Described Hardwick & Luard: iii.485; Baker & Ringrose pp. 380–5.

[1]

ff. 2–3

Rules for the suing out of livery (1477), beginning ‘1. First if the kynges tenaunt holdyng of hym by knyghtes service die after the office founde theruppon …’. 13 numbered paragraphs.

Other texts: Gg.3.26; Hh.4.7 (both seventeenth-century copies).

[2]

f. 44v

Part of a s. xv draft bill in chancery on behalf of Piers (Peter) Tregoyse, J.P. Cornwall 1478–88; in English. Different hand.

[3]

ff. 70–70v

Another copy of the rules for the suing out of livery, as in [1] above, with the same marginal notes, but by a different hand.

[4]

f. 176v

Ye shall swere that well and truly ye shall serue the kyng and his people in the office of maire of the staple of boston to the whiche ye be chosen and truly ye shall trete the marchauntes of the same staple and egall right ye shall doo to all people as well to estraungers as other after the ordynaunce therof made and the lawe marchaunt as god you helpe and his seyntis.

Followed by the note, in the same hand, ‘Lyke othe shall make the constables of the same staple of that that perteynith to their offices’. Copy of the oath of the mayor of the staple of Boston. Different hand.

[5]

ff. 271v–272

Table of fees for writs and licences beginning: ‘All wryttes of couenaunt euery assise and wrytte in nature of assise and oder wryttes of entre aboue the value of xl s unto the value of v marke vj s viii d’. Nineteen entries, with fees specified alongside the first six entries and the last. Different hand.

s. xv/s. xvi.