Close Rolls, Edward II: January 1315

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1893.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: January 1315', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 139-142. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp139-142 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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January 1315

Jan. 3.
Langley.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to supersede the execution of the king's writ to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, the manor of Fakenhamdam and a rent in Causton, lately assigned to her as her dower of the manors of Aylesham, Fakenhamdam, and Causton, and to resume the same into his hands if he have delivered them to her, and to deliver them to David de Strabolgy, earl of Athole, to whom the king granted them before dower was assigned to Matilda. By K.
Jan. 5.
Langley.
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to deliver to John de Ergadia, staying in Ireland, who has suffered much damage from the Scots whilst serving the king, a sum for the maintenance of himself and household until the king shall otherwise ordain for him, the amount of which sum is to be fixed by them after they have had council with Edmund le Botiller, the justiciary, and the chancellor of Ireland.
By K.
Jan. 4.
Langley.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Walter de Gask of Gernethorp and Simon de Sutton of Boston 60l., the balance of 64l. 18s. 0d., for 118 quarters of beans, price 11s. a quarter, bought from Walter, in the port of La Blakenesse, by the constable of the king's peel of Lynliscu for the munition of the same in May, in the third year of the king's reign. By K.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William Wodard, deceased.
Jan. 4.
Langley.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John de la Grave, son and heir of Adam de la Grave, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his fealty.
Jan. 7.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to William Beauxamis, keeper of the king's horses at Odiham, 20l. for the maintenance of the king's horses there. By T.
To Hugh le Despenser, keeper of the king's Forest this side Trent. Order to cause the aforesaid William to have six leafless oaks in the forest of Wolmere for fire for the aforesaid horses. By T.
To the keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forests of Bernewod and Shotovre. Order to deliver to Giles de Arpuche, keeper of the king's horses staying at Osneye, the remainder of the twelve leafless oaks that the king ordered the said keeper to deliver to him from the forest of Bernewod for firewood for the said horses, as the king learns that the oaks may be more conveniently delivered from the forest of Shotovre. By K.
To the keeper of the lands of the late Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, in the counties of Essex, Hertford, and Suffolk. Order to aid the king's yeomen John Lovel and Robert Lesquier, whom the king is sending with two haericii berners, four veutrers, a bercelletar, two daemericii berners, and forty-eight running dogs, eighteen greyhounds, and two bercellets to take forty hinds of the winter season (de fermesona) in the earl's parks of Houneden, Great Bardefeld, and Staundon against the next parliament, and to cause the venison to be salted and carried to Westminster as quickly as possible, there to be delivered to the king's lardener, and to pay their wages to the said John and Robert for themselves and their dogs, to wit 12d. a day each for themselves, 2d. a day for each of the haericii berners, veutrers, and bercelletar, and 1½d. a day for each of the daemaricii berners, and ½d. a day for each of the dogs, from the Tuesday after Epiphany for so long as they shall be engaged in this behalf, excepting twelve greyhounds who are to take no allowance (liberatam) this side Monday the octaves of Epiphany.
Jan. 12.
Langley.
To John de Crumbwell, constable of the Tower of London. Order to deliver Thomas son of William Mossy of Rotheglen, a Scotch prisoner in the Tower, to John de Sandale, the chancellor, to whom the king has granted him in aid of the ransom of his two nephews (nepotum) captured by the Scots whilst in the king's service. By K.
Jan. 15.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Salop and the coroners of the same. Order to deliver without delay to the king's yeoman Philip de Monte Gomeri, his goods, appraised at 64s., forfeited to the king for an outlawry pronounced against him in that county, the king having pardoned him the outlawry.
By p.s.
Jan. 20.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Shirewode to be elected in place of Robert de Pirpount, whom the king has amoved for insufficiency. By the testimony of John de Segrave.
To the abbot and convent of St. John's Colchester. The king has caused his yeoman Roger Filiol to be sent to them, on account of his good service to the king — [Incomplete entry.]
Vacated.
Jan. 20.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer Order to acquit the minister of the order of the Holy Trinity of Hundeslowe of the 10 marks in which he lately made fine for licence to appropriate to him and his house the church of Bedesfounte.
By K. on the information of Robert de Appelby.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Alexander de Crynlefeld, whom the king has amoved for insufficiency. By the testimony of William de Bereford.
Jan. 26.
Westminster.
Roger le Orfevre of Notingham, in the king's gaol at Notingham for the death of William de Thornton, has letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail him until the first assize.
Jan. 22.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit William de Doggemersfeud of the ferm of the manor of Mammesfeld and of the soke and ferm of Lyndeby and the mills of Carberton, which he held of the king at ferm, from November 20, in the sixth year of the king's reign, when the king granted them to John son of John Comyn as to the value of 54l. 14s. 0d. yearly, to hold in aid of his expenses and maintenance during the king's pleasure, and commanded the said William to deliver them to him.
Jan. 28.
Westminster.
To John de Chelmersford, king's clerk. Order to deliver to William de Trente, to whom the king committed, on December 24, the custody of the manor of Staundon, in the county of Hertford, late belonging to Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, tenant in chief, for a yearly ferm, all the corn sown in the king's name in the lands of the manor at a lawful price to be paid into the exchequer.
Membrane 21.
Jan. 21.
Westminster.
To Warin de Insula, constable of Wyndesore. Order to pay to two chaplains celebrating in the chapel of the castle 50s. each yearly; to Roger de Wyndesore, porter of both gates of the castle 4d. a day; to Roger de Wyndesore, one of the viewers of the king's works, 2d. a day; to Alexander le Peyntour, another viewer of the king's works, 2d. a day; to four watchmen of the castle, 2d. a day each; to Adam the gardener of the king's garden without the castle, 2½d. a day; to John le Messeger, parker of Kenyngton park, 1½d. a day; to Laurence de Baggeschete, porter of the said park, and keeper of the king's houses there, 4d. a day: being their wages and stipends, from Michaelmas last until next Michaelmas.
To the same. Order to pay to Ralph de la More, to whom the king has granted the office of clerk of his works in the said castle, the same wages as John de Spigesworth had, in accordance with the king's letters patent to the said Ralph.
To the same. Order to pay to Edward Gerald, to whom the king has granted the bailiwick of keeping the park of Kenyngton, the wages that the parkers thereof have been wont to receive.
To the same. Order to repair the houses, tower, walls, and bridges of the aforesaid castle, and the stable and wall of the garden without the castle, the houses and pools of the park of Wyndesore, with the palisade round the park, the houses and walls of the manor of Kenyngton, with the palisade and wall about the park there.
To the same. Order to pay to Robert de Wodeham, to whom the king has granted the bailiwick of the forestry that Walter de Wodeham, his brother, had in his lifetime in the forest of Wyndesore, the same wages as the said Walter received.
To the same. Order to pay to the king's clerk John de Broghton, to whom the king has committed for life the custody of the gate of Wyndesore park and the manor in the same, the wages that Laurence de Bogshote, deceased, received for the same.
To the same, or to him who supplies his place. Order to find what is necessary for the maintenance of the king's salto and stud (equicii) staying at Kenyngton, and to pay to the keepers of the same their wages as in times past.
To the same. Order to cause the chaplains of the chapel in the castle to have bread, wine, oil, and the like small necessaries for the celebration of divine service.
Jan. 28.
Westminster.
To Walter Waltesheff, taker of the king's wines of the right prise at Southampton. Order to deliver a tun of the right prise to the abbot and monks of Beaulieu Regis for this year, in accordance with the grant of Henry III.
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain Roger de Ormesby, son and heir of Ellen, late the wife of William de Ormesby, for homage for the lands that his mother held in chief at her death, as the king has now taken his homage, having taken his fealty and restored his lands to him on December 7, in the seventh year of his reign.
Jan. 26.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the bailiffs of Bedeford 10l. yearly of their ferm from 3 April, in the sixth year of the king's reign, when the king, after the death of Roger Lestrange (Extraneus), ordered them to pay that sum yearly to Matilda, late the wife of the said Roger, in accordance with the late king's grant of that sum yearly out of the said ferm for her dower in case she survived her husband.
Jan. 30.
Westminster.
To John de Croumbwell, constable of the Tower of London. Order to release Geoffrey Nichole, imprisoned upon a charge of aiding the escape of Lapys del Brun, a merchant of the society of the Friscobaldi, from the custody of the mayor and sheriffs of London, as Walter Bety of Otteford, John Wytegos of Shorham, John Pelham, John Bartelot, John Botiller of Sevenok, and Henry de Shorham, of the county of Kent, have mainperned in chancery to have him before the king to stand to right at the king's order. By K.