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1338-10-15, Kennington

To John de Moubray. Order upon sight of these presents to go with hig horses and arms and all his power to the parts of Sussex, and stay there while danger is imminent, to defend his land and the realm with the other lieges there, as although Edward duke of Cornwall and earl of Chester, keeper of England, seeing the damage inflicted by foreigners the parts of cos. Sussex and Southampton, and elsewhere towards the south, ordered John to go to the parts of Sussex with his power, to stay at his manor of Brembre and his other manors and places there, to be to set out with the other magnates and leges of those parts to repel the enemies, yet John has neglected to do this. By K. and C.

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