Calendar of the Patent Rolls (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...undertaking, under the penalty of forfeiting double the value, to bring them to London and nowhere else. iqq-i Membrane 27--cant. March 22. Grant to John Bofeld, clerk, bondman of the king as belonging to the Bristol Castle, king's lordship of Pembroke for certain reasons in the king's hand, that he be henceforth free and of free condition for ever, so that he can take holy orders and serve as a priest. By p.s. 7059. March 25. Licence for the king's liege Thomas Norton to ship before Michaelmas Westminster, in the George of Bristol as many pilgrims as he pleases for one voyage only to 'le Gruigne' beyond the sea, whereof he may make proclamation in every part of the realm, but the pilgrims must be of the king's allegiance and amity, and must not carry gold or silver, in bullion or money, contrary to statute. By p.s. 7079.J March 27. Licence for the sub-prior and convent of St. Fredeswide's, Oxford, to Bristol Castle, elect a prior in the room of John Dodeford, deceased. By p.s. April 1. Confirmation to the king's esquire, Robert Eure, of letters patent under Westminster, the Irish great seal dated 16 January last, granting to him during good behaviour the office of chancellor of the green wax of the Exchequer in Ireland, with power to execute the office by deputy. For 10s. paid in the hanaper. March 27. Confirmation to Thomas, prior of St. Andrew's in Ulster, Ireland, a cell Bristol. of the alien house of Lonley in Normandy--who has been more than thirty years in the said priory, committed to him by commission under the great seal of Ireland in the time of the late earl of March, then the king's lieutenant, as from 1 August, 4 Richard II, so long as on account of the war with France the same should remain in the king's hand, at a certain...