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May 9.
Alnwick. |
To R. archbishop of Canterbury. Order to cause to be revoked any
sentences pronounced by him or any one in his name against the prior
and canons of St. Oswald's, Gloucester, and any other things that he may
have attempted in this behalf to the prejudice of the king and of the
exemption of the priory, and inhibiting him from attempting anything
in this behalf to the prejudice of the king or of the priory, lest it behove
the king to provide another remedy through the archbishop's fault, as
the church of St. Oswald at Gloucester, which was founded of the alms
of the king's progenitors, kings of England, was from of old a free chapel
of his progenitors and was wholly exempt and immune from all
jurisdiction of the ordinary, and William, formerly king of England,
granted the church with its rights by his charter to Thomas, formerly
archbishop of York, for remitting certain exactions and challenges that
he had made against one Robert, then bishop of Lincoln, concerning
certain churches and possessions, to have to the said archbishop and
his successors for ever wholly exempt and immune from all jurisdiction
of the diocesan or metropolitan other than himself, as the king's
progenitors had held it before the grant aforesaid, which gift certain
popes afterwards confirmed by their papal letters, and the priors and
canons of that place both by virtue of the gift and confirmation
aforesaid and by reason of the said exemption have been always
heretofore entirely free and immune from all jurisdiction of the
diocesan of the place or of any other metropolitan than the archbishop
of the place aforesaid, as it is said, and the king now understands that
the archbishop of Canterbury, having no consideration for the grant,
exemption and confirmation aforesaid, has lately endeavoured to the best
of his power to exercise the office of visitation and otherwise the jurisdiction
of an ordinary in the said church and over the prior and canons, and has
pronounced sentences of excommunication against the prior and canons
because they have hindered him as to this, and although they have lawfully
appealed to the court of Rome from the aforesaid sentences as unjust,
and pursue effectually the matter of the appeal, the archbishop has nevertheless caused public inhibition to be made in the bishopric of Worcester
of any one answering to them for tithes or for any other spiritualities or
otherwise communicating with them as being persons excommunicated
and separated from the communion of the faithful; which things, if they
were allowed, would manifestly redound to the king's prejudice and the
derogation of the gift and confirmation aforesaid. [Prynne, Records, iii,
p. 984.] |
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John de Ferariis and William de Carleton acknowledge that they owe
to Thomas le Nedelere of York 9 marks; to be levied, in default of
payment, of his lands and chattels. |
May 21.
Roxburgh. |
Reginald de Rokesleye acknowledges that he owes to Master William
de Grenefeld, dean of Chichester, 10 marks; to be levied, in default of
payment, of his lands and chattels in Sussex.
Cancelled on payment. |
May 21.
Roxburgh. |
Hugh Warde is sent to the abbot and convent of Leyston. |
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John Nightegal is sent to the abbot and convent of Huntingdon. |
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John de Yatingden [is sent] to the abbot and convent of Wynchecumbe
with a horse and a groom. |
May 21.
Roxburgh |
To R. archbishop of Canterbury. Order to desist from molesting and
disquieting Master John de Cadomo, parson of the church of Staneford,
in the diocese of London, and to revoke any process that he may have
made against him because he did not cause himself to be ordained a
priest within a year from his obtaining that church, as the king's clerks
engaged in his service ought not to be compelled to take orders or to
make residence in person in their benefices or to be disquieted otherwise
on this account while they stay in the king's service, and the king and
his progenitors have heretofore always used such privilege and prerogative
for their clerks from time out of mind, and the archbishop, as the king
learns, has caused John to be cited before him, who was employed in the
king's service by his special order at the time when he acquired the church
by the king's presentation, and is still so employed, and the archbishop
intends to proceed against him because he did not cause himself to be
ordained priest within a year of obtaining the said church. [Prynne,
Records, iii, p. 986.] |
May 6.
Newcastle-on Tyne. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a regard to be made
in the forest of Shirewode before the coming of the justices of the forest,
so that it be made before St. Peter ad Vincula.
[Capitula.] |
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Memorandum, that a day is given to Henry le Messager, attorney of John
de Lancastr[ia], to prosecute in chancery in John's name for certain
tenements in the king's hands by reason of the minority of the heir (her')
of Philip Burnel, tenant in chief, which John asserts pertains to him
of right, until three weeks from Michaelmas next. |
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MEMBRANE 11d. |
May 13.
Alnwick. |
Gilbert son of Thomas de Clare acknowledges that he owes to Margaret,
countess of Cornwall, 69l. 13s. 0d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of
his lands and chattels in Somerset and elsewhere in England and in
Ireland. |
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Roger de Glen of Outheby acknowledges that he owes to Henry de
Thorp, clerk, 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and
chattels in co. Leicester. |
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Henry de Lincoln[ia] of Great Yarmouth acknowledges that he owes to
William de Hamelton, dean of York, 6 marks; to be levied, in default of
payment, of his lands and chattels in Norfolk. |
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Roger de Glen acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Hechham,
burgess of Berwick, 7 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his
lands and chattels in co. Leicester. |
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Robert de Hechham, burgess of Berwick, acknowledges that he owes to
Richard Wade, 8s.: to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and
chattels in Norfolk. |
May 21.
Roxburgh. |
Simon le Walker of York acknowledges that he owes to John le Butiller
of Hampton 20s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and
chattels in co. York. |
May 7.
Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause two or three citizens
from each city and two or three burgesses from each borough in
his bailiwick to come to the exchequer at York by the morrow of
St. John the Baptist next, with full power for the community of the
cities and boroughs to do and receive what shall then be ordained by the
counsel and assent of the king and of them and of the merchants of the
realm, as the king understands that divers merchants of the realm are
willing to pay him certain new imposts (prestaciones) and customs from
their goods and merchandises that strange and alien merchants pay to the
king within his realm and power, in order that they may be quit of the
king's prises and may use and enjoy certain liberties granted by the king
to strange and alien merchants, and the king wishes to have colloquy and
treaty as to the premises with the merchants of his realm. [Parl. Writs.] |
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The like to all the sheriffs of England. [Ibid.] |
May 13.
Alnwick. |
To the abbot and convent of Jervaulx. Order to send a strong horse
not (evitum) to the chancery at York by one of his men, so that
it shall be there in the octaves of Holy Trinity, to be delivered to
Master William de Grenefeld, the chancellor, as the king greatly needs a
good and strong horse to carry the rolls of his chancery. By K. |
May 16.
Roxburgh |
To William Inge and John Randolf, justices appointed to take assizes
in cos. Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Warwick, Leicester, Worcester,
Gloucester, Hertford, Salop and Stafford. Whereas it is contained in the
king's second statute of Westminster that the justices appointed to take
assizes of novel disseisin, mort d'ancestor, and attaints in divers counties
of the realm shall take them at most only thrice a year, to wit once
between the quinzaine of Midsummer and 1 August (Gulam Augusti), and
again between the feast of the Exaltation and the octaves of Michaelmas,
and thirdly between the Epiphany and the Purification: the king,
considering the statute useful and very necessary for his people, orders
William and John to take the assizes and juries in the said three terms
so far as they can conveniently. |
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The like to the following: |
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Robert de Retford and Henry Spigurnel, justices appointed to take
assizes in co. Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertford, Kent, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham and Middlesex. |
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Hervey de Staunton and Roger de Suthcote, justices to take assizes in
cos. Sussex, Surrey, Oxford, Berks, Southampton, Wilts, Somerset,
Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. |
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Adam de Crokedayk and Henry de Sutton, justices to take assizes
in cos. Nottingham, Derby, Lancaster, Westmoreland, Cumberland,
Northumberland and York. |
May 31.
Roxburgh. |
John de Marisco came before the king, on Friday after St. Augustine
last, and sought to replevy to Walter le Fevre of Munkelane and Juliana,
his wife, their land in Munkelane, which was taken into the king's hands
for their default against the abbot of St. Peter's, Castelliouns de Counches.
This is signified to the justices. |
