Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1336

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 3, 1333-1337. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1336', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 3, 1333-1337, (London, 1898) pp. 717-727. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol3/pp717-727 [accessed 16 April 2024]

November 1336



Nov. 11. Stirling.	William Percehay acknowledges that he owes to John de Sancto Paulo, clerk, 6 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Wilts. Cancelled on payment.
Nov. 10. Stirling.	To the justices in eyre for pleas of the Forest in the forest of Pykeryng, belonging to Henry, earl of Lancaster. Order to continue all the pleas in that eyre touching Henry, in the same state in which they now are, until Easter next, as Henry is staying in Scotland in the king's service. By K.
Nov. 22. Bothwell.	Henry son of Hugh, lord of Raveneswath, and Henry his son acknowledge that they owe to William de la Pole of Kyngeston-upon-Hull, 120l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. York.
	Membrane 9d.
Nov. 9. Stirling.	Thomas son of William Gra of Skelton, acknowledges that he owes to John de Womme, citizen of York, 60l.; to be levied, in default of payment of his lands and chattels in co. York.
Nov. 3. Newcastle-on-Tyne.	To the count of Guelders, the king's brother. Request to forbid his subjects to hire or grant ships to those who, under colour of aiding the Scots, who have presumed to wage war on the king and his vassal, Edward, king of Scotland, and who make provision of galleys and armed ships to attack the king and his realm, and to forbid his subjects to take or send ships to the said enemies. [Fœdera.]
Nov. 3. Newcastle-on-Tyne.	To the king of Norway. The like request. [Ibid.]
Nov. 3. Newcastle on-Tyne.	To the count of Hainault, Holand and Zeeland (Celandie), and lord of Friesland. The like request. [Ibid.]
	Enrolment of indenture between Isabella, late the wife William de Vescy of Neusom, of the one part, and William son and heir of the said William, of the other part, witnessing that Isabella granted to the said William son of William all the lands in Baumburgh, co. Northumberland, which she held, after her husband's death, of the joint acquisition of herself and her husband, to be held by William son of William and the heirs of his body for ever. Also Isabella released to William son of William all her right and claim in the said lands, and in all the lands which belonged to William de Vescy in the town of Baumburgh and Seton in Spaldyngmore, co. York, by reason of her dower or other right. For the said grant and release William has granted to Isabella 8 marks sterling to be received yearly for life, of all William's lands in the towns of Baumburgh and Seton; and Isabella grants that if the said lands in Baumburgh or the corn growing on them are destroyed by war or otherwise, whereby William or his heirs cannot receive their full benefit from them, then William and his heirs are discharged towards Isabella of as much of that sum of 8 marks, at which the moiety of the said destruction shall be taxed by lawful men of the neighbouring parts. Witnesses: Sir Thomas de Baumburgh, Sir William de Emeldon, clerks; William de Heppescotes, Thomas de Berewyk of Pokelyngton; Henry del Strothre, William le Skynner of Baumburgh; Robert Goldewyn of Baumburgh. Dated at York on Wednesday after Martinmas, 10 Edward III.
	Memorandum, that Isabella and William son of William came into chancery at York on 13 October, and acknowledged the preceding indenture.
	Enrolment of power of attorney by Isabella to Michael Sampson of Mulsfen, to deliver to William son of William all the lands which she holds in Baumburgh which she has granted to him, according to the tenor of the preceding deed. Dated at York on Thursday after Martinmas, 10 Edward III.
	Memorandum, that Isabella came into chancery at York on 13 October, and acknowledged the preceding letters of attornment.
Nov. 14. Stirling.	Arnald Garcie and William de Otteford, clerk, acknowledge that they owe to Henry de Stratford, clerk, 1,000 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Bedford.
Nov. 16. Stirling.	William son of William de Berughby, acknowledges that he owes to Thomas de Gayrgrave, clerk, 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	John son of Richard de Anlaghby, aknowledges that he owes to William son of Richard de Anlaghby, 100l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York,
	Cancelled on payment.
	The same John acknowledges that he owes to the same William, 100l. to be levied as aforesaid. Cancelled on payment.
	The same John acknowledges that he owes to the same William 6l.; to be levied as aforesaid. Cancelled on payment.
	William son of Thomas Darel of Queldrik acknowledges that he owes to Henry de Morby of Elvyngton and to Robert Margrayne of Queldrik 80l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	John Paytefyn of Wynterton acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Malton of Halton, 38l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Lincoln.
	William de Baumburgh, parson of Little Giddyng church, acknowledges that he owes to Thomas de Baumburgh, clerk, 14l. 15s. 2d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. Huntingdon.
Oct. 19. Berwick-on-Tweed.	To Thomas Bacoun and his fellows, justices of gaol delivery of Neugate. Order to supersede the gaol delivery of John le Venour of Edelmeton, pending his appeal before the king, as Cicely, late the wife of John Preston, appeals John before the king of the death of John Preston, and because John le Venour did not come before the king to answer her appeal, he is placed in exigent to be outlawed, as fully appears by the king's writ of judgment under the testimony of Geffrey le Scrop, shown before the king in chancery; and John, scheming to fraudulently shut out Cicely from her suit has caused himself to be indicted for that death and detained in the said gaol for that cause so that he may be surreptitiously acquitted before the justices.
Nov. 4. Stirling.	To John de Hothum. Order, upon sight of these presents, to go in person to chancery to inform the king and his council of those things which will be shown to him on the king's behalf, and further to do what shall be ordained in this respect. By K. and C.
	To Baldwin Giffard. Order, upon sight of these presents, to go in person to chancery, so that he shall be there on the octaves of Hilary next to inform the king and his council of those things which shall be exposed to him on the king's behalf, and further to do what shall then be ordained in this respect. By K. and C.
	The like to the abbot of Hertilonde and William de Forthe.
Nov. 17. Stirling.	Henry de Middleton of Raventhorp acknowledges that he owes to Nicholas de Hugate, provost of the church of St. John of Beverley, 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
—	Robert de Bosevill puts in his place Richard de Therlesthorp, clerk, to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 110l. made to him in chancery by Thomas de Furnyvall.
Nov. 18. Stirling.	To all the keepers of the passages of the realm, both within liberties and without. Order to permit Geoffrey de Mortuo Mari, when he shall come to any of these ports, to cross to parts beyond the sea with his men, horses and harness, as he is going to parts beyond the sea by the king's licence.
	By K. Et erat patens.
Nov. 21. Bothwell.	John de Bekyngham acknowledges that he owes to John de Bridelyngton, 33s. 4d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Membrane 8d.
Nov. 16. Bothwell.	To the justices of the Bench. Order at the supplication of R. bishop of Durham to continue in the same state in which it now is until the quinzaine of Easter next the plea between the king and the bishop as to whether the bishop shall permit the king to present a fit person to Symondburn church, which the bishop claims to hold for his own uses by charters of the king's progenitors, by apostolic bulls and of right; as at the bishop's request the king ordered the justices to continue that plea in the state in which it then was until certain days now past, so that the king being further informed of his right and the bishop's right in this respect may cause justice to be done in the premises, and hitherto the king has not been fully informed concerning his right or that of the bishop in this respect. By K. and C.
Nov. 18. Berwick-on-Tweed.	Henry de Atherton acknowledges that he owes to John de Blebury, parson of Leght church, 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Lancaster.—Henry de Haydok received the acknowledgment by writ.
	The following made like recognisances to John at the same time for the following sums:
	Adam son of Adam de Tildeslegh, for 5 marks.
	Henry son of Hugh de Tildeslegh, for 4 marks.
	Henry de Shakerlegh, for 40s.
	Henry de Hurst of Tildeslegh, for 13s. 4d.
	William de Waverton, for 16 marks.
	Adam son of Hugh de Tildeslegh, for 12 marks.
	Richard de Bradeshawe of Pynynton, for 5 marks.
	Richard de Pynynton, for 5 marks.—The said Henry de Haydok received all these acknowledgments by the aforesaid writ.
Nov. 10. Stirling.	To Master Bernard Sistre, papal nuncio in England, Wales and Ireland, collector of the sexennial tenth imposed by the pope on the clergy of the said lands. Whereas the king lately—at the suit of the clergy of the bishopric of Durham, cos. Northumberland, Westmorland and Cumberland, and of the archdeaconries of Richmond, Clyveland, York and the East Riding, and the liberty of St. Cuthbert, Alverton, Avertonschire and Creyk, by their petition before the king and his council in parliament, showing that their benefices and the temporalities annexed to their spiritualities from which the tenth was wont to be given, were so wasted by the war of Scotland that they were not sufficient to pay the quadrennial tenth imposed on the clergy according to the ancient taxation, saving sufficient maintenance for the serjeants and ministers of the benefices, and certain benefices were newly taxed in the late king's time, and some not—ordered Master Itherius de Concoreto, papal nuncio and collector of that tenth, not to exact anything beyond the new taxation from those temporalities and benefices until the next parliament, and to supersede the exaction made on those which were not newly taxed until that parliament, so that justice might be done; and Itherius afterwards appeared in that parliament, and because the king granted that the clergy should pay a moiety of that tenth according to the new taxation, and that the benefices should be newly taxed, that concerning the other moiety reserved for the pope, it should be written to him to hear his will thereupon, and that nothing should be exacted beyond the new taxation until this had been heard, wherefore the king afterwards ordered Itherius to cause the tenth to be levied in those parts according to the new taxation, and to supersede the exaction in the meantime which he caused to be made on the said clergy of their benefices and temporalities not newly taxed, as appears by inspection of the chancery rolls; and although the pope, considering the depression and impoverishment of the said benefices and temporalities by reason of the war of Scotland, received that tenth for the part of the said see and the king, according to the said new taxation and the said depression and impoverishment still continue in those benefices and temporalities, and the clergy is prepared to pay the sexennial tenth according to the new taxation, yet the sub-collectors of that tenth in the said parts exact it from the clergy from their benefices and temporalities according to the ancient taxation, for grievous ecclesiastical censures, as the king has been informed, and the clergy have clamourously besought the king to provide a remedy; the king notifies the premises to Bernard, requesting him to order his sub-collectors in those parts to receive the sexennial tenth from the clergy in those parts according to the new taxation, superseding the exaction made on them according to the old taxation, until he has received information from the pope of whom he shall request information concerning the premises. By C.
Nov. 12. Stirling.	To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Whereas lately, at the prosecution of William Shouuyn of Brentyngby and Agnes his wife, by their petition before the king and his council in parliament, asserting that they had demised a messuage and a virgate of land in Brentyngby to Simon de Bereford before he forfeited to the king, for the term of a year, and they were taken into the king's hands among the other lands which belonged to Simon, by reason of the said forfeiture, and seeking the restitution of those lands to them, the king ordered the justices by writ to view that petition which he sent to them enclosed in the said writ, having heard the plaint of William and Agnes upon the contents of the same, and to cause what is just and reasonable to be done; and although it is found by inquisition taken by the justices that one Ralph Shouuyn was seised of the said messuage and land in his demesne as of fee and right and that he gave these tenements to William and Agnes in free marriage, and that afterwards, because [they made] no profit from the said lands on account of various destructions which John de Wodeford, of whom they were held, made to them in the same, for certain causes, they offered the lands to Simon, who caused them to be sown by his serjeants, and at another time on his arrival in these parts, having viewed the rights which William and Agnes had there, he agreed well with them and immediately departed from those parts; and afterwards on his return to the same, having viewed the said muniments and right shown by William and Agnes to him, and understanding that the said lands were given to them as aforesaid, Simon wished to admit them of the gift of William and Agnes, but said that he wished to give them all the crop growing in those lands sown by him, and immediately departed from those parts, and before he returned he forfeited to the king, wherefore those lands were taken into the king's hands; and that Simon never had any other estate in the messuage and land, as fully appears by the tenor of the record and process held thereupon, which the king caused to come before him in chancery; but the justices, because the king's attorney alleged in the plea held before them, that Simon was enfeoffed for ever by William and Agnes of the said lands and died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, delayed to proceed further in that plea, whereupon William and Agnes have besought the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders the justices to view and examine the said record and process, and if they shall find that such process has been made in the said plea, then to cause justice to be done for them in the premises, and to proceed to render judgment according to the verdict of the jurors of the said inquisition with all lawful speed, notwithstanding the said allegation or that the messuage and land are in the king's hands or that it is not found by the said inquisition that William and Agnes demised the messuage and land to Simon to hold for the term of one year, as they suppose by their petition, and that it is found by the same inquisition that they have a right in the messuage and land as aforesaid. By C.
Nov. 12. Stirling.	To Hugh de Courteneye, earl of Devon, John de Ralegh, William de Ferariis, Hamo Dereworth and Elias de Godelegh. Whereas the king appointed them to pursue, arrest, take and commit to prison all malefactors committing felonies and misdeeds in the realm, and those suspect, wherever they should be found in co. Devon, according to the ordinance passed in the last parliament at Westminster, and the king also appointed them to be justices to take inquisitions in that county concerning the felonies and misdeeds committed by the said suspects and concerning felonies, robberies, misdeeds, trespasses, excesses and crimes committed by any in that county, and to hear and determine all the premises both at the king's suit and at that of any others who wish to complain or prosecute for the king or his; and John de Norwico, with certain false and forged commissions under the great seal and with other false letters and commissions under counterfeit privy seal with other suspect instruments, seals and things, who was lately found and arrested at Bokeland and imprisoned at Exeter arrested ships, victuals and other things in divers towns and ports of the realm, by pretext of the said commissions and letters, extorting divers sums of money from divers men; which commissions, etc., have been brought before the king's council at York, whereupon a debate was held there upon the punishment of such malefactors, and it was agreed that if by inquisition or by John's confession, he should be found guilty of the said forgery, sedition, extortion and crime, then justice should be done to him as a plunderer and enemy of the king and his people; the king therefore orders the justices to view the said commissions, etc., which he sends to them in a certain bag (baga) and box (pixide), under the half seal (sub pede sigilli), and these being examined and inquisition taken upon the premises, if John is found guilty of the said crimes then to judge him to be drawn and hanged.
	By K. and C.
Dec. 1. Bothwell.	John Conestable of Frismerk acknowledges that he owes to Walter Power, clerk, 2 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Richard Monyworth of Hereford acknowledges that he owes to the said Walter, 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Hereford. Cancelled on payment.
Nov. 7. Bothwell.	William de Howe of Eye acknowledges that he owes to John de Marton, clerk, 100s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Suffolk. Cancelled on payment.
	Enrolment of deed of obligation by John Inge, parson of Wylkysby church, to John de Tamworth, his clerk, for a yearly pension of 20s. for his good service, to be received of John Inge for his life. Dated at Northampton on 24 August, 10 Edward III.
	Memorandum, that John Inge came into chancery at York on 28 November and acknowledged the preceding deed.
	Membrane 7d.
Nov. 28. Bothwell.	Thomas son of Adam de Par acknowledges that he owes to John de Wynwhik, clerk, 100s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Lancaster.
—	The abbot of Revesby and Henry de Halton, executors of the will of Ebulo Lestraunge and Hugh de Frene and Alesia his wife, co-executrix of the will of the abbot and Henry, put in their place William de Clee and Richard de Bolyngbrok, to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 200l. made to Ebulo in chancery by Richard de Kelleshale.
Dec. 3. Bothwell.	John Cok, parson of Codrethe church, diocese of Lincoln, acknowledges that he owes to John de Sancto Paulo and John de Tiddeswell, clerk, 11l. 13s. 4d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. Lincoln.
Dec. 4. Bothwell.	John Cok of Exeter, parson of Codreth church, diocese of Lincoln, acknowledges that he owes to John, archbishop of Canterbury, 80l.; to be levied as aforesaid. Cancelled on payment.
Nov. 29. Bothwell.	Robert Hert of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Angreton and Peter de Angreton, 100l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Northumberland.
	John Hardy of Tynemouth, acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Angreton and Peter, 100 marks, to be levied, etc., in co. Northumberland.
Dec. 6. Bothwell.	Philip Durdaunt acknowledges that he owes to Bartholomew Galyan, 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Buckingham.
	John de Eland, knight, John son of Richard de Byron and Henry de Haydok acknowledge that they owe to John de Turneye, 200l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. York.
Dec. 7. Bothwell.	Ralph de Speek and Geoffrey Gilberd acknowledge that they owe to Richard de Tiverton, parson of Sandhurst church, 60s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Devon.
	Cancelled on payment.
Nov. 27. Bothwell.	To Hugh de Courtenay, earl of Devon, and Philip de Columbar[iis], keepers of the maritime land in co. Devon. Order to apply such diligent custody to the parts of Dertemuth and elsewhere in that county against hostile invasions, that danger may not come to Dertemuth or other towns of that county by hostile foreigners, because the king has ordered all the ships of the ports and places from the mouth of the Thames towards the West to be assembled at Portesmuth, for certain causes; and now the king has learned that foreigners intend to come to the port of Dertemuth with certain ships, to perpetrate evils there, more than at other places in the said county. By K. [Fœdera.]
Nov. 15. Stirling.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive John de Eston and Hugh de Glaunvill, clerks, in place of Queen Philippa, to prosecute the execution of certain recognisances for certain sums made to her by certain persons, as long as she shall please. Et erat patens.
Nov. 15. Stirling.	To the same. Order to cause John de Grey, son of Richard de Grey of Codenore, to have respite until the month of Easter next for all the debts and reliefs which he owes at the exchequer and the accounts which he is bound to render to the king there, and to release John or Joan, late the wife of the said Richard, John's mother, from any distraints made upon them by reason of the said debts, reliefs, or accounts. By K.
Nov. 19. Bothwell.	To the same. Order to cause Richard, earl of Arundel, who is staying with the king in Scotland, to have respite until Michaelmas next, for 64l. 12s. 7d. and 380 sheep and 37 brood-ewes (ovibus matricibus) which are exacted of him by summons of the exchequer under the name of Walter, sometime bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, in the manor of Tasseleye, which the earl holds in the name of a custody, of the inheritance of John, son and heir of Edmund Peverel, kinsman and heir of the bishop, who held the manor of the earl. By C.
Nov. 12. Stirling.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed in a plea between Elena, late the wife of Thomas de Clayton and Mary countess of Pembroke, concerning a toft, 120 acres of land, 5 acres of meadow and 5s. rent in Thorpstapilton, and to render justice to the parties, notwithstanding the allegation of the countess and the late king's charter, but not to proceed to render judgment without consulting the king, as Elena impleads Mary before the justices for the said land, meadow and rent, and Elena long prosecuted that plea in the Bench, but the justices delayed to proceed further, because the countess, pleading before them, alleged that she holds the said tenements together with other lands of the late king's grant, for life, and that those tenements ought to revert to the king at her death, proffering the late king's charter testifying this, as is fully found by the tenor of the record and process of the said suit, which the king caused to come before him in chancery, whereupon Elena has besought the king to provide a remedy.
	By C.
Nov. 17. Stirling.	To William de Ros of Hamelak, Ralph de Bulmere, Henry Vavasour, John de Eland, Robert de Scorburgh and William Scot. Whereas the king appointed them justices to enquire by the oath of lawful men of co. York concerning felonies, homicides, robberies, rape, misdeeds, trespasses, excesses and crimes perpetrated in that county after the king undertook the government of the realm, and to do and fulfil certain other things contained in that commission, and the men of that county are daily placed in inquisitions before these justices and before the justices of the Bench, now at York, wherefore they cannot come before these justices to make these inquisitions according to the form of the said commission, wherefore they have besought the king to provide a remedy in the premises; the king therefore orders the justices to continue the affairs begun before them by virtue of the said commission, in the same state in which they now are until the quinzaine of Hilary next. By K. and C.
Nov. 28. Bothwell.	To John de Stonore, chief justice of the Bench. Order to send all the rolls for the time of the late king, touching pleas of the Bench, which are in his custody, to the treasurer, to be delivered, as is customary, to the treasurer and chamberlains, whom the king has ordered to receive them.
	By K.
	To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to supersede until Michaelmas next the exaction made on the goods and chattels which belonged to John, earl of Cornwall, the king's brother, in that county, for a certain fine which the earl ought to have made with the king for the custody of the land and heir of John de Benham, tenant in chief, and the marriage of the heir, unless the king orders otherwise in the mean time. By K.
Nov. 21. Bothwell.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Nicholas de Cantilupo, who is staying in Scotland in the king's service, to have respite until Easter next for all the debts which he owes at the exchequer.
	By K.
Nov. 18. Stirling.	To Nicholas de la Beche, constable of the Tower of London, or to him who supplies his place there. Whereas the king lately appointed Giles de Bello Campo and other lieges to pursue, arrest and take Richard de Horspath, and others notoriously suspect of felonies and misdeeds, wherever they should be found, and to take them to the Tower to be kept in prison there until further orders; and Richard, upon the pretext of that appointment was taken and imprisoned in the Tower for certain trespasses, not touching any felony, from which he cannot be released without the king's special order; whereupon Richard has besought the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders Nicholas that if Richard shall find mainpernors, who will undertake to have him before the king or his justices at the king's order, to do and receive what the court shall decide, and that he will conduct himself well, then to cause him to be released from prison by the said mainprise.
	By K.
Nov. 23. Bothwell.	To the sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs and other lieges of cos. Nottingham and Derby. Whereas Master Nicholas Lenginour of Blaby undertook before the king and his council at York to make 30 springalds with all the apparatus at his cost, for the king's use, before Easter next by a certain thing to be paid to him for making them, according to an indenture between John, archbishop of Canterbury, in the king's name, and Nicholas; for the making of which springalds dry timber, iron, hemp, hair and divers other things are necessary for Nicholas and several workmen, and to take the workmen to those counties, provide the said things both in person and by deputy; the king wishing to accelerate the said making, orders those ministers to be attendant upon Nicholas or his deputy in leading such workmen and in the aforesaid things for money to be paid to them, and to cause Nicholas and his deputy to have sufficient carriage for the said necessaries to the town of Blaby, to be paid for with his money, as often as they shall be required to do this by Nicholas or his deputy, on the king's behalf, so conducting themselves in the premises that the said affair may not be delayed beyond the said feast by their default. By K.
	The like to the sheriffs of Warwick, Leicester and Northampton.
	To Nicholas de la Beche, constable of the Tower of London, or to him who supplies his place there. Order upon sight of these presents to cause all the officers, ministers and other men in the Tower to be munitioned with competent arms according to their estate, and if any of them are not sufficiently provided then to compel them to be so provided, as the king wishes to provide for the safe custody of the Tower so that it may not suffer danger by any crafty deceit or attack of enemies. By K.
Dec. 3. Bothwell.	To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to deliver by indenture certain ships, according to the advice and ordaining of William de Clynton, constable of Dover [castle] and warden of the Cinque Ports, and of John de Watenhill, to certain persons to do therewith what shall be ordained by the king and his council, because the king has learned that certain ships of his enemies taken by his lieges upon the sea and taken by them to the port of the said town are detained there by the mayor and bailiffs against the wish of those who took them. By K. and C.
	Membrane 6d.
—	Thomas de Ryse of Beverley puts in his place Thomas de Cotyngham the younger, to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 40l. made to him in chancery by Robert le Conestable of Flaynburgh.
Dec. 9. Bothwell.	Isabella, late the wife of William de Vescy of Neusum and William son of William de Vescy of Neusum, acknowledge that they owe to Thomas de Baumburgh, clerk, 7 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. York.
	Alice, late wife of James de Bosevill acknowledges that she owes to William son of John Gra, of York, 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of her lands and chattels in co. York.
Nov. 16. Bothwell.	To William de Shareshull and his fellows, justices appointed to take assizes in co. Stafford. Whereas the king has waged almost continual war with the Scots, and yet foreigners in no small number assemble a great fleet to attack the realm, wherefore the king and his lieges are compelled to extend warlike hands against such attacks more widely than was wont to be done by many of his progenitors, and because the king is constrained to provide for the indemnity of the lieges so serving him, and chiefly of those who are staying in the war of Scotland, so that they may not be disquieted and defrauded of their right, chiefly because the king's lieges for that cause depart from the king while he is acting in person in Scotland, and return home for the defence of their rights, the king being often left in the midst of his enemies, not without grave danger of his person, and it has been agreed by the prelates, earls, barons and chief men of the realm and others of the council, whom the king caused to be convoked at Notyngham to treat upon his affairs, that assizes of novel disseisin arramed against the lieges staying in his service in Scotland should be continued from day to day, so that no disinheriting or prejudice should be done to them while they are in that service; the king therefore orders the justices to continue from day to day in the same state in which it now is the assize of novel disseisin which James de Stafford, knight, arrames before them against John de Stafford, knight, in the king's service in Scotland, and others contained in the original writ concerning lands in Bromshulf, while John is staying in the said service, or until the king orders otherwise, according to the ordinance aforesaid; it is not, however, the intention of the king and his council that persons making such disseisins and setting out straightway to Scotland so that complaints thereupon may be delayed in the meantime, shall be assisted by the present ordinance. By C.
Nov. 25. Bothwell.	The like to Richard de Wylughby, Roger de Baukwell and Robert de Sadyngton, justices appointed to take assizes in co. Leicester, concerning an assize of novel disseisin which John de Ros arramed against Hugh de Freyne, staying in Scotland, and Alice his wife and others, concerning a tenement in Wadyngton. By p.s. [9698.]
Dec. 3. Bothwell.	The like to John de Shardelowe, John Claver and Hugh de Croft, justices appointed to take assizes in co. Norfolk concerning an assize of novel disseisin which Thomas de Uvedale and Elizabeth his wife arramed against John de Wolweby, (fn. 1) knight, staying in Scotland, and others concerning tenements in Walcote, Riston, Happesburgh, Ridelington, Wotton, Bromholm, Eggesfeld, Stodeye, Holt, Hempsted, Honeworthe, Leringsete, Briston, Berford, Chategrave, Hardele, Lodne, Langele and Carleton.
	By p.s. [9700.]
Nov. 8. Stirling.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas lately at the prosecution of the abbess of Elnestowe by her petition before the king and his council in the last parliament at Westminster, showing the king that Malcolm, sometime king of Scotland and lord of the town of Bedeford, long before that town came into the hands of the king's progenitors, granted by his charter, which the king's progenitors confirmed to the then abbess, the third penny of his rent of the town of Bedeford, to be received yearly, and the predecessors of the abbess were seised of that rent for a great time, from the time of the said grant, and the mayor and bailiffs of Bedeford detained the rent from the abbess, the king ordered the treasurer and barons to hear the plaint of the abbess in this respect, calling before them the said mayor and bailiffs, hearing their reasons, and to cause due and speedy complement of justice to be done to the abbess in the premises; and the mayor and bailiffs, pleading before the treasurer and barons in the exchequer, alleged that the said plea touches their free tenement, and by statute such pleas ought not to be taken elsewhere than in a certain place deputed for this, and they sought for judgment if they ought to answer in the exchequer concerning that plea; by reason of which allegation the treasurer and barons delayed to proceed further as the king has learned from the plaint of the abbess, the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to proceed further in that plea and to cause justice to be done to the abbess, notwithstanding the said allegation. By C.
Nov. 10. Stirling.	To John de Shardelowe. Whereas the king lately appointed him and William de Trumpynton, Geoffrey Seman and Simon de Brunne, justices to hear and determine certain trespasses committed on William de Wyvelyngham by Henry de Harewedon, John de Shipeden, Ralph de Holebech, Nicholas de Haneworth, John de Reppes and Edmund de Leukenore, at Cambridge, and Henry, John, Ralph, Nicholas, John and Edmund, pleading before those justices alleged that Henry is chancellor and the said John, Ralph, and the others are scholars of the university of Cambridge, and—by virtue of charters of the king's progenitors, which the king has confirmed, granting to the chancellor and scholars of the university that when any one of the university is noted by the university so that he is delivered to prison, the said malefactor shall be taken at the chancellor's order and imprisoned and kept safely in prison until it is sought from the chancellor that he should be released—they had ordered William, then a scholar of the university, to be taken and imprisoned by the mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge, as he was noted for divers misdeeds, to be kept according to the tenor of the said charters; and William had impleaded the said Henry, and the others, for that imprisonment before John and his said fellows, and they sought judgment if they ought to answer William concerning the premises, but the justices not having consideration for the said allegations, proceeded in the said affair as the king has learned from the plaint of Henry, and the others, and because the premises touch the king specially and his charter, he orders John to send the record and process held upon the premises before him and his fellows, with all the things touching them, to the king, so that he may have them fifteen days from Hilary, giving that day to the parties, so that, these being inspected, the king may cause what is just to be done. By C.