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May 1.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff [of Norfolk]. Order to restore to Gocelin de Walpol,
chaplain, his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands
upon his being indicted before Fulk Baynard and his fellows, justices
appointed to deliver Estderham gaol, upon suspicion of homicide, as he
has purged his innocence before R. bishop of Norwich, to whom he was
delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
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To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause to be delivered to Roger le
Bygod, earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, as his escheats, the
manors of Monewedon, Blakeshal, and Asch, and the advowsons of the
former two, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that
Thomas de Weylaund, who abjured the realm for felony, held the manor of
Monewedon with the advowson of the church, except 12 acres of land
that are of the fee of John de Colevill, of the said earl by the service of
a knight's fee and of 12d. of yearly rent to be rendered to the manor of
Staverton; the manor of Blakeshal, with the advowson of the church,
except a moiety of a fee that is held of Robert de Valoignes, by the service
of 40d. to be rendered yearly to the ward of the castle of Eye and of 6d.
to be rendered yearly to the earl's manor of Dullingwrth; and the
manor of Asch by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee and of 6d.
to be rendered to the earl's manor of Framingham. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
Nicholas, son and heir of John de Boshale, to have seisin of the lands
that his father held of the heir of Baldwin Wak, lately a minor in the
king's wardship, as the king has taken his fealty. |
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Roger Ballok, imprisoned at Bedeford for the death of Simon Mustard,
wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Bedford to bail him. |
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Elias Macfray of Besewyk, imprisoned at Beverley for the death of John
de Londonia, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to
bail him. |
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Hugh son of Henry Attesk of Erghum, imprisoned at Beverley for the
death of Ralph Arnebald, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the
sheriff of York to bail him. |
May 3.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Although Robert de
Shelton acknowledged before the marshal in the king's expedition to
Wales, in the tenth year of his reign, the service of three knights to be
due to the king for the lands that he holds in chief in Illeye of the honour
of Helyun, for which service he made fine in 100l., whereas he ought to
do nothing to the king therefor except scutage for the fees aforesaid, and
his ancestors were wont to do scutage only for the same; the king, not
wishing that Robert should be injured contrary to justice by the acknowledgment thus incautiously made, has remitted to him the recognisance
and fine aforesaid, and orders the treasurer and barons to exact from him
the scutage contained in the rolls of the exchequer that his ancestors were
wont to do to the king and his progenitors therefor, and to exact from
him nothing else. It is, however, provided that no restitution shall be
made to him of what he has paid of the fine aforesaid, but that he shall
be quit of the remainder thereof. |
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To William de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to
cause Richard de Waldeshef to have in the forest of Shirewode four oaks
fit for timber, of the king's gift. |
May 4.
Westminster. |
To William de Sutton, keeper of the manor of Estwode. Order to
cause Alice, late the wife of Gilbert Coleman, tenant in chief, to have
dower of her husband's lands in that manor, as she has taken oath before
the king not to marry without his licence. |
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To William de Vescy and his fellows, justices to hear and determine
certain trespasses in Boston fair. Order to deliver on bail the abbot of
Kirkested, charged before them with harbouring brother William de
Wytham, formerly his fellow-monk, deceased, who was indicted in his
lifetime of the said trespasses. |
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To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to cause to be replevied to Stephen
son of Richard de Hunnesworth his goods and chattels until the first
assize in those parts, so that it may then be considered whether the goods
and chattels ought to be the king's or not by reason of flight or otherwise,
as the king has pardoned Stephen the suit of his peace for the death of
Richard, his brother, whom he slew in self-defence. |
May 4.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to deliver on bail Robert de
Weledon, imprisoned in Somerton gaol for the death of Nicholas de
Sparkeford, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of
Elias Cotel and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver that gaol, that
Robert slew Nicholas in self-defence. |
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To the sheriff of Middlesex. Order to cause William son of William
de Moubray, imprisoned at Westminster for the death of Thomas de
Hurtewrth, slain at Eseby in Clyveland, co. York, to be released, as the
king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of York that William slew
Thomas in self-defence, and William afterwards found the king German
Hay, Ralph Salveyn, Grimbald le Fraunceys, Thomas de Neuton,
Thomas de Hoton, Nicholas de Bohynton, Peter Maunsel, John de
Thoueton, Robert de Helmesleye, John de Middelby, William de Manfeld,
and Payn de Hatton, all of co. York, who have mainperned to have him
before the justices at the first assize in co. York. |
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To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to restore to Nicholas de Weston,
clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's
hands upon his being charged with divers robberies, larcenies, and
homicides, and with the death of the vicar of Hemyngford before Peter
de Wakerle and his fellows, appointed to deliver Ocham gaol, as he has
purged his innocence before O. bishop of Lincoln, to whom he was
delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
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The like to the sheriff of Rutland. |
May 4.
Westminster. |
To the keeper of the forest of Chuyt. Order to cause Edmund, earl of
Lancaster, to have in that forest twelve oaks fit for shingles, of the king's
gift. |
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To Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester. Whereas Master Richard the
engineer, fermor of the king's mills at Chester, has found mainprise before
the justice that he will cause to be constructed and erected at his own
costs two new mills adjoining the king's mills aforesaid, wherefore the
king has remitted to him 100l. of the ferm for Michaelmas term, in the
seventeenth year of his reign, granting that Richard shall hold the new
mills together with the other mills aforesaid until the end of the term
contained in the king's grant, on condition that he answer to the king
after the aforesaid Michaelmas term for 200l. yearly during the commission
aforesaid: the king orders the justice to cause Richard to be acquitted of
the aforesaid 100l. and to permit him to hold the new mills during the
commission aforesaid. |
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To the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Gloucester.
Order not to molest William de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, in their
eyre for felling, in execution of the king's grant, in his wood of Lyden,
which is within the bounds of the forest of Dene, oaks and beeches, and
for carrying them together with the underwood upon which they fall
whither he may wish by land or water, which things the king has ordered
the keeper of the forest aforesaid to permit him to do. |
May 5.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause an agister for New
Forest to be elected in place of John le Gras, deceased. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Otto
de Grandisono of the 120l. wherewith he is charged at the exchequer for
corn lately sent from Ireland into Wales for the munition of the king's
castles and the maintenance of Otto's household there by Stephen, late
bishop of Waterford, then justiciary of Ireland, wherewith Stephen
charged Otto in that exchequer, as the king has pardoned Otto this sum. |
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Vacated, because otherwise below. |
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To the same. Order to aquit the aforesaid Otto of 261l. that the king,
when in his army of Wales, in his fifth year, ordered Bogo de Knovill,
then sheriff of Salop and Stafford, to pay, out of the money coming from
the fifteenth granted to the king in that county, to Otto, in order to pay
the wages of footmen and others then with the king in the army aforesaid, and Bogo paid the money to Otto and charged him therewith in his
account at the exchequer, and Otto expended the money in the premises,
as the king has ascertained. |
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To William de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to
cause the Friars Preachers of Lincoln to have in the forest of Shirewode
four oaks fit for timber, for the work of their church. |
May 7.
Westminster. |
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Margaret, late the wife of Roger de Colevill,
tenant in chief. |
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To the constable of Notingham castle and to the verderers of the forest
of Shirewode. Order to cause twenty oaks fit for timber to be felled in
the Hay of Beskewod, and to cause them to be carried to the castle aforesaid for the repair of the king's weirs there. |
May 9.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to assign
dower to Margaret, late the wife of Hugh de Hoton, tenant by knight
service of the heir of Marmaduke de Tweng, tenant in chief, who is a
minor in the king's custody. |
May 10.
Westminster. |
To William de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond the Trent. Order
to cause Walter de Langeton, clerk, to have in the wood of Bilhawe three
oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift. |
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To Roger Lestrange (Extrane[o]), justice of the Forest this side Trent.
Order to cause John son of Thomas to have in the king's wood of
Cornebur[y], which is within the bounds of the forest of Whychewode,
six oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift. |
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Membrane 10. |
May 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 20
September, in the fifth year of his reign, pardoned Adam de Monte Alto,
now deceased, 7l. that Richard de Holebrok, then the king's steward,
exacted from him for corn in the barns at Long Ichenton on the day when
Adam had seisin of the custody of the lands that were of the inheritance
of Henry de Pynkeny, tenant in chief, by the king's writ, whereby the
king ordered Richard to cause Adam to be acquitted of the said sum,
and Richard made return of the order to William Hamelyn, then sheriff
of Leicester, who executed the writ and who is charged with this sum at
the exchequer: the king orders the barons of the exchequer to cause
William to be acquitted of the said 7l. in his account. |
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To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent.
Order to cause Margaret, wife of Henry de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, to have
in the forest of Melkesham ten bucks, of the king's gift. |
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To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Eleanor, late the wife of Walter Traylly, tenant
in chief, from the knights' fees and advowsons that belonged to him, as
she has not yet had dower from them. |
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To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Thomas le Rus, who is incapacitated by weakness of
body. |
May 15.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William
de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, to be acquitted of 240l. that the late
bishop of Ely, then the treasurer, paid to him out of the king's moneys
by his own hands and by the hands of the king's merchants of Lucca, for
the earl's expenses in the king's service in Wales about the siege of the
castle of Drosselan, in the fifteenth year of the reign, as the king has
pardoned the earl this sum in consideration of his good service. |
May 14.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause Roger de Molis to be acquitted of
35l. 2s. 6d. exacted from him by summons of the exchequer for scutages
for the king's armies of Wales in the fifth and tenth years of his reign,
as the king has ascertained that Roger did his service in both armies. |
May 15.
Westminster. |
To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Cecily, late the wife of Thomas de Bekering,
tenant in chief, from the knights' fees and advowsons that belonged to
Thomas. |
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The like to Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. |
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To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to take
security from Philip, son and heir of Engelard de Polyleye, to render his
relief, and to cause him to have seisin of the lands that his father held in
chief, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Engelard at his death held 6s. of rent in Polyleye in chief by the service
of keeping the king's Hay of Lythewode, and the king has taken Philip's
homage. |
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To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent.
Order to cause Philip to have seisin of the aforesaid custody, which the
justice took into the king's hands upon Engelard's death. |
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To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
John de Yelaund, brother and heir of Richard de Yelaund, to have seisin
of the lands that Richard at his death held in chief, as the king has taken
John's homage. |
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To the constable of the castle of Ledes. Order to cause William de
Duglas, imprisoned at Ledes for certain trespasses, to be released from
prison, as John de Hasting', Nicholas de Segrave, William de Rye, and
Robert Bardulf have mainperned before the king to have him before the
king in fifteen days from St. Hilary. |
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To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to cause
the charter of the chirographers of the Jewry whereby Brian son of Alan
was bound to Aaron son of Abraham, a Jew of London, lately deceased,
in 100l. to be withdrawn from the chest [of the chirographers] without
delay, and to be delivered to Brian, as the king as pardoned him this sum. |
May 17.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Oto de
Grandisono to be acquitted of 132l. 7s. 6d. exacted from him for the stores
(warnestura) lately sent from Ireland to Wales for the munition of the
king's castles and the maintenance of Oto's household there by Stephen,
late bishop of Waterford, then justiciary of Ireland, wherewith the justiciary
charged him in the exchequer of Ireland, as appears in the king's letters
patent made to Otto concerning this, as the king has pardoned Oto by his
letters patent. |
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To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest this side Trent.
Order to cause John Giffard of Brymmesfeld to have in the forest of Dene
ten harts, of the king's special gift. |
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To the same. Order to permit the said John to have his coursing
(percursum) for the harts that he shall chance to drive out of the aforesaid
forest, of the king's special grace. |
May 18.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Juliana, late the wife of Gilbert de Middilton,
tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's
licence. |
May 19.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Arnald
Murdak and Lucy, late the wife of John de Grey, tenant in chief, to be
acquitted of 100l. of the 200l. by which they made fine with the king for
their trespass in marrying one another without the king's licence, as the
king, on 4 July, in the ninth year of his reign, pardoned them 100l. of
the fine and granted that they should pay the remainder by 50 marks
yearly, as appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of chancery. |
May 20.
Westminster. |
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Jordan de Morton to
be acquitted of the 20 marks by which he made fine with the king for his
trespass in marrying Matilda, late the wife of John de Lodewelle, tenant
in chief, without the king's licence, as the king has pardoned him this
sum. |
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To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands of John son of John de London, as the
king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death
held nothing of the heir of Robert de Everingham, tenant in chief, a
minor in the king's wardship, by knight service by reason whereof the
custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king by reason of the
minority of the said heir. |
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To the keeper of the forest of Canok. Order to cause R. bishop of
Bath and Wells to have in the Hays of Bentelegh and Chisline, within
the said forest, twelve oaks, of the king's gift. |
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To the keeper of the forest of Kynfare. Order to cause the said bishop
to have in that forest twelve oaks, of the king's gift. |
May 23.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
Theobald son of Theobald le Botiler to have seisin of his father's lands,
as the king has taken his homage. |
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To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to supersede the exaction from county
[court] to county [court] of John de Bramton, who was lately charged
before the king upon suspicion of forging the king's seal and writs, and
was afterwards put in exigent for his contumacy, as Robert de Bonehale,
William de Lodnes, John son of John de Bramton of co. Norfolk,
Alexander de Hecham of co. Suffolk, and Roger le Norreis of co. Cambridge
have mainperned to have him before the king in fifteen days from
Michaelmas. |
May 24.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause the lands, goods and
chattels of William Duglas and his men, which were taken into the king's
hands by reason of a trespass that William was said to have committed
in ravishing and abducting Eleanor, late the wife of William de
Ferrar[iis], tenant in chief, then dwelling at the manor Ellen la Susche
in Tranernant in Scotland, to be replevied to them, together with
everything received thence, until the quinzaine of St. Hilary next, in
order that there may then be done what the king shall cause to be
ordained by his council. |
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John Wychard has like letters directed to Thomas de Normanvill,
escheator beyond Trent, for his lands, goods and chattels, which were
taken into the king's hands because he was said to have been staying in
William's company at the time of the aforesaid rape. |
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To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause the liberty of Robert le
Chaumpayne in Great Dodington, which the sheriff demanded from him
by writ of Quo warranto before the justices last in eyre in that county, and
which was lately taken into the king's hands for Robert's default before
the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, before whom the suit was
returned by the justices aforesaid, to be replevied to Robert, with everything
received thence, until the coming of the justices next in eyre to those parts. |
May 24.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Whereas Walter de Lutgershale, the
king's chaplain who celebrated divine service in the chapel of Holy
Cross within the castle of Old Sarum, has died, the king has granted
the chantry aforesaid to Michael Turpyn of Wodeford, chaplain, during
pleasure, and he orders the sheriff to admit Michael there, and to pay to
Walter (sic) such stipends as Walter was wont to receive from other
sheriffs of that county. |
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Membrane 10—Schedules. |
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Assignment of dower to Margaret, late the wife of Roger de Colevill,
of the knights' fees that belonged to Roger by Master Henry de Bray,
escheator this side Trent, by the king's writ. |
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There are assigned to her three quarters of a fee that Ralph de Sancto
Laudo holds in Cunesby, co. Lincoln, which are extended at 60s. yearly.
Also the eighth of a fee that Robert Walran holds in Estbitham, in the
said county, which is extended at 26s. 8d. yearly. Also a fee that
Laurence de Preston holds in Somerdeby, in the said county, which is
extended at 100s. yearly. |
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Northumberland.—The lands that belonged to Thomas de Bekering are
extended at 91l. 4s. 6½d., to wit the lands that are in co. Northumberland
in the bailiwick of Sir Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent,
are extended at 49l. 14s. 0d. |
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Lincoln.—The manor of Bekeringe, co. Lincoln, in the bailiwick of
Master Henry de Bray, is extended at 22l. 5s. 5½d. |
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Bedford.—The hamlet of Sharpenho, co. Bedford, is extended at 72s. 3d. |
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Huntingdon.—The manor of Catteworth, co. Huntingdon, is extended
at 15l. 12s. 10d. |
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Total of all the lands: 91l. 4s. 6½d. Whereof a third is 30l. 8s. 2d.,
for which third there are assigned to Cecily, late the wife of Thomas, in
dower by the said Thomas and Henry the manor of Bekeringe, which is
extended at 22l. 5s. 5½d.; and the hamlet of Sharpenho, co. Bedford, which
is extended at 72s. 3d.; and 4l. 10s. 5½d. of rent of assize in the manor of
Middilton, co. Northumberland. Total of the assignment: 30l. 8s. 2d.
as above. And there remain in the king's hands beyond Trent in co.
Northumberland 45l. 3s. 6½d. of land, and this side Trent the manor of
Catteworth, which is extended at 15l. 12s. 10d. |
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Membrane 9. |
May 25.
Westminster. |
To Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester. Order to cause William Bryd
to have seisin of the lands that Master Geoffrey le Keu of Stanham at his
death held in chief in Rothelan, receiving from him his fealty on the
king's behalf, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Master Henry
de Bray, escheator this side Trent, that Geoffrey held the tenements in
chief and that the said William is the brother and next heir of Geoffrey,
and is of full age. |
May 27.
Westminster. |
To John de Ponte, keeper of the manor of Gravesende. Order to
deliver to Henry de Crammavill and Joan, his wife, the said manor, which
is in the king's hands for the felony that Thomas de Weyland committed,
for which he abjured the realm, and which is in John's hands by the
king's commission, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff
of Kent that Thomas held the manor of Henry and Joan for his life for
20l. yearly to be rendered to them and Henry's heir of his body, and it
also appears to the king by inspection of the fine levied before John
Lovetot and his fellows, justices at Westminster, between Thomas and
Henry and Joan concerning the said manor that if Henry died without
an heir of his body, the manor should revert after the death of Henry
and Joan to Thomas and his heirs. |
May 27.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause the Friars Minors of New
Sarum to have fallen stone (de petra casa) from the broken-down walls
within the castle of Old Sarum in aid of the work of a chapel of theirs in
their site at New Sarum, of the king's gift. |
May 27.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to deliver in bail John de Tayllur of Burbache,
imprisoned at Old Sarum for the death of John Giffard, wherewith he is
charged, as the king learns by the record of Solomon de Roff[a] and his
fellows, justices last in eyre in co. Wilts, that John slew John in selfdefence. |
May 29.
Westminster. |
To Malcolm de Harlegh, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of John de Chaunceus, from
the manor of Lyfton, co. Devon, which belonged to John and which J.
late bishop of Ely, the king's treasurer, bought from John in his lifetime. |
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To the same. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Alice, late the
wife of William Quyntyn, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to
marry without the king's licence. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Renewed order to cause
Ralph de Gorges to be acquitted of 24l. due to the exchequer of the debts
of Ralph de Gorges, his father, for the time when the latter was sheriff
of Dorset, in accordance with the king's order to them on 13 April, in
the twelfth year of his reign. |
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To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to deliver to Edmund, the king's
brother, a moiety of the manor of Monewedon, together with the king's
year, day and waste thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the
sheriff that Thomas de Weylaund, who abjured the realm for felony, held
the aforesaid moiety of Edmund as of the honour of Lancaster, in the
king's hands, by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and the king
granted to Edmund what pertained to him of the year, day and waste of
the moiety aforesaid. |
May 31.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the
abbot of Wardon of 40s. at which he was amerced before Solomon de
Roff[a] and his fellows, justices last in eyre for common pleas in co.
Hertford for a default, as the king has pardoned him at the instance of
brother Simon de Wardon. |
