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May 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York for the time being. Order every year during
his life to pay 6d. a day to the king's serjeant Thomas Forster of
Drybeke, one of his archers of the crown, and to pay him the arrears
since 16 February last, on which date the king granted the said
Thomas for life for his wages 6d. a day of the issues of that county. |
May 12.
Westminster. |
To the customers and collectors in the ports of Sandewich and
Dovorre of the subsidy upon wool, hides and woolfells and of 3s.
upon every tun of wine, 12d. in the pound and the petty custom,
and to the keepers of the passage there for the time being. Order
without taking custom or subsidy thereupon to suffer Thomas Swynburne warden of Guynes castle so long as he shall be warden to lade
in certain ships or vessels in those ports and take over thither all victuals
by himself, his deputies or attorneys now or hereafter bought and
purveyed for furnishing the said castle, any command to them now
or hereafter addressed to the contrary notwithstanding. Proviso that
every time the masters and seamen of such ships etc. shall be sworn
to take the victuals to Guynes castle and nowhere else. |
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Membrane 14. |
May 16.
Westminster. |
To the guardians of the peace and justices of oyer and terminer
in Kent. Strict order at their peril to busy themselves in that office,
holding their sessions according to their commission and to the
statutes heretofore published; as by complaint of sundry persons the
king has learned that they have taken no heed to hold sessions or to
execute their commission, wherefore by their default great number of
manslaughters, robberies, larcenies, mayhems, extortions, oppressions,
regratings and excesses of labourers and craftsmen and other evil
deeds are daily committed, in contempt of the king and breach of the
peace and to the terror of the people, making bold such evildoers to the
shame of the justices who ought to restrain them. |
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Like writs to the guardians and justices in the following counties
etc.: |
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Sussex. |
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Surrey. |
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Suthampton. |
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Wiltesir. |
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Somerset. |
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Dorset. |
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Devon. |
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Cornwall. |
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Gloucester. |
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Hereford. |
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Salop. |
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Stafford. |
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Worcester. |
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Warrewyk. |
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Leycester. |
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Oxford. |
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Berkshire. |
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Bukingham. |
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Bedford. |
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Hertford. |
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Essex. |
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Huntingdon. |
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Cantebrigge. |
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Notyngham. |
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Derby. |
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Cumberland. |
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Westmorland. |
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Northumberland. |
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The Westrythyng in Yorkshire. |
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The Northtrithyng there. |
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Lyndeseye in Lincolnshire. |
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Kesteven in Lincolnshire. |
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Holande in Lincolnshire. |
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Norffolk. |
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Suffolk. |
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Middlesex. |
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The Estrithing in Yorkshire. |
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Norhampton. |
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Roteland. |
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Membrane 13. |
May 7.
Westminster. |
To Richard Skip escheator in Kent. Order, for particular causes
laid before the council, to take into the king's hand and keep the
manor of Wightrisham now occupied by Sampson Grenwich, and the
issues since Easter last, making no demise thereof to any man until
further order. |
March 4.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Suthampton. Order, for particular
causes laid before the king and council and specially affecting the
king, to arrest three ships laded with herring of Scone, which have
touched at Suthampton and there unladed the same it is said, and to
keep them under arrest until further order of the king and council,
with the seamen and gear. By C. |
Feb. 28.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Lysle knight. Order under a pain of 500l. to leave all
else and, ceasing every excuse, to be in person before the king at
Bristol on Monday after Palm Sunday next, to answer touching
what shall then be laid against him; as by divers writs and letters
of the privy seal the king has many times ordered the said Robert to
appear before him, but taking no heed so to do, he has wilfully
absented himself without reasonable cause contrary to the king's
command and in despite of his majesty. By p.s. [7026.] |
May 2.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order to suffer
the abbot and convent of Cirencestre to use and enjoy the liberty
granted by charter of the king to them and their successors, that they
shall have all the goods and chattels of felons and fugitives which
shall or may arise in whatsoever places within the manor of Ciren
cestre, and the town of Mynty which is a member thereof, and within
the seven hundreds to that manor pertaining, and may by themselves
or their ministers from time to time put themselves in possession
thereof; and further order to allow them that liberty, and their claims
to such goods, acquitting and discharging them of all manner of
forfeitures thereof now in demand before the treasurer and barons
for time past and for time to come. By p.s. [7197.] |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To John Wodeforde escheator in Warwickshire. Order to take of
Joan who was wife of Ralph Meynylle knight an oath etc., and in
presence of the next friends of her husband's heirs, or of their attorneys, to assign her dower, delivering to her any issues thereof taken
since 7 October 13 Richard II, on which date the king ordered
Thomas Raylee then escheator to assign her dower; as he was removed
from office before he executed that writ. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To Walter Stirkelande escheator in Northumberland and Cumberland.
Order to give John de Middelton and Christiana his wife livery of the
lands etc. hereinafter mentioned, and the issues thereof taken; as the
king has learned by divers inquisitions, taken by the escheator, that
Jacoba who was wife of John Stryvelyn knight at her death held in fee
tail, to her and the heirs of her body, a third part of the manor of
Jessemougth, and a third part of the advowson of the chapel or
chantry thereof in chief by homage and fealty, rendering 2s. 2½d.
a year to castle ward of Newcastle upon Tyne, a meadow in Baumburgh of the king in burgage by the service of 1d. a year, a messuage
and 50 acres of land in Southgosseforde, 12 acres of land in Elstewyke, a fourth part of the manor of Tyndelee, a messuage in Caldemarton, six messuages and 100 acres of land in Emildoun, Dunstane
and Neweton upon the Moor, three tenements in Alnemouth, a
messuage and 20 acres of land in Lessebery, four messuages and 80
acres of land and meadow in Alnewyke and Boxfelde and a third
part of the manor of Woldoun of others than the king, with remainder if she should die without issue to John de Middelton and Christiana
and to the heirs of their bodies, that she likewise held as jointly
enfeoffed with her husband, to them and the heirs of their bodies,
the manor of Burneton by Emildoun and the advowson of the chantry
thereof, a moiety of the manor of Belsowe and a moiety of the
advowson of the chantry, six bovates of land in Bechefelde, nine
bovates in Bradforde, three husband lands in Kirkeheton, a pasture
there, a town called Morelee, eight tenements and 200 acres of land
in Shotlee, two husband lands in Neweton by Bywelle, two husband
lands in Spiriden, 2 acres of turbary in Mersfen, two husband lands
in Grenelighton with a shealing called Fisildene, two husband lands
in Cramlyngton and 6 acres of land by Horton Graunge co. Northumberland, and the manor of Buthecastell co. Cumberland of others
than the king, with remainder (as before), and that the said Jacoba
died without issue, wherefore by the form of the gift all the premises
ought to remain to the said John de Middelton and Christiana. |
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To William Bisshopdale mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne and escheator therein. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no
further with five messuages and a half in 'Galougate,' a messuage in
'Horsmarketgate,' five cottages by the 'Denbrigge,' a tenement in
'Pilgrymstrete,' a tenement in the 'Brodechere,' the moiety of a
grange and the third part of a bovary opposite the 'Maudeleyns' in
Newcastle held by the said Jacoba jointly with her husband (as above)
of the king in free burgage with remainder (as above, mutatis
mutandis), delivering to John Middelton and Christiana any issues
thereof taken. |
May 20.
Westminster. |
To Robert Crulle the king's clerk, treasurer of Ireland. Strict
order not to pay without special command of the king wages or fees
to any liege holding office in Ireland, Englishman or Irishman, who
shall refuse or neglect to occupy such office in person, as he ought to
do; as the king has particular information that great number of
lieges, English and Irish, holding divers offices in Ireland by grant
of the king and otherwise, and taking year by year no small wages
and fees for executing the same, do not exercise or occupy such offices
in person, as they ought and used to do, but by deputies and substitutes who cease not and fear not day by day to inflict oppressions,
grievances and excessive extortions upon the people of the land; and
the king's will is to save himself and the people harmless. By C. |
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