Close Rolls, Edward II: August 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: August 1309', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 166-172. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp166-172 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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August 1309

Aug. 1.
Stamford.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Esselington, who is making stay in Scotland in the king's service in the retinue (comitiva) of Thomas de Grey.
Aug. 2.
Stamford.
To the bailiffs of John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, at Boston. Order to arrest goods of the merchants and men of John, duke of Lorraine (Lotrich'), Brabant (Brebant'), and Limburg (Lemburg'), to the value of 56l. 0s. 6d., owing to Edmund Wak, the king's merchant, for wool taken from him for the use of the said duke, for which he has not paid the said merchant as agreed by his letters of obligation, the king having frequently requested him to satisfy the said merchant, but he has done so, as appears from the testimony of the bailiffs and community of Great Yarmouth by their letters patent under their seal. They are to safely keep the said goods until he have been satisfied in full or until they are otherwise ordered, certifying the king of the names of the owners of the goods so seized by them, and of everything that they shall have done in this matter.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de la Haye, who is insufficiently qualified.
Aug. 2.
Stamford.
To Emericus de Friscobaldis. Order prohibiting him making waste or destruction in the woods pertaining to the manors of Thoresweye, Styveton, Lindwod, and Carlesthorp, co. Lincoln, which the king granted to him for life together with a free court in the city of Lincoln, and all appurtenances of the same manors, and the manors of Waye and Pudle, co. Dorset, which lately belonged to Stephen de Baiocis and came to the late king's hand, and the king having by other letters granted the said Emericus power to fell and do his will in the woods aforesaid without challenge of waste on the king's behalf; as Peter Malorre has asserted before the king and his council that he and his wife Matilda have right in the premises, for which reason the king has given them day in fifteen days from Michaelmas next to appear before the king and his council or before him who shall hold the king's place to shew their right therein; wherefore this prohibition is issued pending decision of the above matter.
Aug. 4.
Stamford.
William de la Launde, in the king's gaol of Appelby for the death of William Tapyald, has letters to the sheriff of Westmoreland to bail him until the first assize.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner to be elected in place of Geoffrey de Enerleye, incapacitated by age and infirmity.
Aug. 3.
Stamford.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Ralph de Sharpenham the custody of two parts of the lands and tenements of John Styne, son and heir of Roger Styne, an idiot, which the king granted to him to hold in the same manner as Richard de Chyselden who had the custody by grant of the late king to hold as long as the land should be in the king's hands by reason of the madness of the said John; the king having afterwards, forgetting the grant to the said Ralph, granted the custody to Juliana Styne, which grant he has revoked.
Aug. 15.
Langley.
Geoffrey de Ulveston, in the king's prison at York for the death of Henry de Eskryke, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him until the first assize.
Matilda, late the wife of Augustine de Thweit, in the king's prison at Ipswich for the death of Petronilla, daughter of Alice la Noreyse, of Mikelfeld, has letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail her until the first assize.
Aug. 20.
Langley.
John le Bakester, of Eccleston, in the king's prison at Lancaster for the death of Alan le Marler, of Assheton, and Richard Bunt, of Assheton, has like letters.
Membrane 25—Schedule. (fn. 1)
Memorandum, that at York, on June 7, in the 12th year of his reign, on the testimony of Sir Richard de Grey before the king, that the recognisance of 100 marks that he had made in chancery to Emericus de Friscobald' and Peter de Friscobald' was made by way of security at the request of the executors of the will of Guyot Bonaventura, to whom the said 100 marks were owing by the said Richard, in order that the money might be levied under the names of the said Emericus and Peter on account of the favour that they then had in the king's court, the king granted that the said 100 marks that ought to have been before levied for the king's use because the goods and chattels and debts of the said Emericus and Peter had come to the king's hand for certain reasons, should be levied and delivered to the said executors for the execution of the said will.
Membrane 24.
Aug. 4.
Stamford.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Eva, late the wife of Robert de Todenham, the manor of Ereswell, co. Suffolk, taken into the king's hands on the death of the said Robert, who held it in chief of the honour of Boulogne by the service of two knights' fees, as it appears by inquisition that the said Robert and Eva were jointly enfeoffed of the same by Robert de Weston and Hawysia his wife, and the king has taken her fealty for the same.
Aug. 5.
Stamford.
To the same. Order to restore to the said Eva the issues of her husband's lands for the time they have been in the king's hands, as it appears that her late husband held nothing in chief except the aforesaid manor, whereof he was enfeoffed jointly with the said Eva.
Aug. 2.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause all prisoners hereafter made in co. Leicester to be led to the prison of Leicester, and not to send them to the prison of Warwick, the late king having ordained for the easement of the men of the county of Leicester, with the consent of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, that a prison should be made in Leicester for prisoners from the same county, and the present king having ordered that the said prison, which was not then completed, should be finished as quickly as possible, so that no prisoner should be taken out of that county to Warwick, the said prison of Leicester being now well and securely made.
Aug, 5.
Stamford.
To the justices of the Bench. Order to take an inquisition by any of them who shall go to those parts concerning a trespass whereof the prior of Coventry has impleaded by the king's writ William Graunpe, of Coventry, the elder, and others of that town mentioned in the said writ, concerning which the parties have put themselves on an inquisition, as the king wishes to spare the labours and expenses of those by whom the said inquisition will be made. By K.
Aug. 4.
Stamford.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign to Joan, late the wife of Peter de Suthchirch, which Joan (que) held in chief, dower of her husband's lands, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Aug. 6.
Stamford.
To the collectors of the king's old and new customs on wool, hides, and woolfells in the port of Southampton. Although the king lately commanded them to pay by indenture all the money arising from the customs aforesaid in that port from Michaelmas last until next Michaelmas (usque tune) and likewise thereafter to Emericus de Friscobald' and his fellows, merchants of the society of Friscobaldi of Florence, until they should be satisfied for certain debts owing to them by the king; and the king afterwards assigned the aforesaid Emericus and Bettinus his brother to be his receivers of all moneys arising in any way from the said customs from the time they and their fellows should have raised from the said customs what the king owed them, notwithstanding any assignments thereof previously made by the king to any others, and the king commanded the said collectors to pay all money arising from the said custom in that port to the said Emericus and Bettinus, after they had received their debts, as the king's receivers of the said customs until otherwise ordered; because, however, he had previously, by the consent of the said merchants of the Friscobaldi, granted to the communities, inhabitants, and merchants of the following places in Gascony, the borough of Blaye (Blavia), of St. Sever, St. Quitterie (St. Quiterio), Bonnegarde (de bona garda), Sorde (Sordes), Labbatud, Peyrehorade (Pereforate), Pouillon (Pullion), Hure (Huyre), and of Bordeaux, a moiety of the issues of the aforesaid customs in that port until they should have been satisfied for debts due to them from the king, and the king commanded the said collectors to pay by indenture the said moiety to Reymund Arnaldi, of Mont Anser, and Reymund de Margis, proctors and attornies of the said communities, until they should have received the debts aforesaid; the king, wishing to observe the said assignment, with the assent of the said merchants of the Friscobaldi, orders the said collectors to pay the moiety aforesaid from the said Michaelmas according to the said assignment, notwithstanding the king's mandate for the said merchants of the Friscobaldi.
By K. and C.
To the sheriff of York. Order to restore to their owners three ships of the power of W. count of Holland and Zeeland, to wit one from the town of Stavoren (Stavre), another from Kampen (Camp'), and the third from Harderwijk (Herdewyk), with all their tackle, seized by the bailiffs of the liberty of Raveneser, by virtue of a writ directed to the said sheriff to seize all goods of the merchants of Holland and Zeeland and Friesland to the value of 60l., in part satisfaction for the goods taken from Richard son of John, late burgess of Dunwich, and James le Reve, citizen of London, in the port of Merlaund in Zeeland, as appears from the complaint of Augustine, parson of the church of St. John, Dunwich, and William Austyn, executors of the will of the said Richard, and the said James, the king having agreed in his treaty with the said count to restore all goods of his merchants seized in England.
To the sheriff of York. Order to arrest goods of the men and merchants of the town of Groningen (Grenyng') to the value of 272l., the value of debts due to Wynand Moraunt, merchant of Beverley, who complained to the late king that Andrew Papyng', merchant of Groningen in the power of the bishop of Utrecht (Huthred), owed him 92l., Alard Papyng' and Swetherus Papyng', merchants of the same, owed him 171l., and the community of the said town 9l., which they ought to have paid to him long before; whereupon the late king and the present king often requested the bishop of Utrecht to do the said Wynand justice in this matter, but the said bishop has not done so, as the king learns from the letters of the burgesses and community of Raveneserod sealed with their common seal. They are to safely guard the goods so arrested until the said Wynand have been satisfied for his debts or until otherwise ordered, and to certify the king of the goods so arrested, their value, and the names of their owners.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to permit Robert son of Payn to have the custody of the manor of Stoke Curcy for so long as it is in the king's hands by reason of the death of John Walerand, which the king lately committed to him, it being in the king's hands by reason of the madness (fatuitatis) of John Walerand, now deceased, to hold so long as it was in his hands by reason of the said madness. By K.
Vacated because otherwise in the appended schedule.
Sept. 9.
Westminster.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to admit Robert de Gunthorp to the execution of the office of coroner in the city during the pleasure of Walter de Waldesheff, the king's butler, to whose office the bailiwick of the said coroner pertains, the said Walter, who is so engaged in the king's affairs as to be unable to attend personally to the said office, having appointed the said Robert his deputy.
Membrane 24—Schedule.
Aug. 5.
Stamford.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to permit Robert son of Payn to have the custody of the manors of Stoke Curcy, Wyke, Radeweye, together with the hundred of Caynton, granted to him by the king to hold as long as they were in his hands by reason of the madness of John Waleraund, now deceased, for so long as they are in the king's hands on account of the said John's death, restoring to him any issues received from the same. By K.
Membrane 23.
Aug. 27.
Westminster.
To the bailiffs of the Tollbooth (Thelbotha) of Lynne. Ralph le Paumer, of Lynne, has shewn the king that whereas he lately loaded a ship of his at Lynne with various goods, and sent his servants with her to Norway, Aslak (Asselacus) Stellesone and other pirates of Norway lying in wait for her violently took her and the goods in her, to the value of 100l., from his said servants on the coast of Norway; and the said Aslak being afterwards by chance driven (projectus) by the sea with his ship into the port of Lynne, was there attached by his ship by the said bailiffs at the suit of the said Ralph to answer for the above robbery; and the said Aslak, fearing the attachment because he was guilty, left his ship and her tackle, secretly leaving the town without making any satisfaction to the said Ralph, and did not return thither, so that his said ship has there lain for five years and more and is now much injured by decay (per putrefactionem), and in other ways; the king, being unwilling that the ship should altogether perish, commands the said bailiffs to make a lawful appraisement of her and her tackle, to wit what they are now worth, and to deliver them by the said appraisement to the said Ralph in part satisfaction of his damages, taking from him security to answer for the said ship if the king or Aslak should implead him thereof.
Aug. 28.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to restore his lands and chattels to William de Merlawe, clerk, indicted for breaking the gaol of the town of Gloucester before Walter de Gloucester and John de Langele, late justices to deliver the gaol of Gloucester, and by them delivered to W. bishop of Worcester, according to the privilege of clergy, before whom he has purged his innocence, as appears by the bishop's letters patent.
Aug. 26.
Westminster.
Roger de Esse of Alberton, in the king's prison at Exeter for the death of John Sweteblod, has the king's letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail him until the first assize.
Aug. 28.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to restore his lands and chattels to Philip de Mallyng, clerk, indicted for robbery from Robert atte Wode before Roger le Brabanzon and his fellows, justices of the late king of oyer and terminer in co. Kent, by whom he was delivered to R. archbishop of Canterbury, according to the privilege of the clergy, before whom he has purged his innocence, as appears by the archbishop's letters patent.
The like to the sheriff of Surrey.
The like for Roger Elnold, clerk, to the sheriff of Kent, who has in like manner purged his innocence of robberies from Roger de la Grove and Richard le Ket.
Aug. 28.
Westminster.
To John de Handlo, constable of the castle of St. Briavels. Order to expend up to 100 marks in completing the works of the said castle.
Aug. 20.
Langley.
To John de Lincoln. Order to cease collecting, at the request of the community of the kingdom, the customs that the king lately assigned him to collect in London and in all places on both sides of the Thames to Gravesende from the goods of foreign merchants, to wit 2s. from each piece of scarlet cloth (scarleta) and cloth dyed in grain, 1s. 6d. from each cloth partly dyed in grain, and 12d. from each cloth without grain, and 3d. of every pound of small goods sold by weight (qualibet libra de averio ponderis). [Parl. Writs.]
The like to the collectors in other ports. [Ibid.]
Aug. 20.
Langley.
To the collectors of the custom of wines in the port of London. Like order to cease collecting the custom of 2s. from every tun of wine imported by foreign merchants. [Ibid.]
The like to the collectors in other ports. [Ibid.]
Aug. 22.
Langley.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to make partition of the lands that Laura, late the wife of Gilbert de Gaunt, held at her death in dower of the inheritance of Roger de Kerdeston and Peter de Maulay, kinsmen of Juliana de Gaunt, sister and heiress of the said Gilbert, between the said Roger, Peter, and Juliana in equal proportions.
Aug. 21.
Langley.
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to proclaim that no one of these ports, hosts (hospites) or others, shall presume to take herrings (allec), fish, or other goods from the men of William, count of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland, and lord of Friesland, against their will and without agreeing as to the price to be paid therefor at a fixed time, as the earl complains that they now do, and they are to so conduct themselves that the earl's men shall have no cause of complaint. [Fœdera.]
The like to the following sheriffs:
York.
Northumberland.
London.
Norfolk and Suffolk.
Aug. 5.
Stamford.
To Adam de Carleton. Order to deliver to Peter de Gavaston, earl of Cornwall, and Margaret his wife, the manors of Tremeton and Moresk in Cornwall, which the said Adam holds at ferm, the king having granted the earldom of Cornwall to the said Peter and Margaret with all appurtenances.
The like to the following:
Thomas de la Hyde, sheriff of Cornwall, for lands in his custody.
John de Sture for the lands in his custody in co. Devon.
John de Clynton for the castle and honour of Walyngford, the honour of St. Valery, and the town of Chichester.
George de Percy for the manor of Cosham.
John de Knokyn for the manor of Watlyngton.
Roger de Wellesworth for the manor of Neuport in Essex.
Alexander Cheverel for the town of Wilton.
John de Gras, sheriff of York, for the castle, town, and honour of Knaresburgh, and the manors of Routheclive and Aldeburgh.
Membrane 22.
Aug. 30.
Westminster.
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Peter de Suthcherche, tenant in chief, the manor of Suthcherche, co. Essex, as it appears by a fine levied in the late king's court at York, before Ralph de Hengham and his fellows, justices of the Bench, that the said Peter and Joan were jointly enfeoffed of the said manor by David de Hereford and Clementia his wife, Peter son of Richard of Suthcherche and Joan his wife, and Robert de Lacy and Matilda his wife, and it appears by inquisition that the said Peter and Joan had peaceful seisin thereof until his death, and that the manor is held of the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, at fee-ferm.
Aug. 28.
Westminster.
To the bailiffs of John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, at Boston. Whereas the late king, at the complaint of Henry Scof, citizen of London, that certain malefactors of Flanders had taken by force and arms in the port del Swyn in Flanders his ship and goods to the value of 100 marks, wrote to R. count of Flanders, requesting him to do justice to the said Henry; whereupon he wrote back, by letters received after the present king's accession, that the citizens and burgesses of Flanders were labouring to make satisfaction to the said Henry and others for damages inflicted upon them by men of those parts, and that he would interpose in this matter; wherefore the king specially requested him to cause due satisfaction to be made to the said Henry; and because he did not do so, but altogether failed to do the said Henry justice, as appears by the letters of John, duke of Brabant, the king ordered all goods of the men and merchants of Flanders to be arrested in the bailiwick of the said bailiffs to the value aforesaid, and to be kept until the said Henry had been satisfied; and the said bailiffs certified the king that they had arrested goods of the said merchants to the value aforesaid, according to the appraisement thereof made: to wit from Copyn Reynerson of Slus, Baldewin Henrison of the same, Hugh Seilard of the same, William Petreson of Sliperdam, Wayte Ballard of the same, Hugh Brun of Axele, and Arnold Braban Ofenhot, four ships and their tackle, appraised at 15 marks, and nine marks in money by tale, and from John Mynenn and Henry Mynem (sic), eight sacks and 12½ stone of wool, appraised at 76 marks; as the king wishes to satisfy the said Henry for his damages, and as he considers the valuation of the goods seized by the said bailiffs to have been improperly made as it was made in the absence of the said merchants, he orders them to have the ships and wool valued again in the presence of the said merchants if they wish to attend upon warning, and to deliver therefrom to the said Henry the value of 91 marks together with the said 9 marks, receiving from him security to answer for the same in case the king or the said merchants or any one else implead him thereof; restoring any balance to the said merchants.
Aug. 28.
Westminster.
Adam son of Adam de Chyspyng, of Wykelesworth, in the king's prison at York for the death of Adam son of Hugh Staneman, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him until the first assize.

Footnotes

  • 1. See Membrane 25d.