Issue roll of Thomas de Brantingham, bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, containing payments made out of His Majesty's revenue in the 44th year of King Edward III A.D. 1370 / Translated from the original roll now remaining in the ancient Pell office, in the custody of the Right Honourable Sir John Newport, bart. By Frederick Devon.
- Great Britain. Exchequer
- Date:
- 1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Issue roll of Thomas de Brantingham, bishop of Exeter, Lord High Treasurer of England, containing payments made out of His Majesty's revenue in the 44th year of King Edward III A.D. 1370 / Translated from the original roll now remaining in the ancient Pell office, in the custody of the Right Honourable Sir John Newport, bart. By Frederick Devon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![C Also payments to Sir William Bouchier, knight, appointed by the King to keep George de Clerc, and his three companions, barons, and 13 knights, the King’s prisoners, lately taken at the battle of Harjleur, confined in the Tower of London, at the King’s costs, the payments are made by Sir Roger Aston, knight, 14/. 136*. 4 d. 4 Henry V., Michaelmas.—Payment to Sir William Bouchier, knight, constable of the Tower of London, of 300/. by Sir William Ashton, knight, his deputy, for the expenses of 17 knights lately taken prisoners at Harfleur, which James, King of Scotland, had in his custody in the Tower aforesaid. [Another payment of the like nature.] To Messengers sent to divers counties in England, with writs of the Great Seal of the Lord the King, directed to the sheriffs of the counties aforesaid, to arrest and take the body of Sir John Oldcastle,* Knight, wheresoever he might be found, and pro- clamation made for him to be safely brought into the King’s pre- sence, under certain rewards, contained in the same writs. 5 Henry V.—To Robert Rodyngton, Esquire, 50/. for money- advanced by Richard de Coventry, to build a tower at Portsmouth, at the King’s cost, for protection of the King’s ships, and defence of the town and country adjacent. 5 14 enry V.—Payments to Robert Leversegge, of 231/. 3v. 4d. * Sir John Oldcastle was the chief of the Lollards or disciples of Wicliff, and a great favourite of the King, who tried every gentle method to bring him back to the church; but he was inflexible, and was burnt in St. Giles’s in the Fields in February, 1418. Sir John Oldcastle was exposed as a buffoon character by some Roman Catholic poet in an old play entitled “The famous Victories of Henry V., containing the honourable Battaile of Agincourt,” in which the scene opens with Prince Henry's 3’obberies, and Sir John Oldcastle is mentioned as one of the gang. As Shakspeare ap- pears to have borrowed some hints from this play, it gave occasion to the mistake that Sir John Oldcastle was originally the droll of his historical play of Henry IV., and that he changed his name to FalstafF.—Vide Granger's Biographical History, Vol. I., p. 38. d](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29340202_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
