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Aug. 2.
Barnet. |
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order to take a simple seisin in
the abbey of Wilton in the name of the king's royal lordship and not to intermeddle further with the abbey, its temporalities or goods, but to permit the
prioress and nuns to have the custody thereof during the voidance of the
abbey, restoring the issues thereof to them, saving to the king the custody
of the lands acquired by the abbey after the king's grant to them of the
custody thereof during voidances, which he made on 21 June in the 14th
year of the reign, because the then abbess paid him 60l. upon his passage
at Orewell to parts beyond the seas and the abbey is now void for the first
time since that grant, by the death of Constance the last abbess, as the king
has learned. |
Aug. 3.
Barnet. |
To the bailiffs of Boston. Order to deliver to William de Letheneye of
Ravenserod five ships arrested by them with the tackle and rigging thereof,
without delay, if he find mainpernors who will undertake to answer for
those ships at the king's order when he has caused them to be warned or for
the price thereof if they be adjudged to the king, as the king ordered the
bailiffs to cause all the goods and merchandise of Juertus de Brug of Lubyk
and other malefactors to be arrested up to the sum of 60l. without delay,
and kept safely until William should be satisfied for that sum or until
further order, certifying the king from time to time of the goods so
arrested [as at page 296 above], and the bailiffs returned that by virtue
of the said order they arrested a ship with all the tackle and rigging
thereof, called 'la Godyere' of Lubyk, of the price of 15l., whereof
John Whitte is master and Gerewynus Smalbergh, Tidicus Whitte and
Arennus Fote lords; a ship with tackle and rigging called 'la Godeberade'
of Lubyk, price 6l. 13s. 4d., whereof John Rode is master and Henry Pape,
John de Lubyk and Gerewynus Smalbergh lords; a ship with tackle and
rigging called 'Ryngheburyh' of Rostoke, price 6l. 13s. 4d., whereof Cristian
de Hale is master and Ingelbright Bonigard, Ludicus de Gotland,
John Tolner and Henry Rode lords; a ship called 'la Welyfare' of
Strallesund, price 10l., whereof Arennus de Neten is master and John
Morian and Albright Houenard lords; and a ship called 'Femmeland' of
Lubyk, price 22l., whereof Henry Vanburgh is master and Juertus de
Burgh, Bertram Hatbu and John Fan lords, and now William de Letheney
has besought the king to cause those ships to be delivered to him with the
tackle and rigging, which are extended at 60l. 6s. 8d. in part satisfaction of
186l. 13s. 4d. taken from him. |
Aug. 13.
Westminster. |
To John de Aston, sheriff of Salop and escheator there. Order to deliver
to the prior of Abberbury and the brethren there the manors, lands, goods
and chattels of the priory, together with the issues of the manors and lands,
saving to the king the knights' fees and advowsons pertaining to the priory,
as the king has considered the poverty of the prior and brethren and wishes
to show favour to them, although he lately ordered John to take the priory
and its possessions into the king's hand and keep them safely until further
order, answering for the issues thereof and for the goods and chattels at
the exchequer. |
Aug. 18.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Rokeby, escheator in co. York. Order to cause Ralph le
Alblaster son and heir of Walter le Alblaster, tenant in chief, to have seisin
of all the lands whereof his father was seised at his death in his demesne as
of fee, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken
his homage and rendered to him the lands which his father held in chief. |
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Aug. 14.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to R.
bishop of Durham three stamps for making sterlings of the king's money
as his predecessors have done in times past. By K. and C. |
Aug. 19.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Roger de Novo Mercato, who shall know better and do
better what pertains to his office. |
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Membrane 20. |
Aug. 24.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge
William de la Pole and Reginald de Conductu of 62,941l. 0s. 10¼d., with
which they were charged for gain of the king's wool and of 10,000 sacks
which they acknowledged they had received in England, because it is found
that they charge themselves with having received that wool at Durdraght,
for which they are ready to account, and for 27,342l. 16s. 10¼d. for 2,500
sacks of wool taken by them to parts beyond the sea contrary to the agreement, because it is not found by inquisition or otherwise that they are
guilty of taking or receiving the said wool, annulling all processes made in
this respect and cancelling them in the exchequer rolls, saving to the king
the actions competent to him against all who took wool to parts beyond
contrary to the agreement and prohibition, to the detection and conviction
of whom William and Reginald have promised to devote all possible
diligence, for doing which the treasurer and barons shall receive an oath
from them, and it is always the king's intention that William and Reginald
shall render account to him upon all receipts, payments and acts done
by them, as William and Reginald have besought the king to provide
a remedy, as it was agreed between the king and certain merchants of
England that they should buy 30,000 sacks of wool in England for the
king's use, and that they should account with William and Reginald, who
would account with the king, for the gain, and although the king first
granted to the merchants a moiety of that gain, and afterwards the king
pardoned them the other moiety and rendering account for the gain, and
took from them the wool bought by them and taken to Durdraght, and
disposed thereof as seemed good to the council, yet the treasurer and barons
have unjustly charged William and Reginald with 62,941l. 0s. 10¼d. in
their account for the said gain, remitted by the king, and whereas William
and Reginald charged themselves with 11,400 sacks of wool so provided in
England and received by them at Durdraght, the treasurer and barons,
asserting that William and Reginald acknowledged before them that they
had received in England 10,000 sacks of that wool, although the wool was
the same as that which they so received at Durdraght, where they answered
for 10,000 sacks, and 1,400 sacks remained of the increment of that wool,
and pretending that William and Reginald had received 10,000 sacks in
England and 11,400 sacks at Durdraght, although they were the same wool,
unjustly charged them with 10,000 sacks beyond what they received, as it
was ordained in the said agreement that no merchant or other should
take any wool to parts beyond the sea until the wool so provided for the
king had been taken there and sold, and it was found by an inquisition
taken before Robert Parvyng, then the treasurer, and his fellows at the
exchequer, at St. Martin le Grand, London, that 2,500 sacks were taken to
parts beyond contrary to the agreement, yet the treasurer and barons have
charged William and Reginald with 27,342l. 16s. 10¼d. for the value and
forfeiture of the 2,500 sacks although it is not found that they were guilty
of taking them, and the king enjoined certain prelates, earls and other lieges
to summon the justices and other skilled persons of the council upon the
premises to take information with the treasurer and barons, who found
that William and Reginald had been unduly charged. By K. |
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Vacated because it was surrendered and is otherwise below. |
Aug. 27.
Westminster. |
To W. archbishop of York. Order to take an inquisition upon the true
value of the prebendal parish church of Salton in his diocese, and to tax it
according to the accounts so found, among the benefices destroyed by the
raids of the Scots remitting the said taxation to chancery together with this
writ, as the prior and convent of Hextildesham have besought the king to
provide a remedy, as the said church which they hold for their own uses
was and is destroyed by the invasions and burnings of the Scots, and
although other churches of those parts so destroyed have been newly taxed,
and their first taxations mitigated, the said church is not newly taxed, owing
to the negligence of the then prior of that place, acting in remote parts. |
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By K. and C. |
Aug. 24.
Westminster. |
To John Worthyn, escheator in co. Worcester. Order not to intermeddle
further with the manors which belonged to Robert de Clifford and which he
took into the king's hand by reason of Robert's death, restoring the issues
thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Robert at his death held no lands in chief in his demesne as of fee in that
bailiwick, or in service, but that he held the manors of Severnestok and
Temedebury, to wit the latter for life of the demise of Thomas de Musgrave
and Thomas de Ouston, parson of Severnestok church, of the countess of
Lincoln by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, with remainder to
Roger his son, to hold for life, and the former manor for a term of three
years of the demise of Ralph de Nevill, and the said manor is held of Hugh
le Despenser by the service of two knights' fees. |
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To William de Radenore, escheator in co. Hereford and the adjacent
march of Wales. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of
Brugge upon Wye (Wayam), restoring the issues thereof to Roger son of
Robert de Clifford, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the
escheator that Robert at his death held no lands in his demesne of the fee
in that bailiwick, but that he held the said manor of the bishop of Hereford,
for life, by the service of a knight's fee, of the demise of Thomas de Musgrave and Thomas de Ouston, parson of Severnestok church, with remainder
to Roger. |
