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Membrane 43. |
July 8.
Faxfleet. |
To Robert le Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to pay the
fees and wages of the justices, constables, sheriffs, and officers in his bailiwick from the time of his appointment, and to continue paying the same
hereafter. |
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To Henry le Scrop. Order to deliver to Hervey de Staunton, whom the
king wills shall be chief-justice to hold pleas before him, the rolls, writs,
memoranda, and other things touching that office that are in Henry's
custody. By K. |
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Vacated, because otherwise below. |
July 8.
Faxfleet. |
To Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to repair the
houses, towers, and other buildings in the king's hands in his bailiwick,
and the bridges and ponds pertaining to the castles, by the view and testimony of the justice of Wales or of him who supplies his place in those
parts. By C. |
July 8.
Faxfleet. |
To Edmund, earl of Kent, constable of Dover castle and warden of the
Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause diligent
search to be made in all ports of all persons coming into the realm by sea,
and to seize any letters and the bearers thereof touching the bishoprics of
Winchester and Llandaff, or touching the person of Master John de Stratford, and to send the letters and their bearers to the king, as the king
understands that Master John, who sojourned at the Roman court upon
the king's affairs, has accepted the bishopric of Winchester without the
king's knowledge and against his will, and that letters prejudicial to the
king will shortly be directed to England, another person having similarly
accepted the bishopric of Llandaff. By K. |
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[Fœdera.] |
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The like to the bailiffs of Bristol, Southampton, and Portsmouth, and to
the sheriffs of Southampton, Somerset and Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and
the mayor and sheriffs of London. [Ibid.] |
July 10.
Faxfleet. |
To Roger Carles, keeper of certain rebels' lands in co. Hereford. Order
to restore to Thomas de Langeford, a late rebel, his lands, as he has made
fine with the king to save his life and lands. By K. and C. |
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To the sheriff of Hereford. Order not to molest Thomas for the above
reason. |
July 9.
Faxfleet. |
To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Robert de Reydon, and to restore the
issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Robert held no lands in chief of the king at his death by reason whereof the
custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king. |
July 10.
Faxfleet. |
To L. bishop of Durham, or to him who supplies his place in the
bishopric. Order to release from his prison at Durham Cuthbert son of
John de Dunolm[ia], Gamelin le Monneor, Humphrey le Pestour, and
Robert de Hautwissell, upon their finding mainprise to have them before
the king when he will speak against them, the bishop having arrested them
in execution of the king's order to enquire concerning the attack made at
Durham by the said Cuthbert and other malefactors of Durham upon
certain members of the household of William, bishop of St. Andrews, who
lately came into the realm under the king's safe-conduct to treat of peace
between him and Robert de Brus. By C. |
July 8.
Faxfleet. |
To Henry le Scrop. Order to deliver to Hervey de Staunton, whom the
king wills shall be his chief justice to hold pleas before him, the rolls, writs,
memoranda, and other things touching that office that are in Henry's
custody at York, and to cause to be delivered to the treasury all rolls,
writs, memoranda, and other things touching that office that are in Henry's
custody at London or elsewhere. By K. |
July 8.
Faxfleet. |
To Robert le Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to appoint a
keeper of the victuals in the castle of Hardelaugh, and to pay him such
wages as the keepers of victuals in other castles in those parts receive. |
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By C. |
July 8.
Faxfleet. |
To Hervey de Staunton, chancellor of the exchequer. Order to intend
the holding of pleas before the king with others to be appointed for this
purpose, as the king wills that he shall be chief justice to hold such pleas.
It is not the king's intention that Hervey shall quit the office of chancellor,
but that he shall cause that office to be executed by another fit person whilst
he is intending the said pleas. By K. |
July 19.
Burstwick. |
To Anthony de Lucy, constable of Carlisle castle. Order to pay to the
king's watchman in that castle the arrears of his wages and stipends from
the time of the constable's appointment, and to continue paying the same
hereafter until further orders. By K. |
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To the said Anthony, late sheriff of Cumberland. Order to deliver
Nicholas de Hewyk, a prisoner in his custody, to Henry de Malton, now
sheriff of that county, whom the king has ordered to receive the said prisoner
and to keep him as Henry has been enjoined on the king's behalf. |
July 18.
Burstwick. |
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to release Roger de la Dene, Robert de
la Dene, Richard his brother, and Richard Auntioche, parson of the church
of Tarente Auntioche, from prison at Dorchester, and to restore their goods
to them upon their finding mainpernors to have them before the king if the
king will speak against them, the sheriff having certified the king that they
were arrested by order of the earl of Kent, and that they were charged
before him with harbouring and maintaining certain alleged adherents of
Robert le Ewer. By C. |
July 16.
Burstwick. |
To the constable of Bristol castle, or to him who supplies his place.
Order to cause John de Sapy, late constable of Beaumaris [Castle] and sheriff
of Caernarvan, who is imprisoned in the constable's custody because he was a
rebel, to be brought to the exchequer at Westminster at the king's cost
under safe custody, so that he be there on the morrow of Michaelmas next,
in order that the account of the chamberlain of North Wales may be rendered in his presence, as it cannot be rendered conveniently without his
presence, and the rendering has long been delayed for this reason. |
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By K. |
July 16.
Burstwick. |
To Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a shop built by Walter de Bibiri, deceased, and Cicely,
his wife, upon a plot of land in Conyngestrete, in the city of York, and to
restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the
escheator that the plot is the free tenement of Cicely as that which she and
Walter acquired to them and their heirs from Thomas de Barneby, and that
the said Thomas and his ancestors held the plot as their free tenement from
time out of mind, and that the plot was never a lane or common passage
(transitus), and that a dyer used to dwell there at one time, and that he had
his houses near the water of Ouse in order to exercise his office more conveniently, and that he had a gate in the street of Conyngestrete whereby he
entered and left his houses aforesaid, and that he permitted his neighbours
and friends to go to the water of Ouse by his said gate and houses of his
permission and free will, and that the plot is held of the king as a free
burgage of the aforesaid city by the service of 2d. yearly for house-gavel
(housgabulum), and that the shop now built thereon is worth 5s. yearly, the
escheator having taken the shop into the king's hands by reason of the
common passage aforesaid. |
July 20.
Burstwick. |
To Edmund, earl of Arundel, justice of North Wales, or to him who
supplies his place. Order to associate with him Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales, and to receive ransoms at their discretion from the
Scots lately captured in the county of Angleseye and now imprisoned in the
king's castles in North Wales, and to cause them to be released from prison
when they have satisfied the king for their ransoms, certifying the treasurer
and barons concerning the ransoms. By p.s. directed to the treasurer. |
July 19.
Burstwick. |
To Thomes de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to
Joan, late the wife of John de Ulram, tenant by knight service of the heir
of Thomas de Cailly, a minor in the king's custody, two bovates out of the
said John's messuage and five bovates of land in Eston, co. York, which
the king has assigned to her in dower by the assent of Hugh, son and heir
of the said John. |
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To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with two tofts and
eight bovates of land in Eston, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John de Ulram and Joan
his wife, who still survives, held the same jointly on the day of John's
death, to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that the tofts and land
are held of the aforesaid heir of Thomas de Cailly. |
July 16.
Burstwick. |
To the same. Order to restore the issues of the aforesaid land of the said
John de Ulram, the king having ordered the escheator to restore the lands
to Hugh, son and heir of the said John, who is of full age, as the king had
taken his fealty, saving the aforesaid Joan's dower therein. |
July 19.
Burstwick. |
To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands of Laurence de Reppes, and to restore
the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that
he held nothing in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his
lands ought to pertain to the king. |
July 12.
Burstwick. |
To the same. Like order concerning the lands of Nicholas Dengayne. |
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July 9.
Faxfleet. |
To the constable of Coneweye castle, or to him who supplies his place.
Order to cause certain rotten victuals in that castle to be removed by
Robert Power, chamberlain of Kaernervon, or by a person to be deputed by
him, as the king has ordained that Robert shall replace them by suitable
victuals. The king gives the constable to understand that he will punish
him and charge him with the same victuals if he hinder the chamberlain in
removing and replacing the victuals. By K. and C. |
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The like to the constables of the following castles: |
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Beaumareys. |
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Kaernervan. |
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Crukyth. |
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Hardelagh. |
July 11.
Faxfleet. |
To Robert de Welle and Richard de Ayremynne, keepers of the bishopric
of Winchester, void and in the king's hands. As they have certified
the king that, in passing through the lands of the bishopric, they found
that Walter de Abberbury, brother of Master Thomas de Abberbury,
acquired from Henry, late bishop of Winchester, a messuage and 96 acres
of land in Abberbury, which he entered, and that he and his heirs have
hitherto held the same without obtaining the king's licence, and that
the keepers received from John, his son, the present tenant thereof, a
fine of 10 marks for the king's use for the above trespass, believing that it
pertained to their office to receive such fines, and the king has confirmed the
letters of the aforesaid Henry made to Walter and John of the premises for
a fine of 10 marks, which he has caused to be enrolled in the rolls of his
chancery, the king orders the keepers not to molest John for the aforesaid
10 marks, and to restore the same to him if they have received them from
him, or to ordain otherwise with him that the 10 marks be paid to the king
at the exchequer, as the king wills that the fine shall be levied by the
estreats of the rolls of chancery, as has been usual heretofore. |
July 11.
Faxfleet. |
To Robert Power, chamberlain of Kaernarvan. Order to cause the
victuals that the king has ordered the keeper of his victuals at Carlisle and
Skynburnesse to bring to Kaernarvan for the munition of the king's castles
in North Wales to be sold, in case they are unfit, and to cause others to be
bought out of the issues of his bailiwick in their place for the above
purpose. By bill of the treasurer. |
July 8.
Faxfleet. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Andrew le
Botiller, clerk, was lately charged before Henry le Scrop and his fellows,
justices to hold pleas before the king, with the homicide of Thomas de
Holm, and was afterwards delivered by them to W. archbishop of York, the
ordinary of the place, according to the privilege of the clergy, before whom
he purged his innocence of the crime, and the king thereupon ordered the
sheriff of Nottingham to restore to Andrew his lands and goods unless he
had made flight, and although the sheriff delivered to him his lands, he
has not yet delivered to him his goods, and Andrew has accordingly prayed
the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders the treasurer and
barons to cause Andrew's goods to be restored to him, if they find by inquisition or otherwise that he did not make flight for this cause, and to cause
the township of Hokerton, which is charged with his goods, to be discharged
thereof. |
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To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to
interfere further with the bedelery of the hundred of Bradeford, and to
restore the issues thereof, the escheator having certified the king that he
took a simple seisin of the bedelery in the king's name because he found
by inquisition that Mary, abbess of Shaftesbury, who held the hundred and
bedelery aforesaid with other lands of the king's progenitors in frankalmoin,
alienated the bedelery to Beatrice, daughter of Herbert, and that this
alienation was made in the time of King Richard. By C. |
July 12.
Burstwick. |
To William de Tatham, receiver of the issues of the castles, manors and
lands of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and of other rebels in co. Lancaster.
As the king learns by inquisition taken by John Travers, late keeper of the
aforesaid castles, etc., that Nicholas du Lee held a messuage with appurtenances in Lancastre of Geoffrey, late prior of Lancaster, by the service of
2s. yearly, and that the prior and his predecessors were seised of that rent
during the time that Nicholas held it as of their very tenant, and that the
messuage afterwards came to the earl's hands by acquisition, and that after
that time Fulcher, then prior, was seised of the aforesaid rent all his life,
and that after his death Nigel, the present prior, was seised of the rent until
the earl's death, when the messuage came to the king's hands with other
lands of the earl; the king orders the receiver to pay the prior the arrears
of the rent from the time when the messuage was taken into the king's
hands, and to continue to pay the same for so long as he is receiver. |
July 14.
Burstwick. |
To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the priory of Combewell, now
void, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the minority of
the heir of Geoffrey de Say, tenant in chief, and to restore the issues thereof
to the sub-prior and convent, saving the king's right in the presentation of
the prior elect, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Geoffrey de Say and his ancestors, formerly patrons of the priory, had no
administration of the goods and things pertaining to the priory in times of
voidance, but that the sub-prior and convent had at all times full administration of all goods during voidance, and that neither the king nor his
ancestors received any issues from the temporalities of the priory during
voidance by reason of the minority of Geoffrey's ancestors. |
July 15.
Burstwick. |
To the same. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Amice, late the
wife of Elias Martel of Canewyk, tenant in chief, according to the extent
made by him or according to a new one to be made, if necessary, in the
presence of William de Clif, to whom the king has committed the custody
of two parts of Elias's lands during the minority of his heir. |
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To the sheriff of York. Order to expend up to 20l. in repairing York
castle and the houses within the same, by the view and testimony of the
mayor of York. By bill of the treasurer. |
July 9.
Burstwick. |
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to release Henry de Corton, John
Comyn, and Robert Golde, and to restore their goods to them, upon their
finding mainpernors to have them before the king when ordered, the sheriff
having returned that they were imprisoned by order of the earl of Kent,
because they were charged before him with maintaining certain alleged
adherents and receivers of Robert Lewer and his abbettors. |
July 17.
Burstwick. |
To Robert de Notingham and William de Kyrkeby, late vendors of the
king's victuals at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Order to place all writings obligatory concerning the sale of the said victuals in a chest in the treasury of
the cathedral church of Durham under their seals, to be kept there until the
day of payment therein contained. The king has ordered the prior and
convent to receive and keep the chest. By C. |
July 14.
Burstwick. |
To the abbot of St. Nicholas, Angers, or to his proctor in England. The
prior and convent of Spalding, in the diocese of Lincoln, have shewn to the
king that whereas a composition was made between their predecessors and
the abbot's predecessors, whereby the prior and convent agreed to pay to
the abbot a yearly pension of 40l. to cherish peace between them, and for
the abbot's expenses by reason of the visitation and the profession of the
monks and the election of the prior to be made at Spalding; and although
in all tenths, charges, and impositions imposed by the church of Rome upon
the clergy of this realm, and in such grants made by the clergy to the king
and his progenitors, the said 40l. [has been taxed] to the aforesaid charges,
and the charges have been hitherto allowed to the prior and convent in the
payment of the 40l., the abbot now refuses to allow them for other tenths
and charges than those imposed upon them by the pope, and endeavours to
compel them by ecclesiastical censure to make full payment; and as it
appears by the memoranda of the king's court that the aforesaid pension is
taxed to the tenth and other charges and impositions: the king orders
the abbot to allow the said tenth and other charges to the prior and convent
in the payment of the pension as they have been usually allowed to them
heretofore. |
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To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver
to Eleanor, late the wife of Guy Ferre, the manor of Benhale, co. Suffolk,
which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Guy's death and the
issues thereof from the time of Guy's death, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Guy and Eleanor held the manor jointly
by fine levied in the king's court to them and the heirs of their bodies, so
that if Guy died without an heir of his and Eleanor's bodies, the manor
should remain to Simon de la Borde and the heirs of his body, with
remainder in default of such heirs to William de Sancto Quintino and his
heirs, and that the manor is partly held of the king in chief as of the honour
of Eye by knight service and partly of other lords by divers services, and
that Guy died without an heir of his body. |
July 20.
Burstwick. |
To Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to cause the
king's works in the castle of Karnarvan to be continued out of the issues
of his bailiwick. By p.s. directed to the treasurer. |
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To the same. Order to cause the victuals in the king's castles to be
doubled, and to cause them to be put in the said castles and renewed
according to the form previously enjoined upon him, as the king has now
ordained by his council that the victuals shall be doubled beyond the
previous ordinance for each castle. By p.s. directed to the treasurer. |
July 16.
Burstwick. |
To John de Louthre, keeper of the king's victuals in the parts of Carlisle. Order to send wheat in grain to North Wales to the amount of the
barrels of flour that the king previously ordered him to send thither, if they
have not been sent, for the munition of the king's castles there, as it seems
more expedient to the king and his council that the castles shall be provisioned with wheat in grain. By K. |
July 16.
Burstwick. |
To Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower
to Alice, late the wife of Richard de Cramelyngton, tenant in chief. |
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To the same. Order to assign dower to Joan, late the wife of John de
Ulram, tenant by knight service of the heir of Thomas de Cailly. |
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July 12.
Faxfleet. |
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of
Rothyng Aytrop, co. Essex, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the
escheator that Guy Ferre held the manor at his death of the gift of John
Bacun by fine levied in the king's court, with remainder, in default of heirs
of Guy's body, to John de Clarun, knight, with remainder, in like default,
to Reginald Lupard, and that the manor is held of the earl of Oxford by
knight service, and that Guy died without an heir of his body. |
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July 20.
Burstwick. |
To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with the manor of Cotes, co. Cambridge, and to restore
the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition that Nicholas Dengayne
and Amice his wife were enfeoffed thereof jointly by Joan, late the wife of
John Dengayne, and that Amice continued her joint-seisin thereof until the
death of Nicholas, and that the manor is held of John de Handloo by knight
service. |
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To the same. Like order concerning the manor of Colne Engayne,
co. Essex, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the
aforesaid Nicholas and Amice jointly acquired the manor from Thomas de
Ardern and Henry de Stradebrok by fine levied in the king's court,
for their lives, with remainder to John Dengayne and Ellen his wife
for their lives, with remainder to John son of the said Nicholas and
to the heirs of his body, with remainder to the right heirs of the said John
Dengayne, and that Amice continued her seisin thereof with the said
Nicholas until his death, and that the manor is held of John de Claveryng
by knight service. |
July 22.
Burstwick. |
To the same. Order to deliver to Sarah, late the wife of John de
Crokedayk, tenant in chief, certain lands in Little Paxton, co. Huntingdon,
of the yearly value of 4l. 8s. 8d., and 12 acres of land in Wrestlingworth,
co. Bedford, of the yearly value of 6s., which the king has assigned to her
as dower with the assent of Thomas de Neubyggyng' and Joan his wife,
and of Michael de Appelby and Christiana his wife, kinswomen and heiresses
of the aforesaid John. |
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The like to Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent, to deliver to
Sarah a third of two parts of a water-mill in Gamelesby, co. Cumberland, of
the yearly value of 13s. 4d., and 8 acres, 3 [roods?] of wood, and half an
acre of meadow in Glassanby, and a third of a water-mill in Gamelesby,
which are not extended. |
July 15.
Burstwick. |
To John de Crombwell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
deliver to Thomas de Hoton, son and heir of John son of Thomas de
Hoton, the bailiwick of keeping the king's laund of Plumpton and his deer
there, which belonged to his grandfather at his death, as appears by an
inquisition taken by Gilbert de Stapelton, late escheator this side Trent,
together with the issues received thence since 25 October, in the 14th year
of the king's reign, when the king took Thomas's homage and restored to
him the lands that his grandfather held in chief. |
July 24.
Faxfleet. |
To Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, keeper of the Forest this side
Trent. Order to cause Robert de Faunteston, keeper of the manor of
Feckenham, to have sixteen oaks fit for timber, in order to repair therewith
the houses and buildings in the manor and the king's pond there. |
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By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok. |
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To Robert de Faunteston, keeper of the aforesaid manor. Order to
expend up to 20 marks in repairing the houses and other buildings in the
manor. By K. as above. |
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To the same. Order to expend up to 5 marks in repairing the king's
pond. By K. as above. |
July 20.
Burstwick. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on
1 May, in the 8th year of his reign, committed to Eleanor, late the wife of
Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, the custody of all the said Henry's lands
in co. York during the minority of Henry, his son and heir, rendering
therefor 400l. yearly to the exchequer, and afterwards, on 25 July, in the
11th year of his reign, granted the above ferm in aid of the maintenance of
Edward, earl of Chester, his son, to be received from Eleanor; the king orders
the treasurer and barons to audit Eleanor's account for all the time that
she held the aforesaid lands, notwithstanding the above assignment to the
earl of Chester and notwithstanding the separation of the payments, and to
allow to her all payments made by her by virtue of orders previously sent
to her. By p.s. [6603, 6604.] |
July 25.
Faxfleet. |
To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands of John de Leyk and to restore the issues
thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that he
held nothing in chief of the king at his death by reason whereof the custody
of his lands ought to pertain to the king. |
July 26.
Cowick. |
To Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower
to Hawisia, late the wife of William Galon, tenant in chief, upon her taking
oath not to marry without the king's licence. |
July 25.
Faxfleet. |
To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the
manor of Westwode, whereof Richard de Rokesle was seised in demesne as
of fee, was taken into the king's hands by reason of Richard's death, and
was afterwards assigned in dower to Joan, late the wife of Richard, by
Walter de Pateshull and Joan his wife, eldest daughter and heiress of
Richard, and by Thomas de Ponyngs and Agnes his wife, younger daughter
and heiress of Richard, and the manor was afterwards wrongly taken into
the king's hands after Joan's death with the other lands that she held in
chief, and the king afterwards caused Agnes's purparty thereof to be
delivered to her and Thomas, retaining in his hands the manor with the
other lands of the said Joan for the purparty of the aforesaid Walter and
Joan until he should make further order; and partition has now been made
in chancery of all the aforesaid lands, as well those that were taken into the
king's hands after Richard's death as those that were so taken after Joan's
death, which partition the king ordered the escheator to deliver to the heirs
and parceners aforesaid; the king, considering that the aforesaid manor
ought not to have been taken into his hands after Joan's death, as the heirs
and parceners were then of full age, and as Thomas and Agnes had their
purparty of Joan's lands as is aforesaid, now orders the escheator to deliver
to Walter and Joan the issues of the manor received by him. |
July 26.
Faxfleet. |
To Richard de Potesgrave, keeper of the lands of certain rebels in
co. Kent. Order to deliver to Thomas de Aldon, king's yeoman, his lands,
goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands because he was
against the king in Ledes castle, and was an adherent of Bartholomew de
Badelesmere and other rebels, the king having pardoned him the suit of his
peace and what pertains to him in this behalf. |
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By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok. |
July 29.
Cowick. |
To Robert de Welle and Richard de Ayremynne, keepers of the bishopric
of Winchester, void and in the king's hands. Order to retain the beasts
and other implements concerning the bishopric, as ought to be done of
right, and to permit sale to be made of the other beasts and chattels of
R. the late bishop, so that the money thence arising be put in deposit, and that
the debts due to the king may be paid to him therefrom and from other
things, according to the form sent to them on the king's behalf at another
time. By K. |
July 28.
Cowick. |
To Roger de Waltham, keeper of the wardrobe. As the king learns by
inquisition taken by William de Leycestre and John de Louthre, his clerks,
that a ship called 'Portepeis' of Melecombe, laden with 20 barrels of
wheaten flour and 500 quarters of beans by Thomas de Marlebergh, sheriff
of Somerset and Dorset, and another ship called 'Seynte Marie Cogg' of
Melecombe, laden with 50 barrels of wheaten flour and 210 quarters of
beans by the said sheriff, which corn the king ordered to be bought and
purveyed with other corn in his bailiwick and to be sent to Skymburnesse
for the expedition of the Scotch war, were driven by storm on the voyage
to Skymburnesse [ashore] at Alandby near Skymburnesse on Wednesday
before St. Barnabas last, and were in such peril that 108½ quarters of
beans were thrown [overboard] from the former ship and two barrels of
wheaten flour and 17½ quarters of beans were thrown [overboard] from the
latter ship, and that the aforesaid victuals were wrecked (periclitata) and
lost by sea-tempest and not by anyone's fault, the king orders the keeper to
cause the sheriff to have allowance for the corn thus lost. |
July 24.
Faxfleet. |
To Henry de Cobeham, constable of Tonebrugge castle and keeper of the
king's forest there. Order to cause the king's clerk William de Chaillou,
keeper of the king's works in his palace of Westminster, to have oaks fit for
timber in the said forest and other dry timber (maherenium) of the king's
in the constable's custody, as shall seem expedient to him and William, for
the roof (cumulum) of the king's new chapel of the palace. By K. |
July 22.
Burstwick. |
To John de Cherleton, mayor of the staple of wool. Although the king
lately appointed him and others of his subjects to enquire concerning trespasses against the charter of the staple and to execute other things contained in the king's commissions to them; as however the king has caused
the truce taken between the king and the subjects of the count of Flanders
until Michaelmas next to be prorogued until Easter next, and the king has
granted, amongst other things in the prorogation, that the merchants of
Flanders and other alien merchants may until Easter go from this realm to
parts beyond sea with their goods and merchandise without hindrance upon
payment of the due customs, the king orders the said John to lay all other
things aside and to go to the staple at St. Omer in Artoys, and to inform
the merchants and his fellows of the same staple concerning the prorogation
and the causes and conditions of the same, intimating to them that the king
has granted the prorogation aforesaid for the evident convenience of his
realm, and that it is his intention that after Easter the aforesaid charter of
the staple shall retain its force in all things, and the said John is ordered to
supersede meanwhile, or at least until further orders, the execution of trespasses made against the charter. By K. |
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To all and singular the merchants of the staple of wool at St. Omer in
Artoys. Order to give credence to the aforesaid John de Cherleton, whom
the king is sending to them to inform them concerning the aforesaid prorogation of the truce, and to conduct themselves according to his counsel in
these matters. The king wishes them to know that it is his intention that
after Easter the charter of the staple shall retain its power. By K. |
July 26.
Cowick. |
To Robert de Heldene and Robert de Mucheldevre, late keepers of the
lands of John de Somery, deceased, tenant in chief. Order not to intermeddle further with certain lands in Hemeleye and Swyndon, and to
restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Master
John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent, that Roger de Engelfeld seven
years ago demised the aforesaid lands to John de Somery for life, and that
after John de Somery's death Philip de Engelfeld, son and heir of Roger,
entered the lands by Walter Beuyn his bailiff, and that he was seised thereof
until the aforesaid keepers ejected him by reason of the aforesaid custody,
and that the lands are in the king's hands solely for this reason. |
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The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to Master John Walewayn, escheator
beyond Trent. |
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Membrane 40. |
July 24.
Faxfleet. |
To Master Walter de Istlep, treasurer of Ireland. Order to deliver to
Hugh le Despenser, the younger, or to his attorney, all his lands in Walter's
custody, and the issues thereof from the time when they were taken into the
king's hands, the king having, on 16 April, in the 16th year of his reign, appointed Walter supervisor and superior keeper of all the lands that belonged
to the said Hugh, Roger Damory, and Hugh Daudele, the younger, in Ireland,
as the king has restored to the aforesaid Hugh le Despenser all his lands
and the issues thereof, upon the process against him being annulled by
consideration of the king's court. By K. |
July 27.
Cowick. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Whereas at the complaint of John Vanele and Claisus Hourel of Brugge, merchants of Flanders,
that, after the truce lately made between the king's subjects and the men of
the count of Flanders until Michaelmas next and proclaimed at Easter last,
they and certain of their fellows loaded a ship in Flanders with wine, cloth,
wax, and other wares, to the value of 900l., in order to bring the same to
Newcastle-on-Tyne, John le Little, Roger Catour, Cokkus atte Wose, and
certain others with them entered the ship by force on her voyage
thither in the water of Tyne between Tynemuth and Newcastle, on
Wednesday before St. George last, and assaulted the men and mariners of
the ship, and arrested certain of them with the ship and goods, and
delivered them and the ship and a great part of the goods to the aforesaid
mayor and bailiffs to be detained under arrest, taking away with them
nevertheless a great part of the goods, the king ordered the mayor and
bailiffs, if they found the premises to be true, to release the said men and
the ship and goods, and the king caused the ship and goods in the possession of the mayor and bailiffs to be delivered to the aforesaid merchants;
and the king now understands that the aforesaid Roger and Cokkus have
returned to Newcastle; he therefore orders the mayor and bailiffs to arrest
the said Roger and Cokkus, and to cause them to be kept under safe custody until the aforesaid merchants have been satisfied for all their goods
that came into the possession of Roger and Cokkus. |
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By K. on the information of Master R. de Baldok. |
July 26.
Cowick. |
To Richard de Bermyngham, constable of Bernard castle. Order to
permit Elizabeth de Umframvill, countess of Angus (Danegos), to receive
50l. from the tenants of the towns of Lange Neuton and Neusom-on-Tese
who have not been ruined by the Scots or otherwise and are most sufficient
to pay the above sum, the king having granted to her that sum yearly from
the issues of the said towns, which are of the lordship of the castle, in the
king's hands by reason of the death of Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of
Warwick, to be received during the king's will by the hands of the tenants
of those towns, together with a shelter (recaptaculo) wherein she may have
convenient dwelling, as contained in the king's letters patent. |
July 25.
Cowick. |
To the justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order not
to pardon to any one the suit of the king's peace for the death of a man
henceforth without consulting the king, and not to grant protections to those
who have been insurgents against the king and his progenitors, as the king
has been heretofore frequently given to understand that, owing to the suit
of the peace of him and his progenitors for the death of a man having been
pardoned too lightly by the justiciaries, and owing to protections for certain
periods being granted to malefactors who had been insurgents against the
king and his progenitors, during which time the malefactors were in the
peace (de pace), and extorted during that time divers sums of money by
intolerable threats from men who were in the peace, and many of them after
such time have returned to their evil ways and have committed greater
damage than before, the peace of the king and his progenitors in the people
of that land and tranquillity have not flourished and does not now flourish,
and homicides and divers other crimes have been perpetrated there with
impunity (facilius). The king has ordered the chancellor of that land not
to obey the justiciary if he send to him letters granting such pardons or
protections. By K. and C. |
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To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order
to deliver to brother Roger Outlawe, prior of the Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem in Ireland, the king's chancellor there, all rolls, writs, inquisitions, and memoranda of the chancery of Ireland of the king's time, and of
the time of his progenitors, to wit those that Walter de Kynefare, late
keeper of the rolls of the said chancery, delivered to the treasurer and
chamberlains when the king's Scotch enemies were in that land, to be kept
by the prior to make execution and other things pertaining to the office of
chancellor. |
July 28.
Cowick. |
To the sheriff of Westmoreland. Order to permit the abbot and convent
of Hepp to receive four marks of yearly rent as below, as they and their
predecessors have been wont to receive from the time of the making of the
charter of Robert son of John de Veteri Ponte, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by Robert de Barton and Henry de Warthecopp, that the
aforesaid Robert granted to the abbey and convent by his charter 4 marks
of yearly rent of his cornage due to him from certain of his tenants in co.
Westmoreland, to wit from Thomas de Hellebeck and his heirs 2 marks of
yearly rent for lands held of Robert in Ascom, from Robert de la Fierte and
his heirs 1 mark of yearly rent for lands held of Robert in Milneburn, and
from Eustace de Laval and his heirs 1 mark of yearly rent for lands held
of Robert in Milneburn, to be received at two terms of the year, for the
maintenance of a canon of the convent to celebrate divine service daily in the
abbey for the dead, saving to Robert and his heirs the homages, wardships,
reliefs, suits of court, and all other services that the said Thomus, Robert,
and Eustace have been wont to render for the aforesaid lands in addition to
the 4 marks aforesaid, and that the abbot and convent and their predecessors have always been in full and peaceful seisin of the above rent from
the time of the making of the charter until the rent was taken into the
king's hands by the forfeiture of Roger de Clifford, the last lord of the
aforesaid tenants. |
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Afterwards, on 24 March, the like order was sent to the sheriff. |
