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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CALENDAR OF LIBERATE ROLLS.

1255. Membrane 11 -cont.
to him for his maintenance because he was maimed in the king's
service.
To the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. Contrabreve to carry the
king's timber at Shaftebur' to Corf and let Master Gerard the
king's engineer have what he needs to repair the bridge of the
castle therewith, the cost to be credited by view. Afterwards
this writ was given up. Cancelled.
To the sheriffs of London. Contrabreve to go in person to the
Tower and view the defects thereof, and do the necessary repairs
to all the buildings and turrets, the cost to be credited by view.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Contrabreve to pay 5 marks to Peter de
Neyrford and 4 marks to Nicholas de Romes' for their expenses,
as the king is sending them to despatch certain business in his
forests.
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Contrabreve to pay 5 marks to
Simon Passelewe and 5 marks to Alexander de Hamden on the
like account.
To the sheriff of Stafford. Contrabreve to pay 5 marks to Henry
de Helweton and 4 marks to John de Swyneford on the like
account.
MEMBRANE 10.
Allocate to William de Assewy and Robert de Lynton, formerly
sheriffs of London, in the farm of that town, 321. 188. 4d. spent on
311 oxen (xxxj bove et dim'), 10 boars (braonibus), 100 pigs, 456
fowls, 29 hares, 66 rabbits, 9 pheasants, 56 partridges, 68 woodcocks (wydecok), 39 plovers (pluver'), 6 lapwings (vanell'), a
heron, and 300 eggs, bought for the king and delivered to W. de
Whathamsted and J. de Suwerc his buyers against Christmas,
and in carriage thereof from London to the king at Canterbury.
March 2. Liberate to Richard de Funtenay, king's knight, yearly during
Westminster. his life 50s. at the Easter Exchequer and 50s. at that of Michaelmas, which the king has granted to him for his maintenance
because on account of his service to the king he has been disinherited of the lands and tenements in Normandy which should
have descended to him by hereditary right.
Liberate to Maud Pesche (?), formerly washerwoman of the
king's pantry, lid. daily for life, which the king has granted to
her for her maintenance.