Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1310 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1310', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 246-254. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp246-254 [accessed 16 April 2024]

March 1310



March 1. Westminster.	Edward Burnel acknowledges that he owes to William de Westhale, executor of the will of Matthew de Columbar[iis], 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Somerset and Dorset.
Feb. 6. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to assemble at a day and place to be fixed by him all the foresters and regardors of the forest of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, of Pykering to make regard therein 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. And the foresters ought to swear that they will lead twelve knights throughout their whole bailiwick to view all trespasses expressed in a deed of the capitula sent to him. The knights ought to swear that they will make the regard as they ought, 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, the knights are not to omit viewing the said forfeiture on that account. The writ and the capitula shall be written out and sent into each regard, so that the regardors can work (operari) according to the form of the capitula. The regard is to be made before the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross.
	[Capitula, as at page 144.]
April 6. Windsor.	To the abbot of Ramseye's bailiffs at St. Ives. Ranulph de Burgh, Adam le Moigne, John Penreth, Waldeve de Berewico, Adam de Ponte Fracto, Walter de Ke[l]sterne, Adam Tyrewyt, Ralph de Burton, William de la Sale, John de Corbrigg', Walter de Swaynby, of Jarom, John de Burgh, Thomas de Houeden, and Richard de Dalton, merchants of the realm, complain to the king that the burgomasters, échevins, and consules of Bruges lately caused to be proclaimed in that town that all who wished to change any gold or silver money should take it to the exchange of that town and deliver it to the keeper thereof, and that they should receive good money or silver in mass for the value of the same on a day to be agreed upon between them and the keeper, so that if he would not or could not satisfy them on the day agreed upon, then the burgomasters, échevins, and consules should forthwith cause them to be satisfied; and that the said merchants, confiding in the said proclamation, delivered 2,200 great gold florins to the said keeper, but they have not been paid the value thereof on the day fixed or since by the keeper or the burgomasters, échevins, and consules; and the king has frequently requested the burgomasters, échevins, and consules to satisfy the said merchants for 1,245½ great gold florins and 28½d sterling of the said money still owing to them, together with their damages; but they have failed to do so, putting off the said merchants from payment with excuses and frivolous answers, as appears by the testimony of the bailiffs and community of Newcastle sealed with the seal of the community of that town; the king, desiring to proceed in this matter by the more secure way as of right may be done, requested R. count of Flanders to do justice to the said merchants in recovering their said money; who wrote back that he had strictly enjoined his said burgesses to satisfy the aforesaid merchants without delay, and that the burgesses had not done what they ought to do for the said merchants because the merchants refused to be satisfied for their money, thus excusing himself to the king, adding that he was willing that the goods of his men wherever found in the king's dominion should be distrained until the said merchants were satisfied; wherefore the king commands the said bailiffs to arrest merchandise of the men and merchants of Bruges and of other towns pertaining to it found within their bailiwick to the value of 394l. 10s. 6½d., the value of the aforesaid 1,245½ great florins and 28½d. sterling, each florin being counted as of the value of 6s. 4d., and to safely keep the same until the aforesaid merchants shall be satisfied or until otherwise ordered, certifying the king of what they have done in this matter, the value of the goods so arrested, what goods they are, whose they were, etc.
	Vacated, because the writ was restored, and the sheriff of Lincoln was written to.
March 6. Westminster.	Ralph de Burgh acknowledges that he owes to Freduchius Ubertini, merchant of Lucca, 5 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Middlesex.
June 15. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Like order to the above to the bailiffs of St. Ives to arrest goods of the men and merchants of Bruges to the value of the said debt.
	Memorandum, that, on March 4, in the third year of the king's reign, at Westminster, in the presence of Sir Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent, John son and heir of John le Butiller, deceased, granted and assigned to Joan, late the wife of his said father, the manors of Lokerlee, co. Southampton, and Langeton Blaneford, co. Dorset, to hold as dower of her said husband's lands, provided that she render to the king the yearly services due to him from the said manor of Lokerlee, and he acquits her of the yearly services due from the said manor of Blaneford. He also assigns to her the advowson of the church of Blaneford in dower of all the knights' fees and advowsons of his father. In witness whereof he and the said Joan put their seals to this indenture (sic). Dated as above.
	Membrane 10d.
March 1. Westminster.	Clement de Carnoto, clerk, acknowledges that he owes to William de Loriaco, parson of the church of Haliwell, 16l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Lincoln and Cornwall.
March 4. Westminster.	Robert de Rocheford, knight, acknowledges that he owes to John de Merkingfeld and Master John Fraunceis and their fellows, executors of the will of William de Hamelton, 139l. 3s. 4d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex.
March 4. Westminster.	John Fychet came before the king, on Tuesday after the feast of St. Matthias the Apostle, and sought to replevy to Robert de Sancto Quinteino the said Robert's land in the suburb of Shafton, taken into the king's hands for the said Robert's default before the justices of the Bench against John son of Walter de Hacche of Shafton. This is signified to the justices.
March 2. Westminster.	To the abbot and convent of Vaudey. Request that they will receive into their house William Dalkam, late envoy of the late king, whom the king sends to them, and to provide him with maintenance in place of William de (fn. 1) Stodhurd, of Wodestok, deceased, who had his maintenance of them at the late king's request, and to find him reasonable maintenance according to the requirements of his estate in food, clothing, shoe-leather, and other necessaries, and what is necessary for the maintenance of a groom, making him letters patent of this grant under their seal. They are to write back by the bearer hereof what they have caused to be done herein.
	By p.s. [935.]
Feb. 20. Westminster.	To F. king of Castile, Leon, Toledo, Gallicia, Seville (Sibilla), Cordova, Murcia, Jaën (Gyhen), and Algarve, and lord of the county of Molina (Milone). From the complaint of his merchant Alerinus le Normaunt, burgess of Abbeville, the king learns that whereas the said merchant lately loaded a ship of a burgess of Southampton at Carthe, in the king's land of Gascony, with 130 tuns of wine and a pipe to lead thence to England to make his profit thereof, and she was driven by tempest towards Spain, certain men of the said king F.'s power, to wit of the castle of Santander (de Sancto Anderero), la Ronde, Dembremon and de la Pole, with divers other malefactors of those ports, entered the said ship on the sea by force of arms, and took and carried it and the wines therein away, to the said Alerinus's damage of 500l.; the king therefore requests him to hear the complaint of the said Alerinus and to cause justice to be done to him herein, writing back by the bearer hereof what he has caused to be done in this matter.
March 5. Westminster.	To the master of the order of Friars Preachers and the definers and brethren about to assemble in their chapter general at Piacenza (Pleysenc'). Request that they will pray to God for the king, queen, and the estate of the realm, that the king may so rule his temporal kingdom and affairs as to redound to the praise of His name and to the honour and profit of the king and his realm. [Fœdera.]
	Richard de Clovill acknowledges that he owes to Sewall de Haningfeld 13 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex.
March 4. Westminster.	To R. count of Flanders. Whereas the late king, at the complaint of Michael Fille, merchant of Great Yarmouth, that certain goods of his in his ship called 'la Blith' to the value of 200l. were taken upon the sea by armed force by certain malefactors of Flanders, and were taken to Bruges, frequently wrote to John, count of Namur, then ruling Flanders, requesting him to cause due satisfaction to be made to the said merchant; and although the late king, because the said count failed to do the said merchant justice, caused certain wool of merchants of Ypres and of Douay to be arrested at Boston, to be held under arrest until the said merchant had been satisfied, and immediately afterwards caused the said wool to be restored to the said merchants upon their giving security to answer for the value of the same, upon hearing that the count R. had succeeded to the rule of Flanders; and the said security was afterwards, because the said count R. promised by his letters to do justice to the said merchant, released to the said merchants at the request of the said R., the late king enjoining the said Michael to go to the presence of the said count R. in order to receive justice, the king having specially requested the count to do him justice; but the count has caused the said merchant grievous labour and expense in seeking for justice, and has not done him justice according to his promise; and the present king lately requested him to cause speedy justice to be done to the said merchant, but he has not done anything in the matter, as the king learns from the renewed complaint of the said merchant; the king therefore requests him to cause speedy justice to be done the said merchant for his goods and damages, lest he again complain to the king, whereby it would behove the king to provide him with another remedy. He is to write back by the bearer hereof what he has caused to be done herein.
	By authority of the king's writ addressed to me, (fn. 2) in the presence of John le Butelier, son and heir of John le Butiller, deceased, Joan, late the wife of the said John, took oath before me that she would not marry without the king's licence; whereupon I assigned to her, with the consent of the said heir, the manor of Lokerle, co. Southampton, and the manor of Langeton Blaneford, co. Dorset, as her dower of those manors and of the manor of Wymering', co. Southampton, according to the law and custom of the realm, provided that she render to the king the yearly services due from the said manor of Lokerle.
March 5. Westminster.	Thomas de Leghe, parson of the church of Chyveleye, diocese of Salisbury, acknowledges that he owes to Master Roger le Mareschal, parson of the church of Tackeleye, 100 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Berks.
	Edmund Basset acknowledges that he owes to Walter de Gloucester 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands in co. Gloucester.
March 6. Westminster.	Walter de Hormed acknowledges that he owes to Nicholas de Langeton 20s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Huntingdon.
	Cancelled on payment.
Feb. 26. Westminster.	To R. count of Flanders. The king learns from the complaint of John de Banheriis, citizen and merchant of Bayonne, that whereas he lately sent 84 tuns of wine from Bordeaux to Flanders by Paschassius (sic) de Artiga, his servant and merchant, to trade and make his profit thereof, the burgomasters, échevins, and consules of Bruges took the said wines in the port of Swyne from the said Paschasius against his will, and delivered to him a letter under their seal to pay a certain price therefor at a certain term; and although the said John afterwards went to the said count with that letter and the letters of John de Haveryng, then seneschal of Gascony, and other letters of request to recover his said debt, and the said burgomasters, échevins, and consules acknowledged the said letter and debt before the count and Philip, lord of Maldenghem, who was specially deputed hereto by the count, and other men, and although the said John, at the request of the said burgomasters, échevins, and consules, granted them a prorogation of the term of payment until Midsummer three years ago, he has not yet received satisfaction for the said debt, although he has been thither frequently for the said matter, but the aforesaid burgomasters, échevins, and consules, to whom he delivered the said letter at their request for inspection, immediately said that it was false and committed the said John to prison, and detained him there for a long time and ill-treated him in order to cause him to desist from demanding his said debt, to his damage of 1,600l.; and because the said John dare not further prosecute his suit in person because upon another occasion, whilst prosecuting his right under the protection and conduct of the count, he was beaten and wounded by his enemies (emulos) at Bruges, he has besought the king to provide him with a remedy; the king therefore requests the count to compel the burgomasters, échevins, and consules to make payment of the said debt and the damages sustained by said John to the bearer hereof as attorney of the said John in this behalf, so that it may not behove the king to provide him with another remedy. He is to certify the king in writing what he has caused to be done herein by the bearer hereof before the quinzaine of Easter next.
	Membrane 9d.
Feb. 27. Westminster.	To the abbot and convent of Redyng'. Request that they will admit the king's [servant] Wobod with two horses and two persons into their house until Michaelmas, and to find them all necessaries during that time. By K.
March 10. Westminster.	John de Netherwyk, of Waulington, acknowledges that he owes to William de Thorntoft, clerk, 11l. 4s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Hertford.
	Cancelled on payment.
	John de Gyse, knight, acknowledges that he owes to William de Hastinges, knight, 29l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Bedford and Gloucester.
	Richard Brown, of Tyngetwysele, acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Bardelby, clerk, 5 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Derby.
	Vacated, because otherwise below.
	Enrolment of release from Henry de Draiton, son of Baldwin de Drayton, to Sir Bartholomew de Badelesmere and Margaret his wife, of his right in the lands that the said Bartholomew and Margaret hold in Hameldon, co. Rutland. Witnesses: Sir William de Basinges; Ralph de Bella Fago; William de Okham; Hugh le Clerk, of the same; William Taillard; Hugh de Glen; John le Flemyng. Dated at Westminster, on the day of St. Gregory, 3 Edward II.
	Memorandum, that the said Henry came into chancery on March 12, and acknowledged the aforesaid deed.
March 12. Westminster.	John de Burewell, lord of Haddeshovre, acknowledges that he owes to William de Thorntoft, clerk, 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands in co. Worcester.
	Cancelled on payment.
	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause it to be proclaimed that a market will be held on Tuesday weekly at the king's manor of Brerdyng' in the Isle of Wight, and a fair of three days yearly in the eve, day, and morrow of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist.
	Walter Daulard, burgess of Sandwich, acknowledges that he owes to Master Thomas de Esthalle 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Kent.
March 12. Westminster.	Richard Broun, of Tyngetwysele, acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Bardelby, clerk, 100s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Derby.
	Assignment of dower to Joan, late the wife of William de Criketot, made before the king's escheator at Ixeworthe, on March 3, 3 Edward [II.], of her husband's lands, to wit the manor of Ahsfeld, a moiety of the manor of Ixeworthe, by the oath of Geoffrey Peche, William de Langham, Robert Balheved, Edmund le Spenser, John de Seventone, Robert de Torp, Robert le Mayster, William Aubry, Robert de Blakeberwe, Peter le Serjaunt, William Sparscho, Ralph Pampil, made in the presence of the said Joan and of John de Sweinsforthe, attorney of Giles de Argentem, who has the custody of the lands of William son and heir of William de Criketot, a minor in his custody, by grant from the king: they assign to her the moiety of the manor of Ixeworthe with appurtenances, to wit whatsoever her late husband had in demesne, with all rents, works, and customs as fully as he held them, for her dower from the entire manor of Ahsfeld and the said moiety of the manor of Ixeworthe; and all the said manor of Ahsfeld remains to the said William, son and heir of William de Criketot, as fully as his father held it; saving to the said Joan her dower of all knights' fees held by her late husband, The said Joan took oath before the escheator not to marry without the king's licence.
March 16. Westminster.	William de Wylhale, of London, and Nicholas son of Thomas le Archer acknowledge that they owe to Master John de Botheby 10 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in the city of London.
	To W. archbishop of York. Order to supersede the execution of any commission or order made to him against any of the king's subjects concerning any benefices acquired by cardinals, and forbidding him to molest the king's subjects in this behalf, as the king has received letters from the pope complaining that certain of the king's officers inflict injuries and annoyance (molestias) upon the said cardinals, and the king intends taking council with the proceres of the kingdom herein and to send to the pope concerning the same.
	Memorandum, that whereas the king has granted to Bartholomew de Badelesmere and Margaret his wife the castle and manor of Chileham and all the other manors and lands in Kent that Alexander de Balliolo holds by courtesy (per legem) of England of the inheritance of his late wife Isabella, which ought to revert to the king as escheats after the death of the said Alexander by reason of the felony that John, sometime earl of Asceles, son and heir of the said Isabella, committed and for which he was hanged, that they should remain after the death of the said Alexander to the said Bartholomew and Margaret for their lifetime, together with the hundreds, knights' fees, advowsons of churches, liberties, free customs, etc., pertaining to the same; and the king commanded the said Alexander to be intendent for his fealty to the said Bartholomew and Margaret; the aforesaid Alexander, on March 18, in the third year of the king's reign, after he had done his fealty to the said Bartholomew and Margaret, surrendered and granted to them by these presents (sic) the aforesaid castle and manors and also the manors of Kyngeston, Whistaple, Riglyngwelde, and Hatfelde, with appurtenances, and with the rent of tenants in Cherleton and Canterbury, co. Kent, and with 40l. of rent from the manor of Chingilford, co. Essex, and all the other lands that the said Alexander held by courtesy of England of the aforesaid inheritance, to have and to hold to the said Bartholomew and Margaret according to the king's grant. For which grant the said Bartholomew and Margaret paid the aforesaid Alexander 100 marks beforehand, and granted to him certain sums of money to be received from them yearly for his lifetime, to wit 150 marks at Michaelmas next, and 115 marks at the following Michaelmas, and 115 marks at the following Easter, and yearly 230 marks in equal portions at Easter and Michaelmas; for payment whereof they charge the said castle, manors, lands, etc., as well as all their other lands in Kent and elsewhere. In witness whereof they and the said Alexander have alternately put their seals to these indentures (sic). Dated at Westminster, the year and day aforesaid.
March 22. Westminster.	Henry Blanet, of Fynchingfield, acknowledges that he owes to Ralph Peynere, of Stamburne, 20 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex.
	Ralph Bygod, of Stoketon, acknowledges that he owes to Payn de Tybotot 40 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Norfolk.
March 31. Westminster.	To W. archbishop of York. Order to supersede the execution of any mandate to cite the king's clerk John de Sandale by reason of the archdeaconry of Richmond, to which the king had collated him, as the king has ordained that Franciscus, cardinal deacon of St. Mary in Cosmaden, shall have the said archdeaconry of the king's grant, and that the said John shall not further proceed with the said collation.
	To the archbishop of Rouen. On the complaint of John Darcy, Henry Russel, Henry le Bonneys, and Richard le Franceys, merchants of Drogheda in Ireland, and Peter le Gascoyn, of Bozan, merchant of the said duchy [of Aquitaine], that whereas they lately freighted a ship at Drogheda with divers hides (coriis) to the value of 600l., and caused them to be taken to Diepe in Normandy to trade with the same there, and there exposed the same for sale, Nicholas le Gascoyn, the archbishop's bailiff of the aforesaid town, and John le Fourcher, his seneschal, with divers others of his men, seized the said hides without reasonable cause, contrary to the custom of the said town; by reason whereof the said merchants have sustained damages to the value of 200l., for which they have received no amends; the king therefore requires the archbishop to hear their complaint and to do them full justice herein, writing back by the bearer of these presents what he has caused to be done in the matter.
	Membrane 8d.
	Enrolment of letter from Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, Ralph, bishop of London, John, bishop of Lincoln, Simon, bishop of Salisbury, Henry, bishop of Winchester, John, bishop of Norwich, John, bishop of Bath and Wells, John, bishop of Chichester, Walter, bishop of Worcester, Walter, bishop of Exeter, and David, bishop of St. David, Gibert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, Thomas, earl of Lancaster, Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, John de Bretaigne, earl of Richmond, Aymar de Valence, earl of Pembrok, Guy de Beauchaump, earl of Warwick, Edmund, earl of Arundel, Henry de Lancaster, Henry de Percy, Hugh de Veer, Robert de Clifford, Robert le fiz Payn, William le Mareschal, John Lovel, Ralph le fiz William, Payn de Tybotot, John Botetourte, Bartholomew de Badelesmere, John de Grey, and John de Crumwell, witnessing that, whereas the king has granted to them and the other prelates, earls, and barons that they may elect certain persons from among themselves and from others during the time of their power, to wit until Michaelmas next and thence till the next Michaelmas, to ordain for the king's household and the realm, and those so elected shall have full power to ordain for the above in such manner that their ordinances shall be to the honour of God, the honour and profit of the Holy Church, and to the king's honour and profit and the profit of his people, according to right and reason and the king's coronation oath; and moreover the king has willed that the persons chosen and all those of his lordship and of his allegiance shall keep the ordinances to be made as above in all points, and that they may make security, bind, and take oath to so do without challenge from the king. And in case any of the persons so chosen shall be hindered by death or illness from making the said ordinances, that those who shall be present shall have power to proceed with the said ordinances by themselves, or to call other persons to them for this purpose, as shall seem to them good for the honour of the king and the profit of him and the kingdom, as is more fully contained in the king's letters patent; they grant that the king's aforesaid grant shall not be drawn into a custom or usage or be to the prejudice of the king or his heirs, or to themselves, their successors, their churches, or their heirs, nor to the damage of anyone against right or reason, and that the said grant of the king shall not be understood to be made in any other way than of his courtesy and free will, and the power of the said ordinances shall not last beyond the said term. Given at London, March 17, 1309, in the—year of the king's reign. French. [Parl. Writs.]
March 24. Westminster.	Thomas de Scalariis, knight, acknowledges that he owes to John de Gosehale, knight, 200 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Cambridge.
	Henry de Lancarvan, parson of the church of Merlawe, acknowledges that he owes to Ralph de Monte Hermerii 400 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Buckingham.
	To the prior of Durham. Order not to attempt anything to the injury of the king's rights or to the prejudice of the king's clerk Master Robert de Leysseter, who was admitted by the ordinary to the church of Mitford with its chapel, to which church the chapel of Meldon has pertained from old time, on the presentation of the late king, as the king learns that the prior disquiets him concerning that chapel and the receipt of certain tithes and obventions in Meldon pertaining to the said Robert and his church, and to refrain from vexing him in the future.
	The like to Master R. de Baldok and Master G. de Oldham (?), and to Stephen de Malo Lacu, vices gerens of the bishop.
March 25. Westminster.	John de Welde, of Laufare Maudelenie, acknowledges that he owes to William de la Doune, clerk, 14 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex.
	John son of Robert Sorel acknowledges that he owes to William de Melton, clerk, 30l.
	Enrolment of letters of Alexander de Bailiol, lord of Caures, Alexander de Abernythyn, Philip de Lyndeseye, and John de Lyndeseye, knights, whereby they mainpern to the king, on pain of life and members, lands and tenements, that Alexander de Bailiol, son of the said Alexander, will be loyal to the said king for all his life and will hold to his peace. Dated at London, Friday after the feast of the Annunciation, 3 Edward II. French.
	Memorandum, that these letters were delivered to William de Melton, to be kept in the wardrobe.
March 28. Westminster.	Master Gerard de Sesiriaco, canon of St. Martin-le-Grand, London, James de Aniso, rector of the church of Patrington, diocese of York, Aymo de Jovenzano, parson of the church of Multon, diocese of Norwich, Berengar de Quilliano, parson of the church of Clipston, diocese of Lincoln, and James de Jovenzano acknowledge that they owe to Gerard de Cusancia 122l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their ecclesiastical goods.
	Cancelled on payment.
	William de Bildesthorp acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Bardelby, clerk, 10 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Nottingham.
	Cancelled on payment.