1304-04-13, Inverkeithing

To the same. Whereas King Henry, the king's progenitor, granted by his charter, which the king has inspected, to the weavers of York in the city of York, of whatsoever fees they might be, their guild and the customs and liberties pertaining to their craft (officium), so that no one but them shall make dyed or rayed cloth in the whole of Yorkshire, except themselves in York or others of the same craft in Beverley, Kirkeby, Malton, Tresk, and Scardeburgh and other demesne boroughs of the king, so that the said weayers shall render 101. yearly to the king by reason of their liberty aforesaid ; and it is shown to the king by the weavers of the city that divers men in divers places in that county elsewhere than in that city and than in the other towns and demesne boroughs aforesaid make dyed and rayed cloth, so that the weavers in the said city are unable to render 10/. yearly to the exchequer, as they are bound to do: the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause inquiry to be made by all means that they shall deem fit in what towns and places other than in the city and other towns and demesne boroughs aforesaid the weaving craft of such cloth is plyed, and by whom, and in what manner, and to cause all those whom they shall find plying such craft elsewhere than in the city, towns and demesne boroughs aforesaid to desist from plying such craft henceforth. It is provided that those who shall ply the said craft in the city, towns and demesne boroughs aforesaid shall answer to the king at the exchequer for the said 10/. yearly. To the same. Whereas the king lately, by mainprise found by Thomas de Swyneford before him that he would find him in aid of his war in Scotland an armed man with a barded (cooperto) horse during the war, pardoned him and Margaret, his wife, their trespass in entering by the feoffment of Norman Darcy, deceased, without the king's licence certain lands in Noketon and Dunston, co. Lincoln, which are held of the king in chief, and which were taken into the king's hands by reason of the trespass aforesaid, and the king ordered the sheriff of Lincoln, on 10 July, in the thirtieth year of his reign, to deliver the lands to Thomas and Margaret if they were in the king's hands solely for this reason, as appears by inspection of the rolls of chancery: the king orders the treasurer and barons not to molest Thomas and Margaret or the sheriff by reason of the issues of the lands after the said 10 July. . 135