1297-03-01, Clarendon

Memorandum that the said knights and sheriffs shall do the things above written according to the following articles : It is ordained that the bannerets and sheriffs assigned hereto in the counties take pledges of lay persons sufficient for the sums of the recognisances (des sommes reconues) ; and that clerks who cannot find lay pledges give their goods into the power of the sheriff to the amount of the grant which they shall make (baillent en le poer le visconte de lur chateus taunt com le graunt qil frount amontera), until they have aid. P And inasmuch as the business is more urgent than it was, there shall be taken from every prelate or parson or beneficed clerk to the amount of double the aid last granted to the king. And the bannerets and sheriffs shall enrol the sums of the recognisances, and every name and the names of the personal pledges ( plegges) or of the surety taken, so that the roll thereof be delivered to the Exchequer for the money to be levied. And the bannerets and sheriffs shall make to every clerk thus entering into a recognizance a bill sealed with their seals addressed to the chancellor tu have the king's protection and other suitable writs. French. (Feedera.]