Adam Bam, goldsmyth, Th' Vyvent. Anno xiiij^{mo}.
m'. John Fraunceys,
goldsmyth.
[Sidenote: A gret scarcete of corn.]
This yere was scarcete of corn. Neverthelees the seide meire, be good
counseill, sente his men over the see with gold into divers contres
and broughte home corn, so that the prys was well amendyd.[71]
[Footnote 71: _See note_ R.]
John Hende, drap', m'. John Schadworth, m'c'. A^{o}. xv^{o}.
Herry Vaun'e, drap'.
[Sidenote: Edward Dalyngreg' and Baldewyn Radyngton were mad kepers of
the citee of London.]
[Sidenote: The remevyng of the court to Yorke.]
[Sidenote: For an hors loof.]
whiche John Hende occupied the office of the meire into the morwe
after the natyvyte of seynt John baptist, the whiche was put down be
the kyng and his counseill at Notyngham, and ordeyned S^{r}. Edward
Dalyngregy, knyght, kepere of the citee; and on the xxij day of Juyll
the said Edward was discharged of his office, and S^{r}. Bawdewyn
Radyngton at Wyndesore was mad kepere of the citee of London, and so
stod in office into the feste of seynt Symond and Jude; at whiche day,
be leve of the kyng, they chosen officers in the Yelde halle of London
for the yere folwyng as it folwith. And in this yere the courtes were
remeved, and withdrawe fro London to York fro the feste of the
nativite of seynt John baptist unto Cristemasse folwynge; and all this
disese above seyd was for this cause. In this yere Thomas Arundell
erchebysshop of York was thanne chaunceler of Engelond, and Waltham
bysshop of Salesbury was thanne tresorer of Engelond; the serwauntes
of whiche tresorer arrered a grete debate in Fletestrete ayens men of
the towne for an hors loof, for whiche the tresorer pleyned upon the
citee to the kyng, and wykkedly enformed the kyng; thorugh whiche
enformacion and procurment of the chaunceler, the kyng sesed the
fraunchise and the liberte of London into hys hond: and the kyng hadde
of London x m^{l} lib' or he wolde be plesyd.