Patent Rolls

No one would mistake the Calendar of Patent Rolls for scintillating reading.

Given the names listed in the Patent Rolls as parties to the attack on Holebrok, Mays speculates that “the affair sounds like a result of a blood feud between members of the upper classes and their followers; this type of feuding bedevilled Medieval England.”

For the sufferings of Northern monasteries from the Scots 1330-50 see references collected from the patent rolls in P. G. Mode, op. cit. p.

On receipt of these petitions the writ De apostata capiendo would be issued and the royal commissions for the arrest of the delinquents are sometimes found enrolled on the patent rolls, as in the cases quoted in the text.

Be this as it may, the Patent Rolls contain sufficient to account for his and his wife's assuming King Henry's livery from gratitude for the restoration of his land, which he had forfeited as an adherent to Richard II.