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

40 HENRY III.

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1256. MEMBRANE 6.
June 27. To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Contrabreve, on his
Winchester. loyalty to the king and as he loves himself and all that he has,
to go in person to Bristol and there buy 20 tuns of good wine,
paying for them out of the issues of the counties or some other
source, and carry 8 tuns to Shrewsbury, 4 to Wenlok, 4 to Bruges,
and 4 to Bobinton, and place them safely in the cellars there
against the king's arrival, as he proposes to come shortly to those
parts, God willing; the cost to be credited by view.
Like writ to the sheriff of Hereford to buy 8 tuns and carry
2 to Ledebur' and 6 to Hereford as above.
Like writ to the sheriff of Worcester to buy 18 tuns, and carry
10 to Worcester, 4 to Feckenham, 2 to Evesham, and 10 to
Kedeminstr' as above.
Like writ to the sheriff of Gloucester to buy 18 tuns, and carry
2 to Berkele, 12 to Gloucester, 2 to Teokebur', and 2 to Otinton,
the manor of the elect of York, as above.
June 29. Allocate to James le Sauvage, sheriff of Hants, in the issues of
Winchester. the eyre of Gilbert de Preston and his fellows, justices last
itinerant in the county for common pleas, 1441. spent in purchase
of 72 tuns of wine from divers merchants at Suhampton against
Whitsuntide last.
Liberate without delay to John de Castello, knight, 50 marks for
Michaelmas term in the 40th year of his yearly fee of 50 marks
(see Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1247-1258, p. 413).
Liberate without any hindrance or delay to William de Trublevill, going on the king's errand in the utmost haste to the parts
of France, 20 marks for his expenses.
To the sheriff of Hants. Contrabreve to wainscot the king's
pantry and cellar in his castle of Winchester, to remove the earth
from the ditch under the king's tower behind the hall, to examine
(rimari) and mend the walls where necessary, to make the postern
gate of new timber, to amend in like manner a building over
(ultra) the king's oven and the painting in the king's and queen's
chambers, to wainscot the queen's wardrobe, to renew in like
manner the painting in the chapel by the king's bed, to remove
the earth from the road between the castle gate and the barbican,
to mend the common privy chamber, which threatens to fall
down, to make a stairway from the door out of Rosamond's
chamber to the chapel by the king's bed, to crenellate well the
buttress (columpnam boteraz) from the bottom of the tower ditch