Close Rolls, Edward II: April 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: April 1315', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 165-173. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp165-173 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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April 1315

April 3.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of York. Order to levy at once 100l. of the issues of his bailiwick, and to pay the same to the king's yeoman John Irys, for his wages and the wages of other men-at-arms, both horsemen and footmen, staying with him in the king's service in the marches of Scotland.
By K. on the information of W. de Melton.
Membrane 11.
April 3.
Windsor.
To Alan Plukenet, keeper of the Hay of Hereford. Order to deliver to the sheriff of Hereford out of that Hay eight oaks fit for timber, to repair therewith the houses and bridges of the castle of Hereford. By C.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Richard de Babington, who is unable to attend to the duties of the office.
To the same. Order to cause a coroner to be elected in place of Nicholas de Middelton, whom the king has amoved for insufficient qualification.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the bailiffs and community of Derby 25l. 10s. 0d. of the ferm of their town, which the king, on 26 October, in the seventh year of his reign, assigned to Robert de Malo Lacu in part payment of debts due to him, and ordered the bailiffs and community to pay the said sum to him or to the king's clerk Stephen de Malo Lacu, attorney of the said Robert.
April 4.
Windsor.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to William de la Beche, to whom the king lately granted, for 200l. that he had granted to the said William, the custody for fifteen years of the manors of Topesfeld, in the county of Essex, and of Northinton, in the county of Wilts, which belonged to John de Berewico, deceased, tenant in chief, and which were in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Roger Huse, kinsman and heir of the said John, the custody of the same until the Ascension next, when the king will cause an ordinance to be made concerning it by his council, the king having afterwards caused the custody to be taken into his hands by virtue of an ordinance of the ordainers of the realm.
By C.
To the same. Like order concerning the lands of Edmund Comyn, deceased, tenant in chief, granted by the king to Nicholas de la Beche and Hugh Daudele the younger during the minority of his two daughters, with the marriage of the daughters. By C.
The like to Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent.
April 1.
Windsor.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the manor of Yoverland, in the county of Southampton, which belonged to William Russel, tenant in chief, the custody whereof was granted by the king, on 8 November, in the sixth year of his reign, to John de la Beche, and to restore the issues of the same to him, the custody of the said William's lands, which the king had granted to Otto Ferre during the heir's minority, having been taken into the king's hands by virtue of the ordinances of the ordainers.
April 3.
Windsor.
John Lukeys atte Brigge, in the king's prison at Exeter for the death of Matilda, late the wife of John le Muleward, has letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail him until the first assize.
April 2.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Henry de Neweton, whom the king has amoved for insufficiency.
April 4.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause two coroners for that county to be elected in place of Richard le Baker of Lutegersale and John le Surman, deceased.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Hugh de Alverton, who is insufficiently qualified.
To the same. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Hugh de Gorham, who is insufficiently qualified.
To the same. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Sauncton, who is insufficiently qualified.
April 6.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to deliver to the king's yeoman Adam de Bray, whom the king is sending with forty of his horses and two horses of his own and two horses of Master Richard de Stanes, farrier of the king's horses, to Shirburn in that county to stay there in the manor of S. late bishop of Salisbury, in the king's hands, until further orders, hay, oats, litter and other necessaries for the maintenance of the horses, and to pay him the wages that he has been wont to receive. By p.s.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Like letters in favour of Giles de Tholos[a], whom the king is sending with thirty-two of his horses and two of his own horses and two horses of Master John Gylemyn, farrier of the said horses, to Gloucester to stay in the abbey.
April 6.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Bocholt to be elected in place of John de Molyns, deceased.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow the heirs of Gilbert de Gaunt 32l. 14s. 0d. due to him from the late king's wardrobe, as appears by the account of J. de Drokenesford, now bishop of Bath and Wells, and then treasurer of the late king's wardrobe, and by letters patent of the said bishop, in the 52l. that Gilbert owed to the late king.
By pet. of C.
April 5.
Windsor.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands in Mokelyngton, in the county of Essex, which William de Huntyngfeld held of John Filiol by knight service, and to restore the issues of the same, the lands having been taken into the king's hands upon William's death, as it appears by inquisition that he held the manor of Huntyngfeld and lands in Bengg' of the king as of the honour of Eye by knight service, that Roger his son, aged eight years, is his nearest heir, and as it appears by the inquisition and by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that he held no lands in chief of the crown by reason whereof the custody of his lands should pertain to the king.
March 15.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to examine the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer concerning all gifts made by the king to the prejudice of the crown, and all pardons and remissions of debts made by him after March 16, in the third year of his reign, and to inspect a schedule that the king sends them herewith sub pede sigilli, and to levy all such debts in the said rolls, memoranda, and schedule, notwithstanding any remission or pardon thereof, and to cause answers to be made to the exchequer for the issue of lands, wardships and marriages pertaining to the king, the prelates, earls and barons elected to ordain for the state of the king's household and kingdom having ordained that all such grants and pardons shall be revoked. [Fœdera.]
April 1.
Windsor.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John Dyne, tenant in chief, the custody whereof the king committed to Warin de Insula on January 15, in the fifth year of his reign, which lands the escheator has taken into the king's hands on account of the ordinance revoking grants made by the king after March 16, in the third year of his reign, as the king, on June 15, in the fifth year of his reign, took the homage of Henry Dyne, son and heir of the said John, for his father's lands, which he restored to him.
April 9.
Windsor.
To Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent. Order to permit Thomas de Manneby to receive a yearly rent of 9l. 10s. 0d. granted to him for life by Thomas de Multon of Gillesland, tenant in chief, from the manor of Hoffe, which belonged to the said Thomas de Multon, which manor is in the king's hands on account of the minority of the heir of the said Thomas de Multon, as it appears by inquisition taken by John de Evre, late escheator this side Trent, that Thomas de Multon granted the above rent, and that Thomas de Manneby was seised thereof for two years and more before the death of Thomas de Multon.
April 10.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to pay to John de Sturmy, whom the king is sending to the parts of that county to take two of the king's ships, one called 'la Cristophre' and the other 'la Jouette,' which, as the king learns, now lie on the high sea outside the port, not without danger, into the port of Orford or Orewell, or another port in those parts, 10l. for his expenses about this matter. By p.s. [3304.]
March 26.
Windsor.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause satisfaction to be made to W. bishop of Exeter, by allowance in the debts due from him or by assignment, for 136l. 13s. 4d. due to him for his expenses in going heretofore to France on the king's business, as appears by a bill of the king's wardrobe, the bishop, who is shortly going thither again on the king's business, having prayed the king to satisfy him for the above sum.
By p.s. [3280.]
Membrane 10.
April 13.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Selewode to be elected in place of Henry de Merlaund the younger, who is insufficiently qualified.
April 12.
Windsor.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Roger de Chaundos and Matilda his wife, late the wife of Nicholas Pointz, tenant in chief, the following of Nicholas's knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her in dower: a fee in Langeton, Brodeweye and Radeslo, in the county of Dorset, which Reymund Harang', William Cricket, and Geoffrey de Warmewell hold, of the yearly value of 8l.; three parts of a fee in Podyton and Estchikerel, in the same county, which John le Waleys of Podyton holds, of the yearly value of 8l.; a sixteenth of a fee in Craweford, in the same county, which John de Monte Alto holds, of the yearly value of 6s. 8d.; a twelfth of a fee in Radeweye, in the same county, which Robert de Farendon holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a moiety of a fee in Fissherton and Babyngton, in the county of Wilts, which James de Norton and William Saffray hold, of the yearly value of 12l.; three fees in Chilton, Cock', and Edricheston, in the county of Somerset, which William Trivet holds, of the yearly value of 15l.
To the same. Order to deliver to the said Roger and Matilda the advowson of the church of Halstowe, in the county of Kent, of the yearly value of 20 marks, which the king has assigned to her as dower of her late husband's advowsons of churches.
April 1.
Windsor.
To Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Robert de Clyfford, tenant in chief, the following of his knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her as dower: a fee in Wath, in the county of York, which John le Flemyng holds, of the yearly value of 37l. 6s. 8d.; a third and a tenth of a fee in Conyston in Ketilweldale, in the same county, which William de Hebden holds, of the yearly value of 16l.; a moiety of a fee in Braycewell, Rilleston, Kygheley, and Skypton, in the same county, which John Tempest holds, of the yearly value of 18l.; a thirty-seventh of a fee in Skypton, in the same county, which Henry Russel holds, of the yearly value of 20s.; a moiety and a seventh of a fee in Adyngham, Draghton, Berewyk, and Sutton, which Walter le Vavasour holds, of the yearly value of 24l.; three parts and a ninth of a fee in Marton and Thoraldby, which William de Marton holds, of the yearly value of 32l.; a quarter of a fee in Garegrave and Eston, in the same county, which Nigel de Staynford holds, of the yearly value of 9l. 6s. 8d.; an eighth of a fee in Hertlington and Brinsale, in the same county, which Henry de Hertlington holds, of the yearly value of 4l. 13s. 4d.; a fourteenth of a fee in Broghton, in the same county, which Richard de Fauvelthorp holds, of the yearly value of 53s. 4d.; a sixtyfourth of a fee in the same town, which John de Preston holds, of the yearly value of 10s.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to the said Matilda a knight's fee in Olreton, in the county of Worcester, which John de Wassheburn holds, of the yearly value of 4l., assigned to her as above.
April 12.
Windsor.
Robert de Penreth, in the king's prison of Appelby for the death of John son of Robert de Penreth, has letters to the sheriff of Westmoreland to bail him until the first assize.
Walter son of William de Lidel, in the king's prison of Carlisle castle for the death of Michael Scot, has letters to the sheriff of Cumberland to bail him until the first assize.
April 16.
Westminster.
To Guy Ferre. Order to cause the abbot and convent of Brunne to be satisfied for 13s. yearly for thirteen sextaries of wine granted to them by Hugh Wake for the office of the sacrament, and four marks yearly granted to them by Hugh son of Baldwin Wake from a mill in that town, and 40s. yearly for the tithe of the mills and rents of Brunne and Morton and both sokes granted to them by Baldwin son of Gilbert, the founder of the abbey, for the time that the manor has been in the said Guy's hands, and to continue to pay the same, as they complain that the above sums have been withdrawn from them since the manor came into the king's hands upon the death of Joan Wake, late lady of the manor.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Wycchewode to be elected in place of Nicholas Broun, deceased.
April 18.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to restore to Robert son of Thomas de Benyngworth, clerk, his lands and goods, taken into the king's hands upon his indictment before Henry de Baiocis and Roger de Cubbeldyk, justices to deliver Lincoln gaol, for the theft of a bullock of Henry de Thorpe near Tatershale, as he has purged his innocence before J. bishop of Lincoln, to whom he was delivered according to the privilege of the clergy.
April 16.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Boyton, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
April 17.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham. Order to deliver to the king's yeoman Maurice Draweswerd, whom the king is sending with 120 horses to stay in his bailiwick until further orders, hay, oats, litter, and other necessaries for their maintenance, and to pay to him and Master John de Mildenhale, farrier (ferratori), their wages, to wit 6d. a day each for themselves and their grooms, and 6d. a day for the wages of a saddler, and 4½d. a day for each of the nineteen carters and nineteen outriders (preequitatorum), and 3d. a day to a yeoman farrier of the office of the marshalsea, and 2d. to the other yeoman farrier, and 2d. a day each for the wages of John de Stok, yeoman of the avenary, provider of hay, oats, and litter, and of a caruennarius. By letter of William de Melton.
To the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham, and all bailiffs, ministers, and others in those counties. Writ of aid for the said Maurice in providing lodging (hospiciis) for the said horses. Et fuit patens.
April 1.
Windsor.
To Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Robert de Clifford, tenant in chief, the following of his advowsons, which the king has assigned to her as dower: the advowson of the church of Brouham, in the county of Westmoreland, of the yearly value of 13l. 6s. 8d.; the advowson of the church of Merton, in the same county, of the yearly value of 26l. 13s. 4d.
Like order to Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent, to deliver to her the advowson of the chapel of Temedebury, in the county of Worcester, of the yearly value of 40s.
April 18.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the merchants of the society of the Ballardi of Lucca to have a moiety of the issues of the abbey of Westminster, void and in the king's hands, in part payment of 6,000 marks due to them from the king, which the king granted that they should receive from the voidances of archbishoprics, bishoprics, abbeys, and priories, he having afterwards, with their assent, granted a moiety of such voidances to Jacob de Spyne and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Spini of Florence, to be received by them until they should be satisfied for 3,448l. 16s. 8½d. due to them from the king.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Hugh de Alverton, whom the king has amoved because he is insufficiently qualified.
To John de Donecastre, keeper of two parts of the manor of Wetherby, in the king's hands by reason of the minority of the heir of Henry de Percy, tenant in chief. Order to pay to Robert de Walton, chaplain, the wages and stipends that he was wont to receive from the time of the Templars' grant to him, the manor having belonged to the Templars, from the time of his appointment as keeper, and to continue to pay the same.
April 22.
Westminster.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Richard Dammory the bailiwick of the forestry of the forest of Whytelwode, which the king granted to him for life on December 20, in the third year of his reign, which was afterwards taken into the king's hands because he understood that Richard did not conduct himself well in the bailiwick, but was afterwards restored to him because the king learned that he had conducted himself well, the escheator having taken the same into the king's hands by virtue of the king's order to take all the king's grants into his hands.
Membrane 9.
April 20.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to expend up to 10l. in repairing the king's houses in Norwich castle. By C.
To the same. Order to expend up to 20l. in repairing the king's prison of Ipswich. By C.
April 22.
Westminster.
John de Fofunt, in the king's prison of Wilton for the death of John Chalke the elder, has letters to the sheriff of Wilts to bail him until the first assize.
April 23.
Westminster.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Melcombe, in the county of Dorset. Order to choose a man on whom they can rely, and to commit to him the pesage of wool in that town, to be held during the king's pleasure.
April 20.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay out of the king's treasure 171l. 13s. 4d. to Simon de Swanlond, merchant, due to him by the hands of Ralph de Stokes, keeper of the king's great wardrobe, for cloth bought from him at Boston fair, in the eighth year of the reign, as appears by a bill under Ralph's seal, charging the said Ralph with that sum.
The like to the same to pay the said Simon 66l. 13s. 4d.
April 24.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to expend up to 10 marks in repairing the chapel of the Holy Cross outside the gate of the castle of Old Sarum, by the view and testimony of John Huloun, chaplain of the same. By C.
April 25.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand in the manor of Foston, in the county of Leicester, for the debts due from Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, at his death, as Roger Dammory holds the manor by the king's commission, it being in the king's hands on account of the minority of Henry's heir.
April 24.
Westminster.
To the collectors of the twentieth in the wapentake of Est Trything in the county of York. Order to pay, out of the money in hand or to be collected of the twentieth, 100l. to John de Felton, constable of Alnewyk castle, or to his attorney bearing this letter, for the maintenance of the men garrisoning that castle.
April 27.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to pay 100 marks to John de Sturmy to provide tackle (apparatu) for the king's ship called 'la Cristofre' of Yarmouth, which is about to set out for Scotland in the company of John Botetourte, captain and admiral of the fleet of the king's ships.
April 27.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Robert le Fiz Neel of 8l. for the eleventh of goods granted to the late king in the twenty-fourth year of his reign, at which time Robert was in Gascony in his service, as the king pardoned him that sum in consideration of his good service to the late king. By K.
April 10.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Petronilla, late the wife of Thomas de Cogan, tenant in chief, the following of his lands, which the king has assigned to her as dower: a third of the manor of Honespill, in the county of Somerset, of the yearly value of 67l. 0s. 1½d.; a third of the manor of Ufeulm, in the county of Devon, of the yearly value of 17l. 7s. 9d.; a third of the manor of Baunton, in the same county, of the yearly value of 23l. 15s. 11½d.
April 28.
Westminster.
To Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Sarah, late the wife of Edmund Spigurnel, as nearest [friend] of his heiress, the lands and assart that he held in Skeggeby, in the county of Notingham, as it appears by inquisition that he held the said lands of the king by homage and by rendering 4l. 4s. 4d. yearly and the assart by the service of 12d. a year, and that he held no other lands of the king, and that Joan his daughter, aged half a year, is his nearest heir.
April 6.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to deliver to Adam de Bray, the king's serjeant, whom the king is sending with 40 of the king's horses and two horses of his own and two horses of Master Richard de Stanes, farrier (marescall') of the said horses, to Shirburn, in that county, to stay there in the manor of S. late bishop of Salisbury, in the king's hands, until further orders, hay, straw, litter and other necessaries for the maintenance of the horses, and to pay him 6d. a day for the wages of himself and his groom, and 6d. a day to the said Richard for himself and his groom, and 2d. a day each to forty grooms keeping the aforesaid horses, for so long as they shall stay in that bailiwick. By p.s.
Like order to the sheriff of Gloucester in favour of Giles de Tholosa, whom the king is sending with thirty-two of the king's horses and two horses of his own, and two horses of Master John Gilmyn, farrier of the said horses, to Gloucester to stay in the abbey, and to pay him 6d. a day for himself and groom, 6d. a day to John for himself and groom, and 2d. a day to each of the thirty-four grooms attending the horses. By p.s.
May 2.
Westminster.
To Ralph de Monte Hermerii, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver to Henry de Lutegarshale, fermor of the manor of Lutegarshale, an oak from the forest of Cheute to make a post for a mill of the manor.
May 1.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons. Order to pay 10l. to John de Norwyco, clerk, who was lately deputed to help Frethericus Venture, merchant of the society of the Ricci of Lucca, now deceased, to levy for the king's use the debts due to the society throughout the realm, John having shewn the king that this sum still remains unpaid of the sum that he was to receive from Frethericus, as appears by letters patent of the said Frethericus.
May 2.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to discharge Baldwin de Maneriis of 13l. 13s. 5d., due from him for the eleventh granted to the late king in the twenty-fourth year of his reign, as the king pardoned him that sum in consideration of his good service to the late king in Gascony in the said year. By K. and C.
April 28.
Westminster.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas de Lovayn, son and heir of Matthew de Lovayn, tenant-in-chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage.
April 17.
Westminster.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manors of Thoresweye, Styveton, Lyndewode, and Keilesthorp, in the county of Lincoln, and a free court in the city of Lincoln, of the yearly value of 93l. 16s. 9d., and the manors of Weye and Pydele, in the county of Dorset, of the yearly value of 33l. 0s. 4½d., which the king granted to Isabella de Bello Monte, lady de Vescy, for life in consideration of her surrender of the castle of Baumburgh and the truncage (truncagio) there, the rent of the town of Warnemuth, and of land and pasture within the demesnes of the castle, which the king had previously granted her at the yearly rent of 112l., which rent he remitted, on March 12, in the third year of his reign, in consideration of her great expenses in the company of Queen Isabella and at the request of Henry de Lacy, then earl of Lincoln, rendering for the said manors the usual service and 15l. 0s. 1½d. (sic) yearly, the excess of their value over the above rent of 112l.; the escheator having taken the said manors into the king's hands by virtue of his order to take into his hands certain grants contained in a schedule delivered to him.
April 15.
Westminster.
To the dean of the free chapel of St. Mary, Stafford. Order to appoint certain persons in whom he can confide to collect the tenth of the benefices pertaining to the chapel, which are exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinaries, so that the collectors have a moiety of the money at the exchequer at the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross, and another moiety on the morrow of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross next, in the same way as the king has enjoined the bishops.
The like to the following:
The dean of the free chapel of Derby.
The dean of the free chapel of Pentrich.
The dean of the free chapel of Tetenhale.
The dean of the free chapel of Woulvernehampton.
The dean of the free chapel of Bruggenorth.
The dean of the free chapel of St. Beriana.
The dean of the free chapel of St. Mary, Shrewsbury.
The dean of the free chapel of St. Michael in Shrewsbury castle.
The dean of the free chapel of St. Martin le-Grand, London.
The dean of the free chapel of Haystingges.
The dean of the free chapel of Wymburn.
May 1.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to examine the estreats of Hugh de Turbervill and William de la March and their fellows, the late king's justices, of the eighteenth year of his reign, and if they find by the justices' endorsement that the late king granted to Queen Eleanor a fine of 100 marks that the abbot of Evesham made with the late king for divers trespasses committed by him and his men in the forest of Fekenham, as may appear by the estreats of the said justices, whereupon letters patent were made by the late king pardoning the abbot and his men every trespass of vert and venison in the aforesaid forest until April 7 in the aforesaid year, they are then to discharge the abbot of that sum, which they exact from him by virtue of the estreats of chancery fines for that year, to wit on account of the enrolment of the said letters patent, the abbot having, as he asserts, paid that sum to Queen Eleanor.
April 23.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Robert de Kendale of any ferm for the lands of the late Templars in the county of Kent from October 9, in the fifth year of the king's reign, when the king granted the custody thereof to Henry de Cobeham.
Membrane 8.
May 6.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to William Rydel, to whom the king has committed the custody of the county of Northumberland, and whom he has enjoined to put ten man-at arms in the castle of Newcastle-on-Tyne for the defence of the same, by the view of Richard de Emeldon, to stay there until the octave of St. John the Baptist, as much for the wages of the said men-at-arms as is usually allowed for the wages of such men in the king's castles.
April 30.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to discharge William de Harden, late sheriff of Wilts, of 4 marks of the ferm of the mill under the castle of Salisbury, and of 60s. for the amends of the assize of bread and ale and other trespasses in certain towns in the hundreds of Swaneberghe in (sic) Roghebergh, which, as he has shewn to the king, the sheriffs of that county have been wont to receive in aid of their ferm, as he did not receive these sums because the mill was then broken down and the aforesaid towns were in the hands of Queen Margaret by the late king's grant.