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Membrane 29. |
April 4.
Nottingham. |
To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to restore the manor called 'Maydenwater,' in the town of St. Edmunds, to Robert Gower, together with the
issues thereof, without delay, if the sheriff shall find that Robert was seised
of that manor under colour of the grant of David de Strabolgi, earl of Athol,
before the earl joined the Scots against the king, as Robert has besought
the king to provide him with a remedy, as the said earl long before he
forfeited to the king, granted that manor to Robert and the heirs of his
body, and Robert was seised of that manor until the sheriff took it into the
king's hand under colour of an order of the king directing him so to take the
lands which belonged to the earl in that bailiwick, because the earl had
joined the Scots, as is said; amoving Robert therefrom and receiving the
issues thereof for the king's use; and by the earl's said charter, shown in
chancery, it fully appears that the grant was made in the form aforesaid. |
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By K. |
April 4.
Nottingham. |
To Gilbert de Ledred, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton, and
Rutland. Order to cause Robert de Holand son and heir of Robert de
Holand, tenant in chief, to have full seisin of all the lands of which his father
was seised in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, at his death, because
Robert has proved his age before John de Peyto, the younger, late escheator
in cos. Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, Salop, Stafford, and the march of
Wales adjoining, and the king has taken his homage for all the lands which
his father held in chief. By p.s. [8510.] |
April 4.
Nottingham. |
To the bailiffs of Northampton. Order to pay to Robert de Foxton, the
king's clerk, 25l. for the present term of Easter next, from the ferm of that
town, according to the king's grant, because the king granted that Robert
should receive 50l. yearly at the exchequer until the king should cause to
be restored to him the office of chirographer in the common Bench, which
he lately held for life by the commission of the late king and which was
afterwards placed out of his hands, or until the king should cause the value
of the said 50l. to be provided for him elsewhere; and afterwards at
Robert's supplication, the king granted that he should receive the said 50l.
from the ferm of Northampton by the hands of the bailiffs there for the
time being until the said office should be restored to him or until the king
should cause him to be provided with the value thereof elsewhere, and the
king has caused 25l. for the term of Michaelmas last, to be delivered to
him by writ of liberate. |
April 3.
Nottingham. |
To John Coke of Exeter, William de Dalton, and Hugh de Eboraco.
Order to pay to Ralph Basset of Drayton or his attorney, 100l. without
delay from the goods, chattels, jewels, and other things which belonged to
Robert de Taunton, receiving from Ralph or his attorney Robert's letters
of obligation, and also Ralph's letters of acquittance testifying the receipt of
the said money, as the king appointed John, William and Hugh to seize
and take into his hand all the goods and chattels which belonged to Robert
at his death and to cause them to be safely guarded for the king's use
without any diminution, until the account which Robert was held at his death
to render to the king for the time when he was treasurer of the king's
household, has been rendered to the king and satisfaction done for the sums
which he owed to the king, or until the king orders otherwise thereupon,
and the king wishes to do favour to Ralph to whom Robert was bound by
his letters of obligation, which Ralph asserts that he has in his possession,
in 100l.; and to cause Robert to be discharged in this respect. By K. |
April 10.
Clipston. |
To Walter de Creyk, constable of Baumburgh castle. Order to expend
up to 40l. by the view and testimony of William de Bedenhale, from the
issues of the castle, in repairing the defects of the houses, walls, turrets,
bridges, and other erections of the castle, where necessary, and amending
the houses which threaten ruin, because the king has been informed that
several houses in the castle have fallen down, and other houses threaten ruin,
and that there are several defects in divers other houses, walls, turrets, etc.
of that castle, whereby the king may easily suffer damage, unless they are
quickly repaired. By K. |
April 3.
Nottingham. |
To William Erneys, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham,
Derby and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the mine of
William de Lynford in Chailmardon and Moniassh, restoring the issues
thereof to him, as the escheator returned that he had taken the mine into
the king's hands because John de Louthre, late escheator in those counties,
took the mine into the king's hands and detained it for a year, and afterwards delivered it, without any process, to the said Walter (sic), and
afterwards at the suit of William, the king ordered the escheator to take
an inquisition on the matter, by which it is found that John took the mine
into the king's hands in the fourth year of his reign, unjustly and without
reasonable cause, and that when he perceived that he had taken it unjustly,
he delivered it to William, and the mine is worth 6s. 8d. yearly in all
issues. |
April 1.
Nottingham. |
To William de Clapham, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland. Order to amove the king's hand from the manor
of Little Stirkeland, and to permit Robert Lengleis to hold it during the
life of Edmund de Boyvill and Margery his wife, restoring the issues
thereof to Robert, as the escheator returned that he had taken the manor
into the king's hands because he had found by an inquisition of office that
Edmund, who held the manor of Andrew de Harcla, the king's enemy and
a rebel, alienated it in fee to Robert after Andrew's rebellion, without
obtaining the royal licence; and afterwards at the suit of Robert, showing that the manor is held of Thomas de Roos and beseeching the king
to cause his hand to be amoved therefrom, the king ordered the escheator to
take an inquisition on the matter, by which it is found that Andrew, who
held the manor of Thomas by homage and fealty and by the service of rendering 24s. 8d. yearly to Thomas, gave that manor to Edmund and Margery
to hold for themselves and the heirs male of their bodies, of the said Andrew
and his heirs, by the service of a rose yearly, and that after Andrew's
forfeiture, Edmund demised the manor to Robert, to hold for the life of
Edmund and Margery, to wit, seven years ago, and after that demise,
Edmund released to Robert and his heirs all his claim in that manor, without
the king's licence, and that the manor was taken into the king's hand for
this cause and is worth 100s. yearly in all issues with the said service; and
Robert, appearing in person in chancery before the king, has renounced all
the right and claim which he could have in the manor after the death of
Edmund and Margery, if they die without male issue, by virtue of the said
release of Edmund, and has restored the said deed of release to chancery,
to be cancelled. By C. |
April 8.
Nottingham. |
To Gilbert de Ledred, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and
Rutland. Order to amove the king's hand from a messuage and 6 carucates
of land in the town of Roxeby, 15 acres of land in the same town, and a toft
and a bovate of land in the same town, and not to intermeddle further with
them, restoring the issues thereof to the present abbot of Roche, as
Edward I. granted and gave licence to Philip Paynel, brother and heir of
John Paynel, that he might give and assign a messuage and 32 bovates of
land in Roxeby to the abbot and convent of Roche, and the late king granted
and gave licence to Master John de Craucombe that he might assign a bovate
and 24 acres of land in the same town to the said abbot and convent, and
gave a like licence to Henry de Cokewald to assign a messuage and 20 acres
of land and 2 acres of meadow in that town to the same abbot and convent,
to hold for ever, and Edward I. and the late king also gave special licence
to the abbot and convent that they might receive the said messuages and
land from Philip, John and Henry; and the king has lately learned on the
part of the present abbot of that place, that the escheator has taken into the
king's hand a messuage, 6 carucates of land, 15 acres of land, a toft and a
bovate of land in the town of Roxeby, pretending that the abbot or his predecessors had acquired the messuage and carucates of John Paynel of
Rasen and of Andrew Luterel, and the land of John de Craucombe, and the
toft and bovate of the said Henry, without obtaining the king's licence,
although the said messuage and carucates are the same messuage and land
which are expressed and contained in the letters of Edward I., and the said
15 acres are parcel of the bovate and 4 acres of land, and the toft and bovate
are parcel of the messuage, 20 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow contained
and expressed in the late king's letters; the present king ordered the
escheator to take an inquisition on the matter, by which it is found that the
messuage and 6 carucates in Roxeby are the same as the abbot acquired of,
Philip Paynel and which are contained in the charter of Edward I., and
they are held of Geoffrey Luterel; and that the 15 acres of land in the same
town are parcel of the bovate and 4 acres of land which the abbot acquired
of John de Chaucombe, and which are contained in the late king's charter,
and they are held of Geoffrey Luterel; and that the toft and bovate of land
in the same town are parcel of the messuage and 20 acres of land and 2 acres
of meadow which the abbot acquired of Henry de Cokewald and which are
contained in the late king's charter, and they are held of Geoffrey Luterel. |
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To the same. Order to amove the king's hand from a plot of land in
Roxeby, a toft there, a water mill, a windmill, and 16s. rent there, a plot of
meadow called 'Scoteneycroft' there, containing 24 acres of meadow in itself
and 2 bovates of land there, which the escheator took into the king's hand
because he found by inquisition of office that the abbot of Roche had
acquired them after the publication of the statute of mortmain, without the
king's licence, and not to intermeddle further with those tenements, etc.,
restoring the issues thereof to the present abbot, because the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Reginald and Richard,
sometime abbots of Roche, sixty years and more before the publication of
the said statute, to wit, in the times of Richard and John, former kings of
England, acquired the plot in Roxeby of William Mariot, shepherd, and the
toft there, of Philip de Leggesby, and the mills and rent there of the prior
of Drax and the plot of meadow of Walter de Scoteney, and the bovates of
Robert le Gaunt, and that the said places, toft, mills, rent, and land are
held of Geoffrey Luterel in frank almoin and are worth 61s. yearly in all
issues. |
April 11.
Clipstone. |
To Robert de Holewell, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order not to distrain John Lydel of
Spryngefeld for his homage and fealty, because he has done homage and
fealty to the king for the lands which he holds of him in chief. |
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By p.s. [8535.] |
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Membrane 28. |
April 3.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin. Whereas the late
king, on 16 May in the 9th year of his reign, pardoned Richard de Clare
1,000 marks of the debts which he owed to the late king at the exchequers of
England and Ireland, both his own debts and those of his ancestors for the
grea labours and expenses which he sustained by reason of the disturbance in
Ireland by the Scots, for the salvation of that land and for their repulse;
and at the suit of Giles de Badelesmere, kinsman and co-heir of Richard,
beseeching the king to order him to be discharged and acquitted at the
exchequer of Dublin according to the said pardon, of 1,000 marks of
Richard's debts which are exacted of him in Ireland by summons of the
exchequer of Dublin; the king wishing to ascertain whether Richard
during his life, or Margaret, late the wife of Bartholomew de Badelesmere,
one of Richard's sisters and heirs or any others, had any discharge or
acquittance in Richard's name for the said 1,000 marks or a part thereof,
ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of England to inform the
king of what they should find by inspection of the rolls and memoranda of
the exchequer touching the premises; and by the certificate of the
treasurer and barons it is found that nothing of the said 1,000 marks was
allowed to Richard or any other at the exchequer of England; wherefore
Giles has besought the king to cause him to have allowance at the exchequer
of Dublin for the said 1,000 marks which are so exacted of him by reason
of his purparty of the inheritance which belonged to Richard; the king
therefore orders the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin to
cause allowance to be made to Giles of the portion of the 1,000 marks
which touches him in the debts of Richard, which are so exacted, if they
shall find by inspection of the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer of
Dublin, touching the said affair, that no allowance has hitherto been made
of the said 1,000 marks to Richard while he lived or to his heirs or to any
other in their name. By K. |
April 4.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Whereas the king, in the 6th year of his reign, sent Adam, then bishop of
Worcester and now of Winchester, to France for the furtherance of the
king's affairs there; and afterwards in the same year, the bishop came to
the king in England to inform him upon the said affairs, and again returned
to France by the king's order for the prosecution and further expedition
of the same affairs and others enjoined upon him by the king; and afterwards, in the 7th year of his reign, the king ordered him, who was then at
Avignon, to go thence to Paris with certain envoys whom the king then
sent to France, to treat upon such affairs with the king of France, and
caused 186l. 13s. 4d. to be delivered to him upon his expenses in
the said service; the king orders the treasurer, barons, and chamberlains
to account with the bishop or his attorney for the said 186l. 13s. 4d., the
costs and expenses incurred by him in going and returning in the said
service being allowed, and to cause due payment or other suitable satisfaction to be made to the bishop for the arrears of his wages and expenses,
5 marks being allowed to him for every day which he shall be found to
have spent in the said service. By K. |
April 2.
Nottingham. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause the defects of the gaol and of
the great hall of Lincoln castle to be repaired and amended without delay
where necessary, from the issues of that bailiwick, to the sum of 20l., by
the view and testimony of Geoffrey de Edenham, the king's clerk, because
the king has been informed that the gaol is ruined and broken in divers
places, whereby the escape of the prisoners therein is to be feared unless it
is speedily repaired, and that the said great hall where the justices of gaol
delivery, of assize, and for taking other inquisitions, hold their sessions, is
ruinous and in great need of repair. By K. |
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To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Joan Comyn of Boghan from
the issues of that bailiwick, 20l. for the term of Easter next, in accordance
with the king's grant to her of 40l. to be received yearly from the issues of
the city of York by the hands of the sheriff there for the time being, in aid
of her maintenance until the king shall ordain otherwise concerning her
state. |
April 19.
Clipston. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to pay to Rhys son of
Rhys ap Mereduk, a Welshman imprisoned at Norwich castle, the arrears
of those wages which he has hitherto been wont to receive in the time of
the king his father and of Edward I. for all the time since the sheriff's
appointment, and to pay such wages henceforth from the issues of his
bailiwick as long as he is sheriff. |
April 18.
Clipston. |
To the justices of the Bench. Notification that Thomas Tynker of
Edenham came before the king on Tuesday after SS. Tiburcius and Valerian
last, and sought to replevy his land and that of Agnes his wife in Edenham,
which was taken into the king's hand on account of their default before the
said justices against Thomas son of Hugh Erlyn of Edenham, as is said. |
April 22.
Clipston. |
To the same. Notification that Thomas de Bernewell came before the
king on Saturday after St. Alphege last and sought to replevy to Margaret
de Farford her land in Holbeche and Quappelade, which was taken into the
king's hand on account of her default before the said justices against
Amicia, late the wife of Richard le Chapman of Holbeche, as is said. |
April 2.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge and
acquit Matilda, late the wife of William de Burgo, earl of Ulster, tenant in
chief, of 32l. 11s. which are exacted of her for the arrears of the extent of
the lands which belonged to William in England, as the said countess has
besought the king to pardon her that sum, which she owes to the king for
the time when she had the custody of those lands, when they were in the
king's hand by reason of the minority of William's heir, by the king's commission, for rendering the extent thereof yearly at the exchequer, as the said
lands were retained in the king's hand for a year and more after William's
death, before dower was assigned to Matilda therefrom, although she had
frequently prosecuted to have the assignment of her said dower, and the
king has pardoned her the said 32l. 11s. which are exacted from her as
aforesaid. By p.s. [8512, 8513.] |
April 13.
Clipston. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to supersede the demand which he makes
by summons of the exchequer on Geoffrey Luterell son and heir of Robert
Luterell, for scutage for the king's use for the army in Wales for two
knight's fees, and to release him from any distraint made for that cause,
because Robert had his service with Edward I. in his army in Wales, to
wit, in the 5th year of his reign, for the service of two knight's fees which
he acknowledged to Edward I. in that army, as appears by inspection of the
rolls of the marshalsea of Edward I. |
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Renewed because it was sealed at another time. |
April 21.
Clipston. |
To the mayor and men of the town of Nottingham. Order to supersede
the taking and levying of any customs for paving that town for five years
next following, as the king lately granted them that they might receive
certain customs on things coming to that town for sale for a certain time,
in aid of the paving of that town, but by reason of a grant newly made by
the king by other letters patent for taking those customs for repairing and
amending a bridge of Notyngham called 'Hethebeth,' which is ruined and
broken, for five years next following, the king has revoked the former grant.
considering that it would be too great an oppression on the people of those
parts if the two charges were held in one town at the same time. |
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By p.s. [8567.] |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas on 28 January
last the king committed to his yeoman, Thomas Priour, the custody of the
manor of Shelford, co. Cambridge, which was in the king's hand by reason
of the minority of Laurence son and heir of John de Hastynges, tenant in
chief of the late king, and which is extended at 14l. 4s. 10d. yearly; to
hold from 7 September last until the heir shall come of age, rendering 18l.
yearly at the exchequer; and now the king has learned from Thomas that
although he had not obtained possession of the manor by reason of the said
commission at Michaelmas last, wherefore he did not receive certain profits
therefrom, yet the treasurer and barons cause 18l. to be distrained from
Thomas for the said Michaelmas as if the manor had been in his hands;
wherefore Thomas has besought the king to provide a remedy; the king
therefore orders the treasurer and barons to permit Thomas to have peace
for the said 18l. so exacted from him if they shall ascertain that Thomas
had not obtained possession of the manor at that Michaelmas, and had not and
could not have received any profits therefrom; not molesting or aggrieving
him in any way, provided that he shall answer at the exchequer for 18l. for
that manor at Michaelmas next and so yearly at the same feast as long as he
shall hold that custody. |
April 20.
Clipston. |
To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and
Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the
priory of Merton permitting the sub-prior and convent to dispose of those
temporalities and to receive the issues thereof without hindrance as they
and their predecessors were always wont to receive them in times past,
delivering the issues to the sub-prior and convent, provided that there shall
be someone deputed by the escheator to stay for the custody of the priory
gate, during the voidance, because the king has learned by inquisition taken
by the escheator at the voidance of that priory by the death of brother
William, the immediate predecessor of the present prior, that the sub prior
and convent of that place have hitherto disposed of the temporalities of that
house at will and have always received all the issues thereof in every
voidance from time out of mind, without the king or his ministers receiving
anything from those temporalities or intermeddling therewith, except that
the king's escheators for the time being entered the priory immediately
after the death of a prior and placed a certain man to guard the outer gate,
which is called the great gate of the priory, in the king's name, to stay
there during that voidance without receiving anything except his reasonable
maintenance. |
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Membrane 27. |
April 26.
Clipston. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Richard
de Chillewell and Robert de Morewode, bailiffs of Nottingham in their ferm,
10l. which they have paid for the term of Easter last, by the king's order,
to Robert de Newerk and Meliora his wife, formerly the wife of Gilbert de
Glynkarny, of that 20l. which the king granted to the said Robert and
Meliora to be received yearly by the hands of the bailiffs of Nottingham
from the ferm of that town [as at page 153 above]. |
April 26.
Clipston. |
To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and
Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which
belonged to Thomas de Blakeneye, restoring the issues thereof, because the
king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held no
lands at his death in chief in that bailiwick, but that he held lands of other
lords by divers services. |
