EDWARD THE FOURTH

Summary

1461.

On the grant of a subsidy by the clergy of the province of Canterbury, in July this year, an exception was made in favour of the poor chaplains studying in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

1464–2

In March, the King was at Cambridge, where it seems he attended the assizes, and was so much gratified with the charge given by Sir William Yelverton the judge, on the extortions of sheriffs and other officers, that he took him by the hand, told him he owed him great thanks, and prayed him to deliver a similar charge at the Norfolk assizes.

The proctors' accounts contain the subjoined charges: “For bearing “the cross on the King's coming, 4d. For expences of the Chancellor “and proctors after the King's departure, 8s. 4d.” Mention is also made of a visit from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

On the 19th of March, John Hessewell mayor, Robert Garland draper William Lolleworth and Geoffery Fyssher bailiffs, and six other inhabitants of the town, appeared before William Gray Bishop of Ely, in the chapel of St. Mary near the Cathedral of Ely, to answer to a charge of having violently taken Henry Akenborough (a native of the diocese of Worcester) from the cemetery of the parish church of St. Peter, whither he had fled and demanded the immunities of the church.