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April 6.
Huntingdon. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver certain
lands in Aston, co. Hereford, to Thomas son of Thomas de Aston, which
lands were taken into the king's hands on the death of Simon de Aston, as
it is found by inquisition taken by Robert Selyman, late escheator this side
Trent, that the said Simon held the lands at his death by a fine levied
in the late king's court, to him and the heirs of his body, with remainder to
Thomas de Aston, deceased, and the heirs of his body, and that by virtue
of the said fine the lands ought to remain to Thomas de Aston, son and
heir of the said Thomas, because Simon died without an heir of his body,
and that the lands are held of the heir of John Giffard of Weston, a minor
in the king's wardship, by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, and
Thomas has proved his age before the escheator, and the king has taken his
fealty for the said lands. |
April 4.
Hertford. |
To the bailiffs of Sandwich and the keepers of the scrutiny of money
in the port there. Order not to intermeddle further with the sterlings
that alien merchants shall receive for the sale of their goods, until
further orders, and to restore any such sterlings that they may have
arrested from the merchants in that way, as it was lately ordained by the
prelates, earls and barons of the realm that no one should take out of the
realm the king's good money, to wit sterling, under pain of forfeiture of
life and goods, and that in every port of the kingdom where ships arrive two
trustworthy men of the port should be chosen who, with the bailiffs of the
port, should cause to be arrested the sterlings that they should find were
about to be carried out of the realm, and also money counterfeit to the
king's, and should keep the same for the king's use, and the king now learns
from the information of many that the bailiffs and keepers of Sandwich, have
arrested by pretext of the ordinance, the sterlings received by alien merchants
and others by the sale of their goods in that port, by reason whereof the
said merchants and others withdraw themselves with their goods and merchandise from the town. It is provided that scrutiny of other money
brought to the port from foreign parts, or to be taken out of it, shall be
made according to the form of the said ordinance. By K. & C. |
April 1.
Waltham. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains of Dublin. Order to account with
Alexander de Fetherstanhalgh and Herbert de Gresseby for the time that
they have been in the king's service for going to, and returning from, and
staying in England, and to pay them their reasonable wages, as they have
shewn the king that they were sent by Anthony de Lucy, justiciary of
Ireland, Adam de Lymbergh, chancellor, and Thomas de Burgh, treasurer
there, to the king in England for certain affairs concerning the king and the
state of Ireland and the reformation of his peace there, and they have
besought the king to order their wages to be paid. By C. |
April 2.
Hertford. |
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to restore to Adam Maycok, clerk, his
lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his
being indicted before William Trussel and his fellows, justices of oyer and
terminer in that county, for stealing three heifers of Ralph Bassett at
Middelton, six oxen of Thomas le Denessone at Austeleye, and two oxen
and four cows of William Fremon at Coleshull, as he has purged his innocence before Adam, bishop of Worcester, the diocesan, to whom he was
delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
April 9.
Barnwell. |
To Robert de Ufford, chief justice for pleas of the Forest in co. Southampton. Order to cause the estreats of the rolls for the said eyre and
the eyres of the justices for the pleas of the Forest in cos. Berks and
Wilts, which rolls are in his custody, to be made without delay, if they are
not already done, and to cause them to be sent to the exchequer. |
April 8.
Huntingdon. |
To the receiver of the issues of the county of Ponthieu, for the present or
future. Order to pay 58l. sterling from the issues of that county to
Anthony Pessaigne, who was lately sent in the king's service and by his
order as envoy to the king of France, as the king owes him this sum
for his expenses on the said journey, as appears by a bill sealed by Robert
de Tauton, keeper of the wardrobe, in Anthony's possession. |
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By p.s. [5376.] |
April 13.
Northampton. |
To Henry Sturmy, keeper of the forest of Savernak. Whereas on
26 January, in the 4th year of the king's reign, the king received the fealty
of Robert de Bikkemore, who married Anastasia, daughter and heiress of
William de Harden, for all the lands that William at his death held in chief
of the king, and the king ordered Simon de Bereford, then escheator this
side Trent, to cause Robert and Anastasia to have seisin of all the lands
whereof William was so seised, after taking security from them for paying
their reasonable relief to the exchequer; and the king now learns from
Robert and Anastasia that although the said escheator delivered to them a
messuage and a virgate of land in Estwyk, which William held in his
demesne as of fee of Queen Isabella, by the service of keeping a moiety of
a certain part of the forest of Savernak, which is called 'la Westbaillie,'
and a messuage and a virgate of land in Estwyk, which William held in
like manner, by the service of keeping the other moiety of the said part of
the forest, the custodies aforesaid are still detained in the king's hands:
the king therefore orders the escheator to deliver the said custodies to
Robert and Anastasia. |
April 12.
Northampton. |
To John de Louthre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Roger
Mauduyt and Eleanor his wife, late the wife of Robert de Umframvyll, late
earl of Anegos, tenant in chief of the late king, the following lands assigned
to them by the king, with the assent of Gilbert de Umframville, son of the
said Robert: certain lands in Ovyngeham except the fishery and the mill
there, and the wood of Horseley, co. Northumberland, extended at 108l. 2d.;
certain lands in Shirmundesden, in the same county, extended at 6l.; certain
lands in Spithop, in the same county, extended at 10l.; certain lands in
Wodebourn, in the same county, extended at 20s.; certain lands in Wolrigg,
in the same county, extended at 20s.; certain lands in Ellesden, with 1 lb.
of pepper, in the same county, extended at 19s. 2d.; certain lands in
Greneshousfeld, in the same county, extended at 34s.; certain lands in
Smalbourn, in the same county, extended at 18s.; the town of Alwenton,
in the same county, extended at 28s.; a third of the park of Le Helme,
in the same county, which is not extended; a certain place and certain
plots of lands and waste in Erleside with Akenside and with the mill of
Coteneshope, in the same county, extended at 106s. 8d.; divers plots of
moor and waste in Foulhope, in the same county, extended at 66s. 8d.;
certain lands in Little Kairwyk, in the same county, extended at 4s.; certain
lands in Kyngehope, in the same county, extended at 10l. 13s. 0d.; and
certain lands in Hatherwyk, in the same county, extended at 11s. yearly:
to be held as the dower of the said Eleanor from the lands lately belonging
to the said earl, delivering to Gilbert the lands formerly assigned in dower
to Eleanor, as the king—at the prosecution of Gilbert, son and heir of
Robert de Umframyvyll, whose homage the king has taken for the lands
that his father held in chief, shewing that divers errors were made in the
assignment of dower to Eleanor and in the extent of the lands made after
the earl's death at her suit, to wit that the lands so assigned were not extended at their right value, and that the other lands retained in the hands of
the late king for the said heir were extended beyond their true value, and
that they were much wasted and destroyed—ordered John de Houton, then
escheator beyond Trent, to cause fresh extents to be made in the presence
of Roger and Eleanor, and as it appeared thereby that more lands and rents
were assigned to Eleanor from the said inheritance as dower than fell to her
of right, the king ordered the sheriff of Northumberland to warn the said
Roger and Eleanor to appear in chancery on the morrow of Martinmas last
to shew cause why the lands that they thus hold as Eleanor's dower should
not be resumed into the king's hands and why dower should not be
assigned to her anew according to the said extents, and on that day Roger
Mauduyt and his son Roger as Eleanor's attorney, and the said Gilbert appeared, and after discussion, it was considered that the lands should be
resumed by the king and dower assigned anew to Eleanor as aforesaid. |
April 22.
Stamford. |
To the sheriff of Warwick and Leicester. Order to pay to Giles de
Bello Campo 20l. for Easter term last from the issues of that bailiwick,
being the half year's instalment of a sum of 40l. that the late king granted
to him for his good service, to be received yearly by the hands of the
sheriff of the said counties until the said king should make provision for
him of 40l. a year in land for life, which grant the king has confirmed. |
April 18.
Stamford. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to Robert
de Middelton, king's yeoman, whom the king, on 28 March last, appointed
constable of Wyggemore castle, the arrears of his usual fee for that office,
and to pay to him the said fee henceforth, out of the issues of the castle,
which is in the king's hands by reason of the minority of Roger, son and
heir of Edmund de Mortuo Mari, tenant in chief. By p.s. |
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March 29.
The Tower. |
To William de Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor in Scalleby called 'Suthhalle,' and to restore
the issues thereof to Thomas son of Robert de Aspale, as it is found by an
inquisition taken after the death of Walter de Langeton, bishop of Coventry
and Lichfield, that he held a plot in Scalleby then called 'le Suthhallestede,'
and 15 bovates of land and 106s. 4d. of yearly rent there, of John son of
Philip Paynel of Rasen, by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee,
rendering to Alice, late the wife of Reginald son of Jordan de Wetheresfeld,
10l. yearly, and that the bishop held two parts of the said lands for his life
by the demise of Richard de Kirkeby and Henry de Birton, who married
Agnes de Scalleby and Katherine her sister, rendering the said 10l. as
aforesaid to Alice, who previously held these two parts of the gift of Robert
de Aspale for life, and afterwards demised them to the said Agnes and
Katherine for the same term, and the king—at the prosecution of Thomas
son of Robert de Aspale, shewing that the said Robert, who entered these
two parts after the death of the said Alice, granted, long before the death of
Edmund Peverel, kinsman and heir of the bishop, to Thomas the said
plot, which is now called the manor of Suthhall, in the town of Scalleby,
and was seised thereof and continued his seisin until the death of the said
Edmund, when the escheator took the manor into the king's hands because
he found by inquisition taken after Edmund's death that he held the plot
in his demesne as of fee of the heir of John Paynel of Rasen, a minor in
the king's wardship, by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee—ordered a
further inquisition to be taken concerning the matter by the escheator,
whereby it is found that the said Robert, on 20 February, in the 4th year
of the king's reign, by his charter granted the said plot together with other
lands pertaining to it to Thomas, and that Thomas was seised of the manor
by virtue of that grant from that time until Edmund's death without any
change, and that it was taken into the king's hands for this reason, and that
it is held of the heir aforesaid. By p.s. [5346.] |
April 6.
Barnwell. |
To Adam de Wythiford, chamberlain of South Wales. Order to pay to
Gilbert Talbot the arrears of his fee as justice of South Wales, from
23 October, in the 4th year of the king's reign, when the king committed
that office to him, and to pay the said fee henceforth from the issues of the
bailiwick. |
March 29.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Whereas lately at
the prosecution of David de Strabolgi, son and heir of David de Strabolgi, late earl of Athole, and of Joan his wife, kinswoman and co-heiress
of Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, tenant in chief of the late king, the
said David having proved his age before John de Bolingbrok, late escheator
beyond Trent, by his petition before the king and council in the parliament
held at Westminster, in the 4th year of the reign,—shewing the king
that whereas David his father and Joan in their lifetime, with John de
Hastyngg', kinsman and co-heir of the said Aymer, long prosecuted in
the late king's chancery for the division of Amyer's inheritance among the
heirs and parceners and for assigning and delivering a fourth part of it to
the said David and Joan, as the right of the latter, and that because Hugh le
Despenser, then earl of Winchester, and Hugh le Despenser, the younger,
his son, had Elizabeth Comyn, another kinswoman and co-heiress of the said
Aymer of a fourth part of the inheritance, in their power at their will, and
wished to assign the better castles, manors, lands, fees and advowsons to
the purparty of Elizabeth, the partition of the inheritance was not then
made, and that the said John died while the dispute was pending, and that
the late king granted the custody both of the purparty belonging to the said
John and of his other lands to the said Hugh, the younger, during the
minority of Laurence, John's son and heir, and that Hugh upon this pretext
caused a partition of the said inheritance to be made by Master Robert de
Baldok, then chancellor, and by others of his abettors, and caused castles,
manors and lands, with forests and parks to be assigned both in the purparty
of Laurence and in that of Elizabeth beyond what fell to them of right,
and that he caused to be assigned in the purparty of the said Joan the
castle of Mitford and other lands in Northumberland, estimated according to
their usual value in time of peace and not at their true value in the extent,
and also the castle of Castelacre and other lands that were matter of
litigation (litigiosa), to which partition David and Joan in no way
consented during Joan's life and received no seisin thereof, and beseeching the king to cause Aymer's lands to be resumed into his hands
and to cause to be assigned to him his reasonable purparty—the king ordered
the sheriff of Buckingham to cause Richard Talbot, knight, who married the
said Elizabeth, and Elizabeth herself to appear in chancery at a day now
past, to show cause why this should not be done, and on the said day the
parties appeared, and as it was found that the inheritance had been unequally
divided as aforesaid, it was considered before the council that partition of
the inheritance should be again made: the king therefore, with the assent
of Richard and Elizabeth, has assigned to the said David the following
lands: the manor of Colyngbourn, co. Wilts, of the value of 25l. 15s. 11¼d.,
which was formerly assigned to the purparty of the said Elizabeth; the
castle and manor of Mitford and the manor of Pont Eland with certain
lands in Little Eland, co. Northumberland, of the value of 30l. yearly; the
manor of Styvekeye, co. Norfolk, of the value of 10l. 19s. 8d.; the manor
of Possewyk, in the same county, of the value of 18l. 7s. 10d.; the manor
of Westlexham, in the same county, of the value of 10l. 19s. 6d.; the manor
of Holkham, in the same county, of the value of 12l. 19s. 0d.; the manor of
Geynsburgh, co. Lincoln, of the value of 63l. 14s. 11d.; the manor of
Kentwell, co. Suffolk, of the value of 16s. 4s. 6d.; a messuage in Bury
St. Edmunds, in the same county, of the value of 6s. 8d.; the manor of
Bichyndon, co. Buckingham, of the value of 16l. 13s. 0½d.; 20s. rent
from the 4l. of yearly rent that Peter Carbonel and Isabella his wife and
John their son render during their lives for the manor of Chardesle, in the
same county; the manor of Egarton, co. Kent, of the value of 10l. 3s. 4½d.;
the manor of Brabourn, in the same county, which was retained in the
king's hands for the purparty of the said Laurence, and which is in the
custody of William de Clynton by the king's commission, to be held under
a certain form, of the value of 61l. 8s. 3d.; a certain tenement in Bishop's
Hatfeld, called 'Gacelyns,' co. Hertford, of the value of 32s. 9d.; and
certain tenements in Little Holewell, in the same county, of the value of
23s. 1d. yearly, to be held in the purparty of the said David: the king
therefore orders the escheator to take into the king's hands the manors of
Colyngburn and Brabourn, and to cause David to have seisin of them, and of
the manors of Styvekeye, Possewyk, Westlexham, Holkham, Geynesburgh,
Kentwell, Bichyndon, Egarton, and of the said rents, etc., the king having
taken the homage of David for the lands thereof that are held in chief. |
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To William de Clynton. Order to deliver to the said David the
manor of Braburn, which was retained in the king's hands and is in
William's custody as aforesaid. By K. & C. |
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To John de Louthre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause the said
David to have seisin of the said castle of Mitford, the manors of
Mitford and Ponteland, together with the said lands in Little Eland, as
the king has taken the homage of the said David for all the lands thereof
that are held in chief. By K. & C. |
April 6.
Huntingdon. |
To the justices of the Bench. Order to cause an inquisition to be taken in
the presence of the earl of Lancaster whether the manor of Passinham, co.
Northampton, is parcel of the honour of Derby, if John de Wydevill and
Henry son of Robert de Kersbrok appear to aver before the justices that
it is not so, and if it be found to be not so, to proceed with the plea concerning the same and to render justice without delay, but if it be parcel of
the said honour, not to proceed further without consulting the king, as the
said John and Henry have shewn the king that whereas they are impleading
John son of Walter le Blunt for the said manor before the justices, and
he has asserted in pleading that he holds it for life by demise of Henry,
earl of Lancaster, whom he vouched to warranty for the same, and the earl
warranted it by process, and alleged before the justices that he holds the
manor as parcel of the said honour, which Henry III. granted by charter
to Edmund his son, whose son and heir the said earl is, to him and
the heirs of his body, which grant the king has confirmed, and the earl
proffered the said charter of confirmation, and asserted that he ought not
to answer concerning it to any one without the king, and although John de
Wydevill and Henry son of Robert are prepared to aver that the manor
is not parcel of that honour, the justices have nevertheless deferred
proceeding further in the plea, wherefore the said John de Wydevill and
Henry son of Robert have besought the king to provide a remedy. By C. |
April 22.
Stamford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge
Thomas Corbet of 60s., which are exacted from him by summons of the exchequer for divers causes, both in the late and in the present reign, as the
king has pardoned him the said debt. By p.s. [5411.] |
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March 23.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to inspect the
inquisitions mentioned below, and to cause allowance to be made to
John de Roches in his account for the expenses that they shall find
him to have incurred in repairing the castles and mills of the islands of
Gerneseye, Jereseye, Serk, and Aureneye by the king's order [as in this
Calendar, 2 Edw. III. p. 318, and above, p. 44], John having expended
84l. 11s. 6½d. in the repairs, as appears by an inquisition returned into
chancery, which the king sent to them in the exchequer, which sum the
treasurer and barons have deferred allowing to him because it is contained
in the king's order that John should execute the said repairs out of the goods
of Otto de Grandissono, the late keeper of the islands, and out of the issues of
the islands, wherefore he has besought the king to provide a remedy, and the
said John, being interrogated before Robert de Scardeburgh and his fellows,
late justices in eyre in the islands, at the king's suit, concerning the goods
of the said Otto taken by him into the king's hands, and afterwards delivered
to Gerard Dorum, to the king's deception, placed himself upon an inquisition, by which it was found that the said Otto had no goods or chattels in
those islands, which inquisition the king caused to come before him in
chancery, and which he afterwards sent into the exchequer. By C. |
March 19.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to John de Roches
for the wages paid by him to the men retained for the garrison of the
castles of Cornet and Gorryk, [as at page 46 above, with the addition of
two men-at-arms, two constables with yeomen, fourteen footmen, and two
boatmen for a year following the terms therein specified], as appears by
letters under the king's seal of the bailiwick of the islands and the seals of
men of the islands, and by an inquisition returned into chancery which the
king sent to the treasurer and barons, as they have deferred making allowance
therefor because they alleged that the parts where the said castles are situated
were not at war at the time of the retention of the men, so that it did not
behove the said John to retain so many men, and because John asserted in
his account that he had paid such wages to these men after he delivered the
custody of the islands to Peter Bernard de Pynsols and Laurence de Gaylard
by the king's order, as the said John has shewn to the king that they
have not executed the king's previous order to make such allowance notwithstanding the causes aforesaid. By p.s. [5264.] |
April 22.
Stamford. |
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John de Aperdele, who is insufficiently qualified. |
April 24.
Stamford. |
To Margaret, late the wife of John de Warblynton. Order to deliver
the body of John, son and heir of the aforesaid John, tenant in chief, a
minor whose marriage belongs to the king, and who is in her custody, to
John de Scures, sheriff of Southampton, to be kept until further orders.
The king has ordered the said sheriff to receive John from her, to be kept
as aforesaid. By C. |
April 23.
Stamford. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John de Sunnynghull, and to restore the
issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
John at his death held no lands in chief 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. |
April 26.
Stamford. |
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to restore to Roger de Bury, clerk,
his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon
his being indicted before John de Stonore and his fellows, justices of oyer
and terminer in that county, for the death of Thomas le Greya, as he has
purged his innocence before J. bishop of Exeter, the diocesan, to whom he
was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
April 27.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit John
le Keu of Burnham to pay the 200l. due from him to the exchequer for the
arrears of his account for the time when he had the custody of the manors
of Cookham and Braye, co. Berks, by the late king's grant, at the rate of
10l. yearly, and to cause these terms to be enrolled, as the king has granted
to him these terms in response to his petition to have the debt attermined.
By K. on the information of Master Robert de Stretford on behalf of
the chancellor. |
April 26.
Nottingham. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to pay to John de Hanonia, or to James Nicholas and
Bartholomew Barde and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi
of Florence, dwelling in London, his attorneys, 500 marks for Easter term
last, 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 7 February, in the first year of his reign. |
April 30.
Nottingham. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause 40l. 8s. to be levied for
Easter last from the men of Basyngstok, and to be given to William de
Bohun, in aid of his maintenance in the king's service, notwithstanding
any order to the contrary sent to him under the exchequer seal, as
the king, on 17 November last, granted to William the said town, of the
value of 80l. 16s., which belonged to Edmund de Wodestok, late earl of
Kent, tenant in chief, and which is in the king's hands by reason of the
minority of John, the earl's son and heir, to hold until the heir come of
age. |
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To the prior of Bath. Order to pay to the aforesaid William 10l. for
Easter term, according to the king's grant to him, for the aforesaid period, of
17 November last of 20l. of yearly rent to be received from the prior from
the Barton (Bertona) of Bath, which belonged to the said earl, and which is
in the king's hands as aforesaid, any order to the contrary by writ under the
exchequer seal notwithstanding. |
April 28.
Nottingham. |
To John de Kyngeston, constable of the castle of Baumburgh. Order to
pay to Roger de Horsele 20 marks for Easter term last out of the issues of
the said 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 said
issues. |
April 24.
Stamford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Edward I. by
his charter granted to the abbot and convent of Meaux the manor of
Pokelyngton, together with other lands, in exchange for the town of
Wyke-upon-Hull and the grange of Myton, given to him by the said abbot
and convent, which manor and lands were granted to the abbot and convent
to be held in frankalmoin, with all the liberties and free customs belonging to them, saving to the said king the custodies and escheats from
divers lands held of the manor and from other lands so given, and Henry de
Percy has now informed the king that the treasurer and barons—because the
late earl of Albemarle, who formerly held that manor before it came into
the hands of the said king, was accustomed to render a sparrow-hawk
(espervarium) every year for it to the said king—have exacted a sparrowhawk by summons of the exchequer from the said Henry, who now holds
the manor by the grant of the abbot and convent to Henry de Percy his
father, whose heir he is, and have caused him to be distrained in the said
manor for that reason: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons
to cause the said demand to be superseded and to cause Henry to be discharged thereof. |
May 6.
Woodstock. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Stoutus
de Stotevill to have seisin of all the lands whereof Nicholas de Stotevill,
tenant in chief, was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, as Ralph,
count of Eu, has testified before the king that Stoutus, who was born
beyond sea, is the son and next heir of the said Nicholas, and will be of
full age at Michaelmas next, and the king has taken the homage of Stoutus
and has rendered to him his lands. By K. |
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Memorandum, that this writ was sealed at the prosecution of Richard
de Grey, to whom the king granted the custody of the said lands until the
majority of the heir. |
May 6.
Woodstock. |
To Thomas Daniel, escheator in co. Chester. Order not to intermeddle
further with the manors of Bertunlegh, Crue, near Weston, and Landecan
and with 8s. of yearly rent in Netherbebynton, serjeanties of the fee of
the countess of Warwick, and with the advowsons of the churches of
Bertunlegh and Wodechirche, and to restore the issues to Joan, late the
wife of Ranulph de Praiers, saving to the king the fealty due to him from the
said Joan in this behalf, as the king—at the prosecution of the said Joan,
showing that she was jointly enfeoffed with her husband of the manors,
etc., of the gift of William de Dutton, chaplain, by a fine levied in the king's
court at Chester, and that she continued her joint-seisin thereof until the
escheator took them into the king's hands by reason of Ranulph's death, and
beseeching the king to cause his hand to be amoved from them—ordered the
escheator to take an inquisition concerning the matter, by which it was
found that William gave the said manors, etc. by his charter, by the king's
licence, to the said Ranulph and Joan and to the heirs of Ranulph, and
that Joan continued her seisin as above, and that Ranulph held no other
lands at his death. |
May 3.
Woodstock. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause to be restored to Margaret de
Daventre, the king's nurse, all her goods and chattels wherever they may be
found in his bailiwick, which were taken from her in the town of West
Rasen by Simon de Hereford and certain other men of that town, because
Henry de Thorp, formerly her husband, was charged with having killed
Nicholas son of the said Simon, as she has besought the king to grant to
her the said goods. By p.s. [5454.] |
May 7.
Woodstock. |
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John de Aperdele, who is insufficiently qualified. |
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By the testimony of John Dabernoun, John de Ifeld, Robert de
Stangrave, knights, William de Weston, and Robert de Dole. |
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Membrane 26. |
April 11.
Stamford. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause the abbot of Sulby to
have seisin of a moiety of an acre of land in Thurneby, as it is found by
inquisition taken by the sheriff that the moiety was held of the abbot by
Philip de Kyvelingworth, who was hanged for felony, and that it has been
in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Thomas Wak, late sheriff
of that county, has had the year and day thereof and ought to answer to the
king therefor. |
April 28.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on
4 February, in the 5th year of his reign, granted to Thomas de Cloune,
parson of the church of Hopesaye, the custody of the castle of Kevenlles,
of the land of Melenyth, of the castle of Dolvoren, of the land of Kedewyng,
and of the castle and land of Chirk, which belonged to Roger de Mortuo
Mari, late the king's enemy, and which were in the king's hands by his
forfeiture, to hold for a year from the said date, rendering to the exchequer
the extent made thereof and 200 marks beyond the extent; and on 12 May
following the king appointed William de Shaldeford, keeper and surveyor
of the castles and lands that belonged to the said Roger and to Roger de
Mortuo Mari of Chirk, both in England and in Wales, which were in the
king's hands by the forfeiture of Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wyggemore,
and gave to him the power of deputing under himself constables and
suitable keepers of the said castles, etc., who should answer to the king for
the issues thereof; and afterwards, on 17 October following—upon its
being found by an inquisition taken by Roger Hillary and Robert de Aston
that John de Hothum, now bishop of Ely, and Philip ap Howel, on
8 August, in the 10th year of the late king's reign, granted by charter to
the said Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wyggemore the castle and manor of
Wyggemore, the land of Melenyth with the castles of Kenthles and
Dinband, the land of Kedewynk with the castle of Dolvoreyn and the
land of Comotoider, which the said John and Philip had of the gift and
feoffment of the said Roger, to hold to the said Roger and the heirs of his
body, with remainder to Edmund de Mortuo Mari, his son, and the heirs of
his body—the king took Edmund's homage for the castles, etc., and
ordered the said Thomas, in whose custody they were by the king's commission, to deliver them to Edmund with the issues [as at page 345 above],
and the king now learns by the complaint of the said Thomas that although
he was impeded from collecting the issues and profits of the said castles,
etc., by pretext of the said commission to William de Shaldeford for keeping
the castles, etc., and although he has delivered the castles, etc., to Edmund
together with the issues by virtue of the order aforesaid, yet the treasurer
and barons have charged him at the exchequer with the said extent and
200 marks in full, wherefore he has besought the king to provide a remedy:
the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to cause what is just and
reasonable to be done for the discharge of the said Thomas in this matter,
upon the considerations aforesaid, provided that he answer to the king for
the extent of the castle and land of Chirk and for the portion of the said
200 marks due in respect of the said castle and land. |
April 26.
Nottingham. |
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a verderer to be elected for the
forest of Shottore and Stowode in place of William de Draycote, deceased. |
April 30.
Nottingham. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands belonging to the master and brethren of the
hospital of St. John without the east gate of Oxford in Otyndon, in Oxford
and its suburbs, in Gersyndon, and in Shipton-upon-Charwelle, taken by
him into the king's hands, and to restore the issues thereof to the master
and brethren, as the escheator has certified that a late master of the hospital
demised a messuage and a carucate of land in Otyndon to Adam Gordoun,
two messuages in Oxford and its suburbs to William de Oseberston and
William de Stonorde, two cottages in Garsyndon to William Skot and
William Amidde, and a messuage and a carucate of land in Shipton to
Luke de Murifeld and Joan his wife, to hold for their lives, rendering to
the master yearly the true value of the said lands, without having obtained
the licence of the king or any of his progenitors, for which reason the
escheator took the lands into the king's hand. |
April 28.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John son
of Thomas de Multon of Egremund to be discharged and acquitted of the
ferm of the castle of Egremund and of two parts of the honour of
Egremund, co. Cumberland, which were granted to him by the late king
by letters patent, from Michaelmas, in the 20th year of the late king's reign,
until 12 February in the first year of the present reign, upon which date
the king granted to the community of the county of Cumberland pardon
for all debts due to him of his time or of the times of his progenitors,
except debts for victuals bought from the late king, as the treasurer and barons
have deferred discharging John of the ferm for the said time, although he
sued before them for such discharge in accordance with the king's grant. |
