ECR 54 015
Reference code
ECR 54 015
Title
Eton, Buckinghamshire and other properties: Charter granted by the King
Level
Item
Date
12 January 1449
Extent & medium
1 manuscript
Content description
The King to all admirals, captains, etc. With the assent of the last Parliament at Westminster, he has granted by charter to the Provost and College of Eton that they and their tenants shall be quit of toll, pannage, pontage, kaiage (wharf dues), murage, passage, paiage, (passage money), lestage, stallage, tallage, carriage, pesage, picage (payment for the right to break ground in order to erect a stall), terrage (charge for occupying ground at a fair or market), scot and gild, hidage, scutage and from works on royal castles, parks, bridges, closes and houses and from suits of counties, hundreds and wapentakes, and from all aids of Kings, sheriffs and bailiffs, of fines, loans, view of frankpledge etc. and their goods and chattels to be free of the purveyors of the household of the King or his consort. Purveyors who infringe the privileges of the College are to be proceeded against in the King's Bench. Instructions to permit William Brewster, clerk, tenant of the College in Langley Marreys and Colbroke, co. Bucks, to enjoy the said liberties without molestation.
The Great Seal, with tongue, is missing.
The Great Seal, with tongue, is missing.
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