Close Rolls, Edward I: May 1275 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1900.

'Close Rolls, Edward I: May 1275', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 163-179. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp163-179 [accessed 23 April 2024]

May 1275



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May 3. Westminster.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the township of Flemstede to be discharged at 6l. 3s. 0d. of the chattels of Henry de Gardino, a fugitive, as the township paid this sum to Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, when the manor and town of Flamsted were in her hands together with the custody of the other lands and heirs of Ralph de Touny, tenant in chief of the late king, by grant of the said king, and the present king granted this sum to her.
	To J. de Lond[onia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause to be assigned to William de Ros and Eustachia, his wife, late the wife of Nicholas de Cantilupo, tenant in chief of George de Cantilupo, tenant in chief of the king, the custody of whose lands and heirs is in the king's hands during the minority of the heirs, the dower falling to Eustachia of the lands of the said Nicholas.
	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to restore to A[lexander], king of Scotland, all his lands, which were taken into the king's hands by the escheator by reason of the death of Margaret, the king's sister, late the wife of king Alexander, and to restore to him everything received from the lands from the time of their being thus taken.
	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause to be delivered to the executors of the will of Nicholas de Aldithel[eye] of the king's special grace all the goods and chattels of the said Nicholas, which the sheriff took into the king's hands because Nicholas was one of the executors of the will of James de Aldithel[eye], who was bound to the king in divers debts at the exchequer.
May 4. Westminster.	Richard le Frend of Stratton, imprisoned at Winchester for the death of Agnes de Meremymme, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Southampton to bail him.
	To J[ohn] de London[ia]. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Alexander de la Sale (fn. 1) by virtue of the king's order to take his lands into the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by John that Alexander at his death held his lands of the king in chief by socage and not by any service whereby the custody of his lands may or ought to pertain to the king.
May 6. Westminster.	To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause the constable of Notingham castle to have timber in the forest of Shirewod for the repair of the mills of the castle.
	Thomas de Gaunt and Margery his wife, William Wyleys, Robert le Baker, Matilda Gemme, Thomas Trillirien, Jul[ia] de Daventre, Adam Snowe and Alice his wife, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of William Balle of Glen and William Woderove, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail them.
	To J. de Lond[onia], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle with the lands of John de Cokham in Berneston in anywise so that Laurence Hardel or others wishing to claim right therein may not have what pertains to them, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held nothing of the king in chief, and that Laurence Hardel is his next heir and is aged twenty-four years.
May 6. Westminster.	Stephen de Cotene, Roger Alaporte, Robert de la Grene, Adam Walter, Henry Alisaundre, Adam Gamel, Adam Knyt, William de Telene, and Gamal[iel] Dele, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of William le Charetter of Brampton, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail them.
	John de Malesle, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of Roger de Geytinton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail him.
	Thomas, vicar of the church of Hakeneye, imprisoned at Stibenhethe for the death of a man unknown, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Middlesex to bail him.
May 8. Westminster.	To J. de London[ia], escheator this side of Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Ela, late the wife of Roger de Ratelesden, whose lands are in the king's hands by reason of the custody of the lands and heir of Richard de Pley, tenant in chief of the late king, of which custody Roger held by knight service.
May 9. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of Boston. Order to permit the citizens of York to have until otherwise ordered their hanse and gild merchant in Boston fair, as they ought to have them there and have been wont to have in times past.
May 11. Westminster.	To J. de London[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to take into the king's hands the lands of Philip de Erlegh, tenant in chief, who, the king learns, is dead, and to cause inquisition to be made as to how much land Philip held of the king in chief and how much of others, and by what services, and how much the land is worth yearly in all issues, and who is his next heir, and what is the heir's age.
May 10. Westminster.	To J. de London[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Roesia, late the wife of Philip de Erlegh, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
— —	To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver to John de Ebor[aco] the bailiwick of the forest of Galtres, which he had previously, to be held until the king shall otherwise provide for him, in the form enjoined upon Geoffrey by the king.
	To Giles de Audenard. Order to cause Nicholas de Kuggeho to have three tuns of the king's wines of the right prise of the king's gift, to hold therewith the feast (fn. 2) of Nicholas his son at Oxford.
	To John de Lond[onia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Constance, late the wife of Richard de Tillebur[y], tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
	To Guncelin de Badlesmere, justice of Chester. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Alice, late the wife of Roger de Clotton, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
May 12. Westminster.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Alexander Kellok and other burgesses of Lenn to be acquitted of 66l. 13s. 4d., as they paid that sum into the late king's wardrobe, in the 55th year of his reign, to Peter de Wintonia, keeper of the wardrobe, in part payment of 200 marks in which they made fine with the said king for divers trespasses, as appears to the king by a bill delivered to him by Giles de Audenard, then controller of the aforesaid Peter.
	To Thomas de Clare, steward of the forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stamf[ord]. Order to cause to be restored to the king's mother a mark that Peter de Middelton, the king's bailiff, took from the herbage of the laund of Langel[eye], which laund the king assigned to her in dower.
	Ralph Prescyng, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of Adam Turnemunt, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to release until Michaelmas next the demand made by them upon the weavers of the city of York for the arrears of 10l. that they were lately wont to render to the exchequer for having the office of weaving (officio telar') there, so that at the said feast what ought to be done according to the law and custom of the exchequer may then be done.
	To the sheriff of Dorset. Order not to permit John de Maundevill to make alienation, waste, or sale of the lands that the king, by reason of the illness from which John has long suffered, caused to be restored to him of the lands alienated by him since the first day of Lent, in the 56th year of the late king's reign, as the king caused all lands thus alienated to be restored to John for the maintenance of himself and family, on condition that John should not make waste or sale of the said lands or of the other lands in his hands. If John shall presume to make any alienation, waste or sale of his lands hereafter, the sheriff shall not permit it.
	To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Order to respite until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next the demand upon the men of the fee of R. bishop of Bath and Wells and of the abbot of Glastonbury for divers fines and amercements to the exchequer, so that at the said quinzaine what shall be provided by the counsel of the treasurer and barons shall be done in this behalf.
May 13. Westminster.	To brother Luke de Hemmington and William de Middelton, appointed to collect the tallage lately assessed upon certain Jews of England. Order to cause Batemannus de Staunford, a Jew, to be acquitted of the tallage aforesaid, upon receiving his lands, goods, and chattels throughout the realm for the king's use, as he offered to the king his lands, goods and chattels upon condition that the king cause him to be delivered from the Tower of London, wherein he is imprisoned for the tallage, and cause him to be acquitted of the tallage.
May. 15. Westminster.	To J. de London[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Robert de Greleye, kinsman and heir of Thomas de Grel[eye], tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of Thomas's lands, the custody whereof was committed to Edmund, the king's brother, by the late king's grant, as it appears to the king by lawful proofs made before him that Robert is of full age, and the king has taken his homage and rendered the lands to him; saving to Edmund and others in whose custody the lands are their stock, corn and other goods in the lands.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William Giffard, to whom the king lately committed the castle of Norwich and the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk with all appurtenances for a fixed sum (certo) yearly, to be discharged and acquitted of 108s. 4d. yearly for all the time during which he was sheriff of the said counties, with which sum the barons (nos) have charged him yearly for the fees for watching (waytfeodis) pertaining to the castle, contrary to the king's commission aforesaid.
	To the escheator beyond Trent. Order to pay Roger de Arcy 60 marks, after receiving from him his charter of quit-claim of the manor of Spretele and the charters and other instruments that he has concerning the manor, if the escheator deem this expedient for the king's benefit, as Roger has [released] to the king his right in the manor, which he had of the gift of Simon de Veer, for 60 marks.
	To Hamo Hauteyn and Robert de Ludham, justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to receive from brother Luke de Hemington and William de Middelton all rolls, charters, tallies, writs, stars, and all other things concerning the tallage lately assessed upon the Jews of England that have hitherto remained in the custody of Luke and William, and to cause the tallage and the arrears thereof to be levied for the king's use together with the said William, whom the king has appointed together with them, as he wills that the justices shall henceforth intend the levying of the said tallage and of its arrears.
	To brother Luke de Hemington and William de Middelton. Order to deliver the aforesaid rolls, charters, etc., to the said justices for the purposes specified above, as William is so occupied with the king's affairs that he intends in the exchequer of the Jewry and elsewhere that he cannot intend the levying of the aforesaid tallage, and Luke is unable to execute these affairs alone.
May 16. Westminster.	To Robert de Belvero and John de Swyneford, appointed to hold pleas of the market in divers counties. Order to supersede until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next the exercise of his office in the liberty of the island of Ely, so that what the king shall cause to be provided by his council may then be done in the parliament that he will then hold at Westminster, as he wills that H. bishop of Ely or his liberty of the said island shall not be prejudiced in anywise by Robert and John's office.
	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Margaret, late the wife of Robert de Ros of Werk, tenant in chief, to have again seisin of the lands of her inheritance, together with everything received from them by him since they were taken into the king's hands, as the escheator has taken the lands into the king's hands by reason of her husband's death, and the king has taken her homage for the lands and rendered them to her.
	To John de Lond[onia], escheater this side Trent. Order to deliver to John de Wintreshull and his wife the manor of Shirfeud, which the escheator lately took into the king's hands for certain causes, to be held by them until the king come to Winchester, so that what ought to be done in this matter may then be done in the king's presence. By K. and C.
May 18. Westminster.	To Hamo Hauteyn, justice for the custody of the Jews. Order to be a witness henceforth to all writs touching the king's Jewry in any way, both to those whereby arrears of the king's tallage of the Jews or his debts are exacted as well as of pleas, complaints, and other things whatsoever touching the Jewry.
	To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, to have again seisin of the manor of Sutton, such as he had before it was taken into the king's hands, saving everyone's right.
	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to exhibit full and speedy justice to Robert de Percy according to the law and custom of the Jewry, after calling before them the said Robert and Haginus son of Deulacres, a Jew of London, and after hearing Robert's complaint against the said Jew, so that complaint shall not come to the king for want of justice.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to lend counsel and aid to Emelina, countess of Ulster, or to her attorneys in those parts in recovering according to the law and custom of Ireland the debts due to her from many men of Ireland.
	To the barcns of the exchequer. Order to cause Thomas Kynne (fn. 3) to be acquitted of 10l. in which he was amerced before Roger de Cliff[ord], the younger, late justice of the Forest this side Trent, for a trespass of the forest, as the king has pardoned him this sum.
	Because it is testified before the king by Roger de Cliff[ord], the elder, that Thomas was amerced for the unjust detention of swine and not for any other cause.
	Membrane 17—Schedules.
May 13. Westminster.	To brother Luke de Hemyngton and William de Middelton, appointed to collect the tallage lately assessed upon certain Jews of England. Order to cause Benedict (Benettus) son of Deulacres, a Jew of London, to be discharged of the tallage aforesaid upon receiving from him for the king's use from his clearest debts in the treasury to the total of the arrears in which he is indebted to the king for the tallage (catall') last assessed upon him, from which debts the arrears may be levied for the king's use, and to cause the remainder of the said Jew's debts, which are in the treasury by reason of the said tallage, to be restored to him, and to permit him to have peace concerning his body in this behalf.
May 16. Westminster.	To John de Lond[onia], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle in any wise with the lands in Little Stanbrigg, Kanewedon, Assyndon, Rocheford and Little Hockele that belonged to John de Cokeham, which the escheator has taken into the king's hands by reason of John's death, whereby Laurence Hardel or any other wishing to claim right in the lands may not have what pertains to him in this behalf, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held nothing in chief of the king and that the said Laurence is his next heir and is aged twenty-four years.
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May 19. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of Bedeford. Order to restore to Robert Charles by the king's grace a horse of his, which the bailiffs took for the king's use by reason of the death of Peter de Chelesworth, Robert's groom, who rode the horse in the last tournament at Bedeford, which horse the bailiffs have detained until now, as the king learns from Robert.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order, if Gilbert de Gaunt satisfy the king at the exchequer for all debts that Gilbert de Gaunt, his father, owed to the late king and for which Gilbert mainperned to satisfy the king there, to cause Gilbert to have such terms upon security for the remainder of the debts due from him to the exchequer that he may satisfy the king for the debts within a year from the Ascension next.
	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Notification that the king has given him power to sell to John Comyn the custody of the lands and heir of Richard son of Richard de Kirkebride of Levynton, tenant in chief, and order to sell the custody to John if he wish to buy it, and to make the king's profit thereof, and to certify the king of the sale according to the value thereof. By K. and C.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Simon de Insula to be acquitted of a debt of 20l. of fee to Cresseus son of Genta and of another debt of 16l. of fee due to another Jew, and of the arrears of the said fees, and to cause his charters of the said fees in the treasury to be delivered to him, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled, as the late king, in the 53rd year of his reign, at the petition of the present king and for the relief of the Christians, pardoned to all Christians in the realm all fees together with all arrears of fees in which they were indebted to Jews, unless the fees had been previously sold to Christians and confirmed by the late king's letters patent or enrolled in the exchequer, and the aforesaid Simon is indebted in the said two debts of fee, which fees were then in the late king's hands by resignation of the aforesaid Jews, as the king learns from Simon.
	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge John de Muscegros of the debts specified below, and to cause him to be acquitted thereof, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled, as the late king, for John's good service and at the instance of the present king, pardoned the said John, deceased, (fn. 4) all debts due from him to the said king at the exchequer or elsewhere, both John's own debts and the debts of his father, until 24 October, in the 54th year of the reign, as contained in the said king's letters patent, which the king has inspected. When this acquittance have been made, the barons shall receive the said letters patent from John, to be kept in the treasury.
May 20. Westminster.	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Roger de Arscy has shown the king that whereas Simon de Veer lately enfeoffed Roger of the manor of Sprottele, and Roger had seisin thereof for a great time, the escheator took the manor into the king's hands because it was alienated without royal licence, and the escheator lately made fine with Roger in 60 marks for making release and quitclaim to the king of Roger's right in the manor; and the king now understands by the escheator that the emption is not yet necessary for the king: he therefore orders the escheator to cause Roger to have again seisin of the manor unless the emption aforesaid be necessary for the king, saving the right of the king and of others.
	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews, and to William de Middelton. As it appears to the king by their record that a third of a debt of 30l. under the names of Richard Pauncefot and Aaron le Blund, a Jew, is the debt of Ursellus son of Isaac, a Jew, and that a debt of 12l. under the names of the said Richard and Aaron is the debt of Belya de Glouc[estria], a Jewess, wherefore the king has taken into his hands a third of the first-named debt and the other debt of 12l. for the arrears of the tallage last assessed upon Ursellus and Belya: the king orders the justices and William to cause the said debts to be levied for his use for the arrears of the tallage aforesaid, and to permit the said Jews to be in peace henceforth for the arrears of the tallage for so far as the debts aforesaid suffice.
	To Philip de Wilgheby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Gilbert de Middelton all the lands that he bought from Ralph de Gaugy without the king's licence, for which reason they were taken into the king's hands, to be held by Gilbert until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, so that Gilbert may in the meantime acquire the quit-claim of his said feoffor, and may then come to the king, and may receive the lands from the king to be held in chief, or that he may then restore them to the king, to be held as they are now held in the king's hands.
	The like to the same escheator for William de Middelton, for 5 marks of land yearly bought from Walter de Huntercumb, tenant in chief.
May 20. Westminster.	To the constable of St. Briavels castle. Order to cause to be delivered to the abbot of Flaxeleye the latter's woods within the forest of Dene, which woods the constable and the king's foresters of that forest took into the king's hands contrary to the tenor of the charters of the abbot of liberties granted to him by the king's progenitors, which liberties they (sic) have heretofore reasonably used, to be held by the abbot until the coming of the king's justices for pleas of the Forest in those parts, or until otherwise ordered, and to cause the abbot's men whem he has arrested for this reason to be delivered in the meantime. By K. and C.
	To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to pay to John de Reygate, one of the justices in eyre in that county, 10l. for his expences in that office, out of the issues of the eyre levied by the sheriff.
May 21. Westminster.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William Giffard, sometime sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, brother of the archbishop of York, to be acquitted of 71l. wherewith he is charged at the exchequer for divers amercements (misericordiis) before the barons of the exchequer and Martin de Littlebir[y], sometime the king's justice of the Bench, and his fellows, justices there, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled, as the king has pardoned William this sum at the instance of the archbishop.
May 22. Westminster.	To the justices for the custody of the Jews and to William de Middelton, appointed to levy the tallage lately assessed upon certain Jews of the realm. Notification that the king, in consideration of the remission and quitclaim that William de Apeltrefeud made to him of his right in the manor of Bansted, has pardoned him 1,000 marks in which he is bound in the king's Jewry, if he be bound in as much in the Jewry beyond the usuries and pains of the debts, which usuries and pains the king remits to him, and if he be bound there in any debt beyond the aforesaid sum, he shall answer for the excess over the said sum according to the law and custom of the Jewry, and if the debts in which William is bound in the Jewry do not amount to 1,000 marks, the king wills that he shall be acquitted of the said debts and shall be contented with that quittance, to wit that he ought to be acquitted of a debt of 126l. 13s. 4d. in which he is bound to Manasser son of Aaron, a Jew of London, for 103l. 6s. 8d., and that he ought to be acquitted of a debt of 50 marks to Haginus son of Master Moses, a Jew, for 45 marks, and of a debt of 80l. to Cok son of Haginus, a Jew, for 85 marks, and of a debt of 80l. to Benedict son of Jacob, a Jew of Lincoln, for 85 marks, and of a debt of 80l. to Benedict son of Abraham, a Jew of Worcester, for 45l., and of a debt of 300l. to the said Haginus, of which he has paid to Haginus 56l. 13s. 4d., and of a debt of 27l. to the said Benedict, of which Haginus is bound to acquit him against Benedict, as may appear to the justices and William de Middelton by the stars of the said Jews of all the aforesaid debts, which the said William de Apeltrefeud will deliver to them. The king orders the justices and William de Middelton to cause the charters of the said William by which he owes the said debts in the Jewry to be withdrawn from the chest of the chirographers of the Jews and from the treasury, and to cause them to be delivered to William, and to cause him to be acquitted of the debts and of the pains and usuries aforesaid, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled in form aforesaid.
	Richard Daly, imprisoned at Rochester for the death of a man unknown, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail him.
	Godehalcha de Tatehelmeslegh and Robert Perpoynt, imprisoned at Canterbury for the death of Walter Amfrey of Gutherst, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail them.
	Gilbert Peytevyn, imprisoned at Canterbury for the death of Robert son of John, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail him.
May 20. Westminster.	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Walter de Wygeton has shown the king that whereas Richard de Kirkebride, deceased, and all his ancestors always held their land hitherto of Walter and his ancestors by knight service, and [held] nothing of the king or his ancestors, by reason whereof Walter eight years ago and more took the wardship of the lands and heir of the said Richard as chief lord of the fee immediately after Richard's death, and held the same peacefully and without hindrance from anyone, and that the escheator has wholly ejected Walter from the wardship by reason of certain lands that Eustace de Ball[iolo], lately deceased, held of the king in chief, which fall to Richard's heir by right of inheritance, and has taken the custody into the king's hands as lands that belonged to the said Eustace, detaining from Walter the wardship and the heir of the said Richard, whose marriage pertains to Walter; and after this matter had been considered with the king's council, it is found that, if it be as stated, the king cannot on this occasion claim the wardship of the lands that are of Walter's fee or the marriage of the heir, since the inheritance is not yet united with the lands that Eustace held of the king in chief: the king therefore orders the escheator to cause Walter to have speedy restitution of the wardship of the heir and of all the lands whereof he hadseisin as aforesaid, saving to the king and his heirs at another time their right in the wardship of all the lands falling to the heir by right of inheritance and in the marriage aforesaid, which shall remain to the king and his heirs henceforth for ever. After the said heir have the said lands that are held of the king in chief, and the lands that fall to the heir of Eustace's inheritance, the escheator shall retain [them] in the king's hands. By K. and C.
	To Edmund, the king's brother. Order to cause Robert de Greley, kinsman and heir of Thomas de Greley, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of Thomas's lands, the custody whereof is in Edmund's hands during the heir's minority by the late king's grant, as it appears to the king by lawful proofs made before him that Robert is of full age, wherefore he has taken his homage and rendered to him the said lands.
May 22. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger de Tycheburn, deceased.
	To the same. Order to cause the bridge of Winchester castle and the king's houses of the castle to be repaired where necessary.
	Joan, wife of Walter de Bontingford, imprisoned at Royston (Cruce Roes') for the death of Alice Galun, wherewith she is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Hertford to bail her.
	John le Provost of Roteby, William Kempe, Geoffrey son of Richard, Robert son of William le Clerc, Richard le fiz Mayke, and Richard Arna[l]d, imprisoned at Leicester for the death of Ralph le Levre, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Leicester to bail them.
	To John de Lond[onia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Alexander Comyn, earl of Bouhan, and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and co-heiress of R[oger] de Quency, sometime earl of Winchester, to have seisin of a third of all the lands that Eleanor de Vallibus, late the wife of the said Roger, held in dower of Roger's inheritance, as the king has taken the homage of Alexander for the said third falling to Elizabeth by right of inheritance, provided that the said lands with the knights' fees and advowsons of churches that Eleanor held in dower of Roger's inheritance shall be equally divided by the escheator between Alexander and Elizabeth and the other parceners of the inheritance.
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May 24. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to restore to William Comyn 8l. that he took from him for the escape of a man, and to permit him to, have peace until the coming to that county of the justices in eyre for common pleas, as the escapes of thieves ought to be adjudged before the said justices and not elsewhere.
	To the seneschal of Gascony. Order to cause full and speedy justice to be done by lawful judgment of Christians and according to the laws and custom of those parts in all cases of vexations and wrongs inflicted upon the king's Jews there, as the king understands on behalf of the whole community of his Jews of Gascony that the whole community is immoderately aggrieved by divers vexations and injuries.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William Giffard, late sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, to be acquitted of a moiety of the 159l. in which he was lately amerced for divers causes before the king, Martin de Littleb[iry] and his fellows, then justices of the Bench, and before the treasurer and barons, as the king has pardoned him a moiety at the instance of W. archbishop of York, brother of the said William.
May 23. Westminster.	To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), keeper of the forest of the Peak (Pecco). Order to permit Nicholas de Lenn to have, during good behaviour and until otherwise ordered, the bailiwick that he had in that forest at the king's pleasure, to hold in the same way as before.
	To John de London[ia], escheator this side Trent. It is shown to the king on behalf of Cicely, late the wife of John de Muscegros, tenant in chief of the king, that whereas the king lately ordered the escheator to take into the king's hands all the lands whereof the said John at his death was seised in his demesne as of fee, the escheator by reason of that order took into the king's hands the manors of Bykenore, Teynton, Langford, Cumpton, and Britfarton, which are of Cicely's inheritance, and unjustly detains them from her: as the king wills that Cicely shall not be injured by him or his ministers in this behalf, he orders the escheator to make inquisition whether the manors are of her inheritance or of the inheritance of John, so that the latter died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee or not, and if he find that the manors are of Cicely's inheritance, he is ordered to restore them to her with everything received from them since they were taken into the king's hands.
May 20. Westminster.	To Joseph de Chancy, the treasurer, and to the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. The king remembers how, at the instance of his mother Queen Eleanor, he pardoned the abbot and convent of St. Mary, Stratford, all pains and usuries of all debts in which they were bound to Master Elias son of Moses, a Jew of London, and to Floria his wife, and other Jews of the realm whatsoever, both their own debts and the debts that Master Elias and Floria exact from them for certain lands in Ginges Muntenye that they bought from William Bocquite, who was indebted in 60l. by his charter to Floria before Elias married her: as the greater part of the goods of the abbot and convent are insufficient for payment of the said debts together with the usuries and pains, as the king understands for certain, the king, compassionating their estate and wishing to show them favour, for the health of his soul and of the souls of his ancestors and heirs, has pardoned them all pains and usuries of all the debts aforesaid, and of all other debts in which they are bound to any Jews of the realm by reason of any tenements in their hands, provided that they satisfy the Jews for the principal of the loans (pro principalibus mutuis). The king therefore orders the treasurer and justices to cause inquisition to be made as to how much money the abbot and convent received from the aforesaid Master Elias and Floria or from other Jews, and when they have thus ascertained the amount of the principal debt, they are to cause the Jews to be satisfied for the principal only at terms to be provided by the treasurer and justices, and to cause the abbot and convent to be acquitted of the said usuries and pains, and to cause the charters whereby they are bound for the said debts to be withdrawn from the chest of the chirographers of the Jews, and to cause them to be delivered to the abbot and convent, provided however that if the abbot and convent can show by stars or by other instruments that they have paid anything thereof to the Jews, the treasurer and justices shall cause what they have thus paid to be allowed to them in the loans, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Robert de Greley, kinsman and heir of Thomas de Greleye, to have seisin of the manors of Mamecestre, Barton and Kynerdelegh, which were in the custody of Edmund, the king's brother, by the late king's commission, as the king lately ordered the escheator to cause Robert to have seisin of Thomas's lands, and he afterwards ordered him to supersede the delivery of the manors aforesaid by reason of the right that Peter de Greleye claimed to have in them before the king, and the king, after treating thereof with his council, taking into consideration that Edmund had the custody of the manors during the minority of the heir by the late king's commission, and that Edmund granted the custody of them to Walter de Percy, who delivered the custody to the aforesaid Peter until the heirs (sic) came of age, and that Peter had the custody of the manors by this commission and for no other reason, has rendered seisin of the manors to Robert, saving the right of Peter if he wish to prosecute it (cum inde loqui voluerit).
May 26. Westminster.	To J. de Lond[onia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Amicia, late the wife of John de Haslee, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king not to marry without his licence.
	To the same. Order to deliver to Robert de Farendon, son and heir of Robert de Farendon, the bailiwick of the hundreds that his father held in his lifetime, to be held during the king's pleasure, on condition that he bring the charter by which he claims to have right in the bailiwick to the king at the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, so that there may then be done in this matter what the king shall cause to be provided by his council.
	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to permit Alexander de Balliolo and Eleanor de Genover, his wife, to held until otherwise ordered the castle of Mitford, taken by the escheator into the king's hands, and to restore to them anything received thence in the meantime.
	To the keeper of the forest of Pembere. Order to cause the constable of Winchester castle to have timber in that forest for the repair of the bridge of the castle.
	To Adam de Wynton[ia], keeper of the town of Southampton. Order to cause ten of the thirty tuns of the wine of the right prise that the king lately ordered to be acquitted by him, and which are in his custody there, to be carried to Winchester castle, and ten tuns to be carried to Clarendon, and ten to Wodestok, to be placed in the king's cellars there.
May 25. Westminster.	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews, and to William de Middelton, deputed to collect the tallage lately assessed upon certain Jews of England. Order to cause to be taken into the king's hands all the debts, goods and chattels that were in the hands of Joceus le Joven, a Jew of York, on the day when the tallage was assessed, and to cause the tallage assessed upon Joceus to be levied thence for the king's use, and to permit Joceus to have peace concerning his body in this behalf.
May 25. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has pardoned the following men the sums mentioned, and order to cause them to be acquitted thereof, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled: Walter de Leweston, 3s. 4d., Walter Fant of Leye, 3s. 4d., Joceus de Lauceles, 3s. 4d., Henry de Leye, half a mark, Henry Baret, 2s., John Karemy, 12d., Geoffrey de Bernevill, 2s., Robert de Dunton, 3s. 4d., Brian de Gowyz, 3s. 4d., John de Tynhide, half a mark, William Payn, 12d., John Barnage, 2s., Henry Quarel, 12d., John le Gentyl, 12d., Robert de Craunford, 12d., Roger David of Brochampton, half a mark, John Trentedeus, 12d., Ralph de Kuldeweye, 12d., John de Walhop, 12d., Henry Herefrey, 12d., Richard Marcat, 12d., Thomas de la Forde, 12d., Thomas Proutfot, 12d., Roger Aunfrey, 12d., Alexander Fulere, 2s., Matthew Melksop, 12d., Thomas Uppeheye, 12d., Walter le Flik, 12d., Adam de Corston, 12d., Alfred (Alvredo) Longsomer, 12d., William Boyl, 12d., Walter de Burges, half a mark, Thomas le Joevene, 12d., William Germeyn, 12d., Robert le Lung, 3s. 4d., John de Howe, 12d., Roger de Ponte, 12d., William Borde, 12d., Richard le Waleys of Pirycumbe, 12d., Thomas Blundel, 12d., Roger le Keu, 12d., Richard Payn, 12d., in which they were amerced before Master Richard de Cliff[ord], late escheator this side Trent, because they did not come before him at Dorcestre. The king has also pardoned Jordan Poleyn, bailiff of the hundred of Shyreburn, 2s., Roger de Mouhaut, bailiff of the hundred of Badebir[y], 12d., Henry, bailiff of the liberty of the manor of Frompton, 3s. 4d., William de Padenor, bailiff of the hundred of Cokesdich, 3s. 4d., and Robert le Chaumberleyn, bailiff of the hundred of Bere, 12d., in which they were amerced before the aforesaid Richard for summons not made in their bailiwicks. The king has also pardoned William de Marleberg, 3s. 4d., John de Blakemor, 12d., David Lumbard, 3s. 4d., John de Baleiak, 12d., William de Welles, 12d., Reginald de Ramesbur[y], 3s. 4d., William de Tyderlegh, 2s., William Peitevyn of Mortisthorn, 3s. 4d., John atte Mech, 3s. 4d., John de Suthperette, 12d., Clement de Beuboys, 2s., Godfrey de Meyne, 12d., Robert Aurey, 12d., Thomas le Hunte, 12d., William Tribold, 12d., Robert Bursy, 2s., William de Penerys, 12d., Thomas Quarentham, 12d., John de Fifide, 12d., Roger de Plumbere, 2s., Simon le Blake, 12d., Walter Duraund, 12d., Hereward de Blanford, 12d., Stephen Pinnok, 12d., John de Clavyne, 2s., Geoffrey de Penyton, 12d., William de Clavill, 12d., Thomas Russell, 12d., Henry de Molend[ino], 12d., Mark de Clavill, 12d., William Vele, 12d., Richard de la Verge, 12d., John de Normanvill, 12d., William de Musters, 12d., Thomas Peytevyn, 12d., William de Brideport, a mark, Richard son of Thomas, 2s., Richard Cresseben, 12d., John de la Sterte, 12d., Robert le Eyr, 12d., Godfrey de Wyke, 16d., Thomas Pens, 20s., Geoffrey le Maszun, 12d., William Jordan, 12d., Thomas de Cheltecumbe, 12d., Thomas de Bromeshull, 12d., Jordan de Stapelbrugg, 12d., Nicholas de Rempel, 12d., William de Lagehull, 12d., Richard de Capella, 3s. 4d., Robert del Hoke, 12d., Henry de Rendecumbe, 12d., Hugh de Tolre, 12d., Philip de Eldy, 12d., William le Whyte, 12d., William de Stalke, 12d., Nicholas Cole, 12d., Stephen de Bonevill, 3s. 4d., William de Bengeham, a mark, Robert Sweyn, 2s., Edmund de la Hyde, 12d., William de Angulo, 12d., Robert de Pymor, 12d., William Germeyn, 12d., Henry de Binham, 12d., Thomas Sauvenappe, 12d., William le Lung, 12d., Adam le Forester, 12d., Richard de Kyngeston, 12d., John le Whyt, 12d., Richard Joie, 3s. 4d., Walter de Riston, 3s. 4d., Laurence de Boys, 12d., Thomas de Welles, 12d., William de Lullesworth, 3s. 5d., Stephen de Watercumb, 12d., Robert Scot, 12d., William Germeyn, 12d., John de Waye, 12d., Thomas de Mokerford, 12d., Simon le Lorimer, 3s. 4d., Peter Cruel, 12d., William le Neyman, 12d., William Vendut, 3s. 4d., Walter Chanflur, 3s. 4d., Thomas Cosyn, 3s. 4d., John the tailor (cissori), 12d., Thomas de la Hyde, 12d., Elias Daniel, 12d., Luke de Stok, 12d., Moses de Sidening, 12d., John Basset, 12d., Henry Welifed, 12d., Elias Gemay, 12d., John Tilye, 12d., William de Blakemor, 12d., Ace de Limberg, 12d., Walter de Neuchu[r]ch, 100s., Hugh Cole, 40d., Thomas de Ardern, 12d., William de Langeho, 40d., Henry Man, 12d., John Puch, 12d., Roger Anketil, 12d., John Seled, 12d., Hugh de Blinchefeld, 12d., John le Peche, 12d., John Godman, 12d., Henry de Serveton, 12d., John de Melecumb, 12d., John Bolemer, 12d., Adam del Pre, 12d., William de Porton, 12d., John Folyot, 12d., John Pawel, 12d., Alexander de la Wyke, 12d., Warin Crabbe, 12d., William de Corndon, 12d., Robert le Paumer, 12d., John Tyrel, 12d., Walter Schrogeman, 12d., Hugh le Bercher, 12d., William Russel, 12d., Alexander de la Cumb, 12d., in which they were amerced before the said Richard because they would not answer. The king has also pardoned Walter Padel, 12d., John Gerveys, 2s., Henry de Sancta Barba, 12d., Walter Pyg, 2s., Robert Caperun, 12d., Walter Wythereswohe, 12d., William Gryndegrec, 12d., William Nel, 12d., Alard Gele, 12d., John Furet, 12d., John de Boun, 12d., Reymund le Bedel, 12d., William Belet, 12d., Nicholas Chaunterel, 12d., Robert Caperun, 12d., Hugh le Wyte, 12d., Ralph Giffard, 12d., Henry Pruet, 12d., Thomas le Pirleye, 3s. 4d., Richard de la Sale, 3s. 4d., William le Due, 12d., Malger de Wyndes[ore], 12d., Alexander de Whytechurch, 12d., in which they were amerced before the said Richard for contempt.
	Membrane 15—Schedule.
May 26. Westminster.	(fn. 5) To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause to be taken and imprisoned until further orders William de Stokes, William Crul of Warham, Peter Page, Alan his brother, and Thomas de Holma, who came to the king's warren of Corf with bows, arrows and arms, and chaced therein, and took a hart there, and led the hart to the sea, and put a cord about his neck, and dragged him after a boat, taking him towards Wyreberge in the launds of Caneford, and thence by night to the house of the said William de Stokes at Warham, and to cause their lands to be taken into the king's hands, and to omit doing this in nowise, certifying the king of his proceedings.
	Membrane 14.
[May 25.] (fn. 6) [Westminster.]	To Philip de Wilegheby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to pay to John de Lithegreynes 80 marks for a land of John's in Midford and for the advowson of the church of that town, and to receive from John his charter such as the escheator shall deem fit, made to the king's use for the land and advowson, and to bring the charter to the king to be deposited in the wardrobe.
May 26. Westminster.	To Master John de Saunford, escheator of Ireland. Order to cause William de Valenc[ia], the king's uncle, and his co-executors of the will of Geoffrey de Lezyniaco, tenant in chief, the king's uncle, to have free administration of all the goods and chattels that belonged to Geoffrey at his death, both in custodies and in other things, for the execution of the will, which goods and chattels were taken into the king's hands in execution of the king's order to the escheator, the king believing that Geoffrey was indebted to the late king or to him at the exchequer, as it now appears to him that Geoffrey at his death was not bound to him in any debts.
	The like to Philip de Wilegheby, escheator beyond Trent.
	The like to John de London[ia], escheator this side Trent.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. William de Valenc[ia] has come to the king, for himself and the other executors of the will of Geoffrey de Leziniaco, and has shewn the king that whereas the king lately assigned to Geoffrey 200l. yearly, to be received at that exchequer from the debts in which John de Verdun and Geoffrey de Geynvill were indebted to the king, until the king should provide him with 200l. of land yearly in completion of 500l. of land yearly granted to him by the late king, and the greater part of the said 200l. yearly is still in arrear to William and the other executors, and William has besought the king to cause all the arrears of that sum to be rendered to him and his co-executors for the execution of Geoffrey's will: the king, wishing to be certified, orders the treasurer and barons to search the rolls of the said exchequer, and to certify him what lands he granted to Geoffrey in Ireland before and after the said assignment, and what these lands are worth yearly, and how much Geoffrey and his attorneys received at that exchequer in ready money, and whether they recovered (se tenuerint) from the aforesaid John and Geoffrey the money aforesaid, so that the king should be discharged or not, in order that the king may cause to be done in the premises what he shall see fit by his council.
	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to cause a certain term on this side of Easter to be assigned to Ralph de Gorges, son of Thomas de Gorges, for the payment of six marks to Deulacres son of Master Elias, a Jew of London, if they ascertain by inquisition or otherwise that Ralph received that sum only as a loan from the said Jew, and to cause Ralph to be acquitted of all usuries and pains in which he is bound to the Jew by his charter by reason of the aforesaid debt, as the king has pardoned him the usuries and pains on condition that he pay the principal debt before Easter.
	Vacated, because otherwise below.
May 26. Westminster.	To the same and to William de Middelton. Order to cause Cok Hagini, the king's Jew of London, to be acquitted of the tallage lately assessed upon certain of the king's Jews of England, if he pay to the king his right tallage according to the quantity of a third of his chattels, and to permit his body to be in peace in this behalf, as the king caused the tallage aforesaid to be assessed at a third of the Jews' chattels, then in his hands.
	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to cause the lands of Thomas de Chelewarton to be extended, and to cause terms to be assigned to him according to the value of his lands for the payment of the debts in which he is bound in the Jewry, saving reasonable maintenance to him and his wife and children, in accordance with the late king's writ remaining in the exchequer of the Jews, as the king learns that this matter has been delayed by reason of the late king's death.
May 27. Westminster.	To the treasurer of Ireland. Order to cause restitution to be made to the friars Preachers of Roscoman and to others for the following money and goods taken from the friars' church, as the king understands by letters patent of the bishop of Elphin and James de Aldithel[eye], late justiciary of Ireland, that the said James, during the disturbance between him and one who called himself king of Connaught, took from the friars' church 77l. 11s. 1¾d. in money deposited therein by poor men of that county for fear of the disturbance, and also that James took from the church wheat, oats, and other victuals to the value of 8l. 2s. 7d., and timber to the value of 16l., oats to the value of 11l. 6s. 8d., and wheat to the value of 24s. 4d., all of which were converted to the use of James and his army then with him.
	To Geoffrey de Nevill. Order not to aggrieve the burgesses of Scardeburg until otherwise ordered by reason of the king's order concerning the making of an inquisition by Geoffrey and certain others touching the dispute between William de Percy, constable of the castle of Scardeburg, and the burgesses, as the king wills that the burgesses shall not be aggrieved by reason of that dispute.
	To the sheriff of Kent. Order to deliver Richard de Ipre, imprisoned at Rochester for the death of Goda de Norf[olkia], slain in the late king's time, in bail to six men of that county, who shall mainpern to have him before the king or his justices at his order, to be restored to the said prison to await the king's pleasure, if he be detained at the suit of the late king's peace and not by appeal or at the suit of another.
May 27. Westminster.	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to cause Ralph de Gorges to have term for payment at Easter next of a debt in which he is bound by charter to Deulacres son of Master Elias, a Jew of London, after enquiry concerning the debt, and, when Ralph shall have kept the term, to cause the said charter to be withdrawn from the chest of the chirographers of the king's Jews at London and delivered to Ralph, and to cause him to be acquitted of all the usuries and pains in which he is bound to Deulacres by the said charter, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled, as the king has pardoned Ralph the said usuries and pains on condition that he satisfy the Jew at the said term for the loan received from him.
	To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews, and to William de Middelton. Order to cause two parts of a debt of 30l. under the names of Richard Pauncefot and Aaron le Blund, a Jew, to be levied, by Aaron's consent, for the king's use for the arrears of the tallage of Elias son of the said Aaron and of Iva, daughter of Sarah, his wife, and to permit Elias and Iva to be in peace for the arrears of the tallage so far the said two parts suffice, as it appears to the king by the record of the justices and of William that the two parts are the debt of Aaron, and that the king lately caused the two parts to be taken into his hands by them.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause W. archbishop of York to be acquitted of 10l. in which he was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Middlesex for the common summons, as the king has pardoned him this sum.
May 28. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause 20 marks to be levied from the issues of the justices in eyre in that county, who will deliver to him their estreats by the king's order, and to pay that sum to Solomon de Roff', one of the justices aforesaid, for his expenses in the office of justice in the aforesaid eyre.
	The like to the same in favour of William de Saham.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Eudo la Zuche and Milicent his wife, the second parcener and co-heiress of the inheritance that belonged to William de Cantilupo, to be acquitted of the relief that William owed to the late king for the lands and fees that William de Cantilupo, his father, held in chief, as the late king pardoned William this relief by his letters patent, which the king has inspected.
	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause to be replevied to Robert son of Roger de Claveringg his liberty, which the sheriff took into the king's hands because Robert's men are said to have imprisoned the king's bailiffs by Robert's order, as Robert has appeared before the king and has asserted that the bailiffs were not imprisoned by his order, and he has placed himself upon an inquisition concerning this.
	By J. de Lovetot on behalf of the king and council.
May 29. Westminster.	To Thomas de Clare, steward of the forest of Essex. Order to cause Master John the carpenter of Dover castle to have 100 oaks fit for timber in the wood of Kyngeswod, which is within the said forest, for the works of Dover castle, provided that the carpenter shall cause the said timber to be repaired (sic) out of the strippings (escaetis) of the said oaks.
	To the sheriff of Devon. Order to cause Master Geoffrey de Shanketon, king's clerk, whom the king is sending to the island of Lundeye to extend all the lands within the island, to have 10 marks for his expenses.
	To John son of Nigel, keeper of the forest of Bernewod. Order to intend together with the sheriff of Buckingham the repairs of the houses of the manor of Brehull, which the king has ordered the sheriff to make, and to cause the sheriff to have sufficient timber for this purpose.
	To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to cause the houses of the manor of Brehull to be repaired.
May 30. Westminster.	To Philip de Wileby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Joan, late the wife of Robert de Sutton, tenant in chief, to have seisin of 9s. 7½d. of rent in Cotum, which are in arrear to her of her dower of Robert's lands in that town.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until the coming of age of the heir of John Peyvere, tenant in chief of the late king, the demand for 80l. for the debts of Paulinus Peyvere, made upon Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, John de Brit[annia], and the other executors of the will of Beatrice, late the wife of the said John Peyvere, which Beatrice had the custody of John's land and heirs by the late king's commission, and to cause the goods and chattels taken for this reason to be delivered to them.
	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to respite until the quinzaine of St. John the Baptist next the distraint made upon John's lands for the aforesaid sum, so that what ought of right to be done in this matter may then be done before the barons of the exchequer.
	Membrane 13.
May 30. Westminster.	To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Thomas de Valoynes to be acquitted of 10 marks, in which he was amerced before Gilbert de Preston, deceased, the king's justice, because he would not swear in an assize arramed before Gilbert, as the king has pardoned Thomas, because the late king granted to him by letters patent that he should not be put upon any assizes, juries, or recognitions, and that he should not be made sheriff, coroner, etc. or other bailiff of the king against his will during his lifetime.
	To J. de London[ia], escheator this side Trent. The abbot of Walemond has shown the king that whereas he demised his priory of Stratfeud to John, bishop of Hereford, for John's life, so that it should revert to the abbot or his successors after the bishop's death, the escheator has taken the priory into the king's hands after the bishop's death and detains it from the abbot as if the bishop had been enfeoffed thereof: the king, not wishing to injure the abbot, orders the escheator to make inquisition concerning the matter, and if he find it to be as stated, to cause the abbot to have restitution of the priory, with all goods and chattels and the corn sown in the abbot's lands, on condition that the abbot shall answer therefor to the king unless he can show that they ought of right to pertain to him.
	Cicely de Loketon, imprisoned at Scardeburg for the death of Henry Gretschank, wherewith she is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail her.