Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1384

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 2, 1381-1385. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1920.

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'Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1384', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 2, 1381-1385, (London, 1920) pp. 518-519. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol2/pp518-519 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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December 1384

Membrane 19.
Dec. 22.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Norffolk and Suffolk for the time being. Writ de intendendo, and order at his peril under pain of the king's wrath to suffer Queen Anne to have and hold all castles, lordships, manors, lands etc. in his bailiwick to her assigned by the king in dower and for life, to enjoy the liberties and privileges hereinafter mentioned, and to levy and take all fines, ransoms, forfeited issues, the year and a day and waste, forfeitures and other profits therein, delivering from time to time estreats to her bailiffs and ministers, and to cause notice to be given and proclamation made of this command when required on her behalf; as by divers letters patent the king has assigned to her divers castles etc. in divers counties with knights' fees, advowsons of religious houses, hospitals, churches and chapels, wards, marriages and escheats of all tenants thereof, though elsewhere they be tenants in chief as of the crown or otherwise, forests, chaces, parks, woods, warrens, fairs, markets, waters, ways, fisheries, commons, assarts, wastes and purprestures, arrentations and rents of assarts, wastes and purprestures made in forests, parks, chaces etc. in the times of former kings and of the king or hereafter to be made, and fines for entry thereof, courts, views of frankpledge, hundreds, wapentakes, 'wrek' and 'wayf,' royalties and free customs to the same pertaining, granting that she shall have for life all fines etc. of men and tenants in the said lands etc. and in the fees thereof, and all that the king might have of the year and a day, waste, forfeitures and murders in any courts of the king made and adjudged, as well before the king and in chancery as before the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer, justices in eyre for common pleas and pleas of the forest, justices of the Bench, the steward and marshals of the household, the clerk of the market, and other his justices and ministers whatsoever, as fully as if the premises were kept in the king's hand, so that she may levy and take the same by her bailiffs and ministers by estreats of such justices in their eyres, of the steward, marshals and clerk in their sessions, and by estreats of the exchequer to the said ministers delivered by the sheriffs in whose bailiwicks such lands etc. are, without let of the king, his bailiffs or ministers; and that in the said lands etc. and in the fees thereof she shall have the chattels of felons and fugitives, so that if any of her men and tenants or others therein ought to lose (admittere) life or limb for his misdeed, or become a fugitive and will not abide judgment, wherever justice ought to be done in the king's court or any other, such chattels shall be hers, and it shall be lawful to put her in seisin thereof without let of the king, his sheriffs or other bailiffs or ministers; also that in the said lands etc. she shall have the return of all writs of the king, the summons of all estreats and orders of the exchequer, and orders and estreats of justices in eyre and other justices whatsoever, and the execution of writs of summons of estreats and orders, to be by her bailiffs etc. made, so that no sheriff or minister of the king shall enter the premises to execute the same save upon default of her or her bailiffs, and by writs of the king she shall have justices in eyre whom she shall nominate for pleas of the forest when need be in all her forests, and all fines etc. and other profits of such eyres arising for trespasses of vert and venison, misdeeds and other causes, taking the same by her bailiffs and ministers by delivery to them of estreats of such justices, and fines etc. and profits of such as be not of or in her lands etc. she shall take at the exchequer by the hands of the sheriffs and bailiffs of liberties, as the king should do if the same pertained to him; and if sheriffs and bailiffs of liberties, hundreds, wapentakes and trithings shall be remiss in executions for her, whereby they shall be amerced or fined in the exchequer or other courts, such fines and amercements shall be hers.
The like to the following sheriffs for the time being:
The sheriff of Sussex.
The sheriff of Suthampton.
The sheriff of Cantebrigge.
The sheriff of York.
The sheriff of Norhampton.
The sheriff of Essex.
The sheriff of Lincoln.
The sheriff of Oxford and Berkshire.
The sheriff of Kent.
The sheriff of Cornwall.
The sheriff of Bukingham.
The sheriff of Bristol.