Close Rolls, Edward II: June 1316

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: June 1316', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 292-296. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp292-296 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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June 1316

June 3.
Hadley.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Walter le Botiller of Winchester, who is incapacitated by old age.
June 6.
Hadley.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to provide without delay what remains to be delivered of the 120 quarters of wheat and 240 quarters of barley that Walter de Norwyco, the treasurer, bought from him before he became sheriff, and to cause it to be carried, with the corn that the king caused to be bought from the executors of the will of J. late bishop of Ely, with all speed to Berwick-on-Tweed in ships sufficiently manned for defence, there to be delivered to the receiver of the king's stores, as the king's serjeant John de Egemere shall direct. By K.
June 1.
Lincoln.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to Peter de Herunval his lands and tenements in Cnuk' and Orkeston, co. Wilts, taken into the king's hands because he acquired them for life without the late king's licence from Gilbert son of Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, who held them in chief of the late king, the king having pardoned him his trespass at the instance of John, earl of Albemarle, and John, lord of Fienles.
June 6.
Hadley.
To the bailiffs of Portesmuth. Order to provide a good ship in that port, and to cause it to be provided with men for its defence, to wit a double shipment (dupplici skyppamento), in order to carry to Berwick-onTweed the corn that the king has sent Nicholas de Janua to provide in the county of Southampton, as they shall be directed by the said Nicholas. The king will cause their costs in this matter to be allowed them out of the fifteenth to be levied in their town. By C.
The like to the bailiffs of Southampton. By C.
Membrane 5.
May 12.
Westminster.
To Thomas, earl of Lancaster. Order proroguing the late order to be with his military service at Newcastle-on-Tyne at the quinzaine of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist until St. Laurence next following. [Parl. Writs.]
The like to eight earls and one hundred and fourteen others. [Ibid.]
To W. archbishop of Canterbury. Like order proroguing the order for his military service. [Ibid.]
The like to eighteen bishops, and forty-fourabbots and abbesses and the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. [Ibid.]
May 27.
Westminster.
To Richard de Horsle, Roger Heyron, and Nicholas Scot. Order to have the men that they were appointed by letters patent to choose in the county of Leicester at Newcastle-on-Tyne by the feast of St. Laurence instead of in the abovesaid quinzaine, as previously ordered. [Ibid.]
The like to other persons in other counties. [Ibid.]
May 27.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Middlesex. Order to cause proclamation to be made proroguing military service as above. [Ibid.]
The like to all the sheriffs of England. [Ibid.]
June 26.
Westminster.
To Richard de Horsle, Roger Heyron, and Nicholas Scot. Order to choose without delay the footmen that they were lately ordered to choose in the county of Northumberland, and to have them at Newcastle-on-Tyne at the feast of St. Laurence, and to cause their arms and wages to be assessed, and to permit the arms to remain in possession of the townships until further orders. [Ibid.]
The like to other persons in other counties. [Ibid.]
Membrane 4.
May 18.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to pay to Thomas son of John 200 marks from the issues of the bishopric of Cloyne (Clonen'), the king having granted him that sum for his good service. By K.
July 8.
Hadley.
To Master Walter de Islep, treasurer of Ireland. Order to observe the ordinance made by the king's council, whilst the king's clerk John de Hothum was in Ireland, that the treasurer should reside in Dublin Castle with the rolls and other memoranda touching his office, and with the treasure, for the safe custody of the said rolls and treasure, and to cause the castle to be sufficiently provisioned, and not to permit any to dwell in the castle except those of his household and others to be appointed by him, if need be, for the custody of the same. By K.
May 13.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit William de Chaddeworth to pay 291l. 13s. 2½d., due from him for amercements and for other debts of the time when he was the late king's sheriff of Nottingham, at the rate of 100s. yearly, or for the balance of the same if allowance be made to him for 70l. 6s. 8d. expended by him in repairing the tower of Notyngham Castle and the new gate of the same castle by order of the late king.
June 8.
Thunderley.
To the same. Order to acquit Alexander Cheveroil, deceased, his heirs and executors, of the ferm or issues of the manors of Yatesbiry, Lavynton, and Wynterburn Asserton, co. Wilts, from 27 January, in the first year of the king's reign, when the king committed to him the custody of John Walraund, an idiot, and of his land, in the king's hands on account of his madness, as it appears by the rolls of chancery that John was the brother and heir of Robert Walrand, to whom the manors belonged, the custody of whose lands the king committed to the said Alexander on 4 December, in the said year, rendering therefor as much as any fermer or approver of the same had rendered at any time, excepting 20l. yearly that the king remitted to him during the custody; provided that he, his executors and heirs, answer for the issues of the manors, with the above remission, from the said 4 December until the said 27 January.
To the same. Order to allow to Richard de Bereford in his account 401l. 3s. 10¾d. delivered by him to Alexander de Bykenore, treasurer of Ireland, as appears by Alexander's letters of receipt, in execution of the king's order to him to deliver to the said Alexander all the money deposited by him in the treasury at Dublin in the custody of the treasurer and chamberlains of the time when Richard was the late king's treasurer of Ireland.
June 7.
Hadley.
To Walter de Wouburn, chaplain. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the hospital of the Holy Trinity of Yvelcestre, lately committed to him by the king, in whose hands it was on account of the minority of Nicholas son and heir of Nicholas de Bonevill, tenant in chief of the late king, and to deliver the charters, muniments, and other goods of the same in his custody to the sisters of the hospital.
June 8.
Thunderley.
To the chamberlain of Kaernarvan. Order to cause to be levied all the king's debts in his bailiwick of the time when Roger de Mortuo Mari was justice of North Wales, according to the estreats delivered to him by the said Roger. By C.
To the same. Order to sell all the old and putrid victuals left in the castles in his bailiwick by Thomas de Esthall, the late chamberlain, and to cause them to be provided with other victuals by the advice of the constables or of those who supply their places.
To the same. Order to sell all the dead stores and victuals in the castle of Beaumaris that cannot be conveniently retained, and to cause the castle to be provided with other stores by the advice of John de Sapy, the constable, or of him who supplies his place. By C.
Writ of aid for the said chamberlain, directed to John Sapy.
June 14.
Westminster.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands in Kelmescote, Filkyngho, and Halewelle, taken into the king's hands upon the death of Roland de Oddyngseles, as it appears by inquisition that he held no lands in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief or others in the county of Oxford, but that he held the above lands of the abbot of Cirecestre by the service of a pair of gloves yearly, and that he alienated them, long before his death, to Walter Spryngaud, Roland son of Roland, Richard de Lente, William de Everley, John Cokerel, Robert Wyryng, and others.
June 14.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to the executors of Payn Tybotot, late justice of Chester, who died whilst intending the king's service, in their account of the arrears of the ferm of the justiceship, for the sum of 153l. 10s. 11d. expended by Payn over and above the sum of 100l. that the king ordered him, on 10 December, in the third year of the reign, to spend in repairing the houses, walls, towers, and gates of Chester Castle by the view and testimony of William de Donecastre, mayor of Chester, the executors having given the king to understand that, although Payn expended 49l. 4s. 6½d. in repairing the houses, walls and towers of the castle, and the remaining 50l. 15s. 5½d. and 153l. 10s. 11d. over and above that sum upon the work of the tower over (ultra) the outer gate of the castle by the view and testimony of the said William and of Benedict de Staundon, as appears by the particulars delivered by them to the exchequer, the treasurer and barons delay allowing them the said excess because they have no writs of precept for the costs over the said 100l. By K. and C.
June 17.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to deliver to Joan de Mereworth, who long served queen Eleanor, the king's mother, and Elizabeth, late countess of Hereford, his sister, and who sustains in that behalf great labour and expense, wardships to the yearly value of 40l. by the advice of the escheator this side Trent, the king having granted her 40l. yearly for five years from wardships. By K.
Vacated because it was restored and cancelled.
June 15.
Westminster.
To the bailiff of Sandwich. Order to provide a ship by the view and testimony of William de Bernefeld, supplying the place of Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle, and to cause it to be provided with armed men to convoy to Lynn the ship now lying at Sandwich, laden with corn at Southampton to be taken to Berwick-on-Tweed, and from Lynn with other ships by the sea coast to Berwick. By K. and C.
Membrane 3.
June 18.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Alan de Sancto Claro and Joan his wife in Theddyngworth, and to restore the issues of the same, which, it appears by his certificate to the king, he took into the king's hands because it was found by inquisition that William de Assheby (of whose inheritance Joan de Assheby and Joan de Bedeworth held the premises in dower, which are held of the king as of the honour of Albemarle by the yearly service of 10s. for 'craneward' and 10s. of sheriff's aid in the hundred of Gertre) committed felony and was outlawed, the said Joan de Assheby and Joan de Bedeworth being then alive and seised, and that after their death John de Assheby, brother of William, entered the premises by intrusion and enfeoffed Robert de Assheby his son and Margaret, daughter of Roger Hymayns, thereof in free marriage; after whose death Joan, daughter of the said Margaret and wife of the aforesaid Alan, entered the premises, which the escheator took into the king's hands as escheat by the felony committed by the said William; whereupon, because it appeared by the rolls of chancery of Henry III., that the said king pardoned one William son of William of Great Assheby the suit of his peace for the death of Hugh le Rus, provided that he stood to right if any one should speak against him, and granted that he should retain all his lands except the lands and fees in Cateby and Assheby Magna granted by the said king to Edmund his son and to Thomas de Tholouse, the king commanded the said escheator to make inquisition, in the presence of Alan and Joan, whether the said William son of William of Great Assheby was the same as the William of whom the escheator made mention in his return as above, and if so, whether he died in the said king's peace, and whether John his brother entered the lands in Theddyngworth as his nearest heir; by which inquisition it was found that the two Williams were the same person, and that he died in the king's peace, and John his brother entered the lands in Theddyngworth as his next heir.
June 17.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of York. Order to buy all the iron bascinets with visors (bacinettos ferreos cum visariis) for sale at York and elsewhere in his bailiwick, and to keep them until further orders, as the bearer of the presents shall inform him on the king's behalf.
June 14.
Westminster.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to the prior of Great Malverne a virgate of land in Hullampton, acquired by a predecessor of his of Richard de Arundell, and a moiety of a virgate in the same town, acquired from William de la Quebbe, and 14½ acres of land in the same town, acquired from Clement Fraunceys and William his son, and 20 acres of land and 3½ acres of meadow in the same town, acquired from William le Hore, taken into the king's hands by the said escheator on the grounds that they had been acquired after the publication of the statute of mortmain without licence from the late or present kings, as it appears by inquisition that a prior of Malverne acquired them in fee ten years before the publication of the statute.
June 28.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Richard de Dupedene, as nearest [friend] of his heir Nicholas her son, a third of the manor of Dupedene, as it appears by inquisition that Richard held the said third of the king in chief as of the honour of St. Valery by the yearly service of 33s. 4d., and that he held no other lands in chief as of the crown by reason whereof the custody of his lands should pertain to the king, by which inquisition it was found that Nicholas his son is his nearest heir and is aged a year and a half.
June 25.
Westminster.
To John de Castre, constable of Carlisle castle. Order to cause all the king's victuals in the town and parts of Carlisle in the custody of Richard de Bromleye, late receiver and keeper of the said victuals, to be surveyed by lawful men of those parts and delivered by indenture to the king's clerk Robert de Barton, whom the king has appointed keeper of his stores and victuals in those parts, the said Richard not having delivered to Robert the victuals in his custody as ordered by the king, but having gone to unknown parts, so delaying the delivery of the victuals.
June 14.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to make equal partition of the lands that Eleanor de Trailly held in dower at her death in Hobrugg', co. Essex, of the inheritance of Margery and Joan, daughters and co-heiresses of Hugh de Mortuo Mari, tenant in chief of the late king, which the king ordered the escheator to take into his hands and to cause to be extended, and to assign their purparties thereof to the said Margery and her husband Geoffrey de Cornubia and to the said Joan whom Thomas de Bikenore married.
June 25.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to deliver to Margaret, late the wife of Ed. de Colevill, tenant in chief as of the honour of Albemarle, a knight's fee in Someredeby and Humby, co. Lincoln, which Lambert de Trikyngham holds, of the yearly value of 20 marks, which the king has assigned to her as dower of her husband's knights' fees.
To the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. Order to receive from Henry Rose, attorney of Walter Waldeshef, the king's butler, the wines that they delivered to Henry as forfeited to the king, and to cause them to be taken to Berwick-on-Tweed in a strong and well-defended ship to be freighted by them in the king's name.
June 20.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert Jorz, whom the king has amoved from office on account of his infirmity.
June 28.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Wyvill, who cannot conveniently attend to the duties of the office on account of certain of the king's affairs that he is intending.
June 26.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of La Grave, taken into the king's hands upon the death of Theobald de Gayton, and to restore the issues of the same, as it appears by inquisition that he did not die seised of the same in fee, but that he held it for life, and that it ought to remain to Saer son and heir of Ralph de Rocheford by virtue of a fine levied between Theobald de Nevill and the said Ralph de Rocheford at Lincoln, in the 12th year of the late king's reign, before John de Vallibus and his fellows, there in eyre.
June 20.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Thomas de Corewenne and Hugh de Moleton of 35 marks that they owed to the late king's exchequer, to wit Thomas of 20 marks and Henry of 10l., of their issues forfeited before the late king's justices of the Bench, in the 20th year of his reign, if they have not yet been discharged of the same in accordance with the late king's pardon of the same, dated 12 February, in the 25th year of his reign, granted because they were engaged, by order of his treasurer and barons of the exchequer, in levying and collecting the fifteenth of the laity granted to the late king in the 18th year of his reign, and because they were inhibited by the treasurer and barons from leaving the aforesaid (sic) county whilst engaged upon the collection, the late king having ordered his treasurer and barons to acquit them of the said sums, which they did not do because the king's writ was badly conceived, inasmuch as it stated that the said Thomas and Hugh were appointed to collect the fifteenth in the said twentieth year, whereas they were appointed in the eighteenth year of his reign.