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July 1.
Chillingham (Chevelingham). |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Richard,
bishop of Hereford, to be acquitted of the demand for the service of five
knights' fees in the king's army of Wales for the tenth year of his reign,
as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff of Hereford that
Thomas, the late bishop of Hereford, did his service in the said army by
the king's order at Buelt for five knights' fees by John Tregoz and John
Danyel, knights, for two fees, and by Thomas de la Mare, Nicholas le Seculer,
John de Hurtesleye, Roger de Hurtesleye, John de Walford, and Robert le
Venur, esquires, for three fees, to wit by each of the said knights and
esquires with a barded horse, and that they continued the service fully for
forty days, which service the bishop acknowledged to the king in the same
army, as appears by inspection of the rolls of the marshalsea of that army.
[Prynne, Records, iii, p. 787.] |
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To the same. Order to acquit the said Richard of scutage for five
knights' fees in the king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign,
which the aforesaid Thomas acknowledged to him in that army, as
Thomas had his service aforesaid with the king in that army, as appears
to the king by inspection of the rolls of the marshalsea of that army. |
July 9.
Lauder (Loweder). |
To the same. Whereas the king granted by his letters patent, on
5 November, in the twenty-second year of his reign [Calendar, p. 103], to
the prior and convent of Wartre that they should have again and hold a
carucate of land in Bagoteby, which was taken into the king's hands by
Hugh de Cressingham and his fellows, late justices in eyre in co. York,
because they acquired the lordship of the land without the king's licence
from William de Ros, tenant in chief, and afterwards acquired the land
itself from Hugh de Bilburgh without any inquisition as to the usual
articles having been made, which land the king afterwards caused to be
replevied to the prior and convent, on condition that they should answer
to the exchequer for the issues thereof; the king orders the treasurer and
barons to permit the prior and convent to hold the land and its lordship in
accordance with the form of the grant aforesaid, and to discharge them
of the issues thereof since the said 5 November. It is provided that
they shall answer to the king for the issues from the date of its being taken
into the king's hands up to the said day. |
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To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Whereas Thomas de Berkele
has mainperned before the king to render the son and heir of Thomas son
Maurice, tenant in chief, a minor in king's wardship, if the king should
cause him to be delivered to Margaret, late the wife of the said Thomas
son of Maurice, his mother, the king's kinswoman: the king orders the
justiciary to cause the heir to be delivered to his mother by the mainprise
aforesaid. |
July 18.
Kirk Liston (Temple Lyston). |
To William de Sutton and John de Godeleye, guardians of the bishopric
of Ely, the see being void. Order to cause a hundred bucks to be taken,
salted and dried in the parks of the bishopric during the present greasetime (in instanti seisona pinguedinis), and to cause them to be placed in
barrels and to be kept safely until otherwise ordered. [Prynne, Records,
iii, p. 786.] |
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To Thomas de Weston, bailiff of Holdernesse. Like order to cause a
hundred does to be taken, salted and dried. |
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To the sheriff of Kent. Order to deliver in bail Walter Coteman of
Terringge, imprisoned at Maydenestan for the death of Ralph Tacher,
wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of Luke de la
Gare and Richard de Graveneye, justices appointed to deliver that gaol,
that he slew him in self-defence. |
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John de Boys, inprisoned at Maydenestan for the death of Walter le
Webbe, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail
him. |
July 19.
Kirk Liston. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the king
learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Roger son of Roger
de Nodariis held at his death a moiety of a virgate of land in Wymington
and the advowson of two parts of the church of that town, in co. Bedford,
of the heir of Philip Burnel, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, by homage only, and the manor of Chirchehill, co. Oxford, of the
same heir by homage and the service of 1d., and that Roger held nothing
in chief as of the crown at his death by reason whereof the custody of his
lands ought to pertain to the king: the king orders the escheator to retain
in the king's hands the moiety, advowson and manor aforesaid, and not
to intermeddle further with the other lands that belonged to Roger. |
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By C. |
July 29.
Stirling. |
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to supersede entirely the levying of
11 marks from Miles Pychard for the fee of a charter of fair and market
granted in the twenty-third year of the reign, as Miles paid this sum into
the wardrobe by the hands of John de Drokenesford, keeper thereof. |
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By p.s. [1602.] |
