Note 694 — Chapter III · THE LEGATION OF PANDULF 1219–1221
Reading edition
In a writ of Computate in favour of the sheriff of Wiltshire, 13th November, 1222, occurs this item: “Computate et eidem in firma manerii de Merleberge c. et lx. libras blanchas, videlicet xxxii libras annuas de praedictis v. annis praeteritis, quas comes W. Marescallus senior et comes W. Marescallus junior et Johannes de Ferentino receperunt de eodem manerio per eosdem annos ad custodiendum castrum de Merleberge”; and the “past five years” are in an earlier part of the writ defined as “de anno regni nostri secundo, tertio, quarto, quinto, et sexto,” i.e. from 29th October, 1217, to 28th October, 1222. Close Rolls, vol. i. p. 521.