1345-07-16, Southwick

Memorandum that the king, returning from Flanders on 26 July, landed Sandwich at the first hour, and on 30 July Master John de Thoresby, of the privy seal, delivered to Master Robert de Sadyngton, the a great seal for the governance of the realm during the king's in England, which the king received from him at Sandwich upon passage to Flanders, enclosed in a bag under John's seal, in the great at Westminster in the place where the chancellor commonly sits, among the clerks of chancery, in their presence, and the chancellor received that seal, caused it to be opened and writs and other things to be sealed and took it with him to his house ; and on the same day he delivered great seal for the governance of the realm during the king's to John de Etton and John de Houton, chamberlains of the in a bag under his seal, in the presence of Master John and the clerks aforesaid, in the said hall, to be kept in the king's treasury, is customary. [Federa.]