1375-04-09, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 49 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 39

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Dated in source: “April 9” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 39 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Order to cause Lazarus de Puy, Lewis Caet, Michael de Pera and Geoffrey de Corville to be arrested wherever found within the liberty of the Cinque Ports, and to be brought with all speed before the council at Westminster to answer to the king for the money hereinafter mentioned and concerning other matters which shall then and there be laid before them on the king's behalf; as the said Lazarus and the others were by Thomas de Felton seneschal of Gascony retained to sail with him on the king's service to Gascony, as he has certified in chancery, and after receiving by his hands divers sums of the king's money for their wages withdrew from that service and are lurking in the said liberty to sail privily to foreign parts; and it is the king's will that answer be made by them for that money, and that they be chastised according to their deserts. Et erat patens. 8. To Walter Cifrewast escheator in Dorset and Somerset.

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