Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1298 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

'Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1298', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 142-145. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp142-145 [accessed 24 April 2024]

January 1298



Jan. 2. Langley.	To the bailiffs of Ravenesere. Order to deliver to John de Dalton, burgess of Yarmouth, one of the ships that lately came into their port owing to tempest at sea and that remain there as forfeited to the king, with all her tackle, such as the king has not yet given to any one else. Witness: Edward, the king's son. By p.s.
Jan. 9. Langley.	To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause John de Langeton and Alesia, his wife, to have seisin of a messuage, a toft and an acre of land in Neuton-in-Makerfeld, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the premises, which William le Kydere of Neuton, who was hanged for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that William held them of John and Alesia, and that the township of Neuton now holds them and has had the king's year and day, for which it ought to answer to him. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
Jan. 12. Langley.	To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to deliver in mainprise Henry Brumman of Tydington, imprisoned in Warwick gaol for the death of Hugh de Faucumbe, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of Hugh de Braundeston and John Nayrenut, his justices appointed to deliver that gaol, that he slew him when in a fit of madness (dum in frenetica passione detentus) and not of felony or malice aforethought. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
Jan. 14. Langley.	To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Alice, late the wife of William de Mortuo Mari of Kyngeston, tenant in chief by reason of the lands that belonged to Gilbert Pecche, deceased, who enfeoffed the king of all his lands, of which Gilbert William held the manor of Kyngeston by knight service, the following of William's lands and tenements, which the king has assigned to her in dower: a third of the chief messuage of Kyngeston, co. Cambridge, which third is extended at 4s. 5¼d. yearly; a third of 448 acres of land in the same town, each acre of which is extended at 6d. yearly; a third of fourteen acres of mowable (falcabil') meadow in the same town, each acre of which is extended at 2s. yearly; a third of twelve acres of pasture in the same town, whereof each acre is extended at 12d. yearly; a third of 49s. of yearly rent in the same town; a third of the works, rents, customs and services of customary tenants (custumariorum) in the same town, which (que) are extended at 9l. 14s. 0d. yearly; a third of the pleas and perquisites of the court, which (que) are extended at 6s. yearly; a third of a windmill in the same town, which mill is extended at 26s. 8d. yearly; a third of 100 acres of wood in the same town, which wood is extended at 20s. yearly: which are held of the king in chief for the reason aforesaid. Also a third of thirty acres of land in Caldecote, in the same county, which are held of Guy, parson of the church of Kyngeston, which [third] is extended at 15s. yearly; the manor of Sculton, co. Norfolk, which is extended at 10l. 14s. 0d. yearly; a third of 230½ acres of land in Attleburgh, in the same county, each acre of which is extended at 14d. yearly; 13 acres of meadow in the same town, which are extended at 6s. 6d. yearly; a several pasture with turbary and rush-bed (junctis) in the same town, which is extended at 6s. 8d. yearly; 234½ acres of wood in the same town, each acre of which is extended at 12d. yearly; a moiety of the herbage in the wood, which herbage is extended at 6s. 8d. yearly; a windmill in the same town, which is extended at 6s. 8d. yearly; a third of 6l. 14s. 8½d. of yearly rent in the same town; a rent of 41 quarters and 1½ bushels of oats in the same town, which (que) is extended at 27s. 5d. yearly; a rent of 26 hens in the same town, which are extended at 2s. 2d. yearly; a rent of a hundred eggs in the same town, which are extended at 3d. yearly; one hundred and thirty-three autumn boon-works (opera) in the same town, which are extended at 11s. 1d. yearly; three boonworks with carts (tria opera carettaria) in the same town, which are extended at 6d. yearly; twenty-seven boon-works at hoeing corn in winter in the same town, which are extended at 6¾d. yearly; (fn. 1) nine mowing boon-works (opera falcatoria) in the same town, which are extended at 13¼d. yearly: which are held of John de Warenna, earl of Surrey. Also a chief-messuage in the town of Attleburgh, which is extended at 10d. yearly; two acres, a rood, a moiety of an acre and a third of a rood of land in the same town, which are extended at 11½d. yearly; a third of the land lying between the old ditch of the park of Attleburgh, which extends from the ditch called 'Berdeledich' on the south to Stoderhache on the north, and the ditch nearest to the pasture of Gersinghe by which the park is enclosed, which is extended at 8s. yearly: which are held of Robert de Tateshale. The king wills that this assignment made in his court shall not prejudice the said earl hereafter if he happen to establish (disracionare) by consideration of the king's court the wardship of the lands that William held of him by knight service, and shall not prejudice any one else.
Jan. 13. Langley.	To the same. Notification that the king has assigned from the inheritance that belonged to Richard son of John, tenant in chief, to William de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, who married Maud, the eldest sister and co-heiress of Richard, the manor of Multon, co. Northampton, which is extended at 43l. 6s. 11d. yearly; 32l. 0s. 10¼d. yearly of land, rent, meadow, wood and pasture in the manor of Potterspirie, in the same county, which, with the park and other appurtenances, is extended at 39l. 1s. 3¾d. yearly, as their purparty of the inheritance this side Trent, and order to deliver the premises to them, on condition that they come into chancery in the octaves of the Purification to do and receive concerning the purparty what the king's court shall consider, which day the king has prefixed to Robert de Clifford and Idonea de Leyburn, their co-heirs and parceners of the inheritance, to receive their purparties, and on condition that then and at other times whenever Robert and Idonea and Richard de Burgo, earl of Ulster, kinsman and co-heir; and Joan la Botiller, the fourth sister and co-heiress, or any of them shall complain to the king that the earl and Maud have more in their purparty than ought to have been assigned to them, the king may resume the lands etc. thus assigned into his hands and cause them to be parted with the other lands between the earl and Maud and the other heirs and parceners, and on condition that the earl come to the king on his next coming into England to do his homage therefor and render his relief.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Roger de Burghhill to be discharged of 9l. 3s. 4d. at which the goods and chattels of John de Balon, clerk, were appraised before the justices last in eyre in co. Wilts, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being indicted before the justices upon suspicion of theft and larceny, as the king ordered Roger, then sheriff of Hereford, to restore the goods and chattels because John had purged his innocence before R. then bishop of Salisbury, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, and the king learns that he restored them to John.
Jan. 17. Langley.	To J. bishop of Carlisle, constable of Carlisle castle. Order to cause the houses and walls of that castle to be repaired where necessary. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
Jan. 23. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harlegh, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause the heir of William de Mortuo Mari to have 20l. for his maintenance from the issues of the lands that belonged to William that are now in the king's hands, as the king lately granted the custody of certain lands that belonged to William to John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, the wardship whereof the earl asserted pertained to him by reason of the minority of the heir, to hold until a month from Easter next, on condition that he should answer to the exchequer for the issues received thence, unless he can show that the wardship ought to pertain to him and not to the king, and the king granted to the heir 20l. from the issues of the lands that belonged to William still remaining in his hands for his maintenance, to be received yearly from the escheator for so long as they should be in the king's hands.
	To the bailiffs of Wynchelse. Order to cause William Maufee and Joan, his wife, to have 100s. for Michaelmas term last from the ferm of that town, as the king granted to them by his letters patent 15 marks yearly from the ferm by the hands of the bailiffs for Joan's maintenance, a moiety at Easter and a moiety at Michaelmas, and 100s. are in arrear for Michaelmas last, as they say.
	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Walter le Baud, as it is testified before the king by R. bishop of London that Walter is insufficiently qualified.
Jan. 26. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbot, prior and convent of Westminster to be acquitted of all debts exacted from them by reason of the manor of Denham, co. Buckingham, for any time before the 10 January, in the twentieth year of the reign, when the king granted it to them in frank almoin for the celebration of the anniversary of Queen Eleanor, his late consort. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
	To Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester. Order to cause W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, the treasurer, to have in the forest of La Mare ten live bucks and fourteen live does, in order to stock his park of Terven therewith, of the king's gift. By the bishops of London and Ely.
	To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this— [Incomplete.]
	Vacated.
Jan. 28. Westminster.	To the mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich. Order to permit Fertunius de Vergna, lord of Penadoso, of Arragon, who lately came into England as an envoy and who is coming to the king in Flanders, to cross the sea from that port with his household and things to come to the king.
	By the bishops of London and Ely.
Jan. 24. Westminster.	To John de Lythegr[eynes], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margaret, late the wife of Robert de la Val, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence, as it was not the king's intention when he took the fealty of Andrew de Smytheton, who married Margery, sister and heiress of Robert, for all the lands that Robert at his death held in chief of the king, and it is not his intention that Margaret should not have her dower of the said lands.
Jan. 26. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Cokerinton, who is insufficiently qualified, as the king learns by the testimony of W. bishop of Ely.
Jan. 28. Westminster.	To Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester. Order to cause the king's mills at Chester and his causeway there to be repaired where necessary, so far as pertains to the king, so that the king shall not incur damage hereafter through lack of the repair of the mills and causeway.
	It is changed, because it was previously granted by C.