Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1399

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.

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'Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1399', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399, (London, 1927) pp. 365. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol6/p365 [accessed 21 April 2024]

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February 1399

Feb. 10.
Westminster.
Order to the sheriff of Somerset for election of a verderer in the forest of Nerechich instead of Thomas Bolour, who is making ready to sail to Aquitaine, there to abide on the king's service upon the safe guard of those parts.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To Walter Clopton and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order by writ of nisi prius to cause an inquisition whereupon Henry Crichirche 'vynter' has put himself touching an appeal against him made by Alice Cosyn for rape and breach of the peace, at suit of the king for that she prosecuted not her appeal, to be taken before the said justices or one of them, or before one of the justices of the Common Bench.
Feb. 8.
Westminster.
To the collectors of customs and subsidies in the port of London, Dovorre, Orwelle or Sandewich. Order without taking custom or subsidy to suffer Robert de Boissay knight, councillor of the king's father of France and master of his household, to lade in one of those ports and take over 40 ells of cloth, forty horns, forty pairs of bottles, two beds with all the gear thereof, two dozen small costers, and 12,000 pins bought and purveyed within the realm for his own use.