1354-06-06, Woodstock

Memorandum that Geoffrey came into chancery at London on 8 June and acknowledged the preceding deed. Memorandun that Master John de Offord, elect of Canterbury, the chancellor, died on 20 May, at Totenhall, near London, after sunset, and on the morrow, about the first hour, Master Andrew de Offord, his brother, left London with the great seal in a bag under his seal, to take it to the king, then at Woodstock, and on 28 May the seal was delivered at the house of the friars preachers, London, in the chamber of the council there, by Bartholomew de Burgherssh, the king's chamberlain, in the presence of Sir Thomas de Sancto Leodegario, knight, Sir Edmund de Grymesby, clerk, and of several other clerks of chancery, to Sir David de Woll , Sir John de Sancto Paulo, Sir Thomas de Brayton and Sir Thomas de Cotyngham, to be kept until the king should order otherwise, and after hearing Bartholomew's direction to them and having understood the king's order, they caused the bag containing the seal to be immediately opened and sealed several writs and letters patent in that chamber. [ Fwdera.) L1. Parr 1. 85