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June 2. Westminster. |
Master John Dedmore clerk to the abbot of St. Mary York.
Recognisance for 12 marks, to be levied etc. of his lands and chattels
in Leycestershire. |
June 10. Westminster. |
Master John de Melton parson of Drayton Beauchamp to William
Beel clerk. Recognisance for 20l., to be levied etc. of his lands and
chattels and ecclesiastical goods in Bukinghamshire. |
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Memorandum of defeasance, upon condition that Master John
pay 10l. at the day named. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
June 20. Westminster. |
Ivo Fitz Waryn knight and Thomas Shanke esquire to William
Rule citizen and draper of London. Recognisance for 400l., to be
levied etc. of their lands and chattels in Dorset. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
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Membrane 4d. |
May 15. Reading. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order in such places as it shall be fitting
and needful for the comfort of the people to cause proclamation to
be made and notice to be given that, having particular information
that his enemies of France and elsewhere are ready and purpose to
invade the realm before he may possibly repair over sea with sufficient
force, it is the king's will to busy himself with all his might upon
the safeguard and defence of the realm, giving all diligence thereto,
wherefore of his own motion he has remitted a tenth and fifteenth
granted under certain conditions by the lords and commons in the
last parliament, willing that the same be nowhere levied. By K. |
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The like to singular the sheriffs throughout England. |
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[Fœdera. Rolls of Parliament, iii. p. 398.] |
May 16. Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln. Writ of supersedeas, by
mainprise of Thomas de Carleton of Lincoln, John de Harwode of
London, John de Shelton of London and Walter Segrave of London,
in respect of the execution of a judgment in the court of the city of
Lincoln whereby Hugh Grenake 'tavernere' was convicted of debt
at suit of John Calthorp and John de Stirop of Hull, and damages
were adjudged to the plaintiffs; as at his suit, averring error in the
record and process and in the rendering of judgment in that cause,
the king ordered the mayor and bailiffs at a day yet to come to send
the same under seal and all things which concern the same, that he
might view them and deal therewith as ought to be done according
to the law and custom of England. |
April 28. Westminster. |
To William la Zouche of Haryngworth knight, John Holt, William
de Burgh, Thomas Latymer knight and Roger Perwych, appointed
by the king on 8 July last at the complaint of Thomas Yool of Farndon,
the said John being one, to make inquisition by men of Norhamptonshire concerning the names of the evildoers who with Edmund
Doyle of Swynforde, William Goodwyn of Great Boudon and William
'Edmundesservant Doyle' assaulted the said Thomas at Farndon,
beat, wounded and evil entreated him so that his life was despaired
of etc., contrary to the late king's peace, and concerning the truth
of the matter, and to hear and determine that trespass. Writ of
supersedeas omnino; as it seems to the king and council that it is
not a grievous trespass, and that the complainant made not a fresh
suit. |
June 19. Westminster. |
Thomas Lovel of Dalley of Middlesex to John Pykenham of Essex.
Recognisance for 1,000l., to be levied etc. in Middlesex. |
May 1. Westminster. |
John Canteys of Kent to James de Bouroun. Recognisance for
50l., to be levied etc. in Kent. |
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Memorandum that this recognisance was taken by William de
Burgh knight, by virtue of a dedimus potestatem which is on the file
for this year. |
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Reynold son and heir of William de Cobham of Chafford knight
to John de Cobham lord of Cobham knight, Reynold de Cobham
parson of North Flete, John de Hadresham, Thomas Blast and Gilbert
Hamme, their heirs and assigns. Charter with warranty of all his
lands, rents and services in Surrey and Sussex. Dated Chorlewode,
the feast of St. Edmund the Bishop 8 Richard II. Witnesses:
Thomas Salman knight, Thomas Bristowe, Geoffrey Hiwet, Robert de
Hevere, Henry Lachforde, William Welsshe, William Jordan, Thomas
atte Hale. |
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Memorandum of acknowledgment, 20 June. |
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Membrane 3d. |
June 4. Reading. |
To W. archbishop of Canterbury. Order upon his allegiance to
have all the service from him due to the king at Newcastle upon
Tyne on 14 July next, furnished with horses and arms and ready to
march with him against the Scots; as for the defence of the crown, the
advantage of the great men, lords and all the people, and to guard
against the hurt, scandal and peril which may happen by rebellion
of the Scots, as shewn by times past and present, it is the king's
purpose to be there on that day. By K. and C. |
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The like to A. archbishop of York, R. bishop of Salisbury,
sixteen other bishops, the guardian of the spirituality of the bishopric
of Coventre and Lichefelde during the vacancy of the see, the abbot
of Peterborough, fourteen other abbots and the prior of Coventre. |
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[Fœdera. Rep. on Dignity of a Peer, iv. p. 715.] |
June 13. Westminster. |
To John king of Castille and Leon duke of Lancaster. Order upon
his allegiance to be at Newcastle upon Tyne (as above) with horses
and arms and all the service due etc., and request to come to the
king's aid with a yet greater company of men and horses in such
power as he may. By K. and C. |
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The like to the following earls, barons and knights, namely Edmund
earl of Cantebrigge and ten other earls, James de Audeley of Helegh
and 43 others, of whom four are styled chivaler. |
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[Ibid.] |
June 8. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order upon his allegiance to summon
archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors and other ecclesiastical persons,
also widows and other women of his bailiwick being tenants in chief
by knight service or serjeanty, or tenants of the guardians of archbishoprics or other wardships in the king's hand, to have all the service
due from them at Newcastle (as above), and likewise to summon all
barons and other tenants in chief to be there with horses and arms
and all such service, requesting them nevertheless over and above
such service to come with what power they may, so behaving that
the king be not wroth with the sheriff in case his expedition be
hindered. By K. and C. |
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The like to singular the sheriffs throughout England. |
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The like to John king of Castille and Leon duke of Lancaster,
or to his chancellor in the duchy of Lancaster. |
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[Ibid., p. 716.] |
June 20. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order, if assured
that their demand for the fruits and proventions of the church of Magor
is made by virtue of certificates of the then bishop of Landaff and
for no other cause, to stay that demand, discharging and acquitting
Thomas now bishop, the abbot and convent of Tyntern and
others whatsoever of the fruits so demanded and of others henceforward, and suffering the abbot and convent to hold the said
church with the fruits etc. as heretofore, those certificates notwithstanding; as the king has learned that by writ of 16 January
43 Edward III under seal of the exchequer the late king commanded the then bishop to certify the treasurer and the barons
at the morrow of the Close of Easter then next what aliens,
secular and other, were advanced to benefices in his diocese, the value
thereof, what were the benefices, in what archdeaconries, the names
of those holding them, and by what colour; and the bishop certified
(among others) that brother John abbot of Tyntern and the convent
of the Cistercian order had the said parish church to perpetual farm,
as he said, of the abbot and convent of the house of Gloria, that for
many years he sought in the court of Rome and in England to take
information concerning that house, and might find no sure information
concerning the same, that the abbot of Tyntern with the convent
sometimes averred that he carried 20 marks yearly over sea to the
abbot of Gloria, sometimes that he carried so much a year to the pope,
and that it was well known that the late king had the royalty in the
lordship of Magor, and wards and marriages therein, that the church
was worth 40l. a year, that it seemed to the bishop that the same
might not be given to perpetual farm without the king's licence,
and that if there were in France any house called the house of Gloria,
inasmuch as money carried over sea since the war with France was
confiscate, if it were so, 400l. was due to the late king; whereupon
by another writ of 26 April 45 Edward III the king commanded
the bishop to sequestrate all fruits and proventions belonging to the
said church, so as to answer for them to the king, certifying the
treasurer and the barons thereof at the morrow of Michaelmas then
next, and he certified that day that it was done, and by reason of
those certificates Thomas now bishop is being distrained, as he says,
to answer and content the king for the said fruits etc. as to him
pertaining; and the king and council have particular information by those in whom they trust that the house of Gloria is
not of the power of any his enemies, but of Italy which he
reckons of his friendship, wherefore he has not reasonable cause to
take the fruits etc. of the said church by reason of the war with
France. |
June 14. Westminster. |
To Robert Tresylyan and his fellows, justices appointed to hold
pleas before the king. Writ of supersedeas, while a writ of scire
facias is pending in chancery, in regard to rendering of judgment
upon a writ of quare impedit at suit of the king against John bishop
of Hereford and John Bredwardyn; as at suit of Richard Thurban
prebendary of Pottesdoun in the cathedral church of Hereford, averring
that he lately obtained that prebend by exchange, and has been
long in possession thereof, but that John Milton scheming craftily
to thrust him out, and averring that the prebend was void, when it
was not, and in the king's gift by reason of the late vacancy of the
bishopric of Hereford, procured a collation thereto, and the said
writ of quare impedit in the king's name against the bishop and the
said John Bredwardyn as incumbent of the prebend, which he was
not, the king ordered the sheriff of Hereford to give John Milton
notice to be in chancery in the quinzaine of Michaelmas in order to
inform the king concerning his right and title in the premises according
to the statute, and to shew cause wherefore the collation to him ought
not to be revoked. |
June 16. Westminster. |
To Cornelius de Wyrleye escheator in Staffordshire. Writ of
supersedeas omnino in respect of the execution of the king's late writ
ordering him to make inquisition at suit of Thomas de Aston knight,
who averred that by colour of the seizure of the forest of Cank and
of other temporalities of the bishopric of Coventre and Lychefeld
into the king's hand, he was put out of possession of the forestership
of Cank. |
May 26. Henley manor. |
To the abbot and convent of Rameseye. Request to admit to
their house John Bernolby the king's esquire, whom he is sending,
and to minister to him such maintenance as any other ever had heretofore at the request of the king or any of his forefathers, making
him letters patent under the common seal of the house with mention
of what he shall take, and writing again by the bearer what they
will do; as the king has learned that the grant of one gentleman's
maintenance in that abbey pertains to him, and that the same has
long been vacant. By letter of the signet. |
June 5. Reading. |
To the collectors in Northumberland of the tenth and fifteenth
last granted to the king by the commons of the realm. Writ of
supersedeas until St. Peter's Chains next in respect of levying the
same. By C. |
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The like to the collectors in Cumberland. By C. |
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Membrane 2d. |
June 10. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Writ of
supersedeas in respect of their demand upon Nerius de Bonevise,
Lewis de Portico and Gilbert Americy merchants of Lumbardy by
reason of their mainprise to answer for the price or value of seven
sarplers of wool, and order to discharge them thereof; as upon petition
of Nicholas Luke merchant of the fellowship of Guinisius, shewing
that while he was abiding in Bruges in Flanders, before the entry of
the late count of Flanders after the rising there, John Scot an Englishman made a bargain with Bartholomew Sanoche attorney of the
said Nicholas for seven sarplers of wool at Calais, that the wool was
there weighed and put in keeping of the said John's host until he
should find at Brugges security for payment of the price thereof
to certain merchants of Florence to whose use it was first acquired,
that meanwhile the count entered the said town, no such security
being yet found, that from the time of his entry the said John had
no safe access for the purpose, for that they of Brugges were known
to be enemies of the king and his lieges, so that for lack of security
the wool remained long at Calais, and that though for lack of security
the said Bartholomew ought to have had it, and claimed it, the then
mayor and constable of the staple unlawfully kept the same under
arrest, pretending that it was wool of certain Flemings the king's
enemies, when it was not, for that the said merchants of Lumbardy,
then dwelling in London, mainperned in chancery to answer to the
king for the price or value thereof in case it might thereafter be proved
to belong to his enemies, the king ordered the mayor and constable,
themselves or their representatives, to dearrest the wool and deliver
it to the said Bartholomew to make his advantage thereof; and now
the mainpernors are being distrained by exchequer summons to
answer for the same, and the said Nicholas, in whom the king trusts,
has made oath in chancery that the wool was of the merchants of
Florence, and that the said John never found security for payment,
nor has any payment been yet made to the merchants of Florence
or to their attorneys. By C. |
June 8. Westminster. |
To the abbot and convent of Bardenay. Nomination of John
Franke to receive the pension wherein by reason of the abbot's new
creation they are bound to one of the king's clerks until provided
by them with a benefice. By p.s. [3637.] |
May 12. Windsor. |
To the abbess and convent of St. Mary Winchester. Nomination
of Emma atte Mersshe, cousin of James Berners, to be the nun or
sister in that abbey, being of the foundation of his forefathers and
of his patronage, whose nomination pertains to the king by reason
of the new creation of the abbess. By letter of the signet. |
April 28. Westminster. |
To William la Zouche of Haryngworth knight, etc., appointed
at the complaint of Thomas Yool etc. Writ of supersedeas omnino
(as above, p. 636). |
May 6. Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Writ of supersedeas omnino in respect
of executing the king's late writ ordering them, upon an information
that he purposed to depart to foreign parts in order to prosecute
many things to the prejudice of the king and many of the people,
to compel Thomas Pycot clerk to find mainpernors, and if he should
refuse to commit him to Newegate prison; and order by mainprise
of John Inge, John Salesbury, Thomas Ecton and John Cammes of
London to set free the said clerk if taken. |
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Membrane 1d. |
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Memorandum of a mainprise under a pain of 500 marks, made in
chancery 20 May this year by Robert Boxforde, Hugh de Bisle,
Nicholas atte Walle and Robert Neuport for Richard Palmer, that
he shall do or procure no hurt or harm to John Tyler, Thomas Gobyoun
and John Gobyoun or any of them. |