World History

5.

Royal Writ in Behalf of John De Paddebury.

1350. (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1348–1350, p. 563.)

Whereas the king lately leased to his yeoman John de Paddebury and to Henry de Solihull, now deceased, the fee of his seal for writs judicial in the Common Bench for ten years, at a farm to be rendered at the exchequer yearly; in consideration of the mortal pestilence of men which lately prevailed everywhere in England to such an extent that there was no concourse of men at the Bench as usual, whereby the fee amounted to very little, the king has pardoned to the same John both the farm from the time of the said grant to him and Henry down to the time when the seal passed into the hands of Anthony Bache, by the king’s grant, and all arrears of such farm, and has pardoned him also those twenty marks which he received from Walter de Weston in the siege of the castle of Dunbarre, in Scotland, for 260 sheaves of arrows at York and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the expenses of bringing the same to Dunbarre.