Close Rolls, Richard II: October 1396 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Richard II: October 1396', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399, (London, 1927) pp. 32-33. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol6/pp32-33 [accessed 12 April 2024]

October 1396



	Membrane 14.
Oct. 24. Calais.	To Philip le Vache captain of Guynes castle. Order to set free Joskyn Michelson, imprisoned in that castle for certain alleged misprisions and evildoings. (fn. 1) By K.
Nov. 15. Dover.	To John Strete mayor of Dovorre and to the bailiff of the town. Order, for particular causes specially moving the king, to deliver to the custody of Richard earl of Arundel, or of his attorney, Jevan ap David and John Edward who are imprisoned in custody of the mayor and bailiff. By K.
	Like writ to Edward earl of Rotelande, constable of Dovorre castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to his lieutenant.
Nov. 19. Rochester.	To the justices of the Bench. Order, upon petition of the plaintiff, to proceed in a plea of debt before them between Robert de Lisle knight and John Wyndesore esquire, the king's protection granted to the defendant when about to sail to Calais in the king's service notwithstanding; as the plaintiff has shewn that execution thereof is hindered, although the defendant has come within the realm, and is there abiding.
Oct. 21. Calais.	To the collectors of customs and subsidies in the port of Plymmuth for the time being. Order, upon petition of the burgesses of that town, not to compel merchants and seamen who, they may be assured, come and touch at a place called 'Convers' in the isle of St. Nicholas by Plymmuth for safety of their ships and merchandise owing to stress of weather, or for refreshment, or purveyance in the town of victuals and other things needful, to pay customs or other subsidies whatsoever, provided they sell not their merchandise, nor expose it for sale there, and not to trouble or grieve them; as the burgesses' complaint shews that in times past the greatest aid and chief advantage of the town used to arise from such merchants and seamen native and foreign coming to that place for safety, or sometimes for refreshment, or at other times for victuals etc., and that now for no small time they have deferred so coming, to the ruin it is like of the town, chiefly supported by such men resorting thither, for that the said collectors are of their own will now newly demanding of them customs and subsidies upon merchandise brought with them, though not there sold nor exposed for sale.
	Et erat patens.