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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The like to the sheriffs of Gloucester, Somerset and Dorset, Wilts, and
Sussex. By K. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Memorandum, that John Houel, Robert Chaumberlayn, and Andrew
Spicer of co. Suffolk mainperned on Simon's behalf as above. |
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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.] |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The like in favour of the said merchants to the following taxors and
collectors of the twentieth in the counties specified below: |
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Henry de Pentelawe and William de Persholt, in co. Berks, for 400l.
by two tallies. |
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Henry Bedyk and Henry de Frowyk, in co. Middlesex, for 100l. by
two tallies. |
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Roger de Baskervyll and Robert Broun, in co. Hereford, for 200l. by
one tally. |
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John de Bisshopesdon and Robert de Vaal, in co. Warwick, for 250l.
by two tallies. |
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Hugh de Prestwold and Roger de Belegrave, in co. Leicester, for 200l.
by one tally. |
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John de Hampton and Robert de Bosco, in co. Worcester, for 150l.
by one tally. |
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William Tracy and Robert de Aston, in co. Gloucester, for 300l. by
one talley. |
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Thomas de Hindringham and John de Ormesby, in co. Norfolk, for
300l. by one tally. |
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John de Acton and Richard de Hampton, in co. Stafford, for 150l. by
two tallies. |
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Richard de Abberbury and John de Meriet, in co. Oxford, for 380l. by
two tallies. |
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John de Clyvedon and John de Erle, in co. Somerset, for 275l. by two
tallies. |
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Ralph de Crophull and John Byk, in co. Nottingham, for 80l. by one
tally. |
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John de Shauston and John de Chishull, in co. Cambridge, for 150l. |
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Henry Tilly and John Whaldeshef, in co. Huntingdon, for 100l. by
one tally. |
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James de Cokyngton and Matthew de Crauthorn, in co. Devon, for
150l. by one tally. |
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Robert de Daventr[eia] and William Breton, in co. Northampton, for
300l. by two tallies. |
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Roger de Tyringham and Reginald de Hampeden, in co. Buckingham,
for 120l. by one tally. |
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Master John de Everdon, John Gisors, Hamo de Chigwell, and John
Devery, in the city of London, for 500l. by two tallies. |
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Richard de Hywyssh and Robert de Bikkemore, in co. Cornwall, for
40l. by one tally. |
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William de Northo and John atte See, in co. Sussex, for 60l. by one
tally. |
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John Daubernoun, the younger, and William de Weston, in co. Surrey,
for 40l. by one tally. |
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John de Tichebourn and John de Roches, in co. Southampton, for 70l.
by one tally. |
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The like to the following collectors of the tenth of the clergy: |
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The prior of St. Bartholomew's, Smethefeld, London, collector in the
bishopric of London, for 200l. by one tally. |
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The abbot of Oseneye, one of the collectors in the said bishopric, for
100l. by one tally. |
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The collector in the bishopric of Salisbury, for 200l. by two tallies. |
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The abbot of St. Mary's, York, one of the collectors in the diocese
of York, for 150l. by one tally. |
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The prior of St. Swithin's, Winchester, collector in the bishopric of
Winchester, for 200l. by one tally. |
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The prior of Ely, collector in the bishopric of Ely, for 300l. by two
tallies. |
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The prior of Norwich, collector in the bishopric of Norwich, for 350l.
by two tallies. |
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The collector in the bishopric of Exeter, for 200l. by two tallies. |
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The collector in the bishopric of Hereford, for 40l. by one tally. |
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The abbot of Faversham, collector in the diocese of Canterbury, for
50l. by one tally. |
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The collector in the bishopric of St. Davids, for 150l. by two tallies. |
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The collector in the bishopric of Llandaff, for 60l. by one tally. |
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The like to the following: |
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William de Fisshebourn and Geoffrey de Ledes, collectors of the old
and new customs in the port of Chichester, for 75l. by one tally. |
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Geoffrey Houles and Hugh Sampson, collectors of the old and new
customs in Southampton, for 100l. by one tally. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The like to the following: |
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L. bishop of Durham. |
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The sheriff of Northumberland. |
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Thomas de Heton in favour of the abbot of Meuros. |
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The said bishop in favour of the minister and brethern of the Holy
Trinity of the bridge of Berwick-on-Tweed. |
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The said bishop in favour of the abbot of Kelson. |
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John de Lancastria in favour of the abbot of Kelsou. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.] |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |