Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1309

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1892.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1309', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 103-106. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp103-106 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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March 1309

March 1.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Like order in favour of Simon de Monte Acuto, who was unable to appear in the action by king's writ before the said sheriff in the county [court] of Somerset, between Peter son of Warin and the said Simon for a debt of 40 marks, demanded from him by the said Peter, as he was in the king's service on Monday the feast of St. Matthias last, so that he could not appear on that day. By chancellor.
March 2.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Surrey. Like order in favour of Ralph, bishop of London, who was engaged in the king's service on Wednesday after the feast of St. Matthias last, so that he could not appear in the action without the king's writ in the said sheriff's county [court] between John le Chaumberleyn and the said bishop concerning the cattle (averiis) of the said John unjustly detained.
To the justices of the Bench. Like order in favour of John son of Simon de Meriet, who was engaged in the king's service on Monday the octave of St. Hilary last, so that he could not appear in the action by king's writ before them between Lucy late the wife of Simon de Meriet, demandant, and Richard de Roff', tenant, of a messuage, a carucate of land and 100 acres of marsh in Stanpete and Stapyndon, concerning which the said Richard vouched the said John to warranty.
Membrane 8.
March 16.
Langley.
To Hugh de Leministre. Order to acquit the abbot of Vale Royal of 25l. 2s. 0d. of the time when the said Hugh was chamberlain of Chester to the king before his accession, as it appears by inquisition made by Robert de Holand, justice of Chester, that the abbot sustained damage to that amount whilst he was fermor of the town of Norwych, co. Chester, by a fire that happened there without his deed or knowledge, to wit by the burning of certain salt-pits (salinarum) and other things, whereof he received profits before that fire.
Feb. 16.
Langley.
To the sheriff of York. Order to arrest goods of the merchants of East Friesland (Est Fris') to the value of 75l., and to keep them safely until further orders, because the king learns from the complaint of Henry Poteman, citizen and merchant of London, that whilst on a voyage to Friesland with three ships for the purpose of buying fish and other merchandise there in order to bring them to England, and when in the port of Scudbalwe in Friesland, certain men of that town and of Dockyngge, Leworth, Westerland, Wytestrie, Gronyng', and Staure entered his ships in hostile manner and took and carried away 110l. sterling and other goods of his to the value of 40l., and detained them without making him any satisfaction therefor; whereupon the late king many times requested the bailiffs and men of those towns to exhibit justice to the said Henry for his goods so carried away; and the present king after his accession wrote to W. count of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland, and lord of Friesland, whom he believed to be the lord of the said Frisians, requesting him to cause due restitution or satisfaction to be made to the said Henry, as the bailiffs and men aforesaid had taken no care to do anything therein; the said count having received the king's letters did nothing therein, but at last replied that the men of East Friesland who had done and still do damage to the men of England are his chief enemies and injury him daily, carrying away his goods and jurisdiction, for which reason the wrongs inflicted on the king's men by the said Frisians ought not to be imputed to the count or his men; and because the king does not know that the said Frisians have any superior lord who could do justice to the said Henry or other men for such wrongs, he therefore orders arrest of their goods as above. He is to certify the king of his proceedings as quickly as possible. The king has also ordered the sheriff of Southampton to arrest goods of the said merchants to the value of the remaining 75l.
March 2.
Westminster.
To the abbot of Ramsey's bailiffs of St. Ives. Order to arrest goods of the merchants of the power of the count of Flanders to the value of 100 marks, and to guard them until justice have been done to Henry Scof, citizen of London, who complained to the late king that certain malefactors of Flanders had taken and carried away by armed force a ship and other goods of his in the port del Swyn in Flanders to the value of 100 marks; whereupon the late king wrote to R. count of Flanders, requesting him to do justice to the said Henry; to which the count replied, by letters received by the present king, that the citizens and burgesses of his land of Flanders had laboured diligently to make satisfaction to the said Henry and others for damages inflicted upon them by men of those parts, and that he would interpose in this matter; whereupon the king requested him to cause satisfaction to be made to the said Henry for his ship, goods and chattels aforesaid, as he had promised; and because the said count has done nothing in this matter, but has altogether failed to do him justice, as John duke of Brabant, by letters which the mayor and community of London have testified to the king by letters patent under their seal, the king orders the arrest abovesaid. They are to certify the king of their proceedings herein. By p.s.
March 4.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit John, bishop of Norwich, of 100l., which the king has pardoned him of the 1,000 marks in which he made fine with the late king for the corn sown in the lands of the bishopric of Norwich at the time of the last voidance, because he is going as the king's envoy to the pope, the king having pardoned him the above sum for the 100l. that he has granted to him for the expenses of his journey.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the merchants of Lucca (Luca), out of the moneys that they owe the king, the debts that Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and his father Edmund owe to them, the late king having pardoned the earl all the debts due from him and from his father Edmund to him both of the debts of the said merchants as of others, as contained in his letters patent, he having caused the debts owing to the said merchants in England to be taken into his hands on account of debts due from them to him.
March 7.
Langley.
To Emericus de Friscobaldis, the king's merchant. Order forbidding him to commit waste or destruction in the woods or other things in the manors of Thoresweye, Styveton, Lindwod, and Carlesthorp, co. Lincoln, together with a free court in the city of Lincoln, and the manors of Waye and Pudle, co. Dorset, which belonged to Stephen de Baiocis and lately came to the hands of the late king, and which were granted by the present king to the said Emericus for his life, and the king granted him by other letters patent permission to fell in the woods of the said manors and have his will thereof provided that he were not challenged of waste by the king or any other in his name; Peter Malorre having asserted before the king and his council that he and his wife Matilda have right in the said manors; wherefore the king has given them day before him and his council in a month from Easter day to show their right to the same. By p.s. [412.]
March 17.
Langley.
To Gerard Salveyn, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Christiana, late the wife of Thomas de Lucy, tenant in chief, a third of the manor of Balnes, co. Cumberland, which is of the yearly value of 31l. 2s. 6½d.; a third of the manor of Braythwyat (sic), in the same county, which is of the yearly value of 16l. 3s. 9½d.; a third of the manor of Aspatrik, in the same county, which is of the yearly value of 21l. 18s. 0d.; a third of the manor of Caldebek, in the same county, which is of the yearly value of 30l. 10s. 8½d.; a third of the manor of Langeleye and of the towns of Fourstanes and Allerwasshe, co. Northumberland, which is of the yearly value of 55l. 3s. 2d., which the king has assigned to her in dower of her late husband's lands, in default of Anthony de Lucy, brother and heir of the said Thomas, to whom the king restored the lands of the said Thomas upon his doing homage, and ordered the said escheator to deliver seisin thereof to him saving everybody's rights and saving the dower of the said Christiana; the king having afterwards, at the suit of the said Christiana, given her day on Sunday in the middle of Lent last to assign dower to her in chancery, and ordered the said escheator to cause the said Anthony to know that he should be present at the said assignment; upon which day he failed to appear.
March 20.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to deliver to Eustace de Ansy seisin of an acre of land in Litlyngton that Alan Byboys, chaplain, who abjured the realm for felony, held of him, as it has been in the king's hands for a year and a day. The township of Litlyngton holds it, and has had the king's year day and waste, and ought to answer therefor.
John Byboys (sic) who for felony, etc. has like letters to the said sheriff for an acre and a rood of land in the same town, which he held of the said Eustace, etc.
Vacated because it was not sealed.
Feb. 25.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to proclaim in full county [court] that a market will be held weekly on Tuesday at the king's manor of St. Briavels and a fair there yearly of three days on the eve and the day and the morrow of Michaelmas.
March 8.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Walter de Merston, incapacitated by weakness and infirmity.
Membrane 7.
March 15.
Langley.
To Henry de Say, taker of the king's wine of the right prise at Southampton. Order to deliver to the abbot and convent of St. Edward, Letteleye, a tun of wine of the right prise yearly, to celebrate therewith mass in their church, which was granted to them by Henry III. and which the late king, at the instance of R. late bishop of Bath and Wells, his chancellor, granted should be received yearly from the taker of wines at Southampton.
March 21.
Langley.
To William Inge and John de Abernoun, justices to deliver the gaol of Chichester. Order to deliver Thomas Tryp from gaol and to lead him back to the church of St. James without Chichester, whither he had fled for sanctuary for a larceny maliciously charged against him, as he complains, by his rivals (emulos), he having been taken thence by certain malefactors and breakers of the liberty of the church and led to the said gaol.
March 28.
Langley.
To the treasurer and barons. Order to cause the king's clerk Richard de Luda to have custody of the church of Marnham, in the diocese of York, with the fruits and obventions of the same, which the Templars possessed, the king having granted the same to him to hold at will, yielding therefor yearly at the exchequer the taxation of the church last made. By p.s.
March 18.
Langley.
To the bailiffs of John de Britannia, earl of Richemund, at Boston. Whereas, on the complaint of Walter le Flemyng, citizen and merchant of York, that William son of John and Bodekin le Bawer and other malefactors of Holland and Zeeland took and carried away by armed force goods of his to the value of 44l. from a ship near Dunwich on the coast of England, the late king requested W. count of Holland and Zeeland, and lord of Friesland, that, having heard the complaint of the said Walter, he would cause justice to be done to him herein; whereupon the said count wrote back that it did not appear to him that they of whom the said Walter complained were of his land or dwelling in the same, and that if, after inquisition had been thereof made, the said malefactors should be found in his land, he would cause the damages to be made good to the said Walter; and the present king, immediately after his accession, at the request of the said count made by Christian de Raphurst, a knight of the said count, by letters of credence brought by him, assigned a day, to wit Sunday before Lent in the first year of his reign, to treat before the king and his council of concord between the merchants of England and those of the said count and to make amends for the damages inflicted one upon another; and, at the renewed request of the said count the king prorogued that day until three weeks from Easter day, on condition that he should in the meantime cause the aforesaid Walter and other citizens and merchants of Lincoln to be satisfied for the goods so stolen from them, which damages appear both by the said count's letters and by the acknowledgment made by the said knight before the king and his council, as appears by the king's letters sent to the count by the said knight; and afterwards, because the count did not satisfy the aforesaid merchants according to the said prorogation, and those whom he sent, immediately after the said three weeks, to the king at Westminster concerning this matter did not take care to make satisfaction, the king requested him to cause the said merchants to be satisfied without delay; whereupon he did nothing, as appears by his letters of excuse to the king, wherein it is contained that he had not caused the said merchants to be satisfied because the king's council refused to hear the aforesaid knight and his other envoys concerning the damages inflicted upon his men by the king's men, which letters do not contain the truth of the matter, especially as the king offered to the said envoys to make amends for any damages that might have been inflicted by his men upon the men of the said count, provided that they should first make satisfaction for the damages above acknowledged; and because the king has specially requested the said count to cause the said Walter to be satisfied as he had promised the late king before the first Sunday in Lent last, and the said earl has not done so, but has wholly failed to do justice to him, as the mayor and community of York have testified the king by their letters patent, the king, being unwilling to further delay (dissimulare) helping the said Walter to restitution for his goods, orders the said bailiffs to arrest goods of the men and merchants of the land and power of the said count to the value of 30l., and to safely guard the same, until the said Walter have been satisfied, certifying the king of their proceedings herein and of the goods so seized and their owners. He has ordered the bailiffs of Waynflet to arrest goods in like manner to the value of the remaining 14l.
March 4.
Westminster.
To Robert de Holand, justice of Chester. Order to levy the queen's gold of all the fines in his bailiwick from the time when the king married Queen Isabella and henceforth, and to send the same to the exchequer, there to be delivered to Peter de Colynburn, keeper of the gold aforesaid, certifying the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of the fines aforesaid and of the names of those upon whom the said gold has been levied. [Fœdera.]
To Henry de Cobeham the elder and Andrew de Sakevill. Order superseding the order to survey the waste committed by John de Dalyngrigge and William his brother in the chace of Asshedon, held in dower by Margaret, queen of England, and to inquire thereof by the oath of men of Sussex.