Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1297

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1297', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 70-73. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp70-73 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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November 1297

Nov. 3.
Eltham.
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Geoffrey, son and heir of Robert Lutterel, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, upon his finding security to be before the king when he next comes to England to do his homage, as he has proved his age before the king and the king has taken his fealty.
The like to John de Lythegreins, escheator beyond Trent.
Nov. 3.
Eltham.
To Malcolm de Harleye, esheator this side Trent. Like order in favour of John, son and heir of John de Daggewrth.
Membrane 2.
Nov. 5.
Eltham.
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to Henry de Leyburn and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and heiress of Simon de Sharstede, tenant in chief, their lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands because Henry married Elizabeth without the king's licence, as Henry has found security in chancery to satisfy John le Latimer, to whom the king had granted Elizabeth's marriage, for the value of her marriage. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
The like to Humphrey de Waledon, constable of Ledes [castle].
To the constable of St. Briavels castle. Order to permit John Giffard to take and have two boars and twelve roe-bucks in the forest of Dene, which the king has granted to him.
By the bishop of Ely, at the order of the king's son.
Nov. 4.
Eltham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Richard son of Alan, earl of Arundel, demised by the king's licence to Robert, late bishop of Bath and Wells, then the king's chancellor, for the discharge of certain debts due to the king from the earl, a certain part of his lands for a certain term, as is contained in an indented deed made between the earl and the bishop, and the king granted to the bishop that he should not be distrained in the said lands during the term aforesaid for any debts that the earl owes the king: the king orders the treasurer and barons not to make any distraint during the term aforesaid in the said lands for any debts due to the king from the earl. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
Nov. 6.
Eltham.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to release on mainprise Geoffrey le Machun, imprisoned at Neugate for the death of Walter le Breuere, whereof he is appealed, as the king learns by the inquisition that he has caused to be made by the sheriffs that he is appealed thereof out of hatred and not because he is guilty. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
To the constable of Richmond castle. Order to cause that castle to be repaired where necessary, and to cause it to be kept safely, so that no peril shall arise to the king or to the castle for lack of custody.
Nov. 6.
Eltham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that whereas John de Cobeham has delivered to the exchequer 500 marks as a loan for the expediton of the king's most urgent affairs, the king, wishing to satisfy him therefor, has granted him the wardship of 51l. 13s. 3d. of land and rent of the lands that belonged to Adam de Bavent, tenant in chief, which are in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Roger, son and heir of Adam, in the following places, excepting the dower of Alice, late the wife of Adam: to wit in Schilburn, co. Kent, 7l. 3s. 0½d.; in Brantesdon, co. Suffolk, 10l. 9s. 8¼d.; in Combes, in the same county, 53s. 8¼d.; in Putfeld, co. Surrey, 20s. 10d.; in Wisteneston, co. Sussex, 29l. 2s. 8d.; in Billinghurst and Slogherere (sic), in the same county, 23s. 4d.; to have with all things pertaining to the custody for five years from 5 February next, provided that the wardship shall be in the king's hands for so long, for 258l. 6s. 3d. the amount of the extent of the lands, in part payment of the said 500 marks. The king wills that the remaining 75l. 0s. 5d. shall be allowed to John in the ferms of the city of Rochester and of the castle-guard (warde castri) there, which John holds for life by his grant, to wit 6l. in the ferm of the city for Michaelmas term, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign, and 6l. from the same ferm for Easter term following, and 36l. 4s. 0d. in the ferm of the castle-guard for the term of St. Andrew, in the twenty-sixth year of the reign, and 26l. 16s. 5d. for the ferm of the castle-guard for the term of St. Andrew following; and the king orders them to allow to John these sums in the ferms aforesaid. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
By the bishops of Ely and London and the treasurer.
Nov. 10.
Eltham.
Robert Cristofre, imprisoned at Newegate for the death of Walter le Brewere, whereof he is appealed out of hatred and not because he is guilty, has letters to bail him until the first assize at the Tower.
Nov. 8.
Eltham.
To Geoffrey de Pycheford, constable of Windsor castle. Order to pay to two chaplains celebrating divine service in the king's chapel of that castle 50s. a year each; to John Braye, janitor of both gates of the castle, 4d. a day; to Thomas Burnel, one of the viewers of the king's works in the constable's bailiwick, 2d. a day; to Simon de Shawes, the second viewer of the works there, 2d. a day; to Robert de Schorteford, clerk of the works there, 2d. a day; to four watchmen of the castle, 2d. a day each; to Adam the gardener of the king's garden without the castle, 2½d. a day; to Robert Lightfot, janitor of the park of Windsor and keeper of the king's houses there, 4d. a day; to Robert de Say, chief forester of the forest of Windsor, 12d. a day; to William, the parker of the king's park of Kenyton, 1½d. a day, their wages and stipends from Michaelmas last until the following Michaelmas. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
To the same. Order to cause the houses, tower, walls and gates of the castle, with the stable and wall of the king's garden without the castle, the houses and ponds of the king's park of Windsor, with the paling about the same, the houses and walls of the king's manor of Kenyton, with the pailing and wall about the park there, and the houses and walls of the king's manor of Bray to be repaired.
To the same. Order to cause hay and oats to be found for the king's deer in the parks of Windsor and Kenyton during the present season of winter, so that they shall not perish for lack of sustenance.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to deliver in mainprise Godfrey Draper, imprisoned at Est Derham for the death of John Bernard, as the king learns by the record of Fulk Baynnard and Richard de Belhus, justices appointed to deliver that gaol, that John killed himself by mischance while wrestling with Godfrey.
Nov. 8.
Eltham.
To Malcolm de Harl[egh], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to Richard de Hywysh, retaining in the king's hands the manor of Meneley until Maud, late the wife of Richard, shall come to the king and shall do to him what is due therefor; as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Richard and Maud held the manor jointly on the day when Richard died of the king in chief by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and that Richard held all his other lands of other lords.
To the keeper of the park of Relegh. Order to cause Joan, countess of Gloucester and Hertford, the king's daughter, to have in that park ten does, of the king's gift.
Nov. 13.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Dyve, son and heir of Henry de Dyve, tenant in chief, to be acquitted of the scutage exacted from him for the knights' fees that his father held at his death of the king for the king's army of Wales in the tenth year of his reign, and also of the relief for the lands that his father held of the king in chief, which were in the king's hands by reason of John's minority, as it appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of chancery that John was a minor in his wardship at the time when the king was in his said army of Wales. It is provided that answer shall be made to the king for the scutage of the knights' fees that were held of Henry on the day of his death. Witness: Edward, the king's son.
To John de Lythegr[eynes], escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the king, learning from the complaint of Philip de Lou and Margery, his wife, that their lands in Hundeburton had been taken into the king's hands without reasonable cause, ordered the escheator to certify him under his seal of the manner and cause of their being taken into his hands; and the escheator returned that he had taken the lands into the king's hands because it did not appear to him how the lands had come to the hands of Philip and Margery after they had been taken into the king's hands upon the death of Alan de Walkingham, who held them at ferm during the will of Queen Eleanor, the king's late consort, of her demise, the king having committed to her during his pleasure the said lands, which were then in his hands by reason of the insanity (fatuitatis) of Richard de Ardern, an idiot, and the escheator also answered that the lands were in the king's hands solely by reason of Richard's insanity, and that the king rendered them after Richard's death to Philip and Margery, one of Richard's heiresses: the king, holding such taking of lands into his hands as unreasonable and unjust, and considering that by [such seizures] many persons of his realm are much injured contrary to the law and custody of the realm, by reason whereof he may be frequently solicited and moved by complaints made to him concerning such undue seizures, orders the escheator not to intermeddle henceforth with the holding or taking into the king's hands of any other lands without reasonable cause.
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to release on mainprise John de Morton, imprisoned at Rokingham, for a trespass that he is said to have committed in the king's forest of Wytlewood.