Close Rolls, Edward III: October 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: October 1330', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 62-69. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/pp62-69 [accessed 16 April 2024]

October 1330



Oct. 1. Pontefract.	To the bailiffs of the city of Lincoln. Order to pay to William de Ros of Hamelak 75 marks from the ferm of that city for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the late king's grant of 22 August, in the 16th year of his reign, of 150 marks yearly from the ferm of that city, and of the like sum from the ferm of the city of York, until he should provide him with 300 marks of land yearly between the Thames and the Tees.
	The like to the bailiffs of York.
Oct. 3. Cowick.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to the bailiffs of Lincoln for 75 marks, paid by them in execution of preceding order.
	The like in favour of the bailiffs of York.
Oct. 1. Pontefract.	To the sheriff of Bedford. Whereas the king, because the prior of Dunstaple, who was indicted for divers felonies, trespasses and conspiracies before the justices in eyre in that county, and was therefore imprisoned, found mainpernors before the king in chancery who undertook to have him before the justices in the quinzaine of Michaelmas next following, ordered the sheriff to cause the prior to be released from prison by the mainprise aforesaid, and he now understands that the prior is so ill that his life is despaired of, and that he cannot come before the justices at the said day without great peril of his body, and he has found mainpernors before the king in chancery to have him before the justices on the morrow of All Souls next to stand to right concerning the premises: the king orders the sheriff to supersede meanwhile the taking of the body of the prior, and to permit him to have peace therein by the mainprise aforesaid. By K.
	To the justices in eyre in co. Bedford. Order not to molest the aforesaid prior in the meantime by reason of the premises. By K.
	Mainpernors of the said prior:
	William Trussel, knight, of co. Northampton.
	John Merlyn of co. Bedford.
	Odo de Stok of co. Buckingham.
	Roger de Sancto Albano of co. Hertford.
	To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Margery, late the wife of Duncan de Frendragh, 24 marks 6s. 8d. for Michaelmas term out of the issues of his bailiwick, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 49 marks yearly from the issues of the sheriff's bailiwick from 16 August, in the first year of the king's reign, in recompence for the manor of Briggestok, co. Northampton, which she held during the king's pleasure in aid of her maintenance and which the king assigned on the aforesaid day to Queen Isabella for life.
Sept. 28. Pontefract.	Nicholas de Herthull, imprisoned at Notingham for trespass of venison in Shirwode forest, has letters to bail him until the first assize.
Oct. 8. Doncaster.	To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to deliver to Fulk son of Fulk le fitz Waryn (fn. 1) (que fuerunt Fulconis le fitz Waryn filii) and to Ivo his brother all the issues coming from a messuage and a carucate of land in Benetam, which belonged to Fulk and which were lately taken into the king's hands for certain causes, for their maintenance for so long as they shall remain in prison at Shrewsbury. By K.
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Sept. 23. Worksop.	To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger Peyvre, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
Sept. 23. Clipstone.	Hugh de Hampton, the younger, imprisoned at Carnarvan for trespass of venison in the forest of Snawedon, has letters to the justice of Wales, or to him who supplies his place in North Wales, to bail him until the first assize.
	The like in favour of Blethyn Thloit ap Eynon.
Sept. 22. Worksop.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a yearly rent of 10l. in the manor of Kelby, specified below, and to restore any issues thereof to John Toly of Wymundham, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas Wake of Lidel on 1 May, in the first year of the king's reign, granted to the said John for life 10l. of yearly rent from certain tenants in the said Thomas's manor of Kelby, to wit from John le Chapeleyn 5s. 5d., from Richard le Bercher 3s., from Thomas le Keu 3s., from Thomas Wilcok 3s., from Robert Alibon 4s., from Idonia Reynvill 8s. 6d., from John Oubyn 44s., from Hugh le Mazon 5s. 5d., from Thomas Bot 5s., from William Randolf 12s. 6d., from William Boxom 8s. 10d., from Reginald Bot 6s. 2d., from Matilda, late the wife of Ralph le Provost, 9s. 10d., from John Bot 6s. 9d., from Henry le Wilde 11s. 6d., from Adam fitz Bate 7s. 4d., from Geoffrey Boxom 11s. 10d., from Ranulph Bate 9s. 8d., from John son of Robert Boxom 8s. 7d., from John Boxom 17s. 10d., and from John Hamound 8s. 5d., and that the said John Toly was peacefully seised of the said rents by the hands of the tenants aforesaid from the said 1 May until the said escheator took the rent into the king's hands amongst the Thomas's lands, and that the manor is held of the bishop of Durham, and is worth yearly with the aforesaid rent 20l. in all issues.
Oct. 5. Pontefract.	To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to pay to Robert de Fienles 55 marks for Michaelmas term last out of the issues of his bailiwick, in accordance with the king's grant that Robert shall receive 110 marks yearly from the sheriff for life or until the king provide him with 110 marks of land yearly, which grant was made in consideration of the late king's grant, of 4 February, in the 6th year of his reign, of the like sum from the sheriff of that county, which grant was revoked by the ordinances made in the late king's time, and in consideration of Robert's good service to Queen Isabella and the king when they were in France and of the good place that he held with the king in coming to him from parts beyond sea to pursue Hugh le Despenser and others.
Oct. 8. Doncaster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the aforesaid sheriff 55 marks, paid by him in execution of the preceding order.
Oct. 15. Nottingham.	John Cobbe, imprisoned in York gaol for the death of Roger de Coton, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him until the first assize.
Oct. 14. Nottingham.	To John de Crumbewell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to permit Robert de Notingham and Henry de Edenestowe, prebendaries of Oxton and Crophill, in St. Mary's Southwell (Suwell'), and their men and tenants of the town of Oxton, to have common of pasture in Shirewode forest at all times of the year for all their beasts and cattle by stray (estray), according to the assize of the Forest, in the same manner as men of the forest have, releasing any distress that may have been levied upon them or their men or tenants by reason of the premises, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the keeper that the prebendaries of the said prebends and their men and tenants of Oxton have hitherto had such common of pasture from time out of mind.
	John de Colwyk, imprisoned at Notingham for trespass of venison in in Shirewode forest, has letters to John de Crumbewell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, to bail him until the first assize.
Oct. 16. Nottingham.	William, master of the hospital of St. Mary Magdalene, Bradebusk, imprisoned at Notingham for trespass of vert in Shirewod forest, has letters to John de Crumwell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, to bail him until the first assize.
Oct. 22. Leicester.	To Richard de Ayremynn, keeper of the house of the Conversi, London. Claricia la Converse, daughter of one Jacob Copyn, has shewn the king that whereas she was admitted into the said house to have her maintenance in the time of Edward I. and received the usual wages as a convert of that house for a long time, the aforesaid keeper has refused to admit her into the house or to pay her such wages because she dwelt for a long time in distant parts and was unknown to him, and she has prayed the king to order her to be admitted into the house and to be paid her wages: the king therefore orders Richard, if he ascertain that she was a convert and was admitted into the house and received her wages as a convert, to admit her into the house and to pay to her her wages as one of the converts hereafter.
	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Whereas, on 6 February, in the second year of the reign, the king granted to Henry, bishop of Lincoln, Lincoln, the custody of the lands that belonged to Bartholomew de Badelesmere, tenant in chief of the late king, and which were in his hands by reason of the minority of Giles, son and heir of Bartholomew—[Incomplete.]
Oct. 26. Leicester.	To John de Kyngeston, John de Camera, and John de Watenhull. Order not to intermeddle in any way with the wardrobe or jewels or other things of Joan, wife of Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, or of the other ladies and children staying in her company at Lodelowe, by virtue of their appointment by the king to survey and cause to be taken into his hands the treasure and jewels that Roger, whom the king has arrested for certain causes, had at the time of his arrest in Wales, the marches of Wales, or elsewhere. By K.
	To the sheriff of Hereford. Like order, 'mutatis mutandis.' By K.
Oct. 22. Leicester.	To the sheriff of Kent. Order to deliver to Roger de Rayham his lands, goods and chattels, and the issues thereof from the time when they were taken into the king's hands, as he has found mainpernors in chancery to have him before the king in the quinzaine of St. Hilary next to answer to the king for his adhesion to Edmund, late earl of Kent, to wit John de Litlynton of co. Worcester, William de Swanton, Stephen de Tenterden, and William Colkyn of that county. By K.
Oct. 25. Leicester.	To Robert Selyman, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Matilda, late the wife of Thomas Lovel, tenant in chief, according to the extent of her husband's lands made by Simon de Bereford, late escheator this side Trent, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Oct. 25. Leicester.	To Master Itherius de Concoreto, envoy of the pope and collector or receiver of the tenth for four years imposed by the pope upon the clergy of England, Ireland, and Wales, a moiety whereof was granted to the king. The clergy of the diocese of Durham of co. Northumberland, and of the bishoprics of Durham and Carlisle of cos. Cumberland and Westmoreland, and of the archdeaconries of Richmond and Clyveland have shewn the king, by their petition before him and his council, that whereas their ecclesiastical benefices and the temporalities annexed to the same, whereof the tenth was wont to be given, are so destroyed and wasted by the Scotch war that they are insufficient to pay the said tenth according to the old taxation, saving the maintenance of the servitors and ministers of the benefices aforesaid, and that certain benefices and temporalities of those parts were taxed anew for this reason in the late king's time, and that certain others were not taxed, and they have prayed the king to cause the latter to be taxed anew according to their true value, and to cause the tenth to be levied from the same clergy according to the taxation made at another time and according to the taxation thus to be made anew: the king, having consideration to the damages that the people of those parts sustained for a great time by reason of the war, orders Master Itherius not to exact anything from the benefices and temporalities in those parts that were newly taxed beyond such new taxation until the next parliament summoned at at Westminster, on Monday after St. Katherine, and to supersede until the said parliament the exaction of the tenth from the benefices aforesaid that have not yet been taxed anew, so that the king may then cause to be done by his council and by the envoy's counsel what shall be just and reasonable. By K. & C.
Oct. 23. Leicester.	To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Thomas de Gayregrave, king's clerk, whom the king is sending to that county to survey the goods and chattels of Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, Geoffrey de Mortuo Mari, Oliver de Ingham, and Simon de Bereford, 2s. a day for his wages for so long as it shall be necessary for him to stay in the sheriff's bailiwick in this behalf. By K.
	The like to the following sheriffs for the clerks named below:
	The sheriffs of Northumberland, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Warwick, and Northampton, for the aforesaid Thomas. By K.
	The sheriffs of Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, and Stafford, for John de Percebrigg. By K.
	The sheriffs of Lincoln, Rutland, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge and Huntingdon, Bedford and Buckingham, for Ralph de Wolyngham. By K.
	The sheriffs of London, Middlesex, Essex, Hertford, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, for James de Kyngeston. By K.
	The sheriffs of Oxford, Berks, Wilts, Southampton, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, for John de Stanford. By K.
Oct. 28. Daventry.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to William de Brom and Thomas Ace, whom the king has appointed to seise into his hands all the castles, manors, lands, goods and chattels of Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, in their accounts of the issues of the premises, 3s. 4d. a day each for their wages whilst employed about this matter. By K.
Oct. 23. Leicester.	To William de Herle and his fellows, justices in eyre in co. Derby. Order to cause a moiety of the deodands in the eyre to be levied and paid to the abbot and convent of Newminster (de Novo Monasterio), in co. Northumberland, as the king has granted to them a moiety of the said deodands of his alms in recompence for their damages and losses in the past by reason of the Scotch war. It is provided that a moiety of the deodands shall remain to the Conversi of London, to whom the king has granted the same of his alms. By p.s.
	To the sheriff of Derby. Order to cause a moiety of the deodands in the aforesaid eyre to be levied and paid to the said abbot and convent.
	By the same writ.
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Oct. 14. Nottingham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to pay to Henry de Percy 40 marks yearly for so long as he shall have the custody of the castle and town of Scardeburgh, as the late king, on 25 December, in the 15th year of his reign, committed the custody thereof to Henry during pleasure, and the king, because it appeared to him by the rolls of chancery that others who had that custody previously were wont to receive 40 marks yearly, frequently ordered the treasurer and barons to cause Henry to have allowance for the aforesaid sum for the time during which he had the custody, and they returned to the king that allowance was not made to Henry because it is not found that any who have had the said custody had allowance for 40 marks yearly, except that Giles de Bello Campo received 40 marks for himself and six men-at-arms for the garrison and keeping of the castle for the time that he had the custody thereof. By K.
Oct. 12. Nottingham.	To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to justice Richard de Paxton, William Brasyere, Thomas Ruddok, and John Stobard, of the abbot of St. Alban's exempt jurisdiction, by their bodies until they have satisfied the church for their contempt and wrong, as Richard, abbot of St. Albans, has signified to the king by his letters patent that the said men are excommunicated for contumacy by the abbot's authority as ordinary, and that they will not be justiced by ecclesiastical censure. By K.
Oct. 18. Nottingham.	To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator this side Trent. Whereas King John granted by his charter, which Henry III. confirmed, to God and St. Leonard and the infirm of Cesterfield 6l. to be received yearly at Cestrefeld from the the ferm of that manor by the hands of the fermor, in frankalmoin, in exchange for the toll that he had given to them in the market and fair of Cesterfeld when he was earl of Mortain, as is contained in the said charter, which the king has inspected, and the master of the hospital has given the king to understand that although he and his predecessors and the infirm of the hospital were seised of the said 6l. yearly from the time of the gift by the hands of the bailiffs of the manor, both when the manor was in the hands of the king's progenitors and in the hands of others, until the time when the manor was taken into the king's hands by reason of the rebellion of Thomas Wake, late lord of that manor, nevertheless the rent has been detained from him since the manor was thus taken into the king's hands, and he has prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore orders the escheator, if it be as stated, to pay to the master what is in arrears of the aforesaid rent from the time when the manor was taken into the king's hands, and to pay to him the said rent for as long as it shall remain in the king's hands and in John's custody.
Oct. 24. Leicester.	To John de Insula, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to cause the king's chaplains celebrating divine service in the king's chapel of the castle to have bread, wine, oil and other such small necessaries for divine service from Michaelmas last until Michaelmas next.
Oct. 22. Leicester.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Bourne, sheriff of Kent, to have allowance for the costs and expenses that they shall ascertain that he has expended in repairing the houses and walls of Canterbury castle, in his custody.
Oct. 23. Leicester.	To the same. Order to allow to Richard de Bury, late keeper of the king's wardrobe, in his account all sums of money, gold and silver vessels, jewels, and other things whatsoever that they shall ascertain by his oath or by the testimony of the controller of the king's househeld that Richard delivered to Queen Isabella, Queen Philippa, and to the earl of March and to others by the king's order to him by word of mouth, as Richard has besought the king to provide for his indemnity in this behalf, since he has no warrant in his possession for the delivery of such goods. By K.
Oct. 25. Leicester.	To Robert Selyman, escheator this side Trent. Order to amove the king's hand from the manors and lands of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, if they have been taken into the king's hands solely by reason of the death of brother Thomas Larcher, late prior of the Hospital, and to restore anything that may have been received thence for the king's use as it is shewn to the king on behalf of the prior of the Hospital that the subescheators of Simon de Bereford, late escheator this side Trent, in divers counties have taken into the king's hands the manors and lands of the Hospital, which were conferred upon it by the liberality of the king's progenitors and of other faithful men in frankalmoin for the defence of the catholic faith against the Saracens, by reason of the death of the said prior, although the possessions of the Hospital were not wont to be seised into the king's hands in times past by reason of the change of the prior of the Hospital, his death or cession, wherefore the king has been requested to provide a remedy.
Oct. 12. Nottingham.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of William Musard, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death held no lands in chief of the king by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Oct. 24. Leicester.	To Robert Selyman, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Simon le Chaumberlayn, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Simon de Bereford, late escheator this side Trent, that Simon at his death held no lands in chief of the king by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to him.
Oct. 23. Leicester.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Geoffrey de Edenham, king's clerk, has shewn the king that divers sums of money are due to him for his robes for the time when he was admitted to the robes of the late king, as appears by the account of Roger de Waltham, late keeper of the said king's wardrobe, which account is in the exchequer, and Geoffrey is indebted to the king in 22l. 6s. 3¾d. for the arrears of his account of the time when he was keeper of the late king's manor of Faxflet, and he has besought the king to cause the sums thus due to him for his robes to be allowed to him in the said arrears: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to see the said Roger's account, and to cause allowance to be made to Geoffrey in the arrears for what they shall ascertain to be in arrear to him. By C.
	To John Mautravers, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause to be paid to Giles de Bello Campo, keeper of the king's park of Claryndon, the arrears of 10l. yearly for his wages from the time of the king's late order to John to cause coppice wood (coupicia) to be made in the park and forest of Claryndon, and to cause some of the king's subjects to be assigned to sell underwood therein, and to pay the said 10l. to Giles, and to pay to Giles 10l. yearly henceforth out of the money from the said coppicewood, as the king learns that the keeper defers paying Giles although he has caused such coppice-wood to be made.
Oct. 23. Leicester.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 22 February, in the first year of his reign, took the homage of Richard de Saunford, brother and heir of Thomas de Saunford, for all the lands that the said Thomas at his death held in chief of the king, and ordered Thomas de Harpeden, late escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham, to cause Richard to have seisin of his brother's lands upon his finding security for payment of his relief, and the king now learns from the complaint of Laurence de Pagham, who holds certain lands in Dreyton that belonged to the said Richard, that the treasurer and barons exact from him relief for one knight's fee by reason of the said lands, although the lands in Dreyton are held of the king by the service of an eighth of a knight's fee only, and not by a greater service, because by error it is inserted in a memorandum in the rolls of the estreats of the chancery of the aforesaid year that Richard held the lands in Dreyton by the service of one knight's fee, wherefore Laurence has besought the king to provide a remedy: the king, as it is found by the inquisition taken after Thomas's death concerning his lands that the lands in Dreyton are held by the service of an eighth of a knight's fee for all service, orders the treasurer and barons to take security from Laurence for the relief for an eighth of a knight's fee, and to supersede entirely the demand made upon him for the remainder of the fee, and to cause the memorandum aforesaid to be corrected according to the inquisition.
Oct. 27. Daventry.	To Robert Selyman, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to William Baud and Joan his wife, late the wife of Walter de Pateshull, certain tenements in Tolleshunte Chevaler, which are held of the heir of Robert fitz Wauter, a minor in the king's wardship, and not to intermeddle further with the lands specified below that are held of other lords, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Simon de Bereford, late escheator this side Trent, that the said Walter and Joan held jointly on the day of Walter's death certain tenements called 'Baretteslond' in Tolleshunte Chevaler, and the manor of Berwoldon and Salcote Verly, and certain lands in Wygebergh, Tollesbiry, and Leyre Marny of the gift and feoffment of Thomas de Pateshull by fine levied in the late king's court, and that the tenements in Tolleshunte Chevaler are held of the heir of Robert fitz Wauter, a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of one knight's fee, and the said manors and lands are held of divers other lords by various services, and the king has taken William Baud's fealty for the lands that are thus held of the heir aforesaid.
Oct. 28. Daventry.	To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manors and moiety specified below, and to restore the issues received thence since the death of Walter de Pateshull, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Simon de Bereford, late escheator this side Trent, that Walter at his death held, as of the right and inheritance of Joan his wife, whom William Baud has now married, the manors of Horsmendenne, Totyntone, Ecles, and Rokesle, and a moiety of the manor of Terlyngham in Folkstan, and that the moiety aforesaid is held of the king in chief as of the barony of Averenges by the service of a twenty-fourth part of a knight's fee, and that the said manors are held of divers other lords by various services, and that Walter at his death was seised in his demesne as of fee in the escheator's bailiwick of the manor of Tolleshunte Tregoz, and that it is held of John de Lancastria by knight service.
	To the same. Order to deliver to Laura, late the wife of John de Stotevill, tenant in chief, a third of the manor of Dedham, which Hervey de Staunton held for his life by John's demise, which third the king has assigned to her as her dower of the manor, as she prayed the king to assign to her dower of the manor, which is of John's inheritance and which was taken into the king's hands by reason of Henry's (sic) death, and the king therefore ordered the sheriff of Essex to summon Alexander de Walsam, John de Elmham, John de Illegh, and John Waryn, executors of Hervey's will, who hold the manor of the king's commission, to be in chancery in three weeks from Michaelmas last, which day the king had given to Laura to receive her dower, to shew cause why assignment of dower ought not to be made to Laura, and the sheriff returned that he had warned the executors to be in chancery at the day, at which day they did not appear or send any one in their place.