From Simon Meller for his excess40d.
From Robert Throstle for the same6d.
From Thomas Poggill for the same12d.
From Roger Bollok for the same12d.
From Geoffrey Edmund for the same6d.
From Richard Tailliour for the same2s.
From Alice Smyth for the same6d.
From John Smart for the same12d.
From Margaret Everard for the same12d.
From Alice Gerlond for the same12d.
From Alice Weper for the same6d.
From Agnes Heyward for the same12d.
From John Crawe for the same6d.
From Christina Bostis for the same6d.
From Richard Cook for the same12d.
From Edmund atte Well for the same6d.
From Walter Bilet for the same6d.
From Geoffrey Sloman for the same6d.

Sum, 16s. 10d. Proved

16. Writ to Enforce Payment of Excess of Wages to the Collectors of a Subsidy [Close Roll, 24 Edward III, p. l, m. 6d.], 1350.

The King to his beloved and trusty Walter de Mauny and his fellows, our justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and certain other things contained in our commission made to you, in the county of Northampton, greeting. Whereas lately it was ordained by us and our council that servants, as well men as women, should be bound to serve and should receive only the salaries and wages which used to be offered in the places where they ought to serve in the twentieth year of our reign over England or the five or six common years next preceding, and that all and singular such servants, workmen and artificers ... taking more ... be assessed at the whole additional sum which they shall receive ... and the whole additional sum so received be levied and collected from every of them to our use in relief of the singular towns to which the said artificers, servants and workmen belong, and in aid of payment of the sums at which the same towns or the men thereof are assessed for the tenth and fifteenth now current ...: you, nevertheless, ... attempt to cause such excesses of wages, liveries, hires and salaries ... with the fines made before you ... to be enrolled on your rolls and levied to our use, against the intent of that agreement, as by complaint of the people it has been given us to understand: We ... command you to compel all and singular artificers, servants and workmen, as well men as women, of whatsoever condition they be, convicted or hereafter to be convicted before you of such excessive salaries, liveries, hires or stipends whatsoever received by them in the aforesaid county, as well by imprisonment of their bodies as in other lawful manner which shall seem good to you in this behalf, to pay without delay that which they have so received in excess to the subtaxers and subcollectors of the singular towns to which the same artificers, servants and workmen belong, in aid of payment of the tenth and fifteenth aforesaid, according to the agreement abovesaid. Provided that the fines made or to be made therefor, and other things belonging to us therefrom, be converted to our use, as is just.

Witness the King at Westminster, 12 June.

By the council

17. Application of Fines for Excessive Wages to the Subsidy of a Fifteenth [Subsidy Roll, 107, 41.], 1351-2.

Hundred of Winstree.

From the town of East Mersea, 46s. 4¾d., from fines of workmen of the same town.

From the towns of West Mersea and Fingringhoe, 4l. 8s. 11¾d., from fines of workmen of the same town (sic).