30 ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATUTES OF LABOURERS 



In lieu of direct evidence, much information as to the 

 method of appointment may be derived from a study of 

 the changes in the commissions : in addition to those 

 caused by death,' there are during this decade thirty 

 instances of removal or discharge of individual justices' 

 and three of the cancelHng of entire commissions. ^ A 

 detailed analysis of the thirty cases gives the following 

 results as to causation : in six, no information ; '' in six, 

 appointment to other duties ; ^ in one, inability to attend 

 to the office;* in two, infirmity and old age;^ in fifteen, 

 merely quibusdam certis de causis} In the case of two 

 of these fifteen, it appears that complaints of their mis- 

 deeds brought before the king's council by their col- 



* Croft, Hillary, Lye, Staunton (J. de), Styuecle (J. de). On the 

 claim of the abbot of Ramsay to the penalties before Albert and Sty- 

 uecle, justices of labourers in Hunts., the latter were summoned to the 

 exchequer. Albert appears and states that no penalties were levied 

 "per tempus contentum inbrevi; eo quod marescalcia domini Regis per 

 totum tempus supradictum in comitatu Hunt' extiterat. Et vlterius 

 vobis significo quod lohannes de Stukele mortuus est." Mem. L. T. 

 R., 33, Mich., Recorda, rot. 2d. We know that the latter was dead 

 by Nov., 1357, and yet by the very end of 1358 the news had not reached 

 the exchequer. For the manuscript references to the above names as 

 well as to the other names in this section, see list of justices in app., 

 B, 3. 



'Adam, Beauchaump (W. de), Benteleye, Berneye, Broun, Bures 

 (A.), Botetourt, Chaumont, Colvill (J.), Crouthorn, Debenham, Fol- 

 vill, Golafre, Grey (J. de. of Rotherfield), Haldenby, Hubert, Laundels, 

 Luscote, Michel (R.), Munden, Novo Mercato, Pakeman, Roulegh, 

 Surflet, Sutton (J. de, of Holderness), Tyrel (the elder), Ughtred, 

 atte Watere, atte Wode and Wychingham. 



'Essex. Northants. and Northumberland; see app., B,2. 

 *Adam, Benteleye, Bures, Munden, Sutton and atte Watere. 



* Botetourt, Laundels, Luscote, Michel, Novo Mercato and Ughtred. 

 •^ Broun. "Beauchaump (see p. 34), Crouthorn. 



* Berneye, Chaumont, Colvill, Debenham, Folvill, Golafre, Grey, 

 Haldenby, Hubert, Pakeman, Roulegh, Surflet, Tyrel, atte Wode and 

 Wychingham. 



