Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1351

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1351', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354, (London, 1906) pp. 305-309. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol9/pp305-309 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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June 1351

June 1.
Westminster.
To Richard de Denton, escheator in Westmorland. Order to take the fealty of William son of Robert de Crakanthorp and of Emma his wife, according to the form of a schedule enclosed, and to deliver to him the manor of Neubiggyng in that county, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick of the heir of Robert de Clifford, a minor in the king's wardship, by knight's service, but that he held the said manor jointly with Emma his wife, for their lives, with remainder to William and the heirs male of his body, and that the manor is held of the said heir in socage by the service of 20d. yearly and by suit at the county of Westmorland every month, and that William is of full age.
March 1.
Westminster.
To the justiciary and chancellor of Ireland, or to those who supply their places, and to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin. Order to discharge Walter de Bermyngham, knight, Thomas Wogan, knight, Walter Lenfant, knight, John de Wellesley, knight, Robert son of Maurice, knight, Laurence Calf, knight, Gregory de la Launde, knight, Henry de Flatesbury, Matthew Bariby, David de Nasshe, Philip de Stanton, Richard de Bermyngham, John de Bermyngham of Doneda, Thomas Ballymore, David Wolf, John Wolf of Beaffo, William de Sancto Matheo, John Palmer, Thomas Laweles, Philip son of Robert, Thomas son of Gerald, Elias Say, John Calf, John son of Robert de Carnalwey, Thomas Seydon, Arnald Clement, Geoffrey son of Eustace, Thomas Brisky, Robert Wodelok, Thomas de la Bere, William son of Nicholas Sygyn, Walter son of John Calf, Richard Fauvyn, William Ercedekene, Richard Syward, Philip Cantelowe, Henry Redynos, John Covyntre, William Douthwyth, Thomas Canon and James de la Chapele of Kildare, who mainperned, as is said, before John Darcy late justiciary of Ireland, for Maurice brother and heir of Richard son of Thomas son of John, earl of Kildare, tenant in chief, that the king should have his marriage, or to answer to him for the value thereof, of the said mainprise and of the value of the marriage, as Maurice has married Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh, by the king's licence. By K.
July 10.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger le War, who is insufficiently qualified.
July 3.
Westminster.
To Thomas de Lacy, escheator in Essex. Order to cause Henry de Coggeshale and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of William de Welles, tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands whereof William was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, as she has proved her age before the escheator, and the king has taken Henry's homage and fealty for all the said lands. By p.s. [21498.]
The like to the following, 'mutatis mutandis':—
Guy de Seyntcler, escheator in the county of Cambridge.
William de Middelton, escheator in Norfolk and Suffolk.
July 12.
Westminster.
To J. bishop of Carlisle, fermor of the priory of Hagham in the king's hand by reason of the war with France, or to him who supplies his place at Hagham. Order to pay to the prior of that priory what is in arrear to him of his wages, and 3s. a week for his wages henceforth, so long as he has that custody, otherwise the king will cause those wages to be levied by the sheriff of Lincoln of the priory and goods and chattels therein, and delivered to the prior, as the king committed the custody of the priory and its possessions to the bishop so to hold that he should pay 3d. a day to the prior for his wages, and now the king has learned that the bishop has delayed to pay those wages, whereby the prior must needs leave the priory and beg unless he is satisfied for the arrears of his wages, which he has besought the king to increase, by reason of the growing scarcity of victuals in modern times. By C.
July 14.
Westminster.
To John Chastilon, escheator in the county of Bedford. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to John Hervy of Rysele, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held no lands of the king in chief in his demesne or in service in that bailiwick.
Membrane 20.
June 20.
Westminster.
To Henry Picard the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the port of London. Order to deliver to the abbot and monks of St. Peter's, Westminster, a tun of wine of the prise of London, on the morrow of St. Botholf next for the celebration of divine service in their church in accordance with the grant of Henry III to them, by charter confirmed by the present king, of a tun of such wine to be received yearly.
June 12.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge William de Fewel of the levying, collecting and receipt of the tenth and and fifteenth in Norfolk for the third year, to which the king lately appointed him with John de Colby and Edmund de Baconesthorp, as William is about to set out to Gascony in the king's service, in the company of Ralph earl of Stafford, as the earl has testified. By C.
July 1.
Westminster.
To the keeper of the islands of Gereseye, Gernereye, Serk and Aureneye for the present or the future, or to him who supplies his place. Simon Garriz of Gerneerye has besought the king to order the arrears of certain pensions granted to him from the time when the lands of the alien religious came into the king's hands, as divers pensions were granted to him by certain religious of the power of France in those islands, long before the lands of the alien religious there were taken into the king's hand by reason of the war between the king and his enemies of France, which pensions he received yearly from the time of the grant until the lands were taken into the king's hand, and he has suffered divers damages by reason of the premises and his faithful behaviour to the king, and now he has not wherewith to maintain his estate: and because the king has received testimony of Simon's good conduct, the king orders the keeper to view the letters patent of the said religious whereby the pensions were granted to Simon, and after taking inquisition thereupon and other information, if they find that they were granted to Simon without fraud before the lands were taken, then to pay to Simon what they find to be in arrear to him.
June 23.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of the Hay of Hereford to be elected in place of John de Wythyngton, deceased.
July 5.
Westminster.
To William de Shareshull and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order not to aggrieve Thomas Frembaud, late sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham, whom the justices caused to be heavily amerced and placed at divers issues for his non-appearance before them in their session at Aylesbury, co. Buckingham, while he is in prison, causing the amercements to be cancelled, if they have been enrolled, as it appears by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, sent to chancery, that Thomas is committed to the Flete prison for divers debts in which he is bound to the king, and he has been there from 28 May last and is still detained there.
May 30.
Westminster.
To Thomas Adam, sheriff of Stafford, keeper of the lands which belonged to Adam de Peshale, and are now in the king's hand. Order to pay to Roger, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield what is in arrear to him of a certain rent from the time of Adam's death, and to pay him that rent henceforth, so long as Adam's lands are in the king's hand, and if all the lands have not yet been taken into the king's hand, to cause them to be so taken and kept until further order, so that he answer for the issues thereof in the king's chamber, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by William de Shareshull and Hugh de Aston, in the presence of Richard de Engleton, supplying Thomas's place, that Adam at his death held the following lands of the said bishop as of the right of his church of St. Chad, Lichfield, within the bishop's manor of Eccleshale, to wit: 2 messuages and a third part of 9 virgates of land in Offeleye Episcopi, by the service of a twelfth part of a knight's fee and of making suit at the bishop's court of Eccleshale every three weeks, and by the service of finding a third part of the ploughing with two ploughs in the bishop's demesne lands of that manor, for four days in each year, to wit, two days in the time of winter sowing and two days in the time of the lenten sowing, at their own costs and that the day of each entire plough is worth 4d. and by the service of finding at their own charges a third part of the costs for eight men for the bishop's chace at his park of Blore for three days in each year, and for eight other men to reap the bishop's corn in his manor for three days in the autumn, and that the day for each of the eight men for the chace is worth ½d. and the day for each of the eight men to reap is worth 1½d.; and that he held a messuage and a fourth part of 2 virgates of land in Wotton in the said manor, which formerly belonged to Robert le Fraunk, by the service of 12d. yearly; a moiety of a virgate of land in Herteshalgh, which formerly belonged to Peter de Hakedon, by the service of 12d. yearly; a burgage in Le Marketstede, which formerly belonged to John le Bedel, by the service of 12d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage there which formerly belonged to William the wheelright (Rotarii) by the service of 6d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage there, which formerly belonged to Adam le Gurdeler, by the service of 6d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage there, which formerly belonged to John de Medburn, by the service of 6d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage in Donkesfordelane, which formerly belonged to Richard le Barkere, by the service of 6d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage there, which formerly belonged to Henry le Mason, by the service of 6d. yearly; a sixth part of a burgage there with a little plot of land annexed thereto, which formerly belonged to the said Adam le Gurdeler, by the service of 2½d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage there in a place called 'Beyondene,' which formerly belonged to Roger le Mareschal, by the service of 6d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage in Edianescroft, which formerly belonged to the same Roger le Mareschal, by the service of 6d. yearly; a third part of a burgage near Piereswell, which formerly belonged to John de Halyok, by the service of 4d. yearly; a fourth and a twelfth part of a burgage near the cross, which formerly belonged to Warin de Blount, by the service of 4d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage in Le Barre medewe, which formerly belonged to Thomas le Bedel, by the service of 6d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage in Le Marketstede, which formerly belonged to the same Thomas, by the service of 6d. yearly; 1½ burgages in Le Polcroft, which formerly belonged to the same Thomas, by the service of 18d. yearly; a burgage near Le Spert, which formerly belonged to the same Thomas, by the service of 12d. yearly; a moiety of a burgage in Le Spert, which formerly belonged to the same Thomas, by the service of 6d. yearly; a ninth part of a field called 'Donkesford,' by the service of 14s. yearly; 6½ acres in the old park, which formerly belonged to Thomas le Bedel, by the service of 6s. 6d. yearly; a moiety of an acre of land there, which formerly belonged to John Wyther, by the service of 6d. yearly; a field called 'Le Prestesfeld,' which formerly belonged to Robert de Horsleye, by the service of 8s. 3½d. yearly; 2 acres and 2 parts of a rood of land in Le Bolebruch, which formerly belonged to the same Robert by the service of 13d. yearly; 17 acres 1½ roods of land at Cassebruch and Hulleford, which formerly belonged to the same Robert, by the service of 14s. 6½d. yearly; 10½ acres of land at Le Foxholes and La Casse, which formerly belonged to Stephen de Horsleye, by the service of 8s. 9½d. yearly; a rood of meadow near Hulleford, which formerly belonged to the same Stephen, by the service of 3d. yearly; a rood of meadow there, which formerly belonged to Edith de Coton, by the service of 3d. yearly; a plot of land and pasture there, which formerly belonged to William Fraunceys, by the service of 12d. yearly; 3 roods of meadow near Hullefordeheye and a moiety of an acre of meadow at Lyghthurst, which formerly belonged to William Parent, by the service of 15d. yearly; 2 enclosed plots of land in Arleyes, 10 acres of land in Lythewode and Westwode, an enclosed plot of land upon Le Rowehull, which formerly belonged to Robert de Cotes, by the service of 4s. yearly; 1½ acres of land upon Le Rowehull, which formerly belonged to Adam de Aspeleye, and a moiety of an acre of land there which formerly belonged to Thomas le Wodeward, by the service of 2s. yearly; an acre and a rood of land in Gratewode, which formerly belonged to John Drewery, by the service of 15d. yearly; an acre of land near the cemetery, which belonged to Thomas de Cestr [ia], by the service of 12d. yearly; 3½ roods of land at Brokholebruche, which belonged to Nicholas de Horsleye, by the service of 10½d. yearly; a royal acre of land in the new field, by the service of 2s. 3d. yearly; an acre of land called La Newebruche near Hullefordeheye, by the service of 12d. yearly; 3 roods of land near the garden of the said Adam at Offeleye, by the service of 9d. yearly, and two cottages upon the heath which belonged to Thomas le Bedel, by the service of 2s. yearly. By C.
Membrane 19.
June 26.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to cause the rents, fruits and issues of the prebend of Brampton in the church of St. Mary, Lincoln, to be seized into the king's hand without delay and delivered to Master Hugh Pelegrini, the papal nuncio in England, and to Master John de Bona Aura, proctors in England of Brunus de Indico, an alien, or to their attorney, to answer to the king for the same, as the king ordered Hugh to inspect his register and memoranda concerning that prebend, and to certify the king in chancery of what he should find, and Hugh returned that Brunus is the true possessor of the prebend, and has been for thirty years past and more, as appears in the register of his office, papal bulls and processes thereupon in his possession, and that Roger Holm at present occupies the prebend, having obtained it from the pope, as reserved, by suggesting that it was void by Brunus's death, he being alive and well, as appears by the certificates of divers bishops and officers of places where Brunus is staying and also by letters patent and close directed to Hugh and others, which Hugh is ready to show; and the king considering that the said rents and issues ought to pertain to him as those of the other benefices of aliens in England, if Brunus is the true possessor and alive, ordered the sheriff to notify Roger to be in chancery on the octaves of Trinity last to show cause why he should not answer to the king for the said fruits and issues for the time when he occupied the prebend, and to answer for them henceforth so long as the benefices of aliens remain in the king's hand, and further to do and receive what the king's court should determine, and the sheriff returned that he had notified Roger as aforesaid and that he did not come on the said day when solemnly called.
June 27.
Westminster.
To Thomas Cary, escheator in Somerset and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and 60 acres of land in Whitewell, restoring the issues thereof to John le Grete, as the king, by letters patent, granted to Walter Chauntmerel, one of the king's falconers, the said messuage and land as those which belonged to John and which were held in chief, it was said, and which are in the king's hands because they were acquired without the king's licence, to hold so long as they should remain in the king's hand, without rendering anything to the king therefor, and afterwards, on its being found by inquisition, taken by the escheator and by John Brunyng, that John le Grete acquired the messuage and land for life of Thomas Martyn, and that they are held of Edward, prince of Wales, as of the manor of Fordynton, by the service of a pound of pepper and of 2s. 1d. yearly; and that the said manor is in the king's hand as parcel of the county of Cornwall by the death of Margaret late the wife of Peter de Gavaston, who held it in dower of that county after her husband's death, and the king ordered the sheriff of Dorset to notify Walter to be in chancery on the octaves of Trinity last to show cause why the king's hand should not be amoved from the said messuage and land, and further to do and receive what the king's court should determine, and Walter did not come when summoned on the said day.