Close Rolls, Edward II: August 1318 | 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: August 1318', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 6-10. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp6-10 [accessed 11 April 2024]

August 1318



Aug. 1. Northampton.	To the sheriff of Devon. Whereas Matthew de Clyveden provided, when he was sheriff of that county, by virtue of the king's order to provide certain victuals in that county to be taken to the parts of Carlisle for the munition of the town and castle of Carlisle, certain of the aforesaid victuals, and the remainder has still to be provided, and the victuals so provided by him still remain in his possession, because he was removed from office immediately after he had made the provision, and the men from whom they were bought have not been satisfied for the same; the king orders the sheriff to cause the remainder of the victuals to be provided forthwith, and to receive from Matthew the victuals provided by him by indenture containing the amount thereof, and the price, and the names of those from whom the victuals were bought, and to cause them and the victuals to be provided by himself to be taken to the parts of Skymburnes, there to be delivered by indenture to Robert de Barton, receiver and keeper of the king's victuals, and to satisfy the said men for the victuals provided by Matthew. By p.s. [4829.]
Aug. 1. Northampton.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to release John Beek of Wythkal from prison at Lincoln, upon his finding sufficient mainpernors to have him before John de Insula, Henry Spigurnel, and Lambert de Trikyngham, the king's justices to hear and determine the felonies and trespasses whereof the indictments were lately taken before the king at Lincoln, amongst which John was indicted for burglary and robbery of the house of Nicholas de Baumburgh, and for burning the house of John de Brynkle, the said John having been put in exigent to be outlawed because he did not come before the justices aforesaid to answer to the king's suit herein, and the sheriff was commanded by the king's writ, witnessed by John de Insula, on 10 December, in the 11th year of the reign, to exact the said John from county [court] to county [court], etc., so that he should have him before the said justices at Lincoln on Friday the morrow of St. Bartholomew then next following, to stand to right concerning the robbery, felony, and burning aforesaid; as the said John, upon hearing of the exigent aforesaid, rendered himself to the aforesaid prison, for which reason the king wishes, at his instance, to shew him special grace. By K.
Aug. 3. Northampton.	To Master Richard de Clare, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Isabella de Maydenach, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by him that she held nothing at her death in chief of the king by reason whereof the custody of her lands should pertain to the king.
	To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to their owners the issues received by him from the above lands whilst in the king's hands and in his custody.
Aug. 2. Northampton.	To J. bishop of Winchester, principal collector of the tenth imposed upon the clergy by the pope and granted to the king. Order to cause to be paid to the king's yeoman John de Rithre, late constable of the castle of Skipton-in-Craven, 100l. out of the money of the first term of payment of the said tenth in the diocese of York by the hands of the abbot of Seleby, sub-collector of the tenth in that diocese, in part-payment of 386l. 13s. 4d. due to him from the king for the custody of the said castle, as appears by bills of the wardrobe under the seal of Roger de Northburgh, keeper of the wardrobe, in John's possession, receiving from him bills [of the wardrobe] to the amount of 100l. and his letters of acquittance. The payment is to be made notwithstanding any assignment previously made by the king to any other person. By p.s. [4830.]
Aug. 1. Northampton.	To Oliver de Ingham. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Wighton and the hundred of Northgrenet, co. Norfolk, which he has by the king's commission, and to deliver the issues received thence from 9 July last to Ralph de Eu, count of Eu, the king having, on that day, assigned to the count and to Joan his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Drogo de Merlawe, tenant in chief, a moiety of the said manor and hundred amongst other lands of Drogo's, as her property of his lands, and having, on 10 July following, committed to the count by letters patent the other moiety of the manor and hundred, which were in the king's hands on account of the minority of Margaret, the second daughter and co-heiress of Drogo, to have under a certain form.
July 31. Northampton.	To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order to supersede entirely the assize of darrein presentment arramed by the king before himself against William de Wrotham concerning the advowson of the church of Akle, diocese of Lincoln, of the king's patronage, and the plea in connexion therewith pending before the king, which assize the king arramed upon his presentation of his clerk Gilbert de Ebor[aco] to the said church, made under the belief that the church was void, as the said William was presented by the late king to the church of Brehull, and was, by virtue of that presentment, admitted and instituted to it and the said church of Akle, which churches fall under one presentation, and he remains in full bodily vigour, as appears fully to the king; wherefore the king has accepted the presentation made of the said William, and has caused the presentation of Gilbert to be revoked. By K. on the information of Master Thomas de Cherleton.
	To Gilbert de Ebor[aco]. Order not to intermeddle with anything by reason of the above presentation.
Aug. 10. Leek.	To J. bishop of Winchester. Order to appoint Alexander, archbishop of Dublin, to collect in Ireland the tenth of the clergy granted by the pope to the king in the realms of England and Scotland and in the lands of Ireland and Wales, which the pope appointed the said John and Walter, bishop of Exeter, to levy and collect for the king's use, as the king considers that the tenth in Ireland can be more conveniently collected by the archbishop than by the said John; so that the archbishop may answer to the full at the exchequer of Dublin. He is ordered to cause the pope's original letters of appointment, which are in his possession because the bishop of Exeter has excused himself as to the collection, to be delivered to the archbishop, in order that he may publish them in Ireland, after which publication John is to receive them back again. By K. and C.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be annulled and cancelled the recognisance made in chancery whereby Richard de Egebaston and John de Houby acknowledged themselves to be bound to Bartholomew de Badelesmere in 200 marks, as they have satisfied him for that sum, as he has acknowledged before the king. By K.
Aug. 8. Leek.	To Robert de Sapy, escheator beyond Trent. Order to supersede until the next parliament the execution of the king's order to deliver to Gilbert de Aton, as his right and inheritance, the manor of Malton, which belonged to William de Vescy, and which Joan Comyn holds during the king's pleasure, notwithstanding any order of the king's previously made, unless the king send in the meantime another order, as the king wills for certain reasons that Joan shall hold the manor until the next parliament. By K.
	The like to the sheriff of York.
Aug. 13. Nottingham.	To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause Robert de Holand to have seisin of the manors of Haghe and Blakerode, as it appears by inquisition that William de Bradeshaghe, who was outlawed for felony, held them of the said Robert, and that they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Peter de Lymesy and Mabel de Haghe had the king's year, day, and waste thereof, for which they ought to answer to the king.
Aug. 18. Clipston.	To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Shirwode to be elected in place of John de Loudham, deceased.
Aug. 12. Nottingham.	To the abbot of St. Mary's York, sub-collector of the 12d. in the mark granted to the king by the clergy of the diocese of York for the Scotch war. Order to pay without delay to Robert de Barton, keeper of the king's victuals in the parts of Carlisle, 54l. of the residue of the above 12d. in the mark, which the king has appointed him to receive from the abbot for payment of his debts for the time when he was keeper of the victuals aforesaid, receiving from him the king's letters patent and his own letters patent witnessing the receipt.
Aug. 20. Clipston.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Rokyngham to be elected in place of John Doylly, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
Aug. 14. Nottingham.	To J. bishop of Winchester, principal collector of the tenth of the clergy of England and Ireland imposed by the pope for the king's use. Order to pay, out of the first moneys collected in Ireland, to Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wyggemor, late keeper of Ireland and supplying the king's place therein, 400 marks, towards the sum that he ought to receive from the king for his stay in that land during his term of office. By K.
	Membrane 29.
Aug. 16. Nottingham.	To Master Richard de Clare, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to brother James de Cusancia, prior of Priterwell, the priory of Priterwell, together with the issues thereof from the time when the priory was taken into the king's hands, which the king ordered to be done because he learned from the complaint of the said James that brother William de (sic) Avernaz, monk of the order of Cluny, who asserted that he had been instituted prior of Priterwell, and that he had been despoiled of the possession thereof at the procuration of the said James, had entered the priory by force and arms, and that he held the same by armed force, wasting the goods and possessions of the priory, which was founded of the alms of the king and his progenitors, the king having previously accepted the promotion of James to the priory, which was made by the prior of Lewes, and having taken his fealty, and ordered the temporalities to be delivered to him, Wil liam having entered the priory as above stated before the morrow of St. James last past, at which day the king ordered Master John Walewayn, then escheator beyond Trent, to signify to James that he should appear in chancery to show cause why the temporalities of the priory should not be delivered to William, if he had been despoiled thereof as he alleged; as William came in person before the king in chancery on the morrow of the Assumption last, in accordance with the king's order that he and James should appear upon that day, and asserted that he had no right in the same priory, and expressly renounced any right therein. By K.
Aug. 13. Nottingham.	To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Whereas the following merchants of this realm caused a ship of John Priour's called 'la Petite Bayard' of London to be laden in London with wool and other goods, in order to send the same to Andwerp, in Brabant, to trade there with the same, to wit Simon de Abyndon, with 12 serplers of wool, price 120l.; Stephen le Foullere, with 4 serplers of wool, price 40l.; Ralph de Walcote, with 12 serplers of wool, price 120l.; John Priour, with 12 serplers of wool, price 120l.; Thomas Prentiz, with 3 serplers of wool, price 30l.; John de Sandale, with 6 serplers of wool, price 60l.; William de Coumbmartyn, with 4 serplers of wool, price 40l.; John atte Vine, with 5 serplers of wool, price 50l.; Thomas de Abyndon, with 3 serplers of wool, price 30l.; Thomas Beauflour, with 7 serplers of wool, price 70l.; William Panyfadre, with a serpler of wool, price 10l.; William Biddik, with 5 serplers of wool, price 50l.; Robert Elys of Thame, with 16 serplers of wool, price 160l.; Adam Puff of Berkhamsted, with 21 serplers, price 210l.; Richard de Warrewyk, with 5 serplers, price 50l.; and Nicholas Alisaundre, with 4 serplers, price 40l.; and although, at the complaint of the said merchants that the admiral of Caleys and certain of his armed men attacked the ship and her tackle, price 40l., and the men in her on her voyage towards Brabant on the coast in the Isle of Thanet, within this realm, and carried off with them the ship, tackle, and cargo, detaining the wool from the said merchants, to their damage of 2,000 marks and more, the king ordered the sheriffs to arrest goods of the men and merchants of the power of the king of France found within the city to the value of 600l., and to keep the same until the merchants had been satisfied for that sum or until further orders; the king now orders them to supersede the execution of the above order until All Saints next, and to release any goods that they may have arrested in execution of the above order, as the king of France will do justice to the aforesaid merchants concerning this robbery before the aforesaid feast, as he has promised to do by his letters patent to the king remaining in chancery. By K.
	The like to the following for the following sums:
	The bailiffs of Southampton for 400l.
	The bailiffs of Great Yarmouth for 200l.
	The bailiffs of Ipswich for 133l. 6s. 8d.
Aug. 18. Clipston.	To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to William de Castellay and Richard de Alverton, keepers of the king's fishpond of Fosse, their usual wages from the time of his appointment, and to continue paying the same.
Aug. 16. Nottingham.	To John de Foxle and his fellows, justices to take assizes in co. Berks. Order to adjourn (continuetis) until their next session after Michaelmas the assize arramed by Geoffrey de Okehangre against Almaric la Zusche for a disseisin made upon him, as he alleges, by Almaric and others named in the original writ of a tenement in Estchifford, if the disseisin was made so long ago that Geoffrey might have prosecuted his assize before Almaric crossed the sea in the king's service; as the king is bound to provide for the indemnity of those engaged in his service, so that they be not defrauded of their rights in their absence. By K.
Aug. 23. Nottingham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to deliver to A. archbishop of Dublin, justiciary of Ireland, 200 marks from custodies and marriages now in the king's hands, or that shall first come to his hands, the king having granted him that sum in aid of his expenses in the above office. By K.
Aug. 25. Nottingham.	To the bailiffs of Nottingham. Order to expend up to 12s. 9d. in constructing a penthouse (penticii) between the king's chamber in Nottingham castle and the tower of the castle.
Aug. 24. Nottingham.	To the collectors in the port of Yarmouth of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells, and of the loan from native and alien merchants from the wool, hides, and wool-fells to be exported up to a certain time. Order to pay to Master Roger de Acton, king's sergeant, 100l. for certain provisions to be made for the expenses of the king's household. By K. on the information of Roger de Northburgh.
	The like to the following:
	The collectors of the custom, etc., at Yarmouth for 100l. Vacated because above.
	The collectors of the custom, etc., at Lenne for 100l.
	The bailiffs of Yarmouth for 55l. of their ferm.
Aug. 28. Clipston.	To Master Reymund de Mountanser, (fn. 1) receiver of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of Ipswich. Order to pay to the king's yeoman Fortenerius de Till' (fn. 2) the sums contained in bills of the wardrobe in his possession, which are due to him for the recompence for his horses lost in the king's service in Scotland, and for the arrears of his wages, receiving the bills from him together with his letters patent of receipt. The king wills that, after payment of the above, the assignment made by the king upon the said custom in favour of the men of Gascony shall obtain force. By p.s. [4845.]