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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![To the Bishop of Worcester, absent for 12 months as ambas- sador to the General Council, 500 marks. To Loevers, a pursuivant, taking letters, &c. from the King to the Duke of Bedford, to his town of Paris. Dower assigned to Margaret, late wife of the Duke of Clarence, and upon what charged. To Thomas Babington, a Doctor of Laws, sent as the Kind’s ambassador to France to enter into a treaty of peace. To Sir Thomas Combericorth, Knight, his expenses for the custody of the Duke of Bourbon. To John Frank, the Master of the Rolls, and to the Chaplain in the chapel there. Stipends to the Dean and Chapter of the King’s Free Chapel of St. Stephen’s, Westminster, charged on certain houses in Westminster. To Robert Scott, deputy constable of the Tower, for the ex- penses of the Scotch prisoners and hostages. To Henry Somer, Chancellor of the Exchequer, receiving yearly 40 marks and 40/. increase for his fee of office. To Gloucester Herald-at-arms 25 marks, for his services in going as the King’s herald to the King of France; also in con- sideration that the said herald was robbed in France in dis- charge of his duty in the King’s service. To Sir Ralph Rockford, Knight, and others, being in con- stant attendance about the King’s person. To Windsor Herald, for the good services he rendered, as well to the Lord the King, as to the King’s father and grandfather. To Geoffrey de la Van, for repairing the clock in the palace at Westminster, 6(R. To the Bishop of Rochester, sent as ambassador to France to treat for a peace between the King and his enemy the Dauphin and Charles de Valoys. [The payments on this Roll are long and interesting, but they cannot here be stated at greater length.] 1 Edward IV., Pasch.—To William Haydok 51. 13,v. for](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29340202_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
