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280 CALENDAR OF LETTER-BOOKS.
Edward by the grace of God, &c., to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London greeting. Whereas our beloved servant Matthew de Columbariis, our Chamberlain and taker of our wines throughout England, to whom the office of Coroner in our City of London by reason of the Chamberlainship aforesaid appertains,' is busied with divers of our affairs in divers parts of the realm at our command, so that he is at this time unable to find leisure for attending personally to that office of Coroner: we command you that you admit John Horn, whom we adjudge fit to execute that office by assignment thereto of the said Matthew, whensoever ye be requested by the said Matthew, accepting, however, previously from the same John a certain oath that he will well and faithfully bear himself in that office so long as he be therein. Witness myself at Wyndesore, 26th day of November, the eighth year of our reign [a.d. 1279].
A note to the effect that the above writ was delivered at the Iter at the Tower, anno 14 Edward II.,' by the hands of N[icholas] de Farndone, Mayor, &c. |