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March 24.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Bedford. Writ of supersedeas in favour of
Richard Mascall, and order by mainprise of Thomas Whyte
'iremonger,' Ralph Walsham 'taillour,' Thomas Whyssh
'draper,' all of London, and William Hardewyke of Bedfordshire
to set him free, if taken at suit of the late king and John Radewelle for leaving John Radewelle's service before the term agreed. |
March 30.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause proclamation to
be made in the port of London and other places adjacent,
forbidding any man of whatsoever estate or condition under pain
of forfeiture thereof to put any cloth or merchandise, pack any
cloth or shew or open other merchandise to be imported and
unladed, or to be exported or laded, in any other place or places
save a particular place by the treasurer lately appointed by
command of the king, to the end that the same may there be
customed without fraud or deceit, and directing the customers
in that port to suffer none to be put, packed, shewn or opened
elsewhere; as the king's will is that true answer be made, as he
is bound, for all the customs, subsidies, etc. upon all cloth and
merchandise imported and exported, without fraud and concealment. By K. and C. |
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Like writs to the following: |
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The sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
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The mayor of Kyngeston upon Hull. |
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The mayor of Lenne. |
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The bailiffs of St. Botolphs town. |
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The bailiffs of Gippewich. |
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The mayor of Cicestre. |
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The mayor of Sandewich. |
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The sheriff of Bristol. |
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The bailiffs of Great Jernemuth. |
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The bailiffs of Plymmouth and Fowy. |
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The mayors of Exeter and Dertemouth. |
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The bailiffs of Melcombe. |
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The bailiffs of Briggewate. |
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Memorandum of a mainprise under a pain of 20l., made in
chancery 5 April this year by John atte Sonde, John Gay, John
Sayene and Hugh Northrygge of Surrey for Richard Tymme,
that he shall do or procure no hurt or harm to Peter Louecoke or
any other lieges. |
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Also of a like mainprise, mutatis mutandis, made by John
Boughton, John Gay, Richard Crokker, and John atte Sonde
of Surrey for the said Peter in regard to Richard Tymme etc. |
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Also of a like mainprise made by John Boughton, John atte
Sonde, Thomas Smyth of Walton and William Quayle of Surrey
for John Dogelle in regard to John Sayene etc. |
April 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order, for particular causes specially
moving the king and council, to cause proclamation to be made,
that all who have any annuities or other gifts or grants for life
or years from King Edward III, King Richard II or John duke
of Lancastre shall before 22 May next at their peril send or
bring into chancery true copies of the letters patent made them
concerning the same. By K. and C. |
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Like writs to singular the sheriffs throughout England. |
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Memorandum of a mainprise under a pain of 40l., made in
chancery 13 April this year by Thomas Stanton, Thomas Walle,
William Drapere, William Kent, John Gage and Thomas Hore
for William Kyng, John Costantyn, Thomas Gage, William
Notyngham, John Hardyng, William Glovere, John Leche,
John Greyndoun, Richard Stanes and Thomas Broun, that they
shall do or procure no hurt or harm to the abbot of Cirencestre,
the canons his fellows, their servants or any of the people. |
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Vacated, because otherwise this year. |
March 21.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to cause proclamation to be made, that no liege man of whatsoever estate or
condition, and no other dweller within the realm, dominions,
powers or districts of the king may upon any pretence or for
any cause send property, wares, money by exchange or goods
which may directly or indirectly come to the hands, use or profit
of the Genoese, of men of the jurisdiction or subjects of Genoa
(Janua), dwellers there or in the district thereof, their factors or
attorneys, under pain of forfeiting the same and losing double
the value, and that no liege man or stranger shall bring or cause
to be brought to any part of the said realm etc. any merchandise
of the said Genoese etc. their factors or attorneys, or any other
merchandise laded in their ships, under pain of forfeiting the same,
unless such merchandise be taken for reprisal to the use of the
king's merchants, or to the use of some other lieges for reasonable
cause; as in consideration of the intolerable damage and grievance
maliciously and fraudulently inflicted upon the merchants of
London, who with the late king's licence lately despatched a
certain quantity of wool and other merchandise to the parts
beyond the Alps, by the Genoese who have for a long while been
entreated with favour within the realm, as it is notorious, and as
appears by decrees publicly proclaimed by the Genoese, in the
hope that contrary to the public weal they shall be comforted
with merchandise and profits of the realm to their liking, to be
sent over by feigned colour to foreign parts to them favourable
by inhabitants of the king's region who are mindful not of his
nor of the public weal but only of their private advantage, to
the prejudice of the king, the diminution of his custom and
subsidy and the abasement of the public, and to the comfort and
impunity of the Genoese in their malice, which the king will not
endure, his will is to save him harmless and make provision for
the common weal. By K. |
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Like writs to the following: |
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The mayor of Calais. |
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The bailiffs of Gippewich. |
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The mayor and bailiffs of Suthampton. |
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Membrane 37d. |
March 22.
Westminster. |
To Th. archbishop of Canterbury. Summons to a parliament
at Westminster three weeks after Easter next, with the clause
premunientes. |
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Like writs to H. archbishop of York, R. bishop of London and
seventeen other bishops. |
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[Report on Dignity of a Peer, iv. p. 816.] |
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To the abbot of Peterborough. Summons to the said parliament. |
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Like writs to the abbot of St. John Colcestre and 23 other
abbots, the prior of Coventre and the prior of St. John of Jerusalem
in England. |
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[Ibid.] |
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To Edward Courtenay earl of Devon. Summons to the said
parliament. |
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Like writs to Thomas earl of Arundell, four other earls, Hugh
Stafford and 31 others, including Master Thomas de la Warre,
one only being styled chivaler. |
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[Ibid., p. 817.] |
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To the sheriff of Kent. Order at the next county [court] to
make proclamation of the day and place aforesaid, and to cause
two knights of the shire girt with the sword, two citizens of every
city and two burgesses of every borough to be elected by them
that be present at that proclamation, and to come to the said
parliament. The king's will is that the sheriff be not elected,
nor any other sheriff. |
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Like writs to singular the sheriffs throughout England, and to
the chancellor in the county palatine of Lancastre. |
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[Ibid.] |
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To the sheriff of Bristol. Like order, mutatis mutandis, for
election of two burgesses. |
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Like writs to the following, mutatis mutandis: |
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The sheriffs of London for election of four citizens. |
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The sheriffs of York for election of two citizens. |
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The sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne for election of two
burgesses. |
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The sheriffs of Norwich for election of two citizens. |
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The sheriffs of Lincoln for election of two citizens. |
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[Ibid.] |
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To William Gascoigne the chief justice. Summons to the said
parliament. |
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Like writs to William Thirnyng chief justice of the Common
Bench and to ten others. |
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[Ibid., p. 818.] |
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To the constable of Dovorre castle and warden of the Cinque
Ports, or to his representative. Order to cause two barons of
every port to be elected and come to the said parliament. |
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[Ibid.] |
