Close Rolls, Edward III: March 1330

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: March 1330', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 127-131. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/pp127-131 [accessed 23 April 2024]

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March 1330

March 4.
Winchester.
To Bartholomew de Burghersshe, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause proclamation to be made in each of the said ports prohibiting anyone, under pain of grievous forfeiture, from inflicting damage or grievance by land or by sea upon any burgess or other of the town of Great Yarmouth, but to permit them to exercise their wares and affairs freely and without hindrance, whilst the dispute between certain barons of the said ports and certain burgesses of the said town at Wyndesore is pending before the king, who has undertaken to terminate the matter in a friendly way before the octaves of Easter next. The king has sent the like inhibition to the bailiffs and burgesses of the said town. By K.
The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth.
By K. & C.
March 6.
Winchester.
John le fitz Mauger acknowledges that he owes to Ranulph de Albo Monasterio 100l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Cornwall.
March 8.
Winchester.
Bartholomew le Wodere and John de Froille of Winchester, skinner, acknowledge that they owe to Ralph de Mallyng', mayor of Winchester, 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
William de Sperkeford of Winchester and William de Bromle of Winchester, skinner, acknowledge that they owe to the said Ralph 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
Cancelled on payment.
Feb. 23.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause proclamation to be made that all those who have charters in the hanaper of chancery, whether of liberties or of lands, pardons, or other things whatsoever, remaining in the hands of John de Wodehous, keeper of the hanaper, for fees unpaid, shall come or send to the chancery before the Ascension next to acquit their charters aforesaid of the hanaper, causing them to know that if they do not come or send as above, the king will cause their charters to be broken and torn (dilacerari) and the enrolments thereof in the rolls of chancery to be cancelled. By K.
The like to all the sheriffs of England.
Ralph de Mallyng', mayor of the city of Winchester, puts in his place Robert de Hemyngburgh and Robert de Kelleseye to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 20l. made to him in chancery by Bartholomew le Wodere and John de Froille.
March 12.
Winchester.
Alexander Champioun of Kyngeston of Porchester acknowledges that he owes to William le Fisshere of Kyngeston 100s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
March 19.
Winchester.
Robert, prior of Sele (Sela), acknowledges that he owes to Robert le Fraunkeleyn, parson of the church of Edburton, 30l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Sussex.
The abbot of Tavystok acknowledges that he owes to John de Feryby, clerk, 6l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Devon.
John Chynne acknowledges that he owes to Thomas son of John de Cary, knight, 40l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Dorset.
William Gilbert of Chepyngcaunpeden came before the king, on Monday after St. Gregory, and sought to replevy to Sibyl, late the wife of William son of William Fulredy of Chepingcaunpeden, her land, which was taken into the king's hands for her default before the justices of the Bench against John le Proude of Chepingcaunpeden. This is signified to the justices.
March 21.
Winchester.
John son of Thomas le Meneye acknowledges that he owes to Robert Dolyseby 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
Roger le Forester of Wherewell acknowledges that he owes to Master Henry le Gayte 120l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
Richard de Sutton acknowledges that he owes to Roger le Forester of Wherewell 120l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
Peter de Ba, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Almaric la Zousch 26 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Berks.
Cancelled on payment.
William atte Brokhole of Effyngham acknowledges that he owes to Peter atte Knoll 100l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Surrey.
The prior of Christchurch, Twynham, acknowledges that he owes to Roger Lesewy 40 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
Richard atte Heghhome acknowledges that he owes to Henry de Stretford, clerk, 13s. 4d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Gloucester.
Roger, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, Robert de Wyvill, canon of Lincoln, and Richard de Hale, parson of the church of Chu, diocese of Bath and Wells, acknowledge that they owe to Dinus Forcetti, Bartholomew de Bardis and Peter Byny, and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi, 1,000 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. Lincoln.—Thomas de Evesham received the acknowledgment.
Cancelled on payment.
March 23.
Winchester.
William, prior of Haylyng', Thomas de Borhunt, Robert de Hoo, Master Richard de Hailyng', parson of the church of Colemere, and Richard de Heselarton, vicar of the church of Hailyng', acknowledge that they owe to John de Chyvereston, knight, 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. Southampton.
Anian ap Yevan acknowledges that he owes to Thomas de Capenhurst, clerk, 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Anglesey.
Cancelled on payment.
John de Malmesbury, parson of the church of Herthill, acknowledges that he owes to the prior of St. Swithin's, Winchester, 18 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. York.
March 22.
Winchester.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to supersede the demand made upon William de la Plaunche for the issues of the manor of Haveresham for the time when it was in the king's hands after the death of Matilda, late the wife of James de la Plaunche, William's mother, upon William's finding security to answer to the king at the next parliament for the issues thereof, the king having lately ordered the escheator to deliver the manor to William. By C.
March 28.
Woodstock.
Robert de Veer, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Henry, bishop of Lincoln, 200l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Northampton.
Cancelled on payment.
Peter le Hunte, who has long served the king and his father, is sent to the abbot and convent of Thame to receive such maintenance in their house as John le Cok, deceased, had therein by the late king's request. By p.s.
John del Castel acknowledges that he owes to William de Mocleston, knight, 500l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Buckingham.
March 8.
Winchester.
Eustace de Wyteneye acknowledges that he owes to John de Hurtesleye 100 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Hereford.—The chancellor received the acknowledgment.
March 29.
Woodstock.
To Bartholomew de Burgherssh, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover. Order to permit Master Henry de Cantuaria, king's clerk, whom the king is sending to parts beyond sea for the expedition of certain of his affairs, to pass the sea from that port. By K.
Robert de Burry, William Savage, and William de Brokhurst put in their place John de Evesham and Adam de Braunfeld to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 50l. made to them by Peter de Whatesford in chancery.
To the justices in eyre in co. Nottingham. Order to permit Margery, late the wife of Jordan Folyot, who holds the manor of Grymston and the town of Welhagh, in that county, in dower of the inheritance of Margery and Margaret, daughters and heiresses of Richard son of Richard Folyot, which town is distant fifteen leuce from the town of Nottingham, to hold a fair in Welhagh yearly on the day of the Translation of St. Swithin and a market there on Friday in every week, and to permit merchants and others wishing to exercise their merchandise there to sell and buy there as they were wont before the eyre and the justices' proclamation, notwithstanding the eyre and the proclamation, as the king has granted that she may hold the said market and fair notwithstanding the eyre or any proclamation made by the justices. By K.
Robert de Burry, William Savage, and William de Brokhurst put in their place John de Evesham and Adam de Braunfeld to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 50l. made to them by Peter de Whatesford in chancery.
April 3.
Woodstock.
John le Gardiner of Lockesleye came before the king, on Tuesday after Palm Sunday, and sought to replevy the land of Warin Giffard of Goldecote in Goldecote, which was taken into the king's hands for Warin's default before the justices of the Bench against Geoffrey son of Robert le Fevere of Goldecote. This is signified to the justices.
Membrane 38d.
Enrolment of release by John son of William Warin of Dene, co. Bedford, to Ralph de Wedon, knight, of his right in the lands that the releasor had in Dene, Hargrave, and Swynesheved, and in all the lands therein that might fall to him in the future. He also releases to Ralph a robe yearly and maintenance for his own life, and all actions, etc. Witnesses: Sir John le Marescall, Sir Walter de Holewell, knights; John de la Penne, Robert de Bukyngham, Hugh de Kynbell, John de Toucestria. Dated at Winchester, on Wednesday after St. Gregory, 4 Edward III.
Memorandum, that John came into chancery, on the said day, and acknowledged the preceding deed.
March 18.
Winchester.
To S. archbishop of Canterbury. Order to cause to assemble on Monday after SS. Tiburtius and Valerian next all the prelates, both men of religion and others, and all the clergy of his province before him, and to explain to them the affairs mentioned below and the imminent perils, and to induce them by the ways and means that shall seem most expedient to him to make such subsidy to the king in such necessity for the avoidance of such perils that the king may be able to preserve the rights and honour of himself and of his realm and to defend and protect them and all his people from the incursions of enemies. The king reminds him that lately at Eltham, in the presence of the archbishop and of other prelates and proceres of the realm then assembled by the king, the affairs touching the king and the king of France were explained, and that, after diligent treaty had been had, it seemed to the archbishop and them that all possible means should be taken to have peace with the said king without peril of disinheritance, and that, if the said king refused reasonable ways of peace and endeavoured to disinherit the king as to the duchy [of Aquitaine] and the other lands that he has under the said king's lordship, the king ought to use his strength for his defence against the said king, and to this the archbishop and the other prelates and magnates gave their counsel and promised help, and it was thereupon agreed that the king should cause a parliament to be summoned at Winchester on Sunday before St. Gregory the Pope last; but in that parliament, after the said affairs had been explained and after deliberation as to the manner and form of the defence against the said king's power if he should invade the said lands, and after each prelate and magnate had been asked singly what aid he would make to the king in this event, and the earls and barons had explained their wills in this behalf to the king with good will, the prelates answered that they could not then make a certain answer by reason of the archbishop's absence, but that they would make an answer that should satisfy the king in a convocation to be made for this purpose by the archbishop. The king will send to the archbishop at the said day some of his subjects to prosecute the premises and to cause them to be procured as shall then be enjoined upon them. [Fœdera.]
The like to W. archbishop of York, to assemble on Wednesday after St. George.
Enrolment of deed of John de Chyvereston, witnessing that he has inspected certain letters of quit-claim that Richard de Greyvile, sometime lord of the lands that John holds in the town of Little Stony Eston, made to the abbot and convent of Jumièges (Gomitico), releasing to them his right in the advowson of the chapel of St. Mary, Little Stony Eston, for which release the abbot gave to Richard 10l., witnessed by Richard de Enmeburne, Bartholomew le Petevin, John le Faukener, knights; John de Freyne, Simon Stak, Thomas le Pastor, William Boket. John hereby confirms to them the said chapel and advowson with the glebe of the advowson. Witnesses: Sir John de Basynges, Sir Robert de Norton, Sir Robert de Popham, knights; Thomas de Borhunte, Robert de Hoo, Gilbert de Borhunte. Dated at Winchester, on Monday the feast of St. Gregory the Pope, 1329 [–30], 4 Edward III.
Memorandum, that John came into chancery at Winchester, on 22 March, and acknowledged the aforesaid deed.
March 20.
Winchester.
To the doge of Venice and the community of that city. Request that they will do what is equitable and reasonable for the king's merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence for the settlement of the disputes that have arisen between the doge and community and the said merchants by reason of certain contracts between them, and that they will not permit them to be aggrieved hereafter for these reasons, and that they will so conduct themselves in hearing the king's request that the said merchants may feel that his prayers have benefited them, and that the king may be the more bound to the advancement of their wishes in things in his power at fitting opportunities. [Fœdera.]
March 16.
Winchester.
To John Mautravers, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Essex. Order to cause to be replevied to Richard Waleys and Eleanor his wife until the coming of the justices for pleas of the Forest in that county their park of Horsfreth, which is within the bounds of the forest aforesaid, and which has been taken into the king's hands because it is not enclosed according to the assize of the Forest.
William Jeudewyne, tenant of certain parts of the lands that belonged to Richard Jendewyne, puts in his place James de Kyngeston, clerk, to defend the execution of a recognisance for 8 marks made to Hugh de Warknethby, treasurer of Holy Trinity church, Chichester, in the late king's chancery.
March 20.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause forty carpenters to be chosen in his bailiwick by the advice of Robert de Fynyng and William de Boford, whom the king is sending to him for this purpose, and to cause them to come to Claringdon before the octaves of Easter next to repair the paling about the king's park there at his cost, as they shall be then enjoined. Et erat patens. By C.
March 15.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause proclamation to be made that all those who have any of the goods and chattels or jewels that belonged to Hugh le Despenser, the elder, Hugh le Despenser, the younger, Edmund, late earl of Arundel, Edmund, late earl of Kent, or Master Robert de Baldok, late enemies of the king and his realm, shall send the same to the king's wardrobe before three weeks from Easter next, causing all persons to know that the king will appoint men to enquire concerning such goods, chattels, and jewels, and the names of those who had or held them, and that all found guilty of detaining them after the aforesaid time shall be punished as concealers of the goods of the said enemies and rebels, certifying the king of his proceedings in this matter. By K.
[Fœdera.]
The like to all the sheriffs of England. [Ibid.]