1373-08-17, Westminster

To the sheriffs of London. Order by mainprise of Geoffrey de Kent taillour, John Leycestre taillour, Thomas Colman coke, Geoffrey Colman coke and Robert Fysshe draper of the city of London to set free William Chestre coke from Neugate gaol, where he is now imprisoned for certain armour of the king's taken out of the Tower of London and by him bought ; as the said Geoffrey de Kent and the others, appearing in person in chancery, have mainperned under a pain of 1001. to give up his body at the said prison on 17 September next if in the mean time he may not agree concerning the said armour with John de Haytefeld the king's clerk, in whose keeping the same was.