Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1330

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

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1330', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 23-37. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/pp23-37 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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May 1330

May 3.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause the abbot of Cokirsand to have seisin of a messuage, 3 acres of land, and an acre of meadow in Caton, which Roger Spurman of Caton, who was outlawed for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the premises have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Roger held them of the said abbot as of the right of his church of Cokirsand, and that they are still in the king's hands, and that John de Litildale had the king's year, day and waste thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
To the same. Order to cause John de Apeltrethwayt to have seisin of a messuage and 5 acres of land in Caton, which the aforesaid Roger, who was outlawed for felony, held, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Roger held them of the said John, and that they are still in the king's hands, and that John de Stubbe had the king's year, day and waste thereof and ought to answer to the king for the same.
Membrane 34.
May 7.
Woodstock.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains. Order to cause the goods and chattels that belonged to Edmund, late earl of Kent, in the manors of Bissheie, co. Hertford, Northweld, co. Essex, Eston, co. Northampton, and Taleworth and Baggeshote, co. Surrey, which [manors] the king has granted to Bartholomew de Burgherssh for life, to be delivered to Bartholomew by appraisement to the value of the sum due to him by his account rendered in the wardrobe for his expenses when he went to parts beyond sea in the king's service, as Bartholomew has prayed the king to cause the goods and chattels in the aforesaid manors to be delivered to him as above to the value of the said sum, which the king lately ordered by writ of privy seal to be paid to Bartholomew by the treasurer and chamberlains, of which sum Bartholomew has not yet obtained payment.
By K.
May 4.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to deliver to William de Cleydon, knight, all his lands, goods and chattels in those counties, upon his finding security to answer to the king for the same at his order, the said lands, goods and chattels having been taken into the king's hands by reason of William's indictment for adhering to Edmund de Wodestok, sometime earl of Kent, before John de Loudham, Thomas de Hyndryngham, and Robert Houel, whom the king appointed to enquire in those counties the names of those who adhered to the said earl, who acknowledged in the parliament at Winchester before the earls, barons, and other magnates and proceres of the realm, and also before the coroners of the king's household, that he had made, in parts beyond the sea and on this side the sea, confederations and alliances of men-at-arms and other to subvert the estate of the king and of his crown, and the king was afterwards given to understand that many men of the sheriff's bailiwick were adherent, aiding and counselling the said earl, as William has now rendered himself to the king's prison in co. Essex prepared to stand to right in all things concerning the premises at the king's pleasure. By K. & C.
Vacated, because otherwise below.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to attach the aforesaid William by reason of the said indictment, and to cause him to be kept safely and fittingly under such attachment until otherwise ordered, and if he have not fled and if he have permitted himself to be attached by the sheriff, the latter is to cause William's lands, goods and chattels to be delivered to him upon his finding security to answer to the king for the same when ordered.
By K. & C.
May 1.
Woodstock.
To John Darcy, justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order to resume into the king's hands all the lands of the purparty of Margaret, late the wife of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, aunt and co-heiress of Thomas son of Richard de Clare, tenant in chief of the late king, of the lands of the said Thomas specified below, and to deliver them to her, together with the issues thereof from 23 May, in the first year of the king's reign, when the king took her homage for the said purparty, and rendered it to her, and ordered Thomas le fitz Johan, earl of Kildare, then justiciary of Ireland, to cause her to have seisin of the castle, manor, and town of Ardrain in Connaught (Conactia), with the fees whereof certain rents are paid when the king's service is proclaimed, a messuage in Rothba with a garden and a moiety of a weir there, a moiety of half the cantred of Siglare, two parts of the borough of Ky[n]sale, the manor of Mountanenagh, the castle and manor of Inchecoyn, with the rents and other profits in the town of Yoghill, and the island there adjoining called 'le Balledeilond,' certain lands in the city of Limerick (Limerie), and in the cantred of Tirconil, which were assigned to Margaret as her purparty; and the king afterwards, on 3 October, in the second year of his reign, ordered Maurice son of Thomas not to intermeddle further with any [of the aforesaid (fn. 1) ] lands that might be in his custody by the late king's commission, and to restore to Margaret any issues that he might have received thence since the said 23 May; and although Maurice, on 27 July, in the third year of the king's reign, rendered to Margaret the lands of her purparty aforesaid before H. bishop of Lincoln, the chancellor, and others of the king's council, and ordered his stewards, bailiffs and general attorneys in Ireland, by his letters patent, to cause the aforesaid purparty to be delivered to her, as appears by the rolls of chancery, nevertheless Maurice has hitherto occupied the said lands, not permitting Margaret's bailiffs and ministers to receive any issues and profits thence, as they ought to have done, as the king learns from Margaret's complaint, for which she has besought the king to provide a remedy.
May 4.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the priory of Mersey, a cell of the abbey of St. Ouen, Rouen, and the manors of Mersey, Fyngryngho, and Peet, and the halfhundred of Wenestre, co. Essex, and to restore the issues thereof to the prior of Mersey, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him of the cause for taking the priory into the king's hands, and the escheator returned that the aforesaid manors and half-hundred are temporalities of the abbey of St. Ouen in Normandy of the gift of the king's progenitors, and that the custody thereof ought to pertain to the king in times of voidance of the abbey, as the escheator understood from the testimony of trustworthy men, and that, as the abbey was void by the death of Ralph, the the late abbot, and as the escheator had no evidence that the present abbot or William de Reel, prior of the aforesaid priory, the abbot's proctor in England, had satisfied the king for the issues of the voidance, he took the manors and half-hundred into the king's hands in name of distraint, until the king should be satisfied for the premises, and the king afterwards —understanding on the prior's behalf that the abbot holds the manors and half-hundred aforesaid in frankalmoin by the charters of the king's progenitors, sometimes kings of England, without doing any service therefor, and that the manors and [half-]hundred were not taken into the hands of the king's progenitors at any time in the past during the voidance of the abbey by the death of any abbot, and that none of the king's progenitors received any issues or profits thereof by reason of any voidance of the abbey— ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by the inquisition that the abbot holds in co. Essex the priory and the manors and half-hundred aforesaid of the gift of St. Edward, sometime king of England, and by the confirmation of King William and of Henry son of the Empress in frankalmoin, without doing any service therefor, and that the priory or manors and half-hundred were not taken into the hands of any of the king's progenitors by reason of any voidance of the abbey, and that the king's progenitors did not receive any issues or profits thence at any time.
May 4.
Woodstock.
To the same. Order to permit Thomas de Brayneford of London and John le Clerk of Deptford to fell the wood growing in the wood of Swanescomp, and to carry away and make their profit of it and of the firewood therein specified below, as the king—at the prosecution of the said Thomas and John, suggesting that they had lately bought from Edmund, then earl of Kent, all his wood then growing in the said wood for a certain sum of money paid to him beforehand, as appears by his letters of acquittance in their possession, and that the said wood of Swanescomp has been taken into the king's hands by reason of the earl's forfeiture, and they have prayed the king to cause the wood to be delivered to them, so that they may fell the wood, carry it away, and make their profit according to their agreement with the earl—ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by his inquisition that Thomas and John, on 18 March, in the 3rd year of the king's reign, bought from the earl all his wood of Swanescomp then growing, to be felled and carried away by them within three years, for 1,000 marks, which they paid and delivered by the earl's letter close sealed with his seal to William de Hoo, then keeper of his wardrobe, for the earl's use, and that they have the earl's letter of acquittance testifying the receipt of the money, and that of the said wood there is felled to the value of 566l. 13s. 4d., and thereof there lies within the said wood timber and firewood to the value of 30l., and that the wood now growing in the wood is worth 120l., and the said wood was taken into the king's hands together with the manor of Swanescomp by the earl's forfeiture, and that it is in the king's hands solely for this reason. By C.
May 6.
Woodstock.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Hicche and with a sixth of the manor of Luyton except the chief messuage of the manor, which have been taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Robert de Kendale, and to restore the issues thereof to Margaret, late the wife of the said Robert, upon her taking the fealty due to the king for the said manor and sixth part, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert and Margaret held jointly on the day of Robert's death the said manor of Hicche of the grant of the late king to them and to the heirs male of the bodies of Robert and Margaret, and a sixth part of the manor of Luyton, except the chief messuage, of the feoffment of John Power, to them and to Robert's heirs, and that the manor of Hicche is held of the king by the service of 1½ knight's fees, and the sixth part of the manor of Luyton by the service of a sixth of a moiety of a knight's fee, and that Margaret continued her seisin of the said manor and sixth part together with Robert until his death, and that Robert held no other lands of the king in his demesne as of fee on the day of his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held divers lands of other lords by various services, and that Edward his son is his next heir and is of full age.
April 24.
Woodstock.
To the same. Order to deliver to Nicholas de Tony and Margaret his wife, late the wife of John son of Geoffrey de Burdeleys, the manor of Sculton, co. Norfolk, which has been taken into the king's hands by reason of John's death, taking from Nicholas the fealty due to the king therefor, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John and Margaret acquired to them and the heirs of their body from Geoffrey de Burdeleys, by the late king's licence, the said manor, which is held of the king by the service of being the king's lardener at his coronation, and that John and Margaret were seised thereof by virtue of this acquisition, and that they continued their joint seisin thereof from 6 October, in the 14th year of the late king's reign, until 30 July, in the 3rd year of the present king's reign, upon which day John died, and that the manor is worth yearly in all issues 100s., and that it was taken into the king's hands by reason of John's death, and for no other reason.
April 23.
Woodstock.
To the justices in eyre in co. Northampton. Whereas Humphrey de Bassyngbourn demands before the justices by the king's writ 30 acres of meadow in Fodringeye against John de Bretaigne, earl of Richmond, and the earl has alleged in pleading that he holds the meadow to him and the heirs of his body of the late king's gift, so that if he died without an heir of his body, the meadow should revert to the king, and he exhibited the late king's charter testifying this, and that he ought not to answer without consulting the king, by reason whereof the justices have deferred proceeding in the suit, wherefore Humphrey has besought the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the justices to proceed in the suit, and to cause justice to be done to the parties, notwithstanding the earl's allegation or the charter aforesaid, provided that they do not proceed to render judgment without consulting the king. By p.s. [3473.]
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to John de Hynkele 10l. in his account at the exchequer, if they ascertain that he paid this sum as sheriff of cos. Salop and Stafford to Roger de Mortuo Mari for Michaelmas and Easter terms last, in execution of the king's order to pay that sum yearly to Roger, to whom the king lately gave the name of earl of March, and whom he appointed earl of March, and girded with the sword as is the custom, and to whom he granted the aforesaid sum of yearly rent to be received under the name of earl of March.
April 23.
Woodstock.
To the same. Order to allow to John de Hynkele 24l. 16s. 0d. in his account at the exchequer as sheriff of Stafford, if they find that he paid that sum to Roger de Swynnerton in execution of the king's order, which sum the king assigned to Roger from the issues of that county for money due to him from the king for his costs and expenses in the king's service [in going] from Marlebergh to Sarum and thence to Walingford.
April 28.
Woodstock.
To Roger atte Assh, constable of Arundel castle. Order to pay to William de Holyns, king's clerk, 18d. daily for his wages from 14 March last, when the king appointed him jointly with Roger to receive by indenture from Nicholas de Longeford and John Payn the jewels and other goods and chattels in the aforesaid castle that the king caused to be seized into his hands, and to cause the same to be kept safely until otherwise ordered, and to cause that sum to be paid to William henceforth for so long as he shall stay there concerning the said custody. By K.
April 26.
Bristol.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. Order to cause the debts of Firmin de Mousters, merchant of Amiens, to be released from arrest, and to permit him to levy them and make his profit thereof, as he has shewn the king that although peace has been confirmed between the king of France and his subjects and the king and his subjects concerning the disputes upon both sides, nevertheless the mayor and bailiffs have not cared to release from arrest certain debts due to Firmin in that town, arrested in the hands of the debtors by the mayor and bailiffs by pretext of certain orders of the king directed to them to arrest the goods and wares of men and merchants of the land of France, and they do not permit him to levy the said debts, contrary to the form of the peace.
Membrane 33.
April 18.
Woodstock.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 8 July last, committed to Anthony de Lucy, by letters patent under the exchequer seal, his herbage in the wood and ward of Allerdale in the forest of Ingelwode, co. Cumberland, to hold at ferm from Easter preceding for seven years, rendering therefor to the exchequer 12l. yearly, and afterwards, on 27 July, the king, accepting the commission, granted by other letters patent that Anthony should have and hold the herbage aforesaid from Easter aforesaid for seven years, rendering therefor 12l. yearly, according to the form of the said commission, and he is now given to understand that the commission and acceptance aforesaid were made to the damage of himself and of the men of those parts; he therefore orders the treasurer and barons to take full information concerning the premises of the justice of the Forest beyond Trent and others who have knowledge of the matter, and to cause to be done in this behalf what they shall deem ought to be done for the king's advantage. By K. & C.
April 18.
Woodstock.
To the same. William de Langeleye, king's clerk, has shewn the king that whereas he, when he was clerk of the late king's chamber, received and expended divers sums of the said king's money, and did other things touching the said king's chamber, by the view and testimony of Thomas de Useflet, William de Colby, John de Thynden, and Robert de Holeden, controllers of the said clerk deputed by the said king for this purpose, and that although he is prepared to render his account to the king for the time aforesaid, the treasurer and barons have not taken care to audit his account and to cause the rolls of the said Thomas, William, John, and Robert to come before them because the said Thomas, William, John, and Robert had not commissions from the late king for being controllers of the said William de Langeleye, wherefore the latter has besought the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause the said Thomas, William de Colby, and John and the executors of the will of the said Robert to come before them with their rolls of the time aforesaid, and to audit William de Langeleye's account, and to cause to be done further [what ought to be done] for the final settlement (discussionem) of that account, and to cause allowance to be made to him for what was enrolled by the said controllers, notwithstanding that the controllers had not such commissions. By K.
April 18.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause as many hurdles, bridges, stables, and other implements to be provided and made as shall be necessary for the twenty ships that the king has appointed John le Smale to choose and provide and bring to Portesmuth, and as shall be necessary for the shipment (eskippamento) and stay therein of the horses that are to be carried to the duchy [of Aquitaine], and to cause them to be carried to Portesmuth with all speed, so that they be there on Monday before the Ascension next, there to be delivered to Walter de Weston, the king's receiver, or to him who supplies his place there. By K.
[Fœdera.]
April 12.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Devon. Like order for the provision and making of hurdles, bridges, stables, and other implements for the twenty ships that the king has ordered to be taken to Plummuth. By K.
[Ibid.]
April 30.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. Order to cause the victuals that the king lately ordered him to cause to be bought and purveyed and carried to Plummuth to be bought and purveyed, if they have not yet been purveyed, and to cause them to be carried to Portesmuth, so that they be there in the quinzaine of Holy Trinity next, there to be delivered to the receiver of the king's victuals, or to him who supplies his place there. By K.
April 20.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause 600 quarters of wheat and 500 quarters of oats to be bought and purveyed, and to cause them to be carried to Bristol with all speed, so that they be there on Monday before the Ascension next, there to be delivered by indenture to him whom the king shall depute to receive the victuals aforesaid, as it is necessary to provide divers sorts of victuals for the maintenance of John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, and certain other magnates of the realm whom the king has ordained to send shortly to the duchy [of Aquitaine]. The king orders the sheriff to cause as many ships as shall suffice for the carriage of the victuals to be chosen and provided in his bailiwick, and to cause them to come to Bristol in order to carry the victuals to Bordeaux. By K.
April 25.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Order to cause the 1,000 quarters of wheat, 500 quarters of beans and pease, and 500 bacon-pigs that the king lately ordered him to cause to be bought and purveyed and carried to Plummuth, in order to be taken to the aforesaidduchy, to be bought and purveyed, if he have not yet done so, and to cause them to be carried to Bruggewauter, so that they be there on Monday before the Ascension next, there to be delivered by indenture to him whom the king shall depute. The king orders the sheriff to cause as many ships as shall suffice for the carriage of the victuals to be chosen and provided in his bailiwick, and to cause them to come to Bruggewauter, in order to carry the victuals to Bordeaux.
By K.
May 8.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John son of Martin de Leveryngton, deceased.
May 10.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order not to molest or aggrieve William de Aumarle, knight, by reason of the king's order to take and imprison William de Aumarle, esquire, and others who are charged with adhesion to Edmund, late earl of Kent, and to restore to William, the knight, his lands, goods and chattels taken into the king's hands for this reason, together with the issues thereof, as the king understands that the sheriff has taken William, the knight, and seized his lands, goods, and chattels into the king's hands by colour of the said mandate by reason of the identity of name and surname (cognominis), as the king deems William, the knight, who has appeared before him and his council, wholly innocent of the adhesions and assemblies of the said earl. By K.
The like to the following:
The sheriff of Somerset and Dorset.
The sheriff of Southampton.
May 11.
Woodstock.
To the collectors of the customs in the city of London. Order to pay to Master John de Florencia, king's clerk, or to Bernard de Pouches of Florence, his attorney, (fn. 2) 250 marks from the issues of the customs for the present year, as the king granted to John, for his good service to the king when the latter was in parts beyond sea, 500 marks sterling of yearly rent, to be received until the king should provide him with 500 marks yearly of rent, temporal things, or ecclesiastical benefices, and the king, on 3 October last, granted that John should receive 250 marks from the custom in that city and the other 250 marks from the custom in the port of Southampton, until the king shall cause him to be provided with 500 marks yearly of rent, temporal possessions or ecclesiastical benefices.
The like to the collector of the customs in the port of Southampton.
Memorandum, that the chancellor ordered that the money shall be paid to the said John or to Bernard de Pouches of Florence, his attorney in this behalf.
May 5.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the goods and chattels specified below, and to permit Arnald Garsie de Sancto Johanne to make his profit thereof, as the king—at Arnald's prosecution, suggesting that Edmund, late earl of Kent, had demised to him the manor of Pirivrith, co. Surrey, for a term not yet expired, and that Simon's sub-escheator in that county took into the king's hands Arnald's own goods and chattels in the manor amongst the goods and chattels of the said earl's by virtue of the king's order to take into his hands all the lands, goods and chattels that belonged to the earl in that county by reason of his forfeiture, and Arnald has prayed the king to cause the said goods and chattels to be delivered to him—ordered the escheator to make enquiry concerning the premises, and it is found by the inquisition thus taken that the earl had no other goods or cattle (averia) in the manor on the day of its taking into the king's hands, and that the earl demised the manor to Arnald for a term not yet expired, and that all the goods and cattle found in the manor on the day of the earl's capture were the goods of Arnald, to wit two horses for the cart, price 12s., three plough-horses (affri), price 10s., one plough-beast (jumentum), price 3s., six oxen, price 54s., sixteen cows, price 8 marks, eight bullocks (bovetti) of the age of two years, price 20s., 12 little bullocks (boviculi), price 20s., nine calves, price 12s., a boar, price 2s. 6d., a sow with six little pigs (porcellis), price 4s., eight little pigs, price 8s., seventy-eight sheep of each kind, price 15d. each, two quarters of rye in the barns by estimate, price 8s., and 24 acres of sown rye, price 36s. By K. on the information of the steward.
May 12.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Henry, bishop of Lincoln, to whom the king has granted the custody of the lands that belonged to Bartholomew de Badelesmere, tenant in chief of the late king, which are in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Giles, son and heir of Bartholomew, to have until the heir come of age, the manors of Laghton, Chetham and Bokyngfold, which are of the inheritance aforesaid, and which Queen Isabella, who held them of the king's grant, has now rendered into the king's hands. By K.
May 11.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to deliver Nicholas Dauneye from prison, if he have been arrested by virtue of the king's order to the sheriff to take him and others charged with adhesion to Edmund de Wodestok, late earl of Kent, and to restore to him his lands, goods and chattels, as he has found security before the king and his council to answer to the king at his pleasure concerning the adhesion.
By K. on the information of John Mautravers.
The like to the sheriffs of the following counties:
Somerset. Cornwall.
May 8.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to release John del Ille and Richard de Hulle, who are charged with adhesion to the said earl and are imprisoned for that reason, if Bartholomew de Burghersh mainpern before the sheriff to have them before the king in the octaves of the Holy Trinity next to answer to the king, and to cause their lands, goods and chattels to be restored to them by mainprise. By p.s. [3539.]
Membrane 32.
May 3.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to make summons and proclamations for an eyre to be held at Bedeford on Monday after Midsummer next before Hugh de Courteneye, John de Cantebrigg, Thomas de Louth, Peter de Middelton, John de Radenhale, and Thomas de Radeclyve and others.
By K. & C.
To the sheriff of Derby. Order to make summons and proclamations for an eyre to be held at Derby on Monday after SS. Peter and Paul next before William la Zousch of Haryngworth, William de Herle, Robert de Malberthorp, Robert de Thorp, Robert de Scorburgh, and Nicholas Fastolf and others.
May 7.
Woodstock.
To Richard de Aldeburgh. Order to lay aside all other things, and to intend the execution of those things that pertain to the office of the king's serjeant in the aforesaid eyre in co. Bedford, as the king wills that Richard shall be his serjeant in that eyre. By K. & C.
To William de Denum. Like order concerning the office of king's serjeant in the aforesaid eyre in co. Derby.
May 7.
Woodstock.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause the rolls of the two last eyres in co. Bedford and of the two last rolls in co. Derby to be searched, and to cause the rolls of the former county to be delivered to Hugh de Courteneye, one of the justices in eyre in that county, and the rolls of the other county to be delivered to William la Zousch of Haryngworth, one of the justices in eyre in that county. By K. & C.
May 7.
Woodstock.
To John de Stonore, chief justice of the Bench. Order to cause all pleas touching the men of co. Bedford pending undecided before him to be adjourned before the aforesaid justices in eyre in that county, as has been usual heretofore in the like case, and to cause proclamation to be made in the Bench aforesaid that the men of that county shall prosecute their records of the pleas aforesaid, if they think fit. By K. & C.
To the same. Like order for the adjournment of all pleas touching the men of co. Derby before the aforesaid justices in eyre in that county.
May 7.
Woodstock.
To Peter de Ludyngton, keeper of the king's writs in the common Bench. Order to deliver to Adam de Stayngrave, king's clerk, to whom the king has committed the custody of the rolls and writs in the aforesaid eyre in co. Bedford, by indenture, all writs touching the aforesaid pleas in that county. By K. & C.
To the same. Like order for delivery to William de Scothowe, king's clerk, of writs concerning pleas in co. Derby.
May 13.
Woodstock.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to deliver to John de Hegham, king's clerk, the rolls and writs of the two last eyres of the justices for Forest pleas in co. Southampton, as the king has appointed John Mautravers, Robert de Aspale, William de Ponte Roberti, and Hugh de Hampslape justices in eyre for Forest pleas in that county, and has committed to the aforesaid John de Hegham the custody of the rolls and writs in the eyre. By C.
Mandate in pursuance to John de Hegham. By C.
May 8.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause summonses to be made for an eyre for Forest pleas for that county to be held before the aforesaid justices at Southampton, on Monday after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr next. By C.
May 13.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be delivered to the aforesaid justices all rolls of the arrentations in the forests in co. Southampton by whomsoever made in the times of Edward I. and Edward II., and to receive the rolls from them after the end of the eyre.
May 6.
Woodstock.
To Matthew de Crauthorn, keeper of the king's silver mine in co. Devon. Order to pay to Adam de Withiford, king's clerk, to whom the king granted the office of controller of the said mine during pleasure, 12d. a day for his wages for the time that he has been controller and for the time that Matthew has been keeper, and to pay to him that sum daily for so long as he shall be controller, as the king—at Adam's prosecution, suggesting that the controllers of the mine were wont to receive 12d. a day for their wages, and praying the king to cause such wages to be paid to him— ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to search the rolls of accounts of the keepers of the mine to whom such wages were allowed and other memoranda of the exchequer touching the premises, and to certify the king of what they found, and they have signified that 12d. were allowed to other controllers of the mine aforesaid in times past.
May 3,
Woodstock.
To the bailiffs of Kyngeston-on-Hull. Order not to permit W. archbishop of York to use and enjoy any liberties that may be to the prejudice of the right of the king's crown or of the men of that town, until otherwise ordered, as the king learns by a petition exhibited before him and his council in parliament at Winchester by the bailiffs and other ministers of that town that the archbishop presumes to usurp anew divers liberties in that town upon the right of the king's crown, to the disinheritance of the king and of his crown, and to the prejudice of the men of that town. By p.s. [3513.]
May 4.
Woodstock.
To the keeper of the island of Guernereye, or to him who supplies his place. Although the king, believing that the chapel of St. Mary of the Marshes in that island was void and pertained to his donation, granted it to his clerk John de Etton, and ordered the said keeper to induct the said clerk into corporal possession, nevertheless—as it now appears by the keeper's certificate sent into chancery that Robert de Haddeie, chaplain, was instituted to the chapel aforesaid by the bishop of Coutances, the diocesan of the place, and that he has long possessed and still possesses the chapel, and that he is bound to make personal residence in the chapel and to celebrate divine service there daily for the soul of H. king of England, the king's progenitor, and for the souls of his heirs and successors— the king orders the keeper to permit Robert to hold the chapel without impediment, saving the king's right when he may wish to speak concerning the same.
The like to the keeper of the Island of Auregneie, or to him who supplies his place, for John Caretier, chaplain of the chapel of St. Arcadrus in that island, which was conferred upon John de Rasyn.
May 6.
Woodstock.
To Isabella de Vescy. Order to deliver to David de Strabolgy, earl of Athole, son and heir of David de Strabolgi, late earl of Athole, and of Joan, late his wife, one of the kinswomen and co-heiresses of Aymer de Valencia, late earl of Pembroke, all the lands that were assigned to David and Joan as her purparty of the earl of Pembroke's lands in the late king's chancery, which are in the king's hands and in Isabella's custody by reason of the minority of David the son, and the knights' fees, advowsons, and other appurtenances thereof, as the king has granted to David the son, who is of full age, as the king learns upon trustworthy testimony, the custody of the aforesaid lands, with the knights' fees, advowsons, and other appurtenances, in aid of his maintenance during the king's pleasure, or until the king shall cause his purparty of the said earl of Pembroke's lands to be assigned to him, without rendering anything to the king therefor. By K. & C.
May 1.
Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to make due and speedy execution of the king's writ of judgment to deliver to Edmund son of Isabella de Haggele, the king's yeoman, seisin of four messuages and a carucate of land in Stokerswell and Shenyndon, notwithstanding that they were taken into the king's hands by the forfeiture of John Peeche, as the king is given to understand that Edmund recovered his seisin of the said messuages and land by consideration of the king's court against John Pecche, Nicholas Pecche, and Robert son of Richard Richeman. By p.s. [3500.]
Membrane 31.
May 8.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to supersede until Michaelmas next the demand made upon William son and heir of William Criketote, for his homage for the manors of Yekesworth and Ouseden, and not to intermeddle further with the said manors and the manor of Lovenhey, and to restore the issues thereof to William, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him of the cause for taking into his hands the aforesaid manors, which belonged to Joan, late the wife of William Criketote, and the escheator has returned that Joan held on the day of her death the said manor of Yekesworth in dower of the inheritance of William son and heir of the said William, and that she held the manor of Ouseden in her demesne as of fee of the king in chief, and that the manor of Lovenhey is held of the earl of Oxford, and that the escheator took the manors into the king's hands because he had no knowledge whether or not William son of William had done homage to the king for the manors of Yekesworth and Ouseden, which are thus held of him, and it is now shewn to the king on William's behalf that he did his homage to the king in this behalf, and hereupon he vouched to warranty the rolls of chancery, and the king has given him respite for the homage aforesaid until Michaelmas, if it have not yet been made, because the said rolls are not at present in the king's hands.
May 14.
Woodstock.
To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Whereas it was lately found by certain inquisitions concerning the lands that belonged to John Giffard of Brymesfeld, tenant in chief of the late king, which were taken into his hands by reason of John's death, that John son of Fulk Lestraunge and Eleanor his wife, sister of the said John Giffard, and James son of Nicholas de Audele, the issue of Katherine de Audele, the other sister of John Giffard, were the nearest heirs of John Giffard, and it was also found by other inquisitions taken by the king's order that Roger Bavent, Thomas de Grymested, and Richard Dansy were the heirs of John Giffard by divers other degrees of consanguinity, and the king, by reason of the difficulties and contradictions (varietates) arising in the said matter, sent the aforesaid inquisitions before him, and subsequently, whilst the matter was pending undecided before him, upon its being found by other inquisitions taken at the prosecution of John de Cailwe, asserting that he was the next heir of the said John Giffard, that John de Cailwe is the next heir of John Giffard and is of full age, and upon John de Cailwe beseeching the king to cause the lands to be delivered to him as next heir, the king sent the inquisitions before him sub pede sigilli, ordering the said justices to examine the inquisitions, and to cause to be done for John de Cailwe what should seem fit to them; and the king is now given to understand on behalf of John de Cailwe that although it was found by a jury taken before the justices that John de Cailwe is the next heir of John Giffard, the justices defer proceeding to render judgment in the matter, wherefore he has besought the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the justices, if it be so, to proceed to render judgment in this matter with all speed, and, when judgment have been rendered, to send the record and process of the same with all things touching it, and all the inquisitions aforesaid before the king in chancery, so that he may cause to be done for John de Cailwe in the premises what he shall see fit. By p.s. [3562.]
May 13.
Woodstock.
To Richard de Denton. Order to deliver to John de Quynhowe 1,000 acres of land in Quynhowe, which are in Richard's custody by the king's commission during pleasure, as the king—at John's prosecution by petition before him and his council, suggesting that Simon de Quynhowe, his father, of whom he is the heir, was captured in the late king's war in Scotland, and demised to William le Blount the said land for his ransom for a term of eleven years, and that afterwards the land was taken into the late king's hands with William's lands because William adhered to Andrew de Hertcla, the late king's enemy and traitor, and praying the king to cause justice to be done to him in this behalf—appointed Robert de Barton and John de Skelton to make inquisition in Richard's presence concerning the premises by the oath of men of co. Cumberland, and it is found by the inquisition that Simon was captured in the late king's service in the war of Scotland, and that he demised the aforesaid land to William for eleven years for his ransom, the term beginning at Whitsuntide, in the 11th year of the late king's reign, and that the land was afterwards taken into the late king's hands because William adhered to the said Andrew, and that it is still in the king's hands, and that the term expired at Whitsuntide last, and that William had no other estate in the land, and that neither Simon nor John remitted or quit-claimed the land in the seisin of William at any time, or changed their estate therein in any way, and that the land is not held of the king, and that it is worth yearly in all issues 30s., and it appears by the second part of the indenture beween Simon and William under William's seal exhibited in chancery that the demise was made in form aforesaid.
May 18.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Bartholomew Aubray and to Constance his wife, late the wife of Thomas de Jardyns of Exnyng (Dexnyng'), tenant in chief, the lands that they hold as her dower, which were taken into the king's hands because she married Bartholomew without the king's licence, and to restore to them the issues thereof, as the king granted to Thomas Priour, his yeoman, the forfeiture pertaining to him for the said marriage, and Thomas has acknowledged in chancery that Bartholomew and Constance have satisfied him for the marriage aforesaid.
May 18.
Woodstock.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Roches, keepers of the islands of Gernereye, Jereseye, Serk, and Aurneye, to have allowance in his account for the costs and expenses incurred by him by the king's order about the repair of the king's castles, houses, and mills in the said islands, and the carriage of victuals sent to the islands for the munition of the castles, and for the passages of John and his envoys to England and the islands upon the king's affairs, and for the wages paid by him to men-at-arms and footmen that he retained by the king's order in the said castles for the safe custody thereof.
May 18.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with 18 acres of land and 5 acres of wood in the manor of Wassingle, co. Huntingdon, by reason of the forfeiture of Edmund, late earl of Kent, as the king—at the prosecution of Simon de Drayton, suggesting that he held the manor for life by demise from the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and that the earl, asserting that the said 18 acres of land and 5 acres of wood ought to pertain to him by reason of the manor of Caldecote, in the same county, which (quos) the earl lately had of the king's grant, had unjustly disseised Simon from the said land, and detained it from Simon until his forfeiture, and that the land and wood have come to the king by the earl's forfeiture, and praying the king to cause justice to be done to him—appointed William le Moigne and John Waldeshef to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by their inquisition that the land and wood are of the appurtenances of the manor of Wassingle, which Simon thus holds of the prior's demise, and not of the appurtenances of the manor of Caldecote, and that the earl disseised and amoved Simon thence, and that the land and wood are worth yearly 8s. 6d.
May 16.
Woodstock.
To the justices in eyre in co. Nottingham. Order not to aggrieve the men of the township of Tireswelle in the eyre by reason of the goods and chattels of Hubert de Tireswell, which were in their custody as forfeited to the late king by reason of Hubert's flight for the death of Stephen Maulovel of Rampton and William his brother, wherewith Hubert was charged, as the late king pardoned Hubert the suit of his peace for the said deaths, and afterwards granted to him his goods and chattels, which he ordered the township to deliver to him.
May 20.
Woodstock.
To John Darcy, lord of Werk in Tyndale, or to him who supplies his place there. Whereas the king committed to Richard Talebot the custody of the lands that belonged to John Comyn of Badenagh, tenant in chief of the late king, and afterwards ordered the said keeper to cause dower to be assigned to Edmund, late earl of Kent, and to Margaret his wife, late the wife of the said John Comyn, of the lands whereof the latter was seised in his demesne as of fee in the liberty of Tyndale on the day of his death, according to the extents thereof taken by the late king's order by Simon de Grymesby, the late king's escheator beyond Trent, the tenors whereof the king sent to him sub pede sigilli; and the king, upon learning from Richard that the keeper's bailiff of the liberty aforesaid had proceeded to make the assignment without warning Richard, and had assigned and caused to be delivered to the earl and Margaret in his absence divers lands beyond what was due to them of the said lands, ordered the keeper to resume into the king's hands all the lands thus assigned to the earl and Margaret, if he ascertained that the assignment had been made in Richard's absence, and to cause them to be delivered to Richard; and the king is now given to understand on Richard's behalf that although he entered the lands thus assigned in dower, and held them for some time according to the king's commission, nevertheless the keeper, pretending that the lands thus assigned ought to pertain to him as forfeited by reason of the earl's forfeiture, has seised them into his hands, and has received the fealties of the tenants there, not permitting Richard to intermeddle therewith in any way: the king orders the keeper not to intermeddle in any wise with the lands in question, and to permit Richard to hold them according to the king's commission, so that he may answer to the king for the issues thereof, delivering to Richard any issues received therefrom.
May 22.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the tenements specified below, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of John le Rous, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John le Rous and Ela his wife held jointly on the day of John's death a messuage, a carucate of land, 2 acres of meadow, and 10 acres of wood in Lye near Westbury, of the gift of John de Lavynton, to them and to the heirs of John le Rous, and a messuage, 60 acres of land, and 3 acres of meadow in Benton of the gift of Andrew de Guystede, to them and to the heirs of John le Rous, and that the tenements in Lye are held of Robert de Maners by the service of 1d. yearly for all service, aud that the tenements in Benton are held of the abbey of Romesy by the service of 4¾d. yearly.
May 22.
Woodstock.
To Anthony de Lucy. Whereas—upon its being found by an inquisition taken by John de Crombewell, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, that the prior of St. Mary's, Carlisle, and his predecessors were seised of the tenth penny arising from all extra-parochial agistments within the forest of Ingelwode in the times of all keepers of that forest, by the hands of the receivers of the issues of that forest, from the time of the foundation of the priory of the grant of Henry son of the empress (imperatoris), sometime king of England, until Henry le Scrop, late keeper of the forest aforesaid, hindered them and detained the said tenth penny from them, and upon its being also found by Henry's certificate sent into chancery that he detained the tenth penny from the prior because neither he nor any one in his name brought to Henry any warrant to receive it—the king ordered Anthony to pay to the prior the tenth penny of such agistments in the wood of Allerdale, which Anthony holds of the king's commission, if it be within the forest aforesaid and extra-parochial, for the time that he has had the custody, as was usual before the detention aforesaid, and Anthony has signified to the king that the said wood is placed without the forest by the perambulation lately made in the forest; and the prior has given the king to understand that the wood at the time of the grant was within the forest and without the limits of any parish at the time of the grant aforesaid, and is still without any parish, and that the prior and his predecessors were seised of the tenth penny from all agistments in that wood by virtue of the grant from the time of the grant, as well when the wood was placed outside the forest by the perambulation aforesaid as before the perambulation, until the time when Anthony received the custody: the king therefore orders Anthony, if it be so, to pay to the prior the tenth penny from such agistments in the wood aforesaid for the time during which he has had the custody, and for so long as he shall have the custody.
Membrane 30.
May 26.
Woodstock.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Ela, late the wife of John le Rous, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
May 20.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to deliver William Brodhevede, imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for the death of Thomas Cutbiche of Hoghton, in bail to twelve mainpernors, who shall undertake to have him before the king's justices at the first assize in that county, as the king learns by the record of William de Denum and his fellows, justices to deliver Lancaster gaol, that William slew the said Thomas in self-defence, so that he could not otherwise escape death, and not by felony or malice aforethought.
May 18.
Woodstock.
To Robert de Hornclif, constable of Baumburgh castle. Order to pay to Roger de Horsele 20 marks for Easter term last out of the issues of that castle, in accordance with the late king's grant of 20 November, in the 12th year of his reign, to Roger of 40 marks yearly from the issues of that castle, until he should provide Roger with 40 marks of land yearly for life.
May 27.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to pay to the mariners whom John le Smale, king's clerk—appointed by the king to provide and choose a certain number of ships for the passage of certain of the king's subjects to the duchy [of Aquitaine], and to choose mariners of the best and strongest that he can find for the rule and munition of the said ships, to wit for a double shipment, and to cause the ships to be taken to Portesmuth before 13 June next—shall choose their wages, or at least a part of the same, before they leave their ports, out of the issues of the sheriff's bailiwick, as the said clerk shall direct on the king's behalf, making with the clerk an indenture of the sums of money thus paid. By K. & C.
The like to the sheriffs of the following counties:
Sussex. Somerset and Dorset.
Southampton. Devon.
May 24.
Woodstock.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to view the king's letters patent under his seal called 'coket' in the possession of William, brother of Richard de la Pole, whereby the king is bound to William, and to certain other merchants whom he has satisfied for the king in 535 marks 6s. 8d. lent by them to the king, to wit 13s. 4d. beyond the usual custom upon each sack of wool taken by them out of the realm, and to cause an assignment therefore to be made to Richard and William upon the issues of the customs in the port of Kyngeston-on-Hull, and, after the assignment have been made, to cause a tally thereof to be levied at the king's receipt, and to cause it to be delivered to the collectors of the customs aforesaid, receiving from William the said letters patent, as Richard and William have prayed the king to cause assignment to be made to them upon the said customs, in accordance with the king's grant that they should have all issues of the old and new customs in the said port until they should be satisfied for all debts due to them, both for the provisions made by Richard for the office of butler, and for the money lent by them to the king of the imprest of one mark upon each sack of wool taken out of the realm, and for the money paid by them to divers merchants of the realm in the king's name from such imprest made to the king by the said merchants whereof Richard and William have letters under the seal called 'coket.'
June 1.
Woodstock.
To the bailiffs of Basyngstok. Order to pay to Thomas de Bynedon, burgess of Southampton, 40l. from their ferm for Easter term last, as Thomas has shewn the king that he paid to Edmund, late earl of Kent, then lord of Basyngstok, before his forfeiture, 40l. by way of loan, and the earl made an assignment therefor upon the ferm of that town, and ordered the bailiffs to pay to Thomas that sum at Easter term last, and made to them his letters patent of acquittance, which remain in Thomas's possession, and Thomas has not yet secured payment of the said sum or of any part thereof, as he alleges, and the king learns from the testimony of Oliver de Ingham that Thomas lent this sum to the earl in form aforesaid, and that he has not yet had satisfaction therefor. By K.
May 20.
Woodstock.
To the constable of Neth castle. Order to deliver to Queen Philippa the said castle and the issues thereof from 12 February last, as the king on that day assigned to her in dower, amongst other castles, manors, and lands, the land of Glaumorgan and Morgannou in Wales and the marches of Wales, with castles, towns, manors, and other appurtenances, and the said castle is in that land. Et erat patens.

Footnotes

  • 1. See this Calendar, 2 Edward III. page 322.
  • 2. The attorney's name has been added on an erasure with the same ink as the 'memorandum' below.