1356-05-01, Westminster
Order to proceed to the execution of the king's commission appointing them to be justices to . 261 dykes, ditches, gutters, sewers, bridges, causeways, weirs and of sweet waters in divers places by the sea coast and marsh in and Wygenhale in the parts of Merskland, co. Norfolk, ruinous and broken, as the king has learned, and to make who are bound to repair the said dykes etc. and to do certain contained in the letters patent to them, although the king ordered them to continue that business in the same state in then was until three weeks from Easter last. By K. Bardolf of Wourmegey, John de Ufford, Henry Grene and de Wychyngham.
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