1435
SEPT. 26
Lease made at Castre, on Monday before Michaelmas 14 Henry VI., by Geoffrey Walle, surveyor of the manors of Sir John Fastolf, to John Rakesond, son of Geoffrey Rakesond of Ormesby, of a messuage of Fastolf’s in Ormesby, called Reppes Place, etc.
[39.4] [Phillipps MS., 9,735, No. 264.]
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ABSTRACT[40.1]
1435
SEPT. 30
A vidimus or official attestation of two indentures relative to the custody of the castle of Le Mans between Sir John Fastolf, governor of Anjou and Maine, and captain of Le Mans under the Duke of Bedford, and Matthew Goth [Gough] and Thomas Gower as his lieutenants. The first indenture is for the quarter from 1st October to 31st December 1434, the second for the three quarters following, to 30th September 1435. A retinue is to be maintained of twenty-four lances and the ‘archiers de la personne dudit Mathieu,’ viz., sixty mounted and fourteen on foot, and 222 archers besides. Mounted archers to have 12d. a day, etc.
The document is authenticated by the garde du scel des obligations de la Viconté de Rouen, on the 8th March 1448 (i.e. 1449).
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NOTE[40.2]
1432–5
Building accounts of William Granere, master of the works at Caistre in 11, 12, and 13 Henry VI.