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exchequer material. Many monastic chroniclers were principally concerned with tracing the family of their patrons and therefore concentrated on births, marriages and deaths, and the exploits of the best known male members of the family, not necessarily giving accurate information. Descriptions of women, where they occur, stress their family, property and offspring. Attention was focused on the
financial implications. Three Bridgnorth men had agreed to pay £10 for a royal licence to make a grant in mortmain, but had died before making payment. The exchequer attempted to extract payment from the town bailiff by charging the sum to his account, and his protest prompted the following inquiry. The royal writ initiating the
. The insistence on business as usual is impressive, but there is also something chilling about the refusal to admit the scale of the disaster. 20 The tax assessments, set in 1334, were not altered for about a century, although the proceeds of the statute of labourers were used to offset some of the bill. 21 The exchequer consistently tried to collect
the said ordinance and put on the said ban. And you should not go against this [order] in any way on pain of our favour and of 10,000 maravedis each for our Chamber and Exchequer. 37. Racial laws against Jewish Christians: Spain, 1449; Portugal [undated] (a) The ‘Sentence-Statute’ ( Sentencia
incur the penalty of death and confiscation of all their goods for our Chamber and Exchequer , which penalties they may incur in accordance with this same act and law without further process, sentence or declaration. And we give orders and forbid that any person at all in our aforesaid kingdoms, of whatever estate, condition or dignity they may be, should dare to receive or welcome or
1374 the fourth pestilence began in England in several towns in the south of the country and lasted for a long time. In the following year a large number of Londoners, from among the wealthier and more eminent citizens, died in the pestilence. Several well-placed clerks of the Chancery, Common Pleas and Exchequer also died. In 1375 the fourth pestilence
Lent. Some serve the king and tot up his silver In exchequer or chancery; chase up his debts From wards and wardmotes, waifs and strays. And some serve as servants to lords and ladies And in place of stewards sit in judgement. Their mass and matins, and liturgical hours Are done undevoutly. I fear that at Judgement Christ in consistory will find many guilty