Close Rolls, Edward I: February 1302 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward I: February 1302', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 512-520. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp512-520 [accessed 19 April 2024]

February 1302



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Feb. 2. Edinburgh.	Robert Madde, imprisoned at Beverley for the death of William Scot, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
Feb. 2. Edinburgh.	To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Hugh de Curtenay, son and heir of Hugh de Curtenay, of the scutage exacted from him for three knights' fees for the king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as Hugh, his father, was with the king in that army by his order for the service of three knights' fees that he then acknowledged to the king, as appears by inspection of the rolls of the marshalsea for that army. By p.s.
Jan. 30. Linlithgow.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order to respite until the next parliament the exaction from the prior and convent of St. Albans for a palfrey, cup, ring and kennel of hounds (mota) of the abbot to be paid to the king by reason of the present voidance of the abbey, in order that there may then be done what the king shall cause to be ordained by his council, as the prior and convent assert that they ought to be free from payment thereof after the death of the abbots by virtue of the king's letters patent, whereby he granted to them the custody of the abbey and of all its temporalities and all things pertaining to the abbey as often as it should be void. By p.s. [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 930.]
Feb. 2. Edinburgh.	To the same. Although the prior and convent of Holy Cross, Waltham, ought to have by the charters of the king's progenitors, which he has inspected, the custody of their house and of all its goods upon each voidance, for which reason the king ordered the escheator not to intermeddle in any way with the house or any of its goods by reason of the death of Robert, the late abbot, and to restore anything that he might have received, it was, and is, the king's intention that the ring, cup, palfrey and kennel of hounds (mota canum) that belonged to the said abbot at his death shall be exacted from the prior and convent for the king's use, if they ought to pertain to him by reason of the abbot's death, but so that when the escheator shall have exacted the ring, cup, palfrey and kennel of hounds, he shall place the exaction in respite until the king's next parliament, in order that there may then be done what the king shall cause to be ordained by his council: the king therefore orders the escheator to make such exaction and then to respite it as above. By p.s. [2844.] [Prynne, Records, iii, p. 930.]
Feb. 2. Edinburgh	To Robert de Burghersh, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to permit the prior of Holy Trinity, York, to cross from the port of Dover, as the king has granted him permission to cross to his house of Mermouster; provided that he do not carry with him to parts beyond sea any money or silver contrary to the form of ordinance made by the king. By p.s. [2842.]
	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the king lately ordered him to attach for 1,000l. due to the king from Richard, earl of Arundel, deceased, all the goods and chattels of the deceased within the liberties of Oswestry (de Albo Monasterio) and Clone up to the amount of the debt and to make an inventory (imbreviaretis), so that nothing should be amoved until the king should be satisfied for what is clear of the said debt; by reason of which order the escheator has attached the studs (equicia) of the deceased in those parts, as the king learns: the king orders him to call before him the executors of the will of the deceased, and to retain for the king's use in part payment of the debt the better and more beautiful horses (jumenta) of the said studs, by the view of William Persone, the king's serjeant, or of his attorney, which serjeant the king is sending specially to those parts, after making an appraisement thereof in the presence of the executors, and to deliver the horses thus retained to William, to be taken by him whither the king has enjoined upon him.
Feb. 2. Edinburgh.	To the treasurer, or to him who supplies his place, and to the barons of the exchequer. Whereas Theobald de Verdun was with the king by his order in the army of Wales, in the tenth year of his reign, for the service of 2½ knights' fees for a moiety of the inheritance that belonged to Walter de Lacy and of 2½ knights' fees for Theobald's land in the Marches, and also for the service of one knight's fee for his land in England, which services he then acknowledged to the king, as appears by inspection of the rolls of the marshalsea for the same army: the king orders them to acquit Theobald of the scutage exacted from him by summons of the exchequer for the said knights' fees in the aforesaid army.
Feb. 9. Roxburgh.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately recovered in his court before Hugh de Cressingham and his fellows, justices in eyre in co. Lancaster, by consideration of the court by writ of Quo Waranto against the bailiffs and community of the town of Lancaster the market and fair that they had in that town: and the justices caused the market and fair to be extended at 16½ marks yearly, and caused Ralph de Montjoie, then sheriff of the county, to be charged to answer therefor at the exchequer; and the king afterwards, at the suit of the bailiffs and community, who asserted that an error has intervened in rendering the judgment aforesaid, caused the record and process of the suit with all things concerning it to come before him; and having inspected them and diligently examined them, and upon its being found that a manifest error had intervened in the rendering of the judgment, he has revoked wholly the record and process aforesaid by consideration of his court before him and has wholly annulled the judgment aforesaid, and has restored the liberties to the bailiffs and community, saving his right when he may wish to speak concerning it at another time: the king orders them to discharge the said sheriff and his successors of the aforesaid 16½ marks from the time when the sheriff was charged therewith by the justices. By the record of Roger le Brabazon and his fellows.
Feb. 9. Roxburgh.	To the abbot of Malmesbury. Order to pay to Margaret, late the wife of Edmund, late earl of Cornwall, the 20l. yearly of rent that they were wont to pay to the earl for the ferm of the town of Malmesbury, as the king has assigned this rent to her among the other lands of the earl assigned to her in dower.
Feb. 9. Roxburgh.	To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Estwell, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Eleanor, late the wife of Bertram de Criel, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor held no lands in her demesne as of fee at her death, but that she held the said manor in dower, which manor is held of the king in chief by the service of two knights' fees.
	To Master Richard de Havering, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Maud, late the wife of Walter de Stutevill, tenant in chief, in the presence of Walter's heir, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence, as the king compassionates her poverty.
	To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately granted by his letters patent to Richard de Bosco, deceased, the 24 marks yearly that the men of Brideport were wont to render to the exchequer for the ferm of that town, to be received by him from the said men, so that he should receive 20 marks thereof for the custody of the castle of Corf and should pay the remaining four marks to the exchequer yearly, for so long as he should have the custody of the castle [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 11 Edw. I, p. 80]: the king orders them to inspect the said letters patent and also the acquittances that the men have from Richard for payment of the aforesaid sum, and to discharge them of the sums thus paid by them to him, and to charge the executors of Richard's will or his heirs therewith.
Feb. 16. Roxburgh.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to permit Edmund de Aula Nova, (fn. 1) a knight of Amadeus, earl of Savoy, to have respite for his homage for the lands that he holds of the king until All Saints next, as the king has granted to him such respite at the instance of Amadeus, count of Savoy. By p.s. [2874.]
Feb. 20. Wooler (Wullovere).	To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Crevequer, deceased.
Feb. 23. Morpeth.	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margaret, late the wife of Fulk de Rycote, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
Feb. 16. Roxburgh.	To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Bulsham, whom the king has caused to be amoved from office because he is staying in Scotland in his service, so that he cannot execute the duties of the office. By p.s.
Feb. 15. Roxburgh.	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. As the king has pardoned divers men of Ireland staying in Scotland in his service in the company of certain magnates of Ireland, whose names the magnates will have testified to the justiciary by their letters patent under their seals, the suit of his peace pertaining to him for certain felonies and other trespasses committed against his peace in Ireland before 17 February, in the present year, with which they have been charged or appealed, and has caused his peace to be granted to them therein, on condition that they stand to right in his court if any one wish to speak against them in this matter: the king orders the justiciary to cause all those thus staying in Scotland whose names the magnates shall certify to him to have the king's letters patent of such pardon under the seal that he uses in Ireland.
	By petition under the p.s.
Feb. 26. Morpeth.	To the said John and to Richard de Bereford, treasurer of the exchequer at Dublin. Order to commit to John Crok the king's land of Admekyn in Ireland, to be kept during the king's pleasure, having regard to the laudable service rendered by him to the king in Scotland, for which the king wishes to show him special favour. By petition under the p.s.
Feb. 20. Wooller.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer at Dublin. Order to excuse Richard Blakeman and Amabilla, his wife, the 10 marks due to the exchequer beyond what they have paid to the king for the goods that belonged to Richard de Acon, which were delivered to Amabilla at a certain price after the goods had come to the king's hands by reason of the arrearages that Richard de Acon owed to the king of the time when he was sheriff of Waterford, as the king has pardoned Richard and Amabilla the said 10 marks for the good service rendered by him to the king in Scotland. By p.s.
	To the same. Notification that the king has pardoned Thomas de Sancto Johanne for his good service in Scotland 15l. of the 30l. due from him to the exchequer for divers amercements, to wit 10l. because he improperly (indebite) returned a writ of the king's before the chief justice of Ireland, and 10l. because he likewise improperly returned another writ before the justices of the Bench at Dublin, and 100s. for divers returns of the king's writs insufficiently made before him at that exchequer, and also 100s. for a default, and has granted to him respite for the remaining 15l. until Easter next and for a year afterwards; and order to cause him to have such acquittance and respite. By pet.
Feb. 15. Roxburgh.	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, and to Richard de Bereford, treasurer of Ireland. The aforesaid Thomas has besought the king to grant to him that he may pay the debts due by him to the exchequer of Dublin at the rate of 5 marks yearly: the king, wishing to show him favour for the good service that he has rendered in Scotland, orders the justiciary to cause Thomas to have reasonable terms according to the justiciary's discretion for payment of the debts, having consideration for his service aforesaid. By petition under the p.s.
	To the same. The aforesaid Thomas has besought the king to grant to him the king's weirs and fisheries of Lymeryk to have during the king's pleasure by an extent to be made by the justiciary and treasurer and to be paid by him to the exchequer of Ireland: the king, wishing to accede to his prayers for his good service in Scotland, orders them to commit the weirs and fishery to Thomas at their discretion, having consideration to his service aforesaid. By petition under the p.s.
Feb. 20. Wooller.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to acquit Philip de Barry of 20 marks due to that exchequer for a ransom of 100 marks exacted from him by summons of that exchequer, as the king has pardoned him this sum in consideration of his good service in Scotland. By pet.
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Feb. 23. Morpeth.	To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margaret, late the wife of Hugh de Plessetis, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
Feb. 23. Morpeth.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. The king has granted to John son of Thomas, in consideration of his service in Scotland and elsewhere, that he shall have the wardship of the lands that belonged to Thomas son of Maurice, tenant in chief,—which John holds by the king's commission until the heir of Thomas shall come of age, and for which he pays 100l. yearly to that exchequer and 100l. yearly to Gerard Dorom, the king's yeoman, by reason of the king's grant to Gerard of 100l. yearly of land of the wardship aforesaid—quit of the said 100l. yearly to that exchequer until the heir come of age, on condition that he pay the other 100l. yearly to Gerard and that he acquit the king of all the debts due to him from the king for his costs and expenses incurred by him in the king's service in Ireland and in Flanders: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to receive such acquittance from John, and to permit him to have the custody quit of payment of the said 100l. By petition under the p.s.
Feb. 17. Roxburgh.	To the treasurer and barons. Notification that the king has granted to John de Fresingfeld that he may pay the 85 marks due to the exchequer from the goods of merchants of France taken into the king's hands in Ireland by reason of the late war between the king and the king of France, by 20 marks yearly, and order to cause him to have these terms, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
	By petition sent under the p.s.
Feb. 22. Roxburgh.	To Simon de Ludgate and his fellows, justices of the Bench of Dublin. It is shown to the king by Joan de Valencia, countess of Pembroke, that whereas Laurence Jacob impleaded William Seynde in the court of her liberty of Weseford by a writ of hers, in accordance with the aforesaid liberty, concerning the unjust taking and detention of his chattels; and after the case had been long discussed (agitata) in the court, it was considered there that Laurence should recover his damages against William for the unjust taking and detention of the chattels; and William, asserting that a false judgment had been given, caused the record of the suit to come before the aforesaid justices in the Bench aforesaid by the king's writ of false judgment, and the justices, after hearing the reasons and allegations of the parties aforesaid, considered that the judgment was false, that William should have return of his chattels previously replevied, and that the liberty aforesaid should be taken into the king's hands for the rendering of the judgment aforesaid, without warning the countess or her steward of the liberty concerning this. As the king is unwilling that the countess shall be unduly aggrieved, but wishes rather to show her grace in this behalf, he orders the justices to cause the liberty, with everything received from it from the time when it was taken into the king's hands, to be replevied to her without delay during the king's pleasure, and to certify him under Simon's seal at the quinzaine of Midsummer next of the reason for taking the liberty into the king's hands, whether it was so taken for the reason aforesaid or for any other reason, and if for any other reason then to certify him of the reason, remitting this writ, so that the king may cause to be then done what he shall cause to be provided by his council.
Feb. 23. Morpeth.	To John de Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, and to Richard de Bereford, treasurer of the exchequer of Dublin. The king, wishing to benefit Thomas de Maundevill for his good service in Scotland, orders them to give him preference over others in buying the marriage of the son and heir of Richard de Crus, tenant in chief in Ireland, provided that he will give as much as any one else for it, and to make an extent of the lands that belonged to Richard and that are in the king's hands by reason of his heir's minority, and to commit to Thomas the wardship of the lands, to hold during the heir's minority by the extent, upon his finding security to render the extent to the king yearly. By petition under the p.s.
	To the same. Geoffrey le Poer has shown the king by his petition that whereas he is indebted to that exchequer in 100 marks for the arrears of a yearly rent of 10 marks that he is bound to render to the king for certain lands in Balyteneth, which are held of the king in chief, to wit 80 marks of the time when the lands were in the hands of Eustace le Poer, who enfeoffed him of the lands, and 20 marks of Geoffrey's time after the lands had come to his hands by the feoffment aforesaid, which sums are exacted from Geoffrey by summons of the exchequer, and he has besought the king to show favour to him in this behalf: the king, acceding to his petition in consideration of his good service in Scotland, has pardoned him the said 100 marks, provided that he render the said 10 marks yearly henceforth, and orders them to cause Geoffrey to be acquitted of the said 10 marks. By petition.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. The king has granted to John son of Thomas, in consideration of his good service to him in Scotland, that he may hold the wardship of certain lands that belonged to Thomas son of Maurice deceased, tenant in chief, which John now holds during the minority of Thomas's heir by the king's commission and for which he pays 100l. yearly to the exchequer, henceforth during the minority quit of the said 100l. on condition that he shall acquit the king of all debts due to him from the king for his costs and expenses in the king's service in Ireland and Flanders: he orders the treasurer and barons to receive such acquittance from John and then to permit him to have the custody quit of the aforesaid payment. By petition under the p.s.
	To Geoffrey de Geynvill and John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to take with them the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin and to search the rolls and memoranda of that exchequer, and, after viewing the state of the receipt of the chamberlains of that exchequer after the account of William de Estden, the late treasurer, for the past, and after making an estimate of the whole receipt at the exchequer of Easter and at that of Michaelmas next, to view and examine diligently what sum of money both of the tenth granted to the king in that land and of all issues of that land the king can have ready for the expedition of his war of Scotland in March after the completion of the present year, so that the justiciary may certify the king in person in fifteen days from Midsummer, in order that the king, having a certainty thereof, may provide elsewhere those things that are necessary and opportune for the expedition. It is provided that what the king has previously ordered by his letters to be paid in that exchequer shall be deducted (extrahantur) from the said sum. [p.s. 2909.]
	Order to the treasurer, barons and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin to assist Geoffrey and the justiciary in executing the premises.
Feb. 22. Roxburgh.	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, and to the barons of the exchequer of Dublin. The abbot of Mayo (Maio) has besought the king to grant to him reasonable terms for payment of the 209l. 6s. 8d. in which the abbot is bound to Gerard G[r]ymbard and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Ricardi of Lucca (Luka), by a letter made between them, which sum the justiciary and barons exact for the king's use because the king caused all the goods and chattels and debts of the said merchants owing to them from any persons to be taken into his hands for certain reasons: the king, compassionating the estate of the abbot and of his house, orders them to cause the abbot to have terms at which he can pay the money conveniently, having regard to the impoverishment (depauperacionem) of the said house. By petition under the p.s.
Feb. 23. Morpeth.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Nicholas de Saunford has besought the king to grant him reasonable terms at which he can pay the 30l. still owing to the exchequer of the 112l. in which he was indebted to the king: the king, granting his petition in consideration of his good service in Scotland, orders the treasurer and barons to cause him to have such terms for payment of the said 30l.
	By petition under the p.s.
	To the same. Order to search the rolls of that exchequer, and to certify the king of the debts due to it from Hugh Purcel, and for what they are due, and what debts are clear and what are not, so that the king may be certified thereof by the bearer of the presents at the quinzaine of Midsummer next, and to cause Hugh to have respite for the debts in the meantime.
Feb. 23. Morpeth.	To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause John de Caton to have seisin of a messuage and 20 acres of land in Caton, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said messuage and land, which John son of Alan de Welflete, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held them of the said John de Caton, and that the township of Caton had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.
	To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. As the king has granted to John son of Thomas, for his good service in Scotland and elsewhere, 60l. yearly from the king's lands in Ireland by a reasonable extent, to hold by certain services: the king orders the justiciary to provide John with lands to that value as quickly as he can, in suitable places where it can be done to the least damage of the king and to the greatest advantage for John.
	By petition sent under the p.s.
	To the same. Whereas John son of Thomas lately suggested to the king that when he was in Flanders in the king's service certain Irish malefactors and disturbers of the king's peace burned his town of Rathimegan and committed homicides, robberies and burnings in the adjoining lands, and he has besought the king to grant to him the king's service of Ireland for one occasion (viva, for una) to help in building anew a fortress (fortalicii) against the said Irish of those parts, for the benefit of the land of Ireland and for the preservatian of the king's peace there, and the king ordered the justiciary to call together all of the king's council there and, after full consideration as to the premises, to grant to John such service, if it should seem to be for the benefit of the land aforesaid and for the preservation of the king's peace; and John has not yet fully had the king's service aforesaid, although it was granted to him by the justiciary and others of the king's council: the king orders the justiciary, if it be so, to cause John to have the said service in accordance with the tenor of the king's order and grant aforesaid.
Feb. 23. Morpeth.	To the same. Whereas the king, on 22 January, in the twenty-sixth year of his reign, ordered the justiciary to assign dower to Isabel, late the wife of William de Vescy, tenant in chief, from the lands, knights' fees and advowsons of churches that belonged to William in Ireland and that he rendered to the king quit of him and his heirs; and although he assigned to her by virtue of that order 11l. 4s. 2d. yearly to be received at Kildar' by the hands of the king's sheriff of Kildar' from the pleas and perquisites of that county for her dower, as appears to the king by the assignment returned into his chancery in England, the justiciary has not yet caused her to have this 11l. 4s. 2d., as she has complained to the king: the king orders the justiciary to cause her to have the said 11l. 4s. 2d., in accordance with the assignment, and to restore to her anything thereof that may have been received for the king's use after the assignment.
Feb. 28. Chester.	To Master Richard de Havering, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of John Wake, tenant in chief, the service of Robert de Tilliol in Solpert, which is extended at 100s. yearly; the service of William de Mulcastre in Torpennowe, which is extended at 10l. yearly; the service of Richard Brune in Torpennowe, which is extended at 40s. yearly; the service of the said Richard in Brymscayth, which is extended at 100s. yearly; the service of John de Eston in Eston, which is extended at 13s 4d. yearly; the service of Ralph de Arturet, which is extended at 60s. yearly, as the king has assigned these services to her as her dower of the knights' fees and services of tenants by cornage that belonged to John Wake, which are in the king's hands by reason of the minority of John's heir.
Feb. 10. Roxburgh.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to sheriffs and other ministers of the realm for their costs and expenses, to be proved before the treasurer and barons, about the provision of corn in their bailiwick and the delivery thereof to the proctors of certain of the king's towns in Gascony, and to charge the men of the said towns with the receipt of the corn, or with its price, and with the costs aforesaid, receiving first from each of the sheriffs and ministers the king's letters of precept and the indenture made between them and the proctors aforesaid, which they shall cause to be kept safely in the treasury, as the king calls to mind that he ordered divers sheriffs and other ministers by letters under the privy seal to cause corn to be provided in their bailiwick and to cause it to be delivered to the proctors aforesaid, in part payment of the debts in which the king is bound to the men of the said towns, and that each sheriff and minister should pay for the corn thus provided and for the freight of the ships and for all other charges or costs about the corn, and that an indenture should be made between each of the sheriffs and ministers and the proctors of each of the towns of the quantity of the corn delivered and of the price thereof and of all other charges. By p.s. [2856–7.]
Feb. 28. Chester.	To Master Richard de Havering, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Alice, late the wife of Robert son of Henry de Derleye, from Robert's lands, which are in the king's hands until it be decided in the king's court whether or not the wardship thereof ought to pertain to the king by reason of the minority of Robert's heir, the following, which the king has committed to her: 8s. 8¼d. of rent to be received by the hands of the following free tenants in Derleye, to wit, Ralph le Eyr 4s., Hugh Bechard 2s., John Merlach 2s. 2¼d., and Peter de Whitewell 6d.; and 27s. of rent from three fermors in that town, to wit William Fox 13s., Roger de Irton 13s., Benedict de Merlach 12d.; to hold in tenancia until dower be assigned to her.