Close Rolls, Richard II: April 1391

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1922.

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'Close Rolls, Richard II: April 1391', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392, (London, 1922) pp. 256-257. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol4/pp256-257 [accessed 18 April 2024]

April 1391

Membrane 12.
April 28.
Westminster.		 To the keepers or farmers of the king's mills beneath Oxford castle for the time being. Order to pay to Roger Cheyne the king's esquire 10l. a year and the arrears since Michaelmas 5 Richard II, according to the king's letters patent of 6 December that year, granting him 10l. a year of the issues or farm of those mills from Michaelmas then last for life or until the king should take other order for his estate.
April 22.
Westminster.		 To the keeper of the king's wardrobe within the household for the time being. Order every year to pay to Lambert Fermer the king's esquire during his life 7½d. a day for wages and 46s. 8d. for his gown, and to pay the arrears of his wages since 16 April last, on which date for good service to the king's father and to the king after his coronation the king granted him for life the said wages etc., within the household and without, by the said keeper's hands.
Et erat patens.
May 9.
Westminster.		 To all sheriffs, mayors, customers, keepers of seaports, bailiffs, ministers, lieges and subjects of the king within liberties and without to whom etc. Writ of aid, upon petition of Richard Walton, and order at their peril to suffer him and his deputies to collect and receive the subsidy upon every cloth for sale in Norffolk and Suffolk, of one colour and of another, sealing such cloths when the subsidy shall be paid with the seal appointed for the purpose, and to search all packs and fardels, all houses, shops and other places, so behaving in the matter that no second complaint reach the king, and payment of his farm be not delayed; as by letters patent of 16 November last, among other things, the king appointed the said Richard to levy the said subsidy in those counties, seal the cloths, and make searches as aforesaid; and now the king is informed that certain sheriffs etc. and others are unlawfully hindering him and his deputies from so doing.
Et erat patens.
April 26.
Westminster.		 To all officers, tenants and ministers of Rokyngham castle and of the stewardship of the forest between Oxford bridge and Staumforde bridge. Writ de intendendo in favour of Queen Anne and her deputies in regard to all that pertains to the castle and stewardship; as the king has granted the same to her for life after the death of William de Thorp knight deceased, as fully as Queen Philippa had them in her life time.
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