Close Rolls, Edward I: May 1280 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1902.

'Close Rolls, Edward I: May 1280', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288, (London, 1902) pp. 12-18. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol2/pp12-18 [accessed 24 April 2024]

May 1280



May 13. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William Hamelyn, late sheriff of Leicester, to be acquitted of 500l. of the fifteenth in that county paid, by the king's order and the testimony of the abbot of Leicester, to Luke de Luk', deceased, and his fellows, merchants of Lucca (Luk'), on Thursday after St. Peter ad Vincula, in the fourth year, and of 40l. of the fifteenth paid to Bonruncinus Walteri and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, on Sunday the feast of the Assumption, in the fifth year, and of 138l. of the fifteenth paid to the said Luke and his fellows on Friday after St. Katherine, in the same year, and of 668l. of the fifteenth paid to Abbas de Luk' and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, on St. Katherine's day, in the sixth year, and of 6l. of the second moiety of the fifteenth paid to Giles de Gard[eroba], then keeper of the Tower of London, and to Reyner Magiar' and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, on Saturday after St. Dunstan, in the same year, as appears by the letters of the said merchants and Giles in William's possession, with which sums William is charged at the exchequer, and to cause the merchants and Giles to be charged with the same.
	To the same. Like order in favour of the prior of Kenill[eworth] and William Hamelyn, late sheriff of Warwick, for 332l. of the fifteenth in that county paid by the king's order to the said Luke de Luk' and his fellows, on Wednesday after the Assumption, in the fourth year, and of 173l. 10s. 0d. of the fifteenth paid to Luke and his fellows on Wednesday the feast of St. Katherine, in the fifth year, and of 100l. of the fifteenth paid to Bonruncinus Walteri and his fellows, merchants of Lucca (Luk'), on Sunday the feast of the Assumption, in the same year, and of 11l. of the second moiety of the fifteenth paid to Giles de Audenard, keeper of the Tower of London, and to Reyner Magiar' and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, on Saturday after St. Dunstan, in the sixth year, and of 9l. 10s. 0d. of the second moiety paid to Giles and Reyner on Thursday the feast of the Commemoration of St. Paul, in the same year, as appears by the letters of the merchants and Giles.
May 15. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to desist from exacting from the master and brethren of St. Lazarus, Burton, the fifteenth of their goods, as the king has pardoned them. By K.
	To Philip de Wilegheby, receiver of the goods and chattels of certain condemned Jews. Order to cause to be allowed to William de Redham, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 100s. which he expended by the king's order in the carriage of certain Jews of Norwich with their goods and chattels from that town to the Tower of London, as is testified before the king by Walter de Helyun, one of the justices appointed to hear and determine pleas of trespass of money.
May 16. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause all the writs of allowance and of quittance made by the late king to William de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, in their hands at the exchequer, to be read and enrolled, and to cause due allowances and quittances to be made to William according to the said writs.
	To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of Roger Martel, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Baldwin Wake, son and heir of Hugh Wake, and co-heir of William Bruere, to be acquitted of the scutage of his fees in cos. Nottingham and Derby, as it appears by the late king's rolls of chancery of the 41st year of his reign that Hugh le Bygod had a writ to have scutage of the knights' fees held of the wardship of the aforesaid Hugh Wake in the said counties, the custody whereof was in the hands of Hugh le Bygod by the said king's grant, and the barons cause the scutage to be exacted from Baldwin.
	To Roger de Cliff[ord] and his fellows, justices in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Berks. Order not to aggrieve Nicholas de Theden by reason of certain deer that he took in the forest of Windsor for the use of Walter de Merton, sometime chancellor of the late king, by Walter's order when in Walter's household in passing through the forest, concerning which deer Nicholas is charged before them, as the late king granted by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, to Walter that he might take by him or his men in all forests of England, whenever he should pass through them, one or two of the said king's deer and might carry them whither he wished without impediment.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William Hamelyn, late sheriff of Warwick and Leicester, to be discharged of 7l. 3s. 0d. of the fifteenth of co. Leicester, paid to Reyner Magiar', merchant of Lucca (Luk'), and to Giles de Audenard, then receivers of the fifteenth, on Sunday after SS. Simon and Jude, in the fifth year, and to charge Reyner and Giles therewith.
May 16. Westminster.	To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order not to aggrieve Eustace de Hacche, Richard de Burgo, Edmund his brother, Hugh de Anton, Thomas de Maydenhacche, William de Felton, and James de Stafford by reason of their trespass in taking three does and a hind in the forest of Shirewod, as the king has pardoned them.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Exonia, treasurer of Exeter, to be acquitted of 100s. in which he was amerced by the justices in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Southampton because he did not appear before them at the common summons of the eyre, as the king has pardoned him this amercement because he was in the king's service on Saturday the morrow of St. Hilary last for the gift (curialitate) that the clergy of the bishopric of Exeter made to the king of their fifteenth, so that he could not appear before the said justices on that day.
May 19. Westminster.	To Peter de la Mare, constable of Bristol castle. Order to cause John Love, keeper of the forest of Kingeswod, to have his usual wages for the present year.
May 22. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to R. bishop of Bath and Wells his liberties and acquittances as they were wont to be allowed in the rolls of the exchequer in the times of kings Richard and John, the king's progenitors.
	To Ralph de Sandwyco, the king's steward. Order to cause Stephen de Lenelaund, brother and heir of Ralph de Grendon, to have seisin of Ralph's lands, as the king has taken his homage for the serjeanty of the custody of the prison of Flete and of the palace of Westminster.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Matthew, prior of Lenton, and Walter de Stirchesley, late sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, to be discharged of 1400 marks of the fifteenth in that county (sic) paid by the king's order to Luke de Luk', deceased, and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, on Saturday the octave of the Assumption, in the fourth year, and of 568 marks of the fifteenth paid to Luke and his fellows on Sunday the eve of St. Andrew, in the fifth year, and of 14l. 18s. 6d. of the fifteenth paid by the hands of brother Humphrey, a monk of Lenton, and of Simon, the said sheriff's clerk, to Giles de Garder[oba], then keeper of the Tower of London, and to Reyner Magiar' of Lucca, merchant, on Saturday the feast of St. Agatha, in the sixth year, and of 51l. of the fifteenth paid to Abbas Talgard, citizen and merchant of Lucca, on the day of the Invention of the Holy Cross, in the fourth year, and of 18l. of the fifteenth paid to the said Abbas on 7 June, in the fourth year, as appears by the letters of the said merchants and Giles in the possession of the prior and sheriff, and to cause the merchants and Giles to be charged with the same.
	To the same. Like orders in favour of Robert, prior of Thurgerton, and Walter de Stirchel[ey], late sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, for 1375l. of the fifteenth in those counties paid by the king's orders to Giles de Garderoba, then keeper of the Tower of London, and to Reyner Magiar' of Lucca (Luk'), the king's merchant, on Thursday the feast of SS. Fabian and Sebastian, in the sixth year, and of 11l. 5s. 0d. of the fifteenth paid to Reyner on Wednesday after St. Valentine, in the said year, and of 64s. 7d. paid to Giles on Saturday after St. John before the Latin Gate, in the same year.
	To the sheriff of York. Order to permit Gilbert de Luda and John le Especer, citizens of York, to hold Robert de Percy's manor of Kerneteby, which Robert demised to them for six years for a debt of 250 marks that they lately recovered (disracionavit) against Robert before the justices in eyre in co. York, to hold according to the form of the demise.
	To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order not to permit G. bishop of Worcester or his officials or other ministers to visit the chaplains, clerks or other ministers of the free chapel of Kyneleye within the manor of Nymdesfeld, which is of the inheritance of Nicholas son of Ralph, a minor in the king's wardship, or to exercise any ordinary jurisdiction therein, or to attempt anything therein contrary to the tenor of the inquisition lately made by the king's order concerning this by Ralph de Sandwyco, the king's steward, a transcript whereof the king sends to the sheriff enclosed in the presents, and to maintain the chapel and ministers during the wardship in the same state as they were in on the day of the death of the said Ralph father of Nicholas. [Prynne, Records, iii. p. 247.]
May 22. Westminster.	To Matthew de Columbariis, keeper of the forest of Chete. Order to cause the prioress of Aumbresbir[y] to have ten oaks fit for timber for certain works that Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, is causing to be made at Aumbresbir[y].
	To the bailiff of Clarendon. Order to cause the prioress to have twenty oaks in the forest of Bokeholte for the works aforesaid.
May 23. Westminster	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbot of Gresteyn to be acquitted of 100s. in which he was amerced before the justices in eyre for common pleas in co. Cambridge, and which sum is exacted from him by reason of the common summons of the eyre, as the late king granted to the abbot by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, that he should be quit for five years from 13 July, in the 52nd year of his reign, of all summonses before justices in eyre for pleas of the Forest and for common pleas, and the aforesaid amercement was imposed during that period.
	Membrane 8—Schedule.
1280. April 13. Berkeley.	(fn. 1) To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to deliver Peter de Esquidemor, imprisoned at Old Sarum for trespass in the forests of cos. Somerset and Dorset, on mainprise to have him before the king in parliament after Easter next.
	Endorsed with return of the names of the mainpernors: William de Dun, Stephen le Droeys, William Auvrey, Richard de Langport, John de Mere, John de Cromhale, David Durand, John de Upton, Walter Lillebon, William de Percy, Peter son of Warin, Richard Sculy.
	Membrane 7.
May 24. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king granted to Robert son of John, for the fee of 25l. that he receives from the king, the custody of the lands in Luton that belonged to John de Bohun, tenant in chief, which are extended at 17l. yearly, and the custody of the lands of Ralph de Bukham, deceased, which were in the king's hands by reason of the voidance of the abbey of St. Edmund, of which Ralph held, which lands are extended at 14l. yearly, to have during the minority of the heirs of John and Ralph in satisfaction of the said 25l., on condition that he should pay the surplus 6l. to the exchequer; the king has now granted that Robert shall render 4l. only, and they are ordered to cause him to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
	To the keeper of the park of Arundel. Order to cause Master Geoffrey de Hotot to have four oaks fit for timber and two beeches for the repair of the mills of Swaneburn and Arundel, in accordance with the composition made between John son of Alan, sometime lord of Arundel, and the said Geoffrey.
	To William de Hamelton, guardian of the bishopric of Winchester. Order to cause the keeper of the works of St. Swithin's, Winchester, to have five oaks in each of the bishop's parks of Merewell, Stokes, Wautham, Merdon, and Hameledon for the said works, as the king learns that Nicholas, the late bishop, granted such oaks to the prior and convent of St. Swithin's, and they have not yet had them, as the king learns from them. By K.
	To Roger de Cliff[ord] and his fellows, justices in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Berks. Order not to molest Robert Aguillon and Margaret de Ripariis, countess of Devon, his wife, or to amerce them, and to cause them to be acquitted of any amercement inflicted upon them by reason of trespasses in the king's forest whilst the countess was a widow, as the king has pardoned them such trespasses. By K. at the instance of the queen, his mother.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the said Robert and Margaret to be acquitted of all the trespasses aforesaid.
May 26. Westminster.	To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas de Weil[and] to have six oaks fit for timber in the forest of Chypham, of the king's gift.
	To the same. Order to permit Philip de Candever, the king's huntsman, to take six bucks in the forest of Essex for the king's use, as the king has enjoined upon him.
	To William de Hamelton, guardian of the bishopric of Winchester. Order to cause Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, to have in wood of the bishopric at Donton called 'Borgenemore' timber for eighty couples of roof-timber (quater viginti copulas) to build her houses of Lindhurst therewith, of the king's gift.
May 24. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to cause J. archbishop of Canterbury to have return of all writs within the liberty of the archbishopric in the sheriff's bailiwick, in the same manner as Robert, late archbishop, and his predecessors have been wont to have. By C.
	The like to the sheriffs of Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Sussex, Oxford, Surrey, Essex, Middlesex and Sussex.
	To the bailiffs of A. queen of England at Ledes. Order not to distrain the men and tenants of the liberty of the archbishop of Canterbury to do suit at the queen's court of Ledes, or to pay scutage to the queen of the fees that are held of the liberty of the archbishopric, otherwise than they and their predecessors were wont to do suit and to pay, and to cause to be restored anything received from the scutage contrary to the form aforesaid, so that the king may not be again solicited. By C.
	To the sheriff of Kent. Order to permit J. archbishop of Canterbury to receive and have the amercements of his tenants of the fees pertaining to the liberty of the archbishopric in which they were amerced before the justices last in eyre in that county, and also elsewhere in that bailiwick, from the time when the king restored the temporalities of the archbishopric.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the tenants of the aforesaid archbishop of his manor of Wymbeldon to be discharged of seven marks at which they were tallaged by Ralph de Sandwyco and William de Middelton, late guardians of the archbishopric, during the last voidance of the archbishopric, as the king has pardoned the tenants at the instance of the archbishop. By C.
May 25. Westminster.	To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to deliver to Thomas de Babynton the wardship of the lands and heirs of John de Kyma of Griseby, tenant by knight service of Walter Giffard, late archbishop of York, as the archbishop granted the wardship to Thomas during the minority of the heirs, and Thomas was in peaceful seisin thereof before the archbishop's death, and the steward took the custody into the king's hands upon the archbishop's death, and the king confirms the grant.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Hugh de la Val and Matilda his wife of the relief demanded from them for the lands falling to Matilda of the inheritance of Hugh de Bolebek, her father, tenant in chief of the late king, as the king has ascertained that Matilda and her lands were in the wardship of the late king during her minority, so that Hugh and she are not bound to render relief to the king for the said lands.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause W. archbishop of York to be acquitted of all amercements in which the barons of the exchequer amerced him because he did not return at the terms and day fixed the king's writs for making execution of the king's orders, as the king has pardoned him such amercements, provided that he make the return of the writs at the terms and days to be appointed in the king's court.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the executors of the will of William de Valoynes, late sheriff of Kent, to be discharged of 3000 marks of the fifteenth in that county, paid by the king's order to Roland de Podio, merchant of Lucca (Luk'), on Wednesday after St. Lawrence, in the fourth year, and of 400 marks of the fifteenth paid to Roland on Tuesday the Nativity of St. Mary, in the same year, and of 600 marks of the fifteenth paid to Habad de Brankillane, merchant and fellow of Luke de Luk' and the said Roland, and of 100 marks of the fifteenth paid to Roland on Tuesday after St. Mark, in the same year, and of 40l. of the fifteenth paid to Reyner de Luk, merchant and fellow of Luke de Luk', on Thursday after the octaves of Holy Trinity in the same year, and of 2038l. of the fifteenth paid to Giles de Audenardo, then keeper of the Tower of London, and to Reyner Magiar' of Lucca on Sunday after St. Luke, in the same year, and of 576l. 10s. 0d. of the fifteenth paid to the said Giles and Reyner by the hands of Adam de Lymmyng, clerk of the said sheriff, on Saturday after St. Martin, in the same year, and of 100l. of the fifteenth paid to Giles and Reyner on Thursday before Christmas, in the sixth year, and of 40 marks of the fifteenth paid to Giles and Reyner on Saturday after the Invention of the Holy Cross, in the same year, as appears by the letters patent of the merchants and Giles in the executors' possession, and to cause the said merchants and Giles to be charged with these sums.
May 26. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause 85 marks to be levied by the estreats of fines and amercements that the justices in eyre in that county will deliver to him by the king's order, and to cause it to be paid to the justices for Easter term last, to wit William de Saham 25 marks, Roger Luveday 20 marks, John de Meting[ham] 20 marks, and Master Thomas de Sodington 20 marks, for their yearly fees.
	To the sheriff of Somerset. Like order to levy 70 marks and to cause it to be paid to the justices in eyre in that county, to wit Solomon de Roff[a] 30 marks, William de Braiboef 20 marks, and Richard de Boylaund 20 marks.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the barons of Faversam to be acquitted of 10l. in which they were amerced before John de Reygate and William de Norburg and their fellows, justices lately in eyre at Canterbury, for a trespass, as the king has pardoned them.
May 29. Westminster.	To Ralph de Sandwyco, the king's steward. Order to permit the prior of Portesmuth to hold in peace, according to the form of the feoffment, the lands in the town of Portesmuth acquired by him after the publication of the statute of mortmain (statutum . . . . de terris et tenementis in manum mortuam non ponendis), which the steward took into the king's hands, as the king has granted to him that he may hold the lands.
	The like in favour of the prior of Suthwik for lands acquired by him in the towns of Portesmuth and Kingeston.
	To the same. Order to deliver to the abbot and convent of Tynterne the 51s. of yearly rent that they had of the feoffment of Fulk de Lucy in Huwaldesfeld, which the steward lately took into the king's hands by the king's order, to be held by them according to the form of the feoffment.
	To John de Berewik, late keeper of the abbey of St. Edmunds. Order to cause the burgesses of Bury St. Edmunds to be acquitted of 100 marks, which he exacts from them for the king's use for the tallage assessed upon them by him during the last voidance of the abbey.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, of 10l. in which he was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Middlesex for default of the common summons before them, as the king has pardoned them.
	To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to permit David son of Griffin and Elizabeth his wife to make a clearing (trencheam) forty feet wide in their wood of Naiton, which is within the forest of Whitlewode.