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March 1.
Liddington. |
To the sheriff of Wilts, escheator in the same county. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Alice, late the wife of Roger Oliver of Shaleweclive,
tenant in chief of John de Maundevill, deceased, tenant in chief of the
king, upon her finding security not to marry without the king's licence. |
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William Steilard, Andrew Jornet, Nicholas Davy, William Northest,
John Stace, Philip Matyp, and Robert son of Agnes, imprisoned at Great
Yarmouth for the death of William Snappe, wherewith they are charged,
have letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail them. |
March 1.
Liddington. |
To the sheriff of Oxford. Whereas the king lately caused the abbey of
Osney (Osneya), which is of his patronage, to be taken into his hands with
all its temporalities by reason of a certain contempt committed upon him
there, and he wills that the lands pertaining to it shall be tilled and sown,
he orders the sheriff to place two approved and discreet men there in the
king's name, by whose counsel and view the lands may be tilled and sown,
which men shall cause the goods and chattels of the abbey to be kept safely
without diminution or dilapidation, and they shall answer faithfully to the
king for the issues and revenues of the lands of the abbey if the king wish
to have them, saving to the abbot and convent reasonable maintenance,
provided that the alms that were wont to be made there shall not cease
(decidant) or be diminished hereby. |
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To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to deliver Alice, wife of Thomas de
Furno of Idemeston, imprisoned at Salisbury for the death of Thomas her
son, wherewith she is charged, in bail to twelve men of that county who
shall mainpern to have her before the king's justices at the first assize when
they come to those parts to stand to right if any one wish to speak against
her in this behalf, as it is testified before the king by Hereward de Marisco
and William Spileman, justices lately appointed to deliver Salisbury gaol,
and by other trustworthy men that Alice slew her son whilst she was mad
(dum ipsa frenetica passione laborabat) and not by malice or felony aforethought. |
March 3.
Liddington. |
To Master Roger de Seyton and his fellows, justices in eyre at the Tower
of London. The king has heard and understood the tenor of their letters
to him concerning the deed touching the community of the Jews of London
by reason of the death of a Christian boy, who was crucified by them, and
who was irreverently and miserably slain, in offence of the name of Jesus
Christ and against the peace of the realm, and who was thrown on shore
at Douegate by inundation of the water of Thames, into which the Jews
had secretly thrown him, and who was there found, and the king has taken
advice and diligently laboured as to what may be done most wholesomely
and securely in this behalf; the king, both because he wishes to have
special conference (tractatum) with the aforesaid justices and with the
justices appointed for the custody of the Jews and also with his councillors
concerning so detestable a deed and as to how it ought to be punished in
accordance with justice, and he wishes to be certified by the said justices
in eyre by word of mouth concerning these things, and because he proposes
to ordain shortly concerning some other things touching the said Jews and
his Jewry, orders the said justices to adjourn the Jews before him in his
parliament at London in a month from Easter, there to do and receive what
the king shall cause to be provided by his council in the premises, and to
permit the Jews to have peace in the meantime concerning these and other
matters touching them by reason of the Jewry. |
March 4.
Overton. |
To John son of Nigel, bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause John Giffard
of Tuyford to have three oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift, in the
wood-falls (trencheeis) made in the park of Wodestok.
By Sir Anthony de Bek. |
March 4.
Overton. |
To the sheriff of Bedford, escheator in the same county. Order to
commit to John de Mohun, one of the heirs of the manor of Luton, which
the sheriff lately took into the king's hands because the other heirs gave the
king to understand that the manor was not equally divided between them,
in the king's name the said John's purparty of the manor until the quinzaine
of Easter next, so that he may in the meantime cause the lands of the
purparty to be tilled and sown and may then answer to the king for the
rent and issues thereof if the king wish to have them. |
March 8.
Temple Bruer.(La Bruere.) |
Brother William de Roufford, imprisoned at Nothing[eham] for the
death of Brother Robert de Roufford, wherewith he is charged, has letters
to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail him. |
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Robert de Boutlirs of Westbur[y], imprisoned at Shrewsbury for the
death of John le Fevre of Alberbur[y], wherewith he is charged, has
letters to the sheriff of Salop to bail him. |
March 10.
Temple Bruer. (Bruera de Templo.) |
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Whereas the king
understands that good, choice (electa), and clear wines for sale have now
arrived at Chester, he orders the justice to take from them, if they are
good, choice and clear, 40 tuns of wine for the king's use, and to cause
them to be kept safely in the king's cellars there until otherwise ordered. |
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Reginald de Yelvertoft, Elias his brother, Emma de Yelvertoft, and
Joan and Alice, his daughters, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of
William Gomund, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff
of Northampton to bail them. |
March 12.
Temple Bruer. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause the constable of
Noting[eham] castle to have 20l. for the repair of the king's weirs there,
so that they may be repaired by the view of the viewer of the king's works
there lest further damage be incurred for lack of repair. |
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To the sheriff of Northampton. Notification that the king has given
respite at his will to Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, for
50l. exacted from him by summons of the exchequer for the rents received
from the lands seized in that county by the earl and his men after the
battle of Evesham from certain men who were then opposing the king, and
of which the earl rendered seisin to the king in the parliament of Winchester
after the battle aforesaid, and order to release to the earl the distraint made
for this reason. |
March 13.
Temple Bruer. |
John Ode of Hengham and Alice his wife, John son of John Ode, Ralph
Hervy of Hengham, Edmund le Teynturer of Hengham, and Ralph de
Rushull of Depham, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of Roger son of
Walter de Wylghemere, whereof they are appealed, have letters to the
sheriff of Norfolk to bail them. |
March 13.
Temple Bruer. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Isaac son of Bonevye de Wynton[ia], a
Jew of Noting[eham], has shown the king that whereas the king lately
ordered his justices appointed for the custody of the Jews to cause 5 marks,
in which Isaac is indebted to the king for the tallage last assessed upon him,
to be levied for the king's use from the clearer debts of Isaac in the chest
of the chirographers of the Jews of Noting[eham], and to cause Isaac to
be acquitted thereof, and to cause him to have peace as to his body in this
behalf, the justices have not yet levied the said sum because the king
afterwards caused the said chest to be closed and sealed, by reason whereof
the sheriff exacts the five marks from Isaac and distrains him for the same:
as the king does not wish that the Jew shall be aggrieved in this behalf
contrary to his order aforesaid, he orders the sheriff to respite the distraint
until five weeks from Easter day, so that the justices may then cause the
five marks to be levied from the said debts according to the said order,
and to permit Isaac and his household to be in peace in the meantime. |
March 15.
Lincoln. |
To the sheriff of Stafford, escheator in the same county. Whereas the
king lately ordered him to take into the king's hands the lands that belonged
to William le Rous, tenant in chief of the late king, for certain causes, and
to warn William de Morteyn, Emecina de Morteyn, and Margery la Rouse,
who held the said lands, to be before the king in fifteen days from Easter day
to answer to what the king will object (abicere) against them in this behalf,
the king, willing that the lands shall be tilled and sown, orders the sheriff
to place a faithful and discreet man there who shall hold the king's seisin
thereof, and to permit William and Emecina to manure (manuoperari), till
and sow until the term aforesaid, so that the king may then cause to be
done what he shall deem ought to be done of right. |
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By K. in the presence of Robert de Tybetot. |
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Adam de Haytelegh, William de Lumby and Matilda his wife, and Henry
son of Beatrice de Wodesetes, imprisoned at York for the death of William
Cobbe, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of York to
bail them. |
March 15.
Lincoln. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. It is shown to the king on behalf of
Petevin son of Isaac and Abraham son of Jacob, Jews of Nothing[eham],
that whereas they have satisfied the king fully for the tallage last assessed
upon them, the sheriff has imprisoned them and their wives and household
for the said tallage by order of the justices appointed for the custody of the
Jews, and has taken all their goods into the king's hands; the king, willing
that wrong shall not be done to the Jews in this behalf, orders the sheriff to
cause them to be delivered from prison and to permit them to have peace
concerning their bodies, upon their finding him security to render their
tallage to the king in the quinzaine of Easter next unless they can show
before the said justices that they ought to be acquitted thereof. |
March 19.
Kirton. (Kyrketon.) |
John de London[ia], imprisoned at Sutton for the death of Isabella
Frost, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail
him. |
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To the bailiffs of Southampton. Order to cause Elias de Rabayn,
constable of Corff Castle, to have two tuns of the king's wines, to do
therewith as the king has enjoined him.
By A. Bek. |
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Simon de Palling, imprisoned at Yarmouth for the death of William
Staggard, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to
bail him. |
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Hugh Rachel, imprisoned at Bedford for the death of Robert Attefelde,
whereof he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of Bedford to bail him. |
March 22.
Barton-on-Humber. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Whereas Robert de Boyton was charged
with a trespass and contempt committed by him in beating and arresting
the king's bailiff at Craneford, for which the king afterwards ordered him
to be arrested by the sheriff, and Robert then came to the king and found
mainpernors that he would render himself to prison at Northampton on
Sunday in Mid-Lent last, in order that he might go freely in the meantime
through the country to spy out and pursue those who committed the said
trespass, and the sheriff has now written to the king that Robert rendered
himself to prison on the said day: the king, wishing to be more fully
certified whether Robert is guilty or not of the said trespass and contempt,
orders the sheriff to take with him Nicholas de Kugeho and other knights
whom he knows to be fit for this purpose, and to enquire by the oath of
men of the neighbouring parts of Craneford and of others of his bailiwick
whether or not Robert committed or caused to be committed the said
trespass, or gave authority or consent to it, and if he find by the inquisition
that Robert is wholly guiltless thereof, to cause him to be delivered from
prison and to cause any of his goods and chattels taken for this reason to be
replevied to him until otherwise ordered. |
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Richard le Taillur of Heyford, imprisoned at Lanceveton for the death
of Margery, daughter of William del Ewe, wherewith he is charged, has
letters to the sheriff of Cornwall to bail him. |
March 24.
Barton. |
Ermendruda, late the wife of Henry de Sancto Mauro, imprisoned at
Warwick for the death of John de Stanle, wherewith she is charged, has
letters to the sheriff of Warwick to bail her. |
March 26.
Thornton. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of William de Sancto Germano, lately elected, who is
incapacitated by weakness of body, as the king understands. |
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To Thomas de Normanvill, the king's steward [of Holdernesse]. Robert
de Hildyerd and Joan his wife have shown the king that whereas Robert de
Scuris granted the manor of Riston in Holdernesse, which is held of the
manor of Brustwik (which belonged to Edmund the king's brother and to
Avelina, his deceased wife, and which is in the king's hands by reason of her
death), the services of which manor of Riston are assigned in dower to
Isabella, countess of Albemarle, to the said Robert and Joan by his charter,
to be held of the chief lords of the fee, doing therefor all customs and services
that Robert de Scuris ought to have done and that he and his ancestors were
wont to do, the steward has hitherto deferred receiving from Robert and
Joan the suit due to the king's wapentake of Holdernes[se] for the manor,
although they are and always were prepared to make suit, and the
steward distrains Robert de Scuris to make the said suit there as if the
manor were still in his hands: as the king wishes to be more fully certified
concerning this, he orders the steward, if it be so, to receive the suit from
Robert de Hildyerd, and to permit him and his wife to hold the manor
until otherwise ordered, saving the right of the king and of others. |
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March 30.
Sixhills.(Sixle.) |
To the sheriff of York. Order to respite until a month from Easter the
demand upon Agnes de Vescy for 171 marks 6s. 8½d. that are in arrears to
the king of the portion falling to her of the 600 marks yearly that Eleanor,
sometime countess of Leicester, was wont to receive from the exchequer
for Agnes and the other heirs of Walter, sometime earl Marshal, for
Eleanor's dower of the lands that belonged to Walter in Ireland, so that the
king may then cause to be done what he shall cause to be provided by his
council. |
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To Thomas de Normanvill. Order to permit Robert de Ros to chace
and take the fox in all his lands in Holdernes[se] until Whitsuntide next,
as the king has granted to him that he may chace the fox in all his lands
aforesaid with his own dogs until the said feast, on condition that he take
none of the king's great beasts (feris) or other beasts of the king and do
not course in the warrens of others in the meantime by reason of the grant
aforesaid. |
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To the sheriff of Lincoln and the coroners of the same county. Order
to cause the abbot of Thormton (sic) to have of the king's gift the two tuns
of wine that were lately taken into the king's hands at Immingham as the
king's wreck [of the sea]. |
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To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the foot of the bridge of the
gate of York castle to be repaired where necessary without delay. |
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John Wolriche, Alice la Prestresse, Nicholas Wisman, and Robert
Wisman of Hertwell, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of Thomas
son of Warner, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of
Northampton to bail them. |
