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357. To allow Adam Pynkhurst, the keeper, his costs on the enclosure of the park of Asshehurst, and on the repairs of the lodge there.

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A grant to the same of the keeping of the said park, with a salary of 3d. per diem.

359. To the Treasurer, Barons, and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, to account with John Hankyn, sergeant at arms, for the expenses of sundry journeys by him made for to impress vessels for the king's service, and for conveying sundry sums of money to Calais for victualling the garrison.

360. p. 146. To John Bacon, keeper of the king's jewels and plate, to deliver to the ABp. of Canterbury certain plate as a security for the sum of 200 marks which the king had borrowed of the ABp.

361. To Henri de Wakefield, the keeper of the wardrobe, to account with John, King of Castile and Duke of Lancaster, for the expenses of his expedition into Aquitaine.

362. p. 147. To account with Thomelyn Spigonell, keeper of the king's great horses.

363. To allow to the same in his account certain horses which had died.

364. p. 148. To allow to William Strete, 'nre bouteller,' in his account a pipe of Gascony wine, and a tun of the same wine delivered to Master Adam, the surgeon, for medicines for the king's use.

365. To John de Sleford, keeper of the privy wardrobe in the Tower of London, to account with John de Derby for the expenses he had been at for powder and ball for the guns.

366. To Henry de Wakefield, keeper of the Wardrobe, to account with Robert Bardolf, keeper of the King's great horses, as well of the horses as of other things belonging to his office.

367. To John Sur de Nevill Seneschall de nre houstell,' or his lieutenant in the Marshalsea of the same, appointing Thomas de Honton, lawyer, to be clerk under him to hold pleas of the Marshalsea.

368. To John Bacon, keeper, &c., to deliver certain pieces of plate to the Duke of Lancaster in part of payment.

369. p. 149. To Aleyn Stokes, keeper of the Great Wardrobe, to account with the king's sadler.

370. To Robert de Whitberg, the king's almoner, appointing Nicholas Herblot to be one of the king's bedemen, with the daily pay of 3d.

371. To William de Mulsho, keeper of the Wardrobe, to pay 3d. daily to the same.

372. p. 150. To John Olneye, eschaetor in the counties of Bedford and Bucks, to deliver to Peter de la Botellarie the goods and chattels forfeited by Thomas Trillowe, an outlaw.

373. To Henri de Wakefield, keeper, &c., to allow William Strete, &c. (see § 364), certain wines delivered by the king's order.

374. To Richard Rounhale, keeper of the King's Hall in the University of Cambridge, to remove thence all Scholars that were preferred, and all Scholars not residing, and all persons residing there and not belonging to the same.

375. p. 151. To Symon Neylond, keeper of the same, for Nicholas de Heth to be a Scholar there.

376. To William de Gunthorp, treasurer of Calais, to account with Roger de Beauchamp, captain of the town.

377. To the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, to allow to Helmyng Leget, constable of the Castle of Wyndesore, certain sums by him expended for hay, for support of the game in the Park of Lydecroft under the castle, and in the parks of Guldeford and Folye-John.

378. p. 152. To account with the same for his wages and those of his men at arms, armed men, archers and mariners under his command. See note to 324.

379. To discharge William Herland, the king's master carpenter, and John Spoule, his master mason, of the sum of £9. 6s. 8d. imprest to them by the keeper of the Great Wardrobe.

380. Warrant to the Chancellor, for a grant to Thomas Sutton of an exemption for life from being put on assizes or juries, and from being appointed mayor, sheriff, eschaetor, coroner, or bailiff.

381. To the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, pay the arrears of Wages due to Thomas Snynyll, one of the king's archers.

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To discharge John de Clyfford, late Sheriff of Glocester, of a fine of 100s.

383. p. 153. To discharge the lieutenant of the constable of the Castle of Wyndesor from all account of the issues and profits of the lands, &c. of Sir John Brocas, knight, the king having given such issues and profits to the executors of Sir John for the discharge of his debts.

384. To Thomas Tyrrell and John Esbury, attornies general, and to John James, receiver general of the Earl of Bedford, to pay to John de Chichester, goldsmith of London, a sum due for jewels delivered to Isabella, Countess of Bedford.

385. p. 154. To the Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer to pay to Robert de Plesyngton, chief baron, the half of his accustomed fee, and the half of £40, annual pension, to the last Easter, altho in strict law he was only entitled to a proportionable part of the same.

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386. To a Lady, telling her, entendant que vous estez nre veue,' his will was that she should take Sir Thomas Trivet, knight, and no other, to be her husband.

387. To the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, to discharge John May, receiver of the manor of Cokeham, of the arrears due from him.

388. p. 155. To the Sheriff of Bucks, that the king had granted certain forfeitures to Henry Almayne.

389. To the Sheriffs of London, to release Nicholas Morle, confined for the murder of William Aldewyncle.

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390. To the Sherift of Lincoln, to take surety of the peace of William de Belesby towards the Burgesses and tenants of Grimesby.

391. To all Sheriffs and Bailiffs, and other Ministers, as well of the household as others; a letter of protection to Richard Lyons, of London, and his tenants in the manors of Gosfeld and Liston. 392. Similar letter of protection granted to the said Richard Lyons as farmer of the priory of Mersey.

393. p. 156. To the Sheriff of Warwic, to return a jury before John de Catesby and Thomas le Hore, the king's eschaetors, to enquire whether Thomas Freburn, late tenant of the manor of Whitley, held the same of the king in capite, and whether Alice his daughter be his next heir.

394. To the Sheriffs of London, to pay out of the fee farm rent of the city the limited prices for all hawks exposed to sale in London, or within ten leagues thereof, and taken by Walter Stapell, the king's falconer, for the king's use.

These limited prices were as follows: 'le Gerfaux, 26s. 8d.; le Faucon gentil, 208.; le Tercelet gentil, 10s.; l'Oustour, 13s. 4d. ; le Tercel del Oustour, 6s. 8d.; le Laner et Laneret, Sacre et Sacret, chacun, 6s. 8d.' Compare the prices given in Issue Rolls of the Exchequer 11 Feb. 22 Ric. II. (8o. 1837).

395. To the Sheriff of York, to execute the king's writ to have the body of William de Dutton before the justices of the King's Bench.

396. p. 157. To the Sheriffs of London, to same purport as § 394.

397. To the Sheriff of Norfolk, to pay the arrears of a pension of 100 marks granted to John Cobham.

398. To the Sheriff of Warwic, to take such high issues as the law directs of the persons impanelled to pass on a jury in a plea of certain tenements pending in the Common Bench between John de Flanders, a poor man, and Sir John de Clynton, knight, the said cause having been long delayed for default of jurors.

399. p. 158. To the Justice of South Wales, to stay all suits and claims made on John, Duke of Lancaster, and his men

and tenants of Kidwelly, till the coming of the counsell of the said duke into those parts.

400. To the Chamberlain of South Wales, directing the purchase of oxen for the household.

401. To all Sheriffs, Bailiffs, &c., to the same purport.

402. To the Justices of the Common Bench, to excuse the appearance of John Stoner, engaged in the king's service.

403. p. 159. To all Mayors, Sheriffs, &c., to aid Walter Stapell, the king's falconer, in taking for the king's use, at the limited prices, all hawks exposed to sale in the city of London, and in the ports, &c.

404. To the Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth, to do justice to the Commons of the town in their suits.

405. To the Sheriff of Norfolk, to execute the king's writ, granted at the suit of the commonalty of Yarmouth.

406, 407, 408. To the Justice and Chamberlain of Chester, to enquire into the right of Patronage in the Deanry of St Asaph's belonging to the Earls of Chester on the vacancy of the See of St Asaph's, with two other writs directed to certain persons to aid the said justice therein.

409. p. 160. To the keeper of a castle in Aquitaine, to deliver the same for five years to John de Greilles, Captall de Buche.

410. p. 161. To the keeper or farmer of the manor of Witteley, to pay to John Brown, keeper of the park there, the arrears of his wages.

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411. To to proceed by virtue of a writ of Nisi Prius, to take an inquisition in a plea of Quare impedit, touching the advowson of the church of Sutton in the diocese of Lincoln.

412. p. 162. Similar order to proceed on a writ of Nisi Prius touching the advowson of Compton Martyn in the county of Somerset.

413. To the King's Eschaetor, in the counties of Devonshire and Cornwall, to pay to Alexander Longwith 20 marks of

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