Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1372 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1372', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374, (London, 1911) pp. 385-393. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol13/pp385-393 [accessed 13 April 2024]

June 1372



June 4. Westminster.	To the mayor and bailiffs of Dertemuth. Order, when assured that the goods hereinafter mentioned pertain to Gildolfus Josep burgess of Bruges in Flanders, on sight of these presents without difficulty or delay to cause 140 quintals of iron which were taken in a ship of Lubek called the 'Godberaet,' John Gulsand master, to be delivered and fully restored by indenture to Hugh Cas servant of the said burgess, in his master's name, so that no loud complaint come a second time to the king's ears; as the burgomasters, échevins and consuls of Bruges by their letters patent sealed with the common seal of the town have shewn the king that the men of Dertemuth have now newly taken the said ship in hostile fashion at sea off Eysant by Brittany laden with iron and other merchandise, and have brought the same with them to Dertemuth and the goods and property therein, and that the said burgess caused the iron aforesaid to be therein put in order to be taken from Spain to the port of Swynne in Flanders, wherefore they have made instant prayer to the king to cause restitution to be made to the said Hugh, the bearer of these presents, according to the treaty last made between the king and the Flemings. By C.
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June 10. Westminster.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed in a plea pending before them concerning the presentation to the church of St. Stephen Exeter, further doing as by the law and custom of England ought to be done in the matter, the king's confirmation of the estate and possession therein of John Carbonell parson of the said church notwithstanding; as on 22 May last the king made the confirmation aforesaid, willing to make provision for the security of the said John, and that he should not in time to come by the king or his heirs be impeached, troubled or grieved touching the possession thereof by reason of any right or title vesting in them, or which may hereafter vest in them; but for that the presentation to the said church pertains to the chancellor by reason of his office, and the chancellor has presented thereto, whereof the said plea is pending, it is the king's will that the presentation so made shall duly take effect.
June 8. Westminster.	To John Knyvet and Thomas de Ingelby justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order by writ of nisi prius to cause the inquisition whereupon Robert Wade of Chesterton has at the king's suit put himself concerning the death of William Coke to be taken before them or one of them, before one of the justices of the Bench, or before the justices of assize.
June 10. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Berkshire. Order to cause a coroner to be elected instead of John Edmund, who is dead.
June 15. Westminster.	To John de Cressyngham steward of Lenne Episcopi of Henry bishop of Norwich. Order, upon the testimony of John Kempe, William Colbayn and William Hornyng of Essex, to set free Robert Billes from the prison of the said town, if detained for the cause hereinafter mentioned and for none other; as lately by divers writs the king ordered the said steward to certify in chancery under his seal the cause wherefore the said Robert was by him detained in the said prison, and he certified that the said Robert was taken by John de Brunham late mayor of the said town for that he was of the allegiance of the king of France and was found there without licence or the king's safe conduct, and that he is yet detained for that cause and for none other, that the proctors in England of the abbess of Caen said that he was their servant, craving his deliverance, but that he the said steward dared not set him free without other command of the king; and the said John Kempe, William and William appearing in person in chancery have witnessed that the said Robert was and is servant of the said proctors.
June 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Warrewyk. Order to cause a coroner to be elected instead of William de Ocham, who is insufficiently qualified.
	To William Latymer keeper of the king's forest beyond Trent, or to his representative in the forest of Galtres. Order, if Lawrence Lovell taken and imprisoned in the king's prison of York for an alleged trespass of venison in the said forest, for which he is indicted, shall find twelve free and lawful men of that bailiwick who shall mainpern to have him before the justices in eyre for pleas of the forest in Yorkshire at their coming to those parts in order to stand to right concerning that trespass, to deliver him in bail to such men, if replevisable according to the assize of the forest, bringing before the justices their names and this writ.
June 1. Westminster.	To the same. Like order in favour of William Belle of York, taken and imprisoned for a trespass of venison.
June 20. Westminster.	To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause Nicholas de Pathorn to be set free from Neugate prison, if there detained for the cause hereinafter mentioned and for none other; as lately the king ordered the sheriffs to replevy the said Nicholas, who was taken by Robert Josep and Richard de Morton and is by the sheriffs detained it was said, unless taken by special order of the king or the chief justice, for manslaughter, the king's forest, or any other matter wherefore he was not replevisable according to the custom of England, or to signify the cause wherefore they would not or might not execute the command to them at another time addressed; and the sheriffs certified that the said Nicholas was committed to the said prison by the testimony of the said Robert and Richard, auditors appointed by David Barry knight to audit in London an account between him and the said David, for 42l. 13s. 4d. arrears of his said account; and after in the king's court the said Nicholas prosecuted the said Robert before the sheriffs for assaulting him at London, beating, wounding, evil entreating and imprisoning him contrary to the peace, whereupon the said Robert being brought to answer alleged that of beating and wounding he was not guilty, and as to imprisoning said that the said Nicholas was bound to the said David in a greater sum and accounted for the same before the said Robert and Richard, and that due allowance being made by that account he remained in arrear as aforesaid, wherefore they as his auditors according to the statute delivered him to the custody of the sheriffs by their bill to be kept in the said prison, to which the said Nicholas replied that he never accounted before the said Robert and Richard; and it is found by inquisition, whereupon as well the said Nicholas as the said Robert put themselves before the sheriffs, that the said Nicholas never accounted before the said auditors, but was imprisoned contrary to the peace, damages 10 marks, wherefore it was adjudged that the said Nicholas should recover those damages, and the said Robert should be committed to prison until he should content him thereof.
June 27. Westminster.	To the keepers of the passage in the port of Dovorre. Order to suffer the bishop of Carpentras, the viscount of Torayne and other the pope's envoys lately for particular causes sent to the king in England, who are now returning over sea, to pass without let in that port with as many men of their company and horses as they brought with them, their goods, property, furniture and letters of exchange, any ordinances or commands to the contrary notwithstanding. Proviso that they or any of their company shall not take with them bows or arrows save two or three bows and as many sheaves of arrows, nor any armour, gold or silver in the lump, in plate or in any coined money over and above their reasonable expenses, nor aught else to the prejudice of the king or realm. By K. and C.
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June 23. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner to be elected instead of William Colles, who is insufficiently qualified.
July 8. Westminster.	To the collectors of the petty custom in the port of the city of London for the time being. Order of the issues of the said custom to pay to John Maykyn one of the king's seamen the arrears of 6d. a day since 23 June last, and henceforward to pay him that daily sum for life, taking his acquittance for every payment; as on that date the king of his favour granted by letters patent to the said John for his good service 6d. a day of the issues of the said custom, to be taken by the hands of the collectors during his life or until other order should be taken for his estate.
	Et erat patens.
June 28. Westminster.	To Thomas de Navenby escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to remove the king's hand, and not to meddle further with a messuage and 16 acres of land and meadow in Appelby and Rysby taken into the king's hand by the death of John de Appelby, delivering to Margaret his wife any issues thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken at the king's command by Walter de Kelby late escheator, that the said John held the premises jointly with the said Margaret of others than the king.
July 1. Westminster.	To the same. Order to remove the king's hand, and not to meddle further with the manor of Ketilthorp with appurtenances in Laughton, Fenton and Neuton, and the advowson of Ketilthorp church, delivering to Katherine wife of Hugh de Swynford knight any issues thereof taken since her husband's death; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Hugh at his death held the premises jointly with the said Katherine of others than the king.
July 7. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause Richard Scoteneye to have seisin of a messuage, 8 acres of land and 3 roods of pasture in Toppesfeld held by John Gounce of Toppesfeld hanged for felony it is said; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the sheriff, that the premises have been in his hand a year and a day and are yet in his hand, that the said John held that messuage of the said Richard, and that John Welde late escheator had the year and a day and the waste thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
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June 8. Westminster.	To John Knyvet and Thomas de Ingelby, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order by writ of nisi prius to cause an inquisition which is to be taken between the king and the abbot of Kirkestede, Thomas Teuelby, John Benet and Simon de Boston monks his fellows and John Kyng of Skampton for that the said abbot has not repaired a bridge called Snytelbrigge, that bridges called Tilbryg' are thrown down by the abbot's cattle, and concerning the scouring of a dike called Stoppitdyk, which bridges the abbot is bound to repair and maintain and to scour the said dike it is said, also for that the said Thomas, John, Simon and John by force of arms depastured and trampled beans and peas of Thomas de Asthorp of Stretton and Richard Smyth of Scampton to the value of 100s. lately growing at Scampton, to be taken before them or one of them, or before one of the justices of the Bench and the justices of assize.
June 15. Westminster.	To Edmund Cheyne escheator in Somerset. Order to take the fealty of William Modesley, son and heir of Joan who was wife of John Modesley tenant by knight service of the heir of Nicholas Seymor tenant in chief a minor in the king's wardship, according to the form of a schedule enclosed, and to deliver to him the lands of his said mother taken into the king's hand by her death; as the said William has proved his age before the escheator.
June 12. Westminster.	To the collectors and assessors in the county of Suthampton of the subsidy last granted to the king by the commons of England. Order to stay altogether the further assessment and levy of the said subsidy upon the men of Bentele, releasing any distress made upon them or any of them for that cause; as on their behalf the king has learned that Bentele chapel is parcel of the parish church of Farnham co. Surrey and not a parish church by itself, that the said men have fully paid the portion of the said subsidy falling upon them with the parishioners of Farnham as for a chapel and parcel of the said parish, as William bishop of Winchester has witnessed in chancery, but that the collectors and assessors, pretending that the said chapel is a parish church by itself as it is not, are endeavouring to compel the said men to contribute a second time to the said subsidy with the men of the county of Suthampton.
June 18. Westminster.	To the collectors of customs in the port of Quenesburgh. Order, upon the petition of John Aubrey citizen of London, to suffer him by himself or his servants in the port of Queensburgh or Faversham to lade two sarplers and one pocket of wool in a certain ship and carry it by water to the staple of Westminster by mainprise of the said John and of William Venour citizen of London; as he has prayed licence so to do, and he and the said William, appearing in person in chancery, have mainperned that he shall take the said wool to the said staple and not elsewhere, and to answer to the king for the value thereof in case it shall go to sea before being unladed at the said staple.
June 18. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of the city of Canterbury. Strict order, as they would save themselves harmless, to cause any the king's messengers, of whose coming to the king and council with letters or otherwise with reports from over sea they shall have knowledge hereafter, upon warning received to have with all speed for reasonable payment hackneys to ride from that city to the city of Rochester, so that the king's business be not hindered by their default.
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	The like to the bailiffs of the city of Rochester concerning hackneys to ride to the city of London.
	[Ibid.]
June 15. Westminster.	To Walter Norman and Richard Godfrey. Order to deliver to John de Tamworth clerk or to his attorney a shout of his by them or one of them arrested into the king's hand it is said, and all the gear thereof as they arrested the same; as for particular causes the king ordered the said Walter and Richard to certify in chancery the cause wherefore they arrested the said shout, and by what authority, and if there was any reasonable cause wherefore they ought not so to do likewise to certify that cause under their seals or the seal of one of them before Thursday next, sending again that writ; and the said John has mainperned before the chancellor to content the king of the said shout or the price thereof, if by law it ought to pertain to the king.
July 14. Westminster.	To Thomas Caus of Hokham escheator in Suffolk. Order not to meddle further with a yearly rent of 40 marks to be taken of a manor of Cavendissh called Greyeshalle, if in the king's hand for the cause hereinafter mentioned and for none other, delivering to Alice who was wife of Thomas de Grey knight any issues thereof taken since the death of Roger Grey knight tenant in chief son of the said Thomas; as lately it was found by inquisition, taken at the king's command by John de Rokewode then escheator, that the said Roger long before his death enfeoffed William Baude knight the younger, Ralph Walsham and others and their heirs of his said manor of Greyeshalle, under a condition that if he should after return to England, being then about to cross the sea, he might again enter the said manor, that he returned to England and did again enter the same taking the issues and profits all his life, and so died thereof seised, that before the feoffment aforesaid he granted to the said Alice the said rent to be taken during her life at All Saints and Midsummer by even portions, and that the said manor is worth nothing over and above that rent; and after at the suit of the said Alice praying livery thereof during the nonage of the said Roger's heir, as by reason of his death and his said heir's nonage the manor is seized into the king's hand, the king ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the premises and other the circumstances, and by inquisition so taken it is found that the said Roger being of full age, of good memory and understanding and out of prison was seised of the said manor in his demesne as of fee simple, and by his writing granted the said rent to the said Alice for life, that the said manor is not held of the king but by parcels of the earl of la March as of the honour of Clare, of John de Cavendissh, Thomas Cornerde and John Boldesore, service unknown, that it is worth nothing over and above the said rent, that the grant was made in good faith and not by collusion, that the said Alice was seised of the said rent in the life time of the said Roger two years and more, and continued her seisin until Michaelmas last, that it was and is in arrear, and that she has never released her estate therein; and John de Cavendissh one of the justices of the Common Bench has witnessed in chancery that the said grant was made in good faith, and that the said Alice was thereafter seised of that rent all the life of the said Roger, and also the king's serjeants being summoned to that end said nought to the purpose and had nought to say wherefore she ought not to have restitution thereof.
Jan. 28. Westminster.	To John Foucher escheator in Notinghamshire. Order to cause William son and heir of John Bardolf tenant in chief to have seisin of the messuages (sic) land and meadow in Scelford held of his said father by John Bik of Shelford outlawed for felony it was said; as on 20 March in the 42nd year of the reign on the finding of an inquisition, taken by John de Gresley late sheriff of Notingham, that three messuages, four bovates of land and 6 acres of meadow in Scelford held by the said John Bik had been in the king's hand a year and a day and were then in his hand, that he held one of the three messuages and the land and meadow aforesaid of the said John Bardolf, and the two messuages remaining of the prior of Shelford, and that Richard de Heygham had the year and a day and the waste thereof and ought to answer to the king for the same, the king by writ ordered the then sheriff to keep in his hand until the lawful age of the said William, being a minor in the king's wardship, the messuages (sic), land and meadow held of John Bardolf, and to cause the said prior to have seisin of the two messuages remaining; and on 15 October in the 45th year of the reign the said William's age was proved, and the king took his homage and commanded livery to be given him of his said father's lands.
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June 7. Westminster.	To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to suffer James Jakemyn, Nicholas Russell, John Crede, Lewis Dandreo, John de Cotyngham and John van der Vith' in that port to lade the wool hereinafter mentioned and take it to Zeland, Holand or Flanders, notwithstanding the ordinance made by the king and council for taking wool, hides and woolfells to Calais and not elsewhere; as lately by letters patent to endure until Whitsuntide last the king granted the said James, Nicholas, John Crede and Lewis licence to lade and take to the parts aforesaid 400 sacks of wool, and the said John de Cotyngham and John van der Vith' licence to take 320 sacks, first paying for every sack such customs, subsidies and other duties as are paid by aliens who have the king's licence to take wool thither; and now prayer is made on their behalf for licence to take over that wool, as it is yet in the said port, and they have paid the said customs, subsidies and duties. Proviso that the same be paid before the wool is taken out of the port, and that no other wool be taken thither by colour of this command.
	The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull in favour of John Mourhous of Tykhull for 400 sacks, John Towen of Shireburne for 400 sacks, William Couk for 200 sacks.
Sept. 15. Wallingford.	To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Like licence, mutatis mutandis, for John Mourhous of Tykhull and John Towen of Shirebourne to export the residue of 400 sacks each for which licence was given them as above; as prayer is made to the king shewing that some of that wool is yet in the said port. (fn. 1)
June 9. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause a piece of ground in the town of Gloucester called Seynt Martyn place, containing 72 feet in length and 24 feet in breadth, to be taken again into the king's hand, and to be restored and delivered to Adam parson of St. Michael in that town and to his successors according to a judgment in chancery; as on 28 March last the king by letters patent so far as in him lies gave the said place to the burgesses of Gloucester and their successors to hold of the king and his heirs by the services thereof due and of old time accustomed, in order to build a tower upon it and therein to set and maintain a bell for telling the hours day and night for ever commonly called a 'clok,' rendering to the king 12d. a year at the exchequer by the hands of the bailiffs for the time being to increase the farm of the town at the usual terms for payment of the said farm; and after at the suit of the said parson, complaining that time out of mind a chapel was there built within his said parish, and was annexed to his church as parcel thereof, that William archbishop of Canterbury late bishop of Worcester, being the diocesan, at his visitation of the said bishopric for particular causes and defects by him found suspended the said chapel, and granted that the said parson might build upon the said ground a dwelling for himself and his successors inasmuch as he had no dwelling house within the parish, and that although the said Adam and all his predecessors time out of mind peaceably held the premises as to their church annexed, William Auncell late escheator in Gloucestershire took the same into the king's hand out of the possession of the said Adam without his answer, and it was given as aforesaid to the burgesses, for that the said escheator found by inquisition, before him taken, that the said chapel was built upon the king's soil without licence of the king or his forefathers, and praying restitution, the king appointed Gilbert Talbot, John Bromwych, John de Borle and Thomas Catewy, three and two of them, to make inquisition touching the premises; and by inquisition taken before the said Gilbert, John Bromwych and Thomas it was found that the chapel of St. Martin Gloucester and the piece of ground whereupon it was built were before the statute of mortmain annexed to the church of St. Michael Gloucester as parcel thereof, that the said chapel and ground ought to pertain to the said Adam now parson of St. Michael and not to the king, and that he and all his predecessors parsons of that church time out of mind peaceably held the said chapel and ground until the same were by the said escheator taken into the king's hand out of the said Adam's possession, whereupon the king ordered the sheriff to give notice to the bailiffs and commonalty of Gloucester to be in chancery in this instant quinzaine of Trinity to shew cause for the king or for themselves wherefore his said letters patent ought not to be revoked, the said ground taken again into the king's hand and restored to the said parson, and further to do and receive what the court should determine, and the sheriff returned that he gave notice accordingly to Thomas Styward and John Monemouthe bailiffs of the liberty of the town of Gloucester and to the commonalty thereof by Thomas Catewy, John Foxcote, Giles le Walssh and Edmund Blount; and because the said bailiffs and commonalty came not, it was determined by the court that the said letters patent should be revoked, and the said ground be taken again into the king's hand and restored to the said Adam and his successors to hold as he and his predecessors held the same before it was taken into the king's hand.
April 20. Westminster.	To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order, if assured that the manor of Bury co. Sussex is in the hands of Richard earl of Arundell and not of the abbot of Fécamp in Normandy, to cause the demand for payment of the tenth last granted to the king by the clergy of the province of Canterbury made upon the said earl by the collectors thereof in Sussex to be stayed, discharging at the exchequer as well the said earl as the collectors; as the king has learned that the abbot and convent of Fécamp by assent of the whole chapter have by charter enfeoffed the said earl of that manor to hold to him, his heirs and assigns; and now on behalf of the said earl the king has learned that the said collectors have assessed him to payment of the said tenth as if the same were in the hands of the said abbot and convent and annexed to their spiritualities, which it is not, purposing to levy it of him, and unlawfully troubling him, although he has paid the subsidy due to the king for the same among laymen, wherefore he has prayed for remedy. Proviso that the manor shall be charged among laymen with the subsidy, fifteenths and other quotas granted to the king by the commons of England since the same came to the said earl's hands, and with those to be granted hereafter.
June 12. Westminster.	To Thomas Sewale escheator in Bedfordshire. Order to remove the king's hand, and not to meddle further with the lands of John de Ardres, tenant by knight service of the heir of John Traille tenant in chief a minor in the king's wardship, which are taken into the king's hand by his death and by reason of the said heir's nonage; as Thomas son and heir of the said John de Ardres has proved his age before the escheator, and on 18 June in the 39th year of his reign the age of John son and heir of the said John Traille was proved, and the king took his homage and fealty, and commanded livery to be given him of his said father's lands.
June 1. Westminster.	To the treasurer and the chamberlains of Ireland. Order of the issues and profits of Ireland to pay 100l. to Thomas bishop of Lismore and Waterford, or to make him an assignment where he may best be contented thereof, taking his acquittance, notwithstanding any ordinance or grant by the king made for reserving such issues and profits for the expenses of the war in Ireland; as in consideration of the cost and labour by the said bishop incurred, as well of his own free will as at other times by the king's command in coming many times to the king in England for business affecting the state of Ireland, the king has granted him that sum in aid of his costs and expenses of the king's gift. By K.
June 8. Westminster.	To Thomas de Musgrave late escheator in Yorkshire. Order of the issues of the manor of Skynnergrefe to pay to Adam de Everyngham of Laxton knight the arrears of 10 marks a year from St. John the Evangelist in the 44th year of the reign so long as the said Thomas was escheator, taking his acquittance; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the said Thomas, that William de Everyngham at his death held the said manor in chief by knight service, that by charter made with the late king's licence the same is charged with 10 marks a year to the said Adam and his heirs, and that the said William died on the date aforesaid, the manor being in the king's hand by reason of the nonage of the said William's heirs.