Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1277

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

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1277', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 366-369. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp366-369 [accessed 29 March 2024]

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January 1277

1277.

Jan. 2.
Bampton.
To the bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause the Carmelite friars of Oxford to have two oaks with their strippings (escaetis) for the works of their church, of the king's gift.
Jan. 3.
Bampton.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to receive from Gregory de Rokeslegh, mayor of London, and Giles de Audenarde the twenty tuns of wine that they will deliver to them, and to cause the wine to be carried to Wodestok without delay, there to be delivered to the king's bailiff.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to distrain all those of his bailiwick who have 30l. of land yearly or an entire knight's fee worth 30l. yearly, and who ought to be knights and are not, to receive knighthood from the king.
To Edmund, the king's brother, and to his bailiffs of Kermerdyn. Order not to have any communion with Llewelyn (Lewelini) son of Griffin, prince of Wales, and his accomplices, and those assisting them in their rebellion, and to inhibit all his subjects of that land and power from communicating with them in any way, or from permitting corn, wine, honey, salt, iron, arms, or anything else whereby the rebels may have maintenance to be carried through Edmund's land and power in Wales, and not to permit this to be done himself during [the war] between the king and the rebels, and to arrest any such victuals or other things necessary for the maintenance of the rebels that he may find being led to the rebels through his land and power, and to inform the king thereof.
Jan. 2.
Bampton.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause Alice de Wymeden, imprisoned at Maydeneston for the death of Walter Galun, to be delivered from prison by the mainprise mentioned below, as the king learns from an inquisition taken by the sheriff of Surrey that Alice is charged with the said death out of malice and hatred and not because she is guilty thereof, whereupon he ordered the sheriff to certify him of the names of twelve men of that county who should mainpern to have her before the justices at the first assize in those parts to stand to right if anyone wished to speak against her concerning the said death, and Richard de Chelesham, Henry le Mareschal, Gilbert de Coveham, Peter le Templer, William le Tanur, William le Vineter, William de Meledon, Thomas le Draper, Thomas le Teler, Peter de Grapelinggesham, Stephen Knotte, and Thomas Rocy of co. Surrey have mainperned before the sheriff of Surrey in the presence of the coroners to have Alice before the justices in form aforesaid, as the sheriff of Surrey has signified to the king by his letters.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to Robert Cherles, imprisoned at Langelegh for trespass of the Forest, wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices for pleas of the Forest when they come to those parts to stand to right herein.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to deliver to the barons and ministers in the exchequer for this year their fees that they received last year by the king's writ, or a moiety of the same, in aid of their expenses, until otherwise enjoined by the king, notwithstanding the king's late order to them not to pay any money out of the treasury by reason of any writ of liberate without his special order.
Vacated, because otherwise on the Patent Roll.
To Luke de Luk' and his follows, merchant of Lucca (Luk'). Order to cause Giles de Audenard, warden of the works of the Tower of London, to have 2,000 marks for the works.
Jan. 11.
Bampton.
John Cope, Reginald de Stangrund, Elias de Potton, Matilda le Large, Hawisia her sister, and Muriel Pynel, imprisoned at Huntingdon for the death of (fn. 1) de Armeston, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Huntingdon to bail them.
Jan. 12.
Bruern. (La Bruere.)
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause to come before the king at Wodestok, on the morrow of the Purification, all assizes and attaints arramed before whatsoever justices of the king in that county, with the original writs and all other things touching the assizes and attaints, unless the assizes and attaints happen to be taken before the justices in the meantime.
Jan. 15.
Oddington. (Otinton.)
Like order to the sheriff of Worcester to cause assizes and attaints in that county to come before S. de Roff[a] and Hugh de Kendal at Kiderministre on Wednesday the octaves of St. Hilary.
Ralph de Colleston, William de Halghton, William Swette, William son of Ismay, John Oppotheston, and Robert his brother, and Thomas le Feyrman of Stok, imprisoned at Noting[ham] for the death of Godard de Beston, whereof they are appealed, have letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail them.
William de Geddlingg, imprisoned at Noting[ham] for the death of Godard de Buston (sic), whereof he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail him.
— — John Morice, imprisoned at Warwick for the death of Roger son of Henry, whereof he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of Warwick to bail him.
Jordan son of Roger Windote, imprisoned at Lincoln for the death of Geoffrey son of Sarah de Kiskinton (sic), wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him.
Jan. 24.
Worcester.
To the sheriff of Devon, escheator in the same county. Order not to intermeddle with the half knight's fee that Alice Giffard and Emma her daughter held of Oliver de Dineham, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Alice and Emma held the half-fee by reason of the dower of Isabella de Curteney, wife of the said Oliver, so that the wardship of the half-fee does not pertain to the king on this occasion.
To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king assigned to Alan Plugenet a certain sum of money to be received from the issues of the eyre of Nicholas son of Martin and his fellows, justices appointed in co. Hereford to hear and determine pleas of land given by reason of the disturbance in the realm, and Alan has lately acknowledged before the king that he had received 5 marks of the said issues from Roger de Kyngeston, now deceased, which sum is exacted by summons of the exchequer from the abbot of Dore, Walter de Ambrel[eye], chaplain, and other tenants of the lands that belonged to Roger; the king orders the barons to cause the abbot, Walter and the other tenants to be acquitted of the said sum.
The like to the barons in favour of the prior of St. Guthlac's, Hereford, for 40s., which Alan acknowledged that he had received from him.
To the keeper of the forest of Whichewod. Order to cause R. archbishop of Canterbury to have six oak-trunks (robora) in that forest for his fuel, of the king's gift.
To the keeper of the forest of Whicchewode. Order to cause the abbot of Bruern (Bruera) to have six oak-trunks (robora) in that forest for his fuel, of the king's gift.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver William Chinne, imprisoned at St. Briavells for trespass of the Forest, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices for the pleas of the Forest at the first assize.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order not to distrain until the quinzaine of Midsummer Geoffrey de Abetot to become a knight, as the king has granted to him respite of becoming a knight until then.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Richard de la Rokele, tenant in chief, the manor of Great Wokendon, which belonged to Richard, as the king has granted it to her to hold in tenancy until he shall cause dower to be assigned to her.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to deliver to Baldwin son of John de Shyingham the manor of Shopilaund, as John, who had the custody of that manor of the king's commission, assigned the custody in his will to Baldwin until the heir of the manor come of age.
Jan. 25.
Worcester.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has granted to Brian son of Alan, who is going to Wales on the king's affairs, that he may pay the debts due to the king by instalments of 20l. yearly, the first term to begin at the Michaelmas exchequer next, and order to cause Brian to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
John son of Geoffrey de Menythorp, imprisoned at York for the death of Adam son of Adam de Cramburn, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
To Ralph de Sandwico, the king's steward. Order to cause to be restored to John de Fyffide the custody of the lands that belonged to Emmelina de Lacy, sometime countess of Ulster, in Lavynton, together with everything received from the custody since it was taken into the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Wilts that Richard de Rupella, tenant in chief, granted before his death to John the said custody, which came to Richard's hands after Emmelina's death because she held the lands of Richard by knight service, and that John was in seisin of the custody until the sheriff, at the steward's order, took the custody into the king's hands by reason of Richard's death.
Jan. 25.
Worcester.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause Ralph de Button, imprisoned at Gloucester for the death of Giffard le Messer, wherewith he is charged, to be delivered from prison, as it is testified before the king by his justices appointed to deliver Gloucester gaol that Ralph slew Giffard in self-defence and not by felony or of malice aforethought, and the king has pardoned Ralph the suit of his peace for the said death; provided that he stand to right in the king's court if any one wish to speak against him for the said death.
To the chamberlains of London. Order to cause Nicholas de Cugeho to have a tun of wine from the king's wines in their custody, of the king's gift.
Membrane 12—Schedule.
[Return of the sheriff of Surrey on separate panel, not on the writ.] The bailiff of the archbishop's liberty was ordered, and he answered nothing to me therein. Nevertheless [she] is not in prison in my bailiwick, but is in prison at Meydestone, where I have no power to deliver the said Alice. Mainpernors of Alice de Wymedene: Richard de Chelesham, Henry le Marschal, Gilbert de Coveham, Peter le Templer, William the tanner (tannator), William le Viniter, William de Meldon, Thomas le Draper, Thomas le Teler, Peter de Grapelingesham, Stephen Knotte, Thomas Roci.
Membrane 11.
Jan. 25.
Worcester.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause Simon de Brocbur[y] to have seisin of 20 acres of land in La Hethe that Peter le Hert, who was hanged for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the land has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Peter held it of the said Simon, and that the township of Hethe now holds it, and has had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.

Footnotes

  • 1. The Christian name has been omitted by oversight from the enrolment.