Close Rolls, Edward II: April 1310 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward II: April 1310', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 203-208. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp203-208 [accessed 19 April 2024]

April 1310



April 1. Westminster.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Hugh de la Tour, son and heir of Thomas de la Tour, to have seisin of the lands that his father held in chief of the late king, the said Hugh having proved his age before the said escheator and the king having taken his homage.
	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain John de Staunton for homage for the lands that he holds of the king, the king having taken his homage.
April 2. Westminster.	John son of John de Fretton, in the king's prison of Ipswich for the death of John de Fretton, has letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail him until the first assize.
April 1. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to receive by indenture from the king's yeoman Walter de Waldeshef, the king's butler, all the wines that he will deliver to him, and to lead them without delay to Berwick on Tweed, there to be delivered by indenture to the keeper of the king's stores (instauri).
	By K. on the information of the treasurer.
	The like to the sheriff of Lincoln.
Feb. 2. Waltham.	To the sheriff of York. Order to repair the houses, walls, and bridges of the castle of York.
	Vacated because in the roll of the second year.
April 10. Windsor.	To the aforesaid sheriff of York. Order to pay to Geoffrey Edger and Nicholas de Dunsyer, Scotch prisoners in York castle, the arrears of the wages that they have hitherto been wont to receive from the time of his appointment as sheriff, and to continue to pay the same.
	Membrane 7.
April 4. Kennington.	To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to permit Robert, abbot of Fécamp, who lately came to the king, to pass the seas with his household, equipments (hernesiis), and silver vessels that he brought hither with him and with 40l. for his expenses, notwithstanding any ordinance made to the contrary. By C.
April 1. Westminster.	To the taxors and collectors of the twenty-fifth in co. York. Order to tax with all speed any goods that remain to be taxed to the said twentyfifth, notwithstanding the king's late order to cease the collection from the day of St. Thomas the Apostle until the quinzaine of the Purification. He is to levy all arrears of the same, and to deliver them into the exchequer on the morrow of the close of Easter. [Parl. Writs.]
	The like to the taxors and collectors in the other counties of England. [Ibid.]
April 4. Kennington.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Richard de Buckesgate, deceased, held of other lords than the king, as it appears by inquisition that he held nothing of the king in the said escheator's bailiwick except certain tenements in Westtuderle, co. Southampton, whereof Isabella his wife was enfeoffed jointly with him by Richard de Cardevile, which are held in chief of the king by the service of finding the king in his war in England one man and one horse not covered, with haubergeon (hauberioun), haqueton (aketon), chapel de fer (capello ferreo), sword and lance for 40 days at their charge, and that Adam, son of the aforesaid Richard, is his next heir and is of full age, restoring the issues thereof received by him.
April 1. Westminster.	To William de Sancto Georgio, William de Sauston, and the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to execute with all diligence the things contained in the king's letters patent appointing them to execute the statute of Winchester and to keep the peace in co. Cambridge and certain other articles contained in the said letters patent, so that peril may not arise nor the king's peace be disturbed through their neglect, complaints having been made to the king of their negligence in putting the premises into execution. The king intends to send persons into those parts to enquire how they have carried themselves in the premises. [Parl. Writs.]
	The like to:
	John Ridell, Richard le Rous, John Conquest, and the sheriff of Bedford.
	Peter de Wakerle and the sheriff of Rutland.
	John de Waylond, John de Payton, John de Boylond, and the sheriff of Suffolk.
	John de Thorp, Robert Burgillon, Thomas de Ingelthorp, and the sheriff of Norfolk.
	Robert de Lathum, John de Byrun, and the sheriff of Lancaster.
	John de Lancastre, Matthew de Redman, and the sheriff of Westmoreland.
	John de Wygeton, William de Mulcastre, Gilbert de Culwenn, and the sheriff of Cumberland.
	John de Swynburn, William de Felton, John de Vallibus, and the sheriff of Northumberland.
	William de Huk', Richard le Waleys, Simon de Kyme, and the sheriff of York.
	William le Botiller, of Wenn', Richard de Harle, William de Ludelawe, and the sheriff of Salop.
	William de Stafford, William Trumwyne, and the sheriff of Stafford.
	John de Aketon, Thomas de Roshale, and the sheriff of Hereford.
	John ap Adam, Peter de Browouse, John de Wylyngton, and the sheriff of Gloucester.
	Alexander de Fryvill, Robert de Bracy, Simon de Crombe, and the sheriff of Worcester.
	John de Harington, Richard de Egebaston, and the sheriff of Leicester.
	John de Canti Lupo, Nicholas de Astleye, Robert de Wardon, and the sheriff of Warwick.
	Richard Dethek, William Rosell, of Denby, Henry de Braylesford, and the sheriff of Derby.
	Richard de Byngham, Robert de Saundby, John de Bray, and the sheriff of Nottingham.
	Edmund Deyncurt, Ralph Paynel, Ranulph de Rye, and the sheriff of Lincoln.
	The mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of the city of London.
	Richard de Wyndesore, William de Brok, and the sheriff of Middlesex.
	Henry Huse, John Daubernoun, and the sheriff of Surrey.
	Henry Tregoz, William de Echingham, and the sheriff of Sussex.
	John de Northwode, Waresius le (sic) Valoynes, William de Creye, and the sheriff of Kent.
	Hugh Wake, William Botevileyn, and the sheriff of Northampton.
	Robert Pugeys, John Neirnuit, Roger de Tyryngham, and the sheriff of Buckingham.
	Ranulph de Monte Caniso, Richard le Chaumberleyn, John Aygnel, and the sheriff of Hertford.
	Hugh de Neville, Hugh le Blund, Jollan de Durem, and the sheriff of Essex.
	Robert Giffard, William de Botereaus, Thomas Lercedekene, and the sheriff of Cornwall.
	William Martyn, William le Pruz, and the sheriff of Devon.
	Nicholas de Pointz, John Mautravers, and the sheriff of Dorset.
	John de Erle, Matthew de Furneus, and the sheriff of Somerset.
	Walter de Pavely, John de Grunsted, and the sheriff of Wiltshire.
	Richard Daumary, Roger de Engelfeld, John Dyne, and the sheriff of Oxford.
	Richard de Fokerham, John de Lenham, Robert de Syndelesham, and the sheriff of Berkshire.
	John Randolf, John de Insula, Richard de Borhunt, and the sheriff of Southampton.
	Robert de Baiocis, William de Pappeworth, and the sheriff of Huntingdon. [Ibid.]
April 4. Kennington.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign to Joan, late the wife of Peter Burre, a tenant in chief of the king, dower of her husband's lands in the presence of John, son and heir of the aforesaid Peter, if he choose to attend, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
April 1. Westminster.	To Alexander de Bykenore, treasurer of Ireland. Order to pay 100l. that Robert de Clifford, lately supplying the king's place in the march of Scotland, commanded him to pay to the men of Alexander Dergail staying in Ireland for their maintenance until Lent (Carneprivium) last past, according to an ordinance that the said Robert sent to him, and to pay them at the same rate until Midsummer next. By pet. of C.
	The like to the aforesaid treasurer for the men of John de Dergail.
	By pet. of C.
	To the taxors and collectors of the twenty-fifth in co. York. Order to pay out of the moneys arising from the said twenty-fifth 50 marks to Alexander Dergail, which the king has granted to him in aid of his maintenance.
	By pet. of C.
	The like to the said taxors and collectors to pay 50 marks to John Dergail. By pet. of C.
April 1. Westminster.	Whereas Sabina, late the wife of Robert le Huntere, of Byrkyn, lately prosecuted an appeal before the king against William de Lewenthorp of the death of the said Robert, and because the appeal was annulled on account of defects therein contained, she was committed to prison, according to the form of the statut; the king has, out of charity, pardoned her what pertains to him in this respect, and wills that she shall be delivered from prison, if she be detained for no other cause. By K.
April 5. Windsor.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Roger Trumwyn', late sheriff of Stafford, in his account for the time that he had the custody of the temporalities of the bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield, of the sum of 166l. 13s. 4d., which he levied and delivered to William Tuchet in part payment of 500l. that the said William recovered in the king's court at Wyndesore before Roger le Brabanzon and his fellows, justices assigned to hear and determine complaints against Walter de Langeton, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, for the time when he was the the late king's treasurer, by judgment of the said court against the bishop for his damages for a trespass committed upon him by the said bishop, whereof the bishop was convicted by a jury there; which 500l. the said Robert was commanded by a writ of judgment to levy and pay to the said William.
	To the same. Like order to acquit the said Roger of 48l., levied and paid to Jordan de Bradeford and Benedict de Staundon, for damages recovered by them against the said bishop.
March 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to keep the Templars in his charge in such custody that he can answer for them at the king's order, as the king understands that he permits the Templars whom he lately ordered the sheriffs of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Nottingham, Derby, Salop, and Stafford to send to York castle to be guarded there by the said sheriff to wander about in contempt of the king's order. [Fœdera.]
	Membrane 6.
April 10. Windsor.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit John Botetourte of 267l. 12s. 0d., which he owes to the exchequer for the time of the late king, to wit 198l. 12s. 6d. for a loan made to him in the late king's wardrobe, and 68l. 19s. 6d. for various debts of the time when he held the bailiwick of St. Briavels, the king having pardoned him the same. By p.s. [992.]
April 10. Windsor.	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a verderer for the king's forest in that county to be elected in place of Walter de Codewell, who is unfit and infirm.
	The like to the same sheriff to cause a verderer to be elected in place of Roger de Plessetis, who is unfit, etc.
	The like to the same sheriff to cause verderers to be elected in the places of Roger Neward, William Soudan, and Peter de Langel', deceased.
April 9. Windsor.	William son of Ralph le Clerk of Snayth, chaplain, in the king's prison at York for the death of Roger de Aclay, (fn. 1) whereof he is indicted, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him until the first assize.
April 12. Windsor.	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause Isabella de Bello Monte, lady de Vesey, to have seisin of a toft and five acres of land in Alnemuth that Walter Lewyn, of Alnemuth, hanged for felony, held of her, as they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day. The township of Alnemuth has had the king's year and day thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
April 11. Windsor.	To the abbot of Cluny. Request that he will provide, in his next general chapter, brother Peter de Sancto Laurentio, monk and almoner of the priory of Bermundeseye, brother of the king's yeoman John de Sancto Laurentio, with a fitting priory of his order in England, (fn. 2) as the king wishes to procure him promotion. He is desired to cause the king to know by the bearer hereof what he has done herein. By p.s. [997.]
April 10. Windsor.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Joan, late the wife of Robert de Tateshale, grandfather of Robert de Tateshale, deceased, a tenant in chief of the late king, held in dower at her death of the inheritance of Thomas de Cailly, kinsman and co-heir of Robert de Tateshale, Joan de Driby, kinswoman and co-heiress of the said Robert, and John de Orreby and Isabella his wife, kinswoman and co-heiress of the said Robert, who are of full age, as they have shewn to the king that the said escheator has taken the above lands into the king's hands by virtue of a writ to take into the king's hands the lands whereof the said Joan was seised at her death in her demesne as of fee. He is to restore the issues received from the said dower lands.
	The like to John de Hothum, escheator beyond Trent.
April 20. Windsor.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Wandlyngton, lately elected, whom the king has caused to be amoved for insufficiency.
April 16. Windsor.	To William de Cycons, constable of Coneweye castle. Order to lead John Wychard, sometime archdeacon of Glasgow, imprisoned in the said castle, to Chester, there to be delivered to Payn de Tybotot, justice of Chester, or to him who shall supply his place, whom the king has commanded to receive the said John and to lead him to the Tower of London. [Fœdera.] By C.
	To Payn de Tybotot, justice of Chester, or to him who shall supply his place. Order to receive the said John Wychard and to lead him to London, so that he be there before the feast of the Ascension next, there to be delivered to John de Crumbewell, constable of the Tower, whom the king has commanded to receive him and safely keep him in the Tower. [Ibid.]
April 20. Windsor.	John Brun, of Rollandrith, in the king's gaol at Oxford for the death of John de Sutton, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
	To Walter de Waldeshef, the king's butler. Order to cause the monks of St. Peter's Westminster to have a tun of wine of the king's prise at London, which king Henry III. granted to them to be received yearly on the morrow of the feast of St. Botulph from his chamberlain for the celebration of divine service in their church.
	Alan, son of William Michel, of Haversham, baker (pestur), in the king's gaol at Aylesbury for the death of Robert le Keu, of Aylesbury, has letters to the sheriff of Buckingham to bail him until the first assize.
April 25. Windsor.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Stephen de Burgherssh held of other lords than the king, retaining in the king's hands until further orders the manor of Estonere pro indiviso, as it appears by an inquisition taken by the said escheator that the said Stephen held in chief as of the crown the hundred of Stutyng by the service of 20s. yearly payable to the sheriff of Kent, and certain lands in Bocketon Alulfi as of the honour of Boulogne in the king's hands by the service of two parts of one knight's fee and doing suit to the king's court at Wytham from month to month, and that he held the manor of Estonere pro indiviso with William de Leyburn and Juliana, late wife of the said William, which manor is held by the service of one knight's fee of the manor of Assettesford in the king's hands on account of the death of the said William and by suit at the court of Assettesford from three weeks to three weeks, rendering yearly at Midsummer 10s. to the said manor of Assettesford in aid of 20s. due to the ward of the castle of Dover, and 3d. of 'Romescot' at the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, and that he held no other lands of the king, but that he held divers lands of other lords by various services.
April 27. Windsor.	To the same. Order to assign to Cicely, late the wife of Stephen de Bu[r]gherssh, dower of her husband's lands, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.