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Aug. 1.
Stamford. |
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque
Ports. Order to search all persons bringing papal letters into the kingdom
to the prejudice of the king's crown, and to send such letters to the king's
council at London by a trusty servant. By K. and C. |
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The like to: |
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The bailiffs of the earl of Richmond at Boston. |
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The bailiffs of Yarmouth. |
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The bailiffs of Bishop's Lynne. |
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The sheriffs of London. |
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The bailiffs of Southampton. |
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To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque
Ports. Order to search for letters touching the archdeaconry of Richmond
and John de Sandale, as the king understands that certain letters are being
sent to parts beyond the sea. |
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The like to the bailiffs of the above ports. |
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To W. archbishop of York. Order forbidding him to cite John de
Sandale, whom the king has collated to the archdeaconry of Richmond, to
appear out of the realm to answer concerning the right of collation thereto,
the discussion whereof pertains to the king in his court and to no one else,
pending the plea in the king's court between the king and Francis Gaytany,
of Anagni (Anagnya), whom the king has summoned to answer in his
court for impeding the collation of the said John. By K. and C. |
Aug. 5.
Stamford. |
To John de Sandale, clerk. Order forbidding him, under pain of imprisonment and forfeiture, from leaving the kingdom to answer in any
court concerning the archdeaconry of Richmond, or from sending any
proctor secretly or openly to answer for him. By K. and C. |
Aug. 9.
Thorpe Waterville. |
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque
Ports. Order to arrest the said John or any proctor of his attempting to
leave the kingdom contrary to the above prohibition, and to imprison him
or them in Dover castle until he or they find sufficient mainprize not to
leave the kingdom. By K. and C. |
Aug. 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to assemble all the foresters and
regardors of the king's forest of la Sauce to make regard there before the
coming of the justices of the Forest, and to cause regardors to be elected in
place of those who are dead or infirm, so that there be twelve in each regard,
and to write down their names. The foresters ought to swear to lead twelve
knights throughout their whole bailiwick to view all the trespasses named
in the capitula sent herewith, and that they will not omit to do this for any
reason. The knights ought also to swear that they will make the regard
as it ought and was wont to be made, and that they will go as the foresters
lead them to view the aforesaid, and if the foresters will not lead them or
wish to conceal any forfeiture, they are not to omit to view the said forfeiture
and are to write down the same. The regard is to be made before the feast
of St. Martin in Winter. |
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[Capitula.] |
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The assarts made after the beginning of the second year of the first
coronation of Henry III. are to be viewed and valued by the number
of acres, and it is to be enquired who made them, who now hold them,
what corn they were sown with after the beginning of the second year
abovesaid, or after the last regard made after that time; and the seed-corn
(imbladacio), winter-corn (ivernagii), and spring-corn (trames') are to be
written down by themselves; and it is to be enquired of whose fee they
were, to what town they belong; and the assarts made after the last regard
after the beginning of the said second year are to be written down by
themselves, and those made since also by themselves. |
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All purprestures, old and new, made since the beginning of the said
second year wheresoever made, within woods or without, in lawns (landis),
heaths, marshes, pools, fishponds (vivaria), hedges, ditches, and glebes in
whatsoever way they were occupied are to be viewed, unless there be a fishpond, marlpit (marlera), or ditch outside the covert of the forest, which were
made after the said king's charter of the liberties of the Forest; and the old
and the new are to be written down by themselves, and who holds them. |
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All purprestures of arable land outside the covert of the forest made in
arable land after the said charter are to be viewed and valued by the
number of acres; with what corn they were now (sic) sown either after the
said time, and who holds them; and to what town they pertain; and they
are to be written down by themselves. |
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All new and old wastes of woods made after the beginning of the said
second year are to be viewed; and it is to be enquired who now holds them,
who made them, of whose fee they be, and to what woods they belonged, and
to what town they pertain; and the new and the old are to be written down
by themselves. |
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All the king's demesne woods are to be viewed, and every stock
(cyppus) of oak or beech made after the beginning of the said second year
or after the last regard; and if any have been made since they are to be
diligently counted and written down by themselves; and it is to be
enquired whether the woods are deteriorated of underwood and fallen
branches (exbranchiatura); and the deterioration of the underwood and the
fallen branches are to be written down by themselves. |
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The demesne hays of the king are to be viewed in like manner, and
whether they were kept as they ought to be; and they are to be written
down by themselves. |
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All purprestures and assarts and wastes made in the king's demesnes ought
to be viewed and written down in the same way as they were wont to be
before the said charter of liberties of the Forest. |
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The eyries (aeree) of goshawks and sparrowhawks and falcons are to be
viewed; in what woods they were; who had them, and of right ought to
have had them; and they are to be written down by themselves. |
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The forges and mines are to be viewed, in whose fee they were, in their
forests within or without the king's demesne; and it is to be enquired
what customs and rents they should render; and who had them and ought
to have had them, and have been wont to have them; and from what time
they were begun; and they are to be written down by themselves. |
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The seaports whither ships and boats come to export timber and brushwood (busca) from the forests are to be viewed; and if any one had them
newly who had them not in the time of Henry I.; who made them, or
carried timber or brushwood; and by whom; and in whose fee they were;
and they are to be written down by themselves. |
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It is to be viewed if there was any honey in the forest; who had it and of
right ought to have had it, whether the king or another. |
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The knights ought to enquire attentively in their eyre who had bows and
arrows or bolts (balistas), brachets (brachetos), or greyhounds, or any other
engine to do evil to the king of his beasts (feris). |
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The like to the sheriff of Huntingdon for the forest of Wauberge. |
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The like to the sheriff of Northampton for the forests of Clyve and
Whittelwode. |
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The like to the sheriff of Oxford for the forest of Bernewode. |
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Membrane 22—Schedule in dorso. |
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Articles for the good government of the kingdom presented by the barons
to the king for his acceptance. French. [Rot. Parl.] |
