mund] de Morteyn for Edward de Morteyn; Agnes Gilmyns for Agnes Gulmyns; Richard Bie for Richard Wye; Robert and William Manser for Robert and William Maners; Richard de Aask for Richard de Dask, and John Hevid for John Heind.]
	The following also have like orders:
	John Pyel and Henry Stubeon, Simon de Mordon, William Doget, Richard Vyncent, chaplain, and Roger Fynch, with a groom and eight horses. By K.
	William de Reygate.
	William de Berlay.
	John de Neuton.
	Richard de Lutryngton of York.
	Adam de Hedlay, parson of Monketon church.
	Ida lady of Nevill of Essex, with damsels and grooms to the number of twenty persons and twenty horses.
	Membrane 11d.
Sept. 22. Hertford.	To William Condy, bailiff of Sandwich. Order to cause 3 sarplars, 4 pockets of wool of John Foghel of Sandwich and John Facy of Caleys to be kept in their custody until further order, and to cause their persons to be arrested and sent before the king and his council at London without delay, so that they be there on the morrow of Michaelmas next at latest, to answer the things laid against them, and further to do and receive what shall be determined, and to warn Stephen James of Sandwich, William de Yok, Henry de Littlebourn and certain others of Sandwich, to be there to give information to the king and council, as the king is informed that Stephen and the others lately arrested the said wool about midnight at Kyngesdoune near the sea in Kent, brought there by night in two carts, to be laded in a small ship of Donkirke whereof John Gollard is master, near that place, to be taken to parts beyond the sea without paying the custom or subsidy thereon, and they had the wool taken to Sandwich and delivered to the said bailiff there.