e Lancastre et d'autres Grantz qu'adonges y furent du
Conseil nostre Seigneur le Roy [crossed p] la mayn Sire Ro[/b]t de
Wodehouse et ore vient en estreite as Viscountes de Londres hors del
Chekker de faire lever des Biens et Chateux du dit Richard xx/iiii
ix_li._ xiis. vid. pur le fee avant dit dont il prie qe remedie lui
soit ordeyne.

"Et le Meire et Citoyens d'Oxenford ount [crossed p] point de chartre
q'ils vendront a Londres l'Encorronement d'eyder le Meire de Loundres
pur servir a la fest et toutz jours l'ount usee. Et si i plest a [=n]re
Seigneur le Roy et a son Conseil nous payerons volonters la fee issent
qe nous soyons descharges de la service."--_Rolls of Parliament_, vol.
ii. p. 96.

"To our lord the King and to his Council sheweth Richard de Bettoyne of
London, that whereas at the coronation of our lord the King that now
is, he their mayor of London performed the office of butler with three
hundred and sixty valets clothed of one suit each, bearing in his hand
a white cup of silver, as other mayors of London have done at the
coronations of the progenitors of our lord the King, whereof memory
runneth not, and the fee which appertained to this day's work, that is
to wit, a cup of gold with the cover, and a ewer of gold enamelled,
were delivered to him by assent of the Earl of Lancaster, and of the
other grandees who then there were of the council of our lord the King,
by the hand of Sire Robert de Wodehouse, and now comes in estreat to
the viscounts of London out of the Checquer, to cause to take the goods
and chattels of the said Richard, eighty-nine pounds twelve shillings
and sixpence, for the fee aforesaid, whereof he prays that remedy be
ordained to him.

"And the mayor and citizens of Oxford have, by point of charter, that
they shall come to London to the coronation, to help the mayor of
London to serve at the feast, and always have so done. And if it please
our lord the King and his Council, we will pay willingly the fee,
provided that we be discharged of the service."

There can be little doubt that the citizens of Oxford bore their own
travelling expenses; and it seems probable that the citizens of London and
Oxford bore the cost of the three hundred and sixty suits of clothes and
three hundred and sixty silver cups; but this is scarcely sufficient to
account for their willi