![]() ![]() ' Et in corredio et carriagio prisonum captorum apud Mirebel viij li. ![]() On the Hampshire account £8 7s 4d were charged for the maintenance and carriage of prisoners taken at Mirebeau. We get a glimpse of the prisoners taken at Mirebeau where Prince Arthur was captured - eventually leading to him never being seen again. But why the Bishop of Winchester should be in trouble for not reminding him is a matter lost in time. ![]() The bishop of Winchester owes a tun of good wine 'because he did not remind the king to give a belt to the countess of Aumale.' This is interesting, since historian Sidney Painter believed that Hawise of Aumale was one of John's mistresses and that her son, ostensibly called William de Forz, should in actual fact be William FitzRoy. In the pipe roll of 1209 there is another enigmatic entry. It would take an ordinary hearth knight on the pay of a shilling a day almost two weeks to earn a single mark. ei tradiderat coram aliis.Which translates to: 'The Bishop of Norwich owes 100 markes "because he handed the king a ring with an emerald which the king had handed him before others." Make of that what you will. in redditu assignauit.Which translates to: 'To Bartholomew who found and restored to the king the precious stones and jewels which he had lost, 20 shillings which the king has assigned him in rent.'Ĭoncerning jewels again, there is in an enigmatic entry on this same pipe roll, the meaning of which has now been lost, but hints at John's usual secretive dealings. 'Et Bartholomew qui invenit et rediddit Regi lapides pretiosos et jocalia que ipse amiserat xx s. On the pipe roll for Michaelmas 1202, this appears on the Berkhamstead account. For his service we have given him at Berkhamstead where he was born a rent of 20 shillings, and therefore we command you that you assign the rent of 20 shillings to him without delay. On November 12th 1201, John wrote to his justiciar Geoffrey Fitzpeter, 'We lost our precious stones and jewels which we were wont to wear about our neck, which Bartholomew the bearer of these presents found and freely and faithfully brought us. They're a sort of glorified accounts book, but among the figures, you find various aspects of social comment. but basically it was to do with keeping a record of England's finances from year to year. There's a decent explanation of what these were at Wikipedia.
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