Dec. 30.
Odiham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. R. bishop of Hereford,
one of the executors of the will of Thomas, late bishop of Hereford, has
shown the king that whereas the king on 16 June, in the fourth year of
his reign, granted by his letters patent to Thomas the manor of Erleye,
near Rading', which belonged to Henry de Erleye, deceased, tenant in
chief, and which was in the king's hands by reason of the minority of
Henry's heir, to have until the heirs should come of age, rendering
therefor 16 marks yearly to the exchequer, and afterwards, on 7 July,
in the fifth year, he granted by other letters patent, for a fine of 200l.
made with him by Thomas, the wardship of the lands that belonged to
Philip de Arneleye, tenant in chief, to have, with the advowsons of
churches and dowers, when they should fall in, until Philip's heirs should
come of age, with the marriage of the heirs, and Thomas had the wardship of the said manor and of the lands that belonged to Philip until his
death, and afterwards Richard and his co-executors of the will had the
wardship until John de Erleye, son of Philip, came of age, by virtue of
the fine and grant aforesaid, for which reason they ought to be discharged
of the 16 marks from the said 7 July, the treasurer and barons, although
the 200l. have been paid in full to the exchequer, exact the said 16 marks
yearly from the bishop and his executors from the said 7 July as
if the manor had not been contained in the king's last grant and
as if Philip's heir were still a minor in the king's wardship. As
the bishop has suggested to the king that an error had occurred in
writing Henry's name and in Philip's surname (cognomen) to wit the
name of Henry for that of Philip and the surname 'de Arneleye'
for that of 'de Erle,' and has besought the king to cause a remedy
to be provided for him and his co-executors, and the king has at his
request caused the rolls of the late king's chancery and of his own to be
searched in this behalf, and it appears to the king by inspection of the
rolls of the late king's chancery of the fifty-sixth year of his reign that
the late king took the homage of the said Philip, son and heir of the
said Henry, for all the lands that Henry held at his death of the said
king in chief, and by inspection of the rolls of the king's chancery that
Philip died in the third year of his reign, and that his lands were taken
into the king's hands by reason of his death, and were in his hands from
that year by reason of the minority of the said John until 13 January, in
the twentieth year, and also that the wardships of the manor and lands were
granted to Thomas under the names of Henry and Philip in the fourth
and fifth years of the reign in form aforesaid, whereby it appears that an
error had arisen in writing the name and surname: the king orders the
treasurers and barons to search the rolls of his exchequer and if they
ascertain that the said 200l. were paid to the king for the wardships
aforesaid, to discharge the bishop and his co-executors of the said 16
marks yearly from 7 July aforesaid. It is provided that the king shall be
satisfied for the 16 marks for the fourth year. |
