• Wills36 HENRY VI.

. Sygar (William), fishmonger.-His feoffees in trust of land and tenements in the parishes of S. Mary Magdalen at the Old Fis h Market and S. Nicholas Coldabbey are directed to convey a life estate in the same to Margaret

• SpainJuly 1502

the treaty are very clear in this respect. If you think well of it, you may make use of the old treaty. Rupture with the King of France. Before you say anything to the King of England respecting the King

• Close Rolls, Edward IIMarch 1312

in the Husting and elsewhere that no minister of the king shall take any prise, otherwise than was usual of old time, from foreign merchants of their silver in mass brought to the king's exchange at London to receive money

• Close Rolls, Edward IIJuly 1312

the towns of Camp' and Lubyk and elsewhere in the parts of Estland entered, on Midsummer day last, on the English coast, in hostile manner a ship that the said merchants had freighted at Boston and loaded with wool and

• Close Rolls, Edward IIJuly 1315

to him who supplies his place. On the complaint of Alerin le Normaunt of Abbeville that whereas he loaded an English ship at Cache in Gascony with 130 tuns and a pipe of wine, price 390 l ., to take

• Records and AuthoritiesManuscripts

a translation in Middle English of about the time of Chaucer. The Latin version is a transcript from an earlier copy which no longer exists. The transcript was probably made at the same time as the English translation (pl. I),

• Appendix OTo Memorial CXXVII

not yet learnt perfectly to read English, are excluded, they replied, being rustically imperious, that they regarded not founders' or Companies' orders, that it was their free School, and unless I would teach these English Scholars they would pull up

• Milan1460

to Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan. Some days ago I wrote to your Lordship in haste a brief abstract of English affairs. I now enclose copies of the letters received thence, from which your Lordship will see what has taken

• Historical preface1636-7

popish than the English one," and had no authority either from assembly or parliament. The puritan and national feeling of antagonism to it grew stronger from day to day. 43 Other elements were also at work. The old Scottish nobility,

• IntroductionChanges at the Reformation

by the churchwardens. Under Mary a return to the old system takes place, more or less fully, and with the accession of Elizabeth comes the complete downfall and collapse of the old order. In this little chapter no attempt has

• IndexE

Osney. Peterborough. Polesworth. Reading. Revesby. Rocester. St. Albans. St. Osyth. Shaftesbury. Sibton. Stratford. Sulby. Swineshead. Tavistock. Thame. Tilty. Waltham. Warden, Old. Wellow. Westminster. Wherwell. Winchcomb. Woburn. abbots and abbesses, new creation of, pensions to be paid to king's clerks by,

• Close Rolls, Edward IIIMay 1358

whereas they are dwelling in Berwick for its defence against the king's Scottish enemies and are for the most part English, and have not hitherto paid any custom in the kingdom of England as aliens, yet the collectors are causing

• Lateran Regesta, 41411444-1445

30 l . and 20 l . of old sterlings respectively, whether void by such resignations or in any other way, to the said monastery, value not exceeding 500 l . of old sterlings, and to reserve and assign to

• Folios 292 - 300March 1491-2 -

July, 7 Henry VII. [A. D. 1492 ] , came the Wardens and other good men of the Mistery of English "Wevers" before the Mayor and Aldermen, and prayed that certain articles might be approved and placed on record, to

• Folios 261 - 270Sept 1452 -

"corser," 11 discharged by Geoffrey Feldyng, the Mayor, and the Aldermen from serving on juries, & c., owing to increasing old age. Folio 268. 8 March, the same year, came Robert Strother, William Denton, Richard Claver, Philip Howell, and William

• Roll A 411410–11

The dispute between the Cordwainers and Cobblers concerned the amount of new leather which a cobbler might apply to an old shoe. In 1409 the Cordwainers petitioned the king, who ordered an inquiry, the result of which is set out

• Cartulary of Trentham PrioryClayton Griffyn

on the west part on the other side ast [after (?) or east (?) ] the old Lone, by the Lady Pole, following the old Lone unto the "Galo-tre-hull," and that the same Mair, etc., nor any of them hereafter,

• The twelfth centuryPriors Thomas and Roger

to him outward glory. He was our prior with humility for about thirty years, and being about a hundred years old, with his senses unimpaired, he was laid beside his fathers with a Christian solemnity, belonging to the grace of

• Wills11 Richard II (1387-8)

Roll 116 (25). Pole (Katherine de la).-All her lands, tenements, & c., in the parishes of S. Laurence in the Old Jewry, S. Nicholas at the Shambles, S. Mary Magdalen near Oldefisshestrete, and S. Benedict near Pauleswharf at "Petrelanehende," to

• The corporation of LincolnMiscellaneous records

of freemen, who frequent divine service and sermons on the sabbath days, and can distinctly say without book in the English tongue the Lord's Prayer, the articles of the Belief and the Ten Commandments; no one of them to be