endebted to him to perform their wills 4ly That the ordinary proportion of Queen-gold in King Henries reign was only one Mark to the Queen for every ten Marks to the King yet in the case of Jone Wake the Queen had one thousand Marks for the Kings nine thousand 6ly That the King himself sometimes appointed when and how the whole Ten thousand Marks as well that due to Queen as to himself should be paid at several payments into the Exchequer and that by expresse agreement when the Fine was made 6ly That the Queens gold was to be levyed by the Kings processe issued to the Sheriffs in the same manner as the Kings Fine was And that the Sheriffs of London were imprisoned by the Barons and the Liberties of the City seised into the Kings hands for their neglect in not levying it and for the Citizens riot and rescous of those pawnes they had given for it 7ly That all the Lands and goods of the parties that made the Fines which they had at the time of the Fines made were to be extended for the Queens gold as well as for the Kings Fines And that if the party failed of the last payment of the Kings Fine he was to lose all that was payd and the Custody of the Wards lands and body too for which it was payd 8ly That Aurum Reginae was due to the Queen out of all voluntary Oblations and Fines made to the King in Ireland as well as in England And that by King Henry his special grant of the Land of Ireland to his son and Heir Prince Edward in as free and ample manner as himself enjoyed it the Queen-gold there became due to the Princes wife by his special Patent to her I shall next present you with such Records concerning QUEEN-GOLD as I have found and perused in the Tower and Court of Exchequer during the reign of King Edward the 1. John de Waterele Keeper of the Aurum Reginae accruing to Queen Eleanor wife to King Henry the 3d and Mother to King Edward the 1. exacting this Duty in the Court of Exchequer after King Henries death from those who granted him the 20th part of their goods in his life-time towards the relief of the Holy Land and likewise out of the Tallages last assessed on the Kings Lands and Tenants throughout England to their great grievance upon complaint thereof to King Edward the 1. his Counsil he being then absent in the Holy Land in the first year of his reign some of them came personally into the Court of Exchequer and there openly prohibited Waterele from thenceforth to exact or receive any Gold from any upon these occasions as this Record and Memorandum in the Office of the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer informs us MEmorandum quod die Lunae prox ante festum Conversionis Sancti Pauli vener ad Scaccarium W. Eborum Archiepiscopus Rogerus de Mortuo mari Robertus Burnel quidam alii de Consilio Regis et inhibuerunt 5 Johanni de Waterele Custodi AVRI Alienorae Reginae matris Regis Edwardi 4 ne de caetero exigat seu capiat ab aliquo AVRVM ad opus ejusdem Reginae occasione vicesimae praedicto Regi concessae tempoâ—e H. Regis patris sui in Subsid terrae sanctae nec etiam occasione Tallagii ultimo assess per Angl. super Dominica Regis praedicti In the 3d year of King Edward the 1. Nicholas de Ely Bishop of Winchester being prosecuted in the Kings Exchequer for Queen-gold by Queen Eleanors Clerk for a Debt of 2229 l. 13 s. 1 d. due to King Henry the 3d her husband by John Gernsey his predecessor for the corn and stock of the said Bishoprick which he bought of the King upon the Kings command to the Treasurer and Barons deliverd to them by word of mouth in the Exchequer they discharged him from the payment of the said Gold by authority of the Kings command whether out of meer grace to the Bishop or because the successor Bishop was not obliged by this contract of his predecessor for this stock and corn devolved to the predecessors Executors or to the King by his decease Or because no Aurum Reginae was due in strictnesse of Law upon this bargain or emption appears not by the Record thereof entred in these words MEmorand quod die Lunae proxim post Festum Sanctorum Nerei Achillei venit Walterus de Heleni ad Scaccarium dixit Thes Baron ex parte D. Regis quod in proximo adventu Nicholai Episcopi Wint. ad idem Scaccarium absolverent eundem Episcopum de AVRO quod exigitur ab eo ad oPUS Dominae Reginae matris Domini Regis de 2229 l. 3 s. 1 d. in quibus Johannes quondam Wynton Episcopus Regi H. tenebatur 4 pro emptione bladi et instauri dicti Episcopatus Postea venit idem Episcopus ad Scaccarium praedictum et auctoritate mand praedict absolutus est de AVRO praedicto Eleanor first Queen Consort to King Edward the 1. in the 3d. year of his reign constituted Walter Kent Receiver and keeper of her gold in the Kings Exchequer whereupon she sent this Letter to the Barons to admit him to this Office without any difficulty and to advise and assist him therein when need should require as Eleanor wife to H. 3. had done before her CUM dilecto fideli Waltero de Cantia Clerico nostro terrarum tenementorum nostrorum in Anglia et Auri nostri commiserimus custodiam et exitus inde recipiend de eisdem ordinand et disponend prout nobis viderit expedire ac quaedam dictam custodiam tangentia existant quae per vos cautiorem sortire valeant effectum per quod vos rogamus affectuosè quatinus dictum Walterum ad custodiam Auri praedicti nostro nomine faciend sine aliquo diffugio recipiatis eidem in Ofeficio praedito aliis negotiis nostris coram vobis expediend quociens opus fuerit consulentes esse velitis auxiliantes precibus nostris amore Dat. apud Woodstock 26 die Decembris Anno regni Domini nostri Edwardi tertio Anno 4 E. 1. Queen Eleanor assigned Benett of Wynton a Jew to keep her Gold and dispatch her other businesse in the Exchequer for the Jews as other Jews had alwayes accustomed to do as appears by this Mandate of the King to the Barons to admit him to this office CUM karissima Consors Alienora Regina Angliae 5 assignaverit Benettum de Wynton Judaeum ad Aurum ipsius Consortis Custod ad alia negotia ipsam contingentia exequend prout alii Judaei semper hactenus facere consueverunt Rex mand eisdem quod praefat Benettum ad hoc admittant in forma praedita Teste c. This year there arising some new Controversies and doubts out of what Oblations QUEEN-GOLD ought to be paid the King and his Counsil made these resolutions therein which they
of King Edward the 6. who dying before marriage and his Sisters Qu. Mary and Qu. Elizabeth succeeding him in the Throne there being no Queen-Consorts during their three reigns this Duty was suspended for above sixty years together But then claimed by Queen Anne the next Queen Consort and 4 to Jacobi upon a reference by the King to some Judges resolved to be her undoubted right and since claimed by Queen Mary as her due Prerogative The Reasonableness and Justice of it will best appear by the Original Grounds and Reasons thereof which I apprehend to be three First the extraordinary conjugal love affection honor which our Kings of England did usually bear and really expresse to their Royal Queen Consorts upon all occasions which induced them to confer this profitable as well as Honourable Prerogative of Queen-gold on them to be received as a Debt or casual Gold-revenue from all their Subjects to whom they extended or dispensed any Regal grace and favor that by this Royal perquisit they might furnish themselves with Rings Jewels Vessels Vestments and other Ornaments of Gold fit necessary for their Royal State and Majesty For as Vlpian the ancient famous Civil Lawyer informs us concerning the Roman Empresse Augusta licet legibus soluta non est Principes tamen illi eadem Privilegia tribuunt quae ipsi habent Quodcunque privilegii Fisco competit hoc idem et Caesaris AUGUSTA habere solet is true of our English Queens who in the antientest and later times of our Saxon Kings or before and ever since were not only crowned anointed and sat with the Kings in their seats of State but had divers Prerogatives allowed to them by our Kings Laws And anciently the Queen wife had a Revenue of QUEEN-GOLD or AVRVM REGINAE as the Records call it that is the tenth Part of so much as by the Name of Oblata came to the King as Mr. Selden truly observes 2ly The frequent Mediations and powerful Intercessions of Queen Consorts to our Kings in most grants of Honors Offices Licenses Franchises Priviledges Pardons c. to their Subjects out of which this Duty of Aurum Reginae accrued to them which being commonly procured or their fines moderated much abated by their Royal mediations the Subjects therupon for these their favors by way of gratitude and justice held themselves obliged to present them with so much Gold as amounted at least to one Tenth part over and above their intire moderate fines which they voluntarily proffered agreed to pay into our Kings Coffers And in case of their ungrateful neglect thereof they were by the Custome Justice and Law of the Realm enforced to pay it by legal Processe and Executions issued out against them The rather because in many Copyhold and other Manors of this Realm the Wives or Ladies of the Land-Lords did and still do both claim and receive from the Copyhold and other Tenants upon the renewing or changing of Leases or Estates a gratuity or summe of money proportionable to their fines over and above the intire fines paid unto their Husbands as Land-Lords upon the self-same reason of favor and mediation as our Queens claim their Queen-gold 3ly The due honor gratitude and munificence which all faithfull Subjects ought to exhibit to the Kings beloved Consort when they received any special Grace Grant Priviledge Benefit Office or Pardon from the King the King and Queen being but one flesh Person in Law in some respects excited engaged them both in duty gratitude honor to the King Queen and likewise out of self-interest to present the Queen with a piece of Gold proportionable to their fines and benefits received who by their chearfull gratefull payment of her Aurum Reginae obliged her to become their future Mediatrix and Advocate to the King upon all occasions for the enjoyment or continuance of their former indulged Grants Offices Liberties Pardons and for the procuring of new upon any emergent occasions that of the Poet Ovid in another Case holding true in this Auro conciliatur amor This Aurum Reginae arising only from Oblations or Fines that are voluntary not enforced being an ancient customary legal known duty time out of mind it can be no unreasonablenesse oppression injury or injustice in the present Queen Consort or her successors to claim demand and receive it no more then in their Predecessors it being a received Maxime in Law volenti non fit injuria and a precept of the Law and Gospel too Render to all their due especially to Kings Queens and the Higher powers SECT IV. For what Fines and Oblations to the King Aurum Reginae ought to be payd to the Queen and for what not FOR what sort of Fines and Oblations to our Kings this Aurum Reginae ought by Law and Custom to be paid to their Queen Consorts and for what not the ensuing Records Writs Accounts Sect. 6. will fully inform resolve us In brief Aurum Reginae is due and payable for all Fines and Oblations of ten Marks or upwards after the rate and proportion of one mark to the Queen for every ten Marks due or paid to the King for all licenses of Alienation of lands held in Capite of the King all licenses to appropriate Churches or alien Lands Rents Tenements in Mortmain For the Kings Widowes or Wards to marry to whom they please and for all Fines for Pardons of such Alienations or Marriages made without the Kings precedent license For all Fines to the King for grants of the body lands or marriages of his Wards for the Custody of Abbies Priories Monasteries or Bishopricks during their vacancies by those who sued and paid Fines for them For liberty or licenses to hunt the Hare Fox Cat Boar Wolf or Badger or to enclose or fell Woods or plough or assart Lands within the Kings Forests For Fines for respiting or not receiving the Order of Knighthood for not going marching with the Army of the King to his wars when bound by Tenure For Fines for all Charters Patents creating granting confirming Corporations Tenures Honors Dignities Offices Lands Markets Fairs Priviledges Liberties Chases Parks Free-warrens Wrecks Waifes Strayes Felons goods Free fishing or other Royalties Immunities Exemptions from Tallages Tolls Murage Pontage Services in Juries Assises or publike offices And for all Fines for new Patents to confirm alter or enlarge all or any of the premises For Fines for pardons or remissions of all sorts of Trespasses within Forests or elsewhere or for Breaches of the Peace Frauds Deceits Concealments Felonies Manslaughters For Fines for the restitution of Lands Liberties Offices Goods Chattels Merchandizes forfeited to or seised by the King For saving the lives of persons condemned to die For breaches of or dispensations with penal Lawes For Fines for indenizations of Aliens Or Protections Safe-conducts granted to them For Fines Ransoms of Jews for their offences as well as of Christians and for all other Fines of
like nature with those here enumerated mentioned in the Fine and Pipe Rolls and 6. Section On the other hand Aurum Reginae is not due or payable for any Subsidies Aides Quindisms Tonnage Poundage voluntarily granted to the King by the Lords Commons in Parliament or Disms by the Pope or Clergy for the Necessary defence of the Kingdom or Church of England or Holy Land or for Fines for respite or remission of their payment at the times limited as most conceive Nor for Fines imposed and ascertained by Judgement of the Court against the Offenders wills not left indefinite to the Kings pleasure and parties subsequent Composition or agreement Nor for voluntary Fines or Oblations of Palfries Hawks Tuns of Wine or the like to the King either alone or joyntly with any certain sum of money as of 10D marks or pounds in gold or silver and of one two three or more Palfries Hawks or Tunnes of Wine frequent in all ancient Fine and Pipe Rolls because these were not money nor apportionable and their rates values being uncertain variable our Law could set no certain rate or proportion on them nor any processe be legally issued to levy them SECT V. What Interest the Queen-Consorts have in their Queen-Gold By what officer it is to be received By what Processe to be levyed when unpaid and on what lands goods To whom the Arrears there of accrue after the Queens death THIS Duty of Aurum Reginae is so absolutely vested in the Queen that although the King himself should pardon or remit all or any part of his Fine to the party by which it became due to the Queen yet he could not pardon remit nor apportion this Duty to his Queen nor respite the Process to levy it without her own consent And if the King her Husband deceased this Debt survived to the Queen and was leviable in the reign of the succeeding Kings not withstanding by like processe as before This Duty or Revenue was received collected levyed by a special Officer or Clerk in the Court of Exchequer authorized and appointed by Patent from the King or Queen or both of them to receive collect levy and render an Account there of in that Court If this Duty was not voluntarily paid it being a Debt grounded on and warranted by matter of Record as the Fine Rolls in the Court of Chancery or Extracts Pipe-rolls in the Exchequer wherein the Oblations Fines out of which it arose are enrolled it was levied by Writs of Extent or Execution issued out of the Court of Exchequer to the Sheriffs in the self-same manner form as the Kings debts were next after the Kings own debts but not before them and that upon the Debtors lands or goods which he had at the time when it first grew due or upon his Sureties in case he had no lands nor goods to satisfie it If the Queen-Consort deceased all the Arrears of this Duty accrued and survived of right to the King her Husband if living and to his Successor if dead who levied them by processe out of the Exchequer as they did their other proper Debts SECT VI. A Chronological Collection of the Principal Records Patents Writs Accounts in the Tower of London and Court of Exchequer at Westminster concerning Aurum Reginae with brief Observations on them HAving rendred you this Summary Account of this Duty of Aurum Reginae and of the several materials circumstances that concern or relate unto it in general and special I shall in this last Section present to your view a Chronological Collection and Transcript of all the principal Records Patents Writs and Accounts extant in the Tower of London and Court of Exchequer at Westminster which have hitherto come to my view with some brief Observations on and from them Which will copiously evidence justifie ratifie the truth of what I have asserted concerning Aurum Reginae in the premised Sections and display what else may conduce to the full discovery or knowledge of this abstruse over-long-concealed discontinued Prerogative of the Queens of England to all those who desire information or satisfaction therein I shall begin with the ancientest and so descend in order of time to the last Records and Memorials of this Subject referring each of them by figures to the premised Sections so farr as they prove evidence confirm or illustrate the contents thereof The first and most memorable Record I have yet seen which both mentions and Treats of Aurum Reginae is a Dialogue or Treatise enrolled in the Red and Black Book of the Kings Exchequer at Westminster whereof there is a fair Transcript in Lincolns Inne Library given to it by our Famous Antiquary Mr. Will Lambard a Member of that Society An. 1572. intituled Gervasii Tilberiensis De Necessariis Scaccarii Observantiis Dialogus dedicated by him to K. Henry the 2. in the 23. year of his reign as himself relates in his Proeme Anno Domini 1177. in the second Part of which Dialogue cap. 26. 1 DE AURO REGINAE he renders us this exact Account concerning the Quiddity Quantity Quality Legality and manner of levying this duty in the Exchequer in that and former ages per Consuetudines et Iura Scaccarii as his Proeme informs us I shall present you with his intire Dialogue concerning this Duty Ad haec noverint hi 1 qui in pecunia numerata Regi 4 sponte obligantur quod REGINAE similiter tenentur licet expressum non fuerit Quamvis enim non sit expressum est tamen promisso compromissum Vt cum Regi Centum vel Ducentas Marcas promiserit REGINAE pariter teneatur pro Centum Marcis Argenti Regi promissis IN UNA MARCA AURI pro Ducentis IN DUABUS MARCIS AURI et stâ— deinceps In his autem perquirendis 5 eadent lege Vicecomes per omnia utetur qua in Regiis usus est non tamen ante sed post Cum ergo de Regiis debitis summonitiones fiant 5 adest Clericus Reginae ad hoc constitutus Et addit in summonitione de illo has Centum Marcas pro causa illa ET AD OPUS REGINAE UNAM MARCAM AVRI. Summonita autem ad Scaccarium ab eius Officialibus ad 〈◊〉 iâ—â—titutis seorsâ—m suscipiuntur Noveris etiam quod 5 llicet Rex de promissa sâ—bi summa mediam partem dimiserit vel universam vâ—l etiam summonere disâ—ulerit de his tamen quae ad REGINAM pertinent sâ—cundum quod sibi visum fuerit per omnia fiet ut ea nolente nec dimittantur nec differentur quae sibi debentur sed summonita solbantur et non solventes praedicto modo coerceantur Discipulus Nunquid de promissis Regi citra Centum Marcas aliquid REGINAE debetur Magister Quibusdam sic videtur ut 1 usque ad Decem Marcas teneatur ut scilicet is qui Regi decem Marcas promiserit IN UNA UNCIA AURI REGINAE TENEATUR Aliis non nisi de Centum
Oliver de Punchardin debet 2. m. de eod Aurum Reginae Rob. de Albeneio redd Comp. de 9 l. de eod In thesauro 7 l. 8 d. Et debet 20 s. 4 d. Willielm de Bello Campo redd Comp. de 54 m. de eod In thesaur 9 l. Et debet 24 l. di m. Duncanus de Lasceles 7 l. 4 s. de eod Walter de Trailli 45 m. pro eod In Magno Rotulo de Anno 17 Regis Johannis c. Aurum Reginae Willielmus de Belchamp 24 l. di m. de Auro Reginae Duncanus de Lascell 7 l. 4 s. pro eod Walterus de Trailli 45 m. pro eod Aurum Reginae Robertus de Curtenai deb 4 m. auri pro Fine de Sutton Josce de Plugenâ—i deb 1 m. auri pro terra matris suae Aurum Reginae Hawisa de Curtenai 7 m. di auri pro Honor. de Okemanton Will. Painell 2 m. Auri de Fine suo It is evident by all our Historians that Isabel daughter of the Earl of Engolisme married to King John in the first year of his reign after his divorse from Hawes the Earl of Glocesters daughter survived him which being premised I shall observe from these Records in King Johns reign 1. That this AVRVM REGINAE was claimed and received as a just legal Debt and Prerogative to the Queen in and from the first till the last year of King Johns reign by this special Name and Title 2ly That it was specially charged in the Great Rolls in the Pipe Office and levyed accounted for in the Kings Exchequer under this very Title of AVRVM REGINAE in the self-same manner by the same Process as the Kings own debts 〈◊〉 were levyed and accounted for 3ly That 〈◊〉 was due and paid out of all voluntary Fines and compositions made or pay◠〈◊〉 the King for the restitution of lands seised into his hands for reliefs wardships grants of Mariages Lands liberties and for voluntary Fines ransoms amerciaments for offences misdemeanors or pardons of them and that by Jewes as well as Christians 4ly That the proportion of this Duty was one Mark out of every Fine or Oblation of or above the sum of 10. Marks 5ly That King John no doubt by his Queens consent and agreement challenged and levyed AURUM REGINAE as a Debt Duty belonging to himself as well as to his Queen That he ordered it to be paid into and accounted for in the Court of Exchequer where he constituted a special Officer to keep the Rolls thereof and to demand levy receive and account for it from time to time 6ly That he somtimes gave several times for the payment thereof in the Exchequer by equal portions and that what could not be levyed thereof at one time by one Sheriff was afterwards levyed and accounted for by another 7ly That all the Lands as well as goods chattels of the persons from whom it grew due at the time of the Fine or Obiation first made were liable to be extended for it into whose hands soever they came by descent or grant without any suit at Law being a Debt due upon Record in the Fine and Pipe Rolls in the same manner that Debts to Jews were levyed by the King when devolved to him In the Fine Roll in the Tower Anno 17. Johan Regis m. 4 5. I find many considerable Fines and Oblations made to the King by several Persons Cities Corporations in Ireland out of which Aurum Reginae was then due and payd to the Queen in Ireland as well as in England as the Clause Roll of 33 E. 3. 〈◊〉 17. and other Records assure us though I find no Account thereof in the Pipe Rolls here From King John I descend to the reign of King Henry the 3d. his Son who being an infant scarce ten years of age when he was crowned King this Duty of Queen-gold was discontinued till his marriage of the Lady Eleanor second daughter of Raimund Earl of Province in the 20th year of his reign Anno gratia 1236. when it immediately revived and vested in her Majesty as these ensuing Records during his long turbulent reign will inform and resolve us The Red Book in the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer at Westminster records that at the Coronation of this his Queen Eleanor in the twentieth year of his reign at Westminster one John de Sanford put in his claim to be the Queens Chamberlain and that by virtue of his Office amongst other appendants thereunto belonging he ought to appoint one Clerk in the Exchequer to receive the QVEENS GOLD who ought to have 6 d. a day out of this duty for his Salary which was then deferred and disallowed afterwards as other Records assure us Which claim of his I finde thus certified out of the Red Book by the Barons of the Exchequer into the Court of Chancery and there exemplified at the request of Albred de Vere Earl of Oxford Chamberlain to King Richard the second and inserted into his Patent Anno 20 R. 2. REX omnibus ad quos c. Inspeximus c. Inspeximus etiam quandam Certificationem nobis in Cancellaria nostra per Thesaurarium Barones de Scaccario nostro de mandato nostro missam in haec verba Praetextu Brevis Regii huic Cedulae consuti scrutato Rubro Libro penes Scaccarium residente compertum est in eodem fol. viz. 232. quod Anno vicesimo Regis Henrici filii Johannis coronata fuit Regina Alienora filia Hugonis Comitis Provinciae apud Westm ubi continetur inter alia sic De praedictis Officiis nullus sibi jus vendicavit in domo Reginae excepto G. de Sanford quia veteri jure Praedecessorum suorum dixit se debere esse Camerarium Reginae Cameram Hostium ea die custodire quod ibi obtinuit habuit etiam tanquam jus suum totum lectum Reginae et Bastines et alia quae spetant ad Cameram Vendicavit etiam se debere unum Clericum in Scaccario ad exrigendum AVRVM REGINAE qui percipiet ut dicitur depraedicto AVRO qualibet die seâ— denarios pro liberatione set fuit dilatum Nos autem Transcripta Certificationem praedicta ad requisitionem dilecti Consanguinei nostri Albredi de Veer nunc Comitis Oxon. â—enore praesentium duximus Exemplificanda In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Westm quinto die Februarii Insteed of his Clerk REX 5 assignavit Laurentium de Castellis ad recipiendum et custodiendum AVRVM REGINAE ad magnum Scaccarium Regis ad respondendum inde per manum suam Et mandatum est Justiciariis ad custodiam Iudaeorum assignatis Quod AVRVM quod ipsam REGINAM continget ad Scaccarium Iudaeorum ei faciat liberari ad respondendum inde sicut praedictum est Teste Rege apud Mortelak 13 die Maii. REX Baronibus de Scaccario Mandamus vobis quatinus
per 50. Marc. et AVRVM REGINAE NOSTRAE si dare deberet 4 pro gratia nostra recuperanda et rehabenda custodiam Com. Wygorn c. REX Mand. Baronibus quod cum 5 Regina deputaberit Robertum de Thaury Clericum suum ad colligendum AURUM SUUM eadem Regina habeat Custodiam terrarum Baldewini de Insula vult mandat quod officium Camerar quod Thom. Espurun tenet in Scaccario et ad ipsam Reginam pertinet ratione praedictae Custodiae liberari faciant propter sumptus vitandos praedicto Roberto qui de utroque officio servire poterit Et ipsum Thom. Contrarotular receptae Scacarii custodire fac sicut prius facere consuevit Et Regina similiter mandat quod ex quo hoc placet Domino Regi quod Barones secundum Mandatum Domini Regis in dicto officio ipsum Robertum admittant Breve est in for Maresc PRaeceptum est Vic. Leye quod ingrediatur libertatem Com. Leicestr 5 distringat Willielmum de Quevill pro AURO REGINAE quam nuper ei abstulimus pro Transgressione sua PRaeceptum fuit Vic. London quod 5 distringerent Cives London pro AVRO REGINAE ita quod habeant denarios coram Baron die Lunae prox ante festum S. Barnabe Apostoli Quo die dicti Vic. venerunt coram Baronibus cum requisit esset ab eis an dictos denarios haberent dixerunt quod non sed quod vadia dictorum Civium ceperint et penes se habuerunt sed non invenerunt qui ipsa emerent Postea injunctum fuit eis quod ipsa vadia afferrent coram Baronibus die Martis sequent qua die venerunt et dixerunt quod fere mille homines de Civitate restiterunt eis et non permiserunt dicta vadia asportare Et cum quaereretur ab eisdem Vic. qui essent illi impeditores dixerunt quod plures Draperii Aurifabri Speciar Cordewinarum alii Ministri de Civitate sed nullum nomen exquirere voluerunt Ideo liberati fuerunt dicti Vic. Marescallo REX mandavit Bar. quod ad 3 instantiam Reginae replegiavit Majori Communitati London usque ad Octab. Sancti Hillarii proxim futur Civitatem London quam capi fecerat in manum suam pro 5 Auro praedictae Reginae quod à praedictis Majore Communitate exigitur Ita quidem quod nisi interim satisfaciant eidem Reginae pro AVRO SVO Cibitas illa extunc sit in manu sua in statu in quo tunc fuit Et quod Civitatem praedictam eis restituant sicut praedictum est cum omnibus inde perceptis à tempore captionis ejusdem Civitatis Breve est in For. Mar. Eodem die liberavit Dominus P. Lovell qui habuit Custodiam ejusdem Civitatis Majori Ballivis London 15 l. 9 s. 5 d. ob de exitibus ejusdem Civitatis MEmorand quod Robertus de Thaury 5 Clericus Dominae Reginae venit coram Baron recognovit quod Philippus Basset satisfecit eidem Dominae Reginae de Centum Marcis quas ei debuit pro AURO SUO de fine mille Marcarum quem idem Philippus fecerat cum Domino Rege 4 pro habenda Custodia filii et Haeredis Richardi de Riperiis et de una Marca quam debuit pro eodem Oe fine decem marcarum quam fecerat cum Domino Rege 4 pro habenda Wclarrenna et de 4. Marc. de fine quatuor marcarum Auri 4 pro habenda custodia REgina mand Roberto de Thaurey Archid. Bathon Clerico suo quod relaxavit Johanni de Romesy Canonico Sancti Pauli London tertiam partem 50 Marcarum quas ab eo Petro Capello quondam W. Arch. Eborum Willielmo de Bromham Vicar de Merton in Episcopatu Dunolm Executoribus quondam Richardi Dunolm Episcopi pro Auro suo de Quingentis Marcis quas dederant Domino Regi pro quodam fine quam fecerunt 4 ad habend plenam administrationem bonorum quae fuerunt ejusdem Episcopi Et vult quod residuum illarum 50 Marcarum dempta tertia parte ut praedictum est de praedictis Petro Willielmo Coexecutoribus praedicti J. plenè recuperetur de illa tertia parte praedicto J. nullam de caetero faciat executionem Breve est in Custodia praedicti Roberti REX Thes Hiberniae salutem Cum Edwardus primogenitus noster terram Hiberniae cum omnibus pertinentiis suis habeat et teneat de dono nostro adeò liberè quietè sicut eam in manu nostra tenuerimus per quod karissima filia nostra Alienora Consors dicti filii nostri AURUM SUUM tam de 4 finibus quam sponte oblatis in terra 1 Hiberniae habere debet sicut karissima Consors nostra Alienora Regina Angliae 1 AURUM SUUM habet de eisdem in regno nostro Angliae Vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes quatenus praefatae Consorti filii nostri praedicti AURUM prtediaum de Finibus et sponte oblatis et eciam de quibuscunque aliis finibus praedictis habere facias in forma praedita Et hoc nullo modo omittatis In cujus c. ELianora Dei Gratia Regina Angliae Domina Hiberniae Ducissa Aquitaniae dilectis sibi Philippo de Ey Domini Regis Thesaurario Baronibus ejusdem Domini Regis de Scaccario salutem dilectionem Sciatis quod assignavimus dilectum Clericum nostrum Johannem de Whitebergh Collectorem et Custodem AVRI NOSTRI quamdiu nobis placuerit Et ideo vobis rogamus quatinus eundem Johannem in officio suo informetis et consiium et juvamen ei prout nobis expedire videritis impendatis Ita quod vos regratiari specialiter teneamur Valete Datum apud Guldeford 30 die Junii anno regni Regis H. Domini nostri 56. From these Records of King Henry the 3d. I shall observe 1. That King Henry the 3. himself not the Queens Chamberlain who claimed this priviledge as an appendant due to his office at first appointed the Receiver and Keeper of the Queens gold both in his own Grand Exchequer and in the Exchequer of the Jewes no doubt by his Queens consent and agreement And that the Queen her self by her own Letters Patents in the latter end of his reign appointed her own Clerk to receive it without the King 2ly That Aurum Reginae was then due and payd to the Queen as well out of the Oblations and Fines of Jewes as Christians 3ly That Queen-gold was then due out of Fines made to the King for the Custody of the Lands and bodies of Wards For Licenses for Wards and the Kings Widdows to marry at their pleasure to any that were loyal to the King For grants of Warrens restitution of Lands Liberties Counties seised For licenses to Executors to have full administration of the goods of their Testators who were Tenants to the King or
her husband 3ly That the Queen by her own Patents or Writs both during the life and after the decease of the King usually constituted the Keepers and Receivers of her Queen-gold in the Exchequer whom the Barons were to counsell advise and assist upon all occasions for her advantage who were to cause processe to be issued to levy this and other her Debts and to render an annual Account of them in the Exchequer 4ly That if the Keeper of the Queen Mothers or Queen Consorts Gold or other Officers did injuriously sue or vex the Kings subjects for Queen gold where none was due by Law they were restrained prohibited and the parties discharged by the Kings and his Counsils special Orders and commands to the Barons of the Exchequer 5ly That no Queen-gold was due to the Queen for any publike Ayds Fifteenths or Tenths freely or voluntarily granted to the King out of meer grace and courtesie by the Lords or Commons in Parliament or Clergy in their Convocation or by any particular Corporations or Persons for the ayde and defence of the Holy Land or Realm nor for any Fines or Compositions for the same made by the granters and givers thereof 6ly That Queen-gold was due and payable for Fines to and voluntary compositions made with the King for Disms Quindisms and Twentieth parts granted to the King by the Pope or Parliament out of meer grace by such persons who were not parties to the grant or who made Compositions for them for Counties Corporations or other persons not for themselves alone 7ly That when new questions and doubts arose concerning this Duty of Queen-gold they were usually determined and setled for the future by the King and his Counsil and the Ordinances therein made by them were sent to the Barons of the Exchequer to be there enrolled observed executed 8ly That Queen-gold was due and payd to the Queen Consort in Ireland as well as in England where the Queen had a special Officer and Auditor to receive it 9ly That Queen-gold was due and levyed from Jewes both for their Fines Oblations Trespasses and compositions for Forfeitures as well as from Christians and that the King could not enlarge those Jewes who were imprisoned for Queen-gold without satisfaction made to the Queen or by her consent 10ly That Queen-gold was then due paid levyed for Oblations and â—â—es made to the King for trespasses in falsifying clipping or abusing his money and for all other sorts of Trespasses abuses concealments offences committed as well within or concerning the Kings Forests as without for adhaering to some Nobles against the King for licenses to appropriate Churches or to alien or give lands in mortmain to any pious religious or charitable use for pardons and saving the lives of persons convict or condemned For the restitution of lands or goods seised by or forfeited to the King for any offence breach of Covenants conditions or other lawfull causes for not going with the King beyond the Seas to his Wars when bound by tenure thereunto for respites or discharges from taking the Order of Knighthood when summoned to take it by the Kings Writs for licenses for alienation of lands held of the King in Capite to other persons for the Custody of the lands bodies and marriages of Wards for reliefs and for Charters to confirm Liberties formerly granted In the reign of King Edward the 2. these Records concerning Queen-gold are most observable the first whereof informs us what fee the Bailiff of a Liberty claimed by prescription for every distresse for Queen-gold from the parties distrained which was deemed an abuse for which his Liberty was seised IDem Vic. reddit compotum de Exitibus Libertatis quam Philippus le Lardin aliquando tenuit viz. capiend de unaquaque distr vend pro debito Regis et AVRO REGINAE in hoc Com. 32 d. qua libertate dictus Philippus abusus fuit sicut continetur in rotulo de rebus Regis recuperat in Itinere H. de Cressingham in Com. Eborum In the seventh year of King Edward the second Queen Isabel his Consort assigned John Drury to exact collect and receive her Queen-gold by this Patent ISabella Dei Gratiâ Regina Angliae Domina Hyberniae Ducissa Aquitaniae Universis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem in Domino Sciatis quod 5 assignavimus dilectum Clericum nostrum Dominum Johannem Drury ad exigend colligend et recipiend nomine nostro quoscunque denar nobis debitos seu debendos ratione AVRI NOSTRI levand in Anglia quamdiu nobis placuerit Et ideo omnibus singulis quorum interest tenore praesentium fore duximus destinand quod eidem Johanni in praemissis praemissa contingentibus prout decet pareant intendant quousque aliud inde duxerimus ordinand In cujus testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Dat. apud Westm 11 die Octobris anno regni charissimi Domini nostri Regis Edwardi septimo In the 10th year of King Edward the 2. there happened this memorable case between Queen Margaret wife to King Edward the 1. and the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of London about the duty of Aurum Reginae for a fine of 2000l alleged to be made to the King but denied by them in lieu of the twentieth part of all their goods upon a general Tax in Parliament of the 20th part of all mens goods given to K. Edward the 1. her deceased husband which she claimed to be due to her and other Queens by the Books Records and Memorials in the Exchequer which the King ordered to be levyed and payd without delay if it should appear to the Barons to be due by this Writ CUM nuper ex parte Majoris Aldermannorum Civium Civitatis London Regi suggerentium ipsos nuper concessisse Domino E. quondam Regi Angliae Patri Regis 2000 l. pro Vicestmis omnium bonorum ipsam Communitatem ratione Vicesimae eidem patri Regis pro Communitate Civium et Burgorum suorum Angliae tunc temporis concess contingen Ac Barones ad prosecutionem Margaretae Reginae Angliae dictos Majorem Aldermannos et Cives pro 200 l. quas eadem Reginae pro AVRO SVO in hac parte ac se asseruit pertinere reddend Ac cum iidem Major Aldermanni Cives finem per summam praedictorum 2000 l. pro Vicesima praedicta fecissent cum non fecerint per summonitionem dicti Scaccarii graviter distringi secerunt in ipsorum Majoris Aldermannorum et Civium dispendium non modicum et gravamen Rex mandavit Baronibus quod demanda quam eisdem Majori Aldermannis Civibus pro 200 l. praedict per summonitionem dicti Scaccarii fecerunt supersederi facerent quousque modo debito discussum fuisset si praedicta Regina in hujusmodi casu AURVM habere deberet necne Ac etiam ex parte dictae Reginae Regi dicto ostensum fuisset quod in Libris
executione inde ad opus Reginae faciend Memorand quod idem breve irrotulatur inter brevia directa Baron de Termino Paschae Anno 13 Regis Henrici quarti Rot. 13. in dors Ibid. Trin. Rot. 15. De F. R. allocat de quadam Summa AURI quod W. F. satisfecit c. From these Records of King Henry the 4th I shall observe 1. That Queen-gold was an ancient duty belonging to our Queen Consorts by the Lawes and Custom of England for the due levying whereof King Henry was very zealous out of his affection to his Queen 2. That it was due out of every fine amounting to the summe of 10. marks or more made to the King at and from the time that the fine was made and recorded and that the proportion of it was one Mark for every ten Marks and ten pound for every hundred pound Fine or Oblation 3ly That it was charged ascertained and levyed as a Debt upon Record by the Extracts of the Fines in the Chancery or before the Justices in Eyre and other Courts of the King certified into the Court of Exchequer 4ly That the Red Book Records and Accounts in the Exchequer were the best and surest Directions to shew for what Oblations and Fines it was due and how to be levyed 5ly That it was then due and levyed for Fines for licenses of alienation of Lands Tenements and Appropriations of Churches in mortmain for Wardships granted for mariages of Wards during their minority of the Kings Widows for Charters Liberties and Exemptions to Monasteries Cities and Corporations for Fines for breaches of the Peace concealments of goods forfeited to the King from Merchants for transporting Wools stealing Customs and other misdemeanors Fines for Writs and Inquisitions for exemptions from Fee-farms Subsidies Aydes Impositions levying and collecting Disms when granted by the Clergy or Laity for redemption restitution of Lands or goods forfeited to the King for Pardons of any offences for ransoms of Prisoners taken in the Wars and for a Fine for a Charter of the Isle of Man In the reign of King Henry the 5. I finde this Patent of Queen Jone constituting Geoffrey Paynell to be her Treasurer and Receiver General of all her Seigneuries rents monies profits issues emoluments whatsoever both in England Wales or elsewhere wherein Queen-gold was included though not particularly expressed as in the Patents of some other precedent and succeeding Queens IOhanne par la Grace de Dieu Royne Dengleterre de Fraunce Dame Dirlaunde A tous ceux qui cestes nouz lettres verront ou orront salut Sachez nouz 5 aboir fait ordene et constitut nostre chier et bon ame Escuper Geffray Paynell nostre Tresorer et Resceyvour Generale be touz noz deniers provenaunts sibien de touz noz Seigneuries terres tenemens rentz Feefarms customes apportz pensiouns annuities profres issuez emolumentz qe conques en Angleterre Gales et parailleurs come de tous autres proffitz a nous en aultre manere queconque duez assignez et on apres a estre assignez Renduit a nous due accompt de tout ce qil resceyvera en son dite office chescun an preignaunt rescevaunt annuelment pur le dit office tieux fees gages regardez sicome Sire Johan Tabbay nadgairs nostre Tresorer et Resceyvour General qui Dieu perdount pur mesme l'office affaire prist resceut qe y son accompt a luy sont allouez Mandaniz chargeantz a touz nos Fermers Bailiffs Officers Ministres Tenantz et Subgiz quiconqes prions a tous altres as queux affrert qe a nostre dit Iresorer et Resceivour General enfaisant le dit office ils soient apparantz entendantz respoignantz aidantz conseillantz obeiantz en due manere Avantz forme estable tout ce qe nostre dit Tresourer et Resceibour General pour nous in nostre noune pour nostre proffiâ— face ou serra en apres en l'office avantdit Et evoultre sachez nouz pour certaines causes nous moignauntz avoir ordene constitut le susdit Geffray nostre Garderober A avoire et occupyer mesme l'office si entirement et en meisme la manere come nostre treschier bon ame Escuyer Nichola Alderwyche lavoit a occupia rendaunt a nos due accompt annuelment de touz les deniers pur luy employez despenduz en l'office avauntdit preignant par an pour meisme l'office tiel regarde come per nous de l'advys de nostre conseil lui serra ordeine En tesmoignance de quelle chose nous avoms faite faire cestez noz letres Patentz adurer a nostre pleiser volente Don dessoubz nostre Grand Seal a nostre Manoir de Langley le 28 jour de Septemb. l'an du Regne de mon treshonour Seigneur filz le Roy Henr. le quint puis le Conquest tierce Mr. Hackewill in his Treatise of Queen-gold hath made a brief reference to 5 H. 5. Rot. 29. ex parte Rem Regis in Scac. to prove that the arrears of Queen-gold due to the Queen accrue to the present or succeeding King by her decease but I can yet find no such Record in that year upon search of the Rolls there of In the Reign of King Henry the 6. I only yet find these Writs of the King and Letters Patents of his Queen Consort Margaret constituting John Croke and William Essex Clerks of her Writs and Attornyes in the Exchequer to exact and demand her Queen-gold and other duties and to prosecute and defend her suits actions there and what else belonged to their offices HEnri par la grace de Dieu Roy c. As Barons de nostre Eschequier saluz Come nostre tresentierement bien ame 5 la Royne nostre Compaigne ait ordenne et constitute no bien amez Johan Croke et William Essex Clercs de ses briefs en nostre Eschequier a Westm et ses Attournees illoeques pour demander et exiger L'OK appelle L'OK de la ROYNE et autres choses faire exercer continnez es lettres de nostre dicte compaigne sur se factes soubz son Signet Dont le tenour censuist Marguerete par la grace de Dyeu Royne Dengleterre et de France Dame Dirlande a tous ceulx qui ycestes noz lettres verront on orront salutz Sachiez nous avoir ordenne constitute noz chiers serviteurs Johan Croke William Essex noz Clercs de nor briefs en L'eschequier nostre tresredoubte Souveraign Seignior le Roy à Westm et noz attornes illeoqes â—â—bien pour demander et exiger nostre OK appelle le OK de la ROYNE come a poursuir et defendre en tous plees et querelx pour nous et encontre nous moebes on desire moeves en meisme L'eschequer et auxi a faire tout ce que alesdit offices raisonnablement appertient A avoir et occupier les avant ditz offices
time and view of all the Records and Presidents viz. Librâ—m Rubrum in Scaccario fol. 56. it should be 46. de Auro Reginae where it is said That it is to be taken De iis qui sponte se obligant Regi c. which is the foundation of this Claim and of a Record in the Tower 52 H. 3. and of a Record in the Exchequer Hill 12 Ed. 3. and in the Tower in the same year in Rot. Claus and of Acts of Parliament 15 E. 3. cap. 6 31. E. 3. cap. 13. and the 13 R. 2. in Turri and divers other Presidenâ—s and Processes out of the Exchequer in the times of R. 2. and H. 4. and other Kings until the time of H. 7. It was Resolved that the Quéen hath right to it but with these limitations 1. That it ought to be sponte by the Subject sine coactione so that this ought to be at the pleasure of the Subject whether he will give or no And for this all Fynes upon Judgement or by offâ—r or Fyne for alienation or in any other case where the Subject doth not do it sponte sine aliqua coactione viz. That the King of Right ought to have it there the Quéen shall have nothing 2. It ought to be sponte fine consideratione allcujus reventionis seu interesse that the King hath in esse in jure Coronae and for this upon sale or demise of his Lands or Wards or Goods of Felons Out lawes Et simili casu for these are Contracts and Bargains concerning the Revenues and Interests of the King and it cannot be said in such case that the Subjects sponte se obligant as to purchase or buying any the Revenues and Interests that the King hath 3. It ought to be sponte super considerationem et non ex mera gratia et benevolentia Subditi For that which is of mere Grace is not properly said of Obligation or Duty and the words of the Records are to have de iis qui sponte se obligant and so it was ordained by the King and his Counsil as appears by the Record of Hill 4. E. 1. in Scaccario 4. It ought to be sponte super considerationem quae non longe reventionem seu interesse Coronae in any thing which the King hath as if the subject give to the King sponte a summ of money for license in Mortmain or for to createâ— a tenure of himself or to have a fair Market Park Chace or warren within his Mannor there the Quéen shall have it For the Subject did this sponte and was not constrained unto it and this doth not concern any revenue or interest of the King but if the King hath a Fair or Market or Park or Warren and grant it for a summ of money there the Queen shall have nothing for this was a thing in esse and parcel of the revenue of the Crown And by that it appears that forasmuch as little or nothing is given in such case where this of right is due this is not now of any such value as was pretended And this Resolution was reported to our soveraign Lord the King by Popham in the Gallâ—ry at Whitehall If this Report of these two Referrees concerning Queen-gold be true and genuine and not vitiated or corrupted with some additional restrictions since superadded to it which I suspect yet it is most clear by both their resolutions That Queen Anne had then a RIGHT UNTO this duty of Queen-gold and that it is due of RIGHT from some sort of Fines and Oblations specified in the fourth resolution But by reason of those limitations put upon it by this Report he saith this is not now of any such value as was pretended And that the â—oundation of this her claim was the Red Book of the Exchequer and other Records then viewed and briefly quoted in the Report Whether they perused those or any other Records I know not but had they viewed all those here transcribed I am very confident they would never have reported to King James that the Queen shall have nothing or no Aurum Reginae by offer or â—ine for Aliâ—nations or for sale or demise of his Lands or Wards Goods of Felons or Outlaws and the like for these are contracts and bargains concerning the Revenue and Interest of the King and it cannot be said in such cases that the Subjects sponte se obligant Since most of the forecited Records expresly averr the contrary against which there can or ought at least to be no averment especially by such eminent Judges and Lawyers as those Referrees then were What further proceedings were used by the Queen or her Counsil for the recovery of this her unquestionable antient legal Duty of Queen-gold after this Report I cannot certainly determine neither the Queen nor her Counsil being satisfied with most of the limitations therein specified since diametrically repugnant to the Records they produced to justifie her Right thereto Sir Edward Cooke in his 4 Institutes p. 357. printed since his death cites the premised Patent of King Henry the 3. to Prince Edward his eldest son Pat. 52 H. 3. m. 26. whereby he granted him the Land of Ireland with all its appurtenances adeo liberè quietè sicut tam in manu nostra teneremus per quod charissina filia nostra Alianora Consors dicti fili nostri AURUM SUUM tam de finibus quam de sponte oblatis in terra Hâ—berniae habere debet sicut charissima Consors nostra Alianora Regina Angliae AURUM SUUM habet de eisdem in regno nostro Angliae Vobis mandamus c. From whence he observes That albeit the Wife of Prince Edward was not Queen of Ireland by name yet she had the effect of it therefore she should have a Duty called AURUM REGINAE as well as the Queen of England being but Laâ—y in Ireland For albeit the King of England was untill the Statute of 33 H. 8. c. 1. stilâ—d by the name of Lord of Ireland yet was he supremus absolute Dominus and had Royal Dominion and Authority and that his Consort was in rei veritate REGINA or else she could not have had AURUM REGINAE A clear confession and acknowledgement that the Queen-Consorts of England by their Prerogative as Queens had an anâ—ient right to Queen-gold not only in England but Ireland too before the Kings of England were 〈◊〉 Kings of Ireland much more then since 33 H. 8. which changed their Title of Lord into King of Ireland In the 11. year of K. Charles the 1. upon the Petition of Mary his Queen-Consort after a full hearing and debate of the Antiquity and Legality of this Royal Prerogative of AURUM REGINAE before the King and Queen by their learned Counsil at Law and the reading of several Presidents and Records produced by them relating thereunto the King was pleased to send this Writ to the Treasurer and Barons of his Exchequer for the levying
praedictorum Et quia praesata nuper Regina mortua est prout superius continetur et denarti praed icti 5 ad Regem et non ad alium pertinent Ideo idem Vic. Viz. Thomas de Brudenell oneretur versus Regem de 74 s. 10 d. ob praedictis praetextu retorn sui praedicti In the Parliament Roll of 7 R. 2. I finde a Petition of the Commons against the Payment of Queen-gold for Oblations or Fines to him for the grants of the Lands bodies and marriages of his Wards and all processe out of the Exchequer to levy it in such cases with the Kings Royal negative Answer to it thus recorded 7 R. 2. ITem prient les Communes que come autre foitz il estoit ordenez en Parlement which I conceive a clear mistake since I never yet read or met with any such Ordinance que nule some que l'appell QUENEGOLD serroit leve de 4 qel un ad garde ou mariage du grant nostre Seigneur le Roi que pleise a nostre dit Seigneur le Roi commander sis officers de Lescheqier qe nul brief me nul autre precept ne isse hors de le dit Escheqier pur le leber encountre lordenance suisdite Resp Scit usez desbre ebaunt come eut ad esse usez sibien en temps de Dame Phâ—lipp nadgairs Roigne Dengleterre come en temps dautres Reignes Dengleterre dancientie A clear Evidence of the Legality Antiquity of this duty and untruth of the Commons suggestion of a former Ordinance against it 9 R. 2. De Johanne Warr. Clerico 5 marcas quas debet Annae Reginae Angliae Consorti Regis Richarai 2. pro AVRO SVO de 4 fine 50. Mercarum pro concessione eidem Johanni Advocationis Ecclesiae de M. in Com. R. habenda ad manum mortuam MEmorandum quod quarto die Octobris hoc Termino Inhibitum est per Barones hujus Scaccarii Andreae Cavendishe Vic. Com. Norff. Suff. praesenti in Curia eodem die ne recederet ab eadem Curia quousque satisfecerit Annae Reginae Angliae de le Recept de hominibus Villae de Bury de AVRO ipsius REGINAE per breve return in Octobis Sancti Michaelis anno nono Regis nunc Et eriam de 15 s. 7 d. per ipsum Vic. similiter recept de consimili AVRD de bonis et catallis Johannis Taverner per brebe return ad Octab. praedictas necnon de 40 s. per ipsum nuper Vic. similiter recept de consimili AVRD de bonis et catallis Thomae Malther per brebe return ad Octabas praedictas Praedictus Vic. à Curia praedicta recessit licentia super hoc non optenta neque praefatae Reginae de denariis praedictis in aliquo satisfact in contemptum Regis c. Ideo praeceptum suit Coron Com. Norff. Suff. quod attach praedictum Andr. Vic. per Corpus suum c. Ita c. in Octabis Sancti Hillar ad audiend judicium suum de contemptu praedicto et ad satisfaciend praefatae Reginae de denariis praedictis MEmorandum quod praedicto primo die Maii inhibitum fuit per Barones praedictos Roberto Constable Vâ—c Eborum praesenti in Curia eodem dâ—e in propria persona sua ne recederet ab eadem Curia quousque satisfecerit praefatae Reginae de 40 s. quos ipse levavit de Comite Northumbr de AVRO ipsius REGINAE sicut continetur in quodam brevi return hic in Crastino clausi Paschae hoc Termino sub periculo quod c. Postea idem Vic. recessit à Curia praedicta licentia super hoc non openta neque praefatae Reginae de denar praedictis in aliquo satisfacto in contemptum c. Ideo praeceptum fuit Coron Com. Ebor. quod attach praedict Vic. Ita c. in Octab. Sancti Michaelis ad audiend judicium suum in praemissis et ad satisfaciend praefatae Reginae de denar praedictis MEmorandum quod praedicto primo die Maii inhibitum suit per Barones praedicto Radulpho Bygot Vic. Norff. Suff. praesenti in Curia eodem die in propria persona ne recederet ab eadem Curia quousque satisfecerit Annae Reginae Angliae de 10 l. per ipsum levat de Priore Conventu de Walfingham de AVRO ipsius REGINAE Et de 20 s. per ipsum similiter levat de Priore Conventu de Werbrigge de constmili AVRO per duo brevia hic return videlicet Termino Sancti Hillarii ultimo praeterito Et de 2. marc per ipsum levat de Conventu de Bury de consimili AVRO per breve return in Crastino Clausi Paschae hoc Termino sub periculo quod c. Postea idem Vic. recessit à Curia praedicta licentia super hoc non optenta neque praefatae Reginae de denar praedictis in aliquo satisfacto in contemptu Regis c. Ideo praeceptum fuit Coron Com. Norff. Suff. quod ipsum Vic. attach c. Ita c. in Octabis Sancti Michaelis ad audiendum judicium suum in praemissis et ad satisfaciend eidem Reginae de denar praedictis MEmorandum quod praedicto primo die Maii inhibitum fuit Roberto Veer Vic. Rotel praesenti in Curia eodem die per Atturn suum ne recederet ab eadem Curia quousque satisfecerit Annae Reginae Angliae de 10. marc per ipsum recept de bonis catallis Johannis Basinges de AVRO ipsius REGINAE per breve return in Crastino Clausi Paschae hoc Termino sub periculo quod c. Postea praedictus Vic. recessit à Curia praedicta licentia super hoc non optenta neque praefatae Reginae de 10 marc praedictis in aliquo satisfacto in contemptum Regis c. Ideo praeceptum fuit Corom Com. Rotel quod attach praedictum Vic. c. Ita c. in Octabis Sancti Michaelis ad audiend judicium suum de contemptu praedicto et ad satisfaciend praefatae decem marc praedictas MEmorandum quod praedicto primo die Maii inhibitum fuit per Barones praedictos Arnaldo Savage Vic. Kanc. praesenti in Curia eodem die in propria persona ne recedat ab eadem Curia quousque satisfecerit Annae Reginae Angliae de 40 s. quos ipse levavit de bonis catallis Willielmi Barry Thomae Brokhull de AVRO ipsius REGINAE per breve return in Crastino Clausi Paschae hoc Termino sub periculo quod c. Postea praedictus Vic. recessit à Curia praedicta licentia super hoc non optenta neque praefatae Reginae de denariis praedictis in aliquo satisfacto in contemptum Regis c. Ideo praeceptum fuit Coron Com. Kanc. quod attach praedictum Vic. per corpus suum c. Ita c. in Octabis Sancti Michaelis ad audiend judicium suum in praemissis et ad satisfaciend praefatae