Close Rolls, Edward I: March 1300 | 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: March 1300', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 333-342. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp333-342 [accessed 14 April 2024]

March 1300



	Membrane 13.
March 1. Greenwich.	To John de Seint Johan. The king understands all the articles that John has sent by Walter de Bedewynd, king's clerk, and has given credence to what the clerk has told him on John's behalf. In regard to what John has shown by the clerk as to the refusal of the men of the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancaster to proceed to the Marches of Scotland or against the king's enemies, for which John has prayed the king to provide a remedy, the king sends to him his open letters whereby he gives power to John and to Master Richard de Abyndon, his clerk, to amerce, punish and distrain at their discretion all those of the said parts who would not come for the defence of the Marches at John's order, as is more fully contained in the king's said letters. The king wills that they shall cause the amercements that they shall cause to be levied from those whom they shall find to have been rebels and contrariant to his order in this respect, to be divided wholly or in part between those men of those parts who shall come voluntarily and without distress, of the king's gift, or that John shall cause others to be raised therewith if he find them good to go with him for the execution of the king's affairs in those parts, or he shall retain the amercements for the king's use until otherwise ordered. He is enjoined not to be astonished because the king has joined Master Richard with him to amerce, punish and distrain the said men, for the king's intention is that when John shall have passed the marches of Carlisle and Lughmaban against his enemies, Richard, who is a baron of the exchequer, shall there act (entendre) according to John's injunctions, and the king is sending his letters to the sheriffs of the aforesaid counties commanding them to be intendent and answering to John or to Richard, or to those whom John shall appoint there, in levying the said amercements and making the distresses, as is contained in the king's letters, of which he sends transcripts to John.
	In regard to John's request that in case a castle be surrendered to him for the king's use, or if he take it by force, and if he shall deem it profitable for the king that such castle shall be garrisoned, that he may do so and that the king shall order Richard or him who supplies his place to cause the castle to be victualled and to pay wages to those garrisoning it, the king informs him that he has ordered Richard or him who supplies his place to cause castles that shall thus come into John's hands to be garrisoned with men and victuals according to John's ordinance, and that the king will cause allowance to be made to him in his account for what he shall thus expend by John's testimony, as is more fully contained in the king's letters, of which the king sends John transcripts. In regard to the castles, it is the king's will that, if they are castles that he has not given, they shall be garrisoned in the manner aforesaid, if John deem such to be profitable and advantageous to the king, but if they are castles that John knows the king has given and that they may be profitable and serviceable to the king, the king wills that John shall receive or take them by force, and that after he shall have received or taken them, he shall make them known to those to whom the king has given them, and that he shall deliver them to the grantees in such manner that they shall cause them to be kept and garrisoned at their own costs.
	In regard to the power that John wishes to have to retain twenty or thirty men-at-arms if he can find them suitable and as many hobelers, the king informs him that he has already sent him letters empowering him to do so by John's own envoy, and that he now sends him other letters in case they have not yet reached him.
	In regard to retaining John le Skyrmisshur and his companions with his galley at the king's wages in order to victual the castle of Dumfreys, as to which John wishes to know the king's will, the king informs him that he wills that whenever it is desirable to garrison the said castles, John le Skyrmisshur or another sufficient man for this purpose shall be retained at the king's wages, or for a certain salary (soueaux) for so long a time as shall be agreed upon to garrison the said castle at the beginning and no more; and the king prays John, if he cause it to be garrisoned, to cause it to be garrisoned sufficiently for a long space (piece).
	In regard to the knights and esquires of Annandale (Wal Danand) concerning whom he has sent to the king, the king informs him that after John and other good men of the realm and of the inhabitants of those parts in aid of them and of their marches as well as for the king, (fn. 1) it seems to him that they ought to suffer themselves to make such requests to him, wherefore he wills that nothing shall accrue to them beyond what was at first ordained for them.
	As Sir John de Claveringg' has given the king to understand that there is a great number of Scots at the Nak' watching John de Seint Johan's coming into Galloway (Gaweye), so that when he shall have advanced into the land, they will take pains to surround (forclore) him, the king makes this known to him and orders him to be guarded against it, and that when he shall have made any expedition (chivache), he shall inform the king of it as speedily as possible and as plainly as he can, with all the other news that he shall deem ought to be sent to the king. French. [Parl. Writs.]
	To Master Richard de Abyndon, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause such castles to be garrisoned and provided with victuals as Sir John de Seint Johan shall take by force from the king's enemies in Scotland or that shall be surrendered to John (as in preceding). French. [Ibid.]
March 1. Greenwich.	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause the Friars Preachers of Staunford to have in the king's forest of Clyve seven leafless oak-stumps for fuel, of the king's gift.
	By K. on the information of Brother W. de Wynterburn.
	To the same. Order to cause the Friars Preachers of Cantebrigg to have in the forest of Wauberge twelve oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift. By K. on the information of Brother W. de Wynterburn.
March 1. Southwark	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Recital of the king's order [of 20 January, page 331 above] regarding the circulation of bad money, and statement that the king understands that the things therein contained are not held or kept in the sheriff's bailiwick according to the form aforesaid, in despite of the king and his orders and to the great damage of his people, at which he is much annoyed. He again orders the sheriff, as he has many times ordered him, under pain of forfeiture of all that he can forfeit, to cause all the said things and each of them to be held and kept throughout his whole bailiwick, both within franchises and without, as in the said order, because, if he do not do so, the king has ordered Sir Robert le fuiz Roger, his captain (chevetain) and supplying his place at Berewyk, to cause these things to be executed in the sheriff's bailiwick. French.
	The like 'de most en mot' are sent in the form of patent to Sir Robert with clause ordering him to cause these things to be done in the sheriff's bailiwick in default of the latter.
March 1. Greenwich.	Richard Colle, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of Richard Page, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Stafford to bail him until the first assize.
March 7. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Devon. Order to cause Benedict de Shireford to have seisin of two acres of land in Aulescombe, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said land, which John le Taylur, who was hanged for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held it of Benedict, and that the tithingmen (decennar') of the tithing of Aulescombe have had the king's year and day thereof, for which they ought to answer to the king.
	To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to cause Thomas son of Geoffrey le Fraunceys of Kirkeosewald to have seisin of a toft and an acre of land in Leysenby, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the toft and land, which John son of William le Taillur, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held them of the said Thomas, and that William de Mulecastre has had the king's year and day thereof, for which he ought to answer to the king.
March 8. Westminster.	Roger Nutehach, imprisoned at Lancaster for the death of Richard de Crokehurst, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the coming of the justices.
March 8. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause Master John de Solers of Poteslepe to have seisin of a virgate of land in Poteslepe, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the land, which William de Poteslepe, who abjured the realm for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that William held it of John, and that the township of Poteslepe has had the king's year, day and waste thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
March 15. Westminster.	To Richard Oysel, the king's bailiff of Barton-on-Humbre. Order to cause the king's smaller barge (bargiam) for the ferry (passagio) over the water of the Humbre between that town and the town of Hesel to be repaired.
	Membrane 12.
March 9. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause G. now bishop of Chichester and the executors of the will of S. the late bishop to be acquitted of 100 marks, by which the late bishop made fine with the king for the service of two and a half knights' fees, which he acknowledged to the king for his army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as the late bishop paid this money into the wardrobe to Master Thomas Bek, then keeper of the wardrobe, on the morrow of St. Swithin, in the said year, as appears by the king's letters patent of acquittance.
	To the same. Like order to acquit the said bishop and executors of 100 marks by which S. the late bishop made fine with the king for the service of two and a half knights' fees, which he acknowledged to the king in his army of Wales in the tenth year of his reign, as the late bishop paid this sum to the king by the hands of Bonruncini Gaulteri, merchant of Lucca, in the said year.
March 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger Gymel, deceased.
	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert le Burgilun, who is insufficient for the office for certain reasons, as the king learns upon trustworthy authority.
March 11. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John, son and heir of Thomas de Stocton, to have seisin of the lands that his father at his death held of the king in chief, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his fealty.
March 11. Westminster.	To Robert de Clyfford, justice of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Shirewode. Order to cause Hugh de Notingham, clerk, to have in the king's wood of Beskwode, which is within the said forest, six oaks fit for timber of the king's gift.
	By K. on the information of J. Butteturte.
March 11. Westminster.	To Philip Aphowel, constable of Buelt castle. Order to cause the houses of that castle to be repaired. The king will cause allowance to be made to him for the cost thereof by the view and testimony of Walter de Pederton, justice of West Wales.
	By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
	To the prior of Kermerdyn, treasurer of West Wales. Order to cause the houses of the king's castles in West Wales in the custody of Walter de Pederton, justice of those parts, to be repaired.
	By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
March 12. Westminster.	To the same. As the king wills that the castles of Lampader, Cardigan, Emelyn, Drosselan, Dynnewor, and Kermerdyn shall be provided with dead stores (mortua garnestura), and it is expedient, as he learns, that the stores now in the castles shall be renewed, he orders the prior to receive the latter from Walter de Pederton, justice of West Wales, by indenture, and to cause them to be renewed, and to cause the castles to be provided with dead stores according to Walter's ordinance.
	By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
March 13. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Bradefeld, as the king learns upon the testimony of William de Mortuo Mari and Miles Pychard that he is staying continuously in Wales, so that he cannot attend to the office of coroner in that county.
	To the same. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Simon Deveraus, as it is testified before the king by the aforesaid William and Miles that Simon is incapacitated by grievous infirmity.
	To the same. Order to cause a verderer (coronatorem) for the king's forest of La Haye to be elected in place of John de Cruket, verderer (viridarius), as it is testified before the king by the said William and Miles that he is suffering from grievous infirmity, so that he is insufficient for the execution of the office.
March 14. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Joan, late the wife of Roger del Gardyn, to have seisin of the lands whereof she and Roger were jointly enfeoffed and seised on the day of Roger's death, by reason of whose death the escheator has taken them into the king's hands, as the king has taken her fealty for the lands and restored them to her.
March 15. Westminster.	To the same. Order to cause Thomas, son and heir of Thomas de Stodham, to have seisin of the lands that his father at his death held of the king in chief, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage.
March 11. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to restore to Alexander, vicar of the church of St. Vigor, Fuleburn, his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged with suspected homicide before John de Berewyk and his fellows, justices last in eyre in co. Cambridge, as he has purged his innocence before Richard de Oteringham, late guardian of the bishopric of Ely, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
	The like to the sheriff of Cambridge.
March 14. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit the burgesses of Overton to be acquitted of the rents due to the king for their messuages within the borough for ten years from Michaelmas in the nineteenth year of the reign, as the king lately granted by his charter that his town of Overton should be a free borough, and that his men thereof should be free burgesses, and that they and their heirs should have and hold for ever their messuages within the borough of the king by the services therefor due and accustomed, and he afterwards granted to them by his letters patent [Cal. Patent Rolls, 20 Edward I, p. 476] that they should be quit of the rents due to him for ten years from the said Michaelmas, in accordance with the form by which he made grant to his other burgesses in those parts concerning their rents.
March 14. Westminster.	To the same. Order to cause the abbot of Winchecombe to be acquitted of 10l. that are exacted from him for a fine that he made with the king for licence to enter certain tenements in Corneden of the gift of the abbot of Bruern, as William de Thorntoft, keeper of the king's hanaper, received this sum from the abbot for the king's use by order of William de Hamelton, then supplying the place of the chancellor, as William de Thorntoft has acknowledged before the king. It is provided that William de Thorntoft shall be charged with this sum in his account.
March 18. Westminster.	Robert del Evese of Eccleston, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of Adam de Pynynton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
March 18. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order not to compel the citizens of Bayonne—to whom the king has assigned by his letters patent [Cal. Patent Rolls, 27 Edward I, p. 414] the issues pertaining to him of all the custom of wool, hides, and fells in the realm of England and in his lands of Ireland and Scotland after he should have the latter in peace, to be received by them in crowned sterlings until they should be satisfied from the said issues for divers debts in which the king was bound to them by the letters patent of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, lately supplying the king's place in the duchy of Aquitaine—to receive the aforesaid custom in pollards or crockards contrary to the assignment aforesaid, as although the king lately ordained that two pollards or crockards should be current in the realm for one sterling and ordered this ordinance to be observed throughout his realm under pain of grievous forfeiture, it was not and is not his intention that the said citizens should be compelled to receive the said custom in pollards or crockards.
	The like to the sheriffs of the following counties:
	York.
	Lincoln.
	Norfolk.
	Suffolk.
	London.
	Kent.
	Sussex.
	Southampton.
	The like to John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland.
March 16. Westminster.	John Merewyn, imprisoned at Worcester for the death of Nicholas Gilding, slain in co. Gloucester, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Gloucester to bail him until the first assize, so that the sheriff shall certify the king of the names of the mainpernors in order that he may cause John to be delivered from the said prison.
March 20. Westminster.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Ralph de Gorges, son and heir of Ralph le (sic) Gorges, to be acquitted of 200 marks, by which his father made fine with the king for divers trespasses committed by him in the king's forests, as the king has pardoned Ralph this sum in consideration of his father's good service to him.
	By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
March 22. Westminster.	To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 26 February, in the third year of his reign, granted by his letters patent [Cal. Patent Rolls, 3 Edward I, p. 81] to Queen Eleanor, his mother, for her life all the fines and amercements of her men in the lands that she held in dower of the king's realm before any justices whomsoever, and the barons exact 80 marks, by which Master John son of Peter de Wygornia, now deceased, one of the said Queen's men, made fine to have a good inquisition with the king before Nicholas de Stapelton and his fellows, justices in eyre in co. Worcester, from Agnes de Pydele, sister and heiress of John, and from the executors of his will, of which sum John paid 20 marks to Walter de Castello, keeper of the [queen] gold of the said Queen, for the said Queen's use by a tally; the king orders the barons to inspect the tally, and if they ascertain that John was the said Queen's man and that the said 20 marks were paid to Walter, to cause the aforesaid heiress and executors to be acquitted of the 20 marks. It is provided that the executors of Walter's will shall be charged with this sum.
	Membrane 11.
March 22. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to John de Tyngewyk certain lands in Wappenham and the advowson of the church of that town, and the issues received thence by the escheator, who took the lands and advowson into the king's hands because Henry de Pynkeny alienated them to the said John without the king's licence, under the belief that Hugh held them of the king, as the king now learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry did not hold them of the king in chief but of the heirs of Godfrey de Lucy, ancestor of Geoffrey de Lucy, together with the rest of the town of Wappenham by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and that Godfrey gave the lands and advowson with the remainder of the town to one Henry de Pynkeny, ancestor of the said Henry, in free marriage with Letitia, Godfrey's daughter, and that they descended by right of inheritance from Henry to the said Henry, who enfeoffed John of the land and advowson.
	To the same. Order to go in person to the manor of Corston, which is of the inheritance of Edward, son and heir of Philip Burnel, tenant in chief, and of which the king has committed the custody to Guncelin de Badlesmere during the heir's minority, and to make an inquisition there concerning the manor, and if he find that waste or destruction has been committed in it by Guncelin, to resume it into the king's hands, and to cause it to be kept safely until further orders, as the king understands that Guncelin has committed waste and destruction of the houses, woods and gardens of the manor, and the king is bound to restore to heirs in his wardships when they come of age all their lands in his hands in name of wardship as fully and without diminution as they came to his hands.
	Margery la Russe, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of John Paynel and Robert Gladewyne, wherewith she is charged, has letters to bail her until the first assize.
	Thomas le Lorimer, imprisoned at Beverley for the death of Nicholas del Werk, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
March 24. Westminster.	To the king's chamberlain of Middelton. Order to cause John de Northwode, sheriff of Kent and constable of Ledes castle, to have in the king's wood of Merdene six oaks fit for timber in order to repair the king's mill of the castle.
	By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. Mandate in pursuance to the said John to repair the mill.
	By K. on the information aforesaid.
March 25. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to Robert de la Warde the 40s. (sic) yearly of land in Duston that he has for life of the gift of Reginald de Grey, who held it of the king in chief by serjeanty, which land the escheator took into the king's hands by reason of Robert's trespass in entering it without the king's licence, as the king has granted to Robert, for a fine of 60s., that he may hold the said 60s. (sic) yearly of land for his life, in accordance with the said grant.
March 10. Westminster.	To the same. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Walter Abovetoun, Robert the miller, Alexander le Porter, Walter le Eyr, and Roesia la Veve held in villeinage seven messuages and five virgates and fifteen acres and a half of land in the town of Grafton of Hugh de Braundeston, lately deceased, to wit Walter three messuages three bovates and 2½ acres of land, rendering therefor to Hugh 24s. 7d. yearly, Robert the miller a messuage and half a virgate and 2½ acres of land, rendering therefor 8s. 7d. yearly, and the aforesaid Alexander, Walter, and Roesia each holds a messuage and half a virgate and 2½ acres of land, rendering 7s. 5d. yearly, and that Walter, Robert, Alexander, Walter, and Roesia were wont to render yearly to Henry 20 hens, which are extended at 20d. yearly, and that Hugh held the aforesaid tenements of William le Butiller of Wemme by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee and by doing scutage when it happens, and it does not appear to the king by the inquisition that Hugh held anything of him in chief at his death, except the manor of Redenhale, co. Norfolk, whereof he and Margaret, his wife, were jointly enfeoffed by Bartholomew de Yatindon, Margaret's father, to hold to them and the heirs begotten upon her body, or to her other heirs in case she had no heirs by Hugh, of the king by the service of two knights' fees: the king orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the said rent, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Hugh's death.
March 26. Westminster.	To the same. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margery, late the wife of Thomas de Mereton, tenant in chief, of the knights' fees and advowsons of churches that belonged to Thomas, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
March 18. Westminster.	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Bogo de Knovill to have in the forest of Chippeham ten oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
March 28. Westminster.	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause John de Cretyng, son and heir of Adam de Cretyng, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father at his death was seised in his demesne as of fee, together with the issues thereof received since they were taken into the king's hands, as the king has taken his homage for all the lands that his father held of him in England and Ireland.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William Martyn, son and heir of Nicholas son of Martin, to be acquitted of the scutage exacted from him for the service of three knights' fees for the army of Wales in the fifth year of the king's reign, as Nicholas was with the king by his order in the said army for the said service, which he then acknowledged to the king, as appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of his Marshalsea for that army.
	To the same. Order to cause Geoffrey Luterel, son and heir of Robert Luterel, to be acquitted of the scutage exacted from him for the service of two knights' fees for the army aforesaid, as Robert was with the king by his order in the said army for the said service, which he then acknowledged to the king, as appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of his Marshalsea for that army.
March 27. Westminster.	To the keeper of the manor of Fekeham. Order to repair the king's houses and mill in that manor. By K.
	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause the aforesaid keeper to have in the king's Hay called 'le Park' within the forest of Fekeham five oaks fit for timber, in order to repair the houses and mill aforesaid. By K.
March 28. Westminster.	To John de London[ia], constable of Windsor castle. Order to expend up to 100s. in repairing the king's weir of Old Windsor, which is broken down. By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause the keeper of the manor of Old Windsor to have in the forest of Windsor six oaks fit for timber and six beeches, where they can be taken to the least damage of the king, for the repair of the aforesaid weir.
	By K.
March 31. Westminster.	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Mary de Ingham to have in the king's wood of Melchet, which is within the bounds of the forest of Clarendon, forty oaks fit for timber, where they can be taken with the least damage to the king, of the king's gift. By K. on the information of Brother W. de Wynterburn.
March 28. Westminster.	To Robert de Bures, keeper of the forest of Canek. Order to cause John de Segrave to have in that forest twelve oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
	Vacated, because the writ was restored.
March 30. Westminster.	To Eustace de Hacche, constable of Marlebergh castle. Order to cause the king's great chapel and three great chambers within the castle, together with the gutters (guteris) and passages (tresanciis) of the same to be repaired. By K.
	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Eustace de Hacche, constable of Marlebergh castle and keeper of the king's barton (bertona) there, to have in the king's forest of Savernak ten cartloads of wood for piles and sixty cartloads of underwood, in order to enclose the barton, to be taken where the least damage can be done to the king. By K.
	To the same. Order to cause Thomas, earl of Lancaster, to have in the forest of Whitlewode twelve oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
	By K. on the information of Otto de Grandisono.
	William Graunta and William Galyot, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Nicholas de Kylminand, wherewith they are charged, have letters to bail them until the first assize.
March 30. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a yearly rent of 9 marks in Pleydenn, Bolynton, Peblesham, and Staunde, and to restore anything that he may have received thence to the abbot of Robertsbridge (de Ponte Roberti), as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that William de Sancto Noeto, sometime abbot of Robertsbridge, acquired the said rent before the publication of the statute of mortmain from the abbot and convent of Tréport (Ulterioris Pontis) in Normandy, and that the said abbot of Robertsbridge and his successors continued his seisin of the rent from the time of the purchase until Wednesday in Whitsun week, in the twentyseventh year of the king's reign, upon which day William de la Legh, sub-escheator in co. Sussex, took the rent into the king's hands because he believed that it had been acquired after the publication of the said statute.