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July 1.
Tweedmouth. |
To Gilbert de Ledred, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and Rutland. Order to cause reasonable dower to be assigned to Alice, late the
wife of Simon de Falvesle, who held the manor of Falvesle of the king in
chief at fee farm, rendering 15l. yearly to the king therefrom as is found
by inquisition, from the said manor according to its extent. |
July 1.
Tweedmouth. |
Nicholas de Herthill, imprisoned at Nottingham for trespass of venison in
Shirewod forest, has letters to Ralph de Nevill, keeper of the Forest this
side Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the said forest, to bail him
until the coming of the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co.
Nottingham. |
June 29.
Tweedmouth. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Order to pay to Master
John de Langetoft, keeper of the king's scholars in the university of Cambridge, the arrears of the wages for him and the said scholars, and also to pay
these wages henceforth from the issues of that bailiwick, by indenture made
between the sheriff and the said John, until further orders. By K. |
July 6.
Tweedmouth. |
To the abbot of Rameseye. Order to send to York the 20l. which he had
granted to the king on the octave of Michaelmas next, in aid of the expenses
incurred by the king in the marriage of his sister Eleanor to the count of
Guelders, so that it may be there on the said day to be finally delivered to
abbot of St. Mary's, York, whom the king has appointed receiver of that
money there. |
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Membrane 6. |
July 4.
Tweedmouth. |
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas
before the king. Whereas the king had lately ordered them to proceed to
the final discussion of a plea between Richard de Lusteshull and Roger Bast
for the custody of the hospital of St. Katherine near the Tower of London, if
Roger did not appear before them to answer Richard three weeks after Easter
last [as at page 47 above], but they had not done anything hitherto in
respect of that order, because after the said three weeks, another process was
made before them by Richard against Roger for distraints and forfeited issues,
and because great damage and prejudice may be done to the said hospital, to
the king and to Queen Philippa by the malice of Roger, making default in
that plea, and losing his issues which can be levied from the goods and possessions of the hospital, the king therefore orders the justices to view and examine
the record and process upon the premises, and if they find that Roger did
not come before them three weeks after Easter as he was commanded, to
answer Richard in this respect, then to cause Roger to be distrained to
appear before them on an appointed day to hear his judgment concerning the
premises, and if he does not appear on the appointed day then to proceed to
the final discussion of that affair with all possible speed, according to the
appointment made otherwise by the king and his council, no other process
being observed in any way. By C. |
July 6.
Tweedmouth. |
To the justiciary, chancellor and treasurer of Ireland, or to those who supply
their places. Order to cause all the goods, chattels and jewels of William
de Burgo, late earl of Ulster, to be delivered to Matilda wife of the said
William, brother Roger Utlagh, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland, and to John Moriz, executors of the will of the said William,
to make the execution of the will if the said executors shall find sufficient
security to answer to the king for the debts which the earl owed to the king
at his death, as far as these goods and chattels will suffice, as the executors
have besought the king to cause the said goods, chattels and jewels to be delivered to them, showing that the justiciary, chancellor and treasurer had
hitherto refused to restore them, having seized them as security for the said
debts. By C. |
July 5.
Tweedmouth |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit the abbot
of St. Peter's, Gloucester, to hold the custody of the hundred of Dodeston,
co. Gloucester, until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, notwithstanding the
king's order to them to take such hundreds into the king's hand, and if they
have taken the hundred into the king's hand for that cause, they are to
cause it to be restored to the abbot, together with the issues from the time
of its seizure, to hold it until the said quinzaine, so that the king may cause
himself to be informed in the mean time of what is to be done further in
the matter by his council, as the late king granted the said hundred to the
abbot by a fine which the abbot made with him, to hold at fee farm for ever,
rendering thereon 12l. yearly to the exchequer, and the king ordered the
treasurer and barons to inspect the rolls of the accounts of the sheriffs of
that county, and other rolls and memoranda of the exchequer touching the
same, and inform the king of what they found there, as the king wished to
ascertain, for certain reasons, how much had been answered for from the said
hundred before the said grant, to the king's predecessors by the hands of
the sheriff of that county, or of others, and to which of the king's predecessors, and when and how; and if the said hundred was annexed to the
ferm of the said county at any time, and if so, then how much had been
deducted from the ferm of the county by reason of the said grant, and also
the true value of the hundred. |
July 8.
Tweedmouth. |
Jo John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland. Order to deliver to Cicely late the wife of
John de Haltclo, as her dower, the third part of a waste piece of land in
Warnehill, in Inglewode forest, between the park of Caldebek and Ruddestangill, containing 60 acres of land in itself by a perch of the forest, because
the king has learned, by an inquisition taken by the escheator, that John
held the said waste at his death in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief,
by the service of rendering 60s. yearly to the king, and that the said land
is worth nothing beyond the said yearly rent, and she has sought before
the king in chancery that reasonable dower may be assigned to her from
the said land. |
July 4.
Tweedmouth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance
to be made to the taxers and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in the parts
of Lyndeseye, co. Lincoln, for 800 marks which they shall be found to have
paid from the said money to the archbishop of York, by the king's order,
which sum the archbishop lately delivered to the king on loan, receiving
from the taxers and collectors the king's letters of obligation for that sum
made to the archbishop, the king's writ by which they made that payment,
and the letters of acquittance of the archbishop, charging with the said
sum Robert de Wodehous, late keeper of the wardrobe, who charged himself
therewith at the exchequer. |
July 8.
Tweedmouth. |
To the same. Adam Esger and Henry de Wenlond, executors of the will
of Emery Pauncefot, son and heir of Grimbald Pauncefot, have besought
the king that whereas he is indebted to them in 56l. 3s. 4d. paid into
the exchequer by Emery for the said Grimbald from the surplus of the
account for the time when Grimbald had the custody of the castle of
St. Briavels and of the forest of Dene, by the grant of Edward I., and the
said executors are indebted to the king in 40l. by a certain recognisance
made to Hugh le Despenser the younger, by Emery, in the chancery of
the late king, by the forfeiture of the said Hugh, that the king will cause
allowance to be made to them for the said 40l., which are exacted of them
by summons of the exchequer, in the said 56l. 3s. 4d.; the king therefore
orders the treasurer and barons to view the said account, and if the said
sum is found to be owing to the executors for surplus, as aforesaid, then to
cause allowance to be made to them for the said 40l. so exacted from them
in the said 56l. 3s. 4d. By C. |
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Vacated because otherwise below. |
July 12.
Tweedmouth |
Henry son of John le Malesoures of Rotherestrop, inprisoned in Rokyngham for trespass of vert in Salcey forest, has letters to Robert de Ufford,
keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in that
forest, to bail him until the coming of the justices for pleas of the Forest
in co. Northampton. |
July 4.
Tweedmouth |
To the sheriff and steward of Cornwall. Order to pay by indenture to
James Nicholas, Bartholomew de Barde and their fellows, merchants of the
society of the Bardi of Florence, the arrears of 4,366l. 15s. 3½d. which they
have paid to the king from the issues of the stampage in co. Devon, and to
keep the stamp in a chest with two keys, of which one shall be in the custody
of the said sheriff and the other in the custody of the said merchants, and
upon payment of the said sum to receive the king's letters patent from the said
merchants against their letters of acquittance, the king having lately ordered
the sheriff and steward of the said county to cause 500l. to be delivered by
indenture to the said merchants from the said issues before Easter in the
6th year of the king's reign, and also the issues of the said stampage from
Midsummer in the same year until the said merchants were fully satisfied
for the said 3,866l. 15s. 3½d., [as in this Calendar, 6Edw. III. p. 439],
and William de Botereux, then sheriff and steward of the said county, was
amoved from his office before he had fully satisfied the merchants for the
same. |
July 12.
Tweedmouth. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause the prior of Tonbregg to have
full seisin of a messuage and 6 acres of land in Eldyng, which Thomas
Blakebrok held, who was outlawed for felony, because the king has learned
by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said messuage and lands have
been in the king's hand for a year and a day, and that Thomas held them of
the prior, and that John de Haghe and William de Northo had the year
and day thereof, and ought to answer for them to the king, and that
William had the waste thereof and ought to answer for it to the king. |
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To the same. A like order to cause Robert Stace of Mallyng, vicar of
Eldyng church, to have full seisin of a messuage in Eldyng which the
said Thomas Blakebrok is found by inquisition to have held of him, which
messuage was in the king's hand for a year and a day, and that John de
Haghe and William de Northo held the year, day and waste thereof as
aforesaid. |
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To the same. A like order to cause Hugh de Audele and Margaret his
wife to have full seisin of 18 acres of land in Eldyng, which the said
Thomas Blakebrok is found by inquisition to have held of them, which
land was in the king's hand as aforesaid, and the year, day and waste thereof
were held as aforesaid. |
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Membrane 5. |
July 1.
Tweedmouth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the
hundred of Berstaple, co. Essex, to be restored and delivered to Margaret
late the wife of Edmund, earl of Kent, together with the issues thereof from
it from the time of its being taken into the king's hand, notwithstanding
the statute thereupon, discharging the sheriff of the said county towards the
king, as the late king gave and granted the hundred among other manors
and lands to Edmund, earl of Kent, by charter, for himself and the legitimate heirs of his body, in part satisfaction of 7,000 marks of land and rent
which Edward I. granted to provide for him, as fully appears in the charter
of the late king and—among other manors, hundreds, and lands which the
king assigned to Margaret after the death of the said earl, who held of the
king in chief, in recompence for her dower from the borough, the castle
and the honour of Arundel and certain other lands of which her
husband died seised, and which the king afterwards caused to be restored
and delivered to Richard son of Edmund, late earl of Arundel, as those which
belonged to his inheritance, with the assent of the prelates, earls, barons
and chief men of the realm in a parliament held at Westminster, to hold
for himself and his heirs for ever—the king assigned to Margaret the said
hundred, which was in the king's hand by reason of the minority of the
heir of the said earl of Kent, which was extended at 15l. yearly, to have as
her dower until the heir should come of age or until the king should have
caused her to be provided with other lands to the same value elsewhere, as
appears by inspection of the chancery rolls; and Margaret informed the
king that the hundred is now taken into the king's hand by reason of a
certain statute, published afterwards, for taking into the king's hand
hundreds which anciently were annexed to the ferms of counties, granted
by the king and his predecessors, and joining them again to those counties,
and she has besought the king to amove his hand therefrom and to cause
the said hundred to be delivered to her, and the king has granted her
request, notwithstanding the said statute, in consideration of the letters and
charter of his grandfather and father and of the good service rendered by
the said earl to him and his father, and also because the heir of the said
earl is a minor in the king's wardship, to which heir the king is bound to
restore the lands of which his father died seised, in his lordship as of fee,
when he attains his majority, as entire as when they came into the king's
hands. |
July 1.
Tweedmouth. |
To Gilbert de Ledrede, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Rutland and Northampton.
Order not to intermeddle further with two bovates of land in Cokewald,
restoring the issues, as the king lately ordered the escheator to inform him
without delay of the manner and cause of his taking them into the king's
hand, and the escheator returned that he had taken the said bovates into
the king's hand because John de Hardeshull, who held the manor of Cokewald of the king in chief, alienated the said bovates from that manor to
Nicholas Kyng, without the king's licence; and afterwards the king learned
from John that the bovates were not held of that manor, and were not
parcel of it, nor held of the king in chief, but that they were held of John
Malet by rendering a certain yearly service to him, and by an inquisition
taken by the escheator it is now found that the bovates are not held of the
king in chief, nor ever have been, but that they are held of Thomas de
Mouncels by the service of a rose yearly, and are worth 5s. 4d. yearly in all
issues, and that John de Hardeshull holds certain lands in Cokewald, which
Grace de Insula held of the king's progenitors, former kings of England,
and which the said John now holds of the king by great serjeanty, as the
said Grace held them, to wit by the service of finding a man with a certain
axe in the army of Wales, and that the said two bovates of land are not
parcel of the said serjeanty. |
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To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order not to intermeddle further with
5 acres of land in Carleton, restoring the issues, because the king has
learned by an inquisition taken by the escheator that William Florence of
Carleton and Agnes his wife held the said lands jointly on the day that
William died, and that the said lands are held of divers lords by divers
services. |
July 1.
Tweedmouth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge and
release John de Kilvyngton, sometime keeper of certain lands in co. York,
forfeited to the late king, of the ferms due from the tenants of the king's
manors of Esyngwald and Hoby from Michaelmas in the 16th year of the
late king's reign to the Michaelmas following, as the late king on
15 November, in the 17th year of his reign, had pardoned the said tenants
for the said ferms which were then in arrears, because their lands, goods
and chattels had been destroyed by the attacks of the Scots, and the said
king had ordered John, by his writ, not to distrain the tenants for the said
ferms. |
July 8.
Tweedmouth. |
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John Baldewyne, who is insufficiently qualified. |
July 5.
Tweedmouth. |
To Robert Selyman, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford,
Berks, Bedford and Buckingham. Order to cause reasonable dower to be
assigned to Eugenia, late the wife of Adam de Bukesgate, upon her taking
oath not to marry without the king's licence, from the lands which belonged
to her husband in that bailiwick at his death, according to the extent made
thereof, in the presence of Thomas de Bynedon, who married Joan, one of
the daughters and co-heirs of the said Adam, Richard de Butestorn, who
married Elena, the second daughter, and Giles de Escote, who married
Katherine, the third daughter, if they choose to attend. |
July 7.
Tweedmouth. |
To Henry le Gulden, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and
Dorset. A like order to cause reasonable dower to be assigned to the
said Eugenia, from the lands of which her husband died seised in that
bailiwick, in the presence of the said co-heirs and their husbands if they
choose to attend. |
June 18.
Tweedmouth. |
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellow-justices appointed to hold pleas before
the king. Whereas Edward de Sancto Johanne and Eva his wife, sometime
the wife of William Paynel, recovered in the late king's court before the
justices of the Bench, by consideration of the court, their seisin against John
Paynel of certain tenements in Okhangre and Westworldham, co. Southampton,
and Wolbedyng, Hamptonette near Chichester, Pynkehurst and Laffeure
co. Sussex, in the name of Eva's dower, falling to her from the lands of her
late husband, and because they were afterwards disseised of some of the
tenements so recovered, they had arramed an assize of novel disseisin
before the late king's justices of assize in co. Sussex, by writ of the said
king, against Aymer de Valencia, then earl of Pembroke, John de Hastyng
and others contained in the original writ, concerning tenements in the said
town of Wolbedyng, Westhamptonette, Slyndefolde, Hethyngefeld and
Billyngeshurst, as fully appears by the record and process thereof which
the king caused to come before him in chancery; and subsequently, because
the earl and John de Hastyng died pending the assize, Edward and Eva
arramed another assize of novel disseisin before John de Ifeld and his fellows,
then justices of assize in co. Sussex, by the king's writ, against Laurence
son of the said John de Hastyng and others contained in the original writ,
concerning tenements in the said towns of Wolbedyng, Westhamptonette,
etc. and afterwards—at the prosecution of Edward and Eva by their petition
before the king and his council in parliament showing that the said justices
had delayed to proceed to take that assize by reason of a writ of the king
directing them not to proceed to take any concerning tenements which they
shall ascertain to be in the king's hand by reason of the minority of the
said Laurence—the king ordered the said John and his fellow justices to
proceed to take that assize with all speed, notwithstanding that the said
Laurence was a minor in the king's wardship, but not to proceed to render
judgment without consulting him [as in this Calendar, 2 Edward III.
p. 283], and afterwards, understanding that the said assize had been taken,
the king ordered the said John and his fellow justices not to proceed to
render judgment upon it by reason of any writ or order of the king directed
to them without consulting him, and to cause the record and process of
that assize with all things concerning it to be brought before the king, and
the king ordered the said Geoffrey and his fellow justices to diligently
examine them and to proceed with all speed to render judgment thereupon,
notwithstanding the allegation of Laurence, but Geoffrey and his fellow
justices had hitherto delayed to proceed to render judgment, whereupon
Edward and Eva besought the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders the justices to view and examine the said record and process
and to proceed to render judgment in that assize with all speed, notwithstanding the king's orders to the contrary, and notwithstanding that
Laurence is a minor in the king's wardship. By p.s. and by C. |
July 21.
Tweedmouth. |
To Master Gilbert de Halghton, parson of Hovyngham church, receiver
of the king's victuals at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Order to cause all the
king's victuals, both corn, wine and other things in his custody, to be
brought to the king at Berwick-upon-Tweed without delay, and to cause
ships to be freighted for the carriage of the said victuals, by the view
and testimony of John de Denton and Robert de Musgrave, burgesses of
Newcastle. By K. |
July 16.
Tweedmouth. |
To the prior of Caresbrok. Order to have 5 marks, which he granted to
the king at his request in subvention of the expenses incurred by the king
for the marriage of his sister Eleanor to the count of Guelders, as is
testified by William de Cossale, baron of the exchequer, in chancery, on the
octaves of Michaelmas next, wherever it may then be, to be delivered there
for the king's use. By K. |
July 16.
Tweedmouth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Dover
castle to be sufficiently provided with victuals without delay, as they shall
see to be most convenient for the king, because for certain reasons the king
wishes it to be so furnished. By p.s. [6464.] |
July 26.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains.
Order to cause allowance to be made to John de Perbroun, admiral of the
fleet, sent to Berwick-upon-Tweed, for 100l. on his account at the
exchequer from the issues of the ancient and new customs in the port of
Great Yarmouth for the time when he was one of the collectors of the said
customs, and to cause a tally to be levied thereupon and delivered to him in
his discharge, as the king has granted the said sum to John for the good
service which he renders to him in many ways, not without costly labours. |
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By K. and C. |
July 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Robert du Maners, constable of Norham castle. Order to cause the
two sons of John de Raynton, burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to be
delivered from that castle without delay, although the said John has lot
yet paid the residue of his fine, as the king has learned upon trustworthy
testimony that John, in time of peace between the king and the Scots,
was lately taken at Houburn, co. Northumberland, by Thomas Grey, the
younger, and his men, and led thence to divers places unknown and detained
there until he should make a fine of 1000 marks with Thomas and his men,
and that he paid 360 marks of the said sum to Thomas and his men, and
that for the residue he delivered his two sons as hostages, who are now in
Robert's custody in Norham castle. By K. and C. |
July 8.
Tweedmouth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Adam Esger and Henry
de Wenlond, executors of the will of Emery Pauncefot, son and heir of
Grimbald Pauncefot, have besought the king that whereas the king owes the
said Grimbald 56l. 10s. 9d. from a certain surplus by the account made
with Emery at his suit at the exchequer, on the debts of Grimbald for the
time when Grimbald had the custody of the castle of St. Briavels and of the
forest of Dene, by the grant of Edward I. and the said Emery owes the king
40l. for a certain recognisance to Hugh le Despenser, the younger, made in
the chancery of the late king, by forfeiture of the said Hugh, to cause
allowance to be made to them for the said 40l. on the said 56l. 10s. 9d., the
king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause the said 40l. so
exacted to be allowed on the said 56l. 10s. 9d. if they find that the latter
sum is owing to the said Grimbald for the said surplus. By C. |
Aug. 5.
Durham. |
To Gilbert de Ledred, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and
Rutland. Order not to distrain John del Isle for his homage and fealty,
because he has done homage and fealty to the king for the lands which he
holds of him. By p.s. [7139.] |
Aug. 10.
Knaresborough. |
To the collectors of the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to pay to Oto, lord of Kuyk, or his attorney, 250l. for
Easter term last and for Michaelmas term next from the issues of the said
custom, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 250l. yearly from the
issues of that custom. |
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Membrane 4. |
July 26.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To John de Blounvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order to deliver to Robert de Scales,
son and heir of Robert de Scales, the lands which Isabella, late the wife of
Robert de Scales, grandfather of the said Robert son of Robert, held in
dower and otherwise, for life, of the inheritance of her husband, restoring
the issues which that escheator had taken from the time of the death of
Isabella, as the king lately took the homage of the said Robert son of
Robert for all the lands which his father held of the late king in chief on the
day he died, although he is a minor in the king's wardship, and the king
rendered him those lands and caused them to be delivered to him, and the
said Robert son of Robert has besought the king to order the lands which
the said Isabella held as aforesaid, and which that escheator had taken into
the king's hand on her death, to be delivered to him together with the said
issues. By p.s. [6821.] |
July 26.
Tweedmouth. |
To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex and
Middlesex. Order to deliver to Anicia, late the wife of Stephen de
Cobeham, the elder, 40 acres of land called Hovenhull in Boxle, together
with the issues received from the time of the said Stephen's death, and not
to intermeddle further with the manor of Alyngton and a rent of 4l. yearly
in Preston, restoring the issues to the said Anicia, because the king has
learned by an inquisition taken by that escheator that Stephen and Anicia
held the said manor, and the advowson of the church there, and the said
land and rent jointly, by the gift and grant of Richard Empyngham, chaplain, by a fine levied in the court of the late king, by his licence, to hold
for themselves and the heirs of their bodies, and that the said land is held
of the king in chief, by the service of finding for the king a horse of the
price of 5s. and a sack with a brooch in each Welsh war, and that the said
manor and advowson and rent are held of divers other lords by divers
services, and the king has taken the fealty of Anicia for the said land which
she holds of him. |
July 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner to be
elected for that county in place of William de Lyam, who is insufficiently
qualified. By the testimony of Henry de Percy. |
