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May 3.
Westminster. |
To the keepers of the passage in the port of Great Jernemuth
and the searcher in that port. Order for particular causes to
suffer a ship of John Rothenhale and Stephen Wylof called
'la Katerine' of Lowystof laded with cloth and other merchandise, which is now in that port, to pass to foreign parts after
payment of customs, subsidies etc. thereupon due, notwithstanding the king's late command to suffer no ships or vessels of
thirty tuns burden or more to pass to any such parts until further
order without special licence of the king. |
May 5.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Devon for election of a coroner instead
of Ralph Daubernoun, who is insufficiently qualified. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To Henry prince of Wales, constable of Dovorre castle and
warden of the Cinque Ports, or to his lieutenant. Order to
summon the barons of every port, and of the members thereof,
to be at their pain and peril at Suthampton before the morrow of
St. John Baptist next with ships and seamen in array, ready to
sail with the king's fleet and perform their service, as they are
bound, certifying in chancery under seal the summons when
made; as from year to year they owe the king certain services at
sea, if need be, namely to find 57 ships at summons of the king
upon forty days' notice, and in every ship twenty men and a
master armed and arrayed for such service, which ships shall at
the cost of the said ports sail whither they be summoned, and
when they shall come thither shall abide fifteen days at the same
cost and after that shall abide with the men therein at cost of
the king so long as he shall please, if he shall have need of their
service, the master taking 6d. a day, the constable 6d., and every
other 3d., as the king is assured by the charters of liberties granted
to the barons by his forefathers, by him confirmed, and enrolled
in chancery; and for particular causes his purpose is shortly
to make an expedition at sea in person against the enemy with
his power, willing that the barons shall perform their service
to reinforce his fleet. |
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May 5.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Suthampton for election of a coroner
instead of John atte Rythe, who is insufficiently qualified. |
April 20.
Westminster. |
Like order to the sheriff of Westmerland in regard to John
Milnethorpe the younger. |
April 29.
Westminster. |
Like order to the sheriff of Norhampton for election of a
verderer in Whitilwode forest instead of John Chitwode knight,
who is dead. |
April 2.
Westminster. |
To the keepers of the passage in the port of London, Dovorre
or Sandewich. Order to suffer Lawrence de Pastoche, otherwise
de Tar, a knight of Hungary who with licence of the king is sailing
over sea, to pass whither he shall please in one of those ports
with his servants, goods and harness whatsoever, any former
command to the contrary notwithstanding, so that he take with
him nought to the prejudice of the king or realm. By p.s. [7174.] |
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May 4.
Westminster. |
To John Bryde escheator in Wiltesir. Order to remove the
king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Draycote
Folyot, delivering to Thomas de Berkeley of Berkeley knight
any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition,
taken by the escheator, that Amy who was wife of Gerard Lysle
at her death held no lands in that county in chief in her demesne
as of fee nor otherwise, but by grant of Warin de Insula held the
said manor for life with reversion to the said Warin and to his
heirs, that after his death in her life time the reversion descended
to Margaret late wife of the said Thomas as daughter and heir
of Warin, that a fine after levied at Westminster, to wit on the
morrow of St. Martin 6 Richard II, and was recorded in the
octaves of Michaelmas 7 Richard II, between the said Thomas
and Margaret plaintiffs and Ralph Waleys and Walter Burnell
parson of Bruyn deforciants, concerning the manor of Kiselyngbury co. Norhampton the advowson excepted, and the manor of
Draycote Folyot whereof the said Amy was tenant for life by
name of Amy who was wife of Gerard de Insula knight, that
thereby the plaintiffs acknowledged the right of the said Ralph,
and the deforciants granted the reversion thereof after the said
Amy's death to the said Thomas and Margaret and to the heirs
of their bodies, that the said Amy died thereof seised of the estate
aforesaid on Wednesday before Easter last, that the said Margaret
died long before that date, and that the said Thomas, to whom
the premises are entailed, is yet living and of full age, that the
right pertains to him by virtue of the said fine, and that the said
manor is held of another than the king. |
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To William Wylde escheator in Norhamptonshire. Like order,
mutatis mutandis, concerning the manor of Kiselyngbury, the
advowson excepted. |
May 7.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order by mainprise of John Greyne
'cordewaner,' William Yonge 'fysshemonger,' John Holme
'fysshemonger' and John Stapulton 'travelyngman,' all of
London, to set free John Este of London; as they have mainperned in chancery that he shall do or procure no hurt or harm
to John Glover 'clerke.' |
May 11.
Westminster. |
To the constable of Dovorre castle and warden of the Cinque
Ports, or to his lieutenant. Order to put in safe custody all
ships, prisoners, wine, goods and merchandise taken at sea which
are within the liberty of those ports, except all those taken by
men of John Prendregest knight by virtue of letters of marque
and reprisal granted by the king to certain lieges of the Isle of
Wight, and to be kept until further order, not eloigning nor
spending the same; as the king has information that divers ships
and prisoners, with certain tuns of wine etc. therein, now of late
taken by the said men and by other lieges, are brought to divers
places within that liberty. By K. |
May 10.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Somerset. Order to give Thomas son and
heir of Thomas Romesey seisin of his father's lands; as he has
proved his age before Robert Vele escheator in Dorset, and the
king has taken his homage and fealty. By p.s. [7205.] |
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Like writs to the escheators in the county of Suthampton and
in Wiltesir. |
May 13.
Westminster. |
To the warden of the Cinque Ports or his lieutenant. Order for
particular causes to suffer no person of whatsoever degree, estate,
birth, suit or condition in any of those ports to pass to foreign
parts until further order. By K. |
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Like writs, mutatis mutandis, to the keepers of the passage in
the ports of Dovorre and Sandewich. By K. |
May 12.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Westmerland for election of a coroner
instead of William Leuenesse, who is insufficiently qualified. |
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May 16.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order not
to trouble Robert de Roos, son and heir of James de Roos knight,
for his homage; as lately his age was proved before John Thorley
late escheator in Lincolnshire, and for a fine paid in the hanaper
the king respited his homage until a day now past, and commanded livery to be given him of his father's lands; and now the
king has taken his homage. By p.s. [7216.] |
May 19.
Westminster. |
To the keepers of the passage in the port of London, Dovorre or
Sandewich. Order to suffer William Caston esquire the controller,
one of the hired soldiers of Calais, and certain other persons
hired soldiers of that town now in England, who with licence of the
king are sailing to Calais, to pass in one of those ports with their
servants, any former command to the contrary notwithstanding,
so that they take with them nought to the prejudice of the king
or realm, first taking of the controller an oath that the said persons
are hired soldiers of Calais and no other, and that he and the others
shall take no strangers under colour of being their servants. |
May 29.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause the body of Rys Dee,
lately condemned to death and beheaded for treason whereof he
was convicted, which is in their custody, to be buried with the
rites of the church within the city or suburb of London. By K. |
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May 18.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Northumberland. Order to take of
Katherine who was wife of John Heroun of Thornton an oath
etc., and in presence of Robert Herbotell to whom the king has
committed the ward of all her husband's lands, to assign her
dower. |
May 18.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to set free John Asshe, by
them taken and imprisoned in Newegate gaol upon a slight
suspicion of larceny it is said, if he shall find mainpernors to be
before the justices of gaol delivery at their next coming for
delivery of that gaol; as in the statute of Westminster it is
contained that those taken upon such suspicion are replevisable,
so that they be of good fame. |
May 19.
Westminster. |
To the constable of Rouchestre castle or his lieutenant, and to
the bailiffs of Rouchestre. Order to suffer Richard Cliderowe
victualler of Calais, without payment of the subsidy payable at
Rouchestre bridge, to take over stone and timber appointed for
repair of the town of Calais and not otherwise, which are laded in
ships, and are at Rouchestre in the river Medewey. |
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May 18.
Westminster. |
To William Gascoigne and his fellows, justices appointed to
hold pleas before the king. Order, upon petition of John Best,
to proceed in a cause between him and William abbot of Westminster and brother Richard Haruden monk his fellow for
trespass, the allegations of the defendants notwithstanding, so
that they proceed not to rendering of judgment without advising
the king; as the petitioner has shewn that on Friday before
Ascension day 12 Henry IV by force of arms, with swords and
staves, they took and led away a horse of his found at 'Harowe
othe Hille', price 40s., that the abbot alleged that the late king was
seised of the manor of Northalle co. Middlesex, and by charter
indented, dated Wyndesore 23 April 22 Richard II and by the
abbot produced, for his wealth while he lived, his soul after death
and the soul of Queen Anne, gave the same among other manors
and lands to the church of St. Peter Westminster and the said
abbot, and to the prior and convent thereof and their successors,
upon this condition (among others), that they and their successors
should make special celebrations and prayers for his healthy
estate and the prosperity of the realm, should celebrate the queen's
obit on a set day during his life, and after his death an obit for
himself and the said queen together, on that day giving 1d. to
every one of the poor flocking to their house, and alleging that
on and before the date of that king's gift the petitioner was a
neif of the king to the said manor pertaining, and that the king,
his forefathers, ancestors and all they whose estate he had therein
were seised of the petitioner and his ancestors time out of mind
as of their neifs thereto pertaining, and that he is a neif of the
abbot likewise, and brother Richard alleged that the petitioner
is a neif of the abbot as aforesaid, and that by command of the
abbot he took the horse at Westminster as the abbot's horse
found in possession of the petitioner, as lawful was, shewing that
the petitioner replied and said that he is a free man and of free
condition and no neif of the abbot as they alleged, and shewing
that both parties putting themselves upon the country, the
defendants alleged that by the law of the land they might not
await trial of the issue without advising the king, craving aid
of the king, wherefore the justices have deferred to proceed. |
