Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1345 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1345', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346, (London, 1904) pp. 528-530. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol7/pp528-530 [accessed 13 April 2024]

May 1345



May 10. Westminster.	To John Haward, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to do what pertains to his office if he finds by inquisition or otherwise that, as the king is informed, John Athel, 'armurer,' has usurped and inhabited to the king's prejudice a plot which is parcel of a plot called 'le Castildich' in Norwich, of the fee of the castle of that town, without the king's licence.
April 8. Westminster.	To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to cause the defects of the houses and walls of that castle, of the ponds and palings of the park there, of the walls of the garden there and the defects of the king's manor and park of Kenyngton, to be repaired by the view and testimony of the surveyor of the king's works there, up to the sum of 40 marks.
	By p.s. [16739.]
March 8. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of the town of Cromelyn in Ireland for the present or the future. Order to pay to John de Fountaignes, the king's yeoman, or to his attorney what is in arrear to him of 40 marks yearly from 31 December in the 14th year of the reign, and to pay him 40 marks yearly henceforth for life, in accordance with the king's grant to him on that day for his good service in parts beyond the sea and in Ireland of 40 marks to be received yearly of the ferm of that town.
June 1. Westminster.	To John de Alveton, escheator in co. Berks. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and a carcuate of land in Aldeworth in a place called 'la Beche,' restoring the issues thereof to Edmund de la Beche, brother of Nicholas de la Beche, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John de la Beche and Edmund de Ildesle gave the said messuage and land to Nicholas and the heirs male of his body by a fine levied in the king's court, with remainder in default of such heirs to his said brother and the heirs male of his body, and Nicholas died without an heir male of his body and the messuage and land are held of another than the king.
June 15. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Bokholt, co. Southampton, to be elected, in place of Peter de Pershute, who is attendant upon certain affairs of the king in another place.
May 10. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Ralph de Offord (fn. 1) of his account for the time when he was keeper of Corfe castle and for the issues of that castle, as the king has pardoned him for the same. By p.s.
	Membrane 8.
May 10. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to cause the ninth of sheaves, lambs and fleeces in cos. Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, if any wish to buy it or have a part thereof for debts in which the king is bound to them, to be sold in parcels or in gross as they shall agree with such persons, having consideration to the destruction wrought by the king's Scottish enemies in those parts, and not at the tax of churches there, and to cause the amount so sold or assigned which exceeds the said tax to be withdrawn and to discharge the men and townships of those counties who are charged with the ninth according to the said tax, of the sums so withdrawn. By K.
May 6. Westminster.	To Thomas de Melcheburn and his fellows, to whom the king granted all the customs and subsidies of the realm for a certain time. Order to direct the collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne to pay to Elizabeth late the wife of John de Denton, 25l. 16s. 4d. yearly together with the arrears thereof, in aid of her maintenance and that of her children, in accordance with the king's grant to her, as she has besought the king to grant her that rent, which the king granted to her husband to be received yearly of the customs in that port until he should have possession of the manor of Wodhorn, which Mary countess of Pembroke holds for life, by the king's grant, the reversion whereof the king granted to John, and he has been maliciously killed by his enemies without having made a will and his goods taken away and eloigned, so that Elizabeth has nothing wherewith to maintain herself and her children. By p.s.
May 20. Westminster.	To Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to John de Sapy, or to his attorney, three tuns of wine of the king's prise in that port for the past year, as on 28 April in the 12th year of the reign the king granted to him such fees and robes yearly for life in the household as other knights receive there, and he afterwards besought the king to grant him three tuns of wine yearly for life, in recompence for the said fees and robes, and the king granted his request as he surrendered the letters of the previous grant to chancery to be cancelled.
May 20. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon John de Segrave for 42l., to wit 22l. by which he made fine before the justices of the Bench for licence of agreeing with William de Loughton and others upon the levying of certain fines of divers manors in divers counties, and 20l. by which he made fine with the king in chancery for having the writs of agreement thereupon, as the king has pardoned him those sums of his special favour. By p.s.