Close Rolls, Edward II: February 1311

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: February 1311', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 339-343. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp339-343 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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February 1311

Feb. 1.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the abbot and convent of Certeseye. Order prohibiting them from assigning any corrodies to anyone out the possessions and rents of the abbey by virtue of any provision or assignment contrary to the king's will, as the king understands that certain persons are endeavouring to charge the said house with certain corrodies for the maintenance of themselves, their grooms and horses, by the provision of other persons than the king.
Feb. 4.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
Ralph, prior of the Holy Trinity, London, and Robert de Notingham, clerk, acknowledge that they owe to Robert de Bardelby, clerk, 6 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. London (sic).
Cancelled on payment.
William de Holeburne acknowledges that he owes to Master John de Dovorr' 30s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in England and Ireland.
Feb. 7.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to release William son of Hamo le Heyr, in Huntingdon gaol for the death of Robert Bonere, upon his finding twelve mainpernors to have him before the king's justices at the first assize in that county to stand to right if he be impleaded of the said death, as it appears from the record of John de Mutford and William de Pappeworth, justices appointed to deliver that gaol, that he slew the said Robert in self-defence and not of malice aforethought.
Feb. 1.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to arrest Master John Bussh, clerk, or his attorney if they attempt to go to parts beyond sea to answer a citation concerning the prebend of Styvelington, in the church of St. Peter, York, which he holds by collation of the late king, as the king has prohibited him from going or sending to appear in any court outside the kingdom concerning the same, because the discussion thereof pertains solely to the king. He is to imprison him in such case until he find sufficient mainprize that he will not leave the kingdom. By p.s.
The like to the said constable for Walter de Bedewynd, treasurer in the said church.
To Master John Bussh, prebendary of the prebend of Styvelington, in the church of St. Peter, York. Order prohibiting him from going to parts beyond sea to answer concerning the same prebend, to which he was presented by the late king during the voidance of the archbishopric of York.
By p.s.
The like to Walter de Bedewynd, treasurer in the said church.
Enrolment of grant and release from John, son and heir of Hugh de Eddingsheles, to Sir William de Bereford, knight, of the manor of Stene, co. Northampton, with the advowson of the church. Witnesses: Sir John de Benestede, knight; Sir Henry le Scrop, knight; Sir Hervey de Staunton; Sir Lambert de Trykingham; Edmund de Passeleye; William de Herle; Walter de Friskenay; Robert de Malberthorp. Dated at London, on Friday before the feast of St. Valentine, 4 Edward II.
Memorandum, that the said John came into chancery on the same day, and acknowledged the preceding deed.
Jan. 1.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To Roger le Brabanzon and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order to be at Newcastle-on-Tyne on the morrow of the feast of the Purification with the rolls of pleas pending before the king, to hold pleas before the king there and to do what ought to be done therein according to law and custom, notwithstanding the king's previous order to be there in the octaves of the same feast. By p.s. [1619.]
Jan. 22.
Berwick-on-Twee.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, to be before the king in Scotland on the morrow of the middle of Lent, to show cause why the office of constable of Scotland should not be delivered to Henry de Bello Monte, who married Alice, kinswoman and co-heiress of John, late earl of Boghan, as her right and inheritance. By p.s.
1310.
Dec. 30.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
Robert de Newenton, the king's envoy, who has long served the king, is sent to the abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury, in place of John de Dunolm', deceased, to have the necessaries of life in that house.
Membrane 13d.
1311.
Feb. 12.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To R. count of Flanders. The count's letters sent to Henry de Lacy, late earl of Lincoln, then keeper of the kingdom, containing, among other things, that the citizens of London had arrested and detained in grievous and unfitting prison Gilbert Bet', Perot le Castiker, John Voete, and other burgesses of Ypres, did not contain the truth of the matter, because the said burgesses of Ypres, who were arrested by reason of the arrest of certain of the king's men in Flanders, were not kept in a vile prison but in a simple and fitting custody, going whither they liked in the city of London upon security found by them; which burgesses the king has now wholly released. For the rest, because the king is given to understand on the part of his men who were lately imprisoned in the count's land and whom the count has released, for which the king thanks him, that although he has released their bodies from prison, he nevertheless causes their goods to be kept under arrest at the suit of certain of his men; whereat the king wonders, because it has hitherto been observed between the king's and his ancestors that no arrest of bodies or goods was made for debts or trespasses until the lord of the persons, for whom amends of the trespass or payment of the debt were sought, had been properly requested and had failed to do justice: wherefore the king prays him to release these goods and to restore them to the said merchants. For the king is and always will be ready to do justice to all of the count's men complaining of any of his men. He is to certify the king what he has caused to be done herein, so that the king may conduct himself towards the count's men as the count has done towards his. By C.
To the advocate and consules of the town of Ypres in Flanders. The like letter as far as to "wholly released," then proceeding to state that the king has ordered the said merchants' goods to be delivered to them upon their finding a certain security, until the king should know what the count of Flanders has caused to be done to the king's men concerning the arrest of their goods, with like conclusion about the king's willingness to do justice to any of the count's men. By C.
Feb. 8.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
Thomas de Lyouns acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Askeby, clerk, 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Oxford.
Alan de Goldyngham acknowledges that he owes to Sir Roger de Wyngefeld, clerk, 77l. 6s. 8d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex.
William de Stratford, rector of the church of Burbache, diocese of Lincoln, and Robert de Heyle, of the county of Hertford, acknowledge that they owe to William de Thorntoft, clerk, 10 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in cos. Leicester and Hertford.
Cancelled on payment.
The said William and Robert acknowledge that they owe to Adam de Herwynton, clerk, 20 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Leicester.
Cancelled on payment.
Feb. 3.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the abbess and convent of Caen in Normandy. Request to admit into their house Isabella de Prulay, kinswoman of Henry de Bello Monte, who desires to devote herself to God. They are to write back by the bearer of these presents what they have caused to be done herein. By p.s. [1708.]
Michael de Piccum acknowledges that he owes to Nicholas de Langeton 20s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Sussex.
Feb. 12.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
Richard son of Geoffrey de Pycheford acknowledges that he owes to John de Foxle 20l. 3s. 4d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Salop.
Daniel de Preston acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Cliderhou 100s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Kent.
Feb. 18.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the collectors of the new custom at Southampton. Order to cease distraining the men of the islands of Gernereye, Gereseie, Serk, and Aureneye for the customs due from foreign merchants, to wit the merchants of Almain, France, Spain, Portugal, Navarre, Lombardy, Tuscany, Provence, Catalan (Cathelon), the said duchy [of Aquitaine], Toulouse, Cahors, Flanders, and Brabant (Dorrolanc') for certain liberties granted to foreign merchants by the late king's charter, as the king considers the men of the said islands belong to his kingdom.
April 10.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the sheriff of York. Order to convene at a day and place to be assigned by him all the foresters and regardors of the forest of Galtres to make regard in that forest before the coming of the justices of the Forest, and to cause regardors to be elected in place of those who have died, so that there shall be twelve in each regard, and to write down their names. And the foresters ought to swear to lead twelve knights throughout their whole bailiwick to view all trespasses expressed in the capitula sent herewith; and the knights ought to swear that they will make the regard as it ought to be made, and that they will go as the foresters lead them to view the aforesaid, and if the foresters will not lead them or wish to conceal any forfeiture, the knights are not on that account to omit to view and write it down. The regard is to be made before the feast of the Holy Trinity.
[Capitula, as at page 144.]
The like to the sheriff of Cumberland for the forest of Ingelwode.
Membrane 12d.
Feb. 10.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order not to levy any money or victuals, in execution of the king's late orders to levy the money and victuals granted to him by the community and other men of that county (sic) for his Scotch war, except from such persons as voluntarily (gratanter) promised the same, and to restore without delay anything that he may have levied from other persons.
The like to the sheriffs of the following counties:
Essex.
Hertford.
Cambridge.
Huntingdon.
Rutland.
Northampton.
Nottingham.
Derby.
Lincoln.
Salop.
Stafford.
Somerset.
Dorset.
Devon.
Southampton.
Surrey.
Sussex.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause proclamation to be made that the king does not intend to change the money current in his father's time, and to forbid anyone from depreciating (vilipendere) the same money, in accordance with the proclamation issued at the king's accession, as the king understands that, notwithstanding his former proclamation, such money is still depreciated, and that the dearness of victuals and other goods is not reduced but increased. By C.
The like to all the sheriffs of England.