Close Rolls, Edward II: June 1321

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: June 1321', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 308-313. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp308-313 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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June 1321

June 1.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Laurence de Holbeche and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held at his death certain lands in Holbeche as of the right of Amice his wife, who survives him, and that Laurence and Amice held jointly at his death certain lands in the same town of their acquisition, and that the lands are held of other lords than the king.
To the chamberlain of Karnarvan. Order to pay to the king's yeoman Rhys (Reso) ap Gryffyth, bailiff of the forestry of Snowdon in Wales, the arrears of his wages from the time of the chamberlain's appointment, and to continue to pay him the same.
June 2.
Westminster.
To the bailiffs of Scardeburgh. At the suit of Peter de Wellewyk, merchant and burgess of Ravenesrodd, that whereas he caused a ship to be laden in Estland at Aldeburgh in Denmark (Denemarch') with wheat, rye, and other his goods to the value of 60l. sterling, for the purpose of bringing the same to England to trade therewith, certain malefactors of the town of Flissing', of the power of the count of Hainault, entered the ship in hostile manner whilst on her voyage to this realm on the coast of Zeeland (Seland) near Wolk' and Walker, and slew Peter's son, and took the ship and cargo with them to the count's land, the king has frequently requested the count to cause justice to be done to Peter in this behalf, but the count has failed to do so, as the community of the town of Ravenesrod have signified by their letters patent: wherefore the king orders the bailiffs to arrest goods of the count's men and merchants to the value of 60l., and to cause the same to be kept safely until further orders.
June 11.
Sturry.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Juliana de Leyburne of 43l. exacted from her by summons of the exchequer for issues forfeited before William de Bereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench, as the king has pardoned her that sum. By p.s. [5680.]
June 20.
Dover.
To Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, keeper of the forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Claryndon. Order to cause the sheriff of Wilts to have 20 beeches fit for timber in the king's wood of Bocholt, within the said forest, for the repair of the king's watermills of Old Sarum. By C.
June 20.
Dover.
Peter de Fornsete, imprisoned in Norwich castle for the death of Richard de Lound, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him.
May 22.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to make partition of the manor of Alet, and to cause Michael Duraunt and Eleanor his wife, daughter of Walter son and heir of John de Alet, to have seisin of half of the same as her purparty, as it appears by inquisition taken by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, that John de Alet granted the manor to Serlo de Nansladron during John's life, by virtue whereof Serlo was seised thereof until John's death, and that after John's death Walter entered the manor, and that Serlo forthwith ejected him, and that the manor came to the king's hands upon Serlo's death by reason of the minority of Walter's heirs, by which inquisition it was found that the manor is held of the king in chief by knight service, and that Eleanor and Margery, daughters of Walter, are his next heirs, as the said Eleanor proved her age before the said escheator, and the king took Michael's fealty for her purparty, the king having ordered the aforesaid late escheator to make partition as above, which order has not been executed.
June 22.
Dover.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge John de Segrave, the younger, and Juliana his wife of the demand for Juliana's service to the late king in his army of Scotland, in the 34th year of his reign, for the manor of Folkestan, which she then held of the late king by the service of an eighth part of a knight's fee. By p.s.
June 20.
Dover.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to take Stephen de Thersk back to St. Bride's church in the suburbs of London, as S. bishop of London has signified the king by his letters patent that whereas Stephen fled to the said church for sanctuary from Neugate prison, wherein he was imprisoned upon a charge of theft, certain malefactors violently took him out of the church and led him back to the said prison.
June 27.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with an acre and a rood of land and three roods of meadow in Kereby, and to restore the issues thereof, which land he took into the king's hands by reason of the alienation thereof made by Thomas atte Monekes to Matthew Mayel, clerk, without the king's licence, the escheator asserting that the land is held in chief of the king, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that the land is not held in chief of the king, but is held of Lucy Mayel by the service of a rose-flower yearly at Midsummer, and that Lucy holds it with other things of John de Weston by the service of 2s. yearly for all service.
June 30.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas le Corvyser, who is incapacitated by illness and age.
June 29.
Westminster.
To the justices in eyre at the Tower of London. Order to permit Thomas, earl of Lancaster, to have the liberties in the city of London and suburbs claimed by him before them as pertaining to the honour of Leycestre, without proceeding in anywise to enquire concerning the same at present, lest prejudice should be done to the king in the event of the honour reverting to him, as Henry III. granted to Edmund his son, on 22 April, in the 53rd year of his reign, the honour, town and castle of Leycestre and all lands of the honour and all knights' fees, etc., pertaining thereto, which formerly belonged to Simon de Monte Forti, earl of Leicester, and which escheated to the said king upon Simon's rebellion, and the king now understands that Thomas, earl of Lancaster, son and heir of the said Edmund, claims divers liberties in the city of London before the justices as pertaining to the said honour. By K.
To the mayor, bailiffs, and men of the town of Notyngham. Grant of certain tolls for two years in aid of enclosing that town. [Incomplete.]
Vacated, because on the Patent Roll.
Membrane 2.
June 2.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that Richard son of John [de (fn. 1) ] Rokesle held of other lords than the king, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held nothing in chief of the king at his death, except the manor of Terlyngham, which is held of the king in chief by knight service, and whereof he was enfeoffed jointly with Joan, his late wife, wherefore the king has taken Joan's homage and restored the manor to her.
To Master John Cogan, treasurer of Ireland. Order to pay 50l. to John de Bermyngeham, earl of Loueth, for the execution of certain affairs of the king's enjoined upon him. By K.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause Wyndesore castle to be victualled by the advice of Ralph de Camoys, constable of that castle.
By p.s.
June 1.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be paid to Almaric de Credonio, the king's kinsman, all the issues of the lands of Drogo de Mello, tenant in chief, for one whole year before 4 August last, when the king granted to him the custody of Drogo's lands during the minority of Margaret, one of his daughters and heiresses, as the king wishes to reward Almaric further for his services.
By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.
June 3.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Laurence de Holebech in his bailiwick, which were taken into the king's hands because Laurence held of the king in chief elsewhere, by the courtesy of England, of the inheritance of Margaret, his deceased wife, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held no lands in chief of the king in the escheator's bailiwick at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king; saving the king's right in everything and saving dower to Amice, late the wife of Laurence, to be assigned to her according to the extent made, or, if need be, to be made again, in the presence of the heirs and parceners of the inheritance and in the presence of Simon de Dryby, to whom the king committed the custody of the purparty of Christiana, one of the daughters and heiresses of the said Laurence and Margaret, during her minority, which dower the king has ordered the escheator to assign to Amice by the assent of certain of the parceners.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Oliver de Burdeg[ala] and Matilda his wife, to whom the king granted, on 2 November, in the 12th year of his reign, with the assent of the prelates, earls, barons, and other proceres of the realm assembled in parliament at York, all the lands of Folie Johan and Hiremere, which are within the bounds of the forest of Wyndesore, and which John de Drokenesford, bishop of Bath and Wells, held of the king by a certain arrentation, and which the king had of the said bishop's grant, to have and to hold to the said Oliver and Matilda, and the heirs of Oliver's body by the service of a rose yearly, if it be asked, the king having previously, on 22 April, in the 10th year of his reign, granted the said lands to Oliver and the heirs of his body by the said service, of the following sums from the said 22 April, which Oliver has given the king to understand are exacted from him and Matilda by summons of the exchequer: 57s. 4d. for 172 acres of waste of the king's soil near Luffeld in the said forest, arrented to the aforesaid John in the 29th year of the late king's reign, and 34l. for entry; 4d. for an acre at Northurst, arrented to the said John in the same year, and 4s. for entry; 29s. 10d. for 89½ acres in a plot between La Brokhull and the house of Hugh de Sancto Philberto, arrented to John in the 32nd year of the late king's reign, and 17l. 18s. for entry; 20s. for 60 acres at Holecroft and Nothurst, arrented to John in the same year, and 7l. 16s. 7½d. for entry; 13s. 0¾d. for 39 acres and 24½ perches against the said John's house on the north and in another plot on the east near La Crikeledeock, arrented to John in the same year, and 12l. for entry; 17½d. for 4 acres, 1 rood, and 16 perches at Mapeldorerugge in the said forest, arrented to John in the 33rd year of the late king's reign, and 17s. 6½d. for entry; 13s. 4d. for 24½ acres and 32 perches at La Brodestrode in the said forest, arrented to John in the 27th year of the late king's reign, and 6l. 9s. 0d. for entry; 6s. 4½ for 12½ acres and a rood at Assherugeshede, in the said forest, arrented to John in the same year, and 76s. 6d. for entry; 3½d. for half an acre and 9 perches there, arrented to John in the same year, and 3s. 6d. for entry; if the lands thus arrented are comprehended under the names of the said lands of Folie Johan and Hiremere.
June 4.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to resume into the king's hands the body of the castle of Elmeleye in his bailiwick, which belonged to Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick, and which the king lately granted to Hugh le Despenser the elder, it being in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Thomas, son and heir of the said Guy, and to cause it to be guarded safely until further orders, and to make an indenture of the arms (armaturis), victuals, and other goods in the same between him and one of the king's subjects of those parts in the presence of twelve men to be taken by the sheriff for this purpose. By K.
June 3.
Westminster.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and a virgate of land in Alne, co. Warwick, which he has taken into the king's hands because it was found by an inquisition taken by his sub-escheator in that county, in the absence of Simon de Shireford, parson of the church of Kenewarton, that the abbot of Wynchecombe, tenant in chief, had alienated the said messuage and virgate to a certain parson of the aforesaid church after the publication of the statute of mortmain without licence from the late or present king, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Simon de Shireford and all his predecessors, parsons of the said church, have always held the said messuage from time out of mind as glebe of that church, so that neither the abbot of Wynchecombe nor any one else except Simon and his predecessors ever had anything in the said messuage and virgate.
June 5.
Hadleigh.
To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Order to buy and purvey victuals to the value of 50l. by the advice of Alan de Cherleton, constable of Montgomery castle, for the munition of that castle, and to cause the same to be delivered to the aforesaid constable. By p.s. [5671.]
June 8.
Faversham.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to release the wife and friends of Robert Lewer, who were arrested by the king's order, and to discharge their mainpernors, and to cause his lands and chattels to be restored to Robert, together with the money in hand of his ferms and rents levied by the sheriff, as the king has remitted to Robert the cause for which he ordered these arrests to be made. By p.s.[5673.]
To John le Barber. Order to restore to the said Robert his lands and chattels, which are in John's custody by the king's commission, together with the money, etc., as above. By p.s. [5673.]
The like to Edmund Quarel.
June 9.
Sturry.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to seise into the king's hands without delay all the lands of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, in his bailiwick, and to cause the same to be kept safely until further orders. By p.s.
June 14.
Minster in Thanet.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph le Selere, deceased.
June 4.
Hadleigh.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause the goods and chattels found in the manors of Wexcombe and Burbachesauvage, which belonged to Hugh Daudele, the younger, and which were taken into the king's hands with his other lands by consideration of the king's court, to be kept without sale or dispersal until further orders. By p.s.
The like to the sheriffs of the following counties for the goods in the following manors:
Norfolk, for the manors of Welles and Little Bernyngham.
Suffolk, for the manors of Desnyng' and Cavenham.
Kent, for the manor of Bradestede.
Surrey, for the manors of Blechyngleye, Ocham, and Tillingdon.
Essex, for the manors of Aungre and Stapelfordtany.
Devon, for the manor of Chitelhampton.
June 15.
Minster in Thanet.
To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to supersede the proceeding to outlaw John son of Nicholas de Stebbyng' at the king suit, as he is put in exigent to be outlawed in the sheriff's county [court] on Wednesday next by reason of the suit prosecuted against him by Master Jordan Moraunt in his own and the king's name for a trespass upon the king and Jordan at Sabricheworth, if they find that Jordan has remitted his suit to John, as the king understands that he has done.
June 3.
Westminster.
To the prior of the order of Friars Preachers, London. Request that they will cause a safe place to be assigned for the custody of the rolls of chancery of the king and his progenitors, according to the requirements of William de Ayremynne, in whose custody they are, as the king wills that the said rolls, which have been for some time in the house of the Carmelite Friars in the suburbs of London, shall be kept in their house under the custody of the said William until otherwise ordered. By K.
Vacated, because [the letters] were restored, and because the rolls are in the Tower of London.
June 22.
Dover.
To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manors of Wondestre and Stathe, co. Somerset, taken into the king's hands upon the death of John de Berkeleye of Erlyngham as if he held them in chief, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held no lands in chief at his death, but that he held a quarter of the manor of Wondestre of John de Meoles, a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of 2½d. yearly, and a quarter of the manor of Stathe of the said John de Meoles by socage, by which inquisition it appears that Elizabeth, Felicia, Thomasia, and Margaret, his daughters, are his next heirs, and that Elizabeth the eldest daughter is 16 years of age, Felicia 14, Thomasia 11, and Margaret 9.
June 12.
Sturry.
To Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver Geoffrey de Bochurst, Roger le Cras, John Wade, and William atte Brigge, imprisoned at Wyndesore for trespass of venison in the forest at Wyndesore, in bail to twelve mainpernors for each, who shall undertake to have them before the justices for Forest pleas in co. Berks when they come to those parts.
June 20.
Dover.
Thomas le Kene, imprisoned at Oxford for the death of William son of Robert Barcher of Caldecote, has letters to the sheriff to bail him.
June 28.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Wotton, who is incapacitated by illness and infirmity.

Footnotes

  • 1. From the marginal abstract.