17 September 1434 . Dogmersfeld Dogmersfield . Concerning licence to transport .

Licence granted to Walsyngham Robert Walsingham to buy, himself or through his deputies, 200 quarters of wheat in Norfolk , and to export them from whatever port of England to Bayonne or Bordeaux . The king orders all the admirals etc. to permit Walsingham or his deputies to do so, paying due customs and providing by himself or his deputies letters testifying this unloading under the authentic seal of the city of Bayonne or the city of Bordeaux before 24 June 1435.

6 February 1435 . Westminster . Concerning licence to transport .

Licence granted to John Marchant to buy, himself or through his deputies, 100 quarters of wheat in Gloucestershire , and to export them from whatever port of England to Bordeaux or Bayonne . The king orders all the admirals etc. to permit Marchant or his deputies to do so, paying due customs and providing by himself or his deputies letters testifying this unloading under the authentic seal of the city of Bordeaux or the city of Bayonne before 29 September 1435.

17 May 1435 . Westminster . Concerning protection .

Letters of protection, with clause volumus, granted for one year to Radclyf John de Radcliffe, captain of the castle of Fronsac , who is staying in Aquitaine for the safeguard of this castle.

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10 July 1435 . Westminster . Concerning licence to transport .

Licence granted to Stokton John Stockton to buy, himself or through his deputies, 100 quarters of wheat in Sussex , to load them in a ship or ships in the port of Wynchelse Winchelsea , and to buy 100 quarters of wheat in Lincolnshire and load them in the port of Sancto Botho', de Boston , and to bring them to Bordeaux or Bayonne . The king orders all the admirals etc. to permit Stockton or his deputies to do so, paying due customs and providing by himself or his deputies letters testifying this unloading under the authentic seal of the city of Bordeaux or the city of Bayonne before 2 February 1436.

12 July 1435 . Westminster . Concerning proclamation to be made .

Order to Gadifer Shorthose, kt , mayor of Bordeaux , to proclaim publicly without delay in Bordeaux and its suburbs the pardon ¹ granted by the king to Achart Pey Eyquart otherwise known as Lassalle, Olyver Mathiu Olivey , Guilhem de Gayac otherwise known as the Bougès, ² Guilhem Bidau and their accomplices.

27 February 1435 . Dogmersfeld Dogmersfield . Concerning licence to transport wheat .

Licence granted to John Tiptoft to export 200 quarters of his own wheat from whatever port of England to Bordeaux or Bayonne . The king orders all the admirals etc. to permit Tiptoft to do so, paying due customs and providing by himself or his deputies letters testifying this unloading under the authentic seal of the city of Bordeaux or the city of Bayonne before 29 September 1435.

3 July 1435 . Westminster . Concerning licence to transport wheat .

Licence granted to John Altham to buy 200 quarters of wheat in com' Sutht' Hampshire , to export them from the Sutht' port of Southampton to Bordeaux or Bayonne . The king orders all the admirals etc. to permit Altham to do so, paying due customs and providing by himself or his deputies letters testifying this unloading under the authentic seal of the city of Bordeaux or the city of Bayonne before 24 June 1436.

14 July 1435 . Westminster . For Ramon-Guilhem [de Lanau] . ¹

Grant at the king's pleasure to Aramundus Guillaume, la Nef Ramon-Guilhem de Lanau of the duchy of Aquitaine of the Seint Maquaire castellany of the town of Saint-Macaire with all its profits to the yearly value of 10 l.st. , answering for any surplus to the king's exchequer of Bordeaux . Lanau has shown to the king that Henry V had granted to him this castellany for life. ²

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9 July 1435 . Westminster . For the lord of Montferrand . ¹

Commission of oyer et terminer as special judges to the archbishop of Bordeaux , ² the Bornetum abbot of Bournet , ³ Rampnulphus, Blavia Rampnol de Blaye, graduate of law and ordinary judge appointed by the king to the land of Gascony, Master Walter Colles, constable of Bordeaux , the dean of Saint-André of Bordeaux , ⁴ Vernha, de Johan de Lavergne, esquire , captain of Daucorn Aucors 5 and Gensacum Gensac and Master John Stevens, graduate of law , and plainly heard the parties by way of summary procedure ( summarie et de plano et sine strepitu et figura judicii ), they come to final sentence and apply it according to the local fors and customs, summoning the lord of Montferrand, the procurator fiscal and others who have to be summoned, and with power to put to due execution the final decision given by at least three of them. Bertran [III de Montferrand], kt , Monteferrando, de lord of Montferrand and Laygoyrano, de Langoiran has shown to the king that he has prosecuted for a long time both in the duchy of Aquitaine and the kingdom of England for the delivery of the lands and lordships of Rions , Gironde and other hereditary lands and lordships who had pertained to his uncle la Brit Bérart [III] d'Albret, kt , when he died, ⁶ and Bertran III has shown that they should be owned by him by hereditary right and by grant and confirmation of the king and his ancestors, and the king's executory letters. But several impediments have been made in the implementation of these executory letters, so Bertran III has requested the king to make full justice and provide him a remedy.

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3 October 1435 . Westminster . For John Par .

Grant at the king's pleasure, with the advice and assent of the king's council, to John Par, esquire , of the office of Sanctus Salvator prévôt of Saint-Sever ¹ to have and occupy himself or through a sufficient deputy with the fees and wages pertaining to this office, ² as the late Bertran de Sainte-Marie received them [when he held this office]. ³

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24 October 1435 . Westminster . Concerning licence to transport .

Licence granted to William Warner of la Pole Poole in Dorset to buy, himself or through his deputies, 80 quarters of wheat in Dorset, and to export them from the port of la Pole Poole to Bordeaux . The king orders all the admirals etc. to permit Warner or his deputies to do so, paying due customs and providing by himself or his deputies letters testifying this unloading under the authentic seal of the city of Bordeaux before 27 May 1436.

15 November 1435 . Westminster . Concerning safeguard .

Letters of protection granted for one year, at his request, to Cressac Johan Creyssac ¹ allowing him to go to the regions of Gascony, to stay there and to buy wine and other things, and return to the kingdom of England in whatever port he wants with these wines and goods. Creyssac has requested this protection because he fears damages for himself and his goods from his enemies and their proctors, when trading( exercendo... mercandisando ) in wine-harvesting season. Order to the admirals etc. to maintain and protect Creyssac.

10 May 1436 . Westminster . Concerning protection .

Letters of protection, with clause volumus, granted for one year to John Rydon of Exon' Exeter in Devon , yeoman , otherwise known as John Rydon of Exeter, merchant , who is going in the king's service in the company of Walter Colles, clerk , constable of the castle of Bordeaux , who is staying in this castle for its safeguard and victualling.

By p.s.

6 July 1436 . Westminster . Concerning licence to transport woollen cloth .

Licence granted, at his request, to Richard Forster , allowing him to load woollen cloth and other goods in the Bristoll' port of Bristol in a ship called [the] Grace Dieu of Bristol on which John Woderove is master, and bring them to Bayonne . Order to the admirals etc. to permit Forster to do this, paying due customs, any order to the contrary notwithstanding. With the proviso that Forster gives sufficient security before the customers of Bristol that he will take this ship to Bayonne and not elsewhere, unless the ship is damaged or taken at sea by enemies, or for other reasonable cause. Forster will provide letters testifying the unloading of these cloth and goods under the authentic seal of the city of Bayonne before 31 March 1437.

7 August 1436 . Westminster . Concerning protection .

Letters of protection, with clause volumus, granted for one year to John Elot, citizen of Norwich, yeoman , otherwise known as Elyot John Eliot of Norwicum Norwich , husbandman , who is going in the king's service in the regions of Aquitaine in the company of Walter Colles, clerk , constable of Bordeaux , who is staying there for the safeguard of these regions.

By p.s.

22 May 1436 . Westminster . Concerning licence to freight a ship .

Licence to Ambrosius, Leardo Ambrosio Leardi , Jeronimus, Centurio Geronimo Centurione , Badasallus Baldassare Maruffo , merchants of Genoa , to export their goods unloaded in Southampton which they do not want to sell in England, on a ship called Santa Maria da Franqueira ¹ in Portugal on which Alvaredus Alvaro Vasques is master in the Suthampton port of Southampton , towards the regions of Seland Zeeland , and licence to Alvaro Vasques to return in England with the proviso that he does not bring back prohibited goods. Whereas it had been ordered to unload some carracks in the port of Southampton, and to deliver to merchants of Genoa dwelling in London or to their attorneys the goods belonging to them, but those merchants had explained that they refused to sell them in England at a loss, and they were granted licence to export them towards Flanders or elsewhere on ships of countries friendly to England.

22 August 1436 . Westminster . Concerning safeguard .

Letters of protection granted to the archbishop of Bordeaux, one of the king's councillor in the duchy of Aquitaine , ¹ his men, servants, lands, tenements, revenues, possessions, goods and chattels Order to the seneschal of Gascony, the constable of Bordeaux, the judge of Gascony and the other king's officers of the duchy of Aquitaine to maintain and protect them. These letters are granted, in order that he has a better security, because of the archbishop's good service and the negotiations he often carries out for the king .

26 July 1436 . Cantuar' Canterbury . Concerning appointment of a judge of criminal cases .

Appointment at the king's pleasure, with the advice and assent of the king's council, of Bernat Angevin as one of the judges of criminal cases of the superior court of Aquitaine .

By p.s.

Same as above Concerning appointment of the judges of civil causes . ¹

Appointment at the king's pleasure, with the advice and assent of the king's council, of Caen Henric Cavier, doctor of canon law , Bazaten' bishop of Bazas and Aquelinus, Vinehali, de Ayquem du Vignau, prior of Saint-Jacques of Bordeaux , ² as judges of civil cases of the superior court of Aquitaine .

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