Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1332

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: December 1332', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 508-515. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/pp508-515 [accessed 19 April 2024]

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December 1332

Membrane 7.
Dec. 4.
Knaresborough.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause due allowance to be made to John de Wodehous, keeper of the hanaper, in his account for the issues of the said hanaper, for 200l. from those issues, which he paid to John, bishop of Winchester, the chancellor, by the king's order, in part payment of 1000 marks that the king owes to the bishop for various sums paid by the latter to divers merchants by the king's order.
Dec. 6.
York.
To John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Katherine, late the wife of Hugh le Lorymer, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Dec. 14.
York.
To Hamo Massy of Tatton, escheator in co. Chester. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Thurstaneston, which he has taken into the king's hands on the death of William son of Peter de Brikhull, and to restore the issues thereof to Cicely, late the wife of the said William, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that William and Cicely were jointly enfeoffed of that manor by the grant of John de Sywenston, chaplain, by fine levied in the court of Chester by the king's licence, and that the manor is held in chief by the service of a third of a knight's fee.
Dec. 16.
York.
To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to cause the necessary repairs to be done to Stafford gaol, expending up to 10l., by the view and testimony of Robert Selyman. By C.
Vacated, because otherwise below.
Dec. 16.
York.
To the same. Order to cause Stafford gaol, which is ruinous, to be repaired so far as is necessary, expending up to 10l., by the view and testimony of Robert Selyman. By C.
Dec. 18.
York.
To John de Kyngeston, constable of Baumburgh castle. Order to cause necessary repairs to be done to divers houses in that castle, which are ruinous, expending up to 20l., by the view and testimony of William de Bedenale.
By the treasurer.
Dec. 10.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the exaction made on the men of Newcastle upon Tyne, co. Northumberland, for debts for victuals bought by them at Newcastle from the king and his father to be superseded, and to cause them to be discharged thereof, as the king, on 27 October last, pardoned the men of Northumberland all debts for the victuals bought from him and his father, in consideration of the loss, damage, fire and devastation sustained by them by reason of the late wars between the king and the land of Scotland. By p.s.
Dec. 10.
York.
To the same. Order to cause Roger de Aylesburi, sheriff of Warwick and Leicester, to be discharged and acquitted of an amercement of 5 marks, imposed upon him because he did not appear at the exchequer on the morrow of Michaelmas last to make his proffer there, as he was intending by the king's order certain other affairs before Geoffrey le Scrop and others appointed to enquire concerning certain felonies and trespasses in co. Leicester, and also before the king in his presence. By K.
Dec. 15.
York.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to restore to Nicholas Froward of Wirkesworth, diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, clerk, his lands, goods, and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being indicted before Richard de Grey and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer in that county, for maintaining and receiving James Coterel, Roger Sauvage, Walter, servant of the said James Coterel, Thomas de Bukstones, William, brother of the said Thomas, and John Coterell, outlawed for divers felonies committed by them in that county, knowing them to be so outlawed, as the said Nicholas has purged his innocence before W. archbishop of York, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
To the sheriff of Derby. The like in favour of the same Nicholas Froward.
Dec. 12.
York.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause the demand made on the men of Ednestowe and other hamlets adjacent for 19 marks for the fee-farm for the present year to be superseded, as the king, on 28 August, in the 2nd year of his reign, granted this fee-farm to Geoffrey de Mildenhale, marshal of his hall, for life, and the said men have paid the fee-farm for the present year, as Geoffrey has acknowledged in chancery.
Dec. 12.
York.
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to cause John de Liston, son and heir of John de Liston, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage for the lands that his father held in chief. By p.s.
Dec. 8.
York.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with certain lands in Rammesdenecreye, co. Essex, which he has taken into the king's hands on the death of John de Liston, and to restore the issues thereof, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said John held the said lands of the inheritance of Eleanor his wife, and that they are held of the heirs of the earl of Pembroke by knight service.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage in Maldon, co. Essex, and to restore the issues thereof, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said John de Liston and Eleanor his wife held the messuage jointly at his death, and that it is not held of the king.
Dec. 12.
York.
To the same. Order to cause to be delivered to Eleanor, late the wife of John de Liston, tenant in chief, the following of her husband's lands, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence, in the presence of John de Lyston, John's son and heir, which lands the king has assigned to her in dower: a third of the manor of Lyston, co. Essex; a third of a moiety of the manor of Westonehall in the town of Foxherde, in the same county; and a third of a messuage, of a mill, of 209 acres of land, of 18 acres of meadow, of 60 acres of pasture, of 220 acres of wood, and of 7l. 12s. 8d. of rent in Gosfeld in the same county.
Dec. 16.
York.
To William de Clynton, justice of Chester, and to the chamberlain there. Whereas lately at the prosecution of William de Prayers—shewing the king that he was recently appointed to the office of sheriff of Chester, to hold for a certain time with all the appurtenances, rendering to the king 240l. a year, and divers men of that county called 'chartreres' were discharged of divers customs belonging to the office of sheriff worth 80l. a year (which William and his predecessors had been accustomed to receive in aid of their ferm) by a judgment lately rendered in the king's court at Chester and by orders made to William, after he had been appointed to the said office, and that the justice has nevertheless hitherto exacted the whole ferm from William—the king ordered the justice to certify him concerning the matter, and the justice certified that William was commissioned to hold the said office from Christmas day, in the 4th year of the reign, for a term of four years, with all the appurtenances, as other sheriffs there had received them, rendering 240l. yearly, and that William held that office from the said Christmas until St. Bartholomew last, and that the said customs that the said 'chartreres' used to pay belonged to that office long before William was appointed, and that William and other sheriffs were accustomed to receive the said customs in aid of their ferm in the time of Edward I. and until now, and that the said customs were usually worth 68l. 8s. 10d. yearly, and that the 'chartreres' were discharged of the said customs by divers writs of the king and by judgment delivered in the county of Chester on Tuesday the morrow of Epiphany last: the king therefore orders the justice to cause the said William to be discharged of this sum from the date of the said judgment for the time that he has held the said office, causing due allowance to be made to him for it in his ferm.
Dec. 11.
York.
To the said justice, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause to be delivered without delay to John de Sancto Petro, knight, all his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands as forfeited on his being indicted before the justice for certain felonies and trespasses committed by him in that county, because he did not come before the justice on the day fixed for him, as the king has restored the said goods to John, because he was in the king's service on the said day in the company of William de Monte Acuto. By p.s. [5965.]
Dec. 13.
York.
To John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland. Order not to distrain William Whytik for his homage and fealty, as he has done homage and fealty to the king for the lands that he holds of him. By p.s. [5990.]
Dec. 13.
York.
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order to cause Robert de Scales, son and heir of Robert de Scales, to have seisin of all the lands that his father at his death held of the late king in chief, as the king has taken the homage of the said Robert, although he is not yet of full age, for the said lands. By p.s.
Dec. 7.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Amice, late the wife of John Druel, tenant of part of her husband's lands, to have the following terms for the payment of a debt of 190l. which John owed to the king, to wit 50s. to the treasury every Easter and Michaelmas until the debt be discharged, upon her finding security for payment of the said 100s. every year. By p.s. [5954.]
Membrane 6.
Nov. 4.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas upon its being found by inquisition taken by William Trussel, then escheator beyond Trent, that Eleanor, late the wife of Robert de Bruys, whom Richard le Waleys afterwards married, held in dower on the day she died a third of the manors of Writele and Hatfeld Regis, co. Essex, of the inheritance of her husband Robert, and that the late king granted the said manors to Humphrey de Bohun, formerly earl of Hereford and Essex, and Elizabeth his wife, to hold to themselves and the heirs of their bodies, together with the dower that Eleanor held after the death of her husband Robert, when it should fall in, and that the said Richard and Eleanor afterwards attorned themselves to the earl for their fealty, and the king, at the prosecution of John de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, son and heir of the said Humphrey and Eleanor (sic), ordered the escheator to deliver the lands to the said earl, which lands had been taken into the king's hands on the death of Eleanor, together with the issues from the time of Eleanor's death, to be held at pleasure, or until the king should otherwise order, on condition that the earl should answer to the king for the issues of the said lands if they ought to belong to the king, and the king has now confirmed the charter by letters patent: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to permit the earl to hold the manors, and to cause him to be discharged of the demand made on him for the issues thereof.
Nov. 20.
Knaresborough.
To John de Harnham, keeper of the town of Wilton, now in the king's hands. Order to pay to the brethren and sisters of the hospital of St. Giles, Wylton, the arrears of a rent of 6 marks a year from the town of Wilton, from the time of the death of Mary, a nun of Aumbresbury, the king's aunt, and to pay that rent henceforth every year from the issues of the said town, as Edward I. on 4 April, in the 29th year of his reign—upon its being found by inquisition taken by Walter de Gloucestre, then escheator beyond Trent, that the brethren and sisters received the said rent by the gift of that king's progenitors, for the maintenance of a chaplain celebrating divine service every day in the said hospital for the souls of the said progenitors, and that the brethren and sisters received that rent from the first gift made to them from certain rents and issues of that town by the hands of the bailiffs there, as well for the time when the town was in the hands of the said progenitors as when it was in the hands of Richard, formerly king of Almain, and of Edmund, formerly earl of Cornwall, without interruption until Christmas then last past, when the town came into the hands of Edward I. by the death of the said Edmund, earl of Cornwall—ordered his bailiffs of that town by writ to cause the said brethren and sisters to have the rent until otherwise ordered; and the king—at the prosecution of the said brethren and sisters, shewing him that they received the said rent both in the time of the aforesaid Mary, to whom the late king granted the said town for life, and in the time of other lords of that town, and that the said John de Harnham has retained that rent from the time when the town came to the king's hands by the said Mary's death—ordered Robert Selyman, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham, to make inquisition concerning the truth of the matter, by which it appears that the said brethren and sisters received the said rent as above from time out of mind until 29 May last, when the said Mary died, and that they have not remitted the rent to the king, or changed their estate therein.
Nov. 22.
Knaresborough.
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that John de Swyneford held in Great Styvekle, which he has taken into the king's hands on the death of the said John, and to restore the issues thereof, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, but that he held the said lands of the abbot of Rameseye by certain services, and that John son of the said John is his next heir, and is aged four years.
Nov. 4.
York.
To Master Robert de Staunford, clerk. Order to proceed speedily to the exchequer, and receive all the processes and memoranda touching the duchy of Aquitaine—both those that were in the custody of Master Elias de Joneston of the time when he was clerk of Master Philip Martel, formerly appointed by Edward I. to prosecute the affairs of the duchy, and those that were delivered to Elias by the ministers of the king and his father—from the said Elias by indenture in the presence of the treasurer and chamberlains, and to cause them to be kept safely, to be shewn by him when required to the commissaries, envoys, and proctors of the king for counsels and treaties in these affairs, for their information. The king has ordered Elias to be present at the exchequer and to deliver up the processes and memoranda as aforesaid, and has ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to pay to Robert whilst thus employed such wages and robes as Elias received. By p.s. [5925.]
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause the said wages and robes to be delivered to Master Robert de Staunford. By p.s. [5926.]
Mandate in pursuance to Elias de Joneston. By p.s. [5927.]
Dec. 2.
Knaresborough.
To John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Order not to intermeddle further with certain lands in Catwyk and Carleton, which he has taken into the king's hands on the death of Walter Whitik of Catwyk, and to restore the issuss thereof, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said Walter held those lands in his demesne as of fee at his death of the king in chief as of the honour of Albemarle, by knight service, and that William Whitik is his next heir, and is of full age, and the king—because the said William gave him to understand that he did fealty in the second year of the reign for the said lands to Queen Isabella, who held the said honour with its knights' fees by the king's grant, after the death of the said Walter his father, and satisfied her for his relief from those lands and had livery of the lands— ordered John de Oxenden, treasurer of the said queen, to search her memoranda concerning the matter, and to certify the king, and he certified that he found by the rolls of account of John de Thwet, late bailiff of the said queen of her manor of Brustwyk, that Walter de Whitik held 10 carucates of land of the said queen in Catwyk, Carleton, and Seton, by knight service, and that he died in the second year of the king's reign, and that William his son and heir, then of full age, satisfied the said queen for the relief due to her in this behalf.
Dec. 7.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause due allowance to be made to Henry de Bisshebury, late sheriff of Salop, in his account for four cartloads of lead that belonged to Roger de Mortuo Mari, late earl of March, in the town of Stretton in Strettonesdale, which he has delivered to Hugh Tyrel, king's yeoman, of the king's gift by the king's order under the privy seal.
To the same. Like order to cause allowance to be made to the said Henry for two loads of lead delivered in like manner to Hugh Tyrel.
Dec. 10.
York.
To Robert Selyman, late escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of Wirmegeye all the issues received from the lands of the priory in Narburgh, co. Norfolk, which he has taken into the king's hands upon the last voidance, as the prior and convent have the right of receiving the said issues during voidance, and the king ordered William Trussel, late escheator beyond Trent, not to intermeddle further with the lands of that house [as at page 468 above].
Dec. 10.
York.
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to deliver to Roger le Veel, clerk, his lands and 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, for the death of Bartholomew le Moul of Rudruth, 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.
Dec. 8.
York.
To the collectors of customs in the port of the town of Boston. Order to pay to the count of Julers 450 marks for Michaelmas term last from the issues of the customs, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 900 marks yearly from the issues of the said customs.
Dec. 11.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to the said collectors in their account for the said 450 marks paid by them in execution of the preceding order.
Dec. 15.
York.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause Margaret de Lound to have seisin of a toft and 2 bovates of land in Howom near Lokynton, which John son of Thomas de Howom held, who was outlawed for felony, 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 John held them of the said Margaret, and that Ralph de Bulmere, late sheriff of that county, had the king's year and day thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same, and that there was no waste there because the said John had no building or growing trees in those tenements.
To the same. Order to cause William de la Wodehalle to have seisin of 2 bovates of land in Lund, which John son of Thomas de Howom held, who was outlawed for felony, as it is found by inquisition taken by the sheriff that John held the said bovates of William, and that Ralph de Bulmere, late sheriff of that county, had the king's year and a day thereof, and ought to answer to the king therefor, and that there was no waste there because the said John had no building or growing trees in those tenements.
Dec. 20.
Kirkham.
To John de Kyngeston, constable of Baumburgh castle. Order to pay to Roger de Horsele 20 marks from the issues of that castle for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the late king's grant, on 20 November, in the 12th year of his reign, of 40 marks yearly to the said Roger for life.
Membrane 5.
Dec. 8.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Henry de Cantuaria, clerk, 100l. Tournois, and to discharge him thereof, as John Travers, constable of Bordeaux, and John Guytardi, controller in Bordeaux castle, have testified by letters to the treasurer and barons exhibited in chancery that it is found by Anthony de Pesseigne's account with Master Galhard de la Casa, late constable of Bordeaux, for the time when Anthony was the late king's seneschal of the duchy and receiver of certain moneys there, that Anthony delivered 100l. Tournois to the said Henry, then sent by the late king to the duchy, towards his expenses, and that the said 100l. Tournois, with which Henry charged himself in his account of certain receipts of his in the said parts made with Richard de Ellesfeld, afterwards the late king's constable of Bordeaux, were deducted from a certain greater sum then owing to Henry by the late king.
By letter of the chancellor.
Dec. 16.
York.
To the taxors and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Oxford. Order to acquit the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John without the east gate of Oxford of the said tenth and fifteenth for the goods of the hospital, which was founded by Henry III. of his alms, as it is so slenderly endowed that its goods now hardly suffice for the maintenance of the master and brethren and of the weak and infirm therein, and of other alms to be made according to the ordinance of the said king, and if it be charged with the aids granted to the king by the community of the realm, it will be necessary for the master and brethren to diminish the said alms.
Dec. 12.
York.
To Henry le Gulden, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to Robert atte Mulle in Gussich All Saints, which were taken into the king's hands by William Trussel, late escheator this side Trent, and to restore the issues thereof, as the escheator has certified the king that the said William had not certified him of the reason for taking these lands into the king's hands, but that John de Ledrede, then sub-escheator of the said William in cos. Somerset and Dorset, informed him that Robert held the lands in chief of the king by the service of feeding one of the king's foals every year in herbage time for three weeks at his own expense, for which reason they were taken into the king's hands, and the king—upon Roger son and heir of the said Robert giving him to understand that the said lands are not held in chief of the king, and owe no service to the king—ordered Henry to cause inquisition to be taken concerning the matter, whereby it was found that the lands are not held in chief of the king and owe no service, but that they are held of the abbess of Tarente and of the prior of God's House, Southampton, by the service of 32s. a year, and that Roger atte Mulle, son of the said Robert, is his next heir, and is aged 22 years and more.
Dec. 15.
York.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to deliver the following manors, lands and rents that were held by the military order of the Temple in that county at the time of the cession of the order, which he has taken into the king's hands in execution of his previous order [as at page 496 above], to the prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, together with the issues thereof: the manor of Templecoumbe, worth 30l. yearly, which Geoffrey de Stawell occupied; certain lands and rents at La Lade in Mertok, worth 9l. 5s. 1½d. yearly, which William de Faucomberge occupied; 64 acres of land and 12 acres of meadow at Mertok, worth 77s. 4d. yearly, which John le Fiendles occupied; certain lands in Westlepene, worth 7l. 6s. 8d. yearly, which Richard Lovel and Henry Power occupied; a messuage and a moiety of the manor of Wiliton, worth 7l. 4s. 4d. yearly, which Ralph le fitz Urs occupied; certain lands at Hidone and Blakedon, worth 40s. yearly, which Philip de Columbariis occupied; certain lands at Godele in Stok Gommere, worth 22s. yearly, which Robert le fitz Payn and John de Forde, parson of Okford church, occupied; 13 acres of meadow at Horwode near Wyncaulton, worth 2s. yearly, which Richard Lovel occupied; 18d. of yearly rent issuing from a tenement that John de Neubury held of the order of Knights Templars in Babynton; 18d. of yearly rent from a tenement in Babynton, which Agnes Samuel held of the same order, and which Philip de Columbariis occupied; a messuage and a virgate of land in Lameyete, worth 20s. yearly, which Thomas de Rodeneye occupied; 12d. of yearly rent from a certain tenement in Bruton, which the prior of Bruton occupied; 2 messuages in Mulebourn Pourt, worth 15d. yearly, which the bailiff of the town of Mulebourn Pourt occupied; a messuage at Shepton Malet worth 6s. 8d. yearly, which John de Bello Campo and John le Bakere occupied; a messuage at Shepton Malet, worth 6s. 8d. yearly, which Herbert son of Reginald and James Uppehull occupied; a messuage and a virgate of land in Maperton, worth 13s. 4d. yearly, which John de Moeles occupied: which the said men occupied as their escheats by reason of the cession and annulling of the said order of the Temple.
Dec. 16.
York.
To Henry de Guldene, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall. Order not to intermeddle further with a mill and 21 acres of land in Wyleford near Northcadebury, which William Trussel, late escheator beyond Trent, took into the king's hands pretending that the prior of Montacute had acquired them after the publication of the statute of mortmain without royal licence, and to restore the issues to the prior, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Henry that Mark, sometime prior of Montacute, acquired the mill and lands to him and his church from Roger Balon in the time of Henry III. forty years before the publication of the said statute, and that they are held of the king in chief in frankalmoin, and are worth 66s. 8d. yearly in all issues
Dec. 6.
York.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to release and give acquittance to Roger Chaundos, late sheriff of Hereford, in his account, of the issues, goods and chattels of the manors of Mawardyn and Wynferton, co. Hereford, which he delivered to Maurice de Berkeleye by the king's order, as the king, for the good service Maurice had rendered him, and in order that Maurice might maintain himself more fittingly in his service, granted to him the said manors, which belonged to Roger de Mortuo Mari of Chirk, and which came to the king's hands as escheats by reason of the forfeiture of Roger de Mortuo Mari, late earl of March, nephew and heir of the said Roger, to be held under a certain form, and the king afterwards granted to Maurice all the issues of the said manors from the time of the said forfeiture for which answer had not been made to the king, and also all the king's goods and chattels in those manors, to be held of his gift, and ordered the sheriff of that county to deliver the issues and goods to Maurice.
Dec. 7.
York.
To the same. Order to cause Roger Chaundos, late sheriff of Hereford, to be discharged in his account of the oxen, plough beasts (affris carucarum), armour, brazen pots, bowls, and other domestic utensils, and tapets, wall-hangings (dosser'), and beds (lecta) of the arms of Edmund son of Roger de Mortuo Mari, and of the other small things that belonged to Roger in the castle and manor of Wyggemore, the land of Melenyth, with the castles of Kenthles and Dynband in the same land, the land of Kedewynk, with the castle of Dolvoreyn, the land of Comotoyder, which Roger held for life, with remainder to Edmund, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of Roger's death, as the king restored the said castle, manor, and lands to Edmund, and granted to him the said goods, which he ordered the sheriff of Hereford to deliver to him by indenture.