The Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483; ed. for the Royal historical society, from the origial documents in the Public record office, by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.

42. JOHN DYMMOK TO [?] 1420

This letter, which is much injured, and very difficult to decipher, is written by a bailiff at Ermington, and is apparently addressed to an officer (probably John Warefeld) of Thomas Stonor in London; Stonor himself was perhaps absent in France. Accompanying it is the "bille of expenses and alowans"; the latter is too much injured to reproduce in full, but it is not as a whole of great interest, though important as supplying Dymmok's name, and the date; it is headed:—

Ermyngton

Expense et allocaciones Johannis Dymmok, a^o Regis Henrici quinti viij^o.

In primis petit allocacionem de xlv. s. pro operibus liberorum [tenen|cium]. It., pet. all. de xxviij. s. j. d. pro piscaria voc. Madyngstad.

Other items are:—

iiij. d. pro j twest pro hostio panterie; viij. s. iiij. d. pro v. mill. lapid. tegul.; vj. s. viij. d. de expensis Willi. Mayne eundo et redeundo versus London.; iij. li. quos Willelmus Mayne solvit domino apud Stonor.

There are also legal expenses incurred by William Penbrygge, with his expenses on going to London; and expenses for John Hals in London. The total of receipts with expenses and allowances was £41 18s. 3d.; and Dymmok had apparently £21 8s. 0d. in hand.

The Account is probably for the year ended at Michaelmas, 1420 (8 Henry V); so this letter was presumably written late in 1420. In an Account rendered by John Warefeld, Stonor's receiver, for that year appears the receipt of £15 from John Dymmok, farmer of Ermyngton, and the pay|ments include:—

expense facte London. in Curia Admirallis pro wrecco maris apud Erm. in mari provecto, viz. primo die Augusti xxvij. s., et in aliis custubus in eadem Curia mense Novembr., ut pro fine xx. s., et senescallo Curie vj. s. viij. d., et pro feodis Clerici Curie pro ij procurationibus vij. s. iiij. d., et in feodis budell dicte curie iiij. d. (Ministers Accounts, 750/17).

An Account by John Dymmok for 1419-21 mentions William Mayne and John Hals (id., 822/35, see vol. ii, p. 179 below). Dymmok appears on a commission in Devonshire in Feb. 1419 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, Henry V, ii, 274). John Fortescue was father of Richard Fortescue of Ermington (see No. 45); he was a justice of the peace for Devon from 1418 to 1422. John Hals,

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Title: The Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483; ed. for the Royal historical society, from the origial documents in the Public record office, by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford.
Canvas: Page 31
Publication: London,: Offices of the Society,; 1919.
Subject terms: England -- Social life and customs; Stonor family.

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