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May 2.
Kempsey. |
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause Lucy de Abitot to have
seisin of a messuage and six acres of land in Rydmerele, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator 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 Lucy,
and that the township of Rydmerle had the king's year, day and waste
thereof, for which it ought to answer to him. |
May 4.
Kempsey. |
To the keepers of the passage of the port of Dover. Order to permit
Master Peter de Latilliaco, canon of the church of Paris, and Master
Peter de Monziaco, canon of the church of Angers, and John de Barr,
knight, envoys of the king of France lately sent to the king in England,
who are now returning home, to cross with their men, horses, arms,
equipments, and all their other things that they brought with them to
England or that were given to them after their arrival in England, as
shall appear to the keepers by the testimony of the envoys. The keepers
are ordered to deliver to the envoys a letter under their seal that the
envoys wished to send to parts beyond sea and that was arrested by the
keepers in that port. |
May 8.
Kempsey. |
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Whereas
it was found by an inquisition taken by Robert de Harughdon, supplying
the justice's place when he was in the king's service in parts beyond sea,
that Gervase de Holeweye, the king's yeoman, to whom the king lately
granted by his letters patent [Cal. Patent Rolls, 27 Edw. I, p. 405], for his
long service to the king, the custody of the bailiwick of his forest of
Briggestok and Geytington for life, ought to appoint and amove foresters
and other ministers of the forest in the said custody by reason of his
bailiwick at his will; the king orders the justice to permit Gervase to
appoint and amove foresters in that forest without hindrance, not permitting him to be hindered or molested concerning this by anyone. |
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To William de Bereford. Order to be with the king at Northampton
at Holy Trinity next, laying aside all other things, as the king specially
needs his presence for certain things that concern the king. |
May 4.
Kempsey. |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
Patrick, son and heir of Adam Bonche, to have seisin of the lands that
his father held at his death of the king in chief, as he has proved his age
before the escheator and the king has taken his homage. |
May 12.
Kempsey. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to receive William de Veupont,
knight, and William de Neuton, yeomen, Scots, the king's prisoners and
rebels, from the constable of the castle of Porcestre, who will deliver them
to him by the king's order, by indenture, and to cause them to be kept
safely in prison in the castle of Winchester, and to pay to them their
wages, to wit 3d. a day to the knight and 2d. a day to the yeoman, until
otherwise ordered by the king. By K. |
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To the constable of Porcestre castle. Order to send the said prisoners
to Winchester castle, and to cause them to be there delivered to the sheriff
by indenture. |
May 13.
Kempsey. |
To the sheriff of Hereford and to the coroners of that county. Order
to restore to Gilbert de Bohun his lands, goods and chattels, which were
taken into the king's hands by reason of the outlawry promulgated against
him in the king's court because he did not answer to Roger de Mortuo
Mari for a trespass committed against him, as the king lately pardoned
him the outlawry by his letters patent [Cal. Patent Rolls, 29 Edw. I,
p. 565], and he has now granted to him his lands, goods and chattels, as
he wishes to show him more ample favour because he is setting out for
Scotland in his service. |
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Membrane 8. |
May 13.
Kempsey. |
To John de London[ia], constable of Windsor castle. Order to cause
the abbot of Westminster to have eight bucks for the present year, in
accordance with the late king's grant by his charter, which the king has
confirmed, to God and the church of St. Peter and the abbot of
Westminster of eight bucks yearly, to be taken in the forest of Windsor
at the king's cost by the hands of the constable of the castle and to be
carried by him to Westminster on the eve of St. Peter ad Vincula, so
that those who bring the venison shall make two (meneias)
before the great altar of St. Peter in that church. |
May 12.
Kempsey. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. As the king proposes to be at
Berwick-on-Tweed at Midsummer next to set out thence with his army
against the Scots, so that he needs horses and carts for carriage of
victuals and divers other things, he orders the sheriff immediately upon
sight hereof to cause twelve carts and thirty-six horses to draw the carts
and two drivers (fugatoribus) for each cart to be purveyed in those
counties, and to cause them to come to the said place by the said feast at
the latest. He is to inform the men of religion and others from whom
the carts shall be taken that the king will cause the price thereof to be
paid to them at Michaelmas next without delay. He is also ordered to
certify the treasurer and barons of the exchequer as quickly as possible of
the price of the horses and carts and of the names of their owners. |
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The like to the sheriff of Lincoln. |
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The like to the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. |
May 13.
Kempsey. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Whereas the king learns by an inquisition
taken by the sheriff that a messuage and six acres of land in Bolesdon,
which John atte Wode, who was hanged for felony, held, have been in the
king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held them of William
de Belesdon (sic), and that the township of Bolesdon had the king's year
and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to him: the king orders the
sheriff to cause John (sic) to have seisin of the said messuage and land. |
May 21.
Kenilworth. |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to restore
to Erneburga de Hardreshull, elected abbess of Pollesworth, any issues of
the abbey that he may have received by reason of the voidance of the
abbey, as the king lately at the suit of the nuns of the abbey—suggesting
that he ought not to receive anything from the issues of the abbey
by reason of its voidance, and that neither he or his ancestors were
wont to receive any issues there by reason of voidance of the abbey in
times past—ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to search
the rolls of the exchequer concerning this, and they have certified him
that having searched the rolls of the time of Master Richard de Clifford,
Master Henry de Bray, and Malcolm de Harle, formerly escheators this
side Trent, and of the time of Richard de Holebrok, formerly the king's
steward this side Trent, during whose times the abbey was often void,
they do not find in the accounts of the escheators and steward that they
received anything by reason of the voidance of the abbey or answered to
the king for anything thereof in their accounts, and the king has taken
Erneburga's fealty and restored to her the temporalities of the house. |
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To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to retain in the king's hands the
manor of Karyas, which the sheriff took into the king's hands upon the
death of Edmund, late earl of Cornwall, and to cause the lands pertaining
to it to be tilled and sown and the houses thereof to be maintained, and
to keep the remainder of the issues thereof without waste until otherwise
ordered. |
May 12.
Kempsey. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. As the king wishes
to provide for his indemnity and to observe equity concerning the
allowances that sheriffs, bailiffs and fermors of manors demand for money
in pollards and crockards received by them of the issues and ferms of
the bailiwicks and manors and of the king's debts, and to defeat
the schemes and frauds of certain persons, he orders the treasurer
and barons to cause inquisition to be made by all means that they
shall deem fit in the presence of those who paid such pollards and
crockards, if they wish to be present, as to which sheriffs, bailiffs and
fermors of his manors have received pollards and crockards current
for sterlings in the realm from the issues of their bailiwicks and ferms
and from the debts due to the king that they levied by his writs
between Michaelmas, at the end of his twenty-seventh year, and the
following Christmas, upon which day he caused proclamation to be made
that two pollards or crockards should be current for one sterling throughout the realm, and as to what persons made to them full acquittances,
and as to what persons they received such pollards and crockards from in
place of sterlings before the proclamation, and for which they did not
have full allowance in their payments at the exchequer, but only half the
full allowance (tantummodo semi-plenam), such as an allowance for a halfpenny where they made an acquittance for a penny and delivered the
acquittance to those who paid them such money in pollards and
crockards, and as to how much each of them thus received, and
also as to what ministers of the king received such pollards and
crockards at the rate of two for a sterling from the said issues,
ferms and debts between Christmas aforesaid and the following
Easter, to wit in the twenty-eighth year of the reign, at which feast the
king caused the currency of such money of pollards and crockards
throughout his realm to be forbidden, for which reason it was necessary
for them to pay pure sterlings thenceforth, and as to how much each of
them received in this form and as to how much damage each of them
sustained, having due respect and consideration to the terms and days at
which the issues, ferms and debts ought to have been levied and paid to
the exchequer or otherwise expended about the king's affairs and also to
the distance of the places and the difficulties (discrimina) of the roads, so
that there shall be no fraud or deceit in the receiving or levying of such
money in the said time or in the payments afterwards made from it, and
to cause reasonable allowance to be made to each sheriff, bailiff, fermor,
and minister in accordance with the tenor of the inquisitions. |
May 22.
Kenilworth. |
To the mayor, bailiffs and men of the city of York. Order to receive
John de Ville of Bayonne from the bearer of the presents, and to cause
him to be kept safely within the city until otherwise ordered by the king,
so that they may answer for his body to the king at his order. |
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Like letters for the following men to the mayors, bailiffs and men of
the cities and towns named below: |
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Nottingham, for Garsias Arnald de Puinz. |
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Gloucester, for Peter Arnald de Bonyerd. |
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Oxford, for Peter de Franc[ia]. |
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Hereford, for Bernard de Pereres. |
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Norwich, for Peter Arnald de la Perere. |
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Lincoln, for William Pierres de Franc[ia]. |
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Shrewsbury, for Peter Andreu du Rok'. |
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Northampton, for Peter Bernard de Toluse. |
May 24.
Kenilworth. |
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause to be replevied
to Roger le Bygod, earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, until
Whitsuntide next his liberty of Catherlagh in Ireland, which was lately
taken into the king's hands by the justiciary for certain causes, and which
the king afterwards ordered to be replevied to the earl until a certain term
now past, and which has been again taken into the king's hands, certifying
the king in the meantime of the reason for taking the liberty into his
hands. |
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Roger le Bercher of Bretford, imprisoned at Warwick for the death of
Hugh de la Marche, whom he slew in self-defence, as appears to the king
by the record of W. Inge and N. Ferm baud, his justices appointed to
deliver that gaol, has letters to the sheriff of Warwick to bail him. |
May 25.
Kenilworth. |
To John de Tyngewyk, keeper of the forest of Whitelwode. Order to
cause Hugh de Veer to have in the king's wood called ' the park of
Haunle,' which is within the bounds of that forest, twelve oaks fit for
timber, of the king's gift. By K. |
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To the same. Order to cause Robert son of Nigel to have in the king's
wood of Pokesle, which is within the bounds of that forest, eight oaks
fit for timber, of the king's gift. By K. |
May 20.
Kenilworth. |
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to deliver to Brother Robert de
Penlyn, hermit, the island surrounded (inclusam) by the water of Fawe,
with a rent of 56s. 2d. from certain tenants of the manor of Penkneth, to
be held by him for life as he held them before the death of Edmund, earl
of Cornwall, by reason of whose death the sheriff took them into the
king's hands, as the earl granted them, together with the houses built on
the island, to Robert by his charter, which the king has inspected. |
May 22.
Kenilworth. |
To all Italian (ultramontanis) and other foreign merchants in Ireland,
of whatsoever society they may be. Whereas the king lately ordered
the justiciary and treasurer of Ireland to receive by way of loan in
his name and also to take money and money's worth (denarios et denaratas)
from merchants and others wherever found in those parts, in as great a
sum as the promotion of the king's affairs should require: the king
requests the merchants to bear patiently the seizure of money and other
goods in their possession or custody or deposited elsewhere in their name
that the justiciary and treasurer shall make for the king's use, as they
love the king and as the king puts his trust in them. He gives them to
understand that he will cause them to be satisfied in England for the
money and goods thus taken when he has been certified by the justiciary
and treasurer. It seems to him that it will be to their advantage and
profit to receive the money in England, since they will thus avoid the
perils of the sea and many other risks. The king desires that they will
have such consideration in this matter and that they will so conduct
themselves in it that he shall be bound to forward their interests when
required. |
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To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. As the king needs a great sum
of money for the expedition of his war in Scotland, which sum it does
not appear to him he can obtain at present with the rapidity necessary
without the money that he caused to be arrested by the justiciary
in the hands of certain merchants and which he ordered should not be
carried out of that land: the king orders the justiciary to take without
delay all the money that he shall find in the possession of Italian (Italicos)
merchants or of others, or that may be found by inquisition, which shall be
made secretly, for making speedy execution of the expedition, certifying
the king by his letters of the total of the money thus taken, so that the
king may satisfy them for it in England. |
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John le Muner of Stretham, imprisoned at Chichester for the death of
John de Wantele, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until
the first assize. |
May 27.
Kenilworth. |
To the king's bailiff of Braneys. As the king has taken the homage of
John Fraunceys for all the lands that he held of Edmund, late earl of
Cornwall, which came to the king's hands by the earl's death, he orders
the bailiff to release any distraint that he may have made for the homage. |
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The like to the same for Henry de Membury. |
