A Brief Register Part 2, Part 2 · Section 4 · Subsection 10 – Subsection 11
Consimiles Literae diriguntur singulis Vicecom. per Angliam.
From these new extraordinary Writs, I shall observe, 1. That extraordinary publike necessities against forein enemies, require extraordinary Aydes from the people. 2ly. That when ever such extraordinary excessive ayds were granted by Parliament, it was with this special caution, that the King by his Patents as well as the Parliament, should declare, that it should not afterward be drawn into Custom, nor turn to the prejudice, thraldom, or dishinherison of the people in succeeding times. 3ly. That those extraordinary Aydes were recompenced with extraordinary Grants and new *See 25 E. 1, c. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.Confirmations of the Great Charters of the Liberties of Engl. and of the Forest, (which the *Walsingham Hist. Angl. p. 35. to 42.Lords and Commons then much pressed and insisted on) for the King and his heires, which were new confirmed by special Letters Patents, which the knights elected for every County, were to be impowred by the Commonaltie of each County to receive, and to deliver to them. and to do what else the Prince by advice of the Nobles should ordain in this Parliament. 4. That the chief occasion of this Writ and Parliament was this; the Earls of Hereford, and Marshall, who were very powerfull and popular, inhibited the Barons of the Eschequer, after the Kings passage into Flanders, to levy the 8. part of their goods granted to him at St. Edmunds, without their consents; and induced the City of London to joyn with them, not to pay the same, unless these Great Charters and their other Liberties were first confirmed, which the Prince and his Counsil promised to doe, as you may read at large in Thomas de Walsingham, Hist. Angl. p. 35. to 42. and Ypodigma Neustriae, p. 84, 85, 86. &c. Mat. Westminster, Anno 1297. p. 409, 410. Henry de Knyghton, de Eventibus Angliae, l. 3. c. 11. Holinshed, Grafton, with other our vulgar Historians; and My Plea for the Lords, p. 98. to 104. The Prince, by advice of the Counsil, after the summons of this Parliament, to prevent all Commotions by these Earls and their Confederates, issued special Writs not only to all *Cl. 25 E. 1 m. 5. 3. dorsoGreat Cities and Corporations of England, prohibiting, Ne Congregationes & Conventicula fiant, to disturb the publike peace, and to all Captains and Governors of Castles, in respect of the present dangers, safely to guard their Castles, so as non Nobis vel dicto Consilio non passet aliquod periculum imminere, as the Writs at large inform us; but likewise sent special Writs to some Earls and Lords formerly summoned to the Parliament at London, and to some others whom they most confided in, to repair to the Prince and his Counsil, with their horses and arms; as is evident by these memorable Writs intermixed with the Writs of Summons to this Parliament, Claus. 25 E. 1. m. 5. dorso.
*Claus. 25 E. 1. m. 3. dorso. De veniendo cum equis 8… armis.Rex dilecto et fideli nostro Ricardo fil. Alani Comiti Arundell salutem. Quia nuper ante passagium nostrum ad partes transmarinas injunximus Edwardo filio nostro, tenenti in Anglia locum nostrum, quaedam Negotia Nos & regnum nostrum specialiter contingentibus, super quibus ipsum Vobiscum habere volumus Colloquium & Tractatum. Vobis mandamus in fide et dilectione quibus Nobis tenemini firmiter injungentes, quantum sitis, cum equis et armis ad dictum filium nostrum die Dominica proxima ante instans festum Sti. Michaelis ubicunque tunc fuerit in Anglia; ad veniendum ibidem cum dicto Filio nostro et ejus Consilio super dictis negotiis locuturi & tractaturi, ac facturi quod tunc Uobis per ipsum & Consilium suum injungetur ex parte nostra. Et hoc sicut Nos & bonorem nostrum, & commodum regni nostri diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. T. Edwardo filio Regis apud Sanctum Paulum London. 9 die Septembris.
Consim. literae diriguntur subscriptis, Roberto de Dacre, and 48 more.
(The like Writs issued Fulconi fil. Warini, to be cum equis & armis ad dictum filium nostrum London in Octab. Sancti Michaelis, prox futur. Ibidem cum dicto filio nostro et ejus Consilio super dictis negotiis locuturi et tractaturi, &c. T…ut supra.
Consimiles literae diriguntur, to 28. others.)
Et Memor. quod omnes isti rogati fuerunt quod venirent apud Roffs: praeter Phum. Muhaunks, Nichum. Bramcher, Simonem Roges de Fydoks, Petrum Mellore, & Phum. de Wylyver, quorum brevia fuerunt restituta.
Rex dilecto et fideli suo Johanni Gifford salutem. Licet nuper vobis mandaverimus, quod propter quaedam ardua Negotia Nos et regnum nostrum tangentia, ad Parliamentum quod erit London in proximo crastino Sancti Michaelis ad Edwardum filium nostrum, tenentem in Anglia locum nostrum modis omnibus veniretis. Vobis tamen ob aliquas certas causas firmiter injungendo mandamus, quod interim taliter ordinetis, quod equi vestri et arma sint ad Vos London. in Octabis dicti festi Sancti Michaelis ad ultimum. Et hoc sicut Nos et commodum regni diligitis, nullatenus omittatis. T. Edwardo filio nostro apud Sanctum Paulum 16. die Septembris.