Close Rolls, Edward I: March 1296

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: March 1296', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296, (London, 1904) pp. 475-476. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol3/pp475-476 [accessed 20 April 2024]

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March 1296

March 6.
Brunton (Burneton).
To the same. Order to respite until Midsummer next the demand upon John son of Reginald, who is staying in the king's service by his orders in the marches of Wales, for 90 marks, as the king wishes to provide for John's indemnity. By K. on the information of J. de Benested.
The like to the sheriff of Oxford and Berks.
March 7.
Brunton.
To the sheriff of Westmoreland. Order to receive Thomas de Galeweye from William de Huk, and to cause him to be taken safely to the castle of Carlisle, there to be delivered to the constable of that castle.
To the constable of the castle of Carlisle. Order to receive Thomas from the sheriff, and to cause him to be kept safely according to the form that A. bishop of Durham shall make known to the constable on the king's behalf, until otherwise ordered.
March 3.
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
To the justices of the Bench. Order to respite until otherwise ordered the king's suit (sectam) against Thomas de Louthre, Robert de Mulecastre, Richard de Mulecastre, William le Porter of Bolton, Adam le Mareschal of Bolton, John son of Richard, William son of Maud, Roger de Bello Campo, Adam son of Grecia, William son of Michael, Robert son of William, Laurence son of Edith, Ralph del Crokedayk, William Pestel, William le Parker, Richard le Sumenur, John del Ragarch, Patrick Russel, Laurence son of Adam, Richard le Freman, Isaac Hornild, Robert de Thornthwayt, Adam le fiz Isemay, Alan de Wrethelington, John le fiz Isemay, and Thomas de Joneby for the death of Alan, brother of Thomas son of Alan de Ireby, of which death they were appealed before the justices by Thomas, as although the appeal was quashed before the justices, the parties appealed must needs answer for the death at the king's suit, and the king wishes to show them favour because they are setting out in his service for Scotland.
Feb. 7.
Brunton.
To the sheriff of York. Order to restore to John de Levynton, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before Hugh de Cressingham and his fellows, justices last in eyre in that county, with harbouring William, his son, a felon, as he has purged his innocence before J. archbishop of York, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, and the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff and by the coroners of that county that John is of good fame and conversation and was never a public or notorious malefactor.
March 17.
Wark.
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to restore to Master John de Bowes his lands in Kirkelevynton, which were taken into the king's hands by the sheriff by pretext of the order to take into the king's hands the lands of men of Scotland in his bailiwick, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Maud de Carrik of Scotland demised the said lands to John for thirteen years from the Assumption, in the twenty-third year of the reign, and that John had seisin thereof at that feast, and that he continued his seisin thereof until he was ejected by the sheriff by virtue of the order aforesaid, and also that he satisfied Maud therefor beforehand.
March 14.
Bamburgh.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause the abbot of Cokersand to have seisin of three roods of land in Hoton, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said land, which Roger Alisesmagh la Melemakere, who was outlawed for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Roger held the land of the abbot, and that the township of Hoton had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
March 16.
Fenwick.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas de Queneby of Newcastle-uponTyne, who is in the king's service in Scotland with William son of Warin, so that he cannot execute the office of coroner.
March 20.
Wark.
To the same. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert Eyre of Preston, who is incapacitated by infirmity.
March 23.
Wark.
To Malcolm de Harlegh, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Elizabeth, late the wife of Matthias de Besylles, to have seisin of the lands that Matthias and she held of the king in chief of her inheritance on the day when Matthias died, as the king has taken her homage.
March 26.
Wark.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Whereas the king, on 18 August last, ordered Hugh Gubioun, then sheriff of that county, to cause the ten Welsh hostages whom the king ordered to be conducted by him to Baumburgh castle and to be delivered to the constable thereof, to have 4d. a day each for their wages for their maintenance until otherwise ordered, and their wages are in arrear for the time when Hugh was sheriff, as the king learns: the king orders the sheriff to pay to them the arrears of their wages for the time aforesaid, and to pay to them such wages henceforth until otherwise ordered.
To the same. Order to pay to Rhys (Reso) ab Maylgon and Canan ab Mereduth, Welshmen, and their groom, who are in Baumburgh castle, the arrears of their wages for the time when Hugh Gubyoun was sheriff of that county and for the sheriff's own time, to wit 3d. a day each for Rhys and Canan and 2d. a day for the groom, and to pay them such wages henceforth until otherwise ordered.