Close Rolls, Edward II: October 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: October 1310', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 283-287. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp283-287 [accessed 23 April 2024]

October 1310



Oct. 15. Lanark.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause John de Bleyth, son and heir of William de Bleyth, to have seisin of the lands that his father held in chief of the late king, as he has proved his age before the said escheator and the king has taken his fealty; provided that the said John come to the king and do homage when the king next arrives in England.
	To Payn[de] Tybotot, justice of Chester. Order to provide the castle of Flynt, in his custody, with victuals, armour, and other dead garnisture out of the issues of his bailiwick. By p.s.
	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to molest John Bleyth, son and heir of William Bleyth, a tenant in chief of the late king, concerning his marriage, as the king has given him licence, for a fine of 40s., to marry where he likes.
Oct. 14. Lanark.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Walter de Waldeshef, fermor of the castle, honour, and forest of the High Peak, of the ferm of the same from Easter until the day when he was ordered to be intendent for the same to John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, by virtue of the king's grant to him on June 15 last of the castle and honour aforesaid to hold for life at a yearly ferm of 437 marks 6s. 8d., the king having afterwards granted to him that he should have the same together with the forest of the High Peak and approvements of the same forest and wastes there and knights' fee, advowsons, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, serjeanties, and other appurtenances as fully as William Peverel, formerly lord of the said castle, honour, and forest, held them before they came by escheat to the king's progenitors, together with all the receipts from the same from Easter last, saving to the king power to take and give the venison of the said forest at his will, rendering therefor the above ferm.
Oct. 18. Biggar.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Guy Gubaud to have seisin of the lands in Repinghale, co. Lincoln, that his father John Gubaud held of the heir of John Wake, a minor in the king's custody, by the service of one knight's fee, upon his finding surety for payment of his relief, as it was found by inquisition that the said John held no other lands of the king, but that he held lands of divers other lords, and that the said Guy is his nearest heir and is of full age, and the king having taken his fealty. He is not to intermeddle further with the lands that the said John held of other lords, and is to restore any issues received therefrom.
	Vacated, because in the fine roll.
Oct. 6. Biggar.	To Henry de Cobeham, constable of Rochester castle. Order to pay to Robert Ardrossan, a Scotch prisoner in that castle, the arrears of his wages from the time when the said Henry was constable, and to continue to pay the same.
Oct. 15. Lanark.	To Warin de Insula, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to repair the houses, tower, walls, and bridges of the same, together with the stable and wall of the garden without the castle, the houses and ponds of the park of Wyndesor with the paling about the same park, the houses and walls of the king's manor of Kenyngton with the paling and wall about the same park there.
	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Nicholas Burdon, son and heir of Nicholas Burdon, a tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the said escheator and the king has taken his fealty; provided that he come personally to the king on his arrival in England to do his homage.
Oct. 6. Biggar.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Ralph Jocelyn of the ferm of the manor of Spisshou in Sebrightesworth, cos. Essex and Hertford, from July 14 last, on which day the king took the homage of Robert, son and heir of Warin de Insula, for the said manor and restored it to him with other lands of his inheritance in the king's hands during his minority, which manor the king committed to the said Ralph during pleasure at a yearly ferm of 40l.
Oct. 6. Biggar.	To the keeper of the forest of Wolmere. Order to permit the king's yeoman John Lovel, the king's huntsman, to take in the said forest forty hinds (damas) of the present season (seisona fermesonis), and to carry away the same, and to aid him herein, making indentures of the number of hinds taken by him.
	The like to the following:
	The keeper of the forest of Rokyngham for twenty hinds to be taken by William de Balliolo and Robert Squier.
	The keeper of the forest of Roteland for twenty hinds to be taken by the said William and Robert.
	The keeper of the forest of Bernewod for fifty hinds to be taken by the aforesaid William and Robert.
	To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to provide William de Balliolo and Robert Squier, the king's huntsmen sent to take fifty hinds in the forest of Bernewode, with salt to salt the venison aforesaid and barrels (dolia) to put it in, and carriage for the same from the forest to London.
	The like to the sheriff of Northampton to provide salt, etc., for twenty hinds in the forest of Roteland and for twenty hinds in the forest of Rokyngham.
	The like to the sheriff of Wiltshire, to provide salt, etc., for forty hinds in the forest of Wolmere.
Oct. 15. Lanark.	To the sheriff of Oxford and Berkshire. Order to provide thirty quarters of wheat and thirty quarters of malt, and to deliver the same to John de Benteleye for the use of Elizabeth, wife of Robert de Brus, dwelling at Bistelesham by the king's order. By him who supplies the king's place.
Oct. 20. Biggar.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Mary, late the wife of Almaric de Sancto Amando, a tenant in chief, the following of his lands and tenements assigned to her by the king for dower: the manor of Cotes, co. Bedford, of the yearly value of 9l. 5s. 8d.; the manor of Catton, co. Derby, of the yearly value of 13l. 5s. 8d.; the manor of Grendon, co. Buckingham, of the yearly value of 5l. 5s. 8d.; and the manor of Wamberge, co. Wilts, of the yearly value of 12l. 8s. 6½d.
	William atte Nassh, in the king's prison of Aylesbury for the death of John atte Nassh, has letters to the sheriff of Buckingham to bail him until the first assize.
	Membrane 20.
Oct. 6. Biggar.	To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales, or to him who shall supply his place. Order to respite until the next parliament the demand that he makes from Tuderus ap Gronou for 14s. yearly and from Howel ap Kenewreil for 10s. yearly for the lands that they hold in the manor of Aber of the grant of Lewelin, sometime prince of Wales, as they complain that they hold their lands free from any rent, the said justice having returned, in answer to the king's order, that the lands of the said Tuderus in the manor of Aber were valued at 14s. and the lands of the said Howel in the same manor at 10s. in the time of the late king immediately after his conquest of Wales, and that the said sums were respited to them in the time of the late and present kings, but have not been paid.
	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner to be elected for that county in place of Thomas Baxster, of Langeton, lately elected, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to inspect the rolls of chancery and to allow to Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, 20l. yearly henceforth for the third penny of the county of Lincoln and the arrears of the same, as he has shewn the king that although John de Lacy his grandfather, and Edmund de Lacy his father, earls of Lincoln, received that sum yearly from the sheriff of Lincoln in the times of kings Henry III. and Edward I., and he received the same in the late king's reign, the sheriff of Lincoln has withdrawn the said sum from him for the whole of the present king's reign.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Master Thomas de Gorges and his mainpernors of 100 marks that they demand from them for his mainprize by Maurice de Berkeleye, Thomas de Gurnaye, Matthew de Furneaux, Thomas de Wellesleye, Nicholas de Langelond, John Chaumpeneys, Robert Sevare, William de Leycestre, Vincent de Stok, William de Odyham, Gilbert Michel, and Edmund de Wellesleye, who mainperned to have him in the late king's court before William Martyn and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer of the late king in co. Somerset, at Somerton, on Monday before the feast of the Purification, in the 34th year of the late king's reign, to answer for certain felonies whereof he was indicted before the said justices; and the said mainpernors were adjudged to prison because they did not produce him then, and they afterwards made fine before the said justices in 100 marks; which fine the late king pardoned the said Master Thomas and them at the request of Eleanor Mautravers, sister of the said Master Thomas, and sent a writ of privy seal of the said pardon to the said justices, as appears by the transcript of the same which the king has caused to come before him together with the record.
Oct. 6. Biggar.	To John de Crumbewelle, constable of the Tower. Order, partly repeating that of August 26th, to deliver all the Templars imprisoned in the Tower to the prelates and inquisitors appointed to enquire concerning their order, either singly or in a body according to the instructions of the said prelates and inquisitors, to the sheriffs of London, to be imprisoned by them in the four gates of London and in the houses of the late John de Bakwelle and the houses lately belonging to the Penitent Friars, or in other convenient places in or near the city; and to receive the said Templars from the said sheriffs to be imprisoned in the Tower when and as often as he shall be required so to do by the said prelates. He is to deliver to the sheriffs the maintenance assigned by the king for the said Templars for the time that they are in their charge. [Fœdera.]
	Mandate in pursuance to the sheriffs of London ordering them, in addition, to receive those whom the said prelates and inquisitors shall depute to see that the said Templars are well guarded, and to permit them to do what they shall think with the bodies of the Templars according to ecclesiastical law, and to re-deliver them to the constable of the Tower when required so to do by the said prelates and inquisitors, and to receive the maintenance assigned for the said Templars from the constable of the Tower as above. [Ibid.]
Oct. 10. Biggar.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the lands of the Hospital of St. Katherine without the Tower of London in Renham and Hertlepe, co. Kent., of 275l. 2s. 2¼d., which the king's clerk, John de Sandale, master of the said hospital, complains that they exact therefrom for the portion of the debts of Reginald de Cornhill, who formerly held the same, apportioned to the said lands before they came to the hands of Eleanor, queen of Henry III., who gave to the said hospital all her lands, rents, etc., in the said towns and in Roed, co. Hertford, and a parcel of land in Estsmythefelde, formerly owned by Hamund, son and heir of John the Tiler (Tegulator) containing in breadth on the north 14¾ ulne and in breadth on the south 18⁵/8 ulne, and in length from north to south 64¼ ulne; and she ordained that from the issues of the same three priest brethren, together with the master of the said hospital, should be maintained, one of whom should daily say the mass of St. Mary, and the second celebrate for the souls of Henry III. and Eleanor and the souls of the kings and queens her predecessors and successors, and the third to celebrate daily divine service in the said hospital; and that daily until the November 16 in each year, to wit the day of St. Edmund the Archbishop and Confessor, 12d. should be given to 24 poor men for the souls aforesaid according to the ordinance of the master or warden of the said hospital; and that on the said day of St. Edmund, to wit the day of the death of the said king Henry, ½d. should be given to 1,000 poor men in form aforesaid; which charter was confirmed by the late king. The king grants this discharge as he is unwilling that the alms, etc., should be suspended.
Oct. 15. Renfrew in Scotland.	To John de Thorp, keeper of the manors of Framelingham and Saham. Order to permit Richard de Wyngefeld to have the custody of all the parks and woods pertaining to the said manors during the life of John de Ufton, chamberlain of the late Roger le Bygod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, to whom the said earl granted such custody by charter confirmed by the late king, as the said John de Ufton has granted the same to the above Roger by charter confirmed by the king's letters patent on August 18 last; and to pay the said Roger the wages, and arrears of the same since the said August 18, that the earl granted to the said John, to wit 4s. weekly and 20s. yearly for his gown, and hay and oats for one horse, to wit half a bushel a night, and all trees blown down by the wind, and the escheats (escaetas) of timber given and felled for the use of the said earl in the same parks and woods.
Oct. 15. Renfrew in Scotland.	To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a coroner to be elected for that county in place of Robert de Meynil, incapacitated by infirmity.
	Membrane 19.
Oct. 15. Renfrew in Scotland.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit John de Northwode of 6l. 10s. 0d. for the year and waste of two messuages in Canterbury, whereof Joan, wife of John le Loverd, of Canterbury, was enfeoffed jointly with her said husband, of one messuage by William de la Gaole and Cicely his wife, in the 17th year of the late king's reign, and of the other by Alice, late the wife of Robert Seman, in the 34th year of the late king's reign, as it was found by inquisition taken by order of the late king that she was thereof jointly enfeoffed and was seised thereof jointly with her husband until the day when he abjured the realm for divers felonies and trespasses; whereupon the late king commanded the said John de Northwode, then sheriff of Kent, by writ dated May 24, in the 34th year of his reign, to restore the said messuages, then in the king's hands by reason of the said abjuration, to the said Joan; he having delivered the said 6l. 10s. 0d., received therefrom, to her by virtue of the above writ.
Oct. 8. Biggar.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge John de Byroun of 30l., at which the goods and chattels of John de Twenge were valued, taken into the late king's hands by the said John de Byroun, then sheriff of York, by order of the justices in eyre in that county because the said John de Twenge was indicted before them for the death of Robert Colstan, as the late king pardoned the said John de Twenge the suit of his peace upon certain conditions, and ordered the said John de Byroun to restore to him his said goods and chattels.
Sept. 23. (fn. 1) Traquair.	John le Latimer, in Scotland in the king's service, has letters to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to respite all debts due from him to the king until Easter next. By p.s. [1261.]
Oct. 16. Lanark.	To John de Hothum, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of William de Ros, of Ingmanthorp, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition that the said William held nothing of the king in chief at his death, but that he held the manor of Ilkesdon, co. Derby, by the courtesy (legem) of England of the inheritance of Eustachia, his late wife, of Henry de Bello Monte of the fee of Gaunt by homage and the service of one knight's fee.
Oct. 23. Linliscu in Scotland.	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Andrew de Kirkeby, lately elected, who is incapacitated by infirmity.
	To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to cause two coroners for that county to be elected in place of John de Sancto Lucio and Benedict de Bukstone, deceased.
	Vacated, because the writ was restored.
	To the bailiffs and men of Dunwich. Order to have at the exchequer on the morrow of St. Nicholas next 20 marks 3s. 6d., to which the fortieth of their moveable goods amounts by their taxation, which fortieth they [have granted] the king at his request in aid of his war in Scotland.
	To Walter de Waldeschef, the king's butler. Order to deliver to John le Convers two tuns of wine yearly from the time when he was butler and hereafter, which the late king granted to the said John for his life for his good service, one tun being of vintage (de vindemia) and the other de recto, to be received from the king's butler; which grant the king confirmed.
	To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to cause a verderer for the king's forest of Wauberge to be elected in place of Robert de Wassingleye, deceased.
	The like to the same to cause a verderer for the same forest to be elected in place of Adam Gerland, lately elected, who is insufficient for the office.
	To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de la Pule, who does not reside continuously in the said county and is insufficiently qualified.
	To the collectors of the arrears of the tenth for six years (sexannalis). Order to supersede the demand from J. bishop of Llandaff for 4l. for the arrears of the tenth due from John de London, late parson of the church of la Newelond in the forest of Dene, diocese of Hereford, for the time when he was parson there, which they exact from the said bishop, who now holds the aforesaid church appropriated to him, as the king considers it right that he alone should be charged therewith as all the goods and chattels of the said John de London were, immediately after his death, taken into his hands for certain causes.
	Ralph Scharp, in Gildeford gaol for the death of Roger Scharp, has letters to the sheriff of Surrey to bail him until the first assize.