Close Rolls, Edward I: May 1307 | 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 1307', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 5, 1302-1307, (London, 1908) pp. 498-501. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol5/pp498-501 [accessed 19 April 2024]

May 1307



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May 6. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause William de Wycham and John de Pynecote, who were lately arrested and imprisoned at Cambridge for divers crimes charged against them and who escaped and fled to St. Giles's church for sanctuary (pro immunitate ecclesiastica), to be delivered from prison and taken back to the said church, as the king learns from R. bishop of Ely that Robert de Sutton, under-sheriff of that county, and certain others dragged them from the church by force and arms and took them back to prison, to the injury and prejudice of the liberty of the church, provided that William and John were not public enemies of the king and his realm, so that there may be done in regard to them what ought to be done of right and according to the custom of the realm and has been wont to be done in the like case heretofore.
May 6. Carlisle.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. John son and heir of Hugh de Oddingseles, executor of his will, has shown the king that the king is bound to Hugh in 213l. 14s. 5d. for divers causes by letters of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, who supplied the king's place in the duchy of Aquitaine during the time of the war between the king and the king of France, and he has besought the king to cause to be allowed to him in the said sum 50l. that the king caused to be delivered from his wardrobe to Hugh as a loan at the time when he crossed to the said duchy in the king's service, and 50 marks that John owes to the king at the exchequer for the relief due from him for the lands that Hugh held at his death of the king in chief and that came to him by right of inheritance: the king orders them, if John can prove before them that he is the executor of Hugh's will and that the king is still indebted to the deceased in the aforesaid sum, to allow to him in it the said 50l. and 50 marks. By pet. of C. [12918.]
	Thomas Arnewy of Scuarnestok (sic), imprisoned at Worcester for the death of Hugh le Freman, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
May 12. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause Nicholas. Waleys to have seisin of 16d. yearly of rent in Yatton, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said rent, which John de Balun, who was hanged for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held it of Nicholas, and that the township of Much (Magna) Marcley has had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
May 5. Carlisle.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Isabel, daughter and heiress of Robert Aguillon, who was indebted to the king in divers debts at his death, has shown to the king that whereas certain goods and chattels of Robert's came to the hands of Hugh Bardolf, deceased, by delivery from Robert's executors, and Hugh at the executors' suit acknowledged before the treasurer and barons at the exchequer, in the fourteenth year of the reign, that he was bound to the king for the said executors for the aforesaid goods and chattels in 104l., to be paid to the king in part payment of the debts aforesaid, and that the king afterwards granted to Hugh that he should pay the said sum by 10 marks yearly, as is contained in the enrolment of the recognisance aforesaid, and that now the whole sum is exacted from her notwithstanding the recognisance aforesaid, and that she is distrained on these grounds as if Hugh had not charged himself in any way against the king by the said recognisance; the king orders the treasurer and barons to inspect the rolls of the exchequer, and if they find that Hugh acknowledged the said 104l. to the king in form aforesaid, to cause Isabel to be acquitted of that sum among the debts of her father, and to charge Hugh's heirs therewith. By pet. of C.
May 12. Carlisle.	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Christiana, late the wife of William de Nevill, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence.
May 8. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause the portion of the wall round the park at Northampton that ought to be repaired at the king's expense to be repaired.
May 12. Carlisle.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Isabel, late the wife of Simon Roges of Porlok, a moiety of the hamlet of Trevascoit, co. Cornwall, which is held of the king in chief, together with the issues thereof received since the escheator took it into the king's hands by reason of the death of Simon, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Simon and Isabel were jointly enfeoffed by John de Tracy, Isabel's brother, of the said moiety, to them and to the heirs of their bodies, and that Simon and Isabel were jointly seised thereof on the day of Simon's death, and the king has taken her fealty for the moiety.
May 10. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause John de Intebergh to have seisin of an acre of land in Holebargh, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said acre, which Roger le Priour, who was outlawed for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Roger held it of John, and that William de la Greene of Holebargh has had the king's year and day thereof, for which he ought to answer to the king.
May 16. Carlisle.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause William Quyntyn, son and heir of William Quyntyn, 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 fealty. By p.s. [5657.]
May 6. Carlisle.	To Robert de Clifford, guardian of the bishopric of Durham, or to him who supplies his place. A[nthony], bishop of Durham, has shown the king that whereas the king lately caused the liberty of the bishopric to be taken into his hands by consideration of his court before him and committed the guardianship thereof to Robert, the latter, exceeding the force and effect of the judgment (consideracionis) and the form of the commission, has caused to be taken into the king's hands certain lands and divers profits arising from the mills, fairs and markets of the bishop and from divers other things pertaining to his barony, and that he detains them from the bishop, and that he inflicts divers injuries and grievances upon the bishop and his men concerning divers things that do not pertain to the royal liberty aforesaid, to the bishop's loss, the peril of the disinheritance of his church of Durham, and contrary to the judgment aforesaid: the king orders Robert to desist from inflicting such annoyances, wrongs and grievances upon the bishop or his men concerning anything that pertains to the bishop's barony and that does not pertain to the aforesaid royal liberty, and to restore to them anything that he may have levied or taken into the king's hands contrary to the judgment aforesaid, and to certify the king of his proceedings herein in the octaves of Midsummer next.
May 8. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de la Barre of Ellewyk, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
May 30. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause John de Erlegh to have seisin of a messuage and seven acres in Northpederton, which Henry le Morward of Lamport, who was hanged for felony, held, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage and land have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Henry held them of John, and that John de Monte Acuto, the late sheriff, had the king's year and day thereof, for which he ought to answer to the king.
May 22. Carlisle.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be allowed to John de Insula and to Mary, his wife, in the arrears of the fee that he receives yearly at the exchequer all debts due from them to the king at the exchequer, and to cause John to be satisfied as quickly as possible for any balance that may then be due to him for the said fee or to assign to him the debts of others due to the exchequer up to the amount of the balance. By pet. of C.
June 1. Carlisle.	To Humphrey de Waleden, keeper of the manor of Neuport. Order to cause to be repaired the king's mills and the weirs thereof, and the bays (bayas) of the king's great stew there, which were broken down by flood and the greater part thereof carried away.
May 26. Carlisle.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The executors of Philip de Wylgheby, late chancellor of the exchequer, have shown the king by their petition exhibited before him and his council that whereas the king is still indebted to them in 200 marks of the arrears of the fee that Philip ought to have received yearly by reason of his office at the exchequer, concerning which divers writs of liberate have emanated from chancery and remain in the exchequer, and they have besought the king to satisfy them for the arrears: the king orders them to search and examine the writs aforesaid and the rolls testifying the payment of Philip's fee, and to cause debts due to the king at the exchequer to be assigned to the executors for the amount of the arrears, causing the debts thus assigned to be allowed to them who owe them to the king. By pet. of C.
June 3. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Stonham, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
June 8. Carlisle.	William son of Juliana de Beverlaco, imprisoned at Beverley, for the death of John Braken of Lekynfeld, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
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	Brevia de Warantia dierum.
Jan. 7. Lanercost.	To the justices of the Bench. Order not to put Bernard Est of Rychemeresworth (fn. 1) in default for not appearing on Thursday the octave of Michaelmas last in the suit before them between Roger de la Grene, demandant, and Bernard, tenant, concerning a messuage in Wycombe, as he was in the king's service by his order on that day. By p.s. [5564.]
Jan. 24. Lanercost.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order not to put the abbot of Tychefeld in default for not appearing on Monday before the Conversion of St. Paul last in the suit in the sheriff's county [court] between the abbot and John de Sancto Johanne, Hugh de Burdens, and Walter Burwode concerning the unjust taking and detaining of the abbot's cattle, as the abbot was in the king's service on that day by his order. By pet. of C.
Jan. 28. Lanercost.	To the bailiffs of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, at Breghenogh in the marches of Wales. Order not to put Roger de Mortuo Mari in default for not appearing on Monday after St. Hilary last in Humphrey's court at Breghenogh in the suit by Humphrey's writ between Walter de Kylpeck, demandant, and the said Roger and Lucy, his wife, tenants, concerning certain lands in La Mote, as he was in the king's service by his order on that day. By p.s.
Feb. 14. Lanercost.	The like to the same Roger because he was in the king's service on Monday after Ash Wednesday. By K.
March 16. Carlisle.	To the bailiffs of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, at Breghenogh in the marches of Wales. Like order in favour of Roger for Monday the morrow of St. Gregory the Pope. By K. on the information of Robert de Askeby.
March 18. Carlisle.	To the bailiffs of the wapentake of Holdernesse. Order not to put Walter de Faucumberge in default for not appearing on Thursday after St. Gregory in the suit in that wapentake [court] between Richard de Sancto Quintino and Walter concerning the taking and detaining of Walter's cattle. By K. on the information of A. de Osgoteby.
	Membrane 7.
June 1. Carlisle.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the abbey of Aynesham or with anything pertaining to it, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the abbot's death, as the king learns by the record and process of the suit that was before Solomon de Roff[a] and his fellows, justices last in eyre in co. Oxford, by writ of right between the king and Oliver, late bishop of Lincoln, concerning the advowson of the abbey that the bishop had greater right in the advowson than the king.
May 27. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Upton, deceased.
June 5. Carlisle.	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of James de Bohun, tenant in chief in Ireland, in accordance with the extent made by Walter de la Haye, late escheator in Ireland, or with another extent to be made, if necessary, by the justiciary, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
May 28. Carlisle.	To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause William Quyntyn, son and heir of William Quyntyn, to have seisin of the bailiwick of the forestry of Gravelee, which was taken into the king's hands by reason of his father's death, as the king has taken his fealty for the lands that his father held of him in chief.
May 25. Carlisle.	To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to restore to Stephen atte Putte, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being indicted before William de Bereford and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine trespasses in that county, with breaking into a house in the priory of Herietham and with carrying away a bed, price half a mark, as he has purged his innocence before John, bishop of Chichester, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
	To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to supersede the demand made upon Roger Bavent, son and heir of Adam Bavent, tenant in chief, for scutage for the king's army of Scotland, in the twenty-eighth year of his reign, as Roger was a minor in the king's wardship during the time when the king was in his said army. It is provided that the scutage shall be levied for the king's use from the knights' fees that were held of Roger's inheritance at that time.
May 26. Carlisle.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The king sends to them under the half-seal (sub pede sigilli) certain inquisitions taken at the instance of W. archbishop of York and recited before the king's council in the parliament at Carlisle concerning four knights' fees in co. York that Avelina de Fortibus, late countess of Albemarle, held of the archbishop's predecessors and that are in the king's hands by reason of her death, and he orders them to inspect and examine the inquisitions and to search the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer concerning the said fees, and if they ascertain by the inspection and examination aforesaid that Avelina and her ancestors held the fees of the archbishop's predecessors and that they came to the king's hands by her death, to call together the justices and others of the king's council who ought to be called, and to cause the archbishop (episcopo) to have recompense for the fees aforesaid, or to discharge him and his successors in the fees that they hold of the king according to the proportion (pro rata porcionis) of the said fees. By inquisition returned of C.