Close Rolls, Edward III: March 1330 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: March 1330', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 6-17. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/pp6-17 [accessed 19 April 2024]

March 1330



March 6. Winchester.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of William le Spencer, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that William held at his death no lands of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
	To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the following lands of James de Norton, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that James at his death held no lands of the king in fee, but that he held a third of the manor of Selton and a third of the manor of Fissherton near Wyly by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of Elizabeth, sometime his wife, and that the third of the manor of Selton is held of Queen Isabella as of the honour of Cristchurche by the service of a third of a knight's fee, and the third of the manor of Fissherton of Hugh de Poyns by knight service, and that he held for life the manor of Norton by fine levied in the late king's court, so that it should remain after his death to Thomas de Norton his son, and to the heirs male of Thomas's body, and that it is held of Hugh de Braybeof by knight service.
March 10. Winchester.	To the same. Order to deliver to William de Walkyngton all his lands, goods and chattels, which the king lately ordered to be taken into his hands for certain trespasses, excesses, and disobediences, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king has rendered them to William of his special grace.
March 8. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Irlaund, whom the king has amoved from office because he understands that he is incapacitated by illness.
	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Thurgarton, deceased.
March 10. Winchester.	Asolia Bonde of Fighlyngdales, imprisoned at Whiteby for the death of Roger Bonde, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail her until the first assize.
March 12. Winchester.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower to Juliana, late the wife of Roger de Melbury, tenant by knight service of the heir of John de Sancto Johanne, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence, in the presence of Thomas West, to whom the king has committed the custody of two parts of her said husband's lands, if he choose to be present.
March 10. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Stevenes, deceased.
April 2. Woodstock.	To the bailiffs of Basyngstok. John Hodinull (fn. 1) has shewn the king that whereas the men of the town of Basyngstok hold that town of the king at fee-ferm for 80l. yearly, and elect bailiffs from themselves yearly, who hold the king's courts and exercise other things and do what pertains to justice in that town, and he impleads before the bailiffs in the court of the town Philip Marmyon, the elder, by the king's little writ of right, according to the custom of the manor of Basyngstok, concerning a messuage, a virgate of land, and 24 acres of wood in Upnateleghesestthorp, which plea still pends before them undecided, the bailiffs have deferred proceeding in the plea because the king's writ was directed to the bailiffs of Edmund, late earl of Kent, at Basyngstok, which Edmund had naught in the said town except the aforesaid ferm, which was assigned to him for life by the late king, and which has now come to the king by his death, wherefore John has besought the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the bailiffs to proceed in the said plea without delay, notwithstanding the cause aforesaid.
	By p.s. [3402.]
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Jan. 26. Eltham.	To John Mautravers, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Whereas the late king by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, granted to the prior and canons of Ivychurch (monasterio Ederoso) 100s. yearly of alms, to be received from his manor of Claryndon by the hands of his bailiffs, in aid of the lighting (luminaris) of that monastery; and the king afterwards, upon learning from the prior, by petition before him and his council, that the rent had been detained from them for some time, ordered the keeper of the manor to pay the said rent to the prior in aid of the lights out of the issues of the manor before all other payments, either from agistments, or from other profits, rents, or issues of the manor, or to signify why he had not obeyed the king's orders previously sent; and Giles de Bello Campo, keeper of the manor, has returned that there are no issues of the manor out of which he can make the aforesaid payment except 4l. of rent of assize and the agistments of cattle (averiorum) that used to be made in the park of Claryndon, extended before William la Zousch, late justice of the Forest this side Trent, in the king's presence at 10l. yearly, which issues, rents and profits the keepers of the manor have heretofore always been wont to receive and have, without diminution and without making any payment thence, for the custody of the manor, park, and forest, and that the king in the parliament at New Sarum prohibited the making of such agistments in the park, in order to have more ample pasture for his deer (ferarum) in the park, and he assigned the said payment of 10l. to be made to Giles by the hands of the justice, in recompence for the said agistments, from the sale of wood of the forest, to be made yearly towards (super) the repair of the enclosure of the park, and that the prior and canous have not received and had the said 100s. yearly by the hands of any keeper or bailiff of that manor from the issues, rents, or profits of the manor and forest, or from the sale of underwood made by the king's special order: the king, wishing that the payment shall be made to the prior, considering that the grant thereof was made to holy church for the honour of God to endure for all time, orders the aforesaid John to cause the arrears of the said sum to be paid to the prior, and to pay that sum to him henceforth from the sale of such underwood in the forest now made or to be made for this cause. By K.
Feb. 22. Windsor.	To the sheriffs of London. Order to release Thomas de Tyverton and Hugh Dalby, lately in the company of Eleanor la Despenser, from prison, and to permit them to go whither they wish, notwithstanding the king's late order to arrest and imprison them until further orders. By K.
Feb. 17. The Tower.	To the escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle in anywise with the manor of Tackele and other lands in co. Essex of the abbot and monks of St. Valery in Picardy, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the abbot and monks were enfeoffed of the manor and lands in frankalmoin without doing any service therefor, of the gift and by charter of Henry, king of England, which charter Henry III. afterwards confirmed, and that the manor and lands were not taken or seised into the hands of any of the king's progenitors after the death of any abbot of that place, and that the king's progenitors have not received any issues or profits thereof, and it appears by certificate of the treasurer and barons sent in to the chancery that it was not found upon searching the rolls of the exchequer that the manor or other lands of the abbot in that county were taken into the hands of any of the king's progenitors in times of voidance of the abbey, or that any of the king's progenitors received any issues or profits by reason of such voidances. Et erat patens.
Feb. 13. The Tower.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to send some suitable person from the exchequer to supervise the estate of each of the men of the bishopric of Durham and of Richemundshir and of cos. Cumberland and Westmoreland, who are indebted to the king for victuals bought from him and from the late king, which person shall attermine the debts according to his discretion, having consideration and advisement as to the damages and grievances that each of the men received through the frequent comings of the Scots, so that they may be able to make the payments without grievance and without impoverishment of their estate, receiving from them security for payment of the debts, certifying the treasurer and barons of the terms and securities, which they are to cause to be enrolled in the exchequer in due form, as the said men have besought the king to shew them favour concerning these debts. By p.s. [3270.]
Feb. 26. Guildford.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Agnes, late the wife of Thomas Bardolf, tenant in chief, the following of her husband's lands, which the king has assigned to her as dower: the manor of Ryskyngton, with the members of Lesyngham and Digeby and other appurtenances, in co. Lincoln, of the yearly value of 26l. 10s. 3¾d.; the manor of Westburgh, in the same county, of the yearly value of 25l. 18s. 10½d.; the manor of Watton, with certain lands in the hamlet of Stapelford, co. Hertford, of the yearly value of 8l. 17s. 8¼d.; certain lands in Adynton, co. Surrey, of the yearly value of 6l. 18s. 4d.; the manor of Halghton, co. Leicester, of the yearly value of 8l. 5s. 0d.; certain lands in Edelmeton, co. Middlesex, of the yearly value of 25s.; and 100s. of yearly rent from certain tenants in the town of Empnesworth, co. Southampton; 1d. of yearly rent from the manor of Gretham, in the same county; and 38s. 11d. of yearly rent from certain tenants in Wendovre, Huccote, and Bledelowe, co. Buckingham: on condition that she pay to the king or to him to whom he shall commit the custody of two-thirds of her husband's lands 4s. 7d. yearly during the heir's minority, and that she pay that sum to the heir after he come of age, being the excess in value of her dower.
Feb. 28. Guildford.	To the same. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Agnes the following of her aforesaid husband's knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her as dower: a fee in Wrennyngham, co. Norfolk, which Robert de Thorp, knight, holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a quarter of a fee in Derham, in the same county, which quarter the heirs of John de Bradecroft and Thomas Corlu hold, of the yearly value of 30s.; a fee in Thorplond, Gayton, and Walyngton, in the same county, which Geoffrey de Eston holds, of the yearly value of 60s.; a fee in Watlyngton, Foston, Wallyngton, Secheche, and Herdewyk, in the same county, which Benedict Russel, the prioress of Blakebergh, Edmund de Mounpyncon, and the tenants of Watlyngton hold, of the yearly value of 100s.; a fee in Watlyngton and Longham, in the same county, which Geoffrey Brisyerd holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a moiety of a fee in Fincham, Derham, Roxham, and Fordham, in the same county, which moiety Roger Corpel holds, of the yearly value of 50s.; a fee in Ryngested, in the same county, which the said Roger holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a fee in Certon, Mateshalbergh, and Bichamwell, in the same county, which John Lovel holds, of the yearly value of 6l.; two fees in Fordham, Rokesham, Barshale, and Cisterne, in the same county, which Nicholas son of Nicholas de Stradesete holds, of the yearly value of 10l.; a fee in Loxham, Dunham, and Kemeston, in the same county, which Alan le Rous holds, of the yearly value of 60s.; a fee in Bokeswell and Fransham, which the prior of Penteneye holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a quarter of a fee in Holkham, in the same county, which quarter William Wake holds, of the yearly value of 25s.; two fees in Langele, in the same county, which John de Claverynge holds, of the yearly value of 20l.; two fees in Narburgh, in the same county, which William de Narburgh holds, of the yearly value of 20l.; two fees in Elsam, Ketelby, Glaunfordbrigg, and Wraghby, co. Lincoln, which Richard de Boselyngthorp, Walter de Persay, and Robert Breton of Elsam hold, of the yearly value of 20l.; a moiety of a fee in Brynkel, in the same county, which moiety William Breton holds, of the yearly value of 5 marks; a moiety of a fee in Claypol, in the same county, which moiety Ed[mund] Cressy holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; an eighth of a fee in Stubton and Claypol, in the same county, which eighth Matilda Malet, Henry de Fenton, and Richard Moit hold, of the yearly value of 20s.; an eighth of a fee in Westburgh, in the same county, which eighth Geoffrey Knyght holds, of the yearly value of 10s.; a moiety of a fee in Dunnesby and Brauncewell, in the same county, which moiety William de Mortuo Mari holds, of the yearly value of 5 marks; 1½ fees in Diryngton and Amewyk, in the same county, which John Diseny of Diryngton, John Rivelyng, and John de Hightyngton hold, of the yearly value of 10 marks; a moiety of a fee in Diggeby and Brauncewell, in the same county, which moiety Robert de Tilton of Diggeby holds, of the yearly value of 5 marks; a moiety of a fee in Diggeby, in the same county, which moiety William son of Robert de la Bourhall of Diggeby holds, of the yearly value of 40s.; a twelfth of a fee in Riskyngton, in the same county, which twelfth Thomas son of Martin Nichol holds, of the yearly value of 3s.; a moiety of a fee in Brauncewell and Amewyk, in the same county, which moiety John de Amewyk holds, of the yearly value of 30s.
	To the same. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Agnes the following of her husband's advowsons, which the king has assigned to her as dower: the advowson of the church of St. Martin, Fyncham, co. Norfolk, of the yearly value of 100s.; the advowson of a moiety of the church of Ryskyngton, co. Lincoln, of the yearly value of 20s.; the advowson of a moiety of the church of Westburgh, in the same county, of the yearly value of 20s.; the advowson of the church of Bradewelle, co. Essex, of the yearly value of 30l.
Jan. 25. Eltham.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Whereas the king—at the frequent complaints of Roger de la Hurne and Richard de Cockhull of Southampton and of other merchants of that town and of the town of Great Yarmouth and elsewhere in the realm, suggesting that certain malefactors of France, Normandy, and Poitou had assembled in great number, and had attacked in warlike manner the said merchants, who had gone in their ships to the ports of Bune in Poitou and of Lene in Normandy to exercise their merchandise there, and had slain (sic) the said merchants, burnt their ships, and taken and carried away their goods and chattels found in the ships to a considerable value—ordered the sheriff to cause all goods and chattels and debts of the men and merchants of the said lands in his bailiwick to be arrested and kept safely until the king should otherwise ordain, and the sheriff caused 90 tuns of white wine of certain merchants of France to be arrested in a ship of Baldwin Folron of Dordrecht (Burdragh'); and the king afterwards caused them to be delivered to Roger and Richard upon their finding security before the sheriff to answer to the king at his order for the wine or for its price when he should summon them to do so; and the king, upon learning from Roger and Richard that Richard de la Pole, his butler, caused a custom of 2s. for each tun of the wine to be exacted from them for the king's use, and that he disquieted them concerning the same, ordered the said Richard to supersede until otherwise ordered the exaction of the said custom, upon Roger and Richard finding security to answer to the king for the custom if it ought to pertain to him; and Roger and Richard de Cockhull have given the king to understand that Richard de la Pole has refused to receive such security from them for the custom, but distrains and molests them therefor as before: the king, because it was lately agreed, at Amiens, between Philip, king of France, and his councillors and the king and his councillors that certain persons should be appointed by the king of France to make enquiry and do justice to those complaining of damages, wrongs, and trespasses committed upon the king's men within the power of the king of France during the five preceding years, and that the king should appoint men for the same purpose to enquire and do justice concerning wrongs, etc., committed upon men of the king of France in this realm, and he wishes to put the agreement into execution, orders the sheriff to cause to be released until otherwise ordered any distraint that Richard de la Pole may have made upon Roger and Richard in Southampton or elsewhere in the sheriff's bailiwick for the aforesaid custom, taking security from Roger and Richard to answer to the king for the custom if it ought to pertain to him.
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Feb. 27. Guildford.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Ordered not to intermeddle further with the manors specified below, and to restore the issues thereof to Agnes, late the wife of Thomas Bardolf, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas and Agnes held jointly on the day of Thomas's death the manors of Castre near Great Yarmouth, Cantelee, and Qwenebergh, co. Norfolk, by fine levied in the late king's court, and the manors of Bercompe and Flecchyng, co. Sussex, except the chief messuage of Bercompe, together with the wood and all the plot of land within the great ditch newly constructed, of the gift and feoffment of Ralph de Howel, chaplain, to them and Thomas's heirs, and that the manors of Castre and Cantelee are held of the king in chief as parcel of the barony of Grurnay, and that the manor of Qwenebergh is held of the king by the service of one knight's fee, and that the manors of Bercompe and Flecchyng are held of earl Warenne by divers services, and that John son of the aforesaid Thomas is his next heir and is aged sixteen years.
	To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manors specified below, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas Bardolf, deceased, and John his son, and Elizabeth, John's wife, held jointly on the day of Thomas's death the manor of Strompshagh and Scrouteby, co. Norfolk, and the manor of Plumton with the member of Hodlegh and other appurtenances, in co. Sussex, of the gift of Simon de Asshele and Gilbert le fitz Rauf of Hethill by fine levied in the late king's court, to them and the heirs of Thomas, and that the manor of Strompshagh is held of the king by the service of doing suit at the hundred of Blofeld from three weeks to three weeks for all service, and that the manors of Scrouteby and Plumpton are held of other lords by divers services.
March 6. Winchester.	To the keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver to Henry de Chaucombe, brother and heir of John de Chaucombe, the bailiwick of keeping a moiety of the forest of Gravele, whereof the said John was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day of his death, as was found by an inquisition taken by Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent, the king having taken Henry's homage for his brother's lands, whereof he has ordered the said escheator to cause him to have seisin. By p.s.
March 2. Alton.	To the sheriff of Buckingham. Whereas it was lately found by an inquisition made by the king's order at the suit of Geoffrey de Bolestrode that the prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England granted, on Tuesday after St. Barnabas, 14 Edward II., to John de Horneby and the aforesaid Geoffrey for their lives a messuage, a watermill, 91 acres of land, 9 acres of meadow, 16 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood, 6 acres of heath, and 20s. 2d. of rent in Chalfhunt St. Peter's, and that John and Geoffrey were in seisin of the said tenements for two years following by virtue of the gift, and that afterwards John demised his estate to Geoffrey, and that Geoffrey was seised thereof for one year after the grant, and that he continued his seisin until Tuesday after St. Matthew, 18 Edward II., upon which day Hugh le Despenser, the younger, amoved him from the tenements wilfully and without reasonable cause, and that the tenements were thus in Hugh's hands until they came to the king's hands by his forfeiture, and that they are now in the king's hands for this cause and no other; and the king thereupon ordered the keeper of the tenements to cause them to be delivered to Geoffrey; and afterwards the king—upon being given to understand that in the taking of the inquisition and in ordering the delivery to Geoffrey he was deceived in this, that the lands are parcels of the manor of Bolestrode, which manor the Templars held with the other tenements aforesaid at the time of the adnullation of their order and long before, and that after the adnullation one Nicholas de Turvyil entered the tenements and alienated them to the aforesaid John, and that the said prior and brethren were not seised of the tenements before the said 14th year, so that they could not make any estate thereof to the aforesaid John or to any one else, and that after the late king, by his statute in the parliament at Westminster in three weeks from the Purification, in the 17th year of his reign, had caused all the lands that had belonged to the Templars to be delivered to the prior and brethren, by which statute all grants of the Templars' lands by whomsoever and to whomsoever made from the time of the adnullation of the order until the said three weeks of the Purification were annulled, the prior and brethren granted the manor to the aforesaid Hugh, and that Hugh entered the manor and lands aforesaid by virtue of that grant, and continued his seisin thereof until he forfeited to the king, by whose forfeiture the manor and lands came to the king's hands, and were in his hands until Geoffrey, by hiding the truth and making no mention of the premises, procured the delivery of the lands to him as if they were not parcels of the said manor, and that Geoffrey had no estate in the lands aforesaid before Hugh's entry therein by reason whereof he could be disseised thereof by Hugh or any one else—wishing to be certified concerning the premises and to do what he should think fit by his council, especially as his right and the right of others were saved in the order to deliver the lands to Geoffrey, ordered the sheriff to cause to come before the king in chancery at Tyngehurst, on Thursday after St. Matthew last, twenty-four knights and other men of his bailiwick who were not connected by any affinity with the said Geoffrey or with the abbess of Burnham, to whom the king had granted the lands under a certain form, to recognise the truth in the premises, and ordered the sheriff to summon Geoffrey to be there then, if he thought fit, to inform the king concerning his right in the premises; and it was found by a jury taken before the king in chancery at the said day in Geoffrey's presence that the tenements are parcels of the manor of Bolestrode, and that Geoffrey had no estate therein at any time by reason whereof he could be disseised, but that at one time he laid claim to a moor called 'Le Templemore,' which is of the appurtenances of the said manor, and that Hugh le Despenser, the younger, held the moor together with the manor and tenements aforesaid from the time of the grant of the manor and tenements to him, and that he took Geoffrey's cattle grazing in the moor, as being to his damage, as often as he found them there, and that the sheriff of Buckingham, by virtue of a writ directed to him to take into the king's hands the lands that had belonged to the Templars and to deliver them to the prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, took all the tenements aforesaid, together with the manor and moor, into the late king's hands, and delivered them to the prior and brethren, who, being seised thereof, gave them to the aforesaid Hugh in fee, and that Hugh thus held them until the time of his forfeiture: the king, wishing to do for himself and the said abbess what is just, orders the sheriff to resume into his hands the said messuage, mill, land, meadow, pasture, wood, moor, heath, and rent, and, when he has had seisin thereof in the king's name, to deliver them to the abbess and convent of the said place, to whom the king has granted and confirmed the manor and appurtenances, to have to them and their successors at fee-ferm.
Feb. 15. The Tower.	To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pay to Nicholas de la Despense, king's yeoman, 20l. yearly from the issues of his bailiwick, which sum the king has granted to Nicholas, in consideration of his good service to the late king and to queen Isabella and to the king, during pleasure, or until the king shall provide him with 20l. of land yearly, the late king having granted to Nicholas 20l. of land yearly from the lands that belonged to William de Bredon in co. Derby, to have during pleasure in aid of the maintenance of him and his wife and children, which land has been taken from Nicholas and delivered to William by common consent of parliament.
	Robert de Kent of Waltham Holy Cross, imprisoned at Waltham for trespass of vert in the forest of Waltham, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
March 18. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Yabeton of Arundel, deceased.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Roger la Zouche to be discharged of 31l. 18s. 0d. for the ferm of the hundred of Framelond for the time when he was sheriff of Leicester, as it is found by certificate of the treasurer and barons that answer was made to Henry III. in the 19th year of his reign for the aforesaid sum for the said hundred by the hands of the sheriff of Leicester, and that the late king, on 26 May, in the 12th year of his reign, committed the hundred to Roger Beler to him and his heirs in fee, rendering therefor to the exchequer 12l. 18s. 5½d. yearly by his own hands, and that Roger Beler paid that ferm whilst he lived by his own hands.
March 20. Winchester.	To the same. Whereas the king lately appointed by letters patent William de Derham, parson of the church of Craulegh, and Nicholas de Aulton, parson of the church of Middelton, to survey the jewels, goods and chattels that belonged to John de Sancto Johanne of Basyng', deceased, which the king ordered to be taken into his hands because John was indebted to him in divers debts at his death, and to make inquisition concerning John's jewels, goods and chattels and concerning what had been eloigned thence, and to resume into the king's hands those thus eloigned and to sell the stock (instaurum), corn and other goods and chattels aforesaid, except the jewels; and the king now learns from the complaint of the said Nicholas that although William took by himself divers jewels, goods and chattels that belonged to the said John to the value of 32l. 16s. 8d. found at Warneford, Chauton, Basyng', Halvenaked, and Wodecote, and carried them to his church aforesaid, doing his pleasure concerning them, nevertheless the treasurer and barons intend charging Nicholas with the jewels, goods and chattels aforesaid as if he had had them, wherefore he has prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to discharge Nicholas of the jewels, goods and chattels that they shall ascertain that William took and had by himself, provided that Nicholas answer as he ought for the other jewels, goods and chattels.
	To Richard de la Pole, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the port of London. Order to deliver to the monks of St. Peter's, Westminster, a tun of wine of the right prise at London for this year, in accordance with the grant to them by Henry III. of a tun of wine yearly for the celebration of divine service in that church.
March 25. Reading.	To the keeper of the town of Nottingham. Order to pay to Robert de Neuwerk and Meliora his wife, late the wife of Gilbert de Glenkarny, 10l. from the ferm of that town for Easter term, the king having granted to Robert and Meliora that they should receive 20l. yearly from the ferm of that town in lieu of that sum yearly granted by the king to Meliora, in aid of the maintenance of herself and children and in recompence for the lands that Gilbert had in Scotland, to be received by the hands of the escheator beyond Trent.
March 23. Winchester.	To Thomas de Stobhill, one of the collectors of the scutage in co. Devon of the army of Scotland of the fourth year of the late king's reign. Order to pay to Matthew de Crauthorn, keeper of the king's mine in that county, 60l. out of the money lately levied from the scutage still in Thomas's hands, as the king is given to understand on Matthew's behalf that he has no money whence he can pay to the miners their wages, and that certain workmen intend leaving their work unless their wages be speedily paid to them, and the king considers it difficult to send money to those parts for this cause. By the treasurer.
March 29. Woodstock.	To Thomas de Stobhill and John son of John de Alba Marlia of Flete. Order to pay to the aforesaid Matthew for the above purpose 40l. from the said scutage, in addition to the 60l. in the preceding order, as the king considers that the 60l. is insufficient for the payment of the wages.
	By the treasurer.
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March 12. Winchester.	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Thurgarton, deceased.
March 12. Winchester.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle in any wise with the temporalities of the bishopric of Salisbury, or with the goods and things pertaining thereto by reason of the present voidance of the see, and to restore to the dean and chapter of St. Mary's, Salisbury, any issues of the temporalities or goods that he may have taken into the king's hands, as the late king granted by his letters patent, which the king has confirmed, that the dean and chapter should have in times of voidance of the bishopric the custody of the bishopric and of all temporalities thereof and of all goods and things pertaining to the bishopric, as fully as the bishops had at any time and as fully as the king might or ought to have the custody in times of voidance if it had been retained in his hands, so that the dean and chapter might have full and free administration of the same, in the same manner as the bishops had, saving to the king the knights' fees that are held of the bishopric, and the advowsons of churches, and escheats, rendering therefor to the king 1,021l. 7s. 11d. if the voidance lasted one year, at which sum the bishopric is taxed yearly, and the said king willed that the dean and chapter should have the custody of the bishopric during voidance, so that no escheator, sheriff, or other bailiff or minister of the king should intermeddle in any way with the custody of the bishopric during voidance, with the exception that the escheator or other minister should take a simple seisin in name of the royal lordship within a manor of the bishopric at the beginning of each voidance, and that he should, after he had taken such seisin, leave forthwith without taking fealty or recognisance from any tenant of the said bishopric or otherwise, etc.
March 20. Winchester.	To Roger atte Assh, keeper of the castle of Arundel, and of the lands that belonged to Edmund, late earl of Kent, in co. Sussex, in the king's hands by his forfeiture. Order to pay to Margaret, late the wife of the aforesaid earl, staying in Arundel castle, 13s. 4d. daily for the expenses of herself and her children for so long as she shall stay there. By K.
March 18. Winchester.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the exaction of 500 marks from the abbot of Tavystok, and to cause him to be discharged thereof, as he has shewn the king, by petition before him and his council, that at the time when he did his fealty to the king and received the temporalities of the abbey, which had been taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of his immediate predecessor, he submitted himself to the king's grant for 500 marks to be paid at the king's will, because some words prejudicial to the king and the right of his crown were contained in the pope's letters directed to the king for the creation (profectione) of the abbot, and that the said sum is exacted from him under this pretext by summons of the exchequer, and he has prayed the king to provide for his indemnity in that behalf, especially as in like cases it was not usual, in times past, that aught should be exacted for the king's use from any one promoted in the Roman court, and the king does not wish that the abbot should be charged in this behalf otherwise than was usual in the times of his progenitors. By p.s.
March 24. Reading.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to Edward de Monte Hermerii, in Winchester castle, 12d. a day until the king shall cause other ordinance to be made concerning him. By K. & C.
March 20. Winchester.	To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Lexleygh, whom the king has caused to be amoved from office for insufficient qualification.
	By the testimony of Henry de Percy.
March 20. Winchester.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Alice, late the wife of John de Sancto Johanne of Basyng', tenant in chief, the following of her said husband's advowsons, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the advowson of the church of Shirbourn, co. Southampton, of the yearly value of 20l. and the advowson of the church of Shifford, co. Berks, of the yearly value of 10 marks.
March 30. Woodstock.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the city of London. Order to pay to John de Hanon[ia], or to Dinus Forsetti and Peter Byne and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence dwelling in that city, John's attorneys in this behalf, 500 marks for Easter term, notwithstanding any assignment made or to be made upon the said custom, in part payment of the 1,000 marks yearly from that custom granted to John by the king, on 7th February, in the first year of his reign.
April 1. Woodstock.	To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert Jorz, who cannot attend to the duties of the office because he is intending certain affairs of the king's and of others.
March 16. Winchester.	To the collectors of the old and new customs in the port of Hertelpole. Order to pay to Dinus Forsetti, Bartholomew de Barde, and Tanus Jak' and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, by indenture all moneys received from the customs aforesaid, together with the issues of the customs from 17 August last, and one leaf (folium) of the king's seal called 'coket' of the old custom, and the king's seal called 'coket' of the new custom, until the said merchants have been satisfied for the debts due from the king to them, as the said Dinus, Francis Grandoni, John Fraunceys, Peter Byne, Francis de Bosco, and Lotrinus de Colyn, and their fellows, merchants of the said society, undertook before the king and his council at Gloucester to pay a certain sum daily in his wardrobe for the expenses of his household from the aforesaid 17 August for a certain time, as expressed in an indenture made between the king and them, and the king, in order to pay them the said sums more conveniently, granted to them all issues of the old and new customs of England, to be received from the said day from the collectors by indenture, notwithstanding any assignments previously made thereon, excepting the custom of Kyngeston-on-Hull, which the king had assigned to Richard de la Pole, his butler, and to William his brother, and excepting the assignments made by the king upon the customs to John de Honon[ia], the earl of Julers, John Berners, William le Chaumberleyn, Gerard de Potes, and Master John de Florencia.
	The like to the collectors in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Boston.
	Membrane 37.
March 16. Winchester.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Mildeston, co. Wilts, and to restore the issues thereof, as the escheator certified the king, in response to his order, that he found by inquisition of office that John le Duyn, who held the manor of the late king by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee, demised the manor without the said king's licence to Agnes his sister for her life, and that she, being thus seised thereof, alienated it without the late king's licence to Henry de Harnhull in fee, and that the escheator took the manor into the king's hands by reason of this demise and alienation, and the king—at Henry's suit, suggesting that the manor is held of Edmund, earl of Kent, as of the manor of Cainel, and is not held of the king immediately, and praying the king to provide a remedy—wishing to be certified concerning the manor and its tenure, ordered the escheator to make inquisition, and it is found by such inquisition that the manor is held of Edmund, earl of Kent, as of the honour of Cainel by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee for all service, and that it is worth yearly in all issues 100s.
March 26. Reading.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause 500 quarters of wheat and 500 bacon pigs (bacones) to be bought and purveyed, and to cause them to be carried to Plummuth with all speed, so that they be there in three weeks from Easter at the latest, there to be delivered by indenture to Walter de Weston, receiver of the king's victuals there, as the king has ordained to send shortly John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, his brother, and certain other magnates of his realm in his company to the duchy [of Aquitaine], and it behoves the king to provide divers sorts of victuals for their maintenance. By K.
	The like to the sheriffs of the following counties:
	Wiltshire, for 500 quarters of wheat and 500 bacon-pigs.
	Somerset and Dorset, for 1000 quarters of wheat, 500 quarters of beans and peas, and 500 bacon-pigs.
	Surrey and Sussex, for 1000 quarters of oats and 500 bacon-pigs.
	Devon, for 500 quarters of oats.
	Cornwall, for 500 quarters of oats and 20,000 fish called 'hak.'
March 26. Wallingford.	To the sheriff of Devon. Order to cause to be made and provided in places where he shall see fit as many hurdles (claias), bridges, stables, and other implements (utensilia) as he shall deem necessary for the ships that the king has appointed John le Smale, his clerk, to choose and provide, and for the shipment (eskippamento) and stay of horses therein, and to cause them to be carried to Plummuth with all speed, so that they be there in three weeks from Easter, there to be delivered by indenture to Walter de Weston, the king's receiver there, the king having appointed the said John to choose and provide forty of the best and strongest ships that he can find in places on the sea coast where most convenient, and to cause the ships to be brought to Plummuth with all speed, so that they be there at the date aforesaid for the passage of certain magnates whom the king is sending to the duchy [of Aquitaine] for the reform of its estate, and to cause hurdles and bridges necessary for the shipment of horses to be carried thither to be provided, and to cause stables and other implements for the stay of the horses in the ships to be made in the ships. By K.
March 23. Reading.	To John Darcy, lord of Werk in Tyndale, or to him who supplies his place there. Whereas the king lately committed to Richard Talebot the custody of the lands that belonged to John Comyn of Badenagh, tenant in chief of the late king, for so long as they should remain in the king's hands, and he afterwards ordered John Darcy to assign to Edmund, late earl of Kent, and to Margaret his wife, formerly the wife of the said John Comyn, her dower of her said late husband's lands in the liberty of Tyndale, according to the extents made by Simon de Grymesby, the late king's escheator beyond Trent, the tenors whereof the king sent to John Darcy sub pede sigilli, or according to other extents to be made if necessary, in the presence of the aforesaid Richard; and the king is now given to understand on Richard's behalf that John Darcy's bailiff of the liberty aforesaid has proceeded to the assignment of the dower without Richard's being warned, and has assigned and delivered to the earl and Margaret in Richard's absence divers lands beyond what fell due to them: the king therefore orders John, if he find that the assignment was thus made in Richard's absence, to resume into the king's hands the lands thus assigned, and to cause them to be delivered to Richard according to the tenor of the king's commission aforesaid until the king shall otherwise order. By C.
April 2. Woodstock.	To John Moriz, escheator in Ireland. Order not to distrain John Haket for his homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of the king in Ireland, as he has done homage and fealty to the king. By p.s. [3406.]
	The like in favour of Adam de Houth. By the same writ.
March 29. Woodstock.	To the keeper of the land of Glaumorgan, or to him who supplies his place. Order to assign to Margaret, late the wife of Adam le Galeys of Glaumorgan, her dower of the lands that Adam acquired to him and Joan his first wife, and to the heirs of their bodies, so that the lands should revert to Adam's right heirs in case they died without an heir of their bodies, as Margaret has besought the king to cause dower of the said lands to be assigned to her. By p.s.
March 28. Woodstock.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with an acre of land in Falgham, and to restore the issues thereof to the prior of Shilbred, as the king—at the prior's prosecution, suggesting that his predecessors were seised of the said land of their purchase long before the publication of the statute of mortmain, and that they continued their seisin until now, and that Master John Walewayn, the late king's escheator this side Trent, took the land into the late king's hands, asserting that the prior acquired it after the publication of the said statute and entered it without royal licence, and that it is in the king's hands for this reason—ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by the inquisition that Henry, sometime prior of that place, acquired the land from Alice la Kokes to him and his church long before the publication of the statute, to wit in the 40th year of Henry III., and that the land is in the king's hands solely for this reason, and that it is held of the prior.
March 20. Winchester.	To John Giffard. Order to be respondent to James Daudelegh, son and heir of Nicholas Daudelegh, and kinsman and co-heir of William Martyn, deceased, for the ferm due from him to the king for a part of the manor of Beggesworth, which part is of James's inheritance, from 25 May last, when the king rendered to James his lands although he was not of full age.