1383-09-16, Westminster

collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull time being. Order of the ancient custom in that port to pay de la Pole knight 180 marks a year and the arrears since of William the last earl of Suffolk; as William de la Pole the elder deceased made to the late king a surrender and quitthe manor of Brustwyk co. York, the manors of Gryngele co. Notyngham which he held by charters of the said 260 marks of yearly rent to be taken of the said custom by his heirs for maintaining the estate of banneret ; and for and a surrender and quitclaim of the manor of Kayngham likewise made by Thomas de la Pole deceased and Edmund sons of the said William, with common assent of the whole the late king of his particular knowledge after mature deliberato the said William de la Pole and Michael his son and to their recompense thereof 400 marks of yearly rent to be taken as ; and upon petition of the said Michael, for that he gave up king's letters patent in chancery to be cancelled, the king and advice of the council gave to the said Michael and in exchange for 220 marks yearly deducted from the aforesaid a year of rent which the said earl was bound to pay for the town of Orforde, the manor of Benhale co. Suffolk to the 100 marks a year, knights fees thereto pertaining to the value 40 marks of yearly rent of the fee farm of the said Michael's 20. 20. 23. 19. manor of Stradbroke which he or his tenants are bound to pay to the manor of Eye, and the manor of Dedham co. Essex to the value of 201. a year, the said manors of Benhale and Dedham, 40 marks of rent and fees having been held by the said earl by gift of the late king to Robert de Ufford earl of Suffolk his father and to his heirs male, and having come to the king's hands for that William the earl died without issue male, provided the said Michael should pay down 1,000 marks for the neifs and growing timber of the manors of Benhale and Dedham, further covenanting that he should take the remaining 180 marks a year as aforesaid from the said earl's death. Et erat patens. To William Sallowe escheator in Notynghamshire.