Close Rolls, Edward II: January 1309

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: January 1309', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 88-89. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp88-89 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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January 1309

Jan. 3.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger de Sheldesleye, deceased.
Jan. 5.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to elect a verderer for the forest of Shirewode in place of Robert Jorz, who is insufficiently qualified.
Jan 12.
Langley.
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales. Order forbidding him to appoint sheriffs, bailiffs, or officers in Wales without the council and assent of the chamberlain of Caernarvan for the time being, or to retain to himself at ferm any of the king's manors, mills, or lands without the king's special mandate, provided that the sheriffs, bailiffs, or officers be not Welshmen if he can find Englishmen there sufficient to execute those offices, or to seal original writs with his seal; and he is ordered to seal judicial writs relating to his office with his own seal and send them to the king's chancellor of those parts to be sealed with the king's seal; it having been represented to the king that the justices of North Wales in the time of the late and the present kings have appointed sheriffs and other bailiffs and ministers in that land, both Welshmen and others, without asking the council of the chamberlain of Caernarvan, and that the sheriffs, bailiffs and officers so appointed are not intendent to the said chamberlain in anything relating to their office, but only to the said justices, and that the justices have reserved to themselves at ferm royal manors, mills and lands without the chamberlain's consent, paying the king what they liked as ferm, and that the said justices have caused original and judicial writs, which ought to be sealed with the seal that the king uses there, to be made by their own authority, sealed with their own seals, and sent to those to whom they are directed without appending the king's seal thereto.
By pet. of C.
Jan. 22.
Langley.
Hugh son of William Drury, of Surflet, in the king's prison at Lincoln for the death of Thomas le Batur, whom he slew in self-defence, so that he could not otherwise avoid being killed himself, and did not slay him feloniously or of malice prepense, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him until the first assize.
Jan. 16.
Langley.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to make recompense to Nicholas de Perset, late sheriff of Oxford, for what is still owing to him of the recompence that the late king ordered to be made to him for the three and a half years that he was sheriff of Oxford because he did not dwell in Oxford castle, nor have the custody of the prisoners in the king's gaol there nor the profits and esplees of such custody and of distraints made in that county in aid of the ferm of the said county, as all the sheriffs had before his time; notwithstanding which he paid the full ferm of the county to the exchequer.
Jan. 20.
Langley.
To Henry de Lutegarshale, clerk, keeper of the king's manor of Lutegarshale. Order to repair the enclosure about the king's park there.
By C.
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Henry as much underwood in the forest of Chut as he shall reasonably require for the above purpose. By C.
Membrane 15— Schedule.
Petition from [the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield?] to the king, setting out that he left the hospital of St. Leonard in hope of having restitution of all his lands, and praying that the king will grant them to him because he has no restitution except of his bishopric, which is impoverished and destroyed (mie et destrute), and praying that he will ordain that he may have of his sustenance wherewith he may live if he have not restitution of his lands, or that meanwhile the profit (le pou) of the corn in his bishopric may be delivered to him, together with the three little manors (petitz manretz) that he has previously prayed to have, to wit Theyden Montfichet in Essex, Greneford in Middlesex, and Waleton in Surrey, and he prays that his muniments may be delivered to him. French.