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Reading Abbey

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Reading Office Abbey 10Reading Cease 5Reading Berkshire 3567Reading Noy 7Reading Order 5Reading Diocese 11Reading Teuth Tax 9Reading de Haudele Midsummer 7
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21Documents
0Discrete acts
15People named
1391-04-12 – 1440-02-17Date range

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  • Patent Rolls 21

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Years 1391–1440

  1. 1391-04-12 date: inferred

    Grant, for life, to Robert Bracy, one of the porters of the household, who receives whilst in the household 74d. a day for wages and 46s. 8d. a year for a robe, that he may receive the same at the Exchequer, whether with…

  2. 1391-04-12 date: inferred

    Whereas by letters patent under the great seal the king granted to his cousin Edward, earl of Roteland, the castle and lordship of Okeham, o, Rutland, with the sheriffdom thereof, with all profits and appurtenances, and …

  3. 1391-04-12 date: inferred

    Grant, for their lives in survivorship, to John Maudeleyn, yeoman of the wardrobe, and Alice, his wife, of 107. a year from the issues of the manor of Byflete, as received formerly by Thomas Tyle by the grant of the king…

  4. 1440-01-18 date: inferred

    Commission to John, lord of Clifford, Ralph, baron of Graystok, the _ sheriffs of Northumberland and Yorkshire, and the justices of the peace in those counties, reciting that Richard, duke of York, Richard, earl of Salis…

  5. 1440-01-20 date: inferred

    Commission to E. bishop of Exeter, and the archdeacon of Exeter or _his official, to search their repective registers to find whether the priors of the house of St. Andrew, Cowyk, co. Devon, have been from time immemoria…

  6. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Grant in fee to Roger Thornton, esquire, of a plot of land, called Foucherhous, with all the members, land, tenements and meadows late the earl of Northumberland, who forfeited to Henry IV, in the lordship Whikham in the…

  7. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    . Parr 2. 885 Grant, for life, to Roger Fenys, knight, treasurer of the household, of manors of Hoo and Preston, co. Sussex, from Michaelmas last at the rent of 287. 16s. 4d., he bearing all charges incumbent on the in l…

  8. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Grant, for life, to John Benet, yeoman of the buttery, and to Margaret his wife, for his good service during 81 years to the king's father and to _ the king, and for her service to the king at his birth and afterwards by…

  9. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Grant to Hugh Dyke, citizen of London, that he shall be repaid the gum of 2,0001. which he has lent the king, by exporting free sacks of wool and woolfells until the subsidy payable on them amounts to the said sum, from …

  10. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Grant, for life, to Edmund Hampden, esquire, from Michaelmas last, of 20. a year out of the revenues of the king's lordship of Rysborough, co. Buckingham, by the hands of the occupiers; in lieu of a grant for life of the…

  11. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Pardon to Richard Quatermayn alias Quatermayns, esquire, late escheator in the county of Oxford, for all offences before Michaelmas last. By K. 26.…

  12. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Licence for John Secheford and John Candeler to lade two ships with 100 quarters of wheat apiece and other victuals and cloth, take them to Iceland, after paying all dues, unload them there for the use of the bishop of S…

  13. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Grant, in frank almoin, to Richard Andrewe, the warden, and to the college of All Souls at Oxford, who already have the priory of Romney, co. Kent, by gift of the king, of the rectory of Upchirche, co. Kent, formerly a p…

  14. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Licence also for the said warden and college to appropriate the said church of Upchirche, with the statutory provisoes. And the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are to be commanded by writ to cease from demanding th…

  15. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Grant in survivorship to Richard Botiller and John Bekette, to hold themselves or by deputy, of the keeping of the king's privy palace at Westminster, with the usual wages and profits, in lieu of a grant of Henry IV to t…

  16. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Licence, for 5 marks paid in the hanaper, for Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, to enfeoff Reginald Cobham, knight, Thomas Cobham, knight, Richard Roos, knight, and Robert Sandeford, esquire, of the manor of . Parr 2. 887 Ye…

  17. 1440-01-27 date: inferred

    Licence also for the said feoffees to regrant the premises to the said duke and Eleanor, his wife, in fee.…

  18. 1440-01-29 date: inferred

    Grant for life to Edmund, earl of Dorset, from the date of the death of the late duchess of Clarence, his mother, of the 500 marks a year which she used to receive at the Receipt of the Exchequer, in lieu of dower. By K.…

  19. 1440-02-14 date: inferred

    Whereas by a petition it appears that an inquisition was taken at Lockyng in the hundred of Wynterstoke on Friday before St. Valentine, 14 Henry VI, before John Fraunces, one of the coroners in the county of Somerset, on…

  20. 1440-02-14 date: inferred

    Grant, for life, to William Bangore, groom of the larder, from Michaelmas last, of the amobr of the commote cf Talpont, and the yaglawry and le amobr of the commote of Estimaner, co. Merionnyth, to hold himself or by dep…

  21. 1440-02-17 date: inferred

    Grant, for life, to John Seintlo, esquire, from Michaelmas last of 201. a year out of the petty custom in the port of London; in lieu ofa grant thereof, during pleasure, by letters patent dated 11 July, 6 Henry VI, surre…

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