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Aug. 5. Perth. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to the wife of Richard le Noreys, tenant in chief,
upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence. |
Aug. 10. Stirling. |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to Henry de Monte
Forti, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that
Henry at his death held nothing of the king in chief by reason whereof
the wardship of his lands ought to pertain to the king. |
Aug. 9. Stirling. |
To the collectors of the king's custom on wines of Brigerak and
St. Emilion loaded at Pierrefite (Petram Fixam) and Leyburn and brought
to London. Order to permit Bernard Johan de Rue Majore to be acquitted
of the 4s. upon each tun of wine of Brigerak, the Limousin, and
St. Emilion thus loaded and brought to London by him, as the king has
pardoned all men the said sum, which he lately ordered to be taken in his
realm. It is provided that he shall pay the due and old customs thereon,
and shall pay to the king the new custom granted to him by merchants of
the duchy [of Aquitaine]. |
Aug. 21 Selkirk. |
To the bailiffs of Boston. Whereas the king lately at the suit of
Ralph Gedge and John de Fycheford (rectius Pycheford), burgesses and
merchants of Schardeburgh—suggesting to him that two of their ships with
the goods and chattels in them to the value of 200l. were driven by
contrary winds to the port of Northbern within the land and power of
the king of Norway, and were unjustly arrested by Erlingr (Helenger)
Hildesone, the said king's bailiff at Northbern, and are detained by him—
requested the said king by his letters to cause the ships with the goods
and chattels to be restored to the merchants, and to cause justice to be
done to them in this behalf; and, because the said king had done nothing
in this matter but had wholly failed to do justice, as appears to the king
by the letters testimonial of the burgesses of Skardeburgh sealed with
their common seal, the king ordered the bailiffs of Lynn to cause goods
and wares of the men and merchants of the land or power of the king
of Norway to the value of 100l. to be arrested, and he ordered the bailiffs
of Boston to arrest goods and wares in like manner to the value of 100l.,
and to cause them to be kept safely and to certify the king of their
proceedings; and the bailiffs of Boston have returned that they have
arrested goods and wares of Clof (rectius Elof) Long of Bergh', Seword
de Bergh', and Eric (Herike) Breche, merchants of Norway found
in their bailwick, to wit in the hands of Andrew de la Gotere
of Boston 19l. sterling, and in the hands of William de Bray of London
honey to the value of 21l., and in the hands of Nicholas de
Fakenham of Lynn 14l. sterling, and honey to the value of 6l., and
that they detain the goods and wares under arrest by virtue of the said
order; the king, wishing to aid his merchants with a speedy recovery,
orders the bailiffs of Boston to cause the honey aforesaid to be appraised
by the oath of merchants and others of their bailiwick, and to cause it to be
delivered with the money aforesaid to the said merchants in part payment
of the 100l. aforesaid, and, in addition, to cause goods and wares of
merchants of Norway to be arrested to the amount of the balance of the
said 100l., and to cause them to be kept safely, and to certify the king
without delay of all their proceedings by their letters. |
Aug. 23 Jedburgh. |
To the bailiffs of John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, at Boston.
Whereas the king, at the suit of Raymund de la Browe, citizen of London,
—suggesting to him that Nicholas son of Nicholas and Peter Caleward
and certain other malefactors of Lombardy took and carried away by
force and arms in Flanders four bales of red tawed (aluti) leather,
spices and other small things, to the value of over 100l. sterling,
which had been bought by Reymund for the king's use in parts beyond
sea, in a ship of Povonese (sic) that was taking them to England to the
port of Sandwich, from Reymund's men and servants who were deputed
for the custody of the said goods—requested Sir Philip, son of Sir G[uy],
count of Flanders, Chieti (Thiect') and Loretto (Lorect'), to compel
Nicholas and Peter and the other malefactors aforesaid to make restitution
of the goods or satisfaction for their value to him who should prosecute
this matter before the count in the name of the king and of the said
merchant; and it now appears to the king by inspection of the letters
patent of the échevins and consuls of the five good towns of Flanders,
which were shown to the king under the common seal of the town of
Bruges, that the said échevins and consuls have condemned Nicholas
and Peter and the other malefactors aforesaid in 485l. 1s. 0d.
of Paris, at which the goods were appraised, and also in 12l. of
the same money for Reymund's expenses in the matter, to be
paid to Reymund, and have also decreed that the men of the said (sic)
towns of Lombardy shall satisfy him without delay for this sum; and
because the échevins and consuls delayed putting this condemnation and
decree into execution, the king again requested the count to cause
Reymund or his attorney to be satisfied without delay for the sums of
money thus adjudged to him, lest it should behove the king to provide
Reymund with another remedy for lack of justice; and nothing has as
yet been done in the matter, although Reymund's attorney has prosecuted
the matter as much as he could, as the king learns from Reymund's
renewed complaint; for which reason the king ordered the said bailiffs to
cause all goods and wares of merchants of Flanders who are not of the
fealty or friendship of the king of France to be arrested to the value of
the sums adjudged to Reymund, in so far as this could be done with least
damage to the said merchants, and to cause them to be kept safely until
Reymund should be satisfied for the said sums, and to certify the king of
their proceedings; and they have certified him by their letters that they
have caused goods and wares of merchants of Flanders to be arrested to
the value of 41l. 10s. 0d., to wit from Walter the clerk of Bruges five pieces
of cloth, which are appraised at 12l. 10s. 0d., and from him in ready
money in the hands of John Sparwe 12l., from Outre Scourbote in ready
money in the hands of Robert Binte of Norwich 4l., and a ship of Flanders,
which is appraised at 8l., and another ship, which is appraised at 100s.,
by virtue of the king's order aforesaid: the king, wishing to provide for
his own indemnity and for that of Reymund, orders the bailiffs to cause
the cloth and ships to be appraised by the oath of merchants and others
of that bailiwick, and to deliver them with the money aforesaid to
Reymund, in part satisfaction of the sum aforesaid, certifying the king of
their proceedings in writing. |
Aug. 11. Stirling. |
To Walter de Gloucest[ria], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
Otto, son and heir of John Ferre, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the
lands whereof his father at his death was seised, as the king has taken
Otto's homage. |
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Memorandum, that the king of his special grace took Otto's homage
because he was born in foreign parts (traxit originem in partibus transmarinis), for which reason he could not prove his age in England
according to the law and custom of the realm. |
Aug. 15. Linlithgow. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Notification
that the king has pardoned Stephen le Poer, for his good service in
Scotland, 20 marks due from him to the king at that exchequer for divers
amercements into which he fell in the king s courts in Ireland and for
divers writs sued out by him in the chancery of Ireland, and order to
cause him to be acquited thereof. By p.s. and by pet. sent from the king. |
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The like to the same in favour of the following: |
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Roger Heghleye, for 10 marks by which he made fine before John
Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, for a trespass. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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Hugh de Anton', for 100l. for the debts of Richard de Anton', his
father, and for his own debts. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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Maurice de Carreu, for 400l. for the arrears of the ferm for the lands
that he holds of the king in chief in Dessemond in Ireland.
By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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Walter Cradok, for 9l. for writs sued out in the chancery of Ireland
and for being pledge for divers men against the king and for divers
other causes. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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John son of John le Poer, for 50 marks due to that exchequer for
divers causes. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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Stephen Fraunceys, for 8l. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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John le Botiller, executor of the will of William le Botiller, for
12l. 4s. 0d. due from him in the name of the deceased by a recognisance made to the king by John at the said exchequer, unless
the money be levied from certain rents or other lands that are of
the king's demesnes. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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Roger le Poer, for 20l. of the 40l. by which he and Thomas le Poer made
fine with the king for a trespass that they were said to have committed
in Ireland, provided that Thomas be charged with the remaining
20l. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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William de Caunton, for 100l. due to the said exchequer by divers
particulars. By p.s. and pet. as above. |
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John son of William le Poer, for 10l. of the 20l. in which he was
amerced in that exchequer for a contempt against the king.
By p.s. and pet. as above. |
Aug. 15. Linlithgow. |
To the same. Order to cause Gilbert le Waleys, the elder, to be
acquitted of 20l. due from him to that exchequer for the escape of certain
thieves from his prison at Cork, who were in his custody when he was the
king's sheriff there, as the king has pardoned Gilbert this sum because
he, being broken with age, has sent Gilbert le Waleys, the younger, his
kinsman, in the king's service to Scotland, and the latter has served the
king there well and faithfully. By p.s. and pet. sent from K. |
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To the same. Roger son of Roger de Penbrok has shown the king that
whereas his father was indebted to the king in 200 marks for the arrears
of his account of the time when he was the king's sheriff in co. Tyrone,
in Ireland, and he paid 71l. 8s. 4d. of this sum to Robert Maunsel,
afterwards sheriff of that county, for the king's use by summons of that
exchequer, and he also paid 20l. to Walter Lenfaunt by the king's writ of
the chancery of Ireland directed to him for the custody of the castle of
Athelone, concerning which he has letters patent of Robert and Walter
witnessing the receipt of the said money and also the king's writ of the
precept, the said treasurer and barons still defer making allowance to him
for these sums: the king, wishing to aid Roger son of Roger by reason
of his good service in Scotland, orders them to inspect the said letters
patent and the writ, and, if they find it is as stated, to cause full and due
allowance to be made to Roger in accordance with the law and custom of
that exchequer, and to cause him to have reasonable terms at which he
may pay the remaining 41l. 18s. 4d. |
Sept. 2. Horton. |
To Robert de Burghersch, constable of Dover castle and warden of the
Cinque Ports. Order to permit Gerard Salvayn, knight, and Master
Roger de Heselerton, clerk, the king's special envoys to parts beyond sea for
the expedition of certain of his affairs there, to cross with their household,
horses, arms and other things; provided that they carry with them to
parts beyond sea nothing contrary to the form of the ordinance lately
made that money or silver in mass shall not be taken out of the realm. |
Aug. 24 Yetholm. |
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place.
Whereas the king lately, at the suit of the bishop of Killaloe (Laonien')—
suggesting that the justiciary had taken into the king's hands for
unreasonable causes three carucates and 84½ acres of land in the town of
the New Castle of Lyons near Dublin, which land the bishop asserts is the
right of his church—ordered the justiciary to certify him of the manner
and cause of taking them into the king's hands, and the justiciary has
returned that whereas Maurice, late bishop of Killaloe, was seised of
3 carucates and 84½ acres at Kilulkan in the said town as of the right
of his church by an exchange made between the king and Matthew
Ohogan, late bishop of that place, for certain lands at Roschire, the
said Maurice committed the said land to Thomas son of James
Ohogan, to be held to Thomas in fee, without the consent of his chapter
and without obtaining the king's licence, and that Master Robert de
Dondovenald, as guardian of Thomas, received the issues of the said land
for three years, wherefore it was ordained by the king's council of Ireland
that Walter de la Haye, escheator of Ireland, should take the lands
into the king's hands, and that the lands were taken into the king's hands
for this reason, and have been detained until now, as the justiciary states
that he learns by the return of the said escheator and by an inquisition
taken by the escheator and delivered to him, a transcript whereof he has
sent to the king; and as it does not appear by the inquisition aforesaid
that Thomas was present at the taking of the inquisition to show any
right that he might have or that he has been in any way warned as to
this up to the present time, the king orders the justiciary to cause Thomas
to be warned to be before the justiciary at a certain day and place to be
provided by the justiciary, if Thomas shall see fit, to prosecute any right
that he may claim to have in the lands, and if the justiciary find no
reasonable cause why the bishop ought not to enter and have the
lands as the right of his church and if he ascertain that they
were taken into the king's hands solely for this reason, he shall
order the escheator to amove the king's hands from the lands without
delay, and not to meddle further therewith, saving the king's right
when he shall wish to speak concerning this matter. By p.s.
[Prynne, Records, iii, p. 1049.] |
Aug. 28. Morpeth. |
To the official of the archbishop of York and to his commissary.
Adam de Osgodby, king's clerk, parson of the church of Gayrgrave,
which is of the advowson of Henry de Percy, has shown the king that
whereas he demanded before the official and commissary in Court
Christian against the abbot and convent of Furneis the tithes issuing
from their lands and culture within the limits of the parish church aforesaid as pertaining to him as rector and to his church, and after various
allegations of the abbot aud convent had been inspected and after certain
papal privileges produced by them for their immunity from payment of
tithes had been diligently examined and after their proofs (racionibus) had
been understood, it was considered by the official and the commissary
that the abbot and convent shall pay the said tithes to the rector and his
church, and that the tithes ought to pertain to him and his successors and
to his church of right notwithstanding the privileges aforesaid, the official
and commissary have nevertheless stayed proceedings by pretext of a writ
of the king called 'indicavit' ordering them not to proceed in this
plea in Court Christian, which writ the abbot sued out in the king's court
surreptitiously, maliciously suggesting that he holds a quarter of that
church of his own advowson as if he were patron or as if the tithe
amounted to the value of a quarter of the church; and whereas the king,
at the suit of his said clerk, has caused the true value of the church and
also of the tithes to be inquired by the sheriff of York, and he learns by the
inquisition that the church is worth yearly 110 marks beyond the tithes
aforesaid, and that the said tithes are worth yearly 100s., whereby it
appears that they do not amount to a quarter of the value of the church;
the king, not wishing to derogate from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction by
such false suggestion or to delay further Adam's right, orders the official
and his commissiary to proceed notwithstanding the aforesaid prohibition
to the execution of the judgement (considerationis) aforesaid in Court
Christian, as ought to be done in an ecclesiastical court. [Ibid, p. 1039]. |