Close Rolls, Edward I: February 1292

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: February 1292', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296, (London, 1904) pp. 217-222. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol3/pp217-222 [accessed 16 April 2024]

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February 1292

Membrane 9.
Feb. 5.
Westminster.
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Philip de Albiniaco, son and heir of Ralph de Albiniaco, all the issues received from his lands since 3 February, in the twentieth year of the reign, when the king took his homage.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause Simon Revel to have seisin of a messuage in Muckeleye, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage, which Richard de la Chircheyard, who was hanged for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that the town of Sutkeleye had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
To Malcolm de Harle escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to Hugh Pecche, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Hugh at his death held nothing of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to deliver to Amicia, late the wife of Geoffrey de Bella Fago, tenant in chief, certain lands in Suth Crek, and the issues received thence, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that she was enfeoffed jointly with Geoffrey of the lands and was in full seisin thereof with him until his death.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To the justices in eyre for common pleas in co. Dublin. Order to cause Theobald de Verdun to be acquitted of the amercement before them by reason of the summons of the eyre, as he was staying with the king in England by the king's orders at the time of the summons of the eyre, so that he could not appear personally before them.
Walter Spakeman, Walter de Thornhulle, and Hugh le Cartere of Henton, imprisoned at Old Sarum for the death of John Trillehare, Richard le Brok, and Walter Attenelme, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Wilts to bail them.
Feb. 3.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to deliver in bail William Lewelyn, imprisoned at Bury St. Edmunds for the death of William Cokerel, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that he slew him in self-defence.
Simon son of William Lewyn, Roger Campeden, Richard le Bule, and Geoffrey le Queynte, imprisoned at Bury St. Edmunds for the aforesaid deaths, have letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail them.
Feb. 6.
Westminster
To Simon de Elleswrth, supplying the place of the justice (justiciarii) of the Forest this side Trent. Order to permit the abbess of Tarente to sell to whomsoever she will forty oaks in her wood of Hussheburn, which is within the bounds of the forest of Fynkele, as the king granted to her permission to sell this number of oaks for the discharge of her debts to divers creditors. By K. & C.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause the prior of Llanthony Prima to have seisin of a messuage and five acres of land in the suburbs of Hereford, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said messuage and land, which Ralph Albon, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Ralph held them of the priory of Llanthony Prima, and that Ralph Judde, Ralph Baron, Roger le Knight, and Walter Roger had the king's year and day thereof, for which they ought to answer to the king.
Feb. 6.
Westminster
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be levied and paid to Robert de Clopton and William de Hertefeld, the king's serjeants at arms, the 50l. by which Christiana, late the wife of Roland de Okstede, tenant in chief, made fine with the king for the custody of the lands, daughters and heirs of Roland, with the marriage of his daughters, as the king has granted this sum to them for their good service.
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Eleanor, late the wife of Ralph Basset of Welledon, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king, on 7 December, in the fifty-second year of his reign, appointed Gilbert de Preston and his fellows justices in eyre for common pleas in cos. York, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Cumberland, Lancaster, Nottingham, Derby, Warwick, Leicester, Lincoln and Rutland, and Richard de Middelton and his fellows justices in eyre for the like in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester, Salop, Stafford, Oxford, Berks, Buckingham, Bedford, Northampton, Huntingdon and Cambridge, and Nicholas de Turri and his fellows justices in eyre for the like in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Devon, Cornwall, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, Essex, Hertford, Norfolk, and Suffolk, and afterwards the said king, on 12 July, in the said year, granted by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, to Edmund, the king's brother, all amercements in which the men and tenants of his lands, fees and hundreds were cast before all justices whomsover, together with the fines, chattels of fugitives and condemned men, the year, day and waste as well of the lands and fees and hundreds aforesaid, as much as pertained to the said king: the king, although the aforesaid letters appear to be insufficient, orders the treasurer and barons to permit Edmund to have the amercements of his men and tenants of his lands, fees and hundreds aforesaid before the justices in the aforesaid eyres or before other justices whomsoever appointed to execute the premises by the late king from 7 December aforesaid to the day of the said king's death, and the amercements that Edmund has hitherto caused to be levied, together with the fines and chattels of fugitives and condemned men and the year, day and waste aforesaid, for his use from his men and tenants according to the said grant, and to cause the men and tenants to be discharged of such amercements, fines, chattels, year, day and waste thus levied for the use of the king's brother, which they exact from the tenants by summons of the exchequer for the king's use. If anything still remain to be levied of the amercements, fines, chattels of fugitives and condemned men, the year, day and waste aforesaid from the men and tenants from the eyres aforesaid, the treasurer and barons are ordered to cause it to be levied without delay and to cause it to be paid to Edmund, saving to the king what has been paid into the exchequer of the amercements, fines, chattels, year, day and waste aforesaid from the men and tenants for the said eyres. By K.
Feb. 12.
Waverley.
To John de Vescy, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause Thomas, bishop of St. Davids, to have in the king's woods of Clipston, Mammesfeld and Wodehus, which are within the bounds of the said (sic) forest, sixteen oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift, to wit six in the wood of Clipston and ten in the other woods.
Feb. 7.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to deliver John de Wygenhale of Hadlegh, imprisoned at Bury St. Edmunds for trespass of venison in the forest of Essex, to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the justices for pleas of the Forest when they come to those parts or to have him [before the king] at the king's order.
To the sheriff of Suffolk. Like order.
Vacated, because [it is enrolled] immediately above.
To the justices of the Bench. Order to admit William de Bereford as their fellow to hear and determine pleas before them.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
William Prudfot, Walter son of Robert Wakeman, Williamson of Thomas Snarry, and Robert Pyncle, imprisoned at Sutton-under-Whitstanclif, co. York, for the death of Alan de Thornton, wherewith they are charged, have letters to bail them.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause the lands that belonged to Henry de Pydele, tenant by knight service of the barony of Bayeux, which is in the king's hands, to be divided into two equal parts in the presence of Alice and Joan, his daughters and heiresses, and to cause Alice, as elder heiress, and Joan to have seisin of their respective purparties thereof, after taking on the king's behalf their fealty for the lands that their father held at his death of the barony.
Feb. 15.
Waverley.
To Elias de Hauvill, steward of the forest of Bernewode, co. Buckingham. Order to deliver William de Boyton, William Bruningg, Robert de Tybeford, Walter le Fevre, William le Bercher, William son of William le Bercher, Thomas del Gardyn, and Roger, his son, imprisoned at Brehull for trespass of the Forest, to mainpernors who shall undertake to have them before the justices in eyre for Forest pleas.
Feb. 19.
Chawton.
To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the issues arising from the serjeanty that Simon de Scaccario, lately deceased, had in fee in the exchequer are uncertain, so that the king cannot assign anything certain in dower to Petronilla, late his wife, and division of this serjeanty ought not to be made and has not been usually made hitherto in the exchequer, the king orders the barons to cause to be assigned to her a third of the issues of the serjeanty, after deducting the reasonable costs and expenses of the ministers serving the office of the serjeanty, for her dower of the issues of the serjeanty.
Membrane 8.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To Malcolm de Harley, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Agnes, late the wife of Roger de Somery, tenant in chief, the following of Roger's knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her in dower: half a fee in Middelton, which John de Middelton holds; half a fee in Selleye, which John de Selleye hold; a fee in Haggeley, which Henry de Haggeley holds; a fee in Wernele, which William Fokeram holds; a quarter of a fee in Caldecote, which quarter John de Lovent holds; a quarter of a fee in Wlston, which quarter Richard son of Henry the clerk of Neuport holds; a fee in Stanford that John son of Reginald and Oliver Punchardon hold; two fees in Ildesleye and Hoddecote, which Walter de la Poyle holds; two fees in Englefeld, Humeleye, and Cranford, which Roger de Englefeld holds; half a fee in Inkepenn, which fee Roger de Inkepenn holds; a fee in Yatingden, which Hugh de Braunteston and Ralph de Knyveton hold; a fee in Byrmingham, which William de Birmingham holds; a sixth of a fee in Wodebromwych, which part Anselm de Bromwych holds; a thirty-second of a fee in Bromwych, which part Henry de Castello holds; a thirty-second of a fee in the same town, which part Thomas de Bromwys holds; a tenth of a fee in the same town, which tenth John de Bradewell holds; two fees in Womburn, Overton, Oxeleye, and Bradeleye, which William de Overton holds; half a fee in Bromwyz, which Richard de Marham holds.
To the same. Order to deliver to the said Agnes the advowson of the church of Bradefeld and the presentation to the church of Kyngeswyneford on the next voidance, so that the two presentations next after that shall pertain to the heirs of the said Roger, and Agnes shall have the third presentation, as the king has assigned these to her for her dower of Roger's advowsons.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Christiana, late the wife of Roland de Okestede, tenant in chief, from the knights' fees and advowsons that pertained to Roland, as the king lately ordered the escheator to cause dower to be assigned to her from Roland's lands and she has not yet had dower of his knights' fees and advowsons.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
To the keeper of the forest of Shyrewod. Order to cause Thomas de Normanvill, keeper of the manor of Clipston, to have twenty oaks fit for timber for the repair of the king's weirs of the manor.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Richard de la Rivere to be acquitted of 100s. at which he was amerced by the justices (justiciarii) in eyre for common pleas in co. Gloucester for the escape of John le Mew, a thief, from the custody of William son of Hugh, formerly constable of Gloucester castle, at which time Richard was sheriff of that county, as the king lately pardoned William 100s. for the escape of the said John.
Vacated, because otherwise below.
To the same. Order to acquit the said Richard of 100s. for the escape of the said John from the said castle, which escape was afterwards adjudged before the justices in eyre for common pleas in co. Gloucester, for which reason 100s. are exacted by summons of the exchequer from Richard, who was sheriff of Gloucester at the time of the escape, as the king lately pardoned the aforesaid William what pertained to him for the escape of John from William's custody.
Feb. 18.
Chawton.
To Simon de Ellesworth, supplying the place of the justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver Ranulph, parson of the church of Thornedon, imprisoned at Colecestre for trespass of venison in the forest of Essex, wherewith he is charged, if he be not an habitual offender in the king's forests, to twelve men of that county who shall mainpern to have him before the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest and that he will not hereafter incur forfeiture in the king's forests.
William son of Nicholas de Langeleye Abbatis, imprisoned at St. Albans for the death of John son of Elias, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him.
Feb. 28.
Farrington
To Malcolm de Harle, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to John de Bohun, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held nothing in chief of the king by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to release William del Whyk, imprisoned at Lancaster for forgery of the king's seal, whereof he is indicted, upon his finding six or four mainpernors to have him before the justices at the first assize to answer to the king if the king then wish to speak against him.
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Alice, late the wife of John de Drayton, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
To Roger Lestrange (Extraneo), keeper of the forest of Kingeswode, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver John Eddrich of Hadleye, imprisoned at Bury St. Edmunds for trespass of the Forest, in bail to six mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the justices for pleas of the Forest.
William Spirage, imprisoned at Bedeford for the death of William Pret of Acle, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Bedford to bail him.