[*** Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 323.]

[**** Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 323.]

[***** Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 324.]

[****** Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 324.]

[******* Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 232, 233,
etc.]

[******** Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 298.]

[********* Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 305.]

[*0: Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 325.]

[*1: Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p. 326 ]

[*2: Madox, Hist. of the Exch. p 326]

It is probable that her husband was a prisoner, which debarred her from
having access to him. The abbot of Rucford paid ten marks for leave
to erect houses and place men upon his land near Welhang, in order to
secure his wood there from being stolen; Hugh, archdeacon of Wells, gave
one tun of wine for leave to carry six hundred summs of corn whither he
would; Peter de Perariis gave twenty marks for leave to salt fishes as
Peter Chevalier used to do.

It was usual to pay high fines, in order to gain the king's good will
or mitigate his anger. In the reign of Henry II., Gilbert, the son of
Fergus, fines in nine hundred and nineteen pounds nine shillings, to
obtain that prince's favor; William de Chataignes, a thousand marks,
that he would remit his displeasure. In the reign of Henry III., the
city of London fines in no less a sum than twenty thousand pounds on the
same account.

The king's protection and good offices of every kind were bought and
sold. Robert Grislet paid twenty marks of silver, that the king would
help him against the earl of Mortaigne in a certain plea: Robert de
Cundet gave thirty marks of silver, that the king would bring him to an
accord with the bishop of Lincoln; Ralph de Breckham gave a hawk, that
the king would protect him; and this is a very frequent reason for
payments; John, son of Ordgar, gave a Norway hawk, to have the king's
request to the king of Norway to let him have his brother Godard's
chattels; Richard de Neville gave twenty palfreys to obtain the king's
request to Isolda Bisset, that she should take him for a husband; Roger
Fitz-Walter gave three good palfreys to have the king's letter to Roger
Bertram's mother, that she should marry him; Eling the dean paid one
hundred marks, that his whore and his children might be let out upon
bail; the bishop of Winchester gave one tun of good wine for his not
putting the king in mind to give a girdle to the countess of Albemarle;
Robert de Veaux ga