1340-04-28, Richard Westminster

Smert, cook, acknowledges that he owes to John de Sancto Paulo, 40s. ; to be levied etc. in the city of London. that on Friday after St. Mark, 28 April, Sir John de Sancto keeper of the chancery rolls, delivered to the king the great seal in a bag under John's seal, which the king had caused to be brought by John into the chamber called 1a Blaunche Chaumbre upon the in the palace of Westminster, in the presence of R. earl of W. de Clynton, earl of Huntyngdon, Henry de Ferar iis] the Geoffrey le Scrop and Nicholas de la Beche, knights and many and the king received the seal and carried it in his hand to a small adjoinng the white chamber on the south, and delivered it in that to John, archbishop of Canterbury, whom he appointed chancellor, presence of the earls and knights aforesaid; and the archbishop taken oath to exercise the office faithfully, received the seal from the it with him to his manor of Lambeheth and on the morrow he charters, letters patent and writs to be sealed therewith in his chamber [adera.]