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May 3.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of the town of Great Yarmouth. Whereas an ordinance,
made in the time of Edward I, between the barons of the Cinque Ports and
the men of Great Yarmouth, by mutual consent of the parties and by the
king's order, contains that in the places called 'Strande' and 'Denne' at the
said town the barons should have their easements without any appropriation
of the soil, and especially in times of the fairs there, without paying any
custom, and that the men of that town should clear of old ships and timber
those places where the barons ought to land and dry their nets, except of
ships in the making and of masts upon which the nets might be dried, and
that the barons should have and enjoy peacefully the rents whereof they were
seised in the said town, and if anyone should deforce them, the provost and
bailiffs of the town should aid the barons to levy those rents in accordance
with law and justice, and if the barons should strive to have right in other
rents whereof they were deforced by the men of the town, they should have
recovery by writ and by the law and custom used in the town, and in the
time of the fairs the barons should have the keeping of the king's peace and
should do his justice with the provost of the town, and the bailiffs of
the barons with the provost should make attachments, plead pleas and
determine plaints during the fairs according to the law merchant, and the
attachments and profits of the men of the Cinque Ports in the times of
fairs should remain to the barons, and the bailiffs of the barons with the
provost should have the keeping of the king's prison in that town during
the fairs: order to cause the places of Strande and Denne to be cleared as
aforesaid, to aid the barons to levy and recover their rents in that town in
the form aforesaid, and to permit the barons to have the keeping of the
peace, exercise the king's justice with the provost, and their bailiffs with
the bailiffs or provost of the town to make attachments, plead pleas and
determine plaints during the said fairs, the said attachments and profits to
remain to the barons, and their bailiffs have the keeping of the prison as
aforesaid in accordance with the ordinance, bearing themselves so that the
king may not need to provide another remedy for the barons. |
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To the same bailiffs. Whereas the same ordinance, to avoid the damage
and inconvenience which used [to arise] by the custody put by the men of
Great Yarmouth upon ships, merchants and merchandize, contains (inter
alia) that thenceforth no such custody should be put thereupon to prevent
merchants commonly selling their goods freely by their own hands wherever
they should wish, paying the customs due thereon: order, upon pain of
forfeiture, not to put any such custody upon ships, merchants and merchandise in the port of that town, contrary to the form of the ordinance. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To Robert Tiliol, escheator in Cumberland. Order to deliver a messuage,
4 acres and 3 roods of land in Raghton together with the issues thereof to
the next friend of the heir of Robert Stubbe to whom that inheritance
cannot descend hereditarily, to be kept for the heir's use, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by William de Threlkeld, late escheator, that
Robert at his death held the said messuage and land in his demesne as
of fee in chief by the service of 2s. 4d. a year payable at the exchequer of
Carlisle at Michaelmas, and that John his son is his next heir and aged
six years. |
May 15.
Westminster. |
To Guy de Seintclere, escheator in Suffolk. Order to cause Katherine
and Joan, daughters and heirs of Robert Gower, tenant in chief, to have
seisin of all the lands whereof their father was seised at his death in his
demesne as of fee, as they have proved their ages before William de
Apulderfeld, escheator in Kent, and the king of his special favour has given
them respite for their homage for all the lands which their father held in
chief until Easter next. By K. on the information of John de Wynewyk. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To Robert Tilliol, escheator in Cumberland. Order to take the fealty of
Thomas son of William de Parkham in accordance with the form of a
schedule enclosed, and after having taken security from him for paying his
relief at the exchequer, to cause him to have seisin of a messuage and
40 acres of land in Kirkandres, as the king has learned by inquisition taken
by William de Threlkeld, late escheator, that John son of Simon de
Kirkandres at his death held the said messuage and land in his demesne
as of fee in chief by the service of 2s. 8d. payable at the exchequer of
Carlisle yearly at Michaelmas, and that Thomas (son of the said William
and of Alice his wife, John's sister, now deceased) is John's next heir and
of full age. |
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Vacated because enrolled on the roll of fines for this year. |
May 20.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made upon Baldwin de Spinalo, prior of Lappele [as on m. 18,
above p. 356]. |
May 23.
Westminster. |
To Henry Pykard, 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
church, Westminster, for the morrow of St. Botulph's next, a tun of wine
of the king's prise of London, towards the celebration of divine service
in that church, in accordance with the grant made to them by Henry III
of his reverence for Edward the Confessor, of a tun of such wine to be
received yearly on that day. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Lenne. Order to permit merchants, both
native and alien, who wish to do so to cross with their merchandise to
parts beyond which are of the king's amity, after paying the customs
due, although the king forbad them until further order to permit any
religious or other person to cross from that port without his special licence,
as it was and is not the king's intention that merchants or mariners coming
with ships and merchandise to England, or wishing to cross thence with
merchandise, should be unable to pass out of the realm after paying the
customs due. By C. |
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May 13.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Hungerford, escheator in Wilts. Order not to intermeddle
further with the manor of Estwyk, namely a messuage and 3 carucates of
land, lately taken into the king's hand in the name of wardship by
reason of the minority of John son of John Lillebon next heir of Anastasia
daughter of William de Harder, tenant in chief, which manor is extended
at 14l. yearly, restoring the issues thereof to Robert de Bilkemore, as the
king has decreed that his hand be amoved therefrom, and that restitution
be made of the fruits and issues thereof received in the meantime, at the
suit of Robert, who married Anastasia, claiming that the manor ought to
pertain to him for life of his joint purchase with Anastasia by a fine
thereof made between them and John de Ellerker, parson of Tyd church,
and Adam de Somersham, and produced before the king, due process being
first had, as is found by the tenor of the record and process held thereupon
which the king caused to come before him into chancery. |
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Mandate to Thomas de la Ryvere, late escheator, to restore to Robert the
issues of that manor taken during his office. |
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The like to Gilbert de Berewyk, late escheator. |
May 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Huntingdon and Cambridge. Order to cause the defects
in the king's prisons of Huntingdon and in Cambridge castle, which are
most in need of repair, to be repaired up to the sum of 10l. by the view
and testimony of Thomas Deschalers the elder. By C. |
May 10.
Westminster. |
To John de Wesenham, fermor of the temporalities of the bishopric of
Ely, which are in the king's hand. Order to pay to the master and
brethren of the hospital of St. John the Baptist, Ely, what is in arrear to
them of their appointed alms of 11l. 14s. 1d. for the terms of St. Andrew
and the Annunciation last; as they have petitioned the king to order those
arrears to be paid to them, as they ought to receive and their predecessors
in the hospital have received in times past 11l. 14s. 1d. of the exchequer of
Ely at the terms of St. Andrew, the Annunciation, Midsummer and
Michaelmas in equal portions, as well by the hands of the bishops of
Ely as of the guardians of the temporalities during a vacancy, of a
certain appointed alms, which is in arrear from the time of the taking of
those temporalities into the king's hand; and by the certificate of the
treasurer and barons of the exchequer, sent into chancery, it is found that
during vacancies of the bishopric, as well in the time of Henry III as of
Edward I and Edward II, when the temporalities of the bishopric were in
those king's hand, allowance was made to the guardians of the temporalities
in their account at the exchequer for the said alms of 11l.14s. 1d. paid to
the master and brethren pro rata for the time of those vacancies, and that at
the time of the vacancy of the bishopric by the death of John de Hothom,
the late bishop, the master and brethren recovered by process before the
barons of the exchequer what pertained to them of the said alms, pro rata
for the time of the vacancy, against the prior and convent of Ely, who
had of the late king's grant the custody of the temporalities of the
bishopric during vacancies, for a certain ferm thereof to be rendered to
the king. |
May 16.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to pay to four chaplains daily celebrating divine
service at Ely for the souls of King Henry III, Eleanor his wife and of
their ancestors and heirs, and for the souls of bishop Hugh, his predecessors
and successors, what is in arrear to them of 20 marks yearly for the term of
the Annunciation last; as Henry III granted by charter to Hugh, then
bishop of Ely, that whenever the bishopric of Ely should be void and in
the king's hand, four chaplains, whom that bishop appointed so to celebrate
divine service daily, should receive yearly of the issues of the manors of
Tateryng and Bromford, which the bishop bought for the use of his church,
by the hands of the keepers of those manors, 20 marks, which the bishop
assigned as a perpetual maintenance for the four chaplains, to wit, 10 marks
at Michaelmas in the exchequer of Ely and 10 marks at the Annunciation,
as is fully contained in the charter; and by certificate of the treasurer and
barons of the exchequer sent into chancery it is found that in vacancies of
the bishopric in the times of Edward I and of Edward II, the temporalities
of the bishopric being in the king's hand, allowance was made to the
guardians of the temporalities in their account at the exchequer, for
20 marks paid by them pro rata for the time of the said vacancies, and that
the chaplains, in the time of the vacancy of the bishopric by the death of
John de Hothom, recovered by process before the barons of the exchequer
what pertained to them of the 20 marks for the time of that vacancy, against
the prior and convent of Ely, who by the king's grant held the custody of
the temporalities during vacancies, for a certain ferm to be rendered to the
king. |
May 26.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and woolfells in the port
of London. Order to pay to Edward, prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall
and earl of Chester, or to his attorney 500 marks for Easter term last, as on
21 June in the 29th year of the reign, in recompense for 1000 marks which
William de Monte Acuto, Earl of Salisbury receives yearly of the issues
and profits of the stannary in Cornwall and of the stampage thereof, which
the king has lately granted to the prince, the king granted to the said
prince 1000 marks to be received yearly of the customs in that port, so
long as the earl shall receive the 1000 marks yearly of the said stannary. |
April 20.
Westminster. |
To the chancellor of Ireland. Order to send writs under the seal used
in Ireland to all ministers in Ireland directing them to cause Roger son of
Robert de Clifford, brother and heir of Robert de Clifford, tenant in chief,
to have seisin of the knights' fees and advowsons belonging to his lands,
delivering to him the issues of those fees from 40 (sic) December in the
28th year of the reign; as on 14 May in that year the king of his favour
rendered to Roger, then a minor, all the lands of his inheritance, in the
king's hand by reason of the death of Robert de Clifford his father, and of
the minority of the said Robert son of Robert, his brother, who died a minor
in the king's wardship, except the knights' fees and advowsons, which the
king ordained to remain in his hand until Roger had proved his age and
done his homage, and the king ordered the chancellor of Ireland to direct
all the ministers of Ireland to cause Roger to have seisin of the said lands,
except the fees and advowsons, and on 14 December following, Roger's age
being proved, the king took his homage for the said lands. |
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April 12.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to
Edward de Balliolo, late king of Scotland, 250l. for Easter term last, of
the first issues of the customs and subsidies there, after paying to Queen
Isabel and Queen Philippa the assignments made to them in that port, in
accordance with the king's grant to him of 2000l. to be received yearly for
life in the ports of Kyngeston upon Hull and Boston, to wit, 250l. in cash
at Easter, Midsummer, Michaelmas and Christmas of the issues of the
customs and subsidies. [Fœdera.] |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull
to pay 250l. to Edward for Easter term. |
June 27.
Westminster. |
The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Boston to pay him
250l. for Midsummer term last. |
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The like to the collectors in the port of Knygeston upon Hull to pay him
250l. for that term. |
Oct. 6.
Westminster. |
The like to the collectors in the port of Boston to pay him 250l.for
Michaelmas term. |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull
to pay him 250l. for the said term. |
May 24.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in the counties of York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland. Order to assign dower to Alice late
the wife of Thomas de Heselarton of the manor of Wilton in Pykerynglyth,
in the presence of Walter de Heselarton, kinsman and heir of the said
Thomas, son and heir of John de Heselarton, if he choose to attend,
sending that assignment to chancery to be enrolled there; as that manor was
taken into the king's hand by pretext of an inquisition of office taken
before Peter de Nuttle, then escheator in the county of York, by which it
was found that Roger Bygot, sometime earl of Norfolk and marshal of
England, who held the said manor in chief of Edward I as of the crown,
alienated it to William de Ormesby, knight, who alienated it in fee to John,
that after John's death Thomas entered the manor and alienated it to
Miles de Stapelton of Hathelseye and Thomas Chauncy, who alienated it in
fee to Thomas without obtaining the king's licence; and afterwards at the
suit of Walter, asserting that the manor is held of Henry duke of Lancaster
as of his manor of Pykeryng, and not of the king, the king committed the
manor to Walter to hold until it was discussed whether the manor was held
of the king or of the duke, so that he should answer to the king for the
issues thereof if they ought to pertain to him, and now Alice has petitioned
the king to order dower to be assigned to her as aforesaid. |
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By the mainprise of Thomas Ughtred, knight, the elder, and of
John de Allerstan. |
April 25.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John Alastre of Ledenham, who is insufficiently qualified. |
May 3.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. John of Gaunt
(de Gandaxo) earl of Richemund, the king's son, has petitioned the king
that, whereas he and his predecessors, earls of Richemund, have had time
out of mind wreck of sea cast ashore by the sea coast at Gernethorp
Foulstowe, Somercotes and Saltflethaven and the adjacent parts within his
lordship, and 62 sarplars and one pocket of wool lately weighed and
customed in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull, as the king has seen in the
letters of coket testifying the weighing and the payment of the custom and
subsidy thereon (which letters with the wool have been cast ashore near the
sea coast there), and 20 sarplars thereof came to the earl's possession as his
wreck, and the remaining 42 sarplars and one pocket have been carried
away by certain men of those parts and are unduly detained, it is said, the
king will grant that the merchants may buy of the earl the 20 sarplars and
the remaining 42 sarplars and one pocket, when recovered by him, lade
them in ships and take them to the ports of Flanders without again paying
the custom and subsidy thereon: order to permit merchants willing to buy
that wool from the earl, to lade it in ships in that port and take it to
Flanders without again paying the custom and subsidy, as aforesaid. By K. |
April 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pay to Nicholas de
la Despense, the king's yeoman, 15l. for Easter term last, as the king
granted to him 20l. to be received yearly for his life of the issues of those
counties, and afterwards, by reason of his good service to the king and to
Edmund his son, the king granted to Nicholas on 18 June in the 28th
year of the reign, 10l. to be received yearly for life of the said issues
over and above the 20l. previously granted. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order, of the
king's favour, to dearrest a sarplar of wool of John Burwhal, merchant of
Flanders, and to permit John to take it to Flanders to do his pleasure
therewith, after paying the custom and subsidy due thereon, as the collectors
arrested that sarplar as forfeit to the king, because it was placed in a ship
in that port before the custody and subsidy due thereon were paid, and
John has made fine with the king by 40s. for his contempt. |
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The 40s. have been paid in the hanaper. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To Reynold de Sholdham, inspector in the port of London and the River
Thames. Order to dearrest a boat of John le Skryvere of Lescluse and to
deliver it to John, as he has made fine with the king by 20s., which he has
paid in the hanaper of chancery, for the trespass which he committed in
landing certain men from his boat at Northflet with some suspect letters. |
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The 20s. have been paid in the hanaper. |
June 16.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Hoo, escheator in Surrey. Order to amove the king's
hand from tenements called 'Hogheles' in the parish of Neudegate and not
to intermeddle further therewith, delivering the issues thereof to Robert de
la Poyle and Margaret his wife, in accordance with their petition; as
Cristina Inge and William de Watford and Mariota his wife lately recovered
seisin of those tenements by an assize of novel disseisin against John son of
John de Brewes and others, to wit of 92 acres of land, 8 acres of pasture and
10s. rent, and Cristina, William and Mariota were seised of those tenements
by virtue of that recovery, and afterwards enfeoffed Robert and Margaret
thereof by a fine levied in the king's court, and the tenements (among
others) have now been seized into the king's hand because it is found by
certain inquisitions, taken by the king's order, that the said John is an
idiot and was so from his birth, and that John de Brewes, his father, was
at his death seised of those tenements in his demesne as of fee; and it has
been found by one of those inquisitions that the said tenements called
Hogheles were recovered in the form aforesaid and granted to Robert and
Margaret, and it is not just that they should be ousted from their freehold
without answer. |
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May 3.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made upon Ralph de Nevill for 2000 marks (as at m. 20; above,
p. 351). By K. |
May 16.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge from
15 May John de Houeden and Isabel his wife, late the wife of Gilbert
de Mitford, to whom the king previously committed the keeping of two
thirds of the lands of Gilbert, rendering 31s. 9⅓d. at the exchequer, provided
that they answer for that sum before the said day, as by the mainprise of
Hugh de Appelby of Newcastle upon Tyne, John Houuel of Newcastle upon
Tyne, Adam Cant and Adam del Denebrig, skinner of Newcastle upon Tyne,
returned in the exchequer, the king committed to Hugh son of Gilbert de
Mitford, one of the mainpernors of Walter de Chiriton and his fellows, late
fermors of the customs, two thirds of the lands which belonged to Gilbert
in the towns of Newcastle upon Tyne and Mitford, co. Northumberland,
taken into the king's hand by reason of the debts in which the said fermors
are bound to the king, which two thirds the king previously committed to
John and Isabel, rendering the extent thereof, to hold to Hugh so long
as the two thirds should remain in the king's hand, rendering in part
satisfaction of the said debts, the said extent which amounts to 31s. 8¾d.,
as is contained in the king's letters patent made on 15 May last. |
May 20.
Westminster. |
To J. bishop of Lincoln. Order to supersede the execution of any writ
of judgment concerning the admission of William de Hedyndon, chaplain,
to the vicarage of Hedyndon church, and to permit John son of Richard
Symond of Wardyngton to enjoy the possession thereof, as the king,
believing that the said vicarage was void and in his gift by reason of
the priory of St. Frideswide, Oxford, lately void and in the king's hand,
presented William thereto on 12 June in the 25th year of the reign, and
on 22 June following, on being informed that the vicarage was full and
occupied by John, the king revoked the presentation to William, and afterwards on 15 May in the 28th year of the reign the king ratified John's
estate in that vicarage, and now the king has learned from John that
William is striving to be admitted to the vicarage by the bishop by reason
of certain letters of revocation of the said ratification which issued from
chancery without the king being informed of the premises, and by colour
of a judgment rendered at William's suit before the justices of the Bench
touching the advowson of that vicarage, it is said, and of the writ of
judgment directed to the bishop thereupon, whereupon John has petitioned
the king to provide a remedy. By C. |
May 16.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Thomas
Frembaud, late sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham, of 75l. which the king
of his favour has pardoned him of the 99l. which he owes of the remainder
of his account of the ferms of the bailiwicks for the last half year of the
23rd year of the reign and the whole of the 24th year. By K. |
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The following have like writs of pardon, to wit:— |
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John Chastiloun, late sheriff of the said counties, for 85l. of the 132l.
which he owes for the 25th and 26th years. |
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Gerard de Braybrok, late sheriff of those counties, for 63l. 6s. 8d. of the
132l. which he owes for the 27th and 28th years. |
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Peter de Salford, late sheriff of those counties, for 46l. 13s. 4d. of the
132l. which he owes for the 29th and 30th years. |
May 5.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Thorp and his fellows, justices appointed to keep the peace
in Norfolk. Order to make inquisition in all their sessions, by the oath of
lawful men of that county concerning the escapes of thieves and felons
and the chattels of felons and fugitives in the hands of the king's ministers
and other persons, and to adjudge those things by presentments before them
as was wont to be done before the justices in eyre, and to deliver by
indentures the estreats of those escapes and chattels to the collectors of the
fifteenth in that county, that the escapes and chattels so adjudged be levied
and distributed for the use of the commons of England in accordance
with their ordinance and the justices' supervision, as at the prayer of the
said commons in the present parliament, for a fifteenth which they granted
for one year to be paid at Michaelmas and Easter next, the king pardoned
them all escapes of thieves and felons and chattels of felons and fugitives
which happened before these times and are not yet adjudged before the
justices or put in estreats, and also all amercements not affeered wherewith
in eyres of justices to be thereafter held the community of any county,
hundred or township might be charged to the king for all past time, in
common and not individually, and whatever pertains to the king of such
escapes, chattels and amercements, except the escapes of convicted clerks
from the prisons of their ordinaries, and the king granted that whatever
pertains to him of such escapes and chattels in the hands of his ministers
and other persons shall be levied and delivered as aforesaid in aid of the
payment of the fifteenth, and such escapes and chattels shall be adjudged
before the justices of the peace in all the counties of England by presentments
and the estreats delivered to the collectors as aforesaid, and shall be levied
by them for the use of the community in aid of the payment of the
fifteenth and distributed among the different townships as their necessity
appears greater, in accordance with the ordinance and supervision of the
said justices, as is fully contained in the statute. |
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The like to the keepers of the peace in all the counties of England. |
