| Description | Letters Patent of Inspeximus of Exchequer court case involving the embezzlement of funds, for the total sum of £479, by Thomas Fisher late of the town of Warwick, esquire, deceased, lately a Receiver of Revenues of the Crown for Warwickshire and Leicestershire, who wrongly received, by deception and fraud, allowances over a period of 14 years up to the feast of St Michael 14 Eli [29 Sep 1572]. The allowances relate to the pensions of Ralph Baxter late of the monastery of Kenilworth (£60), Richard Palmer late of the monastery of Kenilworth (£45), John Todde late of the Carthusian house near Coventry (£5 6s 8d), John Wright late incumbent of the Guild of Aston Cantlow (74 13s 4d) and John Simonds late incumbent of the Guild of Corpus Christi, Bablake in the city of Coventry (£56), the annuity of John Ramridge late of the Priory of Coventry (£45), the fee of John Dudley, overseer of the possessions of the late John, Duke of Northumberland, coming out of his possessions in Warwickshire (£6 13s 4d), the fee of Thomas Dudley coming out of the possessions of the Duke of Northumberland in Warwickshire (£13 6s 8d), the annuity of George Gifford, knight, assignee of William Leeche, coming from the late monastery of Croxton, Leicestershire (£50) and the revenues of 9 new buildings and the repaired manor or lodge of Wedgnock Park paid to William Hudson (£123). The case was started by John Popham, Attorney General on 3 June 25 Eliz [1583]: Edward Fisher, son and heir of Thomas Fisher, then being held in the Fleet Prison, was brought into court on the Morrow of [All] Souls [3 Nov 1583], to hear the information gathered, which he denied to be the truth: a subsequent enquiry in the Octave of the Purification of the Virgin next [9 Feb 1584]: after several adjournments, the court reconvened on 3 Jul 26 Eliz [1584], with a proclamation that Edward Fisher accepted that his father had received the allowances by deception and fraud and that the £479 should be recovered from his father's lands and tenements through him.
The inspeximus was made at the request of John Puckering, knight, Keeper of the Great Seal, witnessed 27 June 37 Eliz.
Endorsed as being Edward Fisher's confession for the escheat of £479 by his father, of which £321 has been discharged according to information in the Pipe Office.
Seal: of the Court of Exchequer, dark green, partially damaged, attached by tag. |