Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1358 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1358', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360, (London, 1908) pp. 385-386. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol10/pp385-386 [accessed 20 April 2024]

January 1358



Jan. 23. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to cause Thomas de Bradeston, constable of Gloucester castle, to have prompt payment, allowance or assignment of 110l. 14d. which he has laid out upon the construction and repair of the great bridge of that castle beyond the Severn, of two other bridges before the entry of the gate of the castle, and of the great and small tower and other houses of the castle, at divers times within the nine years last past, as is found by an inquisition taken thereupon by the abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester, and the prior of Lanthony near Gloucester. By p.s. [23660.]
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Jan. 13. Westminster.	To Henry Pykard, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Southampton. Order to deliver to the abbot and convent of King's Beaulieu one tun of wine for the present year of the king's right prise at Southampton, in accordance with the grant of Henry III to them of a tun of such wine to be received yearly of his gift between Christmas and the Purification for the celebration of masses in their church.
Jan. 22. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to amove the king's hand from the lands of Thomas de Keteryngham and to discharge him and his heirs of 289l. 10s. and the fermors of those lands of the extent thereof, if they find that the 289l. 10s. were adjudged and assessed upon him as warden of the Marshalsea prison for the escape of prisoners therefrom for the time when Walter de Mauny held the office of the serjeanty of that Marshalsea, as John son of the said Thomas has shown the king that although his father was not at any time warden of the said prison except as Walter's deputy, who held the office of that serjeanty for life of the king's grant, whereby Thomas ought not to be charged for Walter with the escape of prisoners from that prison, in accordance with the law and custom of England, yet the treasurer and barons have caused his lands to be taken into the king's hands, extended and demised at ferm for the extent thereof, which amounts to 13s. 5¾d. yearly, because in the estreats of the rolls of William de Thorp and his fellows, late justices appointed to hold pleas before the king, for Hilary term in the 23rd year of the reign, it is contained that 289l. 10s. were adjudged upon Thomas as aforesaid, whereupon John has prayed the king to provide a remedy, and by the certification of William de Shareshull, the chief justice, sent into chancery, it is found that Walter while he held the office of the said serjeanty, first deputed Thomas in that office, who was therein as Walter's deputy, and was keeper of the office from the time of Walter's demise thereof until Easter in the 23rd year of the reign, and that Thomas never found any security for safekeeping the prisoners of the Marshalsea at his peril nor for answering to the king for the escape of any of the prisoners, and it appears by inspection of the chancery rolls that on 21 June in the said 23rd year the king pardoned Walter, then marshal of the Marshalsea, all escapes of felons and fugitives out of the said prison for all the time that he held the office of marshal by the king's grant, and whatever pertains to the king in the matter, and it is not right that Thomas should be charged for Walter with those escapes. By K. and C.