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March 4.
Hitchin. |
To Luke de Tany, seneschal of Gascony. Paschal de Pinu has shown
the king that whereas Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, assigned to him in
the king's name' and place (vice) 15l. of Morlaas (morlanorum) yearly to be
received at the king's exchequer of Bordeaux, and the king afterwards
confirmed the assignment, as contained in his letter's patent in Paschal's
possession, Paschal has received nothing for seven years, although he
frequently pressed (institerit) for the money: the king orders the seneschal
to cause Paschal to be satisfied for the arrears aforesaid, so far as he shall
ascertain that they are due to him, and to cause the aforesaid sum to be
paid to him hereafter according to the grant. |
March 6.
Royston. (Crucem Roys'.) |
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to permit Hugh de
Oddingeseles, who is setting out in the king's service, to take with him two
iron horse-coverings (cooperturas), a trapping? (treppam), a hauberk
(loricam), three gambesons (gambisones), an aketon, a bascinet (bacinum),
two iron girdles (circulos), three tunics (tuniculas), a pair of iron leg-pieces?
(mustelarum), a pair of thigh-pieces (quissettorum), and four pennoncels
(penecellas), which he has caused to be made in the city. |
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Hugh de Capella of Knypton, imprisoned at Warwick for the death of
Andrew de Coston, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of
Leicester to bail him. |
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John de Wythou, imprisoned at Leicester for the death of Andrew son
of Thomas le Mouner of Caston, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the
sheriff of Leicester to bail him. |
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Membrane 11—Schedule. |
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Letters patent of John Ferre, knight, acknowledging receipt, on the
day of St. Mark, 54 Henry [III], in Windsor castle, from Sir Nicholas de
Yatingden, constable of that castle, of 15l. 8s. 2d. of the ransom of 30l. of
land that the king granted to him from the eyre of Nicholas and his fellows,
justices in co. Northampton and adjoining counties to hear and determine
pleas of lands given by reason of the disturbance in the land, which
15l. 8s. 2d. were levied for John's use by estreats of the said justices for
their eyre of co. Berks in the time of Sir Thomas de Sancto Vigore, sheriff
of that county. [No seal.] |
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Membrane 10. |
March 12.
Barnwell. |
To Ralph de Sandewico, the king's steward. Order to cause to be
made at St. Briavells with all speed 200,000 quarells, whereof 150,000
shall be for crossbows of one foot and 50,000 for crossbows of two feet, as
the king wills that quarrels shall be made and kept there for his use. |
March 13.
Landbeach. |
To Bartholomew le Jevene, constable of Bristol castle. Order to permit
a certain Welshman lately taken in the society of Almaric de Monte Forti
and of Eleanor his sister and detained in that castle, to be delivered from
prison without abjuring the realm, and to permit him to return home. |
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To Geoffrey de Piccheford, constable of Windsor castle. Order to cause
the bailiffs and men of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, who are imprisoned
at Windsor for a contempt and enormous trespass committed by them upon
the king and his men, to be delivered from prison upon their finding mainpernors to have them before the king in three weeks from Easter to satisfy
the king and his men for the contempt and trespass. |
March 17.
Dereham. |
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
cause the Carmelite Friars of Lynn to have six oaks for timber in the
king's forest of Sappeleye for the works of their church in that town, of the
king's gift. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the
following mainperuors of John le Cotillier, sometime the king's serjeant, to
be acquitted of the following debts: William Godesone of 20s., in which
he was amerced before Master Roger de Seyton and his fellows, late justices
in eyre at Cantebrigg, because he had not the said John, whom he had
pledged; John Godesone 20s. for the like; Philip de Hyngham half a
mark for the like; Gerard le Cotillier 20s. for the like; Alan le Shetere
20s. for the like; Thomas le Botillier a mark for the like; William le
Mouner 20s. for the like; Nicholas de Havekeston 20s. for the like; Simon
le Shethere 10s. for the like; Ralph Crisp 10s. for the like; John Martin
4s. for the like, as the king, out of charity, has pardoned the mainpernors
at the instance of the said John. |
March 18.
Gaywood. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. It is shown to the king on behalf of John
Corpel, imprisoned at Norwich, that whereas he impleaded William Bardolf
before the justices of the Bench by writ of right for a third part of the
manor of Rungeton, Wyrmegeye, Stowe, and Wimneberg, in which plea
day is prefixed for the parties in the quinzaine of Easter, William, after the
plea was begun, procured that John was appealed before the said justices
by Mariota Rust of the death of Sampson Rust by precept, and by
Philip de Newebaud of the death of Richard his son by harbouring [the
murderers], and also by Margaret, late the wife of Thomas de Aketon, of her
husband's death by maliciously harbouring, and procured his imprisonment,
and procured a day to be prefixed to the said appellants and to John in
fifteen days from Holy Trinity following, in order that John should desist
through fear from the prosecution of the plea aforesaid or should make
default in the quinzaine of Easter aforesaid, whereby William might go
quit without day in the said plea: the king, wishing to obviate such malice,
orders the sheriff to deliver John in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices to stand to right in the king's court
concerning the said appeals. |
March 20.
Coxford. |
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of John de Tatham, lately elected, whom the king
has caused to be amoved from office for insufficient qualification. |
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Henry de la Mare and Walter de la Mare, imprisoned at Gloucester for
the death of William de Crickelade, whereof they are appealed, have letters
to the sheriff of Gloucester to bail them. |
March 23.
Gimingham. |
To Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln. Whereas the king learns by
inquisition taken by the earl and by Bogo de Knovill, sheriff of Salop, that
Fulk son of Warin, father of the present Fulk son of Warin, held all the
land of Baleslegh whilst he lived as his own right until Griffin son of
Wenunwen, by reason of a dispute between him and Thomas Corbet,
occupied the land of [le] Gordur together with the land of Baleslegh, and
held it by reason of such occupation until the present Fulk son of Warin
married Griffin's daughter, when Griffin rendered to Fulk as Fulk's right
the said land of Baleslegh, and Fulk held it until, on a contention arising
between Llewelyn (Lewelinum) son of Griffin and the said Griffin son of
Wenunwen, Llewelyn occupied and held Griffin's land together with le
Gourdour and Baleslegh until the aforesaid earl and all and other subjects
of the king in the king's expedition in the Marches ejected Llewelyn's men
from that land, and that Peter Corbet then seized the land of Gordour
together with the land of Baleslegh because the latter was within the
limits of his land of Gordour: the king orders the earl, if the land of
Baleslegh was not in the king's seisin after the ejection of Llewelyn's men
from the land aforesaid, to take that land into the king's hands, according
to the tenor of the provision lately made by the king and his council at
Worcester concerning such lands, and to cause Fulk to have seisin of the
land aforesaid, saving the right of the king and of the said Peter when
he may wish to speak concerning it and the right of any others. |
March 30.
Norwich. |
To Joseph de Kauncy, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in
England, the treasurer. Whereas the king lately enjoined him at Norwich by
word of mouth to take from certain merchants of Gascony—who stayed in
London with their wines, beyond the twelve weeks provided by the king,
until the king should ordain otherwise, by reason of whose stay the mayor
and sheriffs of London took the wines into the king's hands—surety
that they will render the true value of the wines to the king in the coming
parliament at Westminster, and to cause the wines to be restored to them
by the security aforesaid: the king orders him to receive the security from
the merchants according to his discretion, and to cause the wines to be
delivered to them. The king has ordered the mayor and sheriffs to deliver
the wine to the merchants when enjoined to do so by the treasurer. |
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To Robert de Offord, justice of Chester. Order to attach all the goods
and chattels that belonged to Bonas[ius] de Florencia, bailiff and keeper of
the new custom in Ireland, and of his fellows and servants (famulorum),
or that are in their custody, and to cause to be levied all debts due to
Bonas[ius] and their fellows, until the king shall be satisfied concerning
their receipt of the new custom, and to cause the said custom there to be so
kept henceforth that no damage shall be done to the king, and to provide a
keeper for the same for whom he will be answerable, as the king is informed
that Bonas[ius] has been slain by certain men of Ireland. |
