Close Rolls, Henry IV: December 1399 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 1, 1399-1402. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.

'Close Rolls, Henry IV: December 1399', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 1, 1399-1402, (London, 1927) pp. 81-82. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen4/vol1/pp81-82 [accessed 14 April 2024]

December 1399



Dec. 10. Westminster.	To Walter Clopton and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order, upon petition of William Benet of Sandewich, to view the record and process of his outlawry and letters of Hugh de Calveley the captain of Calais which he has and, if thereby assured that at the time that outlawry was published the petitioner was in the late king's service in company of the said Hugh, order to deal according to law and the custom of the realm for annulling of the same; as he has shewn the king that he was put in exigents in Kent and outlawed for that he came not in the late king's court to answer Alice who was wife of Peter de Preston concerning the manslaughter of her husband, that he after rendered himself to the marshalsea prison, and alleged that at the time etc. and afterwards he was in the service aforesaid, wherefore it was determined that at a day past the late king should be thereof certified, and the sheriff of Kent was ordered to give the said Alice notice to be before the king that day in order to shew cause wherefore the outlawry ought not to be annulled, that at the aforesaid day the said Hugh certified that the petitioner was on such service in his company at the late king's wages from Monday before St. Martin 1 Richard II until Monday after St. Matthias then next, that because he did not certify in full a day was given to the parties at another day past, and the petitioner was told to get him a better certificate, that at that day by letters under seal the said Hugh bore witness, as the petitioner avers, that at the time of the outlawry the petitioner was on service at Calais in his company at the late king's wages, and that the whole process so begun was discontinued for that he might not keep the said day by reason of divers infirmities whereby he was detained; and now the said Hugh is dead, and may not further certify. By p.s. [1183.]