1338-12-06, Byfleet

To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to deliver to John de Pulteneye, Henry Darcy, John de Preston, John de Oxenford, and Richard de Rothyng, citizens of London, 1817. 12s. 1d. or give them an assionment upon the issues of the triennial tenth now current in the diocese of Salisbury, as the king is bound to them in 1037. 12s. 1d. for 75 tuns of flour containing 181 quarters at 5s. 13d. a quarter, 37/. 10s. for 75 carcases of oxen at 10s. a carcase, and 20/. 10s. for 3,000 horse shoes and 30,000 nails which they have bought and purveyed for the 1338. king's use and delivered to Thomas de Baddeby, the king's clerk, to be taken to parts beyond the sea, as appears by an indenture under Thomas's seal. By C. Tees To Richard de Wylughby and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Whereas it was found by inquisitions post mortem of John de Goldyngton, taken by William Trussel, escheator this side Trent, that John at his death held in his demesne as of fee, in chief, 6 marks yearly rent of 17 free tenants in Great Leghes by the service of rendering a cut (trencheam) of scarlet, price 4 mark, at Easter and Michaelmas, and he held no other lands in chief as of the crown, and by another inquisition post mortem of William de Goldyngton taken in the late king's time, John's father, whose heir he is, it is found that William held at his death in his demesne as of fee, 5 marks rent in the hamlet of Chatelegh in the town of Great Legh, by the service of a tenth part of a knight's fee and rendering an ell of scarlet, price 5s. at Midsummer, wherefore for the friends of John's heir, a minor, who have besought the king to cause his hand to be amoved from the lands which belonged to John, the king sends to the justices under the half seal, the tenors of the said inquisitions post mortem, of the writs of diem clausit extremum by which the inquisitions were taken, and the tenor of a certificate of the treasurer and barons touching the matter, ordering them to view these, calling before them the king's serjeants and others, and hearing the reasons on both sides, and to proceed further according to the law and custom of the realm, and that done to send the whole affair into chancery under Richard's seal, so that the king may cause justice to be done. By C. 20.