Close Rolls, Edward I: October 1283

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1902.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: October 1283', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288, (London, 1902) pp. 219-225. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol2/pp219-225 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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October 1283

Oct. 1.
Acton Burnell.
To the constable of St. Briavells castle. Order to permit John de Londonia, parson of the church of Newland (Nova Terra), to receive the tithes of the meadow of Whytemede, with all tithes of the king's new closes and assarts made and to be made within the forest of Dene, as the king has granted them to him. [Prynne, Records iii. 306.]
Sept. 30.
Acton Burnell.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king granted to the abbot of Hyde, Winchester, and the convent of the same in frankalmoin an acre of meadow called 'Danemarche' outside the walls of the city of Winchester, which the king recovered against them before Solomon de Roff[a] and his fellows, justices last in eyre at Winchester, by consideration of the court; the king orders the treasurer and barons to discharge the abbot and convent of 3s. yearly at which the meadow was extended before the justices aforesaid, which are exacted from them, from the time of the king's grant and henceforth.
Oct. 3.
Acton Burnell.
To the same. Whereas the king after the death of John de Nevill, tenant in chief, caused to be taken into his hands amongst other lands of John's 180 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, and 3 acres of pasture in Wethersfeld, 160 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, and 20 acres of wood in Hatfeld Regis, and a messuage and 340 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, a windmill and a dovecot in Peltindon, believing that John had died [seised] thereof alone, and Margaret, late the wife of the said John, afterwards proved to the king that she was enfeoffed of the premises jointly with the said John, whereupon the king ordered Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent, to enquire the truth of the premises, and the king learns by the inquisition that John and Margaret were jointly enfeoffed of the premises and had seisin thereof, for which reason the king ordered the escheator to restore to her the said lands with everything received therefrom since they were taken into the king's hands, and the treasurer and barons exact from her the issues of the lands for the time when they were in the king's hands: the king orders them to cause her to be acquitted thereof if they exact the issues from her for this reason and not for any other.
Oct. 3.
Acton Burnell.
To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Buckingham. Order not to molest Edmund, earl of Cornwall, or his men for taking eleven bucks in the forest of Whitlewode, as Edmund took them by the king's licence.
The like to the justices next in eyre in co. Northampton.
To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Oxford. Like order in favour of the said earl concerning twenty-seven bucks and two harts, to wit in the forest of Wycchewod seven bucks, in the forest of Bernewod thirteen bucks, in the forest of Shothovere and Stowode seven bucks and two harts, which he lately took by the king's licence.
Oct. 4.
Acton Burnell.
To the keeper of the forest of Wauberge. Order to cause the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon to have in that forest six oaks fit for timber to repair the king's gaols of Cambridge and Huntingdon and a chamber in Cambridge castle.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Adam de Northantona to have a fur-cloak (pellicium) of grey-work (grisio), which William de Dunstaplia renders yearly at the exchequer for certain houses in Winchester, as Adam has been wont to have it hitherto of the king's gift.
Oct. 4.
Acton Burnell.
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Isabella, late the wife of Patrick de Cadurcis, tenant in chief, the following of her lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the manor of Berewyk, which is extended at 13l. 19s. 7½d.; the manor of Staundon, which is extended at 13l. 3s. 7d.; the manor of Hanedon, which is extended at 49l. 8s. 5d.; the manor of Inglesham, which is extended at 6l. 17s. 6½d.; the manor of Sumburn, except the hundred of Sumburn and Stokbrigg, which is a member of the manor, which is extended at 57l. 12s. 8d.; the manor of Estgar[s]ton, which is extended at 23l. 8s. 3½d.; the manor of Stokbruer with Aldington, which is extended at 31l. 11s. 9¼d.; and 4l. 7s. 11¾d. of yearly rent in the manor of Kynemeresford.
To S. bishop of Waterford, justiciary of Ireland. Order not to intermeddle in any way with the lands of William de Londonia, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the justiciary that William at his death held no lands in Ireland of the king in chief.
Membrane 3.
Oct. 5.
Acton Burnell.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to deliver to Richard son of Richard de Welles 60 acres of land and eight acres of meadow in Hompton, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Grimbald Pauncefot and Walter de Pedewardyn that the said land, whereof Richard de Welles was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, was held of Joan de la Mare, and that Richard son of the said Richard is his next heir and is of full age.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Gervase de Clyfton, sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, delivered by the king's writ and gift to Margaret, late the wife of John de Ry, lately hanged at Notingham for felony, chattels to the value of 7l. 16s. 0d., which belonged to John; and whereas Gervase delivered by another writ to William Barn of Skafteworth, clerk, who purged his innocence before the archbishop of York, in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, of the theft and larceny wherewith he was charged before the justices last in eyre at Notingham, 36s. 8d. of the king's gift; and whereas Gervase by another writ delivered to Richard de Broucton, clerk, who was indicted of larcenies before the justices last in eyre at Derby, and who purged his innocence before the bishop of Lichfield, 13l. 0s. 2d. of the king's gift, as appears by the letters of the said Margaret, William, and Richard in Gervase's possession: the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause Gervase to be acquitted of these sums. [Prynne, Records iii. 306.]
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause Edmund, the king's brother, to have seisin of four bovates of land in Scalleby, which Thomas de Flyxton, who was outlawed for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Thomas held the land of the said Edmund, and that Bartholomew de Scalleby had the king's year and day of two bovates thereof, and that Robert de Conesclyve had the year and day of the other two bovates, and that Bartholomew and Robert ought to answer therefor to the king.
Oct. 6.
Acton Burnell.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Ranulph de Dacre to be acquitted of 12l. for the chattels of William de Curcy, clerk, and 10l. 5s. 8d. for the year and waste of the same, which they exact from him, as William, who was charged before the justices last in eyre in co. York with the death of Robert Shargam, purged his innocence before W. archbishop of York, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, as the archbishop has signified to the king by his letters patent, and the king thereupon ordered Ranulph, then sheriff of York, to restore to William his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands for this reason.
To Walter de Rudmerleye, late [guardian] of the bishopric of Hereford. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by Grimbald Pauncefot and Walter de Pedewardyn that 60 acres of land and eight acres of meadow in Hompton, whereof Richard de Welles at his death was seised in his demesne as of fee, were held of Joan de la Mare, and that Richard, son of the said Richard, is his next heir and is of full age, and the king ordered the sheriff of Hereford to deliver the land to Richard the son: the king orders Walter to deliver the corn and goods in the said lands that belonged to Richard the father, which he took into the king's hands because he believed that Richard held them of the bishopric, to Alice, late the wife of Richard and executrix of his will, for the execution of his will, and to permit her to be quit of 7l. by which she made fine with him to obtain the corn and goods aforesaid.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Henry de Dene to be acquitted of 70 marks of the debts that he and Agatha, his wife, daughter and heiress of William de Lassebergh, sometime the late king's sheriff of Gloucester, owed to the said king for the debts of William of the time when he was sheriff of that county and of the debts of William de Dene, father of Henry, of whom Henry is the heir, which sum they exact anew from Henry, as the late king remitted the said sum to Henry by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, in recompence for a mill that Henry granted to the said king by his charter.
To Nicholas de Cyfrewast, steward of the forest of Essex. Order to cause to be replevied to the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England his wood at Gynges Atteston, within the bounds of that forest, until the coming of the justices for pleas of the Forest, which wood the king caused to be taken into his hand because a rotten hart's head was found in the wood, of the slaying of which hart the prior or his men are not guilty, as it is said.
To Alan Plukenet, keeper of the king's Hay of Hereford. Order to cause Grimbald Pauncefot to have in that Hay twelve oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
To the keeper of the forest of Selewod. Order to deliver John le Waleys, imprisoned at Shireborn for trespass of the Forest wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices for pleas of the Forest and that he will not incur forfeiture henceforth in the king's forest.
To Master Henry de Bray. Order to divide the manor of Olneye between Ralph de Crumbwell and Margaret, his wife, and the other heirs and parceners of the inheritance of Nicholaa, late the wife of Roger de Somery, and to cause their purparties thereof to be assigned to each of them, and to cause them to have seisin thereof.
To the bailiffs of Hedendon. Order to desist from exacting from the prior of Burencestre and his men of Nether Arnecote and Uverarne[co]te suit at the king's Hundred of Bullenden by reason of the lands and rents that the prior has in Oxford and the towns aforesaid, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Oxford that the prior and his men have not done such suit since the time of the making of the acquittance thereof that the prior has by the grant of Philippa Basset, sometime countess of Warwick, who then held the Hundred by right of inheritance, and that the prior and his men ought not now of right to do the suit.
Oct. 9.
Acton Burnell.
To Robert Bozon, bailiff of the Peak (Pecco). Order to deliver to Matilda, daughter of William de Whitefeld, wife of Robert de Melure, a messuage and two bovates of land in Whitefeld that Robert, who was outlawed for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the bailiff that the messuage and land are of Matilda's inheritance, and that she ought to hold them of the king in chief by the service of a small serjeanty.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Hugh Poinz to be acquitted of 10l. in which he was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Somerset for trespass, as the king has pardoned him.
To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest. Order not to molest Saer Mauveisyn concerning twenty oaks in the Hay of Havekhurst delivered by him to R. bishop of Bath and Wells for the construction of certain of his houses, as he delivered them by the king's order.
Oct. 10.
Acton Burnell.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de la Mare to be acquitted of 40l. of the 400l. in which he made fine with the king for his trespass in marrying Petronilla de Monte Forti without his licence, as the king has pardoned him 40l. for his good service in the army of Wales.
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John de Perton, son and heir of William de Perton, to have seisin of the lands that William at his death held of the king in chief, as the king has taken his homage.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the prior of Derhurst to be acquitted of 18 marks at which he was amerced before Thomas de Weyl[and] and his fellows, justices of the Bench, for many defaults, as the king has pardoned him.
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause William de Monte Caniso of Edwardeston to have seisin of the chief messuage and of a quarter of the manor of Haselingfeld, which he has of the grant of John de Monte Caniso, who held them of the king in chief, and which were taken into the king's hands because William entered them without the king's licence, as the king has taken William's homage for the same.
Oct. 12.
Acton Burnell.
To Richard de Willamescote, keeper of the forest of Whychewod. Order to deliver Simon le Fenk of Langele, imprisoned at Langele for trespass of the Forest, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices of the Forest and that he will not henceforth incur forfeiture in the king's forest.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas it appears to the king by the writs of the late king that the late king [granted] to William de Sancta Ermina the 100s. that pertained to him for the escape of Robert de Wocleseye, who was imprisoned at Bradeford within the liberty of the abbess of Shaftesbury, and to Richard le Blund what pertained to him for the escape of Walter Hervy, who escaped from the custody of Thomas de Abbodeston, for which two escapes Stephen de Eddeworth, then sheriff of Wilts, levied 10l., and Stephen has taken oath before the king that he paid this sum to William and Richard in accordance with the said writs: the king orders the treasurer and barons to discharge Stephen in his account of that time of the said 10l.
To the same. Order to cause Stephen de Penecestr[e], to whom the king has committed the castle of Dover and the Cinque Ports during pleasure, to have 300l. yearly for so long as he shall have that custody, for the maintenance of himself, chaplains, serjeants and watchmen and of a carpenter staying in the castle and for their robes, to wit 146l. from the wards pertaining to the castle, 100 marks from the issues of the port and the custom of the passage of Dover, and the remaining 88l. (sic) from the exchequer, in accordance with the king's grant to Stephen.
Oct. 20.
Acton Burnell.
To the same. Order to cause the burgesses of Bedeford to be acquitted of 75l. 8s. 10d. paid by them before the king's accession to Robert Burnell, the king's late clerk, now bishop of Bath and Wells, of the ferm of their town when it was in the king's hands by the late king's commission, if they ascertain by Robert's account that the burgesses paid that sum, to wit for Michaelmas term, in the 54th year of the said king's reign, 18l. 17s. 2½d.; for Easter and Michaelmas terms, in the 55th year, 37l. 14s. 5d.; and for Easter term, in the 56th year, 18l. 17s. 2½d.
To the same. Like order in favour of the said burgesses for 20l. 0s. 6½d. paid by them by the king's order before his accession to John de Londonia, to wit 18l. 17s. 2½d. from the ferm of their town for Michaelmas term, 56 Henry III, and for the blanching of the same ferm 23s. 4d.
To the same. Like order in favour of the said burgesses for 20 marks paid by them to Robert Burnell, then the king's clerk, for the last tallage granted to the said late king, for which Robert rendered account at the exchequer.
To the same. Order to search the rolls of the twentieth granted to the late king, and if they find that the said burgesses paid 20l. for that twentieth, to cause them to be acquitted thereof.
To the same. Order to acquit the said burgesses of 160l. 12s. 5d. paid by them out of the ferm of their town for Michaelmas term, 50 Henry III, and the Easter and Michaelmas terms, 51, 52, and 53 Henry III, and for Easter term, 54 Henry III, to Thomas de Boulton, Laurence de Luvereshal, then keeper of the wardrobe, for the acquittance of certain of the present king's debts, before his accession when the town was in his hands by the late king's commission.
To the same. Order to discharge Hugh de Turbervill, sometime sheriff of Hereford, of the issues of that county from Michaelmas, 48 Henry III, until Easter following, as it is testified before the king that Hugh was unable to receive the issues by reason of the war then waging in England, for which time he is charged at the exchequer with 32l. for the issues of the county, as he says.
To Peter de la Mare, constable of Bristol castle. Order to cause Hugh de Turbervill to have from the wines of the right prise in Peter's custody four tuns of wine, of the king's gift.
Membrane 2.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit Master Henry de Braunceston, king's clerk, to hold the manor of Radenhal, co. Norfolk, by the service of two knights' fees, and to desist from exacting from him the service of three fees, as the king before his accession granted the manor to Nicholas de Yattingden and Alina de Bathonia, his wife, to hold of him by the service of two knights' fees for all service, custom and demand.
Oct. 24.
Acton Burnell.
To the same. Whereas the executors of the will of Adam de Chetewynd remitted to the king 167l. 2s. 2d. in which he was indebted to Adam for the surplus of Adam's account for the time when he was the king's chamberlain of Chester, as appears by the king's letters patent sealed with the seal used by those who supplied the king's place in England when he was in the Holy Land, and the executors have restored the letters to the king to be cancelled: the king orders the treasurer and barons to acquit the executors of 220 marks in recompence for the remission aforesaid, to wit 120 marks in which they are indebted to the king for the wardship of the heir and land of John de Chetewynd sold to Adam by the king, and 100 marks wherewith Adam was charged in the account of Reginald de Grey in the exchequer.
Oct. 28.
Acton Burnell.
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Hawisia, late the wife of Robert de Kaynes, tenant in chief, the following of Robert's knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her in dower: a fee in Little Sobbiry, which the heirs of Jordan Bisshop hold; half a fee in Wyleden, which Thomas de Leme holds; half a fee in Herleston and Great Hayford, which John de Bulymer holds; half a fee in Walton, which John de Monte Alto holds; half a fee in Sprotton, which John son of Simon de Monte Acuto holds; a fee in Fokynton, Yeverton and Baydinton, which Roger le Warre holds; a fee in Lassebury, which Henry de Lassebury holds; an eighth of a fee, which eighth Robert de la Lee holds.