[1] [2] [3] In this twentith yeare of his reigne,Additions to Adam Meri|muth. king Edward vpon complaint of the people made against puruei|ours of vittels for his houshold (the which vnder co|lour of their commissions, abused the same, in ta|king vp among the commons all manner of things that liked them, without making paiment for the same, further than the said commissions did allow them) he caused inquirie to be made of their misde|meanors, and such as were found to haue offended, of whome there was no small number, some of them were put to death on the gallowes,Purueiers punished. and other were fi|ned, so to teach the rest to deale more warilie in their businesse from thenceforth. ¶ About the same time,Iustices. he caused all the iustices within his dominions to re|nounce and giue ouer all their pensions, fées, and o|ther bribing benefits and rewards, which they vsed to receiue of the lords and great men of the land, as well prelats, as of them of the temporaltie, to the end that their hands being free from gifts, iustice might more fréelie haue course, and be of them dulie and vprightlie ministred.A parlement. Also this yeare in the Lent season, the king held a parlement at Westminster, and tooke into his hands all the profits, reuenues,Cardinals. and emoluments, which the cardinals held within this land: for he thought it not reason, that they which fa|uoured the pope and the French king, being his ad|uersaries, should inioy such commodities within his realme.