Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1292 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1292', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296, (London, 1904) pp. 212-217. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol3/pp212-217 [accessed 19 April 2024]

January 1292



Jan. 2. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Petronilla, late the wife of Simon de Scaccario, tenant in chief, 8l. yearly of land in the manor of Abfeld, which the king has assigned to her in tenancia until he shall cause dower to be assigned to her.
	To the keeper of the forest of Savernak. Order to cause John Tregoz to have in that forest six does, of the king's gift.
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Jan. 3. Westminster	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the executors of the will of P. late bishop of Exeter to be acquitted of 100 marks, by which the bishop made fine with the king for the service of two knights' fees that he acknowledged to the king for his army of Wales, in the tenth year of his reign, as he paid 50 marks into the wardrobe at Rothelan on Sunday the morrow of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the said year, to Master William de Luda, then keeper of the wardrobe, now bishop of Ely, and 50 marks at London on Friday after St. Luke, in the same year, by the hands of Baruncinus Walter, and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, as appears by the king's letters patent of acquittance made to the bishop.
	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause coroners for that county to be elected in place of Ralph Dyne and John de Gatesden, deceased.
Jan. 8. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the converted Jews (Conversi) of London to be acquitted of 10s. exacted from them for tallage of their lands in Oxford, as the king has pardoned them this sum.
	To William de Tulus[a], keeper of the forest of Bernewode. Order to cause the Friars Minors of Oxford to have in that forest six leafless oakstumps (robora) for fuel, of the king's gift.
Jan. 8. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to desist from exacting 1,000 marks and 100 marks for queen-gold on it from William son of Warin, David de Offynton, John de Punchardon, Richard de Penekeston, John Comyn, Robert Logan, Ralph de Dene, Philip de Londonia, John son of Alexander de Rathemegan, John de Balydreman, Martin de Offelmeth, and John Moyl, and to cause them to be acquitted thereof, as they became sureties for 1,000 marks for Calvath Oconor, for a fine that he made with the king for his delivery from prison, wherein he was detained for a trespass committed by him upon the king in Ireland, until he should find hostages for the 1,000 marks and for the delivery of the sureties from their pledging, and he afterwards found the king two hostages, whereupon the king pardoned him the 1,000 marks for the delivery of John de Fulburn, who was imprisoned in Calvath's prison, as the king understands by the testimony of J. archbishop of Dublin and the treasurer of Dublin.
Jan. 11. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harl[eye], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause to be assigned to Matthew de Columbariis a wardship of the value of 100 marks yearly, to hold until he shall have received from it 310 marks in the name of Guicard de Burgo, the remainder of 100 marks for five years, which the king granted to Guicard by letters patent for his good service in Wales, of which grant he has received 190 marks, to wit 100 marks by the hands of Master William de Luda, then keeper of the wardrobe and now bishop of Ely, and 90 marks by the hands of Matthew de Columbariis, the king's butler, and the king ordered Master Henry de Bray, then escheator this side Trent, on 20 October, in the eleventh year, to assign a wardship of the value of 100 marks yearly to the said Matthew in Guicard's name until he should receive thence the said 310 marks, and Henry rendered the writ to the king and did nothing in execution of it.
Jan. 12. Westminster.	To the keeper of the forest of La Bere. Order to cause the Friars Minors of Winchester to have six oak-stumps (robora) for fuel, of the king's gift.
Jan. 13. Westminster.	To John Giffard, constable of Buelt castle. Order to permit the prior and convent of Brecon (Brechonie) to receive the things specified below, and to deliver to them any of them that he may have detained from them from the time when he received the custody of the castle and land of Buelt, with admonition not to omit doing this lest renewed complaint shall reach the king in this behalf, as the king learns by inquisition that he lately caused to be taken by Roger de Burghull and Roger le Rus, whom the king assigned to hear the complaints of the prior concerning tithes and his free court, the prises of ale, and toll pertaining to his church of Brecon, that the prior and convent had, and ought of right to have, their free court of all their men, as well burgesses as others, of all pleas, plaints and attachments whatsoever, together with prises and all other things pertaining to their men, and that if any of their men were apprehended for larceny or other offence, or were charged or indicted in any way, that he should be judged in the prior's court, and that all his chattels should remain to the prior and convent, and that only execution of life and limb should remain to the lord of Buelt, and that the prior and convent had, and of right ought to have, a tithe of all rents, pleas, perquisites, fines, ransoms, gifts, cows of Kallemmey, pannage, and all other profits and issues pertaining in any way to the castle and town of Buelt, and that the prior and convent have, and of right ought to have, a tithe of all the prises of ale of the town and land of Buelt pertaining to the said castle, and that their men, as well burgesses as others, are, and ought to be, free from toll whenever and wheresoever they may buy or sell, and that the prior and convent have, and of right ought to have, a tithe of all expenses of the castle of Buelt, to wit of bread the tenth loaf, of ale the tenth gallon, whether baked or brewed within the castle or bought outside, wheresoever they may come from or be carried from, whether from England or elsewhere, and the tenth dish of meat and fish bought or in any way coming to the castle, and from all other expenses, both great and small, made in the castle or elsewhere in the land of Buelt by the lord or his bailiffs, except wine and wax, whereof the jurors of the inquisition had not seen the tenth given, as they say; and also that the prior and convent have, and of right ought to have, the right shoulder of all cattle and sheep killed in the castle, and the head of swine; and that they have, and of right ought to have, the tenth beast of all beasts whatsoever.
Jan. 16. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Berks. Order to deliver in bail Ralph le Fisshere, imprisoned at Windsor for the death of William le Mey, whereof he is indicted, as the king learns by the record of Roland de Erle and his fellows, justices to deliver that gaol, that he slew him in self-defence.
Jan. 18. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Eleanor, late the wife of Ralph Basset of Welledon, tenant in chief, the manor of Maddeleye, co. Stafford, which the king has committed to her in tenancia until he shall cause dower to be assigned to her.
	To the same. Order to deliver to Isabel, late the wife of Peter Spileman, tenant in chief, the lands that belonged to Peter in Colesfeld, co. Wilts, which are extended at 100s. yearly, and the lands that belonged to him in Ebbeford, co. Southampton, which are extended at 118s. 11d. and the lands that belonged to him in Muleford, which are extended at 64s. 5½d., which the king has assigned to her in tenancia until he shall cause dower to be assigned to her.
	To the sheriff of Salop. Order to cause Roger de Preston to have seisin of two messuages, a virgate of land, and 8 acres of meadow in Besseford, as the king learns by inquisition that the messuages, land and meadow, which Bartholomew son of the said Roger, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Bartholomew held them of Roger, and that Robert Corbet had the king's year and day thereof, for which he ought to answer to the king.
Jan. 20. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harle, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Gilbert Pecche, the manors of Great Trillawe and Plecheden, and all the issues received from them, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Gilbert and Joan were jointly enfeoffed of the manors, and that they were in seisin thereof until Gilbert's death.
Jan. 24. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to John Berchant of Holdernesse, in the payment of 10 marks yearly for the lands that belonged to Geoffrey Berchant, an idiot, tenant in chief, in Hut Neweton in Holdernesse, which the king ordered Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent, to deliver to him [as at p. 65 above], 20 marks, which John has expended in the marriage of Juliana, daughter of Geoffrey, as is testified before the king by Thomas.
Jan. 20. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to the executors of the will of Ralph Bassett of Weledon the manor of Weleham, which the escheator has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Thomas Basset of Weleham, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas at his death held nothing in chief of the king, but that he held the manor aforesaid of Ralph, who is now dead, by homage and the service of a third of a knight's fee.
	Membrane 10.
Jan. 24. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the master of Hornchurch (de Monasterio Cornuto) of 46s. of yearly rent for certain lands that he holds in the manor of Havering, provided that he find a suitable chaplain to celebrate in the chapel of the manor, as it was agreed, on the day of the Invention of the Holy Cross, in the third year of the reign, between the late Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, and the master, that whereas the master was bound in the said rent, which was to be paid at the exchequer of the late king, for certain lands in the said manor, which manor was assigned in dower to Eleanor, the latter granted and ordained, with the will and express assent of the master, that the master should find a chaplain to celebrate divine service in the chapel of the manor, who should remain therein during the said queen's will, and that the master should pay to the chaplain the rent aforesaid, which pertained to the queen by reason of the said manor, with all obventions happening in the chapel, as is contained in the indented deed of covenant between her and the master, which the king has confirmed.
Jan. 23. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause regarders for the forest of Chute to be elected in place of John de Marisco and Henry Morterel, deceased.
	The like to the said sheriff for the election of a verderer for the same forest in place of Robert Durdent, deceased.
	To the keeper of the forest of Whitlewod. Order to cause (fn. 1) — to have in that forest six bucks, of the king's gift.
Jan. 24. Westminster.	To John de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause Robert de Tybotot, constable of Notingham castle, to have in the wood of Notingham, which is within the bounds of Shirewod forest, rods to make hurdles of for the works of the king's weirs there.
Jan. 25. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the executors of the will of John de Gatesden of 230l., as the king granted to Queen Eleanor, his late consort, all the debts due to him from John de Cameys, and the executors of John de Gatesden, who were bound to acquit John de Cameys thereof, as they acknowledged before the treasurer and barons, paid 230l. of the debts to the queen, as is testified before the king by John de Berewyk, his clerk.
Jan. 25. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harle, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Maud, late the wife of John de Bathonia, tenant in chief, 25l. 0s. 5½d. yearly of land and rent in Benyngton, Wolmeresty, Andreby, and Daleby, co. Lincoln, which the king has committed to her to hold in tenancia until he shall cause dower to be assigned to her.
Jan. 24. Westminster.	To the same. Order not to intermeddle with a messuage and a mill in Purle and Bradewell, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Joan, late the wife of Saer Bataylle, tenant in chief, was enfeoffed thereof jointly with Saer, and that they held them jointly until the day of Saer's death.
Jan. 26. Westminster.	To the same. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of John de Bohun, the manors of Norton and Elmesete, and the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John de Bathonia, tenant in chief, held the manors by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of Eleanor, his wife, and that Joan is the daughter and next heir of Eleanor and is of full age.
Jan. 24. Westminster.	To Robert de Valle Regali, escheator in co. Chester. Order to deliver to Thomas, abbot of St. Werburgh's, Chester, all issues of the abbey received during the voidance after the death of Simon, the late abbot, as it appears to the king by inspection of the charters of Hugh, Richard, and Ranulph, sometimes earls of Chester, made to God and the church of St. Werburgh and the monks there serving God, of tenures, possessions and liberties of that church, and by the king's confirmation that the earls granted the tenures, things and all their possessions, with all other things pertaining to the abbey, so free and quit from all custom and from everything that they retained nothing in the premises except prayers and the benefits of the monks, and that they gave to them the honour of St. Werburgh so free and quit for the soul of King William and the souls of all of them, so that after the said earls no one could add any liberty or quittance further to the church and monks; and further it is found, after searching the rolls of his exchequer of Westminster and of his exchequer of Chester, and by inquisitions taken by Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester, and by the said escheator, that the late king, after the earldom of Chester came to his hands, received nothing for his use at the times of the voidance of the abbey from the goods or issues thereof and had no other custody thereof except that the justice of Chester at the times of such voidances placed a serjeant in the abbey, who had under him a keeper in the cellar and another keeper at the gate of the abbey, who was to keep the goods and issues of the abbey without damage as the free almshouse of the late king, and that the keepers received their charges and expenses only from the issues of the abbey, and that the abbots of the abbey created in the late king's time did not grant any pension by reason of their new creation to any of the said king's clerks; and the king after Simon's death, believing that the custody of the abbey and the issues thereof pertained to him as those of other abbeys that are of his crown, caused the abbey and the issues thereof to be taken into his hands, and sought a pension from abbot Thomas by reason of his new creation to be granted to one of the king's clerks, and he does not wish that harm should hereafter befall the abbey by reason of the taking into his hands of it and the issues and the exaction of the pension aforesaid, and has therefore rendered to the abbot all the issues received by reason of the voidance.
	The like to Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent.
Jan. 27. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Conquest, lately elected, whom the king has amoved from office because he learns that he is insufficiently qualified.
	To the justices next in eyre in co. Worcester. Order not to molest Reginald le Porter, now sheriff of that county, in their eyre by reason of the escapes of Alan de Astwode, John le Sumenur de la Berghe, John le Tayllur of Ledebur[y], Richard Corbizun of Stodleye, and Isabel de Clifton, thieves who were imprisoned at Worcester gaol, which men the sheriff beheaded in pursuing them, Isabel being also taken at his suit and hanged, as the king has pardoned him these escapes.
Jan. 28. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harley, escheator this side Trent. Order to permit Eustace de Burneby to hold the lands that Ellen de Watteford held of the king in chief and of which she enfeoffed him by the king's licence, to hold of the king in the same manner as she held them, as the king has taken his homage for them.
	To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle with the lands that Ranulph de Arnhale held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Ranulph at his death held nothing of the king in chief, but that he held an assart in Lamele, which renders 8d. yearly.
Jan. 25. Westminster.	To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Mary, late the wife of Philip Marmyon, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
	To the keeper of the forest of Eagle (Aquila). Order to cause Stephen de Penecestre, warden of the Cinque Ports, to have twelve oaks with their strippings, in order to make a ship for the king's use.
	To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause equal partition of the manors of Ulfham, Benton, and Kelingwrth, which Margery, late the wife of Roger de Merleye, tenant in chief of the late king, held in dower of Roger's inheritance, to be made between John de Greystock, kinsman and co-heir of Roger, and Robert de Somervill, who married Isabel, daughter and co-heiress of Roger, in their presence, and to cause them to have seisin of their respective purparties.
	To Walter de Everle, keeper of the forest of Pambere. Order to cause the abbot of Hyde, Winchester, to have in that forest two roebucks, of the king's gift.
	To John de Farlinton, keeper of the forest of Asshele. Order to cause the said abbot to have in the forest two roebucks, of the king's gift.
Jan. 30. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Ralph de Hengham to be acquitted of 30l. in the fine that he lately made with the king for divers trespasses charged upon him, as the king has granted to Ralph, at the request of John de Sudleye, that the 30l. due to Ralph from John shall be deducted from the aforesaid fine.