County: Kent
Code: D2963
Reference: Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral Archives: DCc-ChAnt/C/1251
Function: Complaint
Reuerent & right~ wurschipfulle sir we recomend us vn~-to you certyfiing~ you is it schowyd us that your Ministres
and officeris wt-in the Jle of Tenett dyuers tymes grevously haue vexed & trowbelyd our~ combaron~ willm~
Colyn~ of Byrchington~ t contrary the privilegys & Fredoms of the . v . portes & theyr~ membrys be our~ souerayn~ lord
gravnted and be new Jnuencions hathe~ strayned & stressed hym~ by his catelle þt is to say contrary to our~
priuilege be the kynges good grace to us gravnted þt is to say ij horsis pris iiij li~ iij Milke keyne pris xxx s and for þe
Ferme of the sayd iij keyn~ ‒ xviij s and for ferme of the sayd horsys for the terme of iij yer~ ‒ xl s as he sayeth~ to
his grevous hurte & importabylle losses which~ ∧ loste schal be to ale us of the portes where-for~ we desire & pray you to
calle the premisser vn~-to your remembravnce and þt restytucion~ may be made vn~-to the seyd willm~ as Right~ &
gode concyens requirethe so þt we nor he haue no cause hereafter to complayne in þt behalfe which~ complaynt
schalle cause us to seke a due remedye as welle for hym~ as for ale othir~ of our~ libertees in like case beseching~
you of answer~ in alle goodly haste wryten~ at Romene vnder the seale of office ther~ the xxiijthe day of July
[signed: Be yours . Mayers Bailiffes
& Jurates of þe . v . portys]
[dorse]To our~ welbeloued
the pryour~ of Crystis cherch
of Canturbery be this
delyuerd