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May 28.
Hereford. |
To Simon de Grymesby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to pay to
Henry de Wytheton, the chaplain celebrating divine service in the king's
chapel within the manor of King's Clipston, co. Nottingham, beyond the
Trent, the arrears of 40s. yearly from the time of the escheator's appointment, and to pay him that sum yearly hereafter, as Henry has shewn to
the king that the escheator has deferred paying him the said sum from the
time of his appointment as escheator, which sum Henry ought to receive,
and he and his predecessors have been wont to receive in the past, by the
hands of the escheators beyond Trent from the issues of their bailiwick, for
his chantry in the said chapel in addition to the emoluments that he receives
because he celebrates on some occasions in St. Edwin's chapel. |
May 22.
Northampton. |
To the same. Order to pay to Robert de Clipston—to whom the
king, on 12 January last, committed the custody of the manor and
park of Clipston during pleasure, so that he should answer for the
issues thereof and should maintain the manor at the king's charge and the
paling of the park at his own charge, receiving timber for the repair of the
paling from the dry wood in the park, and taking 7d. a day for six parkers
and makers of the paling aforesaid by the hands of the escheator beyond
Trent—the arrears of the aforesaid 7d. a day from the said 12 January,
and to pay him that sum daily henceforth for so long as he shall have the
custody aforesaid. |
May 28.
Hereford. |
To the same. Order to pay to Henry de Wytheton, the chaplain celebrating divine service in the king's chapel within the manor of Clipston,
the arrears of two marks yearly from 26 May, in the first year of the king's
reign, when the king accepted the late king's grant of 5 December, in the
9th year of his reign, to the said Henry of two marks yearly by the hands
of the escheator beyond Trent, in addition to the 40s. yearly that he was
wont to receive for the chantry in the said chapel, and in addition to the
other emoluments that he was wont to receive because he celebrated sometimes in St. Edwin's (Odwini) chapel, and granted that Henry should
receive the said 2 marks yearly as above during pleasure. |
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May 18.
Northampton. |
To Thomas de Blaston, chamberlain of Chester. Order to pay to the
king's constables, ministers, and other officers in his bailiwick their usual
fees and wages, and the old alms heretofore accustomed and allowed.
By p.s. [1883.] |
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To the same. Order to cause the houses, chambers, turrets, and other
buildings in the king's castles of Chester, Beston, Flynt, and Rothelan to
be repaired by the view and testimony of Oliver de Ingham, justice of
Chester. By p.s. [1883.] |
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To the same. Order to cause the enclosure commenced about the king's
park of Shotwyk to be completed by the view and testimony of the said
Oliver. |
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To John Paynel, late chamberlain of Chester. Order to deliver to Thomas
de Blaston, the king's chamberlain there, all the king's victuals in his
custody, to be kept for the king's use by Thomas, whom the king has
ordered to receive them. |
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To Thomas de Blaston, chamberlain of Chester. Order to receive the
aforesaid victuals, and to cause such as cannot be kept conveniently to be
exchanged by the view and testimony of the aforesaid Oliver, or of those to
be appointed by him. |
May 22.
Northampton. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of John le Clerk of Wevelyngham, who has not sufficient
lands in that county to quality him. |
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To the same. Order to cause a coroner for the said county to be elected
in place of William Busk of Stowe, who has not sufficient lands in that
county to qualify him. |
May 26.
Northampton. |
To Simon de Berford, escheator this side Trent, or to him who supplies
his place. Whereas John Mayne, parson of the church of Drayton Beauchaump, acquired in the late king's time 2 messuages, 5 carucates of land,
26 acres of meadow, 15 acres of pasture, 66 acres of wood, and 6l. 1s. 4d.
of yearly rent in Masseworth, Saundersdon, Wedon, Agmundesham, and
Burnham to him and his heirs from Ralph de Wedon, who held them in
chief of the late king as of the honours of Walingford and Berkhamstede,
as it is said, and the said Ralph afterwards acquired the aforesaid tenements
to him and his heirs from the said John, and John and Ralph entered the
tenements by virtue of the acquisitions aforesaid without royal licence,
which tenements were taken into the king's hands by reason of their trespasses aforesaid, and the king pardoned the trespasses and granted to Ralph
that he should have the tenements aforesaid again, and should hold them to
him and his heirs of the king by the services therefor due and accustomed
without let or impediment, as contained in the king's letters patent, and
the king hereupon ordered the aforesaid escheator not to intermeddle
further with the tenements and to restore the issues thereof to Ralph; and
the escheator has signified to the king that Ralph held the manors of
Wodenhall, Wedon near Aylesbury, Masseworth, and Wengrave of his own
inheritance, and Saundersdon, Drayton Beauchaump, and Helpesthorp of
the inheritance of Elizabeth his wife, of the late king in chief by knight service, as was found by an inquisition of office taken before the escheator, and
that he alienated the manors in fee six years ago to John Mayne, parson of
the church of Drayton Beauchaump, who, after he had seisin thereof for
some time, re-enfeoffed Ralph of the manors of Wodenhull, Wedon, Masseworth and Wengrave, to hold to him and his heirs, and re-enfeoffed Ralph
and Elizabeth of the manors of Saundersdon, Drayton, and Helpesthorp, to
hold to them and to the heirs of Ralph, without obtaining any licence for
the feoffments or re-enfeoffments from the king or his father, wherefore the
escheator took the manors into the king's hands, and that it seemed to the
escheator that he ought not to deliver them to Ralph by virtue of the order
aforesaid because he did not find that they are held of the king as of the
honours contained in the said writ, but of the crown, as is aforesaid; and
afterwards Ralph, asserting that the manors and tenements are held of the
king as of the honours aforesaid and not in chief as of the crown, as
contained in the escheator's certificate, has besought the king to cause the
truth of the premises to be inquired diligently, and to cause to be done
in this behalf what shall be just; and the king thereupon appointed Ralph
fitz Richard, John Beuer, and Roger le Mareschal to make inquisition concerning the premises in co. Buckingham in the presence of the escheator or
his sub-escheator in that county; and it is found by their inquisition that
Ralph holds the manors of Wodenhull, Wedon near Aylesbury, and Wengrave by hereditary succession of the king in chief as of the honour of
Berkhamstede by the service of one knight's fee of the small fee of Morteyn, and not of the king in chief as of the crown, and that Ralph ought to
do suit at the court of Berkhamstede from three weeks to three weeks for
the said tenements, and that they are worth yearly in all issues 94l. 12s. 2d.,
and that he also holds the manor of Masseworth by hereditary succession
of the king in chief as of the honour of Walyngford by the service of a
fifth of a knight's fee and by suit at the court of Walyngford from month
to month, and that it is worth yearly in all issues 8l., and that he also holds
the manor of Saundersdon by acquisition from the aforesaid John Mayne,
who enfeoffed him and Elizabeth, his wife, and his heirs thereof, of the
king in chief as of the honour of Walyngford by the service of a third of a
quarter of a knight's fee and by suit at the court of Walyngford from
month to month, and that it is worth yearly in all issues 11l.; and that he
also holds the manors of Drayton Beauchaump and Helpesthorp by
acquisition from the aforesaid John Mayne, who enfeoffed him and
Elizabeth, his wife, and his heirs thereof, of Sir John de Wolverton by the
service of one knight's fee, and not of the king in chief as of the crown or
of honours, and that it is worth yearly in all issues 36l. 4s. 0d.: the king
therefore orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the tenements
aforesaid, and to deliver to Ralph any issues received thence, notwithstanding his aforesaid return, so conducting himself that renewed complaint may
not come to the king for want of justice. |
May 16.
Northampton. |
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the
king. It is shewn to the king on behalf of Robert son of Robert fitz Payn
and Ela, his wife, by their petition before him and his council, that the late
king—at the prosecution of Robert son of William Burnel, suggesting that
the manor of Whisshele ought to remain to him by virtue of a fine levied in
the court of Edward I. before Thomas de Weylonde and his fellows, then
justices of the Bench, in the 11th year of his reign, between John de
Brewes and Eva, his wife, and Beatrice, daughter of the said John and
Eva, and the said Robert son of William, demandants, and Robert, bishop
of Bath and Wells, deforciant, concerning the said manor, the tenor of
which fine the late king caused to come before him, and suggesting that
Robert son of Robert and Ela had deforced him of the said manor—ordered
the sheriff of Surrey to warn Robert son of Robert and Ela to be before
him in fifteen days from Martinmas, in the 19th year of his reign, to shew
cause why Robert son of William ought not to have seisin of the manor
aforesaid according to the said fine, and that because the said sheriff
returned that he had warned Robert son of Robert and Ela accordingly, and
that they did not appear on the aforesaid day, it was considered that Robert
son of William should have seisin of the manor aforesaid, and although the
said Geoffrey and his fellows, at the prosecution of Robert son of Robert
and Ela suggesting that they had not been warned as the sheriff returned,
caused the warners returned to the late king's said writ by the sheriff to
come before the king, and caused them to be examined as to whether they
had warned Robert son of Robert and Ela or not, they nevertheless deferred
proceeding to judgment upon the examination: as it is agreed by the king
and his council in the present parliament at Northampton that a writ of
deceit shall be maintained and shall hold its place in case of warning where
the warning is given, as in the case of summons in the case where the
summons is given, the king orders the justices to proceed to the final discussion of the said matter according to the form of the said agreement.
By pet. of C. [13130.] |
May 27.
Worcester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the prior
of St. Katherine's without Lincoln, one of the collectors in the diocese of
Lincoln of the tenth granted to the king by the clergy of the province of
Canterbury, to have allowance in his account for 100l. paid by him to
Sarah, late the wife of Robert de Leyburn, in execution of the king's order,
receipt whereof she has acknowledged before the king in chancery. |
May 6.
Northampton. |
To Eleanor, late the wife of Hugh le Despenser, the younger. Order to
permit Alesia, late the wife of Edmund, earl of Arundel, to make her profit
of her goods and chattels in the manors of Fairford, co. Gloucester, and
Caversham, co. Oxford, and of her corn sown in the same, which manors
the king assigned to her on 13 March, in the first year of his reign, as it
was not the king's intention when he restored the said manors to Eleanor,
with other lands of her inheritance, that prejudice should be done to the
countess concerning her goods and corn sown in the manors. |
May 12.
Northampton. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Whereas the late king granted to
Master Pancius de Controne in aid of his maintenance certain lands, which
were taken out of his hands by common assent in the last parliament at
Westminster, and the king, on 10 March, in the first year of his reign,
granted to him, in consideration of his good service to the late king and to
Queen Isabella, 100l. yearly from the ferm of the town of Northampton
until he should be provided with 100l. of land yearly for life, from which
ferm he received nothing because it was assigned to Queen Isabella before
any payment thence became due, and the king, on 1 March last, granted to
Pancius in recompence the manor of Guytyng, co. Gloucester, which belonged to Hugh le Despenser, the younger, and which was in the king's
hands by reason of his rebellion, for life, and Pancius, on 11 May last,
restored to the king the said manor and his estate therein; the king orders
the treasurer and chamberlains to pay to Pancius the arrears of the said
100l. from Michaelmast last until 11 May aforesaid, deducting what he has
received from the aforesaid manor between the said 1 March and 11 May. |
May 10.
Northampton. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Bysshopesdon and the advowson of the church of that town, and to restore the issues received therefrom,
as the king at the prosecution of Roesia, daughter of Cicely, late the wife of
Richard de Bere,—suggesting that James de Bourne granted before John
de Metyngham and his fellows, justices of the Bench of Edward I., by fine
levied before them at Westminster, in the 19th year of the said king's
reign, to the aforesaid Richard and Cicely the aforesaid moiety and advowson for their lives, with remainder to John son of the said Cicely and the
heirs of his body, with remainder to Nicholas, brother of the said John, and
to the heirs of his body, with remainder to William, brother of Nicholas, and
to the heirs of his body, with remainder to the said Roesia and the heirs of
her body, and that although the aforesaid Richard and Cicely and John were
seised of the moiety and advowson by virtue of the fine, and Richard and
Cicely died, and John, Nicholas, and William died without heirs of their
bodies, wherefore the moiety and advowson ought to remain to Roesia and
the heirs of her body by the form of the fine, nevertheless after John's
death William Trussel, then escheator this side Trent, took the moiety and
advowson into the king's hands as if they were held of him in chief, and
that the said Simon still detains the moiety and advowson in the king's
hands under this pretext—ordered Simon to make inquisition concerning
the premises, and it is found by the inquisition that the said Richard de
Bere and Cicely, his wife, and John, son of Cicely, were seised of the
moiety and advowson by virtue of the fine aforesaid, and that Richard and
Cicely died, and that the said John, Nicholas, and William died without
heirs of their bodies, so that the moiety and advowson ought to remain to
Roesia by virtue of the fine, and that Richard and Cicely, John, Nicholas,
and William, or any of them, did not grant their estate in this behalf to any
one, and that the moiety and advowson are not held of the king in chief but
of the bishop of Hereford by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and
that the moiety is worth 6l. yearly and the church 10l. yearly. |
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May 18.
Northampton. |
To Richard Caleware. Order not to intermeddle with the custody of the
king's stannary in co. Devon and with the custody of the water of Dertemor,
by virtue of the king's grant thereof to him for life, until the expiration of
the term for which the custody was granted to the abbot and convent of
Tavistok, the late king having, on 14 December, in the 19th year of his
reign, committed the custody of the stannary and water to the prior and
convent of Tavistok, the abbey being then void, and to the future abbot
for the term of seven years from Michaelmas preceding, rendering therefor to
him 113l. 6s. 8d. [yearly], which grant the king has confirmed. By pet. of C. |
May 14.
Northampton. |
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, keeper of the lands that belonged to Guy de
Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick. Order to expend up to 100 marks in
repairing the three mills of Loudesham, which are of the said inheritance,
as the king is given to understand that they are broken down and have
been carried away in great part by floods. By K. |
May 16.
Northampton. |
To William de Langeford, keeper of the manor of Bistlesham, co. Berks.
Order to expend up to 10 marks in repairing the king's water-mills in that
manor, as the king is given to understand that they are broken down and
partly carried away by floods. By K. |
May 12.
Northampton. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to supersede the exaction of 30l. from
Ingelram Berenger for divers causes upon his finding security to answer
for the same at the sheriff's next proffer, as he asserts that he has paid this
sum at the exchequer. |
May 16.
Northampton. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to supersede entirely the exaction of the
king's writ to levy 50 marks from the goods of Reginald de Pavely, by
virtue of a recognisance for that sum made by him in chancery to the late
king, as it is notorious that Rogo Gacelyn was of the quarrel of Thomas,
late earl of Lancaster, and that he died in prison, and William de Herlaston,
late keeper of the late king's privy seal, has testified before the king's
council that the aforesaid recognisance was made because Reginald acknowledged before the late king that he bought from Rogo's wife oxen and
sheep that belonged to Rogo, and for no other reason, wherefore the king
has caused the recognisance to be cancelled in the rolls of chancery.
By pet. of C. |
May 25.
Warwick. |
To Robert de Wodehous, keeper of the king's wardrobe. Order to
account with Roger Mauduyt and Robert de Tughale, who were lately sent
into Scotland by Henry, bishop of Lincoln, then the king's treasurer, and
William, bishop of Norwich, and other envoys of the king to conclude
peace between the king and Robert de Brus, in order to extend and receive
2,000l. of land yearly in Scotland for the use of Joan, the king's sister, for
35 marks paid to them towards their expenses by the collectors of the
custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of Newcastle-on-Tyne by
order of the aforesaid bishops, and to charge them with what they shall find
to be due to the king over and above their expenses. If he find that anything is due to Roger and Robert beyond the said 35 marks for their
expenses, he is to make them a bill for the sum due to them. By K. |
