Close Rolls, Edward I: August 1291

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: August 1291', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296, (London, 1904) pp. 175-177. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol3/pp175-177 [accessed 20 April 2024]

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August 1291

Aug. 2.
Coldstream (Caldestrem).
To John de Vescy, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause the abbot and convent of St. Mary's, York, to have a tithe of the venison taken and to be taken in all the king's forests in co. York, which they ought to have by the charters of the king's progenitors and as they have been wont to have in the times of other justices of the Forest. [Prynne, Records, iii, 451.]
Aug. 4.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Agnes, late the wife of Warin de Maynwaryn, tenant in chief, from Warin's knights' fees.
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to deliver in bail Adam son of John Frost, imprisoned at Carlisle for the death of Adam son of Robert Langebayn, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that he slew him by mischance.
Andrew le Mouner of Wathenpole, imprisoned at Carlisle for the death of Margaret de Parva Bampton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him.
Aug. 8.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the bailiffs of Tyndale. Order to cause a coroner for Tyndale to be elected in place of William de Bellingham, who is unable to attend to the duties of the office by reason of infirmity.
Aug. 10.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause Ralph de Sancto Mauro to have in the forest of Essex six bucks, of the king's gift.
By K. on the information of Walter de Bello Campo.
Aug. 10.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause to be replevied to the prior of Ely the latter's houses in Norwich, which the escheator took into the king's hands, asserting that the prior had acquired them after the statute of mortmain, until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, when he is to certify the king of the manner and reason for taking them into the king's hands, with proviso that the houses shall then be taken into the king's hands and be safely kept until the king shall otherwise ordain.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Stephen de Muscampo, a member of the household (familiaris) of W. bishop of St. Andrews, as the king has caused him to be amoved from office because he cannot attend to the duties thereof as he is continually intending the bishop's affairs in the bishop's household.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause Master Robert de Thorp to have in the forest of Cannock (de Canoco) six bucks, of the king's gift.
To A. bishop of Durham, keeper of the king's land of Tyndale. Order to cause Walter de Routbur[y] to have in the chace of Tyndal two bucks and four does, of the king's gift.
Aug. 12.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to cause to be replevied to William de Wethermelok, lately imprisoned at Carlisle for the death of Robert Harebeyn, wherewith he is charged, his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands for this reason, as he learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that William is not guilty of Robert's death, and William afterwards found the king twelve mainpernors, who undertook to have him before the justices at the first assize if any one wish to speak against him.
Aug. 16.
Chatton.
To Walter de Everle, keeper of the forest of Pembere. Order to cause John de Sancto Johanne to have in that forest twelve bucks, of the king's gift.
To John de Vescy, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Robert de Brus, earl of Carrik, to have in the forest of Englewode ten harts, of the king's gift.
To the sheriff of Salop. Order to deliver in bail Richard de Penebrugg, imprisoned at Shrewsbury for the death of Roger le Tannur of Shrewsbury, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of Robert Corbet and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver Shrewsbury gaol, that he slew him in self-defence.
Aug. 23.
Thirsk.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Byron to be acquitted of 100 marks, as he paid this sum at Chester on 10 March, in the eleventh year of the king's reign, to William de Perton, lately deceased, in part payment of 120 marks by which he made fine with the king for the custody of the lands that belonged to Oliver de Langeford, tenant in chief, during the minority of John, Oliver's son and heir, as is contained in the king's letters patent of acquittance of the said 100 marks, which the king has inspected.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Meringes, who is incapacitated by old age.
Aug. 28.
Lincoln.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause the lands in Brunne that Hamo Hauteyn, before his last journey to parts beyond sea, gave to Walter de Stircheleye and Alice, his wife, Hamo's daughter, to be replevied to William de Chaddewrth, now Alice's husband, and to Alice until the quinzaine of Michaelmas; provided that the sheriff may them resume them into the king's hands unless otherwise ordered by the king.
Walter atte Dane, Roger Attestonyhelde, and Richard de Thiney, imprisoned at Canterbury for the death of William le Hattere and Jordan Attehok, wherewith they are charged, have a writ to bail them.
To the keeper of the chace of Bristol. Order to cause Thomas de Berkele to have in that chace six bucks, of the king's gift.
To Roger Lestrange (Extranco), justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause the said Thomas to have in the forest of Bradene six bucks, of the king's gift.
Aug. 18.
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of 6 marks 6s. 8d. yearly of rent in Huntedon, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the rent,—whereof Simon de Sancto Licio was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, and which Master Henry de Bray, the late escheator, took into the king's hands upon Simon's death asserting that the rent was held of the king in chief—is held of Dervergulla de Balliolo, one of the heiresses of David, sometime earl of Huntingdon, which David enfeoffed Simon de Sancto Licio, Simon's grandfather, of the rent, by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee, and that it is not held of the king in chief.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle with the lands that belonged to Simon de Bereford, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Simon at his death held nothing in chief of the heir of Robert de Everingham, a minor in the king's wardship, by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Aug. 30.
Grantham (Graham).
To the same. Order to cause all the lands that Adam de Novo Mercato held of the king in chief as of the inheritance of Cecily, his wife, in Redburn near Hibaldestowe, which the escheator took into the king's hands upon Adam's death, to be replevied to Cecily until the next parliament, so that there may then be done what ought of right to be done.