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Membrane 6. |
April 21.
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To the keeper of the forest of Chute. Order to cause Queen Eleanor
the king's mother, to have twenty oaks fit for timber for the works of the
king's castle of Lutgersale, where they may be taken most conveniently
and to the least damage of the forest. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to deliver Walter Woderove of
Preston, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of Philip de Candovere,
wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have
him before the justices at the first assize if any one wish to speak against
him, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Walter slew
Philip in self-defence and not by felony or of malice aforethought.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
April 20.
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Hugh le
Tayllur to be acquitted of 40s. at which he was amerced before the justices
last in eyre in co. Cambridge because he did not come before them at the
common summons, as it appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of
chancery that Hugh has quittance of the common summons of this eyre.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the sheriffs of Middlesex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Nicholas de Parys, lately elected, whom the king has
caused to be amoved from office because he has no lands in the county, as
is more fully testified before the king. |
April 18.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Eustace
de Hacche to be acquitted of a mark at which he was amerced before John
de Vallibus and his fellows, [justices] last in eyre in co. Warwick, for the
taking and detention of the chattels of Andrew le Fevre of Herberbiri, a
fugitive, as the king has pardoned him this sum. Witness: Edmund,
earl of Cornwall. |
April 22.
Westminster. |
To William de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to
cause Robert de Typotot, constable of Notingham castle, to have in the
wood of Beskwode, which is within the forest of Shirewode, four oaks fit
for timber in order to execute certain works in the said castle. Witness:
Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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Vacated, because otherwise below. |
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To Robert de Tybotot, constable of Notingham castle. Order to cause
the weirs, walls and other defects of the castle to be repaired. |
April 25.
Westminster. |
To Geoffrey de Pycheford, constable of Windsor castle. Order to pay to
two chaplains celebrating divine service in the chapel of the castle, who
receive 50s. each yearly; to Hamo de Camera, gatekeeper of both gates of
the castle and one of the viewers of the king's works in Geoffrey's bailiwick,
who receives 6d. a day; to Richard le Clerk, the other viewer of the said
works, who receives 2d. a day; to William de Shortford, the king's clerk
of the works aforesaid, who receives 2d. a day; to John de Curru, the
king's serjeant of the castle, who receives 3d. a day; to Henry le Arblaster,
who receives 2d. a day for his maintenance for life of the king's gift; to
the four watchmen of the castle, who receive 2d. a day each; to Master
Gilbert the carpenter in the castle, who receives 6d. a day; to Edmund the
gardener of the garden without the castle, who receives 2½d. a day; to
Robert de Say, chief forester of the king's forest of Windsor, who receives
12d. a day; to Robert Lightfot, gatekeeper of Windsor park and keeper of
the king's houses of the park, who receives 4d. a day; and to John the
parker of Kenington park, who receives 1½d. a day, their wages and stipends
and the arrears thereof from Michaelmas, in the fourteenth year, until
Michaelmas following. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
April 25.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to deliver William de Kaburn,
imprisoned at Lincoln for the death of Nicholas de Coupeland, wherewith
he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him
before the justices at the first assize to stand to right if any one wish to
speak against him, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff
that William slew Nicholas in self-defence and not by felony or of malice
aforethought. |
April 26.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbot
of Persore to be acquitted of 20 marks in part payment of a fine that he
made with the king for the service of a knight's fee that he recognised to
the king for the army of Wales in the tenth year of the reign, as the abbot
paid this sum into the wardrobe at Rothelan, on Monday after the feast of
St. Peter ad Vincula, in the said year, to Master William de Luda, keeper
of the wardrobe, of which sum the king acquitted him, as appears by his
letters patent. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to cause
Geoffrey de Chaucumbe to be acquitted of 14 marks owing by him to
Moses Babelard, a Jew, which debt is in the king's hands by reason of the
Jew's death, as the king, on 18 March in his twelfth year, pardoned
Geoffrey this sum at the instance of Thomas Paynel. Witness: Edmund,
earl of Cornwall. |
April 25.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to cause Ralph de Bisseburn to have
seisin of a messuage, a mill, and of a 'noka' of land in Bisseburn that John
de la Brok, 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 John held them of Ralph, and that the
township of Bisseburn hold them and had the king's year and day thereof,
and ought to answer to the king therefor. Witness: Edmund, earl of
Cornwall. |
April 28.
Westminster. |
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of William Talebot, tenant by
knight service of Joan, daughter and heiress of Patrick de Cadurcis, tenant
in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, upon her taking oath that she
will not marry without the king's licence. |
