Close Rolls, Edward I: October 1285

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

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: October 1285', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288, (London, 1902) pp. 339-343. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol2/pp339-343 [accessed 19 April 2024]

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October 1285

Oct. 1.
Woodmancote.
Vincent de Esthorp, imprisoned at Winchester for the death of Thomas de Hodemilne and Hugh his brother, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Southampton to bail him.
Hugh Barry and Stephen son of Hugh Barry, imprisoned at Beverley for the death of Henry son of Robert le Veylle of Shupton, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of York to bail them.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver Richard Pet, Matthew son of Nicholas, William son of Warin, and Warin de Dene, imprisoned at Hereford for trespass of the Forest, wherewith they are charged, in bail to twelve men each who shall mainpern to have them before the justices for the pleas of the Forest and that they shall not hereafter incur forfeiture in the forests.
Membrane 3—Schedule.
Names of the mainpernors of William Wither, imprisoned at St. Albans, to have his body before the justices next in eyre in co. Bedford to stand to right concerning the death of Edmund Punchardon: Robert de la Leye of Luthon, John de Ramrugge of the same, John Danyel of the same, Robert le Berner of the same, Walter de la Strate of the same, John de la Bruere of the same, Robert Lewis of the same, John de Shakeleston of the same, Robert de Ultra Ripam of the same, William le Baud of the same, Richard de Furno of the same, John le Fullere of the same.
Membrane 2.
Oct. 4.
Winchester.
To Roger Lestrange, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause William de Leyburn to have in the wood of Kingeswod, within the forest of Essex, twelve oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
To Master H. de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Elias de Rabayn, the lands that Elias and she held in chief of her inheritance at Elias's death, to be held until the next parliament, so that there may then be done what the king shall then cause to be ordained by his council, as the king has taken her homage.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Robert le Oyselur of Childon, Nicholas Herefray, Robert le Hurde, Robert Whithond to be acquitted of 10s., and William le Gaunter, Walter le Tapener and Adam Doget of 10s., Robert de Uppehulle, Nicholas le Bonde, Roger Boye, and Nicholas Herefray of 10s., and William de la Hurne of Childon, Richard le Boye, Richard Scevel, and Simon Softego of 10s., and Nicholas Herefray, Nicholas Dosevyle, and Robert de Uppehull of 13s. 4d., at which they were amerced before the justices of the Bench and the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews because they had not Geoffrey Gascelyn, as the king has pardoned them at the instance of Joan, late the wife of the said Geoffrey.
To the same. Order to cause Stephen de Lolleden, Roger le Boye, and Robert Reyner to be acquitted of 10s., and Adam le Webbe, Richard le Boye, Robert Stoket, and John Stramnye of 10s., at which they were amerced before the justices of the Bench because they had not Richard Horn, and to cause Robert de la Cornere, Stephen de Lolledon, William Walkelyn, and William Roket to be acquitted of 13s. 4d. at which they were amerced before the said justices because they had not the aforesaid Joan, as the king has pardoned them at the instance of Joan.
To the same. Order to cause the aforesaid Joan to be acquitted of 28s. due to the king from the said Geoffrey for the rent that belonged to John de la Ware in Ditherigg, and of 4l. 13s. 4d. for the ferm of the borough of Chippeham for the time when Walter de Goddarvill, Joan's father, of whom she is the heir, was fermor of the said borough.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause Nicholas, archbishop of Armagh, to be acquitted of the amercement in which he fell before the justices of the Bench of Dublin for the occupation of the temporalities of the bishopric of the temporalities (sic) of Drumore that he was said to have made at the time of the last voidance of the bishopric and unjustly detained from the king, as was adjudged before the justices, as the king has pardoned him the amercement. [Prynne, Records, iii. 352.]
To the same. Order to cause the said archbishop to be acquitted of 10 marks of the 20 marks in which he was condemned before the said justices for the issues of the temporalities of the bishopric of Drumore during the last voidance unjustly detained by him from the king, as the king has pardoned him 10 marks. [Ibid.]
To the keeper of the forest of Bernewod. Order to cause the prior of Chetwode to have in the wood of Pauntehale within the forest aforesaid ten oaks fit for timber for the construction of his church.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the prior of Lenton to be acquitted of 10 marks in which Roger, the late prior, was amerced for a disseisin that he had made upon Robert de Wynefeld of a tenement in Wynefeld before John de Breton, the late king's justice appointed for this purpose, as the king has pardoned the prior. In case the sheriff of Derby have paid the ten marks to the exchequer for the prior, they are to allow this sum to the sheriff in the debts due from him to the king.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Eustace de Hacche to have in the forest of Choete four live bucks and eight live does, in order to stock his park of Hacche.
Oct. 6.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to restore to Robert de Turvill, clerk, his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being indicted before the justices last in eyre in that county of the death of two men and a woman slain at Walton on the Wald, if he have not fled by reason of the said death, as he has purged his innocence before O. bishop of Lincoln, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
To Richard de Holebrok, keeper of the forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stanford. Order to cause John de Londonia to have in the king's park of Helegh an oak fit for timber, of the king's gift.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause John le Botiller to have 6l. 13s. 3d. for Michaelmas term last of the 6l. 13s. 3d. that the king granted to him yearly at the exchequer, until such time as the king should cause 6l. 13s. 3d. yearly of land to be assigned to him in satisfaction of 60l. yearly of land that the king granted to him for the surrender and quit claim that he made to the king of the manor of Ringwode, in accordance with the tenor of the king's writ of liberate in their hands.
To the keeper of the park of Relegh. Order to cause William son of Warin to have in that park three does, of the king's gift.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the issues of fines of amercements, chattels of fugitives and of condemned persons and others of the hundred of Gartre of the last eyre of the justices in eyre in co. Leicester to be levied and paid to John de Berewyk, keeper of the gold of Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, as the king has granted to her such issues of the said hundred, which is in her hands by the late king's grant.
To the justices in eyre in co. Essex. Order to cause estreats to be made of the issues of fines, amercements, chattels of fugitives and condemned persons and others of the hundred of Berdestaple, which is in the hands of Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, from the present eyre in that county, and to deliver the estreats to John de Berwyk, keeper of the queen's gold, in order to levy the same for her use, as the king has granted to her the issues aforesaid.
The like to the justices in eyre in co. Northampton for the hundred of Spelho.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver Robert, parson of the church of Radenore, Thomas and John, his brothers, imprisoned at Bruges for a trespass of the Forest, to twelve men each who shall mainpern to have them before the justices for pleas of the Forest or before the king at his order and that they will not hereafter incur forfeiture in the forest.
To the keeper of the forest of Wycchewode. Order to cause Alfonsus de Ispannia, kinsman of Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, dwelling in the schools at Oxford, to have in that forest four leafless oak-stumps (robora) for his fuel, of the king's gift.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to permit the abbess of Wherewell to sell and make her profit of the underwood of her wood of Harewode, within the forest of Chuete, up to forty acres, as the king has granted that she may do so.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Notification that the king has pardoned Walter Hackelutel, in consideration of his grateful service to the king and of his costs and expenses in newly erecting a house in the Welsh marches and afterwards crenellating (kernelandam) it by the king's licence for the security of those parts, a debt of 57l. in which he was indebted to Aaron le Blund, a Jew of Hereford, for William Mael and Thomas his son, which debt the Jew would lately have sold to Walter for 20l.: the king therefore orders the justices to cause the charters in the chest of the chirographers of the Jews under the names of the said William and Thomas for the aforesaid debt to be withdrawn and delivered to Walter, and to cause William and Thomas to be acquitted thereof. It is provided that the Jew shall have recompence for the said 20l. from the king's old debts as the justices shall ordain.
To the keeper of the forest of Essex. Order to cause William de Say to have in that forest four bucks, of the king's gift.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver Hugh de Haleghton, Hugh, his son, Hugh de Enefeld, and Adam Melwode, imprisoned at Bruges for a trespass in the forest of Waumbrigge to twelve men each, who shall mainpern to have them before the justices for pleas of the Forest if any one wish to speak against them.
Oct. 12.
Winchester.
To Geoffrey de Pycheford, constable of Windsor castle. Whereas the king granted to Master Peter de Kendal, for his long service to the king and Queen Eleanor, his consort, 21 acres and 12 perches of land of the king's purprestures in Old Windsor [measured] by the forest perch, to him and his heirs, rendering therefor 6d. yearly for each acre by the hands of the constable of Windsor castle for all service due to the king; the king has now pardoned Peter the money that he ought to pay as a gressom (in gersumam) for having entry, and all arrears of the said rent up to 4 August last: the constable is therefore ordered to acquit Peter of the said money and arrears.
To John de Insula, keeper of the forest of Chete. Order to cause James de Sancto Victore to have in that forest six oaks fit for timber in a place near and convenient for him, of the king's gift.
To the keeper of the forest of Whychewode. Order to cause R. bishop of Bath and Wells to have in that forest two oaks fit for timber in order to repair therewith the houses of Henry de Ive, a minor in the king's wardship, of the king's gift.
Ralph le Moyne, imprisoned at Notingham for the death of Nicholas Stirch, slain at Eton, co. Warwick, has letters to the sheriff of Warwick to bail him.
Membrane 1.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 29 June, in the 50th year of the late king's reign, by his letters under the seal that he then used, granted to Richard de Rupell[is] the rents and revenues then due to the king from the cantred of Omany for the term of his life, and also remitted to Richard all arrears of the rents and revenues of the cantred then due to the king from Richard, and the king now learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Essex that Richard died on St. Nicholas's day, in the seventh year of the king's reign, at the manor of Wokinton within the county aforesaid: the king orders the treasurer and barons to discharge Philip, son and heir of Richard, of the aforesaid arrears, rents and profits for all the time aforesaid until the day of Richard's death.
Oct. 8.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to deliver Thomas Sampson, imprisoned at Notingham for the death of William de Bingham, wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices at the first assize if any one wish to speak against him, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Thomas slew the said William in self-defence, and not by felony or of malice aforethought.
To the keeper of the forest of Selewode. Order to cause Blanche, wife of William de Fenes, to have in that forest twelve leafless oak stumps (robora folia non habencia) for her fuel, of the king's gift.
Oct. 21.
Beaulieu.
To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver Henry son of John de Neuland, imprisoned at York for the death of John son of Thomas le Provost, wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices at the first assize, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Henry slew the said John by mischance, and not by felony or of malice aforethought.