Biography of William Clinton 1st Earl Huntingdon 1304-1354

Rymer's Fœdera Volume 2. Of the safe-conduct for the Count of Holland and his daughter Philippa.

The King, to the sheriffs, bailiffs, officials, and all his faithful subjects, both within liberties and without, to whom, etc., greeting.

Whereas we are sending our beloved and faithful servants Bartholomew de Burghersh [aged 40], constable of our castle of Dover, and William de Clinton [aged 23], to conduct the noble man William, Count of Hainault and Zealand, and the noble maiden Philippa, his daughter, who are about to come shortly into our realm, and to lead them, together with the nobles and others of their company, to us, as has been more fully enjoined upon them by us:

We command you, and each of you, firmly enjoining that, together with the aforesaid Bartholomew and William, you meet the aforesaid Count and maiden and their household whenever and whenever you shall have been forewarned by the said Bartholomew and William, or by either of them;

And that you treat the said Count and maiden and their household honourably when they pass through the districts of your jurisdictions, and, so far as lies within you, cause them to be so treated by others; and that you be attentive, advising and assisting the said Bartholomew and William in the premises, as they shall make known to you on our behalf.

In witness whereof, etc.

To endure until the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary next ensuing.

Witness the King, at Clipstone, on the 28th day of November [1327].

By the King himself.

De conductu pro comite Hollandiæ & Philippa, filiâ suâ.

REX, vicecomitibus, ballivis, ministris, & omnibus fidelibus suis, tam infra libertates quam extra, ad quos, &c. salutem.

Cùm mittamus dilectos & fideles nostros, Bartholomæum de Burghersh, constabularium castri nostri Dovorr', & Willielmum de Clynton, ad conducendum nobilem virum Willielmum Hanoniæ & Selandiæ comitem, & nobilem domicellam Philippam, filiam suam, qui infra regnum nostrum in proximò sunt venturi, & ipsos, unà cum nobilibus & aliis, in comitivâ suâ, ad nos ducendum, prout eis per nos pleniùs est injunctum;

Vobis, & cuilibet vestrum, mandamus, firmiter injungentes, quòd, unà cum præfatis Bartholomæo & Willielmo, præfatis comiti & domicellæ, ac eorum familiaribus, occurratis, quotiens & quando per ipsos, Bartholomæum & Willielmum, vel eorum alterum, fueritis præmuniti:

Ipsosque, comitem & domicellam, ac familiares suos, cum per locorum vestrorum districtus transierint, honorificè pertractetis, & quantum in vobis est, ab aliis pertractari faciatis; eisdemque Bartholomeo & Willielmo, in præmissis, sitis intendentes, consulentes, & auxiliantes, prout vobis scire facient ex parte nostrâ.

In cujus, &c. usque ad festum Purificationis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis proximò futurum, duraturas.

Teste Rege, apud Clypston, xxviii. die Novembris.

Per ipsum Regem.