Close Rolls, Edward II: February 1322

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: February 1322', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 417-426. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp417-426 [accessed 19 April 2024]

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February 1322

Feb. 8.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to cause watch and search to be made in all seaports and elsewhere where he shall think fit, whether the wives of any of the king's contrariants or their children come or stay within his bailiwick, or go on board ship in the ports for the purpose of passing to any other place, and to arrest any such wives or children found in his bailiwick, certifying the king of their names. By K.
The like to the sheriffs of Devon, Somerset and Dorset and Gloucester.
Feb. 9.
Gloucester.
To the keeper of the office of treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the men of the community of the city of London to have respite until the quinzaine of Easter next for all debts exacted from them by the estreats of the justices last in eyre at the Tower. By K.
To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order to adjourn until the quinzaine of Easter next all pleas of quo warranto touching the mayor, aldermen, citizens, and community of the city of London of the last eyre of the king's justices at London, which the king afterwards caused to come before him, and which he afterwards ordered to be continued until the quinzaine of St. Hilary last. By K.
Feb. 11.
Gloucester.
To the keeper of the office of the treasurer and to the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the exchequer, together with the rolls, tallies, memoranda, and all other things touching it, and the rolls of the Bench, to be transferred to York, so that the exchequer may be held there on the morrow of the close of Easter. By K.
To the justices of the Bench. Order to adjourn to York the parties pleading before them, as the king wills that his Bench shall be transferred to York, so that it be there in the quinzaine of Easter next. By K.
Feb. 10.
Gloucester.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that John Gernoun held at his death in Tolshunte Tregoz of John Filiol, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that John Gernoun held at his death certain lands in Tolshunte Tregoz of the king in chief as of the honour of Peverel by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee and by suit from month to month at the court of Peverel, and that he held certain lands in the same place of John Filiol by the service of 6s. 8d., and that he did not hold any lands of the king in chief as of the crown by reason whereof the custody of all his lands ought to pertain to the king, by which inquisition it was found that William Gernoun, son of the said John, is his next heir and is aged seventeen years and a half.
To the same. Order to assign dower to Elizabeth, late the wife of the said John Gernoun, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Feb. 12.
Gloucester.
To the same. Order not to distrain Reymund, abbot of Cluni, for fealty for the lands held by him of the king in England, as the king has taken his fealty.
Master John de Rosse received the fealty by the king's licence.
Feb. 11.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the houses within the castle of York last assigned for holding the exchequer and the Bench for common pleas to be repaired before Easter next, as the king has ordained that the exchequer shall be held at York on the morrow of the close of Easter and the Bench in the quinzaine of Easter, the king being about to set out for the north to repress the invasion of the Scots. The sheriff is to cause proclamation to be made that the king wills that the places aforesaid shall be at York at the said times, and that all merchants and others wishing to sell victuals and other things may come to the said city in safety with their said goods, to receive their due payment for the same. By K.
Feb. 13.
Gloucester.
To Roger de Horsle, constable of Bamburgh castle. Order to cause the said castle to be kept safely, and to be found with victuals out of the issues of his bailiwick. If the issues are insufficient for this purpose, he is to take victuals elsewhere in the neighbouring parts, according to the tenor of Magna Carta, causing those from whom he shall take victuals to know that the king is coming to those parts for the protection thereof against the attacks of the Scots, and that they shall then come to the king to receive payment for the said victuals. He is to certify the king in his wardrobe of the victuals thus taken, their price, and the names of those from whom they shall be taken. By K.
The like to the following:
John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle, or to him who supplies his place.
Henry de Percy, constable of Scardeburgh castle.
William Rydel, constable of Bernard's castle, in the king's hands by reason of the minority of the heir of Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick.
William de Anne, constable of Tykhull castle.
John de Segrave, the elder, constable of Notyngham castle, or to him who supplies his place.
The sheriff of York for York castle.
The sheriff of Northumberland for the castle of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Feb. 12.
Gloucester.
To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order to proceed to take the assize of novel disseisin arramed by Robert de Sapy and Alice his wife before Roger de Chaundos, Adam de Herewynton, and John de Bromfield against Thomas de Hunteleye and Isolda his wife, and others named in the original writ, concerning a tenement in Hunteleye, co. Gloucester, notwithstanding the taking of the tenement into the king's hands after the assize was arramed, which assize remains to be taken before the king because he ordered all assizes, juries, and certificates arramed before any justices in that county to come before him on Friday next. By K. on the information of Master Robert Baldok.
Feb. 13.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause John de Staple, the king's approver in Hereford gaol, to be delivered from that gaol in order to set out with the king in his service. By K.
Membrane 18.
Feb. 8.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pursue, arrest, and imprison certain contrariants of the king and rebels who are wandering about in his bailiwick, taking with him for this purpose the posse of the county, if necessary. By K.
To the sheriff of Salop. Order to deliver to Constance, late the wife of Henry de Mortuo Mari, the lands that she holds in dower, and the issues of the same, which lands the sheriff has taken into the king's hands by virtue of his order to take into his hands the lands of Hugh de Mortuo Mari. By K.
To the sheriff of Rutland. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Rokyngham to be elected in place of Robert atte Halle, deceased.
Feb. 10.
Gloucester.
To William de Hamenassh. Order to come to the king without delay to do what the king shall enjoin upon him. By K. [Parl. Writs.]
The like to William de Staunton and John le Blak. [Ibid.]
Feb. 12.
Gloucester.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John de Grey of Rotherfeld, son and heir of John de Grey of Rotherfeld, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage. By p.s. [5954.]
The like to Thomas de Burgh, escheator beyond Trent.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph de Stanlowe, whom the king has amoved from office for insufficient qualification.
The like to the same to elect a coroner in place of Oliver le Waleys, who is insufficiently qualified.
Feb. 9.
Gloucester.
To Humphrey de Litelbury. Order to deliver to Margaret de Mortimer the castle, town, and lordship of Radenore, and the issues received therefrom, and the goods and chattels found therein, which the king ordered him to take into his hands, as he now understands that Margaret held them in dower.
Feb. 14.
Gloucester.
To William de Bello Campo, William de Bradewell, and Alexander de Bosseford. Order to restore to Richard Talbot his lands and goods in the county of Worcester, the custody whereof the king lately committed to them. By K.
The like in favour of the following in co. Worcester:
Henry de Rippeford.
William Blount.
Richard Porter.
Walter le Blount.
Feb. 17. John de la Mersh.
John de Hulle.
John Knotte.
Hugh de Cure.
Thomas de Hanley.
William le Walsh.
Thomas le Shephird.
Thomas de Botteleye.
John de la More.
Roger de Estham.
Gilbert Foncel.
John de Hulle.
John Wyard.
Thomas de Berkeleye of Cubberleye.
Thomas de Aston.
Peter de Somervill.
March 3.
Merevale.
Thomas le Botiller.
Thomas le (sic) Beauchamp.
Roger de Radenore.
March 8.
Caldwell.
Walter le Blount.
Roger de Wasseburn.
William de Bello Campo.
William de Bradewelle.
William de Besseford.
March 25.
Pontefract.
William son of William de Leden.
William de la Lynde.
John le Maunz.
Nicholas de Somery.
William son of William de Lucy.
John son of William de Kyngton.
Feb. 14.
Gloucester.
To Simon de Dryby. Like order in favour of John Rous for his manor of Duntesbourn, co. Gloucester. By K.
The like to the said Simon for the following:
Feb. 17. Richard Waryn, for his lands in Dymmok. By K.
John de Wylton, for his lands in Dymmok.
Thomas de Rodberwe, for his lands in Sencle.
Thomas de Berkele of Cubberleye, for his lands in Cubberley.
March 3.
Merevale.
Thomas le Botiller, for his lands in Cubberle.
Feb. 20.
Temple Guiting.
Peter de Somervill, for his lands in Hunteleye.
Thomas de Aston, for his lands in Leye.
Feb. 14.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Like order in favour of John Trumwyn for his lands and goods. By K.
The like to the following:
The sheriff of Hereford, for Thomas Petyt.
The sheriff of Salop, for John Rous.
The sheriff of Stafford, for John Hynkeleye.
The sheriff of Salop, for Ingelram de Frene.
Feb. 17. The sheriff of Hereford, for William de la Were.
March 1. The sheriff of Warwick, for Thomas de Berkele of Cubberle. By K.
Feb. 27.
Warwick.
The sheriff of Wilts, for Peter de la Mare. By K.
The sheriff of Oxford, for the same. By K.
The sheriff of Hertford, for the same.
March 3.
Merivale.
The sheriff of Oxford, for Thomas de Berkele of Coberle.
March 18. The sheriff of Hereford, for Thomas de Yeddefenne.
The same, for William Broun and Richard de Colynton.
Feb. 15.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause coroners for that county to be elected in place of Walter de Sutton, Nicholas de Wily, and Walter le Gras, who are insufficiently qualified.
To the sheriff of Salop. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Peter Gerard, who has no lands in that county or elsewhere sufficient to qualify him.
To Richard le Mareschal. Order to restore to Meuric ap Res his lands and goods in the lands of the castle of Bryntheles and the lands of Cantredsely, the king having committed the custody of the said castle and lands, which are in his hands for certain reasons, to Richard during pleasure. By K.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to deliver to Oliver de Ingham his manors of Estcodeford and Dene, together with his goods and chattels therein, the manors having been taken into the king's hands with the lands of John Giffard of Brymmesfeld, who occupied them in warlike manner during the late disturbances in the realm. By K.
To the chamberlain of North Wales. Order to meet without delay Griffin ap Rees and Giles de Bello Campo, who are about to bring to the king in England certain footmen from the lands of the king and of others in his hands, in order to set out with him against the Scots, and to pay to the said footmen their wages out of the issues of his bailiwick. By K.
The like to the chamberlain of South Wales to pay wages to the footmen whom Walter de Bello Campo and Rhys ap Griffyn are about to bring to the king.
The like to the chamberlain of Chester for 800 footmen whom Kenewricus Seys and Blethinus ap Ithel are about to bring to the king from the lands of Englefeld, Mohautesdale, Hope, and Maillour Seisenayk.
Feb. 15.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Order not to choose any men from the tenants of John de Somery by virtue of the king's order to choose two thousand footmen and to bring them to the king, as the king has ordered John to provide as many men-at-arms and footmen as he can by all means, and to come with them to the king. By K.
Feb. 14.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pursue, arrest, and imprison Robert de Perepount, Thomas de Lungevilers, Thomas de Bekeryng', John de Annesle, and John de Bevercotes, taking with him for this purpose the posse of the county, if necessary. By K.
Feb. 16.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to enquire by inquisition and otherwise of all the footmen of that county who went armed to the king's contrariants and rebels who lately held the town of Gloucester, and to cause the said footmen to come to the king, as suitably armed as they were at that time, at the expense of the county, in order to stay in the king's service, as the king understands that footmen of that county went to the rebels at Gloucester at the maintenance (sustentacionem) of that county. By K.
Feb. 16.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to pursue, arrest, and imprison Gilbert Talebot, William de Wyne, Baldwin de Frevill, Peter de Lymesy, John Sampson of Estham, Richard le Child, and Ralph le Porter, parson of the church of Estham. By K.
The like to the following:
The sheriff of Gloucester, for Stephen Baret.
The sheriff of Worcester, for the said Stephen.
The sheriff of Hereford, for the same.
The sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham, for Richard Damory. By K.
The sheriff of Oxford and Berks, for the same.
The sheriff of Gloucester, for Ralph de Middelno, John his brother, John de Acton, John de Bursy of the Marsh (de Marisco), John de Bursy of Hamme, John de Alkeleye of Thornbury and his two sons staying with the abbot of St. Augustine's Bristol, and Henry de Rochull. By K.
March 13.
Derby.
The sheriff of Northumberland, for William Galun, John de Denum, and John de Rodom.
March 9.
Caldwell.
The sheriff of Leicester and Warwick, for Simon de Lyndryk and John his brother of that county, John Geryn and William his brother, Edmund Trussel, William son of William Trussel, Robert son of Simon de Weston, John Curly of Carleton and Robert his brother, Walter Lalblaster, and Thomas Muchet of Petlyng.
By K.
To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Order to make search concerning the coming and staying of the wife of John de Moubray and certain of his children in the house of John Truant of Elfrodecoumbe, wherein the king is given to understand they are hiding, or whither they are shortly coming, or elsewhere where the sheriff shall see fit, and to cause them to be arrested and kept safely. By K.
Feb. 21.
Temple Guiting.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order not to molest Frisotus de Monte Claro by virtue of the king's order to cause all the knights, esquires, and other men-at-arms of his bailiwick to come to the king suitably armed, as the king has granted him permission to attend to his own affairs, on condition that his men come. By K.
Feb. 22.
Weston-under-Edge.
The like to the said sheriff in favour of John de Sudle and for two of his yeoman whom he shall choose [to be sent to the king]. By K.
To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Order to restore to Roger de Chaundos, sheriff of Hereford, his lands, goods and chattels, which the sheriff took into the king's hands under the belief that Roger adhered to the king's contrariants. By K.
Membrane 17.
Feb. 18.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to aid and counsel the citizens of Hereford in matters concerning the safe custody of that city, whenever he shall be requested by the citizens to do so. By K.
Feb. 20.
Cheltenham.
To Thomas de Burgh, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to Robert de Grendon and Ellen his wife in Milneburn and Brampton, co. Westmoreland, as he has certified the king that John de Evre, late escheator beyond Trent, took the lands, which were held by Robert of the inheritance of the said Ellen, daughter and one of the heirs of John Sureys, into the king's hands because Robert adhered to the Scots, and that Robert died in the aforesaid county on 6 August last.
Feb. 18.
Gloucester.
To Peter Giffard, constable of Chirk castle, or to him who supplies his place there. Order to inform himself of the names of those who lately adhered to the king's contrariants, and of the names of their hostages by whom the king may best be secured, and to certify the king of the same without delay. By K.
The like to the following, or to those who supply their places:
William de la Beche, constable of Dolvoreyn castle.
Walter le Gras, constable of the castles of Dyneneboth and Kevenethes.
Robert de Morby, constable of Breghnok castle.
John de Siggeston, constable of Huntyndon castle.
John de Dene, constable of the castles of Bolkedymas, Blenleveny, and Penkethely.
William le Mareschal, constable of Bryntheles castle.
Griffin ap Res, constable of Buelt castle.
Alan de Cherleton, constable of Wygemor castle.
Ralph le Botiller, constable of Lodelowe castle.
Robert de Sapy, constable of the castle of La Pole.
Feb. 16.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger de Sheldesley, deceased.
Feb. 20.
Cheltenham.
To Ralph de Camoys, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to pay to Edmund de Algate, porter of both gates of the castle, 4d. a day; to Alexander le Peyntour, one of the viewers of the king's works, 2d. a day; to Thomas le Rotour, the other viewer, 2d. a day; to Adam the gardener of the king's garden without the castle, 2½d. a day; to four watchmen of the castle, 2d. a day each; to Robert de Wodeham, chief forester of Wyndesore forest, 12d. a day; to Ralph de la More, clerk of the king's works in the castle, 2d. a day; to Thomas le Parker, keeper of Kenyngton park, 1½d. a day; being their wages and stipends, from Michaelmas last until next Michaelmas.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. Order to aid and counsel the sheriff of Glamorgan and the treasurer of Kerdyf in buying and purveying 20 tuns of wine and 150 quarters of salt, and other victuals, and arms and other things for the munition of the king's castles in those parts.
Feb. 21.
Temple Guiting.
The like to the constable of Bristol castle, or to him who supplies his place. By K.
Feb. 21.
Temple Guiting.
To Simon de Drybi, constable of Gloucester castle. Order to cause the parson of the church of La Musardere and the parker of that place, whom he lately arrested and imprisoned in that castle by the king's orders, to be guarded suitably and fitly in the same until further orders. By K.
Feb. 22.
Weston-under-Edge.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause all the money that can be levied from the issues of the lands of the king's contrariants and their adherents and of their goods and chattels, underwood, and other things to be levied without delay, and to cause it and other money that he has in hand to come into the king's chamber. By K.
The like to all the sheriffs of England.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause the 103 footmen named in a schedule enclosed herewith to be furnished with suitable arms and delivered to Thomas de Culverden, whom the king has enjoined to bring them to him.
[Parl. Writs.] By K.
Feb. 22.
Weston-under-Edge.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. Whereas John le Taverner, burgess of that town, who was indicted before Henry Spygurnel and his fellows, the king's justices appointed to hear and determine the felony of the death of Alexander de Villers, slain in the county of Gloucester, for the death of the said Alexander, was put in exigent to be outlawed because he did not appear before the said justices to stand to right, and was afterwards outlawed on this account, and the king pardoned him the outlawry and the abjuration of the realm that he made by reason of the said death, on condition that he stand to right in the king's court if he or any one will speak against him concerning the death, and granted him his lands, which pertained to the king as escheats by reason of the abjuration and outlawry, and all his goods and chattels, which were forfeited to the king; wherefore the king ordered the mayor and bailiffs to deliver to the said John all his lands and goods, to hold according to the tenor of the king's letters patent; and they signified to the king that the said lands were in the hands of John de Weston, the younger, by the king's gift, and that certain of his goods were in the hands of John Fraunceys, the elder, and other men of that town, by delivery from Richard de la Ryver, late sheriff of Gloucester, who is charged therewith at the exchequer, so that the mayor and bailiffs could not deliver the lands and goods to John; wherefore the king orders them to cause the goods in the hands of John Fraunceys and the aforesaid men to be delivered to the said John. The king will cause the aforesaid Richard, John Fraunceys, and the other men to be discharged of the said goods at the exchequer.
The like in favour of Robert le Taverner, burgess of the aforesaid town, to the aforesaid mayor and bailiffs for his goods in the hands of the aforesaid John Fraunceys and the aforesaid men.
To Ralph Camoys, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to cause the houses, tower, walls, and bridges of the castle, with the stable and wall of the king's garden without the castle, and the houses and walls of the manor of Kenyngton, with the paling and wall about the park, to be repaired.
By K.
To Walter le Gras, keeper of the castle of Kevenethles, in the king's hands for certain reasons. Order to deliver to Richard Talebot of Blethevagh, who has rendered himself to the king's grace by sufficient security, his lands and goods, which were taken into the king's hands by the constable.
By K.
To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Order to restore to Edmund de Plescy his lands, goods and chattels, which the king lately ordered the sheriff to take into his hands. By K.
Feb. 22.
Weston-under-Edge.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order not to molest John le Botiller of Lanultit by reason of the king's late order to cause all knights, esquires, and other men-at-arms to come to the king at a certain day, as John is engaged in the king's affairs elsewhere. By K.
The like to the sheriff of Northampton.
Feb. 15.
Gloucester.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to cause the 120 armed footmen, who were wanting of the 500 footmen lately granted to the king by the community of the city to stay in his service at their cost for forty days, and after that time at the king's wages, to come to the king without delay, so that they be with him on the second Sunday of Lent, and to arrest and imprison all those who have returned and who shall return without the king's licence, as certain of the 380 footmen who came to the king secretly left his service after the end of the said forty days, having received his wages. By K.
[Parl. Writs.]
To the dean and chapter of St. Chad's Lichfield, and to the bailiffs and men of that town. Order to cause the town to be munitioned and kept securely for the king's use, and especially the enclosure about the monastery, so that the king's contrariants may not enter the town or enclosure, or be received therein, or be comforted by any persons in that town.
Feb. 24.
Weston-under-Edge.
To the sheriff of Notingham (sic). Order not to molest the burgesses or other men of the town of Northampton by virtue of the king's order to cause all the men, horse and foot, in his bailiwick between the ages of 16 and 60 to come to the king suitably armed prepared to set out against the Scots, as the king wills that the burgesses shall remain in the said town for its safe keeping. By K.
[Parl. Writs.]
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause all the men-at-arms, horse and foot, of that county, who came in the king's service upon another occasion by their own will with Robert Lewer, and who have now withdrawn themselves from his service, to come to the king without delay, and to compel and punish any of them who shall be contrary.
Feb. 24.
Weston-under-Edge.
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 La Sause. Order to deliver to the men of Northampton as much timber from that forest by the advice of John de Broghton, steward of that forest, as shall be necessary for making barriers (barrere) for the gates and other issues of that town.
By K.
To the mayor and bailiffs of the town of Northampton. Order to cause the yeomen of Thomas de Bengham, whom they arrested in that town with his horses because they believed that he adhered to John Giffard of Brymesfeld, the king's contrariant, to come to the king at once with the aforesaid horses.
To Peter Giffard, keeper of the castle of Chirk, in the king's hands for certain causes. Order to admit the king's chaplain Robert de la Chapele to all things that pertain to the custody of the castle jointly with him, and to communicate with him in all such matters.
Feb. 25.
Weston-under-Edge.
To Richard Lovel. Order to restore to Reginald de Frome all his lands, goods and chattels, and the issues of the same, and not to molest him, notwithstanding the king's appointment of him to follow and arrest Reginald and to seize his goods into the king's hands, as he has found sufficient mainpernors to answer to the king for those things for which the king would speak against him. By K.
By K. and by the mainprise of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, and William de Aylemer.
March 3.
Weston.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order not to molest Peter le Fitz Waryn by reason of the common summons to come in the king's service, as the king has granted, at the request of Fulk son of Warin, that Peter may attend to Fulk's affairs and that he shall not be aggrieved by reason of the above summons. By K.
Feb. 25.
Weston-under-Edge.
To the keeper of the passage of the port of Dover. Order to permit brother William de Notyngham, minister-general of the order of Minorites, to cross the sea with four of his brethren of that order and with his train, as he is going to parts beyond sea to attend the chapter-general of his order by the king's licence. It is not, however, the king's intention that brother John de Folkerthorp, of the said order, shall cross the sea with the said minister or otherwise without the king's special licence.
Feb. 26.
Warwick.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to deliver the body of Richard Dammory, whom he lately arrested by the king's order, to Robert de Ardern, constable of Bannebiry castle, to be kept by him according to the king's directions. By K.
Mandate in pursuance to the said constable. By K.
To the said Robert, constable of the aforesaid castle, and keeper of the lands of the aforesaid Richard in the county of Oxford. Order to cause Richard to have reasonable maintenance out of the issues of the aforesaid lands for so long as he shall remain in his custody. By K.
Feb. 27.
Warwick.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to follow, arrest, and imprison the wife of Robert Walkefare and his children. By K.
Feb. 28.
Coventry.
To Robert de Ardern, keeper of the lands, goods and chattels of Richard Dammory. Order to cause the lands of the said Richard that require cultivating and sowing to be cultivated and sown out of his goods and chattels by the view and advice of his men and servants. By K.
Membrane 16.
Feb. 25.
Weston-under-Edge.
To Margaret, late the wife of Robert de Wylughby. Order to pay to the sheriff of Lincoln all the money due from her to Roger Dammory, as the king understands that she owes Roger a great sum of money for the custody of the lands of Robert, her late husband, which custody Roger sold to her. The king will cause his letters patent saving her harmless to be made when he is certified concerning the payment. He has ordered the sheriff of Lincoln to receive the money from her, and to make for her letters patent of acquittance. By K.
Mandate in pursuance to the sheriff of Lincoln.
Feb. 28.
Coventry.
To the sheriff of Rutland. Order to cause 300 footmen to be chosen within his bailiwick, and to bring them to the king in person without delay well furnished with suitable arms, as the king is about to set out to repress the malice of the Scots and of other his contrariants in the north. He wills that the sheriff shall punish all those who are contrary in this matter by imprisoning them and taking their goods and chattels into his hands.
[Parl. Writs.] By K.
Feb. 27.
Warwick.
To the sheriff of Warwick and Leicester. Order to permit the men and tenants of John de Segrave, the elder, constable of Notingham castle, to be intendent to the said John in all things pertaining to the safe custody of that castle and the preservation of the king's peace and the repulse of his contrariants, notwithstanding any previous order to the sheriff to bring men-at-arms or footmen out of his bailiwick to the king. By K.
The like to the sheriff of Derby.
Feb. 26.
Weston-under-Edge.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to imprison the footmen of that county who returned home from the king's service, many of the 500 footmen of that county chosen to come to the king in the Welsh marches having returned home whilst staying at Oxford, of which number 119 are still wanting, and to cause 119 other men to be chosen in their places and to cause them to be brought to the king without delay, so that they be with him on the second Sunday of Lent well found with suitable arms. The king wills that the sheriff shall punish those who are contrary in this matter by imprisoning their bodies and taking their goods into the king's hands.
[Parl. Writs.] By K.