1325-08-21, Wingham

Commission to Robert de Bardelby, Henry Huse and Stephen Poer, on petition by Hugh le Despenser, earl of Winchester, to inquire whether it would be to the king's damage to grant to the earl's burgesses and tenants of New Shorham a charter to the same effect as above [m. 31d] with the following amendment after the words affect the king or the said earl or his heirs, or his bailiff of the said borough; also that they be exempt so long as they dwell within the borough, from assizes, juries and recognitions without the borough by reason of any of their lands; also that the said burgesses, their heirs and successors, being burgesses and tenants of the said earl, shall not be convicted (non convincantur) by other than their fellow burgesses for any trespasses, contracts and conventions arising within the borough, unless the matter touches the king, the earl, or the commonalty of the borough ; also that they may bequeath by their last will tenements bought by them withm the borough, except in mortmain, without licence of the king or the earl; that no merchant, alien or denizen (alienigena seu indigena) shall sell by retail any merchandise brought by sea to the said borough or port, without licence of the earl or his bailiffs of the borough, except the burgesses and tenants of the earl of the said borough, on pain of forfeiture thereof ; and that the said burgesses, being burgesses and tenants of the earl, shall not do service,or aid to the king except by sea. By K.