Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1395

December 1395

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 5, 1392-1396. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1925.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1395', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 5, 1392-1396, (London, 1925) pp. 451-452. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol5/pp451-452 [accessed 23 April 2024]

Dec. 6.
Westminster.

To the escheator in Cornwall. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the moiety of the lands of Joceus Tregemygnoun which was kept in his hand, delivering up any issues thereof taken since the death of John Robyn; as upon the finding of an inquisition, taken before John Aston late escheator, that the said Joceus was seised of twelve messuages, three carucates of land and 20s. of rent in Tregemynyoun, Trenewen, Croghtov, Tregessyell, Keguyn and Bossnyoun, and had a son named Richard and two daughters, Sibyl and Isabel, that he died, and Richard his son and heir was thereof seised, and had a son named James, that he died, and James was thereof seised, and died without issue, that the first daughter of Joceus called Sibyl was married to John Lanyeyn, and they had issue a son named Ralph, and the said John died, that the second daughter called Isabel was married to John Robyn, a neif of the princess as of her dower in Cornwall, that the said Sibyl, John Robyn and Isabel were seised of the premises, and granted them all to the said Ralph and to the heirs of his body, and that by virtue of their grant the said Ralph was thereof seised, taking all the profits, until by reason of the neifty of John Robyn James atte Parke keeper of the fees of the princess in Cornwall took the premises into her hand, and thrust out the said Ralph, wherefore the same were in the king's hand by death of the princess, and after mature deliberation in chancery with the justices, serjeants of law and others of the council learned in the law, being aware that the feodary of the princess his mother seized the moiety of the premises without process of law, and reckoning the seizure of that moiety insufficient and undue, the king ordered the said late escheator to remove his hand and meddle no further with that moiety, delivering to the said Ralph any issues thereof taken; and the said John Robyn, otherwise called John Luky, is now dead without issue, wherefore it seems to the court agreeable with the law that the other moiety, (fn. 1) [kept in the king's hand] by reason of his neifty should remain [no] longer in his hand.

Nov. 30.
Westminster.

To the escheator in Gloucestershire. Order to take of Margaret who was wife of Thomas de Brewose knight the father an oath etc., and to give her livery of the manor of Tettebury, extended at 40 marks a year which, with the advowson of the church of Manyngford Brewes co. Wiltesir, to present at every other turn, the king has assigned to her of the lands etc. of her husband, which came to the king's hands by his death and by reason of the nonage of Thomas his son, who died a minor in ward of the king, and are yet in his hand by reason of the nonage of Joan sister and heir of Thomas the son, who likewise died a minor in ward of the king, the assignment being made with assent of William Heroun knight who has taken to wife Elizabeth cousin and heir of the said Joan, and of John Clerke attorney of the said Margaret.

To the escheator in Wiltesir. Order to give the said Margaret livery of the advowson of the church of Manyngford Brewes (as above), which among other lands etc. the king has assigned to her in dower, having commanded the escheator in Gloucestershire to take of her an oath etc.

Dec. 20.
York.

To Giles Jurdan of Lughtburgh. Strict order at his peril and under pain of forfeiture before the quinzaine of St. Hilary next to deliver and make restitution to the abbot and convent of St. Mary de Pratis by Leycestre of the tithes, oblations, proventions and obventions by him stolen, withheld and of his own authority occupied without process of law, or the value thereof if they exist not, and if there be any notable cause wherefore he ought not so to do, order to be in person in chancery in the quinzaine aforesaid in order to shew the same, when with equal balance the king will do justice between the parties; as by loud report of many it has come to the king's ears that, fearing not the king's majesty neither pondering equity and justice, the said Giles by his own sole authority without process of law has rashly and wilfully with violence thrust out and robbed the abbot and convent of the tithes etc. of the hamlet of Wodehouse within the bounds of their parish church of Barwe upon Sore, to them and their predecessors appropriated time out of mind, withholding and wickedly occupying the same no small time contrary to justice and good conscience and against their will; and the king is wroth at the oppression of the church, and his will is to save the abbey harmless so far as with justice he may, as he is bound to do, being of the foundation of former kings and of his patronage, lest it be in peril of losing its rights or vexed with excessive expenses. By K.