RESPECTING THE TRANSFER OF THE KING'S COURT TO YORK.-THE ISLE OF MAN PURCHASED.

A.D. 1393.

THIS year the King's Bench and Chancery are transferred from London to York ; but it did not long abide there. In the same year lord Albredus de Ver was made Earl of Oxford, being the next of kin to Robert de Ver, who died at Lorain. About the same time lord William Scrope, under chamberlain to the king, bought of Montague, Earl of Salisbury, the Island of Ebonia with the crown.

DE TRANSLATIONS CURLAE REGIS AD EBORUM. EMITUR INSULA DE MAN ¹

16 Ric. II.

HOC anno Bancus Regis et Cancellaria transferuntur de London Eborum . sed non longo tempore duravit ibidem. Eodem anno dominus Albredus de Ver factus est Comes Oxon, quippe qui proximus consanguineus Ro. de Ver, qui obiit in Lovania. Per idem tempus dominus Willelmus Scrope, regis subcamerarius, emit de Monte Acuto, Comite Sarum, Insulam Eboniae ² cum corona.

1 Chronicon Regurn Angliae, Vol. I., p. 182, Thom. Otterbourne,

2 Vulgo Man."

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