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.

Membrane 12-cont.
1256. Allocate to John de Vernun, sheriff of Wilts, in the issues of the
last eyre of Gilbert de Preston and his fellows, justices, 341. 6s. 8d.
delivered in the wardrobe to Artald etc. at Clarendon on the
Sunday after St. Nicholas.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Contrabreve to let the king's
yeoman John de Bruay have 61. 11s. 3d. out of the issues of the
county, being arrears of his wages while with the king on his
service in Gascony, as reckoned by Ralph Loff, clerk of the
marshalsea.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Contrabreve to let Reynold de
Drumar' have a tun of wine of the king's gift against Christmas.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Contrabreve to amend the king's
chamber at Clarindon where absolutely necessary, to renew the
painting of the panels (tabularum) in the king's chapel and to
enclose the penthouse between the king's wardrobe and the
chamber of Alexander with boards; to wainscot the chamber
near the park above the bed, to make a small oratory therein,
and to mend the windows; and to amend all the other defects
in the king's court of Clarindon; the cost to be credited by view
and testimony of lawful men.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Contrabreve to feed the friars preachers
of Wilton, the friars minors of Salisbury, and 100 poor persons,
so that each poor person shall have ld., for the soul of Robert de
Mares, deceased at Clarendon. As the king has asked the dean
and canons of Salisbury, being present, to bury the corpse in their
cathedral, the sheriff is to find oblations and other things needful
for the burial, and to let the keepers of the works of the church
have 5 marks of the king's gift to continue those works.
MEMBRANEi 11.
Dec. 16. Allocate to Stephen Fromund, bailiff of Merleberg, in the farm
Winchester. of the manor, 208. 10id. spent in taking bream in the king's stew
of Merleberg and putting them in paste, and sending 18 to the
king at Clarendon on his arrival there before Christmas last,
60 to the king at Winchester against that feast, and 60 to the king
at Wodestok against the Assumption last, as accounted and
testified by William de Grey the king's steward.
Dec. 18. Allocate to John son of Bernard, in the next terms of his debts
Guildford. at the Exchequer, 15 marks paid for a goshawk for the king.
Allocate to Robert de Tottehale, sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham, in the issues of those counties, 100 marks delivered in the