Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1347

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1905.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1347', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349, (London, 1905) pp. 346-350. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol8/pp346-350 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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December 1347

Dec. 8.
Westminster.
To Margaret late the wife of Edmund earl of Kent, the king's uncle, keeper of a third part of the manor of Caldecote, co. Huntingdon. Order to pay to the said heir what is in the king's hand of 102s. yearly, which she ought to render to the exchequer for Michaelmas term last, and to be answerable to him for the same henceforth, as the king granted the said manor to the earl his father, and the heirs of his body, and now it is found by certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, sent into chancery, that Margaret has answered for 102s. yearly for the custody of that third part from 6 February in the 6th year of the reign.
Dec. 12.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to pay to the constable of Nottingham castle 2s. a day for the expenses of William Douglas the elder and of William Vaux, Scots taken at the battle of Durham and in the constable's custody, to wit, 12d. each, from the time of their going to the castle and henceforth. By bill of the treasurer.
[Fœdera.]
Dec. 7.
Westminster.
To the taxers and collectors in co. Leicester of the tenth and fifteenth last granted. Order to supersede the demand made upon Walter Prest for any taxes, tallages, tenths, fifteenths and other aids last granted, as by agreements made between the king and Walter de Chiriton, Thomas de Swanlund and the said Walter, his merchants, the king demised to them at ferm all the customs and subsidies due to him in all the ports of England, to hold from Michaelmas in the 20th year of the reign to the end of two years, and afterwards, on 28 June in the said 20th year the king granted that those merchants should be quit of all taxes, tallages, tenths, fifteenths and other aids granted to the king before the said 28 June, for the two years. By p.s.
The like to the taxers and collectors in co. Lincoln for the same Walter Prest.
To the collectors of wool in co. Leicester. Like order to supersede the demand for wool made upon Walter Prest. By the same writ.
The like to the collectors of wool in co. Lincoln. By the same writ.
Dec. 19.
Westminster.
To Richard Barry. Order, on account of certain reasons shown before the council, to supersede the execution of the commission appointing him to make scrutiny of all ships and boats in the ports of Kyngeston upon Hull, Boston, Lenn and Ipswich which may be laden with customable merchandise and to arrest as forfeit to the king all such merchandise found not customed or coketted, together with the ships and boats in which they were placed and with the other goods in which they were placed, and to have them kept safely for the king's use. By C.
Membrane 6.
Nov. 6.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand for wool which the collectors in co. Kent of the wool last granted made upon the master and brethren of the hospital of St. Bartholomew, Chetham near Rochester, for lepers, governed by a leprous master, it is said by reason of their lands, goods and chattels, if it is governed by such a master. By C.
Nov. 3.
Westminster.
To Walter Parles, escheator in co. Northampton. Order to deliver to Maud daughter of Henry de Lancastr[ia], earl of Derby, the manors of Rothewell, Navesby, Whiston and Glapthorn, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Hugh Daudele, earl of Gloucester, at his death, held no lands in that county in his demesne as of fee, but that he held the said manors for life of the demise and grant of John de Gynewell and Master Ralph de Gadesby, by a fine levied in the king's court between the said John and Ralph, demandants and the earl, Ralph baron of Stafford and Margaret his wife, deforciants for the said manors, so that after the earl's death they should remain to Ralph son of the said Ralph, now deceased, and to Maud, and to the heirs of their bodies, and that the manors are held in chief by the service of a rose every Midsummer, and the king has taken Maud's fealty.
Dec. 7.
Iver.
To Warin de Bassyngbourn, escheator in co. Huntingdon. Order to deliver to Maud, daughter of Henry de Lancastr[ia], earl of Derby, the manor of Southo in that county, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Hugh Daudele, earl of Gloucester, at his death, was not seised of any lands in his demesne as of fee in that county, but that he held the said manor for life of the grant and demise of John de Gynewell and Master Ralph de Gadesby by a fine levied in the king's court, so that after the earl's death, the manor should remain to Ralph son of Ralph baron of Stafford, deceased, and to Maud, and to the heirs of their bodies, and that the manor is held in chief as parcel of co. Gloucester, and the king has taken Maud's fealty.
Dec. 12.
Westminster.
To Gilbert de Imworth, steward of Queen Philippa. Order not to intermeddle with the manor of Rodyngton, co. Nottingham, and 26 bovates of land in that town, and to restore anything which he has occupied or received there to Laurence son and heir of Robert de Pavely, tenant in chief, as on its being found by inquisitions post mortem of Robert that he held no lands at his death in his demesne as of fee, in chief as of the crown, but that he held in his demesne as of fee the manors of Westpirie and Houghton, co. Northampton, in chief as of the honour of Peverel, by knight's service, and that he also held the said manor of Rodyngton and land, both in demesne and in service, in socage, to wit, the manor and 20 bovates of the earl of Kent by the service of paying 10s. every Midsummer, and the remaining 6 bovates of Richard de Wylughby by the service of 1d. yearly, the king ordered John de Vaux, escheator in co. Nottingham, not to intermeddle further with the said manor and land, and now the king has learned from Laurence that Gilbert has taken that manor and land into the queen's hand with the corn and other goods and chattels found there, pretending that the custody ought to pertain to her, when it does not, by reason of the minority of Laurence, as if the premises were held by knight's service.
Dec. 13.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to account with John de Gogh, the king's clerk, for the time when he has been attendant upon the custody of the bishopric of St. Davids, allowing him 5s. a day for his wages for that time of the money of the issues of the bishopric received from the time of the death of H. the late bishop, as on 4 July last the king committed that custody to John to hold during pleasure, so that he should answer at the exchequer for the said issues. By C.
Nov. 15.
Westminster.
To the collectors in the port of Great Yarmouth of the subsidy of 2s. a sack of wool and 6d. a pound. Order to permit ships charged with wool and merchandise of Scotland, customed and coketted, when they cross by that port or come in other ways, provided that the wool and merchandise be not unladed for sale, to cross to Flanders without exacting the said subsidy, and to restore anything thereof which they have received, as the king has learned from the mayor and burgesses of Berwick upon Tweed, that although ships laded in the port of Berwick with wool and other merchandise of Scotland, the customs being duly paid, to be taken to Flanders, have been driven on the route to divers places of England sometimes by sudden storms, sometimes to buy victuals for maintaining the men therein and to avoid hostile attacks, and not for unlading the wool etc. to sell it, yet the said collectors have arrested those ships until they pay the said subsidy for the safeconduct of the wool and merchandise, contrary to the form of the ordinance, whereupon the mayor and burgesses have besought the king to provide a remedy.
The like to the collectors of the same subsidy in the following ports, to wit:
The collectors in the ports of Southjernemuth, Westjernemuth and Kirkeleye.
Dec. 10.
Iver.
To Thomas de Ferariis, justice of Chester, or to him who supplies his place there. Order to amove the king's hand from the lands of William son of John Trussel of Cubleston, and to permit him to hold them pending his affair, although the king ordered the justice to attach him and to seise into the king's hand his lands, goods and chattels in co. Chester, with certain others, indicted for the death of Michael de Ponynges, 'luncle,' and of the rape of Margery late the wife of Nicholas atte Beche, as William has rendered himself to the Marshalsea prison to stand to right before the king for the said felonies, of which he is not yet convicted, as he says.
By p.s. [19075.]
Dec. 18.
Westminster.
To Henry Sturmy, escheator in co. Southampton. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of Suthwyk in that county, all the lands which he took into the king's hand by reason of the death of John de Monte Gomery, as the king granted to them that all the lands of Hugh le Despenser in Crouker and Farlyngton, which escheated to the king by Hugh's forfeiture, and which John then held for life by the king's commission, should remain to them to hold in aid of the rebuilding (relevacionis) of the priory, and now it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator, that John is dead, and that he attorned himself to the prior and convent by reason of the said grant, and that he held all the said lands in chief at his death, for life, by the king's grant rendering yearly to the lord of the manor of Warblynton, 3 barbed arrows.
Membrane 5.
Dec. 16.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver the town of Basyngstok to John son and heir of Edmund, earl of Kent, the king's uncle, or to his attorney, together with the issues thereof, provided that nothing is attempted to the prejudice of William son and heir of Richard de la Pole, as the king granted to the earl the manor and town of Basyngstok and the ferm of 20l. which the prior and convent of Bath rendered at the exchequer yearly for the towns of Bath and Berton, co. Somerset, and at John's suit showing that the said town and rent had been granted to Richard by an untruthful suggestion made by him, the king ordered the sheriff to notify Richard's heir and executors to be in chancery on the octaves of Michaelmas last to show cause why the grant to Richard should not be revoked and the town and rent delivered to John, and further to do what the king's court should determine, and the sheriffs returned that the bailiffs of the liberty of the town of Basyngstok, to whom he made return of the king's writ, answered that they notified William and Thomas de Chaworth and Joan his wife, late the wife of Richard, and executrix of his will, that they should be in chancery as aforesaid, on which day the said William, appearing by William de Weston, his attorney, showed the king's letters patent containing that William was in the king's service in parts beyond the sea and was therefore under the king's protection and exempt from all suits until a certain time, wherefore they did not sue further against him, and Thomas and Joan did not come on that day, wherefore the king ordered the sheriff to cause the town and rent to be resumed into the king's hand and kept safely until further order, so that no prejudice should be done to William, and the sheriff returned that he had caused the town to be resumed into the king's hand because he had learned that it was in the hands of Thomas and Joan on the day of the impetration of the king's writ of scire facias and afterward, and now John has besought the king to order the town to be delivered to him, as on 26 August last the king granted that all the lands of his inheritance should be delivered to him to hold until he should come of age, in aid of his maintenance, without rendering anything therefor.
By p.s.
Dec. 16.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause the said rent of 20l. which the prior and convent of Bath render at the exchequer yearly for the towns of Bath and Berton, to be resumed into the king's hand, if it was in the hand of Thomas and Joan on the day of the impetration of the said writ, and to be kept safely until further order, provided that nothing is attempted to the prejudice of William. By p.s.
Dec. 8.
Westminster.
To Margaret late the wife of Edmund, earl of Kent, the king's uncle, keeper of a third part of the manor of Caldecote, co. Huntingdon. Order to pay to John son and heir of the said earl what is in the king's hand of 102s. yearly which she ought to render at the exchequer for Michaelmas term for that custody, and to be answerable to him for the said 102s., as the king granted that manor to the said earl and to the heirs of his body, and on 26 August last the king granted to John that all the lands of his inheritance should be delivered to him as aforesaid, and now, by certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, sent into chancery, it is found that answer has been made to the king for 102s. yearly for the said custody, by Margaret, from 6 February in the 6th year of the reign and thereafter. By p.s.