1286-02-21, Westminster

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas it frequently happens that tallies received at the exchequer for the king's debts paid there are lost by divers chances, by reason whereof due allowanee cannot be made of them, since the counter-tallies remaining at the exchequer cannot be allowed without their sticks (stipitibus), and as after much discussion there does not appear to be a more secure way than to renew (innovart) the aforesaid tallies and to condemn the counter-tallies of the lost tallies in the following manner: the king, wishing to provide for his indemnity and the indemnity of those who haye lost tallies as is aforesaid, provides that as often as tallies . 385 the exchequer lost in any manner shall be renewed of necessity, the for which the new tallies are to be made shall be previously as was usual in times past in such case, with the addition that shall be placed in a bundle (liacio) by themselves and there shall be on them or ona bill appended to them: These tallies are conbefore the barons, because others were made anew in their places, roll so and so. Moreover, rolls shall be made distinctly and openly all counter-tallies thus condemned, of which rolls the treasurer shall have and each of the chamberlains one. At the end of the year the the barons and the chamberlains shall meet, and shall cause the aforesaid to be recited and examined, so that the said rolls and the aforesaid shall agree in all things. The king therefore the treasurer and barons that when such cases arise, they shall cause things to be thus done, enrolled, and observed. [Ryley, Placita, 450.] To the same. Order to cause Master Thomas de Sutton, canon of to be acquitted of 100s. in which he was amerced before the justices in eyre in co. Oxford because he did not appear before them in person their common summons [of the eyre], as the king understands for that Thomas holds no other tenement except a spiritual one in co. so that he had no need to come in person to the common summons. the same. Like order to acquit Master Percival de Lavannia, canon Lincoln, of 10 marks.