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Membrane 30. |
Oct. 24.
Westminster. |
To Philip de Courtenay admiral of the king's fleet to the westward,
or to his lieutenant. Order to compel all those who, as he may be
assured, had part of the goods and merchandise of Osbert Guythorne
of Campe taken at sea in a crayer, to contribute rateably with Hugh
de Weston of Dertmuth towards payment of 60l. to the said Osbert;
as it is shewn the king that the said Hugh and other men of Plymmuth,
Fowy, Gippewich, Jernemuth and Bristol arrayed in fashion of war
in ships, barges and balingers took the said crayer off the town of
St. Matthew in Brittany, brought it to Dertmuth, and divided the
said goods according to maritime law, that at suit of the said Osbert
the king caused the said Hugh to come before him in chancery to
answer touching the premises, wherefore he ought not to content the
said Osbert, who is of the king's friendship, for a moiety of the crayer
to him pertaining, a tun of wine therein, and freight of the said moiety,
amounting in all to 60l., and that he answered nought to the purpose,
wherefore he is before the council condemned to pay 60l.; and now
he has petitioned the king for remedy, averring that he cannot pay
it without contribution of those to whose hands great number of the
goods aforesaid came. |
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Et erat patens. |
Oct. 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Essex for the time being. Writ de intendendo,
directing him to pay to Thomas earl of Bukyngham and Eleanor his
wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Humphrey de Bohun earl of
Hereford and Essex, 40l. 10s. 10d. a year as the fee of the earl of
Essex, with the arrears since 22 June last, on which date the said
Eleanor's age was proved and the king assigned to her purparty the
said fee, which is extended at the sum named, commanding livery
thereof to be given to her husband and her. |
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Et erat patens. |
Oct. 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Hereford for the time being. Writ de intendendo,
directing him from 8 May last until the lawful age of Mary one of the
daughters and heirs of Humphrey de Bohun earl of Hereford to pay
to Thomas earl of Bukyngham, who has taken to wife Eleanor (as
above), a fee of 20l. which the said Humphrey in his life time used to
take for the earl's fee; as on 8 May last the king granted to the said
Thomas the wardship of all castles, manors etc. in England and Wales
falling to the said Mary by a partition, without rendering aught to
the king. |
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Et erat patens. |
Oct. 29.
Westminster. |
To all justices, sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs etc. to whom etc. Order
to suffer the burgesses of Maudoun (Maldon) co. Essex to enjoy the
liberties hereinafter mentioned, as they ought to do, and as they
and their predecessors used to do since the date of their charters;
as King Henry [II] by charter, confirmed by the king, granted to the
burgesses all their lands and possessions within the borough and
without to the bounds of the lowy thereof, with sac and soc, 'tol,'
'them' and 'nam,' 'infangenethef, hamsokene, blodewyte, fithwyte,
grithbreche, ordel, orestal, flemenefret' and all liberties and free
customs on land and water, in rents, marshes, pastures etc. thereto
pertaining by the service of free burgage, granting that they and their
successors should be quit of counties and of the forest, of occasions and
suits thereof, of lawing of dogs, of summonings, aids, pleas and plaints,
mercies of foresters, sheriffs and all their bailiffs and ministers and all
actions then pertaining to them or their bailiwick, also of murder,
danegelds, hidage, carrying and sumpter service, scutage, tallage,
lastage, payment of toll in all markets and fairs, on passage of bridges,
ways and of the sea throughout the realm, of works of castles, ditches
(foviarum), parks, bridges, causeways etc. and all other foreign service
save of finding the king one ship, forbidding any man under pain
of forfeiting 10l. to trouble, abuse or vex them contrary to the said
charter. |
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Et erat patens. |
Oct. 12.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Selby of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to keep in
hand until further order the goods found in a ship called 'la
Marienknyght' of Lubyk at the time of capture and to restore the
ship and gear to Martin Rinkenrode or his attorney in name of certain
citizens of Lubyk, and if there be any cause wherefore he ought not so
to do, order to certify the same in chancery before Martinmas, sending
again this writ; as the king has learned that the said ship laded
with divers goods of the Scots was lately taken at sea by a barge of
the said Robert and another of Robert Waterden of Lenne and is yet
in his custody with the goods aforesaid; and the consuls of Lubyk
by letters under the common seal of the city have signified to the
king that the ship was and is of the said citizens, humbly praying
restitution to the said Martin in their name; and that city is of the
king's friendship. By C. |
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The like, mutatis mutandis, to Robert Waterden. |
Oct. 22.
Westminster. |
To William de Spaigne of St. Botolph. Order, upon complaint
of Reynold van Sondren merchant of Almain, if any man escaped
to land when the ship whereof Lambert Mogh' was master was wrecked,
so that a barrel full of divers peltries therein and the peltries ought
not to be called wreck, to content those who salved the same, and
deliver to the complainant or his attorney the barrel and peltry, or
the value thereof, that no second complaint come to the king's ears,
and if there be any cause wherefore he ought not so to do, order to
certify the same in chancery, sending again this writ; as that complaint
shews that the said Reynold put the barrel etc. in that ship in Prucia
to be brought to London, that on the voyage the ship was wrecked
off the port of Lenne, and the barrel was cast up by the town of St.
Botolph and came to the said William's hands, and that he has
unlawfully deferred restitution thereof, although all the men in the
ship escaped to land, and the owner has offered to content those who
busied themselves in salving the same, wherefore petition is made
to the king for remedy. |
Oct. 22.
Westminster. |
To Thomas Hore escheator in Warwickshire. Order to remove the
king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Braundon,
delivering to William son of John de Arundell knight any issues thereof
taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator,
that at his death the said John held no lands in that county in chief
in demesne nor in service, but held that manor for life with remainder
to William his son and the said William's heirs, and that the same is
held of others than the king. |
Oct. 18.
Oakham Castle. |
To William Berard escheator in Suffolk. Order to give Robert son
and heir of Robert de Bernham tenant of the late king seisin of his
father's lands; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and the
king has taken his homage and fealty. |
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By K. upon information of the bishop of London in the
absence of the clerk of the privy seal. |
