1382-12-22, Westminster

To Roger Rose of Bury, Edmund fitz Lucas, James de Marham, Osberne, Thomas Fornham, Adam Watyrward, Thomas Ewelle, Toller, Thomas Goddard, Geoffrey Wolman, Henry Wrotham, Bernyngham, Richard Whyte, Thomas Lacford, Alan de William Chevele, Thomas atte Perye, John Rery, John and John Berard, all of Bury, excepted as were all other persons the town from the pardons granted to other lieges in the parliaments 5 and 6 Richard II by reason of many grievous misdeeds. Strict under pain of forfeiture, at the prayer of certain lords sitting the king, for that they have humbly submitted themselves to grace, and for a fine of 2,000 marks made with the council, 500 marks to be paid in the octaves of St. Hilary, 500 marks on day next, and the residue before Christmas following, take a recognisance of the other persons of the said town their to assess themselves and all inhabitants thereof to of the said sum every man according to his estate, possessions means, and by distress and arrest of those who rebel to levy the for payment at the terms aforesaid, certifying all their dealings chancery before Midsummer ; and writ de intendendo in their favour the bailiffs and all the inhabitants of the town under the like pain ; at the instance of those lords the king has taken them to his grace, that every one of them willing severally to sue for it shall a charter of pardon for all insurrections, treasons, seditions, trespasses etc. by them committed before this date, for which or ransoms might be taken, and for all sums of money due by in chancery and elsewhere before justices and judges, or bonds for good behaviour or keeping the peace and the execution and all conditions, mainprises and undertakings a same, with quittance under the common seal of the abbey o St. Edmunds of all actions, plaints and demands of the next and the convent for trespasses etc. heretofore committed the abbey or any person thereof contrary to such security for behaviour; and power to take such recognisance of so many of the town as they shall think fit in terms of the recognisance themselves made in chancery. By K. and C.