1336-08-12, Perth

Order to cause de Burgo, one of the heirs of Gilbert de Clare, tenant in chief late king, to have respite, until Christmas next, for all the debts Gilbert owed at the exchequer, unless the king orders otherwise in as the late king ordered the treasurer and barons of the said to accept sufficient security from the executors of Gilbert's will any debts which he owed at the exchequer to the said king, as Gilbert's goods and chattels would suffice, and to cause the executors full and free administration of all those goods and chattels in Ireland, execution of the said will, and the king ordered the treasurer to inspect the rolls and memoranda touching the premises in of England, and to inform the king as quickly as possible the said security was taken, the said goods delivered to the execuof the value thereof, and the king has given Elizabeth the respite said debts which are exacted of her by reason of the lands which in her purparty of the lands which belonged to Gilbert. By K. the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port Order to cause the seal called coket deputed in that port collection of the said custom to be placed in a safe place in that city lock and under the seals of the mayor and four lawful men of the they shall nominate, and to be safely guarded ; and they shall wool, hides or wool-fells to cross from that port towards parts by any trick or design, or under any pretext, after the receipt of until further orders under pain of forfeiture. By K. and C. like to the mayor and bailiffs of fifteen other cities and towns, mutandis. Lbid.] . 701 Richard de la Hayle, clerk, is admitted guardian of John son of John de Merkyngfeld, of Sharrowe, kinsman and heir of John Merkyngfeld, clerk, late executor of the will of William de Hamelton, a minor, to defend the execution of a recognisance for 40/. made by John, in the late king's chancery, to the abbot of Fourneys. Adam de Merkyngfeld, knight, tenant of a part of the lands which belonged to the said executor, puts in his place the said Richard to defend the execution of the same recognisance. Like attornment by Laurence de Merkyngfeld, tenant of a part of the lands of the said executor.