Close Rolls, Richard II: November 1390

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1922.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: November 1390', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392, (London, 1922) pp. 211-216. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol4/pp211-216 [accessed 24 April 2024]

November 1390



Nov. 8. Westminster.	To the sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the time being. Order to pay to Nicholas Ryuenettes of Polayn (fn. 1) 20l. a year for life and the arrears since 19 May last, on which date for good service the king granted him 20l. a year of the issues and profits of the city of London and county of Middlesex for life or until the king should take other order for his estate.
	Et erat patens.
Nov. 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Cumberland for the time being. Order to pay to Richard Redman knight 40 marks a year for life; as on 5 November last with assent of the council the king granted him for life 40 marks a year of the issues and revenues of that county, retaining him for life with the king.
	Et erat patens.
	Membrane 38.
Nov. 8. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York for the time being. Order to pay to John de Overton esquire for life 20l. a year of the issues of that county, to him granted by the king with assent of the council.
	Membrane 37.
Nov. 23. Westminster.	To the farmers or occupiers of the subsidy of alnage upon cloths in the counties of Bristol etc. Order in favour of Roger de Claryngdoun (as above, p. 210).
	Et erat patens.
Nov. 25. Westminster.	To the chamberlain of Southwales for the time being. Order of the issues of the king's receipt there to pay to Roger Wygmore his esquire the wages and fees belonging to the office of constable of Kermerdyn castle, which by letters patent of 22 November last the king granted him for life for good service, with the wages and fees.
	Et erat patens.
Nov. 23. Westminster.	To Thomas Kempe of Wy escheator in Kent. Order to give Robert son of James son of Robert de Notyngham, being cousin and heir of Robert de Notyngham tenant by knight service of the archbishopric of Canterbury lately void and in the late king's hand, seisin of his said grandfather's lands; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and the late king took the fealty of Simon Sudbury then archbishop elect and confirmed, and restored to him the temporalities of the archbishopric, commanding livery thereof to be given him.
Nov. 24. Westminster.	To William Pappeworth escheator in Cambridgeshire. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Westle, delivering to Clarice late the wife of Edmund Vauncy the younger any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that at his death the said Edmund held that manor as jointly enfeoffed with her of others than the king, by gift of Thomas atte Boure and John Chalers chaplain to them and the heirs of their bodies.
Nov. 18. Westminster.	To William Flamville escheator in Leycestershire. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning the manor of Roleston, which Hugh Cheyne knight at his death held of others than the king as jointly enfeoffed with Joan his wife.
	Membrane 35. (fn. 2)
Nov. 23. Westminster.	To William Kymberley escheator in Essex. Order to take of John Pritewelle, son of John Pritewelle and Rose his wife, security for payment of his relief, and to give him seisin of 3 acres of wood in Estwode sometime of Pecches tenement, but to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with a messuage, 20 acres of land and 4 acres of wood there called Virlyes, a messuage with curtilage and garden in Pritewelle, three pieces of land there with six shops thereupon built, and a messuage, 12 acres of land and 12 acres of wood in Estwode, Legh and Haddelegh in the hundred of Rocheforde, delivering to John the son any issues thereof taken since the death of Thomas son and heir of the said Rose; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that all the premises came to the king's hands by her death and by reason of the nonage of the said Thomas, who died within age in ward of the king, that the said 3 acres are held of the king as of the manor of Estwode by service of 12d. a year, and the residue of others than the king, and that John the son is brother and next heir of the said Thomas, and of full age; and the king has taken his fealty.
	To Robert Sibthorp escheator in Surrey. Order to take an oath etc. of Elizabeth who was wife of John de Arundell knight, tenant by knight service of the heir of Edward le Despenser a minor in ward of the king, and in presence of John de Holand earl of Huntyngdon, to whom the king has committed the ward of two thirds of her husband's lands, to assign her dower.
Oct. 8. Westminster.	To the constable and marshal of England and their representatives. Prohibition, as at another time, against any proceeding in a cause before them in the king's court of chivalry concerning the ransom of the count of Denia between John Hoton plaintiff, alleged grantee and proctor to his own use of Maud de Haule pretending to be sister and sole heir of Robert Haule, and John Shakel esquire defendant, or any attempt to the prejudice of the appellant, preventing his freedom to prosecute his appeal, while such appeal is pending before the king; as appeal is made to the king against certain alleged grievances by the constable and marshal inflicted on the defendant in the said court, as appears by a notarial instrument produced in chancery.
	Membrane 34.
Oct. 5. Westminster.	To the collectors of the subsidy of 6d. in the pound and of the petty custom in the port of London. Order without taking custom or subsidy thereupon to suffer Edmund Halstede burgess of Calais by himself and his servants to lade in ships in that port and send over to Calais 42,000 tiles, 2,000 laths, 200 pieces of white board and a barrel with divers iron nails by him bought and purveyed for repair of certain houses of his there, any former command of the king to the contrary notwithstanding.
Dec. 2. Westminster.	To the chief butler for the time being, or to his representative in the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to Richard Abberbury knight one tun of wine a year for life, and the arrears since 3 March last, on which date for his good service a long while the king granted him for life one tun a year of the king's right prise in the said port.
	Et erat patens.
Oct. 24. Westminster.	To John Longeville escheator in Bedfordshire. Order to take the fealty of William Whyte, and to give him seisin of a messuage with croft adjacent in Wylden, of another croft containing 2 acres, and of 27½ acres of land there; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Richard Blount deceased by charter made a feoffment thereof in fee simple to the said William his bastard son, and that the same are held in chief as of the honour of Peverell by the service of ⅓lb. of pepper and cumin.
Nov. 27. Westminster.	To the same. Order to take of John Morice security for payment of his relief, and to give the said John and Agnes his wife seisin of a messuage, 18 acres of land and 3 roods of meadow in Wyldene; as the king has learned by divers inquisitions, taken by the escheator, that Richard Blount at his death held the same of the late king as of the honour of Peverell, by the service of rendering ¼lb. of pepper and 1lb. of cumin, and that Agnes Morice is his daughter and next heir, and of full age; and the king has taken the fealty of the said John.
	Membrane 33.
Nov. 30. Westminster.	To the collectors of customs and subsidies in the port of London. Order under pain of forfeiture, for particular causes moving the king and council in this parliament, to suffer no wool, hides or woolfells to be there shipped or taken over to any foreign parts until further order.
	Like writs to the collectors in the following ports:
	Sandewich.
	Gippewich.
	Lenne.
	St. Botolphs town.
	Newcastle upon Tyne.
	Kyngeston upon Hull.
	Great Jernemuth.
	Bristol.
	Cicestre.
	Suthampton.
	Exeter.
	Plymmouth.
	Melcombe.
Nov. 22. Westminster.	To the sheriffs of London. Order by mainprise of Thomas Porter 'barbour,' John Spycer the elder, John Spycer the younger and Richard Palmer, all of London, to set free John Boreby, imprisoned in Neugate prison at suit of the king and John Ikelyngton for leaving John Ikelyngton's service before the term agreed.
Nov. 22. Westminster.	To the collectors of the subsidy of 6d. in the pound in the port of London. Order to suffer John Wythefist servant of the duke of Gelre to lade in ships there and, after payment of customs, subsidies etc. thereupon due, to send over to the duke certain pieces of tin and vessels of pewter, price 36l., bought and purveyed to his use, any former command of the king to the contrary notwithstanding.
	[Fœdera.]
Nov. 28. Westminster.	To the constable of the Tower of London and his lieutenant. Order by mainprise of Robert Swynbourne, Thomas Swynbourne, William Wyngefelde, John Peyton and William Burgate knights to set free John Rokele of Essex, imprisoned in the Tower prison by command of the king; as they have mainperned body for body etc. to have him before the king and council in this parliament upon warning received, or when and where the king shall please, to answer touching what shall be laid against him. By K. and C. in parl.
Nov. 28. Westminster.	To William Brynchesle. Order by mainprise of John Bygenet of Middlesex, Robert Langele of Holburne, Hugh Wynkburne and William Fote of Holburne to set free John Bagot chaplain of Mestham, indicted for trespass before the said William and his fellows guardians of the peace and justices of oyer and terminer in Surrey, and imprisoned in Gildeforde gaol.
Nov. 26. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of Stafford. Strict order, as they will answer it at their peril, in order to avoid peril and harm which are to be feared in default of closing of the gates of the town, wherein (in qua) prisoners and felons of Staffordshire ought to be kept in custody, by sudden entry of evildoers of Wales and Cheshire, who for lack of ward have heretofore entered the town by night, taken and carried away such prisoners and felons, and done other grievous mischief, to cause the gates to be repaired, and to be fastened and kept fast every night, that no such peril happen by their default.
Nov. 13. Westminster.	To the farmers, keepers, collectors, approwers or attorneys of the issues and profits arising from the subsidy upon cloth for sale within the city of London. Order, upon petition of William Pirie clerk of the king's privy wardrobe, if in part or in whole he has not had 7½d. a day for his wages and 40s. a year for his gown of the issues of the alnage since 1 July last, to pay him the arrears thereof until now; as by letters patent of that date under the great seal with assent of the council the king granted him those sums of the issues and profits of the alnage of cloth in the said city by the farmer's hands, for his good service in the king's chamber, and in recompense for like sums which by the king's grant he used to take from the treasurer within the household, until he should be advanced to a benefice according to the statute of the household; and because by grant of the late king, confirmed by the king, the issues and profits of the alnage are granted to William Hervy for life without rendering aught, William Pirie may have no payment; and he has given up those letters patent in chancery to be cancelled. By p.s. [6725. (fn. 3) ]
Nov. 30. Westminster.	To the keepers of the passage in the port of Dovorre. Order to suffer Colinet Arnaud servant of the count of St. Paul and Philip Arnaud herald of the French King, who in that port are sailing to Calais or elsewhere in France by licence of the king, to pass thither with six persons, ten horses, their gowns and harness whatsoever, taking 100l. which the king has given to the count, and 10 marks for their expenses, twelve broad bows for the wood and two sheaves of barbed arrows for the woods, any former command of the king to the contrary notwithstanding. By p.s. [6788.]