Close Rolls, Edward I: May 1306 | 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: May 1306', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 5, 1302-1307, (London, 1908) pp. 379-388. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol5/pp379-388 [accessed 21 April 2024]

May 1306



May 1. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to pay to Robert de Bavent, the king's falconer, 10l. due to him for the arrears of his wages in the king's wardrobe.
May 1. Winchester.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Lucy, late the wife of John de Insula of Thoresweye, tenant in chief, of 10s. yearly from 2 January in the thirty-third year of the reign, as the king, on 21 October in the twenty-seventh year of his reign, committed to her by letters patent under the seal of the exchequer two parts of the lands that belonged to the said John in Thoresweye during the minority of Roger, his son and heir, rendering therefor the aforesaid sum yearly to the exchequer, with provision that she should find the heir reasonable maintenance during that time, as contained in the said letters, which the king has inspected, and the king, on 2 January aforesaid, took Roger's homage for the lands and rendered them to him, as appears by inspection of the rolls of chancery.
	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Margaret, daughter of John de Wenlok, the manor of Esthope, co. Salop, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of John de Esthope, saving the king's right and the right of Edmund, son and heir of Richard son of Alan, late earl of Arundel, and of others, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held the manor for life of the said Edmund, who was lately a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of finding a man with a bare horse in the castle of Osewaldestre for forty days in every war at his cost, of the grant of Roger de Esthope, and that Roger gave the manor to John for life by fine levied in the king's court, with remainder to John son of Thomas de Esthope and to the aforesaid Margaret and the heirs that John should beget upon her, with remainder, in default of any such heir, after the death of John and Margaret to the right heirs of John son of Thomas, and that John son of Thomas is dead and Margaret survives, and the king has caused to be restored to Edmund all the lands falling to him by inheritance.
	Membrane 13.
May 4. Winchester.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the bailiffs of Wynchelese in their ferm 70l. for the twenty-sixth to the thirtysecond year of the king's reign inclusive, which they paid to William Maufee and Joan his wife, as appears by William and Joan's letters patent, in accordance with the king's order to pay to them fifteen marks yearly, which sum he granted to them, on 7 February, in the sixth year of his reign, for the restitution that William and Joan made to him of the custody of the gate of Chester castle, which he had previously delivered to Joan for her maintenance. [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1272–1281, p. 257.]
May 8. Winchester.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed to render judgment in the suit before them whereby Robert de Askeby, parson of the church of Great Hale, demands by writ of utrum against Lora, late the wife of Gilbert de Gaunt, 20 acres of marsh in Great Hale as free alms pertaining to his said church, in accordance with the verdict rendered by the jury and to make execution in this matter without further delay, as Lora said before the justices that she holds the manor of Hekynton, to which the said tenements pertain, in dower by the king's assignment from the lands that belonged to Gilbert, who enfeoffed the king of the manor, and that the tenements revert to the king after her death, and that she cannot for this reason answer to Robert without the king, for which reason the justices have superseded taking the jury and proceeding further in the suit, and the king afterwards, at the petition of Robert before him and his council, ordered the justices to proceed to take the jury in this matter and to supersede rendering judgment in the action until the king should be fully certified by them or by their record or otherwise of the finding (dicto) of the said jury, and he now understands that the jury was taken by knights and other upright men of that county, jurors elected for this purpose, and that it is found by the jury that the tenements concerning which the jury was arramed are free alms pertaining to Robert's church and not the lay fee of Lora. By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
	Vacated because otherwise below.
May 1. Winchester.	To Thomas de Merton, sheriff of Durham. Order to pay to Robert de Clifford, to whom the king, on 6 December last, committed the custody of the liberty of the bishopric of Durham, which was taken into his hands by consideration of his court before him, the proportion due to him for the time that he has held that office of the 200 marks yearly that the king granted to him for the office, as contained in his letters patent. [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1301–1307, p. 409.]
May 10. Winchester.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Robert de Burghersh, constable of Dover castle, 22l. 10s. 0d. and a tenth of the profits of that port yearly, as has been wont to be allowed to previous constables, as the king ordered him to pay from the time of his appointment to the master and brethren of the hospital of God's House, Dover, 50s. yearly of the gift of the late king from the issues of that port for the maintenance of a chaplain celebrating divine service in the hospital for the soul of Reymund de Burgo and 10l. yearly that they receive from the issues of the port for the maintenance of themselves and of the poor of that hospital and another 10l. yearly that they receive from the issues of the port of the late king's gift as endowment (in dotem) of the hospital and to permit them to receive a tenth of all profits of the passage of that port coming to the king, which they ought likewise to have of the late king's gift.
May 10. Winchester.	To the same. Order to cause Nicholas de Spershete, sheriff of Berks, to be acquitted of 50s. and of 48l. 1s. 0d. exacted from him for the chattels of Roger de Ingepenne and of 13l. 11s. 8½d. for the year, day and waste of Roger's lands, as the king lately, at the request of Aymer de Valencia, pardoned Roger the suit of his peace for all manner of trespasses that he was said to have committed against the king's peace in the time when he was sheriff of Cornwall and at other times in that county, whereof he was indicted before John de Berewyk and his fellows, justices last in eyre in that county, and, at the instance of the said Aymer, he granted to Roger all his goods and chattels, which had been taken into his hands by reason of the felonies and trespasses aforesaid and by consideration of his court, together with the issues received from his lands, and also what pertained to the king of the year, day and waste of the lands, and he pardoned him the 50s. that he concealed and retained, as it was said, when he was sheriff of Cornwall for his own use of the goods and chattels of John le Parker of Nanteglos, a felon, as is contained in the king's letters patent to Roger [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1301–1307, p. 122], and the king ordered the sheriff of Berks to restore to him his lands, goods and chattels, which had been taken into the king's hands for this reason by the sheriff, and the issues thence received, and not to molest Roger concerning the year, day and waste or by reason of the said 50s.
May 17. Guildford	To Nicholas Fermbaud, constable of Bristol castle. As the king needs two ships for the carriage to Skynburnesse of a thousand quarters of wheat and forty tuns of wine that he ordered to be purveyed by the sheriff of Gloucester against his coming there on his way to Scotland, he orders the constable to receive the wheat and wine from the sheriff and to cause two sufficient ships for the king's use to be engaged (frectari) to carry the wheat and wine to the said place and to cause them to be loaded therewith and taken to the said place without delay, there to be delivered to the keeper of the king's provisions, and to cause the owners of the ships to be satisfied for the freight. The king has ordered the sheriff to deliver the wheat and wine to Nicholas.
	To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to deliver the wheat and corn to the mayor and community of the said town. (fn. 1)
May 10. Winchester.	Henry de Heddon and Agnes de Heddon, imprisoned at Newcastle-onTyne for the death of Robert de Riddeware of Heddon, have letters to the sheriff of Northumberland to bail them until the first assize.
May 8. Winchester.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed to render judgment in accordance with the verdict of the jury arramed before them by Robert de Askeby, parson of the church of Great Hale, to recognise whether twenty acres of marsh in Great Hale are free alms pertaining to his church or the lay fee of Lora, late the wife of Gilbert de Gaunt, and to make execution therein, as Lora asserted before them that she holds the manor of Hekyngton, to which the tenements aforesaid pertain, in dower by the king's assignment of the lands that belonged to Gilbert, who enfeoffed the king of the manor, and that the tenements revert to the king after her death, and that she cannot therefore answer to Robert for the tenements without the king, for which reason the justices have superseded for some time taking the jury and from proceeding further in this suit, and the king afterwards, at Robert's petition before him and his council, ordered them to proceed to take the jury notwithstanding the said assertion and to supersede rendering judgment therein until the king should be fully certified by them or by their record to be sent to him or in any some other way concerning the jury, and he now understands that the jury was taken by knights and other upright men of that county elected jurors for this purpose, and that it is found by the jury that the tenements concerning which the jury was arramed are free alms pertaining to the said church and not the lay fee of Lora.
May 21. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause Thomas de Jerdele to have seisin of two acres of land and two acres of meadow in Thacsted, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said land, which Geoffrey Paunfilliun, who was hanged for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Geoffrey held it of Thomas, and that the township of Thacstede has had the king's year, day and waste thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
May 24. Westminster.	To the dean and chapter of Hereford, sub-collectors in the city and archdeaconry of Hereford of the tenth granted by the pope in aid of the Holy Land. As it is expedient for certain reasons, which the king defers explaining to them at present by his letters, both for the benefit of the church and of the commonwealth, that the tenth shall be levied, collected and paid to the principal collectors with all possible speed, he orders them to cause it to be levied, collected and paid to the principal collectors at the term fixed by the latter by all manner of compulsion possible, so that the principal collectors may be able to answer according to the pope's will, certifying the treasurer and barons of the exchequer by their letters forthwith of the money that they have already levied and that they have in hand at the time of the receipt of this writ. The king warns them that he will not permit those who shall be found remiss in levying and collecting the tenth or rebels in payment thereof to escape punishment. [Prynne, Records, iii. p. 1151.]
	The like to the following sub-collectors:
	The abbot and convent of Battle, in the city and diocese of Chichester.
	The prior and convent of Rochester, in the city and diocese of Rochester.
	The prior and convent of Kenelworth, for the archdeaconries of Coventry and Shrewsbury.
	The abbot and convent of Oseneye, in the archdeaconries of Buckingham, Bedford, Huntingdon and Northampton.
	The abbot and convent of Morgam, in the city and diocese of Llandaff.
	The abbot and convent of Valle Crucis, in the city and diocese of St. Asaph.
	The abbot and convent of Burton-on-Trent, in the archdeaconries of Chester, Derby and Stafford.
	The abbot and convent of Wygemor, in the archdeaconry of Salop.
	The abbot and convent of Certeseye, in the archdeaconry of Surrey.
	The abbot and convent of Reding, in the archdeaconries of Berks and Wilts.
	The abbot and convent of Newminster, in the city and diocese of Durham.
	The abbot and convent of Shireburn in the archdeaconries of Salisbury and Dorset.
	The prior and convent of St. Edmunds in the archdeaconries of Sudbury and Suffolk.
	The prior and convent of St. Katherine's without Lincoln, in the city and archdeaconries of Lincoln, Stowe, Leicester, and the deanery of Rutland.
	The prior and convent of Launceveton, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall.
	The priory and convent of Llanthony Prima, in the archdeaconries of Monmouth (Meneu') and Brecknock.
	The abbot and convent of Faveresham, in the city and diocese of Canterbury.
	The abbot and convent of Westminster, in the archdeaconries of London and Middlesex.
	The abbot and convent of Hyde, in the archdeaconry of Winchester.
	The abbot and convent of St. John's, Colchester, in the archdeaconries of Essex and Colchester.
	The abbot and convent of Langele, in the archdeaconries of Norwich and Norfolk.
	The abbot and convent of St. Mary's, York, in the archdeaconries of York, Est Ridyng, Clyveland, and in the prebends of the church of York, and in the collegiate churches of Beverley and Houeden, and in the churches of the bishop, prior aud convent of Durham in Alvertoneshir, and in the churches of the provostship of Beverley, and also of the augmentation of the taxation of the goods of the archbishopric of York.
	The abbot and convent of Seleby, in the archdeaconry of Richmond.
	The abbot and convent of Glastonbury, in the city and diocese of Bath and Wells.
	The abbot and convent of Gloucester, in the city and diocese of Worcester.
	The prior and convent of Bernewell, in the city and diocese of Ely.
	The prior and convent of Carlisle in the city and diocese of Carlisle.
	The prior and convent of St. Nicholas, Exeter, in the city and archdeaconry of Exeter, Totnes (Totton') and Be[r]destapl'.
	The prior and convent of Ely, in the city and diocese of Ely.
	The prior and convent of Kermerdyn, in the archdeaconries of Kermerdyn and Kardigan.
	The bishop of Bangor and the chapter thereof, in the city and diocese of Bangor.
May 24. Westminster	To R. bishop of London, one of the collectors appointed by the pope for the collection of the tenth. Order to induce by all means that he shall deem expedient the sub-collectors of the tenth to levy it as above and to pay it to him, so that neither he nor they may be impugned by the pope or king for negligence, and to certify the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of the sums of money hitherto levied of the tenth and that are in his hands when he shall receive this order. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 1151.]
	The like to J. bishop of Lincoln, the other collector of the tenth. [Ibid.]
	Membrane 12.
May 4. Winchester	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the bailiffs of the town of Wynchelese to be acquitted of 15 marks yearly from 7 February, in the sixth year of the king's reign, during the life of Joan, the wife of William Maufee, as the king, on that day, granted by letters patent to William and Joan the said sum yearly for Joan's maintenance, to be received from the ferm of the said town by the hands of the bailiffs, for the restitution that William and Joan made to him of the wardship of his gate of Chester, which he had previously delivered to Joan for her maintenance. [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1272–1281, p. 257.]
	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Katharine, late the wife of Roger son of Peter son of Osbert, tenant in chief, the manors of Somerleton, Wath and Uggehale, co. Suffolk, and the manors of Hadiscou and Witlingham, co. Norfolk, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Roger's death, to be held by her in tenencia until the octaves of the Holy Trinity next, so that she may answer to the king for the issues thereof if they ought to pertain to him, although the king learned by an inquisition taken by the escheator concerning the lands that belonged to Roger that Roger and Katharine acquired the manors from John Blome to them and the heirs that he should beget upon Katharine, with remainder to Roger's right heirs, and the king has ordered another inquisition to be taken by the escheator by reason of certain defects found in the said inquisition.
May 3. Winchester	To the same. Whereas the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that John son of John le Bretun held at his death of the king an assart and 4s. yearly of rent in Dudington near Stanford by the service of rendering 6s. 8d. yearly to the exchequer at Michaelmas, and another assart in the same town by the service of rendering a pair of gilt spurs at Easter, and that he held no other lands of the king in chief by reason whereof the wardship of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held certain lands in Blatherwyk and Laxton of Richard Basset by the service of an eighth of a fee and certain lands in the same town (sic) of the prior of Laund (Landa) by the service of 2s. yearly: the king orders him to retain in his hands the said assarts and rent until otherwise ordered, and not to intermeddle further with the lands that John held of other lords, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of John's death.
May 6. Winchester	To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner for Luthinglond in that county to be elected in place of Thomas de Enges, who has been convicted of a trespass before William de Ormesby and his fellows, justices to hear and determine felonies and trespasses in that county, and who has been delivered to prison at Norwich by them, for which reason he cannot now attend to that office.
May 10. Winchester.	To Hugh Daudelei, justice of North Wales. Order to cause at least ten ships to be sent from his bailiwick to Chester, and to cause them to be delivered to the sheriffs of Salop and Stafford without delay, for the carriage of corn and other provisions made in those counties to Scotland, so that the matter shall not remain incomplete or be delayed through the justice's default, as the king learns that the ministers of Edward, prince of Wales, have taken all the ships found in the parts of Chester for making his carriage and have taken them away to other parts, so that the sheriffs of the said counties are unable to find any ships in those parts to carry the said corn and provisions to Scotland.
May 10. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Worcester. Although the king lately ordered him to cause 300 quarters of wheat, 300 quarters of oats, 200 quarters of malt, and 100 bacon-pigs (bacones) to be bought and purveyed out of the issues of his bailiwick and to cause them to be carried to Skynburnesse, he now, because he understands that the expenses for the carriage of victuals to Skynburnesse would be very heavy, orders the sheriff to supersede the providing of the victuals, and to restore any of them that he has already provided and for which he has not yet paid to those from whom he took them, and to make profit (commodum) for the king as quickly as possible of what he has provided of the said victuals out of the issues of his bailiwick, and to carry to the exchequer the money thence received without delay, so that the king may cause such victuals to be bought with the money elsewhere where they can be bought to the best advantage.
May 1. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to pay to Thomas de Bromwyz, John de Bromwyz, Ralph (Raulino) de Clynton, William de Castello and John de Dykesle, keepers of the king's goshawks (austurcariis nostris), the arrears of their wages, to wit Thomas 57s. 9½d., John 4l. 0s. 2½d., Ralph 4l. 3s. 6½d., William 48s. 2d., and John de Dikesle 56s. 4½d., in which the king is indebted to them, as is found by an account made in the king's wardrobe.
	The like to the sheriffs of the following counties to pay to the keepers of goshawks mentioned below the sums there specified:
	Salop and Stafford for Robert de Whiston for 62s. 0½d., William le Fauconer of Shireburn for 36s. 5d.
	Norfolk for John de Wyrham for 26s. 8d., and for Peter de Radenhale 6l. 8l. 6½d.
	Worcester for John de Kekingeswyk for 109s. 3½d., and for William de Kekingeswyk for 30s. 5d.
	Berks for John de Brok for 24s. 1d., and for Elias Cokerel for 6l. 19s. 9½d.
	Bedford and Buckingham for John de Arches for 38s. 1½d., for John de Chaunceus for 48s. 7½d., for Andrew de Chaunceus for 70s. 7½d., for Hugh de Sancto Edwardo for 36s. 11½d., for Walter de Wedon for 25s. 7½d., for Bartholomew de Wedon for 43s. 7½d., and for Edmund Godard for 41s. 5d.
	Lincoln for Gilbert de Gaunt for 10l. 17s. 10½d., and for Alan de Gaunt for 32s. 8d.
	York for John de Foston for 4l. 16s. 4d.
	Essex and Hertford for Thomas de Wedon for 26l. 13s. 2d.
	Northampton for Philip de Hastang for 39s. 5½d.
	Essex for Peter le Bret for 24s. 5d.
	Surrey for Ralph de Badington for 60s. 6d.
	Wilts for John de Grymestede for 8l. 6s. 8d., and for William de Grymestede for 36s. 6d.
	Kent for John de Bykenore for 14l. 7s. 8d.
May 9. Winchester.	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of Alan de Bloyou, tenant in chief, from the knights' fees that belonged to Alan.
May 18. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause Margaret, late the wife of Edmund de Mortuo Mari, to have seisin of a messuage and of a moiety of a virgate and of a nook (noke) of land in Thornbury, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that the premises, which John le Palmere, 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 Margaret, and that the township of Thornbury has had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
May 10. Winchester.	To William Trente, taker of the wines of the king's right prise throughout England. Order to deliver to the monks of St. Peter's, Westminster, a tun of wine on the morrow of St. Botolf, as the late king granted to them by his charter a tun of wine at London yearly on the said morrow for the celebration of divine service in their church.
May 12. Winchester.	To J. bishop of Lincoln. Although the king ordered the bishop to certify him of the true yearly value of the church of Heyford Waryn, in his diocese, to which the king presented to him William de Boresworth, clerk, according to the last taxation made of the English churches by reason of the tenth lately granted to the king in aid of the Holy Land, and to supersede in the meantime the execution of the presentation aforesaid, concerning which he has accordingly certified the king; he now orders the bishop to cause his presentation, which he now sends to him for his said clerk, to be executed, notwithstanding his aforesaid order to supersede the presentation. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 1152.]
May 16. Farnham.	To the sheriff of Northampton. As the king wills that Thomas and Edmund, his sons, shall dwell in that castle during this summer, he orders the sheriff to cause the houses, chambers, walls and bridges of the castle to be repaired before their arrival.
May 16. Farnham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately sent Master Gilbert de Arderne, his clerk, to choose certain footmen in co. Chester and to take them in his service to Scotland, and ordered the collectors of the ninth in cos. Warwick and Derby to pay to him 380l. for the wages of the footmen, and Gilbert received that money from them and paid the greater part thereof to the exchequer because he did not lead the footmen to the said parts: the king orders them to allow to Gilbert his expenses in journeying (eundo) about the matters aforesaid according to their discretion.
May 23. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Richard de Burhunte to be acquitted of a moiety of 79l. 7s. 9½d. that he owes to the exchequer for many debts that are exacted from him for the time when he was sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, as appears to the king by a certificate made to him by them, and to cause him to have respite during the king's pleasure for the other moiety, as the king has granted to him this acquittance and respite for his good service past and future. By K. on the information of R. de Cotingham.
	Membrane 11.
May 27. Westminster.	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Robert de Burgherssh the 88l. yearly that he ought to receive at the exchequer for the custody of the castle of Dover and of the Cinque Ports and the arrears thereof from 20 July, in the twenty-seventh year of his reign, when the king committed to him by his letters patent the castle of Dover and of the Cinque Ports during pleasure, so that he should receive 300l. yearly for the maintenance of himself and of the chaplains, serjeants and watchmen and of a carpenter staying in the castle and for their robes, to wit from the wards pertaining to the castle 146l. from the issues of the port and of the custom of the passage of Dover 100 marks, and the remaining 88l. from the exchequer, of all of which Robert is exempt from rendering account, saving to the king the chattels of felons and fugitives, fines, ransoms and amercements and other things pertaining to the king in the said ports, of which he shall render account at the exchequer. [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1292–1301, p. 427.]
	Vacated, because it was restored and cancelled, and is in another form on the Liberate roll.
	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order not to distrain Thomas, son and heir of Robert Perceval, of Ireland, for homage for the lands that his father held of the king in chief in Ireland, as the king has taken his homage.
	The like to the same for William Comyn, kinsman and heir of William Comyn.
May 27. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John de Penbrugg, brother of Edward de Penbrugg, to have seisin of 18 marks yearly of rent in Moene, co. Gloucester, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Edward at his death held the rent of the king by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee of the gift and feoffment of the said John, to him and his heirs of his body, with remainder to John, and that Edward died without an heir of his body, so that the rent ought to revert to John by the form of the gift, and the king has taken John's homage for the rent.
May 26. Westminster.	To the same. Whereas the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert de Brakenburgh at his death held nothing of the king in chief by reason whereof the wardship of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held at his death 100s. of yearly rent in Saltfletby, co. Lincoln, of the heir of John, late duke of Britanny, tenant in chief, whose lands are in the king's hands by reason of the duke's death: the king orders the escheator to retain in his hands the said rent until further orders, and not to intermeddle further with the other lands that Robert held of other lords.
May 24. Westminster	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for the town of Northampton to be elected in place of Philip le Rus, lately elected before he received knighthood, as he cannot execute the office of coroner in that town because he intends to dwell at his houses (domicilia) and lands outside the town.
May 26. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to restore to Robert Giffard, parson of the church of Compton Greynevill, (fn. 2) chaplain, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before John de Buteturte and his fellows, justices to take inquisitions concerning felonies and trespasses in that county, with harbouring John Brace, a thief who was hanged, as he has purged his innocence before W. bishop of Worcester, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
May 28. Westminster.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Jacomina, late the wife of Robert de Merk, the manor of Dunmawe, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Robert's death, and to deliver to her the issues received thence, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert and Jacomina were jointly enfeoffed by John Gamelyn of the said manor, which is held of the king in chief by the service of a moiety of 1¹/6 knights' fee as of the honour of Boulogne, which is in the king's hands, to have to them and the heirs of their two bodies, and that they continued their seisin thereof until Robert's death.
	To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to acquit Edmund Deyncurt of the demand made upon him for scutage for the king's army of Scotland in the thirty-first year of his reign, as he was with the king by his order in that army. By the testimony of Robert de la Warde, steward of the king's household.
	The like to the sheriffs of Northampton, York, Buckingham, and Lincoln.
May 30 Westminster.	To William Russel, constable of Carsbrok castle and keeper of the king's manor of Thornleye, in the Isle of Wight. Order to permit William, prior of Christ Church, Twynham, to have a tithe of the king's rabbits taken within the limits of the parish of Thornleye, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the constable that one of the prior's predecessors used to receive by virtue of a charter made to the prior and convent by Isabel de Fortibus, sometime countess of Albemarle and Devon and lady of the Isle and of the manor aforesaid, granting to them a tithe of the rabbits taken within the parish, the tithe aforesaid from the time of the making of the charter until the manor came to the king's hands by the countess's feoffment, and that John son of Thomas, late constable of the castle and keeper of the manor, because a great part of the rabbits were taken and consumed by Ralph de Tony, Robert Tibetot, and certain other men of their company, who were staying in the island awaiting their passage in the king's service to Gascony by reason of the war there at that time, of which part the prior received no tithe, withdrew from the prior the tithe of the rabbits afterwards taken there, and that the present keeper and the other keepers of the manor have hindered the prior from receiving the tithe from that time until now for this reason.