Close Rolls, Henry VI: July 1430 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 2, 1429-1435. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1933.

'Close Rolls, Henry VI: July 1430', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 2, 1429-1435, (London, 1933) pp. 16-17. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen6/vol2/pp16-17 [accessed 19 April 2024]

July 1430



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July 24. Westminster.	To the escheator in Hertfordshire. Order to give John now abbot of St. Albans livery of one hide and 43 acres of land in Harpisfelde, which land is called the Brachez, as an escheat; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that John Harpisfelde, father of John Harpisfelde his son and heir, died thereof seised, that after his death the same descended to John the son as son and heir, that by reason of his idiocy the premises came to the hands of King Henry IV, and are yet in the king's hand, that the said hide is held of the abbot in right of his church by fealty and the service of finding every abbot for the time being a nag (caballum) to carry a yeoman to Tynemuth whensoever the abbot shall ride thither, and the said land is held of the abbot by fealty and the service of paying 13s. 4d. a year, and that John the son died without an heir, wherefore the premises ought to revert to the abbot as an escheat. (fn. 1)
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March 15. Leeds castle.	To the customers in the port of Sandewich, the keepers of the passage and the searcher in that port. Order without taking customs, subsidies or duties to suffer John Blysse master of a ship called 'la Christofre' of Sandewich to lade in a ship or ships and bring to London 50 quarters of wheat; as John de Walpole of London by his deputies has bought and purveyed that wheat for consumption of his household and the household of Thomas Haseley esquire, and has caused it to be taken to Sandwich to be brought to London; and the said Thomas has mainperned in chancery that the said John himself or his deputies shall carry it nowhere else.
March 11. Westminster.	To the collectors of the petty custom in the port of Suthampton for the time being. Order to pay to William Burgoigne 10 marks a year for life, and the arrears since Michaelmas last; as King Henry IV by letters patent, confirmed by the late king and by the king 27 January 1 Henry VI, granted to the said William for life 10 marks a year of the said custom.
	Et erat patens.
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April 17. Canterbury.	To the customers in the port of London. Order with assent of the council, upon petition of John Smyth of Seintrude of Liège, Arnold Scontuth, Godfrey Martynson, John Denys, Matthew Grunberth, John Ingelingen and Peter Hughson, to suffer them, after payment of customs, subsidies etc. thereupon due, to lade in ships in that port and take over to the bishopric of Liège a 'pak' of' Irys lamfelles' and 12½ pockets of 'thromes'; as their petition shews that they bought the same within the realm and, long before the publication of an ordinance made in the last parliament that no man should take such merchandise out of the realm to foreign parts, laded the greatest part thereof in a ship in the port of London to take to the said bishopric, but that by colour of that ordinance the customers are hindering them from taking the same out of port.
July 12. Westminster.	To the escheator in Dorset. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Wymborne Allhallows otherwise Upwymborne called 'Brytys place,' with a pasture there called the Wayt to that manor pertaining, and 8 acres of land in Wymborne Abbatis, delivering to Edmund Bryt any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said manor, pasture and land, by name of a tenement and one carucate of land in Wymborne Poterne and 8 acres of land in Wymborne Abbatis, came to the hands of King Richard II by reason of the idiocy of John Bryt of Wymborne Allhallows now deceased, by name of John son and heir of Thomas Bryt of Upwymborne, and are yet in the king's hands, that the premises are not held of the king, and that Edmund Bryt brother of the said John is his next heir, and of full age. (fn. 2)
	To the escheator in Wiltesir. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning a messuage, two virgates of land and pasture for four score sheep, six oxen and plough horses in Mannyngford Bohun called 'Shadewellysplace,' a messuage and 20 acres of land there with pasture, for twenty sheep called 'Margerywokeseyesplace,' and a toft, two half virgates of land, 4 acres of meadow and pasture for eighteen sheep, two oxen or kine and two plough horses in Wodebergh, not held of the king. (fn. 2)