Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1368

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 12, 1364-1369. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1910.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1368', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 12, 1364-1369, (London, 1910) pp. 443-447. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol12/pp443-447 [accessed 20 April 2024]

November 1368



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Nov. 11. Westminster.	To all and singular the sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs, ministers and other the king's lieges to whom etc. Order to suffer William de Wykeham now bishop of Winchester, all his men and the tenants of his lands and fees, when they shall come with their goods and property whatsoever within the bailiwicks and districts of the said sheriffs and others, to be quit of the payment of toll, pontage, passage, payage, lestage, stallage, tallage, carriage, pavage, murage, pesage, quayage, pikage, terrage and every other custom for the same according to the charters of former kings and the king's confirmation thereof, not troubling them in aught contrary to those charters, releasing any distraint upon them made, and restoring any thing for that cause taken of them or any of them; as amongst other liberties granted to the bishop of Winchester and his successors, as well by charter of King Edgar as by divers other charters of divers kings, it is granted that he and his successors, their men and the tenants of their lands and rees shall be quit of the customs aforesaid and of every other custom, also of all tronage throughout the king's land and power save the tronage used in places where wool to be taken out of the realm is customed and weighed by those to whom that office shall be granted by the king or his heirs; and the king lately by charter confirmed those charters, and further granted the then bishop that he and his successors should thenceforward fully use and enjoy the said liberties and every of them although heretofore they did not use the same, and that he, his men and tenants aforesaid and their successors should throughout the king's realm and power be quit of the customs aforesaid upon all their property which they shall cause to be carried by land and by water.
	Et erat patens.
Nov. 6. Westminster.	To Thomas Cheyne escheator in Devon. Order to cause Hugh de Courteneye earl of Devon to have seisin of a messuage, one carucate of land, 8 acres of wood, heath and furze and 22s. of rent in Loghingcote, held by John de Loghingcote outlawed for felony it is said; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the premises have been in his hand a year and a day, that the said John held them of the said earl, and that John Cary had the year and a day and the waste thereor, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To the chancellor of Ireland for the time being. Order to deliver to John de Hastynges, son and heir of Lawrence de Hastyngges earl of Pembroke tenant in chief, all the lands in Ireland, as well of his said father as those held in dower or otherwise for life of his heritage by Agnes who was wife of the said late earl and by Juliana late countess of Huntyngdon and taken into the king's hand by their death, together with the issues thereof taken since 12 September last; as on that day the said John's age was proved, and the king took his homage and fealty, and commanded livery to be given him of all the lands in England of his said father, and of those held as aforesaid by the said Agnes and Juliana.
Oct. 30. Westminster.	To Edmund Savage escheator in Notynghamshire. Order to take of Francis de Meryng, son of Thomas de Meryng and Elizabeth his wife, security for payment of his relief at the exchequer, and to cause him to have seisin of the site of a messuage in Little Markham and 40 acres of land in the said town and in Tuxford taken into the king's hand by the death of the said Thomas, but not to meddle further with the manor of Meryng, 10 acres of land and 5 acres of meadow in Meryng likewise taken into the king's hand; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Thomas at his death held the premises in Little Markham and Tuxford in chief by knight service by the courtesy of England after the death of the said Elizabeth, and the said manor and premises in Meryng of others than the king, and that the said Francis is next heir as well of the said Thomas as of the said Elizabeth and of full age; and the king has taken his homage and fealty. By p.s. [27655.]
	Vacated because upon the Fine Roll.
Nov. 18. Westminster.	To Henry de Ingelby the king's clerk, warden of the House of the Converted London. Order to cause 26s. 8d. yearly of the rents and other profits of the said house to be ministered to John de Sancta Maria in Spain over and above 40s. a year which the said warden has appointed to be to him delivered as the king has learned; as the said John, who was long since converted from the superstition of the Jews to the Christian faith, and to whom the king commanded that maintenance should be ministered by the said warden such a one of the converted was wont to take, has repaired to the king praying for more abundant favour, as the said sum of 40s. a year is too small for his maintenance and the maintenance of his wife and children, and the king would add somewhat in aid of his living that he may have the more willing mind to abide in the catholic faith. By K.
Nov. 20. Westminster.	To Andrew de Guldeford, John Maykyn and to William Briddeford the searcher in the port of London. Order to cause so much of the goods arrested in the ships of John Petresson, Lanus Sotte and Peter Gissilkyn as is to be appraised and sold to be appraised and sold without delay to the king's best advantage, and likewise the ship of the said Lanus, and to the said searcher to safe keep until further order the money arising from the sale thereof, certifying in chancery under their seals the appraisement and sale thereof and all their action in the matter; as lately the said searcher having signified to the king that the collectors of the petty custom in the said port found in the said John's ship uncustomed a breastplate, four aventails and two yards of woollen cloth of Herman Manard, a breastplate of Godekyn Fynthorp, and 14l. of gold of a Lumbard called Gentiel Gascoigne, in the ship of the said Lanus a bag with gold in coin of Claysy Groote merchant of Almain, a bag with gold of William de Bristoll merchant, two girdles of silver gilt of a knight of Almain it is said, all with the assent of the shipmaster concealed in the said ship in privy places, and in the said Peter's ship 22 'cappes' of wool and two small pieces of blanket uncustomed to be taken without warrant to foreign parts contrary to the king's prohibition, and that they arrested as forfeit to the king's use for that cause all the gold, silver and goods aforesaid with the ship of the said Lanus, the king ordered the collectors and the said searcher to cause the gold and silver and the bags aforesaid to be brought to the exchequer there to be delivered to the treasurer and the chamberlains, and all the other goods to be brought before the collectors of the great custom of London and appraised, and then to be safe kept until further order with the ship of the said Lanus; and the collectors of the great custom may not attend to the appraising of the said goods, as the king has learned. By C.
Nov. 28. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of the city of Canterbury. Writ de intendendo in favour of Idonea and Constance sisters of William son of John Condy of Sandwyc, Robert Crobbe who has taken to wife Margaret another sister, William Makenhad who has taken to wife Margaret (sic) another sister, and the next friend of Thomas Wathenden son of Alice the fifth sister, directing the bailiffs of the farm of the said city to pay them every year 30l. according to the king's letters patent, taking their acquittance term by term; as it is found by inquisition, taken at the king's command by John de Bisshopeston escheator in Kent, that the said William son of John at his death held no lands in that county in chief in his demesne as of fee nor in service, but took of the king yearly 30l. to him and his heirs of the farm of the said city by the hands of the bailiffs thereof for the time being, namely 10l. at Easter and 20l. at Michaelmas, that he died 5 September last, and that Idonea, Margaret, Margery and Constance his sisters and the said Thomas son of Alice are his next heirs, the said Idonea, Margaret, Margery and Constance being of full age and the said Thomas of the age of 4 years and upwards; and on 1 October in the 29th year of his reign, in recompense for the bailiwick of the town of Sandwyc which the king lately gave to John son of William Condy of Sandwyc and his heirs for ever, and the said William son of John, being son and heir of the said John son of William, after his father's death surrendered to the king's hands at his command, the king by letters patent gave to him and his heirs the said yearly sum of the farm of the said city to be taken as aforesaid.
May 25. Westminster.	To the abbot of Bruera. Order, for particular causes, to have before the council at Westminster in the quinzaine of Michaelmas next a charter of King Richard concerning liberties granted by the said king to his predecessors the abbots of that place in the first year of his reign, and all other charters affecting the liberties of that house and confirmations thereof, and further to do and receive what shall by the council be then determined. By K.
	Vacated because otherwise on the dorse of this roll.
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Nov. 20. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause Edmund de Brundissh clerk to have seisin of part of a messuage in Brundissh and a piece of land there containing 2 acres, Robert de Ufford earl of Suffolk of the residue of the said messuage, 3½ acres of land, one acre of meadow and one acre of pasture there, John de Pishale of 3 acres of land, and Massilia Godde and Joan her sister of 2½ acres of land in Brundissh, all held by Thomas Geoffrey of Dymyngton outlawed for felony it is said; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that a messuage, 11 acres of land and one acre of meadow in Brundissh held by the said Thomas have been in his hand a year and a day, that he held them of the said Edmund, the said earl, John, Massilia and Joan as aforesaid, and that Roger de Wolfreton the escheator had the year and a day and the waste thereof and ought to answer to the king for the same.
Nov. 6. Westminster.	To John Benet escheator in Gloucestershire. Order not to meddle further with the manor of Hurst, 22 marks of rent in the manor of Frompton, and 12l. 10s. of rent in the manor of Camme taken into the king's hand by the death of Maurice son of Thomas de Berkele, delivering to Elizabeth late his wife any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Maurice at his death held the premises jointly with the said Elizabeth of the gift of Thomas de Berkele his father to them and the heirs male of their bodies, and that the same are held of others than the king.
Nov. 24. Westminster.	To John de Bisshopeston escheator in Kent. Order to remove the king's hand, and not to meddle further with the priory and church of Bilsyngton, delivering to the prior and convent of Bilsyngton any issues thereof taken, although it was found by inquisition, taken of his office by John de Ty late escheator, that the said priory is of the foundation of former kings, and was by the king's forefathers charged to find seven canons chaplains to celebrate for the souls of his said forefathers and of the faithful departed, four of which canons are withdrawn for sixteen years past to the king's prejudice and disherison, that the temporalities given by the king's forefathers are worth 20l. a year, and that the said prior has acquired the advowson of the said church of the prior of Bosegrove and appropriated the same to him and his house, whether of the king's allegiance or not is not known; as it is plain by divers charters of the said prior and convent, produced in chancery, that one John Maunsel provost of Beverley appointed that a house of religion should be founded, that he granted and assigned in frank almoin to the foundation and endowment thereof a part of his manor of Bilsyngton, which he had of the gift of Hugh then earl of Arundell, and his whole land of Polre, Gozehale and Etche, to be held by God and St. Mary, William then prior and the canons at Bilsyngton and their successors for ever, willing that such canons should be maintained with the fruits and issues thereof, to be assessed according to their number and the means thereof, that after King Henry III confirmed that foundation and grant although the land of Bilsyngton was of his serjeanty, and later by a fine with him made by the said prior and canons the king by letters patent granted licence to the prior and convent of Bosegrove to give the advowson of Bilsyngton to the prior and convent of Bilsyngton and their successors, and to the prior and convent of Bilsyngton to receive the said advowson and to appropriate and hold the said church without let of the king, his heirs or ministers whatsoever.
Oct. [ (fn. 1) ]. Westminster.	To Edward prince of Aquitaine the king's firstborn son, his justice of Wales, or the representative of the said justice. Notice to do what of right ought to be done according to the laws (foros) and customs of Wales in regard to the livery of the lands in that principality of the heritage of John de Hastynges, son and heir of Lawrence de Hastynges earl of Pembroke tenant in chief, which are in the prince's wardship by reason of the said John's nonage; as by inspection of the rolls of chancery the king is assured that on 12 September last, on proof of the said John's age, the king took his homage and fealty as well for the lands held by his father as for those which Agnes who was wife of the said earl and Juliana late countess of Huntyngdon at their deaths held in dower or otherwise for life of his heritage, and commanded livery thereof to be given him.
Nov. 13. Westminster.	To Richard de Wydeville escheator in Norhamptonshire. Order not to meddle further with the lands which Alice who was wife of Thomas Bosoun held by knight service as well of the abbey of Peterborough lately void and in the king's hand as of the heir of John Trayly tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, taken into the king's hand by her death and by reason of the vacancy of the said abbey and of the nonage of John Trayly son and heir of the said John, and yet in his hand by reason of the nonage of Henry Bosoun son and heir of the said Alice; as the said Henry has proved his age before the escheator, and on 10 November in the 35th year of his reign the king took the fealty of Henry de Overton now abbot of Peterborough and restored to him the temporalities of the said abbey, and after on 18 June in the 39th year the age of the said John Trayly the son was proved, and the king took his homage and commanded livery to be given him of his father's lands.
Nov. 16. Westminster.	To Leo de Perton escheator of Worcestershire. Order not to meddle further with the lands which Thomas de Hastyngges held by knight service of the heir of Lawrence de Hastyngges earl of Pembroke tenant in chief, taken into the king's hand by the death of the said Thomas and by reason of the nonage of the said earl's heir, and yet in his hand by reason of the nonage of Bartholomew son and heir of the said Thomas; as the said Bartholomew has proved his age before the escheator, and on 12 September last the age of John de Hastyngges son and heir of the said earl was proved, and the king took his homage, and commanded livery to be given him of his father's lands.
Nov. 6. Westminster.	To Simon de Mordon mayor of the city of London and escheator therein. Order to remove the king's hand, and not to meddle further with a tenement and two shops thereto adjoining in Menchenlane in the parish of St. Dunstan 'Est' in London taken into the king's hand by the death of John Cory clerk, delivering up any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the mayor, that the said John at his death held the premises of the king in free burgage as all the said city is held, and that William de Hynelond, son of Hugh de Hynelond brother of the said John, is his next heir and of full age.