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April 4.
Feckenham. |
To Robert de Burghessh, constable of Dover castle and warden of the
Cinque Ports. Order to permit certain jewels that the king and Queen
Margaret, his consort, have given and have ordered to be carried to parts
beyond sea, as shall appear to him by the letters testimonial of the king
or of his consort, to cross to parts beyond sea from the port of Dover
without hindrance, notwithstanding the ordinance previously made by
the king and his council. |
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To Master Richard de Havering, escheator beyond Trent. Order to
deliver to Joan, late the wife of William de Grey, as nearest [friend] to
the heir of Richard de Grey, the custody of a messuage and fifteen
bovates of land in Sandiacre, saving the right of others, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by John de Lythegrayns, late escheator
beyond Trent, that the said Richard at his death held no lands of the
king except the said messuage and land, which he held by the service of
33s. 4d. to be rendered to the exchequer and 17s. 4d. to be rendered to the
sheriff of Nottingham and Derby yearly, and that Richard de Sandiacre
formerly held the messuage and land by serjeanty, which were taken into
the hands of the king's progenitors by reason of the alienation of the
serjeanty without their licence, and were arrented to the ancestors of
Richard de Grey at the aforesaid sums, whereby the serjeanty is now
changed into sockage, so that the wardship of the lands that belonged
to Richard de Grey cannot and ought not to pertain to the king. |
April 4.
Feckenham. |
To Robert de Burgherssh, constable of Dover castle and warden of the
Cinque Ports. Order to permit certain jewels that the king and Queen
Margaret, his consort, have given and have ordered to be carried to parts
beyond sea, as shall appear to him by the letters testimonial of the king
or of his consort, to cross to parts beyond sea from the port of Dover
without hindrance, notwithstanding the ordinance previously made by the
king and his council. |
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To the king's bailiffs of Wylton. Order to pay to the poor brethren
and sisters of the Hospital of St. Giles, Wilton, six marks of yearly rent
from the town of Wilton as they were wont to have it in times past,
until inquiry be made concerning any right that the king may have in this
behalf or until otherwise ordered, as it is found by an inquisition taken by
Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent, that the brethren and
sisters received this rent of the gift of the king's progenitors, formerly kings
of England, for the maintenance of a chaplain celebrating divine service in
the hospital daily for the souls of the king's ancestors, and that the brethren
and sisters of the hospital have received it from the first gift made to
them of certain rents and issues of that town by the hands of the bailiffs
thereof, both when the town was in the hands of the king's progenitors
and when it was in the hands of Sir Richard, late king of Almain, and of
Edmund, late earl of Cornwall, without any interruption until Christmas
last, at which time the town came to the king's hands by the death of the
said Edmund. |
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To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to permit
the said brethren and sisters to have the aforesaid six marks as they had
them in times past, until inquisition be made concerning any right that
the king may have therein or until otherwise ordered by the king. |
March 27.
Evesham. |
To Master John Bonich' of Florence, appointed to receive in the
pope's name payment of 10,000 marks due from certain abbots and
priors of the realm by reason of certain obligations that they lately
made for the king and in his name. The king is given to understand that he exacts a mark upon each hundred marks of the said
money for his expenses from the abbots and priors before he will restore
to them their said obligations, which are in his hands, unjustly and to the
grievous expense of the abbots and priors, or more truly of the king, who
is bound to save them harmless in this behalf as they entered into the
said obligation and security for him and at his instance: the king orders
John to desist entirely from exacting the said mark on the hundred marks,
and to restore to each of the abbots and priors their respective obligations
without difficulty upon their satisfying him for the amounts due from
them according to the obligations, so conducting himself in this behalf
that it may not be necessary for the king to provide another remedy
owing to his acting otherwise. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 908.] |
April 8.
Feckenham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king has
granted to Amadeus, count of Savoy, for his costs and expenses in the
king's service upon divers occasions and for his good service to the
king, the wardship of all the lands that belonged to Nicholas de
Audeleye, tenant in chief, on the day of his death, during the minority of
Nicholas's heir, as contained in the king's letters patent [Cal. Patent
Rolls, 27 Edw. I, p. 457] to the count, and the count has given the
king to understand that the treasurer and barons cause 12l. wherewith
the manor of Forde, co. Salop, which is of the wardship aforesaid, is
charged yearly at the exchequer to be exacted, contrary to the form of the
grant aforesaid; the king orders them, if be so, to desist from exacting
this sum from the count during the wardship aforesaid. |
March 26.
Evesham. |
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent, or to him
who supplies his place. Order to cause John de Braye, king's clerk, to
have in the forest of Chippenham four oaks fit for timber, together with
all their strippings (escaetis), of the king's gift. By K. |
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Membrane 9. |
April 9.
Feckenham. |
To Stephen Sprot, constable of Hastin[ges] castle. As the king understands that R. archbishop of Canterbury intends to visit the king's free
chapel in that castle, which is exempt from all jurisdiction of the ordinary,
to the prejudice of the king and the injury of the liberty of the chapel:
the king orders the constable not to permit the archbishop or any one
else coming to the castle on his behalf, for the purpose of visiting the
chapel or of doing or attempting anything else that may result in the
king's prejudice or the injury of the liberty of the chapel, to enter the
castle without consulting the king. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 904.] |
April 8.
Feckenham. |
To Sir John, count of Hainault. Letter recommending to him Gerard
de Freney, knight, and Walter Bacun, clerk, whom the king has caused
to be sent to those parts to supervise the state of the affairs in those parts
concerning Elizabeth, countess of Holland, the king's daughter, and to
ordain concerning the same, and requesting him to permit them to
dispose of, and ordain concerning, the said affairs without hindrance,
and to support them therein, as the affairs of the countess in those parts
progress badly now-a-days owing to the hindrances of certain men, and
the king is given to understand by one of the count's men that such
hindrances are not set up by the count's order or will. The count is
desired not to marvel at the king sending such simple envoys at this
time, as he has done this because the said envoys are more experienced
in the state of the said affairs and also of the condition of those parts
than more solemn or greater envoys might be. |
April 10.
Feckenham. |
To the king's bailiffs of Ravenesere and keepers of that port. John
Case, burgess and merchant of St. Omer, has intimated to the king that
whereas a ship of Flanders laden with the goods and things of certain
men of Scotland arrived at that port owing to stress of wind and sea, the
bailiffs and keepers arrested 102l. in pollards and crockards and four cups,
four spoons, and six small pieces of silver of the said John's goods found in
that ship, by virtue of the king's ordinance that no one shall bring bad
money into the realm under the penalties contained in the ordinance;
whereupon the king, at the request of Queen Margaret, his consort, ordered
them not long ago to deliver the said money and goods to John: as the
king now understands that the money and goods pertain not only to John
but also to him and to John fiz Duyt, Thomas Shen, and Paul de Plunk',
he orders the bailiffs and keepers to deliver the said 102l. with the other
goods aforesaid to John, John, Thomas, and Paul, to wit each their portion
as they can show and prove it before the bailiffs and keepers, so that
renewed complaint may not come to the king; provided that the bailiffs
and keepers be secure that they shall carry all the money with the cups,
spoons, and pieces aforesaid to the king's exchange to be exchanged there. |
[March] 25.
Evesham. |
Thomas Wale who is going to the court of Rome by the king's orders
upon the king's affairs, has letters of protection for one year with the
clause volumus. |
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Vacated because on the Patent Roll. |
April 12.
Evesham. |
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause Geoffrey Abytot to have
seisin of a messuage and a virgate of land in Rudmerleye, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage and land,
which Richard Warde, who was hanged for felony, held, have been in the
king's hands for a year and a day, and that Richard held them of Geoffrey,
and that the township of Rudmerleye had the king's year and day thereof,
for which it ought to answer to the king, and that the messuage and land
are in the king's hands. |
April 6.
Feckenham. |
To William de Sancto Georgio. As the king has enjoined upon the
treasurer and barons of the exchequer certain things to be intimated to
him on the king's behalf, he orders William to be at the exchequer on the
quinzaine of Easter next, to do those things that the treasurer and barons
shall enjoin upon him on the king's behalf. |
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The like to Robert de Bayouse. |
April 19.
Worcester. |
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, and to Master Thomas Cantok,
chancellor of Ireland. Whereas the king—upon its being found by an
inquisition taken by Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland, returned into
the chancery of England and enrolled there, that Geoffrey de Geynvill and
Maud, his wife, hold certain lands in Meath (Midia) of her inheritance
that are outside the boundaries of any of the king's counties, and that the
king's writ was wont before the liberty of Meath was taken into the late
king's hands to be directed immediately to Hugh de Lascy and Walter de
Lascy, Maud's ancestors, and to their bailiffs there, and that this was
changed from the time when the liberty was taken into the late king's
hands by the justiciary, chancellor and other ministers of the king at
their will and not for any cause, and likewise that it is not to the king's
damage if his writs be directed immediately to Geoffrey and Maud and
their bailiffs of that liberty, as was wont to be done in times past—granted
that his writs touching the said liberty should be directed immediately to
Geoffrey and Maud, or to the heirs of Maud, or to their bailiffs of that
liberty, in accordance with the tenor of the inquisition aforesaid and as
they were wont to be directed to Maud's ancestors before the liberty was
taken into the late king's hands; wherefore he ordered Stephen, bishop
of Waterford, then justiciary of Ireland, and also him who was then
chancellor of Ireland to direct, or cause to be directed, such writs to
Geoffrey and Maud and Maud's heirs and to their bailiffs in form aforesaid, as is more fully contained in the king's order, which is or ought to
be in the possession of the justiciary and chancellor; and all the king's
writs touching the liberty have been wont to be directed to Geoffrey and
Maud and their bailiffs of the liberty without hindrance from the time
of the king's grant aforesaid in all the times of the justiciaries and
chancellors of Ireland until the time of the present justiciary and
chancellor, by virtue of the king's order aforesaid, as Geoffrey and Maud
have given the king to understand: the king, willing that Geoffrey and
Maud shall not be unduly aggrieved (fatigari) in the premises contrary to
the tenor of the king's grant aforesaid, but wishing to treat them most
favourably in consideration of the good service that has been long and
gratefully rendered to him by Geoffrey, orders the justiciary and chancellor
to cause his writs concerning the liberty to be directed to Geoffrey and
Maud or their bailiffs, in accordance with the tenor of his order aforesaid,
without inflicting any grievance or impediment upon them in this behalf.
If by chance they have any reasonable cause why they ought not to do
the premises or any of them, they shall make it known to the king
without delay under the seal that he uses in Ireland, so that he may
cause to be done further in this matter what shall seem fit by his council. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Whereas the
king is indebted to Geoffrey de Geynvill in 124l. 5s. 0d. for his expenses
in the king's service in going by his order to the court of Rome, staying
there, and returning thence, as appears by a reckoning (computacionem)
made in the king's wardrobe at Worcester before John de Drokenesford,
keeper of the wardrobe, on 19 April, in the twenty-ninth year of the
reign: the king orders the treasurer and barons to allow to Geoffrey the
said sum in the debts due from him to that exchequer. In case the king
be still indebted to him after such allowance have been made, they shall
make it known to the king under the seal of that exchequer. |
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By bill of the wardrobe. |
April 26.
Lugwardine |
To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Gloucester.
Notification that the king has pardoned Eustace de Hacche and Walter
de Redmarlegh the trespass committed by them in taking without his
licence a buck and a doe in the forest of Dene during the time when
Grimbald Pauncefot was keeper of that forest, and order not to molest or
aggrieve Eustace and Walter before them for this reason. By p.s. [2268.] |
April 18.
Worcester. |
Alice de Morisdenne, imprisoned at Maydenstan for the death of Alice
de Blakebrok, wherewith she is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Kent
to bail her until the first assize. |
April 26.
Lugwardine. |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Whereas the
king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that William le Brun
held at his death no lands of the king in the escheator's bailiwick except
the manor of Fordinggebrugge, co. Southampton, by the service of a third
of a knight's fee, and the manor of Rughenore, in the same county, by
serjeanty, rendering therefore yearly 40s. to the king at Michaelmas, and
the manor of Randolveston, co. Dorset, by the service of a moiety of a
knight's fee, whereof Isolda, late his wife, was jointly enfeoffed by the
king, to hold of him as of the honour of Camel, which is in his hands, by
the services aforesaid, and that Maurice le Brun, William's son, is his
nearest heir and is aged twenty-one years and over, by reason whereof the
wardship of the lands that belonged to William cannot and ought not to
pertain to the king at present: the king therefore orders the escheator
not to intermeddle further with the other lands that belonged to
William, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of William's
death. |
