Close Rolls, Edward I: September 1278

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

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: September 1278', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 475-477. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp475-477 [accessed 20 April 2024]

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September 1278

Sept. 1.
Shrewsbury.
To the bailiffs of Bruges. Order to deliver John son of Richard le Orfevre, imprisoned at Bruges for clipping (retonsione) of the king's money, wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the king, whenever the king will speak against him.
Sept. 5.
Shotwick.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to deliver Robert son of Robert Parleben aged seven years, imprisoned at Lincoln for the death of Edith de Herpeswell, wherewith he is charged, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices at the first assizes in those parts to stand to right if any one wish to speak against him, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Robert slew Edith by mischance and not by felony or malice aforethought.
Sept. 8.
Rhuddlan.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause jurors to come before Thomas de Weyland and Geoffrey de Neubaud, whom the king has appointed to extend, by the oath of knights and others of that county, all the lands that Roger le Bigod, earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, has in the manor of Kemesing, for the purpose of taking the said extent.
The like to the sheriff of Sussex for the lands that William de Valencia has in the manor of Boseham.
The like to the sheriff of Essex for the lands that William de Valencia has in the manor of Cestreford.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Grimbald Pauncefot to have three bucks in the forest of Kynefar, of the king's gift.
To the same. Order to cause the vicar of the church of Strattondale to have seven oak-trunks (robura) in the forest of Strattonedale, of the king's gift.
To the same. Order to cause the prior and brethren of St. Augustine's, Lodelawe, to have six oak-trunks in the forest of Havekhurst, of the king's gift.
To the bailiff of the Peak or to him who supplies his place. Order to aid John de Shelvestrode, the king's yeoman, whom the king is sending to him to take six harts there for the king's use, in taking the said harts, and to cause them to be delivered to John when taken.
Sept. 10.
Rhuddlan.
To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Bartholomew de Suthlegh to have four bucks in the forest of Shottovre, of the king's gift.
To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause ten bucks to be taken in his bailiwick where this may be done most speedily and conveniently, and to cause them to be well salted and kept, and to be delivered to Anthony Bek at his order.
To the keeper of the Hay of Hereford. Order to cause Iterius Bocard to have two roe-bucks, of the king's gift.
To Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland, and to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to audit the account of Geoffrey de Genevill for the time when he was justiciary of Ireland, and to cause due and reasonable allowances to be made to him according to the tenor of another order of the king's lately directed to the treasurer and barons there.
Sept. 12.
Rhuddlan.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Joan, wife of William de Valencia, to have six bucks, of the king's gift.
Sept. 13.
Flint.
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester, and to Howel son of Griffin, the king's bailiff of Englefeld. Whereas the king lately ordered them to assign to the bishop and dean and chapter of St. Asaph 20l. yearly of land in the parts of St. Asaph, of the king's gift, to be held of the king, and they, not fully executing the said order, caused a certain part of the 20l. yearly to be extended and assigned in rents, homages and other things: the king, wishing to aid the bishop, dean and chapter, and to fulfil his order aforesaid, orders Guncelin and Howel to cause the said 20l. yearly to be assigned to the bishop, dean and chapter, in arable land, where it may be done to the least damage to the king and the greatest convenience of the bishop, dean and chapter, by a certain and reasonable extent within certain limits in the parts aforesaid, and to take into the king's hands, after they have caused the bishop, dean and chapter, to have seisin of the land thus to be assigned, what they have already assigned, and to make the king's profit of the latter.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to deliver to David son of Griffin and Elizabeth his wife 1½ acres of land lying between the way from Silveston to Toucestre and the wood of Docwellehey, of the land that Richard lately caused to be assarted in Swyneshey, together with the corn of the said 1½ acres for this autumn, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Richard that the 1½ acres pertain to the manor of Norton, which David holds of his wife's dower of the lands that belonged to John le Mareschal, formerly her husband.
To Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland, S. bishop of Waterford, the treasurer, Fromund le Brun, the chancellor, and Master John de Saunford, the escheator. Whereas the king lately ordered the justiciary and treasurer to audit the account of Geoffrey de Genevill, the late justiciary, for the time of his office, in the presence of the master of the military order of the Temple and the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland, and they have hitherto done nothing in the matter, as the king learns: he therefore orders them to audit the said account as speedily as possible in accordance with his previous order. If all of them cannot attend to the auditing of the account, three of them shall do so.
Thomas Burel, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Geoffrey Giffard, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail him.
To Ralph de Sandwyco, the king's steward. Order to deliver to Fulk son of Warin 115s. of yearly rent in Foteswik within the manor of Waneting, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the steward that John de Ripariis at his death held nothing of the king in chief as of the crown in co. Berks, and that the king and his ancestors had not at any time the wardship of John's lands in the said county, but that John held the aforesaid rent of Fulk; provided that if the king ascertain by inspection of the rolls of the exchequer or otherwise that John held anything in chief as of the crown or otherwise in that county or elsewhere at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, the king shall resume the said rent into his hands and Fulk shall then answer to him for the issues received in the meantime.
Sept. 15.
Shotwick.
To the sheriff of Salop. Order to deliver to Peter de Grete a messuage and half a virgate of land in Grete, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said messuage and half virgate, which Henry Russel, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Henry held them of Peter, and that the township of Grete now holds them and had the king's year and day and ought to answer to the king therefor.
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justiciary of Chester. Order to cause Roger Lestrange (Extraneo) to have four bucks, of the king's gift.
Sept. 17.
Macclesfield.
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to deliver to Robert de la Ferete the manor of Glassan, as the king learns that the manor, which William de Glassan, who was outlawed for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day and is still in his hands, and that William held it of the said Robert, and that Robert had the year and day thereof and ought to answer to the king therefor.
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Order to permit Reginald de Grey to take dead brushwood in his own woods within the forest of Cheshire (Cestreshir'), and to carry it away and burn it at his pleasure.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to deliver Thomas de Cadurcis, charged with trespass of the forest in Shirewod forest, in bail to six men of that bailiwick, who shall mainpern to have him before the king to stand to right when the king will speak against him.