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June 3.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to proceed in person to Lanceveton
castle, and to survey all defects there, and to certify the king of the
necessary repairs. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. By C. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To Walter Waldeshef, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his
place at London. Order to send immediately a hundred tuns of wine to the
Tower of London, and to cause them to be deposited in the cellars there
against the king's arrival. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
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By chancellor. |
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To the same. Like order to send thirty tuns to Dover castle. |
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By chancellor. |
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Membrane 3. |
May 31.
Westminster. |
Thomas le (sic) Doune, in the king's prison at Lancaster for the death of
Thomas de Chastirshir', his letters to the sheriff of Lancaster to bail him
until the first assize. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
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To John de Segrave, constable of Notingham castle. Order to cause
the king's houses within the castle to be repaired. |
May 3.
Dover. |
To the king's mother Margaret, queen of England. Order to deliver
to Elizabeth, wife of Robert de Brus, dwelling at Shapton (sic), six leafless
oaks for firewood of the king's gift from the forest of Gillingham, which
the said Margaret holds for life. |
May 31.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to pay to Giles de Arpuche 15l.
for the expenses of taking the king's horses from Oseneye abbey near
Oxford to the abbey of Robertsbridge, co. Sussex. Witness: J. bishop
of Bath and Wells. By C. |
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To the abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury. Request that they will deliver
to Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle, whom the king has
ordered to make provision of food at Dover against his arrival from parts
beyond sea, 50 quarters of wheat and 100 quarters of barley, for which
the king will cause speedy payment or satisfaction to be made to them. |
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The like to: |
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The prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, for 50 quarters of wheat
and 100 quarters of barley. |
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The abbot of St. Radegund's, for 20 quarters of wheat and 40 quarters
of barley. |
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Master Nicholas de Tyngewik, parson of the church of Recolvre, for
100 quarters of wheat and 100 quarters of barley. |
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Richard de Rokesley, for 100 quarters of wheat and 100 quarters of
barley. |
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To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of the late Templars' lands in co. Kent.
Order to provide 50 quarters of wheat and 50 quarters of barley, and to
deliver them to Robert de Kendale, for the above purpose. |
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Thomas le Parker, in the king's prison of Great Yarmouth for the death
of Robert le Parker, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him until
the first assize. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To John de Eure, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause the issues
of the lands that Nicholas de Audele and Joan his wife, late the wife of Henry
de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, tenant in chief, held of her dower, which were
taken into the king's hands for the trespass that Nicholas made in marrying
her without the king's licence, to be put in safe hands without levying
or diminution therefrom, so that the issues thereof may be delivered in full
to the king or others as ordered. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
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By C. |
May 23.
Dover. |
To the bailiffs of Southampton. Order to deliver to Henry Poteman,
citizen and merchant of London, the goods of Tady de Wangrom, Folcard
de Wangrom, Adam de Wangrom, Geoffrey de Wangrom, Ponde de
Wangrom, Offe de Wangrom, and Hildred de Wangrom, merchants of
Friesland, to the value of 75l. found in the hands of Richard Wagge and
William de Bassingrom, the younger, which the said Frisians have confessed to be their goods, arrested by them by virtue of the king's order to
arrest goods of Frisian merchants to the value of 75l., in part satisfaction
of the said Henry's losses caused by the robbery from three ships of his in
the port of Scudbalwe in Friesland by men of that town and of Dockyng',
Leworth, Westerland, Wycestry, Grening', and Stavre of 110l. sterling
and goods to the value of 40l.; concerning which the late king wrote to
the bailiffs and men of those towns to cause justice to be done to the said
Henry, which they failed to do; whereupon the king wrote to W. count
of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland, and lord of Friesland, who replied that
the men of Friesland who had committed this robbery are his chief
enemies; whereupon the king, not knowing that they had any superior
lords, ordered the bailiffs to arrest goods as above. |
June 3.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to proceed in person to the castle of
Launceveton, and to survey all defects in the houses, turrets (turellis),
walls, and bridges of the castle, and to certify the king of the necessary
repairs. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. By chancellor. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order, under pain of forfeiture,
to provide without delay 100 quarters of wheat, 200 quarters of oats,
100 quarters of beans and pease, 100 bacon-pigs, ten lasts of herrings, six
thousands of 'stokfissh,' 200 quarters of salt, and to cause them to be
taken by sea to Berwick-on-Tweed with all speed, there to be delivered to
the receiver of the king's victuals, for the defence of that town and of
the king's castles in Scotland, according to the directions of the king's
clerk John de Terling, whom the king is sending to him to supervise this
matter, so that the said victuals be at Berwick before the Assumption next.
He is to make an indenture with the said clerk concerning the price of the
victuals, which the clerk is to deliver into the wardrobe on his return to it.
The sheriff is to certify the receiver aforesaid of the costs and price of the
victuals in the indentures with the mariners who shall carry the victuals
thither, so that the receiver may know at what price they ought to be
charged (exonerare) to the persons who shall receive them from him. The
sheriff is to pay the said clerk 18d. daily for his wages from the day of his
arrival in that county during his stay there. Witness: J. bishop of Bath
and Wells. Et fuerunt patentes. |
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The like to the sheriffs of the following counties: |
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Cambridge and Huntingdon, for 100 quarters of wheat, 200 quarters
of malt, 100 quarters of beans and pease, 200 quarters of oats, and
100 bacon-pigs, as directed by John de Merton, clerk. |
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Lincoln, for 200 quarters of wheat, 200 quarters of malt, 100 quarters
of beans and pease, 300 quarters of oats, 100 bacon-pigs, and
50 tuns of wine, as directed by John de Torryng, clerk. |
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York, for 400 quarters of wheat, 300 quarters of malt, 200 quarters
of beans and pease, 300 quarters of oats, 100 bacon-pigs, 50 tuns of
wine, 300 quarters of salt, as directed by John de Ayremynn, clerk. |
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Nottingham and Derby, for 200 quarters of wheat, 100 quarters of
beans and pease, 200 bacon-pigs, as directed by William de Betevill,
clerk. Et fuerunt patentes. |
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Somerset and Dorset, for 200 quarters of wheat, 100 quarters of malt,
200 quarters of oats, 100 bacon-pigs, to be sent by sea to Skymburnesse, there to be delivered to the receiver of the king's victuals
at Carlisle for the munition of the castle and town, as directed by the
king's clerk Richard de Birland. |
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Gloucester, for 200 quarters of wheat, 100 quarters of malt, 200
quarters of beans and pease, 100 bacon-pigs, 100 tuns of wine,
200 quarters of oats, as directed by John Hamelyn, clerk. |
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Devon, for 100 tuns of wine; in this case with no mention of a clerk
nor of the indentures of price. |
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To the justiciary and treasurer of Ireland, or to those who supply their
places. Like order to provide 200 quarters of wheat, 400 quarters of oats,
and 100 bacon-pigs, and to send them by sea to Skimburnesse, there to be
delivered to the receiver of the king's stores at Carlisle, as above, as
directed by the king's clerk William de Somery. Et fuerunt patentes. |
May 23.
Dover. |
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the
Cinque Ports. Order to pay to six Saracens, whom the king is sending to
him to stay in Dover castle until the king's return from parts beyond sea,
6d. each daily for their expenses. By K. |
June 16.
Westminster. |
Agnes daughter of Robert le Provost of Blaby, in the king's prison of
Leicester for the death of Richard son of Henry de Braundeston, has letters
to the sheriff of Leicester to bail her until the first assize. Witness: J.
bishop of Bath and Wells. |
June 15.
Westminster. |
To John de Eure, escheator beyond Trent. Order to receive the fealty
of Thomas, son and heir of Thomas de Morileye, tenant in chief of the late
king, who has proved his age before Robert de Wodehous, late escheator
beyond Trent, as he is unable to come in person before the king owing to
illness, wherefore the king grants the escheator power to receive his fealty.
He is to certify the king under his seal when he has received this fealty.
Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
June 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to levy without delay 100l. of the
tallage to be assessed in Bristol by Master Richard de Abyndon and his
fellows appointed for this purpose by the king, of which tallage they will
deliver estreats to the sheriff, and to pay that sum to the king's clerk
Thomas de Folquardeby, cofferer of Edward, the king's son, for the
expenses of his household. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
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By W. bishop of Worcester. |
June 20.
Westminster. |
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands of William atte Watre, as it appears by inquisition
taken by the said escheator that he held nothing in chief at his death by
reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
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Membrane 2. |
May 23.
Dover. |
To John de Segrave, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to
deliver to Andrew de Hartcla, constable of Carlisle castle, twenty oaks fit
for timber from Ingelwode forest for the king's works in that castle. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to repair the houses within
Carlisle castle, expending up to 100 marks by the view of Gilbert de
Bromlegh. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
June 16.
London. |
To J. bishop of Ely. Order to send the money that he has collected of
the subsidy of 4d. of every mark of spiritualities in his diocese, as lately
granted by the clergy in the provincial council at London, to London before
the octaves of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, there to be delivered to
R. bishop of London and the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
in England, and to cause what is unpaid of this money to be levied with all
speed and sent to London before the end of three weeks from the above
feast, so that the money may be paid to the men-at-arms who are about to
set out for the marches of Scotland to repel the threatened invasion of the
Scots. [Parl. Writs.] |
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The like to fifteen other bishops, and to the bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield or his vicar-general, the bishop being absent abroad. [Ibid.] |
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The like to the keeper of the spiritualities of the archbishopric of
Canterbury, the see being void. [Ibid.] |
June 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to provide 100 quarters of wheat,
100 quarters of malt, 200 quarters of oats, 40 oxen, 100 sheep, and
40 swine, and to send them at once to Westminster, so that they be there
in the quinzaine of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, there to be delivered to the receiver of the king's victuals, as the king needs various
kinds of victuals for the expenses of his household at Westminster during
the parliament summoned thither. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells.
[Fœdera; Parl. Writs.] |
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The like to the sheriffs of the following counties, for other provisions: |
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Surrey and Sussex. |
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Essex and Hertford. |
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Bedford and Buckingham. |
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Northampton. |
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Oxford and Berkshire. [Ibid.] |
June 19.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Roger de Morlee, deceased. |
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To the same. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in
place of Roger de Hales, deceased. |
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To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner to be elected for that
county in place of John de Wachesham, deceased. |
June 25.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to release from the prison of Canterbury
castle Robert de Kerssebrok and Hamo and Robert his sons, and Semann
Roberdesserjaunt, committed to prison on indictments for forestalling by
John de Northwode and Waresius de Valoynes and the said sheriff, whom
the king appointed to make inquisitions concerning forestallings in that
county, upon their finding mainpernors to have them before the king's
justices at the first assize in that county. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and
Wells. |
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To John de Eure, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands of Robert de Cauce, tenant in chief, taken into the
king's hands on October 30 last, as the king afterwards learned by inquisition taken by Robert de Wodehous, late escheator beyond Trent, that
the said Robert de Cauce held certain lands of the honour of Albemarle
by the service that he with a fellow should be the king's falconer (folconarius) and be in the king's court with three horses at the king's livery,
according to the feoffment of the earl of Albemarle, and that he held no
other lands in the bailiwick of the said escheator, the king having, on
October 7 last, granted to Margaret, late the wife of Peter de Gavaston,
the king's niece, the knights' fees and advowsons of churches pertaining to
the manor of Brustwyk, which is of the honour of Albemarle, which manor
the king granted to her with other lands for her maintenance until otherwise provided. |
July 5.
Canterbury. |
To John Abel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands of John de Frowik, as it appears by inquisition that
he held nothing in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his
lands should pertain to the king. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
July 6.
Canterbury. |
To John de Eure, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Ralph
son of William, to be held by him until further orders, a moiety of a
fourth part of the manors of Angirton, Hertburn, Dodington, Nesbit,
Hedum, Stiford, Spyriden, Netton, Ridingg', Merchenleie, Bromhale,
Shelford, Thornburgh, Socle, Blakehedreleie, Birkynside, Waskreley, and
Neubigging', in co. Northumberland, taken into the king's hand upon the
death of Walter de Huntercumbe, as it appears by inquisition taken by
the said escheator that Walter held the premises for life only, and that
they ought to revert after his death to the said Ralph by virtue of a fine
levied by the late king's licence in his court between Ralph, demandant,
and John de Yeland, deforciant, concerning the same, and that they are
held in chief by the service of an eighth of two knights' fees; which Ralph
has prayed in chancery to have delivered to him by virtue of the above
fine and the late king's letters of licence, which he exhibited; and John de
Lancastre, kinsman and heir of Alice, late the wife of the said Walter, has
asserted in chancery that Walter held the premises by the courtesy of
England of the inheritance of his wife Alice, and that they ought to remain
in inheritance to the said John notwithstanding the above fine. The lands
are to be delivered to Ralph upon condition that he appear in the king's
court on the day given him to do what the court shall consider concerning
the said John's claim. Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. By C. |
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July 6.
Canterbury. |
To the justices in eyre for common pleas in co. Kent. Order to attermin
to the end of their eyre all matters touching Gilbert de Clare, earl of
Gloucester and Hertford, who is going to London on the king's affairs,
provided that the matters be determined before the end of the eyre.
Witness: J. bishop of Bath and Wells. |
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The like to the same in favour of Bartholomew de Badelesmere. |
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The like to the same in favour of the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury. |
July 19.
Sturry. |
The like to the same for the abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury. |
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By p.s. |
July 5.
Canterbury. |
To him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the
exchequer. Order to assign 500 marks of the issues of the custom of wool,
hides, and wool-fells in the ports of Yarmouth and Ipswich to Manent
Francisci and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence,
in part payment of the debts due to them by bills of the wardrobe. |
June 19.
Pontoise. |
To the justiciary and treasurer of Ireland, or to such as supply their
places, and to the barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to pay to
John Monill, clerk, appointed by Anthony Pessaigne, of Genoa, to receive
all the issues of Ireland assigned to him by the king in part payment of
debts due to him, all the money arising from the king's customs, to be
received from the collectors of the same by indentures as it shall happen
to be levied. By p.s. |
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To Andrew Gerardi, collector of the customs in Ireland. Order to
deliver the money as above to the said John from Easter last. By p.s. |
June 19.
Pontoise. |
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to arrest all the ships and
goods of the men of Flanders found within their bailiwick, and to safely
guard the same until further orders. By p.s. |
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[Fœdera.] |
