Close Rolls, Edward I: May 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: May 1299', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 305-310. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp305-310 [accessed 19 April 2024]

May 1299



May 4. Stepney.	William la Zousche acknowledges that he owes to A. bishop of Durham 500l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Rutland and Northampton.
	Cancelled on payment.
	The abbot of Vaudey (de Valle Dei) acknowledges that he owes to William de Hamelton, clerk, 35 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Lincoln.
	Note that the abbot paid 10l. thereof to the king by the will of William, as William acknowledged.
	Joan, late the wife of Bartholomew de Briaunzon, acknowledges that she owes to the said William 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of her lands and chattels in co. Kent.
May 4. Stepney.	Thomas de Monte Acuto came before the king, on Monday after SS. Philip and Jude, and sought to replevy to Thomas le Hopere the latter's land in Hundon, which was taken into the king's hands for his default in the king's court against William Kayner. This is signified to the justices of the Bench.
	Richard de Burgo, earl of Ulster, one of the heirs and parceners of the inheritance of Richard son of John, tenant in chief, puts in his place Nigel le Brun and Roger de Assheburn to demand and receive his purparty of the lands, knights' fees, and advowsons of churches that belonged to the said Richard son of John.
May 7. Stepney.	To Edmund, earl of Cornwall. Order to be with the king at Carlisle on 2 August (lendemayn de la Gule Aust) with horses and arms in as much force as possible, to proceed against the king's enemies of Scotland, according to what shall be then ordained by the earl and by other men of the king who shall come thither, as the king lately ordered him to be at Carlisle at Whitsuntide next for this purpose, and he has shortly to send envoys to the pope's envoy, to whom he and the king of France have submitted themselves concerning the disputes, riots and wars between them, and a day has been taken until the morrow of the Ascension at Mostroille by the men of the king of France in his name and for him and by the king's men who were there in like manner, by the assent of the pope's envoy sent specially for this purpose, in order to treat before the said envoy to appease the said disputes, riots and wars and to make and affirm good peace hereupon according to the form and the ordinance that the pope has pronounced in this matter; and the king has assented to this day, after having treaty and counsel with the archbishop of Canterbury and with the other bishops, the earls, barons and others of his council, and has ordained to send certain envoys thither; for which reason it is advised to the king and all those who were at his council that he cannot now depart from the south parts, where he now is, by reason of any debates that may arise in this matter, concerning which his envoys would have need to be advised and counselled speedily; for which reasons he has, with the common assent of his council, deferred the said day at Whitsuntide until 2 August, on which latter day he intends to be at Carlisle without further delay. French. [Parl. Writs.]
	The like to eleven earls and one hundred and four 'barons and knights.' [Ibid.]
	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause proclamation to be made throughout his bailiwick that all the men at arms summoned to be at Carlisle on the eve of Whitsuntide shall be there on 2 August, as in the preceding. [Ibid.]
	The like to all the sheriffs of England. [Ibid.]
	Membrane 14d—Schedule.
	Letter from [William de Hamelton (fn. 1) ] to his master A. de Osgotby (Suo domino A. de Osgotby, salutem quam sibi), asking him to annul the recognizance in the rolls made in chancery to the writer about four years ago by the priors of Wenlok and Bermundeseye for 400 marks. Written at Sabrichewrth, on the day of St. Edmund.
	Membrane 13d.
	To the barons and men of the port of Wynchelse. Whereas the king lately ordered them by his letters to have all the service due to him from them and their ships of that port at Skynburnese near Carlisle at Whitsuntide next, to set out against his enemies of Scotland: the king orders them to be with him at Skynburnese with their service on 2 August (a lendemayn de la Gule Aust), to do in the said matter what shall be then ordained by the king and by them and by the king's other good men who shall then come thither. This they are enjoined not to neglect in any way, as the king trusts in them and as they love the honour and profit of the king and of his realm and of themselves. French.
	The like to the barons and men of the following ports:
	Hastyng[es].
	Rye.
	Romeneye.
	Sandwyz.
	Hethe.
May 7. Stepney.	To Robert de Burgherssh, constable of Dover and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to cause proclamation to be made, in all such places within his bailiwick and at such times as he shall see fit, that all those of his bailiwick who owe the king service shall be with the king as above, the king having lately ordered him to cause proclamation to be made that all such should be with him at Whitsuntide. French.
May 12. Stepney.	Alan le Pestur and Maud, his wife, came before the king on Thursday after St. John ante Portam Latinam, and sought to replevy their land in Knyghtebrigge, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Agnes, late the wife of Nicholas le Keu of Westminster. This is signified to the said justices.
May 14. Stepney.	William de Turribus, parson of the church of Neuton, diocese of Worcester, acknowledges that he owes to William de Hamelton, clerk, 165 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
May 15. Stepney.	John de Praers, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Ralph de Hengham, clerk, 193 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex.
	Cancelled on payment.
	William de la Warde, parson of the church of Torteworth, diocese of Worcester, acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Weston 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Gloucester.
	Adam de Weston, parson of the churches of SS. Lucian and Leonard, Wallingford, in the diocese of Salisbury, acknowledges that he owes to Robert de London[ia], parson of the church of Wykewarre, 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Berks.
May 16. Stepney.	Margery, late the wife of William Belost, came before the king, on Saturday before St. Dunstan, and sought to replevy the land of herself and of Marcelina and Agnes, her daughters, in Totenham, which was taken into the king's hands for their default in his court against John son of John de Totenham. This is signified to the justices of the Bench.
	Memorandum, that Ralph de Burton, attorney of Eva, late the wife of Richard son of John, tenant in chief, with Robert de Norwico, attorney of Maud, countess of Warwick, Robert de Belinges, attorney of Joan la Botillere, Ralph de Medburn, attorney of Idonia de Leyburn, William de Neuton, clerk, attorney of Robert de Clyfford, and Roger de Assheburn, attorney of Richard, earl of Ulster, the heirs and parceners of the inheritance of the aforesaid Richard son of John, came into the chancery and granted that partition of the knights' fees and advowsons of churches that belonged to Richard son of John shall be made in chancery between them on the morrow of Holy Trinity.
May 24. Canterbury	Geoffrey de Mortuo Mari came before the king, on Sunday after St. Dunstan, and sought to replevy to Henry Blome and Alice, his wife, their land in the suburbs of Oxford, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Nicholas le Muner of Oxford. This is signified to the said justices.
	The said Geoffrey came before the king, on Sunday after St. Dunstan, and sought to replevy to Thomas de Beland and of Alina, his wife, their land in the suburbs of Oxford, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Nicholas le Muner of Oxford. This is signified to the justices.
May 23. Canterbury.	To the abbot and convent of Cogeshale. Request that they will admit into their house Richard de Ry, the king's serjeant, who has faithfully served the king and whom the king has caused to be sent to them, and that they will find the necessaries of life for so long as he shall live, unless they are at present charged with another at the king's request. By K.
	Memorandum, that Otto de Grandi Sono came into chancery at St. Augustine's abbey, Canterbury, on Wednesday the eve of the Ascension, and acknowledged that Aymer de Valencia had satisfied him for the 200 marks that he acknowledged in the exchequer that he owed to him, and he willed that the recognisance shall be withdrawn (traheretur).
May 26. Canterbury.	To John de Bac[kewell] and R. de Hegham, justices appointed to take assizes in co. Surrey. Whereas it is contained in the statute lately issued at Westminster that fines concerning tenements levied in the late king's court and in the king's court shall not be voided or annulled in any way by the exceptions or answers of those between whom such fines were levied or by their heirs, or by inquisitions of the country to be taken concerning such exceptions or answers: the king orders the justices to inspect the tenor of the statute, and not to attempt anything contrary to it by the taking of any assize arramed or to be arramed before them or by any other means. [Ryley, Placita, p. 477.]
May 28. Canterbury.	Richard le Hunt of Bereford St. John came before the king, on Friday after St. Augustine the Apostle of the English, and sought to replevy his land in Bereford St. John, which was taken into the king's hands for his default in his court against William Allot. This is signified to the justices of the Bench.
April 11. Canterbury.	To the archbishop of Canterbury. The king is incited by the request and monition of the pope to hold recommended to him the monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury, which pertains immediately to the church of Rome, out of reverence for the apostolic see, and not to injure it in any way in its things or men at the petition of anyone, and not to permit it, so far as lies in his power, to be injured by others. The abbot of the said monastery has expounded before the king a grievous complaint that the archbishop, prosecuting his monastery, which pertains immediately to the Roman church, the abbot and his convent and their goods, molests and aggrieves them concerning certain parish churches that they hold to their own use and concerning the hospital of St. Leonard without the city of Canterbury, contrary to the tenor of their privileges and their legitimate appeal to the pope, and proceeds otherwise against them. The king, wishing to show promptitude in executing the papal mandates specially directed to him for the abbot and convent and their monastery, has caused the archbishop to be requested to desist wholly from the aforesaid grievances and each of them, and not to molest or disturb [them] in any way concerning the rights and possessions pertaining to the said churches or their fruits or appurtenances or their other benefices contrary to the papal grants, but to await with befitting reverence the papal decision in this matter. The king wishes him to know that if he do otherwise, the king will aid the abbot and convent with a suitable remedy, so that their goods shall remain safe, and that he will cherish them with the support of his royal favour so far as justice permits. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 823. Cf. Thorne's Chronicle, in Twysden, Decem Scriptores, col. 1978.]
May 31. Womens-would (Wymeling-welde).	William de Newenham came before the king, on Sunday the feast of St. Petronilla, and sought to replevy his land in Wykham, which was taken into the king's hands for his default before the justices of the Bench against Beatrice, late the wife of John de Havekeslond. This is signified to the justices.
— Westminster.	To Pope Boniface. The king, considering the character for equity and justice of the Roman church and its preservation of the rights of others not less than its own, explains to the pope why John, the son of Landulph de Columpna, has not obtained, according to the pope's order, the prebend of Massam in the church of York, which he contends that he has by the provision of Pope Nicholas IV. The obstacle is that the king had conferred upon a clerk of his the prebend in its entirety, which he found upon the late voidance of the church of York by the death of J[ohn], the late archbishop, had been divided into several portions without his royal assent, the collation whereof pertained to the king by the full right that his progenitors used in their times in the like case and that he afterwards used. When the said clerk had been in peaceful and quiet possession of the prebend for some time, the said J. de Columpna, suggesting to the pope, as the king learns, that the prebend was due to him by reason of the aforesaid provision as being void, suppressing any mention of the king's royal right and the collation and possession aforesaid, obtained from the pope letters by which the pope is said to have given orders to certain executors to put John or his proctor in possession of the prebend and to defend him after induction thereto. As such an order and its execution, if it should be proceeded with, would result in the weakening of the king's royal right and his disinheritance and the serious injury of his crown and dignity, and as it is not the pope's intention to deprive the king of his right or to derogate from it, as the king firmly believes and holds, he beseeches the pope to provide a remedy by the revocation of the aforesaid provision and its effect as to the prebend, so that the king's right and the collation and possession aforesaid shall not be injured, but shall be rather preserved intact. Even if the king would submit (depescere) to this deed or to permit it to pass with dissimulation, the magnates and proceres of his realm, who are bound by their homage and fealty to defend his dignity and crown, would not allow his right thus to perish. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 802.]
	To the same. Request that he will excuse William de Hamelton, archdeacon of York, the king's confidential clerk (secretarius), whom the pope caused to be summoned to appear in person before him, as the king, when John de Langeton, his chancellor, went to the pope in the matter of his election to the church of Ely, committed to William the custody of his seal and the office of his chancery, and the king has not permitted William to lay down that office, since there is no one else in his realm so expert in the laws and customs of the realm, and who is considered so useful to the king and his people and so fit and able for the said office. The king does not believe that the pope would wish to deprive him of the services of a person so necessary to him. Dated at Canterbury, 25 May, 1299. [Ibid. p. 803.]