1337-01-02, Westminster

To the taxers and collectors in co. Essex of the tenth and fifteenth granted by the laity for three years. Whereas the king ordered them, by writ under the exchequer seal, to deliver to John de Pulteneye, citizen of London, 1,220/. in payment of 2,265/. 16s. 34d. which he paid for the king's affairs, and to receive from him four tallies of the exchequer levied under their names, and because John has promised to lend that sum to the king on the octaves of the Purification next, the king wishes the payment of 1,000/., which still remain to be paid of the said 1,220J., to be accelerated, and orders the collectors to have the said 1,000/. at London on the said octaves, to be delivered to John there, so that he may be able to lend the said money to the king, knowing that if they are remiss, the king will punish them. By K. and C. . Parr II. 233 To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. The king has learned trom the plaint of the abbot of Glastonbury, that whereas lately, at the suit of Thomas de Andredeseye, the king ordered the sheriff of Somerset to attach Thomas Chaunterel, Nicholas Maynard, John de Breynton of Glastonbury, and others contained in the original writ, to have them before the king on the present octaves of Hilary, to answer Thomas de Andredeseye for robbery and breach of the peace, for which he summons them, and although John de Breynton is abbot of Glastonbury and ready to answer Thomas in the premises and stand to right according to the law and custom of the realm, yet Thomas contriving to deceive the king and his court and the abbot, has described the abbot as John de Breynton of Glastonbury simply, in the writ, so that outlawry might be promulgated against him, whereupon the abbot has besought the king to provide a remedy, the king therefore orders the justices to hear the plaint of the abbot or his attorney in this respect, summoning Thomas before them on a certain appointed day, hearing the reasons of the parties and to proceed further to punish the said deception and malice, and do what is right according to tue law and custom of the realm. By C.