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Nov. 4.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of John Pylgrym, deceased. |
Nov. 4.
Westminster. |
Stephen de la Forde of Little Bellynges, imprisoned at Melton for the
death of Simon Bonde, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff
of Suffolk to bail him. |
Oct. 16.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. It is shown to the king
by the abbot of Abyndon that whereas he holds thirty knights' fees for
30l. to be rendered to the king by the hands of the constable of Windsor
castle yearly for the ward of that castle, and three fees for the service due
to the king to be done in his armies, and he has hitherto paid the 30l.
yearly for the thirty fees to the ward of that castle by the hands of the
constable and he had his service for the said three fees in the king's
armies of Wales in the fifth and tenth years of his reign, the treasurer
and barons, asserting that service was due to the king in those armies for
the thirty fees as well as for the three fees, distrain the abbot for the
scutage due to the king for the thirty fees in those armies: the king, not
wishing to aggrieve the abbot in this behalf, orders the treasurer and
barons to search the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, and if they
find that the abbot holds the thirty fees for 30l. yearly to be rendered to
the king for the ward of the castle aforesaid, and that the abbot's
predecessors held them of the king and his ancestors in the same way
and paid the 30l. yearly for the ward of the castle, and that the abbot
had his service with the king in the said armies for the three fees, to
cause the abbot to be acquitted of the scutage exacted from him for the
thirty fees and for the three fees. By pet. of C. |
Nov. 3.
Westminster. |
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause Geoffrey de
Lisiniaco to have again the manors of Louthe, Castle Fraunk and Dys
in Ireland, as the king before his accession granted by his charter to
Geoffrey the manors, to hold to him and his heirs of the king and his
heirs, which grant the late king confirmed by his charter, and the king
lately, forgetting this grant and confirmation, impleaded Geoffrey
concerning the manors in his court before Walter Lemfaunte and his
fellows, justices last in eyre at Drogheda, and recovered them against
Geoffrey by his default against the king in the plea, and the king has now
remitted to Geoffrey the default aforesaid and has granted that he shall
hold them as he held them before he made the default. By K. |
Nov. 4.
Westminster. |
To Master Richard de Havering, escheator beyond Trent. Henry le Keu
has shown the king that when he was in parts beyond sea the escheator,
believing that he had died, took into the king's hands 73s. 4d. of rent in
Leghes and Wodehuses that Henry holds of the king in chief for that
reason, and that he still detains the rent: the king orders the escheator
to restore to Henry the rent aforesaid, with everything received from it
since it was taken into the king's hands, if it was taken into the king's
hands solely for this reason. By K. |
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To Richard Oysel, bailiff of the king's manor of Folkyngham. Order
to supersede distraining John de Orreby for his fealty for the lands that he
holds of the king in chief by reason of the lands that belonged to Gilbert
de Gaunt being in the king's hands, as the king has taken his fealty. |
Nov. 2.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Whereas the
king lately—upon its being found by an inquisition taken by the
escheator that John Wacelyn, a lunatic (fatuus et idiota), whose lands
were in the hands of Margaret de Penecestre by reason of his lunacy by
the king's commission, held the manor of Iwhurst, co. Sussex, of John,
count of Britanny, and certain lands in co. Southampton of the prior and
convent of Winchester, and that John at his death did not hold any
lands of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands
ought to pertain to the king—ordered the escheator not to intermeddle
further with the lands that belonged to John; and it appears to the king
by inspection of the inquisition aforesaid that Nichola, wife of Henry de
Sardene, and Maud, late the wife of John de Parrok, sisters of John, are
his next heirs; which lands Henry, Nichola and Maud have entered by
virtue of the order aforesaid: the king orders the escheator to deliver to
them the issues received from the lands from the time of their being taken
into the king's hands. |
Nov. 3.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to deliver to Alice, late the wife of John de Sancto
Johanne, tenant in chief, the manor of Chauton, co. Southampton, which
is extended at 10l. 2s. 8½d. yearly, and the manor of Walberton, co. Sussex,
which is extended at 47l. 17s. 1d. yearly, as the king has assigned them
to her as her dower in her presence and in that of John de Sancto Johanne,
son and heir of the said John, with their assent, on condition that she
render to John yearly during her life from the manor of Walberton 25s.,
the excess of her dower. |
Nov. 8.
Westminster. |
Walter de Bruly, imprisoned at Worcester for the death of Walter Botte,
wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Worcester to bail him. |
Nov. 6.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Juliana, late the wife of Robert de Craunford,
tenant in chief as of the honour of Albemarle, which is in the king's
hands, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's
licence. |
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Robert de Culeworth of Brackele, imprisoned at Westminster for the
death of Richard le Porter of Aynho, co. Northants, wherewith he is
charged,—[Incomplete]. |
Nov. 13.
Westminster. |
To Nicholas Fermbaud, constable of Bristol castle. Order to release
Geoffrey Page, Robert Passur, John le Lunge, Edmund Richard, William
le Lunge and Walter Beneyt, imprisoned in Bristol castle because they,
while in the king's service with their ship called 'the Mighel' in Scotland,
wickedly withdrew from the service with the king's wages and without
his licence, and to restore to them their ship aforesaid, if it was arrested
solely for this trespass, as Peter de Donewyco has testified before the king
that they have promised before him that they will go with their said ship
to Scotland at Whitsuntide next for the expedition of the king's war
there, and that they will faithfully serve the king there during the war. |
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By K. on the information of J. Botetourt. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to replevy to Geoffrey de
Geynvill and Maud, his wife, their liberty of Trym and Meath (Midia)
until Whitsuntide next, which liberty was taken into the king's hands by
the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin for a contempt
committed against the king by them, and which was afterwards replevied
to them by the justiciary until three weeks from Michaelmas last. |
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By K. on the information of the treasurer. |
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Membrane 3—Schedules. |
Nov. 6.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to release
any distraint levied upon Gilbert son of William de Dunmawe for his
homage for the lands that he holds of the king in chief by reason of the
lands that Humphrey de Bouhun, earl of Hereford and Essex, lately
rendered into the king's hands, with the knights' fees and all other
appurtenances, as the king has taken his homage. |
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The like to the same in favour of the following: |
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Gilbert de Stanford. |
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Robert Gernet. |
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Memorandum, that after the death of Sir John Tregoz, tenant in chief,
his lands were taken into the king's hands and extended, and after the
extents had been returned into chancery, John la Warre, son of his eldest
daughter, and Sir William de Grauntsone, who married the other daughter,
did homage to the king for their purparties of the lands, and had a writ
to Sir Walter de Gloucestre, escheator, to make division of the lands
in the presence of the heirs and parceners in accordance with the extents;
after the partition had been made by the escheator in the presence of the
heirs and parceners and by their assent and returned into chancery and
enrolled there, a writ to extend the fees and the advowsons of the
inheritance was issued, according to custom; after the return of which
extent, Sir William came into court and demanded his purparty of the
fees and advowsons, and because his parcener did not come, he was warned
to come at a certain day to receive his purparty thereof; at which day he
[i.e.John] came into chancery at Westminster before Sir John de Langeton,
then chancellor, in the presence of Sir Roger Brabazoun, Sir Ralph de
Hengham, Sir Gilbert de Roubury, Sir William de Bereford, Sir William
Haward, and others of the council, and said that no division of the fees
or advowsons ought to be made because the castle of Ewyas with the
appurtenances was assigned to him in his purparty, to which castle
the majority of the fees (tut le plus des fez) are appurtenant and from
which they cannot be severed because the tenants owe bodily service,
and, when he received his purparty, he understood that he received it
with the fees and advowsons that were appurtenant to the castle. And
Sir William said that the purparty made before the escheator was made
of the lands only, and he did not receive and could not receive his purparty in any other manner because the escheator had no other warrant
than for the lands, and he vouched the escheator to warranty as to this,
who was then present, and also the purparty enrolled in chancery. And
the escheator, upon being examined (aresoné) as to this, answered that he
made no other purparty than of the lands and for which he had a writ.
Whereupon oyer of the writ was demanded and of the purparty; which
being read and heard, no mention was made therein except of the purparty
of the lands. And forasmuch as it was thus found and as it is the custom
that a purparty ought to be made of the lands by themselves and another
of the fees by themselves, it was agreed by all the council that the purparty
made shall be (se feit) of the fees and advowsons aforesaid according to
the law and custom of the realm. With this John was not satisfied
(ne se tient paié), and he went to the king, and delivered into his hand
before his council in his parliament at Westminster in summer, in the
thirtieth year of his reign, a petition praying that justice should be done
to him (qe homme li faist reson) in the said matters; which petition the
king received into his own hands, and he delivered it there and then
maintenaunt) to the receiver of his petitions; which being read and heard
there and then before the king, Sir Roger Brabazoun answered to the king
that the parties had been before his council and had shown their evidence
(aveient lur resons dit) on both sides, and that it was agreed before the
council that the purparty shall be made; whereupon the king ordered
that there should be done what ought to be done according to the custom
of the realm. Thereupon, as Sir William's wife was not in court to consent to receive her purparty, power was given to Sir John de Havering to
receive her attorneys; and a day was given to the parties to receive their
purparties at the next parliament. At which parliament Sir William in
his own person and his wife by her attorney came and demanded their
purparty as before, and John did not come; but as he was present in
court and of the court, he was warned to come within the third day. At
which day he came, and said as before that no other division ought to be
made that was not made before for the reasons aforesaid. Forasmuch as
the parties were unable to agree and no purparty was made except of the
lands, it was awarded and agreed as before that the purparty shall be made
of the fees and advowsons aforesaid. Which being made into two parts,
they were delivered by lot (par loot) by the hands of the earl of Lincoln in
chancery at Westminster, in the presence of Sir William de Grenefelde,
chancellor, Sir Roger Brabazun, Sir Gilbert de Roubury, the escheator,
and others of the council, one to Sir William and the other to John;
which John would not sue out a writ to have his purparty; whereupon it
was awarded that the party who should sue out a writ to have the purparty
should have the purparty, and that the purparty of the party who would
not sue out such a writ should remain in the king's hands until the party
should sue out the writ. French. [Parl. Writs.] |
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Memorandum, that it was agreed between Alice, late the wife of John
de Sancto Johanne, and John, her son, that she shall receive by the
king's hands as dower the manors of Chauton and Walborton wholly
discharged from liability for debts to merchants and others, rendering
yearly to her son 25s. from the manor of Walborton, for her dower of the
manors of Basing', Shereborn, Erde, Halnak[er], Berneham and Wodecot,
which manors are extended by the king's escheator and are returned into
chancery on the morrow of All Souls, 30 Edward; saving to her all
actions of knights' fees and advowsons of churches pertaining to her and
that are outside her petition for dower of the lands that had been given,
demised or otherwise alienated by her said lord to any persons, and that
are outside her dower of the lands in the northern parts that belonged to
her husband of the king's gift. |
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Nov. 10.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the
king has granted to Robert son of Roger, for his good service to the king
rendered and to be rendered, respite until Whitsuntide next and from
then for a year following for all debts due to the exchequer, both the debts
of his father and of himself, and that after the end of the respite the debts
shall be attermined to him by the treasurer and barons at the king's
pleasure; and order to cause him to have this respite and to have
reasonable terms for payment, according to their discretion. |
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By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. |
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To the same. Order to cause John de Sudleye to have respite until
Whitsuntide next for all debts due to the exchequer. |
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By K. on the information of J. de Benstede. |
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The like to the sheriffs of Gloucester and Worcester. |
Nov. 15.
Westminster. |
To Ralph de Sandwico, constable of the Tower of London. Order to
cause Claius de Sancto Omero to be released from prison in the Tower,
as the king, for 100s. paid by him into the wardrobe by the hands of
John de Drokenesford, keeper of the wardrobe, has pardoned him the
trespass committed by him in taking sterlings out of the realm contrary
to the ordinance made by the king and his council, for which trespass he
was arrested at Sandwich and is imprisoned in the Tower. |
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By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order
to pay to Nicholas de Bosco and Walter de Pederton, whom the king is
sending to Ireland for the expedition of certain of his affairs, 20l. which
the king has granted them towards their expenses in that service. |
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By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause
Simon de Drayton, son and heir of John de Drayton, tenant in chief, to
have seisin of the lands that his father held, as the king has taken his
homage although he has not yet proved his age, because John Butteturte,
to whom the king committed the wardship of the lands during Simon's
minority, has rendered them to Simon as being of full age, as John has
acknowledged before the king. |
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To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Whereas the
king lately—upon its being found by an inquisition taken by the
escheator that John de Munceaus held at his death nothing of the king
in chief by reason whereof the wardship of his lands ought to pertain to
the king, but that he held certain lands in Compton of the heir of
William Walrand, a madman (idiota) in the king's wardship, by the
service of 13s. 4d. yearly for all service, and John, his son, is his next
heir and is of full age—the king took John's fealty for the lands in
Compton and rendered them to him, and ordered the escheator to cause
him to have seisin thereof, upon his finding security to answer to the
king for his relief, and not to intermeddle further with the lands that
John held of other lords than the king; and it appears to the king by
inspection of the said inquisition that John the father held the manor of
Esthurst, co. Sussex, of the earl of Britanny, and certain lands in
Compton, co. Southampton, of Thomas de Warblynton; which lands
John has entered by virtue of the order aforesaid: the king orders the
escheator to deliver [to John] the issues received by him from the said
manor and the lands in Compton from the time when they were taken
into the king's hands. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Durham. Whereas the king, on 17 July last,
committed by his letters patent to Robert de Clyfford the liberty of the
bishopric of Durham, which was taken into the king's hands by
consideration of his court, during the king's pleasure, and the king
afterwards granted to him by other letters patent 200 marks yearly for
his maintenance from the issues of the liberty for so long as he should
have the custody: the king orders the sheriff to cause Robert to have
from the issues of that liberty payment at this rate for the time during
which he had the custody. By K. |
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To the same. Like order to pay to William de Ormesby, whom the
king, on the said day, appointed his justice to hold pleas in the aforesaid
liberty [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 30 Edw. I, p. 43], at the rate of
60 marks yearly, which the king afterwards granted to him. By K. |
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To the same. Like order to pay to Henry de Guldeford, king's clerk,
to whom the king, on the said day, granted the custody of his seal for the
said liberty [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 30 Edw. I, p. 44], at the rate of
40 marks yearly, which the king afterwards granted to him. By K. |
Nov. 11.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. As it appears to the
king that Robert de Bello Campo did all the service in the king's army
in Scotland in the 28th year of his reign for Cecily de Bello Campo,
his mother, for the knights' fees that she holds of the king, the king
orders the treasurer and barons to cause Cecily to be acquitted of all
demands made upon her by summons of the exchequer for contributions,
amercements, fines, concealments and other things whatsoever touching
her by reason of the service aforesaid. |
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By K. on the information of J. de Buteturte. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Brother
William, abbot of Leicester, to have again the palfrey and cup of Brother
William, the late abbot, taken from him by Malcolm de Harlegh,
escheator this side Trent, now deceased, for the king's use, and to permit
him and his successors to be quit of doing such service to the king, as the
said escheator, after the death of Brother William, the late abbot, took
his palfrey and cup from the present abbot, asserting that the abbey is
held of the king in chief by barony or by part of a barony, and the king,
at the suit of the present abbot, who asserted that the abbey was not
held of the king in chief by barony or part of a barony and who prayed
the king to cause justice to be done to him, ordered the treasurer and
barons to search the rolls of the exchequer as to whether or not the
abbey is held of the king in chief by barony or any part of a barony,
whereby the abbot and his successors should be bound to do such services
to the king, and whether the abbot's predecessors were wont to do such
service to the king or his progenitors, and they have signified to the king
that they have searched the rolls and that it is not found in them that
the abbot holds anything of the king by barony or by any part of a
barony by reason whereof he should be bound to do the king such
services, and that his predecessors were not wont to do such services to
the king or his progenitors. By C. |
Nov. 13.
Westminster. |
To Ralph de Sandwico, constable of the tower of London, and to the
mayor of the city. Order to cause to be delivered to Master Bartholomew
de Ferentino, king's clerk, and Philip Gerardini, merchant of the society
of the Spini of Florence, of the king's gift, the ten tuns of oil that
belonged to Giles de la Mote, merchant of Brugg[es], and that was
arrested in the house of Walter Coksy in London as forfeited to the king
by reason of the trespass committed by Giles in sending 85l. in sterlings
out of the realm by Collard, his yeoman, contrary to the ordinance made
by the king and his council. By K. |
Nov. 14.
Westminster. |
To Ralph de Hengham. Whereas Margaret, late the wife of Edmund,
late earl of Cornwall, demands before Ralph and his fellows, justices of
the Bench, by divers writs against divers men, tenants of the tenements
that belonged to Edmund, her dower from the tenements, and the tenants
have vouched the king, as Edmund's heir, to warranty against her, and
they have answered before the justices that they cannot and ought not to
answer in this matter without the king, for which reason the justices have
stayed the pleas; and Margaret has besought the king by her petition in
parliament before his council to cause justice to be done to her in this
matter: the king, wishing to be certified of the names of the tenants
aforesaid and of the tenements of which Margaret thus demands her dower,
and in what towns they are, and how much she demands against each
tenant, and also of the tenor of the charters that they have proferred
before the justices whereby they assert that the king is bound to make the
warranty aforesaid, orders Ralph to certify him concerning the premises
and all other circumstances touching the said matter, together with his
counsel and advice, and what he thinks ought to be done in the matter,
sending a transcript of the charters and deeds aforesaid under his seal. |
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By C. |
Nov. 15.
Westminster. |
To John de Vienna, keeper of the king's park of Milchet. Order to
cause William le Noble and Walter de Upton, viewers of the king's works
in the manor of Clarendon, to have in that park sixty oaks fit for timber
for shingles (cindulis) to roof the king's houses in that manor. |
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By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. |
Nov. 14.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Ralph de
Monte Hermerii, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, asserts that he ought to
receive yearly at the exchequer 20l. for the county of Gloucester and 30l.
for the county of Hertford and 40l. 19s. 5½d. for the barton (bertona) of
Bristol, which sums Gilbert de Clare, late earl of Gloucester and Hertford,
was wont to receive there: the king orders the treasurer and barons to
appoint a day at the exchequer in Easter term next to make account with
him concerning the premises, and after the account shall have been made,
to cause allowance to be made to him in the debts due from him to the
exchequer for what they shall find to be due to him, and to cause him to
have respite for the debts due from him in the meantime. |
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By K. on the information of J. de Benstede. |
Nov. 15.
Westminster |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause the said Ralph to have
respite for the debts due from him to the exchequer until Easter next. |
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By K. on the information of J. de Benstede. |
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The like to the sheriffs of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Essex, Hertford,
Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Buckingham, Bedford, Oxford,
Berks, Somerset, Dorset, Wilts, Worcester and Devon. |
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To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to
release the distraint levied upon Christina, late the wife of William de
Kirkeby, for her fealty for the lands that William and she held jointly of
the king on the day of William's death of her inheritance, as the king
has taken her fealty. |
Nov. 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to re-instate the abbot and convent of
St. Augustine's, Canterbury, in possession of the church of Sellyng, and
to permit them to enjoy possession, notwithstanding any previous order
of the king's to the contrary, inhibiting all and singular from presuming
to inflict violence upon the abbot and convent concerning their possession,
as the abbot and convent have long held the church appropriated to
their own uses, as appears by certain papal privileges concerning it
exhibited by them before the king and his council, and they are molested
and disturbed by pretext of a writ to amove a lay force from that church
lately granted at the instance of R. archbishop of Canterbury concerning
the possession of the church, contrary to the papal indults and the appeals
to the pope, so that they are unable to enjoy the administration of the
fruits and goods of the church, as they were wont to do. By K. |
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[Prynne, Records, iii, p. 932.] |
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Membrane 1. |
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Enrolment of surrender by Ralph Pypard to the king of all his castles,
towns, manors and lands in Ireland, with all appurtenances, knights'
fees, advowsons of churches and of houses of religion, etc., together with
the service of John Pypard, his son, and of Maud, his son's wife, for the
manor of Clouncurry, which they held of him to them and the heirs of
their bodies, with the reversion of the manor. Witnesses: W. bishop of
Coventry and Lichfield; John de Warenna, earl of Surrey; John de
Britannia; Roger le Brabazon, justice of England; Walter de Bello
Campo, steward of the king's household; John Buteturte; John de
Drokenesford; John de Benstede. Dated at Westminster, on Wednesday
after Martinmas, 30 Edward. |
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Enrolment of deed of the said Ralph appointing Walter Lenfaunt and
Nicholas de Bosco, or one of them, with Gerald Tyrel, Ralph's steward of
Ireland, or him who supplies his place, his attorneys to deliver seisin
of the aforesaid castles, etc., to the king, together with all issues thereof
from the date of the preceding grant. Dated at Westminster, 14
November, in the aforesaid year. |
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Enrolment of letters patent of the said Ralph to the said Gerald, or to
him who supplies his place, ordering him to deliver to the king with the
aforesaid attorneys seisin of the said castles, etc. Dated at Westminster,
on Wednesday after Martinmas, 30 Edward. |
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Enrolment of letters patent of the said Ralph to Brother Robert de
Sancto Johanne of Ardee (de Atro (sic) Dei), constable of his castles of
Ardee and of Dovenaghmayn, or to him who supplies his place. Order to
deliver the castles and appurtenances to the king. Dated as above. |
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The like to Richard de Bageputz, constable of the castle of Leixlip
(Saltus Salmonis), or to him who supplies his place, for delivery of that
castle. |
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Enrolment of letters patent of the said Ralph to all his men, knights
and free tenants in Ireland, notifying them of the aforesaid grant to the
king and ordering them to answer and be intendant to the king as their
lord for their homages, fealties and all other services. Dated at Westminster, on Wednesday after Martinmas, 30 Edward. |
