SPECIMENS OF ROYAL GRANTS.
In 1206, King John grants to W. de Camville a licence to destroy game in any of the royal forests, which proves the origin of the Game Laws.
1238. Henry III. gave 500l. to Baldwyn, Emperor of Constantinople.
1342. King Edward III. forgives to the mayor and citizens of London the indignation and rancour of mind that he had conceived against them.
1344. The king grants to Adam Thorp, the trimmer of his beard, certain lands at Eye, near Westminster. The scrupulous attention which Edward III. paid to that ornament of his face, may be seen in his bronze effigy in Westminster Abbey, which was taken from a mask after his death.
1409. The king settles on Joan of Navarre, his queen, 10,000l. per annum.
1417. Henry V. grants to Joan Warin, his nurse, an annuity of 20l. during life.
1422. The jewels which had belonged to King Henry V., and were valued at so large a sum as 40,000l., were delivered to Sir Henry Fitz Hugh, and his other executors, for the payment of his personal debts.
1422. The "Pysane," or great collar of gold and rubies, was pawned by the king to his uncle, Cardinal Beaufort, who is supposed, at the time of his death, to have amassed more wealth than any subject in England.