Edward I: Easter 1293

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1293 Easter

Introduction Easter 1293

Westminster (?and Canterbury)

Easter parliament (April-July)

The parliament held after Easter in 1293 was probably simply summoned to deal with the normal routine business that had accumulated and marks the intended resumption of the earlier pattern of regular parliaments at Westminster or elsewhere in southern England after Easter and Michaelmas each year after the interruptions of the Great Cause. (fn. foot-1293e-1) However, by the time it opened, there had been some fighting between Norman and English sailors and there was a pitched battle between them at sea while parliament was in session. It thus seems likely that one of the important matters considered by the king's council during this parliament were arrangements for concluding a truce with the French and the powers of the two embassies sent to Paris in May and July. (fn. foot-1293e-2)

There are no surviving writs of summons for this parliament. The heading of the first membrane of Roll 6 appears to show that it is the record of a parliament held at 'London' 'after Easter' in 1293. The Handbook of British Chronology therefore simply notes that it was summoned for some time after 29 March (Easter day). (fn. foot-1293e-3) Greater precision is possible. It is unlikely that parliament opened much before 17 April, when the king reached Westminster. The earliest datable recorded business is assigned to three weeks after Easter (probably meaning the period of about a week after 19 April). (fn. foot-1293e-4) The idea that it was held in 'London' is derived from that same heading, which describes the location as being, more specifically, the manor-house of the archbishop of York. However, what is clearly the same house is described in the agreement settling the dispute between the abbess of Fontévrault and the prioress of Amesbury as the archbishop's house at Westminster, (fn. foot-1293e-5) and the archbishop's house was indeed close to the king's palace and in Westminster, not London. (fn. foot-1293e-6) There is further datable recorded business that is assigned to one month after Easter (the week beginning 26 April), (fn. foot-1293e-7) and a mandate authorising delivery of Tyndale to John Balliol, king of Scotland, provided he came to perform homage for it, was issued under the authorisation of king and council on 3 May. (fn. foot-1293e-8) The ordinance on the arrears of service owed from tenements formerly held by Jews that is undated on the Roll was communicated to the exchequer by a writ of 10 May and so probably belongs to that date. (fn. foot-1293e-9) Unrecorded on the roll is an ordinance of council made by the assent of Gascon and other merchants selling wine in London on the price of wine in Oxford and Cambridge issued on 20 May 1293 at Westminster with an order for its proclamation in the two university towns. (fn. foot-1293e-10) It was on or shortly before 23 May that the king gave a decision in parliament at Westminster about the fee due to the king's chamberlain on the performance of homage by John de Balliol for the kingdom of Scotland, (fn. foot-1293e-11) and this was followed by the non- appearance of Balliol to answer Macduff on the morrow of Trinity (the week beginning 25 May), (fn. foot-1293e-12) and the admission of Roger of Higham and John of Mutford by king and council to sue as the king's serjeants in the eyre on 27 May. (fn. foot-1293e-13) On 5 June begin a series of chancery enrolments warranted by petitions or inquisitions considered by council, presumably in parliament, or giving details of legislation or ordinances enacted there which are often unrecorded elsewhere, (fn. foot-1293e-14) while an enrolment on SC 9/6 records business done before king and council, probably in parliament, on 14 June, (fn. foot-1293e-15) and an exchequer enrolment records the seizure into the king's hands in the parliament at Westminster on 27 June of a view of frankpledge in dispute between John Giffard and Ralph Pipard. (fn. foot-1293e-16) Another enrolment on Roll 6 must belong to June 1293 but its precise date is not known. (fn. foot-1293e-17) The last of the series of chancery enrolments authorised by a petition or inquisition considered by council belongs to 1 July and the king left Westminster on 2 July. It was probably at the very end of the session also that the king and council discussed Irish matters and decided to send the mandate of 1 July to the justiciar William de Vescy to stop him proceeding with a planned expedition into Ossory. (fn. foot-1293e-18) There is enrolled material from a session of king and council at Canterbury in July reflecting business heard there at the quindene of St John the Baptist, probably meaning the week after 8 July, (fn. foot-1293e-19) on the Friday after St Margaret (24 July), (fn. foot-1293e-20) and on the Friday after the Advinculation (31 July). (fn. foot-1293e-21) This has been regarded as a continuation of the Westminster parliament, but none of the surviving records associated with this session describe it as a meeting of parliament, and it is perhaps best seen as being a separate meeting of the king's council, rather than as a continuation of the earlier parliament. (fn. foot-1293e-22)

Membranes 1-6 (excluding m. 6d) of SC 9/6 record proceedings at this parliament or at the closely associated succeeding council meeting at Canterbury in July 1293. Other business done during the Easter parliament is recorded on membrane 1 of SC 9/7 while business done at the Canterbury meeting is recorded on membrane 8 of the same Roll. Membrane 9 of SC 9/5 records business done in advance of, and in connection with, this parliament though not at this parliament itself.

Appendix Easter 1293

Petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded

1

Petition of John de Hastings claiming Newcastle Emlyn as his escheat because it had been held by Rees ap Meredith as of his castle of Kilgerran; William de Valence counter- claimed it on the grounds Rees had held it of him and his wife Joan; referral from the council to King's Bench for jury trial

Source : KB 27/137, m. 30 (King's Bench plea roll for Trinity term 1293

2

Complaint of abbot of Strata Florida made to king in parliament after Easter of 1293 against Edmund de Mortimer for distraining him to come to court of Kedderwyn to king's prejudice; Tibetot and Thornton assigned to hear and determine this complaint; ends in concord accepted by king enrolled in King's Bench

Source : KB 27/137, m. 21d ((King's Bench plea roll for Trinity term 1293

3

Enrolment noting that on 19 November 1293 the remembrancer John of Kirkby handed over to master Thomas de Luggore clerk an inquisition taken by Malcolm de Harley, the king's escheator, concerning a tenement which Richard de Haleford held of the gift and concession of Robert le Waleys, as he said, and the writ, which were returned from the last Easter parliament with other petitions (enrolment captioned: 'concerning a certain parliamentary petition delivered to master Thomas de Luggore')

Source : E 159/67, m. 8 (King's Remembrancer Memoranda Roll for 1293-4)

4

Petition of Roger Bigod earl of Norfolk in the parliament held a month after Easter 1293 in regard to his debts

Source : Sayles, Functions of the Parliament of England , 210 (from the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Memoranda Roll for Michaelmas 1294)

5

Verbal instruction delivered by Robert Tibetot as agent of king and council to Gilbert de Thornton in King's Bench in response to a complaint made by the abbot of St Benet Hulme to king and council in full parliament that the sheriff and coroners of Norfolk were exceeding their orders in complying with orders to remove obstructions to water passage between Ludham and Irstead requiring him to issue an order reminding them of their duty not to exceed their orders

Source : KB 27/136, m. 3d (King's Bench plea roll for Easter term 1293)

Legislation

1

Ordinance on claims to arrears of service from tenements formerly held by Jews and subsequently forfeited and regranted. Dated 10 May 1293 at Westminster.

Source : E 159/66, m. 26 (King's Remembrancer Memoranda Roll) [same as undated enrolment on SC 9/6 (item 25)].

2

Proclamation of ordinance of king and council made by the assent of Gascon and other merchants selling wine in London on the price of wine in Oxford and Cambridge. Dated 20 May 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CCR 1288-96 , 284

3

Ordinance made by king and council, reissued in amended form (after cancellation of ordinance as originally issued on 3 June), on complaint by barons of Cinque Ports and other sailors of England, Ireland and Bayonne of late payment by merchants of Gascony and others for transport, requiring surety for payment to be provided once wine is unloaded into cellars and before it is removed. Dated 8 June 1293 at Westminster

Source: CPR 1292-1301 , 18, 21 [related to SC 9/6, item 34 (part)]

4

Ordinance for handling petitions delivered into parliament: for examiners to separate out those relating to chancery, exchequer and justices and those going before king and council and those which have been answered previously; and to report matters to king before they begin to deliver them. Dated 11 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CCR 1288-96 , 289 (and printed in full in Ryley, Placita , 459); other version on LTR Memoranda Roll for Trinity 1293, m. 26 translated by Sayles in Functions of the Medieval Parliament , 209 (and parallel text in E 159/66, m. 28d)

5

Royal acceptance of limitation date of reign of Richard I in actions of quo waranto and writs of right brought in his name. Dated 12 July 1293 at Canterbury.

Source: CCR 1288-96 , 294 (and printed in full in Ryley, Placita , 459).

6

Statute de malefactoribus in parcis. Undated but related mandate to justices of Yorkshire eyre specifically relating the legislation to the specific case involving the foresters of the earl of Cornwall at Knaresborough is dated 15 June [recte 15 July] 1293 at Canterbury.

Source : SC 9/6, item 33 (printed from this text in SR , i, 111-2); JUST 1/1098, m. 22d

7

Statute de justiciariis assignatis . Undated but the related new commissions were issued probably in the second week of June 1293: CCR 1288-96 , pp. 319-20.

Source : SC 9/6, item 28 (printed from this text in SR , i, 112); there is a virtually identical penultimate draft of the text in C 49/2, no. 21

8

Ordinance of conspirators. Undated

Source : SC 9/6, no. 14; related mandate enrolled in King's Bench as communicated by Rothbury as a clerk of the council but with the heading dictum regis in Trinity term 1293: KB 27/137, m. 12

9

Ordinance that in future the accounts of Gascony and Ireland be heard each year at the English Exchequer. Undated

Source : SC 9/6, item 23

Evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere

1

Mandate issued on 18 August 1292 for removal of admeasurement of dower case ( Malekak v. Lisle ) previously transferred by writ of error from Common Bench to King's Bench for hearing before king and council at next parliament after Easter.

Source : KB 27/134, m. 12 (King's Bench plea roll for Michaelmas term 1292) and see KB 27/137, mm. 43-45 (King's Bench plea roll for Trinity term 1293) for the subsequent reference back of this case to the justices of King's Bench

2

Mandate after inquisition to escheator north of the Trent to deliver possession of Tynedale to John de Balliol king of Scotland provided he comes to perform homage for it. By king and council. Dated 3 May 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CCR 1288-96 , 281

3

Grant to Christine de Mariscis that when has recovered her lands in Ireland she may dispose of them as she wishes notwithstanding prior agreement between herself and the king and the late queen Eleanor to grant them the lands once she had recovered them and in return receive a grant of lands of equal value in England jointly with Isabel de Vynoys for their lives. By petition of council. Dated 5 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 21.

4

Grant of English law to Nicholas son of Bricius, an Irishman, for life. By petition before king and council. Dated 6 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 21.

5

Grant to prioress and nuns of Stainfield of free warren in all their demesne lands at Stainfield and Apley. By king and petition of council. Dated 8 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CChR 1257-1300 , 428.

6

Mandate to exchequer to charge heirs and not executors of Philip Marmion with debts of Philip to the King. By petition of council on the information of G. of Rothbury. Dated 9 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CCR 1288-96, 287.

7

Remission to abbot of Robertsbridge of homage demanded for manor of Lamberhurst on basis that held of barony of Leeds which king and late queen Eleanor had acquired, as it had been found before the king and council that manor was held in frankalmoin and so no homage due. Dated 10 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 21.

8

Pardon to a brother of the Templars of amercement before the justices of the forest. By petition of the council. Dated 10 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CCR 1288-96 , 289

9

Grant of English law to Peter Clauthnan of Brygowe, an Irishman, and his posterity. By petition of council. Dated 12 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 22.

10

Licence for alienation in mortmain by John de Methelwold to Bromhill priory. By king and council. Dated 14 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 25.

11

Grant to Hugh de Rouceby, who has long served in king's leper hospital of Holy Innocents outside Lincoln and is now infirm, that may receive maintenance there for life as one of sick. By petition of council. Dated 15 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 23.

12

Licence for alienations in mortmain to abbey of St Radegund by Dover. By inquisition returned from council. Dated 15 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CPR 1292-1301 , 24

13

Licence for alienation in mortmain by Cecily daughter of Walter de St Edmund's to the Gilbertine priory of Cambridge. By king and inquisition returned from council. Dated 15 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 25

14

Licence for alienation in mortmain to nunnery of Cotham. By inquisition returned from council. Dated 15 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 28

15

Grant to prior and convent of Llanthony Secunda of free warren in eight Gloucestershire villages and one Bedfordshire village. By king by petition of council on information of Gilbert of Rothbury. Dated 15 June 1292 at Westminster.

Source : CChR 1257-1300 , 428

16

Grant of English law to Richard Neel, Walter Neel and Roger son of David, Irishmen, for their lives. By petition of council. Dated 16 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 23

17

Licence for alienation in mortmain to John of Mettingham as rector of St John, Ilketshall. By inquisition returned from the Council. Dated 18 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 24

18

Licence for alienation in mortmain by Edmund of Lancaster to Franciscan nuns of land in St Botolph Aldgate. By king, by inquisition returned from council. Dated 18 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CPR 1292-1301 , 24

19

Licence for alienation in mortmain by way of exchange between William of Felton and Brinkburn priory. By inquisition exhibited before council. Dated 18 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CPR 1292-1301 , 26

20

Licence for alienation in mortmain by William Hamelyn to chaplain in chapel of St Mary in Wymondham church. By king, by inquisition returned from council. Dated 19 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 25.

21

Licence for alienations in mortmain to Ulvescroft priory. By inquisition returned from council. Dated 20 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 25.

22

Licence for alienation in mortmain by Philip Paynel to Roche abbey. By petition returned from council. Dated 20 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 28

23

Pardon of unlicensed alienation in mortmain to church of St Benedict, Huntingdon. By inquisition exhibited before king and council. Dated 20 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 28

24

Grant to Sandford priory of free warren in all their demesne lands in Sandford and Enborne. By petition returned from council. Dated 20 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CChR 1257-1300 , 428

25

Grant to Sempringham priory of a fair at 'Wrightebald' and a free warren at Ringstone. By king and petition of council at instance of John of Mettingham. Dated 20 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CChR 1257-1300 , 429

26

Licence for alienation in mortmain by Hugh of Cressingham to Spinney priory. By inquisition returned from council. Dated 22 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 26

27

Licence for alienations in mortmain and pardon of unlicensed alienation in mortmain to the Knights Templar. By inquisition returned from council, because made fine before treasurer for trespass in receiving unlicensed grant. Dated 22 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CPR 1292-1301 , 26

28

Murage grant for seven years to the city of Carlisle. By king, by petition of council, on the information of master John of Thame. Dated 23 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 29

29

Mandate to the constable of the Tower of London to free Duncan Mactoryn as error found by inspection and examination before king and council in record and process of outlawry lately promulgated against him in Isle of Man for divers trespasses and outlawry wholly annulled. Dated 23 June at Westminster.

Source : CCR 1288-96, 290

30

Pardon of half the farm due from Carlisle for 20 Edward I when city burnt by accident. By king and petition of council. Dated 24 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CCR 1288-96, 291

31

Simple protection in Ireland for Nicholas bishop of Kildare, while staying in England. By king and council. Dated 24 June 1293 at Westminster..

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 28

32

Licence for alienation in mortmain to Missenden abbey. By inquisition returned into chancery by council. Dated 24 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 29

33

Licence for alienation in mortmain to nunnery of Grace Dieu. By inquisition exhibited before council. Dated 24 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 29

34

Pardon of amercement of Thomas son of Lambert of Moulton for setting up market in Moulton. By king and petition of council. Dated on 24 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CCR 1288-96 , 291

35

Pardon to abbot of Dieulacres of £780 for arrears of farm of manor of Rossall. By king, by petition of council, on information of Gilbert of Rothbury. Dated on 24 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source: CCR 1288-96 , 291

36

Inspeximus and attestation of charter for city of Carlisle by Henry III burnt by accident. By king, by petition of council. Dated 28 June 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 28

37

Commission to John of Havering and Osbert of Spaldington to enquire as to men of Winchelsea, Portsmouth and Great Yarmouth who assaulted mariners of Bayonne touching at Isle of Wight with ships, plundered goods and killed some; and bailiffs of Isle of Wight and Portsmouth to attach those found guilty to appear before king a fortnight after midsummer to receive judgment ordained by king and council: vacated because on dorse (but not there, though writ in same terms attached). Dated 30 June 1293at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 29

38

Pardon of fines from city of Carlisle for escapes. By king and petition of council. Dated 1 July 1293 at Westminster

Source : CCR 1288-96 , 292

39

Conditional pardon of outlawry of Yorvorth of Forton. By petition of council.

Dated 1 July 1293 at Westminster.

Source : CPR 1292-1301 , 28

Footnotes

  • foot-1293e-1. For evidence indicating that a parliament after Easter was being planned as the next parliament as early as 28 November 1292 see the writ to the justiciar of Ireland requiring him to send an inquisition to this parliament: CIPM , iii, no. 649.
  • foot-1293e-2. Prestwich, Edward I , 377-8.
  • foot-1293e-3. Handbook of British Chronology , 549.
  • foot-1293e-4. SC 9/6, items 27 and 36.
  • foot-1293e-5. CCR 1288-96 , 317-8.
  • foot-1293e-6. Gervase Rosser, Medieval Westminster, 1200-1540 (Oxford, 1989), 18-21.
  • foot-1293e-7. SC 9/5, item 41; SC 9/6, item 37.
  • foot-1293e-8. CCR 1288-96 , 281.
  • foot-1293e-9. SC 9/6, item 25; E 159/66, m. 26.
  • foot-1293e-10. CCR 1288-96 , 284.
  • foot-1293e-11. CCR 1288-96 , 317.
  • foot-1293e-12. SC 9/7, item 1. This is specifically described as a non-appearance in the Easter parliament on this day in SC 9/7, item 3.
  • foot-1293e-13. E 159/66, m. 26 (but note that they took their oaths in the Exchequer).
  • foot-1293e-14. See the Appendix for details of these.
  • foot-1293e-15. SC 9/6, item 35.
  • foot-1293e-16. Sayles, Functions of the Medieval Parliament , 211.
  • foot-1293e-17. SC 9/6, item 31. The date of the original order to hold an inquisition post mortem is 28 May 1293 and the contested verdict given under this writ was delivered on 3 June. The mandate for a further jury verdict in King's Bench envisaged its appearance there on or soon after 15 July.
  • foot-1293e-18. CCR 1288-96, 291-2.
  • foot-1293e-19. SC 9/7, item 13.
  • foot-1293e-20. SC 9/6, item 21.
  • foot-1293e-21. SC 9/6, item 17. The date is given by the parallel enrolment in King's Bench: Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench , vol. II, 166-8.
  • foot-1293e-22. Handbook of British Chronology , 549.