Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1275 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1900.

'Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1275', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 215-222. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp215-222 [accessed 19 April 2024]

November 1275



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Nov. 2. Westminster.	To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Whereas the king understands from him that the lords of towns within that county wherein there are one or two lords and not more ought to have, and have always been wont to have hitherto, their dogs quit of being lawed (expeditacione) and that if there be more than one or two lords in any town there, then the dogs of the lords and of each man of those towns should be lawed, except the dogs of the principal lord of the town'; the king therefore orders the justice to permit such lords to have their dogs quit of being lawed hereafter.
	To the bailiff of the islands of Gereseye and Gernerey. Order to restore to Felicia, late the wife of William de Chenney, all the lands with the liberties and free customs thereto pertaining that belonged to William by the late king's gift, which after William's death remained in Felicia's custody with William's heir according to the custom of those parts, and which the bailiff has taken into the king's hands by reason of certain inquisitions taken by John Wyger and Ralph de Brochton concerning the king's escheats in the islands, and to restore to Felicia everything received therefrom in the meantime, saving the right of the king and of his heirs if they have anything therein when they wish to speak concerning this matter.
Oct. 27. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order to cause the water of Thames in his bailiwick to be so widened that ships and great barges may ascend from London to Oxford with victuals and other necessaries, and may descend from Oxford without hindrance from any weirs, so conducting himself in the execution of this order as to merit the king's commendation, as the king understands that the water of Thames between London and Oxford is so narrowed in divers places by weirs made in it, that ships and barges with goods and victuals are unable to pass by it.
Nov. 2. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause the master of the hospital of Beck' to have seisin of a messuage in Norwich that Walter Drak, who was hanged for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Hugh Peche, late keeper of the town of Norwich, had the king's day and year thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same, and that the messuage is held of the master of the said hospital, and that it is his escheat by reason of the felony aforesaid.
Nov. 3. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Order to respite until the feast of St. Hilary next the demand upon Henry de Aldithelegh for his relief, as he is so ill that he cannot come to the king at present to satisfy him for his relief, as would be expedient for him, and the king has therefore granted this respite so that Henry may in the meantime come to him to do what is just in the premises.
Nov. 4. Westminster.	To Bartholomew le Peytevin. Order to deliver to G. de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, or to his envoy the king's goshawk (hostor') called 'Rose,' which is in Bartholomew's custody.
Nov. 4. Westminster.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Robert (fn. 1) to have respite until Easter next for all the debts exacted from him by summons of the exchequer.
	To the same. Order to cause Thomas Braunche and Robert de Vernun to be acquitted of 5 marks, if they be exacted from them for the trespasses mentioned below, as the late king pardoned them all trespasses committed by them in all forests this side Trent until 8 January, in the 55th year of his reign, as appears by the said king's letters patent, whereupon the said king ordered the barons to cause Thomas and Robert to be acquitted of 15 marks that were exacted from them by reason of the trespasses aforesaid, and the king learns that 5 marks are exacted from them by reason of the trespasses aforesaid.
	To the bailiff of the island of Gernesey, or to him who supplies his place. The men of the island of Gernesey have shewn the king that whereas the men of that island who wished to fish and their heirs ought to sell yearly in the lands of the king's power between Michaelmas and Easter as often and whenever they would, and from Easter thrice a week fresh and salted fish, and to make their profit thereof without any hindrance of the king's bailiffs, saving to the king the customs thereupon due, and that they and their ancestors from time out of mind have been wont to fish and to sell their fish as is aforesaid, and that they have letters of the late king concerning this, and the bailiff, by his own authority and without reasonable cause, has taken the fishery into the king's hands, and hinders them from fishing and selling their fish as they ought and were wont to do in times past: the king, having heard the reasons of the said men and having found the premises are true, orders the bailiff to restore the fishery to the men, and to permit them to fish and sell their fish as they ought and were wont in the times aforesaid, and not to put any hindrance in their way, but rather to maintain them in this behalf.
Nov. 5. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, and others whatsoever claiming to have liberties by charters of the king's progenitors to have respite until a month from Easter for the said liberties, in the way in which they have used them heretofore without interruption.
	To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Order to permit Ranulph de Ovre and his parceners to have the free common in the wood of Bradefordewod that they always had in the wood before the king recovered seisin of the wood against Stephen de Merton.
	Whereas a treaty of peace was had, by the mediation of the dean of Salisbury and Thomas de Clare, concerning the actions and complaints that R. bishop of Norwich and the prior of the same place, on the one part, and the community of the citizens of Norwich, on the other, asserted that they had against one another by reason of the burning of the church and priory of Norwich and of the damages inflicted by reason of such burning upon both sides, and by any other reason whatsoever, and 4,000 marks were demanded from the community by the bishop, prior and convent for all the things aforesaid, and 2,000 marks were offered by the community for the sake of peace (pro bono pacis), and at length the bishop and the prior, for himself and his convent, and Adam de Toftys, William de Rollesby, Henry le Chaucer, and Roger de Tudenham, citizens of Norwich, for the said community, have jointly agreed to the king as arbitrator and ordainer de haut en bas concerning the premises, willing that he may part and ordain between the two sums aforesaid, and may fix terms for payment, and may appease all the said actions and quarrels at his pleasure, and they have promised that whatsoever the king shall cause to be decided or ordained between the parties aforesaid for peace or judgment concerning the premises shall be kept inviolably, and that the things to be done (facturas) by the convent and the community shall be observed in all things, and they granted that they shall be compelled to do these things by the royal power.
	Whereupon the king, after having counsel of prudent men concerning the premises, utters and propounds his dictum in this manner: that all actions or complaints that the parties shall or may have against one another until this day by reason of the premises shall be remitted one to another; that the community shall render to the prior and convent for the repairing or rebuilding of their church and priory 3,000 marks at the rate of 500 marks yearly, a moiety at the quinzaine of Whitsuntide and a moiety at the quinzaine of Martinmas; that the community shall cause a gold vessel of the weight of 10l. of gold, price 100l. of silver, to be made to hold the body of Christ on the altar of the aforesaid church; that the prior and convent shall make a gate and entry into the priory on whichever side they wish, without damage or prejudice to others; and that the bishop, prior and convent shall procure in good faith in the Roman court and elsewhere at the expense of the community, except the expenses of the envey of the bishop, prior and convent to the Roman court for this purpose, that the community and their city shall be absolved from the sentences of excommunication and from the interdict and other things pronounced against them for the reasons aforesaid, and that the said sentences shall be wholly released. If any doubt arise concerning the premises or any of them, the king reserves to himself full power to declare and interpret such doubt. Dated at Westminster, 5 October, in the third year of his reign. [Prynne, Records, iii. 163.]
Nov. 6. Westminster.	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Whereas the king lately ordered Henry de Frowyk and Luke de Batencourt, late sheriffs of London, to cause the goods and wares of certain merchants of Zeeland and their ships and tackle arrested by reason of certain trespasses committed by certain Zeelanders to be appraised and kept safely until otherwise ordered; the king now orders the treasurer and chamberlains to receive the goods aforesaid or their price, lately made by the view of men of Zeeland, from Henry and Luke, and to deliver them to Walter Auberkyn, Adam le Folour, William de Braekele, Charles de Wycumb, and Godeman Auberkyn, citizens and merchants of London, who were robbed by the said men of Zeeland, each according to his proportion, in recompence for the damages that they sustained by reason of the robbery aforesaid, receiving from the said citizens security for restoring the goods or their price at the king's order in case he admit the men of Zeeland to his grace and restore their goods. It is provided that if the goods have been carried away or damaged from the time of the arrest through default of custody of Henry and Luke, they shall make good what has been carried away or damaged.
	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause William de Northburg, one of the justices to take assizes beyond Trent, 20l. in aid of his expenses in that office.
Nov. 9. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Derby. Order to deliver to Henry Morel and Sibyl his wife three tofts and 2½ acres of meadow in Asseburn, which are in the king's hands, as they exact the land from the king, of which land Robert de Ferrar[iis] unjustly disseised Henry de Cruce, the said Isabella's (sic) father, of whom she is the heir, and the king ordered the sheriff to certify him concerning this, and the sheriff has written back that Robert disseised Henry and Sibyl as aforesaid.
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Nov. 6. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause Walter Grikke, imprisoned by special order of the king for a trespass charged upon him of the time when he was the king's bailiff in the hundred of Codeslowe, to be delivered from prison.
	To John de Coleham, justice to deliver Neugate gaol. Order, at the request of R. bishop of Lincoln, to deliver William de Forte, clerk, imprisoned at Neugate for certain trespasses, to William, vicar of the church of Flore, to whom the bishop has committed his duties (vices) by his letters patent sent to the king, to exact and receive the said clerk from the king or his justices according to the privilege of the clergy, so that there may be done in the ecclesiastical forum what ought to be done according to the sanctions of the canons and the customs of ecclesiastical liberty.
Nov. 7. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, to be acquitted of 200 marks for Easter and Michaelmas terms last and of another 800 marks of the fine of 10,000 marks that he made with the late king for a trespass that he was said to have committed in Westminster Hall, and to cause him to have the usual terms for payment of the remainder, the first term beginning at Easter next, as the king has pardoned him 1,000 marks of the fine. By K.
Nov. 8. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Master Thomas de Birlaund, archdeacon of Northumberland, to be acquitted of 20l. in which he was amerced before the king for his contempt in entering the town of Oxford against the king's inhibition.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William de Portes to be acquitted of a moiety of 100s. in which he was amerced before the justices last in eyre at Worcester because he was not yet a knight, and of a moiety of 40s. in which he was amerced before the said justices because he did not come, and of a moiety of a mark in which he was amerced before them for a pledging and for an amercement, and to permit him to pay the other moiety of the amercements by 20s. yearly to the Easter exchequer.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Master Adam de Richemund to be acquitted of 11l. exacted from him for a ferm that he held of the late king in Lameheth and La Wik during the last voidance of the archbishopric of Canterbury, then in the said king's hands, as the king has pardoned him this sum at the instance of Queen Eleanor, his mother.
Nov. 8. Westminster.	To the same. Order to cause inquiry to be made concerning the tenements, goods and chattels of Gregory de Coston, and when they have ascertained their value, to cause terms to be assigned to Gregory at which he may pay 63s. 4d. saving his contenement, in which sum he was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Worcester for many defaults, as the king is given to understand that Gregory, who has four acres of land only and little or nothing in goods, cannot pay the aforesaid sum to the king without alienating his land, and the king compassionates his poverty.
	Robert Attewell, imprisoned at Aylesbir[y] for the death of Katharine, his daughter, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Buckingham to bail him.
Nov. 8. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause Adam son of Ralph de B[ret]forthtune, imprisoned at Worcester for the death of John de Pydel, wherewith he is charged, to be delivered from prison, as the king learns from the testimony of Nicholas de Stapelton and his fellows, justices last in eyre in that county, that Adam slew John in self-defence, so that he could not otherwise escape being slain, and not by felony or of malice aforethought, and the king has pardoned him the suit of his peace by reason of the death aforesaid, provided that he stand to right in the king's court if any one wish to speak against him in this behalf.
Nov. 11. Westminster.	To Adam de Winton[ia], keeper of the town of Winchester. Order to buy thirty tuns of wine for the king's use, and to cause fifteen tuns thereof to be carried to Gillingham against the king's arrival there, and to cause the remainder to be carried to Winchester castle and placed in the king's cellar there.
	To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause thirty quarters of wheat to be bought for the king's use, and to cause them to be carried to Shaftesbir[y], so that he have them there eight days before Christmas next.
	To the bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause 100 oxen to be bought for the king's use and to cause them to be taken to Winchester.
Nov. 11. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Suffolk, escheator in the same county. Order to cause Gerard de Wachesham, son and heir of Giles de Wachesham, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as it appears to the king by lawful proofs made before him that Gerard is of full age, and the king has taken his homage.
Nov. 13. Westminster.	Richard Snelman, imprisoned at Winchester for the death of Richard de Aula, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Southampton to bail him.
	To William de Middelton and Nicholas de Castello, auditors of the account of the twentieth lately granted in England. Order to allow to William Bagod and his fellows, late collectors of the twentieth in cos. Warwick and Leicester, 10 marks that William Bagod paid to Warin de Chaucumb, appointed to collect the said twentieth with him, for his expenses about the collection, and 40l. that William Bagod paid to Robert Burnell, then supplying the king's place in England, by the hands of Bartholomew de Castello for the expedition of certain of the king's affairs upon two occasions.
Nov. 13. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Order to release to Henry de Alditheleg[a] until the quinzaine of Easter next the distraint for the debts due from him to the exchequer for the debts of James de Aldithel[ega], his father, as the king has granted to him respite of the debts until then.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John Giffard to be acquitted of 1,218l. for the price of vert destroyed in the forest of Dene and of 100l. that he received from wind fall-wood (cabelicio) sold in that forest, during the time when he was constable of St. Briavels and keeper of the said forest, as the late king pardoned him all arrears, debts, and trespasses made by him in the forest during the time aforesaid, as appears in the said king's letters patent.
Nov. 14. Westminster.	To the same. Order to cause William de Oddingeseles to be acquitted of 20 marks in which he made fine for a trespass.
Nov. 12. Westminster.	To Geoffrey de Picheford, constable of Windes[ore] castle. Notification that the king has granted to Geoffrey de Lucy that he may fell in his wood of La Fr[ithe ?], which is within the bounds of Windes[ore] forest, great timber and underwood to the value of 100 marks, and may make his profit thereof at his will, provided that he cause the place when the wood shall be felled to be enclosed with a low hedge so that it may grow again, on condition that this shall not be to the damage or nuisance of the neighbouring parts, and order to permit Geoffrey de Lucy to do the premises.
Nov. 13. Westminster.	To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Order to take seisin of the manor of Weverham with the advowson of the church of that town and all appurtenances, which the king gave to Roger de Clifford to hold until the king should provide him with 20l. of land, and which Roger rendered to the king by his charter, and to deliver the manor to the abbot of Dernhal, to be held until the king shall otherwise ordain.
Nov. 16. Westminster.	To the steward of the forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stanford. Order to cause the abbot of Peterborough to have a tithe of the venison taken in the king's forests within co. Northampton, as it appears to the king by inspection of the charters of kings William, Richard, John, and of the late king that the abbot ought to have the tithe by their grant, and it also appears by inspection of the late king's rolls of chancery that the abbots always had his writ to receive the tithe.
	To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, to have three does in the forest of Bernewod, and three does in the forest of Whicheswod (sic).
	Afterwards order was sent by two writs, one to the keeper of Bernewod forest and the other to the keeper of the forest of Wichewod.
Nov. 13. Westminster.	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to cause Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, to have all the debts, fees, pains, and usuries in which John de Burgo is indebted to any Jews of England, as the king has granted them to her.
	Like order concerning the debts of William de Leyburn to Jews.
	To the same. Order to cause all charters whereby Norman de Arcy is indebted to the king's Jews in the Jewry to be withdrawn from the chest of the chirographers and to be delivered to the said queen, to whom the king lately granted these debts.
	To the same. Order to cause the charters by which Stephen Cheindut was bound to Manasser (Manser) son of Aaron, a Jew, in 450l. to be withdrawn from the chest of the chirographers and delivered to the said queen, to whom the king lately granted the debt.
Nov. 15. Westminster.	To the constable of Windes[ore] castle. Order to deliver to R. earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England his wood of Broowode, which was taken into the late king's hands for waste, as the king has pardoned him the trespass concerning that wood and has also pardoned him what pertained to the king because the wood remained in the king's hands by judgment of his court before his justices late in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Berks, and has restored the wood to him.
	Eynon Mohuhen, imprisoned at Shrewsbury for the death of Yevan, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Salop to bail him.
Nov. 12. Westminster.	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews and to William de Middelton. Order to cause Benedict de Wintonia, a Jew, to be acquitted of 22l. 2s. 2d. exacted from him for the tallage last assessed upon the king's Jews by reason of the debts of Solomon le Eveske, formerly the husband of Flora la Blunde, late the wife of Benedict, as Flora granted to Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, all the debts that belonged to the said Solomon, and Benedict satisfied the queen's will concerning the same, whereupon the queen granted all the said debts to Benedict by her letters, which the king has inspected, and the king has granted and confirmed the said grant.
Nov. 12. Westminster.	To the escheator in co. Lincoln. Order to cause Maurice de Croun to have seisin of the custody of the lands and heirs of John Paynel, tenant in chief, as the king has granted the custody to Maurice until the heirs come of age, together with the marriage of the heirs.
	The like to the escheator in co. Somerset.
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	The like to the escheator in co. York.
— —	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews and to William de Middelton. Order to retain for the king's use 25l. of the more clear debts of Benedict de Wynton[ia], a Jew, and to cause him to be acquitted of 25l. in which he is indebted to the king of his Jewry for divers debts, fines and amercements, and the arrears of the tallage last assessed upon him.
Nov. 14. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Peter son and heir of Peter de Monte Forti charged himself, in the view of his account lately made before them for the time when his father was the late king's sheriff in cos. Salop and Stafford and keeper of the manor of Bergeveny, a transcript of which view they sent to the king under the seal of the exchequer, which the king has caused to be sent back to them under his seal, with 146l. 13s. 4d. of the arrears of the ferm of Bergeveny and with other receipts and debts of his father's to the amount of 1,409l. 1s. 5½d., as is contained in the transcript, and Peter sought for his discharge divers allowances for his father's payments, costs, and expenses in the late king's service amounting to 1,262l. 6s. 9d., and the king and Peter, after argument (altercacionibus) concerning the allowances, at length agreed by divers challenges made in the matter, that 213l. 5s. 3½d. that exceed the total of the said 1,409l. 1s. 5½d. of Peter's father's receipts and debts shall be wholly remitted to the king, and that the view of the account between the king and Peter shall be thus terminated that the king and Peter shall each recede quit from the view: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause the account to be terminated in this manner, and to cause Peter and the king to be acquitted of the account and of the surplus aforesaid, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to cause Simon de Creye to have respite until the quinzaine of Easter next for all debts due to the king and that are exacted from him by summons of the exchequer of the king's Jewry.
	The like to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer.