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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![de Tamworth, p.484. Edmund do Mortimer, Earl of March, p. 486. William de Montecute, Earl of Salisbury, p. 486. With very many others, most of whose names are connected with remarkable events in history, and whose renowned actions are cele- brated by various writers, to whom the Editor must refer, as space will not admit their being noticed here. [See also the Index.] Expenses for archers and armed men, going with the King beyond the sea, p. 7. Commissions to divers Sheriffs, &c., to procure archers and men-at-arms for the war, p. 203; also to provide quivers and arrows for the King’s use, p. 388. To bowmen and archers, &c., in the fortress at Calais, p. 16, 54. To John Duke of Lancaster, 5,466/. 13s. 4d. for the expenses of 300 men-at-arms and 500 archers, going with him in the King’s service to Gascony, p. 99, 444. To Eclwarcl the Black Prince, for 200 men-at-arms and 300 archers, going with him to Gascony, p. 119.—4,458/. paid for their expenses, p. 445, 446. Payments to certain spies in the Duke of Lancaster’s army, to watch the French enemy’s movements, p. 493. To Sir Walter Huet, going to Gascony with 200 men-at-arms and 300 archers, 1000/., p. 142. The Earls of Suffolk and Warwick, and others, sent to Cher- bourg for the protection of the King of Navarre on his coming to England, p. 201, 202. Certain German Knights offer their services to the King, to fight against his French enemies, p. 480; also Sir John Groughou, a Prussian Knight, p. 151. NAVT. At a period anterior to Edward III. the King appears to have had no regular navy of his own, but to have been supplied with shipping from the Cinque Ports and other maritime towns, as occasion required. It is, how- ever, presumed that something like a fleet of the King’s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29340202_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
