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Feb. 3.
Westminster. |
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
Richard de Arundell, son and heir of John son of Alan, tenant in chief, to
have seisin of his father's lands, as the king has taken his homage.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Alice, late the wife of Robert de Everingham,
tenant in chief, from Robert's lands in Erdeslawe. |
Feb. 6.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the prior
of Coventre to be acquitted of 100 marks by which he made fine with the
king for the service of two knights' fees that he acknowledged to the king
for his army of Wales, in the tenth year of his reign, as the prior paid this
sum into the king's wardrobe at Rothelann to Master William de Luda,
keeper of the same, to wit 50 marks on the morrow of St. Peter ad Vincula,
in the said year, and 50 marks on Sunday after Michaelmas in the same
year, as appears by the king's letters patent in the prior's p ossession.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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Peter Wype, imprisoned at Norfolk for the death of John Sirich of
Tunsted, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to
bail him. |
Feb. 7.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to cause Thomas, parson of St. Leonard's
church, to have seisin of a messuage in the town of St. Leonard's that
Alvred de la Porte, who was hanged for felony, held, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage has been in the king's
hand for a year and a day and that Alvred held it of Thomas, and that
Thomas de Pyn ought to answer to the king for the year and day. |
Feb. 8.
Westminster. |
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with 11l. 9s. 2d. yearly of land and rent in the town of
Sprouton, which is in the king's hands by reason of the death of Roger
Luveday, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Roger held the land and rent of Edmund, earl of Leicester, by the service of
one knight's fee, and it does not appear to the king that Roger held anything of him in chief except of the honour of Peverel, in the king's hands.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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Like order to the same concerning 63 acres of land in Somersham, Ofton,
and Elmesete, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator
that the said Roger held them of John de Baa. |
Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Moses de Horndon
and Swetecota, his wife, Jews of London, have shown the king that whereas
Swetecota is not a Christian and was never baptized, certain of her enemies,
maliciously feigning that she had been baptized between the two battles of
Lewes and Evesham, have defamed her concerning this, to the damage and
grievance of her and Moses: the king orders the justices to enquire the
truth in this matter by Christians and Jews, according to custom, and if
they find that Swetecota was not baptized, to cause Moses and her to have
peace in this matter, according to the duty of their office. Witness: the
earl of Cornwall. |
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To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
Richard son and heir of Richard de Turbervill to have seisin of the lands
that his father held by knight service of Richard son of Alan, lately a minor
in the king's wardship, as the king has taken the said Richard son of
Richard's fealty for the lands. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause a man of the city of Chichester,
in whose fealty and industry the king can trust, to keep the king's new
custom in that city in place of Roger Ploket, deceased, whom the king
lately appointed. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
Feb. 27.
Westminster. |
Robert le Hunte and Thomas le Hunte, imprisoned at Guldeford for the
death of William de Shagh, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the
sheriff of Surrey to bail them. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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Meliora de Hendrewalla, William de Trellay, and Walter Beneyt,
imprisoned at Launceton for the death of Reginald de Hendrebornek,
whereof they are appealed, have letters to the sheriff of Cornwall to bail
them. |
