Close Rolls, Edward II: July 1320

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: July 1320', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 245-250. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp245-250 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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14 EDWARD II.

July 1320

Membrane 26.
July 10.
Westminster.
To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order to deliver Robert son of Roger de Northhalle, of the county of York, in the marshalsea prison for the death of William le Wayte, in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the king if any one shall speak against him concerning the above death, as it appears by their record, which the king has caused to come before him in chancery, that he slew the said William by mischance and not feloniously or of malice aforethought (excogitata). Witness: Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke.
July 8.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph Beler, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity. Witness: Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke.
July 9.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a yearly rent of 9 marks that the prior of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England was wont to render to Roger son of William de Staunton, as mesne tenant (medio) between the prior and Oliver de Ingham, for the freehold held by the prior of Roger in Anesty near Swalweelyve, which rent the escheator has taken into the king's hands on the ground that the prior acquired it contrary to the statute of mortmain, the prior having shewn the king that whereas he lately impleaded the said Roger before the justices of the Bench for this, that Roger should acquit him of the service that the aforesaid Oliver exacted from him for the aforesaid tenement, it was considered that Roger should, on account of his nonappearance, lose the service of the prior, and that the prior should answer to Oliver for the abovesaid service, omitting Roger, as appears by the record and process of the plea, which the king has caused to come before him. Witness: Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke.
July 11.
Westminster.
William Henry of Blechemore, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of John son of Richard de Chisewell, has letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail him until the first assize.
To Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver Robert de Nodariis, parson of Knoston church, imprisoned at Okham for trespass of vert in the forest of Roteland, in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the justices for Forest pleas when they next come to those parts.
July 20.
Stratford.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to the executors of the will of John de Knokyn, king's yeoman, all the goods and chattels of the said John taken into the king's hands by the escheator, for the execution of John's will. Witness: the aforesaid earl. By p.s.
The like to the following:
The treasurer and barons of the exchequer.
Humphrey de Waleden.
The mayor and sheriffs of London.
The abbot of Redyngg'.
Roger Carles.
John Huse, the younger.
Ralph de Restwold.
William de Couleye.
Roger le Savage, 'armerer.'
Robert de Insula Vecta, 'taylur.'
John le Straunge, knight.
William de Chetewynde.
Philip des Armures.
Philip, parson of Hodene' church.
John Hauberier.
July 20.
Stratford-atte-Bow.
To the collectors of the custom of wool and wool-fells in the port of Southampton. Order to release the wool and wool-fells of the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, arrested by them by virtue of the king's order to take oath from merchants exporting wool or wool-fells from that port that they are their own wool and wool-fells and to receive from them security for what pertains to the king in case the wool and wool-fells be taken to Flanders, Brabant, and Artoys contrary to the form of the charter of the staple, as the merchants of the said society have submitted themselves to the king's grace concerning their indictment for the premises and for other things if they be further indicated, and to permit them to export their wool and wool-fells, receiving the custom thereof and oath from the exporters that they will avow the wool and wool-fells under the name of the owner and not of any one else. Witness: Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke.
By C.
The like to the collectors in the following ports:
Southampton.
Boston.
Kyngeston-on-Hull.
July 20.
Stratford.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Laurence de Rustiton of 50 marks yearly from 13 December, in the 10th year of the king's reign, for the custody of the towns of Petresfeld, Mapelderham, Upclatford, and Hardebrugge, which belonged to Gilbert de Clare, late earl of Gloucester and Hertford, which the king committed to him at will on 28 November, in the 9th year of his reign, rendering therefor the above sum yearly, the town of Petresfeld being extended to the yearly value of 8l. 1s. 6½d., the town of Mapelderham to 14l. 3s. 7½d., the town of Upclatford to 7l. 13s. 7d., and the town of Hardebrugge to 28s. 8d., the king having afterwards, on 13 December aforesaid, committed to Richard de Rodeney, Benedict de Cokefeld, and William de Aylmere the custody of all the earl's lands in England until the octaves of Holy Trinity then next following. Witness: The aforesaid earl.
To Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Mary de Nevill, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that she held for life the manors of Middelham, Thoraldeby, Welle, Snape, Carleton, Fagherwald, Nosterfeld, Burton, and Crakale, and a messuage and a carucate of land in Aykescard and the advowson of the church of that town, of the inheritance of Ralph de Nevill, by grant from Robert de Nevill, made by a fine levied in the king's court under the following form: that, after her death, the manor of Snape should remain to Robert, and the manors of Middelham, Thoraldeby, Carleton, Nosterfeld, Burton, and Crakale, and the messuage, land and advowson aforesaid should remain to Ranulph de Nevill for life, with reversion to the said Robert, and that the manor of Fag[h]erwald should remain to Master Ralph de Nevill for life, with reversion to Robert, and that the manor of Welle should remain to Master Robert de Neville for life, with remainder to the aforesaid Ranulph for life, with reversion to Robert; which manors, etc., are held of others than the king.
Here the king returned from parts beyond sea.
July 22.
Dover.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Richard le Whayte, who married Alice, daughter and heiress of William de Nevill, which Alice is now deceased, Alice's purparty of the lands that her father held of the king in chief, which purparty Richard ought to hold by the courtesy of England, and which was taken into the king's hands upon Alice's death, and which the king ordered at another time to be kept in his hands, as the king has taken Richard's fealty for her purparty of the lands.
To the same. Order to amove the king's hand from a messuage in Creckelade and to permit the abbot of Cirencester to hold it, as the abbot lately recovered seisin thereof against Richard Costard and Alice his wife and others named in the original writ before John de Foxle and his fellows, justices appointed to take assizes in co. Wilts, at Salisbury, by recognition of an assize of novel disseisin taken between them, the abbot having complained to the king that the escheator has taken the messuage into the king's hands under the pretext that the abbot has acquired the messuage contrary to the statute of mortmain.
July 23.
Canterbury.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Geoffrey de Carleton, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition that he held nothing in chief of the king by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Membrane 25.
July 27.
Thunderley.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause William Basset, son and heir of William Basset, 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 homage. By p.s. [5344.]
July 26.
Hadleigh.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Bernard the Carpenter of military engines (carpentario Bridarum) 76s. 9d. sterling, due to him from the late king for the wages of himself and company when in the late king's service in the time of the war in the duchy [of Aquitaine] by an account made with him by the king's clerk Thomas de Cantebr[igge], as appears by the letters of Henry de Lacy, sometime earl of Lincoln, holding the late king's place in the duchy, which letters Bernard delivered into the late king's treasury by the hands of John de Sandale, then clerk, the late king having ordered the constable of Bordeaux by his letters patent to pay the above sum to Bernard out of the issues of the duchy, but nothing has been done hitherto in execution thereof, and Bernard has restored the late king's letters to chancery to be cancelled. By C.
July 27.
Thunderley.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that John atte Welde and William and Nicholas his sons acquired in fee from John son of William atte Wode in Estpecham, co. Kent, and with the lands of the said John son of William in the same town and in Hanlo, which he holds for life by demise from the said John atte Welde, the escheator having certified the king that he found by inquisition that the said John son of William is a madman (fatuus) continuously, and has been so from his birth, so that he is insufficient for the rule of his lands, and that whilst in such madness he alienated a messuage, 53 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow, and 5 acres of pasture in Estpecham, which descended to him after the death of William his father, in fee to the aforesaid John atte Weld and William and Nicholas and John his sons, and that the said lands are held of the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, by the service of 21s. yearly, and that he had taken the lands into the king's hands in the name of distraint without carrying anything away thence, because he could not examine John concerning his state because his body remained hidden in the custody of the said John atte Welde, William, Nicholas, and John his sons; as it now appears by the examination of the said John son of William in chancery that he is not a madman nor an idiot.
July 28.
Thunderley.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Richard de Cerziaus, tenant by knight service of Joceus de Dynham, tenant in chief of the late king, which Joceus was lately a minor in the king's wardship, and to restore the issues thereof, as Richard de Cerziaus, kinsman and heir of the aforesaid Richard, has proved his age before the escheator, and the king has lately taken the homage of the said heir of Joceus and restored his inheritance to him.
July 23.
Canterbury.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to deliver to William de Hakeford and Hervey de Bury, citizens of London, a horse, price 100s., eight barrels of herrings in grease (uncti allecis), price 6s. a barrel, two barrels of 'lykemose,' price 20d. a barrel, 60 quarters of fine (minuti) salt, price 12d. a quarter, arrested from Conrad atte Brok of Grippeswold, and 12 pieces of wax, weighing 1,700 lbs. and a quarter, price 155s., six thousands and three quarters of greywork (grisi operis), price. 11l. a thousand, arrested from Lutekyn de Longe of Dortemounde, and 23 barrels of steel (asceri), price 60s. a barrel, arrested from Wolfard le Wyse of Dortemounde, and 21 barrels of steel, price 60s. a barrel, arrested from Wyger de Isplyngrode of Dortemounde, and 16 barrels of steel, price 60s. a barrel, arrested from Christian Sunthous of Dortemounde; and 7 barrels of steel for ploughs, price 50s. a barrel, arrested from Siward de Crane of Cologne, which were arrested by the sheriffs at the suit of William de Wydeslade, and which the king ordered them to deliver to the said William, as William has acknowledged in chancery that he owes 330l. to the said William de Hakeford and Hervey, and has granted that the aforesaid goods shall be delivered to them in satisfaction of that sum. The goods are to be delivered by appraisement thereof made, or by another appraisement to be made in the presence of the aforesaid merchants of Almain, if they choose to attend, unless they have been again appraised by virtue of another writ.
July 26.
Hadleigh.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with 6 acres of land in Bedington, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition that John Harvest of Andevre, sometime parson of the church of Bedington, found his church seised of the said land, and that it had been annexed to the church from time out of mind, and that he demised it at will to William le Rede Jop for a certain rent, and that other parsons of the church successively demised the land to other tenants at will, and that William de Kerleton, sometime parson of the said church, resumed the land from William de Tangelegh, the tenant at will, and that Thomas de Kynyngham and William de Halling', successively parsons of the same church, found the church seised of the said land, and that they so held it annexed to their church, and that Master Richard de Clare, late escheator beyond Trent, took the land into the king's hands on account of the above resumption.
July 28.
Thunderley.
To the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. Order not to permit Walter le Keu of Lincoln and others, whom the king appointed by his letters patent to take certain sums of money from all the ships of Holland and Zeeland (Seland) coming to that port up to a certain time, to take anything this side Martinmas from fishing ships of those parts by virtue of their appointment, as the king wills that nothing shall be taken from fishing ships during this fishing season. By C.
Sept. 8.
Clarendon.
The like to the bailiffs of William de Ros and Petronilla de Neirford at the port of Blakeneye.
The like to the bailiffs of the Tolbooth of Lenne.
Sept. 18.
Corfe.
The like to the bailiffs of Dunwich.
July 31.
Havering-atte-Bower.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately confirmed certain ordinances made by the prelates and proceres of the realm, which provided that all grants made by the king after 16 March, in the third year of his reign, to his damage should be revoked, and the king afterwards granted to Stephen de Abyndon, the king's butler, the king's right prise of all wines, to wit from every ship laden with wine coming to the realm a tun of wine before the mast and one tun aft the mast, paying to the merchants from whom he should receive the wine 20s. for each piece (pecia), and 20s. to the king's wardrobe for each piece; which grant was made after the said 16 March and it is to the king's damage; and the king, wishing to put the ordinances into execution in this behalf, ordered Roger de Northburgh, keeper of the wardrobe, to charge Stephen in his account of the office of butler, to be rendered before him, with the wines of the aforesaid prise for all the time when Stephen was butler, notwithstanding the aforesaid grant and the king's subsequent orders; which account cannot, for certain reasons, be finally terminated before Roger, for which reason the king wills that Stephen shall render such account before the treasurer and barons, notwithstanding the above account before Roger; wherefore the king orders them to cause Stephen to come before them at the exchequer with the rolls and memoranda touching the said account, and to audit his account with all speed, and to charge him rigidly with what pertains to his office of the wines received for the king's use, both of the prise and from elsewhere, for the whole time when he was butler at the true value of every tun, notwithstanding the aforesaid grant or the king's orders or letters that shall be shewn before them by Stephen, and to certify the king of the account when it have been audited, so that the king may cause to be done for Stephen what shall seem good of his grace. By p.s. [5348.]
To Roger de Northburgh. Order to supersede the auditing of the above account, and to send the rolls, memoranda, and all other things touching the account to the treasurer and barons without delay.
July 28.
Thunderley.
To Henry de Shirokes, chamberlain of Kaernarvan. Order to pay to Roger 'of the Fenne,' fletcher (attiliator), John de Mere, carpenter, and Stephen le Smyth, smith, staying in Beaumaris castle, the arrears of their usual fees and wages for the time that he has been chamberlain, and to continue paying the same.
July 27.
Hadleigh.
To Roger de Northburgh, keeper of the king's wardrobe. Order to allow Stephen le Blound, receiver of the king's victuals at Newcastle-on-Tyne, for 166 quarters and 5 bushels of Spanish wheat, 42 bacon-pigs, 10 quintals of iron, a quintal of steel (asceri), and 40 iron-bound (ferrati) barrels of victuals, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by John le Bousser and William de Gosefeld that they were loaded by Stephen in London by the king's order in a ship of William le Getour called 'La Trinite' of Berwick, whereof Walter de Donewico was master, in order to carry the same to Berwick castle, then in the king's hands, for the munition thereof, as appears by an indenture between Stephen and the master, and that they, were endangered (periclitata) and lost on the sand called 'Gunfletsond' in the sea off the coast of Essex, which sand is five leagues distant from land.
Aug. 4.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Elizabeth, late the wife of John de Northgrave, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
To the same. Order to cause John Lestraunge, son and heir of John Lestraunge of Knokyn, 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 homage. By p.s. [5357.]
July 28.
Thunderley.
To the justices of the Bench. Order to permit a fine to be levied before them between Walter de Stapeldon, bishop of Exeter, and Philip, prior of Longevill Giffard in Normandy concerning the advowson of the church of Westwhittenham, co. Berks, regarding which a plea of covenant pends before them between the above parties, as the prior has appeared personally before the king and acknowledged the advowson to be the right of the bishop, and has rendered it to him before the king, for which recognisance, fine, and concord the bishop has given the prior 100 marks, and the prior has attorned in his place John de la Slo and John de Caneford in this matter and to take the part of the chirograph, which John and John, or one of them, the justices are ordered to receive in place of the prior. By p.s. [5348.]
Aug. 6.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Ralph de Sancto Mauro, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by an inquisition taken by Walter de Gloucestre, late escheator this side Trent, that Ralph held nothing in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
To Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to the archbishop of Rouen his lands in his bailiwick, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of the voidance of the archbishopric, as the king has taken his fealty. By p.s.
[Fœdera.]
The like to Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. [Ibid.]
MEMBRANE 24.
July 28.
Thunderley.
To the collectors of the custom of wool and wool-fells in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Turrini Baldese, merchant of Florence, to take from that port to parts beyond sea 24 sacks of his own wool, upon payment of the custom, notwithstanding the king's late order to cause proclamation to be made that no native or foreign merchant should take wool and wool-fells out of the realm to Flanders, Brabant, and Artoys elsewhere than to the staple for the merchants of this realm, which is now appointed to be at St. Omer, and his subsequent order to take oath from merchants wishing to take wool and wool-fells out of the realm that they would avow the same under the name of the owner and not under the name of any one else, and to take security from the owners to answer for what pertained to the king in case they contravened the orders, as John de Triple, citizen and merchant of London, has mainperned for the said Turrini to answer to the king for his said wool if sent to any of the said lands contrary to the proclamation.
Like letters in favour of James Gesi, merchant of Luca, for whom the said John de Triple has mainperned, to the collectors of the custom in the port of Boston for 60 sacks of wool.
Like letters in favour of Gerard de Keatre and Rusticus Philippi, merchants of Luca, for whom Burnetus le Spicer and James Gesy, merchants of London, have mainperned, to the collectors of the custom in Boston for 25 sacks.