LE CLERK
Robert Filius Henrici le Clerk paid 8 shilling in the 1332 lay subsidy - the second highest after Sir Richard de Hebden.
There is also a record stating that:
“in the fourth year of Edward II (1310) an inquisition was taken on a certain Sunday before Ranulph de Ry, Sheriff of Lincoln, at Ancaster " to inquire whether or not it be to the damage of the King or others if the King permit Wm. son of Wm. le Clerk of St. Botolph (Boston) to grant a messuage and 50 acres of land in Hekyngton and Hale to a certain chaplain and his successors to celebrate Divine service every day in the parish church of Hekyngton for the health of the souls of the said Wm. his father, mother and heirs, &c., for ever," etc. The jury found that it would not be to the damage or prejudice of the king to allow the grant. They also reported that Henry de Beaumont was the " Mesne," or middle, tenant between the king and William Clerk of Boston for twenty-eight acres, and between the king and Ralph de Howell for the other.”
Source: Farquharson, A.F., Rawnsley, W.F., Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire, (London, Macmillan and co., 1914)
There is also a record stating that:
“in the fourth year of Edward II (1310) an inquisition was taken on a certain Sunday before Ranulph de Ry, Sheriff of Lincoln, at Ancaster " to inquire whether or not it be to the damage of the King or others if the King permit Wm. son of Wm. le Clerk of St. Botolph (Boston) to grant a messuage and 50 acres of land in Hekyngton and Hale to a certain chaplain and his successors to celebrate Divine service every day in the parish church of Hekyngton for the health of the souls of the said Wm. his father, mother and heirs, &c., for ever," etc. The jury found that it would not be to the damage or prejudice of the king to allow the grant. They also reported that Henry de Beaumont was the " Mesne," or middle, tenant between the king and William Clerk of Boston for twenty-eight acres, and between the king and Ralph de Howell for the other.”
Source: Farquharson, A.F., Rawnsley, W.F., Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire, (London, Macmillan and co., 1914)