1344-10-10, Windsor

To W. archbishop of York. Request to convoke the clergy of hiS . at the church of St. Peter, York, on a certain day fixed by him, and treat with them inciting them to grant the king a competent subsidy in of his most urgent affairs; and the king has chosen certain lieges to set to them some things touching the premises and to report to him they propose to do, as the archbishop of Canterbury and the clergy of province have granted the king a tenth beyond the triennial tenth now and terms of payment of the second year of the triennial tenth in of the appointed terms, in aid of the charges for the defence of English church and the realm against invasion, but the archbishop of and the clergy of his province have refused to grant such a subsidy. [Federa. Rep. Dignity of a Peer, iv. p. 506.) By the keeper and C. John son of Robert Pecok of Redbourn, the elder, puts in his place Poleyn and Richard Pecok to prosecute the execution of a for 103s. made to him in the late king's chancery by Hubert Sutton, burgess of Walyngford.