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June 3.
Cardigan. |
To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Isabel, late the wife of Thomas de Multon of
Gillesland, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that
she will not marry without his licence. |
June 11.
Luwel. |
To the justice of Chester, or to him who supplies his place. Order to
cause a hundred suitable masons experienced in such work as the king
is engaged upon at Kaernarvan to be chosen in the town of Chester and
in other parts within his bailiwick, and to cause them to come with their
tools to Kaernarvan without delay, there to do what Edmund, the king's
brother, shall enjoin upon them, as the king needs masons for his works
there at once. The justice is ordered to cause the masons to have their
expenses from Chester to the aforesaid place.
By K. on the information of Edmund, his brother, by his letter. |
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To the sheriff of Cambridge. It is shown to the king on behalf of
John de Wysebech that whereas escapes of thieves ought and have been
wont to be adjudged before the justices in eyre and not elsewhere, and
the amercements thence arising pertain to the king and to no one else, to
be levied for his use by summons of the exchequer, the sheriff of Cambridge, charging John with the escape of four thieves from his custody
in the time when he was keeper of the prison of Cambridge, exacts
from him 100s. for each escape aforesaid, which have not been
adjudged: as the king wills that his right shall not be in any wise
derogated from, he orders the sheriff to supersede the demand upon John
until it be known by the office of the aforesaid justices whether amercements for the escapes aforesaid ought to pertain to the king, receiving
from John security to render to the exchequer the money pertaining to
the king for these escapes in case they be adjudged before the justices. |
June 19.
Clun (Cloune). |
To Malcolm de Harlegh, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Eleanor, late the wife of John de Verdun, tenant
in chief, as she has taken oath before the king not to marry without his
licence. |
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To the justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place, and to
Master Thomas Cantok, chancellor of Ireland. Order to deliver to James
de Ketyng the lands of the inheritance of Margery de la Rokele, his late
wife, to hold for life, if they ascertain that there is such a custom in
Ireland as exists in England whereby husbands, after the death of their
wives, ought to hold for life the lands that are of their wives' inheritance
by reason of offspring begotten between them, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by Walter de la Haye, escheator of Ireland, that James
begot of Margery a daughter named Roesia, who lived for fifteen days and
more and was seen and heard by many, by reason whereof the lands of
Margery's inheritance ought to remain to James for his life by the custom
used in Ireland as in England, as the escheator asserts. |
June 25.
Oswestry (Album Monasterium.) |
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator this side Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands that Anselm de Gyse held at his
death, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition
taken by the escheator and also by a writ of exchequer that Anselm at his
death held nothing of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of
his lands ought to pertain to the king. By p.s. [916.] |
June 24.
Oswestry. |
To Hugh de Busseye, escheator in co. Chester. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands that Hugh de Dutton, tenant in chief,
held at his death of Roger de Monte Alto and the abbot of Vale Royal,
as the king learns by inquisition taken by Reginald de Grey, justice of
Chester, that from time out of mind, in accordance with a custom hitherto
used by a prerogative in co. Chester, the lords of fees after the death of
their tenants have the custody of the lands that are held of them by military
service during the minority of the heirs of such tenants, although such
tenants held other lands in that county or elsewhere of the king in chief,
and that Hugh held the manor of Legh of Roger de Monte Alto by certain
services, and that he held in like manor of the abbot of Vale Royal the
demesne lands and wastes of Dutton, with the woods and waters, and six
bovates of land in Dutton by certain services, so that the custody of the
said lands pertains to Roger and the abbot during the minority of Hugh's
heir, according to the custom aforesaid. By p.s. |
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Vacated, because otherwise below. |
June 26.
Chirk. |
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator this side Trent. Order to retain in the
king's hands the manors of Goushull and Gedeneye, and not to interfere
further with any other lands that Ralph de Goushull held of other lords
than the king, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator
and also by a writ of his exchequer that Ralph at his death held nothing
of the king as of the crown, but that he held the manor of Goushull of
the barony of Bayeux and the manor of Gedeneye of the honour of
Albemarle, which are in the king's hands, by knight service.
By p.s. [920.] |
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To the keeper of the office of the escheatry in co. Cumberland. Order
to cause Isabel, late the wife of Thomas de Multon of Gillesland, tenant
in chief, to have her forty days' use (quarantanam) of the goods and
chattels that belonged to Thomas, in accordance with the usual custom. |
June 24.
Oswestry. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to deliver in bail George fiz la Persone
of Swanton, imprisoned in the gaol at Norwich for the death of Alexander
son of William Egeberd of Baketon, wherewith he is charged, as the king
learns by the record of William de Ormesby and his fellows, justices lately
appointed to deliver that gaol, that George slew him in self-defence and
not by felony or malice aforethought. |
