|
March 2.
Quenington. |
To the bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause William le Moygne, janitor
of the gate (por [t]e) of the manor of Wodestok, who receives 2d. daily for
his wages, the arrears of his wages from Michaelmas last, and to pay him
the same henceforth for as long as he shall hold that office. |
March 3.
DownAmpney |
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to restore to Hugh le Despenser the
manor of Marteleye, which belonged to John le Despenser, tenant in chief,
of whom Hugh is the heir, and which was taken into the king's hands by
reason of Hugh's minority, as it is evident to the king's court that Hugh
is of full age. |
|
To Luke de Tany, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause
John de Knovill, if he have not yet had the eight rafters (chevesones) that
the king lately ordered Luke to deliver to him, to have eight oaks fit for the
roof-timbers (furcas) of houses, as Luke has not yet executed the said order. |
March 12.
DownAmpney |
To the keeper of the forest of Melkesham. Order to cause ten leafless
oak-trunks (robora) to be delivered in that forest for the king's fuel at
Devizes. |
|
To the constable of the castle of Devizes. Order to cause ten leafless
oak-trunks in the outer woods there to be delivered at Devizes against the
king's arrival for fuel, as the king intends celebrating Easter there. |
March 12.
DownAmpney |
To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to
cause Anthony Bek to have four bucks and eight does in the forest of
Shirewode, where it may be done most conveniently without disturbing
(expergefaccione) the king's deer, in order to stock his park of Northwell
therewith, of the king's gift. |
|
To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Southampton.
Order not to vex or molest Adam Gurdun, John Boun, William de Autrif
and Robert de Vilers for taking, on Wednesday after St. Andrew, three
bucks and three fawns (hinulos) and a soar (zhourum) in the king's forest
of Wilmere, as they took them by the king's order for his use. |
March 16.
DownAmpney |
To Peter de la Mare, constable of Bristol Castle. Order to cause to be
delivered to Edward le Marchaunt and Stephen Attemulun, sailors of
Bristol, a ship that they with others lately rescued from malefactors
perpetrating robberies and other evils on the sea near Bristol, and which
they rendered into the king's hands and which remains forfeited by reason
of the trespass and flight of the malefactors, and to deliver to them all her
tackle and all the goods found in her, as the king has given her to them. |
March 16.
DownAmpney |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to deliver to Hawisia, late the wife of
Robert Grelle, tenant in chief, the manor of Swinesheved, to have in
tenancia until a month from Easter, so that the king may then assign to
her dower, as he has committed the manor to her until then. |
March 29.
Devizes. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the men
of Robert Pogeys of Aston to be acquitted of 100s. exacted from them
because they did not repair the bridge of Aston against the king's arrival,
as the king has pardoned them. |
|
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause Robert Russel to have again
seisin of the 30s. yearly of rent in Haselbere that Ralph de Sandwico took
into the king's hands by reason of James's death, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the sheriff that James had the rent by the commission
of the said Robert, his brother, for two years in aid of his expenses in the
king's service in his army of Wales for Ralph Russel, his father, and that
James at his death was not seised thereof in his demesne as of fee. |
|
Here, to wit on 31 March, the bishop of Bath and Wells, the chancellor,
returned from his bishopric to court, on which day the seal was delivered
to him. |
|
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause to be replevied to William de
Kirkeby and Christiana, his wife, until otherwise ordered their hundred
of Stouting, which was taken into the king's hands by his order by
reason of the alleged receipt by them of a certain sum of the king's
money in that hundred. |
|
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to deliver to John de Vescy the
custody of certain lands in Karampton that belonged to John de Bretasche,
who held of John de Moun, tenant in chief, which came to the king's
hands whilst the lands of John de Moun were in his hands, as the king
committed to John de Vescy the custody of the castle of Dunster and of
other lands that belonged to John de Moun during the heir's minority. |
