1368-02-14, Westminster

To the collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne for the time being. Order to pay to John de Neville, son and heir of Ralph de Neville, the arrears of 118/. 12s. 1ldd..a year from 5 August last, and henceforth to pay him that sum every year at Haster and Michaelmas, taking his acquittance, according to the king's letters patent of 16 July in the 26th year of his reign, granting in part of a yearly sum of 1201. in exchange for the castle and manor of the Ermytage in Scotland extended at that yearly value, which the said Ralph gave to the king and his heirs for 1201. a year of land and rent to be by the king given to him and his heirs, the reversion of 901. 16s. 8d. yearly taken of the farm of the said town by John Darcy deceased and his heirs during the life of Mary countess of Pembroke by the king's grant with reversion to the king after her death, and also after the decease of Richard de Denton the reversion of 27s. 03d. which he was bound yearly to pay at the exchequer of the yearly rent of 511. 7s. 03d. issuing from the cornage of Cumberland according to the grant made to the said Ralph and his heirs after the death of the said Richard, who took the said rent for life of the king's grant, and further granting that he and his heirs should take every year 120/. of the issues of the customs and subsidies in the said port, namely 90/. 16s. 8d. thereof until by the death of the said countess or otherwise the sam which the said John took as aforesaid should come to his hands, 27s. 03d. until by the death of the said Richard or otherwise that sum of the said cornage should come to his hands, and 27/. 16s. 34d. until by the king or his heirs provision should be made to him and his heirs of so much a year of land and rent towards the said exchange ; and after on 15 February in the 38th year of the reign, for that the said 27s. Odd. of the said rent of the cornage came to the said Ralph by the death of the said Richard, who died on Wednesday after Palm Sunday in the 37th year, the king commanded the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer to cause so much to be deducted from the yearly sum assigned to him of the said customs and subsidies, allowing the same as well to the said Ralph as to the collectors thereof, delivering the residue to him, making allowance thereof to the collectors, and discharging him at the exchequer of payment of the same sum; and The inquisition shews that Robert de Raghton died at this date, and that Thomas was his son and heir. a . 417 finding of divers inquisitions, taken at the king's command, that August last the said Ralph died, and that the said John his son next heir and of full age, on 10 October last the king took the and fealty of the said John, and commanded livery to be him of his said father's lands, and further for 60/. by him paid him of the king's gift all issues and profits of the said lands since of his father.