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May 9.
Morpeth |
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Whereas the king lately ordered
him to take seisin in the king's name of all the castles, towns, manors
and lands that Roger le Bigod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England,
had and held in fee in Ireland and which he had rendered to the king, and
then to deliver them and all their appurtenances to the earl, to hold to him
and the heirs of his body, in accordance with the form of a transcript of a
charter that the king then sent to the justiciary, and to cause to be
delivered to the earl all the goods and chattels in the castles, towns, manors
and lands, with the issues received thence in the king's name, and although
the earl has again the castles, towns, manors and lands and all the goods,
chattels and issues, he has not yet had seisin of the knights' fees pertaining
to the castles, towns, manors and lands: the king therefore orders the
justiciary to cause the earl to have seisin of the services and fealties of all
those who hold of the castles, towns, manors and lands and who did their
fealties to the king therefor and who are not bound to do homage, and to
distrain those who are bound to do homage to the king by reason of the
lands aforesaid to do their homage to the king without delay, so that the
king may cause to be done further for the earl what he ought to do in
this behalf. |
May 13.
Alnwick. |
To William de Hamelton, dean of York. Order to cause Ralph de
Kirketon to have a quarter of wheat every ten days and a robe or 20s.
yearly, and the arrears thereof from the time when the manor of
Hovyngham came to William's hands by the king's commission, and to
pay him the same henceforth for so long as William shall hold the manor,
as the king—upon its being found by an inquisition taken by Master
Richard de Havering, escheator this side Trent, that Roger de Moubray
granted by charter long before his death to Ralph for life the forestry of
Hovyngham, with wind-fallen trees and branches and the bark of trees
given away, together with a quarter of wheat every ten weeks from his
manor of Hovyngham, and a robe of the suit of Roger's esquires or 20s.
for it, to be received at the manor at Christmas yearly, rendering therefor
1d. at Christmas yearly, and that Ralph was in full and peaceful seisin
thereof from the time of the making of the charter until Roger's death,
and that John de Lythegrayns, late escheator this side Trent, took the
forestry, etc., into the king's hands by reason of Roger's death with
his other lands and delivered them to Edmund, late earl of Cornwall,
among other wardships of lands of heirs under age and in the king's
wardship granted to the earl by the king in part payment of a debt
in which the king was indebted to him by his letters patent—at Ralph's
prosecution, who suggested that although the forestry and appurtenances
had been restored to him, the executors of the earl's will did not permit
him to receive the wheat and robe in the said manor, which is in their
hands by reason of the delivery aforesaid, ordered the executors to cause
Ralph to have the wheat and robe or 20s., with the arrears thereof from
the time when the manor came to their hands; and the king afterwards
committed the manor and forest to William by letters patent under the
exchequer seal. |
May 9.
Morpeth. |
To Walter de la Haye, escheator of Ireland. Order to deliver to
Master William son of John, bishop of Ossory, the issues of the
temporalities of the bishopric since 24 October, in the thirtieth year of
the king's reign, on condition that the bishop satisfy the king for his
costs and charges in sowing the lands of the bishopric before the said
date or for any other cause, as the king, on the said day, granted his
assent to the election of William, then canon of that church, as bishop,
and signified to R. archbishop of Dublin by his letters patent that he
should execute his office in this behalf, and he also granted power by
other letters patent to John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, to deliver the
temporalities of the bishopric to William, if the election were confirmed
by the said archbishop and if he were certified of this by the archbishop's
letters patent, after receiving William's fealty, as appears by inspection
of the rolls of chancery; and the escheator does not permit the bishop to
receive the issues from the temporalities after the date of the said letters
patent sent to him, although the justiciary took the bishop's fealty after
the said date long before Easter last and directed to the escheator his
letters patent under the king's seal in Ireland for the restitution of the
temporalities. |
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[Prynne, Records, iii, p. 1015.] |
May 13
Alnwick. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order
to pay to Richard de Exon[ia], whom the king, on 1 November, in the
thirtieth year of his reign, appointed chief-justice in his Bench at Dublin
to hear and determine pleas in that Bench with others appointed for this
purpose, during the king's pleasure, as much yearly for his fee from the
said day and henceforth as other chief-justices were wont to receive in
times past. |
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Membrane 11. |
April 29.
Croft. |
John Deyvill, imprisoned at Newcastle-on-Tyne for the death of Walter
de Wyndesore, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him until the
first assize. |
April 29.
Croft. |
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
exchequer. Notification that the king has granted to Queen Margaret,
his consort, the fines and amercements of all those who made fines or
were amerced before Aymer de Valencia, Hugh le Despenser, Henry
Spigurnel, and John Abel, the king's justices to hear and determine the
trespasses committed against him in the park of Cammel, and order to
cause the estreats of the justices of the fines and amercements delivered
at the exchequer to be searched, and to cause the fines and amercements
contained therein to be levied without delay and delivered to the queen
without any deduction, exacting or retaining nothing thereof for the
king's use. |
May 7.
Newcastle-on Tyne. |
John Shayl, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of William de Peshale,
wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Stafford to bail him
until the first assize. |
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To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to restore to Michael Bloyghou,
clerk, his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands
upon his being charged before John de Berewyk and his fellows, justices
last in eyre in that county, with a robbery from the reeve (preposito) of
Thomas de Pridiaus, knight, at Penstradon, as he has purged his
innocence before Thomas, bishop of Exeter, to whom he was delivered in
accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
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Stephen de Trewennard, clerk, charged before the said justices with
robbery from the said reeve at Penstradon, has letters to the said sheriff
for the restitution of his goods. |
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William de Peddreda, clerk, indicted before the said justices for
counselling and assenting to the death of Thomas de Tregafrowen at
St. Germans and for robbery of his goods, has like letters. |
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Ellen, daughter of Lettice (Lecie) del Falles, imprisoned at York for
the death of Robert de Whitelay, wherewith she is charged, has letters to
the sheriff of York to bail her until the first assize. |
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To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to cause the prior of Luffeld
to have [seisin] of a messuage, 8 acres of land and an acre of meadow in
Thornebergh, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that
the messuage and lands, which Robert de Fraxino, who was hanged for
felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day and that
Robert held them of the prior, and that Walter de Molesworthe, sheriff of
the county, has had the king's year and day thereof, for which he ought
to answer to the king. |
May 13.
Alnwick |
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and barons of
the exchequer. Renewed order to search the rolls of the exchequer
concerning aids granted to the king's progenitors as to whether or not
the tenants in the Isle of Wight were wont to make an aid to marry
the king's eldest daughter, and if so, to which of the king's progenitors
and at what time, and if they were acquitted thereof, for what
reason and how they were acquitted, and to certify the king before
Michaelmas of what they shall find, and to respite in the meantime the
demand made upon Ralph de Gorges for such aid, as it was shown to the
king by Ralph that whereas he and his tenants in the Isle and other men
and tenants of the Isle ought not to make any aid to the king to marry
his eldest daughter from their knights' fees or their lands in the Isle by
reason of the grant lately made to the king of such an aid, and that they
or any others holding such fees or lands in the Isle were not wont to
make any such aid to the king's progenitors in times past, nevertheless
the collectors of the aid exact it from Ralph and other tenants in the Isle,
and the king thereupon ordered him who supplies the place of the
treasurer and the barons to search the rolls as above and to certify him
under their seals before Whitsuntide next, and they have returned that
many rolls and certain memoranda touching the matter contained in the
said writ are not at York but are in the treasury at London, so that they
could not at present certify him owing to the shortness of the time.
By C. Because it was sealed at another time by p.s. |
May 9.
Morpeth. |
To Robert Hereward and John de Ditton, late guardians of the
bishopric of Ely, the see being void. Order to permit Robert, bishop of
Ely, late prior of Ely, to have the issues of the temporalities of the
bishopric from 4 February last, and to pay to him anything that they
may have received since then, as the king, on that day, accepted the
appointment by pope B[oniface] of Robert as bishop, and took his fealty
and restored to him the temporalities, according to custom, and ordered
Robert and John to deliver to him the temporalities, and they do not
permit the bishop to have the issues of the temporalities from the said
day, as the king understands to his astonishment. |
May 16.
Roxburgh |
To Master Richard de Havering, escheator this side Trent. Order to
cause dower to be assigned to Anabilla, late the wife of Adam de
Charleton, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the
king's licence, in the presence of William, Adam's son and heir, if he
choose to be present. |
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To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
exchequer. Notification that whereas the abbot of St. Albans is bound to
do his service to the king for six knights' fees whenever the king causes
his service to be summoned, and William de Monte Acuto, the king's
yeoman, ought to do the service of one of the six fees to the king for the
abbot, by reason of certain tenements that he holds of the abbot by the
service of one knight's fee, as he says, the king has granted by his letters
patent that William, who has gone to Scotland in his service by his order,
shall on this occasion do to the king for the abbot the service of one of
the six fees due to the king in the army in Scotland, which the king lately
caused to be summoned, and that the abbot shall be discharged thereof,
and order to cause the abbot to be acquitted of the service for that fee. |
May 17.
Roxburgh. |
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him
who supplies his place. Order to permit the prior and friars of the
order of Preachers at Oxford to dig up (fodere) 100 feet of land in length
and 100 feet of land in breadth in Whateleye in the king's soil in the
place called 'Cherlegrave,' which is within the bounds of the forest of
Shottovre, and to dig out stones thence and to carry them to Oxford to
repair their houses there, without hindrance by the justice or any of his
ministers of that forest, until otherwise ordered, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the justice that it is not to the king's damage or to
the injury of that forest if the king should make this grant to them.
By p.s. [3236.] |
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To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of William Dovordale, deceased. |
May 26.
Roxburgh. |
Geoffrey de Wykelowe, imprisoned at Neugate for the death of William
le Fevre of Wykham, co. Suffolk, has letters to the sheriffs of London to
bail him until the first assize. |
May 16.
Roxburgh. |
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Whereas Ralph Pypard lately
rendered and quit-claimed to the king all the castles, towns, manors
and lands that he had in fee in Ireland for certain lands in England,
which the king granted to him by charter and of which he is now
seised, and it is contained among the inquisitions concerning the
lands in Ireland made by the justiciary by the king's order and
returned into the chancery of England that John Pypard, Ralph's
son, arramed before divers of the king's justices in Ireland assizes of novel
disseisin concerning certain of the lands whereof Ralph enfeoffed him
before Ralph rendered them to the king, and Ralph has shown before the
king's council certain writings of quit-claim by John to him of these
lands; the king orders the justiciary to cause the taking of the assizes
aforesaid to be superseded until otherwise ordered, and to warn John to
come to the king in England, if he see fit, to show cause why the lands
ought not to remain to the king by the surrender aforesaid. By C. |
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To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
exchequer. Whereas the king has pardoned Robert son of Walter, for his
good service in Gascony, all the arrears of the ferm due to him for the
castle of Bere and the county of Meronnyth, which he held at ferm by the
king's commission, for all the time, as well during the late war in Wales
as in peace, during which he has thus held them, as contained in the
king's letters patent: the king orders them to cause Robert to be acquitted
of the demand for the arrears of the said ferm. |
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To the same. Whereas the king, on 14 November, in the thirtieth
year of his reign, granted to Ralph Pypard, among other lands that he
granted to him for life, the ferm of the town of Aylesbury, co.
Buckingham, which Robert de Monte Alto and Emma, his wife, hold of
the king at fee-farm, to have as of the value of 60l. yearly in form
aforesaid, as contained in the king's letters patent to Ralph [Calendar of
Patent Rolls, 1301–1307, p. 78]; and the king ordered Robert and Emma
to answer to Ralph during his life for the ferm of the town at the same
terms as they were wont to pay it to the exchequer: the king orders
them to cause Ralph to have the ferm from the said day, and to discharge
Robert and Emma thereof from that day. |
May 17.
Roxburgh. |
To the sheriff of Oxford. Whereas Henry le fiz Neel, who was
indicted for a trespass against Hugh le Despenser at Ottemore, in
that county, before William de Bereford and William Wace, justices
appointed to hear and determine the trespass, and was put in
exigent in the sheriff's county [court], has now rendered himself to
prison at York and has found before the king mainprise by Andrew de
Sakevill, of co. Sussex, Richard Grusset, of co. Buckingham, Michael de
Pokelington, of co. York, John Dymmok, of co. Oxford, John Aleyn and
Adam de Rammeseye, of co. Middlesex, who have mainperned to have
him before the justices at the first day that they shall provide for this
purpose in the sheriff's county to answer to Hugh and to do and receive
what the court shall consider: the king orders him to supersede the
execution of the exaction aforesaid, and to have this writ before the
justices at that day. By C. |
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To the sheriff of Southampton. Whereas the king learns by inquisition
taken by Robert de Glamorgan and John de la Lee that a certain ship
called 'La Blithe' was lately about to go empty from Southampton to
Gascony, and that an agreement was made in that town between John
Gobard, master of the ship, and Pelegrinus de Castello, merchant of
Bayonne, that John should take Pelegrinus to Devon and Cornwall, and
that Pelegrinus wished to carry with him to Devon and Cornwall 24l.
sterling then found with him to provide lead and tin there, and that he
did not intend to go to parts beyond sea, and also that he sent his yeoman
by land to Devon and Cornwall to provide lead and tin for his use against
his arrival in those parts: the king orders the sheriff to pay to Pelegrinus
24l. for the said 24l., which the mayor, bailiffs and searchers of the town
of Southampton arrested under the belief that Pelegrinus wished to take
them to parts beyond sea, contrary to the king's inhibition of any one
taking money or any silver in mass out of his realm, which sum the
searchers afterwards paid into the wardrobe. By C. |
