Order to Richard Middelton and others to be in Chancery
Order to Richard Middelton and others to be in Chancery on Thursday after St Peter's Chains to answer touching the matters hereinafter mentioned and others then to be laid before them; as the king is informed that John Rigton, butcher, Walter Walthef and great number of other lieges of the town were by duress compelled for fear of their lives to pay them great sums, which they year withhold in contempt of the king.
