Close Rolls, Edward III: March 1351

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: March 1351', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354, (London, 1906) pp. 289-294. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol9/pp289-294 [accessed 27 March 2024]

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March 1351

March 27.
Westminster.
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to pay to Tidemannus de Lymbergh, Thomas de Brandon, Richard de Causton and Thomas de Notyngham or to their attorney 20s. on every sack of wool, 20s. on every 300 wool-fells and 40s. on every last of hides taken out of that port until they are satisfied for 500l. beyond 9,000l. which the king previously ordered to be paid to them in that port, in part satisfaction of 35,000 marks in which the king is bound to them.
The like to the following, to wit:
April 10.
Westminster.
The collectors of customs in the port of London to pay 500l. to Tidemannus and his said fellows beyond the 9,500l. aforesaid.
May 16.
Westminster.
The same to pay to Tidemannus and his fellows 113l. 6s. 8d. beyond the 10,000l. which the king previously ordered to be paid to them.
Membrane 30.
March 20.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Essex and his fellows, takers of corn in that county for the munition of Calais. Order, upon pain of forfeiture, to cause 130 quarters of the 400 quarters of wheat which the king ordered them to purvey in that county with other victuals for the said munition, purveyed in places remote from the sea to be ground, so that the labour and expense of the carriage thereof may be spared, and to cause 20 empty tuns, in which the flour of that wheat may be placed, to be bought and purveyed, which the sheriff shall cause to be carried to the nearest port together with the residue of the wheat and the other corn and victuals purveyed by them, and deliver the 20 tuns with the flour therein to Robert Parker, by indenture, to do therewith as has been enjoined upon him, and the sheriff shall cause all the residue to be sent to Calais with all speed. By K.
The like to the following, 'mutatis mutandis,' to wit:
The sheriff of Hertford and the takers of corn in that county to grind 100 quarters of wheat, put them in 20 tuns and deliver them to William de Waltham.
The sheriff of Oxford and Berks etc. to grind 200 quarters of wheat, place them in 32 tuns and deliver them to William Muche of Nottingham.
The sheriff of Suffolk etc. to grind 130 quarters of wheat, put them in 20 tuns and deliver them to Walter Lucas.
The sheriff of York and his fellows, takers etc. in the East, West and North Ridings of that county, to grind 195 quarters of wheat, place them in 30 tuns and deliver them to Ralph Pledour. By K.
To the sheriff of Nottingham and his fellows, takers of corn for the munition of Calais. Like order, 'mutatis mutandis,' to cause 100 quarters of wheat to be ground and placed in 20 tuns and to keep them safely until further order. By K.
The like to the following, 'mutatis mutandis,' to wit:—
The sheriff of Northampton etc. to grind 150 quarters of wheat and place these in 24 tuns.
The sheriff of Rutland etc. to grind 50 quarters of wheat and place them in 8 tuns. By K.
To the sheriff of Northumberland and his fellows etc. Like order, 'mutatis mutandis,' to cause 180 quarters of the 400 quarters of wheat purveyed by them etc. to be ground and placed in 30 tuns, and to send them to the nearest port by the advice of William Elys, the king's serjeant at arms. By K.
To Th. bishop of Durham. Like order to cause 195 quarters of the 500 quarters of wheat purveyed by him in his liberty for the munition of Calais, to be purveyed in places remote from the sea and ground to save the labour and cost of carriage, to buy thirty empty tuns and place the flour therein, to cause them to be taken to the nearest port with the residue of the wheat and of the other corn and victuals purveyed in that liberty, and to cause the 30 tuns with the flour therein to be kept safely in that port until further order by the advice of William Elys, the king's serjeant at arms, and to cause all the residue to be taken to Calais by the advice of the said William or of Michael de Grendon, the king's serjeant at arms, with all speed, in accordance with the form of a previous order, and the king will cause him to be satisfied by the sheriff of Northumberland for his costs therein. By K.
To William Elys, the king's serjeant at arms. Order upon pain of forfeiture to receive the said flour in tuns with all the residue of the corn and victuals brought to the said port by the ministers of the bishop of Durham, and to keep the flour in tuns safely until further order, and to cause all the residue of the corn and victuals to be taken to Calais with all speed by himself or by Michael de Grendon, the king's serjeant at arms.
By K.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to satisfy Th. bishop of Durham for the costs incurred by him in buying the said tuns, and in the carriage of the same and of all the other corn and victuals, and to cause all the residue of the corn and victuals to be taken to Calais with all speed by the said William or by Michael de Grendon. By K.
March 30.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to receive from the sheriff of Leicester or his deputies 200 ox carcases and 200 bacon hogs purveyed by him in the county of Leicester for the munition of Calais, and to have them taken to the port of Kyngeston upon Hull for the king's money, together with the king's other victuals. By bill of the treasurer.
Memorandum that on 26 June following the sheriff of Leicester was ordered to carry all the victuals purveyed in the county of Leicester to Calais, as appears below.
April 8.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Hertford. Order, upon pain of forfeiture, to deliver the 100 quarters of wheat, which the king lately ordered him to grind in that county, and 15 empty tuns, to William de Waltham, whom the king has charged to grind that wheat, by indenture, together with sufficient carriage for taking the flour of that wheat to London, in the tuns, notwithstanding the previous order.
May 1.
Westminster.
The like to the sheriff of York to deliver 150 quarters of wheat and 24 tuns to Ralph Pledour.
The like to the sheriff of Essex to deliver 130 quarters of wheat and 20 tuns to Robert le Parker.
May 20.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Rutland. Order, upon pain of forfeiture, to cause those 50 quarters of wheat, which the king lately ordered him to grind in that county and place in 8 tuns, with the other victuals purveyed for the munition of Calais, to be taken to such a place in the county of Northampton as he shall see fit, and delivered to the sheriff of Northampton, by indenture, to do therewith as shall be enjoined upon him.
May 22.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order, upon pain of forfeiture, to receive the victuals brought to him by the sheriff of Rutland, by indenture, and to cause them to be taken, with the victuals purveyed in his county for the munition of Calais, to the port of London or of Sandwich, as he shall see fit, and to deliver them there, by indenture, to Robert de Notyngham, to be taken to Calais as shall be enjoined upon him.
Membrane 29.
March 20.
Eltham.
To the justiciary, the chancellor and the treasurer of Ireland. Order so to direct the marshals exercising their offices before the justices for holding pleas following the justiciary and those before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin, that a marshal of the exchequer shall not receive more than ½ mark a term from any prisoner in his custody, and that such prisoners at the end of each term shall be delivered to the constable of Dublin castle or to him who supplies his place, as was customary before these times; and that a marshal serving before the said justices shall receive such fees for the prisoners in his custody as the marshal in the chief place of the justices of England receives for such prisoners, and the marshals shall not extort more from any one upon a heavy penalty, and if they do so they shall be punished according to the extent of their default, as complaint has been made to the king that the marshals in Ireland extort ½ mark from each for every night that they are in their custody, to the king's detriment and the impoverishment of the people of the land, especially as such a fee will in a short time greatly exceed the debt for which the debtor is committed to prison.
To the treasurer, the chancellor and the barons of the exchequer, Dublin. Order not to hold or permit to be held any pleas of debts, accounts, trespasses or other common pleas, not touching the king or his ministers of the exchequer or their servants serving in the place where the exchequer will be held, except pleas for which other places of the king cannot conveniently be had in that land by reason of the liberties granted to magnates and others, and the chancellor shall not seal any original writs to bring such prohibited pleas to the exchequer, as by the law and custom of England no pleas ought to be held before the barons of the exchequer except those which touch the king, his ministers and their said servants. [Fœdera.]
To the justiciary, chancellor and treasurer of Ireland. Order, leaving Thomas de Dente, the chief, and John Gernon, the second justice in the Common Bench, Dublin, to appoint Richard Broun, third justice of the said Bench, to be second justice for holding pleas following the justiciary, with John de Rednesse, the chief justice for the same, as the king has learned that two justices are sufficient for the Common Bench. [Ibid.]
To the chancellor and the treasurer of Ireland. Order to cause the clerks who write the king's affairs in the exchequer, Dublin, without receiving fees, to have due remuneration for their labours at the customary terms, certifying the king from time to time of the other clerks, receiving fees, who are occupied on the king's affairs which cannot be dispatched or completed during the terms of the exchequer, and how much they deserve, so that he may cause justice to be done in the matter, as he has learned that the mean clerks in that exchequer, not receiving fees, and others receiving small fees, who have remained beyond the term upon his affairs, have been usually rewarded according to the exigence of such labours, and now, long since the arrival of Master John de Burnham, the late treasurer there, such remuneration has been withdrawn, wherefore several of the affairs in the exchequer have remained untouched for lack of such remuneration.
To the justiciary, chancellor and treasurer of Ireland. Whereas the king is informed that several lands of heirs under age, which came into his hand as custodies, the marriages of heirs and escheated lands have been placed by sale, demise and otherwise, sometimes by persons without authority, at a value below their worth, without consideration for the king's benefit: the king orders the justiciary and others to take information upon the premises, and to resume into the king's hand such lands and marriages sold or demised at less than their value or to persons unfit, and to cause them to be newly extended and to sell and demise them and other lands and marriages which come into the king's hand, to fit persons, as is most to the king's advantage.
To the treasurer of the exchequer, Dublin, and to the chancellor there. Order not to seal any judicial writs of any of the king's pleas in Ireland except those which touch the place of the said exchequer, with the exchequer seal, while the great seal of the chancery there is within twenty miles of the exchequer, but to permit the chancellor to have the sealing of such writs, as is customary in the chancery of England. [Fœdera.]
To the justiciary of Ireland for the present or the future. Order not to grant any charter of pardon for felonies, especially those committed against Englishmen, without the assent and counsel of the chancellor and treasurer there, but to chastise disturbers of the peace and quiet of the land according to the law and custom thereof, since felons and other malefactors are thereby rendered bolder and the peace there is ill kept. [Ibid.]
April 6.
Westminster.
To Walter de Couton. Order to receive 160 quarters of wheat and 300 quarters of barley malt bought by the king from John de Wynkefeld, to wit 21 quarters for every 20 quarters measured by the standard, from the said John, by indenture, at Wynkefeld and to take them to the port of Ipswich at the king's cost, to be paid by the sheriff of Suffolk, and there have them placed in ships with the other victuals purveyed for the munition of Calais, taken to Calais and there delivered by indenture to the receiver of the king's victuals. By bill of the treasurer.
Mandate to John de Wynkefeld to deliver the said wheat and malt to Walter.
April 22.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Fauconer, whom the king has amoved from that office.
April 30.
Westminster.
To Thomas de Hoo, escheator in Sussex. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Warblyngton, restoring the issues thereof to Alice, late the wife of John de Warblyngton, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held the said manor jointly with Alice for their lives, of the gift of William de Warblyngton, parson of Warblyngton church.
March 10.
Westminster.
To Richard de Denton, escheator in Lancaster, Cumberland and Westmorland. Order not to intermeddle further with the office of that escheatry in the duchy of Lancaster, as on 6 March last the king created Henry earl of Lancaster, duke of Lancaster, and granted to him all the royal rights pertaining to the county palatine, in that county, to hold for life, and that he should have executions by his writs and ministers there.
Feb. 21.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas, at the suit of Alice late the wife of Thomas Blanket of Bristol, lord of a ship called 'L'Assumpcion' of Bristol, executrix of his will, showing that the master and mariners of that ship had set out to sea in the ship in the king's service from the 16th year of the reign, as often as they were summoned by the king and his council, and had never departed from that service without the licence of the king, his admirals or those supplying their places, and the treasurer and barons had exacted 60l. from her for the trespasses and excesses of the masters and mariners as if they had departed from that service without licence, the king ordered the treasurer and barons, if they should find by the letters testimonial of the admirals, of those supplying their places or of other lords setting out in the king's service, or by inquisition, that the master and mariners were in the king's service as aforesaid and did not depart without licence, then to discharge Alice of the 60l., and although she has shown before them divers letters patent of one supplying the admiral's place, and of other lords to whom the ship was assigned at divers times, testifying to the premises, and it is found by inquisition that the things shown by Alice are true, yet the treasurer and barons have hitherto delayed to discharge her: the king therefore orders them to view her said letters and then to proceed to her discharge, notwithstanding that the 60l. are in the rolls of the said admiral, in their possession, as a record. By K. and C.
Membrane 28.
March 28.
Westminster.
To Ed[mund] de Appelby, Roger de Queryndon, clerk, Geoffrey de Vilers and the sheriff of Leicester. Order to supersede the levying and collecting of wheat and other victuals beyond the number of 200 carcases of oxen and 200 bacon hogs, although the king appointed them to take and purvey 200 quarters of wheat, 300 quarters of beans and peas, 800 quarters of malt, 300 carcases of oxen and 400 bacon hogs in the county of Leicester for the munition of Calais and for other causes, as the king has reduced that purveyance to the said carcases and bacon hogs at the request of the last parliament. By C.
To Nicholas de Shordich. Order to cause the corn and other victuals which the king ordered him and his fellows to purvey in Middlesex to be taken to the port of London with all speed, at the king's cost, of the money of the tenth and fifteenth, to be paid by him and his fellows, appointed to collect the same in that county. By C.
March 18.
Westminster.
To Thomas de Hoo, sheriff and escheator in Surrey and Sussex. Order to deliver the manor of Hacham, co. Surrey, the manor of Wystneston with members of Iryngham and Asshehurst, and the manor of Hene, co. Sussex, which William de Thorp lately held of the demise of Roger de Bavent, and the manor of Changeton, co. Sussex, which belonged to William, taken into the king's hand with his other manors and lands by his forfeiture, together with the goods and chattels therein, to Robert de Hadham, escheator of the king's chamber, or to his attorney, by indenture, to be kept for the king's use, as has been fully enjoined upon him, as the king has reserved the said manors to his chamber.
The like to the following to deliver to Robert the following manors which William held of Roger's demise:—
William de Langele, sheriff and escheator in Kent, for the manor of Shirbourn, co. Kent.
Thomas de la Ryvere, sheriff and escheator in Wilts, for the manor of Fifhide, co. Wilts.
March 30.
Eltham.
To William de Middelton, escheator in Norfolk and Suffolk. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Salle, co. Norfolk, 60 acres of pasture and heath in Dallyng, and a moiety of the manors of Bathele, co. Norfolk and of Somerleton, co. Suffolk, and the advowsons of the churches of Bathele and Somerleton, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by divers inquisitions taken by the escheator that Beatrice, late the wife of John Noioun, at her death, held the premises for life of the inheritance of John son of John Noioun.