Topic analysis
The whole corpus
Scanned coverage: Patent Rolls 1216–1486, Close Rolls 1231–1395 (dashed markers). A fall-off after 1486 reflects Patent rolls not yet ingested, not a decline in activity.
Where
Top counties: Middlesex (33150) · Berkshire (551) · Cambridgeshire (341) · Oxfordshire (332) · Nottinghamshire (277) · Yorkshire (237) · Wiltshire (202) · Gloucestershire (201)
What kind of act
When in the year
Sample entries
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1377-06-01, Westminster
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order, because of divers trespasses and grievances by the mayor and bailiffs and the commonalty of the city of Cicestre committed against the sheriff and his ministers when holding his county court there, as used to be done of old time, wherefore the …
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1377-06-01, Westminster
any issues of the temporalities of the abbey in time of vacancies, and that no answer was made for the temporalities thereof in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Herefordshire from 10 January at the end of 1 Edward III and beginning of 2 Edward III, on which day the abbey was first …
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1377-06-01, Westminster
The like to the following : Gilbert Wace escheator in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. Roger Keterich escheator in Hertfordshire. Walter Holt escheator in Warwickshire. Walter Craunford escheator in Bedfordshire and Bukinghamshire. John Lucy escheator in Herefordshire. John Brode of …
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1377-06-01, Westminster
To the bailiffs of Norhampton for the time being. Order of the farm of the town to pay to the warden and college of the king's free chapel of Wyndesore and to their successors 100 marks a year, according to letters patent of the late king, confirmed by the king, granting to the …
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1377-06-01, Westminster
Memorandum that on the death of King Edward, who died 21 June, namely on Sunday before Midsummer 1377 in the 51st year of his reign about the seventh hour after noon in his manor of Shene, in the chamber of King Richard at the said manor on 22 June the feast of St. Alban at the …
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1377-06-01, Westminster
Grant for life of a yearly rent of to be taken of all his lands in Byre, with power to distrain for Dated Byre, 12 June 51 Edward III. of acknowledgment, 30 June this year. Turberville and Robert Turberville, son and heir of Richard knight. Indenture of defeasance of the …
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1377-06-01, Westminster
Acquittance of the contained in an indenture made at Kyngeston upon Hulle 48 Edward III between Katherine widow of Sir William Pole knight and Sir Edmund de la Pole knight his son of the part and the said Robert of the other part. Dated Southwokyngco. Essex, 1 July 1377. French. …
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1377-06-01, Westminster
To the prior and brethren of St. John of Jerusalem in England. to admit John Assheton palfreyman the king's serjeant, and to him such maintenance in their manor of Hampton co. as John Baker deceased had at the late king's command ; the late king granted him that maintenance for …