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Oct. 1.
Westminster. |
To the guardian of the bishopric of Norwich during voidance. Order to
cause William de Rotingh', sheriff of Norfolk, to have in the woods of the
bishopric fifteen oaks fit for timber for the works of the castle of Norwich.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. By the treasurer. |
Oct. 1.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Baldwin
de Aldeham, son and heir of Isabella, late the wife of Thomas de Aldeham,
to be acquitted of 50 marks by which Isabella made fine with the king for
the service of one knight's fee that she acknowledged for the king's army
of Wales, in the fifth year of the reign, as the king, on 4 July, in that year,
acquitted her of the said sum, which she had paid into the wardrobe on
Sunday after SS. Peter and Paul, to Master Thomas Beck, now bishop of
St. Davids, then keeper of the wardrobe, as is contained in the king's said
letters patent. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to permit the prior and convent of
St. Thomas the Martyr near Stafford to enter and hold four virgates of
land in Albeton until otherwise ordered, saving the right of every one and
saving to the chief lords of the fee their due and accustomed services, as
the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that it is not to the
damage of the king or others if he should grant to Philip de Mutton that
he may give and assign the said land to the prior and convent notwithstanding the statute of mortmain. |
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To the sheriff of Berks and the coroners of the same. Order to deliver
to Master William de Burmingeham, king's clerk, the goods and chattels of
William Aylward, his man, which were taken into the king's hands for his
flight for the death of Geoffrey de Stanford, to have of the king's special
grace at the price at which they were appraised, upon the said clerk's
finding security to answer for the price before the justices at the first
assize. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
Oct. 6.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to deliver John de Morilegh,
imprisoned at Newcastle-on-Tyne for the death of William son of Mariota,
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 John slew the said William in self-defence and
not by felony or of malice aforethought. Witness: Edmund, earl of
Cornwall. |
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Membrane 3. |
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To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a verderer for the forest
of Sherewode to be elected in place of Richard de Jorz, deceased. Witness:
Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
Henry son and heir of Sarah, daughter of Anketin Malure, to have seisin of
the lands that his mother at her death held of the king in chief, upon his
finding security to come before the king at his next coming to England to
do homage, as the king has taken his fealty for the said lands. |
Oct. 8.
Westminster. |
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent.
Order to cause Robert Corbet, sheriff of Salop, to have in the wood of Lithewode, which is within the bounds of the forest of Salop, twenty oaks fit for
timber for the repair of the hall, chambers and other houses of the castle of
Shrewsbury. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
Oct. 12.
Westminster. |
Gilbert de Fenton, imprisoned at Newcastle-on-Tyne, for the death of
Richard le Forester of Hedon, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the
sheriff of Northumberland to bail him. Witness: Edmund, earl of
Cornwall. |
Oct. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to cause John son and heir of John
le Waleys to have seisin of six acres of meadow in Kyngesheye that Walter
de Ilmere, who was hanged for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Buckingham that the six acres have been in the
king's hands for a year and a day, and that Walter held them of John le
Waleys, and that Gilbert de Bolebeck is bound to answer to the king for the
year and waste thereof. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To Robert le Eyr, bailiff of Wodestok. Order to find until further orders
necessaries for the stud (equicio) staying at Wodestok of Queen Eleanor, the
king's consort, and for the keepers of the same. |
Oct. 15.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause R. bishop
of London to be acquitted of 166l. 13s. 4d. by which he made fine with the
king for his service due in the army of Wales in the tenth year of the reign,
as the king by his letters patent, on 21 November, in the twelfth year of
his reign, acquitted him of this sum, which he paid by the king's order to
Baroncinus, merchant of Lucca. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the abbot of Thorneton to have
seisin of a bovate of land in Conyngeston that Emma le Escrop of Conyngeston, who was hanged for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken
by the sheriff that it has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and
that she held it of the abbot, and that the township of Conyngeston ought
to answer to the king for the year and day. |
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To the same. Order to deliver Nicholas son of John de Lumby,
imprisoned at York for the death of Ralph son of John le Forester,
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 Nicholas
slew Ralph in self-defence and not by felony or of malice aforethought. |
Oct. 16.
Westminster. |
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause to
be replevied to Dionisia, late the wife of Henry Hubaud, the lands that she
held in dower in the manors of Ippesleye and Hildeburgh, until the king's
arrival in England, unless otherwise ordered, saving the king's right when
he may wish to speak concerning this land. |
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Like order to the same to replevy to John de Hastinges the manor of
Ippeleye, which belonged to Henry and which the king lately ordered the
escheator to deliver to John to be held in name of custody, and which the
escheator afterwards took into the king's hands. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Henry
Huse to be acquitted of 50 marks of the 100 marks at which he was lately
fined before Roger de Clifford and his fellows, justices then in eyre in co.
Southampton for a trespass of the Forest, as the king, on 4 June, in the
eighth year of his reign, remitted and acquitted Henry of 50 marks in
consideration for the king's kinswoman Margaret, Henry's wife. |
Oct. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Whereas the king lately ordered him to deliver
Robert de Leyc[estria], chaplain, imprisoned at Old Sarum for bringing
certain [papal] bulls into the realm to the king's prejudice, in bail to six
men of that county who should mainpern to have him before Edmund,
earl of Cornwall, and the king's council at Westminster in the quinzaine of
Michaelmas last, and Robert found six mainpernors and appeared in person
before the earl and council on the said day: the king, wishing to be more
fully certified concerning the premises, orders (mandavit) the sheriff to
deliver Robert in bail to six men who shall mainpern to have him before
the king's council from day to day to do and receive herein what the king
shall cause to be ordained, certifying the king of the names of the mainpernors at the quinzaine of Martinmas next. Witness: Edmund, earl of
Cornwall. |
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To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Whereas the
abbot of St. Benedict's, Boclande, has recognised in chancery that he claims
nothing but the ferm specified below in a messuage, a carucate of land, two
mills, one for corn and the other a fulling mill, and half a mark yearly of
rent in La Knolle, co. Devon, which are of the abbot's fee, and which the
abbot took at ferm from William de Mewy for a term of sixteen years from
Michaelmas last, and which the sub-escheator took into the king's hands
charging the abbot with acquiring them in fee in mortmain, and after the
lapse of the term the abbot claims his lordship and the service due to him
therefor: the king orders the escheator to cause the tenements to be
restored to the abbot with everything received thence from the time of their
being taken into the king's hands, to have until the end of the said term.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the same. Order to cause Robert son and heir of Richard de
Tillebiri, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, upon his
finding security to come before the king at his next coming into England
to do homage, as the king has taken his fealty. |
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To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Essex. Order
not to molest in their eyre Edmund, earl of Cornwall, or his men who were
with him at the time for taking two bucks in that forest by the king's
licence when passing through it. |
Oct. 22.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order not to put Ralph de Gausil, coroner of
that county, in assizes, juries or recognitions whilst he holds office, as he
cannot properly attend to the duties of the office if he be placed on any
assizes, juries or recognitions. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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The like to the sheriff of York in favour of Ralph, coroner of co. Lincoln. |
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To Geoffrey de Pycheford, constable of Windsor castle. Order to cause
the abbot of Cyrencestre to have yearly two quarters of rye (siliginis) and a
swine by the hands of the king's bailiff of Cocham and a beech in the
king's wood there, and the arrears thereof for Geoffrey's time, as it appears
to the king by inspection of the rolls of the late king's chancery that the
abbot ought to receive the premises yearly as above. |
Oct. 23.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause brother Walter de Hereleston
to have the chapel of Schamele, in the parish of Schidingburgne (sic), to
dwell and serve God therein until the king's arrival in England, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the chapel is founded on the
king's soil and that the king and Queen Eleanor, his mother, can confer
the chapel upon whom the king pleases, and the king, at his mother's
instance, has granted it to Walter, to dwell and serve God therein until the
king's return to England or until otherwise ordered. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbot
of Abbesbiry to be acquitted of 20l. by which he made fine with the king
for the service of one knight's fee that he acknowledged to the king for the
army of Wales, in the tenth year, as the king by his letters patent, on
4 October, in the said year, acquitted the abbot of this sum, which the
abbot paid, on Monday after Michaelmas, in the aforesaid year, into the king's
wardrobe to Master William de Luda, keeper of the same, as is contained in
the said letters patent. |
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To the same. Order to acquit the abbot of Abbotesbir[y] of 30 marks by
which he made fine with the king for the service of one knight's fee that he
then acknowledged to the king for the army of Wales of the fifth year of
the reign, as the king by his letters patent, on 4 July, in the aforesaid year,
acquitted the abbot of this sum, which the abbot had paid into the wardrobe, on Sunday the Translation of St. Martin, in the aforesaid year, to
Master Thomas de Beck, now bishop of St. Davids, then keeper of the
wardrobe, as appears by the said letters patent. |
Oct. 26.
Westminster. |
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to
Richard Foun and the grooms keeping the king's horses in Richard's
custody their robes and other necessaries for them and their horses from the
day of the making of the presents until otherwise ordered, in the same way
as they have had them hitherto since the king crossed the sea. |
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To the sheriff of Berks. Order to deliver John de Chalgrave, imprisoned
in Wallingford gaol for the death of Robert de Hereford, slain at Stoktalemach, wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices at the first assize, etc., as the king
learns by the record of Roland Erle and his fellows, justices lately
appointed to deliver that gaol, that John slew Robert in self-defence and
not by felony or of malice aforethought. |
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To the same. Like order in favour of Robert le Fraunceys, imprisoned
at Wallingford for the death of Nicholas le Lytle, slain in Le Wodelaunde
at Leukenore, wherewith he is charged. |
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To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver
to Isabella, late the wife of John son of Bartholomew Davelers, tenant in
chief, the manor of Everwarton, which is extended at 4l. 11s. 3½d. yearly,
as the king has committed it to Isabella, to have in tenencia until the king
shall cause dower to be assigned to her. |
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Membrane 3—Schedule. |
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Names of those to whom writs are directed to come to the king's
council: |
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The bishop of Worcester. |
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The bishop of Norwich. |
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Master Henry de Neuwerk, archdeacon of Richmond. |
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Ralph de Hengham. |
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William de Saham. |
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Walter de Wymb[urne]. |
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Thomas de Weyl[onde]. |
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John de Luvetot. |
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William de Burneton. |
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Roger de Leyc[estria]. |
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John de Metingham. |
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John de Cobeham. |
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Nicholas de Stapelton. |
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Elias de Bekingham. |
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Solomon de Roff[a]. |
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Richard de Boylaund. |
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Walter de Hopton. |
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Master Thomas de Sudington. |
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Roger Lestrange (Extraneo). |
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William de Vescy. |
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Thomas de Normanvill. |
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William de Karleton. |
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Master W. de Corner'. [Parl. Writs.] |
