1389-01-22, Westminster

the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Writ of in respect of a distress made upon the abbot of Glastonbury, Courtenay and Walter Clopton, lately appointed with Nicholas Guy de Bryen, Ivo Fitz Wareyn, Thomas de Hungerford, Bonevyle, John Barre, James Fitz James and John Tomere inquisition by whose default the walls, dikes, gutters, sewers the sea coast in Somerset are broken in divers places by flow of the sea and by flooding of fresh water, so that for of repair much damage has happened in times past, and order due process against the said Nicholas and the others; as commission came not to the hands of the said abbot, Peter and nor have they meddled in aught therein contained, as the has learned by credible witness. of a mainprise under a pain of 1,000/., made in chancery 25 January this year by Richard Mewes, William John Arblaster and John Leche for Richard Beckot, and of by him under the same pain, that he shall do or procure or harm to Stephen Heyme of Winchester.