1340-01-19, Tower

Mandate to Robert Houel, late clerk of the said market, for livery to him of the measures, standards, weights, rolls, memoranda and all other things pertaining to the office. 18. In consideration of the great place which Geoffrey le Scrope, deceased, of held for the king in divers manners and the good service which John son of John de Hothum of Bondeby, who married the daughter of the said Geoffrey, did both in Scotland and beyond the seas in his company, and because the said John received the order of knighthood while beyond the seas, the king has pardoned all debts charged on the lands of the latter in Ireland, by estreats of the exchequer of Dublin, by reason of old debts of his ancestors and their feoffees. By ps. 21. Gift. to Robert de Burghcher, the chancellor, in consideration of heavy charges incumbent on him in keeping up the household of the chancery, and by reason of his office, beyond that which other chancellors before these times have sustained, of 300/. beyond the usual fee of the chancellor towards such charges, and 200/. towards purveyances of plate (vasts) and other things necessary for the office. By ps. 17. Whereas the king has acquired in fee a messuage and certain plots of in Cambridge, to wit a messuage in the parish of All Saints from Master Edmund de Walsyngham, a garden from Henry de Gretford, late of the prior of the chapel of St. Edmund, Cambridge, a plot of land at Damenicolesheth from Bartholomew Peryn, a plot of land from Robert de Sygesford, a plot of land at Damenicolesheth from John son of Wilham de Comberton of Cambridge, a plot of land at Damenicolesheth from William de Glatton, a plot of land at Damenicolesheth from Stephen son of Bartholomew Morys of Cambridge, for the great affection which he has for the warden and scholars of the King's Hall, Cambridge, he has granted the same to them and their successors for the enlargement of their dwelling-place. He has also pardoned them for acquiring in mortmain part of a lane between the garden of the hospital of St. John the Evangelist and tenements of the prior of St. Edmund's, Cambridge, which part extends from the lodging of the prior opposite the church of All Saints, Trumpton Warde, to the end thereof towards le Cornheth, and a void plot at le Cornheth, called Fossa Regis, 200 feet long and 14 feet. broad, and entering upon these without licence, and granted licence for them to retain the same. By p.s. 12.