• Introduction

and balances for weighing the corn, and hire houses for the necessary accommodation. A public officer was appointed to superintend the weighing, and the Mayor was entitled to demand one halfpenny for every quarter of corn sent to the mill,

• Folios 90 - 96

before the Chamberlain and acknowledged himself bound to William de Leyre, Alderman, in 10 quarters of corn according to the best price of corn coming to Billynggesgate or to Queenhithe of two pence ( de duobus dena riis ); to

• RecordsThe fourteenth century

and others in Ireland, for the men whom the abbot of Holmcoltran is sending with two ships to Ireland for corn and victuals for the maintenance of the house. Similar safeconducts were granted, May 6, 1303; March 10, 1305 and

• RecordsTithes and tithe-suits

or been put unto. And all who heretofore have been accustomed to pay time out of man's memory their Tithe corn in money shall pay the said money . . at such days and places as they have been accustomed

• Close Rolls, Edward IOctober 1299

le Rus, deceased. Oct. 14. Westminster. To Walter de Glouc[estria ] , escheator this side Trent. Order to restore the corn in the barns ( grangiis ) and other goods within the manors of the bishopric of Norwich, which were

• IndexN, O

558, 569, 573, 584. See also Hereward, Robert; Lovel, John; Shefeld, John de. -, sub-escheator in, 510. -, taker of corn in, 7-10, 83, 85. -, - wool and hides in, 109. -, taxation in, 499, 573, 574. Norham castle

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIJune 1327

his corn growing in the manor and all other goods and chattels therein, on condition that Robert should answer for the goods and chattels at the exchequer, and to permit Robert to dispose of the goods and chattels, and corn

• Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/667Michaelmas 1427

and arms to reap and remove WE's corn to the value of 20m, and allowed various beasts to depasture WE's corn and grass to the value of 10m, at Acton, Middlesex. The corn reaped and taken was namely, 20 cart-loads

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIJuly 1360

that prison, where he is detained for arrears of his account for the time that he was appointed to take corn for the king's use in divers counties, by the mainprise of Ralph Pledour and Ralph Bakere of Bredstrete London,

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIFebruary 1371

buy and purvey corn for furnishing the town of Calais, and to every of them. Order not to meddle by virtue of the king's said commission in taking, buying or purveying to the king's use any corn in the fee

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIApril 1377

and other corn in Ireland and carried it over to the town of Bristol, although on 1 November in the 42nd year of the reign the king commanded the then justiciary, chancellor and treasurer to cause all corn, horses and

• Close Rolls, Richard IIJanuary 1391

in the pound in the port of London. Order to suffer merchants native and alien and others who will bring corn and victuals to London, 'stokfissh' and 'sturgeons' excepted, until further order to sell the same and make their advantage

• Close Rolls, Edward III, Part 2September 1343

it is said, the corn and other goods and chattels which belonged to John, taken into the king's hand by the escheator, for various causes, if they shall find security for the price of the said corn, goods and chattels,

• Folios cclii - cclxJun 1370 -

sell poultry beyond the regulation price. That no one sell corn or malt otherwise than in open market, and not by sample, & c. 17 That no one carry corn or malt out of the City, nor export any manner

• Errata

Aldermen, that corn - meters within the liberty of the City shall pay the Bailiff of Billingesgate, according to ancient custom and the ordinance recorded in Letter-Book G, fo. lxxxviii [b ] , for every two quarters of corn measured

• Folios clxxxii - cxcOct. 1416 -

elected Mayor for the government of the City, for keeping the peace, cleaning the streets, and regulating the sale of corn, wine, fish, poultry, & c. [No date. ] Folio clxxxv b. 14 Nov., 4 Henry V. [A.D. 1416 ]

• Folios 141 - 150Oct 1434 -

standards of the King for the gallon, bushel, and quarter of London as the only measure for wine, beer, and corn to be used throughout the realm-the lord Edward II., late King of England, by divers writs commanded a large

• Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs1262-3

contravention of their franchises, wished to arrest and seize vessels in the Thames before the Tower, and take prisage of corn and other things, before they had reached the wharf; further saying, that just then he had caused a vessel

• IndexC

81, 168, 172-3, 181, 188, 194, 209, 222, 236, 294. -, wages for, 70-1, 170, 176, 201, 229, 241, 295-6. corn or robes in lieu of money, 189 et passim . machines of war sent to, 165, 197, 199, 204.

• Close Rolls, Edward IDecember 1304

., so that Hugh shall leave these things or their price to his successor, together with a moiety of the corn growing in the said land at the time of the voidance, part of which land William has sown at