1369-02-15, Westminster

the justiciary, chancellor and treasurer of Ireland. Order, upon made on behalf of John Wogan, if at Easter next or sooner come to Ireland there to abide upon the defence of the country and of his lands according to the ordinance last made, and if his said lands are in the king's hand because of the said ordinance and for no other cause, to cause him without delay to have restitution and livery thereof with the issues thereof taken in the mean time by them or other the king's ministers, to hold as before they were taken into the king's hand; as the said petition shews that the said John abode continually upon his lands in Ireland until the coming of Lionel duke of Clarence the king's son and lieutenant in Ireland, that with his men at his own cost he stood with the said duke no small time upon the war against the king's enemies, taking nothing of the king, until news came that he would lose his lands in Wales unless he should speedily remove thither, when with the said duke's licence he departed for the recovery and defence of his said lands, came to Wales, and there abode as need was at the command of his superiors as well for defence of Wales as of his said lands, and that while so he was in Wales his lands in Ireland were long ago by the justiciary, chancellor and treasurer and other the king's ministers taken into the king's hand for that he was not in Ireland in person upon the defence thereof, although he left there men sufficient for their defence, and the perils in Wales being ended hastened upon his passage to Ireland, but three times in crossing the sea thither was by storm driven back to land in Wales, praying for restitution thereof, as he is now ready to cross over in person to Ireland and there abide with men at arms and archers according to his estate for defence of Ireland and of his lands there against the king's enemies according to the ordinance new made by the king and council. By K. and C. [ Federa.] 20. William de Lenne chaplain, imprisoned in Karliol prison for an alleged trespass of venison in the forest of Ingelwode whereof he is indicted, has a writ addressed to William Latymer keeper of the king's forest beyond Trent or to his representative in the said forest, to put him on bail until the next coming of the justices in eyre for pleas of the forest in Cumberland. 12. To William de Acon sheriff of York. Order at his peril to remove Thomas de Thorp clerk from the office of sheriff's clerk, and to appoint another in his room without delay; as in the statute published at Westminster in the 42nd year of the reign it is contained (inter alia) that no sheriff's clerk shall remain in office longer than one year, and the said Thomas was sheriff's clerk within York castle with John Chaumon late sheriff last year, as the king has learned by credible witness.