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Membrane 23. |
Nov. 21.
Burstwick. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands that Thomas de Nevill, tenant in chief,
held of other lords than the king, as the lands that he held of the king and
of other lords were taken into the king's hands by reason of his death,
and the king makes this order for certain reasons although he could
retain in his hands the lands that Thomas held of him. By p.s. [5180.] |
Nov. 25.
Burstwick. |
Whereas the king lately ordered the sheriff of Northumberland to cause
a coroner to be elected in place of Henry de Neweton, who was incapacitated by illness and infirmity, and the king understands that the sheriff
has elected William de Tynemuth, who has no lands, sparing the rich
men who have lands; the king, because he considers William insufficient
for the office, orders the sheriff, if William have no lands as aforesaid, to
amove him from office without delay and to cause another to be elected
in his place. |
Nov. 24.
Burstwick. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Andrew Nye of Staunford, deceased. |
Nov. 25.
Burstwick. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de
Byron, late sheriff of co. York, to be acquitted of 621l. 2s. 5d. exacted from
him for the goods that belonged to Nicholas de Meignil, clerk, which
were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before the
justices in eyre in co. York with the death of William de Moubray
and Maud, his wife, Richard de Moubray, William's son, and Hilda,
Richard's sister, and with burning the houses of William and the houses
of the vicar of Rudeby and with harbouring William Cokerel and Reginald
le Hunte, the king's felons, as the king, because Nicholas purged his
innocence before J. late archbishop of York, to whom he was delivered by
the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, ordered the
sheriff to restore the aforesaid goods to Nicholas. |
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The like in favour of John for 23l. 15s. 0d. for the goods and chattels of
Thomas de Etton of Haysthorp, clerk, who was charged before the justices
in eyre with receiving Laurence de Horseworth. |
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The like in favour of John for 113s. 5d. for the goods and chattels
of John de Levynton, clerk, who was charged before Hugh de Cressingham
and his fellows, justices last in eyre, with receiving William, his son,
a felon. |
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To the same. Order to cause John to be acquitted of 23l. 9s. 2d. for
the goods of Walter de Bolleby, clerk, who was charged before Hugh de
Cressingham and his fellows, justices last in eyre in co. York, with the
homicide of William de Moubray and Maud, his wife, Hilda, his daughter,
and Richard, her brother, as the king ordered the sheriff to restore the
goods to Walter because he had purged his innocence before the chapter
of St. Peter's, York, the guardians of the spirituality of the archbishopric
during the voidance of the see, to whom he was delivered at York by
Roger le Brabazon and his fellows, the king's justices to hold pleas before
him, in accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
Nov. 25.
Burstwick. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver
to Isabel, late the wife of Hugh Bardolf, tenant in chief, the manor of
Plumpton, co. Sussex, which he took into the king's hands by reason of
Hugh's death, and to restore to her the issues received thence by him, as
the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Hugh and
Isabel were jointly enfeoffed thereof by William Bardolf, Hugh's father,
to have to them and to Hugh's heirs, and that they held the manor jointly
at Hugh's death, and that it is held of the heir of John de Warenna, late
earl of Surrey, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, and the
king has taken her fealty for the manor. |
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To the same. Whereas the king learns by an inquisition taken by
the escheator that the aforesaid Hugh and Isabel held jointly of her
inheritance at his death certain lands in Scrouteby, co. Norfolk, the manor
of Percynge, co. Sussex, certain lands in Croston, co. Buckingham, certain
lands in Hoo, co. Kent, certain tenements in Gretham and Emlesworth,
co. Southampton, the manor of Bures, co. Suffolk, certain tenements in
Watton Stone, co. Hertford, and the manor of Adyngton, co. Surrey; the
king orders the escheator to retain in the king's hands for certain reasons
the tenements in Emlesworth and Watton and the manor of Adyngton
until otherwise ordered, and to deliver to Isabel all the other manors and
lands which were taken into the king's hands by reason of Hugh's death,
and to deliver to her the issues received thence. |
Nov. 21.
Burstwick. |
To the same. Order to deliver to Isabel the following of the lands that
belonged to Hugh, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the manor
of Bercampe, co. Sussex, which is extended at 17l. 12s. 4d. yearly; the
manor of Ryskynton with the hamlets of Dyggeby and Lesingham, co.
Lincoln, which are extended at 62l. 2s. 8½d. yearly; certain lands in
Fillingham, in the same county, which are extended at 20l. 16s. 1d.
yearly; certain lands in Rungeton, co. Norfolk, which are extended at
75s. 6½d. yearly; certain lands in Strumpeshagh, in the same county,
which are extended at 6l. 10s. 0½d. yearly; certain lands in the same
town, which are extended at 14l. 18s. 8½d. yearly; 60s. 1d. of yearly
rent to be received by the hands of four free tenants in Houton near
Dunstaple, co. Bedford. |
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Memorandum, that this assignment was made by the assent of Thomas
Bardolf, son and heir of the said Hugh, and that Thomas came into
chancery at York, on the said day, and granted that he would cause
43s. 9½d. yearly of land and rent that are lacking to Isabel to be
assigned to her in a suitable place. |
Nov. 28.
Burstwick. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver
to the aforesaid Isabel all the king's goods and chattels in the
manors of Watton, co. Hertford, Adington, co. Surrey, and Emlesworth, co. Southampton, which the said Hugh held at his death of
the king in chief of her inheritance, as Isabel, on 21 November
last, quit claimed to the king by her charter all her right in the
said manors, which the king had caused to be taken into his hands
with the other lands that Hugh held of him, and the king has now
granted to her the said manors for her life as fully as they were taken
into his hands, with provision that they shall remain after her death to
William, her son, to hold to him and the heirs of his body of the king
by the services therefor due and accustomed, with reversion to Isabel's
right heirs if he die without an heir of his body, as contained in the king's
charter, and the king has granted to her his goods and chattels in the
manors. |
Nov. 27.
Burstwick. |
To Miles de Stapelton, constable of Knaresburgh castle and keeper of
the king's forest there. Order to cause oaks and other great trees to the
value of 30l. to be sold, and to cause the king's works in the castle to be
done therewith, as he has been more fully enjoined on the king's behalf.
By K. on the information of the treasurer. |
Nov. 23.
Burstwick. |
To the sheriff of York. As it is testified before the king by Hugh de
Louthre, his justice to deliver Carlisle gaol, that Alexander de Wilton is
imprisoned at York by the appeal of Hugh Renothemen, the king's
approver imprisoned in Carlisle gaol, of being concerned (de societate) with
larceny and other trespasses against the king's peace in Cumberland,
and for no other reason, the king orders the sheriff to cause Alexander to
be conducted at his own cost to Carlisle to be delivered to the sheriff of
Cumberland, whom the king has ordered to receive him and keep him
in Carlisle gaol until he shall be delivered according to the law and custom
of the realm. |
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To the sheriff of Cumberland. Mandate in pursuance. |
Nov. 28.
Burstwick. |
To Nicholas Fermbaud, constable of Bristol castle. Order to permit
Master John de Cantok, brother and heir of Nicholas de Cantok, the son
and heir of Roger de Cantok, burgess of Bristol, to receive 20 marks
yearly from the fine of merchants of woad (wayde) coming to the town of
Bristol to sell woad there and to ply their merchandise there, in the same
way as Roger, his brother (sic), and Nicholas, his brother, had it during
their lives, in accordance with the king's grant, which he made before his
accession by his charter under the seal then used by him, to Roger for his
good service of 20 marks as above yearly to him and his heirs, which
grant the late king confirmed by his charter, which the king has inspected,
as Roger received this sum during his life and Nicholas received it after
Roger's death, and the constable now hinders John from receiving this
sum yearly, as the king learns from his complaint. |
