Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1301 | 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: January 1301', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 415-419. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp415-419 [accessed 21 April 2024]

January 1301



Jan. 4. Northampton.	To William de Curzon, keeper of the king's manor of Burgh. Whereas the king lately, at the prosecution of Robert son of Robert Baynard— suggesting that Walter Dukskyn (sic), Robert atte Stone, and Simon de Ryston, then bailiffs of Queen Eleanor, the king's late consort, had occupied against the said Robert Baynard, father of the said Robert son of Robert, of whom Robert is the heir, beyond the lands in Hauboys that Bartholomew de Redham recovered in the king's court at Aylesham against the said Robert by the recognition of an assize of novel disseisin there taken between them, which lands afterwards came to the hands of the said queen by demise from Bartholomew, ten messuages, seven cottages, 46 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, four acres of alder-holt, 3s. of rent, and a third of a messuage in the town of Haubois, together with fifteen villeins and their chattels and sequele and with free fishery in the water of Haubois, and three messuages, 30 acres of land, and 5s. of rent in the town of Scothowe, which town was not contained in the original writ, and appropriated the lands thus occupied to the use of the said queen together with the lands recovered by recognition of the assize aforesaid—appointed John Buteturte, William Haward, and William de Carleton, or two of them who shall happen to be present, to enquire by the oath of the jurors of the said assize and of other men suspected by neither party from what lands the said Robert Baynard was ejected after the judgment was rendered in the assize aforesaid beyond the lands thus recovered, and in what towns they are, and by whom he was ejected, and when, and in whose hands they now are, and in what manner he was ejected; and it is found by the inquisition taken by them that the aforesaid Walter, Robert and Simon occupied upon the said Robert Baynard, beyond the lands recovered by the recognition of the assize aforesaid, 4 acres of alder-holt, 1½ acres of land called 'Dufhusyerd,' and an acre of land called 'Gerardesacre,' and a free fishery in the said town of Hauboys, and a messuage and 12 acres of land in Scothowe, and that they appropriated them to the use of the said queen: the king orders the keeper to restore to the aforesaid Robert son of Robert the lands thus occupied beyond those recovered by the recognition, which lands were taken into the king's hands by reason of the said queen's death and are in Walter's custody, saving the king's right and the right of others. By p.s.
Jan. 3. Northampton.	To the sheriff of Kent. Order to pay to Adam de Moravia, knight, of Scotland, who was captured in the conflict at Dumbar and is imprisoned in Ledes castle, and to his keeper the arrears of their wages for the sheriff's time, and to pay to them their wages henceforth, to wit to Adam 4d. a day and to the keeper 3d. a day, until further orders.
Jan. 8. Northampton.	To the keepers of the king's passage at Dover. Order to permit Robert de la Warde and Master Thomas de Luggore, whom the king is sending as his envoys to parts beyond sea, to cross from that port with their household, horses, equipment, money, and other things, without making any search of them, notwithstanding the ordinance lately made by the king and his council concerning persons crossing from that port.
	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margery, late the wife of Hamo de Gatton, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
Jan. 8. Northampton.	Walter Frebern, imprisoned at Cambridge for the death of Adam son of William Canun, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
Jan. 9. Northampton.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Elizabeth, late the wife of Warin Maudut, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
Jan. 6. Northampton.	To the sheriff of Essex and Hertford. Order to cause to be sent to London immediately upon sight hereof twenty good carts from his bailiwick to receive from William Trente, attorney of Adam de Rokesle, the king's butler, twenty tuns of the king's wines, and to carry them to Northampton for the expenses of the household of Thomas, the king's son.
Jan. 17. King's Cliffe (Clyve).	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause the abbot of Peterborough to have a tithe of the venison taken within the king's forests in co. Northampton for the twenty-seventh and twenty-eight years of the reign and for the present year, as it appears to the king by inspection of the charters of kings William, Richard and John, his progenitors, and of Henry, his father, that the abbot ought to have of their grant a tithe of the venison taken within the said forests, and it also appears by inspection of the rolls of chancery of the late king that the abbots of that place always had the said king's writ to receive the tithe of the venison.
Jan. 16. King's Cliffe.	To the same. Order to cause the abbot of Peterborough to have in the king's park of Clyve ten oaks fit for timber wherever he may choose them, for the repair of the church and houses of his abbey, of the king's gift. By K.
	Membrane 16.
Jan. 19. Easton.	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Agnes, late the wife of John de Hodebovile of Aketon, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without the king's licence.
Jan. 26. Nettleham.	To the sheriff of Northampton Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Giles de Morton, whom the king has caused to be amoved from office because he is insufficiently qualified, as the king learns upon trustworthy testimony.
Jan. 25. Nettleham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Reginald de Grey to be acquitted of the scutage exacted from him for the king's army of Wales in the tenth year of the reign, as it appears to the king that he did the service due to the king in that army for the knights' fees that he holds in chief. By K.
Jan. 26. Nettleham.	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Tyndale, whom the king has amoved from office because it is testified before him that he is insufficiently qualified.
Jan. 28. Nettleham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, of his special grace and in consideration of the service of Guy de Shenefeld, who set out for Gascony in the king's service in the company of Hugh de Veer, pardoned by his letters patent [Cal. Patent Rolls, 8 Edw. I, p. 80 (fn. 1) ] Hugh le Blund 40s., Thomas de Maundevill 20s., Nicholas de Barenton 13s. 4d., Edmund le Spygurnel 6s. 8d., William de Hanyfeld 13s. 4d., John de Sutton 13s. 4d., Ranulph de Ardern 6s. 8d., William de Sutton 13s. 4d., Peter Sabright 6s. 8d., Walter de (fn. 2) Brus 6s. 8d., Roger le Convers 6s. 8d., Laurence Randy 6s. 8d., Geoffrey Davy 10s., William de Wauton 13s. 4d., Robert Gossalin 6s. 8d., John de Neuton 6s. 8d., Alan Pollard 6s. 8d., John de Cogeshale 6s. 8d., Henry Page 6s. 8d., Ralph de la Kersovere 3s. 4d., Theobald de Belhus 13s. 4d., at which they were respectively amerced before Roger Lestrange (Extraneo) and his fellows, justices last in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Essex, because they did not have Guy before the justices at a certain day in accordance with the mainprise that they had made for him: the king orders them to acquit the aforesaid men of these sums.
Jan. 31. Nettleham.	To the same. Order to cause the abbot of Suleby to be acquitted of 40l. of the 100l. in which he made fine with the king before the treasurer and barons for licence to enter 20l. yearly of rent in Irtlingburgh, Slypton, Glapthorn, Cotherstok, and Little Adynton, co. Northampton, as the king has pardoned him this 40l.
Jan. 30. Nettleham.	To Master Richard de Havering, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause John de Harecurt, son and heir of Richard de Herecurt (sic), 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 Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent, and the king has taken his homage. By p.s.
Jan. 27. Nettleham.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to William son of Thomas Pippard, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death held nothing of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Feb. 1. Nettleham.	Richard de Lappefloude, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Robert son of Richard de Okemeton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
Jan. 30. Nettleham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until Whitsuntide next the demand upon Richard de Burgo, earl of Ulster, one of the heirs and parceners of the inheritance that belonged to Richard son of John, tenant in chief, for his homage and relief for his purparty of the inheritance. By K.
	The like to the sheriff of Buckingham.
Jan. 28. Nettleham.	To the bailiff of the island of Guernsey (Gerneseya). The king learns from the complaint of Oliver le Moigne, nephew and co-heir of William de Sancto Remigio, and of Thomas de Estfeld, who married Alice, the sister and other heir of William, that although Otto de Grandisono, keeper of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. (Jereseya), at another time, in accordance with the ordinance of the king's council in his last parliament at London, ordered the bailiff to restore to the aforesaid Oliver, Thomas and Alice the lands that belonged to William and whereof he was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, which had been taken into the king's hands by his justices in the islands by reason of the abjuration that William made from the islands, which abjuration the king pardoned him, on condition that they should be bound to answer to the king and to others as should be just, the bailiff nevertheless, boldly exceeding the order, has extorted securities for rendering the fruits of the said lands to him when required before he restored the lands, at which the king wonders: he therefore orders the bailiff, if it be so, to cause what he has presumed to extort from the said heirs in this behalf contrary to the said ordinance to be restored to them, and to cause it to be reduced to its due condition without delay, so that renewed complaint may not come to the king through his default.
	To the same. The king learns from the complaint of Thomas de Estfeld that although Oto de Grandisono, keeper of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, at another time, in accordance with the ordinance of the king's council in his last parliament at London, ordered the bailiff to desist from exacting 20l. of black Tournois in which William de Spissa, priest, was said to be bound for the ferm of the church of St. Sampson granted to him by Oto's attorneys and not warranted, until Oto should be fully informed concerning the said debt, and until the bailiff should be otherwise ordered, the bailiff has nevertheless levied a great part of the said sum from William's sureties, and does not desist from levying the remainder, contrary to the tenor of the ordinance and order aforesaid, at which the king is surprised: he therefore orders the bailiff, if it be so, to desist wholly from exacting the said sum, and to restore at once what he has already levied.
Jan. 30. Nettleham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the executors of the will of John Tregoz, tenant in chief, to be acquitted of the scutage exacted from them for the service of three knights' fees in the king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as John was with the king by his order in the said army for that service, which he then recognised to the king, as appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of his Marshalsea for that army.
	The like for the army of the tenth year.
Jan. 30. Nettleham.	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause Hugh de Hamslape, chaplain, to have in the forest of La Bere, which is within the bounds of the forest of Asshele, six oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
	By K. on the information of J. Buteturte.