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Jan. 18.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Richard de Camera, bailiff of Wodestok. Order to expend up to
40l. in repairing the houses of that manor and the mills and ponds of the
stews (stagna vivariorum). |
Jan. 22.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to
cause Thomas and Edmund the king's brothers to have twenty leafless
oaks for their fire of the king's gift in the forest of Chute. By C. |
Jan. 20.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of William de Hagh, who is unfit and insufficiently
qualified. |
Jan. 21.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
Peter de Kyseby, in the king's prison of Ivelcestre for the death of
John du Bois, has letters to the sheriff of Dorset to bail him until the first
assize. |
Jan. 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of London. Order to release from Neugate prison John
le Carpenter, of Erheth, imprisoned for the death of Richard le Grey, of
Erheth, slain within the king's verge at Erheth, co. Kent, as the king
learns by the record of the steward and marshals of his household that
the said John slew the said Richard se defendendo, so that he could not
otherwise avoid being killed himself, and not by felony or of malice aforethought; wherefore the king has commanded the sheriff of the said county
that if the said John found him twelve lawful men of that county to
mainpern to have him before the justices at the first assizes in those parts,
to stand to right if anyone should speak against him concerning the above,
then he was to certify the king of the names of the mainpernors; and he
has returned that William le Carpenter, John Segod, Walter de Rokesle,
Simon de Potewell, William Chaunterel, Adam de Berkele, Alexander
de Wyne, Henry Shouke, John de Brunsho, John Dawe, Segod Jacob,
and John Jacob, of the said county, have mainperned the said John as
above. |
Jan. 12.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to
the prior of St. Mary's Carlisle 42 marks 8s. 4d. in the ferm of the king's
mills at Carlisle, which he had at ferm for a term of five years by
demise from the late king at an annual rent of 40 marks, as it appears by
inquisition taken by Hugh de Louthre, Robert de Barton, and Michael de
Haveryngton that the said mills were so occupied during the said term in
grinding corn for the maintenance of the late king's household, and of his
subjects then with him about Carlisle, and for the maintenance of the
present king's household when in those parts, that the prior received the
said 42 marks 8s. 4d. less of the issues of the mills than he ought to have
done if the mills had not been so occupied. By p.s. |
Jan. 25.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator beyond Trent. Order to assign to
Matilda, late the wife of William Hanchacch, who held by knight service
of the heir of Giles de Playz, a minor in the king's custody, dower of her
husband's lands, as she has taken oath before the king not to marry without
his licence. |
Jan. 25.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Robert Darcy, constable of Stroguil castle. Order to make
payment without delay of the ferm for Michaelmas term of the said
castle and honour, which the king committed to him on August 1 last in
the name of Thomas and Edmund, the king's brothers, with other lands
assigned for their maintenance, into the wardrobe of the said Thomas and
Edmund. |
Jan. 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Joan,
late the wife of Alan de Plukenet, of 6l. that the sheriff of Somerset
demands from her for the scutage of Wales for the time when John son of
William le Mareschal held the manor of Haselbere, if they find that that
sum is demanded for no other reason, which manor she holds in dower of
gift of the said Alan, whom the late king enfeoffed of the same after he had
derained the same as his right and escheat in his court before his justices
at Wilton against John son of William le Mareschal. |
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To the same. Order to supersede entirely the demand for tallage in the
manor of Puttenye and Verne, co. Somerset, made by Master Richard de
Abyndon, John Randolf, and Master John Gerberd, deputed by the late
king to assess and levy tallage in his cities, boroughs, and demesnes in
that county, as Alan de Plukenet holds the same by the charter of
Henry III., together with the manor of Pudyngton, co. Oxford, which
is of the ancient demesne of the crown, in exchange for the manor and
bailiwick of Lyndhirst and the stewardship of the New Forest, rendering
therefor yearly at the exchequer a pair of gold spurs for all services and
customs; restoring to him anything that they may have levied for the
king's use. |
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Jan. 22.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Walter de Gloucester, escheator beyond Trent. Order to assign
dower of her husband's lands to Joan, late the wife of John Seint Pere, of
Suthmardefeld, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without
the king's licence. |
