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Aug. 1.
Windsor. |
To Stephen de Penecestre, constable of Dover castle, or to him who
supplies his place. Order to permit Edmund, the king's brother, who is
going by the king's licence to parts beyond sea with knights and others
whose services he needs, to cross from the port of Dover with knights
and others in his company or coming after him. |
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To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to deliver to Aaron son of Vives,
a Jew of London, or to Walter de Cnolton, his attorney, a moiety of all
the lands of William son of Robert de Middelton in Middelton, in that
county, as William demised and granted the said moiety to Aaron to hold
in place of a pledge, according to the form of the statute of the Jewry, as
of the value of ten marks yearly, in part payment of a debt of 180l. due
to the said Jew, so that the ten marks should be allowed to William
yearly in part payment of the debt until it be paid in full, as the said
William has acknowledged in chancery. |
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To John son of Nigel, keeper of the forest of Berenwode. Order to
cause the sheriff of Buckingham to have in that forest three oaks for
making shingles to cover the king's houses at Brehull. |
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Membrane 5. |
Aug. 3.
Windsor. |
To the constable of the Tower of London. Whereas Tsaac le Evesk,
Moses le Blund, and Joceus son of Isaac, Jews of London, have incurred
the enmity of certain Jews of London by reason of the portion of the
community of the Jews of London of the 1,000l. in which the Jews of
England made fine with the king, wherefore Isaac, Moses and Joceus are
prepared to make security to the constable to answer before the justices
appointed for the custody of the Jews in a month from Michaelmas if
anyone wish to speak against them in this matter: the king orders the
constable to take such security from them by six lawful Jews, and not
to permit them to be molested or arrested for this matter in the meantime. |
Aug. 6.
Odiham. |
To Robert le Eyr, bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause Master Thomas
de Pontesbury to have four oak-trunks (robora) with their strippings
(escaet') for his fuel from the clearings (trencheiis) that the king lately
caused to be made in Wodestok park. |
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To the sheriff of Derby. Order to restore to Geoffrey de Skeftington
the manor of Tissington, which was lately taken into the king's hands
because Henry de Aldideleg', tenant in chief, alienated it to Geoffrey
without the king's licence, and to restore everything received thence from
the time of its being taken into the king's hands, to be held by Geoffrey
until otherwise ordered, so that he may answer to the king for the issues
thereof if the king wish to have them. |
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To the sheriff of Northampton, escheator in the same county. Order
to deliver to Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, the manor of Sutton with
the hundred and all other appurtenances thereof, which is of the ancient
demesne of the crown and of the body of the said county and of which
Emelina, sometime countess of Ulster, was seised in her demesne as of
fee at her death, and to deliver to the earl everything received thence
since it was taken into the king's hands, to be held during the king's
pleasure. |
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To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Whereas the
king, at the instance of Queen Eleanor, his mother, pardoned Ralph de
Gorges 40l. in which he was indebted by his charter to Cresseus son of
Master Elias, a Jew, and the king thereupon ordered the justices to cause
Cresseus, or any other Jew that he wished, to have allowance for the
said sum in the debts that he owed to the king [or] to cause it to be
delivered to him from the clear debts in the treasury of the Jewry and
the justices have not done yet anything therein, as the king learns: the
king therefore orders them, if it be so, to cause Cresseus to have such
allowance or to deliver to him such debts, according to the former order. |
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To Giles de Audenard, sub-constable of the Tower of London. Order
to cause Albricus de Capella, appealed by Hugh de Caldewell, the king's
approver, of certain trespasses against the peace, to be delivered upon his
finding six men who shall mainpern to have him before the king at his
pleasure under pain of forfeiture of all their goods. |
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To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause the abbot of Swinesheved to
have again seisin of two messuages and two bovates of land in Burton in
Ketsteven, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that
Henry de Longo Campo enfeoffed the abbot of the premises, and that the
abbot had full seisin thereof from the Assumption, in the second year of
the king's reign, until St. Andrew the Apostle following, at which feast
Henry died, and that the abbot continued his seisin after Henry's death
until the Purification following, at which feast John de Londonia, then
escheator this side Trent, took the tenement into the king's hands as if
Henry had been seised thereof in his demesne as of a fee at his death, and
delivered it to Walter de Pedwardyn, to whom the king committed
the custody of the body of Henry's heir, which Walter still detains it
from the abbot. |
Aug. 8.
Odiham. |
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of Ralph de Lyngneynes, whom the sheriff has elected
(sic) as coroner, and who has only one carucate of land in the county,
wherein he is not a resident, as he cannot attend to the duties of the office
because he is staying in the Marches, where he has much land, for the
defence of his lands and of the adjoining lands. |
Aug. 13.
Selbourne. |
William de la Risebrigge, Gilbert de Santon, Michael de Dunshedde, and
Roger le Cokhelere, imprisoned at Reigate for the death of Simon le Buke
of Newendegate, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of
Surrey to bail them. |
Aug. 13.
Selbourne. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. Order to cause all the wool and
all other goods of the merchants of Flanders in the parts of Bristol, in
whose hands soever they be found, to be arrested warily and secretly,
and to cause them to be kept safely until otherwise ordered without
damage or loss. |
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The like to the bailiffs and approved men of Porthesmuth. |
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The like to the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. |
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To John Bek and Philip de Wileby. Whereas the king learns that the
merchants of Flanders will be damaged beyond reason by the arrest of
their wool and goods by John and Philip by the king's order if the goods
be detained more than if they were demised by the price thereof to others,
who should answer to them as John and Philip shall cause to be ordained on
the king's behalf: the king therefore orders John and Philip to ordain
concerning the premises as they shall see most convenient for the benefit
of the king and of the king's merchants and of the merchants of Flanders,
so that answer may be made herein as ought to be done. |
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To the constable of Devises castle. Order to cause Thomas and Henry
de Cicestria, clerks, imprisoned in that castle for a trespass that they are
said to have committed in taking a doe in the king's forest of Melksham
without his licence, to be released, as the king has pardoned them out of
respect for God and St. Nicholas. |
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To John Bek and Philip de Wyleby. Order to restore upon this present
occasion to the merchants of Douay in Flanders their goods arrested by
them, as the king lately ordered John and Philip to arrest the wool and
goods of merchants of Flanders in Boston fair and at Lynn and Lincoln,
and it was not his intention that the goods of certain persons should be
arrested, but that all goods and wares of Flemings should be arrested at
one and the same time everywhere in the realm, by reason of the debt
that the countess of Flanders owes to him and to the merchants of his
realm and by reason of the non-observance of the agreement entered into
by the king and the countess, and the king did not then recollect the grant
that he had made to the Flemish merchants that they might safely come
into the realm and stay therein until St. Peter ad Vincula last. |
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William Bacyn, imprisoned at Ilvecestre for the death of John son of
Avicia, whom he slew in self defence and not of felony or of malice
aforethought, has letters to the sheriff of Somerset to bail him. |
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To the keeper of the forest of Halsisholte. Order to cause Roger
le Tayllur to have in that forest two oaks for timber, of the king's gift. |
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To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Wilts.
Order not to molest Emeric de Rupe Cauardi for the trespass that he committed in taking a buck in the forest of Clarendon without the king's licence,
as the king has pardoned him the trespass. |
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To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause Mabel, late the wife of Geoffrey
de Arreford, imprisoned at Bury St. Edmunds for a re-disseisin that she
made upon John le fiz le Chapeleyn, to be released upon her making fine
with the sheriff for the trespass. |
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To Luke de Tany, seneschal of Gascony. Order to permit Emeric de
Rupe Cauardi to take ten stags in the king's forest of Cutego, and to
carry them whither he will, as the king has granted to him ten stags in
that forest. |
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John de Synnaneston, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Walter de
Herdewik, has letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail him. |
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To the sheriff of Nottingham, escheator in the same county. Order to
deliver to Cicely, late the wife of Robert de Derley, tenant in chief, the
chief messuage and seven pounds yearly of land in Thorp, which the king
has assigned to her to hold in tenancy until dower be assigned to her. |
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Thomas Gibecrake, imprisoned at Ilvecestre for the death of Robert, vicar
of the church of Henxterigge, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the
sheriff of Somerset to bail him. |
Aug. 26.
Lyndhurst. |
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Order to cause two
stags and two bucks to be taken in the outer parts of the forest of La Mare
for the use of his wife, and to cause her to have them, of the king's gift. |
Aug. 29.
King's Beaulieu. |
To Ralph de Sandwyco. Order to deliver William le Paccare and John
his son, Walter Home, Walter Corneu, Henry Poche, and William Cadegan,
imprisoned at St. Briavells for trespass of the forest, wherewith they are
charged, in bail to twelve men each, who shall mainpern to have them before
the justices for the pleas of the Forest when they next come to those parts. |
