Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1328

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 1, 1327-1330. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1896.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1328', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 1, 1327-1330, (London, 1896) pp. 305-319. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol1/pp305-319 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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August 1328

Aug 4.
York.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assinged to Joan, late the wife of Thomas de Grymestede, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
To Simon de Grymesby, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain the abbot of Selby for fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has done fealty to the king.
The like in favour of the abbot of St. Mary's, York.
Aug. 6.
York.
To Thomas de Usflete, keeper of the great wardrobe. Order to deliver to James, Nicholas, Peter Reyner, and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, the six coloured cloths (pannos de colore) that Nicholas Shirelok, the king's ulnager, delivered to Thomas as forfeited to the king. The king makes this order in consideration of the said merchants' good service to him. By K.
Aug. 5.
York.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to supersede until the Exaltation of the Holy Cross the execution of the king's order to levy 130l. from the men of the hundred of Stowe, by reason of the robbery of Richard de Wolleford and Geoffrey de Weston, as the king learns from the said men that many of the malefactors who committed the robbery were arrested within forty days after the robbery at the suit of the men of those parts, and are still imprisoned at Cambridge, so that the men of the hundred are not bound to answer for the robbery according to the statute of Edward I., and the king has ordered the mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge to certify him before the said feast of the names of the malefactors, and upon what day and at whose suit they were taken.
Aug. 7.
York.
To Simon de Grymesby, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margery, late the wife of Henry de Trewyk, tenant in chief of the late king, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Aug. 8.
York.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause William son of Thomas de Heton to have seisin of a messuage, a toft, and 3 acres of land in Erdeslawe, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that John Maufesour of Erdeslawe, who was hanged for felony, held them of William, and that they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Henry Russel has had the king's year, day, and waste thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
Aug. 8.
York.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Chaderton, who has not sufficient lands to qualify him for the office.
Aug. 7.
York.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to release any goods of Peter de Sancto Fusiano of Amiens that he may have arrested by virtue of the king's order to arrest goods and chattels of the men and merchants of France, Normandy, and Poitou, and to restore them to Peter, as the king has received him and his men and merchants into his protection, and has ordered all his bailiffs and subjects not to wrong or annoy them, and he willed that Peter's goods shall not be arrested for the debts of others whereof he is not principal debtor or surety or for trespasses committed by others.
By K.
The like to the sheriffs of Gloucester, Somerset and Dorset, Wilts, and Sussex. By K.
To Simon de Grymesby, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assinged to Mariota, late the wife of Walter le Alblaster, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
To John de Cheverdon, escheator in North Wales. Order to deliver to Master Matthew de Eynglefeld, now bishop of Bangor, all issues received from the temporalities of the bishopric since 30 April last, when the king took the bishop's fealty and ordered the temporalities to be delivered to him.
Aug. 18.
York.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Walter de Acre, who has lately become blind.
Aug. 6.
York.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Robert le fitz Wautier, tenant in chief, the following of the said Robert's lands, which the king has assigned to her as her dower by the assent of Henry de Percy, to whom the king committed the custody of two parts of the lands of the said Robert during the minority of Robert's heir: the manor of Henham, co. Essex, of the yearly value of 27l. 12s. 8d.; the manor of Hemenhale, co. Norfolk, of the yearly value of 48l. 1s. 10¾d.; and the manor of Shymplinge, co. Suffolk, of the yearly value of 33l. 7s. 0¾d.
Aug. 10.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive the tenth of the clergy of the diocese of York from the ecclesiastical benefices destroyed by the Scots according to the new taxation thereof made by the archbishop of York, whom the king has ordered to cause such benefices to be taxed anew, and to cause the abbot of St. Mary's, York, collector of the said tenth, to be discharged and acquitted of the tenth of the same benefices according to the old taxation.
Aug. 8.
York.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas Chuthe, who is insufficiently qualified.
Aug. 14.
York.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with two parts of the manor of Munestok, which the king, on 13 August last, ordered him to retain in the king's hands until further orders, when he ordered him to cause Richard de la Bere, kinsman and heir of Joan de Bohun of Kilpek, to have seisin of Joan's lands.
Aug. 16.
York.
To the keepers of the temporalities of the archbishopric of Canterbury, in the king's hands. Order to pay out of the issues of the temporalities 300l. to Reginald de Cobbeham, whom the king is sending to Brabant concerning certain of his affairs wherewith Reginald is charged by him and his council. By K.
Aug. 10.
York.
To the bailiffs of Ipswich. Order to restore to Simon de Bonevill, merchant of Amiens, all his goods and chattels, which they have arrested by virtue of the king's order to arrest the goods and wares of men and merchants of France, Normandy, and Poitou, as Simon has besought the king to restore to him his goods because he is not of the said lands, and he has found security in chancery to answer to answer to the king for the said goods and for his good conduct.
Memorandum, that John Houel, Robert Chaumberlayn, and Andrew Spicer of co. Suffolk mainperned on Simon's behalf as above.
Membrane 18.
Aug. 8.
York.
To Simon de Grymesby, escheator this Trent. Whereas the king granted to the escheator power to receive the fealty of Joan and Juliana, daughters of Beatrice, late the wife of Robert Turp of Edenhale, for Beatrice's lands, respiting their homage, because it was found by an inquisiton taken by the escheator that Beatrice held at her death the manor of Edenhale, co. Cumberland, of the king in chief by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and that Joan and Juliana were her next heirs and were of full age, and the king has now taken their homage for their purparties: he therefore orders the escheator not to distrain them for their homage. By K.
Aug. 6.
York.
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to take into the king's hands the king's peel of Hegheheved in the forest of Ingelwod, and to cause it to be kept safely until further orders, as the king is given to understand that the peel, which is in a place where there is frequent repair of deer (ferarum), is damaging to him if it be in the hands of others than his ministers of the forest, and that divers men frequenting the peel have destroyed his deer there in many ways, wherefore it is ordained by the king and his council that it shall be resumed into his hands. By p.s. [1996.]
The like to John de Crumbewell, keeper of the forest aforesaid, 'mutatis mutandis.'
Aug. 7.
York.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Jollan de Holaund and Margaret his wife all the lands of William Bolle, tenant in chief of the late king, in Swynesheved, together with the issues thereof from 17 February, in the first year of the king's reign, when the king, at the request of the lady de Beaumount, granted to Jollan and Margaret the custody of William's lands in Swynesheved, which are in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Cicely, William's daughter and heiress, to have during Cicely's minority, rendering the extent thereof to the exchequer.
Aug. 12.
York.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Whereas it was agreed in the parliament at Westminster that those who were of the quarrel of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, should have their lands again that were taken into the late king's hands by reason of the quarrel aforesaid; and at the prosecution of Thomas Roscelyn—asserting that he was of the quarrel aforesaid, and that William le Power of Leryngsete, Thomas le Milliers, and William Jonesservant Darcy, and other malefactors had broken his houses at Eggefeld by force and arms, had felled his trees, fished in his ponds, and had taken and carried away timber from his houses and other his goods and chattels to the value of 200l.—the king appointed Robert Baynard, Simon de Hedersete, and Thomas de Hindryngham his justices to hear and determine the trespass aforesaid; and afterwards at the prosecution of John Darcy—suggesting that the late king granted to him the said manor, which had belonged to the said Thomas Roscelyn and which was in the said king's hands for certain causes, to have until he should have levied from its issues a sum of money due to him from the said king, and that the aforesaid William, Thomas le Milliers, and William, and John de Ormesby, knight, John le Pouere, parson of the church of Stodeye, Geoffrey, parson of the church of Hunworde, Robert de Beggate, William Bonyng, and Ed. Cort, who were indicted of the aforesaid trespass before the said justices, took the goods and chattels, etc., that Thomas Roscelyn asserted they took by force and arms, as the issues of the manor in the name of the said John Darcy, whilst the manor was in his hands, as his bailiffs and servants, and he prayed that the king would provide for their indemnity—the king, considering that answer was made to the late king for the goods and chattels aforesaid, especially as John Darcy received them in the name of a debt due to him from the late king by virtue of the said king's grant, as he has acknowledged before the king, and that thus Thomas Roscelyn ought not to have the said goods and chattels by virtue of the agreement aforesaid, and willing that the matter should be brought (deduci) before him because it concerned him, the king ordered the aforesaid Simon to send to him in fifteen days from Michaelmas next the record and process before him and the said Thomas de Hindryngham had in the premisses, and ordered the sheriff to supersede in the meantime the taking of the said William, Thomas le Milliers, William, John de Ormesby, John le Pouere, Geoffrey, Robert de Beggate, William, and Ed., upon their finding mainpernors to have them before the king at the said day, and to release any of them whom the might have arrested: as, however, the king ordered Robert, Simon, and Thomas to proceed to hear and determine the trespass, notwithstanding the king's order to send before him the record and process, he orders the sheriff to supersede entirely the said order to supersede the taking of the said men and to release them on mainprise, etc. By C.
Aug. 17.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king, on 30 December, in the 9th year of his reign, granted to John de Felton the custody of the castle of Alnewyk, with the manors and towns of Alnewyk, Swynou, Tughale, Alnham, Donewyk, Swynelesheles, and other appurtenances, which belonged to Henry de Percy, tenant in chief of the said king, and which were then in his hands by reason of the minority of Henry, son and heir of the said Henry, to have during pleasure without waste, so that he should receive and have, without rendering an account at the exchequer, the issues thereof for a whole year for the maintenance of forty men-at-arms and forty hobelers, which John should keep at his cost in the castle to aggrieve the said king's Scotch enemies, if he kept the men in the castle for that time, as is contained in the late king's letters patent and in indentures made between him and the aforesaid John; and the king now learns from John's complaint that, although he kept the said men for a whole year at his cost, the treasurer and barons cause him to be distrained to render account at the exchequer of the issues of the castle and manors for the said year, and he has therefore prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to examine the said letters and indentures, and to enquire the truth of the premises, if need be, and if they ascertain that John kept the said men for a whole year as is aforesaid, they are to discharge him of rendering an account of the issues for that year; provided that he answer for the issues if he held the castle and manors beyond that year, and for any waste or destruction.
Aug. 12.
York.
To Robert Banyard, Simon de Hedersete, and Thomas de Hindryngham. Order to proceed to hear and determine the trespass committed upon Thomas Roscelyn at Eggefeld [as in the order to the sheriff of Norfolk on the preceding page], notwithstanding the king's order to Simon to send the record and process before the king. By C.
Aug. 13.
York.
To the men of Great Yarmouth. Whereas the matter between John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, his men and tenants of the towns of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston, on the one part, and the men of Great Yarmouth, on the other, concerning the port of the sea descending at the latter town, which port Edward I. by his charter, confirmed by the late and the present kings, declared pertained to Great Yarmouth, and because Edward I. granted to the men of Great Yarmouth by the same charter that all merchandises and wares whatsoever, whether of fish or of other things, brought within their said port in ships or boats or otherwise for the purpose of being traded with shall be unloaded at their town and not elsewhere within the port, has been pending undecided for some time before Geoffrey Lescrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king, the process whereof Geoffrey had, by the king's order, before the king and his council in the treaty summoned to be held at York, and it still pends before the king and his council, and the king could not proceed to the final discussion of the matter without greater deliberation by reason of certain difficulties arising in the matter, and he therefore gave to the men of Great Yarmouth and to the earl and his men and tenants a day to be before him and his council in the next parliament, to hear and do and receive what his court shall consider in the premises, and he ordered Robert de Drayton, Henry Randolf, Robert Elys, William Maynard, William, Thurkil, and William de Gasele, men of Great Yarmouth, lately sent by the men of that town to the treaty for this matter by the king's order, to permit the men of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston to load and discharge their ships and goods at their said town without impediment, and to arrive there with their ships, and to sell their goods, until the aforesaid matter shall be finally determined by him and his council, and he also ordered William Man, William de Gapton, William de Gap', William de Spetteshale, Geoffrey de Corton, and William atte Water, men of the said towns of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston, to permit the men of Great Yarmouth to use and enjoy their charter aforesaid in respect to other persons without hindrance, until the matter be determined as above; and he has also inhibited the said Robert, Henry, Robert, William Maynard, William Thurkil, and William de Gaysele and also the said William Man, William de Gapton, etc., and William atte Water from attempting anything contrary to the said order in the meantime; and because it was testified before him and his council by the said Geoffrey le Scrop that a plea is pending before him and his fellows between the citizens of London and the men of Great Yarmouth because the citizens load and discharge elsewhere than at the town aforesaid, contratry to the said charter, the king ordered the men of Great Yarmouth to permit the citizens to load and discharge their own ships and their goods and wares where they wish without hindrance, and to arrive where they wish with the said ships, and to sell their goods, until the plea between the citizens and men be determined: the king, wishing to cherish peace and concord between the men of Great Yarmouth and the said citizens and the said men of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston, signifies the premises to the men of Great Yarmouth, and orders them to observe and keep them as far as pertains to them, and prohibits them from attempting anything contrary to the said order in the meantime. By K. & C.
To the men of Little Yarmouth and Gorleston. Like notification, order, and proghibition. By K. & C.
Aug. 6.
York.
To the justiciary of Ireland for the present or future, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause Robert de Clifford, son and heir of Matilda, late the wife of Robert de Clifford, to have seisin of the lands that his mother held of the late king in chief in Ireland, and to deliver to him the issues thereof from 20 August last, when the king took his homage and rendered the said lands to him, and ordered Thomas fitz John, earl of Kildare, late justiciary of Ireland, to have seisin of the lands aforesaid, which order has not yet been executed.
Aug. 7.
York.
To Nicholas Shirlok, keeper of the king's ulnage, or to him who supplies his place in the town of Boston. Order to restore to James Nicholas, Peter Reiner, and John Fraunceys, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, all their cloths arrested by him or his substitutes at Boston, and to permit them to take them whither they wish, as they have shewn the king that whereas they lately bought divers cloths in Flanders by certain of their servants, and wished to take them to Brabant, their servants nevertheless took the cloths to Boston, where Nicholas caused them to be arrested because many of them are not of the right measure, and they have besought the king to provide for their indemnity. By K.
Membrane 17.
Aug. 10.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account with Master John de Hildesle, king's clerk, for his wages in going on divers affairs of the late king to Aragon and Gascony, and in staying there and returning home, and for his expenses about his passages, and to cause allowance to be made to him for the sums received by him as specified below, and to cause to be done further what they shall deem fit as to the final issue of the account, as John has shewn the king that he was sent by the late king, in the eighteenth year of his reign, to Aragon, and that he received 33l. 6s. 8d. towards his expenses, and that he was sent upon another occasion to Gascony, in the 19th year of the reign, and that he received 10l. towards his expenses, and that he was sent to Gascony a second time in the same year, and that he received 10l. towards his expenses, and that the aforesaid sums are exacted from him by the treasurer and barons, and he has prayed the king to cause an account to be made with him of his wages and expenses, and to cause him to be satisfied for what is due to him in this behalf.
Aug. 20.
Pontefract.
To John de Blunvyll, Geoffrey de la Lee, and Roger de Luda, taxors and collectors of the twentieth lately granted to the king in co. Hertford. Whereas the king has assigned to James Nicholas, Francis Grandon, Peter Reyner, John Fraunceys, Peter Byne, Tannus Jacobi, and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, 120l. of the twentieth to be received from the said taxors and collectors, in part payment of a great sum of money lent by them to the king for his urgent affairs, and has caused two tallies of the receipt of the exchequer to be made and delivered to them, one for 100l. and the other for 20l., of as much money received from the said collectors at the exchequer on the 18th of the present month; and as the exchequer is closed in the present season so that writs under the exchequer seal cannot be made concerning the premises, the king, to avoid the damages that may arise to him by delay in payment, orders the collectors to pay the aforesaid 120l. without delay, laying aside all excuse, to the said merchants, or to their attorney bringing this writ, out of the money collected or to be collected from the twentieth, receiving from them the tallies aforesaid. By p.s.
The like in favour of the said merchants to the following taxors and collectors of the twentieth in the counties specified below:
Henry de Pentelawe and William de Persholt, in co. Berks, for 400l. by two tallies.
Henry Bedyk and Henry de Frowyk, in co. Middlesex, for 100l. by two tallies.
Roger de Baskervyll and Robert Broun, in co. Hereford, for 200l. by one tally.
John de Bisshopesdon and Robert de Vaal, in co. Warwick, for 250l. by two tallies.
Hugh de Prestwold and Roger de Belegrave, in co. Leicester, for 200l. by one tally.
John de Hampton and Robert de Bosco, in co. Worcester, for 150l. by one tally.
William Tracy and Robert de Aston, in co. Gloucester, for 300l. by one talley.
Thomas de Hindringham and John de Ormesby, in co. Norfolk, for 300l. by one tally.
John de Acton and Richard de Hampton, in co. Stafford, for 150l. by two tallies.
Richard de Abberbury and John de Meriet, in co. Oxford, for 380l. by two tallies.
John de Clyvedon and John de Erle, in co. Somerset, for 275l. by two tallies.
Ralph de Crophull and John Byk, in co. Nottingham, for 80l. by one tally.
John de Shauston and John de Chishull, in co. Cambridge, for 150l.
Henry Tilly and John Whaldeshef, in co. Huntingdon, for 100l. by one tally.
James de Cokyngton and Matthew de Crauthorn, in co. Devon, for 150l. by one tally.
Robert de Daventr[eia] and William Breton, in co. Northampton, for 300l. by two tallies.
Roger de Tyringham and Reginald de Hampeden, in co. Buckingham, for 120l. by one tally.
Master John de Everdon, John Gisors, Hamo de Chigwell, and John Devery, in the city of London, for 500l. by two tallies.
Richard de Hywyssh and Robert de Bikkemore, in co. Cornwall, for 40l. by one tally.
William de Northo and John atte See, in co. Sussex, for 60l. by one tally.
John Daubernoun, the younger, and William de Weston, in co. Surrey, for 40l. by one tally.
John de Tichebourn and John de Roches, in co. Southampton, for 70l. by one tally.
The like to the following collectors of the tenth of the clergy:
The prior of St. Bartholomew's, Smethefeld, London, collector in the bishopric of London, for 200l. by one tally.
The abbot of Oseneye, one of the collectors in the said bishopric, for 100l. by one tally.
The collector in the bishopric of Salisbury, for 200l. by two tallies.
The abbot of St. Mary's, York, one of the collectors in the diocese of York, for 150l. by one tally.
The prior of St. Swithin's, Winchester, collector in the bishopric of Winchester, for 200l. by one tally.
The prior of Ely, collector in the bishopric of Ely, for 300l. by two tallies.
The prior of Norwich, collector in the bishopric of Norwich, for 350l. by two tallies.
The collector in the bishopric of Exeter, for 200l. by two tallies.
The collector in the bishopric of Hereford, for 40l. by one tally.
The abbot of Faversham, collector in the diocese of Canterbury, for 50l. by one tally.
The collector in the bishopric of St. Davids, for 150l. by two tallies.
The collector in the bishopric of Llandaff, for 60l. by one tally.
The like to the following:
William de Fisshebourn and Geoffrey de Ledes, collectors of the old and new customs in the port of Chichester, for 75l. by one tally.
Geoffrey Houles and Hugh Sampson, collectors of the old and new customs in Southampton, for 100l. by one tally.
Thomas de Betoigne and William le Coroner, collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of London, for 1,390l. by three tallies.
Aug. 22.
Ponterfract.
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to admit John Darcy 'le neveu,' justiciary of Ireland, and the chancellor of Ireland to survey the king's treasury and things therein twice a year when summoned, as the king wills that the justiciary and chancellor shall survey the same twice a year, so that they may certify him when necessary and when required by him. By K & C.
To John Darcy 'le neveu', justiciary of Ireland. The king has been besought by divers men of Ireland to grant by statute that all Irishmen wishing to use the English laws may do so, and that it shall not be necessary for them to sue out charters for this purpose; the king wishing to be certified whether he may grant the premises without prejudice to any one, orders the justiciary to cause the will of the magnates of that land to be carefully examined in the next parliament, and to certify him of what he shall find, together with his counsel and advice. By K. & C.
Aug. 23.
Doncaster.
To the chamberlain of Chester, for the present or future. Whereas the king, at the request of Oliver de Ingham, ordered the constable of Bordeaux, by his letters, to take advice concerning the price of Oliver's horses appraised and lost in the king's service when he was seneschal of the duchy [of Aquitaine], and to pay the price thereof to Oliver or his attorney out of the issues of the duchy and out of other receipts from those parts, which letters Oliver has now restored to chancery to be cancelled because he has not been satisfied therefor by the constable, and he has prayed the king to cause him to be satisfied out of the first issues of the chamberlain's bailiwick for the price of the horses, according to the form of the letters of John Travers, then keeper of the late king's money in the duchy aforesaid, in his possession: the king therefore orders the chamberlain to pay to Oliver the arrears of the price of the horses contained in the said letters out of the first issues of his bailiwick. By p.s. [2042.]
Aug. 19.
Ponterfract.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Shukkeburgh, who is incapacitated by infirmity.
Aug. 24.
Blyth.
To the keepers of the temporalities of the archbishopric of Canterbury. Whereas the king, on 16 August, ordered them by his writ to pay 300l. out of the issues of the temporalities to Reginald de Cobbeham, whom the king has sent to Brabant upon certain of his affairs wherewith he is charged by the king and his council, and the writ has been lost accidently: the king therefore orders the keepers to pay to Reginald the aforesaid sum. By K.
Membrane 16.
Aug. 25.
Clipstone.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Alexander de Fryvill and John his wife held jointly on the day of Alexander's death the castle of Tamworth and a third of the manor of Middelton, co. Warwick, for their lives of the gift of Baldwin de Fryvill by fine levied in the late king's court, and that the castle is held of the king in chief by the service of coming to his coronation armed all over (universaliter) with royal arms of the king's livery, sitting upon the king's principal destrier, and offering to make proof for the king against all withsaying the king's coronation, and that the said third is held of the church of St. Edith, Tamworth, by the service of 2s. 2½d., and that [Alexander] did not hold any other lands of the king in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held divers other lands of other lords by various services, and that Baldwin de Fryvill, his son, is his next heir and is of full age, and the king has taken Joan's fealty for the castle aforesaid; the king therefore orders the escheator to deliver the castle to Joan, and not to intermeddle further with the other lands thus held of other lords, and to restore the issues thereof.
Aug. 16.
York.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a ship of Peter Aubel of St. Malo (Maulo) and John le Dauns of Normandy, called 'La Cogge Seint Thomas' of St. Malo, with all her tackle, appraised at 70s., which the sheriff has arrested in execution of the king's order to arrest goods of the men and merchants of the power of the king of France and to cause them to be kept safely until Elias de Stubston, merchant of Lincoln, be satisfied for 460l. and his damages by reason of the seizure of his ship called 'La Bonane' of Boston [as at page 175 above], to be appraised in the presence of the said Peter and John, if they choose to attend, and to deliver it or its price to Elias in part satisfaction of the sum of 100l. for which the king ordered the sheriff to make arrest, the sheriff having previously arrested and delivered to Elias goods of men and merchants of Normandy appraised at 10 marks and 10s. in the ports of Portesmuth and Lenynton. He is ordered to arrest goods for the remainder of the above sum. The king has ordered the sheriffs of Suffolk, Dorset, and Devon to arrest goods to the value of 100l. each, and the bailiffs of Shorham to arrest goods to the value of the remaining 60l. By C.
Aug. 6.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, in response to the petition of the abbot of Egleston, ordered W. archbishop of York to appoint certain men to survey the spiritualities and temporalities of the abbot in that diocese wherefrom the tenth granted by the clergy of that diocese used to be given, and to cause them to be taxed anew, so that the tenth might be levied according to such new taxation, the abbot having suggested that the spiritualities and temporalities of the abbey had been so wasted and destroyed by the frequent comings of the Scots that they were insufficient to levy the tenth therefrom according to the last taxation; and although it is found by the archbishop's certificate sent to the exchequer that the abbot's goods had been so wasted and burnt by the Scots that they were insufficient for the maintenance of the abbot and his brethren nowadays, and that many of the brethren have been sent to other places by order of the late king and of the present king, and that nothing is found there to be taxed whence any tenth may be exacted or levied, nevertheless the collectors of the tenth in the said diocese exact the tenth from the abbot, wherefore he has prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king, pitying the poverty of the abbot and convent and wishing to spare them in this behalf, orders the treasurer and barons to view the certificate aforesaid, and, if they find it is so, to cause the abbot to be discharged and acquitted of the tenth at the exchequer on this occasion. By C.
Aug. 28.
Clipstone.
Richard Roberdesprest Jorz, imprisoned at Notingham for trespass of venison in Shirwod forest, has letters to John de Crumbwell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, to bail him, etc.
Aug. 28.
Clipstone.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to permit John de Crumbewell to have respite until Michaelmas next for payment of 230 marks 10s. 0d., which are exacted from him by summons of the exchequer. By K.
Vacated, because on the dorse of the [letters] close.
Aug. 29.
Clipstone.
To the bailiffs of the abbot of Redyngges at Redyngges. It is shewn to the king on behalf of John Wynter of Norwich and Thomas Wynter of Norwich, merchants, that they lately went with their goods and wares to the abbot's fair of Redynges to trade there with the same and for no other purpose, and although they wore no armour except two single (simplicibus) aketons, to wit one each, and this only by reason of the dangers of the road and not for the purpose of committing evil, the bailiffs nevertheless took and imprisoned them with their goods, and still detain them and their goods, by virtue of the ordinance in the late parliament at Northampton that no one shall go armed in fairs or markers of elsewhere, under pain of imprisonment and loss of their arms, wherefore they have prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the bailiffs to release the said John and Thomas and their goods, upon their finding mainprise to have them before the king in three weeks from Michaelmas.
Aug. 31.
Clipstone.
To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause to be delivered to the master and brethern of God's House, Berwick-onTweed, their lands and possessions, which were taken into the late king's hands by reason of the Scotch war, as peace has been established between the king and Robert, king of Scotland, and their subjects, and it is contained in the form of the peace that it was the intention of the king of Scotland and of his envoys and proctors that no prejudice should be done to the rights of the church in either realm by the treaty, and the king understands that the king of Scotland has caused restitution to be made to men of religion of this realm of their lands.
The like to the following:
L. bishop of Durham.
The sheriff of Northumberland.
Thomas de Heton in favour of the abbot of Meuros.
The said bishop in favour of the minister and brethern of the Holy Trinity of the bridge of Berwick-on-Tweed.
The said bishop in favour of the abbot of Kelson.
John de Lancastria in favour of the abbot of Kelsou.
The prior of Lanercost in favour of the abbot of Kelsou.
Aug. 25.
Clipstone.
To Simon de Grymesby, late escheator this side Trent. 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 to the exchequer for the issues thereof and should maintain the manor at the king's cost and the paling of the park at his own cost, receiving for the repair of the paling timber from dry wood in the park and receiving daily for himself, the parkers, and the makers of the paling 7d. a day from the escheator this side Trent—the arrears of the aforesaid 7d. a day for the time of Simon's office.
Aug. 30.
Clipstone.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the aforesaid Simon to have allowance for the money paid by him to the said Robert in execution of the preceding order.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Talgarth in Wales, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Master Rhys ap Howel, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Rhys enfeoffed, by the late king's licence, William ap Rees of his manor of Talgarth aforesaid, which was held in chief of the said king, and that William, after having full seisin thereof by virtue of the licence aforesaid, granted the manor by his charter to the aforesaid Rhys and to Philip ap Howel, clerk, and to Philip de Brenlees, to have to them and to the heirs of the body of Philip de Brenlees, with remainder to John de Brenlees, Philip's brother, and to the heirs of his body, with remainder to Rhys de Brenlees, brother of John, and to the heirs of his body, with remainder to James de Brenlees, brother of Rhys de Brenlees, and to the heirs of his body, with remainder to Elizabeth de Brenlees, sisters of James, and to the heirs of her body, with remainder to the right heirs of the said Rhys ap Howel, and that the afforesaid Philip and Philip held the manor aforesaid together with Rhys ap Howel jointly until Rhys's death by virtue of the grant aforesaid, and that the manor is held of the king in chief by homage only and by giving help against the Welsh in time of war, according to what the other tenants, their peers, do for the keeping of the peace, each to the best of his power and for the common benefit, and that the manor is in the king's hands by reason of the death of the said Rhys ap Howel and for no other reason, and that it is worth in all issues 33l. 13s. 4d., and it appears by the late king's letters of licence shewn in chancery that licence was made in such form.
Membrane 15.
Aug. 30.
Clipstone.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. John Darcy 'le neveu' has besought the king to cause to be allowed to him, in his account at the exchequer of the time when he was sheriff in co. York, 123l. 8s. 3d. due to him from the king, to wit 42l. 8s. 3d. of the sum of 63l. 8s. 3d. that the king owed him for his wages of war in the first year of the reign, by account made with him at Notingham on 1 October, in the same year, and of the sum of 60l. that the king owed him in payment of 100l. granted to him of the king's gift in aid of his preparations (apparatuum) against Scotland, by account made with him there on the same day, and 81l. owing to him, a banneret appointed by the king and his council to stay in Yorkshire in the months of October, November, and December in the said year for the safe custody of those parts, by account made with him at Worcester on 17 June, in the second year of the reign, as appears by two bills of the wardrobe under the seal of Robert de Wodehous, late keeper of the wardrobe, in John's possession: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to view the bills aforesaid, and to cause allowance to be made to John for the aforesaid 123l. 8s. 3d. By pet. of C.
To the same. The said John has besought the king to cause allowance to be made to him in the ferm of co. York for many decays of the ferms of that county that happened in the time when he was sheriff there, by reason whereof he is unable to answer to the king for the whole ferm of the county; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause due allowance to be made to John in his account for the decays of ferms of the said county that they shall find by inquisition happened in the time when he was sheriff. By pet. of C.
To the same. Order to audit with all speed the account of the said John for the issues of the aforesaid county of the time when he was sheriff, and to cause justice herein to be done to him, and to admit in his place to render the account an attorney to be appointed by him, as he is shortly setting out for Ireland by the king's order in his service. By pet. of C.
Aug. 28.
Clipstone.
To William la Zousch de Mortuo Mari, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to deliver Peter le Spenser, imprisoned at Stafford for trespass of venison in the forest of Cannock (de Cannoco), in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the justices next in the eyre for Forest pleas in co. Stafford.
The like to the said keeper in favour of Robert de Freford, parson of the church of Elleford, Thomas de Eccleshale, chaplain, Godwin le Fisshere of Alrewas, in the said prison, for the trespass aforesaid.
Sept. 6.
Lincoln.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Isabella, late the wife of Edmund Clere, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
To the same. Order not to distrain Herbert de Grisseby and William Warde of Clixby, for homage and fealty for the lands that they hold of the king, as they have done their homage and fealty. By p.s. [2061.]
Sept. 6.
Lincoln.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Adam de Reresby, whom the king has caused to be amoved from office because he is appealed before the king of a robbery committed upon Thomas Bretoun and of other felonies.
Sept. 7.
Barlings.
To Simon de Berefored, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Margery, daughter and heiress of Thomas fitz Aer, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of her father's lands, as she has proved her age before the escheator and the king has caused her homage for her father's lands to be respited until the quinzaine of Easter next, unless the king come to the parts of Hereford in the meantime, at the request of the bishop of Hereford, his treasurer. By p.s. [2063.]
Sept. 7.
Barlings.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive an attorney to be named by Nicholas de Hugate, canon of St. Peter's, York, to render Nicholas's account of the time when he was keeper of the late king's victuals in Gascony and receiver of his moneys there, as Nicholas is about to make his residence at York by the king's licence, so that he cannot attend in person to the rendering of his account. By p.s. [2062.]
Aug. 30.
Clipstone.
To the same. Master Walter de Islep has shewn the king that whereas he made fine with the late king in 500 marks for restitution of his lands, goods and chattels and debts, which had been taken into the said king's hands by reason of certain trespasses committed by Walter in Ireland, and he paid to the said king 300 marks thereof, and the late king ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin to deliver to Walter all his lands, goods and chattels and debts, nevertheless they sold goods and chattels of his to the value of 500l. at a less price than they were worth, and no recompence was made to him for 133l. 6s. 8d. the remainder of the fine aforesaid, and the king therefore ordered the justiciary and chancellor of Ireland to cause the truth of the matter to be inquired into and to have the inquisition before the king in the octaves of Martinmas next, and Walter has prayed the king to cause the exaction of the said 133l. 6s. 8d. to be superseded in the meantime: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause the exaction thereof to be superseded until the octaves aforesaid, so that he may then, when the inquisitions have been returned, cause to be done what shall be just and consonant with reason. By C.
Aug. 30.
Clipstone.
To John de Roches, keeper of the islands of Jerneseye, Jereseye, Serk, and Aurneye. The king has received his letters containing that, from the time of his arrival in the islands for the custody thereof by the king's commission, he has retained and still retains six men at arms with him in aid of the keeping of the islands, and also that he found fifty men in Castle Cornet and thirty men in the castle of Gorri in the island of Jereseye, who had been placed therein for the keeping of the castles by Gerard de Orum, lately supplying the place of Otto de Grandissono, then keeper of the islands aforesaid, each of whom, with the exception of the constables, ought to receive 2d. a day for their wages, and that he has hitherto retained the said eighty men for the munition of the castles aforesaid at the king's wages, paying some of them such wages, and he has prayed the king to signify to him his will concerning the keeping of these men in the future: the king, confiding in his circumspection, and considering that he is able to have greater knowledge of those things that pertain to the keeping of those parts than others ignorant of the state of those parts, orders him to take advice concerning the premises, and if he find that the castles cannot be conveniently kept with a less number than the eighty men aforesaid, he is to retain them or others in their places, if need be, for the munition of the castles together with the aforesaid six men-at-arms for such time as he shall deem expedient, and he is to pay to them their wages for the time that he has had the custody of the islands and henceforth out of the issues of the islands. By K. & C.
Aug. 30.
Clipstone.
To the same. Order to distrain all persons of Normandy who hold of the king in the isles aforesaid and are bound to do fealty to the king to do their fealties before the king in the islands, and to respite, during the king's pleasure, the homage of those who are bound to do homage, as the king learns that the bishops, abbots, priors, and other men of Normandy holding of him in the islands by homage, fealty, and other services assert that they ought not to do their homage and fealty to the king except where their predecessors did in the times when the islands were parcel of Normandy.
[Fœdera.] By K. & C.
To the same. Order to take the king's ferms and rents there to the value of the old money current in the islands, if he can attain this by any means, so that the king may not lose by the changes in the money, as the king is given to understand that the money current in the islands is so weakened and diminished in value by the frequent exchanges thereof that where his progenitors received their ferms and rents in money whereof four were worth one sterling, now eight pennies of the money current there are not worth one sterling.
To the same. Order to demise the king's small ferms, escheats, and mills to men of those parts at yearly ferm, if it seem to him to be more to the king's advantage, not exceeding the term of three years in the demises, as the king is given to understand that it is more to his advantage to demise them at ferm than to keep them in his hands.
To the same. The king has received complaint from certain men and merchants of the islands aforesaid that the men of Normandy from Depe and Honnesle have taken by armed force eight ships of theirs laden with salt of Peytou, to the value of 100l., in the port of Loupan, and detain the ships and salt and divers other of their goods found in the ships from them, wherefore they have prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders him, if he ascertain that it is as stated, to arrest the ships and goods of men of Dipe and Honesle found in the islands to the value of the aforesaid ships and goods, and to cause them to be kept safely until the said men and merchants have been satisfied, making indentures with the owners of the ships and goods arrested by him stating the cause of the arrest, the goods arrested and their value, and at whose suit [they shall be arrested].
May 28.
Northampton.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain Henry de Beaumes for his homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has done his homage and fealty to the king. By p.s. [1919.]
Aug. 30.
Clipstone.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a hundred thousands of small firewood (talshid') and 2,000 quarters of wood charcoal (carbonum busce) to be bought and purveyed by the view and testimony of a faithful man of that county, and to cause them to be carried to Portesmuth, and to be there delivered by indenture to John de Roches, keeper of the islands of Gernereye, Jereseye, Serk, and Aurneye, or to his attorney, for the munition of the islands aforesaid. By K. & C.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause 120 shields (targeas) painted with the king's arms, 100 foot crossbows, and 20 crosshows with windlasses (ad troll') to be bought and purveyed in the city by the view and testimony of the king's crossbowman, and to cause them to be carried to Portesmuth, there to be delivered to John de Roches, keeper of the islands of Gernereye, Jereseye, Serk, and Aurneye, or to his attorney. [Fœdera.] By K. & C.
Sept. 11.
Revesby.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain John de Strathwait for homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has done his homage and fealty to the king. By p.s. [2068.]
June 26.
Evesham.
The like to the same in favour of Thomas son of Eustace.
By p.s. [1968.]
Membrane 14.
Aug. 30.
Clipstone.
To John de Roches, keeper of the islands of Gerneseye, Jereseye, Serk, and Aurneye. Whereas the king understands that there are many defects in his castles and mills in the islands aforesaid, and that unless they are speedily repaired greater damage will accrue hereafter, and he considers that these defects happened in the time of Otto de Grandissono, late keeper of the islands aforesaid, through the default of him and his bailiffs, for which reason they ought to be repaired out of his goods and the issues of the islands pertaining to him and his executors, the king orders the keeper to cause the castle and mills to be repaired out of Otto's goods and chattels found in the islands and out of the issues of the islands, by the view and testimony of men of the islands. By K. & C.
To the same. Whereas the king understands that two ships of Flanders came to the islands aforesaid by armed force at the time when the Flemings were enemies of the late king, and that they entered the islands, and did much damage therein, and that the men in the ships were slain by the men of the islands as enemies, and that the ships and divers arms, to wit hauberks (loricis), haubergeons, aketons, plates, and other arms, to the value of 100l., were seised into the late king's hands by the bailiffs of the aforesaid Otto as forfeited to the king, and that they were placed in the castle of Gorri in Jereseye for the munition thereof, and the arms have been eloigned from the castle after Otto's death, the king orders him to cause inquisition to be made concerning the eloigment of the arms and where they are now, and to send him the inquisition, so that he may cause to be done what shall seem fit by his council.
To the same. Whereas the king understands that certain men who were bailiffs and sub-ministers of Otto de Grandissono, late keeper of the islands aforesaid, have eloigned, after Otto's death, the rolls of rents and court rolls and other memoranda touching the king and his ferms and lands, and that they detain them in their possession, the king orders the said John to inform himself by inquisition and otherwise concerning the premises, and to compel all those in whose possession such rolls remain to deliver them to him, for evidence of the king's rights in the premises.