Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1329

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: May 1329', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 1, 1327-1330, (London, 1896) pp. 454-466. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol1/pp454-466 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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May 1329

May 2.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to Joan de Torthorald 10 marks for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 10 marks yearly at Michaelmas and of 10 marks yearly at Easter out of the issues of the said escheatry, in aid of her maintenance.
May 3.
Eltham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the aforesaid Simon 10 marks, paid by him in execution of the preceding order.
April 27.
Wallingford.
To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order to pay to Meliora, late the wife of Gilbert de Clyncarny, 10l. for Easter term last [as at page 327 above].
April 29.
Wallingford.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow the aforesaid John 10l., paid by him in execution of the preceding order.
May 2.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Isabella, late the wife of George de Meriet, 27 messuages, 3 carucates of land, 40 acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture, and 7s. 10d. in rent in Meriet, and to deliver the issues thereof to her, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that George and Isabella held the premises jointly on the day of George's death for their lives by fine levied in the late king's court by his licence, and that they are held of the king in chief by the service of one knight's fee, and that John, son of the said George, is his next heir and is aged seven weeks, the king having taken Isabella's homage.
May 2.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Walter de Bello Campo, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Walter held no lands in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Membrane 24.
May 2.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a rent of the prior of Bredon in Kynstan, and to restore the issues thereof to the prior, as the escheator has returned that he took the rent into the king's hands because the priory was void by the deposition of John, then the prior, who was elected and installed prior of St. Oswald's, and it appears by the late king's rolls in chancery that the said king—upon its being found by inquisition taken by John de Bolyngbrok, then escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster, that Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, patron of Bredon priory, which is a cell of the priory of St. Oswald, Nostell, or any other patrons did not intermeddle in any way with the said cell or with any issues or profits thereof in time of voidance, and did not receive any issues and profits of the cell, and that the earl in his time and other patrons in their time had a gatekeeper at the priory gate in such voidances, who received his maintenance only from the canons, for an acknowledgment of his lordship, without receiving any other profit—ordered the said escheator not to intermeddle with the cell or anything pertaining to it, beyond placing a gatekeeper there as aforesaid, and the king afterwards restored to Henry, now earl of Lancaster, brother and heir of the said Thomas, all the lands of the said Thomas with the advowsons of abbeys, priories, and churches.
April 27.
Reading.
To the chamberlain of Kaermerdyn. Order to pay to Edmund Haclut, constable of Dinevoir castle in Wales, or to his attorney 40l. for the repair of the houses and walls of that castle. By p.s. [2589.]
Vacated, because otherwise above.
May 1.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Hugh de Prestewold, who is incapacitated by illness and infirmity.
April 19.
Wallingford.
To Nicholas de Acton, chamberlain of Kaernarvan. Order to pay to David Gogh, a Welshman, 60s. yearly, in accordance with the late king's grant of that sum to him yearly for life by the hands of the chamberlain of Kaernarvan, in consideration of his good service to the said king and his father.
May 1.
Eltham.
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, justice of Wales, or to him who supplies his place in South Wales. Order not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the abbey of St. Dogmael's (Sancto Dogmaele), in the land of Kemmeys in Wales, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king—at the suit of the abbot, suggesting that William Martyn, the late lord of the said land, and his ancestors were wont to take the temporalities of the abbey into their hands upon each voidance, and were wont to restore them to the future abbot after they had taken his fealty, without the king or his progenitors intermeddling with the same in any way, and praying the king to cause the temporalities to be restored to him, the temporalities having been taken into the king's hands upon the death of brother John le Rede, the late abbot, because the land of Kemmeys was in the king's hands by reason of the minority of James son of Nicholas de Audeleye, kinsman and co-heir of the aforesaid William, tenant in chief of the late king—ordered the earl to make inquisition concerning the estate of William and his ancestors in the abbey at the time of voidance and concerning other articles touching the premises, and it is found by the inquisition taken by him who supplies the earl's place that the lords of the land of Kemmeys, founders of the abbey, were wont from the time of its first foundation to take no issues of its temporalities, and ought not to take any issues, but that after the death of each abbot there, the founders of the abbey were wont to place a keeper there over the temporalities of the abbey, so that he took nothing from the temporalities for the use of the founders, but so that he might see that the issues of the temporalities were not impaired, but were expended for the uses of the abbey, and that the keeper should leave without taking any issues for the use of the founders when the abbot was elected and confirmed and his fealty had been taken, and that the king or his progenitors did not intermeddle in any way in any voidances of the abbey, except in time of wardship by reason of the minority of the lords of the land of Kemmeys, and the king considers that he ought not to have any other estate in the abbey in the time of wardship than the founders thereof have when they are of full age in time of voidance. By p.s.
May 4.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to expend up to 10 marks in repairing the great gates and sluices of the king's mill of Clipston on the side of the head of the great pond there, by the view and testimony of Robert de Clipston, the king's bailiff there, as the king is given to understand that they are so weak and ruinous that breach of the pond and loss of the fish in it is feared unless the great gates and sluices be repaired, and that they may be sufficiently repaired for 10 marks. By K.
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to pay to Rhys ap Meruduk, a Welsh prisoner in Norwich castle, the arrears of the wages that he was wont to receive in the times of Edward I. and Edward II. for the time of the sheriff's office, and to pay him the same wages hereafter.
April 29.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to take into the king's hands all the lands that belonged to Walter de Selby, which were taken into the late king's hands by reason of his adherence to Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, and to deliver them to Walter to be held as he held them before the seizure, as the king, in response to Walter's petition [as at page 441, above] caused the indentures between Walter and Robert de Umframvyll, late earl of Angos, Ralph de Graistok, then baron of Graistok, and John de Evre, concerning the surrender of the castle of Mitford, to be examined by his council, and it is found by such examination that covenants and conditions were made as stated in Walter's petition, and the king considers the covenants and conditions and the surrender of the castle for the salvation of those parts to have been very useful, and that Walter underwent damages by imprisonment and otherwise against good faith and the form of the covenants and conditions, and also that he has not been convicted of any felony. By K. & p.s. [2593.]
To L. bishop of Durham. Like order concerning Walter's lands within the bishop's liberty. By K. & the same writ.
May 12.
Eltham.
To John de Bolingbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Robert de Soureby held by knight service of the heir of Roger de Clifford, tenant in chief of the late king, a minor in the late king's wardship, as Alice, daughter of Dionisia de Soureby, kinswoman and co-heiress of the said Robert, has proved her age before the escheator.
May 16.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph le Long, whom the king has caused to be amoved from office because he learns that he is insufficiently qualified.
May 6.
Eltham.
John de Wele, imprisoned at Derby for the death of John atte Walle, has letters to the sheriff of Derby to bail him until the first assize.
May 1.
Eltham.
To Robert de Malberthorp. Order to receive from Geoffrey le Scrop, chief justice to hold pleas before the king, the rolls and memoranda touching the said pleas by indenture, and to hold the said pleas until otherwise ordered, as the king wills that Geoffrey shall go with him with others of his council to parts beyond sea, and that Robert shall hold the said pleas.
To Geoffrey le Scrop, chief justice to hold pleas before the king. Mandate in pursuance for delivery of the said rolls and memoranda.
May 5.
Eltham.
To Robert Darcy and William de la Laund. Order to cause William de Kyme of Old Lafford to be released from prison, receiving from him a reasonable fine for what pertains to the king in this behalf, as the king appointed them his justices to hear and determine a trespass committed upon William de Banham by the said William de Kyme, who was convicted thereof, and 40 marks were adjudged to William de Banham for his damages in this behalf, wherefore William de Kyme was committed to prison, and William de Banham has acknowledged in person in chancery that William de Kyme has fully satisfied him for the damages aforesaid, and William de Kyme has therefore prayed the king to cause him to be delivered from prison. If there be any reason why they ought not to execute the premises, they are ordered to send the record and process of the suit to the king under Robert's seal, so that the king may have it on the morrow of the Ascension next, and to cause the body of William de Kyme to come before the king on the same day.
May 5.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Fremund Inge, lately elected, as he is incapacitated by age and infirmity, and moreover has not lands to the value of 20s. within the liberty of the town of Donestaple, wherein he ought to exercise that office, so that he is insufficient for the king and for the people of those parts.
Feb. 6.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. Order to deliver to Henry, earl of Lancaster, all his castles, towns, manors, lands, knights' fees, liberties, advowsons of churches, and goods and chattels, which the king lately caused to be taken into his hands, and the issues received therefrom, as the king has rendered them to him.
The like to the sheriffs of Kent and Middlesex.
May 6.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Pakelesham, deceased.
May 8.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Joan Comyn of Boghan 20l. out of the issues of his bailiwick for Easter term last, the king having, on 27 March, in the first year of his reign, granted to her 40l. yearly from the issues of that county in aid of her maintenance.
May 8.
Eltham.
To Richard de la Pole, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the port of London. Order to cause the monks of St. Peter's, Westminster, to have a tun of wine of the king's right prise at London, in accordance with the grant of a tun yearly by Henry III.
May 7.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas de Lodelowe, son and heir of Thomas de Lodelowe, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator, and the king has taken his homage.
By p.s. [2603.]
Membrane 23.
May 8.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to deliver to John Coket, merchant of Amiens, his goods and wares arrested by the sheriff in execution of the king's order to arrest the goods of the men and merchants of France, Normandy, and Poitou, and to permit him to levy his debts, certifying the king of the goods delivered in execution of this order and of their price, as John has found security before the king's council to answer for his goods aforesaid when the king will speak against him concerning them.
Memorandum, that Benedict le Bray of Trenordano of co. Cornwall and Giles Mortonel of London mainperned to answer to the king for the goods, wares, and debts aforesaid.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Strete, co. Kent, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king—at the suit of John de Insula and Joan his wife, suggesting that they acquired the moiety to them and to their heirs from Margery de Handlo, and that the moiety is held of the king as of the honour of Le Perche, and that the escheator had taken it into the king's hands, pretending that it is held of the king as of the crown, and that John and Joan had entered it without the king's licence—ordered the escheator to make inquisition whether the moiety is held in chief as of the crown or of the honour aforesaid, and it is found by the inquisition that it is held of the king as of the honour by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee and by suit at the court of Redleuet from three weeks to three weeks, and that the moiety is worth yearly in all issues 4l. 19s. 0d., and it is ordained by the common counsel of the realm that no one shall be aggrieved by pretext of the acquisition of lands that are held of the king as of an honour without licence.
To John Mautravers, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver John le Plomer of Certeseye, Thomas le Stout, and Robert Trash, who are imprisoned at Wyndesore for trespass of venison in Wyndesore forest, in bail to twelve mainpernors for each of them, who shall undertake to have them before the justices next in eyre for forest pleas for co. Berks when they come to those parts.
May 9.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause the 47 tuns of white wine that belonged to John Fourne, merchant of St. Jean d'Angély (de Sancto Johanne Ewangta) in France, and 43 tuns of wine that belonged to John le Chaungeour of the same town, arrested by Robert atte Barre, bailiff of Southampton [as at page 448 above], to be appraised in the presence of the said John and John, if they choose to be present, and to be delivered to Roger de la Hurne and Richard Cockill, upon their finding security to answer to the king for the same, to be kept by them until they be satisfied for their damages or until otherwise ordered, and to cause 55 tuns of white wine—whereof 20 tuns belonged to Adam le Porter, merchant near La Rochele, of the land of France, 15 tuns to John Vynet of the said land, 10 tuns to Thomas Vynet of the said land, and 10 tuns to Bernard Imbaud of the said land—arrested at Southampton by the said bailiff and appraised at 110l., as the sheriff has returned, to be kept safely without diminution until otherwise ordered, and to certify the king of the price of the 90 tuns to be delivered to Roger and Richard and of all his proceedings in this behalf.—It was granted at another time (alias conc' fuit) by K. & C.
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to supersede the king's order to arrest Robert de Botelesford of Studham, and to seize his lands into the king's hands, because it was said that he was at Bedeford against the king in the company of the contrariants, as the king learns by the testimony of John de Insula, constable of Wyndesore castle, that Robert was with him in that castle for its safe custody all the time when the king went against the contrariants with his army. By K.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Robert de Chisenhale, keeper of the king's victuals at Carlisle, in his account at the exchequer, his wages and reasonable costs and expenses about the custody of the victuals aforesaid.
May 10.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Katherine, late the wife of Walter de Norwico, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
To the same. Order to deliver to Henry de Idebury, parson of Islep church, kinsman of James, son of Roesia de Burford, as nearest [friend] of the said James, 20 acres of land and 8 acres of meadow in Eard, and the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Roesia held the premises at her death of the heir of John de Sancto Johanne, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of 17s. 4d. yearly and suit at the court of Eard from three weeks to three weeks, and that she did not hold at her death any other lands of the king in chief in the escheator's bailiwick by reason whereof the custody of her lands ought to pertain to the king, and that the aforesaid James is her next heir and is aged nine years.
May 11.
Eltham.
To John de Bolingbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Robert de Soureby held by knight service of the heir of Roger de Clifford, tenant in chief of the late king, then a minor in the said king's wardship, as Margaret daughter of Dionisia de Soureby, kinswoman and co-heiress of the said Robert, has proved her age before the escheator.
The like in favour of Alice, sister of the aforesaid Margery (sic).
Vacated, because otherwise above.
May 11.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause Stephen le Blount, the king's clerk, to have hurdles (claias) and other necessaries for the ships for the passage of the king and other magnates going with him to parts beyond sea, as the king has appointed Stephen to make provision of ships for the passage and to see that the ships be sufficiently found with hurdles and other necessaries for the passage.
May 12.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Evenlode, who does not dwell continuously in that county and has not lands therein to the value of 40s., so that he is insufficient for the office.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Richard de Bolde of Alvandlegh, who has no lands in the county to qualify him.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Nicholas de Metham, who is insufficiently qualified.
May 10.
Eltham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Margaret, late the wife of William Graundyn, acknowledged by fine levied in the late king's court, in the 6th year of his reign, before William de Bereford and his fellows, then justices of the Bench, between John de Ifeld, demandant, and the said Margaret, deforciant, concerning two parts of the manor of Wykham in Stenyng near Brembre that the said two parts were the right of the said John, and granted that the said two parts, which David Cubbel, chaplain, held for life of her inheritance, should remain to John and his heirs after David's death, and David made his fealty to John in this behalf in court, as appears by part of the fine exhibited before the king and his council; and it is now shewn to the king by John that David afterwards demised the said two parts for his life to Hugh le Despenser, the younger, and they were taken into the late king's hands with other lands of Hugh by his forfeiture, and afterwards, because it was found by an inquisition taken by John Daburnoun and William de Northho that the said two parts ought to remain to John by the said fine, the said two parts were demised to John by the treasurer and barons at a yearly rent of 4l., at which they were extended by the inquisition, and although John prayed for delivery of the said two parts by petition before the king and his council in parliament at New Sarum, because David is dead, and has prosecuted until this time before the king and his council, he has not yet obtained execution of his petition, wherefore he has prayed the king to cause the demand for the arrears of the extent aforesaid from the time of David's death to be superseded pending the discussion of the said matter: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to supersede until the next parliament the demand for the said arrears and also the levying of the ferm. By C.
May 12.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Thomas de Grey 20l. for Easter and Michaelmas terms last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 20l. yearly during pleasure by the hands of the sheriff of York, which grant was made in lieu of the late king's grant of 6d. a day from the sheriff of York to Thomas, in aid of the maintenance of himself, his wife, and children, and to pay the said sum henceforth at the aforesaid terms yearly.
May 8.
Eltham.
To Oliver de Ingham, justice of Chester. Order to pay to Richard de Weford the arrears of his usual wages as chief rider in the forest of Wyrhale from the time of the justice's appointment, and to pay the same wages to him henceforth, as the king appointed Richard to this office for life at the request of Queen Isabella before his accession, in consideration of Richard's service to her, which appointment the king accepts, willing that Richard shall have the office for life, provided that he conduct himself well in the bailiwick.
May 12.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of David de Sulgene, who is incapacitated by illness and age.
May 15.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John le Botyller of Lutlynton, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
May 14.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain Hugh de Naunte for his homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as the king has taken his homage and fealty. By p.s. [2615.]
May 20.
Canterbury.
The like to the same escheator in favour of Richard Durant.
By p.s. [2648.]
Membrane 22.
May 12.
Eltham.
To John de Crumbewell, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver Richard de Birton, chaplain, imprisoned at Notyngham for trespass of venison in Shirewode forest, in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the next justices in eyre for forest pleas in co. Nottingham.
The like in favour of the following:
John le Porter of Hokenhale.
Hugh de Wotehale.
John le Porter of Hukenhale.
May 14.
Eltham.
The king to all to whom, etc. Inspeximus of charter of Henry de Percy, knight, granting to the abbot and convent of Fountains lands, etc., in Malghum and Malgmore and a rent in Queldrik, and releasing to them 8s. of rent that they used to render to him for certain tenements in Marton on the Moor (Moram), and releasing to them their suit to his court of Toppeclyve, and of the foreign service due from them for their lands in Raynyngton, etc. By a fine of 20s.
Vacated, because on the Patent Roll [3 Edward III. part 1, membrane 13].
May 12.
Eltham.
Robert de Bolewell, imprisoned at Nottingham for trespass of vert and venison in Shirwode forest, has letters to John de Crumbwell, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, to bail him until the next coming of the justices in eyre for forest pleas in that county.
May 20.
Canterbury.
To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause John de Multon of Egremund, son and heir of Thomas de Egremund, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as the king has taken his homage and rendered to him the said lands although he is not yet of full age. By p.s. [2629.]
The like to Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent.
The like to John Moryz, escheator in Ireland.
May 10.
Eltham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king granted to his yeoman William de Horewode and Christiania his wife the manor of Polhampton and a pasture called 'Kyngele[s]we,' co. Southampton, for their lives, rendering yearly to the exchequer 10l. 18s. 4d. for the manor and 40s. for the pasture, and the said king afterwards released the said 12l. 18s. 4d. to William for life, in consideration of his good service and at the request of Queen Isabella, and William has shewn the king that Joan, late the wife of John de Wauton, afterwards recovered against him in the late king's court a parcel of the aforesaid manor of the value of 7l. 10s. 0d. yearly, and was seised thereof, and she afterwards granted the parcel to William for her life, rendering therefor 7l. 10s. 0d. yearly, and William paid to her after the recovery 75l. of the said yearly rent, and he owes the king 87l. 7s. 7¾d. of the arrears of the ferm of the said manor before the release aforesaid and of the manor of Cosham, and he has prayed the king to cause the aforesaid 75l. to be allowed to him out of the arrears aforesaid: the king, acceding to his request in consideration of the late king's release and of William's good service to the said king and to him, orders the treasurer and barons to allow the said 75l. to William in the arrears aforesaid. By p.s. [2607.]
May 20.
Canterbury.
Henry be Leddrede, 'bredsellere,' imprisoned at Neugate for the death of Thomas Trewelove, has letters to the sheriffs of London to bail him until the coming of the next justices in eyre at the Tower of London.
May 22.
Canterbury.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Apethorp, who is insufficiently qualified.
May 16.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to release 94 tuns and 5 pipes of white wine belonging to John de Bray, Laurence Crap of Abbeville, Adam le Porter of Crotoie, John Vynet, Thomas Newet, and Bernard Imbaud of Bowet, arrested in a ship called 'La Trinite' of London, whereof Roger Catour is master, and 48 tuns of white wine belonging to John le Parmenter, Stephen de Malun, and James de Souchoi of Bollouner, in a ship called 'La Cogge Nostre Dame' of Fowyk, whereof Nicholas le Carpenter is master, by the sheriff in the port of Southampton, in execution of the king's order to arrest goods and wares of the men and merchants of the lands of France, Normandy, and Poitou, as the king is going to France upon certain of his affairs, and therefore wishes to deal graciously with the aforesaid men. By K. & C.
May 22.
Canterbury.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Hugh de Prestwold, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Clement de Tenham, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
May 23.
Canterbury.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Blasius son of William Conrod, to whom the king, on 3 January last, committed the office of his fletcher (attiliatoris) in the Tower of London, receiving the same wages as William received, the arrears of his wages from the said day, and to pay to him the same wages henceforth.
May 20.
Canterbury.
To John de Crumbwell, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to pay to the prior of St. Mary's, Carlisle, a tenth penny of all the extra-parochial agistments within the forest of Ingelwode for the time that he has been keeper of that forest, and to cause the said tenth penny to be paid to him hereafter, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the keeper that the prior and his predecessors were seised of the said tenth penny in the times of all the keepers of the forest by the hands of the receivers of the issues of the forest from the time of the foundation of the priory, of the gift of Henry son of the Emperor (sic), sometime king of England, until Henry le Scrop, late keeper of the forest aforesaid, hindered their receiving the said tenth penny, and it appears by Henry's certificate sent into chancery that he detained the tenth penny from the prior because the prior, or any one in his name, did not bring to him any warrant to receive it. By pet. of C.
May 16.
Eltham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to come before them at the exchequer all those who were the king's chamberlains of Chester and receivers of the king's issues in the Isle of Wight before his accession to render their accounts and to do what pertains thereto. By K.
May 25.
Canterbury.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of Thomas le Brut, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
May 16.
Eltham.
To John de Roches, keeper of the islands of Gereseye, Gernereye, Serk, and Aureneye, or to him who supplies his place. William de Barentyn has come to the king, and has asserted that he is the nephew (nepotem) and next heir of Drogo de Barentyn, and that he is of full age, and he has prayed the king to cause Drogo's lands in the islands to be delivered to him as next heir; the king therefore orders the keeper to take information concerning the premises according to the law and custom of the islands, and to take William's fealty, and to cause to be done for him what he shall see fit according to the law and custom of the islands.
To William de Chiverston. Order not to intermeddle with the body or marriage of Theobald de Grenevill, son and heir of Henry de Grenevill, the king having granted the marriage to him for a fine of 50l. believing that it pertained to him, as it is found by an inquisition taken by Simon de Bereford that Henry held no lands at his death in chief of the king by reason whereof the marriage ought to pertain to the king.
May 29.
Wingham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to amove the king's hand from the manor of Erde, co. Kent, and to permit S. archbishop of Canterbury to dispose of it, and to deliver to him any issues received thence, as the archbishop has shewn the king that he has, and he and his predecessors have always had from time out of mind, the custodies of fees held of the archbishopric after the death of the tenants thereof, and the profits thereof, during the minority of the tenants' heirs, without the king's ministers intermeddling therewith, although such tenants held of the king elsewhere in chief, and that the escheator has nevertheless taken into the king's hands the said manor, which John de Sancto Johanne of Basyng, tenant in chief, held of the archbishop by the service of two knights' fees and by doing service to the archbishop's court of Otteford from three weeks to three weeks, as appears by the inquisition taken by the escheator, by reason of John's death, levying and collecting the issues and profits thereof for the king's use, and it appears by the rolls of the king's progenitors that the archbishop's predecessors had such custodies in times past. Witness: John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, keeper of the realm.
Membrane 21.
May 22.
Canterbury.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the account of Robert de Chisenhale, keeper of the king's victuals at Carlisle, for all the time that he had the custody thereof, and to cause to be done what pertains to the final issue of the account.
May 25.
Dover.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to restore to Thomas de Camoys his lands, goods and chattels, which the king caused to be taken into his hands because he adhered to Henry, earl of Lancaster, and Thomas Wake, then the king's contrariants, as the king has admitted him to his good will at the request of J. bishop of Ely and John de Roos, and has granted to him his lands, goods and chattels by the mainprise of the bishop and John for his good behaviour in the future. By p.s.
The like to the sheriffs of Northampton and Sussex.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Dalby, and to restore any issues received thence to Joan, late the wife of John son of Fulk de Orreby, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Joan was enfeoffed thereof jointly with the said John by fine levied in the late king's court, in the 10th year of his reign, before William de Bereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench, of the gift of John son of Peter de Burton, to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that she continued her seisin thereof jointly with her husband from the time of the levying of the fine aforesaid until her husband's death, and after his death until Richard de Shefeld, sub-escheator in co. Lincoln, took the manor into the king's hand, by reason of the death of her husband, who held in chief, and that it is in the king's hands for this reason solely, and that it is held of the earl of Lancaster.
May 25.
Dover.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause assignment to be made to Dinus Forset, Peter Byny, Francis de Boys, and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, where they may be speedily satisfied, for 535l. 13s. 2d., which they have paid for the king to John de Hanon[ia] of the second payment of 7,000l. due to him from the king, for which sum they have prayed the king to cause them to be satisfied. By p.s. [2659.]
May 13.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Andrew son of Andrew Peverel the manor of Berton near Swathelyng, which was taken into the king's hands by reason of his father's death, and not to intermeddle further with the lands that the deceased held of other lords than the king, and to restore the issues of such lands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the deceased held the manor at his death for the term of his life, and that it ought to remain to his son aforesaid by fine levied in the late king's court, and that it is held of the king by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and that the deceased held no lands in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held divers lands of other lords by various services, and the king has taken the son's homage for the manor aforesaid.
May 25.
Dover.
To the same. Order to cause James Daudele, son and heir of Nicholas Daudele, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as the king has rendered them to him although he is not yet of full age, provided that he come to the king to do homage when the king returns from the parts beyond sea. By p.s. [2669.]
Membrane 20.
May 24.
Canterbury.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Master John de Barton and Robert de Burton, collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells and of the imprest of wool in the port of Kyngestonon-Hull, in their account 500 marks, which they have paid to James Nicholas, Peter Reyner, and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, in execution of the king's order to pay to the said merchants all issues of the custom both of their own wool and of the wool of others and from the imprest up to the aforesaid amount, in part payment of 1,000 marks due to them, to wit 800 marks lent by them by the hands of Henry, bishop of Lincoln, then the king's treasurer, in aid of the expedition of the Scotch war, and 200 marks paid by them at the king's request to William, bishop of Norwich, at Paris towards his expenses in going in the king's service to Gascony, as appears by the letters patent of John, bishop of Winchester, A. bishop of Hereford, and the aforesaid William made to the said merchants, which they have restored to chancery for the king's discharge, the king having assigned to them 500 marks in like manner from the issues of the custom in Southampton, receipt of which sum from John and Robert Dinus Forcetti, merchant of the society aforesaid, has acknowledged before the king in chancery.
May 23.
Canterbury.
To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver to William de Wystowe all his lands, goods and chattels, which the king lately caused to be taken into his hands for certain trespasses, excesses, and disobediences, together with the issues received therefrom, as the king has restored them to William.
The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent, and John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent.
May 21.
Canterbury.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Walter de Langeton, late bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, tenant by knight service of the late king by reason of the lands of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, being in the said king's hands, as Edmund son of Robert Peverel, Walter's kinsman and heir, has proved his age before the escheator.
May 23.
Canterbury.
To Geoffrey Luterel. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the lands of Edmund's inheritance, in the king's hands by reason of his minority, for the reasons given in the preceding order.
May 13.
Eltham.
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Simon Laghman, to whom the late king granted the bailiwick of the custody of the water of Fosse at York for life, his usual wages from 7 April last, when the king ratified the grant, notwithstanding his grant of the same bailiwick to Thomas de Ousthorp for life, which latter grant he made in forgetfulness of his father's grant to Simon.
May 23.
Canterbury.
To Joan de Carru. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the water of Dertemuth, co. Devon, which the king lately committed to her during pleasure, and to deliver the issues thereof since 28 October last to John Mautravers, the younger, the king having committed the said custody of the said water and of his stannary in that county to him on that date during pleasure, rendering therefor 113l. 6s. 8d. yearly.
May 28.
Wingham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle with the abbey of Nottele or with its possessions or goods, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king—at the prosecution of the prior and convent thereof, suggesting that the abbey was founded by Walter Giffard, late earl of Buckingham, and that the advowson thereof devolved by right of inheritance upon Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, John de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, and Laurence son of John de Hastyng, and that Walter or his heirs afterwards did not receive any profit from the issues of the abbey upon any voidance thereof, and did not intermeddle therewith in any way, except that they were wont to place a gatekeeper at the outer gate of the abbey in the name of lordship, and that the king's progenitors were not wont to have the custody of the abbey or to receive any profit therefrom in times past, and that the escheator had entered the abbey after the death of John, the last abbot, and had levied the issues thereof for the king's use unjustly and otherwise than was usual heretofore—ordered the escheator to enquire to whom the advowson of the abbey pertained, etc., and the king learns by the inquisition that the advowson pertains to the said earls and to Laurence by right of inheritance, and that upon each voidance they ought to receive jointly the elect to the said abbacy, and ought to have during each voidance a gatekeeper or gatekeepers at the outer door of the abbey, and that they were not wont to receive any issues or profits at any time past, and ought not of right to receive any, and also that neither the king nor his progenitors were wont to receive anything in the past in time of voidance by escheat or otherwise. Witness: John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, keeper of the realm.
May 11.
Eltham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to John le Mareschal, sheriff of Buckingham, for 55 marks for Easter term last paid by him to Robert de Fenles, in execution of the king's order to pay to Robert the arrears for the time of the sheriff's office of 110 marks yearly from the issues of that county, which the late king granted to Robert, as appears by the exemplification under the king's seal of the letters patent granting the same.
May 6.
Eltham.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the chapel of Shellonde and 57 acres of land and 12 acres of wood in Shellonde, which the escheator has taken into the king's hand, pretending that the abbot of Hayles, parson of the church of Haghele, had acquired them after the publication of the statute of mortmain without the king's licence, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the abbot's predecessors had the said church and the chapel of Shellonde, annexed to the church, to their own uses, and held the aforesaid land and wood peacefully as of the glebe of that church long before the publication of the statute.
May 5.
Eltham.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle in any wise with the temporalities, knights' fees, advowsons of churches, and other things pertaining to St. Edmund's abbey, and to permit the abbot to dispose and ordain thereof and make his profit thereof without hindrance, the king having previously ordered him not to intermeddle with the temporalities [as at page 442 above], as the abbot has now returned in bodily health, as the king learns by trustworthy testimony. By K.
May 10.
Eltham.
To Alice la Palmere. Order to supersede until otherwise ordered the levying of certain customs upon goods for sale in aid of the repair of Hethebeth bridge, which pontage the king granted her, the king having afterwards ordered the mayor and bailiffs of Notingham to supersede the taking of such customs, which he had granted to them in aid of the enclosure of the said town, during the time that they should be taken for pontage, as the king now learns by trustworthy testimony that the said bridge is now repaired, and that William de Amyas, now mayor of Notingham, intends to repair out of his own goods all bridges between a bridge called 'the Tounesbrigge,' which the community of the county of Notingham ought and were wont to repair [and the said bridge of Hethebeth], and that he has begun to repair the said bridges, and that Alice has expended nothing upon the repair of the bridge of Hethebeth since Michaelmas last, although she has levied divers sums from the goods aforesaid for this cause.
Here the king crossed the sea (transfretavit), as appears in the memorandum on the dorse of this roll.
May 26.
Dover.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to distrain Robert de Ufford for his homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has done homage and fealty to the king. Witness: John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, keeper of the realm. By p.s.
To the same. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Loretta, late the wife of Thomas de Senebech, tenant by knight service of the heir of John de Sancto Johanne of Basyng', tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence. Witness: J. de Eltham.
June 3.
Canterbury.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John le Monk of Garboldesham, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held no lands of him in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held divers lands of other lords by various services, and that John de Garboldesham, his son, is his next heir and is of full age. Witness: J. de Eltham, etc.
June 12.
Dover.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to William de Orlaston, late sheriff of Kent, 40s. paid by him to John de Feryby, king's clerk, in execution of the king's order to find maintenance for the thirty horses that William de Scothowe, king's clerk, had chosen for the king's use out of the horses of the men of Hainault in his custody, and of the horses that the said John should choose therefrom for the king's use, and to find wages for the keepers of the said horses until they came to the king, according to the advice of the said John, the said sheriff having paid John 40s. for the maintenance of a horse and a 'hakenei' of the aforesaid horses for the king's use, and to William de Scothowe, and for the wages of two grooms bringing the said horses to the king, as appears by an indenture made between the sheriff and John.
Membrane 19.
May 29.
Dover.
To the sheriff of Southampton. At the complaint of Hugh Sampson of Southampton and of other merchants of that town and of the town of Great Yarmouth and elsewhere in the king's realm that certain malefactors of the parts of France, Normandy, and Poitou attacked them and their ships when they went to the ports of Bune in Poitou and Leyre in Normandy for the exercise of their merchandise, and slew them (sic), burnt their ships, and carried away their goods and chattels to a great value, the king ordered the sheriff to cause all the goods and debts of the men and merchants of the said lands to be arrested, and to be kept safely until the aforesaid merchants should be satisfied for their damages, and the king afterwards appointed John Randolf, John de Tichebourn, Robert de Hungerford, and Ralph de Bereford to take proof concerning the premises by the oaths of merchants plying the sea and of other men of that county, and it was found by the proof taken before John and John that certain malefactors of the parts of France, Normandy, and Poitou and elsewhere from parts beyond sea took, burned, and had their will of ships and other goods of Hugh's to the value of 786l. 6s. 8d.; and the king thereupon ordered the sheriff to cause goods and debts of the men and merchants of the said lands, excepting those of the men and merchants of Amiens, to be arrested, by the view and testimony of two burgesses or approved men of the places where the goods should be found, to the value of 486l. 6s. 8d., in part satisfaction of the aforesaid sum, and to cause the same to be kept safely until Hugh should be satisfied for his damages and wrongs or until otherwise ordered, certifying the king of his proceedings; and Robert atte Barre, bailiff of Southampton, whom the sheriff caused to have return of the king's writ aforesaid, arrested in the port of that town in a ship of Robert de Sharperixe 48 tuns of white wine, whereof 28 tuns belong to Peter de Perrak, merchant of La Rochele, of the land of France, 17 tuns belong to Bernard le Vachere, merchant of La Rochele, and 3 tuns belong to Bernard de Lerry, merchant of Cahors (Caurs), of the said land, which are estimated to be worth 96l., and 80 tuns of white wine in a ship of Richard le Stotter, whereof 35 tuns belong to Constantine de Rasero and to Reymund de Pazern of Seint Aban, merchants of the said land, 36 tuns to Reymund de Garrit of Seint Aban, and 9 tuns to John de Bastida and Aldemar de Bastida, merchants of the said land, which are estimated to be worth 160l., and 45 tuns of white wine of James de Chauchoi of Boulogne (Bolonia), John le Parmenter of the same, and Stephen de Molyn of the same, merchants of Poitou, in a ship called 'the ship of St. Mary' of Fauwy, as the sheriff has returned to the king, which 45 tuns of wine of the merchants of Poitou the king ordered to be restored to them: the king orders the sheriff to cause the said 48 tuns of wine of the said Peter, Bernard le Vachere, and Bernard de Lerry, and the said 80 tuns of wine of Constantine, Reymund de Pazern, Reymund de Garrit, John de Bastida, and Aldemar to be appraised in their presence, if they choose to be present, and to cause the wines to be restored to them by indenture upon their finding security to answer to the king at his will for the price thereof. If they will not find such security, the sheriff is ordered to deliver the said 128 tuns to the aforesaid Hugh, upon his finding security to answer to the king for the same or for the price thereof, to be kept until Hugh be satisfied for his damages or until otherwise ordered, certifying the king of the wine and the price thereof delivered in execution of this order, and of all his proceedings herein. It is provided that the masters of the aforesaid ships of Robert de Sharperixe and Richard le Stotter shall be satisfied for their freight for the wines aforesaid. Witness: J. de Eltham, etc. By C.