Close Rolls, Edward II: May 1324

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: May 1324', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327, (London, 1898) pp. 94-112. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol4/pp94-112 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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May 1324

May 1.
Fulmer.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order not to permit John Triminel to be aggrieved before them in the exchequer at the suit of the king or any other by reason of the goods of the rebels that he took and occupied whilst in the king's company in the pursuit of the rebels, as the king has ordained that those who were in his company to pursue the rebels shall not be aggrieved for the goods of the rebels that they took and occupied in the said pursuit from 17 October, in the 15th year of his reign, until 5 April following.
The like in favour of the following:
John le Flemyng, Henry de Lascy, and Thomas de Tothill, addressed to Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king.
Nicholas Trymenel, addressed to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer.
May 2.
Fulmer.
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hear pleas before the king. Order to continue until the quinzaine of Michaelmas all matters touching the bishop of London, the dean and chapter, officials, and other ministers of St. Paul's London, moved in the last eyre at the Tower of London, which the king afterwards caused to come before him, and which he afterwards ordered to be continued until the quinzaine of Easter last.
May 3.
Westminster.
To Walter de Friskeneye. Order to intend the holding of pleas before the king with other subjects of the king, as the king wills that he shall intend the holding of the said pleas. By K.
May 4.
Westminster.
To Richard de Gatesbury and Geoffrey de Brochole, fermor of the manor of Melkeleye. Order to pay to Alice, daughter of Robert de Melkeleye, knight, the arrears of 100s. yearly from the time when the said manor was taken into the king's hands, and to pay to her that sum yearly out of the ferm of the manor, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Asshele and John de la Haye of Hemelhampstede that William son of Walter le Baud, knight, charged himself and his heirs to the said Alice in the above sum yearly, to be received for her life from the said manor after her father's death, and that he charged all his lands to her distraint for that sum, and that she received that sum yearly from William after her father's death until the manor was taken into the king's hands by William's forfeiture, and that Robert died in the said manor at the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, in the 9th year of the king's reign, and that the manor is held of Hugh de Audele and Margaret his wife as of Margaret's right by homage and the service of a knight's fee and by paying 26s. 8d. yearly to Elizabeth de Burgo, sister of the said Margaret, at her manor of Staundon, which she holds in her purparty of the inheritance of Gilbert de Clare, late earl of Gloucester, and by doing suit of court at the said manor of Staundon from three weeks to three weeks, and that the manor is worth in all issues 24l. yearly, and it appears by William's deed, exhibited before the king in chancery, that the grant was made in form aforesaid. By pet. of C.
To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to Joan de Torthorald 10 marks for Easter term last out of the issues of his escheatry, in accordance with the king's grant to her, on 11 June, in the 11th year of his reign, of 20 marks yearly in aid of her maintenance from the issues of the escheatry this side Trent.
Membrane 12.
May 4.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Whereas lately at the complaint of the abbot of Oseneye that a bridge anciently constructed over the water of Thames near the castle of Oxford, whereby the canons of Oseneye were wont to go to celebrate divine service in the king's chapel of St. George in the castle, which they are bound to do daily, had been broken down and wholly removed by John de Brumpton, late sheriff of that county, by reason of the late disturbance in the realm for the greater security of the castle, so that the canons have been unable to go to the castle for the above purpose from that time, and that the bridge ought to be remade at the king's expense, the king ordered the sheriff to cause the bridge to be constructed anew for the passage of footmen, so that the canons might be able to go to the castle by the bridge aforesaid; and the sheriff has returned that he found by inquisition that the said John caused the bridge to be broken and removed by reason of the disturbance aforesaid for the security of the castle, and for no other cause, wherefore the canons have been unable to come to celebrate divine service in the chapel aforesaid from that time, and that he found by the inquisition that the bridge ought to be remade at the king's expense, and has always been so made in times past, and that it can be remade for 60s. for the passage of men on foot, for which reason he deferred remaking the bridge until he received further orders from the king, so that he might have sufficient allowance therefor in his account at the exchequer: the king now orders him to cause the bridge to be newly constructed for the passage of men on foot, and to permit the canons to pass by the same to the castle for the aforesaid purpose, as they have been wont to do heretofore without prejudice to the king or peril to the castle.
May 6.
Westminster.
To the bailiffs of the city of York. Order to pay to William de Ros of Hamelak 75 marks out of the ferm of the city for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant of 22 August, in the 16th year of his reign, of that sum yearly at Michaelmas and Easter from the ferm of that city and of the like amount from the ferm of the city of Lincoln, until the king should provide him with 300 marks of land or rent yearly between the waters of Thames and Tees (Teys') or until the king should restore to him the castle of Werk, which William granted and released to the king.
The like to the bailiffs of Lincoln.
May 11.
Westminster.
To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Roger de Cutecombe, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, that he held no lands in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
May 10.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account for the sums of money that William de Ayremynne received from the king's treasure after 26 October, in the 10th year of the king's reign, by virtue of the king's order of that date to the treasurer and chamberlains to pay to the said William, to whom the king, on 20 August, in the said year, had granted the custody of the house of the Conversi, London, the arrears of the yearly sum of 123l. 10s. 6d. that the king ordered them by writ of liberate to pay to Adam de Osgodeby, deceased, then keeper of the said house, which sum pertained to the said keeper and the Conversi then surviving, two chaplains and one clerk of the church out of the yearly sum of 202l. 0s. 4d. granted to them by the late king for their maintenance, when the king ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to continue to pay that sum yearly to William, provided that upon the death of each conversus so much be deducted therefrom as the deceased received for his portion.
May 12.
Westminster.
To Hugh le Despenser, the younger, keeper of Bristol castle, or to him who supplies his place there. Order to repair with all speed the houses, gates, bridges, walls, turrets, engines, mills and ponds of the castle, by the view and testimony of Roger atte Mull and Edward the carpenter, and to cause the castle to be provided with victuals, arms, men, and other things necessary for the munition of the same out of the ferm of the castle, by the view and testimony of the said Roger and Edward. By K.
May 13.
London.
To Robert de Aston, keeper of certain forfeited rebels' lands in co. Gloucester. Order to pay to Walter Pikerel a yearly rent of 12l. from the manor of Norton, in that county, from the time when it was taken into the king's hands, and to pay him the same henceforth, as it is found by part of a fine levied before the justices of the Bench, in the 33rd year of the late king's reign, between John Giffard, demandant, and the said Walter, deforciant, concerning a messuage, 3 carucates of land, 2 mills, and 50s. of rent in Little Scherston, that Walter acknowledged the aforesaid tenements to be the right of the said John, and rendered them to him in court, and John, in consideration of this acknowledgment, granted to Walter 12l. yearly for life, and it is found by an inquisition taken by the aforesaid keeper and by John de Peytou that the said John Giffard, on Monday the eve of the Purification, in the aforesaid year, granted to Walter 12l. of yearly rent for life from his manor of Norton for the aforesaid 12l. yearly, and that he charged the manor with payment of the same, and that Walter was seised of the said rent peacefully without change of his estate until the manor was taken into the king's hands by reason of the rebellion of John son and heir of the said John. The king makes this order although the manor is held in chief, as appears by the aforesaid inquisition, for a fine that Walter has made with him for the trespass committed in this behalf.
By C. and by a fine of 20s.
May 13.
The Tower.
To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Little Purle, co. Berks, or with the other lands of Henry de Malyns, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry and Cicely his wife held the said manor at the time of his death, to them and the heirs of Henry, of the king in chief by knight service and by the service of 5s. yearly for ward of Wyndesore castle, by fine levied in the late king's court by his licence between Henry and Cicely, and that Henry held no other lands in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held divers other lands of other lords.
May 16.
The Tower.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Sutton, who is insufficiently qualified, as he has no lands except those that are of the dower of Alice his wife.
April 20.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Gregory de Havill, whom the king has amoved from office because he does not dwell in the county, as the king learns by trustworthy testimony.
May 12.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 5 March, in the 4th year of his reign, by letters under the exchequer seal, committed to Robert de Malo Lacu the custody of Horeston castle, co. Derby, from Easter following, during pleasure, rendering therefor 20l. yearly to the exchequer, as, it is said, is contained in the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, and afterwards, on 5 June, in the 5th year of his reign, he granted that Robert should hold the castle quit and discharged of the above sum yearly until he should be satisfied for 240l. 8s. 6d. due to him from the king, being 128l. 7s. 6d. for wages and recompence of horses of the knights and men-at-arms in his company in garrison at Rokesburgh castle, by a bill sealed with the seal of office of the chamberlain of Scotland, and 96l. 7s. 0d. for the wages of the soldiers (stipendiariorum) of the garrison of the said castle by a bill under the seal of John de Sandale, late chamberlain of Scotland, and 15l. 14s. 0d. for recompence for a horse lost when he was in the late king's service in Gascony in the time of war as contained in the late king's letters patent made to the said Robert; and afterwards the king, on 15 March, in the 15th year of his reign, committed to Roald de Richemund the custody of the castle aforesaid and of the forest of Duffeldfrith during pleasure, and afterwards, on 13 May, in the 15th year of his reign, ordered Roald to deliver the castle and appurtenances to Robert, with the issues thereof from the time of the king's grant to Roald, as appears by the rolls of chancery; the king orders the treasurer and barons to compel Roald to answer to Robert for the issues aforesaid, and if he be unable to do so, to cause due allowance to be made to Robert therefor in the aforesaid allowance.
March 30.
Westminster.
To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester, Salop, and Stafford. Order not to intermeddle with the priory of Llanthony near Gloucester, which is now void, or with anything pertaining thereto, and to restore any issues received therefrom to the sub-prior, provided that a man be deputed in the king's name for the custody of the priory, with the said sub-prior, to stay therein with two horses and two grooms, if he wish, intermeddling in nothing with the goods of the house and receiving nothing except reasonable estover in victuals by the delivery of the sub-prior or of him who supplies his place during the voidance, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Humphrey de Bohun, sometime earl of Hereford and Essex and constable of England, granted and confirmed that the sub-prior for the time being should, upon the cession or decease of the prior, have the custody of the priory and of all its appurtenances with a man of the earl's, until the confirmation of a new prior, so that the man appointed by the earl should stay there in the meantime with two horses and two grooms, as above, and that the earl granted to the sub-prior and convent power to choose a fit person from their church or another person as prior, without hindrance of the earl or his heirs, provided that such person should be presented to the earl and his heirs as patrons, and that the sub-prior has had the custody and administration of all the temporal and spiritual goods pertaining to the priory in all voidances since the time of the grant, and has disposed thereof at his will, without the earl or his heirs intermeddling with the priory in any way from the time of the making of the charter aforesaid, except that they joined a man with the sub-prior as aforesaid, and the subprior and convent continued the said grant in all voidances until Sunday the feast of the Annunciation last without any change.
By pet of C. [2785–6.]
The like to Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham.
The like to Walter de la Puyle, escheator in Ireland.
Membrane 11.
April 29.
Fulmer.
To John de Frelonde, keeper of certain lands in co. Gloucester. Order to cause Richard de Blakeneye to have the arrears of 4 quarters of wheat, 4 quarters of oats, and 2 quarters of beans yearly from the time when the lands of Thomas de Berkeleye, son and heir of Robert de Berkeleye, in Beleye were taken into the king's hands upon his forfeiture, and to cause him to have the same yearly henceforth from the issues of the said lands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Aston and John de Hampton that the said Robert de Berkeleye, on Friday before the Nativity of St. Mary, in the 4th year of the king's reign, granted the aforesaid corn yearly to Richard for life, to be received from his lands in Beleye, and that he charged payment thereof upon his said lands, and that Richard, in consideration of this grant, granted to Robert a messuage and a virgate of land in Nethereston in fee, which are worth 26s. 8d. yearly, and that Richard was seised of the corn without change of his estate from the time of the making of the said deed until the said lands in Beleye were taken into the king's hands by the forfeiture of Thomas de Berkeleye, and that Richard never afterwards released the aforesaid corn to anyone, and that the tenements in Beleye are held in chief of John de Berkeleye, lord of Burseleye, by knight service, and are worth 108s. 10d. yearly, and it appears by the aforesaid deed exhibited in chancery that the grant was made in form aforesaid.
By p.s.
Afterwards, on 24 May, like order was made to Robert de Aston, keeper, etc., in the aforesaid county, and the letter addressed to the aforesaid John was restored.
May 4.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to cause Thomas Hathulf to have the arrears of a quarter of wheat and a quarter of beans and two garments (garniamenta), price 6s. 8d., yearly from the time when the said (sic) manor (fn. 1) was taken into the king's hands upon the forfeiture of Maurice de Berkeleye, son and heir of Thomas de Berkeleye, and to cause him to have the same yearly henceforth out of the issues of the manor, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Nicholas de Kyngeston and Robert de Aston that, on Sunday after St. Matthias, in the 10th year of the king's reign, Thomas, formerly lord of Berkeleye, granted to the said Thomas Hathulf for life the aforesaid corn and garments, the latter to be of the same cloth as the said Thomas de Berkeley was wont to give to poor men, and that he charged the said manor with payment thereof, and that Thomas Hathulf, in consideration thereof, granted to Thomas de Berkeleie a messuage and a moiety of a virgate of land in Ettelawe, which are worth 20s. yearly and are in the king's hands by the forfeiture of John son of Maurice de Berkeleye, and that Thomas Hathulf was seised of the aforesaid corn and garments from the time of the grant without change of his estate until the manor was taken into the king's hands by the forfeiture of Maurice de Berkeleye, son and heir of the said Thomas de Berkeleye, and that Thomas did not afterwards release the corn and garments, and that the manor is held of the king in chief by knight service, and is worth yearly 136l. 14s. 10½d., and it appears by the aforesaid deed exhibited in chancery that the grant was made in form aforesaid.
By p.s.
May 4.
Westminster.
To Robert de Hungerford, keeper of certain contrariants' lands in co. Berks. Order to pay to Lucy, late the wife of John de Somery, 2 marks of yearly rent, together with the arrears of the same from the time when certain lands in Basteldon were taken into the king's hands by the forfeiture of John de la Beche, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by Master John de Blebury and John de Brumpton that John de la Beche held certain lands in Basteldon, for which he rendered 2 marks yearly to the manor of Bradefeld, and that John de Somery was seised of the said rent by the hands of Miles de la Putte, and afterwards by the hands of the said John de la Beche continuously until the lands were taken into the king's hands by the aforesaid forfeiture, and that the manor, together with the aforesaid 2 marks of rent was assigned in dower to Lucy, late the wife of the said John de Somery, and that the rent has not been paid to her from the time when the lands whence it is due were taken into the king's hands.
May 3.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Robert de Kendale, executor of the will of Nicholas de Bosco, in his account at the exchequer for the debts due from Nicholas, for 20l. paid by the executor to Adam de Geldo and Furtinus de Bermeio, in execution of the king's order of 13 August, in the 6th year of his reign, to pay them that sum in part payment of 65l. then due to them from the king for iron bought from them for his use.
May 6.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to discharge Hugh de Louthre, late sheriff of Westmoreland, of all ferms due to the king, which they shall ascertain, by inquisitions to be taken in Hugh's presence or by other means, that he was unable to levy by reason of the destruction committed by the Scots, as he has shewn the king that they charge him with all the ferms due to the king in that county although the lands in that county were so wasted by the Scots that he could not levy the ferms.
The like in favour of the following:
John de Fennewyk, for the time when he was sheriff of Northumberland.
William Rydel, for the time when he was sheriff of Northumberland.
To the same. Like order in favour of Gilbert de Burghdon, late sheriff of Northumberland.
May 8.
Westminster.
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order not to permit Ed. de Impeton of Gaynesburgh, whom the king lately appointed to take into his hands the lands, goods, and chattels of John de Moubray in the Isle of Axiholm and to do other things touching the repulse of the contrariants, to be aggrieved or sued (occasionari) before them at the king's suit by reason of the goods of the said John or his adherents taken by him in the Isle aforesaid in pursuing the said John or his adherents at that time, or for anything that then happened in such pursuit or in the repulse of the contrariants, as the king has ordained that those who were in his service by his order in pursuing the rebels shall not be molested at his or any one's suit for the goods of the rebels taken and occupied by them in the said pursuit from 17 October, in the 15th year of the king's reign, until 5 April following.
The like to Lambert de Trikyngham and his fellows, justices to enquire concerning the oppressions, damages, and grievances committed by the king's bailiffs and ministers on the king's people in co. Lincoln.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Richard Dammory, to whom the king, on 1 October, in the 5th year of his reign, committed the manor of Selveston, co. Northampton, to hold at ferm during the king's will, rendering therefor 18l. yearly to the exchequer, of the issues of the aforesaid manor from 25 March, in the seventh year of the reign, when the king granted the manor with other manors to Richard de Arundell for life for his maintenance in the king's service, as of the value of 80l. yearly.
May 14.
The Tower.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to release Robert Gaz from Neugate prison, as Roger de Suthcote, Robert Treyer, and Walter de Elledon, of the city of London, and Thomas Doule of Canterbury, of the county of Kent, have mainperned to have him before the king upon due summons to answer for certain suspicions and suspected words, for which he was imprisoned, and they have also mainperned for his good behaviour to the king in work and word. By K.
May 8.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit John Biset, to whom the king, on 12 October last, granted the custody of the manors of Clifton and Perret, co. Dorset, of the yearly value of 21l. 1s. 8d., and of a third of the manor of Horton, co. Sussex, of the yearly value of 6l. 6s. 2d., which belonged to Philip Maubank, deceased, who held them of the heir of John Biset, a minor in the king's wardship, which manors were in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Philip son of William son of the said Philip Maubank, the heir of the said Philip, during the minority of Philip's heir, with the marriage of the heir, saving to the king the knights' fees and advowsons of churches in the said manors, rendering therefor 54l. yearly, of the ferm of the aforesaid third part of the manor of Horton from 12 March then next following, when the king ordered William de Weston, his escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and in the city of London, not to intermeddle further with the said third part, and to restore the issues thereof, because it was found by an inquisition taken by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, that Philip held at his death the said manors of Clifton and Perret of the aforesaid heir by knight service, and that he held no lands of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held the said third of the manor of Horton of William de Brewes in free socage.
May 10.
Westminster.
To the justices of the Bench. Order not to permit Roger le Hunte to be molested or aggrieved whilst coming into the realm, staying therein, or returning thence, by virtue of any writ directed to them, as the king, on 10 November last, granted protection for one year to the said Roger, who was staying in the king's service in the duchy [of Aquitaine] in the company of Ralph Basset of Drayton, seneschal of Gascony, and Roger afterwards came to this realm to the king and other magnates with letters from the said Ralph for the king's affairs upon divers occasions, and returned to the duchy, and the justices have ordered Roger, now in England on the king's service, to be attached by reason of a writ of deceit sued out in chancery at the suit of the prior of Coventre and shewn to them, because the action that was before them between the said prior and Roger concerning a trespass committed upon the prior by Roger remained sine die by virtue of the king's protection shewn to them on Roger's behalf. By K.
The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to the sheriffs of London and the sheriff of Warwick.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Anthony de Lucy, to whom the king, on 10 March, in the 16th year of his reign, committed the lands that belonged to Andrew de Harcla, a late rebel, in cos. Cumberland and Westmoreland, of the issues of the manor of King's Meburn, co. Westmoreland, from 26 July last, when the king granted to the said Anthony, in addition to the lands that he had previously granted to him in fee, the said manor and the manor of Grendon, co. Northumberland, which belonged to Roger de Clifford, a late rebel, which came to the king as escheats, and which the king afterwards gave to Andrew, upon whose forfeiture they came to his hands, to have and to hold to the said Anthony for life by the same services as Roger held them by, as of the yearly value of 100 marks, the said manor of Meburn being in Anthony's custody by virtue of the above commission.
Membrane 10.
May 13.
The Tower.
To John de Nevill, Richard de la Bere, and Peter de la Rokele, justices to hear and determine certain trespasses committed upon the king at Fraunkton, co. Lincoln. Order to supersede entirely the exaction and outlawry of Richard de Furneux, parson of Fraunkton church, for not appearing before them to answer concerning the said trespasses, and to stay all process against him, as he has satisfied the king for the aforesaid trespasses. By K.
To the same, justices to hear and determine certain trespasses committed upon Hugh le Despenser, the younger, at Fraunkton, co. Lincoln. Like order, the said Richard having satisfied Hugh. By K.
May 11.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to restore the issues received by him when he was escheator from the lands that belonged to Roger de Cotecombe, the king having ordered Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham, not to intermeddle with the said lands and to restore the issues thereof, because it was found by an inquisition taken by the said Master John that Roger 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.
May 16.
The Tower.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas de Musegrave, who has no lands in that county to qualify him for the office.
May 20.
Westminster.
To John de Stonore and his fellows, justices to enquire concerning certain rebels' chattels forfeited to the king in co. Stafford taken and carried away by certain persons. Order not to molest Robert de Insula by reason of the rebels' goods found at Tuttebury when the king was there, concerning which he is disquieted before them, as the king committed the custody thereof to him. By K.
May 15.
The Tower.
To Henry de Hockele, keeper of certain forfeited lands in co. Warwick. Order not to intermeddle with the purparty of John de Watevill and Dionisia, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Isabella de Hulles, of certain lands in Palyngton in that county of the inheritance of the said Dionisia and of Alice, wife of John de Laungele, her sister, and to deliver to them the issues of the said purparty from 17 August last, when the king, having taken the homage of the said John de Watevill for the said purparty, rendered the purparty to them and ordered Master John Walewayn, then escheator this side Trent, to make partition of the lands aforesaid into two parts in the presence of the said John de Laungele and Alice, if they chose to attend, and to cause John de Watevill and Dionisia to have seisin of her purparty as esnescy of the inheritance aforesaid, because it was found by inquisition taken by the said escheator that Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, held, on the day of his forfeiture, the said lands in name of wardship, and that the lands came to him after the death of the said Isabella, who held them of him by knight service, by reason of the minority of the said Dionisia and Alice, which lands afterwards came to the king's hands by the earl's forfeiture, and that Dionisia is full age.
May 19.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately granted amongst other things to Henry de Percy, son and heir of Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, that if his mother Eleanor, late the wife of the said Henry, to whom the king had granted the custody of the lands whereof her husband died seised in co. York during the minority of her said son, should die before Henry came of age, Henry should have the custody of the lands until he came of age, rendering therefor to the exchequer as much as Eleanor was bound to render for the same, and because Eleanor, by reason of the destruction wrought in the said lands by the Scotch rebels, rendered the lands to the king with the issues thereof from Michaelmas, in the 13th year of the king's reign, the king granted to Henry, on 27 April, in the said year, the custody of the said lands until he came of age, rendering therefor to the exchequer 400 marks yearly; and the king afterwards, because he had assigned the ferm that Eleanor used to render for the said lands in aid of the maintenance of Edward, earl of Chester, his son, on 3 June, in the said year, ordered Henry, who had the custody of the lands with the issues thereof from the aforesaid Michaelmas, to pay the said ferm to the king's son from Michaelmas aforesaid: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause Henry to be discharged of the issues of the said lands from Michaelmas aforesaid and of the 400 marks yearly thus assigned to the king's son.
May 16.
The Tower.
To the same. Whereas the king, on 3 March, in the 4th year of his reign, granted to Henry de Percy, deceased, that he should have during the king's pleasure the custody of the wapentake of Staynclif, rendering therefor 40 marks yearly to the exchequer, and it is now shewn to the king on behalf of Henry de Percy, son and heir of the aforesaid Henry, that although Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, held the said custody on the aforesaid 3 March, and from then until his forfeiture, and received the issues thereof in full, so that Henry, father of the said Henry, did not and could not receive anything therefrom, and the custody has been in the king's hands from the time of the forfeiture until now, as the said Henry son of Henry is prepared to verify, the said 40 marks yearly for the custody are exacted by summons of the exchequer from his lands from the said 3 March, as if Henry his father had had the custody, and the said Henry son of Henry is distrained in this behalf: the king orders the treasurer and barons to supersede the demand made in this behalf, and to cause Henry to be discharged thereof before them, if they ascertain by inquisition or in other lawful manner that the earl had the custody on the said 3 March and from then until his forfeiture, and that it has been in the king's hands since that time.
May 18.
The Tower.
To the same. Whereas the king, on 13 November, in the 12th year of his reign, granted to Henry de Percy, son and heir of Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, then a minor in his wardship, the custody of the castle and manor of Alnewyk, which belonged to Henry's father at his death, during Henry's minority, with all things pertaining thereto, without rendering anything to the king therefor, for the defence of the castle against the Scotch rebels, and committed to Henry the custody of all his father's lands in all the counties of England except Yorkshire during his minority, rendering therefor to the exchequer as much as those who then had the custody thereof rendered to the king for the same; and afterwards, on 26 May, in the aforesaid year, the king, because he had granted in aid of the maintenance of Edward, earl of Chester, the ferm that W. archbishop of Canterbury was bound to render for the manor of Payteworth, co. Essex, which belonged to Henry, father of the said Henry, and which the archbishop then had of the king's commission, ordered the said Henry to be intendent and respondent to the said Edward for his ferm of the said manor from 13 November then last past, upon which day the king committed to Henry the custody of the manor until Henry came of age, rendering to the exchequer as much as the said archbishop rendered yearly: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause Henry to be discharged and acquitted of the issues of the said castle and manor of Alnewyk from 13 November aforesaid, and to cause the archbishop to be discharged of the ferm that he was bound to render for the aforesaid manor before the aforesaid day, and to cause Henry to be discharged of the same after that day.
May 16.
The Tower.
To the same. Order to cause the aforesaid Henry, son of Henry de Percy, to be acquitted of the issues and ferms of the lands that his father held in chief at his death from 26 December, in the 15th year of the king's reign, when the king took his homage and rendered the said lands to him, although he had not then proved his age.
Membrane 9.
May 13.
The Tower.
To the mayor, bailiffs and men of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Order to expend up to 100l. out of the ferm of that town, by the view and testimony of Richard de Emeldon, in the construction and repair of the walls about the said town in Pampedene. By bill of the treasurer.
May 11.
The Tower.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Alesia, late the wife of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, to have the corn, hay, and grass growing or being in the manors of Colham, Eggeswere, Everle, and Colyngbourn, from 10 July, in the 16th year of the king's reign, when the king granted to her the corn, etc., in the said manors, which had been taken into the king's hands upon the death of the said Thomas, and which the king afterwards rendered to her, and to discharge Robert de Hungerford, keeper of certain lands then in the king's hands in cos. Middlesex and Wilts, and the other keepers, bailiffs, and reeves of the manors aforesaid of the corn, hay, and grass aforesaid and of the costs about sowing of the corn and mowing of the hay aforesaid.
May 15.
The Tower.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas de Hale, who cannot attend to the duties of the office as he does not reside in that county.
May 21.
Westminster.
To John de Blounvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Whereas lately at the prosecution of Isolda, late the wife of Gilbert Pecche, tenant in chief, suggesting that Stephen, brother of Thomas de la Chaumbre, knight, granted by charter to the said Gilbert the manor of Peselyngworth, co. Suffolk, and that by the taking of an assize of novel disseisin arramed by William de Hemenhale and Isabella his wife before John de Mutford and his fellows, justices to take assizes in that county, against Stephen de la Chaumbre, Gilbert his brother, and others named in the original writ concerning the said manor, prejudice might be done to the king (vobis), because the said Gilbert, heir of the aforesaid Gilbert, is a minor in the king's wardship and the custody of the manor ought therefore to pertain to the king during his minority, and peril of disinheritance might fall upon the said Gilbert son of Gilbert, the king ordered the said justices to view the charter aforesaid and to attempt nothing in this matter that might be to the king's prejudice or the heir's peril; and the king afterwards, upon learning from the complaint of the said William and Isabella that although the said Gilbert son of Gilbert, as principal disseisor, had with others named in the aforesaid writ disseised them of the said manor, and was seised thereof with his father and after his father's death by that disseisin and not otherwise, as they were prepared to prove, nevertheless the said justices deferred proceeding to the taking of the assize by virtue of the said mandate, ordered the said justices that, if it appeared to them that the said Gilbert son of Gilbert had, together with others named in the writ, disseised William and Isabella of the aforesaid manor, and was seised thereof by that disseisin and not otherwise, they should take the aforesaid assize notwithstanding the aforesaid order, provided that they did not proceed to render judgment without consulting the king; and afterwards, because it appeared by the tenor of the record and process of the aforesaid assize thus taken by the said justices, which the king caused to come before him in chancery, that the aforesaid Stephen, Gilbert son of Gilbert, Simon Pecche, clerk, John son of Adam Noriold, William Hok, William de Hemstede, and Richard Mone, together with the said Gilbert Pecche, deceased, disseised the aforesaid William de Hemenhale and Isabella of the aforesaid manor, appropriating the free tenement of the manor to Stephen, and that Stephen was seised thereof by that disseisin for two days, and forthwith enfeoffed the aforesaid Gilbert Pecche and Gilbert his son thereof, which Gilbert the son continued his estate therein throughout his father's life and afterwards, and was seised thereof in form aforesaid, the king, having inspected the tenor and record of the process aforesaid, being unwilling (volentes) further to defer justice to the said William and Isabella, ordered the justices aforesaid to proceed to render judgment notwithstanding any order to the contrary; and the king now learns from the said William and Isabella that, although the justices proceeded to render judgment, they have not obtained seisin of the aforesaid manor according to the judgment because the manor was taken into the king's hands after the death of the aforesaid Gilbert Pecche, the elder, in name of wardship by reason of the minority of the said Gilbert his son, and it is still in the king's hands, and they have prayed the king for remedy: as it appears by the record and process of the whole matter, which the king caused to come before him in chancery, that judgment is rendered in this behalf, and that it is considered that William and Isabella shall recover their seisin thereof by the view of the recognitors, and their damages, which are taxed by the same at 220l., the king orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the said manor.
May 20.
Westminster.
To Richard de Musele, constable of Sandale and Conynggesburgh castles. Order to expend up to 40 marks in repairing the walls and towers of the castles.
May 22.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be levied for the king's use the sums contained in certain recognisances made before the king and before the justices of the Bench to certain rebels and their adherents, the tenor of which recognisances the king sends them herewith sub pede sigilli. By K.
May 20.
Westminster.
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order not to permit Nicholas Trymenel to be aggrieved by reason of the rebels' goods that he took and occupied whilst in the king's company, as the king has granted that those who were in his company to prosecute the rebels shall not be aggrieved at his suit or the suit of any other for the goods of the rebels and their adherents taken and occupied between 17 October, in the 15th year of the king's reign, and 5 April following.
May 22.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to release Gregory de Compton, who is imprisoned in Winchester castle for adhering to Henry le Tyeis, a late rebel, and to other rebels, and to deliver him to William de Aylemere, king's clerk, who has mainperned to have him before the king upon reasonable summons. By p.s.
May 15.
The Tower.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 18 December, in the 5th year of his reign, committed to Henry de Percy, deceased, the custody of the castle of Bamburgh with the king's truncage there and a rent in the town of Wernemuth, during pleasure, rendering therefor 110l. yearly to the exchequer, and although afterwards, on 28 May, in the aforesaid year, the king committed the castle to John de Esshlyngton during pleasure, and ordered Isabella de Bello Monte to deliver to him by indenture the said castle with the arms, victuals, and other things of the king's therein, as appears by the rolls of chancery, whereby it is not presumed that Henry had the custody of the castle by virtue of the aforesaid commission, the treasurer and barons nevertheless exact 890l. (sic) from Henry de Percy, son and heir of the aforesaid Henry, for the ferm of the castle for the 5th, 6th, and 7th years of the king's reign as if his father had had the custody, whereas he had not and did not intermeddle therewith in any wise: the king orders the treasurer and barons that, if they find by inquisition or by other means that Henry the father did not have the custody of the castle, and did not intermeddle therewith, to cause the demand made upon Henry the son to be superseded, and to cause him to be discharged thereof before them.
May 26.
Westminster.
To Anthony de Lucy, keeper of the wood of Whynfel. Order to deliver to the sheriff of Westmoreland and the keeper of the king's [castle] of Appelby six leafless oaks from that wood fit for timber, for the repair of the houses of the said castle and of the mills of the same.
To the sheriff of Westmoreland. Order to cause victuals to be bought and purveyed up to the value of 10l. for the munition of the said castle, and to cause them to be kept in the same castle, and to cause them to be changed as often as necessary, so that they may be found ready and fresh (recencia) when they shall be required. The sheriff is ordered to expend 100s. in repairing the castle and the mills of the same, by the view and testimony of Henry de Warthecop.
May 20.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to John de Tycheburn, late sheriff of Wilts, for 360l. received in the king's chamber on 7 May, in the 15th year of the reign, by the hands of Thomas de Useflet, and for 139l. 2s. 5¾d. received from him on 1 July following of the issues of the rebels' lands in his custody, as appears by two letters patent sealed with the king's privy seal.
To John de Frylond, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in co. Gloucester. Order to deliver to Desiderata de Gosynton, late the wife of Roger de Gosynton, a third of a rent of 73s. 6½d. in Gosynton and Cromhale, which the king has assigned to her in dower, as he learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Aston and John de Hampton that the said Roger enfeoffed Thomas de Berkeleye, the elder, of 4l. 3s. 10½d. of rent in Gosynton and Cromhale, and that at the time of the feoffment Desiderata was his wife, so that she ought to have dower of the rent, and that she did not afterwards release her dower to the said Thomas in his lifetime or to Maurice de Berkele, his son and heir, or to any other, and that 73s. 6½d. of the aforesaid rent came to the king's hands by Maurice's forfeiture.
May 27.
Westminster.
To John Everard, escheator in cos. Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Dorset. Order to restore to John de Blakeston, of co. Devon, his lands, together with the issues received therefrom since they were taken into the king's hands, the escheator having taken them into the king's hands because the custody of his body and lands ought to pertain to the king by reason of his idiocy, as the king ordered the sheriff of Devon to cause John's body to come before the king in chancery on the morrow of the Ascension, and the said John, being examined personally before the king in chancery, is found by the king to be of sound mind and not an idiot.
May 26.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause Joan, wife of Roger de Mortuo Mari, the younger, who is staying in the castle of Skipton-in-Craven, to have 13s. 4d. weekly from Midsummer next for the maintenance of herself and her household and 10 marks yearly for all other necessaries of herself and household, until further orders. By bill of the treasurer.
To John de Rythre, constable of the said castle. Order [to intend] the payment of the said wages and stipends. By the said bill.
Membrane 8.
May 26.
Westminster.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to deliver to Master Robert de Baldok, archdeacon of Middlesex, the chancellor, the cloth, jewels, goods and chattels lately found in the possession of William le Waleys, wherewith he was taken and imprisoned in Neugate prison, where he now lies, because he was suspected of evil, which goods he acknowledged belonged to the chancellor. By K.
May 26.
Westminster.
To Henry de Cobeham, constable of Rochester castle. Order to cause John de Staunford, canon of Alnewyk, to be released from prison in that castle, to which he was committed by the king's order for certain causes.
By K.
May 22.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Thomas de Ponynges and Agnes his wife, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Joan de Rokesle, a moiety of the issues of a third part of the manor of Westwode and the issues of 24 acres of land there, the king having, amongst other things that he caused to be done by the said escheator concerning the lands of the said Joan, ordered the escheator to deliver to Walter de Pateshull and Joan his wife, eldest daughter and coheiress of the said Joan, the issues of the aforesaid manor, which had been taken into the king's hands by the escheator by reason of Joan's death, and the king having afterwards, at the suit of the said Thomas and Agnes, suggesting that a third of the said manor and 24 acres of land there in addition had been previously assigned to them in Agnes's purparty, and that the issues thereof ought to remain to them, given to Walter and Joan a day now past to appear in chancery to shew cause why a moiety of the issues of the third part and the issues of the 24 acres should not be delivered to Thomas and Agnes, and the said Walter in person and the said Joan by John de Shaldef[ord], her attorney, appeared before the king in chancery on the said day, and acknowledged that a moiety of the issues of the said third part and the issues of the said 24 acres ought to pertain to Thomas and Agnes, and granted that they should be delivered to them.
May 26.
Westminster.
To Anthony de Lucy, constable of Carlisle castle. Order to pay to the watchman of the castle the arrears of his wages and stipends from the time of the constable's appointment, and to pay him the same henceforth.
May 24.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king, on 30 June, in the 28th year of his reign, granted to William de Mulecastre, deceased, the manor of Boulton-in-Allerdale, co. Cumberland, which belonged to Geoffrey de Moubray of Scotland, deceased, which was in the late king's hands as escheat by reason of Geoffrey's rebellion, to have to the said William for life, saving to the king the knights' fees, advowsons of churches, wards, reliefs, escheats and dowers, rendering therefor yearly 40l. to the exchequer by the hands of the sheriff of Cumberland, and the late king, on 26 December in the same year, granted the said ferm to John de Sancto Johanne, deceased, for life amongst 1,000 marks yearly of lands, ferms, and rents that he granted to the said John because he could not have seisin of 1,000 marks of land in Galloway (Galwithia), which the king had granted to him for his good service, and hereupon the said king ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to cause the ferm to be delivered to John, as appears by the late king's rolls of chancery: the king orders the treasurer and barons to inspect the said writ, and to discharge the heirs and executors of the said William of the aforesaid 40l. yearly from the said 26 December until the day of John's death, provided that answer be made to the king therefor from the day of the said John's death.
May 28.
Westminster.
To Richard de Wyngefeld, fermor of the manor of Badyngham. Order to pay to William le Noreys, out of the ferm of the manor, the arrears of 12d. weekly for his wages and a robe yearly, price one mark, or one mark at his option, for the time that Richard has had the custody of the manor, and to pay him the same henceforth so long as Richard has the custody of the manor, as the king learns by inquisition taken by John de Bloumvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford, that William de Bovill, knight, granted to the aforesaid William for life the custody of his park of Badyngham and of his warrens of that town and of Dynyeton, Burndissh, and Tatington, co. Suffolk, receiving therefor from the manor the said wages and robe, and that William le Noreys was seised of the same from the time of the gift throughout the life of the said William de Bovill and after his decease, when the manor was in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Margaret, daughter of John de Bovill, kinsman and heiress of the said William, during all the time of Richard de Rodeneye and of Master John Walewayn, late escheators this side Trent, until the manor was demised at ferm to the said Richard de Wyngefeld, and it appears by the deed of gift, which William le Noreys has exhibited before the king in chancery, that he ought to have such wages and robes from the manor for life.
May 26.
Westminster.
To the chancellor of Ireland. Order to cause brother Roger Utlagh, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland, the king's chief justice, and other subjects previously deputed, or others to be deputed by the chancellor if necessary, to go on eyre to hear pleas in county Meath, as the king is given to understand that certain of the pleas summoned before his justices lately in eyre in that county are not yet determined. By K.
Vacated, because otherwise below.
May 24.
Westminster.
To Robert de Hungreford, keeper of certain forfeited lands in the city of London. Order to deliver to Nicholas de Clare, knight, all his lands in the said keeper's custody, which were taken into the king's hands for his adherence to the rebels, as he has made fine with the king in 100l. for saving his life and lands; provided that if the lands are demised at ferm, Nicholas shall satisfy the fermors for their expenses about the same.
By K.
The like to John Giffard, keeper of certain forfeited lands in the marches of Wales.
May 15.
The Tower.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 18 December, in the 5th year of his reign, committed to Henry de Percy, deceased, the custody of the castle of Baumburgh with the king's truncage there and a rent in the town of Warnemuth, during pleasure, rendering therefor 110l. yearly to the exchequer, and afterwards, on 28 May, in the aforesaid year, ordered Isabella de Bello Monte to deliver to him by indenture the said castle with the arms, victuals, and other things of the king's therein, the king by other letters patent committed to John de Esshlington the castle and appurtenances during pleasure, and ordered Isabella to deliver the same to him in form aforesaid, as appears by the rolls of chancery, whereby it is not presumed that Henry had the custody of the castle by virtue of the aforesaid commission; the treasurer and barons nevertheless exact 890l. (sic) from Henry de Percy, son and heir of the aforesaid Henry, for the ferm of the castle for the 5th, 6th, and 7th years of the king's reign as if his father had had the custody, whereas he had not and did not intermeddle therewith in any wise: the king orders the treasurer and barons that, if they find by inquisition or by other means that Henry the father did not have the custody of the castle, and did not intermeddle therewith, to cause the demand made upon Henry the son to be superseded, and to cause him to be discharged thereof before them.
May 26.
Westminster.
To brother Roger Utlagh, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland, chancellor of Ireland. Order to be chief-justice in eyre in county Meath in place of A. archbishop of Dublin, the late chief justice, and to make eyre in that county with others previously deputed for this purpose, or to be deputed by him, as the king is given to understand that certain of the pleas summoned before the justices lately in eyre in that county are not yet determined. By K.
April 15.
Westminster.
To Alan de Cubeldyk, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in co. Lincoln. Whereas, upon its being found by certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that John de Whytynton, clerk, ought to receive for life in the manor of Wylghton, co. Lincoln, which belonged to the Templars, and which was then in the king's hands for certain reasons, 3d. daily for his food and 20s. for his robe at Christmas and 20s. yearly for his other necessaries, and 2d. daily for the food of his groom and 5s. yearly for other necessaries of the groom, for 16 acres of land in Thevelby, a messuage and three acres of land in Mething[by], which he gave to the said manor, and that he ought to give to the manor at his death 20s., the king ordered the keeper of the manor to pay to the said John the wages and stipends aforesaid, and the arrears of the same from the time of the keeper's appointment; and afterwards, because the manor came to the hands of John de Moubray, a late rebel, for certain causes, who satisfied the said John de Whytinton for the aforesaid wages and stipends for the time that he held the manor until the manor came to the king's hands as escheat by reason of the rebellion of the said John de Moubray, the said John de Whytinton prayed the king to cause such wages and stipends to be paid to him from the time when the manor came to the king's hands, and the king thereupon appointed the said Alan, Peter de Ludington, and John de Crossholm, the younger, to make inquisition concerning the same, and it is found by their inquisition that the said John de Whytinton gave 16 acres of land in Thevelby and a messuage and 3 acres of land in Methyngby to the said house of Wylghton, in order to have maintenance in that house for himself and a groom, and he proferred a charter under the name of William de la More, sometime master of the order of the Temple in England, which testified that the master, with the common counsel and assent of his chapter celebrated at Dynnesley in the feast of St. Barnabas, 1304, granted to the aforesaid John, for his good service and for the tenements aforesaid, his food in their house at Wylghton at the table of the brethren of the house, a suitable clerk's robe at Christmas, price 20s., yearly for life, and 20s. for his other necessaries from the preceptor's purse or from him who supplies his place there, and food for the said John's groom at the squire's table and 5s. for the groom's necessaries, and it was found by the inquisition that John was always seised of the aforesaid maintenance for himself and groom from the time of the said grant, as well during the time of the order aforesaid as when the manor was in the king's hands upon the annulling of the order and during the time when the said John de Moubray occupied it, without change of his estate in any wise, and that he continued his seisin thereof, wherefore he has prayed the king to cause the wages and stipends to be paid to him from the time when the manor thus came to the king's hands: the king therefore orders the said Alan to pay to John the wages and stipends aforesaid out of the issues of the manor, and their arrears from the time when the manor thus came to the king's hands.
June 6.
Westminster.
To Thomas de Burgh, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Christiana, late the wife of Ingelram de Gynes, to have seisin of the lands that she held jointly with her husband on the day of his death of her inheritance, and to deliver to her the issues thereof, as the king has taken her homage for the said lands. By p.s.
The like to John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster.
Membrane 7.
May 27.
Westminster.
To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage, a carucate, and 2½ virgates of land, 9 acres of meadow, and 4s. of rent in Godyngdon, co. Oxford, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king, at the suit of Simon de la Borde, nephew and heir of Guy Ferre, suggesting that the late king granted the manor of Godyngdon to Guy, and that Guy afterwards acquired the aforesaid tenements from Godfrey son of Peter and Joan his wife by fine levied before the late king's justices of the Bench in the 9th year of his reign, and that Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, after the death of Guy, who died without an heir of his body, took the manor and the aforesaid tenements into the king's hands, as if the reversion of the tenements pertained, like that of the manor, to the king, ordered the aforesaid Richard to make inquisition concerning the above, and it is found by such inquisition that the tenements aforesaid were not in the late king's seisin when he granted the manor to Guy, and were not delivered to Guy with the manor, but that Guy, after he had obtained seisin of the manor, acquired the tenements from the aforesaid Godfrey and Joan in the 9th year of the late king's reign by fine levied before Thomas de Weylond and his fellows, then justices of the Bench, and that the tenements were taken into the present king's hands on 1 April, in the 16th year of his reign, by John de Bury, then sub-escheator of the said John Walewayn in co. Oxford, by reason of Guy's death, who held the manor of the king and died seised thereof, and that the tenements are held of the fee of the earl of Lincoln by the service of the twelfth of a knight's fee, and are worth in all issues 4l. 6s. 8d., and it appears by part of the fine shewn before the king in chancery that Guy acquired the tenements in form aforesaid.
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Whereas at the prosecution of Roger Morteyn and Isabella his wife, suggesting, by their petition before the king and his council, that William Tochet feoffed them of 2 messuages, 4 tofts, 12 bovates of land, and 6 marks of rent in Appelby, co. Lincoln, to them and the heirs of Isabella's body, and they afterwards demised the tenements aforesaid to the prior and convent of Thornholm for ten years, and William, asserting that they had alienated the tenements to the prior and convent and that the prior and convent had entered them contrary to the statute of mortmain, seised the tenements into his hands, whereupon the prior and convent ejected him from the said tenements, and that William afterwards, in the late king's time, arramed an assize of novel disseisin against the prior concerning the tenements before William de Mortuo Mari and Roger de Bella Fago, then justices appointed by the late king, and although it was found by the recognition of the assize taken before the said justices that the tenements were granted to Roger and Isabella in fee tail, and were afterwards demised by them to the prior and convent for the term of twelve (sic) years, a certain escheator of the late king's took the tenements into his hands because it was found by the said recognition that Roger and Isabella, after the demise thus made to them, made a charter of feoffment of the tenements to the said prior and convent, which was delivered to Thomas de Nevill to be kept in equal hand under certain conditions, and that the tenements are still in the king's hands, the king ordered the record and process of the aforesaid assize to come before him in chancery and caused enquiry to be made concerning the whole matter; whereupon Roger and Isabella have prayed the king for a remedy: the king, wishing to do what is just, sends the record and process of the said assize and the aforesaid inquisition and petition to the said Geoffrey and his fellows sub pede sigilli, and orders them to inspect and examine the same, and to call before them the aforesaid prior and others, and to hear the reasons of Roger and Isabella and of the prior and of others, and to cause due and speedy justice to be done to Roger and Isabella in this matter.
May 20.
Westminster.
To Geoffrey de Villers, receiver of the issues of certain lands forfeited to the king in co. Bedford. Order to deliver to the heir of William de Keynes of Faldho the issues of William's lands from 14 May, in the 15th year of the king's reign, when the king pardoned William the suit of his peace and what pertained to him for adhering to Thomas and Humphrey, late earls of Lancaster and Hereford, and to other rebels, and restored to him his lands, which were taken into the king's hands for this reason, and after his death the king ordered his lands, thus taken into his hands, to be delivered to his heirs, with the issues thereof from the said 14 May.
May 27.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to John Devery, whom the king is sending to prepare and hasten certain ships in cos. Southampton, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall for the king's service to Gascony, 100s. towards his expenses in this matter; provided that he account before them for that sum on his return, and that he satisfy the king for any surplus after allowance have been made to him for his daily expenses. By bill of the treasurer.
May 30.
Westminster.
To John Everard, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Alan de Chastillun, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that he 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.
May 20.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by Roger Beler and John de Lungevill that John Giffard of Brymmesfeld, Edward de Norton, and Robert de Coventr[eia], receiver of the aforesaid John, at the time when Humphrey de Bassingburn, late sheriff of Northampton, took the manor of Navesby, which belonged to the said John, into the king's hands, with other rebels in their progress to the north, took by armed force from Geoffrey Martyn, then reeve of the said John, 14l. and had their will thereof, which sum the reeve had received of the issues of the manor, and that the money did not afterwards come to the hands of the said Humphrey, and that Humphrey de Bohun, late earl of Hereford and Essex, and the said John with other rebels in their said progress came with armed force to the aforesaid manor when Humphrey de Bassingburn was sheriff of the aforesaid county, and took and carried away with them divers goods and chattels to the value of 45l. 10s. 8d., to wit 26 oxen, price 10s. each, 4 horses, price 8s. each, eight plough-horses (affros), price 3s. 4d. each, 2 bulls, price 20s., 234 sheep, price 2s. each, 34 swine, price 3s. each, and a boar, price 2s., and that Humphrey de Bassingburn could not resist the said rebels at that time, and that he did not receive 50s. from any creditors of the said John for sheep sold at Navesby, and that the aforesaid money did not come to his use; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause Humphrey de Bassingburn to have allowance in his account for the aforesaid 14l., 45l. 10s. 8d., and for the said 50s.
May 26.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to seise into the king's hands all the lands, demesnes, fees, churches, advowsons, and liberties in his bailiwick that belonged to the Templars at the time of the adnullation of that order, and to deliver them, after seisin has been had in the king's name, to the prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, in accordance with the ordinance in the parliament at Westminster [as in order of 26 March, page 91 above]. The king wills that all the moveable goods in the said lands shall remain to their owners, and that satisfaction shall be made by the Hospitallers for the value of the corn growing in the said lands, or that the owners of the corn may carry the same away and make their profit thereof when the time comes; provided that the seisin of the king or of the Hospitallers shall not be retarded by reason of the corn and goods aforesaid. By K.
The like to all the sheriffs of England.
The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to Edward, earl of Chester, Edmund, earl of Arundel, justice of Wales, and the bishop of Durham.
May 25.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Apperdele, who is incapacitated by illness and infirmity.
Membrane 6.
June 4.
Westminster.
To John Everard, keeper of certain forfeited lands in cos. Devon and Cornwall. Order to expend up to 10l. in repairing the houses in the lands of Henry Tyeys, a late rebel, in co. Cornwall, by the view and testimony of Richard de Prato. By C.
May 31.
Westminster.
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order to call before them Richard, brother of Reginald son of Henry de Bokland, to whom the king lately ordered William de Poleye, late keeper of forfeited lands in co. Hertford, to deliver the manor of Bokland [as at page 53 above], and to hear the said Richard's reasons, and to cause justice to be done to the king and to him concerning the aforesaid manor, as the king has found amongst the muniments that belonged to Bartholomew de Badelesmere a deed of quit-claim whereby the said Richard, on Sunday before the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the 13th year of the king's reign, released his right in the aforesaid manor to Bartholomew, and bound himself and his heirs to warrant it to Bartholomew and his heirs, for which reason the manor ought to pertain to the king by Bartholomew's forfeiture.
Vacated, because they were not sealed.

Footnotes

  • 1. The name of the manor is not given.