June 21.
Westminster. |
To William de Shareshull and his fellows, justices appointed to hold
pleas before the king. Whereas Roger de Mortuo Mary, earl of March.—
who has been restored to the title and estate which Roger de Mortuo Mari,
late earl of March, held before he was taken and adjudged to death, in
regard to actions and hereditary successions of all manors, honours,
castles, lordships, lands, demesnes, services, reversions, liberties, fees and
advowsons and to all other rights as if no judgment had been rendered
against the earl, because that judgment was annulled as erroneous in the
last parliament held at Westminster on account of divers errors found in
the record and process—is suing as kinsman and heir of the said Roger,
against William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury, for restitution of the
land of Dynbegh in Wales which, as he asserts, belonged to the said late
earl of March in fee on the day of the said judgment, falling to the present
earl of March, as the right and inheritance of the late earl his grandfather,
whose heir he is; and the earl of Salisbury pleading before the king in
that affair has alleged that the king granted by charter, dated 18 January
in the 4th year of the reign, the castle, town, manor and honour of
Dynbegh and the cantreds of Ros, Reywynok, and Kaiernier and the
commote of Dynmael in Wales, which the present earl of March calls the
land of Dynebegh in the said writ, to William de Monte Acuto, father of
the present earl of Salisbury, who is the heir of his body, to hold to himself
and the heirs of his body together with the knights' fees, advowsons of
churches, chapels, religious houses and hospitals, and with the hundreds,
markets, fairs, chaces, warrens, parks, woods, free fisheries, royalties,
liberties, free customs and all other appurtenances, to the value of 1,000
marks of land yearly, with reversion to the king if William the father
should die without such an heir, that afterwards by another charter, dated
24 April in the 12th year of the reign, the king ratified that grant with
the assent of the prelates, earls, barons and others of the council, granting
that if the said castle, town, manor, honour, cantreds and commote or any
parcel thereof should be recovered or deraigned out of the earl's hand by
judgment of the king's court, without the earl's fault, then the king should
provide the earl with other lands to the value of those so recovered out of his
hands, for himself and the heirs of his body for ever, and by another charter
dated 1 May in the 15th year of the reign the king granted to the late earl
of Salisbury with the like assent, that in case the grants of lands made by
the king should be revoked by the king in parliament or without a parliament, the grants made to the said earl should remain in force, and that he
and his heirs should hold the castles and other things granted to him, notwithstanding any revocation, and so the present earl of Salisbury asserts that
he ought not to answer for the said castle, town, manor, honour, cantreds
and commote without the king, upon which pretext the justices have delayed
to proceed further in that plea, whereupon the earl of March has besought
the king to provide a remedy: order, if such process has been taken in that
affair, to proceed further in the plea with all speed, and to do justice to the
parties in accordance with the judgment of the said parliament, notwithstanding the charters or allegation aforesaid. By K. |
