Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1307

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1892.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: December 1307', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 11-16. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp11-16 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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December 1307

Membrane 14.
Dec. 6.
Langley.
To Walter de Gloucestre, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Edward Burnel, son of Philip Burnel, seisin of all the lands held by his father in chief of the late king, as he has proved his age and done homage. By p.s.
The like to Stephen le Blund, escheator in the county of Chester.
Dec. 1.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause John Gawayn, in the king's prison at Canterbury for theft of goods of John de Banquelle, to be brought at his own expense under safe custody to Neugate, there to be delivered to the keeper.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Dover. Order to permit Richard de Hertford, elected to the abbacy of Holy Cross, Waltham, to take with him over sea 20l. for his expenses to Rome in connexion with his election, notwithstanding the proclamation against exporting money.
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to permit John Abel, whom Margaret, queen of England, is sending over sea to make provision against her arrival there, to pass the sea with his horses and equipments (hernesiis) and with 100l., notwithstanding the proclamation against the export of money.
Dec. 10.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to release Robert de Dadington and William Jurdan from Exeter prison, whither they were sent by the late king after they had been arrested by Nicholas de Teukesbury, bailiff of Dertemuth, for attempting to take over sea two horses of the value of 40s., contrary to the late king's prohibition of the export of horses of that value, and to restore to them their horses and goods.
Dec. 4.
Reading.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to deliver to John, bishop of Lincoln, seisin of a messuage and 1½ acres of land in Newerk and Northgate, which were held of him by William de la Haye, outlawed for felony, as they have been in the late king's hands for a year and a day. The township of Newerk has had the late king's year and day thereof, and ought to answer for the same.
The like to the same for a messuage in Newerk that the said William held of the dean and chapter of St. Mary, Lincoln.
To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Order to cause John le Latimer to have scutage of the knights' fees held of him, at the rate of 40s. pro scuto, Aymer de Valencia having certified that the said John served the late king in his army of Scotland in the 31st year of his reign.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to pay their wages to Patrick de Pollesworth, a Scotch prisoner, Rhys (Resus) brother of Malgon, Griffin his brother, and the son of Rhys ap Mereduk, Welsh prisoners in Norwich castle, at the rate allowed them in the late king's time. [Fœdera.]
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to Walter Olyfart, a Scotch prisoner in Winchester castle, his wages as above. [Ibid.]
Dec. 10.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to pay to Simon le Armurer, a Scotch prisoner in Exeter castle, the arrears of his wages as in the time of the late King. [Ibid.]
Dec. 10.
Westminster.
The like to the sheriff of Cornwall, in favour of William Giffard, Adam le Pykard, and Gilkrys de la Kesme, Scotch prisoners in Launceveton castle. [Ibid.]
Aug. 6.
Dumfries.
To the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer. Order to discharge the abbot of Hayles of 50l. yearly, which he used to pay for the town of Lecchelade to the late Edmund, earl of Cornwall, and, after his death, to the late king, the king having granted the earldom of Cornwall and all the lands of the said Edmund to Peter de Gavaston, knight.
The like in favour of Michael de Meldon for 4 marks annually for his lands in Worton.
Nov. 25.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to provide bridges and hurdles (claias) for the king's passage into France. [Fœdera.]
Dec. 12.
Westminster.
To John de Britannia, earl of Richemund, [keeper] of Scotland. Order to restore to Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembrok, his lands, etc., in the counties of Sellekyrk and Twedale and in the forest of Sellekyrk, which he has seized into the king's hands because the men and tenants of the same had of late traitorously adhered to Robert de Brus, the king's enemy and rebel.
Dec. 14.
Westminster.
To Roger le Brabazun. Order to release Reginald de Cobeham, imprisoned in the Tower of London, to which he was committed for three years by the said Roger and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer of the late king in the county of Kent, for a trespass made by him in the park of Margaret, late the wife of Stephen de Penecestre, at Penecestre, of which term the said Reginald has served more than two years, taking from him a reasonable fine for the unexpired time of his sentence and also for the said trespass.
By K. on the information of W. Inge and W. de Melton.
Dec. 1.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Berkshire. Order to cause coroners to be elected for that county, as many as the county has been wont to have, both from those who have served the office in the reign of the late king and from the lawful men of the same county, exempting only those who were elected after the king's accession.
The like to all the sheriffs of England.
Dec. 10.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to prepare from the woods in his bailliwick, both within liberties and without, where it may be done to the least damage of the owners of the woods, 350 quarters of charcoal, the residue of 400 quarters lately ordered to be prepared, he having certified that he could only procure 50 quarters in his bailiwick. He is to satisfy those from whose woods the charcoal has been taken for the same.
Dec. 1.
Langley.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the abbot of St. Mary, York 100l. which he paid to the late king for licence to appropriate to the said house the church of Donecastre of his own patronage, the abbot being unable to procure the appropriation and having surrendered the late king's letters patent to be cancelled. By p.s. [73.]
Membrane 13.
Dec. 15.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of York. Order to choose 24 men of his county, knights or others, and to summon them to be at York, on pain of forfeiture, on Sunday in the morrow of the Epiphany in the early morning, where the sheriff is also to attend, there to execute the things contained in a writ to be afterwards addressed to him for the preservation of the peace, the king being about to cross the seas. [Fœdera; Parl. Writs.]
The like to other sheriffs to summon certain numbers of men to appear at specified places in their bailiwick. [Ibid.]
Dec. 20.
Byfleet.
To the sheriff of York. Order to execute the things contained in another writ sent to him by the king's clerk John de Brantingham, the bearer of the presents, and to take oath before the said John to that effect and that he will not reveal the contents thereof until it have been put into execution, as the clerk will enjoin him. Afterwards, having opened the writ in the presence of the said clerk, he is to execute all the things therein contained without delay; provided that he take oath, before the said clerk, from the 24 men whom he was lately ordered to summon, or any of them whom he shall think fit, that they will not reveal the premises until they have been put into execution.
The like to:
The sheriff of Northumberland by John de Shefeld, clerk.
The sheriff of Cumberland by Henry de Craystok, clerk.
The sheriff of Westmoreland by John de Crosseby, clerk.
The sheriff of Lancaster by William de Whetele, clerk.
The sheriff of Lincoln by Richard de Nassington, clerk.
The sheriff of Nottingham and Derby by Nicholas de Rolleston, clerk.
The sheriff of Salop and Stafford by Robert de Marchumleye, clerk.
The sheriff of Warwick and Leicester by William de Leycestre, clerk.
The sheriff of Rutland by Robert de Haliwell, clerk.
The sheriff of Northampton by Master Roger de Boudon, clerk.
The sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon by William de Fulburn, clerk.
The sheriff of Buckingham and Bedford by Richard de Notingham, clerk.
The sheriff of Worcester by Nicholas Makerel, clerk.
The sheriff of Hereford by John de Derby, clerk.
The sheriff of Gloucester by John de Aslakton, clerk.
The sheriff of Somerset and Dorset by Joceus de Brantiscombe, clerk.
The sheriff of Devon by John de Borham, clerk.
The sheriff of Cornwall by Thomas de Cornwall, clerk.
The sheriff of Wiltshire by Robert de Hauvill, clerk.
The sheriff of Southampton by William de Grantham.
The sheriff of Oxford and Berkshire by Richard Prys.
The sheriff of Surrey and Sussex by Master William de Wodeford.
The sheriff of London by Roger le Brabazon, Roger de Hegham, and John de Sandale.
The sheriff of Middlesex by the same.
The sheriff of Kent by Henry de Pluckeleie.
The sheriff of Essex and Hertford by Edmund de Sancto Clemente.
The sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk by John de Norwico.
[Parl. Writs.]
Dec. 20.
Byfleet.
To the sheriff of York. Order to attach, on Wednesday next after the feast of the Epiphany next, in the morning all the brethren of the order of the Temple in his bailiwick, by their bodies and goods, and to form an inventory of all their goods, muniments, etc., in the presence of the keeper of that place, to wit a brother of the said order. He is to cause their bodies to be safely guarded elsewhere than in their own places, but not to place them in hard and vile prison, and to find them sustenance. He is to certify the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of what he has done herein, the names of the brethren arrested, and of their lands, etc. [Fœdera; Parl. Writs.]
The like to all the sheriffs of England.
Look on the dorse concerning the same matter.
Membrane 12.
Dec. 10.
Westminster.
To the prior and convent of Sixle. Order to deliver by indenture Christiana, late the wife of Christopher de Seton, an enemy and rebel of the king's father, by whom she was sent to the said convent there to be detained, to Thomas de Gray, who has mainperned before the king to answer for her body. By K.
Dec. 4.
Reading.
To W. archbishop of York. Order to appoint collectors for the fifteenth lately granted by the clergy to the king, to be levied according to the taxation of the tenth now current, so that the collectors pay a moiety thereof at the king's exchequer on the morrow of the Annunciation, and the other moiety on the morrow of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. [Parl. Writs.]
The like to J. bishop of Carlisle; A. bishop of Durham; J. bishop of Lincoln; J. bishop of Norwich; . . ., bishop of Ely; R. bishop of London; T. bishop of Rochester; J. bishop of Chichester; S. bishop of Sarum; R. bishop of Hereford; W. bishop of Bath and Wells; H. bishop of Winchester; . . , bishop of Bangor; . . , bishop of St. Davids (Menevenc); . . , bishop of St. Asaph; . . , bishop of Llandaff; the keeper of the spiritualities of the archbishopric of Canterbury; the keeper of the spiritualities of the bishoprics of Worcester and Exeter, sedibus vacantibus. [Ibid.]
Dec. 15.
Westminster.
To John de Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to deliver to Roger de Mortuo Mari, son and heir of Edmund de Mortuo Mari, lately deceased, tenant in chief of the late king, the lands of his inheritance in Ireland, in the king's hands by reason of his minority, the king having restored to him his lands, although he is still under age.
By K. on the information of W. Inge.
Nov. 8.
Westminster.
To Simon de Heyford, keeper of the king's manors of Fremlingham and Saham. Order to repair the palings (palicia) about the parks of Fremlingham and Saham, which are broken and destroyed (diruta).
Dec. 14.
Westminster.
To Roger le Brabazun. Order to release from prison Richard atte Hawe, late constable of Oxford castle, who has been imprisoned for three years on an attachment to answer the late king in his court before the said Roger and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer of the late king, as to why he allowed Alice la Dreys to depart from prison, to which she had been committed by the late king's justices of gaol delivery of the said castle until she was delivered of child, she having been convicted of felony before the said justices by an inquisition of the country upon which she had put herself; for whose escape the said Richard was indicted before the said Roger and his associates, and was committed to prison on that account, and because he detained the castle against Walter de Gloucestre, who was sent by the late king to take it into the king's hands.
By K. on the information of W. Ing.
Dec. 16.
Westminster.
To Ralph de Sandwico, constable of the Tower of London. Order to release, upon his finding six mainpernors who will mainpern him body for body, Walter de Winton', detained in the said tower upon an indictment for certain jewels of the late king stolen (furtive asportatis) in Scotland.
By C.
To Roger le Brabanzon. Order to deliver from prison Henry de Tiresersh' and John his brother, who were convicted before William de Bereford and his associates, the late king's justices of oyer and terminer in the county of Sussex, for divers trespasses by them committed in the parks of divers men in the said county, and for various other trespasses, for which they were committed to prison by the said court, there to remain for a certain time according to the statute in this case, as appears by the record of the said justices, which the king sends herewith sub pede sigilli. The said Henry and John have been imprisoned for two years. He is to take from them reasonable fines for the king's use for the unexpired term of the imprisonment of 36 years as well as for what pertains to the king for the said trespasses.
Dec. 24.
Westminster.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to continue to pay to Peter Mallore and Matilda, daughter of Stephen de Baiocis, deceased, a moiety of the issues of the lands that are of the inheritance of the said Matilda in the counties of Lincoln and Dorset, as commanded by the late king by his writ dated June 8, in the 26th year of his reign.
Nov. 28.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. Order to provide Richard de Donecastre, the king's clerk, with the costs that he shall expend in the freightage (in frettagio) of a ship to carry to Boulogne-sur-Mer hay, horse shoes (ferra ad equos), and nails for the same, and for carriage thereof, the king having sent him to the said counties to make provision thereof.
To the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. Order to provide omni modo and carry at once to Boulogne ten thousands of wood (buscae), if he be unable to get ready the twenty thousands of wood (buscae) of great billets (bilettis) that the king ordered him to provide in his bailiwick, and to provide and send the remaining ten thousands as quickly as possible. He is also to provide 100 quarters of charcoal, over and above the 200 quarters that he was previously ordered to provide, and to cause the above 300 quarters and the said ten thousands of wood to be carried to Boulogne and there delivered to John de Sumery, the king's scullion (scutellar'), it being necessary for the king to have charcoal in the said parts beyond the sea in good time (tempestive).
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover, etc., or such as shall supply his place. Order to provide the 40 leaden cauldrons that the king ordered him to provide in the towns of Faversham, Sandwich, and Dovre, elsewhere in his bailiwick where they may be most readily provided, if he be unable to find them readily in the said towns, and to deliver them to John de Somery, the king's scullion (scutell'); and to provide boards (bordes) for dressers (pro drestrariis) and other necessaries for the office of the said John, as he shall make known to the said Robert. He is also to provide 20 thousands of wood (busce) of great billets for the king's use and to send them to Boulogne with all haste (cum omni sustentatione [sic] qua poteritis), there to be delivered to the said John by indenture of the expenses in this behalf, which the king will cause to be paid from his wardrobe.
Dec. 24.
Westminster.
To all, etc. Grant for life to John Engaine, king's yeoman, of two parts of the manor of Caldecote, co. Huntingdon, which belonged to Robert de Brus, in the king's hands as an escheat by reason of the rebellion of the said Robert. By K.
Vacated because on the Patent Roll.
Mandate in pursuance to Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent.
Dec. 26.
Westminster.
Roger Coleman, in the king's prison of Exeter, for the death of Walter, son of Matilda de Wollegh, has letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail him until the first assize.
Richard de Holecumbesheved, John Trut, and Nicholas Heyne, in the said prison for the death of Alvred le Muner, have like letters to the said sheriff.