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May 3.
Stamford. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John de Heton, whom the king has caused to be
amoved from office because he is incapacitated by age and infirmity, as
the king learns upon trustworthy testimony. |
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May 4.
Stamford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Thomas
de Gardino, sheriff of Cambridge, to be acquitted of 4l. 14s. 3d. at which
the goods and chattels of Alexander, vicar of the church of St. Vigor,
Fulburne, were appraised, as the king lately ordered the sheriff to restore
to Alexander his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the
king's hands upon his being charged before John de Berewyk and his
fellows, justices last in eyre in co. Cambridge, with suspicion of homicide,
because he had purged his innocence before Richard de Oteringham, late
guardian of the spirituality of the bishopric of Ely, the see being void,
to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege
of the clergy. |
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To the same. Order to cause the said Thomas to be discharged of
6 marks 12s. 8d., at which the goods that Wyot le Keu stole from William
de Ros, the king's fiddler (vielatore), and which were taken with Wyot
when he was arrested at Cambridge for this robbery and for other felonies,
whereof he was convicted before John de Berewyk and his fellows,
justices last in eyre at Cambridge, and for which he was hanged by consideration of the court, as the king ordered Thomas to deliver to William
de Ros the goods thus stolen from him. |
May 13.
Hilborough (Hildeburgh-worth). |
To Master Richard de Havering, escheator beyond Trent. Order to
deliver to Christiana, late the wife of Thomas de Weston, the following
lands that are held of the king, and not to intermeddle with the following
lands that are held of Thomas de Lucy and of the prior of the Hospital
of St. John of Jerusalem to England, which were taken into the king's
hands by reason of the death of Thomas de Weston, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas de Weston and Christiana
held on the day of his death of her inheritance three messuages in
Cokermuth and a messuage and 24 acres of land in Papecastre of the
king as of the manor of Cokermuth, which is in his hands by reason of
the death of Isabel de Fortibus, late countess of Albemarle, rendering for
the three messuages 12d. yearly and doing suit thrice a year to the king s
court of Cokermuth and for the messuage and land a pound of cumin at
Christmas for all service, and that Thomas and Christiana were jointly
enfeoffed by divers feoffors as follows: by Thomas de Ireby of a messuage
and 25 acres of land in Little Clyfton, by Joan, daughter and heiress of
Geoffrey le Harpur of six bovates and seven acres of land in the same
town, by Thomas de Langetoft, chaplain, of 72 acres and 29 falls (fall')
of land in the same town, by Alan de Brakaynthwait of 13 acres of land in
Cokermuth in the place called 'Leycheld,' by Thomas Ruggebag, son and
heir of Robert Ruggebag, of nine acres of land in the same town, by
Walter Hardheved of 3½ acres of land in the same town, by Richard del
Fit of 3 acres of land in the same town, by John son of Hugh de Halstede
of 1¼ tofts in the same town, by Henry the clerk of a 1½ tofts in the same
town, by Henry son of Serlo of three parts of a toft in the same town, by
Richard the farrier (marescall') of a toft in the same town, by Patrick son
of Patrick son of Martin de Wirkinton of a quarter of a toft in the same
town, and by Adam le Taillur of three parts of a toft and a stone chamber,
to have and to hold to them and to the heirs and assigns of Thomas of
the king as of the aforesaid manor; and by Henry Underwode of a messuage and 40 acres of land in Wirdeley, whereof Agnes, late the wife of
Henry, holds in dower the said messuage and 9 acres of land, by Adam le
Hunte of 18 acres of land in the same town, by Henry son of John the
clerk of Wirdeley of 18 acres of land in the same town, by William son of
Richard de Wiggedon of an acre and a rood of land and a moiety of
a toft in the same town, by Robert son of Robert Underwode of
5 acres and a rood of land in the same town, by Richard le Suur
and Alice, his wife, of a messuage and 3½ acres of land in the same
town, by William Wolpak of a moiety of an acre in the same town,
by Robert de Hoperton of two messuages and 12 acres of land in the
same town, by John de Holm of 3½ acres of land in the same town,
by Robert de Lofthus and Juliana, his wife, of seven selions of land in
the same town, by Robert de Stokton and Margaret, his wife, of three
selions of land in the same town, and by Robert de Broghton of two tofts
and two bovates of land in Wytheton, to have and to hold to them and
to the heirs and assigns of Thomas of the king as of the manor of Harewode, which is in the king's hands by the death of the said countess; and
by John de Plumlaund of the lordship of the town of Great Clyfton,
with the homage of Benedict son of Thomas de Clyfton, Thorald de
Wirkinton, Master Robert de Braunthwait, Maud, daughter of William
de Ulvelaik, and Gunnilda, daughter of Margaret, late the wife of Patrick
de Lonswatre, and by Benedict de Clyfton of a fulling mill, a toft and an
acre of land in the same town, to hold to them and to the heirs and
assigns of Thomas of Thomas de Lucy; and also by the prior of the
Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England of the manor of Breithstanes in the parish of St. Bees (Bege) in Coupland, and by the said prior
of 14 acres of land in Punsunby, with twelve dozens (duodenis) of the
iron-mine, to be received yearly from the mine (minera) of Thomas de
Multon in Coupland, to hold to them and the heirs of Thomas's body of
the prior; and that Thomas and Christiana were jointly seised of the lands
aforesaid on the day of his death, and the king has taken her fealty for
the said lands that are of her inheritance and for the lands held of him
whereof she and Thomas were jointly enfeoffed. |
May 14.
Walsingham. |
Walter de Tregavene, imprisoned at Lanceveton for the death of Jocelyn
Dollyng, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Devon to
bail him. |
May 21.
Barlings. |
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause Nicholas le Butiller to have
seisin of a messuage and three bovates of land in Longeton, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage and land,
which Michael son of John de Hole, who was outlawed for felony, held,
have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Michael
held them of Nicholas, and that Ralph de Munjoye and Thomas Banastre,
late sheriffs of Lancaster, have had the king's year and day thereof, for
which they ought to answer to the king. |
May 21.
Spalding. |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with three messuages and 27 acres of land in
Northperton, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the escheator that Adam de Bagetripe held the said
messuages and land at his death of John de Erleye by knight service, and
not of Hugh Lovel, deceased, tenant in chief, which messuages and land
were taken into the king's hands by reason of the minority of Hugh's
heir, and that Adam held nothing in co. Somerset or elsewhere this side
Trent by reason whereof the wardship of his lands ought to pertain to the
king. By C. |
