1298-05-28, York

To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Whereas the king learns that bakers and brewers and millers in that city do not execute their offices enough (minus bene frequenter se habent in officiis suis), and that going about the city by night with swords and bucklers and arms, both at the procurement of others and of their own malice, and maltreat men and commit other outrages and enormities against king's peace; the king by his council, wishing to apply a suitable for these things and to strike the offenders and others with fear of orders the mayor and sheriffs to so castigate such bakers, brewers, evil-doers by bodily pains and other torments (flayicia) to be provided their discretion that they shall strike others in like cases with fear of and that all corn to be ground at the mills within the city and shall be delivered by weight to the millers, so that the millers shall for the flour thence proceeding by the like weight. These things all others pertaining to the office of mayor of that city and to the of the king's peace there they shall cause to be observed [Translated by Riley, Memorials of London, p. 36, from copy . of the City of London, Book B, p. 217.] To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Whereas de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, has granted to the Friars Preachers of Sarum thirteen oaks fit for timber in his wood of Penchyt, which is the bounds of the forest of Clarendon, for the works of theirchurch the king orders the justice to permit the Friars to fell the oaks and carry them away. To John de Lythegrfeynes], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause late the wife of William de Vescy, tenant in chief, to have seisin all the lands that they held of the king of her inheritance on the day Williain s death by reason of the lands of John de Balliolo being in the hands, as the king has taken her fealty therefor. To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest beyond Trent.