June 16, Inquisition

Commission to Walter de Norwico, Edmund de Hemegrave and de Hedersete. Westminster. 12 July 19 Edward II. [1325.] By of the Council. before the said Edmund and Simon. Dunwich. Monday the of the Translation of St. Edmund the Archbishop. [1326.] great part of the tenements of the town of Dunwich, from the rents of money in aid of the farm used to be levied, has been destroyed by the to the sum of 10/. 2s. 114d. and 3,700 and 5 score herrings ; the loss on and fairs amounts to 13/. 8s. 6d.; on account of the obstruction of port the men of Walbertiswyke and Suthwalde, who were bound to pay custom of 101. for their ships coming to land there, now pay 5 marks ; that the burgesses can only pay their farm by a tallage from year to year. Messuages are destroyed and lands uncultivated and derelict, to the yearly of 7/. 19s. 6d. From the sixteenth to the twenty-first year of King Edward I the port was and the men of Dunwich laboured to open it, but could not bring back to its former state, so that up to the date of this inquisition great cannot enter it. In the year 22 Edward I the port was obstructed and a port near Suthwalde 2 leagues, was opened, and divers merchants and fishermen, who used come to Dunwich, went there. Lists of tenements and values showing the losses incurred. C. Ing. Misc. File 102. (17.) 908. Extent of the manor of Drax before Simon de Grymmesby, escheator co. York. Thursday before Easter 19 Edward II. [1326.] C. Ing. Misc. File 102. (18.) 909. Petition to the king from Adam son of Robert de Penreth. French.