1386-02-15, Westminster

Commission of oyer and terminer to William de Skipwyth, John Holt, William de Thorpe, John de Burgh, John Broune of Wyvelyngham and Arnald Pynkeneye, clerk, on complaint by Thomas, bishop of Ely, that although all his tenants resident within Ely, oo. Cambridge, by reason of his lordship are bound to grind all their grindable corn at his mills therein, and have been wont so to do in times past, none being permitted to erect a horse-mill or a hand-mill for grinding corn or malt within Ely, one Richard de Overe of Ely has erected such a mill to the loss of the bishop's multure, and when Walter de Eton, the bishop's bailiff, perpending that the said Richard had done so, went to his house to execute his office, and would have taken away the upper mill-stones of both horse and hand-mill as a distress, he resisted and prevented him. For 108. paid in the hanaper.