Close Rolls, Edward III: September 1332

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

'Close Rolls, Edward III: September 1332', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 489-497. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/pp489-497 [accessed 23 April 2024]

September 1332



Sept. 11. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Torvey of Wolveryngton, who is insufficiently qualified.
Sept. 11. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to deliver to John Gada, clerk, his lands, goods, and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands on his being indicted before John de Stonore and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer in that county, of the death of Andrew de Cuguliek, as he has purged his innocence before J. bishop of Exeter, the diocesan, to whom he was delivered by the said justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
Sept. 14. Westminster.	To Anthony de Lucy, justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause Joan, late the wife of Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, to have full restitution of the liberty of Trym, notwithstanding the grant mentioned below, which she has restored to chancery to be cancelled, as the justiciary has certified the king that he took it into the king's hands by pretext of an order of the king directed to him to resume into the king's hands the lands and liberties granted to anyone from the time when the king undertook the government of the kingdom, because the liberty was granted to the said Roger and Joan by the king, and now Joan, by her petition before the king and council, has shewn that the said liberty was taken into the late king's hands by reason of an erroneous consideration made by Alexander, archbishop of Dublin, and his fellows, justices in eyre in co. Meath, in Ireland, against the said Roger and Joan when they were in prison in England, by the late king's writ of quo warranto concerning their claim to hear at Trym common pleas every year and pleas of the crown, of rape, arson, forstalment, and treasure trove, and other pleas, and the liberty was annexed to the said county of Meath as gildable, and this judgment was afterwards annulled before the king as erroneous at the prosecution of the said Roger and Joan, and she has besought the king to order the liberty to be restored to her, notwithstanding the said grant and order, and after the record and process before the said justices, which the king caused to come before him, had been recited and examined, it was considered before the king that the judgment should be revoked as erroneous, and that Roger and Joan should have restitution of the liberty, and the justiciary of Ireland of that time was ordered to put them in seisin, as appears by the record and process before the king, which the king has caused to come before him in chancery. By K. and by pet. of C.
Sept. 19. Canterbury.	To the sheriffs of London. Order to pay to Bertram de la More, the late king's serjeant-at-arms, 10 marks from Michaelmas next from the ferm of the city of London, as the late king granted this sum to Bertram for his good service, to be received yearly for life from the said ferm by the hands of the sheriffs of the city for the time being.
Aug. 27. Feckenham.	To Robert Selyman, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the abbey of Abyndon, which he has taken into the king's hands on the death of Robert de Gereford, the late abbot, and to allow the prior and convent to have full administration of its temporalities, and to restore the issues to the said prior and convent, provided that he take a simple seisin within the gates of the said abbey in the name of the king's lordship in the present voidance; as the king, on 26 July last, granted to the prior and convent the aforesaid privilege, saving only the knights' fees and advowsons of churches, during voidance, upon their rendering 100 marks a month, and in the same proportion for such time over a month that the voidance shall continue, and that the escheator or another servant of the king shall take a simple seisin within the abbey gates at the beginning of each voidance, and shall at once depart without taking anything away from the said abbey, so that he shall not remain there for more than one day. The king will discharge the escheator from the security that he ordered him to take from the prior and convent to answer for the issues of the abbey.
	The like order to Roger Chaundos, escheator in cos. Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, Salop, Stafford and the adjoining marches of Wales.
Sept. 21. Westminster.	To John Vyncent, receiver of the issues of the county of Ponthieu. Order to pay to Bartholomew de Burgherssh 200l. sterling of the 660l. due to him from the king for his expenses in going to the Roman court in the king's service, as appears by a bill sealed by Thomas de Garton, late keeper of the wardrobe, in Bartholomew's possession, from the issues of the viscomté of Crotey. By p.s.
	To the same. Order to pay to the said Bartholomew, seneschal of Ponthieu, 100l. sterling for the next year from the issues of the provostship of Crotey, which sum the king has given him beyond the fee that he receives from the king in that office, in consideration of the costs and expenses that it behoves him to make in that office. By p.s.
	Membrane 14.
Sept. 2. Northampton.	To the collectors of the new and old customs in the port of Lenne. James Nicholas and Bartholomew Bardi, and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, have shewn the king that whereas they lately bought 31 sacks of wool in Scotland to be taken thence to Les Scluses in Flanders for their profit, and the said wool was taken at sea by certain malefactors and taken to the said port of Lenne, and there arrested by the collectors because the sacks were sealed with the seal of the said merchants, and are detained under arrest, and that although they are prepared to prove that the wool is theirs, nevertheless the collectors have hitherto deferred delivering the wool for certain feigned reasons, wherefore the merchants have besought the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders the collectors to deliver the wool to the merchants upon their finding security to answer to the king or others having right in the wool.
	Vacated, because without.
Sept. 9. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Stoketh, deceased.
Sept. 13. Westminster.	To W. archbishop of York. Order to supersede the demand made on Gauselin Johannis, parson of the church of Hemyngburgh, and prebendary of Driffeld, and on Bertrand de Monte Faventio, parson of Brantyngham church, cardinals of the Roman church, for the tenths and other quotas owing by them by reason of the church and prebend, as the late king, at the request of pope J[ohn] XXII., pardoned all cardinals holding benefices in England the sums due from them by reason of the tenths, etc. imposed on the clergy by the pope, which sums were exacted by summons of the exchequer for the late king's use. [Fœdera.]
Aug. 20. Kidderminster.	To Robert de Hambury, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to cause the necessary repairs to be made to the houses within the castles of Karnarvan, Conewey, Beaumareys, Crukyth, and Hardelagh in North Wales, by the view and testimony of the justice of North Wales, as the king understands that they are ruinous and not fit for him to dwell in if he should go there; and also to cause the king's barge (barjeam) at Karnarvan, which was lately begun and is not yet finished, to be completed. By p.s.
Sept. 13. Westminster.	To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Middlesex. Order not to distrain Thomas de Ponyngs for his homage and fealty, as he has done homage and fealty to the king for the lands that he holds of the king of the inheritance of Agnes his wife. By p.s.
Sept. 11. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Edward de Chaundos to be discharged of a payment of 100s., at which he was amerced because he did not appear at the common summons of the eyre before William de Herle and his fellows, late justices in eyre in cos. Nottingham and Derby. By p.s. [5740.]
Sept. 12. Westminster.	To H. bishop of Lincoln. Permission to do what behoves his office on the presentation of the prior of Bradonestoke to the church of Offeleye, notwithstanding the king's prohibition to admit a parson to that church, which is vacant and concerning the advowson of which there is an action in the king's court between Richard de Seint Leger and the said prior, as Richard has confessed in chancery that he has no right to the presentation to the said church for this turn.
July 21. Woodstock.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Thomas West to be discharged of 100s., which he lately received as an imprest of the late king's wardrobe for his expenses in going to Carlisle for taking thence to the said king certain goods and chattels that belonged to Andrew de Harkela, which sum the king has pardoned him. By p.s.
Sept. 16. Westminster.	To John de Blomvyll, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to cause to be delivered to Joan, late the wife of Bartholomew son of John Davillers, tenant in chief, in the presence of Robert de Ufford, to whom the king committed the custody of two parts of Bartholomew's lands, which are in the king's hand by reason of the minority of the heir, a third of the manor of Brom and of certain lands in Petistre and Dalyngho, as the king assigned the following lands to her with the consent of the said Robert as dower: a third of the manor of Brom, co. Suffolk, which manor is extended at 8l. 4s. 3d.; a third of certain lands in Petristre and Dalyngho, in the same county, which lands are extended at 20s. 10¾d.; a third of certain lands called 'La Hide,' co. Dorset, which lands are extended at 6l.; a third of two virgates of land in Lonord, in the same county, which virgates are extended at 24s.; a third of certain lands in Compton, co. Somerset, which lands are extended at 40s. yearly, which he ordered William Trussel, late escheator this side Trent, to deliver to her, but he was amoved from his office before the order was executed. The king has ordered Henry le Gulden, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, to cause the third parts of the lands in La Hide, Lonord and Compton, which are in his bailiwick, to be delivered to Joan in form aforesaid.
Sept. 14. Westminster.	To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to admit Thomas de Belassise as a chaplain in the chapel of that castle in the place of Andrew de Bodekesham, to stay there according to the form of an ordinance made at another time. By p.s.
Sept. 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Margery, late the wife of Duncan de Frendraght, the arrears of 49 marks a year for Easter term last, and to pay her that sum henceforth in accordance with the king's grant to her, on 6 October, in the first year of his reign, of that sum yearly from the issues of the sheriff's bailiwick from 16 August preceding, 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 that day to Queen Isabella.
	To the same. Order to pay Thomas de Grey the arrears of 20l. yearly for Easter term last, and to pay the same henceforth, which sum the king granted to him in lieu of 6d. a day from the sheriff of York, granted to him by the late king in aid of his maintenance and that of his wife and children.
Sept. 22. Westminster.	To William Erneys, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage, a carucate of land and two marks of rent in Mollynton, which were taken into the king's hands by William Trussel, late escheator this side Trent, on the death of Eleanor de Clare, and to restore the issues, as the king, on 7 November last,—upon its being found by inquisition taken by William Trussel that Eleanor at her death held no lands in her demesne as of fee of the king in chief, but that she held the premises of Thomas de Bello Campo, son and heir of Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick, tenant in chief of the late king, then a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, and that John de Clare, kinsman of the said Eleanor, was her next heir and of full age, and because the king, on 20 February, in the 3rd year of his reign, took the homage of the said Thomas for all the lands that his father held in chief—ordered the said William Trussel not to intermeddle further with the said messuage, land, and rent, and William was amoved from his office before the order was executed.
Sept. 17. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause the demand for 27l. 4s. 3d. from the executors of the will of Nicholas Fastolf to be superseded, and the said Nicholas to be released and acquitted, as the king, for his good service rendered to the king and his father, pardoned him this sum out of the extent of the manor of Lenetan in Ireland, which belonged to Robert de Notingham, tenant in chief, and was in the king's hands by reason of the minority of William, Robert's son and heir, the custody of which manor was granted to Nicholas by the king under the seal of that exchequer.
Sept. 22. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to deliver to Thomas Virly of Cherdlington, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands on his being indicted before Robert Selyman and Robert de Hungreford, justices to deliver the gaol of Old Sarum castle, for stealing two hogasters and two sheep, price 5s., in the fold of Robert Hedy in the field of Winterburne Cherberwe, as he has purged his innocence before R. bishop of Salisbury, the diocesan, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
Sept. 18. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Richard de Tuyt has shewn the king that whereas the late king granted to him, for his good service and in recompence for his expenses in coming from Ireland at the late king's order to receive knighthood, 100l. yearly in land and rent in the manor of Dyvelek, which belonged to Theobald de Verdoun, tenant in chief, and was in the late king's hands by reason of the minority of Theobald's heirs, to hold until the heirs came of age; and the late king afterwards, on 22 October, in the 11th year of his reign, because 50l. of the said rent of 100l. were delivered to Roger Damori and Elizabeth his wife, late the wife of the said Theobald, by the justiciary of Ireland of that time by pretext of a writ of the late king, to hold as her dower, granted to Richard in recompence 50l. yearly of rent from the lands that belonged to Drogo de Merlowe in Baliogari, to hold until the said heirs come of age, and that although this rent was delivered on 12 July next following to Ralph, count of Eu, by the said king's order, nevertheless Richard has not hitherto obtained any satisfaction for it, wherefore he has besought the king to cause account to be made with him at the said exchequer, and to order allowance for what shall be found due to him to be made in the debts due from him to the said exchequer: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to search the rolls and memoranda of the said exchequer, and to account with Richard, and to cause allowance to be made to him as requested.
	By p.s.
	Membrane 13.
Sept. 12. Westminster.	To Robert Selyman, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margaret, late the wife of Hubert Pipard, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Sept. 10. Westminster.	To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order to cause John de Lachedon, son and heir of Hugh de Lachedon, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before William Trussel, late escheator this side Trent, and the king has taken his homage for the said lands. By p.s.
Sept. 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Richard de Kynebelle, who is insufficiently qualified.
Sept. 13. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Berkshire. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de la More of Middelton, who is insufficiently qualified.
Sept. 12. Westminster.	To Roger Chaundos, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester, Salop, Stafford, and the adjoining marches of Wales. Order to pay to Robert de Middelton, king's yeoman, to whom the king has granted the office of constable of Wyggemore 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, to hold during good conduct, such wages from the issues of the castle as other constables of that place were wont to receive.
Sept. 10. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Warwick and Leicester. Order to pay to Giles de Bello Campo 20l. for Michaelmas next, being the half-year's instalment of a payment of 40l. yearly from the issues of those counties granted to him by the king in confirmation of a like grant made by the late king.
Sept. 15. Westminster.	To Roger Chaundos, escheator in cos. Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, Salop, Stafford, and the adjoining marches of Wales. Order not to intermeddle further with the abbey of Wygemore or its temporalities, which he has taken into the king's hands on the death of the abbot, and to restore the issues to the prior and convent, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that the prior and convent of the abbey had the custody of the abbey and its temporalities during voidance from time out of mind, without the ancestors of the heir of Edmund de Mortuo Mari, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, of whose advowson the abbey is, intermeddling therewith, except that the prior and convent have sought licence to elect from the said ancestors in times of voidance, and that the ancestors placed a janitor at the gate of the abbey during voidance at the request of the prior and convent, without receiving anything from the abbey except of the courtesy and will of the prior and convent, and that the abbots, after the confirmation of their election, did no fealty to the said ancestors.
Sept. 20. Canterbury.	To Geoffrey le Scrop. Order to receive the writs, rolls, records, processes, memoranda and all other things touching the office of chief justice to hold pleas before the king by indenture from Richard de Wylughby, as the king wills that Geoffrey shall be chief justice during his pleasure. He has ordered the said Richard to deliver the said writs, etc. By K. and C.
	Mandate in pursuance to Richard de Wylughby. By K. and C.
Sept. 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Joan Comyn of Boghan, the arrears for Easter last of 40l. a year granted to her by the king from the issues of that county in aid of her maintenance, and to pay her that sum every year henceforth.
Sept. 13. Westminster.	To the justices of the Bench. Louis, bishop of Durham, has shewn the king that whereas he impleaded John Darcy 'le cosyn' before the said justices concerning the manor of Werk in Tynedale, which manor John alleged in pleading the king granted to him for his services to the king and his father, and for various other causes, and he profferred the king's charter to this effect, wherefore he asserted that he ought not to answer for it to the bishop without the king, by pretext whereof the justices have deferred proceeding in the plea, wherefore the bishop has besought the king for a remedy: the king therefore orders the justices to proceed to the final discussion of the plea, provided that they do not proceed to render judgment without consulting the king. By pet. of C.
Sept. 21. Westminster.	To the same. Like order concerning the said bishop's plea against the said John concerning the advowson of Symundburn church, as the bishop has shewn that John alleged that the king granted to him the manor of Wark in Tyndale, together with its knights' fees and advowsons, and he proffered the king's charter, and said further that he holds the advowson as parcel of the said manor, and that he cannot answer to the bishop without consulting the king, and that although the bishop said that the advowson is not parcel of the manor, and offered to aver, the justices have deferred proceeding in the plea, wherefore the bishop has besought the king for a remedy. By pet. of C.
Oct. 1. Leicester.	To John Darcy, (fn. 1) justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause Walter de Turpynton, son and heir of Hugh de Turpynton, tenant in chief, to have seisin of two carucates of land in Balylug, and lands in Tobyr near Dunlovan, and the manor of Martry and certain lands in the barony of Kenlys, in co. Meath, together with 100s. of yearly rent from the mills of Kenlys, and certain other lands within the liberty of Ulster, which Hugh held in his demesne as of fee by the grant of the late king, and which are held of the king by the service of rendering a rose and three sparrow-hawks to the king every year, as Walter has proved his age before Roger Chaundos, escheator in cos. Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, Salop, Stafford, and the adjoining marches of Wales, and the king has taken his fealty for the aforesaid lands.
Sept. 22. Westminster.	To John de Blounvyll, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Bradewell, co. Essex, and with the advowson of the church of that town, which he has taken into the king's hands on the death of John de Daggeworth, and to restore the issues thereof to Alice, wife of the said John, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that John and Alice held the manor and advowson jointly at John's death of the gift and grant of John de Combes, parson of the church of Trandeston, by fine levied in the court of Edward I. to them and to the heirs of their bodies, and that they held certain tenements in Elmedon, co. Essex, as of Alice's inheritance, which are held of the king in chief as of the honour of Bologne, by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee, and being present twice a year at St. Martin's-leGrand, London, and that the manor of Bradewell and the advowson are not held of the king; saving to the king the homage due to him from Alice for the tenements in Elmedon.
Sept. 20. Westminster.	To the collectors of the old custom in the city of London. Order to pay to Otto, lord of Kuyk, the arrears for Michaelmas and Easter terms last of a payment of 250l. a year from the said custom, in accordance with the king's grant to him, on 18 June, in the 5th year of the reign, of this sum for staying with the king for his life-time, both in time of peace and of war, in divers parts, with men-at-arms, to be received by the hands of the collectors of the said custom until the king shall cause provision to be made for the said Otto for 250l. a year in land in suitable places within the kingdom. By K. and C.
Sept. 22. Westminster.	To John de Blounvyll, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order to restore and deliver to Ralph, count of Eu, and Joan his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Drogo de Merlowe, and to Margaret, younger daughter and co-heiress of Drogo, the lands, fees and advowsons that Drogo at his death held of the late king in England and Ireland, which were in the late king's hands by reason of the minority of the said Joan and Margaret, and were afterwards detained in his hands and in the hands of the king by reason of the war between the king of France and the late king, as the king, when he was in France, took the homage of the count and of Margaret for the said lands, and to deliver to them the issues thereof from 22 September, in the 5th year of the king's reign, when the king delivered the inheritance to the heirs, although partition among the heirs had not been made according to the usages of chancery, and the said earl has informed the king that both he and the said Margaret have been impeached by certain ministers of the king concerning the issues of the said lands, etc. because they did not sue out writs of chancery for the delivery of the lands, etc. and he has besought the king for a remedy. By p.s. [5797.]
	Membrane 12.
Sept. 19. Westminster.	To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with 15 acres of land in Osprengge, 8 acres of land in Oppecherche, and a messuage and 7 acres of land in that town, and to restore the issues thereof, as the master of the House of God at Osprengge has shewn the king that whereas Peter, formerly master of the said house, demised the 15 acres to Thomas le Keu at fee ferm, rendering 8 quarters of barley a year to the said master and his successors, and 8 acres of land in Oppecherche to the abbot of St. Mary of l'Isle Dieu for a term of years, for 4 quarters of barley, and that Alexander, afterwards master of that house, demised the messuage and 7 acres of land in that town for a term of years for 4 quarters of barley a year, and that the lands have been taken into the king's hands by reason of the said demises by the escheator, and he has besought the king to cause his hand to be amoved from the same, so that he may receive the rent for the maintenance of the infirm in the hospital, and the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator and by the information of trustworthy men that the tenements were demised at their true value and are worth no more, and that the demises are not harmful to the said hospital, but rather to its advantage.
Sept. 9. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Somerset. Whereas at the late annulling of the military order of the Temple, the lands of that order, which were held of the late king and of various other lords, were seised into the hands of the late king and the other lords of the fees, who claimed them as their escheats, and in a parliament convoked at the Purification, in the 17th year of the late king's reign, it was agreed that neither the king nor any other lord of those fees nor any other should have any title or right to retain the lands as escheats or otherwise, or of claiming them afterwards by reason of the said annulling; and because the order of the brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem was likewise instituted for the defence of Christians and of Holy Church, it was agreeded in the same parliament that all the lands, demesnes, fees, churches, advowsons of churches, and liberties that belonged to the said Templars at the time of the annulling should be assigned and delivered to the said order of the Hospitallers for ever, and the late king, with the consent of the earls, barons, and proceres, assigned all the said lands, etc. to the said prior and brethren, to be held of the king and the other lords by the same services as the Templars held them by, and afterwards the prior and brethren of the Hospital complained to the king that divers men in co. Somerset, having no consideration for the said statute, occupy divers lands that belonged to the Templars, pretending that they ought to belong to them as escheats; the king therefore orders that sheriff to take into the king's hands without delay all the lands, etc. in that bailiwick that belonged to the Templars, and are occupied as aforesaid, and to keep them safely until further orders, certifying the king of the names of those so occupying them, and of the extent and annual value of the said lands, etc.
Sept. 20. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause a sum of 81l. 3s. 1d. that Edward I. owed to Alexander, archbishop of Dublin, as appears by a bill of the said king's wardrobe in the archbishop's possession, to be allowed to the said archbishop in the sums that he owes to the king for the arrears of his account of the time when he was the late king's treasurer in Ireland, as the archbishop has besought the king by his petition before the king and his council to cause this sum to be allowed as above.
	By pet. of C.
	To the same. Like order to cause a sum of 20l. that the late king owed the said archbishop, as appears by a bill of his wardrobe, to be allowed.
	By pet. of C.