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July 1.
Waltham. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to deliver to the prior of Swaveseye
in that county, without delay, his lands, goods and chattels, together with
the issues thereof, as the king lately appointed Henry de Ingelby, his clerk,
to take into his hand the possessions of men of religion and others of the
power of the king of France in that county, except those of the men of
Britanny, and to deliver them to the sheriff, to be kept for the king's use,
and afterwards the king, considering the poverty of the priory of Swaveseye,
ordered the sheriff to deliver to the prior his lands, goods and chattels,
restoring the issues thereof, and now the king has learned from the prior
that the sheriff has again taken the said possessions into the king's hand,
whereupon the prior has besought the king to provide a remedy. |
July 3.
Waltham. |
To the treasurer, barons and chamberlains of the exchequer. Richard
de Feriby, late keeper of the wardrobe, has shown the king that whereas he
rendered his final account for the wardrobe and delivered at the exchequer
the names of those to whom the king was then bound in divers sums, yet
because divers writs of liberate to pay sums to him and other writs for
payment to divers creditors, whose names are noted in the account, are
pending in the exchequer unpaid, they charge him with those sums and
distrain him to answer for them at the exchequer, whereupon he has
besought the king to provide for his indemnity; the king therefore orders
the treasurer and chamberlains to inspect the said writs and payments and
to cause the payments of sums contained in the writs to be deducted and
the writs endorsed, so that no payment may be máde afterwards by virtue
thereof, and to observe the following method for the debts still due, to wit:
before satisfaction is made to any creditor, the account shall be viewed, and
the sum to be paid shall be substracted from the surplus in the account,
and his bill or deed received there and delivered at the receipt to be
condemned there, and mention of payment shall be made in the exchequer
rolls and that Richard rendered account thereof at the exchequer of
accounts; and the king wishes that Richard be not charged with any
payments or allowances made upon the said surplus of his account, and
that no payment, allowance or satisfaction be made without observing this
ordinance; and the king therefore orders the treasurer, barons and
chamberlains to cause the premises to be observed and enrolled. |
July 2.
Waltham. |
To the same. Order to cause the wax (ceram) before the body of king
Edward I in the monastery of Westminster, to be renewed, as has hitherto
been done. By the keeper and C. |
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July 4.
Waltham. |
To John de Alveton, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford,
Berks, Bedford and Buckingham. Order to amove the king's hand without
delay from two cottages in the king's soil of Ottemore and a plot of land
called 'le Conynger' in Islep, and not to intermeddle further therewith,
restoring the issues thereof to the abbot of Westminster, as the king wishing
to ascertain the cause of the taking into his hand of 2 messuages and 5 acres
of land called 'le Conynger' in Islep and Morecote, by William Trussel, late
escheator this side Trent, ordered William to certify him upon the premises,
and William returned that he had not taken any of the abbot's land in
Morcote but that he found by inquisition of office that the abbot appropriated
to himself and his house the said cottages and plot containing 3½ acres of
land after the statute of mortmain, without licence, whereupon he took
them into the king's hands and afterwards the abbot besought the king to
order his hand to be amoved, as the cottages are in Morecote and not in
Ottemore or on the king's soil and they were raised by a former abbot, lord
of the towns of Morecote and Islep of the waste of Morecote, and the plot
called 'le Conynger' of the abbot's soil in Islep, was raised by him long
before the statute as it was lawful for him to do; the king therefore
ordered William to take an inquisition upon the matter, in the presence of
the abbot if he chose to attend, and by the inquisition it is found that
Richard formerly abbot of Westminster, then lord of Morecote and Islep,
caused the cottages to be raised in Morecote as is his own waste there and
not in the king's soil of Ottemore; and he caused the plot to be enclosed of
his own soil there, long before the statute, and that the cottages and plot
are held of the abbot, and the cottages are worth 2s. yearly and the plot
2s. 6d. yearly. |
July 1.
Waltham. |
To Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler. Order to deliver to the abbot of
St. Peter's, Westminster, and to the monks there for the morrow of
St. Botolf next, a tun of wine of the prise of London for the celebration of
masses in the church, in accordance with the grant of Henry III of a tun
of such wine yearly. |
June 22.
Shotley. |
To the abbot of Burton upon Trent and his fellows appointed to sell the
ninth of lambs, fleeces and sheaves granted in co. Stafford. Order to sell
to R. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield the said ninth in the parishes of the
following churches or prebends, to wit: the ancient prebend of Eccleshale,
the prebend of Brewode, the prebend of Solewych, the prebend of
Berkewych, and the prebend of Alrewas for the taxation of 240 marks and
30 marks of increment, and to deliver the ninth to the bishop or to his
attorney, as lately at the bishop's suit beseeching the king to sell him the
ninth in the said parishes for a certain price, the king ordered Ralph de
Stafford and his fellows, appointed to sell the ninth in that county, to sell
the said ninth to the bishop, extended at 240 marks, according to the taxation of the prebends, as is said, for the said tax and 30 marks of increment,
and now the king has learned that Ralph being occupied at another place
in the king's service, has not hitherto intermeddled with the sale of the
ninth, so that he could not deliver it to the bishop. By C. |
July 6.
Waltham Holy Cross. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Roger, bishop of
Coventry and Lichfield without delay, 200l. or to give him an assignment
therefor, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 200l. for his almost
continuous labours from Michaelmas last for the benefit of the king and the
quiet of the realm, with others of the council. |
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By K. and C. on the information of the archbishop. |
June 28.
Waltham. |
To Bartholomew de Burgherssh, keeper of the Forest this side Trent.
Order, if Nicholas atte Beche and Peter Baillif atte Eldecourt of
Worplesdon, imprisoned at Wyndesore for trespass of venison in Wyndesore
forest, find twelve mainpernors to have them before the justices for pleas of
the Forest in co. Surrey, to stand to right concerning that trespass, to
deliver them, if they are replevied according to the assize of the Forest, to
the said mainpernors on bail, and to have the names of the mainpernors
and this writ there. |
July 20.
Kennington. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to John
de Ellerker, late chamberlain of North Wales, the customary fees and
wages which they find him to have paid to the constables of the king's
castles and to other ministers of those parts, and the costs incurred by him
on divers works for repairing the castles. By C. |
July 18.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause an assignment upon the subsidy of the
ninth of sheaves, fleeces and lambs, granted in the last parliament at
Westminster, to be made to Anthony Usus Maris, constable of Bordeaux,
for 2,800l. in which the king is bound to him, as he can show by good
evidences, as he says, after having viewed his evidences, as has been agreed
by John, archbishop of Canterbury and others of the council in the said
parliament. By C. |
July 15.
Kennington. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to William de
Northwell, late keeper of the wardrobe, 60s. 8d., as the king is bound to
Nicholas Ufton, his serjeant, in that sum for his robes and shoes, as may
appear by a bill in Nicholas's possession, as he says, under William's seal. |
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By C. |
July 6.
Waltham Holy Cross. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made upon the abbot of Sautre for his yearly ferm of 60 marks and
the arrears thereof, as on 1 July in the 11th year of the reign the king
ordained that the possessions of all of the power of the king of
France should be seized and answer made to him for the issues
thereof, and now the abbot of Bonrepos (de Bona Requie) has
shown him that although he and his house are of the duchy of Britanny
and the abbot of Sautre holds at perpetual ferm of him the churches of
All Saints, Fulburn, co. Cambridge, and Hunyngham with a pension in
the church of Costeseye, co. Norfolk, for rendering 60 marks yearly, yet
the treasurer and barons intend to levy the 60 marks and arrears of
the abbot of Sautre, as if he was not of the duchy of Brittany, whereupon the abbot of Bonrepos has besought the king to provide a remedy,
and the king has learned from trustworthy testimony that the abbot of
Bonrepos and his house are of the duchy of Brittany. By C. |
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Membrane 5. |
May 20.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Watford, the king's clerk. Order to cause the wool of the
merchants of the society of the Peruzzi, arrested by him, to be dearrested
without delay and restored to them, informing the king the number of
sacks so delivered, as in accordance with agreements made between the
king and the merchants of the society of the Bardi and Peruzzi, the king
granted that they should lade a great quantity of wool in the port of Boston
and other ports of the realm in his ships, and take them to parts beyond
the sea to do their pleasure therewith, without paying the custom; and for
certain sums of money to be paid to the king, the merchants of the Bardi
laded some of their wool with the king's wool in that port, to be taken to
the said parts, and for fear of pirates, the ships took refuge in the port of
London, and Robert arrested the said wool in the port of London, because
he found it non-coketted, by reason of his commission, and in consideration
of the great sums which those merchants have lent to the king for his
affairs he ordered Robert to cause the wool of the merchants of the society
of the Bardi to be dearrested, and now the merchants of the Peruzzi have
besought the king to order the dearresting of certain wool laded by them in
the port of Boston with the said wool of the Bardi, to be taken to parts
beyond the sea, and which they brought to London from fear of hostile
galleys and which Robert arrested there. By K. |
July 6.
Waltham Holy Cross. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The prioress of
Acornebury has shown the king that the collectors of the triennial tenth
and fifteenth in co. Hereford levy that aid of her temporalities among the
laity, which temporalities are taxed at the tenth with the spiritualities, and
because this is unjust the king orders the treasurer and barons not to
aggrieve her in her goods taxed among the spiritualities, by reason of the
tenth and fifteenth granted by the laity, and to cause any thing which has
been levied to be allowed to her in the said tenth. By p.s. |
July 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to allow and assign to Simon, bishop of Ely, 100l. in
the portion touching him of the subsidy of the ninth of sheaves,
lambs and fleeces and of the tenth granted by the clergy in other counties
than cos. Cambridge, Huntingdon and Bedford, or in the triennial tenth, if
any thing thereof is lacking, if those tenths were not assigned to others, as
Simon lent the king 100l. in aid of his affairs in parts beyond the sea,
touching the war there, by the hands of John de Thorp, the king's clerk,
lately supplying the place of Master William la Zousch, dean of St. Peter's
church, York, then the treasurer, and the king granted him allowance for
the 100l. in the portion of the subsidy granted by the clergy, touching him,
and the said subsidy of the ninth and tenth in the aforesaid counties is
assigned to William marquis of Juliers, so that the bishop cannot be
satisfied for the 100l. in those counties. By C. |
July 18.
Kennington. |
To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to admit
Adam de Esyngton as one of the chaplains of the free chapel in the castle,
in place of Roger Cosyn, deceased, to perform divine service there, and to
assign to him houses for his dwelling and other things, as is usual for such
chaplains. By the keeper and C. |
July 15.
Westminster. |
To the prior of Wenlok. Order to pay to John de Molyns 105l. of the
ferm which he is bound to render for his priory, which was taken into the
king's hand as alien, in accordance with the king's grant to John of 105l.
in part satisfaction of the wages in which the king was bound to him for
the time when he was in the king's service in parts beyond the sea. |
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By the keeper and C. |
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Vacated because it was surrendered. |
July 16.
Westminster. |
To the prior of Wartre and his fellows appointed in the East Riding, co.
York, to sell the subsidy of the ninth of sheaves, lambs and fleeces and to
do other things contained in their commission. Order to deliver to John
de Moubray, keeper of the town of Berwick upon Tweed, or to his attorneys
the said subsidy of the parishes and towns in the deaneries of Holdernesse,
Herthill and Houdon in the East Riding, up to 1,889l. 5s.,
by indenture, and if the subsidy of some of the parishes
and towns has been sold to the rectors or fermors of
churches or others, then to assign and deliver all the money arising therefrom to John or his attorneys, without delay, and if the subsidy does not
amount to the said sum, then to give him an assignment for what is
lacking in another place in the East Riding, as the money of that subsidy is
reserved for the defence of the realm towards the north against the
incursions of the Scots and for the wages of the keeper of castles, towns and
fortalices in Scotland and of the men in garrison there, by the advice of the
council, and now John has besought the king to cause the subsidy in the
said places to be delivered to him, as he is staying in the town of Berwick
upon Tweed with 60 men at arms, three being bannerets and ten knights,
twenty hobelers and sixty archers, and ought to receive 1,989l. 5s. yearly for
their wages and his own, according to agreements made between him and
the king, of which sum he received 100l., and the king has granted that he
shall have an assignment on the subsidy as aforesaid. |
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By the keeper and C. |
July 16.
Waltham. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to John Faukes, the
king's envoy, 25l. 13s. 10d. if they find that the king is bound to him in
that sum for his wages of war and for his expenses in going to divers places
of France, Brabant and Almain with letters of privy seal, and for his robes
for the 12th and 13th years of the reign, by account made with him at
London on 18 May last, as may appear by a bill in his possession, as he
asserts, under the seal of William de Northwell late keeper of the wardrobe. |
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To the same. Order to pay to Thomas Bulfot, the king's envoy, 60s. 8d.
if they find that the king is bound to him in that sum for his wages of war
for the time when he was in the king's service in Flanders and Brabant,
and for robes and for his shoes in the 12th and 13th years of the reign by
account made with him at Andewerp on 26 December last, as may appear,
he says, by a bill in his possession under the seal of William de Northwell,
late keeper of the wardrobe. By C. |
July 12.
Waltham Holy Cross. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to deliver to Philip de Bard and Dinus Forcetti, merchants of the
society of the Bardi, 600 marks or to give them an assignment therefor,
notwithstanding that they have no letters in their possession testifying the
receipt of that sum, as they lately paid 600 marks by the king's order to
divers men of Genoa to induce them to withdraw from the service of
Philip de Valesio, certain galleys which he wished to retain against the
king. By K. |
July 18.
Kennington. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver John earl of Murref to R. bishop
of Durham, Gilbert de Umframvylle, earl of Anegos, Henry de Percy and
Ralph de Nevyll, to do with him according to the tenor of the king's letters
patent, as the king has granted them full power to treat with certain men
of Scotland, friends of the earl, who was taken prisoner in Scotland, for his
release for a certain time by sufficient hostages and for his being surrendered
to the custody from which he was released, unless it is otherwise ordained,
with full power to do all other things in the premises which are for the
king's honour and advantage. By K. |
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July 18.
Kennington. |
To the assessors, vendors and collectors of the ninth of sheaves, lambs
and fleeces in co. York. Order to supersede the demand made upon men
of religion of the Cistercian order in that county of their temporalities on
which they pay the following tenth, as they have besought the king to discharge them of the ninth, admitting a yearly tenth beyond the biennial
tenth granted by the clergy of the province of York, after the lapse of that
tenth, and the king has granted this and has ordered the guardians of the
spiritualities of the archbishopric of York, sede vacante, to appoint certain
trustworthy men to collect the money of that tenth from the said men so
that those appointed shall pay the money at the exchequer at the Purification
and Midsummer for the year after the lapse of the biennial tenth. |
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By the keeper and C. |
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The like to the following to wit:— |
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The assessors, vendors and collectors of the ninth in the West Riding,
co. York. |
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The assessors, vendors and collectors of the ninth in the North Riding,
co. York. |
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The assessors, vendors and collectors of the ninth in co. Nottingham. |
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The assessors, vendors and collectors of the ninth in co. Lancaster. |
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Membrane 4. |
July 20.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Bradestan, constable of Gloucester castle. Order to cause
the part of the wall of the castle on the inside 50 feet long and 24 feet deep,
which fell on the Purification last by a fall of ice, the bridge below the
castle and a weir in the river Severn, pertaining to the castle, and the
houses in the castle, to be repaired up to 40 marks by the view and
testimony of William de Bello Campo and William Tracy, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the prior of Lanthony near Gloucester that
the wall is broken as aforesaid. By C. |
July 18.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to
Isabella late the wife of Thomas de Littleton, in 9s. 2½d. which ought to pertain to her for the issues of 6 acres of land and 2½ acres of pasture in
Wardon, co. Bedford, which belonged to Thomas, tenant in chief, of
16s. 8d. whereupon answer is made at the exchequer, the yearly ferm of
2s. 9d. which she is bound to render at the exchequer yearly for 4 acres of
land 1½ acres of pasture in Wardon of the 10 acres of land 4 acres of pasture
lately in the king's hand by reason of the alienation of John de Boweles
made without licence which land she holds of the king's commission for
the said ferm, provided that after the allowance is made she shall answer to
the king for the said ferm henceforth, as on 6 August in the 9th year of
the reign the king granted to her the custody of the said 6 acres of land and
2½ acres of pasture, which were in his hand by reason of the minority of
Thomas's heir to hold until the heir should come of age, in aid of his
maintenance and that of the other children of Thomas and Isabella, without rendering anything thereof to the king, and although the king ordered
the sheriff of Bedford, in whose custody the land and pasture were by the
king's commission, to deliver them to Isabella together with the issues
thereof, she has besought the king to cause allowance to be
made to her in her ferm of as much of the issues granted to her
as answer was made for in the sheriff's account, as she holds the
said 4 acres of land and 1½ acres of meadow for rendering the said ferm,
and the king, wishing to be informed upon the matter, ordered the
treasurer and barons to view the sheriff's account and other memoranda of
the exchequer touching the premises, and to inform the king in chancery
without delay of what they should find there, and they returned that Ralph
de Wedon, late sheriff of the county, answered to the king for 16s. 8d. of 10
acres of land 4 acres of pasture in Warden, demised at ferm from 15 April
in the 10th year of the reign until 1st December in the 12th year, to wit for
2½ years at 2 marks a year, which lands were seised into the king's hand by
the death of Walter Blundel of Wardon, who had the custody thereof at
ferm at the king's will, and that Nicholas Passelewe, sheriff after Ralph,
accounted at the exchequer for the said lands and answered to the king in
his account for 2s. 9d. for 4 acres of land 1½ acres of pasture of the same,
placed at ferm from 1 December aforesaid until Michaelmas then following,
at which feast he delivered the 4 acres and 1½ acres to Isabella to hold at
ferm and he did not answer for the issues of the 6 acres of land and 2½ acres
of pasture remaining from the said 1 December; and the king has considered
this certificate and that the 10 acres of land and 4 acres of pasture which
Walter held at ferm are the same as the 10 acres and 4 acres which were
in the king's hand by reason of the alienation of John de Boweles, whereof
the 6 acres of land and 4 acres of meadow are parcel. By C. |
July 3.
Waltham. |
To the collectors in the diocese of Lincoln of certain tenths lately granted
by the clergy. Order to supersede the demand made on the abbot of
Leicester for the tenth beyond the triennial tenth, granted at St. Bride's
church, London, in accordance with a previous order [as in this Calendar 12
Edward III, page 574] as the king has learned from the abbot that although
he paid wool according to the grant made at Westminster and the ordinance
made at Northampton, yet the collectors exact of him the said tenth granted
in the convocation at St. Bride's church, London, in the 12th year of the
reign, beyond the triennial tenth, by the clergy of the realm on condition
that they should be quit of the prestation and taking of wool, and that the
clergy who granted wool should be quit of the said tenth. |
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The like to the following for the said abbot, to wit:— |
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The collectors of the said tenths in the diocese of Coventry and
Lichfield. |
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The collectors of the said tenths in the diocese of London. |
July 20.
Kennington. |
To the justiciary of Ireland or to him who supplies his place, to the
chancellor there and to the treasurer of the exchequer, Dublin. Order not
to permit Master Hervey Bagot to intermeddle with the office of baron in
that exchequer, or allow more than two barons to stay in that exchequer, to
be there continually for the king's affairs. By the keeper and C. |
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To Master Hervey Bagot. Order not to intermeddle further with the said
office, as the king wishes two barons and no more to stay there. |
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By the keeper and C. |
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To John de la Ryvere, constable of Bristol castle. Order to sell 8 tuns of
wine delivered to him for the munition of the castle by Roger Turtle,
supplying the place of Michael Mynyot, late the king's butler, in the port of
Bristol, because the king is informed that the said wine is become so feeble
that it cannot be kept longer without putrefaction. By C. |
July 18.
Kennington. |
To John de Cokeshale, sheriff of Essex. Order to pay to Giles de
Martryngham, the king's falconer, whom the king sent to stay in that
bailiwick for some time, with two falcons, the arrears of 14d. daily from the
time of the sheriff's appointment, and to pay the said 14d. daily henceforth
so long as he is sheriff and as Giles stays in the bailiwick, as the king lately
ordered the sheriff of Essex to pay to Giles 12d. a day for his wages and 2d.
a day for the puture of the falcons, from 1st May in the 12th year of the
reign, and afterwards the king learned from Giles that William de Wauton,
sometime sheriff there, did not deliver those wages to him, because the king's
writ was in the possession of William's predecessor in the office, and the
king ordered William to pay Giles the arrears of such wages and to pay the
wages henceforth. |
July 10.
Waltham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to deliver to Robert Barker an assignment on the subsidy of the ninth
of sheaves, lambs and fleeces in co. Essex, of 180l. which he lent to the
the king in parts beyond the sea, charging therewith William de Northwell,
late keeper of the wardrobe. By C. |
July 24.
Kennington. |
To the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. Order to cause the ships assigned
for the passage of the men and horses of William de Kildesby, the king's
clerk, to parts beyond the sea, to be made ready and delivered to him with
all speed, if the ships assigned to him by Robert de Morle, admiral of the
fleet from the mouth of the Thames towards the north for his said passage,
are not ready, as the king wishes to hasten William's passage for certain
reasons. By the keeper and C. |
July 20.
Kennington. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately
ordered the justiciary of Ireland or him who supplies his place to distrain
Alexander de Bykenore, archbishop of Dublin, collector of the tenth granted
to the late king by the clergy of Ireland in the 13th year of the reign,
to be before him on the morrow of the close of Easter last to render his
account, and afterwards because the archbishop informed the king that he
accounted for the tenth before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer,
Dublin, and satisfied the king for the arrears thereof, the king ordered the
said treasurer and barons to certify him upon the matter, and they returned
that it is not found in their rolls and memoranda that any tenth was
granted in the said 13th year or any account thereof rendered, and it is
found that the archbishop, collector of the yearly tenth granted by Pope
John XXII to the late king in that year in Ireland, by apostolic bulls,
rendered account in the exchequer, Dublin, of the same tenth and satisfied
the king for the arrears thereof and was in surplus upon that account, the
king orders the treasurer and barons to view the said certificate which he
sends to them with a writ enclosed with these presents, and to supersede
the demand made on the archbishop for rendering his account at the
exchequer of England. |
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To the collectors of customs in the port of Berwick upon Tweed.
Whereas the king is informed that divers merchants of co. Northumberland
and other parts of the realm of England send their wool, to defraud
the king of 40s. a sack for the custom, to Berwick to be taken thence to
parts beyond the sea, in which town they pay only 10s. a sack for the
custom on wool to be sent over the sea, after the proclamation forbidding
wool to be sent to parts beyond under pain of forfeiture, without paying
40s. a sack, the king orders the collectors to make diligent scrutiny upon
the matter and to cause any such wool of the said county and other parts
found by them, to be arrested without delay and detained until the king
has ordained concerning it, informing the king in chancery, without delay,
of the names of those who have presumed to do this and of the quantity
of the wool brought to Berwick and arrested by the collectors. |
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By the keeper and C. |
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Membrane 3. |
July 15.
Kennington. |
To the prior of Rochester, Thomas de Cobham, William Moraunt and
Humphrey de Northwode. Whereas the king appointed them to sell the
subsidy of the ninth of sheaves, fleeces and lambs and of the ninth and
fifteenth granted in the parliament held at Westminster on Wednesday
after Sunday in Mid Lent last, for the present year, in co. Kent, and to
levy the ninth and fifteenth, answering to the king for the money thereof
and for the money of the said sale, and to do other things contained in the
letters patent, and now it is testified in the present parliament at
Westminster, by magnates and other men worthy of trust, that certain
lords of towns and others in divers parts of England strive to defraud the
king of the greater part of that subsidy, granted in his urgent need for the
defence of the realm and for his expedition of war, so that the prior and
others cannot sell the subsidy; the king therefore, with the consent of
parliament, orders the prior and others, under pain of forfeiture, to sell the
said ninth with all possible speed in accordance with the king's order, and
if they are impeded from doing this by such men, so that the subsidy
cannot be sold up to the sum of the taxation of churches, then the
sheaves etc. shall be committed to the lords and men of the towns for the
tax of the churches at the least, without delay, which lords, if
they are sufficient, to whom the king wishes the men of the
town to be intendant for their portion, are bound to answer
the king by the hands of the receivers of the subsidy, and
if the lords refuse to admit this, then to commit the sheaves etc. to four
lawful men of each town, in the form aforesaid, to whom the men of the
towns shall be answerable and who shall answer to the king for the said
value by the hands of the receivers, and they shall be charged therewith
even if they neglect this, and if any sales below the tax of the churches
have been made before the receipt of the present order, the prior and others
shall revoke them with speed, and shall ordain thereupon as expressed
above; and that answer shall be made to the king for what has been
granted to him, and that each one shall be charged with what he is bound
to pay, the king will appoint magnates and other lieges to inform him of
the value of each church and of the sheaves, fleeces and lambs of the parish
churches of the county and to charge each one with what touches him and
not beyond, and to see that payment is made to the king of what the lords
and four men are charged with, and the prior and others shall show the
king the names of the lords and of the four men who are to be charged
with the ninth and the sums charged upon them, by their letters to the
receiver of the subsidy at the Tower of London and in that county, so that
the king may be fully informed of their procedure, and they shall take all
who impede them or conspire against them, and imprison them, and if they
are of such estate that this cannot be done, then they shall inform the king
or his council of their names, without delay, so that the king may cause
them to be imprisoned or punished after examining such certificate and the
certificates of three or four lawful men, not suspect, and of the sheriff of
the county. If the prior and others are remiss in the execution of the
premises, whereby the king is in any wise defrauded of the subsidy, or if the
payment thereof be unreasonably delayed he will cause them to be punished
according to the decision of the council. |
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Et erat patens. By the keeper and C. in parliament. |
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All the vendors in England have like writs, to wit:— |
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Henry Huse, Andrew de Medsted, William de Sessyngham, and John
de Mitford in co. Sussex. |
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Roger Huse, John de Stouford, John de Hayton, and William de
Weston in co. Surrey. |
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The abbot of Beaulieu, Matthew fitz Herbert, Richard de Beaufo,
Roger de Tychebourn, Henry de Welles, the abbot of Tychefeld and
Robert de Hoo in co. Southampton. |
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Robert Seliman, Master Robert de Brok, Master Nicholas Haghemon,
Robert de Hungerford and Walter atte Bergh in co. Wilts. |
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The abbot of Wynchecoumbe, John Giffard of Lekhampton, Nicholas
Bourdoun, Walter de Cirencestr[ia], Robert Dabetot and William de
Chiltenham in co. Gloucester. |
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The prior of St. Mary's church, Worcester, William Corbet of
Chadesleye, William de Blount and John of the Lee in co. Worcester. |
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Roger Cully, John de Peyto the elder, John de Meryngton and Guy
Bretoun in co. Warwick. |
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The abbot of Leicester, William Moton, Hugh Turvill, Roger de
Belgrave and Master John de Belgrave in co. Leicester. |
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The abbot of St. James near Northampton, William Lovel, Thomas de
Bukton, Eustace de Brunneby, John de Hegham and John de
Waldegrave, in cos. Northampton and Rutland. |
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The abbot of Bardeneye, John de Bayous, Edm[und] de Grymesby and
William de Estfeld, steward of Kirketon, in the parts of Lyndeseye,
co. Lincoln. |
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The abbot of Brunne, William de Baious, Master John de Langetoft
and John de Trehampton, in the parts of Kesteven, co. Lincoln. |
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The abbot of Crouland, Saierus de Rocheford, John de Barkeworth,
Master William Bacheler and Geoffrey de Edenham, in the parts of
Holand, co. Lincoln. |
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The prior of Donemowe, Hugh fitz Simond, Robert de Gedworth, John
de Blounvill, Richard de Kelleshull and William de Teye, in cos.
Essex and Hertford. |
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The prior of Wymundham, John de Brunham parson of Woddallyng
church, John de Cailly, Robert de Clere, Edmund de Baconesthorp
and Roger Breton of Wychyngham in co. Norfolk. |
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The abbot of Leyston, Ralph de Bockyng, William Giffard, John de
Hemenhale and Ralph de Wolyngham, in co. Suffolk. |
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Robert de Insula, the prior of Bernewell, John de Engaigne, William
Moigne and Hugh de Croft in cos. Cambridge and Huntingdon. |
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The prior of Dunstaple, John de Chetewod, William de Herlaston,
Ralph son of Richard Mil and Simon Croyser in co. Bedford. |
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The abbot of Eynsham, John Giffard of Twyford, Richard de
Williamscote and Thomas de Langeleye in co. Oxford. |
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The prior of Walyngford, Philip de Englefeld, Thomas Huscarll,
Thomas de Hunstane, Richard Paynel and Robert Marie in co.
Berks. |
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The abbot of Shrewsbury, the abbot of Buldwas, Roger Corbet of
Caus and Robert de Harlaye in co. Salop. |
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The abbot of Burton upon Trent, Ralph de Stafford, Thomas de
Halghton, Robert Mauvesyn and Master Robert de Walkelyngton in
co. Stafford. |
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The prior of Bruton, Simon Fourneux, Thomas de Marlebergh, Henry
Power and John de Durburgh in co. Somerset. |
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The abbot of Notteleye, Philip de Aylesbury, John de Neyrnute and
Adam atte Glorie in co. Buckingham. |
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The abbot of Torre, John de Ralegh of Beaudeport, John de Chuddelegh,
John de Sobbury and Ambrose de Neuburgh in co. Devon. |
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The prior of Bodemyn, Reginald de Botreux, John de Arundell,
William de Trelouthas, John Hamely and Vivian Tyrel, in co.
Cornwall. |
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The prior of Hereford, Roger Chaundos, Richard de Pembrugge, Philip
de Clanvou and Stephen Deveroys in co. Hereford. |
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The prior of the hospital of St. Mary without Bisshopesgate, London,
John de Cherleton, and John de Enefeld, in co. Middlesex. |
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The abbot of Shirbourn, John Wake, John de Brideport and Roger de
Gilden in co. Dorset. |
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To the prior of Neuburgh, Thomas de Shefeld, John de Ellerker the
younger, William de Popelton and William de Scurueton. Like order,
'mutatis mutandis,' for the North Riding, co. York, showing the names of
the lords and four men charged with the ninth and the sums charged upon
them to the receiver of that subsidy at York and to the receiver in the North
Riding. By the keeper and C. in parliament. |
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The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to the sellers and assessors of the ninth in
the following counties, to wit:— |
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The prior of St. Oswald, William de Skargill, John de Ellerker the
younger, John de Malghum, Francis de Barneby and Robert Spyneye
in the West Riding, co. York. |
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The prior of Wartre, William de Seint Quyntyn, Gerard Salveyn,
Robert de Scardeburgh and Robert Spyneye in the East Riding, co.
York. |
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The prior of Thurgarton, the prior of Shelford, Thomas de Longevillers,
Edmund de Cressy, John de Bolyngbrok, John de Mounteny, John
de Dunesleye, Robert Jorce, John de Vaus and William de Gotham,
in co. Nottingham. |
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The prior of Thurgarton, Roger Deyncourt, Edward Chaundos, Roger
de Baukwell and Godfrey de Folejambe, in co. Derby. |
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The abbot of Fourneys, Edmund de Nevill, Richard de Hoghton and
John de Radeclyve in co. Lancaster. |
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Membrane 1. |
July 20.
Kennington. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to Thomas Symeon what
is found to be in arrear to him of his wages from the priory of Shirebourn
Monachorum from 28 January last, and to pay him those wages henceforth
so long as the priory is in the king's hand, as on Thomas showing the king
that the prior and convent there granted him a livery for life while he
should stay there of a loaf and a gallon of conventual ale and a mess of the
cookery as one of the monks received them, daily, and also a pension of
13s. 4d. for life if he did not have the bread and ale, and Thomas was
seised thereof until the priory was taken into the king's hand by the sheriff,
the king appointed Robert Achard, James de Wodestok and Thomas de
Coudray to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that
the prior and convent granted that livery to Thomas for life, and Thomas
was in seisin thereof from 8 March in the 9th year of the reign until
28 January last when the priory was taken into the king's hand by Robert
Daundele then sheriff of that county. By C. |
June 13.
Kennington. |
To the prior of Bodmin. Order to be attendant upon the collecting in
co. Cornwall of the ninth of sheaves, fleeces and lambs and the ninth and
fifteenth granted for the present and following years in the parliament at
Westminster, with Reginald de Botriaux, John de Arundell and Henry de
Trethewy, appointed for this, notwithstanding a commission to the prior of
St. Germans to do this, as the king learned that the prior of Bodmin was
so weak that he could not travail to do this, but now he has learnt that the
prior intermeddled with the premises before the commission to the prior of
St. Germans, and that he is in enjoyment of sufficient bodily strength for
the execution of the order. By C. in parliament. |
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Mandate to the prior of St. Germans not to intermeddle further with
the premises. By C. in parliament. |
July 30.
Kennington. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to account with Laurence de Fastolf, the king's clerk, lately sent to
the Roman court on the king's affairs, for the days spent in that service,
and for the costs of his passages, and to pay him what they find to be due
to him beyond 40l. delivered to him upon his expenses. By C. |
July 30.
Kennington. |
To William de Catesby, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester,
Nottingham, Derby and Lancaster. Order to deliver to Margaret, late the
wife of John de Roos, tenant in chief, the advowson of Warsop church, co.
Nottingham, extended at 20l. yearly, which the king assigned to her to
hold in dower, to wit the third time of presenting. |
July 12.
Waltham. |
To the bailiffs of Northampton. Order to pay to Walter de Mauny or to
his attorney, 25l. for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant
to him of 50l. yearly for life by the ferm of that town which Robert de
Foxton was wont to receive while he lived. |
July 25.
Kennington. |
To William de Edynton, the king's clerk. Order to pay 357l. 2s. 3d. of
the subsidy of the ninth in co. Southampton, to Nicholas Devenissh, in
accordance with the king's order to the collectors of that subsidy, as the
king is bound to Nicholas in the said sum for his wool, received at
Durdraght by Reginald de Conductu and John de la Pole, supplying the
place of William de la Pole and that they should receive from Nicholas
three tallies levied under the names of the collectors and the king has deputed
William de Edynton to receive the said subsidy in all the counties of
England this side Trent, so that the collectors cannot pay the said sum to
Nicholas. By C. |
July 25.
Kennington. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause John de Molyns to
have prompt payment or an assignment for 329l. 6s. 8d., which he lent to
the king at Lescluse in Flanders and which the king promised to pay him
at Michaelmas next, as is fully contained in the letters of Edward, keeper
of England, etc. at the said feast of Michaelmas. By letter of the keeper. |
July 10.
Kennington. |
To the same. Order to give payment or an assignment up to 1,000
marks to Hugh de Audele, earl of Gloucester, as the king is bound to him
in that sum or thereabouts, as may appear by bills of the wardrobe made to
him thereupon, as on account of his good service at sea against the king's
enemies, the king wishes him to be speedily satisfied. By p.s. [13309.] |
July 28.
Kennington. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a new pinfold
(pundfaldum) in Odiham park for the king's foals there, to be built, up to
the sum of 30s. By C. |
