1300-01-14, Wetherby

Order to send to the chancery at York a horse not (enttum) by one of his men before the octaves of Hilary next, there to be delivered to John de Langeton, the chancellor, king much needs a good and strong horse to carry the rolls of the sheriff of York. Whereas the king lately caused horsemen for arms in the sheriff's bailiwick to be requested and warned footmen to a certain number to be chosen to be wita him at Berwickon Sunday the feast of St. Lucy the Virgin last, ready to set against the Scots, and the said horsemen and footmen in coming to king received money from him and also from some towns in the bailiwick and afterwards returned home fraudulently with the thus received without seeking or obtaining the king's licence: the orders the sheriff to take with him Wilham le Vavassur, John de and John de Byrun, appointed to choose the footmen and to them to the king, and to cause all those men whom William, John John, or one of them, and Ralph de Dalton, appointed to pay wages footmen until they come to the king, shall signify to him as having returned to be taken and imprisoned until they shall have satisfied king and the aforesaid towns for double the money that they have If they shall then find the sheriff mainpernors to have them the king at his will to answer to him concerning the premises and and receive what his court shall consider in this behalf, he shall them to be delivered from prison by such mainprise. [Parl. like to the sheriffs of the following counties: Northumberland, to arrest those whom Walter de Huntercumbe, appointed to choose the footmen, and Robert de Barton, appointed to pay their wages, shall signify to him. Cumberland, to arrest those whom Robert Tilliol, appointed to choose the footmen, and the said Robert, appointed to pay their wages, shall signify to them. Westmoreland, to arrest those whom Hugh de Multon, appointed to choose the footmen, shall signify to them. Lancaster, to arrest all those whom he shall ascertain have thus returned. Salop and Stafford, to arrest those whom Richard de Harleye in co. Salop and William de Stafford in co. Stafford, shall signify to him. Nottingham and Derby, to arrest those whom Richard de Bingham in co. Nottingham, and Henry de Braylesford in co. Derby, and Roger de Sutton, clerk, appointed to pay the wages to the footmen, shall signify. William le Vavassur.