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June 11. Westminster. |
To the chancellor and proctors of the university of Cantebrigge,
and to all masters and scholars thereof. Order at their peril
to admit John Chestre a friar of the order of preachers next year
to perform a scholastic act, as it is meet, not suffering him to be
by any other man unduly hindered; as by ancient custom no
friar of that order ought to proceed among them to take a
scholastic degree in the university save by appointment and
nomination of the general or provincial chapter of the order;
and now the king is informed that contrary to the said custom
certain of the friars of that order are striving to hinder the said
John, who was so appointed and nominated in the last provincial
chapter, from keeping his opposition next year immediately
after brother Philip Boydell, and to prefer some of themselves
to keep the like act, although not appointed nor nominated;
and the king's will is to repress such insolence and presumption,
and to shew the said John favour according to his deserts. |
June 6. Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Lenne. Order, upon petition
of Robert Cokkessoun master of a ship called 'la Trinite' of
'Westlenne' and Thomas Roos master of another called the 'Seint
Mariebote' of Lenne, to deliver to the petitioners their bonds, which
are in the keeping of the mayor and bailiffs it is said, not troubling
them by colour of the same, or of the security hereinafter
mentioned; as their petition shews that, by virtue of the king's
commission to John Drax serjeant at arms, their ships with
others were by order of the council arrested in that port before
Christmas last for the king's expedition, that thereupon by bond
the petitioners found security that their ships should be ready
to travail therein when need should be, that the ships were laded
with divers victuals of the king and other merchandise of certain
merchants to be brought to London, and that although many
times requested the mayor and bailiffs have deferred to deliver
up their bonds, although by order and advice of the council
a general proclamation was after made in that and divers other
ports within the realm for dearrest of all ships so arrested. |
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June 14. Westminster. |
To the justices of assize in Norhamptonshire. Order, upon
petition of the plaintiff, to proceed to rendering of judgment in
an assize of novel disseisin concerning the manor of Farndoun
by Byfelde, by Robert Brome of Warrewyke arraigned against
John Wyndesore, Baldwin Bereforde knight, William Bagot
knight, William Doyly and Richard parson of Crowelton, the
outlawry and allegation hereinafter mentioned notwithstanding;
as the plaintiff shewed that the assize came at Norhampton, and
the defendants came not, but Thomas de Beeston answered for
them as their bailiff, and said nought wherefore the assize ought
to remain, therefore it was determined that the same should be
taken, that the jurors came, and for the king Thomas Tyldesley
serjeant at law alleged that the said John is tenant of the manor
put in view, and was so on the day the original writ was obtained,
namely 6 December 3 Henry IV, and was outlawed at suit of the
king for disseising John de Gunwardby and others by force of arms
contrary to the peace of tenements in Rampton, Cotton and
Westwyke co. Cantebrigge, and that the said manor was seized
into the king's hand by reason of his outlawry, that thereupon
John de Welton the escheator, being present in court and examined upon oath, said that the manor was not so seized by reason
of that outlawry, that the jurors being chosen, tried and sworn said
upon oath that it was not seized as aforesaid, and said that long
before the date of the said writ John Wyndesore was thereof
seised, and gave the same to the other defendants, their heirs and
assigns, but continued to take the profit thereof that feoffment
and the livery of seisin notwithstanding, and said that the plaintiff
was seised of the same until long before the said feoffment John
Wyndesore only did unlawfully and without a judgment disseise
him by force of arms, damages 20 marks, and that the other
defendants were not privy to that disseisin; and shewed that by
writ close, tested at Westminster 26 October 5 Henry IV (text
follows), the king ordered William Thirnynge and Robert Tirwhite
justices of assize in Norhamptonshire to view the tenor of a record
and process of outlawry published in Cambridgeshire against
John de Wyndesore, therewith enclosed, which the king caused
to come before him in chancery, in order that they might more
prudently proceed in an assize of novel disseisin concerning tenements in Rampton, Cotenham, Westwyke, Hokyngton, 'Langstanton' and Wyllyngham arraigned by John de Gunwardby,
Adam de Egleston chaplain and John de Lunde chaplain against
John de Wyndesore and others, (text of enclosure follows) whereby
it appeared that by writ returnable before William Thirnynge
and his fellows on Monday after St. Margaret following John de
Wyndesore (Wynsore) was put in exigents at Cantebrigge castle
at the county court there holden on Thursday before the
Purification 4 Henry IV to content the king for his ransom
for the disseisin whereof he was convicted, and again on Thursday after St. Matthias, on Thursday after the Annunciation,
on Thursday after St. George, and on Thursday the feast of the
Ascension, and that he appeared not, and was outlawed, and
shewed that by reason of the said allegation and outlawry the
justices have deferred to proceed to rendering of judgment. |
June 3. Westminster. |
To John Burforde escheator in Salop and the march of Wales
adjacent. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further
with the manor of Baggesovere and the advowson of the free
chapel there, delivering up any issues taken of the manor; as the
king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that
William le Yonge, Hugh le Yonge clerk his brother, Roger Attenasshe parson of Baggesovere chapel and William Stretey clerk
gave the said manor and advowson to John de Baggesovere and
Alice his wife and to the heirs male of their bodies, with remainder
to the right heirs of William son of Philip de Baggesovere, that
the said John died without issue male by the said Alice, that
William son of Philip died without issue, that the reversion and
remainder then descended to Anabel and Eleanor as his sisters
and heirs, that Anabel had issue a daughter Katherine now wife
of Thomas Sevile and died, that Eleanor had issue two daughters
Elizabeth and Katherine and died, that Elizabeth is wife of
Thomas Maundevile, that Katherine her sister had two daughters
Isabel and Elizabeth and died, that Elizabeth is the wife of Ralph
Fraunceys, that Isabel had two daughters Katherine and
Margaret and died, that Katherine is the wife of William Merchere,
and Margaret of John de Overton, that Alice Baggesovere
continued her possession until the Annunciation last, on which
date she died, that by her death the manor and advowson
descended to the said Katherine wife of Thomas, Elizabeth wife
of Thomas Maundevile, Elizabeth wife of Ralph Fraunceys,
Katherine wife of William Merchere and Margaret as cousins and
heirs of William son of Philip, that Katherine wife of Thomas
is of the age of forty years and more, Elizabeth wife of Thomas
of thirty and more, Elizabeth wife of Ralph of six and twenty and
more, Katherine wife of William Merchere twenty and more,
and Margaret eighteen and more, and that parcel of the manor
is held of the priory of Wenloke, and parcel of other lords; and on
20 February 18 Richard II with assent of the council the late king
granted to Roger Wyvelle then prior of Wenloke that they (sic)
and their successors should thenceforward be reckoned natives
and not aliens, and that the priory and the lands, rents, services,
knights' fees, advowsons, liberties etc. thereto belonging should
not be seized by reason of any war with the French or other
aliens, or for any other cause for which the lands etc. or aught
else to the alien religious belonging should be seized. |
July 8. Westminster. |
To John Lestraunge escheator in Norffolk and Suffolk. Order
to take the fealty of John Carbonell, son and heir of Robert
Carbonell knight, and to give him seisin of his father's lands; as
he has proved his age before the escheator, and for 2 marks
paid in the hanaper the king has respited his homage until
Michaelmas next. |
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June 10. Westminster. |
To the escheator in Devon. Order in presence of those
concerned to assign to John Cornewaille knight and to Elizabeth
Lancastre countess of Huntyngdoun his wife dower of the lordships, lands and advowsons of John de Holande earl of Huntyngdoun sometime her husband; as by advice and assent of the
lords and commons in the parliament last holden at Westminster
the king made a grant and order that she shall be enabled,
admitted and restored at the common law to have, sue and recover
her dower aforesaid with her said now husband, or alone if he be
dead, against the king and others, any judgment of forfeiture
or any ordinance of parliament against the said earl heretofore rendered or made notwithstanding, and notwithstanding
that by reason of such forfeiture she be not dowable of any
of them. By K. and by pet. of parl. |
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Like writs to the escheators in Somerset and Huntingdonshire. |
June 12. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the chamberlains. Order from time to
time to cause several tallies witnessing each payment to be levied
at the receipt of the exchequer and delivered to the sheriffs,
escheators, customers, bailiffs, keeper of the hanaper, alnagers
and others who have paid any sums of money to the treasurer
of the household or to his deputies, as by indentures made between
the said treasurer and the said sheriffs etc. they shall be assured,
for discharge of them that paid and the due charge and discharge
of the treasurer of the household in their accounts and farms at
the exchequer, taking of them that pay the indentures containing
the sums for which such tallies are levied; as by advice, assent
and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal in the last
parliament the king made order that all farms, revenues, issues,
profits and emoluments of counties, cities, towns and boroughs
to be levied by the hands of sheriffs and of bailiffs of liberties up
to 2,000l. a year, all issues and profits of the petty custom in
singular the ports within the realm up to 1,300l. a year in the
following ports, namely 600l. in the port of London, 200l. in
the port of Kyngeston upon Hull, and 500l. in the port of
Suthampton, all issues and profits of the hanaper of chancery
up to 2,000l. a year, all issues, profits and emoluments of offices
and escheatorships of escheators whatsoever for the time being
up to 500l., the farms apports, issues and profits whatsoever of
alien priories in England and Wales, the bailiwick of Fecamp
demised by the king to John Cornewaille, Elizabeth his wife and
Hugh Vertot monk excepted, up to 2,000l., all farms, issues,
profits and emoluments of the subsidy upon cloth for sale and the
alnage and of the forfeiture thereof within the realm up to 300l.,
and all issues and profits of the ancient custom upon wool, hides
and woolfells in singular the ports and places of the realm, the
port of St. Botolph excepted, up to 4,000l., shall henceforward
remain for the expenses of the king's household, to be truly laid
out in part payment thereof, and shall be paid by indentures by
them that levy the same to the treasurer of the household for
the time being in preference to all grants, assignments and
demands now or hereafter made thereupon, and not converted
to any other use or given to any [other] person, willing that the
now treasurer of the household and other treasurers for the time
being shall by such indentures be charged in their accounts
at the exchequer with all that they shall so receive, and shall
by their oaths be discharged of all that by force of these presents
they receive not; but the king's will is to provide for the greater
security of himself, of the treasurer of the household and of all
sheriffs etc. by whom such payment shall be made. |
July 14. Westminster. |
To Nicholas Gower escheator in Yorkshire. Order to give
Ralph baron of Graystoke seisin of a messuage and appurtenances
in Drynghowe held by Richard Proctour of Drynghowe outlawed
for felony it is said; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken
by Thomas de Egmanton late escheator, that in 42 Edward III
William de Nessefelde then escheator took the same into the hand
of that king, that since that year the same has been in his hand
and in the hand of the late king and of the king, that answer was
made to him by the said William for the year and a day and the
waste thereof, and that it is held of the said Ralph. |
June 16. Westminster. |
To the escheator in Norhamptonshire. Order to give John de
Melton knight, son and heir of William de Melton knight, livery
of the manor of Roddeston, and the issues thereof taken since the
death of Thomas Percy late earl of Worcester who was tenant
thereof for life; as in a cause in chancery between the said John
and William Brauncepath esquire, that the defendant should shew
cause wherefore letters patent thereof to him made by the king
ought not to be revoked, and livery given to the plaintiff, by
default of the defendant it was determined that so it should be
done. |
June 14. Westminster. |
To the justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order,
upon petition of Sibyl now abbess of Berkynge, to proceed to
rendering of judgment in the plea hereinafter mentioned, the
allegations of Thomas Halywelle the king's clerk and the king's
former writ notwithstanding; as for 20 marks paid in the hanaper
the late king gave to the late abbess and convent of Berkynge and
to their successors the advowson of 'Berkyngchurch' by the
Tower of London, and licence in mortmain to appropriate and
hold that church; and the king gave to the said Thomas the
wardenship of the free chapel of St. Peter within the said Tower,
then void and in his gift, with the parish church of Berkynge by
the Tower and Berkynge chapel to the chapel of St. Peter
appropriated of old time it is said; and at suit of the now
abbess, submitting that although 'Berkyngchurche' and the
parish church of Berkynge by the Tower are one and the same,
Berkynge chapel is parcel of that church and not appropriated to
the chapel of St. Peter, and although her predecessor did appropriate and peaceably hold that church with the said chapel as parcel
thereof, and she does now hold the same, by colour of the grant
made to the said Thomas she was unlawfully troubled touching
her possession thereof, and wearied with cost, travail and expense
for preservation of her right, and praying for revocation of the
king's said grant in respect of the church and chapel of Berkynge,
the king ordered the late sheriffs of London to give the said Thomas
notice to be in chancery in the octaves of Michaelmas last in order
to shew cause wherefore that ought not to be done; and at that
day the cause was sent for debate before the king, and the abbess,
appearing by Thomas Holme her attorney, craved revocation of
the grant aforesaid in regard to the church and chapel of Berkynge,
averring that she is in possession thereof, and Thomas Halywell
by Thomas Benet his attorney alleged the king's letters patent,
averring that he had that church and chapel by grant of the king,
and craving aid of the king; and at suit of the now abbess,
submitting that the justices deferred to proceed, the king after
ordered them to proceed that allegation notwithstanding, so that
they should not proceed to rendering of judgment without advising
him, and thereupon arguments and allegations were heard on either
side, and process continued to rendering of judgment; and now by
petition of the abbess the king has learned that the justices have
deferred to proceed to rendering of judgment, to the peril of her
losing the said church and chapel. |