Close Rolls, Edward I: September 1295 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

'Close Rolls, Edward I: September 1295', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296, (London, 1904) pp. 430-433. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol3/pp430-433 [accessed 19 April 2024]

September 1295



Sept. 15. Canterbury	To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause Richard Ston (fn. 1) (sic) to have seisin of an acre and a rood of land in Kyvelingwrth Rabaz, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said land, which Richard Prat, who adjured the realm for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Richard Prat held it of Richard de Kivelingwrth, and that the township of Kivelingwrth Rabaz now holds it and has had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
	To the same. Order to cause John de Bedeford of Kivelingwrth to have seisin of 1½ acres of land in Kivelingwrth Rabaz, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said land, which Richard Prat, who abjured the realm for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Richard held it of John de Bedeford of Kivelingwrth, and that the township of Kivelingwrth now holds it, and that it has had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
Sept. 15. Canterbury.	To the same. Order to cause the abbot of Soleby to have seisin of a messuage in North Kivelingwrth, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage, which Richard Prat, who abjured the realm for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Richard held it of the abbot, and that the township of North Kivelingwrth now holds it for the king, and that it has had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to him.
	To the same. Order to cause Agnes, Gunnilda, Emma, Basilia and Mariota, daughters and heiresses of Thomas Reynaud, to have seisin of an acre and a rood of land in Kivelingwrth Rabaz, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said land, which Richard Prat, who abjured the realm for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Richard held them of Agnes and her said sisters, and that the township of Kivelingwrth Rabaz now holds it for the king and has had his year and day, for which it ought to answer to him.
Aug. 28. Westminster.	To the constable of Corf castle. Order to receive from the sheriff of Dorset twenty Welsh hostages from South Wales, and to retain them in that castle until the king shall otherwise order.
	To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to deliver the aforesaid hostages to the said constable, and to cause each of them to have 4d. a day for maintenance.
	To the constable of Marleberg castle. Order to receive ten Welsh hostages from the sheriff of Wilts, and to retain them in that castle until the king shall otherwise ordain.
	To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to deliver the said hostages to the aforesaid constable, and to cause each of them to have fourpence a day for maintenance.
	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to receive thirty Welsh hostages from the sheriff of Wilts, and to retain twenty of them in Winchester Castle, paying each of them 4d. a day for their maintenance, and to cause the remaining ten to be taken to Pevenese castle, there to be delivered to the constable.
	To the constable of the said castle. Order to receive the aforesaid ten hostages from the sheriff of Southampton, and to retain them in the castle, etc.
	To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause each of the said ten hostages in the custody of the aforesaid constable to have 4d. a day for his maintenance.
Aug. 18. Westminster.	To Thomas de Weston, bailiff of Edenham. Order not to distrain Hugh de Bussy to do homage for the lands that he holds of the king as of the barony that Gilbert de Gaunt lately rendered into the king's hands, as the king has taken his homage.
Sept. 15. Canterbury.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Columbar[iis] to be acquitted of 40l. due to the king, to wit 20l. for scutage for the king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign and 20l. for scutage for his army of Wales in the tenth year, as the king has pardoned him these sums.
Aug. 24. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to deliver in bail John son of Ralph de Slape, imprisoned at Oxford for trespass of venison in the king's park of Wodestok, if he have been in prison for six years.
Sept. 15. Canterbury.	To the sheriff of [Devon]. Order to restore to John son of Richard Clim, parson of the church of Wydecumbe, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before Robert de Wodeton, John de Wotton and their fellows, justices appointed to deliver Exeter gaol, with the death of Ralph the hayward (messoris) and Theobald Russel, as he has purged his innocence before Thomas, bishop of Exeter, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, and the king learns by inquisition that he caused to be taken by the sheriff and coroners of that county that John is of good fame and honest conversation and was never a public or notorious evildoer.
Sept. 16. Canterbury.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Richard de Waldegrave to be acquitted of 40s. exacted from him for the issues of his lands forfeited for his default before the justices of the Bench in a plea between Peter de Bernevall and him for a debt that Peter demanded from him, as the king has pardoned him this sum.
	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to release any distress levied upon Richard for the aforesaid sum.
Sept. 17. Canterbury.	To Malcolm de Harl[eye], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John, son and heir of John de Bello Campo, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, as Cecily de Bello Campo—who holds certain lands that are of the inheritance of the said John, son and heir of John de Bello Campo, her late husband, by the delivery of R. bishop of Bath and Wells, who had them by demise from John de Nele, and also holds certain lands of the said inheritance by the delivery of Peter Corbet, to which John and Peter the king granted the custody of the lands during the minority of the heir— has testified to the king by her letters patent that the said John, her son, was twenty-one years of age on Friday before St. Peter ad Vincula last, and the king has taken his homage for his father's lands.
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Sept. 21. Wingham.	To Malcolm de Harlegh, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver the manor of Welcomestowe, which was taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Ralph de Thony, to him to whom Ralph demised it, as Ralph, before he went to Gascony in the king's service, demised the manor, which is held of the king in chief, for a certain term without obtaining the king's licence, and the king, in consideration of the laudable service rendered to him in Gascony by Ralph, and because he died in his service there, accepts the demise in question.
Sept. 28. Wingham.	To William de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause to be delivered to Master Thomas, the king's engineer, whom the king is sending to the forest of Englewode to make four engines there, as the king has enjoined upon him, as many oaks as Thomas shall choose in that forest for making the engines, by the view of any of the ministers of the forest in whom the justice confides, to be deputed by the justice for this purpose.
	To John de Lithegr[eynes], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that William de Percy of Kildale held, as it is testified before the king that William died after the king took the fealty of William de (sic) Latymer, the younger, who married Lucy, daughter and heiress of Marmaduke de Thwenge, tenant in chief, and the king learns by an inquisition that he caused to be taken by the keeper of the office of the escheatry in co. York that William de Percy at his death held nothing of the king in chief or of the said heiress by reason whereof the custody of his lands in that bailiwick ought to pertain to the king.