Close Rolls, Edward II: January 1322 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward II: January 1322', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 413-416. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp413-416 [accessed 19 April 2024]

January 1322



Jan. 10. King Swinford.	To Edward, earl of Chester, the king's son, or to his justice in that county, or to him who supplies the justice's place. Order to cause 500 footmen to be elected without delay in that county, associating with them in this office John de Wrenbury and John Roher, and to appoint Robert de Preyers, William de Preyers, David de Beston, Richard de Morton, and Robert de Wynyngton constables to bring the men to the king, and to cause the constables and men to come to the king without delay well found in arms, to go with the king at his wages through divers parts of his realm to punish the oppressions of his people and to repress any insurrection. By K.
	Membrane 20.
Jan. 20. Shrewsbury.	To Master John Walew[a]yn, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John de Erle, son and heir of William Erle, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before Richard de Rodeneye, late escheator this side Trent, and the king has taken his homage. By K.
Jan. 18. Shrewsbury.	To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to admit John de Ileford to execute the office of coroner in the city, as Stephen de Abyndon, the king's butler, to whom the office of coroner in the city pertains, is unable to execute the office personally because he is engaged upon the king's affairs in divers parts of the kingdom, and has appointed John as his substitute.
Jan. 20. Shrewsbury.	To the mayor and burgesses of the town of Oxford. Order not to permit any suspicious person to enter the town, and if any unsuspected person be permitted by them to stay in the town, they are to cause him to swear before the chancellor of the university and the sheriff of Oxford, if he be present, that he will be faithful to the king and that he will defend the town if it be attacked, as the king is given to understand that many magnates and others come to the town daily to stay therein. By K. [Fœdera.]
Jan. 20. Shrewsbury.	To the sheriff of Cambridge and the coroners of that county. Order to deliver to Fulk fuiz Warin by indenture the jewels and goods in their custody whereof he was robbed at Boreford, co. Oxford, by William de Burle and Walter de Novo Castro, who were arrested at Cambridge at the king's suit with eight silver dishes, a silk girdle, a gold brooch (firmaculo), and a chest (forcerio) with certain muniments, part of the jewels and goods whereof Fulk was robbed, the said Walter having been delivered to J. bishop of Ely, the ordinary, according to the privilege of the clergy, and William having escaped from Gransete church, whither he had fled, by reason whereof the jewels and goods were taken into the king's hands as forfeited to him. By K.
	The like to the mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge.
Jan. 24. Shrewsbury.	To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order not to aggrieve certain ministers of St. Paul's church, London, or their mainpernors if they have not appeared before the king in the octaves of St. Hilary last, until which day the king adjourned the matter after he had caused it to come before him, the said ministers having been impeached at the king's suit before Hervey de Staunton and his fellows, justices last in eyre at the Tower of London, for divers oppressions of the people of the city by the proving of wills and other such things, as the king has now caused the matter to be adjourned until the quinzaine of Easter. By K.
	Geoffrey son of John son of Robert, imprisoned at Aylesbury for the death of John son of Robert, his father, has letters to the sheriff of Buckingham to bail him until the first assize.
Jan. 24. Shrewsbury.	To the sheriff of Middlesex. Order to cause the letters obligatory of the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence for 46l. and of Simon de Swanlond for 84l. to be restored to them, and to cause ten pieces and half a piece of cloth to be delivered to Robert Leger by the said merchants, and eighteen pieces and half a piece of cloth to be delivered to John Bel by the the said Simon, the said merchants and Simon having mainperned to answer to Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, for the above sums, the value of the said cloth, which was arrested in execution of the king's order to arrest goods of the men of the power of the count of Flanders in part satisfaction for the earl's goods taken from his ship called 'Coga de Valencia' (as at page 411 above), as it now agreed between the earl and the said Robert and John, merchants of Douay, that the aforesaid cloth shall be wholly delivered to them. By K.
Jan. 24. Shrewsbury.	To the keeper of the office of treasurer and to the barons of the exchequcr. Order to audit the account of Simon Corp, late mayor of London, of his expenditure in execution of the king's order to the mayor, aldermen and community to cause the sheriffs to have the four gates of the city for the custody of the Templars, etc., and to cause him to have allowance therefor.
Jan. 22. Shrewsbury.	To the sheriffs of London. At the suit of William de Wyddeslade, citizen of London, that certain goods of his to the value of 300l., laden in a ship of Laurence Pollesone at Le Sclus in Flanders, had been taken from the said ship near Wynterton, co. Norfolk, by malefactors of the parts of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland, and of the towns of Cologne, Dortemuth, Rikelinghous, Lubyk, Osenbrugge, Menstre, Grippeswald, Sussalt, and Hamburgh, and elsewhere in Almain, the king, after due process in this matter, ordered the sheriffs to deliver goods of the men and merchants of the aforesaid towns to the value of 389l. 12s. 4d. arrested by them to the aforesaid merchants, in part satisfaction for the above 300l. and of 100l., at which his damages were then taxed; and afterwards, upon the petition of the said William shewing that the robbery, and the arrest, and the estimation of the damages had occurred a long time since, and the execution of that arrest had been delayed until 22 July, in the 14th year of the king's reign, by the fault and feigned and undue contradiction of the aforesaid merchants of Almain, and praying the king for greater damages on account of the long detention of his goods and of his long suit after the aforesaid estimation, the king ordered the sheriffs to cause his damages beyond the above sum of 100l. to be taxed by the oath of merchants and others, and it is found by the said taxation that the said William sustained damages to the amount of 200l. beyond the above sum: wherefore the king orders the sheriffs to arrest goods of the men of the power of the said count and of the aforesaid towns of Almain to the value of the said 200l. and of 7s. 8d., (sic), the remainder of the aforesaid 300l. and 100l. for damages, and to keep the same safely until further orders. By p.s.
Jan. 27. Ludlow.	To Edward, earl of Chester, or to his justice in the county of Chester, or to him who supplies the justice's place. Order to cause the manor of Wybenbury, co. Chester, which was taken into the earl's hands upon the death of Walter, late bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to be kept during the voidance of the see without waste or destruction, so that it may be rendered to the future bishop, as the king is given to understand that, although the manor at all times past belonged to the bishopric of Chester, William de Prayers intruded himself upon the manor when the aforesaid bishop was dying at London, so that he might defraud the king or the earl of the custody of the manor during the voidance of the see. By p.s. [5939.]
Jan. 23. Shrewsbury.	To William de la Beche, keeper of the castle of Dolvoryn and of the lands of Kery and Kedewyn. Order to pay to the king's clerk Thomas de Eggefeld his wages, to wit 2s. a day, out of the issues of his bailiwick during the time he shall be occupied in going with the said keeper to the aforesaid castle and lands, and in staying there and returning thence, the king having appointed him to go thither, and to make an indenture with the said keeper concerning the goods and chattels of Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wyggemor found therein, and to certify the king of the value of the same, as contained in the king's letters patent. By K.
	The like for the following:
	John de Norton, addressed to Walter le Gras, [keeper] of the castles (custrorum) of Dynelegh and Kevenethes, and of the lands there, and of the lands of Meleneth and Guerthrengh', to receive 2s. a day.
	William de Leycestre, addressed to Robert de Morby, keeper of the castle, town, and land of Breghennogh, to receive 4s. a day.
	William de Holyns, addressed to John de Siggeston, keeper of the castles and towns of Huntyngton and La Haye, and of the lands there, to receive 18d. a day.
	William de Werdale, addressed to John de Dene, keeper of the castles and lands of Bolkedynas, Blenleveny, and Penkethelyn, to receive 18d. a day.
	Benedict de Normanton, addressed to Richard le Mareschal, keeper of the castle and town of Brentheles, and of the lands there, and of the lands of Cantredesely, to receive 2s. [a day].
	William de Kaythorp, addressed to Edmund Gacelyn, keeper of the castle, town, and lands of Kirkehouwel and Stradieu, to receive 18d. a day.
	Thomas de Brayton, addressed to Griffin ap Rees, keeper of the castle, town, and lands of Buelt, to receive 2s. a day.
	John de Crosseby, addressed to Humphrey de Litlebury, keeper of the town, land, and lordship of the land of Radenore, to receive 2s. a day.
	John de Merton, addressed to Alan de Cherleton, keeper of the castle and lordship of Wyggemor, to receive 4s. a day.
	Hugh de Burgh, addressed to Ralph le Botyller, keeper of the castle and town of Lodelowe, and of the manors of Staunton Lacy and Clebury, to receive 4s. a day.
Jan. 28. Leominster.	To the chamberlain of North Wales. Order to pay to the prisoners from Scotland (fn. 1) in the castle of Beaumaris the arrears of their wages from the time of his appointment, and to continue to pay them the wages that they have been wont to receive. By p.s. [5941.]
	To the same. Order to cause the quay between the castle of Beaumaris and the sea to be repaired, so that the castle may not be damaged by the sea. By the same writ. [5941.]
Jan. 31. Hereford.	Reginald de Mudle, imprisoned in Shrewsbury gaol for the death of Hugh le Carter, has a writ to the sheriff of Salop to bail him until the first assize.
Feb. 7. Gloucester.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed to levy a fine between Thomas de Greneham and Alice his wife and Henry de Lusseby, chaplain, concerning the manor of Ketene, co. Rutland, notwithstanding that the manor is said to be held of the king in chief, the justices having deferred levying the fine because it was said before them that the manor was held in chief. By K.
Feb. 8. Gloucester.	To the sheriff of York. Order to restore to John de Crumbwell all his lands that Roger de Clifford occupied in warlike manner, which the sheriff has taken into the king's hands by virtue of his order to take Roger's lands into the king's hands until further orders. The king wills that the sheriff shall aid and counsel John and his men and servants in maintaining his possession of the aforesaid lands, whenever required to do so on John's behalf. By K.
	The like to the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby.
	Membrane 19.
Jan. 6. Worcester.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to take into the king's hands without delay the priory of Hereford and all its possessions and appurtenances, moveable and immoveable, as the king understands that contention has arisen between brother William de Irby, prior of the aforesaid priory, acknowledging the priory to be of the foundation of the alms of the king's progenitors, and that he holds the priory of the king's advowson and brother Thomas de Burghhull, who has intruded himself into the priory, which he claims to hold of the advowson and foundation of others than the king's progenitors, by which contention the priory is so much destroyed and impoverished that its goods are insufficient to maintain the charges and works of piety ordained for the souls of the king's ancestors, for which purposes the priory was founded and annexed to the abbey of Gloucester, which is of the foundation of the king's ancestors. By K.