Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1360

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1909.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1360', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364, (London, 1909) pp. 84. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol11/p84a [accessed 20 April 2024]

November 1360



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Nov. 22. Westminster.	To the arrayers in Buckinghamshire of men at arms and archers to sail for the king's service. Order to stay altogether the demand made upon Richard earl of Arundell for payment of any sums whatsover for his manor of Medmenham towards the expenses of men at arms, armed men and archers to march against the king's enemies of France, releasing any distraint, and restoring any levy made upon him for that reason; as the earl was arrayed and furnished in Sussex with men at arms, armed men and archers to the utmost of his power for all his lands at the time when those enemies were at sea for the purpose of invading the realm, ready to resist them had they presumed to land upon the sea coast of that county, as the king is fully informed. By C.
Nov. 20. Westminster.	To Walter de Kelby escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to remove the king's hand and not to intermeddle further with a rent of 30 quarters of wheat, 30 quarters of barley and 30 quarters of oats, payable by the abbot and convent of Kirkested, delivering the issues to the abbot of Bardeneye; as by certificate of the escheator, sent into chancery by the king's command, it is found that he took that rent into the king's hand for that he found by inquisition, before him taken of his office, that Gilbert de Gaunt, tenant in chief by barony, of his barony aliened without the king's licence two carucates of land now called Monkesdayles in Skampton to the abbot and convent of Bardeneye, and the said abbot and convent without the king's licence aliened the same to the abbot and convent of Kirkested, paying the aforesaid rent yearly between Michaelmas and Easter, whereof the king and his ancestors ought to have had the issues and profits during all the time of a vacancy of the abbey of Bardeneye from the time when the advowson of that abbey came to the king's forefathers by gift of the said Gilbert, and have had none, but were thereof defrauded during that whole time to the damage of 400l.; and it is not in accordance with law that the abbot should be ousted from his freehold without an answer, and he has found William Moryce of Hale and John atte See of Bardeney of Lincolnshire his mainpernors, who have mainperned to answer to the king for the said rent and arrears, if it shall be determined that the same ought to belong to the king.