Close Rolls, Henry IV: February 1408 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 3, 1405-1409. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1931.

'Close Rolls, Henry IV: February 1408', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 3, 1405-1409, (London, 1931) pp. 306-313. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen4/vol3/pp306-313 [accessed 23 April 2024]

February 1408



Feb. 1. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Sussex for election of a coroner instead of John Bradbregge, who is insufficiently qualified.
	Membrane 29.
Jan. 30. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Norhampton for election of a coroner instead of John Coke of Lilleburne, who dwells not in that county but in the city of London engaged upon business of his own, so that he may not have leisure for exercise of that office in Norhamptonshire.
Jan. 30. Westminster.	To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order not to trouble Robert de Plompton for his homage; as upon the finding of an inquisition, taken before Thomas Egmanton escheator in Yorkshire, that Robert de Plompton knight died seised of the manor of Sceton, (fn. 1) that Robert de Plompton son of William his son is his next heir and of full age, and that that manor is held in chief as of the manor of Spoforde now in the king's hand by reason of the forfeiture of Henry late earl of Northumberland, for a fine paid in the hanaper the king respited the homage of Robert son of William to a day yet to come; and the king has taken his homage. By p.s. [5522.]
Jan. 18. Westminster.	Edmund Rooke is sent to the abbot and convent of Stanley co. Wiltesir, to take such maintenance of that house as John Hulle deceased had at the late king's command.
Feb. 6. Westminster.	To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order to account with Ralph de Nevylle earl of Westmerland, keeper of the king's forest beyond Trent, for his receipts and for his wages and wages of the launders whatsoever, and all other things for which by reason of his office he is bound to account, from the morrow of Michaelmas 1 Henry IV to Michaelmas day 6 Henry IV, allowing for himself and the launders such wages and fees as used to be allowed to other keepers and launders, and further dealing as the nature of the account requires.
Jan. 27. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Sussex for election of a coroner instead of John Basset, who is insufficiently qualified.
Feb. 10. Westminster.	To the collectors of 3s. upon the tun of wine in the port of London. Order, upon petition of Radegund Bechet dame Mortymer, without taking custom or subsidy to deliver to her sixteen tuns one pipe of wine of Gascony now in that port; as her petition shews that the same were of her own wine sent over from Bordeaux to London for consumption of her household; and William Haysarme has made oath in chancery that the wine shall be so spent.
April 28. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Somerset for election of a coroner instead of John Roller, who is too sick and aged to travail for exercise of that office.
	Membrane 28.
Feb. 5. Westminster.	To the escheator in Yorkshire. Order to give Robert Barde, son and heir of William Barde, seisin of the lands of his father, and of such as Margaret who was wife of Robert Barde father of William held of his heritage in dower or otherwise for life; as he proved his age before Thomas Egmanton late escheator, and the king has taken his fealty, and for 20s. paid in the hanaper has respited his homage until Michaelmas next.
Feb. 10. Westminster.	To the escheator in Norhamptonshire. Order to take of Christiana who was wife of John Cressy the elder an oath etc., and in presence of Henry de Bello Monte to whom the king has granted the keeping of her husband's lands, and of the next friends of her husband's heir, who is within age and in ward of the king, or of their attorneys, to assign her dower.
	To the escheator in Bedfordshire. Like order to assign dower to the said Christiana, of whom the king has commanded the escheator in Norhamptonshire to take an oath etc.
	Like writs to the escheators in Dorset and Salop.
Feb. 15. Westminster.	To Philip Baynarde escheator in Wiltesir. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manors of Chussebury and Bynknolle, delivering to Joan daughter of Joan daughter of John de Cobham knight any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said John at his death held those manors in fee tail by gift of Robert Sholden clerk to him and the heirs of his body, with remainder to his right heirs, that they are held of others than the king, and that the said Joan his granddaughter is his next heir, and of full age.
	To William Staundoun mayor of the city of London and escheator therein. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning a messuage with six shops in the parish of St. Dunstan by the Tower of London, held of the king in free burgage as is all the city of London.
	To Robert Oxenbreg escheator in Surrey. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning 2 acres of land in Wormeshelle with the advowson of the church, which the said John held in his demesne as of fee of others than the king.
	To Thomas Clynton escheator in Kent. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning the manor of Cobham with the advowson of the collegiate church, 10l. of rent in Aldyngton, Eylesforde, 'Estmallynge,' Ditton, Leybourne, Berlynge, Cokeliston, Mepham, Nostede, Northflete, Denton, Chalke, Renham, Upchirche, Bakchilde, Rodfelde and the isle of Shepeye, the castle, manor and advowson of Coulynge, 11l. 10s. of rent in Shorne, Merston, Hegham, Clyf, Frendesbery, Strode, 'Seyntemary in Hoo, Seint Werburgh in Hoo, Halhalwelowe in Hoo,' Gillyngham and the city of Rochester, the manors of Bekkele, Pole, Stone and Bromheye by Coulynge, and the hundred of Shamele; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that John Cobham knight held the same in fee tail by gift of John Sholdoun clerk to him and the heirs of his body, with remainder to his right heirs, that the said manor, castle, advowson and rent of 11l. 10s. are held by knight service of the king as of the duchy of Lancastre, and the residue of others than the king, and that the said Joan is his next heir and of full age; and on 14 October 1 Henry IV, with assent of the parliament that year holden, the king did grant and declare that all tenants of the duchy, and of counties, honours, manors, fees, possessions and lordships thereto pertaining, and their heirs shall be as free and of as unimpaired condition in entering their heritage after the death of their ancestors, and in their tenures etc., as if the dignity of king had never fallen to him.
	Membrane 27.
Jan. 28. Westminster.	To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order to safe keep 120l. remaining in court, delivering it neither to William Pilton nor to John Hende, collector of three fourths of the subsidy upon wool in the port of London, until the judgment hereinafter mentioned shall be affirmed or quashed, or until further order; as upon complaint of the said collector that, in a cause in the exchequer concerning a debt of 120l. of him demanded by William Pilton, error crept into the record and process and the rendering of judgment, willing that any such error should be before the chancellor and treasurer corrected according to the statute, the king commanded the treasurer and barons to cause the record and process and all things concerning the same to come before the chancellor and treasurer in a chamber by the exchequer called the 'Counseilchaumbre,' that after view and examination thereof, and after hearing informations of the barons, by counsel of the justices and such others learned in the law as they should see fit to take to them the chancellor and treasurer should deal according to law and the form of the statute; and by virtue of an exchequer writ the sheriffs of London did after levy the said sum of the goods and chattels of the collector, and bring it into court, as the king has learned.
Feb. 3. Westminster.	To the escheator in Norffolk. Order to give dame Isabel Haukyn seisin of a messuage and one acre of land in Stradesete, held by Robert Herynge hanged for felony; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by William Rees late escheator, that at his death Robert Herynge held the same of her as of her manor of Stradesete by the service of 4½d. a year of rent, that by reason of his felony the premises were in the hand of King Edward III, and are yet in the king's hand, and that King Edward had the year and day, the strip and waste thereof by the hands of Edward Cretynge late sheriff.
Jan. 29. Westminster.	To the escheator in Lincolnshire. Order in presence of the farmers of the lands of Walter fitz Wauter knight and of the next friends of his heir, a minor in ward of the king, or of their attorneys, to assign dower to Hugh Burnell knight, who has taken to wife Joan who was wife of the said Walter, and to her; as for a fine paid in the hanaper the king granted her licence to marry whom she would of the king's allegiance.
	Like writ to the escheator in Essex.
Jan. 28. Westminster.	To the collectors of the new and old custom of Berewick upon Twede for the time being. Order to pay 500 marks a year to John de Lancastre the king's son and to his heirs; as Henry de Percy late earl of Northumberland held to him and his heirs the castle and constableship of Jeddeworth, the towns of Bondjeddeworth and Hassynden and the forest of Jeddeworth, with other lands etc. within the precinct of the said castle, towns and forest, and 500 marks a year of the custom aforesaid by the hands of the collectors, with the keeping of Berewick castle, taking for that office 100 marks in time of peace and 200l. in time of war, and all these are come to the king's hands by his forfeiture; and the king has given to the said John and his heirs the said 500 marks a year and the keeping of Berewyck castle, even as the earl and his ancestors had the same before his forfeiture, until provision shall be made him of 500 marks a year of land or rent. Proviso that whensoever such provision shall be made for the said John or his heirs, the yearly value of lands and rents so provided shall be deducted from the payment of the 500 marks aforesaid.
	Et erat patens.
	To the treasurer and the chamberlains for the time being. Order of the treasury to pay to John the king's son and to his heirs for keeping of the castle of Berewick upon Twede 100 marks a year in time of peace and 200l. in time of war; as Henry de Percy (as above) held etc. and 500 marks a year of the custom of the town of Berewick new and old, and the keeping of the said castle etc. (as above).
	Et erat patens.
Feb. 13. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Kent for election of a coroner in the city of Rochester instead of Thomas Godet, who is dead.
Jan. 28. Westminster.	Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Wiltesir for election of a coroner instead of William Norhampton.
	Like writ in regard to Nicholas Tympany.
Feb. 9. Westminster.	Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Westmerland in regard to John de Milnthorp, who is insufficiently qualified.
—	Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Wiltesir for election of a verderer of the forest of Grovele instead of Thomas Cuttynge, who is too sick and aged to exercise that office.
Feb. 8. Westminster.	To the collectors in the port of London of the subsidy of 3s. upon the tun of wine. Order without taking custom or subsidy to deliver to Radegund Bechet dame Mortymer sixteen tuns one pipe of wine of Gascony of her own wine sent to London from Bordeaux for consumption of her household.
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Feb. 9. Westminster.	To the escheator in Herefordshire and the march of Wales adjacent. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Bertelynghope and Walton and the manor of Wymaston in the said march, and with two thirds of 57s. of rent in Presthemde therein, two thirds of the manor of Borton co. Hereford, and two thirds of a toft, 50 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, 6 acres of wood and 5s. of rent in Gerneston, and the issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by John Bodenham late escheator, that Joan who was wife of Roger Dounton deceased, otherwise incorrectly called Joan who was wife of Thomas Dounton, at her death held the same, and the reversion of a third part of the said rent, manor, toft, land etc., then held in dower by Richard Lyngayn and Isabel his wife sometime wife of John Seyntoweyn, as sister and heir of line of Thomas Seyntoweyn brother and heir of the said John, that all are held of others than the king, and that Patrick Seynt Oweyn has taken the issues and profits thereof since the day of her death; and that inquisition being read in chancery and the matter understood, proclamation was there made for any who would give the king or council or the serjeants at law information wherefore he ought not to remove his hand, and when no man appeared, or said or alleged aught for the king, after deliberation with the justices, serjeants at law and others of the council learned in the law, it seemed to them that the seizure of the premises was improper, wherefore it was determined that the king's hand be removed as aforesaid.
Feb. 22. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Wiltesir for election of a verderer of the forest of Peuesham and Milkesham instead of Peter Frankeleyn, who is too sick and aged to exercise that office.
May 30. Westminster.	To the justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order, upon petition of John Paxton clerk, prebendary of Cicestre cathedral, to proceed to rendering of judgment in the plea hereinafter mentioned, the allegation of Thomas Shirwode one of the yeomen of the queen's kitchen and the king's former writ notwithstanding; as it is found by inquisition, of his office taken before Richard atte Sonde late escheator in Sussex, the tenor whereof the king has caused to come before him in chancery, that without obtaining licence of the king John Paxton held and occupied as parcel of his prebend a tenement and 200 acres of land in Slyndefolde called 'Thelelonde' for twelve years before the date of that inquisition, and that the same is worth 4l. a year; and at his suit, shewing that that land was held by him and the prebendaries of Slyndefolde his predecessors in right of their prebend time out of mind, until by colour of the said inquisition and of letters patent whereby it was granted by the king to Thomas Shirwode he was unlawfully thrust out, as he is ready to prove, without that that he held it otherwise, as by the inquisition supposed, or otherwise purchased the same, and praying that the said letters patent be revoked, and to be restored to his first estate with the issues thereof taken in the mean time, the king ordered the sheriff to give the said Thomas notice to be in chancery at a day now past, in order to shew cause for the king or for himself wherefore that ought not to be done; and upon the return of that writ by the sheriff the cause was sent for debate before the king, and both parties appearing in person, Thomas Shirwode said that, for good and unpaid service to the king's father and to the king, the king granted him the premises for life, which without licence of the king were occupied by the prebendary for twelve years before 27 April 4 Henry IV as parcel of his prebend, up to the value of 4l. a year, so that he should answer at the exchequer for any surplus, and produced the letters patent, dated Hereforde 12 September 4 Henry IV, craving aid of the king, wherefore the justices deferred to proceed; and upon petition of John Paxton the king after commanded them to proceed that allegation notwithstanding, so that they should not proceed to rendering of judgment without advising the king; and now his petition shews that it is pleaded to judgment, but that by virtue of that writ the justices have deferred to proceed to rendering of judgment without special command of the king.
	Membrane 25.
Feb. 14. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Essex and Hertford. Order by mainprise of Walter Medros of Cornwall, Hugh Richard of Wiltesir, Thomas Beston and John Hille, both of London, to set free John Herynge imprisoned in Hertford gaol; as lately the king ordered the sheriff to have the prisoner in chancery at a day now past, with the cause of his imprisonment, and he certified that the prisoner was taken at Berkynge co. Essex upon suspicion of larceny, and was sent to that gaol by William Skrene one of the guardians of the peace in Essex; and now he has made petition to be set free, shewing that he is ready to answer touching the premises, and Walter Medros and the others have mainperned in chancery body for body to have him before the justices of gaol delivery at their next coming to deliver the said gaol.
	To the bailiffs of Berkynge of the abbess of Berkynge. Order upon petition of John Herynge, by mainprise (as in the last) to deliver to him his goods and chattels to the value of 20 marks; as he was taken and sent to gaol (as above), as the sheriff has certified in chancery, and the king ordered the sheriff (as above); and now his petition shews that the bailiffs have arrested and are unlawfully detaining divers goods and chattels of his to the value aforesaid, and Walter Medros and the others have mainperned in chancery to answer for the same if forfeit, or for the price or value thereof, up to the said sum.
Feb. 14. Westminster.	To the collectors in the port of Suthampton of the subsidy of 3s. the tun and 12d. in the pound. Order to suffer Andrew Centurionis merchant of Genoa (Janua), and all other merchants of Genoa, to keep in their own hands that subsidy upon their goods and merchandise by them imported or exported up to the sum of 366l. 13s. 4d., any former command of the king to the contrary notwithstanding; as by the hands of Thomas Chaucer his chief butler the king lately took as a loan from the said Andrew wine for consumption of his household to that amount, and his will is that prompt payment be made. By K.
	Et erat patens.
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Feb. 16. Westminster.	To the escheator in Berkshire. Order to take an oath etc. of Anne who was wife of Fulk Fitz Waryn, son and heir of Fulk Filz Waryn knight, Fulk the son having died within age in ward of the king, and in presence of the farmers of the said knight's lands, and the next friends of the heir of Fulk the son, a minor in ward of the king, or of their attorneys, to assign her dower.
	To the escheator in Herefordshire and the march of Wales adjacent. Like order to assign dower to the said Anne, of whom the king has commanded the escheator in Berkshire to take an oath etc.
	Like writs to the escheators in the following counties:
	Wiltesir.
	Stafford.
	Somerset.
	Salop and the march etc.
	Devon.
	Gloucester.