Close Rolls, Edward I: February 1299 | 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: February 1299', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 230-233. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp230-233 [accessed 20 April 2024]

February 1299



Feb. 2. St. Albans.	To the same. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Alan de Plugenet, the manor of Wynefrode, which the escheator has taken into the king's hands by reason of Alan's death, to hold during the king's pleasure for the maintenance of John Walrand (Johannis Walrandi), an idiot, Alan's kinsman, who is in Joan's custody by the king's commission, as the king has granted to Joan the manor, which he had previously granted to Alan for the maintenance of John, who was then in the king's wardship.
Feb. 2. St. Albans.	To the same. Order to deliver to Petronilla, late the wife of William de Gouyz, tenant in chief, the following of his lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the manor of Dountyssh, co. Dorset, which is extended at 7l. 11s. 0½d. yearly; 65s. 11d. yearly of rent in Tyleye, in the same county, to wit 8d. from Sibyl de Watrecumbe, 14s. from Peter le Mouner, free tenants there, 10s. from five customary-tenants (custumariorum) there, with their aids and boon-works (operibus), which are extended at 25s. 1d. yearly; the pannage there, which is extended at 12d. yearly; and the pleas and perquisites of the court there, which are extended at 4s. yearly; 11s. 2d. of rent from seven cotters there; 120 acres of arable land in the manor of Develyz, in the same county, whereof each acre is extended at 4d. yearly; 4 acres of meadow there, whereof each acre is extended at 2s. yearly; a third of a several pasture there, which third is extended at 6s. yearly; a third of a common pasture there, which third is extended at 6s. 8d. yearly; 53 acres and a perch of wood, whereof each acre is extended at 3s. yearly; 18s. yearly of rent from six customarytenants there, with their boon-works, which are extended at 9s. yearly; and 14s. 10d. yearly of rent from four cotters there.
	Memorandum, that Master John de Craucumbe, Master John de Cadamo, and William de Birlaco, to whom the king had committed the custody of his seal when John de Langeton, the chancellor, was prosecuting with the archbishop of Canterbury the matter of his election to the bishopric of Ely, delivered the said seal into the wardrobe to W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, the treasurer, on 28 December, at Cotingham, and the seal was forthwith delivered to John de Drokenesford, keeper of the king's wardrobe, to be carried to the chancellor, who delivered it to the chancellor at London on 10 January following. And afterwards the chancellor, on 14 February following, delivered the seal to Sir John de Benstede in the king's wardrobe at Westminster, the king being then present in person; which seal was delivered on the twentieth of the same month to Sir William de Hamelton for custody, who sealed writs with it on the same day.
Feb. 10. Waltham	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John, son and heir of John le Sauvage, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father at his death was seised in his demesne as of fee, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage. By p.s.
	To the same. Order to cause John, kinsman and heir of Isolda de Apeltrefeld, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the lands whereof Isolda at her death was seised in her demesne as of fee, as John has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage. By p.s.
Feb. 14. Westminster.	To John de Lithegr[eynes], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Hugh de Hoton held by knight service at his death of the heir of Marmaduke de Twenge, tenant in chief, lately a minor in the king's wardship, and of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee in the bailiwick of the escheator, which were taken into the king's hands upon Hugh's death by reason of the lands of the said Marmaduke being in the king's hands, as John, son and heir of Hugh, has proved his age before the escheator in the presence of the prior of Durham, to whom the king committed the custody of the lands of Hugh in the escheator's bailiwick during the minority of the heir.
Feb. 16. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to permit Thomas de Berkeleye to have respite until Easter next for the 45l. due from him to the exchequer, as the king has granted to him such respite.
	By K. on the information of J. de Bensted.
	The like, 'de verbo ad verbum,' to the sheriff of Gloucester for 30l. until the said term.
Feb. 18. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Robert Achard, tenant in chief, the following of his lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower: a third of the chief messuage of the manor of Aldermanston, co. Berks, which messuage, with the easements of houses, the herbage, fruit of the garden, and curtilage, is extended at 10s. yearly; 39 acres of arable land in the same manor, whereof each acre is extended at 3d.; 5⅓ acres of meadow in the same manor, whereof each acre is extended at 12d.; a third of a pasture in a certain park there, which pasture is extended at 10s. yearly; 5⅓ acres of a several pasture in the same manor, whereof each acre is extended at 6d. yearly; a third of a common pasture in the same manor, which pasture is extended at 2s. yearly; a third of a water-mill in the same manor, which mill is extended at 40s. yearly; a third of a fishery in the same manor, which fishery is extended at 6s. 8d. yearly; 8s. 2½d. yearly of rent from four tenants in burgage there, to wit John Petipas 2s. 6d., Nicholas Buse 2s. 6d., Richard le Paumer 2s. 6d., Nicholas Petipas 8½d.; 30s. 2d. of yearly rent from seven villeins in the same manor, with their boonworks (operibus), which are extended at 13s. 6¼d. (fn. 1) yearly; 9s. 6d. of yearly rent from five cotters in the same manor; a third of the easements of the houses in the manor of Spersholt, in the said county, which easements, together with the profits of the herbage, the fruit of the garden and curtilage, are extended at 13s. 4d. yearly; 47 acres of arable land in the same manor, whereof each acre is extended at 4d. yearly; 10 acres of meadow in the same manor, whereof each acre is extended at 2s. yearly; 3 acres of pasture in the same manor, whereof each acre is extended at 12d. yearly; 1d. yearly of rent from a free tenant there, to wit Henry Baret; 7s. 1¼d. of yearly rent from three villeins in the same manor, with their boon-works, which are extended at 8s. 6½d. yearly; 5s. 4d. of yearly rent from four cotters in the same manor; 24 acres of arable land in the manor of Estmanton near Spersholt, whereof each acre is extended at 4d. yearly; 2½ acres of meadow in the same manor, whereof each acre is extended at 2s. yearly; a third of a common pasture in the same manor, which pasture is extended at 2s. yearly; 21½d. of yearly rent from two free tenants in the same manor, to wit William Hervy 21d., from Nicholas atte Welle ½d.; 15s. 6d. of yearly rent from two villeins in the same manor, with their boon-works (operibus), which are extended at 9s. 1d. yearly; 5s. 2d. of yearly rent from four cotters in the same manor.
Feb. 17. Westminster.	To the sheriffs of London. Order to deliver in bail John le Mouner, imprisoned at Neugate for the death of John le Garlander, who was slain at Aldermannebyry, as the king learns by the record of Ralph de Sandwyco and Stephen de Gravesende, his justices appointed to deliver that gaol, that he slew him in self-defence.
Feb. 17. Westminster.	To the justices in eyre in co. Kent. Order to cause all deodands adjudged before them in their eyre to be levied and paid to the Conversi of the king's house [of Conversi] at London, as the king granted by his letters patent to the Conversi, for their maintenance and for the fabric of their chapel and for the completion of their buildings there, all deodands falling to him anywhere in the realm of England and adjudged before any of his judges and ministers, during his pleasure.
Feb. 10. Westminster.	To Richard Oysel, bailiff of Barton-on-Humber (Humbr'). Order to cause the king's great barge appointed for the ferry (passagio) between that town and the town of Hesel in the water of Humber to be repaired where necessary.
	Membrane 17.
Feb. 20. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Notification that the king has committed to Isabel, late the wife of William de Codstede, tenant in chief, 100s. yearly of land and rent in the manor of Codstede, co. Kent, which belonged to William, to hold in tenencia until the king shall cause dower to be assigned to her from the lands that belonged to William.
Feb. 18. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order, as before, to pay to Andrew de Sinton, William son of Robert de Lambinston, Walter de Edinton and David de Strabolgy of Scotland, esquires, who were taken in the conflict between the king and the Scots at Dumbar and are imprisoned in Foderingeye castle, and to their keepers the arrears of their wages during the sheriff's time, and to pay them henceforth, to wit each of the esquires 3d. and each of the keepers 2d. a day, until otherwise ordered, according to the tenor of the king's other order to him.
Feb. 22. Barnes (Biernes).	To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to deliver in bail Stephen son of Nicholas de Heppeworth, imprisoned at Bury St. Edmunds for the death of Walter son of Adam Baf of Heppeworth, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of Fulk Baynard and Richard de Belhus, justices appointed to deliver that gaol, that he slew him in self-defence.
Feb. 22. Barnes.	To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to deliver in bail Thomas de Podesete, imprisoned at Warwick for the death of Nicholas son of Henry de Wytherbrok, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Hugh de Braunteston and John Neyrenuyt, his justices appointed to deliver Warwick gaol, that he slew him in self-defence.
Feb. 23. Kingston.	John le Poleter, imprisoned at Colcestre for the death of Robert Ydoni and William le Blak, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him.
Feb. 28. Windsor Park.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle with the manors of Kauleburn and Whitewell, and to deliver them to Baldwin, son and heir of Geoffrey de Insula, if they have been taken into the king's hands solely by reason of the death of Agnes, late the wife of William le Estur, as it appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of chancery that Baldwin did homage to him for all the lands that his father held at his death of the king in chief, and it is found by an inquisition taken by the escheator concerning the lands that belonged to Agnes that she held at her death the manor of Kauleburn in free marriage and the manor of Whitewell in dower of Baldwin's inheritance, and that they ought to revert to Baldwin by right of inheritance as Geoffrey's son and heir after her death. By p.s.