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March 7.
Canterbury. |
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. As the extents
made by the escheator at the king's order of the lands in his bailiwick that
belonged to Roger de Moubray, tenant in chief, were insufficiently made
in many articles, in one to wit that they made no mention of the lands
pertaining to the hamlets of the manor of Eppeworth, which belonged to
Roger, and in another in that they made no mention of the contents in
acres or of the value of four woods pertaining to that manor, or of the
names of the free tenants or of others of that manor, or of the hamlets, or
of how much each renders by himself or does for his yearly service, or of
divers several fisheries that are of the appurtenances of the manor and
hamlets, to wit what each fishery is worth yearly, and which are of the
appurtenances of the manor and which of the hamlets aforesaid jointly or
severally, and other defects are found in divers other articles of the extents,
as the escheator may discover by the transcript of the extents in his
possession, the king could not assign dower thereof to Rohesia (Roes'),
late the wife of Roger, for which reason the assignment of dower is delayed
through the escheator's fault and to Rohesia's damage, at which the king
is concerned (movemur): the king orders the escheator to extend again
without delay all the said lands and tenements with their appurtenances,
and to cause dower to be assigned to Rohesia, because she has taken oath
before Edward, the king's son, supplying his place in England, that she
will not marry without the king's licence, which assignment is to be made
in the presence of him whom Edmund, earl of Cornwall, to whom the
king has committed the custody of the lands except the dower, shall
depute for this purpose when summoned by the escheator, saving to the
earl his costs in sowing the lands to be assigned to Rohesia. |
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To John de Lythegreynes, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to
the said Rohesia the following of the lands that belonged to the said
Roger, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the manor of Burton
in Lonnesdale, co. York, which is extended at 21l. 6s. 11½d. yearly; the
chief messuage of Kirkeby Melesard, in the same county, which, with the
gardens, is extended at 6s. 8d. yearly; 140 acres of arable land in the same
manor, which are extended at 70s. yearly, to wit each acre 6d.; 20 acres
of land in the same manor, which lie uncultivated, and which are extended
at 8s. 4d., to wit each acre 5d. yearly; 29 acres of meadow in the same
manor, which are extended at 38s. 8d., to wit each acre 16d. yearly; a
several pasture in the same manor called 'the warren' (warenna), which
is extended at 26s. 8d. yearly; the agistment in Shelden and Granteleye,
which is extended at 5s. yearly; a rent of a pound of pepper in the same
manor, which is extended at 12d. yearly; a turbary in the same manor,
which is extended at 5s. yearly; the pannage in the same manor, which
is extended at 12d. yearly; a cowhouse in the same manor, which is
extended at 26s. 8d. yearly; the fines and pleas of the court in the same
manor which are extended at 26s. 8d. yearly; 33s. 2d. of yearly rent of
free tenants in the same manor; 34s. 8d. yearly of the rent of cotters in
the same manor. |
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Memorandum, that Rohesia was dowered of the lands that belonged to
Roger beyond Trent as appears in the writ aforesaid, and she was told
by the chancellor to receive her dower under this form from the lands
that belonged to Roger on this side Trent, to wit that if the king willed
that she should not be dowered in the Isle of Axiholm, the lands therein
assigned to her in dower shall be taken again into the king's hands and
lands of the said inheritance beyond Trent shall be assigned to her up
to the value of her dower in the Isle. |
March 9.
Wingham. |
To Hugh de Busshy, escheator in co. Chester. Order to cause Hugh,
son and heir of Hugh de Dutton, to have seisin of the lands that his
father at his death held of the king in chief, as the king has taken his
fealty and he has proved his age before Reginald de Grey, justice of
Chester. |
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Memorandum, that, on Friday after St. Gregory, to wit 14 March, the
king arrived in the port of Sandwich from Flanders about the hour of
none, and on Saturday the morrow about the hour of prime John de
Langeton, the chancellor, in the king's chamber at Sandwich, before the
king's bed, in the king's presence and by his order, Sir R. de Grey,
Sir J. de Drokenesford, then keeper of the king's wardrode, and Sir J. de
Benstede then standing there, delivered to Sir W. bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, the king's treasurer, the seal that the king used in England
when he was in Flanders under the chancellor's seal, to be kept in the
treasury, and the king forthwith in the presence of all the men aforesaid
delivered his great seal that he had with him in Flanders to the said
John de Langeton, his chancellor, under his privy seal by his own
hand. |
March 18.
Canterbury. |
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
cause Thomas de Verdun, the king's yeoman, to have in the Forest of
Rokingham ten oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift. By K. |
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Membrane 12. |
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Memorandum, that Adam de Welles did homage to the king at Canterbury, on Monday after St. Gregory, to wit 17 March, for all the lands
that he held of Gilbert de Gaunt on the day of Gilbert's death by reason
of the manors of Folkingham, Edenham, Hekinton, and Barton-onHumber (Humbriam), which Gilbert held for life of the king's commission
and which came to the king's hands by Gilbert's death together with
Gilbert's whole barony, which he held of the king in chief and which he
lately rendered into the king's hands. |
March 17.
Canterbury. |
To Roger le Bygod, earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England. Whereas
Hugh de Veer is setting out for the court of Rome for the common benefit
of the king and of his realm, by the king's special order, for which reason
the king wishes to provide for his indemnity so far as he can honestly, as
he is bound: he therefore requests the earl to respite until Hugh's return
to England the demand that he makes upon him and Dionysia, his wife,
the daughter and heiress of William son of Warin de Monte Caniso, for a
relief to be rendered to the earl for the lands that Hugh and Dionysia
hold of him, for which the king will be grateful to him. |
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The like 'de verbo ad verbum' to Robert de Tateshale. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Hugh
to be acquitted of 600l. due to the king for divers imprests made to him
in Gascony for all the time when he was in the king's service there, as
the king has pardoned him this sum. |
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To the same. Order to cause Nicholas Alard, mariner of Winchelse,
to be forgiven the 25l. due to the king for a ship forfeited to the king
that was sold to him by them, as the king has pardoned him this sum in
consideration of his good service. |
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To the abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury. Whereas certain arms
(armature), vessels (vasa), and other goods of William Martyn, which were
lately wrecked in a ship upon the abbot's land of Tanet, were thrown up
(projecta) on land there; the king orders the abbot to make inquisition
into whose hands the goods came, and to cause them to be restored with
the goods of the master of the ship to the master and William without
delay, so that renewed complaint shall not come to the king. |
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To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to permit the executors of the will of
William de Vescy to be acquitted of 51l. 9s. 6¾d. exacted from them by
summons of the exchequer for many debts, both for imprests made in the
king's wardrobe and for other causes, as the king by his letters patent
pardoned William all the debts due from him to the king both for fines
and amercements and for other his debts and for the debts of John de
Vescy, his deceased brother, and other his ancestors for any cause. |
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The like to the sheriff of York. |
March 17.
Canterbury. |
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent, or to his sub-escheators
in cos. Southampton and Wilts. Adam de la Forde, son and heir of
Claricia de Albiniaco, has shown the king that although Claricia at her
death held nothing of the king in chief or otherwise, the escheator has
taken into the king's hands all the lands in those counties whereof she
was seised at her death in her demesne as of fee as if she had held them
of the king: the king, not wishing to injure Adam in this behalf, but
wishing rather to deal graciously with him in consideration of his laudable
service to the king in Flanders and elsewhere, orders the escheator not to
intermeddle further with the said lands, and to restore the issues thereof,
if he ascertain that Claricia held nothing of the king in chief or otherwise. |
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The like to the same or to his sub-escheator in co. Essex. |
March 24.
Thurrock. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king
granted by his letters patent, on 17 March, in the 26th year of his reign,
to God and the king's free chapel of St. Michael, Pemcrish, to W. archbishop of Dublin, dean of that place, a messuage, a mill and a virgate of
land in Pemcrish that formerly belonged to William de la More,
deceased, which the king had lately recovered as his right in his court
before John de Berewyk and his fellows, his justices then in eyre in
co. Stafford, against the said William by consideration of that court, to
have and to hold to the archbishop and his successors, archbishops of
Dublin, deans of that chapel, of the king in frank almoin, the king orders
the treasurer and barons to discharge John de Cadamo, his clerk, to whom
he lately committed the lands by writ of the exchequer during pleasure
for 40s. yearly, of the said yearly sum from the date of the grant to the
archbishop. |
March 29.
Rotherhithe. |
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Whereas the justiciary and treasurer
of Ireland have sent a certain quantity of corn from Ireland to that
county for the munition of the castle of Carlisle by the king's order;
the king orders the sheriff to cause the corn to be carried to the castle
without delay, and to cause it to be delivered to J. bishop of Carlisle, the
constable of that castle, for the provision thereof. |
