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Sept. 10.
Sheen. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John de Hothom, the elder, who is unable to discharge
the duties of his office owing to his age and bodily weakness. |
Sept 6.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause Alexander de Rihull,
burgess and merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to be delivered from prison
without delay, notwithstanding any order of the king to the contrary, as
the king lately—being informed that divers malefactors of the kingdom took
and imprisoned the said Alexander, who has long remained in the said town
of Newcastle in the faith and peace of the king and his father, and has
always conducted himself well, pretending that he was a native of Scotland, as an enemy and rebel, under colour of the present war of Scotland,
when he was going towards Baumburgh to traffic, and put him at a
heavy ransom and detained him in prison for not having paid it—had
appointed William de Denum, Gilbert de Boroudon, and Nicholas de
Punchardon, to take an inquisition whether Alexander was a native of
Scotland and if he had remained in the king's peace and for how long, and
how he behaved himself, and if he had ever joined the Scots, etc., by
which inquisition it is found that William Skynner of Baumburgh the
younger, on Thursday after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr last,
took the said Alexander as a Scot and an enemy, and that Alexander was
born in England, to wit at Little Ryhull in Whityngeham parish in that
county, and that he had always remained in the king's peace and behaved
himself well, and lived at Newcastle as a merchant, and that he never
joined the Scots, and that the said William, immediately after the capture,
delivered him to one John de Potenhale, who held him in Newcastle until
he was delivered to the said sheriff, whereupon Alexander has sought a
remedy from the king. By C. |
Sept. 10.
Sheen. |
To William de Denum, Richard de Aldeburgh and Robert Parnyng,
justices of assize in cos. York, Westmorland, Northumberland, Cumberland
and Lancaster. Whereas Henry fitz Hugh, knight, lately recovered seisin
in the king's court before those justices by the king's writ against Robert
de Clifford and others contained in the original writ by recognition of an
assize of novel disseisin, taken between them at York, of 3,000 acres of moor
and pasture in Mikelton in Tesdale, as is found by the tenor of the record
and process which the king caused to come before him in chancery, and
now the king has learned from the plaint of the said Henry, that Robert
now arrames before those justices an assize of novel disseisin against
Henry and others contained in the original writ for a tenement in Burgh
under Staynesmore, which town is in co. Westmorland, placing in view the
said tenement which Henry recovered against him in co. York, whereupon
Henry has besought the king to provide a remedy, the king therefore orders
those justices to view the said tenor which he sends to them sub pede
sigilli regis, and if they find that the said tenements which the said Robert
so placed in view as in co. Westmorland, are in co. York, so that that assize
cannot be taken by the men of Westmorland, or terminated before those
justices on account of difficulty, then to cause that assize to be adjourned
before the justices of the Bench on some certain day, sending there that tenor
and other things referring to this affair, so that justice may be done in the
premises. |
Sept. 18.
Odiham. |
To Thomas de Haselshaghe. Order not to intermeddle further with the
bailiwick of the maritime water of Bristol, although the king granted that
bailiwick to him to hold during pleasure in the same way as Robert de Guienne
held it, notwithstanding that Robert held that bailiwick by the grant of Queen
Isabella, which grant was afterwards approved by the king's letters, unknown
to the king, at the procuration of Roger de Mortuo Mari, late the king's
enemy, because the king has granted the said town of Bristol with its liberties,
bailiwicks and other appurtenances, to Queen Philippa, for life, and the
said queen has granted that bailiwick to Robert to hold during her life. |
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By letters of Philippa, queen of England. |
Sept. 20.
Odiham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Giles de Bello Campo has
shown the king that whereas the late king ordered him, being then constable
of Scardeburgh castle and keeper of the town there, by writ, to cause the
houses and other buildings and walls of the said castle to be repaired
where necessary from the issues of that bailiwick, by the view and testimony
of Robert Waweyn, then bailiff of the said town, and although Giles incurred divers costs in the said repairs by the view and testimony of Robert
by virtue of the said order, yet because Robert died and was unable to give
evidence of the costs and expenses so incurred, the treasurer and barons
have hitherto delayed to cause those costs to be allowed to Giles in his
account at the exchequer, whereupon Giles has besought the king to provide
a remedy; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to find by
inquisition or otherwise what expenses Giles incurred as aforesaid, and to
cause due allowance to be made to him for them, notwithstanding the death of
Robert, and that the said expenses are in no wise testified before the king. |
Sept. 26.
Odiham. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Margery, late the wife of
Duncan de Frendraght, 24 marks 6s. 8d. for the present Michaelmas from
the issues of that bailiwick of those 49 marks which the king granted to
her on 6 October in the first year of his reign, to be received by the hands of
the sheriff of York for the time being, during pleasure, or until the king
shall cause provision to be made for her of lands to the value of 49 marks
yearly, from 16 August in the first year of the king's reign, in recompence
for the manor of Briggestok, co. Northampton, which Margery lately held
at will, in aid of her maintenance, and which afterwards, on the said
16 August, the king assigned to Queen Isabella, for life. |
Sept. 28.
Odiham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance
to be made to the sheriff of York in his account for the said payment of
24 marks 6s. 8d. made to Margery by virtue of the preceding order. |
Sept. 26.
Waltham. |
To the same. Whereas the king lately granted to Master Pancius de
Controne, his leech, for his good and laudable service to the late king, Queen
Isabella and the king, to keep himself suitably in the king's service, 100l. to
be received yearly at the exchequer, for life, or until the king should cause
him to be provided with 100l. yearly in land, and Pancius has besought the
king to grant that he may receive the said 100l. yearly from the ferm of Norwich, which request the king granted to him, and ordered the bailiffs of that
city to pay to the said Pancius 50l. at Michaelmas next, and to pay the said
100l. yearly thenceforth; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons
to cause due allowance to be made to the bailiffs in their ferm for the sums
which they shall be found to have paid to Pancius by virtue of the said
order. |
Sept. 27.
Waltham. |
To William Erneys, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham,
Derby and Lancaster. Order to deliver to Hugh son of Hugh de Meignill
the elder, deceased, a carucate of land in Kyngeswode and a moiety of the
manor of Kyngesneuton, co. Warwick, and the advowson of the church of
that manor, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator
that the said Hugh the elder held at his death the said carucate,
moiety and advowson, for life, by a fine levied in the late king's court,
by his licence, with remainder to Hugh his son and the heirs of his
body, and that the said carucate, moiety and advowson are held of the king
in chief by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee, and the king has
taken the homage of Hugh son of Hugh for them, and has rendered them
to him. By p.s. [7214]. |
