1304-06-10, Stirling

the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas R. bishop of and the dean and chapter of Hereford assert that their tenants city ought to be acquitted of tallages by the charters of the progenitors, and that they were acquitted in the times of the said ; the king orders the treasurer and barons to search the rolls of of the late king's time, and, if they find that the said were quit of tallages in that city during that time, to cause them acquitted of the tallage assessed upon them by Nicholas Fermband William de Brikhull, appointed to assess the tallage in cities, and in the king's demesnes in co. Hereford. the same. Like letter in favour of Roger de Morteyn and Thomas to acquit them of the tallage assessed upon them and their tenants manor of Waleshale by the said Nicholas and William, as they that they hold that manor by the late king's charter, which the has inspected, rendering therefor 4/. yearly to the exchequer for all and that their ancestors in the late king's time were acquitted of in that manor. the same. Like letter in favour of the abbot of St. James without to acquit his tenantry in the borough of Northampton of tallage assessed upon them by Lambert de Trikingham, Ralph and Thomas de Burnham, appointed to assess the tallage Northampton, as he asserts that his tenants in that borough ought acquitted by the charters of the king's progenitors and that they acquitted in their times.