Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1279 | 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 1279', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 582-583. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp582-583 [accessed 21 April 2024]

November 1279



	Membrane 1d.
Nov. 9. Westminster.	The under-written have quittance of the common summons [of the eyre] in co. Dorset:
	Milisenta, late the wife of Eudo la Zusch.
	Agatha de Mortuo Mari. (fn. 1)
— —	Laurence de Sancto Michaele acknowledges that he owes to William de Hamelton 12l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Essex and Kent.
	William de Leyburn acknowledges that he owes to Nutus de Florencia, merchant, 120 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Kent.
	Memorandum, that J. archbishop of Canterbury came before the king and his council, in the king's parliament of Michaelmas, at Westminster and confessed and granted that of the statutes, provisions and declarations of those things that were promulgated by him at Rading, in August, in this same year, amongst certain sentences of excommunication that he promulgated, there shall in the first place be deleted and regarded as non-pronounced the clause in the first sentence of excommunication that makes mention of those sueing out royal letters to hinder process in cases that by the holy canons, etc.; and, in the second place, that the king's ministers shall not be excommunicated although they do not obey the king's order by not taking excommunicated persons; and, in the third place, concerning those who invade the manors of clerks that there the penalty imposed by the king shall suffice; and, in the fourth place, that he shall not interdict the selling of victuals to the archbishop of York or to others coming to the king; and, in the fifth place, Magna Charta shall be removed from the doors of churches. He also confessed and granted that no prejudice shall arise in the future to the king or his heirs or his realm of England by reason of any other articles in the council of Rading. [Prynne, Records, iii. 236; Ryley, Placita, p. 442.]
Nov. 11. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Writ of summons for an eyre for pleas of the Forest to be holden before Roger de Clifford, Geoffrey de Pycheford, and William de Hamelton at Winchester on the morrow of St. Hilary next.
	The like to the sheriff of Worcester for an eyre before Roger de Cliff[ord], Nicholas de Romes[eye], and John son of Nigel in a month from St. Hilary.
Nov. 15. Westminster.	The under-written have quittance of the common summons for the pleas of the Forest in co. Southampton:
	William de Valencia. (fn. 2)
	The under-written have quittance of the common summons for pleas of the Forest in co. Worcester:
	William de Valencia. (fn. 2)
Nov. 15. Westminster.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to cause the statute of mortmain (statutum virorum religiosorum), the 'form' of which is here set out, to be read before them and to be observed and held firmly hereafter. [Statutes of the Realm, i. 51; Prynne, Records, iii. 236; Ryley, Placita, 441.]
	Memorandum, that this statute is enrolled in the Patent rolls of this year.
	Enrolment of release by William de Leyburn, knight, to the king of the forestry and bailiwick of the forest of Ingelwode, which Roger de Leyburn, William's father, had of the late king's gift. Dated at London, on Tuesday the morrow of St. Edmund, 1279.
	Memorandum, that this deed was delivered to brother Joseph de Chancy, the treasurer, at Westminster, on 15 November, to be kept in the treasury.
— —	Robert de Insula acknowledges that he owes to John de Rocheford 36l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Cambridge and Suffolk.
	Enrolment of the form of the 'novum breve de etate probanda,' with note that an attaint to convict the twelve knights and others shall be made by the king's grace and not without his special warrant.