1388-10-13, Cambridge

To the mayor and bailiffs of the city of York for the time being. Order to suffer the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of St. Peter York and their free tenants, and also other their men and neifs, to be quit of payment of toll in that city, releasing any distress made for that cause ; as among other liberties granted to the dean and chapter by charter of King Henry [III], it is granted that they and singular the canons and their successors and all their men shall be quit of toll, tallage, passage, pedage, lastage, stallage, hidage and wardage whatsoever in city and borough, markets and fairs, passing of bridges and seaports and in all places throughout England, Ireland and Wales and all his lands and waters; and when certain men, striving to impugn those liberties, of malice averred that they were granted to the dean and chapter for themselves and their neifs only, and ought to refer to such neifs and not to their free tenants, willing to remove . 539 ambiguity, the late king by charter granted and declared that the should be understood as well for their free tenants as for other men, and that the dean and chapter and their successors shall and enjoy the same, without let of the king, his justices, sheriffs, bailiffs or ministers ; and these charters the king confirmed with the clause licet. erat patens.