1303-11-12, Burstwick

To the bailiffs of Scardeburgh. Whereas the king lately ordered John Sampson, constable of the king's castle of that town, to receive William Stote of Dundovenal, John Ofthehull of Fauside, John le Taillur of Gobisky and Henry de Strivelyn, Scots, who held the castle of Strivelyn against the king and who afterwards submitted themselves to the king's will, from John Balant, master of the ship called La Katerine of Saltcotes, and to keep them safely in that castle until further orders, and to pay to each of them 2d. a day for their maintenance for so long as they should remain there; and there are no issues of the constable's bailiwick, and he has nothing of the king's elsewhere out of which he can make these payments: the king orders the bailiffs to pay to the constable 2d. a day for each of the said Scots from 6 August last, on which day they were first received into the castle, for so long as they shall be in the castle. The treasurer ordered [this], by the testimony of William de Thorntoft. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John Maundevill to be acquitted of the 100 marks exacted from him for the fine that he made with the king for a trespass of venison that he was . 189 to have committed in divers of the king's forests, as the king, on October, in the thirtieth year of his reign, pardoned him this sum for 1301-1307, p. 67).