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Nov. 16.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Kelby escheator in Lincolnshire. Order not to
meddle with the abbey of Thorneton upon Humbre, now void by
the death of Robert late abbot, or with its members during this vacancy,
but to put one servant to keep the gate, and another to keep the guest
hall for the advantage of that house and for the safety of the goods
therein, saving to the king the keeping of any lands held of him which
have been acquired by the abbots since the letters patent of King
Edward I; as on 7 June in the 12th year of his reign, on the finding
of an inquisition, taken by Thomas de Normanville escheator beyond
Trent, that William de Fortibus earl of Albemarle and his ancestors,
founders and patrons of the said abbey, and Edmund the then king's
brother and Avelina his wife [who] had the advowson thereof, used to
take no other profit in the abbey or its members in time of a vacancy
but only to give licence to elect after the abbot's death when craved
by the prior and convent, and to put one servant at the gate and
another at the said hall during a vacancy, King Edward I of his
favour granted by letters patent to the abbot and convent for him
and his heirs that thenceforth they would claim nothing therein at any
vacancy other than the said patrons used to have, but would preserve
the abbot and convent in their ancient estate. |
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To Thomas de Wythornwyk escheator within the liberty of
Holdernesse co. York. Order not to intermeddle with the lands
belonging to the said abbey during the vacancy thereof, saving to the
king the keeping of any lands held of him which the abbots have
acquired since the letters patent of King Edward I; as the king has
ordered the escheator in Lincolnshire etc. (as above). |
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The like to William de Reygate escheator in Yorkshire. |
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Membrane 8. |
Nov. 5.
Westminster. |
To William de Otteford escheator in Bukinghamshire. Order not
to meddle further with the manor of Wengrave taken into the
king's hand by the death of Margery who was wife of William
Pyppard, delivering up any issues thereof taken; as the king has
learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Margery
at her death held no lands in that county in chief in demesne nor in
service, but held the said manor as jointly enfeoffed with her said
husband (likewise deceased) of the gift and feoffment of Robert Pyle
chaplain and Robert Holdyche to them and the heirs male of their
bodies, and that the same is not held of the king. |
Nov. 24.
Westminster. |
To Edmund Cheyne keeper of the islands of Jerneseye, Gernerye
(sic), Serk and Aurneye. Order, at his peril, to be before the king
and council in chancery three weeks after Easter next, to inform them
of the cause wherefore the esperquerie of congers and custom of
mackerel of the men and tenants in Gernereye of the abbot of
Mont St. Michel in periculo maris was taken into the king's hand,
and of the right to him pertaining therein, which day has been given to
the said abbot to do and receive what shall be lawful in the premises,
so that by absence or default of the said keeper the king may not lose
his right, and in case the said keeper has made any process against
the said abbot and the prior of Vallia in the said island to him subject
for usurpation or occupation in time past of the esperquerie and custom
aforesaid, altogether to stay such process until debate be had whether
the same ought to pertain to the king or to the abbot, releasing any
distraint for that cause made; as on behalf of the said abbot it is shewn
the king that though the abbot and his predecessors time out of mind
were in possession of the said esperquerie and custom without any
interference, as may appear by the record and process of a plea moved
before the justices in eyre in the said islands in their last eyre, the tenor
whereof the king has caused to come into chancery, the said keeper
of his own will without due process has newly caused the said abbot
and prior to be thereof ousted, seizing the same unlawfully into the
king's hand, wherefore the said prior has prayed for remedy. |
Nov. 22.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause money up to 40l. to
be laid out by view and testimony of the abbot of St. Peter
Gloucester upon defects as well in Gloucester castle, in walls, turrets,
buildings etc., as in the bridge over the river Severne there which are
in greatest need of repair; as great number of defects therein
much need repair. By K. |
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To the abbot of St. Peter Gloucester. Order, with the sheriff of
Gloucester, to survey the defects as well in Gloucester castle as in the
bridge over Severne there, to oversee the repairs thereof, and to give
his witness of the sum to be laid out upon them; as the king has
ordered the sheriff to lay out money up to 40l. on such repairs. By K. |
Nov. 6.
Westminster. |
To John de Tye escheator in Middlesex. Order not to meddle
further with a messuage and 79 acres of land in Herfeld, and 20 acres
of land in Ikenham and Hylyndon taken into the king's hand by
the death of Isabel who was wife of Edmund Dauvers, delivering up
any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition,
taken by the escheator, that the said Isabel at her death held no lands
in that county in chief in her demesne as of fee, but held the premises
in name of dower after the death of John Swanlond sometime her
husband, and that the same are held of others than the king. |
Nov. 10.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order, upon the
petition of Thomas Spigurnell, to account with him touching a sum of
money which he received at the receipt of the exchequer for a journey
to Flanders which he made to treat with the late count of Flanders,
father of the now count, concerning a contract for the marriage
of the now count with Isabel the king's daughter, and for the days he
stood on the king's service going to Flanders, there abiding, and
returning to England, to allow him for every day such wages as they
shall find allowed heretofore to other persons of his estate and condition
sent by the king upon such a journey, and to do further what the
nature of the account shall require; as on behalf of the said Thomas
it is shewn the king that he is distrained by summons of the exchequer to account for the said sum, and that though he is ready
so to account, the treasurer and barons have refused without command of the king to admit him so to do, and so he abode long time
in the city of London at grievous expense, and is there abiding from
day to day to the damage of his person and the impoverishment of
his estate. Proviso that nothing be done without the king's special
command with the surplus, if any. By C. |
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Nov. 10.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London for the time being. Order to pay
henceforth to Margaret who was wife of John de Pulteneye for her
dower the third part of a rent of 100 marks every year at Easter and
Michaelmas by even portions, taking her acquittance for such payments; as the king by letters patent granted the said rent to the said
John and to the heirs male of his body, namely 50l. of Queenhythe
of the city of London and 25 marks of the farm of the said city. |
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Et erat patens. |
Nov. 6.
Westminster. |
To William de Otteford escheator in Cambridgeshire. Order to
take the fealty of Richard son of Reynold de Wygenhale and to cause
him to have seisin of a messuage and land in Fordham etc. (as above,
p. 20); as for 40s. for his marriage paid by the said Richard, who is
not yet married, the king has granted him that he may marry
whomsoever of England he will. |
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Vacated, because otherwise below under this date. |
Nov. 9.
Westminster. |
To William de Reygate escheator in Cumberland and Westmorland.
Order to cause Richard, son of Thomas de Hale and Margaret his
wife, to have seisin of the lands which his said father held of his
heritage by the courtesy of England, and which by his death are
taken into the king's hand; as the king has learned by inquisition,
taken by the escheator, that the said Thomas at his death held no
lands in those counties in chief in his demesne as of fee, but held by
the courtesy of England certain lands in Glassanby and Merghanby
in chief by homage and the service of rendering 3s. 4d. to cornage
at the exchequer of Carlisle, certain lands in Langholm in the forest
of Inglewode as of a purpresture of that forest likewise in chief by
fealty and the service of rendering 9s. at the said exchequer, and divers
other lands of others than the king, all of the heritage of Margaret
sometime his wife, daughter of Thomas de Neubiggyng and one of
the heirs of John Crokedayk tenant in chief of the late king, that the
said Richard, who was a minor at his said father's death, is next heir
of the said Margaret, and now of full age, and that the escheators
have by reason of his nonage occupied the premises, taking the issues
and profits since the death of the said Thomas de Hale, who died on
Thursday before St. Margaret in the 36th year of the reign; and
the king has taken the homage and fealty of Richard, who is not yet
married, and for 4 marks by him paid for his marriage has granted him
that he may marry whomsoever of England he will. |
Nov. 26.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Great Jernemuth. Order to cause diligent search
to be made of all ships to be laded with herring to be by the king's
licence taken from the port of Jernemuth and of Kirkeley, that no
greater load of herring be put on board than is in such licence
contained, causing all herring that shall be found on board beyond
such load to be arrested as forfeit and safe kept until further order,
and certifying such arrests in chancery from time to time; as the king
has made order, and caused proclamation to be made, forbidding any
man to take or cause herring to be taken out of the realm without his
special command, and he is informed that certain who have licence
so to do put on board the ships wherein such herring is laded a greater
load than is in their licence contained. By K. and C. |
Nov. 26.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Great Jernemuth. Order to take security, for which
they will answer, of singular the owners and masters of ships wherein
herring is laded to be taken to towns or other places within the realm,
that they will bring such herring to the towns and places whither it
is to be brought according to their charter, and will not take or cause
the same to be taken out of the realm, and that they will bring again
within a set time, to be by the bailiffs limited, letters of the lords or
bailiffs of the towns and places where it is unladed witnessing the
unlading thereof, not suffering ships so laded to pass from that port
until such security be given; as the king has made order, and caused
proclamation to be made, forbidding any man to take or cause herring
to be taken out of the realm without his special command, and he is
informed that merchants and others, who cause ships and boats in the
port of Jernemuth and Kirkeley to be laded with herring to be taken
to divers parts within the realm for maintenance of his people, when
at sea without the said port cause great part of such herring to be
brought to foreign parts. By K. and C. |
Nov. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to pay to Thomas Rote,
keeper of the gaol of the king's castle of Newcastle upon Tine,
47s. 4d. by him laid out upon the repair of the said gaol for safety
of the prisoners therein, taking his acquittance. By K. |
Oct. 28.
Westminster. |
To Ralph de Neville keeper of the king's forest beyond Trent, or
to his representative in Shirwode forest. Order to cause the wood
of Lamleye within the bounds of that forest, which is of Amice who
was wife of Ralph de Cromwell and is taken into the king's hand for
divers trespasses against the assize of the forest therein committed,
it is said, if replevisable according to the said assize, to be replevied
to the said Amice until the coming of the king's justices for pleas
of the forest in that county. |
Nov. 20.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Brantyngham the king's clerk, treasurer of Calais.
Order, of the issues of 40d. a sack levied and taken by order of the king
and council for repair of the said town, to pay to John Phelippot
and William Freman of Brakkele searchers of forfeitures at Calais
19l. 15s. 1¼d. to them due from the king, taking their acquittance;
as it is found by certificate of the treasurer and the barons of the
exchequer of England, sent into chancery at the king's command,
that the said sum is due to the said John and William by their account
rendered at the said exchequer. By C. |
Nov. 6.
Westminster. |
To William de Otteford escheator in Cambridgeshire. Order to
cause Richard son of Reynold de Wygenhale to have seisin of a messuage
and 24 acres of land in Fordam, which came to the king's hand by the
death of William de Wygenhale of Fordam tenant in chief, and by
reason of the nonage of Thomas his son and heir, and are in his hand;
as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the
premises came to his hand as aforesaid, that the said Thomas died a
minor in the king's wardship, that the said Richard, a minor at the death
of Thomas, is his cousin and next heir, and is now of full age, and that
by reason of the nonage of Thomas and Richard answer was made to
the king by the escheators for the time being for the issues of the
premises since the death of the said William, who died 20 September
in the 33rd year of the reign; and the king has taken the fealty of
Richard, and respited his homage until Midsummer next, and for
40s. for his marriage paid by the said Richard, who is not yet married,
the king has granted him that he may marry whomsoever he will. |
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Oct. 16.
Westminster. |
To Philip de Lutteleye escheator in Staffordshire. Order, upon
the petition of Hugh Tyrel, brother of John son and heir of Hugh Tyrel
tenant in chief, to cause him to have seisin of the manors of Kynefare
and Storton and the bailiwick of keeping the king's forest of
Kynefare, if the same are in the king's hand for the cause alleged
and for none other, together with the issues thereof taken since
3 December last; as on 12 March in the 34th year of his reign, upon
proof of the age of the said John, the king took his fealty, respited
his homage for the lands of his said father, and commanded livery
thereof to be given him; and after on 3 December last, the said John
being dead, upon proof of the age of the said Hugh his brother and
heir who was a minor at John's death, the king took his fealty,
respited his homage for the lands of the said John, and commanded
livery thereof to be given him; and now the said Hugh brother of
John has prayed the king to order the premises to be delivered to
him as his right and heritage, as the said Hugh his father at his death
was thereof seised in his demesne as of fee, the said manors and
bailiwick by his death and by reason of the nonage of the said John
(whose heir Hugh is) were seized into the king's hand, and are in his
hand for that John did not obtain seisin thereof in his life time; and it
is found by divers inquisitions, taken by the escheator, that Hugh
the father at his death held the premises in his demesne as of fee in
chief by the service of rendering to the king 9l. a year at the exchequer, and that by the king's commission and by reason of the
nonage of the heir, Edward atte Wode and his executors have
occupied the same, taking the issues and profits from the death of
Hugh the father, who died 29 January in the 17th year of the reign. |
Oct. 20.
Westminster. |
Order to John atte Wode, executor of Edward atte Wode, not to
meddle further with the manors and bailiwick aforesaid by colour
of any commission concerning the wardship thereof made by the
king to hold until the lawful age of the said Hugh brother of John,
delivering to him any issues thereof taken since 3 December last;
as the king would discharge John atte Wode of the wardship from
that date. |
Nov. 28.
Westminster. |
To William de Reygate escheator in Cumberland. Order to remove
the king's hand and not to meddle further with a messuage and
8 acres of land in Corkeby, a messuage and the moiety of one acre
of land in the Brigende in the same town, and a messuage and
12 acres of land in Agillonby, delivering to Richard de Salkeld and
Adam Tounnam of Agillonby any issues thereof taken, namely to
either that which pertains to him; as the king lately ordered the
escheator to certify in chancery the cause wherefore lands of the said
Richard and Adam in Corkeby and Agillonby were by him taken
into the king's hand, and he returned that he so took no such lands
of theirs as in the writ supposed, but that at the time of his succession
to that office William de Nessefeld late escheator delivered to him
by indenture the premises in Corkeby, which Gilbert del Hill held by
homage of the king as of the fees which were of Andrew de Harcla
late an adherent of the Scots and in the king's hand by reason of
Andrew's forfeiture, and which he aliened in fee to the said Richard,
the premises in the Brigende, which Isabel daughter of Peter de Pesto
of Wederhale held by homage as of the fees aforesaid, and which she
aliened to the same Richard, and the premises in Agillonby which
Simon de Corkeby likewise held of the same fees, and which he
aliened in fee to the said Adam without the king's licence, and that all
are yet in the king's hand for that cause and in the escheator's keeping;
and in the parliament holden at Westminster in the first year of the
reign it was ordered that thenceforth no man should be impeached
for acquiring lands held of the king as of honours. |
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Nov. 4.
Westminster. |
To Thomas Cheyne escheator in Devon. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands which John de Claville at his death held of
the heir of Hugh le Despenser tenant in chief, late a minor in the king's
wardship, and which by death of the said John and by reason of the
nonage of William his son and heir were taken and are in the king's
hand; as the said William, son of the said John who was tenant by
knight service of the said heir, has proved his age before the escheator,
and on 26 March in the 30th year of the reign, on proof of the age of
Edward le Despenser cousin and heir of the said Hugh, the king
commanded livery to be given him of the lands of Hugh his uncle. |
Nov. 26.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Thorpe and his fellows, appointed to survey
Huntyngdon bridge, which has been long ruinous to the nuisance
of all the country and of men passing by, and to distrain and compel
all who ought and are used so to do to repair the same. Order to
proceed, according to the form of the king's commission and commands
to them addressed, to cause all who according to a judgment delivered in the eyre of John de Vallibus and his fellows are bound so
to do to repair the said bridge, a charter of King Henry [III] to John
earl of Chester and Huntyngdon, and the king's writs thereupon
made and to them addressed notwithstanding; as lately finding by
the tenor of a record and process before the said justices in eyre
of King Edward I in the county of Huntyngdon, which are
in the treasury and were by the king caused to come before
him in chancery, that the said bridge ought to be repaired by
the commons of the whole county, namely by the four hundreds
of Touleslond, Leghtonstone, Normancrosse and Hirstlyngstone,
so that every hundred is bound to make its share thereof
at its own cost, that judgment was given that all the commons of
the said hundreds were in mercy for that the bridge was then and
before in ruins and was not repaired, and that the sheriff was ordered
under pain of forfeiture of 100l. to cause the same to be repaired at
the cost of the commons of the county within a time then and there
limited, the king commanded the said Robert and his fellows to view
the record aforesaid, and cause all the men of the said hundreds to be
compelled and distrained to repair the said bridge according to that
judgment; and now the king is informed that the said Robert and
his fellows, to the peril of the king, the commons of the county, and of
all men of the realm wishing to pass that way, have deferred to proceed
further in a process begun before them touching such repair, by virtue
of a writ to them addressed directing them to suffer the men
and tenants of the honour of Huntyngdon to use and enjoy the
liberties and quittances in the said charter contained, whereby
the said king granted to the said earl that he, his heirs and
men, tenants of the said honour in counties or bailiwicks whatsoever, should be quit of toll, pontage, shires, hundreds, aids of
sheriffs, works of castles, walls, dikes, parks, bridges and
causeways, and of all custom, demand and servile toil; and the
king takes knowledge that those who by reason of their tenure ought
and are used of old time to repair bridges, causeways etc. ought
not to be discharged thereof by any charter of the king wherein the
charge of their tenure is not specified, that whereas by the record
of the said eyre it is clearly found that the commons of the whole
county are bound to repair the said bridge at their own cost, namely
every of the said hundreds for its own portion, no part of the commons
and hundreds aforesaid ought to be excused or acquitted of the repair
thereof, which is acknowledged to be to the common advantage and
its disrepair to the common hurt of the whole people, by the said general
charter granted to the said earl, wherein no mention is made of the
manner of tenure of the men and tenants of the said honour nor of
the charge whereto they ought to submit in regard to such repair,
and that in case they should be quit thereof by that charter the
whole charge of such repair, which of old time pertained to them, would
be laid upon the residue of the commons of the county, wherewith
the other men of the county might nowise be charged without their
common assent, so that for default of the men and tenants of the
said honour the bridge should remain for ever in ruins unrepaired,
to the peril and hurt as well of the king as of his whole people, since
the public passage north and south is by the same. By C. |
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[See Calendar of Charter Rolls, III, p. 281.] |
Nov. 20.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order, upon the
petition of Ralph earl of Stafford, to search the rolls and memoranda
of the exchequer, and if they shall find that 560l. 18s. 3d. of a sum of
640l. 18s. 3d. is due from the said earl, to allow him the former sum
against the sum due to him from the king, and also 80l. for which he has
made fine in chancery; as the said earl's petition shews that he is
bound to the king in 48l. for the farm and wardship of the manor of
Styuecle, in 412l. 18s. 3d. for a share of the marriage of Thomas brother
and heir of William de Roos of Hamelak, in 100l. which he received of
the treasury as a prest, and in 80l. by which he made fine in chancery
for the said Thomas to the effect that he might enfeoff Richard de
Stafford clerk and John de Aymunderby of his manor and castle of
Chilham and manor of Addirlegh to hold under a set form in the king's
charter of licence contained, and that divers greater sums are due to
him of his yearly fee of 1,000 marks to him granted by the king to be
taken by the hands of the collectors of customs in the ports of London
and Boston, as by the said rolls and memoranda may appear. |
