1298-11-16, York

Appointment date: inferred Regnal year 27 Edward I · Edward I · Close Rolls · Membrane 7

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Dated in source: “Nov. 16” · Place: York (Yorkshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 7 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To Richard de Harlegh. Whereas the king appointed him to choose 500 footmen in that county and to bring them to him at Newcastle-on-Tyne, by the eve of St. Katherine next, in order to set out with the king at his wages against the Scots, and he has now ordained that they shall be at Berwick-on-Tweed on Sunday the feast of St. Lucy: the king orders him to cause the said footmen to be assembled without delay, and to bring them z to him at the said place, laying aside all other things. The king is sending 7 to him Wilham de Ebor aco], his clerk, to pay their wages until they come . to the said place. He is enjoined to execute this order so diligently and 7 speedily that this matter shall not be delayed through his fault, for which reason the king would have to punish (graviter capere) him as a transgressor of his urgent order. [Parl, Writs.]

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