HENRY THE FOURTH

Summary

1399.

In the convocation of the clergy of the province of Canterbury, held at St. Paul's London, in October, the Masters regent and non-regent and scholars of the two Universities, petitioned that some relief might be given them, so that they might be permitted to sue to the see of Rome for provision to benefices and dignities ecclesiastical.

At the Parliament which began on the feast of St. Faith, the citizens and burgesses prayed the King, to confirm the franchises, liberties, and free customs granted to their cities and boroughs by the charters of his predecessors. The King directed his Chancellor to grant confirmations, saving the franchises of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the lords spiritual and temporal.

The bridges and causeway between Cambridge and Barton being in very bad repair, so that casualties frequently happened to persons and carriages passing along the same, the King on the 31st of October granted to John Jaye the hermit, for two years, certain customs on saleable articles passing along the bridges and causeway before mentioned, to be applied in the reparation thereof.

On the 10th of November the principal grants to the University were confirmed by the King's charter of Inspeximus, tested by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Archbishop of York, Robert Bishop of London, John Bishop of Ely, Edmund Bishop of Exeter, Edmund Duke of York the King's Uncle, Thomas Earl of Warwick, Henry Earl of Northumberland, Ralph Earl of Westmoreland, John de Searle Chancellor of England, John de Northbury Treasurer of England, William Roos de Hamlake, William de Willoughby, John de Cobham, Thomas de Erpingham the King's Chamberlain, Thomas de Rempston Steward of the King's House, Master Richard de Clifford Keeper of the King's Privy Seal, and others.