Close Rolls, Edward II: July 1312 | 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: July 1312', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 462-470. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp462-470 [accessed 19 April 2024]

6 EDWARD II.

July 1312



	Membrane 31.
July 8. Spalding.	To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Nicholas de Cave, son and heir of William de Cave of Dornee, tenant in chief of the late king, seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age and done homage.
	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Although lately, on the complaint of Henry de Bello Monte that certain malefactors of Westfale, Lubyk, Stavre, Campe, Gronyng', Rustok, Grippeswold, Hamburgh, and Strallesland (sic) took a ship of his on the sea by force and arms and carried it away with his goods to the value of 500l., the king ordered Robert Banyard, then sheriff of that county, to arrest all goods of those towns found within his bailiwick, and the said Robert arrested in Lynn forty-eight mill-stones from Henry de Hachesthorp, merchant of Almain, appraised at 48l.; and afterwards, on the said Henry representing to the king that he was in no wise guilty of the robbery in question, and did not belong to any of the above towns or to the lordship of any of the lords of the same, the king ordered the said sheriff to make inquisition concerning the same and to certify the king thereof in the quinzaine of Martinmas last; whereupon he returned that he had delivered the mill-stones aforesaid to the attorney of the said Henry de Bello Monte, and that he could do nothing in execution of the later order; therefore the king, considering the return insufficient, ordered him to resume the said goods into the king's hands, and that he should tell the parties to be in chancery at a certain day now passed to do and receive what the court should consider in the premises; and afterwards, because the sheriff returned that the said goods could not be found in his bailiwick, so that he could not resume them into the king's hands, nor warn the said Henry de Bello Monte, who was not found in his bailiwick, to appear as above, the king, as he was given to understand that the stones were at that time and still in his bailiwick, ordered the present sheriff to resume the said goods into the king's hands if they could be found in his or the said Robert's bailiwick or in the bailiwick of any other of the king's ministers or in that of Henry de Bello Monte, or of any one else in his name, and to tell the said Henry de Bello Monte or his attorney or him in whose hands the goods were found to be in chancery in fifteen days from the feast of the Holy Trinity last; and the sheriff has returned that Peter de Stors, attorney of the said Henry de Bello Monte, sold the said stones to Geoffrey Dreu, of Lynn, for 48l., and that he had taken into the king's hands twenty-nine of the said stones found at Lynne, and that he had told the said Geoffrey to be in chancery on the above day; as the said Henry de Bello Monte has released in chancery all actions against the said merchant on this account, and has confessed that the said merchant is not of the towns in question nor of the lordship of any of the lords of the same, and was wholly guiltless of the said robbery, the king orders the sheriff to deliver the twenty-nine stones seized by him to the said merchant to make his profit thereof, and to take into the king's hands the remaining nineteen stones if they can be found anywhere within his bailiwick, and to deliver them to the said merchant; and if he be unable to find them, then to cause the said Henry de Bello Monte or any other in his name or the said Geoffrey or Robert or any of the king's ministers, if he find that they were in their possession, to answer for the price of the same, which he is to deliver to the said merchant.
July 10. Wermyngeye.	Matthew le Taverner, of Leycestre, in the king's prison of Leycestre for the death of John Pollard, of Groby, has letters to the sheriff of Leycestre to bail him until the first assize.
July 15. Westminster.	Robert Urry and John Pesselewe, in the king's prison at Winchester for the death of Nicholas del Bois, has letters to the sheriff of Southampton to bail him until the first assize.
	To the sheriff of Middlesex. Order to buy and provide 200 quarters of oats, and to deliver them by indenture to John de Pellam, clerk of the marshalsea, or to his attorney.
	The like to the sheriff of London for 500 quarters of oats.
July 17. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Wiltshire. Order to pay to David de Lyndeseye, a Scotch prisoner in Dyvises castle, the arrears of his wages from the time of his appointment as sheriff, and to continue to pay the same.
July 16. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William Berthelemeu, of Oterington, insufficiently qualified.
	To the bailiffs of Wynchelse. Order to pay to Joan, late the wife of William Maufe, 15 marks due to her for Michaelmas and Easter terms last out of the ferm of their town, the late king having granted that sum yearly to the said William and Joan in consideration of their surrender of the custody of the gate of Chester, which he had delivered to the said Joan for her maintenance; which sum the bailiffs have refused to pay for the above terms, although they paid it to her husband in his lifetime. They are to continue paying the same.
	To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to Guy de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, the issues received by him from the lands of Petronilla de Bruly, of Lodynton, wherewith the king ordered him not to intermeddle further as it was found by inquisition that she held nothing in chief of the king at her death by reason whereof the custody of her lands should pertain to the king; the said Guy having, as the king learns, entered the said lands as his escheat.
July 18. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Order to buy and provide within liberties and without, where it may be done to the best advantage of the king and the least damage to the men of those parts, 200 quarters of wheat by the view of Roger Pate, and to send it to the king at Westminster against the parliament to be held there on Sunday after the Assumption of St. Mary. By p.s.
	Et fuerunt patentes.
	The like to the sheriffs of the following counties:
	The said sheriff for 400 quarters of malt by the view of John de Underwode.
	Bedford and Buckingham for 300 quarters of wheat by the view of the said Roger, and by another writ for 500 quarters of malt by the view of the said John.
	Hertford and Essex for 200 quarters of wheat by the view of the said Roger, and by another writ for 200 quarters of malt by the view of the said John.
	Northampton for 30 quarters of wheat by the view of Thomas Waitepas, and by another writ for 400 quarters of malt by the view of Alexander de Cestre.
	Oxford and Berkshire for 300 quarters of wheat by the view of the said Thomas, and by another writ for 400 quarters of malt by the view of the said Alexander.
	Surrey and Sussex for 100 quarters of wheat by the view of William de Ware, and by another writ for 100 quarters of malt by the view of John Shail.
	Kent for 200 quarters of wheat by the view of the said William, and by another writ for 300 quarters of malt by the view of the said John.
	Cambridge and Huntingdon for 300 quarters of oats by the view of John Bonere.
	Northampton for 100 quarters of oats by the view of the said John.
	Buckingham and Bedford for 200 quarters of oats by the view of John Tyhegle.
	Oxford and Berkshire for 500 quarters of oats by the view of the said John.
	Surrey and Sussex for 1,000 quarters of oats by the view of the said John.
	Essex and Hertford for 500 quarters of oats by the view of the said John.
	Cambridge and Huntingdon for 100 oxen, 500 sheep, and 100 swine, by the view of John Long.
	Bedford and Buckingham for 60 oxen, 500 sheep, and 100 swine, by the view of the said John.
	Hertford and Essex for 200 oxen, 1,000 sheep, and 100 swine, by the view of the said John.
	Northampton for 300 oxen, 1,000 sheep, and 100 swine by the view of Richard Pren'.
	Oxford and Berkshire for 400 oxen, 1,000 sheep, and 100 swine by the view of the said Richard.
	Surrey and Sussex for 200 oxen, 1,000 sheep, and 100 swine by the view of Adam le Chaumberleyn.
	Kent for 100 oxen, 500 sheep, and 100 swine, by the view of the said Adam.
July 22. Westminster.	To Ralph le Forester, receiver in the ward (warda) of Penreth within the forest of Ingelwode. Order to deliver to the king's yeoman John de Harttla all the money that he has received in any way from the issues of the forest in the said ward, to be brought by the said John to the king as he has been fully enjoined.
	By K. on the information of E. de Malo Lacu.
	The like to Alan le Home, of Kyghlee, receiver in the ward of Gaitscales within the said forest.
July 25. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to pay their wages to the king's yeomen William de Balliolo, John Lovel, and Robert Lesquier, whom the king is sending with two haericii berners, and four haericii veutrers (veutrarii) and two daemericii berners and two daemericii veutrers, and 24 haericii dogs and 24 coursing daemericii dogs and 30 greyhounds to take the king's venison (pinguedinem) this present season (seisona) in the forest of Whicchewode, paying them from the present day of St. James during their stay in their bailiwick 12d. a day each, 2d. daily each for the two haericii berners, 2d. a day each for the four haericii veutrers, 1½d. a day for each of the said daemericii berners, and 2d. a day for each of the said daemericii veutrers. He is also to provide the said yeomen with salt for the venison and with carriage for the same, as they shall inform him on the king's behalf, making an indenture between him and them of the costs expended in this matter. By K.
	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay his wages to the king's yeoman John Lovel, whom the king is sending with two berners, two veutrers and twenty-four coursing dogs and twelve greyhounds to take the king's venison this season in his forests of Chuet and Pambere, at the rate of 12d. a day, and 2d. a day for each of the berners, 2d. a day for each of the veutrers, and ½d. a day for each of the dogs and greyhounds. He is also to provide him with salt and carriage as above.
	The like for the said John to the sheriff of Wilts whilst taking venison in the forest of Claringdon, and to the sheriff of Berks whilst in the forest of Bernewode.
	The like by divers writs to the steward of Knaresburgh and the sheriffs of Northampton and Nottingham to pay their wages to William de Balliolo and Robert Lesquier, whom the king is sending with two berners, four veutrers, twenty-four coursing dogs, and eighteen greyhounds to take the king's venison in his forests of Knaresburgh, Whitlewode, and Shirwode, at the rate of 12d. a day each, 2d. a day each for the berners and veutrers, ½d. a day each for the dogs and greyhounds, and salt and carriage, as above.
	To the keeper of the forest of Whicchewode. Order to assist William de Balliolo, John Lovel and Robert Lesquier, whom the king is sending to take six stags in that forest in the present season of fatness.
	The like to:
	The keeper of the forest of Clarindon for John Lovel, whom the king is sending thither to take thirty stags.
	The keeper of the forest of Chuet for the said John, whom the king is sending to take twelve stags and one deer.
	The keeper of the forest of Pambere for the said John, whom the king is sending to take thirty stags.
	The keeper of the forest of Bernewode for the said John, whom the king is sending to take twelve stags.
	Membrane 30.
July 20. Westminster.	To Thomas de la Hide. Order to deliver all the money levied by him from the lands of Peter de Gavaston, late earl of Cornwall, tenant in chief, and of the issues of the earldom of Cornwall to the king's clerk John de Bedewynde, to be delivered by him into the exchequer, as enjoined upon him by the king. By K. on the information of E. de Malo Lacu.
	Mandate in pursuance to the said John.
	By K. on the information of E. de Malo Lacu.
	To the sheriff of York. Order to complete and cover the house that the king caused to be built within the castle of York, which was not finished when the king left York. By K.
July 18. Westminster.	To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Hamo son of John Peverel the issues of his lands received by the escheator whilst they were in the king's hands, the king having ordered him to deliver to the said Hamo seisin of the lands whereof his father was seised in demesne as of fee upon his finding security for payment of his relief, as the king has taken his fealty for the lands held by his father of the king by reason of the Templars' lands being in the king's hands.
	To Queen Margaret's bailiffs of the hundred of Middelton, co. Kent. Order to acquit Juliana de Leiburn, who holds the lands that Roger de Leiburn, deceased, held in 'gavelekynde' in Reynham, Uppechirche, La Gare, and Hertlep, co. Kent, which Henry III. granted should be held of him by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee for all service, suits of county and hundred, custom and demand, as contained in his letters patent, of the 4l. yearly that they exact from her for the manor of La Gare, which used to be rendered when the manor was held in gavele, kynde,' as she and all others holding the manor after the said grant ought to be quit thereof.
July 20. Westminster.	To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John Huse, deceased, as it appears by inquisition that he held nothing of the king in his bailiwick by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, restoring any issues of the same that he may have received.
	Vacated because the writ was not sealed.
July 21. Westminster.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in Boston. Order to pay the 926l. 6s. 8d. that the king ordered them by letters under the exchequer seal to pay to Anthony Pessayngne, merchant of Genoa, for money owing to him, out of the first issues of the same custom, notwithstanding any previous assignment of the same made by the king for other payments. By K.
July 22. Westminster.	To Robert de Wodehouse, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to distrain Lucy, daughter and heiress of Richard de Twenge, for the homage for the lands that she and her husband William le Latimer held before their divorce in chief of her inheritance, the king having taken her fealty and respited her homage until Midsummer next, restoring to her any distresses or issues taken on this account.
July 21. Westminster.	To Henry de Segrave, keeper of the manor of Burgh. Order to repair the king's houses within that manor.
July 24. London.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in Boston. Order to deliver to Anthony Pessaigne, of Genoa, the second part of the king's seal called 'coket,' to be kept by him for so long as he shall receive the issues of the said custom by virtue of the king's letters patent, the king having previously ordered them to deliver the same to him to keep for so long as he should receive the issues of the said custom. By K.
July 23. Westminster.	To Robert de Wodehous, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Robert de Styveton and his wife Sybil, late the wife of John son of Thomas de Metham, a moiety of the town of Lyndeby, the manor of Metham, and certain lands in Wylley, Laxton, Bcalassise, Houeden, and Birseye, taken into the king's hands upon the death of the said John, as it appears by inquisition that the premises were jointly held by the said John and Sybil to them and the heirs of their bodies, and the said moiety is held in chief by the service of rendering yearly to the exchequer a pilch of grey-work (pelicium de gris') and that the lands in Wylleye are also held in chief by the service of rendering 10l. yearly to the exchequer, and that the manor and other lands above named are held of other lords, and that Thomas, son of the said John and Sybil, is the next heir of the said John and is of the age of twelve years; the king having taken homage of the aforesaid Robert for the lands held in chief. The king reserves his right of action against him for marrying the said Sybil without the king's licence.
	To the same. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of John Huse, a moiety of the manor of Morton with the hamlet of Hemelesworth, of the yearly value of 14l. 0s. 2d., which the king has assigned to her to hold in tenencia until he have caused dower to be assigned to her, the lands of the said John being in the king's hands on account of his death and of the minority of the heir of the said John and of the heir of John de Berewyco, tenant in chief.
	To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a yearly rent of fourteen marks from the manor of Hornyngsham, as it appears by inquisition that John Huse and Matilda his wife were jointly enfeoffed of the same, and that she continued her seisin thereof jointly with the said John until his death.
July 23. Westminster.	To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to account with Master Richard de Abyndon for the time that he had the manor of Writele with the parks and appurtenances, co. Essex, granted to him for a term of seven years by the late king by letters patent dated July 16, in the 34th year of his reign, at a yearly rent of 140 marks, being then an escheat in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Robert le (sic) Brus, late earl of Karrik, excepting the dower of Eleanor, late the wife of Robert le Brus, his father; of which ferm the present king ordered them to discharge him from July 30, in the first year of his reign, when the manor came to the hands of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex and constable of England, and of Elizabeth his wife, the king's sister, the said Richard having shewn to the king that, although the greater portion of the profits of the said manor for that year, as in corn, hay, autumn works, and other profits, and the rents due at Michaelmas, came to the said earl and his wife, they charge the said Richard with the full proportion of the year that he held it; wherefore they are to make him due allowance for his costs and expenses, having consideration to the above.
July 11. Westminster.	To the keeper of the Templars' manor of Wytherflet. Order to repair the mills of the manor, expending up to the sum of 10l.
July 24. London.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells, in the port of Ipswich. Order to pay all the money in their hands from the customs and that they shall collect before the octaves of the Assumption into the exchequer in the said octaves, and to send all the issues of the same to the exchequer hereafter until further orders, notwithstanding any assignments thereof.
	The like to the collectors in the following ports:
	Yarmouth.
	Lenne.
	Hulle.
	Hertpol.
	Newcastle-on-Tyne.
	Saundwych.
	Wynchelse.
	Cicestre.
	Southampton.
	Bristol.
July 23. Westminster.	To the keeper of the Templars' manors in Kent. Order to deliver all the hay and oats in the said manors, excepting what is required for the reasonable maintenance of the manors, to John de Pelham, clerk of the Marshalsea, for the expenses of the king's horses against the Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster on Sunday after the feast of the Assumption.
	The like to the keepers of the Templars' manors in the following counties:
	Kent.
	Surrey and Sussex.
	Middlesex.
	Oxford and Berkshire.
	Buckingham and Bedford.
	Cambridge and Huntingdon.
	Essex and Hertford.
July 28. London.	To William Servat and Roger Palmer, keepers of the house of the New Temple in London. Order to pay to the prior and convent of St. Mary's Southwark, 4s. yearly from the issues of that house, and the arrears of the same from the time of their appointment, as it appears by certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that they should receive that sum yearly from a garden in the parish of St. Clement, Westminster, held by the Templars of the gift of son of Peter Melania.
	To Edmund Bacun, constable of Walingford castle. Order to pay to Ralph de Restwold, keeper of the king's things in the tower of that castle, the arrears of his wages, as he was wont to receive them in the time of the late earl of Cornwall, from the time when the said Edmund last had the custody of the same from the king, and to continue to pay the same.
	To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to allow the said Edmund, in his account for the time when he was constable of the above castle, the wages of ten men-at-arms in that castle from Michaelmas last until the feast of St. James next following, and for the costs of Bourd de Gavaston and his two fellows dwelling in the said castle with five horses for four weeks, and for the cost of a certain bausam horse and a groom keeping him from Midsummer in the 4th year of the king's reign until the feast of St. James last part. By K.
	To John le Clerk of Wylburham, keeper of the Templars' lands in co. Cambridge. Order to pay to J. bishop of Ely the wages appointed for the maintenance of Robert Scot and Roger de Dalton, Templars committed to him by R. archbishop of Canterbury and the provincial council to place in certain monasteries to do penance, to wit 4d. each daily, from the feast of St. Alban in the 4th year of the king's reign, and to continue to pay the same. [Fœdera.]
July 27. London.	Gilbert son of William Whirlepipyn, in the prison of the city of Lincoln for the death of Robert Bobelyn, of Lincoln, slain in Neuport, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him until the first assize.
July 30. London.	To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to John de Moubray, appointed keeper of the peace in that county, 500 marks for his expenses in connexion with that office. By K.
July 27. London.	To the keeper of the Templars' manor of Shirburn, co. Warwick. Order to pay to Robert de Northampton, canon of St. Mary's Warwick, a yearly pension of 6s. 8d. from the church of Shirburn, and the arrears of the same from the time of the keeper's appointment, as the treasurer and barons of the exchequer having certified that he and his predecessors have been wont to receive that pension from the said church, which the Templars held to their own uses.
	Membrane 29.
July 28. London.	To the keeper of the Templars' lands in co. Somerset. Order to pay to Alexander de Hunsingovere the following allowances, which the treasurer and barons of the exchequer certify that he ought to receive for life: his food at the brethren's table in the Templars' house of Cumbe, a suitable robe for a clerk or esquire against Christmas yearly, a mark sterling yearly, with the service of a groom, and hay and oats for his horse as for one of the horses of the demesne stable of the preceptor of that place, for so long as the said Alexander labours about the affairs of the house, and when he can no longer labour, the said prebend of the oats shall be withdrawn, and thereafter he is to be satisfied with hay for his horse if he have one, and he is to give a moiety of his goods to the house at his death.
	To the keeper of the Templars' manor of Shipele. Order to pay to John, vicar of the church of Sunting, a yearly pension of two marks, two quarters of wheat, two quarters of barley, and 5s. 4d. at Michaelmas, which the treasurer and barons of the exchequer have certified that he and his successors ought to receive from the said church in augmentation of the vicarage.
July 30. London.	To John de Moubray. Order to assist Robert de Wodehous, escheator beyond Trent, in case resistance be made to him in executing the king's order to take into the king's hands the lands of Henry de Percy in his bailiwick. By K. on the information of E. de Malo Lacu.
	[Fœdera.]
July 15. Westminster.	To the treasurer, or to him who supplies his place, and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the abbot of St. Edmund's of 600 marks that they demand from him for a fine made by his predecessor with the king's father for his service in the war in Gascony, the king having pardoned all such fines, because the late king was not personally present in the war and the service was not commonly made.
	The like for the bishop of Ely for 500 marks, a fine made by Ralph, late bishop of the same.
July 29. London.	To Robert de Wodehous, escheator beyond Trent. Order to take into the king's hands all the lands, pastures, moors, marshes, and rents pertaining to the manor of Merton, co. Westmoreland, of the inheritance of Thomas, son and heir of John Wake, a minor in the king's wardship, which Robert de Clifford, who held the manor for a term now elapsed by reason of the minority of the said Thomas, has usurped by his own authority from the time when the manor was taken from him into the king's hands on account of the minority of the heir, whereby he hinders the poor tenants of the manor from having their common of pasture in various pastures, moors, and marshes pertaining to the manor, to the damage of queen Isabella, to whom the king has granted the custody of that manor and other lands during the minority of the heir, and to the impoverishment of the said tenants and the disinheritance of the heir, to whom the king is bound to restore his inheritance without diminution when he comes of age. The escheator is to deliver the premises to the queen or her bailiff. By C.
July 30. London.	To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to John de Moubray, whom the king has appointed keeper of his peace in that county, 80 marks to buy horses (equitatura) there for the king's use.
	By K. on the information of W. de Norwico.
	Like order to the same to pay 30l. for the above purpose to John Darcy, in the retinue of the said John de Moubray.
	By K. on the information of W. de Norwico.
July 31. London.	To Walter de Waldeshef. Order to pay to John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, to whom the king has granted the castle and honour of the High Peak with the forest and other appurtenances to hold in the same manner as he did before they were taken into the king's hands by reason of the ordinances made for the kingdom, the issues of the same from Easter day last. By K. on the information of E. de Malo Lacu.
	To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the said Walter of the above issues.
	To Ralph de Stokes. Like order to deliver to the said earl the issues of the manors of Torpel and Upton from Easter day last.
	By K. on the information of E. de Malo Lacu.
	To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the said Ralph of the above issues.
July 30. London.	To Robert de Wodehous, escheator beyond Trent. Order to make partition of the lands of Robert de Ros of Werk, a Scot and lately a rebel against the late king, and to deliver one half thereof to John Salvayn, who married Margaret the eldest daughter of the said Robert, retaining in the king's hands the purparty of Isabella, the youngest daughter, who married John de Knoches, the said John and John having frequently prayed the king for restitution of the above lands, asserting that the said Margaret and Isabella were under age when the late king granted to John Conyn (sic) of Badenauh, for himself and his men of Scotland who had opposed the king in his war there, that their lives and limbs should be saved, that they should not be imprisoned nor disinherited, and that their heirs then under age should enjoy the same terms; Margaret and Isabella, who were born and baptized in Scotland, having proved their age before William de Bevercotes, chancellor of Scotland, and the king having taken the homage of John Salvayn for his wife's purparty.
	By K. on the information of E. de Malo Lacu.
July 27. London.	To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the men of Kyngeston-on-Thames lately gave the king to understand that, although it was found, by inquisitions taken by order of the late king to enquire concerning the arrears of the ferm of their town and concerning a purpresture for which they alleged they were unduly charged, that 52l. only of their ferm were in arrear by reason of the war in the time of Henry III., and that they had made no such purpresture, or if they had, it was wholly carried away by inundation of the Thames, the treasurer and barons have nevertheless assigned the said 52l. and also 313l. of the arrears of 67s. 11d. yearly for the said purpresture from the time when it is said to have been made to Robert Lovekyn, of Kyngeston, in part payment of 807l. (fn. 1) 9s. 7d. due to him from the late king; whereupon the king ordered them to respite the demand for the above sums made by writ of the exchequer at the suit of the said Robert until the octaves of the Holy Trinity last, in order that they might inspect the said inquisitions and do what justice required; the king now, because he understands from the said men that it is found by the inquisitions that 102l. 5s. 6d. of the ferm of the town over and above the 52l. aforesaid were in arrear by reason of the said war for the 48th, 49th, and 50th years of the reign of Henry III. because the town was on divers occasions robbed and burnt and for no other reason, and that certain purprestures had been then lately made by the men of that town, which were arrented at 67s. 11d., but which were afterwards submerged by inundation of the Thames, for which reason the said men assert that they ought not to be charged with the arrears of the same arrentation for the time of the submersion; the king orders them to acquit the said men of the above sums if they find that the above allegations are true, charging them with any arrears of the arrentation prior to the submersion of the said purprestures.