Close Rolls, Edward II: November 1325 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

'Close Rolls, Edward II: November 1325', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327, (London, 1898) pp. 419-431. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol4/pp419-431 [accessed 20 April 2024]

November 1325



	Membrane 23.
Nov. 2. Cippenham.	To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Whereas the king lately ordered the escheator to certify him of the reason for taking into the king's hands certain lands in Escrik that belonged to Roger Damory, a late rebel, which came to the king's hands by his forfeiture, and which the king assigned to Sigreda, late the wife of Richard de Berlay, in recompense for her dower of the lands that belonged to the said Richard in Berlay, and the escheator has returned that he took a simple seisin in name of distraint in the lands because Sigreda, who was dowered of them by the king, married Roger de Aton without the king's licence, until such time as Roger and Sigreda should make fine with the king for the trespass aforesaid; and the king afterwards,—upon learning from Roger and Sigreda that the said manor of Berlay, whereof she sought to have dower assigned to her after the death of the aforesaid Richard, is not held of the king in chief, so that she ought not to be called the king's widow or to seek licence to marry from him, wherefore Roger and Sigreda have besought the king to amove his hand from the lands,—ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the tenure, and it is now found by the inquisition that the manor of Berlay is not held of the king in chief, but is held of William Gramery by fealty and the service of 11s. yearly, and by the service of one attendance at his court of Snayt for all services; the king therefore orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the said lands in Escrik, and to restore the issues thereof to Roger and Sigreda.
Nov. 2. Cippenham.	To Thomas de Culverden, keeper of certain rebels' lands in co. Kent. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by the keeper and William de Cotes that Thomas Colepeper, on Monday after the Epiphany, in the 14th year of the king's reign, granted by his deed to Thomas Botiller and Alice his wife a yearly rent of 2 quarters of wheat and 2 quarters of oats for their lives, together with the yearly pasture of three beasts of their own beasts pasturing with those of his at La Bayhall, in consideration of 14 acres of land that belonged to Alice in Pepynbery, now pertaining to the manor of La Bayhalle, which is in the king's hands by the forfeiture of the said Thomas Colepeper, and that the said 14 acres are held of John de Mereworth by the service of 5½d. yearly, and are worth yearly 7s. clear beyond the said services, and that the aforesaid Thomas Boteler and Alice were seised of the rent and pasture from the time of the making of the said deed until the death of Thomas Boteler, who died on the morrow of Holy Trinity, in the 16th year of the king's reign, after whose death Alice was seised of the rent and pasture until Michaelmas, in the 18th year of the king's reign, and that Thomas Boteler and Alice never remitted or released the rent and pasture to Thomas Colepeper; the king therefore orders the keeper to permit Alice to have the pasture aforesaid, and to pay her the arrears of the rent, and to pay the rent henceforth.
Nov. 4. Cippenham.	To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of William Eylemer, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held no lands in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Nov. 4. Cippenham.	To John Sturmy, admiral of the fleet of king's ships from the mouth of the Thames to the north. Order to permit all the ships of Bayonne that were retained and are still detained for the king's service and the mariners and men in them to go to Bayonne or whither they will without impediment, notwithstanding any order of the king's to the contrary. The king wills and orders the said John, by reason of certain rumours sufficiently known to him, that he cause some good and sufficient ships to be retained in each port of his bailiwick, so that they be ready for the king's service, if he should want them, when he shall cause the bailiffs of the ports or the masters of the ships to be summoned. The king will ordain for the wages of the masters and mariners of the same ships when they shall set out in his service. By K.
Nov. 2. Cippenham.	To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause John atte Bergh to have seisin of an acre of land in La Berewe under Malverne, as it is found by inquisition taken by the sheriff that William Rauwyn, who was hanged for felony, held it of the said John, and that it has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that it is still in the king's hands, and that the township of La Bergh has had the king's year, day, and waste thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
Nov. 8. Cippenham.	To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order to amove the king's hand from a messuage of Richard atte Welle in Wycoumbe, co. Buckingham, as the escheator has certified that he took the messuage into the king's hands because one William Hallyng', born in Flanders, acquired it from John Doget, and William, after he had held it for a long time and had been in lot and scot with the burgesses of that town, bequeathed it in his will, according to the custom of the town of Wycoumbe, to Margaret his wife, who, being seised thereof for a long time, enfeoffed Robert Ballard thereof, after whose death his son and heir Robert enfeoffed the said Richard atte Welle thereof, and it seemed to the escheator that the messuage ought to be taken into the king's hands because William Hallyng was an alien; which cause the king deems insufficient and frivolous.
Nov. 4. Cippenham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the exaction by the sheriff of Kent in the lands of the king's hospital of Ospreng for divers sums of money for the king's use by reason of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and twentieth lately granted to the king by the community of the realm to be superseded, and to discharge the master and brethren of the hospital thereof at the exchequer upon this occasion, as the hospital, which was founded by Henry III., is so poor in the things and means pertaining to it that the goods thereof scarce suffice for the maintenance of the master and brethren and of the weak and infirm folk in the hospital and of the other alms to be made according to the ordinance of Henry III., and it would be necessary for the master and brethren to diminish the alms aforesaid if they are charged at this time with the aids granted to the king by the community of the realm.
	The like in favour of the master of the hospital of God's House, Dover.
Nov. 8. Cippenham.	To John Everard, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with 7 acres of land in Aston, which land he has taken into the king's hands, pretending that the master and brethren of the hospital of St. Katherine without Bristol had acquired it to them and their house after the publication of the statute of mortmain without licence from the king or his father, and to restore the issues thereof to the master and brethren, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the master and brethren acquired the land in fee long before the publication of the statute from Alexander de Auney, and that the land is held of the heirs of William de Lyons.
	To John de Sturmy, admiral of the fleet of the king's ships from the mouth of the Thames to the north. Order to permit the ships arrested by him by virtue of the king's order to cause all the ships in his bailiwick to be prepared and detained in certain ports, so that they should be ready for the king's service when the king should warn him, to go whither they will to exercise merchandise, notwithstanding the king's order, as he has signified the king by his letters that the rumours that caused the king to issue the above order are not true, so that it is not necessary to detain the ships aforesaid; provided that John be secure of as many ships well and sufficiently found as shall be necessary, according to his discretion, for the king's service if he shall need them, this being done to the least damage of those owning the ships. The king will content the owners of the ships thus retained when they shall set out in his service. By p.s. [7237.] [Fœdera.]
Nov. 8. Cippenham.	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger Fraunceys, deceased.
Nov. 9. Cippenham.	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause Costorchius Morle of Luca and Anthony Chytronus of Genoa, who were appealed by John de Wireham of certain illicit assemblies and certain other things committed against the king, and who were taken and imprisoned at York by Thomas Ughred and Alan de Tesdale by the king's order, to be released from the said prison, as Master Pancius de Controne, the king's physician, and Oliver de Burdeux have mainperned before the king to have Costorchius and Anthony upon reasonable summons before the king or elsewhere in his court to stand to right concerning what the king will say against them. By p.s. [7238.]
	The like to the mayor and bailiffs of the said city. By the same writ.
Nov. 9. Cippenham.	To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to go to the castle of Berkhampsted, laying aside all other matters, and to receive by indenture Richard Sautre and Roger de Tydemersh, who are imprisoned therein, from the king's sergeants-at-arms, John de Enefeld, William de Weston, and Otelinus Alemaund, and to cause the said Richard and Roger to be conducted to Exeter castle at the king's cost, there to be delivered to the constable, or to him who supplies his place, whom the king has ordered to receive Richard and Roger from the sheriff, and to cause them to be kept safely in that castle until further orders. By K.
	To John de Enefeld, William de Weston, and William (sic) Alemaund, king's serjeants. Order to deliver Richard Dautre (sic) and Roger de Tydmersh to the said sheriff.
	To Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. Order to permit Richard and Roger to be delivered by indenture from prison in that castle by the aforesaid serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Exeter castle, or to him who supplies his place. By K.
	To the sheriffs, and all other bailiffs, ministers, and king's subjects. Writ of aid in favour of the said sheriff, or those whom he shall depute, in conducting the said Richard and Roger to Exeter castle. By K.
	Ista liter a fuit patens.
	To the sheriff of Berks. Like order to go to Berkhampsted castle, and to receive from the aforesaid serjeants John de Isle, who is imprisoned therein, and to cause him to be conducted to Wyndesore castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the said serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Wyndesore castle. By K.
	Like writ of aid to all sheriffs, etc. By K.
	Et fuit ista litera patens.
	To the sheriff of Berks. Like order to go to Berkhampsted castle, and to receive from the aforesaid serjeants Thomas de Tunley, who is imprisoned in the castle, and to cause him to be conducted to Kenilworth castle. By K.
	Membrane 22.
	Mandate in pursuance to the aforesaid serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Kenilworth castle. By K.
	Like writ of aid to all sheriffs, etc. By K.
	Et fuit ista litera patens.
	To the sheriff of Berks. Like order to go to Berkhampstede castle, and to receive from the aforesaid serjeants Hugh de Audele and Richard de Lymesi, who are imprisoned therein, and to cause them to be conducted to Notingham castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the said serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Notingham castle. By K.
	Like writ of aid to all sheriffs, etc. By K.
	Et fuit ista litera patens.
	To the sheriff of Essex. Like order to go to Berkhampsted castle, and to receive from the said serjeants William de Kerdyf, John de Louches, John de Kerdyf, Thomas de Berkleye, and Yerewardus le Chaumberleyn, who are imprisoned therein, and to conduct them to Pevenesy castle.
	By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the said serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampstede castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Pevenesy castle. By K.
	Like writ of aid to all sheriffs, etc. By K.
	To the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham. Like order to go to the castle of Berkhampsted, and to receive from the said serjeants John de Whitefeld and Simon de Coyngham, who are imprisoned there, and to cause them to be conducted to Bernard's Castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the said serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Berkhampsted castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Bernard's Castle. By K.
	Like writ of aid to all sheriffs, etc. By K.
	Et fuit ista litera patens.
	To the sheriff of Essex. Like order to go to Berkhampsted castle, and to receive from the said serjeants Robert de la Garderobe, Master Ralph de Clebury, and brother Ralph le Messager, who are imprisoned therein, and to cause them to be conducted to Colecestre castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the said serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Colecestre castle. By K.
	Like writ of aid to all sheriffs, etc. By K.
	Et fuit ista litera patens.
	To the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham. Order to go to Berkhampsted castle, and to receive from the aforesaid serjeants Gilbert Walkefare, who is imprisoned therein, and to cause him to be conducted to Sandale castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the said serjeants. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Sandale castle. By K.
	Like writ of aid to all sheriffs, etc. By K.
	Et fuit ista litera patens.
Nov. 10. Cippenham.	To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John son of Matthew de Burgh, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held no lands in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
	To John de Enefeld, William de Weston, and Otelinus Alemaund, the king's serjeants-at-arms. Order to conduct John Bruaunt and John de Monemouth, who are imprisoned in Berkhampsted castle, to Berkley castle, and to conduct John Colepeper and Adam de Way, who are likewise imprisoned in Berkhampsted castle, to Gloucester castle, and to conduct William Bowet, also imprisoned in Berkhampsted castle, to Hereford castle, and to deliver them by indenture respectively to the constables of the said castles, or to them who supply their places, whom the king has ordered to receive them and to cause them to be kept safely in the said castles until otherwise ordered. By K.
	To Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. Order to deliver the aforesaid prisoners by indenture to the said serjeants-at-arms. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Berkley castle, or to him who supplies his place. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Gloucester castle, or to him who supplies his place.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Hereford castle, or to him who supplies his place. By K.
	Membrane 21.
	To Henry Norman, constable of Berkhampsted castle. Order to cause Henry Gernet, a prisoner in that castle, to be kept safely therein until further orders. By K.
	To the sheriffs and all other bailiffs, etc. Writ of aid in favour of the aforesaid John de Enefeld, William de Weston, and Otelinus Alemaund, in taking the prisoners above-named to the castles of Berkele, Gloucester, and Hertford (sic). By K.
	Et fuit ista litera patens.
Nov. 6. Cippenham.	To the sheriff of Berks. Order to go to Berkhamstede castle, laying aside all other matters, and to receive by indenture from the aforesaid serjeants-at-arms John Bruaunt, John de Monemuth, John Colepepere, Adam de Way, and William Bowet, who are imprisoned in that castle, and to cause John Bruaunt and John de Monemuth to be conducted to Berkeley castle, John Colepepere and Adam de Way to be conducted to Gloucester castle, and the said William to be conducted to Hereford castle at the king's cost, there to be delivered to the constables of the said castles, or to them who supply their places, whom the king has ordered to receive the said prisoners from the sheriff and to cause them to be kept in the castles until otherwise ordered. By K.
	To Henry Norman, constable of Berkhamstede castle, or to him who supplies his place. Order to permit the aforesaid prisoners to be delivered by the said serjeants-at-arms to the aforesaid sheriff. By K.
	To the sheriffs and all other bailiffs, ministers, and subjects, etc. Writ of aid in favour of the sheriff in conducting the prisoners to the said castles. By K. Ista litera fuit patens.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Berkeley castle, or to him who supplies his place. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Gloucester castle, or to him who supplies his place.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable of Hereford castle, or to him who supplies his place.
	To John de Enefeld, William de Weston, and Otelinus Alemaund, the king's serjeants-at-arms. Order to deliver the aforesaid prisoners to the said sheriff by indenture. By K.
Nov. 19. Westminster.	To Walter Beril and Roger de Brokesworth, keepers of the lands of aliens in co. Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Duntysh and the hamlet of Tyley and 100s. of rent in Douelysh, co. Dorset, which they have taken into the king's hands because Petronilla, late the wife of William de Gouiz, was born and dwelt in parts beyond sea, as the king learns by inquisition taken by John Everard, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, that Petronilla held no lands in chief at her death, but that she held the aforesaid manor, hamlet, and rent in dower of the inheritance of Joan, wife of John le Latymer, daughter and heiress of the aforesaid William, and that Joan is aged 30 years and more, and it is found by an inquisition taken by the said Walter and Roger that Petronilla died on Monday before St. Andrew last. They are ordered to restore the issues received thence since the said Monday to John and Joan.
Nov. 26. Westminster.	To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hear pleas before the king. Order not to permit William de Baggeleye, Robert de Preiers, Hamo de Asshelegh, Richard Starky, the elder, Richard Starky, the younger, John de Legh, Geoffrey de Werberton, William de Chetelton, Hamo de Massy, Thomas de Chedul, Robert de Wenyngton, Robert Stronghogh, John de Karynton, John de Wennebury, and Richard de Lanton to be aggrieved or molested at the suit of the king or of others by reason of the goods of the rebels and their adherents taken and occupied by them whilst in the king's company in the pursuit of the rebels, as the king has granted that those who were in his company in pursuit of the rebels shall not be molested or aggrieved at his suit or the suit of others by reason of the rebels' goods taken and occupied by them in the said pursuit between 17 October, in the 15th year of his reign, and 5 April following.
Nov. 18. Westminster.	To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Order to retain in the king's hands 4s. of rent in Sunthorp of Robert Julian of Skeftelyng, and not to intermeddle further with the other lands of the said Robert, restoring the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert held on the day of his death the said 4s. of rent of the king as of the honour of Albemarle by knight service, and that he did not hold any lands in chief on the day of his death as of the crown by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held on the said day divers lands in Skeftelyng of the abbot of Thornton by the service of 2s. yearly for all service.
Nov. 26. Westminster.	To Henry de Valoynes. Order to deliver to John Gerard—who was lately indicted before Geoffrey de Say and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer in co. Kent, for assenting to and counselling Bartholomew de Burghesshe and others who held the castle of Ledes against the king, and for being of the confederacy of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, and for burglary of the houses of the king's manor of Graveshende, and for divers goods and chattels carried away there, and for the robbery of the goods of Simon Benjamyn and of others of the king's men coming from Ledes—the issues received by Henry from his lands, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of the above indictment, and his goods and chattels then found on his lands, as the king learns by the record and process before him, which he has caused to come into chancery under the seal of Geoffrey de Scrop, chief justice to hold pleas before the king, that John was lawfully acquitted of the premises, and that he did not withdraw himself.
Nov. 12. Cippenham.	To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and 4 acres of land in Totyngdon and with a messuage and 2 acres of meadow in the same town, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Elizabeth, late the wife of Paulinus Peyvre, tenant in chief, was jointly enfeoffed with her husband of the said messuage and 4 acres of the gift of Thomas Lanehende and of the said messuage aud 2 acres of the gift of Robert son of John, and that she continued her seisin of the messuage, land, and meadow jointly with Paulinus until the day of his death, and that the messuage, land, and meadow are held of Mary de Sancto Amando by the service of 2s. yearly.
Nov. 15. Windsor.	To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to admit John de Shirburn to the office of coroner in that city when required to do so by Benedict de Folsham, the king's butler, to whom the office of coroner in the city pertains, as Benedict is unable to execute the office in person because he is intending the king's affairs in divers counties of the realm.
Nov. 13. Cippenham.	To John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the priory of Wroxale, or with anything pertaining thereto, which he has taken into the king's hands upon the last voidance, pretending that the custody thereof pertains to the king by reason of the custody of the land and heir of the earl of Warwick being in the king's hands, and to restore the issues and profits thereof to the nuns without diminution, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the priory was founded by one Hugh son of Richard, and is now of the patronage of John de Clinton of Maxstock, kinsman and heir of the said Hugh, and that the nuns thereof have been wont, from the time of the foundation of the priory, to have all issues and profits thereof upon each voidance, and to dispose and ordain of the priory and its appurtenances, without Hugh or his heirs intermeddling in any way with the issues and profits or with the priory at any time of voidance, or without their receiving anything therefrom.
Nov. 12. Cippenham.	To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order not to intermeddle further with a third of a messuage and of 90 acres of land, of 6 acres of meadow, and of 24s. of rent in Bodeham near Petteworth, if he have taken the same into the king's hands by reason of the death of John Paynel, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Master Richard de Clare, late escheator this side Trent, that John held nothing in chief at his death, but that he held the aforesaid third of the heir of Henry de Percy, lately a minor in the king's wardship, and that Matilda, daughter of the said John, is his nearest heir and is of full age.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for 8l. paid by him to Ralph de Hastynges, for a rent due to him from the manor of Thorp Basset, in execution of the king's order to pay him the arrears of the said rent from the time of Simon's appointment and to pay him the same henceforth [for the reasons given at page 31 above].
	To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to the aforesaid Simon for 14l. 14s. 2½d., paid by him to Thomas de Bolton, knight, in execution of the king's order of 20 October, in the 18th year of his reign, to pay the arrears since the time of Simon's appointment of 20 marks, two robes, one with fur lining (pellura) and the other with linen lining (linura), and a saddle suitable for a knight yearly, and to pay him the same henceforth, because the king learned by inquisition taken by Thomas de Burgh, late escheator beyond Trent, concerning the lands of Ralph, late baron of Graystok, that Ralph held in fee on the day of his death the manor of Hilderskelf of John de (sic) Bygot, and certain other lands in Galmethorp of Ranulph de Nevill, and that the manor and lands are charged to Thomas de Bolton, knight, in the above rent, robes, and saddle yearly for the term of his life, and it was found by another inquisition taken by the said escheator that Thomas was seised of the above by virtue of a deed made to him by Ralph and that he continued his seisin thereof until the time of Ralph's death, Simon having paid the above sum to Thomas, as appears by his letters of acquittance.
	Membrane 20.
Nov. 12. Cippenham.	To Thomas de Blakebrok, fermor of the manor of Ealdynge, in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Hugh de Audele, the younger. Order to pay to the prior and convent of Tonebrigge the arrears of 51s. 5d. yearly for the time that the manor has been in the fermor's custody, and to pay them the same henceforth, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Thomas de Faveresham and William de Cotes that Richard de Clare, sometime earl of Hertford, founded a priory in his manor of Tonebrigge before the time of memory, and granted by his charters to the canons regular there instituted the above sum, to be received yearly from all the assarts of old and new lands of his in Dennemannesbrok, and that the prior and all his successors received the said sum from the aforesaid assarts, and were seised of the same as of the right of their church of Tonebrigge during all the time aforesaid without making any quit-claim thereof or changing their estate therein in any way, until the assarts came to the king's hands by reason of the aforesaid Hugh's forfeiture, and that the assarts are part of the demesne lands of the manor of Ealdynge, and that the manor is held of the king by the service of a knight's fee, and is worth yearly in all issues 100 marks.
	To Henry de Cobeham, keeper of certain rebels' lands in co. Kent. Order to pay to the aforesaid prior and convent the arrears, from the time when he received the custody of the manor of Tonebrigg and of the assarts mentioned in the preceding order, of 10 marks yearly from that manor, and of the 51s. 5d. from the assarts aforesaid, and to pay them the said 10 marks yearly henceforth, and to permit them to have wood from the dead wood in the grove (nemore) of that manor for two sumpter-horses (summarios) daily, and pannage for 120 swine in the forest of Tonebrigg, and to cause them to have a hart yearly, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Thomas de Faveresham and William de Cotes that Richard de Clare, sometime earl of Hertford, founded a priory in his manor of Tonebrigg before the time of memory, and granted to the canons regular thereof 10 marks yearly from his manor of Tonebrigg, and 51s. 5d. from the assarts aforesaid, and granted that they should have yearly 120 swine in his forest of Tonebrigg quit of pannage, and that they should have two sumpter-horses free and quit to carry to them daily wood from his grove nearest and most convenient for them, to wit from the dead wood, and that they should have a hart yearly to be taken by his men at the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, and it is found by the inquisition that the prior and all his successors received the above, and were seised thereof as of the right of their church of Tonebrigg all the time aforesaid, without making quit-claim thereof and without changing their estate therein, until the manor, assarts, groves, and forest came to the king's hands by the forfeiture of Hugh de Audele, the younger, and that the manor with the forest is held of the archbishop of Canterbury by the service of being steward of his hall at the time of his enthroning, and that it is worth in all issues 80l. yearly, and that the assarts are parcels of the demesnes of the manor of Ealdyngge, which is of the honour of Clare, and that the manor is held of the king by the service of one knight's fee, and is worth yearly in all issues 100 marks.
Aug. 6. Matching Hall.	To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester, Salop, Stafford, and in the adjoining marches of Wales. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Thomas Botetourt, sister and co-heiress of John de Somery, tenant in chief, a moiety of two parts of a messuage and 24 acres of land in Foxhale, co. Salop, partition whereof has not yet been made between the parceners of John's inheritance, as the king has assigned the moiety to Joan as her purparty.
	Vacated, because above.
	To the same. Like order to assign a moiety of the said two parts to John de Sutton and Margaret his wife, sister and co-heiress of John de Somery.
	[Vacated, as above.]
Nov. 18. Westminster.	To Roger Mauduyt. Order not to intermeddle further with a mill in Ovyngeham, co. Northumberland, and with a wood there, and to permit Eleanor, late the wife of Robert de Umfravill, earl of Angus, to have and hold them, and to restore to her any issues received thence since 10 July last, when the king assigned to her, amongst other of her husband's lands in dower, the said mill, of the yearly value of 100s., and the said wood, which was extended at 2s. yearly for agistment, and when he ordered the escheator in that county to deliver the lands to her, and the king, on 1 September following, committed to Roger, during pleasure, the custody of all the castles, manors, and lands of the said earl, except the lands assigned to Eleanor in dower, as Roger has occupied the mill and wood by virtue of the said commission, as the king learns from Eleanor's complaint, although the escheator delivered them to her with the other lands assigned to her in dower.
Nov. 16. Westminster.	To Roger le Gulden, keeper of certain lands in co. Somerset. Order to pay to the prioress of Stodlegh the arrears of 6l. of yearly rent from the manor of Craucombe Bere for the time of Roger's custody, and to pay her the same hereafter, as the king learns by inquisition taken in Roger's presence by John de Ledrede and William de Stapelton that Godfrey de Craucombe, late lord of the said manor, granted, in the time of Henry III., to the prioress and nuns of Stodlegh 6l. of yearly rent, to be received from the said manor in frankalmoin, and that the present prioress and her predecessors received the said sum yearly from the manor from the time of Godfrey's gift until the manor came to the king's hands by the forfeiture of John de Acton, and that the prioress or any other prioress never remitted or released the said sum to any one, and that the manor is in the king's hands by the forfeiture of John de Acton because he was an adherent of the rebels, and for no other cause, and that the manor is held of John de Urtiaco by the service of one knight's fee, and is worth 17l. yearly in all issues, and it appears by part of a fine levied in the court of Henry III., in the 56th year of his reign, between Elizabeth, then prioress of Stodleye, and John le Bruyn, then lord of the said manor, which was exhibited in chancery, that the prioress ought to receive the said rent in form aforesaid.
Nov. 20. Westminster.	To Benedict de Folsham, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the town of Southampton. Order to deliver a tun of wine of the right prise for this year to the abbot and convent of King's Beaulieu, for the celebration of mass in their church, in accordance with the grant of Henry III.
Nov. 20. Westminster.	To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and the city of London. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Alan de Bokeshull, tenant in chief, the following of her husband's lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the manor of Bokeshull, co. Sussex, of the yearly value of 7l. 13s. 11½d.; certain lands in Haselden, in the same county, of the yearly value of 5s.; certain lands in Colteslond, in the same county, of the yearly value of 7s. 6¼d.; and a third of a mill in Enham and Bokeburst, in the same county, of the yearly value of 32s. The king has also assigned to her a third of the manor of Brianeston, co. Dorset, of the yearly value of 12l. 5s. 5¾d.
	To John Everard, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Matilda the said third of the manor of Brianeston.
Nov. 23. Westminster.	To John Everard, keeper of the forfeited lands in co. Devon. Order to deliver to John son of Philip de Bello Monte two ferlings of land in Slolegh, and the issues received therefrom since the death of Thomas de Langedon, as the king learns by inquisition taken in the keeper's presence by Robert de Stokheye and Henry Bokerel that John son of Philip de Bello Monte, in the 12th year of the reign, granted the aforesaid two ferlings to the said Thomas for life, at a yearly rent of 10s., and that the land was taken into the king's hands because it was said that Thomas adhered to certain rebels, and that it is still in the king's hands for this and no other reason, and that Thomas died at Bath on the eve of St. Andrew, in the 16th year of the king's reign, and that John made no other estate thereof to Thomas or to any one else, and that the land, together with the remainder of John's manor of Shirewell, is held of Hugh de Courtenay by the service of a knight's fee, and that the land is worth 10s. yearly, and it appears by the deed of grant, exhibited in chancery, that the grant was made in form aforesaid.
Nov. 25. Westminster.	To John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Bauquel, belonging to William Gernoun, the elder, and to restore the issues thereof, the escheator having returned that he took the manor into the king's hands because it was found by an inquisition taken before him that William, who held it in chief by knight service as of the crown, (fn. 1) . . . . and the king ordered the escheator to make inquisition whether William alienated the manor to the said (sic) John or not, etc., and it is found by the inquisition that William did not alienate the manor to John for life, but that he demised it to him for 20 years.
	Vacated, because otherwise below.
Dec. 8. The Tower.	John son of Robert Lovet of Neuton, imprisoned in Okham gaol for the death of Walter de Wyght, has letters to the sheriff of Rutland to bail him until the first assize.
	Membrane 19.
Nov. 25. Westminster.	To John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Bauquel, belonging to William Gernoun, the elder, and to restore the issues thereof, the escheator having returned that he took the manor into the king's hands because it was found by inquisition that William, who held it in chief by knight service as of the crown, alienated it to John Gernoun for life without the king's licence, and the king, understanding from William that he had not alienated the manor, but had always held it in his hands until the escheator took it into the king's hands, ordered the escheator to make inquisition whether William had alienated it or not, etc., and it is found by the inquisition that the aforesaid [William] did not alienate the manor to John for life, but that he demised it to him for twenty years.
Nov. 28. Westminster.	To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Whereas lately, in consideration of the security that John Bacun and Adam Bacun, king's clerks, found the king for Edmund Bacun— who had the custody of the lands that belonged to Giles de Brewosa, tenant in chief, which were in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Giles's heir, by demise from Robert son of Payn, deceased, to whom the king committed the custody during the heir's minority—that he would answer to the king for the issues received for the lands aforesaid from the time of the death of Richard de Brewosa, son and heir of the said Giles, in case it should be declared by the king and his council that the custody aforesaid pertained to the king and not to Edmund by virtue of the demise aforesaid, the king ordered the escheator to deliver the lands (which he had taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Robert de Brewosa, brother and heir of the aforesaid Richard, who died a minor in the king's custody) together with the issues thereof to the said John and Adam in Edmund's name, saving to Katherine, late the wife of the said Robert, her dower of the lands aforesaid assigned to her by the king; and it is now shewn to the king, on behalf of the said John and Adam, that the escheator detains the issues of a third of the said lands received by him after Robert's death before Katherine was dowered thereof, although he has delivered to them the lands aforesaid and the issues of the two parts thereof; the king therefore orders him to deliver to John and Adam, for Edmund's use, all the issues of the third part received by him.
	To Thomas de Eyvill, keeper of certain lands in Polyngton, co. York, in the king's hands for certain reasons. Order to pay to the abbot of Seleby the arrears of a rent of 5s. for certain lands that Robert de Styveton and Sibyl his wife held of the abbot in Polyngton for the time that Thomas has had the custody of the said lands, and to pay the abbot the said rent at the usual terms hereafter, as the king lately ordered Richard Squyer to pay the arrears of the said rent to the abbot for the time that he had had the custody of the lands aforesaid, and to pay it at the usual terms thenceforth, because it was found by inquisition taken by Richard that Robert and Sibyl held the lands of the abbot by the service of 5s. yearly.
Nov. 24. Westminster.	To John de Insula, keeper of certain forfeited lands in co. Essex. Whereas lately, at the supplication of Hasculph de Whitewell, suggesting that John de Ripariis, formerly lord of the manor of Aungre, in the said county, granted to Hasculph two marks of yearly rent for life, to be received from that manor, and that Hasculph received the rent in full from the time of the grant until the time when the manor came to the king's hands by reason of the trespass of Hugh Daudele, the younger, afterwards lord of the manor, and that the rent has been detained from him since that time, the king appointed John de Bousser and William de Gosfeld to make inquisition concerning the premises in the presence of the king's keeper of the manor; and it was found by their inquisition that John de Rypariis, formerly lord of the manor, granted the said two marks of yearly rent to Hasculph for life, and that Hasculph received that rent until the time when the manor came to the king's hands for certain causes, and that the rent is in arrear from that time until now, and that Hasculph never released his estate in the rent to any of the lords of the manor, or charged his estate in any way, and that the manor is worth 15l. yearly in all issues, and that it is held in chief of the king as of the honour of Boulogne by knight service; wherefore Hasculph has besought the king by his petition exhibited before the king and his council, in the parliament at Westminster, in the 17th year of the reign, to cause the rent and the arrears thereof from the time when the manor came to the king's hands to be paid to him; and the king thereupon ordered John le Porter, keeper of certain forfeited lands in the said county, to pay the rent and arrears aforesaid to Hasculph, and to pay the rent to him henceforth, as appears by the rolls of chancery: the king orders the said John de Insula to pay the rent to Hasculph for so long as he shall have the custody of the manor.
Nov. 30. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to restore to William, abbot of Westminster, the sums that they have caused to be levied from him, for divers tenths and other grants of the king, by reason of the abbot's lands in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, for the time that the lands have been in the king's hands, and to cause the same to be allowed to the abbot in the debts due from him to the exchequer, as the said abbot's lands in that parish have been in the king's hands from the time of the abbot's creation, and are still in his hands. By K.
	To the same. Order to cause Robert de Barton, sometime receiver of the king's victuals at Carlisle, to have allowance for the fish and salt specified below, as the king—at Robert's supplication, suggesting that divers of the king's victuals that the king caused to come to Skymburnes for the maintenance of the men then in garrison at Carlisle, which Robert caused to be deposited at the abbey of Holcoltram and the grange of the same, for the purpose of carrying them to Carlisle, were taken, consumed, and carried away from the abbey and grange by the Scotch rebels, and that other victuals in his custody at Carlisle were likewise taken, consumed, and carried away by Andrew de Harcla, the king's traitor, after he adhered to the Scots, and that Roger de Waltham, late keeper of the wardrobe, had charged Robert with the said victuals in his account for the time when he was receiver of the king's victuals as if they had been lost and consumed by Robert's negligence—appointed Anthony de Lucy, constable of Carlisle castle, to make inquisition in co. Cumberland, in the presence of John de Louthre, receiver of the king's victuals at Carlisle, and of the sheriff of that county, concerning the premises, and it is found by their inquisition that, on 3 October, in the 16th year of the reign, the Scots took and carried away at the abbey of Holcoltram 193 salted fish, price 30s. a hundred, and 19 quarters of salt, price 6s. a quarter, at the grange of Harclau, from Robert's custody, and that the said Andrew, ten days after he had adhered to the Scots, likewise took and carried away at Carlisle ten quarters of salt, price 6s. a quarter, and that the said fish and salt were not taken, consumed, or carried away by the carelessness or negligence of Robert or of anyone else.
	To the aforesaid Roger de Waltham. Order to cause Robert to be acquitted of the said fish and salt in his account.
Nov. 30. Westminster.	To Ralph de Camoys, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to cause the houses, tower, walls and bridges of the castle, and the wall of the garden without the castle, and the houses and walls of the manor of Kenyngton, with the paling and wall about the park there, to be repaired.
	By K.