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1893.
CONTENTS
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PREFACE.
The present volume forms parts of a series of Calendars of the Close Rolls from the reign of Edward II. to that of Edward IV., the object and character of which are ex- plained in the Preface to the first volume for the reign of Edward II. (a.d. 1307— 1313). The text has been pre- pared, with the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Mr. W. H. Stevenson. The Index has been compiled by Mr. C. H. Woodruff.
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Mr. Stevenson has identified most of the places, and he again desires to express his thanks to Mr. Egerton PhiUimore for valuable assistance.
H. C. MAXWELL LYTB. BoUs House,
September 1893.
CORRIGENDA.
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9 from bottom, for " 20 " read ** 26." 10, for " Donedyk " read " Douedyk."
16 from bottom, ybr " Stoureburg" read " Scoureburg." 18, for "Duflford " rmd " Dusford." 24, for " Stitheston " read « Scitheston,"
36, for " Staunqeton " read " Sc[Ii]aunqeton." 6, for " abbess " read " abbot."
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33, for " Pemeth " read " Perveth."
34, for " Metheney " read *• Methevy."
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CALENDAR
OF
CLOSt: ROLLS.
7 EDWARD II.
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Julj 11. Robert Trewebodj of Gun thorp, imprisoned in Lincoln castle for tbe Westminflter. death of Henrj son of Robert Skymmyng', has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him until the first assize. Witness : J. bishop of Bath and Wells.
Julj 12. To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be Westmiaiter. elected in place of Thomas de Pelham, who is not qualified, as he holds no lands in that county. Witness : J. bishop of Bath and Wells.
July 19. To the keepers of the late Templars' house of Daneie. Order to pay to Westminster. Ralph Bonetfor his life 2d, daily for his food, 10*. yearly for his robe, and 40d. yearly for shoe-leather, from the time of the keepers' appointment, the treasurer and barons of the exchequer having certified that he ought to receive the above from that house. Witness : J. bishop of Bath and Wells. Like order in favour of William de Sutton, to receive 2d. daily, 5s, yearly for his robe, 5*. yearly for other necessaries, and to serve in that house so long as he is able, receiving the above allowances in full when he can no longer serve, in consideration of 40*., atoft and four acres of land in Sutton given by him to the Templars, and of a moiety of his goods at his death.
July 17. The prior of St. Katherine's without Lincoln and his successors ought to
Sandwich, receive yearly 6*. Sd, of rent from the mills of Bracebrigg, formerly owned
by the Templars, which rent Rauulph, sometime earl of Chester, gave to
their house for ever, for the maintenance of the poor folk of the same house.
They had letters to the keeper of the late Templars' lands in the county
of Lincoln.
July 19. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
Westminster, further with the lands of William Ingayn of Aston, and to restore the issues
of the same, as it appears by inquisition that he held nothing at his death of
the king in chief by reason whereof the cusfody of his lands should pertain
to the king. Witness : J. bishop of Bath and Wells.
July 16. To Roger de Morwode, keeper of the manor of Hawele. Order to pay to Westminster. Edmund son of Hugh de Treie 45*. 6d. yearly and a robe, or half a mark for the same, and the arrears thereof, which he refuses to pay, as Edmund complains to the king that he holds to him and his heirs of his body the enstody of the park and of the king's warren of Hawele by charter of Edmund, late earl of Cornwall, receiving for the same the above allowances from the bailiff of the manor, which he and his father received from the time of the charter until the time of Roger's appointment as keeper of the manor. Witness : J. bishop of Bath and Wells.
72604, Wt 6436, â–²
OALENDAH OF CLOSE BOLLS.
1313.
July 9. Beauvais.
July 26. Westminster.
July 12. WeBtminstor.
July 17. Sandwich.
July J 7. Suiidwich.
July 17. Sandwich.
July 19. Starry.
Membrane 28«->con/.
To John de Cnimbwell, constable of the Tower of London. Order to continue the mainprise of John le Taverner of Bristol and other burgesses of Bristol imprisoned in the Tower until fifteen days after the end of three weeks from Midsummer, until which time the king previously ordered him to liberate them on mainprise. [By p.8. 2742.]
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Hundon, who is iasui&ciently qualified.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the excliequer. Order to pay to John Vanne and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Ballardi of Lucca, 260 marks out of the tallage lately assessed in Bristol, in part payment of the king's debts owing to them. By K.
Here the king returned from parts beyond sea, as appears in a memo- randum on the dorse of this roll.
To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to attermine to the end of the eyre all the pleas touching J. bishop of Bath and Wells.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Whereas lately, at the complaint of David de Cotesbrok, citizen and merchant of London, that whereas he caused certain of his goods to the value of 48 marks sterling to be taken to Norway by his servants to trade therewith, and that they had been arrested and detained amongst other goods of merchants of this realm by the king of Norway without cause, the king requested the king of Norway to restore the goods so arrested to the said merchants and to satisfy them for their damages ; the king of Norway, however, failed to do so, as appears by the certificate of the mayor and community of the city of London under their common seal; whereupon the king commanded the said sheriff to arrest goods of the men of Norway to the value of the said 48 marks and for David's damages ; and he has returned that he was unable to find in his bailiwick any goods of the men of Norway after the king's writ was delivered to him except certain goods that were arrested by him at Lynn by virtue of another writ at the suit of Tidemann de Lippa, to wit, a ship of Ivar (Ivarii) Sherfhunger and his fellows, merchants of Norway, appraised with the goods in it, to wit, boards, oil, and fish, at 40/. ; and afterwards^ at the suit of the executors of the will of the said David, the king ordered him to detain out of the goods so arrested at the suit of Tidemann goods to the value of 48/. until the executors should be satisfied : the king now orders him to sell goods to the value of 48/. out of the same, and to pay that sum to the said executors.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William le Butiller, who is insufi&ciently qualified.
John le Mouner of Whatcfeld, in the king's prison of Beyleye for the death of Gilbert Braynel of Hakewell, has letters to the sheriff of Essex to bail him until the first assize.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to send to St. Albans with all speed the 200 quarters of malt that tlie king lately ordered him to buy and provide and send to him at Westminster together with other victuals, delivering the same at St. Albans to William de Brikhull, provider of the king's ale. They are to be there on this side the feast of St. Feter ad Vine u la at the latest.
The like to the sheriffs of the following counties^ to be sent to West- minster:—
Essex and Hertford for 200 quarters of malt. Bedford and Buckingham for 200 quarters of malt. Kent for 100 quarters of malt.
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7 EDWARD n.
1313. Membrane 28 — coni.
To the justices in eyre for common pleas in the count; of Kent. Order
to attermine to the end of the eym all the pleas touchiDg John Abel, eat^eator
this side Treat, as be is now eagtiged upon tlie Icing's affairs. By p.s.
July 18. To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order lo i^ause a verderer for the king's
Sandwich, forest of Whitlewod to be elected in place of PhiUp de Hardeshull, who b
ioEutficiently qualitied, for which reaaou the king has amoved him from
office. By the testimony of Robert de Uarwdon.
To the sheriif of Cornwall. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Walter de Cornubia, deceased.
July 24. To the sheriff of Suflolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
WMtmineMr. elected in place of John de Gunton, deceased.
To the same. Order to cause a coroner to be elected in place of John de Aluoto, deceased. July 21. To the sheriff of Wiltshire. Order to pay to David de Lyodeseye, a Bochsster. Scotch prisoner in Devyses castlei the arrears of hie wages from the time of
his appointment as sherifE, and to continue to pay ihe same. July 23. To John de Segrave, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to bim who
Wcitmiiuter. BuppHes his place in the forest of Inglewode. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of St. Mary's Carlisle the arrears of the tithe of venison taken in the forest of Inglewode in the third, fourth, fifth, and eisth years of the king's reign, and also a titbe of the veniaon to be taken there thia year, which tithe they and their predecessors have been wont to have. Vacated, became othenoue below. July 24. John Hsyl, imprisoned in the king's gaol of Ipswich for the death of WMtminster. Robert Hayl, has letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail bim until the first assize. July 24. To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of
Westmiiuter. Felkenham (sic) to be elected in place of Nicholas Bussel, as the king is informed that he has no lands within the bounds of the forest, and that he ia for other reasons insufficiently qualified, wherefore he has caused him to be amoved from ofBce. July 24. To the keepers of the Forest beyond Trent, Order to bail Geoffrey
Westminster, de Colston, imprisoned in Notinghara castle for a trespass in the forest of Shirwode, upon his finding twelve mainpernors to have him before the justices of the forest when they come to those parts, provided that he be repteviable according to the assize of the Forest.
To the bailiffs of Gloucester. Order to pay to Hugh de Leomiaistre, treasurer of Edward, the king's son, all the money arising from the tallage assessed upon the community of that town, for the expenses of Edward's household. By C.
To John de Segrave, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Ingelwode. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of St. Mary's Carlisle a tenth of the venison taken and to be taken in the forest of Ingelwode for the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh years of the king's reign, as they and their predecessors have been wont to receive the same,
Mbkbiusb 27. July 19. To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to odjonm Stuiry. â– (eontinuetit) to the end of the eyre all pleas conceming Aymer de Valencia, ewl of Pembroke, as he is about to set out to join the king in the pKrte of Iiondon, wid to stay there on the king's afikirs for some time.
By p.».
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CALENDAR OP CLOSE ROLLS.
1313, Membrane 27— con^.
Jul/ 26. To the principal collectors of the tenth for two years and three years im- Weatminster. posed by the pope. Order to acquit the minorite sisters without Alegate, London, of the tenth due from them for their church of Hertyndon and their other things, and to release any sequestration that they may have made of their goods on this account, as the king has pardoned them the above at the request of his consort queen Isabella. By K«
July 27. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle Westmiaster. further with the custody of the temporalities of the bishopric of London, Toid by the death of Ralph, the lato bishop, and to deliver any issues received therefrom to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's London, to whom the king has granted the custody of the temporalities during the voidance in consideration of a sum of money to be paid by them. By K.
To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to release Walter son of John de Maydenstan, in the king's prison of Canterbury upon indictments for divers robberies and trespasses committed in that county, upon his finding sufficient mainpernors to surrender himself to prison before the end of their eyre.
July 26. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Henry de la Westminster. Pomeray, son and heir of Henry de la Pomeray, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved bis ago before the said escheator and the king has taken his homage.
July 21. To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to deliver to William Marmyon his
Bochester. goods in that county, taken into the king's hands by reason of the outlawry pronounced against him in the suit wherein William de Nevill, clerk, im- pleaded him before William de Hereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench, by king's writ for divers trespasses, in which he was placed in exi- gent and outlawed for his failure to appear, as the king has pardoned him this outlawry. By p.s. [2750, 2751.]
The like ' de verba in verbum * to the sheriff of Leicester. The \ike*de verbo in verbum^ ior Robert Breton to the sheriff of Leicester.
July 26. To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to expend up to 20/. in repairing the Westminster, towers, bridges, and houses of Lanceveton castle, by the view and testimony of the king's yeoman Peter Burdet, constable of the castle.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to pay, out of the ferm of the city of London and the issues of the same, a quarter of mutton daily to Peter Fabre of Montpellier, keeper of the king's lion in the Tower of London, for the maintenance of the lion, and l^d, daily for his own wages. By C.
July 26. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to Nicholas
Westminster, de Audele and Joan his wife, late the wife of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lin- coln, the lands held by her in dower and the issues of the same, which were taken into the king's hands because she married the said Nicholas without the consent of the king and of Ralph de Monte Hermerii, to whom the king had granted what pertained to him of the marriage of the said Joan, as Nicholas has satisfied Ralph for what pertains to him. The like to John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent.
July 27. To the sheriff of Nottingliam and Derby. Order to pay to the king's
Westminster, yeomen William de Balliolo and Robert Lesquier, whom the king is sending with two berners, six veutrers, twenty-four haerieii dogs, twenty-two grey- hounds, and a bercelet to take fat venison {pinguedinem) this season m the forests of Shirwode and the High Peak, their wages daring their stay in his bailiwicki to wit \2d, each daily, and 2d. daily for each beroer and veatreri
7 EDWARD II.
131 3, Membrane 27 — cont.
and \d, daily for each of the dogs, greyhounds, and bercelets, and to deliver to them salt for the venison and carringe for the same to Westminster.
By bill under the seal of Edmund de Malo Lacn.
The like to the following :
The sheriff of Huntingdon for venison to be taken in Wauberge forest. The sheriff of Northampton for venison to be taken in Whitlewode and
Hokyngham forests. The sheriff of Essex for venison to be taken in the forest of Essex.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to the king's yeoman John Level, whom the king is sending with two berners, four veutrers, twenty-four running daemericii dogs, a bercelet and sixteen greyhounds to take fat veni- son in the forest of Claryndon, his wages during his stay in his bailiwick, to wit \2d. daily, and \^d. daily for each of the berners, 2d, daily for each of the veutrers, and \d, daily for each of the dogs, greyhounds, and the berce- let, delivering to him salt for the venison and carriage for the same to Westminster.
The like to the underwritten :
The sheriff of Southampton, for venison to be taken in the forests of
Wyndesore, Pambere, Wolvemere, and Asshele, and in the park of
Fremauntel.
The sheriff of Wilts for venison to be taken in the forest of Claryndon.
The constable of Bristol castle, or him who supplies his place, for
venison to be taken in the king's chace of Bristol.
To the keeper of Wyndesore forest. Writ of aid for the king's yeoman John Level, whom the king is sending to take twelve harts {cervoa) and six bucks (damos) in that forest.
The like to the following : The keeper of the forest of Asshele, for six bucks. The keeper of the forest of Wyndesore for twelve harts and six
bucks. The keeper of the chace of Bristol for six bucks. The keeper of the forest of Wolvemere for four harts and twelve
bucks. The keeper of the park of Fremauntel for six bucks. The keeper of the forest of Pambere for eight harts and six bucks. The keeper of the forest of Claryndon for twelve bucks, to be taken
within and without the launds \landis).
The like to the underwritten, for venison to be taken by William de Balliolo and Robert Lesquier :
The keeper of the forest of Wauberge for twenty bucks.
The keeper of the forest of Whitlewode for twelve bucks.
The keeper of the forest of the High Peak for twenty-four harts and
ioitj hinds (bisse). The keeper of the forest of Shirewode for six harts and six bucks. The keeper of the forest of Essex for four harts and eight bucks. The keeper of the forest of Rokyngham for twelve bucks, both within
and without launds.
To John de Segrave, keeper of the forest beyond Trent. Order to permit the king's yeomen William de Balliolo and Robert Lesquier to take six harts and six bucks in the forest of Shirwode, and twenty-four harts and forty hinds in the forest of the High Peak.
To Hugh le Despenser, keeper of the forest this side Trent. Order to pennit William de Balliolo and William {m) Lesquier to take eight bucks and tour harta in the forest of Essex, twenty bucks in the forest of WaubergOi
CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1313.
July 26. Westminster.
July 27.
Westminster.
July 26. Westminster.
Aug. 2. Windsor.
Membrane 27 — conU
twelve bucks in the forest of Whitlewode, and twelve bucks in the forest of Rokyngham, and to permit John Lovel to take twelve harts and six bucks in the forest of Wjndesore, eight harts and six bucks in the forest of Pambere, six bucks in the park of Fremauntel, twelve bucks and four liarts in the forest of Wolvemere, six bucks in the forest of Asshele, twelve bucks in the forest of Claryndon, and six bucks in the chace of Bristol.
To Thomas de Cheddeworth, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to provision the king's castles of North Wales with armour and victuals, according to the instructions of Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of North Wales. By C.
To Geoffrey de la Lee, keeper of the late Templars' lands in the county of Bedford. Order to pay to Imbert Blaunk, a Templar, 2s, daily, and the arrears of the same from the time of his appointment as keeper, the king having granted, at the request of Louis de Claro Monte, that Imbert should receive the same wages as brother William de la More, late master of the order in England, used to receive.
To the sheriff of York. Order to release from prison Sibyl, late the wife of John de Metham, Hugh Scot, William de Rekehale, Henry his brother, and William Prentiz, who were arrested by the king's order because he was given to understand that they had taken by night and carried away 500 marks, which John de Metham, deceased, one of the collectors of the fifteenth in that county, had collected of the fifteenth, which money was in his custody at his death, as it appears by certificate of him who supplies the place of the treasurer and of the barons of the exchequer that an account of the fifteenth in that county was rendered at the exchequer by Geoffrey de Hothum, John de Metham, Robert de Bovyngton, and Thomas de Alta Ripa, and that 10/. \3s, 3d, only of the same are in arrear, which the king has ordered the sheriff to levy. He is to deliver to them their goods arrested at the same time, upon their finding security to answer for the said 10/. [15«. Sd,] if they be bound to pay the same.
To Master Jordan Moraunt and William de Claidon, keepers of the archbishopric of Canterbury, void and in the king's hands. Order to pay to the king's clerk Master Richard de Burton 7/. 6s. 8</., owing to him for his expenses in going to France on the king's businebs in the sixth year of his reign, as appears by a bill under the seal of Iqgelard de Warle, keeper of the wardrobe, ddivered into chancery. By bill of the wardrobe.
Aug. 6. Windsor.
Aug. 2. Windsor.
Aug. 3. Windier.
Membrane 26.
To the sheriff of Salop. Order to take into the king's hands the manor of Isnebrugge in that county, of the inheritance of John, son and heir of Roger le fiz Johan, tenant in chief of the late king, a minor in the king's custody, which is held by the service of keeping a certain bailiwick in the king's forests in that county, as the manor was held by Owen (Audoenus) de Monte Gomeri on the day when the aforesaid bailiwick was taken into the king's hands by Hugh le Despenser, keeper of the forest this side Trent, on account of trespasses of vert and venison committed by Owen in the said forests. By K.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Philip Serle, deceased.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to restore his goods to Henry * in the Tonne^* olerki taken into the king's hands upon his indictment, for theft of
7 EDWARD II.
1313. Membrane 26— con^.
two lambs, a pair of new shoes, and a fleece of wool, before John de Foxle and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver Exeter gaol, as he has purged his innocence before W. bishop of Exeter, to whom he was delivered bj the justices according to the privilege of the clergj.
Aug. 3. To the dean and chapter of St. Paul's London. Order to pay to Jacob
WindfK>r. de Spinis and Hugh PaganelH, merchants of the society of the Spin! of Florence, a moiety of what they owe to the king for the custody of the bishopric of London during the present voidauce, the king having assigned to the merchants of the said society a moiety of all the issues of bishoprics, abbeys, and priories during voidances in payment of the king's debts to them.
The like in favour of the merchants of the society of the Ballardi of Lucca for the other moiety, to be paid to John Yanne and Nicholas Astolf, merchants of the said society.
July 26. To Henry de Cobeham the younger, keeper of the late Templars' lands Westminster, in the county of Kent, and constable of the castle of Rochester and [keeper] of the town. Order to proceed to Rochester in person and to call before him Simon Potyn of Rochester, who niainperned for the king's debts to the men of Rochester for the expenses of his household on the king's return from parts beyond sea, which debts amount to 29/. \l\d,y as appears by divers bills and tallies in the possession of the said Simon, and to call also before him those to whom the debts are due, and to pay them in Simon's presence out of the issues of the said lands and ferm. \^ParL Writs,'] By K. on the information of J. de Sandale.
July 30. To the bailiffs of Ipswich. Whereas lately, at the suit of William de
Windsor. Warton, John de Lund', Walter de Kelsterne, William de Brustwyk, Amandus de Ruda, Thomas Fraunceys, John de Appelgarth, John de Sigelesthome, Simon de Holbeck, William de Crauncewyk, John de Manby, Thomas de Thurkylby, Nicholas de Ouseflete, Geoffrey de Humbercolt, Richard du Card, and Gilbert Wadiator, merchants of Beverley, and of other merchants of the realm, that they lately hired (Jrettartint) three Flemish ships in Kyngeston-upon-HuU, whose master-mariners were named William Petresone, Peter Bellard, and John Westland, of Flanders, and loaded the same with wool, wool-fells, and other merchandise to the value of 4,000/. sterling to be taken to Flanders to trade there, and that certain armed malefactors of the power of the count of Flanders enti^red and took the ships on their voyage thither against the Scheldt {la Sheide) and took them to Aberden in Scotland, and delivered the wool and merchandise aforesaid to other Flemings who were then with the king's enemies there, by whom they were afterwards carried to Flanders, the king wrote to the count of Flanders requesting him to hear the complaint of the said mer- chants or their attorney, and to cause speedy justice to be done to them ; but the count has wholly failed to do them justice, as appears by the certificate of the community of Beverley under their common seal : wherefore the king orders the said bailiffs to retain goods to the value of 100/. out of the goods of Flemings lately arrested by them at his order, although the king's order for delivery of the said goods may make no mention of any retention in favour of the above merchants, which goods are to be detained until they have been satisfied for that sum, in part satisfaction for their goods as above, which were of the value of 2,024/., as appears by the certificate of the community of Beverley.
The like to the following : The sheriffs of London for 5001. The bailiffs of Orford for 40/. The bailiffs of Kykele for 20/.
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The bailiffs of Yarmouth for 100/. The baUiffs of Kyngeston-on-HuU for 100/. The bailiffs of the ToUbooth of Ljnn for 400/.
The bailiffs of John de Britannia, earl of Bichmondi at Boston for 400/. The bailiffs of Ravenser for 100/. The bailiffs of Scarthburgh for 200/. The bailiffs of the abbot of Whyteby at Whyteby for 200/. The mayor and bailiffs of Hertilpole for 124/. The bailiffs of Newcastle-on-Tyne for 100/.
Aug. 2. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Windsor, exchequer. Order to acquit John de Orreby, Robert de Terring*, and William de Bradsted, executora. of the will of Magaret, late the wife of Stephen de Penecestre, and executrix of his will, of 113/. 17«. 10^^., which Reimund Causepe received from Stephen out of the 258/. 10^. 6^. received by Stephen from the exchequer by way of imprest (deprestito) for the main- tenance of himself and his servants guarding the castle of Dover, for which sum Reimund has accounted at the exchequer, and to cause allowance to be made to the executors in the debts due from Stephen for the balance of 305/. 13*. 4J., after subtracting 144/. 12*. 8rf., the balance of the above 258/. 10*. 6^d., they having certified that the sum of 305/. 13s. 4d. was in arrear to Stephen of the fee that he ought to have received for the custody of Dover castle and the Cinque Ports from Michaelmas, 23 Edward I. to Easter, 27 Edward I., when Stephen died.
July 8. To the sheriff of Devon. Order to release Richard de Chissebeche and
Westminiter. Peter de Beare from Exeter prison, where they are imprisoned upon indict- ments before William Martin, William le Pruz and the sheriff, appointed by the king to make inquisitions concerning trespasses in that county, upon their finding sufficient mainpernors to have them before William Martin, John de Foxle, Stephen de Hacomb, and Robert de Thorp, appointed by the king to hear and determine such trespasses, if they be repleviable for the same.
Aug. 4. To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Ellen,
Windsor. late the wife of Walter de Huntercombe, a moiety of the manor of Belford with appurtenances, except four messuages, 100 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, and 200 acres of wood, together with the issues of the same received by him, which moiety was taken into the king's hands by reason of Walter's death, as it appears by inquisition that Walter and Ellen were enfeoffed thereof, by licence of the late king, by a fine levied by Alan le Ghapeleyn of Belford, to have and to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that she continued her seisin thereof jointly with her husband until his death, the said moiety being held of the king in chief as of the barony of Muschamp, the king having taken fealty of Ellen.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Like order in favour of the said Ellen concerning the manor of Newenham, held of the king in chief as of the honour of Walingford by the service of half a knight's fee, and of the manor of Wrastlingworth, held of the king in chief by kni$;ht service, whereof Ellen and her husband Walter de Huntercombe were enfeoffed as above by the said Alan le Ghapeleyn of Belford.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John de Frowyk, as it appears by inquisition that he held nothing in chief of the king at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands should pertain to the king.
To the same. Like order concerning the lands of Bartholomew de Shaldeford.
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Aug. 13^ To tb« i&me. Order to cause the priory of Bodemin, lately taken into Windaor. the king's hands, and the issues thereof to be replevied to J. prior of the
same until the next parliament. •Tobn de Eaerseys in the king's prison of Lanceveton for the death of
John le Hopere, baa letters to the sherifE of Cornwall to bail him nntil the
first assize.
Mbmbrans 25.
To Boger de Morwode, keeiier of the honour of Eye. Order not to inter- meddle further with the custody of the priory of Eye in the present Toidance, %Therewith he has iutermeddled contrary to the form of the com- mission to bim of the honour, as the king learns by inquisition taken by John de Thorp and William de Morwode, clerk, that Bobert Malet formerly founded the said priory, and that it is subject to the abbey of Bernay {Berniaco) in Normnndj, as a cell thereof, so that neither a prior nor a monk ought to be msde therein without the assent of the abbot of Bernay, and that Bobert Malet and his heirs took nothing of the gcods of the priory upon Toidance, but used to place a gatekeeper at the priory gate in sign of their lordship, who was maiutnined by the priory during the Toidance, and who ought to receive 5s. or an ox at the inittallation of the new prior, and that Henry III., to whose hands the advowson of the priory came as an escheat by the forfeiture of the Normans in England, and Edmund, Ute earl of Cornwall, who bad the advowson of the gift of Henry HI,, received nothing in the priory at times of voidance beyond appointing a gatekeeper as above. The keeper is ordered to restore any issues that he may have received and to remove the gatekeeper, if he have appointed one, The king has ordered John Abel, escheator this side Trent, to whose office such matters pertain, to place a gatekeeper at the priory gate in sign of the king's lordship. > Mandate in pursuance to John Abel.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent, Order not to intermeddle farther with the issues of the lands that Philip Pertrich, deceased, held of other lords than the king in his bailiwick, and to restore the issnes of the same, as Philip de Honingham, grandson (nif;)o<) of the said Philip, has shewn the king that the escheator detains certain issues of these lands, although he has delivered seisin of tlie same to Philip in accordance with the king's order, issued because it was found by inquisition taken by the eechealor that Philip Pertrich held oE the king at his death divers lands in Estwode and Great Sutton by knight service as of the honour of Belegh in the king's hands, and that lie held no other lands of the crown, but that he held lands of divers other lords, and that Philip de Honyngebam, his grandson, was bis nearest heir and was of full age ; whereupon the king took his fealty and ordered the escheator to deliver to him seisin of all the lands held in demefloe as of fee by his grandfather (aetu) the said Philip.
To Ranulpb de Benton, receiver of the king's stores in the parts of Berwick, Order to deliver, out of the victuals in his custody, to Peter Liband, constable of Edeneburgh and keeper of the peel of Lynliscn, such victuals as shall suffice for the munition of the castle and peel for one year.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-felk in the port of Lynn. Order to pay the issues of ihe custom to Peter de Cabanoe, mer- chant of London, until he have received 565 marks due to bim from the king for horses, according to the king's former assignment of the issnea to him, notwithitanding the subseqaentassgnment to Anthony de(ric) Fessaigae, tha
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Aug. 18. Windsor.
Aug. 24. Windsor.
Aug. 25. Windsor.
Aug. 20. Windsor.
Ang. 28. Windsor.
Aug. 29. Windsor.
Membrane 25^-Humi,
king's merchant, for debts due to him, as the king made this aarfgnment to Anthony forgetting that he had assigned the issues to the said Peter.
To the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Order to buy and provide forty quarters of malt, and to send them to London at once, there to be delivered to Stephen de Suthleie, clerk of the pantry and butlery, for the expenses of the king's household during his stay there for the parliament summoned to meet at Westminster.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to friar Philip de Baston, of the order of St. Mary of Mount Carmel, the following books in the exchequer, to be brought by him to the king at Wyndesoi-e Park : three books of the Institutes with a little volume, four sums of the Decretals, two new Digests with four old Digests, a Forsad, two apparatus of the Decretals of Innocent IV., two lectures upon the new Digest, two books of Decretals, a book of Decretals, two lectures of the Codex, a book of [lectures of law, a summary of law, a book called ^ Actor et RenSj a book of autentica of the constitution of the emperor Justinian, an autiphoner with two quires of the dedication of churches, a sum of Tancred, three codices, and one book of divers lectures of the Codex and other books of the Corpus Juris,
Richard Alisaundre of Blyth {Blida), in the king's prison at Notingham for the death of William le Serjaunt of Serleby, has letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail him until the first assize.
To Anthony Pessaign of Genoa. Order to pay to Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 200 marks in the kiu^s name, being the balance of 400 marks that the king ordered Master Jordan Moraunt and William de Cleydon, keepers of the archbishopric of Canterbury, to pay to him, out of the issues of the archbishopric, in part payment of the king's debts to him, of which sum they have only paid 200 marks. The king will cause satis- faction to be made to Anthony out of the issues of customs in the king's hands.
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, Order to buy and provide forty lasts of black herrings, ten thousands of cod (mcrut'), twenty thousands of 'stokfissh', and twenty barrels of sturgeon, and to send them to West- minster, there to be delivered to William de Northwell, clerk of the kitchen, for the expenses of the king's household. £t fuit patens.
To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of the late Templars' lands in the county of Kent. Order to pay to H. bishop of Winchester the wages assigned for the maintenance of Thomas de Hagworthingham, a Templar assigned to him by B. late archbishop of Canterbury and the whole provincial council to put in a monastery to do penance, to wit 4d, a day, from the time of his appoint- ment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of Berwick-on-Tweed. Order to deliver all the issues of the custom for the munition and defence of that town, according to the king's orders to them, notwithstanding the king's late order to pay the issues to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa, or his attorney, until he should be satisfied for a debt due from the king. By E.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to pay to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa all the moneys of the issues of his bailiwick, and of the stamping of tin {coinagio stangminis), and of the moor of Dertemore, according to the king's orders upon another occasion, in part pa3rment of debts due to him from the king, notwithstanding any assignments or oidera to the contraxy.
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Au^r. 28.
Windsor.
Aug. 20. Windsor.
Sept. 1. Windsor.
Sept. 1. Windsor.
Sept. 6. Windsor.
Membrane 25 — cont.
To Bicbard de Luda, controller of the custom of wool, hides, and wool- fells in the port of London. Order to deliver to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa the second part of the seal called 'coket' in that port, the king having assigned to him all the issues of the custom there and granted to him the second part of the said seal. By K.
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales, and Thomas de Chede worth, chamberlain of Karnervan. Order to send 200/. of the issues of the cham- berlainship to Bistlesham, there to be delivered to Hugh de Leoministre, keeper of the wardrobe of Edward the king's son, for the expenses of the said Edward. By K.
To the barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause the receivers of the moneys and the bailiffs or reeves of John, late archbishop of Dublin, who have not yet rendered their account to come before them to render their accounts, so that they may answer to the king for their arrears, in part pay- ment of the great and divers debts due to him from the archbishop at his death, the king having ordered them by another writ to take into his hands the archbishop's goods and chattels and debts in Ireland. By K«
To the same. Order to take into the king's hands the goods and chattels and debts of the said archbishop John, on account of his debts to the king, and to sell the goods and chattels and levy the debts, and to put the money thence arisin<; in a safe place, keeping it without diminution until further orders, according to the directions of Walter de Thornbiry and John de Clifton, whom the king has appointed to supervise the premises.
To the same. Order to deliver the goods and chattels and money of the said John, archbishop of Dublin, ordered to be taken into the kin^s hands as above, to W. bishop of Worcester, his executor, or to his attorney, for Uie execution of the archbishop's will, charging the debts due to the king from him upon his successors. By K.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause John de Sarnisfeld to have seisin of a messuage in S wey neston that Walter le Petit, hanged for felony, held of him, as it appears by inquisition that it has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that the township of Sweynescon, who now hold it, have had the king's year day and waste, for which they ought to answer.
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to release Nicholas Crypse, in the king's prison at Bedefoi*d for ordering and aiding the death of William atte Brom of Luton, upon his finding sufficient mainpernors to have him before the king's justices next coming to deliver that gaol. By K.
To Alexander de Oave and Robert de Amecotes, keepers of certain of the late Templars' lands in the county of York. Order to pay to W. archbishop of York the wages assigned for the maintenance of Thomas de Belby, a Templar, assigned to him by himself and the whole provincial council to do penance in a certain monastery, to wit ^d» a day, from the time of their appointment as keepers, and to continue to pay the same.
Sept. 9. Windsor.
Mbmbranb 24.
To John Chaynel and Robert de Cliderhou, justices appointed to take assizes in the county of Warwick. Order not to molest Adam de Kynges- ford and Richard Folky for a disseisin made by them upon Matilda daughter of William de Olton of a tenement in Solihull, whereof they were conYided before them and committed to the idng^l prison at **^
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Sept. 18. Windsor.
Sept. 18. Chertsej.
Sept. 18. Cbertsey.
Membrane 24— <oii^.
the king has, at the request of Ida de CljntOD, pardoned them the imprison- ment and whatever pertains to him bj reason of this disseisin.
By pj3. [2793.] Like order to the sheriff of Warwick.
To Robert de Harowedon and Greoffrey de Weston, keepers of the late Templars' lands in the county of Wilts. Order to pay to S. bishop of Salis- bury the wages assigned for the maintenance of Robert de Uameldon, a Templar assigned to him by R. late archbishop of Canterbury and the whole provincial council to do penance in a certain monastery, to wit Ad, a day, from the time of their appointment as keepers, and to continue paying the same.
To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Walter de Twynham, son and heir of Adam de Twynham, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the said escheator and the king has taken his homage.
To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to adjourn {con- tinueiis) to the end of their eyre all pleas touching Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, who is staying near the king upon the king's business.
To the same. Like order in favour of the king's yeoman «Tohn de Houton, whom the king has ordered to come to him to stay with him in his service for some time.
Like letters for the following : ^Nicholas Kyriel. John Sauvage. John de Hokyngge, clerk. ^Nicholas Auchier.
Robert de Hardres. John de Palstre. John de Betenham*
Oct. 1.
Sheen.
Sept. 22. Wcftminiter.
Oct 16.
Weitmintter.
Sept. 26. Weftminster.
The warden of St. Katherine's hospital near the Tower of London.
To the same. Order to permit all writs delivered to the sheriff of Kent up to Sunday after Michaelmas in order to be pleaded in the eyre to be received by him and pleaded in the eyre, notwithstanding their proclamation that all such writs should be delivered before the Nativity of St. Mary last.
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To the keeper of the late Templars' manor of Pourtflet in Westthurrok. Order to lepair the mill, walls {walV)^ and dykes of that manor.
To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to adjourn to the end of the eyre the matters touching the men of Lyde and Ingemareys, who assert that they belong to the liberty of the Cinque Ports, and to cause the bodies of men of those places indicted before them of trespasses or felonies, and all their goods and chattels taken into the king's hands, to be delivered to Robert de Kendale, warden of the said ports, or to William de Bemefeud, who supplies his place. By K.
John de Glaunvill, in the king's prison of Ipswich for the death of Clement Boneyre of Combys, has letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail him until the first assize.
Sept. 23. To Bartholomew de Badelesmere, constable of Bristol castle, or to him Westminster, who supplies his place. Order to release John de Cheu, clerk, Geoffrey Justice, John Wodelok, William de Bruton, Alexander de Overton, John de Cary, Robert Beaugrant, Henry le Fraunceys, Roger de Combe, Richard Wautier, David Peraventure, John de la Roche, and Craddocus servant of John le Parkerei imprisoned in Bristol castle for the death of certain men in
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Bristol, upon their flnding Bufficient roainpernnrs (o have them before the king or hii justices to stand to right if the king or any one else shall speak against them. By E.
Sept 10. To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Thomas Windior. Wake, son and heir of John Woke, tenant in chief of the late king, the knights' fees, advotvsons of churches, and all other appurtenances of the manor of Kyrkeby Moreshercd, in the king's hands by reason of bis minority, which manor the king lately ordered Robert de Wodehous, then escheator beyond Trent, to deliver to him, the king having restored the same to him although he has not yet proved his age, and having now restored the knights' fees, advowsons, etc. pertaining thereto. By K.
Sept. 23. To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to respite until the
Shean. quinzaine of Michaelmas all matters touching Julisina de Leyburn, Henry de Leyburn, Geofii-ey de Say, Fulk Fayforer, and Edmund Gacelyn.
ByK. Sept 26. To the bailiffs of Lincoln. Order to release Walter de Canewyk, Wwtnuuter. imprisoned in the prison of the town of Lincoln for a rohhery »t the house of Gilbert de Leycestre of Lincoln, in Lincoln, and for clipping money to the sum of lid., upon his finding six sufficient mainpernors to have him before the king to Eland to right if the king or any other shall speak against him. By K. at the instance of Anthony Fessaigne.
Oct 3. Robert atte Brouk, in the king's gaol at Winchester for the death of
Btatn. William son of Roger de Bradeshete, has letters to the sheriff of South- ampton to hail him until the first assize.
Oct. 2. To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of certain of the late Templars' lands in
Sheen. the counties of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. Order to pay, out of the issues
of the said lands, to Simon Fotyn of Rochester 24/., which he lent to
Henry de Say, the king's late butler, for carriage of the king's wines to
Bologno, as appears by a bill of the wardrobe in Simon's possession.
By p.s. [2804.] Oct 8. To John Abel, escheator this aide Trent. Order not to distrun Thomas
de Lyons, brother and heir of Adam de Lyons, for homage for the lands that bis brother held in chie^ as the king baa taken his homage.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to the king's yeoman John Lovel, '. whom the king is sending with a ventrer, two berners, six greyhounds, and twenty-four running dogs to stay in his bailiwick until further orders, bis wages from October 14 until further orders, to wit I2d. a day for himself) 2d. a day for the beruer (tie), l\d. a day for each of the veutrers (ttc), and \d. a day for each of the greyhounds and dogs.
To John de £vre, escheator beyond Trent, Order to deliver back to the prior and brethren of Grand Mont in Eskedale a water-mill in Egeton, whereof Peter de Malo Lacu enfeoffed them as of the value of 10/. of land yearly, by virtue of the late king's licence, dated May 14, in the I3th year of his reign, for him to give and assign to them 20/. of land yearly in the moor of Blakehou ; which mill, they complained to the king, the said escheator had taken into the king's hands upon the ground that they had acquired the luilL without hcence from the king or his fother after the publication of the statute of mortmain ; whereupon the king ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the same ; by which it appears that the uid Peter enfeoffed them of the mill by virtue of the above licence : wherefore the king orders him to restore the mill and all issnaa of the same.
H OALENDAE OP CLOSE ROLLS.
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Oct. 15. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the harons of the WettmiDtter. exchequer. Order to examiue the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer concerning payments made to the king, his father and his grandfather, bj those who held the manor of Corbj after it was taken into the hands of Henry III. by virtue of his order, dated September 26, in the 25th year of his reign, to take into his hands all the lands that belonged to Wychard Ledet, he having afterwards, on October 25, in the same year, ordered the sheriff of Northampton to deliver the manor to Mary, late the wife of the said Wychard, upon her finding security for 10^. for the relief of Walter his son and heir, because it was found that the manor, which was taken into the king's hands on account of Wychard's death, was held of the king in socage; and afterwards, on February 8, in the 4l6t year of his reign, he restored the custody of the manor to Ermentrude, late the wife of the said Walter, then deceased, because it appeared that the manor was held of the king at fee-ferm and not by knight service, to hold during the minority of Wsdter's heir, and he ordered the queen of England to cause Ermentrude to have full seisin thereof; it being now shewn to the king by Alice, daughter and heiress of the said Walter, whom William le Latymer, lately deceased, married, that the treasurer and barons unduly charge her with 340/. 16*. S^d. of the arrears of the yearly ferm of lOO^. of the said manor from the aforesaid September 2(5, although all the goods and chattels of her husband were taken into the late king's hands for debts due to him and were delivered by the then treasurer and barons of the exchequer on main- prize to answer to* the exchequer for the said debts. They are not to charge her for the time when the manor was in the hands of the king's grandfather or of others.
Oct 16. To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to cause Thomas son of Thomas
Westminster. Meverel to have seisin of a messuage and eight acres of land in Frodeswell, which, it appears by inquisition, Thomas son of John Meverel, hanged for felony, held of him, as they have been in the king*s hands for a year and a day. The township ot Frodeswell, who now hold them, have had the king's year and day and ought to answer therefor.
Mbmbranb 23.
Sept. 24. To the sheriff* of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that WestnuDster. county to be elected in place of John de Donketon, deceased.
To William de Clyf and Gilbert Pokerel, late bailiffs of the liberty of the town of Bristol. Order to restore to William Bandolf, John Snow, John du Celer, Peter le Fraunceys, Laurence de Gary, Robert de Otery, Stephen de Sarum le Pestur, John le Parker, Beymond Fermbaud, William de Kerdyf, Robert Flemyng, Roger de Stanes, clerk, John Sauser, Adam de Temple, Richard de Calne, Martin Horncastel, John de Chieu, and Geoffrey Justice their goods and chattels seized by the bailiffs upon their indictment for the death of certain men in Bristol, upon their finding security to answer for the same if they ought to pertain to the king. By K.
Oct 3. To the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Order to buy and provide
Sheen. 360 quarters of malt and barley, in addition to the 40 quarters previouslj
ordered, and to send them at once to London, there to be delivered to
Stephen de Suthleie, clerk of the king's pantry and butlery, for the expenses
of the household.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas Lusewjk, who is incapacitated by infirmity.
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Oct. 6. To him who sappliei the place of the treasurer and to the baconi of the
WMtmituter. exchequer. Order to acquit Robert son of Robert bod of Payn of the Bcatage that the; demand from him for the service of one knight's fee and a half and a third of half a fee for the late king's army of Wales in the fifth year of hia reigu, as it appears by the rolls of the late king's marshal- sea that his father had his service in the said army for the abore fees, which service he then acknowledged to the late king.
To the same. Like order ia favour of the said Robert for the scutage of a knight's fee and half a Fee and a third of a fee, as well for his own inherit- ance as for the inberitaiice that was Alfred de Lincoln's, for the late king's army of Wales in the tenth year of his reign.
To the keeper of the Templars' manor of Getynge. Order to pay to W. bishop of Worcester the wages assigned for the maintenance of John de Whaddone and John de Baleshale, Templars delivered to him by R. lat« archbishop of Canterbury and the whole provincial council to place in certain monasteries to do penance, from the time of the keeper's appoint- ment, and to coDtiiine to pay the same, to wit 4d. a day each.
Oct. 6. To John Abel, eschentor Ihis side Trent. Order to cause Bartholomew
WMtmiiutGT. de Badelesmere to have seisin of all the manors and lands that William de Monte Forti lately granted to him after the death of John de la Mare of Bradewell, deceased, who held them of the king in chief by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of the said William, the king having takeii Bartholomew's homage therefor.
Oct. 6. To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Ellen,
WNlmiDiter. late the wife of Walter de Huntercombe, tenant in chief, the manor of Lowyk, in the county of Northumberland, of the yearly value of 39^. 6/. Sd., and the hamlet of Hethpole, in the same county, of the yearly value of 60*., which the king has assigned to her of her husband's lands on both sidea of the Trent as her dower with the assent of Nicholas Neubaud, kinsman and heir of the said Walter, who appeared personally in chancery after seisin of the said lands had been rendered to him.
Oct. 3. To Roger de Morewode. Order to deliver to Gilbert de Risshton the
Sheien. king's goods and chattels in the castle and manor of Eye and the hamlets of Dalyngho, Alderton and Therden, in the county of Suffolk, the rents pertaining to the honour of Eye in that county and in the counties of Norfolk and Essex and ihe manor of Hagblegh, in the county of Uufi'olk, which the king ordered the said Roger to deliver to him in accordance with the king's grant of the custody of the above to him during pleasure.
Oct. 6. To the bailiffs of Wyncheliee. Order to pay to Joan, late the wife of
Wutmimter. William Maufee, fifteen marks yearly oat of the ferm of that town, which â– he and her husband were wont to receive in accordance with the late king's grant of that sum yearly from the ferm of Wyucbelsee for her maintenance, in return for the surrender to him of the custody of the gate of Chester, which he had granted to them for her maintenance, the said Joan com- plaining that they refuse to pay her the said t>um.
Oct. 10. To Menry de Cobham, keeper of certain of the late Templars' lands in
the cotintiea of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, Order to pay to J. bishop of Winchester the wa^ee assigned for the maintenance of Richard de Grafton, a Templar assigned to bim by R. late archbishop of Canterbury and the whole provincial council to put in the priory of St. Mary's Suthwerk to do penance, to wit 4d. a day, from the time of his i^pointmeat as keeper, and to continue to pay the aamo.
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Oct. 14. To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to attermine to the
Westminster, end of the eyre all matters concerning Richard de Grey, who is staying in
the present parliament by the king's command. By K.
Oct. 9. To the sherifE of Hertford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
Westminster, be elected in place of Henry de la Sale, who is disqualified by non-residence in the county.
Oct. 12. To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to respite until the
Westminster, end of the eyre all pleas touching Henry de Leyburn and Edmund
Gacelyn. By K.
Oct. 14. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the Westminster, exchequer. Order to supersede the distraint levied by them upon the dean and chapter of Salisbury for the goods of John de Bercwyco, deceased, seques- trated by the treasurer and barons for the use of Master Louis de Bello Monte, treasurer of Salisbury, to the amount of 120 marks, owing to Louis by the deceased, to be delivered to his executors in order that they may pay the said Louis, aud to permit the dean and chapter to do justice to Louis according to church law, the king having lately ordered the treasurer and barons to deliver to the said executors goods of the deceased, which were taken into the king's hands for debts due from the deceased, so that they might satisfy Louis for the above debt, the king now understanding from the treasurer and barons that they had orderetl all the goods of the deceased, both those sequestrated by the dean and chapter at the suit of Louis and other goods, to be delivered to the executors, for which reason the dean and chapter have deferred doing justice to Louis.
Oct. 14. Adam de Smalecumbe, in the king's prison of Great Yarmouth for the Westminster, death of Robert le Keu of York, has letters to the sheriif of Norfolk to bail him until the first assize.
Oct. 18. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the Westminster, exchequer. Order to discharge David le Blound, son and heir of Petronilla de Vinon, of the scutage that they demand from him for a moiety of a knight's fee for the late king's armies of Wales in the fifth and tenth years of his reign, as it appears from the rolls of his marshalsea that Petronilla had her service with the said army for the above moiety, which service she acknowledged to the late king.
Mbmbranb 22.
Oct. 14. To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of the late Templars' lands in Kent.
Westminster. Order to pay to the bishop of Winchester the wages assigned for the
maintenance of Thomas de Hagwordingham, a Templar assigned to him to
do penance in a certain monastery, to wit 4</. a day, from the time of his
appointment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same.
To John de Bloxham, keeper of the late Templars' manor of Saunford. Order to pay to Robert sou of Walter Edward of Meriton 2d, daily, and the arrears of the same from the time of his appointment as keeper, as it appears by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that he ought to have his food for ever in that manor, and that the keepers of the same have been allowed 2d. a day for his food from the time when the manor was taken into the king's hands.
Oct. 14. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle Wettminster. further with the lands of Agnes de Fateshulli as it appears by inqai-
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sition that she held nothing of the king in chief at her death by reason whereof the custody of her lands should pertain to the king.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause William de Stopham, the elder, to have seisin of a messuage and five acres of land in Bayldon, which, it appears by inquisition, Robert son of Simon de Hope, hanged for felony, held of him, as they have been in tlie king's hands for a year and a day. John de Gildestede had the king's year day and waste thereof, wherelbr Thomas de Kodes ought to answer.
To the same. Order to cause Michael de Eaudon to have seisin of four acres of land in Koudon, which, it appears by inquisition, John del Grene, outlawed for felony, held of him, as they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day. The township of Koudon has had the king's year day and waste thereof, for which it ought to answer.
To the same. Like order in favour of John Scot of Calverlaye for a messuage and five acres of land in Boudon held of him by the said John del Grene.
Oct. 7. To Robert de Harewedon, keeper of certain of the late Templars' lands in
Westminster, the county of Wilts. Order to pay to S. bishop of Salisbury the arrears of the wages assigned for the maintenance of John de Mohun, a Templar delivered to him to put in a certain monastery to do penance, to wit 4d, a day, from the time of his appointment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same.
Oct. 18. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to the above Robert for
100*. paid by him to S. bishop of Salisbury by virtue of the preceding order,
if they find that that sum was due to the bishop for the arrears of the said
Templar's wages.
To the same. Order to discharge William Martin of" the scutage that they demand from him for three knights' fees for the late king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as Nicholas son of Martin, his iather, had his service in the said army for the above fees, which service he acknowledged to the late king, as appears by the rolls of his marshals^ea.
Oct. 18. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to examine the security found by William son of William le Latimer to answer to the exchequer for his father's debts due to the late king, and to have consideration of the recitals in the above order of 15 October concerning the manor of Corby, and to call before them the said William son of William and the heirs and executors of Mary, late the wife of Wychard Ledet, and of Ermentrude, late the wife of Walter his son, and to discharge Alice, daughter and heiress of the said W^alter and wife of William le Latimer, of the arrears of the ferm of 100*. for the said manor for the time when it was in the hands of Mary and Ermentrude and of William le Latymcr, and to charge the same upon the heirs of Mary, Ermentrude, and William.
Oct. 16. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to discharge Ralph son of William of the demand that they make upon him for the service of three knights' fees that he ought to have acknowledged to the late king for his army of Scotland, in the 34th year of his reign, as Aymer de Valencia has certified that he was in his company with ten men-at-arms in the said array from Easter to Michaelmas in that year. By K.
Oct. 23. To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a verderer for the New Westminster. Forest to be elected in place of William de Buddesthorn, deceased.
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Oct. 14. To the justices in eyre in the countj of Kent. Order to attermine to the
WestmiiiBter. end of the ejre all matters concerning Richard de Grey, who is staying in
the present parliament by the king's command. By K.
Oct. 9. To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause a coroner for that county fb
Wettminster. be elected in place of Henry de la Sale, who is disqualified by non-residence in the county.
Oct 12. To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to respite until the
Westminster, end of the eyre all pleas touching Henry de Leyburn and Edmund
.Gacelyn. By K.
Oct. 14. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the Westminster, exchequer. Order to supersede the distraint levied by them upon the dean and chapter of Salisbury for the goods of John de Berewyco, deceased, seques- trated by the treasurer and barons for the use of Master Louis de Bello Monte, treasurer of Salisbury, to the amount of 120 marks, owing to Louis by the deceased, to be delivered to his executors in order that they may pay the said Louis, and to permit the dean and chapter to do justice to Louis according to church law, the king having lately ordered the treasurer and barons to deliver to the said executors goods of the deceased, which were taken into the king's hands for debts due from the deceased, so that they might satisfy Louis for the above debt, the king now understanding from the treasurer and barons that they had ordered all the goods of the deceased, both those sequestrated by the dean and chapter at the suit of Louis and other goods, to be delivered to the executors, for which reason the dean and chapter have deferred doing justice to Louis.
Oct. 14. Adam de Smalecumbe, in the king's prison of Great Yarmouth for the Westminster, death of Robert le Keu of York, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him until the first assize.
Oct. 18. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the Westminster, exchequer. Order to discharge David le Blouud, son and heir of Petronilla de Vinon, of the scutage that they demand from him for a moiety of a knight* B fee for the late king's armies of Wales in the fifth and tenth years of his reign, as it appears from the rolls of his marshalsea that Petronilla had her service with the said army for the above moiety, which service she acknowledged to the late king.
Membrane 22.
Oct. 14. To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of the late Templars' lands in Kent.
Westminster. Order to pay to the bishop of Winchester the wages assigned for the
maintenance of Thomas de Hagwordingham, a Templar assigned to him to
do penance in a certain monastery, to wit 4d. a day, from the time of his
appointment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same.
To John de Bloxham, keeper of the late Templars' manor of Saunford. Order to pay to Robert sou of Walter Edward of Meriton 2d. daily, and the arrears of the same from the time of his appointment as keeper, as it appears by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that he ought to have his food for ever in that manor, and that the keepers of the same have been allowed 2d. a day for his food from the time when the manor was taken into the king's hands.
Oct. 14. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle WeitmiDster. farther with the lands of Agnes de Pateshulli as it appears by inqoi-
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eitioD th&t she held nothiog of tbe king in chief at her death by reasoa whereof the custody of her lands should pertain to the king.
To tbe sheriff of York. Order to cause Williani de Stopham, tbe elder, to bars seisio of a messuage and five acres of land ia BajIdoD, which, it appears b; inquisition, Hubert son of Simon de Hope, hanged for felony, held of him, as thej have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, John de Gildestede bad the king's year day ami waste thereof, wberelbr Thomas de Rodes ought to answer.
To the Bamn. Order to cause Michael de liandon to have seisin of four acres of land in Roudon, which, it appears 1)y inquisition, John del Grene, outlawed for felony, held of him, as they have been in the king's bands for B year and a day. The township of Roudon has had tbe king's year day and waste thereof, for which it ought to answer.
To the same. Like order in favour of John Scot of Calverlayo for a messuage and five acres of laud in Roudon held of him by the said John del Grene. Oct. 7. To Robert de Harewedon, keeper of certain of the Inte Templars' lands in
WestmiiuteT. the county of Wilts. Order to pay to S. bishop of Salisbury the arrears of the wages assigned for the maintenance of John do Moiiun, a Templar deliveretl to him to put in a certain monastery to do penance, to wit 4d. a day, from the time of bis appointment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same. Oct. 18. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminiter. escliequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to the above Robert for lOQj. paid hy him to S. bishop of Salisbury by virtue of the precedini; order, if they find that that sum was due to tbe bishop for the arrears of the said Templar's wages.
To the same. Order to discharge William Martin of the scutnge that they demand from him foi- three knights' fees for the late king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as Nichobts son of Martin, his lather, had his service in ihe said army forthe ahove fees, which service he acknowledged to the late king, as ap)>eai'8 by the rolls of his martihai^ea. Oct. 18. To him who anpplies the ]ilncB of the treasurer and to the barons of the
WcBtminster. exchequer. Order to examine tbe eecuriiy found by William son of William le Latimer to answer to the exchequer for his father's debts due to ihc late king, and to have consideration of tbo recitals in the above order of 15 October concerning the manor of Corby, and to call before them the said William son of William and the heirs and executors of Mary, late the wife of Wychard Ledet, and of Ermentrude, late the wife of Waiter his son, and to discharge Alice, daughter and heiress of the said Walter and wife of William le Latimer, of the arrears of the ferm of 100s. for the anid manor for the time when it was in tbe hands of Mary and Ermentrude and of William le Latymer, and to charge the same upon tbe heirs of Mary, Ermentrude, and William.
Oct, 16. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Wutminiter. exchequer. Onler to discharge Ralph son of William of the demand that
they make upon him for th") service of throe knights' fees that be ought to
have acknowledged to the late king for his army of Scotland, in tbe 34th
year of bis reign, as Aynier de Valencia ha.s certified that be was in his
company with ten men-at-arms in the said army from Easter to Michaelmas
in that year. By K.
Oct. 23. To the sheriff of Southampton, Order to cause o verderer for the New
WMtiniiiitir. Forest to be elected Id place of William de Buddeslhom, deceased.
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To the same. Like order to elect a verderer in place of John Cans, who is disqualified by non-residence within the bounds of the forest and by having no lands in the county.
To the same. Like order to elect a verderer in place of Thomas de Combe, disqualified by blindness and infirmity.
Oct. 27. To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
Westminster, deliver to John Comyn, keeper of the king's manor of Getyndon, twelve
oaks fit for timber from Hokingham forest, to repair therewith the mills of
the manor. By K.
Oct. 25. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to Nicholas de Karliolo and Thomas sou of Hugh de Karliolo, collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of Newcastle-on-Tyne, for 200/. paid by them to Simon Guidy of Florence by virtue of the king's order to pay to him 500 marks, in part payment of 1,060/. for corn and other victuals that he promised to provide for the provision of the king's castles and towns in Scotland.
To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to the above collectors for 100 marks that the king ordered them to pay to William de Monte Fixo for the arrears of his wages when he was in the king's service in Scotland, and for 53/. that the king ordered them to pay to Ingeram Coloigne for 236 quar- ters of barley bought from him for the expenses of the king*s household at Newcastle-on-Tyne in April, in the fifth year of the reign.
To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to the said collectors for 16/., which the king ordered them to allow Richard de Emeldon, late mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, to retain out of the custom due upon his wool, hides and wool- fells sent to parts beyond sea from that port, in payment for 80 quarters of beans bought from him for the provision of the king's castles and towns in Scotland, as contained in a bill under the seal of the chamberlain of Scotland delivered to the said Richard.
Nov. 2. To the justices in eyre in Kent. Order to respite to the end of the eyre
Westminster, all pleas touching Edmund Gacelyn. By K.
To Master Jordan Moraunt and William de Cleydon, keepers of the arch- bishopric of Canterbury. Order to pay during the voidance of the archbishopric the sums of money appointed for alms from the archbishopric to the infirm poor of Herbaldou and Northgate without Canterbury.
Membrane 21.
Oct. 18. To Anthony Pessaigne, keeper of the late Templars' manor of Dynesleye. Westminster. Order to pay to William Lambert and Caorsetta his wife for his life lOO*. of yearly pension, and a robe of the suit of the free servants of the house of the New Temple, London, for him at Chiistmas, and 60s, yearly to her for life if she survive him, and the aiTears of the same, which the treasurer and barons of the exchequer have certified that they ought to receive from the New Temple for a quit-claim of a corrody that they had in that house, and to, continue to pay the same.
Oct. 23. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to cause payment or asbignment to be made to Robert de Malo Lacu, constable of Bollesovre and the Horestan castles, for 16o/. 13;. 8^£/., the balance of a sum of 179/. 18«. 4c/. owing to him from the king for costs expended about the munition of the said castles after deducting 14/. 4;. 7^d. owing by him for the arrears of the ferm of the castle of the Horestan. By p.s. [2S26.]
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Oct. 7. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the chamberlains.
Westminster. Order not to receive any money from the yearly tenth granted to the king by the pope, nor to permit any assignment or payment thereof to be made or tallies to be levied at the excliequer to othei*s than Manent Francisci and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, until they have been satisfied for debts due to them from the king, who has assigned to them all the money from the tenth. By p.s. [2810.]
Oct. 25. To the keeper of the late Templars' manor of Wylnghton. Order to pay
Westminster, to Nicholas, vicar of Thoip, near Stowe St. Mary, 5 marks yearly, and the arrears from the same from the time of the keeper's appointment, the treasurer and barons of the exchequer having certified that the vicars of that church have been wont to receive the above sum from the preceptor of Wylughton in augmentation of the vicarage of the said church, which was appropriated to the Templars.
Oct. 10. To the keepers of the late Templars' lands in the county of Salop. Order
Westminster, to pay to W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield the arrears of the wages
assigned for the maintenance of Richard de Brustlisham, a Templar assigned
to him to put in the monastery of St. Radegund, Chester, to do penance,
to wit 4J. a day, and to continue to pay the same.
Oct. 15. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to acquit Nicholas de Kingeston, late sheriff of Gloucester, and the township of Colesburn, of 12/. os. 3d, for the goods and chattels of Ranulph le White, parson of the church of Colesborn, lately indicted before John Butetourte and his follows, justices of oy<»r and terminer of the late king in that county, for the homicide of Walter de Worton, for assenting to the death of William de Hambury, and for harbouring Nicholas do Staunton, a robber and approver of the late king, the late king having ordered the sheriff to restore to him his goods and chattels, as be had purged his innocence of the above charges before W. late bishop of Worcester, to whom he was delivered according to the privilege of the clergy, the present king having previously ordered the treasurer and barons to acquit the sheriff of the above sum, to which order they returned that the township of Colesburn was charged with the same and not the said sheriff*.
Oct. 26. To the justices in eyre in Kent. Order to take fines for the king's use
Westminster, from those convicted and adjudged to prison before them from trespasses
in parks and stews (vivariis) who are willing to make tine, for the
remainder of their term of imprisonment and for what pertains to the king
of the said trespasses. By K.
Oct 18. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Robert Westminster, de Malo Lacu, constable of the castles of Bollesovre and of the Horstan, 14/. 14*. *I\d. the arrears of the yearly ferm of 20/. for the castle of the Ho[r]8tan,tobe received in part payment of 179/. 18*. 4rf. expended by him upon the munition of the said castles by the king's orders, as appeal's by their certificate, whereby it appears that he is not bound to answer for any issues from Bollesovre castle because he holds it for life by the service of rendering yearly a black sparrow-hawk, and that the above ferm was assigned to him by the king until he should be satisfied for 240/. Ss. 6d, due to him from the king.
Vacated^ became otherwise below.
Oct. 24. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
WcftiniDiter. exchequer. Order to allow to Roger Ughtred, Adam de Helperthorp, and
John le Charetter, bailiffs of Scardeburgh, 94/. 14*. 6d. paid by them out
of the ferm of that town by the king's order to Richard Pifre for beans and
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other things bought from him for the king's use, and to Robert de Felton and others of the king's household, and to divers workmen working in Scardeburgh castle in the fifth year of the king's reign, as contained in a !|; bill of the wardrobe in the bailiffs' posseesion.
^' Oct. 10. To the justices in eyre in Kent. Order to permit all writs delivered to
Westminster, the sheriff of that county before Saturday the eve of SS. Simon and Jude to be received and pleaded in the eyre, notwithstanding their proclamation that all such writs should be delivered before Sunday after Michaelmas.
Oct. 20. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminater. exchequer. Order to acquit Nicholas son of Nicholas de Warrewyk and
Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress of Richard de Logos, tenant in
*':' chief of the late king, of the yearly ferm of 14/. lis. 5d. from the father of
^ - the said Nicholas, now deceased, for the custody of two parts of the lands
i[^ of the said Richard during the minority of his heir^ which was granted to
him by the late king on January 25, in the 29th year of his reign, from
May 16, in the sixth year of the king's reign, when the king took the
f fealty of Nicholas the son, who had married the said Elizabeth, she having
proved her age before Walter de Gloucester, late escheator this side Trent.
Oct. 24. To the same. Order to acquit Henry de Mortimer, son and hw of
Westminster. Hugh de Mortimer, of 60/. paid by hh father when sheriff of Stafford and
Salop to . . . late bishop of Winchester in part payment of 100/. that
King Henry III. ordered the said sheriff, on January 5, in the fifty-sixth
year of his reign, to pay to the bishop for wheat to the value of 45/. lOi. Od,
% delivered by the bishop against Christmas, in the fifty-fifth year of his reign,
U and for 54/. lOs. Od. lent by him to the said king for the expenses of his
household against Christmas, in the fifty-sixth year of his reign ; which sum they refuse to allow to Henry because his father did not pay it out of the * estreats of the justices in eyre for forest pleas in the above counties, accord-
ing to the said king's order.
^- * To the same. Order to acquit the above Henry of 50 marks, paid by his
' father when sheriff of Stafford and Salop to Richard le Brun, servant of
Henry III., in accordance with the said king's order dated December 8, in the 56th year of his reign, lor a fine of that amount made by Richard with John Walerand, then escheator this side Trent, and paid into the said king's wardrobe by the hands of John del Legh, sub-escheator in the
V county of Stafford, for the custody of the lands of Robert de Mere in
Hamechurch and of Robert de Hildedich, wliich the said king ordered to be paid to him because he did not have these custodies ; which sum they refuse to allow to Henry because his father paid it out of the issues of his bailiwick, and not out of the fines, amercements, and issues of the eyre of Roger de Clifford and his fellows, then justices in eyre for forest pleas in
y the counties of Stafford and Salop, as ordered by the said king.
Nov. 2. To Master William de Balaeto, the pope's envoy in England. Order to stay
Westminster, until St. Hilary the demand from Hervey de Staunton, one of the justices in eyre in Kent, the demand for 200/. from him as executor of the will of Ralph, late bishop of Ely, and from his co-executors, for the arrears of the tenth for six years, as he is specially attending to the king's affairs in the said eyre, so thut he cannot leave those part;i during the eyre.
^ Oct. 28. To the principal collectors of the tenth for three years and one year.
l â– Westminster. Order to pay to Anthony Citeroun and John de Monilie, or other attornies
\ \r_ of Anthony Pessaigne, all the money received from the tenth in Ireland,
according to the king's order, notwithstanding any orders previously sent them for other persons, in part payment of the king's debts to him. By K.
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Oct. 28. To Henry de Baiocis and his fellows, justices of gaol delivery in the county
Westminster, of Lincoln. Order to deliver John Bernai'd of Etatelesden from prison at Depyng', and to lead him back to the church of Westdeping', whither he had fled for sanctuary for larceny committed by him, whence he had been taken by certain malefactoi*s, as J. bishop of Lincoln has signified the king by his letters patent.
Membrane 20.
Oct. 25. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the ex-
Westminster, chequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to Nicholas de Karliolo and Thomas son ofHugh de Karliolo, collectors of the custom in the port of New- caatle-on-Tyne, for 26/. lo*. 10J</., the issues of the custom from Novem ber 10, in the fourth year of the king's reign, until October 9, in the fifth year, paid by them to Arnald Mauran and his fellows, in accordance with the king's orders, by letters patent, dated November iO, in the fourth year of the reign, to pay the issues of the custom of cloth, wax, avoirdupois and other small things, horses and other beasts, corn and other goods, and of mer- chandise of alien merchants in that and other ports to Elias Pieres, William Do, the said Arnald, and Peter de Burd[egala] of Dax {de Aquis), in payment of a,2o4/. lbs, lOd. due to Thomas de Lungar, William de Bosk, Stephen de Coventre, John de Bereford, Peter Cosyu, and other merchants of England and Ga^couy, for wines bought from them for the king's use by Walter Waldeshef, his butler.
To the same. Order to allow to the above Nicholas and Thomas 60^. 5d, paid by them to Bonencontre Jacobi, attorney of Emericus and Bettinus de Frisoobaldis, being the custom of cloth, spicery, and other small things in the above port from June 27, in the second year of the king's reign, until August 20 following, in accordance with the king's appointment of Emericus and Bettinus, on June 27 in the above year, as his receivers of the said custom in all the ports in his realm.
Nov. 2. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to brother
Westminster. John, prior of Bodmin, his priory, upon his finding two sureties to answer to the king for his journey beyond seas without the king's licence when the king shall speak against him concerning the same, the escheator having cer- tified that he took the priory into the king^s hands for the above cause, the king having previously ordered him to replevy the priory and the issues thereof to him until the parliament.
Oct. 28. To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
Westminster, be elected in place of John de Boylund, disqualified by non-residence.
Nov. 2. To John de Segrave the elder, constable of Notingham Castle. Order Westminster, to repair the castle mills and weirs,
Nov. 1. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to acquit Peter de Malo Lacu, son and heir of Peter de Malo Lacu, of the scutage that they demand from him for the service of two knights' fees, which his father acknowledged to the late king, for the late king's army of Wales in the tenth year of his reign, as his father was with the late king in his said army, as appears by the rolls of the late king's marshalsea.
Oct. 20. To the same. Order to allow to Robert de Malo Lacu, constable of the
Westminster* castles of BoUesovre and the Horestan, 14/. 14*. 7\d.j the arrears of the
yearly ferm of 20/. for the castle of the Horestan, m part payment of
179/. 18^. 4d. expended by him on the munition of the said castleSi as
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'â– '. appears by the certificate of the treasurer and baron s^ whereby it appears
if that he in uot bound to answer for any issues from Bollesovre castle, as he
<f- holds it for lite by the service of rendering a black sparrow-hawk yearly,
*' and that the ferm of Horeston castle was assigned to him by the king
until he should be satisfied for 210/. 8*. 6d. owing to him by the king.
i Nov. 2, To John Abel, escheator this side Trent, Order to deliver to Lucy,
Westminster, late the wife of Richard de Waunford, the manor of Esford and the issues
? of the same, as it appears by inquisition taken by Roger de Wellesworth,
hite escheator this side Trent, that she and her husband jointly acquired the manor from Margery le Giaunt by fine levied in the king's court, which
L manor is held in chief as of the earldom of Cornwall by the service of one
knight's fee, and that she continued her joint-seisin thereof until her husband's death, the king having taken her fealty.
Oct. 24. To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to pay to Thomas
Westminster, atte Merk, keeper of the king's manor of (Mipston in Shirwode, the arrears
of his wages, and to continue to pay the same, and to pay to the chaplain of
the manor such salary as other chaplains have been wont to receive, and to
repair the paling of the manor. By p.s.
Nov. 2. Reginald le Marischal of Middelton, in the king's goal of Somerton for
Westminster, the death of Richard Fraunkeleyn, has letters to the sheriff of Somerset to bail him until the first assize.
Nov. 3. To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to resume into the
Westminster, king's hands the manor of Kirkeby Moresheved, and to deliver it to Vannus Ballardi, John Vanne and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Ballardi of Lucca, to whom the custody thereof was granted by Henry de Percy, to whom the custody thereof was granted by the king during the minority of Thomas son and heir of John Wake, which grant to the said merchants was confirmed by the king, the king having, in forgotfulness of the premises, caused the manor to be taken into his hands and delivered to the said Thomas, who is yet under age. By K. and C.
Nov. 5. To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
Westminster, elected in place of Richard de Kynebelle, whom the king has amoved for
IS insufficiency. By the testimony of Hugh le Despenser the younger.
Nov. 4. To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of the late Templars' lands in the county
I. Westminster, of Surrey. Order to pay to H. bishop of Winchester the arrears of the
wages assigned for the maintenance of Stephen de Stapelbrigg, a Templar
delivered to him to do penance in the monastery of St. Mary, Merton, to
^ wit 4d. a day, from the time of his appointment as keeper, and to continue
to pay the same.
Nov. 7. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to allow to William Inge 36/. due to him for his fee and robes for the second, third, fourth and fifth years of the king's reign, as contained in a bill sealed by J. bishop of Bath and Wells, late keeper of the wardrobe, and in three bills sealed by lugelard de Warle, keeper of the wardrobe, out of the sum of 25/. 17*. 4c?. yearly due from him for the custody of [two parts of] the lands of the late Urian de Sancto Petro, tenant in chief, which two parts are of the yearly value of 23/. 17«. 4d. By K.
Oct. 23. To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order
Westminster, uot to make any payment out of the treasury without the view and testi- mony of John de Monilie, whom the king has appointed a chamberlain in place of Robert de Watton^ deceased.
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Nov. 10. To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent, Order not to distrain
Westminster. William de Mulcastre, brother and heir of John de Mulcastre, for his
homage for certain lands in Threplund, in th^ county of Cumberland, which
his brother held in chief of the late king, and for which William did
homage to the late king, as appears by his rolls of chancery.
Nov. 15. To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for the county of Westminster. Lincoln to be elected in place of William de Hagh, incapacitated by age.
Mbmbranb 19.
Nov. 3. To the sheriff of York. Order to release Giles de Brabaunt and Alice
Westminster, his wife, John de Appelby and Alice his wife, Nicholas de Colonia and Ellen his wife, and John son of Giles de Brabant from the king's prison at York, upon their finding sufficient mainpernors to have them before the king or his justices to stand to right if the king or any other will speak against them for procuring the death of John de Lenne, and for hai'bouring John son of rlohn de Appelby, indicted but not yet convicted of the said death, provided that the said Giles and Alice, John and Alice, Nicholas and Ellen and John be of good fame, they having complained that the sheriff refuses to mainpern them in accoidance with the statute that persons indicted of such procurement and harbouring should be repleviable until the chief perpetrators have been convicted.
Nov. 8. To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
WestmiDSter. be elected in place of William de Boyton, who holds no lands in the county.
Oct. 23. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dubhn. Order to corn-
Westminster, pel Andrew Gerardi, collector of the customs in Ireland, to come to the said exchequer and account for the issues of the customs, and to compel him to pay what is due from him for the same to the king, which they are to pay to Anthony Pessaigne, to whom the king assigned the said customs for debts due to Inm, or to Richard de Clodeshale and John de Monile, his attorn ies in this behalf, as the said Andrew has done nothing in execution of the king's orders to pay the issues to Anthony.
To the justiciary of Ireland and to the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin, or to those who shall supply their places. Order to pay to the above Richard and John, as attorneys of the said Anthony, with- out excuse, all the issues of Ireland, both of the tenth and of the archbishopric of Dublin, void and in the king's hands, and from other sources, as pre- viously ordered by the king to be paid to Anthony in part pajment of the king's debts to liim, which order they have not executed. By K.
To the principal collectors of the tenth. Order to pay to the above Richard and John, as attorneys of the said Anthony, all the money arising from the said tenth in Ireland, to be received by him in part payment of the king's debts.
Nov. 13. To Wariu de Insula, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to pay 50*. Westminster, yearly each to two chaplains celebrating in the chapel of the castle, Ad, a day to Roger de Wyndesore, porter of both gates of the castle, 2d, a day to Roger de Wyndesore, one of the viewers of tLe king's works there, 2d, a day to Alexander le Peyntx)ur, another viewer, 2d, a day each to four watchmen of the castle, 2^d, a day to Adam, the gardener of the king's garden without the castle, \\d. a day to John le Messager, parker of Kenyngton park, Ad. a day to Laurence de Baggeschete, porter of the said park and keeper of the king's houses there, being their wages from Michael- . . mas last imtil neict Michaelmas.
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To the same. Order to repair the houses, tower, walls, and bridges of the said castle, with the stable and wall of the garden without the castle, the houses and ponds (stagna) of Wyndesore park, with the paling of the
V park, the houses and walls of the manor of Kenyugton, with the paling and
r wall about the park.
y- Nov. 10. To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county
â– Westminster, to be elected in place of Alexander son of Martin, incapacitated by illness
I and ago.
To Alexander de Cave and Robert de Amecotes, keepers of the late Tem- plars' lands in the county of York. Order to pay to the prior of Gyseburn the arrears of the wages assigned for the maintenance of Roger de Huchynden, a Templar delivered to him to do penance in his monastery by W. archbishop of York and the whole provincial council, to wit 4rf. a day, and to continue to pay the same.
Nov. 15. To Johu Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas de
Westminster. Buktofi, kinsman and heir of Thomas de Boltesham, tenant in chief of the
late king, to have seisin of the lands whereof Thomas de Boltesham, his uncle
(avunculus)^ was seised in demesne, as Thomas de Bukton has proved his
age before the said escheator, and the king has taken his homage.
To the justices in eyre in Kent . Vacated.
Nov. 15. To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales. Order to cause Geoflrey, Westminster, son and heir of Geoffrey Clement, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father was seised in demesne, as he has proved his age before the justice and the king has taken his homage.
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Nov. 10. To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Thomas de
Westminster. Moryleye, son and heirof Thomas de Moryleye, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father was seised, as it was found by inquisitions taken by the sheriff of Cumberland, by order of the late king, that his father was admitted to the lale king's peace immechately after the beginning of the first war between the late king and the Scots, and was in his peace when he died, and that his lands in Alnebm'gh, Little Broghton, Godrikeby, and Pykehou, in the said county, were taken into the late king's hands because the said Thomas was against him in the said war, and that Thomas his son was his heir and was then aged thirteen, and that he was always in the late king's peace, the said Thomas the son having proved his age before Robert de Wodehous, late escheator beyond Trent, and the king having taken his homage.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to [pay] out of the clearest fines before Hervey de Staunton, William de 0[rmesby] . Vacated,
Nov. 6. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Eleanor,
Westminster, late the wife of John de la Mare of Bradewell, two parts of the manor of Dangeie and the manor of Bradewell and lands in llockele and Pilton, as it appears by inquisition that she and her husband were jointly enfeoffed thereof by fine levied in the king's court, and that she continued her joint-seisin of the same until her husband's death, and that the manor of Angeye (sic) is held in chief by the service of rendering a mark to the ward ol Dover cafctle for twenty weeks for two parts oi the manor, and that Joan de Cranleye holds the third part of the same in dower, and that the manor of Biadcwell and the other lands «re held of other lords, the king having taken hur fealty for the manor of Dangeye.
Nov. 12. To ihii sheriff of Kent. Order to pay out of the clearest fines and
Westminster, amercements of the eyre of Ilervey de Staunton, William de Ormesby,
Henry Spigurnel, John de Mutford, and William de Goldington^ justicett
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Membrane 19 — eont.
in eyre in that county, 60 marks to Herrey, 50 marks to WiUiam, and 40 marks each to the others, Tor their expenses in the eyre.
Nov. 20. To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
WcBtminsteT, elected in place of Gerard de Wacheabam, lately elected, who is incapacitated by perpetual illaeaa and infirmity.
Mbubrans 18.
Nor. 10. To Anthony Pes?aigne, keeper of the late Templars' manor of
WestmiDBier. Dymiesleie. Cfrder to pay to Robert de Hunsingore 3d. a day for his food and lOs. a year for other necessariea, and the arrears of the same from the time of his appointment as keeper, the treasurer and barons of the exchequer having cerdfied that he ought to receive the above in that manor for life.
Nov, 20. To the sheiiff of Kottingham. Order to cense a coroner for that county
Wwtminnpr. to be elecied in place of Laurence de Chaworth, who is incapacitated by perpetual iltnOMs aud inKrmity.
Nov, 18. To the collectors of the tenth lately imposed by the pope upon the
WestmioBter. clergy of England. Order to discharge the abbot and convent of St. Ed- munds of the portion of the tenth for the lime when (he prior and convent satisfied the king for the issues of tho abbey, the king having lately granted to them, in conaideratiun of a fine of 1,200 marks, the custody of the abbey during the voidance caused by the denth of Thomas, lat« abbot of the same, from Sunday the morrow of Epiphany last, when the abbey became void, for on^ year following, by reason whereof they are not bound to pay the aaid tenth granted to the king by the pope for that period.
To the keeper of the late Templars' manor of Stonlesby. Order to pay to J. bishop of Lincoln the arrears of the wages assigned for the mainten- ance of ll(^er le Noreis, a Templar lately delivered to him to put in the monastery of Croxton to do penance, to wit 4d. a day, from the lime of his appointment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same.
To the sheriff of Buckingham, Order to cause the timber felled in the wood of Bulstrode for divers operations at Wyndeaote castle to be led thither and delivered 10 the coustable.
. Nov, 13. To John Abel, eecheator this side Trent. Order to desist from demand-
Wutminster. Jng fealty from the prior of Hailyng for the lands of the priory, and to permit him to hold the ^ame without molestation, as he complains that the escheator distrains him for fealty for the lands that he holds of the king in the counties of Southampton, Wiltshire, and Somerset of the gift of William the Conqueror in free, pure, and perpetual alms, without doing any secular service therefor, as neither he nor tlie abbot of St. Peter of Jumi^ges, nf which tbe priory is a cell, nor their predecessors, have been wont to do fealty at timea of voidance of the abbey or priory.
Oct. 20. To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of the late Templars' raaDor of Ewell. Westminiiter. Order to permit Henry de Driffeld, vicar of the church of Ewell, which was appropriated to the master and brethren of the order of the Temple, to receive tbe email tithes of all beasts nglsted within that pai-ish, and to satisfy him in full for the value of the above tithe received by the said keeper, he liaviug complained to the king that he ought to receive such tithes and also the titlie of tbe water-mill there, and that tho keeper has hindered him collecting the same since his appointment as keeper ; where- . upon the king oirdered the keeper of the spiritualities of the archbinhopric
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of Canterburj, the see being void, to enquire concerning the premises bj the oath of the rectors and vicars near the above church ; whereby it was found that the said vicar ought to receive the small tithes of ^l beasts agisted in the manor and parish of Ewell, according to the custom of the country, and that the Templars used to fill the pasture with their own beasts, for which they gave no tithes, but after their lauds came to the king's hands the keepers of the manor permitted the vicar to receive such tithes of beasts there agisted, and that the said Henry de Cobeham has from the time of his appointment refused to pay him the same.
Nov. 18. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the Westmiiuter. exchequer. Order to acquit the chancellor and scholars of the University of Cambndge of tallage for their lands in Cambridge, if they find by inspection of the rolls that they were exempt from tallage in the times of the king's progenitors, they having complained that the sheriff of Cambridge distrains them to pay tallage because the assessors in that county have assessed tallage upon their lands. {^Fosdera.^
Nov. 20. John de Machoun, in the king's gaol of Dorchester for the death of
Weatminster. Henry Pirdy, has letters to the sheriif of Dorset to bail him until the first assize.
Nov. 20. To William de Spanncby, keeper of the fruits and profit8 of the late Tern-
Westminster, plars' church of Donyngton. Order to pay to J. bishop of Lincoln the arrears of the wages assigned for the maintenance of Simon de Streche, a Templar delivered to him to do penance in the monastery of St. Katherine without Lincoln, to wit 4d, a day, from the time of his appointment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same.
The like to John de Eggemere, keeper of the late Templars' manor of Togrind and Gysclingham, to pay the like wages to J. bishop of Norwich for William do Wyrcestre, a Templar in the monastery of St. Edmunds.
To all to whom, etc. Licence, granted at the request of brother John de Everesdon, monk of St. Edmunds, for the abbot and convent of the same to acquire in mortmain lands to the yearly value of 40/.
By p.s. [2835.] Vacated, because on the Patent Roll,
Nov. 1 8. To all bailiffs, etc. Protection and conduct for two years for Andrew
Westminster. Brotherlam, John de Lo, and Francis Belle, burgesses of Ypres, in coming
to this realm with their goods and in returning, granted at the request <n
Ingelram de Maregny. By El*
Vacated, because on the Patent Roll.
Nov. 16. To the sheriff" of Lincoln. On the complaint of John de Bliton, Walter Westminster, de Baiocis, Henry de Seuerby, Kiohard de Scarle, Walter de Ebor[aco], and Robert de Oxon [ia], citizens of Lincoln, and Nicholas de Thimelby of Lyndes[ey] that malefactors of the towns of Kampen (Camp*), Lubik and Hamburgh, and elsewhere in Estland, took and'carried away, at MiSsummer, fn the fourth year of the king's reign, a ship laden by them at Boston with wool and other goods to the value of 1,244/. 10^. Oc?. whilst voyaging to Brabant, the king wrote to the cousules and schoffen of the said towns requesting them to do justice to the said merchants ; but they did nothing, with the exception that the schaffen and council of Kampen wrote requesting safe conduct for their envoys coming to England to treat with the king and his council for the damages abovesaid ; whereupon they sent William called * the Rich ' and Henry son of Eyuold, consules of the said town, as envoys to the king during the term of the king's conduct, who brought letters of credence to tlie king, and who afterwards asserted in chancery that they were only sent to receive information concerning the premises in
Nov. 17.
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Membrane 18 — eont. order thkt tliey might take counsel with their fellow-townemeii after their return liome, pruyiag the king to grant them u delay of thiee or two years or another |)Bi'iod at the king's will ; and the said envoys secretly returaed home without having made satisfaction or awaiting the arrival of those whom the king caused to '>o:ne to his court in this matter: wherefore the kiog, considering that the envoys did not come to him with power to make natisfaction and thst they endeavour to defraud the wiid merchants by frivolous delays and eicuaes, oniera the sheriff to arrest goods of the men of the said towns to the value of 414/. I6s. ^d. in part satisfaction of the above sum, and to retain the same until they be satisfied for that sum, certilying the king of their proceedings. The king has ordered the sheriffs of Norl'olk and York to arrost goods in like manner to the value of 829/. 8< 4if. (»ic), the balance of the above sura. By C.
Mbmbrakb 17.
Nov. 20. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Isabella, Westminiier. late the wife of John de Hastingges, tenant in chief, the advowson of the church of Lydegate, in the county of Suffolk, of the yearly value of 2ti/., the advowson of the church of Aston Kauntelou, in the county of Warwick, of the yearly value of 30/, the advowson of the church of Fillungie. in the same county, of the yearly value of 26/., the advowson of the church of Nayleston, in the county of Leicester, of the yearly value of 50/., which the king has assigned to her, with the assent of John, son and heir of the said John, as her dower of her husband's advowsons.
To the same. Order to deliver to the said Isabella the following knights' fees, aseigneil to her by the king as dower with the assent of the said .Tobn sou of John de Hastinges : two knigiits' fees in Cavenedissb, in tiie couoty of Suffolk, held by Richard de Wymbish, of the yearly value of 10/. ; a moiely of a knight's fee in Gay^le, in the same county, held by John de Kersover, of the yearly value of 50*. ; a fourth of a knight's fee in Albe- niundbury and Wodeweston, in the county of Huntingdon, held by John de Segrave, of the yearly value of 20/. ; a knight's fee in Ipesleye, in the county of Warwick, held by Henry Hubaud, of the yenrly value of 15/. ; a fourth and a twentieth of a knight's fee in Happeford, in the same county, held by John Hastang, of the yearly value of 60«. ; a knigbt'e fee m Shockeburgh, in the same county, held by Simon de Shockeburgh and Ralph Chaier, of the yearly value of 2i)/. ; a knight's fee in Fleckenho, in the same county, held by Theobald de Verdoun, of the yearly value of 24/. ; a moiety of a knight's fee in Cobynton, in the same county, held by Geoffrey Ijymely, of the yearly value of 10/,; a knight's fee in liedeworth, Wylie, and Sharneford, in the tiame county, held by William Cherneles, Robert Turvill, and the heirs of Hugh de Herdeberwe, of the yearly value of 24/. ; a tenth of a knight's fee in Coundholm, in the same county, held by John Benet of Allesteye, of the yearly value of 13«. Ad, ; a knight's fee in Burugton and Shireford, in the same county, held by the heirs of Nicholas de Turevill, of the yearly value of 20/. ; a moiety of a knight's fee in Cornleye,in the same county, held by the heirs of Ralph de Ryngeston, of the yearly value of 100>, ; a moiety of a knight's fee in Hildnlierewe, in the same county, lield by John Hubaud, of the yearly value of lOOi. ; a knight's fee in Straiton, in the same county, held by ihe earl of Albemarle, of the yearly value of 15/. ; a knight's fee in 'Market' Overton, in the same county, held by Gilbert de Umfrevill, of the yearly value of 15/. ; a fourth cf a knight's fee in Earl's Barton, in the county of Northampton, held by Michael de Halnghtoa, of the yearly vslue of 100«. ; a fourth of a knight's fee in tireat Dudington,
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in the same county, held by Robert de Campania, of the yearly value of 10/. ; a knight's fee in Bosiate, in the same county, held by John de Monbray, of the yearly ralue of 100^.; a knight's fee in Haclinton and Pedinton, in the same county, held by Gilbert de Eatwell and Richard de Lattrengton, of the yearly value of 10/. ; a fourth of a knight's fee in Hynton and Twywell, in the same county, held by Richard de Bray and John de Vere, of the yearly value of 605. ; a fourth of a knight's fee in Snarkeston, in the county of Leicester, held by Simon de Bcreford, of the yearly value of 50s. ; a six- teenth of a knight's fee in Barton, in the same county, held by Ralph de Stanlowe, of the yearly value of lOs.; a moiety of a knight's fee in Aston and Stapelton, in the same county, held by Robert de Flanvill, of the yearly value of 61. ISs. 4:d. ; a moiety of a knight's fee in Leire, in the same county, held by John de Leire, of the yearly value of 100*.; a fifth of a knight's fee in Oddpston, in the same county, held by John de Verdoun, of the yearly value of 40*. ; a fourth of a knight's fee in Snarkeston, in the same coniity, held by Geoffrey Stak and his parceners, of the yearly value of 52s. ; a moiety of a knight's fee in Swepeston and Neweton, in the same county, held by John de Lungevill, of the yearly value of 100*.; a knight's fee in Sutton and Stapelton, in the same county, held by Walter de Houby, of the yearly value of 15/.; a knight's fee in Oselveston, in the same county, held by the abbot of Oselveston, of the yearly value of 13/. 6s. Sd. ; a moiety of a knight's fee in Dadelington, in the same county, held by Remi de Meddlinges, of the yearly value of 10/. ; a knight's fee in Conyngeston, in the same county, held by William de Shepeie and his parceners, of the yearly value of 15/.; a knight's fee in Athelocston, in the same county, held by Joan de Bakeputz, of the yearly value of 18/.; a twentieth of a knight's fee in Heibam, in the same county, held by John Benet, of the yearly value of 10*. ; a tenth of a knight's fee in Stapelton, in the same county, held by Robert de Stapelton, of the yearly value of 20*. ; a moiety of a knight's fee in Barewell and Mouselewe, in the same county, held by John de Hertewell, of the yearly value of 100*. There is a saving to her of her dower of the said John's knight's fees in Wales and Ireland, and in other counties in the escheator's bailiwick, if there be any whereof the inquisitions have not yet been returned into chancery.
Nov. 25. To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county Westminster, to be elected in place of Hugh Daundelyn, wiio is afflicted with paralysis (morbo paralatico percussus).
Nov. 25. To Adam de Cretyng*. Order to deliver to John Cosyn, yeoman of the
Westminster, king's chamber, or to Geoffi-ey de Launne, his attorney in this behalf, the
seal, measures, and all other things pertaining to the office of the bailiwick
of the measures in Ireland, together with the issues of the same from April 8
last, when the king granted that office to the said John for life.
Nov. 25. To Philip de Kyme. Order to send to the king, so that he have it in Westminster, fifteen days from Si. Hilary, the tenor of the indictments of Walter de la Lynde, William de Stretton, John att« Grene of Layseby, John de Tawell, and Benedict Typell of Layseby for certain trespasses before him and Philip de Arcy, lately appointed keepers of the peace in the county of Lincoln, the king having afterwards appointed the said Philip de Kyme, Edmund de Ayncurt, and Roger de Culbcldich to hear and determine trespasses concerning which the keepers of the peace had made inquisition and to receive lines for such trespasses. The king has ordered the sheriff of Lincoln to release the said Walter, William, John, John, and Benedict, and their goods, upon their finding sufficient mainpernors to have them before the king on the above day to stand to right in his court concerning the said trespasses.
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Not. 23. To the nheriS of Bedeford. Order to can»e a coroner far tbal coant; to
Wettuiiuter. be elected in place of JoUn Vfymiiad of Bedeford, who is insufficientlj
qualified.
KoT, 25. To Joha Abel, escheator this side Treat. Order not to iutermeddle
WettmiuMr. further with the lamU of John Je la Mare of Bradewell, aa it appearH bj
inquisition that he held nothing in chief at his death by rtiagun whereof the
custody of his lands should pertain to the king.
To tlie same. Like order concerning the lands of Nicholas de Falsham.
Not. 11. To Hervey de Staunton and his fellows, justices iu eyre in the county of
Westminster. Kent. Onter to examine the rolls of the justices in eyre of Hunry III. in
that connly, which are in their custody, and if they find that the justices
entered the liberty of Tonebrugg', called ' the lowey (leucata) of Tonebrugg','
which is of the inheritance of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Olouctster and
Hertford, to hold ideas tliere touching that liberty, they are then to do the
like, as the eail compluins to the king that the jnsticss in eyre since the
time of Henry J II. have not entered the liberty during the eyre for this
purpose, as they were wont to do in his time and prior to it. By p.s. [2834.]
Nov. 22. To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales. Order not to inlermeildle
Westminster, further with the lands in lleghheyn Iscoyt that QriHiQ de la Pole had of
the gift of Roger Sprengehose, nor with Griffin's goods and chattels in the
same, restoring to him the issues of the same from the time when they were
taken into the king's hands. Bv K.
To John Abel, escheator thi» side Trent. Like order concerning the
lands in Dendor that Hawysia, late the wife of the said Griffin, held for
life, which ought to remain to him afk.>r her death, whit-h the kinj^ ordered
him to take into his hands upon her death. By S..
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales. Order to release all those
whom he has arrested on account of the siege of the castle of Ia Pole, the
homicides, seiiures of beasts, etc., in the lands of Fowys and La Pole, whom
he knows to be of the familiars or accomplices of Griffin de la Pole and
Fulk Lestraunge, as it was enacted in parliament held at Westminster on
Sunday after St. Matthew lust that Griffin and Fulk snd their accomplices
should uot be appealed, arrested, or molested on account of the premises.
Not. 27. To the sheriff of Henford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
Westmioitar. be elected in place of Laurence du Brok', lately elected, who is unable to
attend to the duties of the office as he is of queen Isabella's household, as
the king learns by the testimony of William luge.
Nov. 28. To Robert de Sandale, keeper of the town of Kyngeslon-on-Hull and of
Weitiniiister. the manor of Miton. Order to e:tpend 40/. out of the ferm of the town
and the issues of the manor in repairing the walls and dykes on the banks
of the rivers Humbre and Hull by the view of Richard de Gretford and
two other men. By 0.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
exchequer. Order to allow to the prior of Bromholra 10/. for MichoelmBs
term last for the yearly ferm of 20/. for the manor of Baketon, as Roger
de Wyngefeld has now received that sum in the king's chamber, the king
having ordered the prior to pay it into his chamber.
ilBir BRANS 16.
Nov. 28. To the keeper of certain of the late Templars' Isnds in London. Order
Wntraiiuter. to deliver to Albert de Nigro Castro, the ^rnnd preceptor of the Hospital
of St. John of Jerusalem, supplying this side the Mediterranean the place
of the grand-master, and to Leonard de Tibertis, prior of Venice, proctor-
so CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1313. Membrane 16 — cont.
general of the Hospital, the lands, etc., of the late order of the Temple ;
the pope having granted the same to the Hospitallers. [Fcedera,] Bj K. The like to other keepers of the Templars' lands throughout the realm.
IJbid.]
To R. bishop of Durham. Like order. [Ibid.]
The like to Edward, earl of Chester, the king's son, [Ibid,]
The like to the justiciary, chancellor, and treasurer of Ireland. [Ibid,'\
The like to the chancellor and chamberlain of Scotland. [Ibid.]
The like to Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales. [Ibid,]
To the sheritif' of Huntingdon. Order to cause the above order to be
executed in case the keepers of the lands in his county be remiss, and to
protect the above persons whilst executing their commission. [Ibid.] The like to other sheriffs, [Ibid.]
Membrane 15.
Nov. 20. To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales. Order not to intermeddle Westminster, further with the lands in Meghheyn Iscoit that Gntiin de la Pole had of the gift of Roger Sprcngehose, and his goods and chattels in the same, not- withstanding the king's former order to take them into his hands. By K.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands in Dendor that Hawysia, late the wife of the said Griffin, held for life, which ought to remain to him after her death, which the king ordered him to take into his hands upon her death. By K.
Vacated^ because the letters were restored and cancelled and are other" wise belofJD.
?Tov. 10. To John de Eggemere, keeper of the late Templars' manor of Dunwich.
Wesiminster. Order to pay to J. bishop of Norwich the arrears of the wages assigned to
Robert de Spaunton and John Coffyn, Templars assigned to him to put
in certain monasteries to do penance, to wit Ad, a day each, from the time
of his appointment, and to continue to pay the same.
Nov. 4. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
Westminster, exchequer. Order to put into execution the late king's writ to his treasurer and barons ordering them to assign to the executors of Isabella de Fortibus, countess of Albemarle, 673/. 3.f. 4^</., due to them from the late king for corn and other her goods taken by the escheator and other bailiffs of the late king for his use from her lands that came to his hands after her death, as appears by certificate of his treasurer and barons, out of the 788/. \\s. 0\d. due to him from the abbot and convent of Furneys for the arrears of the moiety of the benefices of prelates and clergy granted to him in the archdeaconry of Richmond in the twenty-third and twenty- fourth years of his reign, and for arrears of the tenth granted in aid of the Holy Land, deposited with the abbot and convent, charging the abbot and convent with the remaining 115/. 7f. 8^. ; the late king having made the above assignment in response to the executors' petition before him and his council in his parliament at Carlisle, his order having, however, not yet been executed.
Nov. 26. To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to supersede the arrest of Walter de Westminster, la Lynde, William de Stretton, John atte Grenc of Layseby, John de Tawell, and Benedict Typel of Layseby, upon their finding him sufficient mainpernors to have them before the king in fifteen days from St. Hilary to answer concerning the trespasses whereof they were indicted before Philip de Kyme and Philip Darcy, keepers of the peace in that county, the tenor of which indictment the king has ordered Philip de Kyme to send to him at the above date.
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Membrane 16 — eonl. To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause a coroaer tor that count; to be elected io place of Laareace de Brok, lately elected, who is eogaged in the service ot' qaeea Isabella, so that he cftonot attend to the duties of that office.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Onler to allow the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth in their ferm 331. 8i. Oct., which the king ordered ihem to pay to Richard Aogetyl, master of his ahip called ' la Crutofre ' of Westminster, for the wages of himself and hia fellow-sailors between 29 September auil 3 January, in the sixth year of the king's reign, and for money paid by him for the king's afiairs during that time, as appears by a bill of the wardrobe made to him. IfoT. 25. To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to the king's kins-
Wwtniiiuter. woman Isabella, late the wite of John de Vescy, for 39/. 1(m. <^d., in her account of the arrears of the ferm of the castle of Bamburgh, amounting, according to her, to 45/. 5s. lOd., which castle she held for life of the king's grant for certain yearly services and which she has recently surrendered to the king, if they find that she delivered armour, victualE, and other things of her own to the above amonat to John de Eshlington, to whom the king lately committed the castle, in addition to the king's armour, victuals, etc., for the munition of the ca«tle, by the liands of Robert de Coventre, then constable of the castle, by chirograph between him and the said John de EsblingtoD. Nov. 29. To the justices in eyre in Kent, Order to adjourn all pleas touching
WectraiDiur. Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, until after Christtnas, as the earl is
going with the king to parts beyond sea, the king having lately ordered them
to adjourn such pleas until the end ot the eyre. By K.
The like to the same in favour ot Johu le Sauvage and Nicholas de Crioil,
who are also going with the king. By X.
Not. 28. To the abbot ot Faversham, sub-collector of the tenth for one year now
WeMnumtcr. current in the diocese of Canterbury. Order to pay to William do North- well, clerk of the king's kitchen, the 300/. out ot the tenth for Midsummer term last assigned by the king to Ebulo de Montibus, late constable of Stryvelyn castle, for the arrears of his wages and recompence for his horses lost in the king's service there, and for divers victuals and garnisture bought from him for the munition of the castle, as Antoninus de(nc) I'essaigne has sati^Ged Ebulo fur this sum, and has assigned the above sum to the said William for divers payment for the king's household, and has restored the king's letters patent granting the same to Ebulo out of the tenth to the chancery to be cancelled. Dec. 1. To the sheriff of York. Order to send to the king in the octaves of
Wetbnimtar. St, Hilary next the tenor of the indictment of the king's clerk John de Merkyngfeld, Bobert de Sty veton, Thomas le Harpour, John le Hunt, John de Styveton, Boger de Clotherum, Richard de Utlay, William Batman ot Metham, John de Coplay, Robert Crokliayn, William de Stiveton, Adam de Foterton, William de Bolton, William de Clotherum, John de Utielay, and John son of Peter de Merkingfeld, indicted before the sheriff for divers felonies and trespasses by the procurement of divers of their rivals, and to release any of them whom he may have arrested, and to refrain from molesting them, as they have found sufficient mainpernors to apjiear before the king in the octaves of St. Hilary to stand to right concerning the above.
To the keeper of the late Templars' house of Eycle. Order to pay to the abbot and convent of Bee Herlouin '20i. yearly, and the arrears of the same from the time of bis appointment, the treasurer and barons of the exchequer
32 OALENDAB OF CLOSE BOLLS.
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having certified that thej were seised of that sum, for forty years before the Templars' lands were taken into the king's hands, by the hands of the Tem- plars of Eycle for tithes and rents formerly belonging to the abbot and convent in Scarle demised in fee by them to the Templars.
Nov. 23. To Walter do Tslep, late escheator in Ireland. Order to pay to Richard de
WestmiDster. Weylond, deceased (*tc), the issues of the lands of his father John in Ireland from December 12, in the sixth year of the king's reign, when the king took his homage and caused seisin of his father's lunds in England to be delivered to him, and ordered John de Duifbrd, escheator of Ireland, to ileliver to him his father's lands in Ireland and the issues thereof from the said date, upon his finding security for payment of his relief.
Nov. 28. To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to pay to Giles de Arpuche, staying at
WestmiDster. Abyndon with twenty-seven of the king's horses, 18*. a day for the
expenses of the horses and of his two horses and the wages of himself and
grooms, for so long as he sliall stay in the sherilTs bailiwick. By C.
Nov. 28. To the mayor, bailifls, and men of Berwick-on-Tweed. Order to lend
WestminBter. to Master John de Weston, chamberlain of Scotland, victuals or money for the king's afiairs in Scotland when requested so to do by him, the king having assigned all issues of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in that port to them for payment of the king's debts to them and in order that they might the more diligently make him a loan for his affairs in Scotland.
Dec. 4. To the sheriff* of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
WeBtminster. elected in place of John de Couele, lately elected, who has no lands in that county to qualify him.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of llobert de Brantingthorp, deceased.
Nov. 30. To the sheriff of York. Order to pay 20 marks to John de Ergadia for WestmiiiBter. the yearly payment of 10 marks for two years that the abbot and convent of Sallaie ought to receive, according to the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, from the Templars' manor of Neusum for the land that they had in Ualton and ibr the quit-claim that they made of five bovatcs there, and to continue to pay the sum of 10 marks yearly to the said John so long as he has tlie manor, which the king granted to him on March 12, in the fifth year of his reign, in aid of his maintenance until the king should otherwise provide for him. By K.
Membrane 14.
Dec, 7. To the sheriff of Middlesex. Order to buy and provide forty cart-loads
Minster-in- of litter for the king's use, and to send the same by land or water, as shall Thanet. \^q most convenient, to Westminster, so that it be there three days before Christmas.
The like to the sheriff of Surrey and Suasex for forty cart-loads.
The like to the sheriff of Essex and Hertford for one hundred and sixty cart-loads.
Nov. 25. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Roger de Westminster. Mortuo Mari of Chirk the lands of John son of Reginald, deceased, at Bleyn- leveny and Dy nas, together with the issues of the same, the king having granted them to him and his heirs, with the knights' fees, advowsons, and all other appurtenances, to be held by the same services as the said John held them by, and having ordered Boger de W^ellesworth, late escheator
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Dec. 7. Uinater-iii-
ThMiet.
Mtmbmne 14 — cont. thisBide Trent, to deliver the said lands, which had been taken into the kin^s hand^ lor certain causes, to the said Roger do Mortuo Mari, toother with the issues of the same, to be held uulil tho parlinment then next following, the lands being now in the king's hands ou that account. [By p.s. 2842.]
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to pay to Robert le Squier, whom the ■king is sending to take eight hinds and si\ bucks in tiiis winter season {fermiiima) in Wj-ndesore forest, with two beroers, three veutrera, one bercelett&r, twenty-four running dogB, twelve greyhounds, and two bercelets, his wages during his stay in his bailiwick, to wit 12d. a day, and 2(/. « day for each of the bemers, veutrers, and the bercelettHr, and ^if. aday for each of the dogs, greyhounds, and bercelets. He is also to deliver to him salt for the venison, and carriage for the same to the king.
The like to the sheriff of Essex to pay the like wages to the eaid Robert whilst engaged in taking six hiniis and twenty bucks in the forest of E^sei.
The like to the sheriff of Southampton to pay the like wages to John Lovel whilst engaged in taking eight hinds and ten bucks in the forest of Wolmere.
To him who supplies (he place of the treasurer and to the barons of the ' exche<)ner. Order to acquit Adam de Ellesfeld of 35j. 6^d. yearly from November 10 Inst, for two parts of the lands of the late Thomas de Morileye, B Scot, in Brogfaton in Alenburgh, in the county of Cumberland, which were taken into the late king's haniis because Thomas adhered to ihe Scotch rebels, and which were committed by him on 15 October, in the thirtieth year of his reign, to the said Adam, saving dower of Hawisia, Inte the wife of the said Thomas, renderingtherefor thenbovesum yearly, the king having, on November 10, taken the homage of Thomas de Morileye, son and heir of the said Thomas, who had proved his age before Robert de Wodehous, escheator beyond Trent, for all the lands that his father held in chief ol the late king in cornace at the beginning of the war ss of the honour of Coker- muth in the king's hands, and having ordered John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent, to cause him to have seisin of his father's Uuds.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the chamberlains, Onler to pay to tho king's yeoman John Colne, to whom the king, on July 29, in tlie fourth year of his reign, granted for life the custody of his mews (mutarum) at \Vestminster, the wages, robes, and food (pulura) for the falcons in his custody that he hns been wont to receive according to the custom of the iting's household.
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to pay to the king's sergeant Adam de Bray, staying at Merlon with certain of the king's horses, 20/. for the expenses of the burses and the wages of the grooms keeping them.
To G. bishop of London and J, bishop of Lincoln, principal collectors of thetenth for one year now current. Order to pay to Manent Fransciasi and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, 2,000/ from ihe first moneys of the tenth, in part payment of the king's debts to them, concerning which they have delivered bills oftbe wnrdrcbe to the exchequer, the king having caused tallies in the name of the above collectors to be delivered to them, notwithstanding any orders to the contrary. By K.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to buy and provide without delay what is still wanting of the 100 quarters of wheat, 100 quarters of malt, 2U0 quarters of oats, 40 oxen, 100 sheep, and 40 swine that the king ordered him, on June 16 last, to provide and send to Westmii^ster, to be there delivered to the receiver of bis victuals in the quinzaine of Midsummer last, and to
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
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Dec. 7.
Mln§ter-in- Thanet.
Dec. 11.
Dover.
Dec. 12. DoTer.
Dec. 13.
Dover,
Dec. 13.
Dover.
Membrane 14 — cont
send the same to Westminster for the expenses of the household of queen Isa>>ella for the present Christmas, to be delivered to the receiver of her victuals.
The like to the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for 100 quarters of wheat, 500 quarters of oats, 40 oxen, 200 sheep and 60 swine.
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to paj to Robert de Fienles the arrears for Easter and Michaelmas terms last of the jearlj sum of 110 murks, granted hy the king to him from the issues of that county for his good service for his lifetime or until the king should provide him with lands of that value yearly for his life, and to continue to pay the same.
To Robert de Monte Alto and Emma his wife. Order to pay to Rubert de Fyenles 60/. yearly out of the ferm of the town of Aylesbury, which they hold at fee-ferm as her dower, according to the king's grunt of that sum to Robert for life for his maintenance, they having done nothing in execution of the king's previous order. If they do not pay him the above sum, the king will cause it to be levied from the issues of the town by the sheriff of Buckingham.
To Thomas de Derby. Order not to intermeddle with the goods and chattels of Joan, late the wife of Alexander Comyn, keeper of the manor of Faxflet, in that manor, she having complained that he has taken into the king's hands her goods and chattels wherefor she is bound by security to answer to the exchequer and intends to drive the same away, under colour of the king's order to her to deliver to him all the king's beasts and goods and chattels in that manor to be driven and carried whither he was enjoined by the king.
John Patrik of Edelmeton, in the king's gaol of Neugate for the death of Richard le Soudour, has letters to the sheriffs of London to bail him until the first assize.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to pay to Giles de Arpuche, staying at Abyndon with twenty-seven of the king's horses, 9*. daily for the expenses of the horses and the wages of himself and the grooms attending the horses, from November 28 last until the Purification, out of the tallage assessed in Oxford, the sherijff having done nothing in execution of the king's order of November 28 to pay him 18*. daily for the above purposes. The king lias ordered the sheriff of Wilts to pay him the remaining 9*.
Mandate in pursuance to the sheriff of Wiltshire to pay the said 9«. daily out of the tallage and the issues of his bailiwick.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to pay to Nicholas de Stafford, 8ta3ring in his county with twenty- four of the king's great horses and eight of his hackneys (hakenettis), hay and oats and other necessaries, and the wages of himself, a fiarrior, and twenty-four grooms keeping the great horses, to wit 2d. a day each, and for three grooms keeping the hackneys i^d, a day each, for so long as they shall stay in his bailiwick. By letter of John de Okham.
Membrane 13.
Dec. 26. To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to send to the king, in fifteen dayB
Westminster, from St. Hilary, the indictment of John de Boylund, before him in his turn at Billingford for burning certain houses in Osraundeston, which houses he asserts are his own property, so that no damage was done to any one but himself, whence it is clear that the indictment was malicious. He is to release the said John from the king's prison at Norwich, as he has
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7 EDWABD n.
1813.
1314.
Jan. 4. WiiidKir.
Xetnbrane 13 — eont, foDnd mainpernors in chancery to have him before the king on the ahovA daj, to wit Willfam de Grrantham of I^ondon, James son of John Frithsent of Croxton, of the coiinty of Norfolk, Peter son of John Child, of the county of Suffulk, Adum eon of If icholni Arnald, of the countj of Norfolk, William Btiillolf of Braumford, of the county of Suffolk, and John aoo of William de Fadyngton of London.
To the sheriff of Qloucbster. Order to pay to Robert Squier, whom the â– king is tendins; with two veutrers, two berners, a bercelettnr, ten grey- hounds, twenty-fiur running do^a, and two bercelets to stay in his bailiwick until further orders, his wages from January I next, to wit 12rf. a day for himself, 2d. a day for each of the veutrei*s and bercelettaro, l}<f. a day for each of the berners, and Jrf. a day for each of the gi-eyhounda, dogs and bercelets. By bill of the steward.
The like to the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset to pay like wages to John Lovel, staying in his bailiwick with a veutrer, two berners, six greyhounds, and twenty-four running dogs.
The like to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to pay the like wages to William de Balliolo, staying in his bailiwick with five greyhounds und a bercelet.
To the chamberlain of Eaemervan. Order to pay 20 marks to John de Crumbwell, whom the king la sending with Henry le Scrop to Wales upon his aflliirs, for his ezpenses. By K,
The like order in favour of Henry le Sci-op. By K.
To Alexander de Cave and Robert de Arocotes, late keepera of the Templars' lands in the county of York. Order to pay, out of the issues of the said lands in iheir poaseasiotj, to W. archbishop of York the arrears of the wages assigned for the maintenance of ^\'ilIiam de Gntsron, a Templar delivered to him to put in ibe monastery of Seleby to do penance, to wit •Id. a day, from the time when tliey had the custody of tbe said lands.
To Thomas de Derby. Order not to intermeddle with the goods and chattels of David de Qiaham, keeper of the late Templars' manor of Eicle, and to restore to him any of his goods and chattels tiiat he may have caused to bo carried out of the said manor, as he complains that the said Thomas has taken into the king's hands and carried away his goods and cliattels under colour of the king's order to receive from David the king's beasts and goods and chattels in that manor.
John le Fort, clerk, in the king's gaol at Newegate for the death of Simon de Tilletey, has letters to the sheriffs of London to bail him until the first
To Roger de Moubray. Ucencs to send bis brother Alexander with men-at-arms and footmen to help David, earl of Athole, against Edward de Brus, on account of tbe di?<8ennion between them.
By K, on the information of the earl of Pembroke.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to pay to Adam de Bray, whom the king is sending to slay at Torkeseyo with certain of his great horses, I3s.4d, a day for the maintenance of the said horses for so long as he shall stay there.
The like order to the sheriff of Eesex and Hertford to pay 20i. a day to Merlin de Sene and John Gytemyo, whom tbe king is sending with thirty-six horses to stay within his bailiwick.
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CALENDAE OF CLOSE ROLLS.
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Jan. 8. Windsor.
Jan. 4. Windsor.
Jan. 12.
Windsor.
Jan. 16. Westminster.
Jan. 18.
Elthani.
Jan. 18.
Wentminster.
Jan. 28. Eltham.
1313.
Dec. 8.
Minster-in- Thanet.
Membrane 13— rowf.
Adam Bron, in the king's gaol of Newegate for the death of Henry de la Launde, has letter to the sheriffs of London to bail him until the first assize.
To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to permit all writs delivered to the sheriff of that county up to Sunday the octaves of St. Hilary to be received and pleaded in the eyre, notwithstanding their proclamation that all writs to be pleaded in the eyre should be delivered to the sheriff before Sunday after St. Andrew last.
To Hugh le Despenser, keeper of the forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver John Hemery, in the king's prison at Southampton for a trespass of the forest, in bail to twelve main- pernors of bis bailiwick, who shall mainpern to have him before the justices of forest pleas when they next cume to those parts.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the abbot and convent of Seleby 50 marks out of the first payments due from them, either for their tenths or for the service of Scotland or for other causes, in [my men l of a loan of that amount received by the king by the hands of William de Melton, which the king granted that they should receive as above.
To Hervey de Staunton and his fellows, justices in eyre in Kent. Order to proceed to judgment in the plea wherein Walter Po.ekvn and Joan his wife impleaded the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, before them con- cerning the manor of Terstan, which is peudin^i: before them because the prior in his plea produced a charter of queen Eleanor, the king's mother, confirmed by the late king, by which he alleged that he was enfeoffed and that he ought not to answer rege inconsulfo When they have prc^ressed so far, they are to send, before judgment is rendered, the record and process, etc., to the king and his council in the next parliament, under the seal of the said Hervey, prefixing that day for both parties to be there to hear and receive what the king shall ordain.
Thomas del Howe, in the king's prison of Lancaf^ter for the death of Matilda, late the wife of Thomas Evotesone, has letters to the sherifi* of Lancaster to bail him until the first assize.
To John Abel, cscheator this side Trent. Order to caufe John de Sancto Phileberto, son and heir of Hugh de Sancto Phileberto, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the said escheator and the king has taken his homage for all the lands that his father held in chief of the late king.
To the justiciar}' of Ireland or to him who supplies his place. Order to continue the mainprize or take fresh mainpernors of Robert de Verdun and Walter de la Pulle, mainperned by the king's order for certain trespat^ses in Ireland until Easter next, on rendition that they then ccme to the king in Scotland with horses and arms to stay there in the king's service, as the king does not now intend going thither until about Midsummer, the new mainprize to be that they will join the king in Scotland when he shall be there. He is to deliver to them their horses, equipments {hernesia), and othef goods arrested on account of this trespass. [By p.s. 2873.]
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle fur- ther with the lands of John de Nevill, and to restore the issues of the same, as it appears by inquisition that he held no lands in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands should pertain to the king, but that he and Dionisia his wife held jointly at his death the manor of King's Walden of John de Dukesworth by knight service.
1 EDWABD n.
1314. Membrane \Z — eont.
Feb. 4. To the same. Order to cause John de Burgo aad his wife Sybil,
Wiodwr, ilaughter and heircBB of Roger de Cnrom of Shiriiigton, a tenant in chief of
the late king, to have seisitt of the saiil Roger's tuads, as nhe has proved
her age before the said eacheatoi* and the king has taken fealty of her
husband for the above lands.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a coroner for that connly to
be elected In place of Thomas de Dorset {sic), who has no lands in that
coaQty to qualify him.
1313.
Nov.l. Weitmiiuter.
MSMBRAKE 12.
Enrolment of composition between John de Merton and Stephen de Browode, appointed by the king to make inquisitiona in the county of Norfolk concerning ihe arrests of the goods of the merchants of William, count of Holland, ZeelHud, nnd FHeslxniJ, arrested in satisfaction of the sum of !'54/. due to Waller 1e Keu of Lincoln and his fellows and of 259J. due to Richard Wake and John Wyp, acknowledged by the count's envoys et the parliament of Esbiunford, in the third year of the king's reign, ibr which the count bound himself to Robert Elis of Great Yarmouth, who became surety for piiyment of the same to the said merchants, and between William de Brawod nnd John de Turnar, the count's envoys sent by him to request the king to niake inquisition concerning ihe said arrests, so that the count might cause the said merchants to be satisfied for what was slill due to them. It was found by inquifitioii that goods to the value of 101. 17*. iid, were arrested at Great Yarmouth, in the fourth year of the king' reign, and were delivered to Kobert Elis; that 70/, of the money of the count's men in the hands of men of the same town wero arrested but not levied in the same year; that aaoA* to the value of 111/. 7«. Od. were arrested at Lynn, in the same year, and wpre delivered to the said Walter as attorney of Robert Elis; and that Walter has received in addition 3d/. ]l>. Qd.: total ^k7/. 15s. Oc^., whereof Walter has received from Robert and in Robert's name 217/. 15«. ild., in part payment of the aforesaid 954/. The count, the king, and the envoys agree that Walter shall have a writ to levy the 70/. in the bands of the men of Yarmoutli, and that Walter shall go with the envoys to the count to receivesatisfactionfor the balance due to him and for his damages, and that, if the count full to satisfy him, he shall recover from the goods of the count's merchants coming to England. It is agreed that Robert Elis shall receive nothing by virtue of the aforesaid obligation in right of the said merchant's debts and of the debt of 259/. due to Richard Wake and John Wyp, as Richard and John were present at the inquisition and were found not to have received or arrested anything. Whereupon they, were de- tired to come to the king's court to receive award, which they promised to do ; but they did not appear, though the envoys lon^ nwaiied them. It is agreed that they shall [not] sue or make arrest, but shall go to the count in person, unless they agree that Walter shall represent them. Dated and enrollcHl at Westminster in the king's chancery, January 31, in the seventh year, one part of the indenture being delivered to the envoys and the other to Walter in the name of himself and the said Richard and John. French. [Ftedera.']
To the sheriffs of London. At the complaint of Philip de Leghlon, burgess of Ipswich, that the castellan of the town of St. Valery had arrested and detained his ship called '/a Creade,' of the value of .iO/,, in the port of St. Valery, the late king wrote to the count of Druui, lord of that town, requesting him to cause restitution or satiefacuon to be made to Philip for hia ship and tackle and damages amoimtiog to 40/.) but the count
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1314.
Feb. 18. Canterbury.
Feb. 19. Canterbury
Feb. 17. Canterbury.
Feb. ly. Canterbury.
Feb. 20. Canterbury.
Feb. 22. Canterbury.
Feb. 20. Canterbury.
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failed to do justice, as appears by the testimoDy of the bailiffs of Ipswich and other testimony ; whereupon the hits king ordered the sheriffs of London and of Southampton to arrest goods of the men of St. Valery and elsewhere in the count's dominions to the above value : as the king is certified that Philip received only 20/. S:?. lOrf. by virtue of the above arrests, he now orders the said sheriffs to arrest goods of the men of St. Valery and from elsewhere in the count's dominions to the value of 69/. Ws, 2d.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Cruket, deceased.
To the same. Like order to elect a coroner in place of Peter de Draycote, deceased.
To William de Bereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench. Order to admit John de Horneby, clerk, to the office of chirographer in the Bench in the name of Robert de Foxton, the king's chirograplier before them, whom the king has appointed to attend to certain affairs in Cornwall, the said Hobert having named the said John to execute his office at his peril. By K.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle fur- ther with the lands of John de Turbuivill, as it appears by inquisition that he held nothing of the king in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
John de Noverey of Barkeby, in the king's prison at Leicester for the death of William son of Ivo de Magna Stretton, has letters to the sheriff of Leicester to bail him until the first assize.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Anthony Pessaignc of Genoa 200/., for the expenses of certain men collecting the issues of the customs of wool, hides, and wool-fells in divers ports of England and Ireland, lately granted to him until he should be satisfied for a certain sum of money due to him, as the customs ought to be collected at the king*s expense. By K.
Enrolled by transcript.
To the same. Order to cause the abbot and convent of St. Albans to have 400/. out of the twentieth in the county of Hertford, the king having given them 100/. and promised to lend them 300/., to be repaid at the terms mentioned in their letters of obligation. By K.
Enrolled by transcript.
To the sheriff of Derby. Order to take into the king's hands without delay the castle, town, and manor of the High Peak and the forest of the same, lately committed to John de Wnronns, earl of Surrey, arresting any persons wno shall resist the execution of this order, taking with him for this purpose a sufficient force. By K.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause Robert de Holand to have seisin of a messuage, two acres of land, and three parts of a messuage in Lyverpol, as it appears by inquisition that William Baroun of Lyverpol, who was hanged for felony, held them of him, and that they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Richard de Sussex had the king's year day and waste thereof and ought to answer for the same.
Jan. 22. Wiudsor.
Membrane 11.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Whereas discords arose in the late king's reign between iSancho, late king of Castile, and his subjects, on the one put, and the citizens of Bayonne on the other, concerning the seizure of
7 EDWARD rr.
1314. Membrane I! — eo«t.
goods of the mid citizens bj tho meo of Castile, amongst whom Aroald de Sancto Mnrtino wm robbed of his ^odi' to the value of 230 inarkt> liy the men of Castile, as appears by sutiicient proof; and afterwui'ds the said king Sanclio, sent to the lat« king John, tiie judge of his <!ourl, and Btmdissalvua {»U) Hartiiii with his open letters, and the mayor tinil thu community of Buyonne sent Arnald dc Villari and John Uai'dii', their fellow-citizeDs, with sufiicieiit powers to settle the disputes, and the lute kiug, with the assent of the said proctors, ordained that all ships and other gooils of the citizens of Bayonco taken by the subjects of tlie king of Castile, within or witliout his realms, should be restored by the said king within a certain time, now elapsed, as appears by the rolls of the late king's chancery of his 21st year ; and afterwards, because the king of Castile did not observe the ordinance, Stephen de Feneceslre, late constable of I)o\er and warden of the Cinque Forts, arrealed divers goods of the men of Castile in the port of Sandwich ; by reason of which arrest, Arnald de Sancio Martino recovered 65«. sterling in part satisfitction of the said ?30 niarki; ; and whereat after the king's accession, Ferdinand, the present king of CsiitilB and Leon, on account of certain other disputes between his subjects and the said citizens and others of the king'x snbjecis and the community of the said city, sent his proctors to the king for the settlement of the disputes ; and tlie king, having deliberated with 'hose of his council concerning the new and old disputes, ordained, with tht^ assent of the said proclorfi, that the ordinance of tfae late king, which tlie lute king Sancho approved by his letUrs, should be completed and observed; although the said Arnald de Sao cto Martino afterward* bore special letters of the king to king Feixlinand for the recovery of his goods, and sought for the execution of tlio ordinance above- said from those appointed by the king and by the king of Castile to super- intend the execution of the ordinance, the commissai'ieE of the king of Castile appointed with the king's commissaries for the execution of the ordinance at Fnentarrabia {^Fontcin Ratndum) did nothing in execution of the said ordinancet an appears b}- the letters pateut of Gaillard de Sancto Paulo, knight, lord of Seres {deSero), and of Mast«r Peter Arnoldi de Vico, the king's commissaries : wherefore the kiug orders the said Hhcrilf to arrest goods of the men of ihe power of the king of Castile to the value of 223 marks and 2Qd, sterling, the balance of the 230 marks aforesaid, and of the damages of the said Arnald, certifying the kiug of his proceedings.
By 0. and the process therein heretofore continued.
Feb. 4. To the sheriff of York. Order to release William son of Thomas de
Windsor. SeU-by from the king's prison at I'ork, wheieiu he is imprisoneil for a trespass committed upon Koljert de Neuby, clerk, whilst engaged in the king's service at York, upon his finding sumcient mainpernors to have him before the king in three weeks from Easter to answer lo the king for the contempt and to the said Robert, it he sue him for the tresiioss.
Feb. 8. To the prior of the Hospital of St. John of .Jerusalem in England.
Eltham. Order lo pay Ad. a day out of the issues of the Templars' lands for the
â– wages of each of tlie Templars placed in m<masteripfl lo do penance, and
2*. a day to Imbert Blank, the wages of brother WiUium de la More,
late master of the oi-der of the Temple in England, {^ranted to the said
Imbert at the request of Sir Louis de Claro Monle. \_Fa!dera.']
Feb. 22. To the treasurer, or to him who supplies his place, and to the baioiis of
Cuiierbur7. the exchequer of Dublin. Order tu pay to Laurence dela Kyvere o
1 this bphRir64/. 3*. H(/., out of the first i:
nof
wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of Drogheda (Drowedii), 1 balance of 1 14/. 3». 8rf. that the king ordered them to pay out of the said ruelom to him for arrears of his w^es and recompence for his homes when
CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1314.
Feb. 7. Eltham.
Feb. 26. Canterbury.
Membrane 11 — cant.
in the late king's service, as appears by two bills of the late king's ward- robe delivered by Laurence into chancery. By K.
To the justices in eyre in Kent. Ordor to continue until the quinzaine of Easter all pleas in the eyre touching the lowey of Tonebrugge with
By p.8. [2889.]
Feb. 26. Hadleigh.
Feb. 24. Canterbuiy.
Feb. 20.
Canterbiu-y.
the hundred of Littlefeud.
To John de Segrave, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to deliver Wiliiara de Mulcastre, in the king's prison at Carlisle for a trespass of the Forest, in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall mainpem to have him before the king*s justices for Forest pleixs when they come to those parts.
Kichani son of Reyner de Hordeleye, in the prison of Shrewsbury castle for the death of William Brech of Hordeleye, has letters to the sheriff of Salop to bail him until the first assize.
To G-. bishop of London and J. bishop of Lincoln, principal collectors of the leulh for one year. Order to pay all the money of the tenth in Ireland to Richard de Clodeshale and John de Monilie, attornies of Anthony Pessaigne, in pan payment of the king's debts to him, notwith- standing any other orders previously sent to them in favour of others.
ByK.
To Hugh Daudeleye, constable of Montgomery Castle. Order to send before the king, in one month from Easter, the tenors of the inquisitions taken by the ministers of that castle in the absence of Thomas de Wynes- bury by his rivals, whereby it was pretended that the said Thomas was indicted for carrying away and receiving certain of the king's goods in that castle, on which account the said ministers arrested him at Chire- bury in the county of Salop, and took him out of that county to the said castle and imprisoned him there because he would not answer before them according to Welsh law, although he is not a W^eishmau &.nd does not hold any lands by reason whereof he ought be be judged according to Welbh law, and detained him in prison until he found mainpernors to have him before the constable to answer to the king within three days of summons. The constable is to appear before the king on the above day to inform the king concerning the premises, and is ordered to release the said Thomas or his niainpernors, if he have arrrstcd them, as he has found mainpernors to have him before the king on the above day, to wit John de Cherleton, the king's chamberlain, William de Leghton, Richard de Clumton, Robert de Marchumleyc of the county of Salop, Walter Fuk' of the county of Here- ford, and William de Brymesgrove of the county of Worcester.
To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to make partition of the lands of Robert de Ros of Werk, deceased, a Scotch rebel of the late king, into two parts in the presence of his heirs, if they choose to attend, and to caut^e John Salvayu and Margaret his wife, the eldest daughter of the said Robert, to have seisin of her pur party as her esnecy, retaining in the king's hands the purparty of John de Knoches and Isabella his wife, the youngest daughter of the said Robert, the said Margaret and Isabella, who were born and baptized in Scotland, having proved their age before William de Bevercotes, chancellor of Scotland, and the king having taken homage for Margaret's purparty, as it appears to theking that Margaret and Isabella were under age when the late king granted, whilst in Scotland, to John Comyn of Ba<ienauh, for himself and his men of Scotland who had been at war with the late king, that their lives and limbs should be saved, that they should be quit of imprisonment, and that they should not be disinherited, and that their heirs then under age should enjoy the same conditions.
7 EDWARD II.
13]4_ Membrane 11 — con/.
Feb. 6. To the justices in oyre in Kent. Order to take fines from persons ron*
Blthftm. victed beforu tbem for other oifences than trexpassex in parks and fishponds, from whom the king order»<l them to take fines, for the remainder of their term of imprisonment and for what pertains t^ the king of the said tres* pasNes, as the king underHtands that man}' peruoas eo cuovicted wish to make fines with him. By K.
[Fflsdera.]
Membrane 10.
.Tan. 20. To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to cause a coroner for that county
WeaimitiBter. to be elected in place of .Mieiiael do Colene, who, the king is informed, is a merchant and trudes botli hy sea and ianrt in divers parts, so that be cannot convenientlj attend to the office of coroner,
Jan. 25. To Walter Waldeshef, laker of the wines of the right prise at
Windsor. Southampton. Order to deliver a tun of wine of the right prise at iSonthampton to tlie abbot and convent of Netley (Lettele) for the present jear, io BcconlHnce with the grant to them by Henry III. of a tun yearly for the celebration of mass in their church, which wine the lata king graoted, at the request of R. bishop of Bath and Wells, his chancellor, should be received from the laker of wines al Southampton.
To the same. Order to deliver to the abbot and monks of King's Beaulieu a tun of wine of the right prise at Southampton for tlie present year, in accordance with the grant of Henry III. to ihem of a tun of wine yearly for the celebration of muss in their church.
Jan. 21. Thomas le Criour of Slokhith, imprisoned in Lincoln castle for the
WettmiiisiiT. death of William Baroun of Stokhith, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to boil him until the first assize.
To the purveyors of hay, oatu, litter, brushwood (busee), poultry, and other victuals for the kind's uie in certain counties. Order not to take any of llie goods or chattels of Otto de Grandisono against the wish of his bailiffs, the king having granted that his goods shall not be taken, as fae iii sojourning by the king's license iu parts beyond sea.
Jan. 15. To the bnilifTs of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Order to deliver to Adam de
Westminster. Cfansteborn, merchant of Ponielract, a ship of Walter Colkyn, called 'La Mariole,' o{ Donkirk, in Flanders, wiih a bont and all the tackle of the samF, and four empty chests found in the ship, appraised by men of New- castle at 25 marks 2s. 8(/., arrested by them in execution of tbe king's order to arrest goods of the men of the power of the count of Flanders to the value of 50 marks, in part satisfaction for the goods of the said Adam, to the value of 106 marks, stvleu fiom him by men of the count's power in going to Flanders near the Sheld, the count having failed to do him justice as requested by the king, as appears by letters under the common seal of the town of Pontel'ract. The ship, etc., are to be delivered to Adam by the above appraisement, or by another to be made in the presence of the said Walter, if he will attend upon summons. They are to arrest goods of the men aforesaid to the vnlue of 24 marks 10«. Bd., tbe balance of the abo%-e 50 marks, excepting the goods of the merchants of Ypres {Ipre), to whom the king hns granted that their goods shall not be arretted except for debts wherefor they are principal debtors or sureties or for trespasses committed by them. Feb. 1. To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of
^Windsor. Galtres to he elected in place of Robert de Sbipion, who is incapacitated by infirmity.
By the testimony of John deS^prave, justice of the Forest beyond Trent.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1314.
Feb. 3. Windsor.
Feb. 2. Windsor.
Feb. 3. Windsor.
Feb. 6. EUham.
March 1. Hadleigh.
March 3. H adleigh.
March 9. Westminster.
March 12. Westminfeter.
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To the sheriff's of London. Order to arrest all tin (stagmen) from Cornwall and Devon found in the port unstamped (non coignaium) intended for exportation, certifying the king of their proceedings from term to T«rm, as the king understands that ceitain merchants and others take unstamped tin to parts beyond sea, thus defrauding the king of the custom due for its stamping {coignagio).
The like to the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton.
to
The like to Queen Margaret's bailiffs of Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Yoik. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Whyteby to bo elected in place of Robert de Everle, deceased, in accor- dance with the grant of Henry III. to the abbot of Whytebj that he and his successors sliould have verderers in the forest of Whyteby, and that they should be elected in the full county [court] of York.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph de Shireleye, who is incapacitated by infirmity.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to the king's yeoman Giles de Arpuche, keeper of certain of the king's horses staying at Abyndon, 9«. a day for the maintenance of the horses and the wages of the servants keep- ing the same, from the Purification last, until which feast the king pre- viously ordered him to pay the above wages, until the quinzaine of Easter.
ByC.
To the sheriff of York. Oi"der to aiTest all persons who have gone without licence to parts beyond sea to tourney, and to take their lands into the king's hands. [Foedera.]
The like to nil the sheriffs of England, llbid.]
To John le Gras and Robert de Clyderhou, late keepers of the bishopric of Worcester, void and in the king's hands. Order to pay 100/. to W. bishop of Worcester out of the issues of the bishopric, which sum the king has granted to him. By p.s. [2908.]
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to pay 60 marks to the king's yeoman Master Walter le Fciour, whom the king is sending to the parts of Corbrigg' to provide horse-shoes (J'erris) and horse-nails for the war in Scotland. By K.
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to cause a coroner to be elected in place of Robert de Waleton, lately elected, who does not reside continuously in that county, but is continuously engaged upon matters outside the county.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to release John Flemyng from Neu- gatc prison, where he is imprisoned for the arrears ol the account wherein John Abel asserts him to be bound to him for the time when he was receiver of the said John Abel's moneys, as he alleges that the auditors of the above account unduly aggrieve him, charging him with money that he did not receive and not allowing him his expenses and liveries, he having found mainpernors before the king in chancery, to wit Giles de Argentein, John de Boweles, and Robert Gn mbaud of the county of Bedford, and John le Chaumbreleyn, of the city of Lc ndon, to have him before him who supplies the place of the trea^irer and the barons of the exchequer in fifteen days from Easter to answer concerning the above account, as the said John Flemyng, being a foreigner and unknown in London, was unable to iind mainpernors in the city, and the sheriffs refused to receive mainpernors except from the city. They are to summon John Abel to be in the exchequer on the above day, with the rolls and tallies whereby John Flemyng rendered his account.
7 BDWABD II.
131t. Membrane 10 — eont.
Mnrch IS. To the eheriSs oF London. Order to release Robert* Dumentera from WinmiDtter. Neufrate prison, uul to deliver him tn Edmund de Malo Lacu, steward of the king's household, who has mainperned to have him before the king in three weeks from Easter to aatiafy the king for hia ransom for certain conspiratiea and trespasses against John de Abyndon, whereof he was convicted by a jury in the king's conn. By K.
Mbubrass 9.
March 1 2. To the sheriffa of London. Order to receive Eliiabeth wife of Robert de
WMtminttet. Bras from the abbess of Berkyngg', with whom she has been staying by the
king's order, and to take her under safe custody to Rochester and there
deliver her to Henry de Cobeliam, constable of the castle. By K.
To the abbess of Berkyngg'. Order to deliver the said Elizabeth to the
sheriff. \_FtedeTa.'\ By K.
To Henry He Cobeham, constable of Rochester Uastle. Order to receive
the said Elizabeth from the sheriffs, und to assign a suitable chamber within
the caatle to her, and to pay her 20i. a week fur her expensed, and to permit
her to walk about (ipaciari) undor safe costody within the castle and the
priory of St. Andrew at suitable times. By K.
[Fcetlera.]
March 16. To John Abel, escheator thix side Trent. Order to deliver William son
W«itmiiuteT. and heir of Roesia, late the wife of Peter de El mere, which Roeeia held
by knight service of the heir of Thomas Aguillon. a tenant in chiefj late a
minor tn the king's wardship, all his mother's lands in the king's hands, as
he has proved his age before the said escheator.
To the sheriff nf Northnmberlaml. Order to cause a coroner for that
county to be elected in place of Henry de Neuton, who is insufficiently
qualified.
Harcb 20. To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Alina late
Wettminitor. the wife of Hugh fiz Aer the hamlet of Haverkecote and the isHueti of the
same, as it appears by inquisition that she and her husband were jointly
enfeoffed thereof bj William Canne by the king's licence, and that she con-
tinued her joint-seisin of ihe same until her husband's death, and that the
hamlet ia held of the king in chief by the service of finding a man with a
bow and two arrows and one bolt (petilio) in the army of Wales, the king
baring taken her fealty.
March 17. To the taxora and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the county
WcnmintteT. of Lincoln. Order to proceed with all speed to the taxing and levying of
the above, so that all money that they can levy of the same be delivered to
the treasurer and chamberlains of tbe exchequer without delay, as the king
intends ahonly to set out for Scotland to repress the rebellion. They are
not to pay any money out of the above without the king's special licence.
IParl. WriU.'\ By K.
The like to the laxors and collectors in all the counties of England except
Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland. [Ibid.l
March 21. To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
WcstmiDiter. exchequer. Order to acquit Thomas de Brothertoo, earl of Norfolk, the
king's brother, of the service due for the knights' fees held by him by reason
â– Called predktum Johannem in tbe order cIium, hot Roberiut in tbe pmuable and in the maigio and in Prirj Seal S9Sg.
44 CALENDAR OP CLOSE BOLLS.
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of the summons of the king's service at Berwick -on -Twee<l on Mondaj before St. Barnabas next, the king having pardoned him the same. [Foedera.] By. K.
March 23. To the sheriffs of London. Order to release Wilh'am son of Richard de Westminster. Chalk* from Newegate prison, where he is imprisoned for the arrears of the account wherein Walter le Bevere of London, * fisshcre,' asserts that he is bound to him for tho time when he was receiver of his moneys, as he alleges that the auditors of the above account unduly aggrieve him, charging him with money that he did not receive and not allowing him his expenses and liveries, he having found mainpernors before the king iu chancery, to wit Richard le Hirde of Chalk', Richard Martyn of Chalk', John Burgeys of Chalk', Richard atte Doune of Chalk', Robert son of Richard de Chalk', and John le Clerk of Chalk', of the county of Kent, and William de Bosyate, of the county of Northampton, to have him before him who supplies the place of the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer in fifteen days from Easter to answer concerning the above account, as the said William, being a foreigner and unknown in London, was unable to find mainpernors in the city, and the sheriffs refused to receive mainpernors except from the city. They are to summon the said Walter le Bevere to be in the exchequer on the above day with the rolls and tallies whereby the said William rendered his account.
March 28. To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be Westminster, elected in place of Peter de Tale worth, deceased.
March 31. To John Abel, eschcator this side Trent. Order to cause William de St. Albans. Saundeby, kineman and heir of John de Saundeby, a tenant in chief of the
late king, to have seisin of his father's lauds, as he has proved his age before
the said escheator and the king has taken his homage.
March 27. To the same. Order to cause Nicholas de Audele, brother and heir of Westminster. Thomas de Audele, who died a minor in the king's wardship, to have seisin of his brother's lands, as he has proved his age before Roger de Wellesworth, late escheator this side Trent, and the king has taken his homage.
To Her vey de Stanton. Order to send to the exchequer at Westminster without delay the entreats of all fir.es, ransoms, and amercements of the time when he and his fellowb were justices in eyre in Kent, to be delivered to him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer, notwithsianding that they have adjourned pleas touching certain liberties in that county, pr-.vided, however, that they send the rest of their estreats to the exchequer at the end of the eyre. By K,
To the sheriff* of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to send to Berwick-on- Tweed the remainder of the 40 lasts of herrings, ten thousands of mulvel, eight thousands of ' stokfissh,' and 20 baiTels of sturgeon that the king lately ordered him to send to Westminster, to be delivered to William de Northwell, the king's clerk. By K.
Mexch 21. To the taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the county Westminster, of Stafford. Order to pay to John de Somery ICO/, due to him for cert- money (pro certo) that he ought to receive by way of fee for the seventh year of the king's reign, as appears by an account made in the king's wardrobe on March 20. * By K.
To the taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the county of Warwick. Order to pay to the said John 81'/. 10*. 0</., due to him for his expenses in going in the king's con)pauy to France in May and June^ in the sixth year of the I'eign, as appears by an account made at Westminster on February 13 last. By K.
7 EDWARD n.
1314. Memhrane S—eont.
April 1 . To John Abel, escheator thia side Trent. Order U> canse William MarC«l,
St. Albaiu. son and heir of Toha Mnrtcl, n tenant in chiet of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the saiU eacbeator and the king has taken his homage.
Memorandum, that the Bui<] William is bound to satisfy the king for the value of bis marriage because ho married under age without the king's licence. March 26. To the aberiffa of London. Wherta.% on the complaint of Philip de WMtminater. Leghton, burgess of Ipswich, that the castellan of 8t Valery had taken from him and detained a ship of the taliie of 50/. in that port, tbe Ute king frequently requested the count of Dretix, lord of thai town, to do justice to thesaid Philip, which he did not do; wherefore the present king commanded them to arrest goods of the merchantg of that town and from elsewhere in the power of the count tu the ralue of 69/. 1 1». 2d., the arrears of the said 50/. and of 40/. ibr damages, and tliey have returned tliat they have arrested a ship value 15 marks, half of which belongs to Waleric Qenere and half to Mfltthew Brian, b'lrgesses of St. Valery, and iho tackle and cargo (Jreltum) of the same price, four marks ; and Waleric and Matthew have now asserted in chancery, in the presence of thesaid Philip, that the above arrest is unjust, Philip asserting the contrary, and Philip Beauvem (sic), Itoger de Lenn, and James Pe lie Lu, of the city of London, have raainperned before the king to answer to tJie said Philip de Leghton tor the aforesaid 19 marks, the value of the ship, tackle, and cargo, if they be adjudged to him : where- fore the king onlera them lo deliver the ship, tackle, and cargo to Waleric and Matthew or their attorney.
To the prior of Kaernierdyn, chamberlain of Kaermerdyn. Order to proceed in person to the custle of Huelt, committed by the king to John de Cherleton to keep during pleasure, and to survey the state of the same and to fortify it with armour and victuals withont delay out of the issues of his bailiwick, by the view and testimony of the said John or any one whom he shall depute. By K.
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April !. To Roger le Brabanion, Order to release Richard Caple from prison, to
St. AlbaoK. which he was committed because Anaatasia, late the wife of William Spichefat lately appealed him before the said Roger and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer, of the death of the said William, the said Richard having been committed to prison at the king's suit because the above appeal was quashed by decision of the court, as the said Richard, who is about to set out to Scotland in the king's service with Hugh le Uespenser the younger, has found malnpernois in chancery, to wit Roger du Brok, Nicholas de Whethamstede, Payn de Portes, Adam de Somery, John de Norton, and William Blaket, of the county of Hertford, who have main- perned to have him before tbe king in fiO«en days from Michaelmas to answer cnncerning the death of the said William, if the king will then speak against him. By K.
To the tasors and collectors of the twentieth and fifleenth in the county of Kent. Order to pay 300 marks to Hugh de Leomynystre, keeper of the wardrobe of Edward the king's son, for the expenses of Edward'^ household.
By K.
To Ingelard de Warls, keeper of the king's wardrobe. Order to allow lo Waller Waldeshef, the king's butler, in his account, for six tuns of wine delivered by him, by order of W. archbishop of Canterbury, keeper of the great seal, and of John de Snndale, supplying the place of the treasunT, to the men of the countess of Warenn, lately dwelling at the Tqwer, in June and
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Jolj, in the sixth and seventh y6ar of the king's reign, and for six tuns of wine that he caused to be carried to Haddlcybj order of the said archbishop^ for the expenses of the king's household in February in the seventh year.
April I . To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
St. Albans, exchequer. Order to make account with the burgesses of Great Yarmouth of the debts due from them and of the king*s debts to them for divers sums of money paid by them in wages of mariners going to Scotland for the wsr there, and for the repair of certain of the king's ships, and for other of the king's affaii's, and to make them allowance for what the king owes them in the debts due from them. By K.
To Hervey de Stanton and hi^ fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Order to cause Adam de Osgodeby, keeper of the house of Conversi^ London, to have the king's alms called 'deodands' from their eyre, in aid of the repair and maintenance of the buildings and the maintenance of the Conversi, the late king having granted deodands to the Conversi for the completion of the fabric of their chapel, which Henry III. founded, and in aid of the repair and maintenance of the buildings there. By K.
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March 27. To the keeper of the town of Scardeburgh. On the complaint of Richard Westminster, de Fimmer and Richard de Slcngesby, merchants of the king's realm, that whereas they loaded a ship of Peter Bellard of Sleperdam io Flanders in the port of Kyngeston-on-HuU with fiflLeen sacks of wool, a hundred and two wool- fells, and other goods to the value of 127/. 18«. ^W., and with 8/. in money, in order to take these goods to Andwerp in Brabant to make their profit thereof, John le Seger and other malefactors of Flanders entered the ship in hostile manner on her voyage thither, and assaulted the said Richaidand Richard and other merchants and mariners in the ship, and took them and the ship and goods to Aberden in Scotland, and, having left them in the custody of the king's enemies, went with the ship and goods to Flanders, the king requested R. count of Flanders to do justice to the said merchants, but the count has failed to do so, as testified by the bailiffs and community of Malt on by their letters patent under their common seal; wherefore the king orders the said keeper to arrest goods of the men of Flanders and elsewhere in the count's power to the value of the above 170/. I Ss, 4d, {nc\ certifying the king of his proceedings herein.
April 7. To the taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the
Ely. Northlrithyng in the county of York. Order to pay without delay to Ralph son of William, keeper of the town of Beruickon-Tweed, the 200 marks that the king lately ordered them, by letters under the exchequer seal, to pay to him in part satisfaction of a sum of money granted to him for the maintenance of himself and the men in his company garrisoning that town, and to pay him another 200 marks in the quinzaine of Easter next, in full satisfaction of the above grant. By K.
March 27. To the mayor and bailiffs of Hertlepole. Whereas lately, on the complaint Westminster, of Warin le Draper, Thomas de Scalby and Richard de Sneton, burgesses and merchants of Scardeburgh, that they loaded a ship at Kyngeston-on- HuU with nine sacks, two pockets (poketoi), and three stone of wool, and with other merchandise to the value of 172/. 2*. Sd. for the purpose of sending them to Andwerp to make their profit thereof, John le Seger and other malefactors of Flanders, etc. {as in the above order to the ketper of the town of Scardeburgh) ; the king, because the said count has not done them justice, as the bailiffs and community of Scardeburgh have testified by their letters patent under their common seal, orders the mayor and bailiffs
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to arrest gooda and chattels of the meo of Flanders, etc^ to the value of 86/- 1». 4d., in part payment of the above 172/. [2».] 8rf., certifying the king of tlieir proceedings. The king ha» ordered the bailiffs of Whiteby to arrest goods to the value of 86/. \t. id., the balance of the above sum. Mandate iu pursuauce to the bailitTis of Whyteby.
April 8. To the sheriff of EsKex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
Bij. elected in place of Luke Morel, incapacitated by age and inlirmily.
To the eame. Like order for the election of a coroner in place of John de Sutton, incapacitated by age and inhrmitj.
April 7. To the king's merchant Anthony Pes»aigne of Genoa. Order to cauie
Ely- the corn, meat, oats and victuals that the king ordered him to provide and
cause to be carried to Berwick -on- Tweed (o be sent thither with all speed,
there to be delivered to the receivers of the king's stores, to wit to each of
them ae pertains to their otBco. By K.
Et Jutrunt patentes. April 7. To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause to be sent hy sea and land to
GI7. the master- mariners of the ships setting out for Scotland, now lying in the
Thames and elsewhere on the sea, the king's letters and writs to them for- bidding the master-mariners and all others in the ships, under penalty of life and limbs, from taking prises of com and other victuals without making Batisfaction therefor, and from choosing and taking men to go in the ships, as well those who are not mariners and know nothing thereof as others, and from taking fines from some of them to permit them to stay at home, the king being given to understand that they have been doing these tilings contrary to the form of his commission to them ; which writs have been delivered to the sheriffs. April 12. To the taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the county BuDMj. of Kent. Order to cause the -IIX)/. that the king ordered them to pay to Hugh [de] Leomynystre, keeper of the wardrobeof Edward the king's bou, for the expenses of Edward's household, to be sent without delay under safe custody to the eahi wardrobe, there to be delivered to the said Hugh.
ByK.
April 7. To the same. Order tu pay to the said Hugh 100/. for the above pur-
Bly- poses. By K.
April 12. To the sheriff of Southamplon. Order to receive at Southampton from
Ramsey. Walter Waldeshef, the king's butler, twenty tuns of wine, and to send them
without delay to Lntegareshale, there to be delivered to Richard Whitecok
for the expenses of the household of Edward the king's son. By K.
April 13. To John de Lincoln, keeper of the king's exchange at Loadoo. Order
FeterborouKh. to repair the houses of the exchange within the tower of London, and to
cause a house for the workmen of the exchange to be made anew in the
Tower, as John de SandHle, supplying the place of the treasurer, has
enjoined him. The king will allow him the costs that he shall expend by
the view and testimony of Roger de Frowyk, controller of die exchange.
By K.
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April IS. To the bailiffs of Bedeford. Order to pay to Matilda late the wife of Feterborongb. Roger Lestronge (Eatraneu*) 1(X)«. out of their fei-m for Easter terra last, being the amount then due of the 10/. yearly that the late king granted that she should receive from the ferm of that town after her husband's death, because her husband held 00 landu in fee out of which she could be maintained after his death, which payment for Easter term thsy have
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1314.
April 11 RaDisey.
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April 12. Ely.
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refa«e.l to make to her, although thej have previoosly paid hrr this sum jearly in accordance with the king's ordor. They are to p-ijr the above sum to her yearly, according to the late king's letters patent.
£t fuerunt patentes.
To the sheriffs of London. Whereas, at the complaint of Philip de Leghton, burgess of Ipswich, that the castellan of the town of St. Valery had arrested and detained a ship of his called * la Creade^ of the value of 50/., in the port of St. Valery, the late king frequently requested the ctount of Dreux, lord of that town, to do justice to Philip for the ship and tackle and for his damages, which amounted to 40/. sterling, but the count did nothing in the matter, as appears hy the testimony of the bailiffs and burgesses of Ipswich by their letters patent; by reason whereof Philip recovered, by divers of the late king's writs to the sheriffs of London and Southampton, 20/. 8*. \0d. from men of the count's power, as appears by the return of the writs in the late king's chancery ; the king lately ordered them to arrest goods of the men of St. Valery to the value of 69/. 11*. 2c/., the remainder of the .•*um due to Philip, and they have returned that they have arrested a ship, value 15 marks, half of which belongs to Waleric la Joune and half to Matthew Bryan, burgesses of St. Valery, and the tackle and cargo (frettum) of the same, value four marks; and Waleric nnd Matthew afterwards asserted in chancery that the arrest was unjustly made, the said Philip asserting the contrary ; whereu|M)n the king ordered the 8hip, tackle, and cargo to be deliveied lo Waleric and Matthew by the mainprize of Philip de Beauveys, Roger de Lcnn, and James Pe de Lu, of London, who mainperned in chancery to answer ibr the above 19 marks to the said Philip de Leghton if they were adjudged to him : the king, as it does not appear to him that the process in this mntter begun and approved in the late king's time, as appears by the rolls of his chancery, ought to be cancelled (irritari) or annulled without deliberation of greater counsel, now orders the said eherilfs to compel the mainpernors to satisfy Philip for the said 19 marks, in part satisfaction of the aforesaid 69/. [11*. 2</.], saving to the said Waleric and Matthew their challenges when they will speak hereof at another time.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas Aubri, who is insufficiently qualified.
To the sheriff of W^arwick and Leicester. Order to pay to Robert Lesquier, the king's huntsman, whom the king is sending to stay in his bailiwick with two berners, two veutrers, a bercelettar, twenty-four running dogs, ten greyhounds, and two bercelets, 12^. a day for his wages and 2c?. a day for each of the berners, veutrers and bercelettars, and \d, a day for each of the dogs, greyhounds, and bercelets, for so long as they shidl stay in his bailiwick. By bill of the wardrobe.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of William Romyn, and to restore the issues of the same, as it appears by inquisition taken by him that the said William held nothing of the king in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to pny to Peter de Storce 215/. 9«. 6d, from the issues of his bailiwick from Midsummer next, which he paid to Martin M»rtinetz of IIurie))y for the late king's debt to him for the wages of himself and company whilst in the late king's service in the duchy [of Aquitaine], by the account made with him by John de Sandale, as is more fully contained in the letters of Henry de Lacy, late earl of Lincoln, then holding the late king's place in the duchy, which letters Martin delivered
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April 23. Torksey.
Membrane 7 — cont. into the late king's trensary by the liands of the said John, the conntahle or Bordeaux having certified the king that nothing had been paid to Martin, although the late king on 6 April, in the thirty-lhird year of his reign, ordered the constAbte of Bordeaux to pay the said sum to Martin. The said Peter has delivered the present king's letters patent made to Martin for the nbove sum into chancery to be cancelled.
By K. on the information of J. de Sandale.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands in Grafham, OfTord Cluny, Offord Daneys, Catte- irorth, Wodeweston, and Alcombery, in ihe county of Huntingdon, taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of William de Pappewonh, as it appears by inquisition taken by the said escheator tliat William and Ada his wife were jointly enfeoffed of these lands by Richard de Keston, clerk, by fine levied in the late king's court, and that the lands are not held of the king but of divers other lords, and that Ada continued her joint-seisin thereof until her husband's death.
To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause John de Roa and Margaret, late the wife of Philip le Deapenser, whom John has now married, to have eeisiit of the landa in Coldon and Dodyngton that, it appears by ioquisition, Philip held of Ihe king as of the honour of Albe- marle in the hands of Margaret, countess of Cornwall, by knight service, of his wife's inheritance, by which inquisition it appears that he held nothing in chief as of the crown, but tliat he held divers lands of other lords in the said eecbeator's bailiwick, the king having taken John's fealty for the above laods. He is not to intermeddle further with the lands that Philip held of other lords.
To the same. Order to cause the said John and Margaret to have seisin of two parts of the manor of Gedenay, and the issues of the same, as it appears by inquisition that she and her late husband Philip le Despenser, held the stud two parts of her inheritance of the king as of the honour of Albemarle as of the manor of Brnstewik in the hands of Margaret, coun- tess of Cornwall, by the service of a fourth of a knight's fee, the king having taken fealty of the said John.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with two parts of the manor of Qoushill, which, it appears by inquisition, the said Philip le Despenser and Margaiet held of her iDheritance as of the barony of Bay eux," together with the knights' fees pertaining to the barony, in the hands of Isabella de Bello Monte, lady de Vescy, by the king's grant to her for life, which they held by the service of one knight's fee, nor with the lands that he held of other lords than the king.
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to make account in the exchequer with the burgesses of Qreat Yarmouth, and to allow ihem in the arrears of thefermofthe town and other debts duo to the king, what the king owes them for the wages of mariners sent to Scotland for the war there, for the repairs of certain of the king's ships, and for sums of money lent by them to the king.
ByK,
To Henry de Cobeham, constable of Rochester castle. Order to permit Ellen Edger, John de Claydon, Samuel de Lynford, and William de Preston to stay with Isabella do Brus for so long as she shall remain in his custody, the king having ordained by hit coancil that she shall have the above persons with her. [ladera.'] By C.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Weston, who is insofficlentlj qnaMed.
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To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Wftubergh to be elected in place of William de Papworth, deceased.
To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Wachesham, deceased.
April 29. To John Abel, eacheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle Beverley, further with the lands of Robert de Furnoux, as it appears by inquisition
that he held nothing in chief of the king at his death by reason whereof
the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Apnl 27. To the justices in eyre in the county of Kent. Or<ler to proceed with all Beverley, speed to take all assizes of novel disseisin and of 'i.ort d'ancostor instituted by the king's writs before them in their eyre and before other justices in that county, and to do justice therein to the parties, as the king wishes to accelerate justice })ecause other justices appointed to take assizes in that county ought not to take such assizes during the eyre.
April 12. To the sheriffs of Surrey. Order to deliver from prison John de Horn*, Peterborough, imprisoned at Guldeford upon an indictment for procuring and abetting the death of William de la Quarrere, slain by Thomas de Cranefeld, who has not yet Ijeen convicted of the said death, upon bis finding mainpernors to have him before the king or his justices to stand to right if the king or any one else speak against him, the sheriff having refused to take mainprize from the said John although it is provided by statute that persons so indicted shall be repleviable until the principal perpetrator shall be con- victed.
Membrane 7. — Schedule.
1313. Warantia dierum de anno regni regis Edtcardijilii Regis Edwardi
septimo.
Oct. 9. Thomas son of John Prat of Retfoi-d was engaged in the king's service
WeBtminstcr. by his order on Sunday the quinzaine of Easter last and on tlie Mondaj following, so that, he couhl not appear in the suit before the justices of the Bench by king's writ between Adam son of Walter Prat, John and Thomas brothers of Adam, and Thomas son of Thomas Prat, on the one part, and the said Thomas son of John Prat on the other, for that he deforced them of their part of the inheritance of Adam Prat the elder, the grandfather of the above parties, lately deceased, in Northtilne and Suth- tiine ; wherefore the justices arc ordered not to put the said Thomas in default for his failure to appear.
By K. on the information of W. de Bevercote.
Oct. 22. John de Wodehalle was engaged in the king's service by his order on
Westminster. Monday after the octaves of Michaelmas last, so that he could not appear in the suit before the bailiffs of Robert de Wylughby of Spillesby, in his court there, by the king's writ of right between the said John, demandant, and the prior of Bolyngton, deforciant, concerning 22 acres of laud in Wyn- thorp ; wherefore the bailiffs are ordered not to put the said John in default. By p.s. [2824.]
Nov. 5. Walter, bishop of Exeter, was engaged in the king's service by his order
Westminster, on Thursday after St. Denis liu*t, so that he could not appear in the suit before the sheriff of Sussex in his county [court] without the king's writ between Richard Cocum of Inlonde and the said bishop and Warin le Hay ward for_^ the unjust distraint of Richard's cattle ; wherefore the sheriff is ordered not to put him in default.
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Feb. 17. Kicliard Lovel was engaged in the king's eervice hj his order on Sntarday
CsnUrbary. the morrow of All Souls last, so thsit ho could not appear in the suit before
the justices of the Bench by the king's wiit between John Covert ami him
for breach of covenant concerning tlie manor of Scorghton ; wherefore the
justices are ordered not to put him in defa'ilt.
By K. on the information of W. de Ayremynn.
March 13. Ralph Saunzaver was engaged in the king's service by his order on WMtmbster. Sunday the quiDzaine ol' St. Hilnry and tlie following Monday, so that he could not appear in the suit before the justices of the Bench by king's writ between Eobert de Sancta Cruce and him for a debt of 10 marks demanded from him by the said Robert ; wherefore the justices are ordered not to put him in default. By K.
March 16. Walter de Paucunberge was engaged in the king's service by hia order on WesUDiaBter. Thursday before St. Matthias liist, so that he could not appear in the suit before Adam de Mid<)eIton, William de Houk, Thomaa de Fisshebum and John de Doaecastre, the king's justices appointed to hear and determine trespiissea committed by him upon Miles do Stapelton in the county of York; wherefore the justices are ordered not to put him in default.
' By K. on the information of Edmund de Malo Lacu.
The said Walter was engaged in tiie king's service on the above Thursday, BO that he could not appear on that day in the suit by the king's writ before the afore^id justices, appointed to hear and determine certain trespasses committed by him upon Marmaduke de Twenge in the county of York; wherefore the justices are ordered not to put him in default.
By K. on the information of Edmund de Molo Lacu.
April 29. The said Walter was engaged in the king's service on Thursday after tho
Kirkstead. Annunciation last, so that he could not appear in the suit by king's writ
before the said justices, appointed to hear and determine certain trespasses
committed by him upon Miles de Stnpclton ; wherefore the justices are
ordered not to put him in default. By p.s.
Like letters in favour of the said Walter, for the said Thursday, in the suit between Marmaduke do Twenge and him. By p.s.
June 9. Alexander de Claveryng', sherilf of Norfolk and Suifolk, was engaged in
FeDham. , the king's serviee on Fri<[ay the morrow of the Ascension lost, so that he could not nppeur in the suit before the king by king's writ between Roesia late the wiJe of Davi<l de Cotesbruk and him concerning the return of a writ of the king's ; wherefore the king wills that ho shall not be placed in default. By p.a. [3039.]
MSUBRANS 6.
April 29. To John Abel, escheator beyond Trent. Order to release the issues Bereriey. received by him from the lands of Agnea de Fateshull, deceased, the king having previously ordered him not to intermoldle further with h