1323-06-09, Cowick

John Campioun of Stokesley acknowledges that he owes to Thomas, parson of Ruddeby church, 6 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York. Enrolment of writ of privy seal to William de Ayremynne, Master Henry de Clyf, and William de Herlaxton, ordering them to receive the great seal from J. bishop of Norwich, the chancellor, and to keep it as they have done heretofore until further orders, the king having been informed of the bishop's illness. Dated at Bysshopthorp, 4 June. On the morrow, to wit 5 June, the bishop, lying on his bed in his chamber in St. Mary's abbey, York, delivered the seal, at the hour immediately after dinner, with his own hands to the said William, Henry, and William, and William de Ayremynne received it from him in the presence of Sir William de Clyf, Master Edmund de London, and other clerks of the chancery, and the said William de Ayremynne, Henry, and William de Herlaston opened the seal in the abbey at the hour of vespers, and caused writs to be sealed with it, and the seal after the sealing remained in the custody of the said Sir William de Ayremynne. [Parl, /Vrits.]