1324-08-26, Tonbridge

Order date: inferred Regnal year 18 Edward II · Edward II · Close Rolls · Membrane 35

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Dated in source: “Aug. 26” · Place: Tonbridge (Kent)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 35 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause the footmen archers of that who returned home without the king's licence, and whom the king him to release from prison upon their finding mainprise to be with king at Portesmuth on Monday after St. Bartholomew next, to know they are to be there on Monday after the Nativity of St. Mary instead the aforesaid date, the king having prorogued the date. If any of the men not yet arrested refuse to find such mainprise or to come to the king the said day, the sheriff is ordered to take them and imprison them to the king's previous order, and he is ordered to certify the king the names of those thus released on mainprise and. of the names of their at the said date, By K.

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