DISPOSITION OF THE PENALTIES 



147 



In addition to the claimants who have based their claims 

 on charters including the right to amerciamenta hominum, 

 there is also a small group, which, lacking any such general 

 franchise, receives from the king during this decade, for 

 either a limited or an indefinite period, specific grants of the 

 penalties under the statutes ; to this group belong the king's 

 two sons, Edmund ' and John,^ and the Carthusians of 

 Henton and of Witham,^ the latter obtaining their privi- 

 leges as a result of complaints to the king of their peculiar 

 difficulties. It is interesting to see that within the palatinate 

 of Chester the prince of Wales makes an exactly similar 

 grant of the penalties to an abbot.* The legal aspect of this 

 type of claims involves no special problems and the pro- 

 cedure is the same as that already described ; ' but it is signi- 

 ficant that even here the *' excess " is not included. 



To obtain accurate knowledge of the exact number 

 of the claimants and of the amounts they finally re- 

 ceived, and of the relation of these amounts to the total 



'Pat., 32, pt. I, m. 3, 23 June, "Pro Edmundo de Langele, filio 

 Regis;" also ibid., m. 2, on the same date. The grant is in aid of the 

 repairs on his castle of Coningsburg and other buildings. 



'Pat., 32, pt. I, m. 4, 27 June, " Pro comite Richemundie;" the fines 

 are in aid of repairs on his castle of Richmond and other buildings: 

 " habenda, leuanda et percipiendaper manus balliuorum seu ministrorum 

 dicti comitis per extractas iusticiariorum predictorum eisdem balliuis seu 

 ministris liberandas, quamdiu nobis placuerit absque aliquo nobis inde 

 reddendo." Cf. also Writs of Privy Seal. Chancery, Series I, File 374, 

 no. 23, 870, 27 June, 32 Edw. III. 



^App., 389-390. 



♦Chester Recognizance Rolls, no. 41, m. 2, 18 Dec, 32 Edw. Ill; 

 " Carta abbatis de Valle Regali de finibus et amerciamentis operariorum 

 et artificum." The grant is said to be " de gracia nostra speciali et in 

 opere caritatis." 



^See e. g., Mem. L. T. R., 35, Pasch., Recorda, rot. 10, Norfifolchia, 

 " De lohanne comite Richemund' de clameo finium et amerciamentorum 

 operariorum." Cf. p. 144, note 2. The letters patent are of course en- 

 rolled in the course of the process. 



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