Calendar of the liberate rolls preserved in the Public record office. / Prepared under the superintendence of the deputy keeper of the records.

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April 5. To the sheriff of Kent. Contrabreve to pay 40 marks to the
Havering. sacrist of Westminster to cast a new bell and for other business
which the king has enjoined upon him.
To the sheriffs of London. Contrabreve to help John le Messager
to buy three tables for the king, as he will tell them on the king's
behalf, and carry the tables to the king at Havering without
delay.
To the sheriff of Essex and Hertford. Contrabreve to pay 100
marks for the king's works at Havering to the keepers thereof.
April 8. To the bailiffs of Gloucester. Contrabreve to pay 508. to
Havering. Guybert de Rue this Easter, and the like yearly, as the king has
granted to him for life the 50s. that Aloettus de Glouc' used to
receive in Gloucester during his life of the king's fixed alms.
To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Contrabreve to pay
50 marks to the keepers of the king's works at Corf and 50 marks
to those at Shireburn out of the farm and other issues of those
counties except the king's tallage.
To the bailiff of Havering. Contrabreve to wainscot the king's
upper chapel at Havering; in the lower chapel, to buy an image
of the Blessed Virgin, and two windows with shields of Provence;
to wainscot above (ultra) the king's seat in the hall; to buy two
tables with their stools in the king's chamber; to make a new
chapel for the queen, 28 feet by 14 with a screen (sporo) at the
entrance; to break down the wall between the queen's two lower
wardrobes, and to make a door there; to make a screen well
carved (intalliatum) and a table with its stools in the queen's
chamber; to plaster and whiten the queen's wardrobes, and to
make two screens therein and a (wyuram) in the king's
wardrobe; to mend the fireplace in the chamber of Edward the
king's son, and to remove his wardrobe on the west side; to
make a lantern (fumerillum) in the chaplains' house, a chandlery
and a napery conjoined, an almonry 50 ft. by 22 ft., a saucery
adjoining thereto, with an oven and a gate towards the park with
a building over; to mend the ridge of the stable, to widen the
stable itself by 30 ft., to roof it and all the newly ordered buildings
with shingles, and to mend the posts and walls; and to make a
wall of rag-stone (petra de Drag') likewise about the king's court;
the cost to be credited by view.
April 14. Allocate to William de Insula, sheriff of Northampton, in the
Westminster. issues of the last eyre for common pleas in the county, 1001.
delivered in the wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper, on the Friday