1323-06-06, Bishopthorpe

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Drogo Barentyn, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, his expenses up to 7/.6s. 8d., which he expended by order of Edmund, earl of Kent, Hugh, earl of Winchester, and Richard Damory, steward of the king's household, whom the king appointed to take into his hands Walyngford castle, which was lately held against the king, and by the view and testimony of the said steward, to wit 27 January last 14d. for the wages of seven footmen staying in the with the said steward, each taking 2d. a day; 4/. 19s. Od. from the day until 14 February, being eighteen days, for the wages of twentyfootmen staying in the same castle; 19s. 6d, from 14 February to . 657 of the same month, being nine days, for the wages of thirteen footmen in the castle; and 9s. 4d. for the wages of four men for seven days Thomas de Fencote, a prisoner, from the castle to the king, each 4d. a day ; 6s. for the hire of a horse for the said prisoner; 4s. 4d. for maintenance of the prisoner and horse for the said seven days ; 6s. 8d. for wages of the said four men returning home for five days; and 20d. the expenses of the horse ret urning for the same time. ,