1388-03-23, Westminster

To Nicholas Exton mayor of the city of London and escheator therein. Order, upon petition of Joan wife of John de Lancastre knight, by mainprise of John Reynald and Edmund Waryn of Wiltesir to deliver to her all the goods and chattels of her husband in the keeping of John Sewale, John Kendale and Agatha Hanchacche and elsewhere in the mayor s bailiwick, any arrest thereof made notwithstanding ; as lately the king ordered the mayor to bring the same under safe custody before the council, and her petition shews that he arrested in the hands of John Sewale one testere with half a celure, one coverlet with three ridels, eight costers and six whisshines, 52). of wax worked, one clothsake, one short cassock (epitegiwm), one black horn with a band of silver, one girdle of silver and gilt containing 3 ounces, two remnants of rayed cloth and colour, one sun of the king's livery and two small chains of gold, one seal containing ounce, one weak shipchiste, three weak pairs of spurs, four hoods of scarlet and green cloth, three pairs of hose of red cloth and white, three worn linen sheets, 16 yards of blanket, one bed with celure and three curtains of black silk, all worn, 100/b. of candles of Parys, one alb (abbam) and one chasuble of white and red baudekyn, all appraised at 91. 13s. 10d.; and the said John Reynald and Edmund have mainperned in chancery under a pain of 19/. 7s. 8d. to answer for the price thereof, in case the same shall hereafter be adjudged to the king. By C. and by bill of the treasurer. . ; To the mayor and sheriffs of London and the keepers of the passage that port.