Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.
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'Close Rolls, Edward III: Augustl 1345', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346, (London, 1904) pp. 598-606. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol7/pp598-606 [accessed 15 April 2024]
Augustl 1345
Membrane 20. | |||
Aug. 3. (fn. 1) Westminster. |
To Robert de Bertram, escheator in co. Northumberland. Order not to intermeddle further with certain lands in Newcastle upon Tyne, if he finds by inquisition that Thomas de Ughtred acquired them of John Galewaye and was seised thereof until the escheator took them into the king's hand, pretending that John had committed felony, as if John held them on that day, when he did not, as Thomas has shown the king, beseeching him to provide a remedy. By C. | ||
June 25. Sandwich. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester, 100s. yearly in their ferm of 48l. and to discharge them of the said 100s. henceforth, as the king granted to them by charter the manor of la Berton near Gloucester and his weir of Munstreworth and a moiety of his weir of Dunye and with the profit of seeking and having rods yearly in the forest of Dene, for repairing the said weir and moiety, to hold at fee ferm for rendering 48l. yearly at the exchequer at which the manor, weir and moiety are extended, in exchange for the advowson of Wirardesbury church with the chapel of Langele Mareis, annexed thereto in co. Buckingham, which the abbot and convent granted to the king by charter; the king also granted that 100s. of that ferm of 48l. should be allowed to them yearly for those 100s. which they and their predecessors have received yearly from time out of mind in the name of a pension for the said church, so that the church and chapel remain discharged of the said pension. By p.s. [16926.] | ||
Aug. 14. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert le Wauncy who is insufficiently qualified. | ||
Aug. 16. Woodstock. |
To Thomas Cary, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Ramesham, co. Dorset, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Elizabeth, late the wife of Philip Paynel, at her death held no lands in chief or of any other in that bailiwick in her demesne as of fee, but that she held the said manor in dower of the inheritance of Elizabeth and Margery, daughters and heirs of John son and heir of Philip, whom Richard Grascrich and John Poucher have married, and that the manor is held of John Giffard of Beofs as of his manor of Coges, co. Oxford, by the service of rendering 10s. yearly to him. | ||
Aug. 18. Hertford. |
To the bailiffs of Norwich. Order to pay to John de Monte Gomeri, or to his attorney 26l. yearly of the ferm of that city, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 100l. to be received yearly for life, 60l. at the exchequer and 40l. of the yearly ferm due to the king of the manors of Dalham and Bredefeld. co. Suffolk, and has surrendered the king's letters patent to chancery to be cancelled, and the king by other letters patent granted him 40l. of the said 100l. for life, to wit 26l. of the ferm of that city and 26l. of the ferms of the hundreds of Taverham, Blofeld and Homelierd, co. Norfolk, in recompence for the 40l. so that he should render the 12l. in excess at the exchequer. Et erat patens. | ||
Aug. 18. Woodstock. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Sandwich. Order, upon pain of forfeiture, not to permit any wool to cross from that port to parts beyond the sea in ships, boats or any other vessels. By K. and C. | ||
The like to the mayor and bailiffs of that town. By K. and C. | |||
Aug. 20. Woodstock. |
To Thomas Cary, escheator in co. Dorset. Order to take a simple seisin within the gate of the abbey of Shaftesbury, in the name of the king's royal lordship, and not to intermeddle further with the abbey or its possessions, but to permit the prioress and convent to have the custody thereof during the voidance, restoring to them any issues which he has levied, as on 29 July in the 3rd year of the reign by a fine of 100l. which Dionisia la Blounde, then abbess of Shaftesbury, made with the king, the king granted that the prioress and convent should have the custody of the abbey at the first voidance, so that no escheator or other minister should intermeddle therewith except to take a simple seisin in the form aforesaid, saving to the king the knights' fees, advowsons, escheats, wards and marriages of the free tenants of the abbey which should fall in during the voidance, and the abbey is now is void by the death of the said Dionisia. | ||
To the same Thomas, escheator in co. Somerset. The like order. | |||
The like to the following to wit:— | |||
John de Roches, escheator in co. Wilts. | |||
Reginald le Forester, escheator in co. Sussex. | |||
Aug. 12. Westminster. |
To John de Coggeshale, escheator in cos. Essex, Hertford and Middlesex. Order to supersede the demand made on Thomas abbot of St. Osyth for his fealty as the king has taken his fealty for the lands which he holds of the king in Birchho, co. Essex as of the honour of Boulogne. | ||
John de Marton, clerk, received the fealty by writ. | |||
Aug. 24. Westminster. |
To Thomas de Melchebourn and his fellows, to whom the king granted all the customs and subsidies under a certain form. Order to deliver to John de Wesenham, the king's merchant, to whom the king has granted all the money of the great and petty customs and subsidies in all the ports of the realm, to hold under a certain form contained in an indenture made with him, or to his attorney, the part of the coket seal in their custody, in all the ports where a passage of wool is ordained, by indenture, without delay. By p.s. | ||
Aug. 23. Westminster. |
To Henry Picard. Order to pay 500l. to the marquis of Juliers of the 1,400l. which he undertook to pay for the king under a certain form, in part payment of the yearly fee which the marquis receives from the king. | ||
By p.s. [17040.] | |||
Membrane 19. | |||
Aug. 3. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Nicholas de Halden who is insufficiently qualified. | ||
Aug. 4. Westminster. |
To John de Wyndesore, escheator in cos. Warwick and Leicester. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage of the abbot of Coombe in Bilneye, restoring the issues thereof to the abbot, as the king ordered the echeator to certify him why he had taken that messuage into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had not taken it, but that John de Bolyngbrok, late escheator, in those counties, had taken it becausehe had learned by trustworthy testimony that a former abbot had appropriated the messuage to himself and his house without licence after the publication of the statute of mortmain, and afterwards at the suit of the present abbot showing that the messuage is parcel of lands wherewith the abbey was founded and endowed and not of the appropriation of any abbot, and beseeching the king to order his hand to be amoved, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the messuage is parcel of such lands as aforesaid of the gift of one Edmund de Monte Forti, ancestor of one Simon de Monte Forti, earl of Leicester, founder of that house, granted long before the said statute, and not of the appropriation of any abbot. | ||
Aug. 3. Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Henry Picard of London and his fellows, to lade in that port 300 sacks of wool and taken them to the king's staple in Flanders, nothwithstanding any proclamation to the contrary after receiving from them the custom and subsidy thereon, in accordance with the king's grant to them for 1,000l. of gross which they lent to him in Flanders on his arduous affairs. By p.s. | ||
June 25. Sandwich. |
To William de Ravendale, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to deliver to the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester, a charter of great fee by which the king granted to them his manor of la Berton near Gloucester, a weir of Munstreworth, and a moiety of a weir of Dunye to hold at fee ferm for rendering 48l. yearly to the king in exchange for the advowson of the church of Wyrardesbury with the chapel of Langele Mareys annexed thereto in co. Buckingham, which they granted to the king, quit of the said fee. By p.s. [16926.] | ||
Aug. 15. Westminster. |
To Thomas de Aspale, escheator in co. Southampton. Order not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the priory of Merton by reason of the death of John, the last prior, delivering to the sub-prior and convent all issues levied by him, as on its being found by inquisition taken after the death of brother William, formerly prior there, by divers escheators in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, Buckingham, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, Hertford, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Northampton, Rutland, Lincoln, the city of London, and this side Trent that the sub-prior and convent had the custody of the temporalities in times of a voidance from time out of mind, and received the issues and that no escheator or other minister intermeddled therewith, except to place a man at the great gate of the priory in the name of the king's royal lordship, to remain there during the voidance, the king ordered those escheators not to intermeddle further with the priory and to restore the issues thereof to the sub-prior and convent, and afterwards on 12 April in the 10th year of the reign the king ordered the escheator this side Trent not to intermeddle further with the priory except to place a man as aforesaid, and the treasurer and barons of the exchequer have certified that on inspection of the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer it is found that no answer has been made to the king in time of a voidance, but a discharge of the prior and convent of those issues has been found in the time of the voidance after the death of the said William. | ||
Aug. 30. Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to deliver to Thomas de Melcheburn, Roger de Wolsthorp, John de Astwyk, Walter Prest of Melton Mowbray, the younger, Henry de Tiddeswell, Walter de Chiriton, Adam Lucas, William Damyas, William de Lodelowe, Hugh de Ulseby, Thomas de Swanland and William de Melchebourne, the king's merchants, the third penny of all customs and subsidies of wool, hides and fells in that port, until they are fully satisfied for 7000l. and to permit them to lade 500 sacks of 2000 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the king's staple in Flanders, after paying the customs and subsides due thereon and to keep the part of the coket seal in their custody under the seal of one of those merchants or of their attorney, as in consideration of the expenses borne by those merchants in his service before these times and for other debts which they may exact from the king by agreement made with him, the king has granted them 7,000l. of the said customs and subsidies in the form aforesaid, and for certain chevances of great sums which those merchants undertook to make for him, the king has granted that they may take 2,000 sacks of wool to parts beyond the sea, paying the custom and subsidy due thereon. Of the remaining 1500 sacks the king wishes 200 to be taken from the port of Lenn, 1000 from the port of Boston and 300 from the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. | ||
By p.s. [17065.] | |||
The like to the following 'mutatis mutandis,' to wit:— | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Lenn for 200 sacks. | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Boston for 1,000 sacks. | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull for 300 sacks. | |||
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Like order to deliver to the said merchants the third penny of the customs in that port until they are fully satisfied for 7,000l. in accordance with the king's grant to them and to keep part of the coket seal of the port under the seal of one of the merchants or of their attorney. By p.s. [17065.] | |||
The like to the collectors of customs in the following ports, to wit:— | |||
The collectors in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne. | |||
The collectors in the port of Southampton. | By the samewrit. | ||
The collectors in the port of Chichester. | |||
The collectors in the port of Sandwich. | |||
The collectors in the port of Great Yarmouth. | |||
The collectors in the port of Ipswich. | |||
Membrane 18. | |||
Aug. 8. Westminster. |
To the keeper of the forest of Dene or to him who supplies his place there. Order to permit the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester to receive and seek rods in that forest as often as necessary for the repair of the weir of Munstreworth and a moiety of the weir of Dunye, granted to them by the king with the manor of la Berton, near Gloucester for rendering 48l. yearly, in exchange for the advowson of the church of Wyrardesbury and the chapel of Langele Mareys, co. Buckingham. By p.s. | ||
June 25. Westminster. |
To Thomas de Bradeston. Order to deliver to the abbot and convent the said manor, weir and moiety which are in his custody by the king's grant. | ||
By the same writ. | |||
Aug. 14. Langley. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Henry Pycard and his fellows to lade 300 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, as the king ordered the collectors to permit Henry and his fellows so to take those 300 sacks after paying the custom and subsidy, and Henry has agreed in chancery to pay 700l. for the said custom and subsidy at the receipt of the exchequer at the Nativity of St. Mary next and he has made a recognisance in chancery so to pay that sum. | ||
By K. and C. | |||
Aug. 23. Westminster. |
To Thomas de Rokeby, escheator in co. York. Order not to distrain Andrew son of Geoffrey Louterel for his homage and fealty, restoring any issues of the manor of Hoton Paynel from 6 July last to Andrew and Beatrice his wife, as on the said 6 July the king ordered the escheator to deliver that manor to Andrew and Beatrice [as at page 540 above] and now the king has taken Andrew's homage and fealty. By p.s. [17041.] | ||
To Saier de Rocheford, escheator in co. Lincoln. The like order with respect to the manor of Irnham, held for life by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee. By the same writ. | |||
Aug. 24. Westminster. |
To Robert de Ufford, earl of Suffolk, admiral of the fleet towards the North or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to John de Wesenham, the king's merchant, or to his attorney, so many ships as are necessary for taking a certain number of sacks of wool out of the realm to the king's staple in Flanders, in accordance with the king's grant to him so that the masters of the ships find security that they will have those ships at the port of Portesmuth at Michaelmas next, ready to set out in the king's service at his wages when he shall warn them. By p.s. | ||
The like to Reginald de Donyngton, supplying the place of the said admiral or to Reginald's deputy. By the same writ. | |||
Aug. 24. Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to deliver to John de Wesenham, the king's merchant, or to his attorney, all the money of the customs and subsidies collected in that port from Midsummer last until Michaelmas next and for a year from that feast, except the fees assigned yearly by the king to divers men and the sums assigned upon those customs and subsidies to Tidemannus de Lymbergh, Matthew Canaceon, Thomas de Melchebourn and other merchants, and to permit John to lade in that port as much wool as he wishes and to take it to the staple in Flanders after paying the customs and subsidies due thereon, in accordance with the king's grant to John, for which John will pay 1,000l. every month during the said term to the keeper of the wardrobe, for the expenses of the household. By p.s. | ||
The like to the collectors of customs in the port of London. | |||
By the same writ. | |||
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. The like order. | |||
By the same writ. | |||
Aug. 24. Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit the said John to lade in the port of that town as much wool as he wishes, during the said term, and to take it to Flanders. By p.s. | ||
The like to the bailiffs of Boston. By the same writ. | |||
Sept. 1. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to deliver the manor of Hampstede Mareschall with the issues thereof from the time of its being taken into the king's hand and with the goods and chattels therein, to Henry de Greistoke, keeper of certain lands reserved to the king's chamber, by indenture, whom the king has ordered to receive them, as the king has reserved that manor to his chamber with all its appurtenances. | ||
By p.s. [17076.] | |||
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order not to intermeddle with that manor, reserved as aforesaid. By the same writ. | |||
Aug. 31. Westminster. |
To Henry de Greystok, the king's clerk. Order to deliver to John de Molyns, his manors of Filettes near Henle, Cheshamboys, Weston Turvill, Aston Bernard, Ilmere, Adyngton, Bichyndon, Littlecote, Swanborn, Gildenemorton, Plumpton, Estneston, Lee with its members Gore, Boxe, Derneford; Stoke Tristre and Wendovere, his patronage of the abbey of Burnham, his advowson with glebe of the church of Littleton, three messuages in London and his fees of Chokes, in the king's hand for certain causes, with all the goods and chattels belonging to him found therein, as the king has granted and rendered them to John of his special favour. | ||
By letter of the secret seal called 'Griffoun.' | |||
Vacated because otherwise below. | |||
Membrane 17. | |||
Aug. 3. Westminster. |
To William de Wakefeld, keeper of the king's exchanges of gold and silver in the Tower of London and the city of Canterbury. Order to pay to William de Hussebourne, the king's yeoman, what is in arrear to him of his wages from the 1 February in the 18th year of the reign and to pay him the same henceforth of the issues of the said exchanges, as on the said 1 February the king granted to William the custody of his stamps of gold and silver in the said Tower and city, to hold during good conduct receiving therein in the same manor as Walter Turk, who lately held that custody by the king's grant, so that he should not be amoved therefrom without reasonable cause whereof the king wishes to be certified. | ||
Aug. 25. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the heirs and executors of the will of Richard Whytot, sometime butler of the king's household, of all accounts for the time when he was butler and of other accounts which run in demand upon him, as the king has pardoned him all such accounts. By p.s. [17046.] | ||
Aug. 5. Westminster. |
To Henry de Greistoke, the king's clerk. Order to deliver to John de Molyns, knight, the manors of Stokepugeis, Ditton, Dachet, Rudyng and Foulmere, in the king's hand for certain causes, with all the goods therein, which are in Henry's hand, in accordance with the king's grant, of his special favour. By letter under the seal called 'le Griffoun.' | ||
Aug. 26. Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth and to the collectors of customs there. Order to dearrest a ship called 'la Laurence' of Newcastle upon Tyne and 31 sacks 20 stones of wool of Scotland and 90 wool-fells of Scotland and to permit the master and mariners of the ship to take the ship to the staple in Flanders with the said wool to do them pleasure there, as Adam de Espleye, Nicholas de Rothum, Alan de Bakworth, John Fote, and John de Beaumont of Berwick upon Tweed have besought the king to order the ship and wool to be dearrested as they laded that ship with the said wool and fells in that port, paying ½ mark a sack to the collectors of customs there as fully appears by the letters of coket made thereupon, and the said ship when sailing to Flanders, touched at the port of Yarmouth for fear of pirates, and there the ship and wool are arrested by pretext of an order to the bailiffs and collectors not to permit wool to cross out of the realm, and the king wishes to show favour to them in consideration of the labours and expenses borne by the men of Berwick in the defence of that town. | ||
By K. and C. | |||
Memorandum that on Friday, 26 August, in the present year it was testified in chancery by the archbishop of Canterbury and William de Edyngton, the treasurer, that it was agreed by the king and council that the ship and wool should be dearrested in the form aforesaid. | |||
Aug. 26. Westminster. |
To the prioress and convent of Shaftesbury. Order to receive Agnes daughter of Richard Turbervill as a nun and sister of that house by reason of the present voidance, as in each voidance of the abbey a nun ought to be received in that abbey at the king's request by reason of the king's royal right. By p.s. [17053.] | ||
Aug. 31. Westminster. |
To Robert de Dalton, constable of the Tower of London or to him who supplies his place there. Order to deliver brother John de Forde, monk of the priory of St. Swithun's, Winchester, who was lately delivered to the constable to be kept in the Tower, for certain trespasses and excesses committed by him, to John, archbishop of Canterbury or to one of his, to do as shall be agreed between the king and the archbishop. By K. | ||
To Philip de Weston and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and contempts committed by the prior and convent of St. Swithin's, Winchester. Order to supersede the execution of their commission until further order. By K. | |||
Aug. 29. Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. Order to de-arrest Andrew le Chirier, Peter Bride, Perotus le Monier and Firminus de Moustiers, merchants of Amiens, with their horses and goods and permit them to cross to their own parts, provided that they do not take wool, hides or wool-fells thither, as they have besought the king to grant this, as the king lately granted that they and other merchants of Amiens should come safely to the realm with their goods, stay there and depart thence during the truce between the king and his adversaries of France, and they came under the hope of that truce and now they are arrested with their horses and goods by reason of the dissolution of that truce, whereof they are ignorant. | ||
By K. on the information of the archbishop of Canterbury. | |||
To Robert Wygan of Grenewych. The like order. | |||
By K. on the information of the archbishop of Canterbury. | |||
The like to Robert de Ledrede, the king's serjeant at arms. | |||
Aug. 28. Westminster. |
To the taxers and collectors in co. Stafford of the tenth and fifteenth granted by the laity. Order to cause all the men of Tamworth to be taxed anew according to their faculties, and to cause the sums touching them to be levied, and answer made immediately to the king therefor, and in the meantime to supersede the demand made upon them for such a sum as they paid in the last tenth and fifteenth granted by the laity, as the men and tenants of that town, which is annexed to the ancient demesne of the crown, have besought the king to cause their goods to be newly taxed and reasonable sums to be levied of them, as their houses, merchandise, goods and chattels have been burned by mischance and they are oppressed by such want that they cannot now pay so much as they granted for the last tenth and fifteenth, and William de Clynton earl of Huntyngdon and others have testified before the king and his council that the premises contain the truth. When they have executed the present order they shall certify the treasurer and barons of the exchequer thereof. By K. | ||
[Fœdera.] | |||
Sept. 25. Woolmer. |
To Henry de Greystok, keeper of certain lands reserved to the king's chamber. Order to deliver to John de Molyns his manors of Brehull, Cippenham, Henle on Thames and Henle, co. Surrey, the ferm or rent of Aylesbury and the fees of Pynkeneye, which were seised into the king's hand for certain causes, with all their appurtenances and with weirs in the River Thames and elsewhere and all other goods and chattels therein except the king's stud there, which the king has granted to John of his special favour, to hold as he held them before they were taken as aforesaid. | ||
By letter of the secret seal called 'Griffoun.' | |||
Sept. 25. Woolmer. |
To Guy de Bryan, keeper and fermor of the manor of Stoke Tristre. Order to deliver that manor with all its appurtenances, which was taken into the king's hand for certain causes, to John de Molyns, without delay, to whom the king has granted it of his special favour, to hold as he held it before it was so taken. By letter of the secret seal called 'Griffoun.' | ||
To John Marreis. Order to deliver to John de Molyns two messuages in London with all the goods and chattels therein, in the custody of John Marreis by the king's commission, as the king has rendered to John all his lands which were taken into the king's hand for certain causes. | |||
By the same letter. | |||
Oct. 3. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order to pay to Edith late the wife of Richard Whytot, butler of the king's household, 60s. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 6l. to be received yearly for life of the issues of those counties for the maintenance of herself and her children. | ||
Membrane 16. | |||
Aug. 30. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin. Order to supersede the demand made upon Elizabeth de Burgo for 100s. by which she made fine with the king by her attorneys in Ireland, for her lands in Ireland, lately seised into the king's hand by the escheator in Ireland because it is said that she had acquired the lands held in chief without licence, to hold out of the king's hand, as the king has pardoned her the said 100s. of his special favour. By p.s. [17070.] | ||
Aug. 24. Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to deliver all the money of the customs and subsidies to John de Wesenham, the king's merchant, or to his attorney, from Midsummer last to Michaelmas following and for a year after, in accordance with the king's grant to him of the customs and subsidies in certain ports of the realm, except fees granted yearly to certain men and the sums assigned to Tidemannus de Lymbergh, Matthew Canaceon, Thomas de Melchebourn and other merchants, for which John will pay 1,000 marks a month to the keeper of the wardrobe for the expenses of the king's household, and that John might be the better able to make that chevance the king granted that he might lade as much wool in the said ports, as he pleased during the said term, and take them to the staple in Flanders, paying the custom and subsidy thereon, and that no wool hides or fells should be taken to parts beyond before the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, except those taken by John and except 2,000 sacks whereof the king granted the passage to Thomas de Melchebourn and his fellows, under a certain form, wherefore the king orders the collectors to permit John to take wool in the form aforesaid. By p.s. | ||
The like to the following, to wit:— | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne. | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Great Yarmouth. | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Ipswich. | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Lenn. | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Sandwich. | |||
The collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. | |||
Aug. 31. Westminster. |
To Henry de Greistok, keeper of certain lands reserved to the king's chamber or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to John de Molyns his manors of Filettes near Henle, Cheshamboys, Weston Turvill, Aston Bernard, Ilmere, Adyngton, Bichyndon, Littlecote, Swanburn, Gildenemorton, Plumpton, Estneston, Lee with members Gore, Boxe, Derneford, Stoke Tristre with members and Wendovere and his advowsons of the abbey of Burnham and the church of Littleton, three messuages in London, and fees of Chokes, taken into the king's hand for certain causes, with all the goods and chattels found therein, as the king has rendered them to John, of his special favour. | ||
By letter of the seal called 'le Griffoun.' |