1304-05-30, Stirling

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause J. bishop of Carlisle to be acquitted of 65/7. 12s. 4d. (sic) and of 71. 6s. 6d. (ste) in his ferm of the castle of Carlisle and of the king's demesne pertaining to it for the years specified below, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by Adam de Crokedayk and John de Kirkeby that the herbage in the meadows pertaining to the castle, which the king committed to him with his demesnes and all other things pertaining to the castle, rendering therefor yearly to the exchequer 55/. 2s. 11d., had been so consumed by the horses of the king and of Edward, prince of Wales, and of other magnates and subjects coming to Scotland in the king's service by his orders in the 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 31st years of his reign, to the amount of 651. 12s. 4d., to wit by the horses of Reginald de Grey, John de Havering, John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, and John son of Thomas, bringing Welshmen and Irishmen to the king in Scotland in the 26th year of his reign, to the amount of 13/. 11s. 10d., and by the horses of William le Latimer, Robert de Clifford, and Ralph son of William and others of cos. Lancaster, Cumberland and Westmoreland coming to Carlisle for the protection of that march by the king's order in summer in the 27th year upon divers occasions to the amount of 12/. 5s. 2d., and by the great horses of the king and of the said prince sent to the castle about Holy Trinity, in the 28th year of his reign, and there staying until Midsummer following and by other horses of the king and of his magnates coming with him at the same Midsummer to Scotland to the amount of 131. 19s. 2d, and by the horses of the said prince and of others with him at Carlisle at Holy Trinity, in . 148 29th year, to the amount of 14]. 5s. 2d., and by the horses of Thomas of Egremond, John de Hodeleston and John de Lancastr ia of others of cos. Westmoreland and Cumberland who were at Carlisle three weeks for the protection of the march against the Scots in in the 31st year, to the amount of 11/. 10s. Od.; and also that dwellings (domicilia) pertaining to the castle were burnt by the Scots invaded those parts in the 26th year, and that by reason of this there was a falling off of 7/. 6s. 6d. from the moneys that the ought to have received from the said dwellings and certain plots the king's gardens near the Eden, to wit in the 26th year 37s, 8//., 27th year 87s. 8d., in the 28th year 37s. 8d., in the 29th year 6d., in the 80th year 4s. 6d., in the 31st year 4s. 6d. By C.