1335-07-14, Carlisle

To Philip de Hambury, supplying the place of Henry de Percy, constable of Scardeburgh castle. Order tc cause the defects in that castle, which are in most need of repair to be repaired and amended up to the sum of 40/. by the view and testimony of Henry de Roston and Adam de Semere, and the king has ordered the bailiffs and lawful men of Scardeburgh to pay to Philip 80/. for those repairs of those 91/. which they ought to pay to the king for the ferm of that town at Michaelmas next, because the king has learned that there are divers defects in the castle, in towers, turrets, houses, bridges and other erections there, and that he may easily suffer no small damage unless they be speedily repaired and amended. By C.