Close Rolls, Edward I: October 1305 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 5, 1302-1307. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

'Close Rolls, Edward I: October 1305', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 5, 1302-1307, (London, 1908) pp. 290-297. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol5/pp290-297 [accessed 19 April 2024]

October 1305



Oct. 7. Sheen.	To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Nicholas Baret of Ely, deceased.
Oct. 10. Sheen.	To William de Bevercote, chancellor of Scotland. As the king has admitted to his peace and pleasure (voluntatem) Ingelram de Umframvill, John Wichard, Hugh de Ardrossan, John le Naper, William de Balliolo, John Gurlay, and John de Maghilgoyny, Scots, the king's late enemies and rebels, and has granted to them that they shall not be disinherited by reason of the said enmity and rebellion and shall not be imprisoned, and has moreover taken homage of the said Ingelram, John Wichard, Hugh and John le Naper and the fealties of the said William, John Gurlay and John de Maghilgoyny for their lands, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of their enmity and rebellion, saving to the king the ransoms of the said lands in accordance with the form provided by the king and his council; the king orders the chancellor to cause them to have writs under the king's seal of Scotland to have seisin of their lands, provided that in regard to the lands that belonged to Ingelram de Balliolo and that are in the custody of Henry de Percy, which Ingelram de Umframvill asserts pertain to him by right of inheritance, nothing shall be attempted to Henry's prejudice, saving to Ingelram any right that he may have therein when he shall wish to speak concerning it according to the law and custom of those parts. By K.
Oct. 8. Sheen.	To Richard Oysel, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Beatrice, late the wife of Henry de Wyneton, tenant in chief as of the honour of Albemarle, which is in the king's hands, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence.
	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower to Maud, late the wife of John de Redyngges, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence.
Oct. 8. Sheen.	To the same. Order to cause Ingelram de Umfreyvill, a Scot, the king's late enemy and rebel, to have seisin of the lands that come to him by right of inheritance and that are in the king's hands by reason of the said enmity and rebellion, as the king has admitted him to his peace and pleasure, and has granted that he shall not be disinherited or imprisoned by reason of the enmity and rebellion, and has taken his homage for the said lands, saving to the king a ransom therefor, in accordance with the form ordained by the king and his council. It is provided that concerning the lands that belonged to Ingelram de Balliolo, which are in the seisin of Henry de Percy by reason of his death and which the said Ingelram de Umfravill asserts pertain to him by right of inheritance, nothing shall be attempted to the prejudice of Henry.
	The like addressed to the sheriffs of Nottingham and Northumberland.
	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause John Wychard of Scotland, a late enemy and rebel, to have seisin of his lands, which are in the king's hands by reason of his enmity and rebellion, saving the right of others and saving to those to whom John had demised the lands before they were taken into the king's hands the terms for which they were demised to them, as the king has admitted John to his peace and pleasure, as above, and has taken his homage for his lands. By K. on the information of R. de Cotingham.
Oct. 13. Westminster	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Pykering to be elected in place of Adam de Brus, deceased.
	To Walter de Aylesbury, constable of Walyngford castle. Order to receive from William Trente, the king's butler, twenty tuns of wine at London, and to cause them to be carried to the said castle, and to cause sufficient provision of brushwood and fish to be made there against the coming of Thomas and Edmund, the king's children, to that castle. By K.
Oct. 14. Westminster	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Hugh de Hamslape, parson of the church of Tydecombe, to have in the forest of Chut six oaks fit for timber, with all their strippings, of the king's gift. By K. on the information of J. Buteturte.
Oct. 8. Sheen.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to John de London[ia], 21s. 2½d., that he is bound to render for the new assart as specified below by the hands of the constable of Windsor castle yearly, during the time when he was constable in his ferm of that castle, as the said sum was wont to be allowed to Geoffrey de Pykeford, late constable, in his ferm by the king's order, as the king, on 27 July, in the ninth year of his reign, considering the long service that John had rendered to him and his pious devotion towards the abbey of Vale Royal, which the king founded, and towards the monks thereof, granted to him for life 40l. yearly from the exchequer, and ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to cause this sum to be paid to John for his life, or to cause it to be allowed to him in his ferm of the manor of Bladen and of the king's demesnes of Old Windsor and of the old purpresture of Shaghe and in the yearly rent due from him for 68 acres of land of the king's new assart of that forest, as appears by inspection of the rolls of chancery.
Oct. 15. Westminster	To Miles de Stapelton, constable of the castle of Knaresburgh. Order to cause the king's mill of Borough Bridge (de Ponte Burgi) to be made anew, and to cause his pond (stagnum) on the water of Yore and the pond of his mill of Houtlathe, and his mills and ponds pertaining to his manors of Knaresburgh to be repaired, taking timber for these purposes in places where timber for works in those places has been usually taken. By K. on the information of the treasurer.
	To the same. Order to cause wood to the value of 20l. to be sold by the view and testimony of Henry de Screvyn and Thomas Russel, the king's foresters of fee there, in the king's woods within his chace of Knaresburgh, in places where this may be done most conveniently and to the least damage of the king, and to expend the money in completing the works of the king's great hall there and of the malt-kiln (toralis) in the castle, and in covering with lead the allures (aluras) and gutters (guteras) over (ultra) the new gate there.
June (sic) 17 Chichester.	To Lambert de Trikingham, guardian of the archbishopric of York during the voidance of the see. Order to cause sixty-two bucks of the best venison (de meliori pinguedine) of the coming (instantis) season to be taken and to be well prepared and sent to the king at London. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 1115.]
Oct. 16. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to William de Trendring, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death held no lands of the king in chief by reason whereof the wardship of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Oct. 15. Westminster.	To the same. Order not to distrain John, son and heir of Robert le Butiller, for his homage for the lands that his father held of the king in chief, as the king has taken his homage. By p.s.
	To Richard Oysel, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause John Prat of Scotland, lately the king's enemy and rebel, to have seisin of his lands, as the king has admitted him to his peace and pleasure in accordance with the form granted by him to men of that land, and has moreover taken his homage for his lands, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of his enmity and rebellion. By K. on the information of R. de Cotingham.
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Oct. 18. Westminster	To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph de Boneye, deceased.
Oct. 18. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to supersede the execution of the exigents or outlawry of John Neyrnuyt, William Neirnuit, Richard de Trowe, of the New Forest, William de Draycote, bailiff of La Berton of Wherewell, John Furmage and Richard de Opton, who were put in exigent to be outlawed before Peter Mallorre and John Dabernoun, the king's justices appointed to hear and determine the trespasses committed in the park of Hugh le Despenser at Wokkyng, because they did not come before the justices to answer to Hugh, as the king has granted to Hugh what pertains to him of the punishments, imprisonments, ransoms and all emends for trespasses committed in the said park, and the aforesaid men have satisfied Hugh for the trespasses, as Hugh has acknowledged before the king in his court.
Oct. 16. Westminster.	Stephen de Appeltrefeld, Brian de Turbervill and Laurence, his brother, William le Frensh, Robert, John and William, his sons, Henry Gussiche, William Angetil, Ralph de la Hide, Geoffrey de la Done, John de Bromyngges, Albinus le Alblaster, Richard de Portes, John de Chidiok, Richard son of John Gentil, Roger de la Dene, Roger, Henry and Robert, his sons, and John son of John Elys have like letters to the aforesaid sheriff. By the testimony of Hugh le Despenser.
Nov. 6. Westminster.	Geoffrey le Foxhunte and Ralph Waspray have like letters to the said sheriff.
	By the testimony of Robert de Harwedon, supplying the place of the said Hugh.
Oct. 18. Westminster.	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause John de Britannia, the king's nephew, to have 511l. 5s. 11½d., which are lacking to him of the 1000l. yearly of the money current in this realm granted to him by the king on 1 August, in the twenty-seventh year of his reign, to be received at the exchequer for the maintenance of him and of his household, and to cause him to have the arrears thereof, which sum is still lacking to him beyond the 488l. 14s. 0½d. yearly afterwards assigned to him by the king as follows: the manor of Bywell, co. Northumberland, which is extended at 70l. yearly; the manor of Wodehorn, in the same county, which is extended at 24l. yearly; the manor of Driffeld with its hamlets, co. York, which is extended at 63l. 10s. 4¼d. yearly; two marks yearly of rent in the manor of Hikelton, in the same county; the town of Torkeseye, co. Lincoln, which is extended at 25l. 15s. 7d. yearly; 28s. of rent in the town of Alkebarewe, in the said county; 67s. yearly of rent in the town of Beltisford, in the same county; two carucates of land in the town of Staunford in the same county, which are extended at 10 marks yearly; 100s. yearly of rent in the town of Wadington, in the same county; land and rent in the town of Repindon, co. Derby, which are extended at 6l. 3s. 6d. yearly; the castle of Foderyngeye with Nassington and Yarewell, co. Northampton, which is extended at 162l. yearly; 9s. yearly of rent in the town of Great Styvecleye, co. Huntingdon; 6s. 9¼d. yearly of rent in the town of Baldewynho, in the said county; two marks yearly of rent in the town of Brampton, in the same county; 8s. yearly of rent in the town of Great Paxton, in the same county; 4s. from the view of frankpledge in the town of Little Paxton, in the same county; 57s. 2d. yearly of rent in the town of Huntingdon; 4l. yearly of rent in the town of Wyssingden, co. Rutland; 16s. yearly of the ferm of 50 acres of land that Master Robert Luterell holds in Sondersoken, in the same county; a suit at the court of Huntingdon from the town of Bissebrok, which is extended at 2s. yearly; the manor of Kempeston, co. Bedford, which is extended at 22l. 6s. 8d. yearly; 20l. of the ferm of the manor of Totenham, co. Middlesex, which William Persone holds of the king's commission; 100 marks of the ferm of the Half Hundred of Ludynglond, co. Suffolk, which John Aleyn of Yarmouth holds at the king's will by his commission: which altogether are extended at 488l. 14s. 0½d. and which the king granted to John by the said extents to hold from Michaelmas following the date of his grant of the 1000l. during the king's pleasure, together with the ferms, rents and other issues of the term of the said Michaelmas.
—	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause to be bought hay and oats for the king's colts now staying at Odyham, and for others that the king will send to stay there, and to cause the wages of their keepers to be paid.
	Vacated, because above.
Oct. 18. Westminster.	To William de Bevercote, chancellor of Scotland. Whereas the king has given to the prior and convent of St. Andrews twenty oaks fit for timber in the forest of Clacmanan, for the repair of their houses of the priory; the king orders the said chancellor to give orders to the keeper of the said forest by letters under the king's seal of that land to cause the prior and convent to have the said oaks. By K. and pet. of C.
Oct. 19. Westminster.	To John de Sandale, chamberlain of Scotland. Order to cause the abbot of Jeddeworth to have in the king's forest of the Plateir, near Forfare, twenty oaks fit for timber for the repair of the church of Rustinoth and of their other houses of that cell, which were wasted and burnt by the war in Scotland. By pet. of C.
Oct. 13. Westminster.	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Isabel, late the wife of Robert de Scales, tenant in chief, the manor of Neuseles, co Hertford, a moiety of a manor in Haselingfeld, co. Cambridge, that belonged to Stephen de Somery, and certain lands in Middelton, co. Norfolk, all of which the escheator has taken into the king's hands by reason of Robert's death, and to deliver to her the issues thereof received since the premises were taken into the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert and Isabel were jointly enfeoffed by Robert Burnel, late bishop of Bath and Wells, of the manor of Neuseles, and by William de Monte Caniso of Edwardeston and Peter Pycok of the said moiety of a manor, and by Richard de Weyland and Joan, his wife, of certain tenements in Middelton, to have to them and Robert's heirs, and that Isabel continued her seisin thereof jointly with Robert in peace from the time of the feoffments until the day of his death, and that the manor of Neuseles is held of the king as of the honour of Boulogne, which is in the king's hands, by the service of one knight's fee, and that the moiety of the manor of Haselingfeld is likewise held of the king by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee, and that the tenements in Middelton are held of Robert de Monte Alto by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee, and the king has taken her fealty for the manor and moiety.
Oct. 15. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Constance de Byerne to be acquitted of 110l. yearly wherewith the manor of Whetleye is charged at the exchequer from 10 November, in the twenty-third year of the reign, when the king caused the lands of aliens of the power of the king of France in his realm to be taken into his hands, by reason whereof the castle and honour of Tykhull and the manors of Whetleye, Gringeleye and Frodesham were taken into his hands because Constance adhered to the king of France, until 25 November, in the thirty-third year of his reign, when he restored the castle, honour and manors to her, as appears by inspection of the rolls of his chancery.
Oct. 20. Westminster.	To the guardians of the archbishopric of York during the voidance of the see. Order to cause John de Cave to have in the archbishop's park of Beverley four oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift. By pet. of C.
Oct. 16. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the bailiffs of the town of Scardeburgh to be acquitted of 13l. 11s. 2d. in the ferm of that town which sum they paid to John Sampson, constable of Scardeburgh castle, in pursuance of the king's order to them to pay to John 2d. a day for the maintenance of William Stote of Dundovenal, John Ofthehull of Fauside, John le Taillur, of Gobisk', and Henry de Stryvelyn, Scots, who held the castle of Stryvelyn against the king and afterwards submitted to his grace and pleasure, and whom the king ordered John to receive from John Balant, master of the ship called 'la Katerine,' of Saltcotes, from 6 November, in the thirty-second year of the king's reign, upon which day the Scots were first received into the said castle, for so long as they should remain in the castle, which order the king issued because there are no issues of the castle whence the money could be paid, as he had previously ordered John to do, and the bailiffs have paid this sum to John from the said 6 August (sic) until Michaelmas, in the thirty-third year of the reign, as John has acknowledged before the king in chancery.
Oct. 20. Westminster.	To the same. Order to cause the bailiffs of the town of Scardeburgh to be acquitted of 10l. yearly of their ferm during the lifetime of the said John Sampson, provided that the treasurer and barons satisfy themselves that the bailiffs have paid this sum to John, as the king, on 8 December last, for the ease and quiet of John, to whom he had granted the custody of the castle of Scardeburgh for life, so that he should receive therefor 10l. yearly at the exchequer, in the same manner as Ralph son of William, the late constable, was wont to receive for the custody, granted that John should receive this sum yearly for life from the ferm of the said town by the hands of the bailiffs, as contained in his letters patent to John, [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1301–1307, p. 371], and he ordered the bailiffs to pay to John this sum yearly.
	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Emma, late the wife of Thomas de Gorges, tenant in chief, certain tenements in Shupton Maureward, co. Dorset, which the escheator has taken into the king's hands by reason of Thomas's death, and to deliver to her the issues received thence since the tenements were taken into the king's hands, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas and Emma were jointly enfeoffed of the tenements by William de Gorges, brother of Thomas, to have to them and the heirs of Thomas, and that she continued her seisin jointly with Thomas in peace until his death, and that the tenements are held of the king in chief as of the honour of Christ Church, Twynham, which is in the king's hands, and the king has taken her fealty for the tenements.
Oct. 20. Westminster	To Robert de Clifford, supplying the king's place in the forest of Selkirke. Order to cause R. bishop of Glasgow to have in the king's forest of Maddesleye fifty oaks fit for timber. By pet. of C.
Oct. 18. Westminster.	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. The king learns from the complaint of Emma, late the wife of John de Kent, that whereas she was enfeoffed jointly with John of four carucates and forty two acres of land in Renagheston, Molineston and Routheston, to be held of Ralph Pipard, as may appear to the justiciary by the charters that she has shown before the king in chancery, and she continued her seisin thereof until John's death, certain of the king's ministers of those parts, under colour of the king's lordship that afterwards came to his hands by a deed of the said Ralph, took the land into the king's hands after John's death when Emma was in England: the king orders the justiciary to cause an inquisition to be made as to the truth of the premises, and if he find by it that these things are as stated and that the land was taken into his hands for this reason only, to deliver it to Emma without delay after taking her fealty for it, unless there be a reasonable cause why the justiciary ought not to do this without consulting the king.
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Oct. 25. Westminster.	To Robert de Clifford, keeper of the king's forest of Selkirk. Order to cause the abbot and convent of Meuros to have in that forest forty oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift, for the rebuilding of the church and houses of their abbey, which were lately burnt. By K. and pet. of C.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To John de Everdon, keeper of the king's exchange at London. Richard (sic) (fn. 1) le Convers of London, goldsmith, has besought the king by his petition to cause to be paid to him 54l. 11s. 4d. [due] to him for sixteen silver gilt cups that the king caused to be bought for the use of Queen Margaret, his consort, by John de Drokenesford, keeper of his wardrobe, John de Godelee and John de Sandale, later keeper of the said exchange, in the thirtieth year of his reign: the king, being certified by the testimony of John de Drokenesford and John de Sandale that the cups were bought for the queen's use for the aforesaid sum, orders the keeper to cause Richard to be satisfied for the cups from the first issues of the exchange after Christmas next by the view and assignment of John de Drokenesford, charging the latter with this sum in his account. By pet. of C. [468.]
Oct. 18. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Amice, late the wife of Henry de la Pomeray, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence.
Oct. 6. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbess of Wilton to be acquitted of 10l. exacted from her for the scutage for one knight's fee for the king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as she paid into the wardrobe to Master Thomas Bek, late keeper thereof, on Sunday after SS. Peter and Paul in the said year, 40 marks by which she had made fine for the service of one knight's fee, which she then acknowledged to the king in that army, as contained in the king's letters patent of acquittance made to her.
Oct. 16. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands and rents specified below, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Thomas de Baltesham, tenant in chief, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas held in the town of Braundeston, co. Northampton, certain tenements for life of Nigel de Kevellyngwrth and Alice, his wife, by the service of a pair of spurs, to wit a garden, 120 acres of arable land, nine acres of meadow, a several pasture, and 30s. yearly of rent to be received from three villeins, 7s. of yearly rent from two cotmen (coteman'), 4s. yearly of rent from a bakehouse, and in the town of Staverton 17s. 4d. of rent and a rent of four hens and a pound of pepper, and that the tenements ought to revert after Thomas's death to Nigel and Alice, to hold to them and the heirs of their two bodies.
Oct. 20. Westminster.	To the said escheator. Order to deliver to Nigel and Alice the issues received by him from the said tenements.
Oct. 27. Westminster.	Thomas son of Thomas de Braunthwayt, imprisoned at Carlisle for the death of John de Braunthwayt, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Richard de Mauns, whom the king has caused to be amoved from office because he has no lands.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To Duncan de Ferendraght, keeper of the king's forest of Buthyn. Order to cause John Comyn, earl of Boghan, to have six hinds and twenty-five oaks fit for timber in the said forest, of the king's gift. By pet. of C.
	To Robert de Brus, earl of Carrik, keeper of the king's forest of Laundmorgun. Order to cause John de Spanyding, canon of the church of Elgyne, to have in that forest twenty oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift. By pet. of C.
	To the same, keeper of the king's forest of Kyntorre. Order to cause John Comyn, earl of Boghan, to have in that forest six hinds and twentyfive oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift. By K. and pet. of C.
Oct. 28. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Cretyng, son and heir of Adam de Creting, knight, to be acquitted of 220 marks exacted from him because his father received this sum from the king in his wardship as a loan at the time when Adam [began] his journey into Gascony by reason of the war there, as John has besought the king by his petition to show him favour in this behalf, and the king has pardoned him this sum. By pet. before K. [410] on the information of J. de Kirkeby.