1384-05-11, Salisbury

Order date: inferred Regnal year 7 Richard II · Richard II · Close Rolls · Membrane 7

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Dated in source: “May 11” · Place: Salisbury (Wiltshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 7 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the mayor and bailiffs of Lym. Order to suffer Philip de of London vynter and William Horwych of London by their own mainprise to take the fee farm of Lym from last and every year so long as Walter de Merston shall be prisoner, and writ of aid in their favour in regard to the levy thereof ; by their mainprise on 1 January last the king committed the same the said Walter for ten years from Michaelmas last, rendering 4s. a year at the exchequer and bearing all charges; and now it shewn the king that he is taken prisoner of war by the king's enemies Scotland, wherefore he may not make prompt payment.

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