Close Rolls, Edward I: August 1288

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: August 1288', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288, (London, 1902) pp. 512-514. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol2/pp512-514 [accessed 18 April 2024]

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August 1288

Aug. 4.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to restore to Simon de Kaneford, priest, vicar of the church of Ifeud, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before Solomon de Roff[a] and his fellows, justices last in eyre in that county, with the death of Master Geoffrey de Gates, archdeacon of Chichester, as he has purged his innocence before Master Gilbert de Sancto Leofardo, elect of Chichester, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
Aug. 6.
Westminster.
To the same. Whereas John de la Mare of co. Essex, Geoffrey de Auno of co. Wilts, Roger de la Ware, John de la Mare of co. Sussex have mainperned in chancery to have before the king in fifteen days from Michaelmas William Gobion, who was placed in exigent to be outlawed at the end [of the eyre] of the justices last in eyre in that county for his contumacy by reason of a certain trespass committed by him, as it is said, upon Robert le Fauconer, to stand to right if anyone wish to speak against him: the king orders the sheriff to supersede in the meantime the execution of the exigent aforesaid. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
Aug. 6.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver to Richard son of Henry Tunsone of Kereby his goods and chattels, if the men who have mainperned to have him before the justices at the first assize will mainpern to answer to the king for them or their value, as the king, upon learning by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Richard, who was lately imprisoned at York for the death of Hugh son of Simon de Kereby, wherewith he is charged, slew Hugh in self-defence and not by felony or of malice aforethought, ordered him to be delivered in bail to twelve men until the first assizes. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
Aug. 12.
Westminster.
William Careles, imprisoned at Kylpek for the death of Reginald Nod, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Hereford to bail him. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
Membrane 5—Schedule.
Mainpernors of Suspirius de Bayus: Ralph de Dryby, [co.] Lincoln, Hugh de Louther, [co.] Westmoreland, Thomas de Schefeld, [co.] York, William de Chaddeword, [co.] Lincoln, Giles Doly, [co.] York, Alexander de Spalding, [co.] Lincoln. These mainperned to have Suspirius in chancery as often as required by the chancellor or by him who supplies his place.
Membrane 4.
Aug. 10.
Westminster.
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause to be replevied to the prior of Christ Church, Twynham, a wood with adjoining pasture within their manor of Pidelton, upon the prior's finding security to render the issues thereof before the king's council in fifteen days from Michaelmas if the king will have them, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff of Dorset that the priors of Christ Church, Twynham, and the canons acquired the wood and pasture long before the publication of the statute of mortmain, and that William de Ripariis, sometime earl of Devon, enfeoffed them of the manor with the wood and pasture aforesaid sixty years and more ago, which the escheator has taken into the king's hands without the king's order. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
Aug. 22.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Essex. Henry de Berewyk has shown the king that whereas William de Parys demised at ferm to John de Tracy 83 acres of land and 3½ acres of meadow in Stanford for a term of eight years, which has not yet elapsed, and John granted the ferm aforesaid to Henry, John de Ripariis, who holds the hundred of Aungre of the king at fee-ferm, within the precinct of which hundred the land and meadow aforesaid lie, took into the king's hands, without a judgment of the king's court or other order from the king, the land and meadow with the corn therein (imbladatura) and other of Henry's goods and chattels there, by reason of the felony charged against William, son and heir of the said William, for slaying William de Haverhull, of which he has not yet been convicted, and the said John de Ripariis ejected Henry thence and appropriated to his own use the corn and other goods and chattels aforesaid: the king orders the sheriff, if it be so, to deliver to Henry his ferm aforesaid and his goods and chattels aforesaid, upon his finding security to answer for them before the king's justices when they come to those parts, or to answer elsewhere at the king's order. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to deliver Elias, vicar of the church of Cristenestowe, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Amice de Cristenestowe, 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 Elias slew Amice when out of his mind (morbo frenetico detentus).
July 25.
Westminster.
To J. archbishop of Dublin, supplying the place of the justiciary of Ireland. Order to permit Emelina, late the wife of Maurice son of Maurice, to have administration of the goods and chattels that belonged to Maurice in Ireland, upon her finding security to answer to the king, so far as the said goods suffice, for the debts due from Maurice to the exchequer of Dublin, for which they were taken into the king's hands, if they are still in the king's hands, and if the executors of Maurice's will or his heirs or others have not found security to render the debts to the said exchequer in order to have administration of his goods and chattels. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
Aug. 28.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Middlesex. Order to supersede until otherwise ordered the arrest of Edmund Brom, whom the king ordered to be taken and imprisoned in Neugate for certain trespasses charged against him, as John de Londonia has mainperned to have him before the king at his order. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
John Jolif, imprisoned at Eylesbyr[y] for the death of Henry Guleberd, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Buckingham to bail him. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall.
Aug. 28.
Westminster.
To the keeper of the forest of Chete. Order to cause Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, to have in that forest ten acres of underwood for fuel and ten oaks within the said ten acres for the works of the king's manor of Lutgershale, on condition that he shall cause the ten acres to be enclosed according to the assize of the Forest.