Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1398

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

'Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1398', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399, (London, 1927) pp. 247-248. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol6/pp247-248 [accessed 12 April 2024]

February 1398



Feb. 21. Westminster.	To the collectors of the subsidy of 3s. upon every tun of wine in the port of London. Order without taking custom or subsidy to suffer 31 tuns of wine bought and purveyed in Gascony by Radegund Bechet dame de Mortymer for consumption of her household in England, and brought to London in one ship by her servants, as John Burthan one of her yeomen has made oath in chancery, to be carried out of the port to her use, any former command of the king to the contrary notwithstanding.
Feb. 20. Westminster.	To Roger de Saperton warden of the Flete prison. Order upon petition of John Aston vicar of Colston Basset, by mainprise of William de Hoton of Yorkshire, John de Molyngton, Richard Broun, Thomas Boseworthe, John Swyry of London and Simon Blakeforth of Leycestershire to set him free; as at suit of the abbot of Dale, averring that John de Aston procured of the papal see a provision of the church of Ilkeston co. Derby, to the abbot and his convent appropriated, and prosecuted against them divers processes in the court christian, doing and procuring to be done many other things to the prejudice of the king and crown in contempt of the king and contrary to the ordinance the king lately ordered the sheriff to warn him to be before the justices of the Bench at a day past to answer the king and the abbot touching the premises, and appearing at that day the said John averred that he is not guilty, offering to prove it by the country; and he was after committed to the Flete prison by William Thirnynge chief justice of that Bench, there to abide in the warden's custody until he should find a mainprise for his good behaviour toward the king and the abbot; and now William de Hoton and the others have mainperned in chancery for his good behaviour, that he shall make no attempt without the realm which may tend to prejudice of the king or crown, and that he shall stand to right in that behalf.