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June 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Gregory de Thornton, who has no lands in fee in that
county. [Parl. Writs.] |
June 8.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the men
of the county of Northumberland to have respite for one year for all debts
exacted from them by summons of the exchequer or otherwise for the
king's use, except the debts due from them for victuals bought from the
king, as the king has granted them such respite in consideration of the
damages sustained by them from the Scots. By K. |
June 8.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Bernard de Maleu,
attorney of Arnald Guillelmi de Malewe, 100l. without delay, the king
having granted that sum to Arnald in alleviation of the damages suffered
by him in the loss of horses, etc., in the king's service in the duchy [of
Aquitaine] and of his expenses in the same service, in which he was
maimed, as the seneschal of Gascony has testified by his letters, which the
treasurer and chamberlains are to receive from the said attorney. By K. |
June 10.
Westminster. |
To John de Rythre, constable of the castle of Skypton-in-Craven.
Order not to distrain John le Flemyng for homage for the knight's fee in
Wath, co. York, of the yearly value of 37l. 6s. 8d., held by him, which the
king, on 1 April, in the 8th year of his reign, assigned as dower to Matilda,
late the wife of Robert de Clyfford, tenant in chief. |
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To Robert de Umframvill, earl of Anegos, Roger Heyron, Gilbert de
Bornden, and Richard de Emeldon. Order not to receive to the king's
peace any men of co. Northumberland and the bishopric of Durham who
had lands and adhered to the Scotch rebels, as it is not the king's intention
that such men shall be received to his peace by virtue of their appointment
to receive to the king's peace men of those parts who adhered to the Scots
by reason of poverty and other necessity. [Fœdera.] |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To William de Gosefeld. Order not to intermeddle further without
special order with the assizes of novel disseisin in divers counties and
other things, for which the king lately appointed him justice with others. |
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To Robert de Barton, late keeper of the works of the castle and town of
Carlisle. Order to deliver by indenture to Anthony de Lucy, constable of
the said castle, all the king's implements in Robert's possession fit for the
said works, the king having ordained that the walls, houses, towers, and
other things in the castle shall be repaired by the ordinance of the
constable and by the view and testimony of Robert de Chisenhale, king's
clerk, and that the walls of the town shall be repaired by the king's ordinance intimated to the constable by the treasurer. By bill of the treasurer. |
May 26.
Westminster. |
To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford,
Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with
the lands of Robert de Berewyk, and to restore the issues thereof, as it is
found by inquisition taken by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this
side Trent, that Robert held no lands in chief at his death by reason
whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king. |
May 28.
Westminster. |
To the said Master John Walewayn. Order to restore the issues
received by him from the aforesaid lands. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to cause the men of Scotland
arrested by John de Glenton, keeper of the water of Sulewath, by virtue
of the king's commission to keep that water, who are in the king's prison
in the sheriff's custody, and such men as shall be hereafter arrested
and delivered to him by the said John to be brought before the keepers of
the truce between the king and the men of Scotland in those parts, when
summoned by the keepers, at their days of the march, there to receive
what ought to be done according to the form of the truce, the king having
ordered the keepers to cause the said men to be delivered from prison if
they ought to be released by virtue of the truce, and to remit them to
prison under the sheriff's custody until further orders if they ought not to
be delivered. By K.
[Fœdera.] |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford,
Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with
the lands of the monastery of Burnham by reason of the present voidance,
otherwise than has been usual heretofore, and to restore the issues thereof,
as Edmund, late earl of Cornwall, by his deed, which the late king confirmed by letters patent, which the king has inspected, granted to the nuns
of the said house that upon each voidance of the office of abbot (sic) of that
house, they should have power to choose an abbess without licence from
the earl or his heirs, so that the earl or his ministers should not have
ingress into the monastery or into any of the lands pertaining thereto, and
should not intermeddle with the same, and the nuns have now shewn the
king that although they have had the custody of all the lands pertaining to
the monastery upon each voidance since the time of the grant aforesaid,
the escheator has taken the lands into the king's hands by reason of the
present voidance. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To John de Bousser and John de Cantebrig. Order not to permit
William de Gosefeld, whom the king appointed to take with them all
assizes, juries, and certificates to be taken before all his justices in cos.
Essex, Hertford, Cambridge, and Huntingdon, to intermeddle in any way
with the said assizes, juries, and certificates or with anything pertaining to
the king, as the king has caused him to be amoved from the said office for
certain reasons. By K. |
June 14.
Westminster. |
To Edmund, earl of Arundel, justice of Wales. Order to cause one
hundred or two hundred footmen, according to his discretion, to be chosen
in South Wales and West Wales, and to cause them to be armed suitably,
and to cause them to be taken to Plimmuth by some one in whom he can
trust, so that they be there in the quinzaine of Midsummer next at the
latest, to set out for the duchy [of Aquitaine] in the king's service. The
king has ordered the chamberlain of Kaermerdyn to pay them the usual
wages from the day when they set out for Plimmuth until they arrive
there. By K.
[Parl. Writs.] |
March 17.
Westminster. |
To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester,
Salop, Stafford, and in the adjoining marches of Wales. Order to take
proof of the age of William de Hampton, son and heir of Richard de
Hampton, tenant by knight service of the heir of Richard, late earl of
Arundel, lately a minor in the late king's wardship, at a day and place to be
appointed by the escheator, as William says that he is of full age and prays
for livery of his lands, wherefore the king wills that he shall prove his age
before the escheator, he having been born at Hampton, co. Salop, and
baptized in the church of Ellesmere in the marches aforesaid. |
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Vacated, because they were not sealed. |
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Membrane 5. |
June 13.
Westminster. |
To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester,
Salop, Stafford, and in the adjoining marches of Wales. Order to cause
the aforesaid William to have seisin of the lands that his father held as
above, as he has proved his age before the escheator. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To Walter le Gras, keeper of the land of Werthrynneon. Order to
allow the men of the community of that land to have respite for the amercements inflicted upon them before the keeper for chasing, during the late
disturbance in the realm, in the king's free chace in that land, after it came
to the king's hands by the forfeiture of Roger de Mortuo Mari of
Wyggemor, late lord of that land, and for taking away deer, the king
having granted that they shall have respite for the above amercements upon
their good behaviour during his pleasure. |
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By K. on the information of W. de Ayrem[ynne]. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To Ranulph de Dacre, John de Haryngton, and Adam de Skelton,
keepers in the parts of Carlisle of the truce between him and the men of
Scotland. Order to cause the men of Scotland arrested by John de Glenton,
keeper of the water of Sulewath, to come before them as often as need be,
and to cause them to be released, if they ought to be released according to
the truce, or to remit them to prison under the custody of the sheriff of
Cumberland if they ought to be detained in prison, certifying the king of
the names of those thus remitted to prison and of the cause of their arrest.
By K. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to
deliver to John de Clarun, knight, the issues of the manor of Rothyng
Aythorp, co. Essex, the king having, on 12 July last, ordered the escheator
not to intermeddle further with the said manor, because it was found by an
inquisition taken by the escheator that Guy Ferre held the manor at his
death of the gift of John Bacun by fine levied in the king's court, by virtue
whereof the manor remained to John Clarun upon Guy's dying without an
heir of his body. |
June 13.
Westminster. |
To Edmund de Assheby, keeper of certain rebels' lands in co. Lincoln.
Order to deliver to Alesia de Lacy, daughter and heiress of Henry de Lacy,
late earl of Lincoln, the court of the fee of La Haye, the bailey before
the gate of Lincoln castle, and 20l. for the third [penny] of the county of
Lincoln, in accordance with the king's order of 20 September, in the 16th
year of his reign, to Alan de Cubbeldyk, then keeper of the aforesaid lands,
as Alan was amoved from office before he had executed the order. |
June 16.
The Tower. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to pay to Rhys (Reso) son of Rhys ap
Mereduk, a Welshman in Norwich castle, such wages as he was wont to
receive in the late king's time and in the present king's time, and to pay
him the arrears of the same from the time of the sheriff's appointment. |
June 16.
The Tower. |
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of William atte Mede of Pithelestorne, deceased. |
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To William de Tatham, receiver of the issues of certain lands in
co. Lancaster. Order to pay to Anthony de Lucy 200l. for repairing the
walls of Carlisle castle, in addition to the 100l. that he has paid him by the
king's order for this purpose. By K. on the information of the treasurer. |
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To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause all the masons and
stone-cutters (cementarios et quarrerarios) of his bailiwick to come to Carlisle
without delay to do certain works of the king's there, as they shall be
enjoined by Anthony de Lucy, keeper of the aforesaid works. |
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By K. on the information of the treasurer. |
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The like to the sheriffs of York and Lancaster. |
June 18.
The Tower. |
To John Everard, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and
Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Wrokeshale,
co. Somerset, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent,
that Ralph de Gorges held no lands in chief of the king at his death except
a third of the manor of Braunton, co. Devon, by the service of finding the
king an arrow when he came or sent to Exmore to take venison, which
arrow was to be there delivered to the king's huntsman, and it is found by
the aforesaid inquisition and by an inquisition taken by the said John
Everard that Ralph held the manor of Wrokeshale of Hugh de Courteney
by knight service and not of the king. |
June 18.
The Tower. |
To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of the forfeited lands in co. Kent. Whereas
it appears by part of a fine levied before William de Bereford and his fellows,
justices of the Bench, in the 14th year of the king's reign, between Thomas
Colpeper and Margery his wife, demandants, and Richard de Headen and
John Colpeper, deforciants, concerning two messuages, two mills, 405 acres
of land, 20 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 80 acres of wood, and 20s.
of yearly rent in Peapunbery, Tonebrugge, and Tondele that Richard and
John granted the tenements aforesaid to Thomas and Margery and rendered
the same to them in court, to hold for their lives, with remainder to Walter
son of Thomas and Margery and the heirs male of his body, with
remainder to John, brother of the said Walter, and to the heirs male
of his body, with remainder to Richard, brother of the said John, and the
heirs male of his body, with remainder over to the right heirs of the
said Thomas, and it appears by an inquisition taken by the aforesaid Henry
de Cobeham and by William de Northho and William de Ponte Roberti in
the presence of Richard de Potesgrave, late keeper of the aforesaid tenements, that Thomas and Margery continued their seisin of the tenements
according to the tenor of the fine without change of their estate until they
were taken into the king's hands by the forfeiture of the said Thomas, and
that the tenements, with the exception of 55½ acres, are held of Claricia,
daughter and co-heiress of Roland de Oxstede by the service of 1d. yearly,
and that of the excepted land, 31 acres are held of John de Mereworth by
the service of 5½d. yearly, 4½ acres of Walter de Chitecroft by the service
of 6d. yearly, and 20 acres of land of Peter Robert by the service of 16d.
yearly: the king orders the aforesaid keeper to deliver the tenements aforesaid to the said Margery, to be held according to the tenor of the fine;
provided that after the death of Margery, Walter, John, and Richard, the
tenements shall revert to the king in case Walter, John, and Richard each
die without an heir male of his body. By K. and C. |
June 13.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance
to be made to John de Grantham of London in the debts due from him to
the exchequer for 40l. 11s. 0¼d., the said John having shewn by his petition
that William de Hedersete and his fellows, collectors of the custom (custumarii) of wool in the port of London, received the above sum from him
by way of imprest for the king's use beyond the custom due for his wool,
and he has prayed the king to cause that sum to be allowed to him in the
debts due from him to the exchequer of the time when he was one of
the sheriffs of London, and he has prayed the king for remedy because the
treasurer and barons defer allowing him the above sum although they
found by the accounts of the said collectors, which the king ordered them
to examine, that the collectors answered to the king for this sum. |
June 16.
The Tower. |
To Alan de Cubbeldyk, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in co.
Lincoln. Order to restore to Henry de Umframvill his lands, goods and
chattels, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of his adherence
to the rebels, and to restore to him the issues thereof. By K. |
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The like to John Everard, keeper, etc., in co. Devon. |
July 4.
Laughton. |
To John de Lek, receiver of the issues of the castle [and] honour of
Tutteburi. Order to pay to John de Denum, to whom the king granted
during pleasure the superior custody of the chace of Duffeldfrith and the
parks within the limits of that forest, the arrears of the wages therefor due
from the time of the grant, and to continue to pay him the same henceforth,
the king having granted that he should receive the usual wages therefor
and the other things that Nicholas de Hungerford, who previously had the
custody, used to receive for the same. |
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Membrane 4. |
June 30.
Tunbridge. |
To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in co.
Kent. Order to restore to William de Hokiniore his lands, which were
taken into the king's hands by reason of his adherence to the late rebels, as
he has found mainprise for his good behaviour. |
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By K. on the information of W. de Ayremynne. |
July 2.
Rotherfield. |
To Walter de Norwico. Order to supply the place of W. bishop of
Exeter as treasurer in the exchequer, during the treasurer's absence in
Devon, Cornwall, and co. Southampton, whither he is going for the expedition of certain of the king's affairs. By K.
[Parl. Writs.] |
June 30.
Tunbridge. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Eleanor,
late the wife of Henry de Percy, to be discharged of 3s. 10¾d. from 8 March,
in the 16th year of the king's reign, when the king restored to Henry, son
and heir of the said Henry, the knights' fees and advowsons of his father,
which had been in the king's hands during his minority, the said Eleanor
being bound to render the above sum yearly during the said heir's minority
by the hands of the escheator beyond Trent for the excess in value of the
lands assigned to her in dower on 6 November, in the 8th year of the reign
[as in this Calendar, 8 Edward II., p. 125]. |
June 2.
Rotherfield. |
To Petronilla, late the wife of John de Benestede. Order to pay to Joan
de Balsam 115s. 7d. yearly from the time when the manor of Benyngton,
co. Hertford, was assigned to Petronilla as dower, which manor is of the
yearly value of 41l. 6s. 8d., for which Petronilla is bound to pay 115s. 7d.
yearly to the exchequer during the minority of John's heir for the excess in
value of her dower, as it is found by inquisition taken by John de Blomvill,
escheator in that county, that the said John de Benestede granted to Joan
de Balsam 10 marks yearly for her life, and that he charged his lands with
payment thereof, and that Joan has been wont to receive that sum yearly
from his lands from the time of the grant. The king will discharge
Petronilla of this sum at the exchequer. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the said
Petronilla of the aforesaid 115s. 7d. during her life and the life of the said
Joan. |
June 28.
Tunbridge. |
Thomas de Langele, imprisoned in Neugate gaol for the death of Thomas
de Lenne, 'skynner,' has letters to the sheriff of London to bail him until
the first assize. |
June 28.
Tunbridge. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to restore to Master John de Stretford,
now bishop of Winchester, his lands, goods and chattels, which the king
lately ordered them to take into his hands for certain causes. By K. |
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The like to the following: |
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The sheriff of Warwick. |
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H. bishop of Lincoln, |
for the ecclesiastical goods in
their dioceses. |
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R. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, |
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J. bishop of Chichester, |
