1338-12-06, Byfleet

To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to deliver to John de Henry Darcy, John de Preston, John de Oxenford, and Richard Rothyng, citizens of London, 1811. 12s. 1d. or give them an assignupon the issues of the triennial tenth now current in the diocese of Salisbury, as the king is bound to them in 1032. 12s. 1d. for 75 of flour containing 181 quarters at 5s. 1 d. a quarter, 377. 10s. 75 carcases of oxen at 10s. a carcase, and 201. 10s. for 3,000 horse and 30,000 nails which they have bought and purveyed for the king's use and delivered to Thomas de Baddeby, the king's clerk, to be taken to parts beyond the sea, ag appears by an indenture under Thomas's seal. By C. To Richard de Wylughby and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Whereas it was found by inquisitions post mortem of John de Goldyngton, taken by William Trussel, escheator this side Trent, that John at his death held in his demesne as of fee, in chief, 6 marks yearly rent of 17 free tenants in Great Leghes by the service of rendering a cut (trencheam) of scarlet, price 4 mark, at Easter and Michaelmas, and he held no other lands in chief as of the crown, and another inquisition post mortem of William de Goldyneton taken in the late king's time, John's father, whose heir he is, it is found that held at his death in his demesne as of fee, 5 marks rent in hamlet of Chatelegh in the town of Great Legh, by the service of tenth part of a knight's fee and rendering an ell of scarlet, price 5s. Midsummer, wherefore for the friends of John's heir, a minor, who besought the king to cause his hand to be amoved from the lands belonged to John, the king sends to the justices under the half the tenors of the said inquisitions post mortem, of the writs of clausit extremum by which the inquisitions were taken, and the of a certificate of the treasurer and barons touching the matter, them to view these, calling before them the king's serjeants others, and hearing the reasons on both sides, and to proceed further to the law and custom of the realm, and that done to send the affair into chancery under Richard's seal, so that the king may justice to be done. By C.