1404-11-08, Coventry

Exemption date: inferred Regnal year 6 Henry IV · Henry IV · Patent Rolls · Membrane 26

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Dated in source: “Nov. 8” · Place: Coventry (Warwickshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 66, membrane 26 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Exemption for life of the king's esquire John Doreward of the county Essex from being put on assizes, juries, inquisitions, attaints or and from being made sheriff, escheator, coroner, mayor, constable, justice of the peace or of labourers, knight of the shire, trier or leader of men at arms, hobelers or archers, assessor, collector of tenths, fifteenths, quota, taxes, tallages or other or aids or other officer, commissioner or minister of the king his will; in lieu of a grant to him of 85/. yearly from the feeof the town of Colchester by letters patent, surrendered. By K. & C. in Parl.

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