Close Rolls, Edward II: April 1318 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward II: April 1318', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 534-540. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp534-540 [accessed 19 April 2024]

April 1318



April 4. Westminster.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of Southampton. Order to deliver to William Servat, to whom the king lately made an assignment for divers debts due from him to William upon the issues of a moiety of the said custom, all the issues of the said moiety before 20 March last, when the king granted the custom to queen Isabella.
	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the abbot of Furneaux to have seisin of a messuage in Flasteley, which, it appears by inquisition, that John—, (fn. 1) who was hanged for felony, held of the abbot, as it appears by the said inquisition that the messuage has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Peter Russel has had the king's year, day, and waste thereof, for which he ought to answer to the king.
April 3. Westminster.	To Roger de Mortuo Mari of Chirk, justice of Wales, or to him who supplies his place. Order to permit Hugh le Despenser the younger, to whom the king, on 18 November last, granted for life the castle and town of Droslan, and Cantredmaur in Wales, with the knights' fees, advowsons, and other appurtenances, when the king ordered Thomas le Blount, to whom he had previously granted the custody of the above during pleasure, to deliver the same to Henry, and his ministers to administer the castle, town, and cantred aforesaid as shall seem good to them, and to remove himself and his ministers wholly therefrom, and not to intermeddle further with the same, and to deliver to Hugh or his ministers any issues thereof levied by him from the time of delivery of the premises to Hugh, and to release all those whom he has imprisoned in this connexion, and to discharge their mainprise, as the said justice has amoved Hugh's ministers, appointed his own in their place, and imprisoned certain of the men because they have made their fealties and attornments to Hugh in accordance with the king's order, and has inhibited all the men of the town and cantred from being intendent or respondent to Henry or his ministers, although Hugh had seisin of the premises by virtue of the king's order to the aforesaid Thomas Blount, and has continued his seisin thereof, and has received the fealties and attornments of the men of the town of Droslan and of other men of the cantred, in accordance with the king's order. By p.s. [4609.]
	To Walter de Fulburn, chamberlain of Kaermerdyn, or to him who supplies his place. Order to permit the aforesaid Hugh to receive the issues of the said castle, town, and cantred from the day of the delivery of the same to him, and not to intermeddle further with the same, as he has hindered Hugh and his ministers receiving the issues, and has extorted the issues by distraint from the men and tenants thereof, and has arrested divers of them until they paid the issues to him and until they found him security not to answer to Hugh or his ministers for the issues. By p.s.
	Membrane 8—Schedule.
March 18. Westminster.	To the archbishop of York. Request that he will cause speedy levy to be made of the arrears in his diocese of the tenth for the first year of the tenth for six years imposed by pope Clement V. in the council of Vienne, and that he will cause the same to be paid at the king's orders, as pope John XXII. has granted the tenth for the first year to the king by way of loan, as appears by his letters with bulls, a copy whereof under authentic signs and the seal of J. bishop of Winchester, the chancellor, the king sends to him.
March 15. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Writ of aid in favour of Robert de Sapy and William de Bereford the younger and others staying in the castle of Knaresburgh, in buying victuals and other necessaries for the custody of the castle. He is reminded not to attempt anything contrary to the proclamation forbidding the taking of corn, victuals, or other goods against the will of their owners.
March 19. Westminster.	To the chancellor of the university of Oxford. Order to desist wholly from aggrieving the friars of the order of Preachers at Oxford, as they have complained to the king that the chancellor, on account of dissensions between him and the scholars of the university, on the one side, and the friars on the other, endeavours to exercise [jurisdiction] over their persons, threatening to imprison them and to treat them contrary to the privileges of their order, although they are wholly exempt from secular jurisdiction not only by their order but also by apostolic privileges.
Feb. 13. Windsor.	To R. bishop of London. Request that he will ordain for the parish church of St. Dunstan 'West' in the suburbs of London as shall seem good for the church and the souls of the parish, remembering that the right of patronage remains to the king and his heirs, as the king is given to understand that it was found in his visitation of the city and diocese of London that the church and its fruits were assigned, with other things, by Henry III., patron thereof, for the maintenance of the Jewish converts to Christianity, for whom the said king ordained a place of residence within the parish, and caused a chapel to be constructed within the said place in honour of St. Mary, and for the maintenance of chaplains and clerks serving in the same, and willed that a keeper should be appointed by him (per ipsos) and his heirs to deliver to them what was assigned for their maintenance and that of the chaplains and clerks aforesaid, and did not will that the cure of the said church should remain with the keeper of the said converts or another according to canonical sanction. By K.
March 20. Westminster.	To the prior of St. Mary's Worcester. Revocation of the king's late order to him, when he was keeper of the spiritualities of the bishopric of Worcester, the see being void, prohibiting his attempting anything to the prejudice of the abbot and convent of Westminster, or of the prior and convent of Great Malvern, which is a cell of the abbey, or to the derogation of their privileges and immunities, which order was issued because the king was given to understand that the said prior of Worcester intended to exercise the office of visitation and other jurisdiction in the said priory of Great Malvern and over the prior and monks of the same, having no considera tion to the fact that the abbey of Westminster and all its cells and priories are subjected only to the Roman court, and are from old time free and by apostolic privileges exempt from all ordinary episcopal jurisdiction, Godfrey, late bishop of Worcester, having confessed, for himself and his successors, that the aforesaid priory and the monks thereof are exempt from all jurisdiction of the bishop and of the ordinary, and from making obedience to the bishop, and that they ought to be subjected to the abbot and convent of Westminster, excepting the parish churches, portions and ecclesiastical pensions appropriated to the priory, the said Godfrey having considered the privileges of divers pontiffs of Rome made to the said abbot and convent after he had endeavoured to exercise ordinary jurisdiction in the aforesaid cell of Malvern: by reason of which prohibition the prior of Worcester superseded the execution of the office of spiritualities then incumbent upon him; wherefore he prayed the king to cause a remedy to be exhibited to him, in response to which the king makes this order, being unwilling that what pertains to ecclesiastical jurisdiction should be impeded by his writs. By C.
April 4. Westminster.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of Southampton. Order to deliver to Robert de Thorp, attorney of queen Isabella, all the issues of the custom from 20 March last, when the king granted the issues thereof to his consort until she had received 4,000l. therefrom in part payment of 7,030l. 10s. 8d. which he owed to her. By K.
April 7. Mortlake.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause proclamation to be made prohibiting any person whatsoever from tourneying or doing any feats of arms anywhere within the realm, without special licence from the king, and to arrest any so offending, together with their horses, arms, and equipments, and all their other goods and chattels, taking with him for this purpose, if necessary, the posse of his county, certifying the king of the names and goods of those thus arrested. The king is surprised that he has not certified him concerning his previous order. [Fœdera.]
	The like to all the sheriffs of England. [Ibid.]
April 14. Windsor.	To R. count of Flanders. Whereas lately, because it was found by an inquisition taken by the sheriff of Kent that John Crabbe and other malefactors of the count's land took by force a ship called 'bona navis de la Strode,' whereof John Sprynger was master, together with the chests, beds, and other small things of the said John, which were valued by the jurors of the inquisition at 210 marks sterling, at Les Dunes on the sea coast near the Isle of Thanet, whilst on her voyage to London, and carried the same away to Flanders, the king requested the count to cause restitution or satisfaction for the above to be made to the said John Sprynger; and the count replied that he was ignorant of the premises, as he was not informed of the deed aforesaid or of the names of those who committed it, adding that he would punish the culprits [if] found within places subject to his jurisdiction; at which reply the king is astonished, because John Crabbe, the principal culprit, is well-known to be of the count's land of Flanders, and dwells therein when he wills, and it is moreover testified before the king that in the aforesaid ship there were wines of certain of the king's merchants of Gascony, which were also taken and carried away by the said malefactors, and which came to the count's profit (commodum), and that the count gave the ship to the lord of Meldyngham: wherefore the king requests him to cause restitution or satisfaction to be made without further delay to the said John Springer, together with compensation for his damages, lest it behove the king to provide him with another remedy. He is requested to write back by the bearer what he shall have caused to be done in response to this request.
Feb. 14. Windsor.	To the same. Whereas lately, at the complaint of Gilbert de Mordon, Henry Gubbe, and Stephen de Crey, citizens and merchants of London, that they caused a ship of theirs to be laden with fish, lead, oil, and other goods and wares bought at Lenne to the value of 300l., in order to bring the same to London, and that certain malefactors of Flanders assaulted with force and arms the men in the said ship on the sea-coast near Crowemere, co. Norfolk, and took the goods aforesaid, and divided the same amongst them, and carried them to Flanders, as appears by the letters testimonial of the mayor and community of the city of London under their common seal, the king requested the count to cause satisfaction or restitution therefor to be made to the aforesaid merchants; to which the count replied that he was ignorant of the premises as he was not informed of the deed aforesaid nor of the names of those who committed it, adding that he would punish the culprits if found within places subject to his jurisdiction; and now, in addition to the testimony of the mayor and community aforesaid, it is testified before the king that the trespass was committed at the aforesaid place by malefactors of the count's land, and that the malefactors, shortly before the perpetration of this trespass, lay near the king's land (ad terram nostram se ponentes), and committed homicides there, and afterwards perpetrated the above trespass, the men of those parts standing and seeing them, and having full knowledge that they were from the count's power, and the goods aforesaid were seen and recognised by merchants of this realm in the hands of the said malefactors at Le Sluce within the count's power; wherefore the king requests the count to cause restitution or satisfaction to be made without delay to the said merchants, together with compensation for their damages, lest it behove the king to provide them with another remedy. He is requested to write back, etc., as above.
April 20. Windsor.	To J. duke of Brabant, the king's nephew. The king has received complaint from Henry de la Porte, merchant of Norhampton, that, although John Wylet, merchant of Malyns, is bound to him in 74l. 8s. 7d. for merchandise bought from him, and John was arrested at his suit for the debt in the town of Andwertz, within the duke's power, according to the liberties and customs granted and used in that town for the merchants of England, and was delivered to Gerard Ekene, schultheiss (scoulett') and bailiff of that town, to be kept until he had satisfied Henry for the said debt, the said Gerard nevertheless allowed John to go from his custody before he had satisfied Henry; wherefore the king requests the duke to call before him the said Gerard and others who should be called before him, and to cause speedy justice to be done to Henry in the recovery of his debt, so that it may not behove the king to provide him with another remedy. He is requested to write back by the bearer an account of his proceedings herein.
	Membrane 7.
April 6. Mortlake.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to supersede the execution of the exigent to be outlawed of Peter de Salso Marisco, who was lately indicted before the king at Lincoln for certain trespasses, for which he was put in exigent for his failure to appear before John de Insula, Henry Spigurnel, and Lambert de Trikingham, the king's justices appointed to hear and determine the said felonies and trespasses, as he was then in the castle of Mitford as hostage for Henry de Bello Monte, from which hostageship he is now delivered, he having surrendered himself to prison in the king's presence prepared to stand to right concerning the premises, as Roger de Somervile, Roger Heron, Ivo de Aldeburgh, John de Caunton, knights, and Reyner de Cotum, of the county of Northumberland, and Edmund de Kendale, knight, of the county of Rutland, have mainperned to have him before the aforesaid justices or before other justices at the king's orders.
	By p.s. [4617.]
April 6. Mortlake.	To Simon de Driby, king's yeoman. Order to deliver to queen Isabella or to her attorney the issues of the manors of Long Bynyngton, co. Lincoln, Kyngesthorp and Eston, co. Northampton, which Margaret, late queen of England, held for life by the late king's grant, the king having granted to his said consort, in addition to the said manors, the issues thereof from the time of Margaret's death. By p.s. [4616.]
	Like orders to the following:
	The said Simon for the issues of the manors of Boudon and Haverberge, co. Leicester.
	The sheriff of Northampton for the issues of the hundred of Falwesle.
	Henry Beaufiz for the issues of the manors of Osprenge, Middelton with the hundred, and Westclive, co. Kent.
	The sheriff of Oxford for the mills of Oxford with the meadow of Kynkesmede, and the issues thereof.
	Thomas de Derby for the issues of the manor of Haverynge with the park and forest, co. Essex.
	John de Okham for the issues of the manor of La Neilande, co. Essex.
	Thomas de Pencatlan for the issues of the castle and town of Berkhampstede with the honour, co. Hertford.
	John de Hanstede for the issues of the castle and town of Marleberge with Berton and Selkele, of the castle and town of Dyvises with the meadow and forest of Melkesham, Chippenham and Pewesham and purpresture, and with the manor of Roude, the manors of Woderowe and Sevenhampton, with the boroughs of Crikelade and Hantetworth, and with the hundreds of Crikelade and Hanteword, and the manor of Stratton, the castle and manor of Mere, co. Wilts.
	George de Percy and William de Kyrkeby, clerk, for the issues of the castle of Southampton, the manor of Lyndhurst, with the park and New Forest, and the bailiwicks and hundreds of Rudbrigg', and 40s. of yearly rent from the abbot and convent of Redynge for a tenement in the said forest, of the castle of Cristeschirch of Twynham, with the borough and manor of Westovere and the hundred of Cristeschirch, and of the manor of Ryngwode, co. Southampton.
April 12. Mortlake.	To the collectors in the port of Southampton of the loan from native and alien merchants granted from wool, hides, and wool-fells to be exported up to a certain time. Order to pay to Roger Ardingelli, Dinus Forcetti, Francis Balduch', and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, 200l., which the king owes them for money lent to him and paid into his wardrobe, as appears by a bill under the seal of Robert de Wodehous, supplying the place of Roger de Northburgh, keeper of the wardrobe. By K.
April 13. Mortlake.	To the mayor and bailiffs of Kingeston-on-Hull. Order to arrest all the corn, victuals, and other goods of the burgesses and others of the community of Berwick-on-Tweed found within their bailiwick, by the advice of John de Weston, and to cause the same to be guarded safely until further orders, certifying the king of their proceedings herein, as the Scotch rebels have entered and occupied Berwick through the default of the mayor, bailiffs, and community thereof, to whom the king lately committed the custody of the town upon security made by them that they would cause it to be kept safely for the king's use. By K.
	[Fœdera.]
April 17. Westminster.	To all the king's friends and faithful subjects, etc. Protection for one year for Ralph de Wyntryngham, merchant, who is going to divers parts of the realm and to parts beyond sea to buy and provide corn, wine, and other victuals for the munition of Newcastle-on-Tyne, whither he is to cause them to be carried by land and sea, the king having received security from him that he will bring the victuals so provided to the said town or to this realm.
	The like for the following:
	John de Cotes, burgess of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
	Robert de Cotes, burgess of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
	Vacated, because otherwise on the Patent Roll.
April 16. Windsor.	To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order not to aggrieve John de Boullers and Peter de Grute for what pertains to the king by reason of a disseisin made by them upon William Orme of Ludelawe of a tenement in Prior's Halghton, whereof they were convicted before Henry Spigurnel and his fellows, justices to take assizes in the county of Salop, for which the aforesaid Henry le Scrop and his fellows aggrieve them because they did not come to satisfy the king for their ransom in this behalf before him, whither the king caused the record and process of the assize to come, as the king has pardoned them what pertains to him in this behalf at the instance of Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wygemor, supplying the king's place in Ireland, and on account of their good service to the king in Ireland. By p.s.
	To the sheriff of Salop. Order to supersede until the day contained in the king's writ of judgment the exaction of the aforesaid John and Peter, they having been put in exigent to be outlawed in his county [court] because they did not come to satisfy the king for their ransom for the above disseisin, provided that they find sufficient mainpernors to satisfy the said William at the day contained in the king's writ aforesaid. By p.s.
April 21. Windsor.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge John Maudut, kinsman and heir of John Maudut (fn. 2), tenant in chief, of 13l. 4s. 0d. for his relief for the said John's lands, the king having pardoned him, at the request of Roger Damory, the 10l. due from him for his relief, and of 64s. exacted from him for the said relief. By p.s. [4645.]
April 1. Windsor.	To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Mikelham, he having certified the king that John de Mikelham, who held the manor in chief by knight service, granted it to Master Richard Wodelok for six years, and in order to make him security, made him a charter of fee simple, which charter the king accepted by his letters patent, and that after the lapse of the above term, Master Richard rendered the manor to John and released all his right therein, and that the escheator took a simple seisin in the manor because John had not the king's licence to re-enter the same.
April 20. Windsor.	To the sheriffs of London. Order to arrest and detain until further orders twelve of the best ships in the port of London, by the advice of William Getour, in order to expedite the king's affairs therewith.
April 26. Wallingford.	To Robert de Sapy, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and 20 acres of land with meadow and waste in Presthorp, a hamlet of Byngeleye, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that Nicholas son of Henry de Presthorp had the premises at his death, and that they are held of William de Harecourt, lord of Byngeleye, by homage and the service of 8s. yearly, and by doing service to the court of Byngeleye from three weeks to three weeks, and that the lands were taken into the king's hands on account of the madness of Nicholas, and that Henry de Hyperoun is the nearest heir of Nicholas and of full age.