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Membrane 4. |
Dec. 1.
Westminster. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Whereas the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert de Holand and
Matilda his wife held jointly on the day of his death, to them and the heirs
of their bodies, the manors of Bagworth and Thornton, co. Leicester, of the
gift of Robert de Wylughby and John Harecourt, and the manor of
Broghton with the hamlet of Caldecote, co. Buckingham, of the gift of
Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, and that they also held jointly on the said
day, to them and to Robert's heirs, the manor of Lyndrich, co. Leicester, of
the gift of John de Sancto Laurencio, and certain lands in Nayleston near
Lyndrich, co. Leicester, of the gift of William de Hastyng', and also that
they held jointly on the said day for their lives the manor of Rydelyngton,
co. Rutland, by fine levied in the late king's court, with remainder to Alan
their son, and to the heirs male of his body, and that the manor of Thornton
is held of the heir of Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick, a minor in
the king's wardship, by knight service, and that the said lands in Nayleston
are held of the heir of John de Hastyng', also a minor in the king's
wardship, by the service of 8s. 4d. yearly, and that the manors of Bagworth,
Lyndrich, and Broghton, and the hamlet of Rydelyngton are held of the
king, and that Robert de Holand, son of the said Robert, is his next heir
and is aged sixteen years, and the king has taken Matilda's homage for the
manor and lands thus held of the heirs aforesaid: the king therefore orders
the escheator to deliver to her the manor and lands thus held of the heirs,
and not to intermeddle further with the manors and lands thus held of
other lords, and to restore the issues thereof. |
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To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a third of the
manor of Shepesheved, co. Leicester, the manor of Hals and the town of
Brackele, co. Northampton, and a moiety of the manor of Great Gatesden,
co. Hertford, and to restore the issues thereof to the aforesaid Matilda, late
the wife of Robert de Holand, as the king learns by inquisition taken by
the escheator that Robert held the premises on the day of his death of her
inheritance, and that the said third, the manor and town are held of the
king in chief by knight service and that the moiety is not held of him, and
that Robert de Holand, son of the said Robert, is his next heir and is aged
sixteen years. |
Dec. 1.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Whereas the king lately ordered him to
supersede until the Exaltation of the Holy Cross next the execution of the
king's late order to cause execution of the statute of Winchester to be made
as to 130l., the value of the goods of Richard de Welleford and Geoffrey de
Weston, merchants of London, whereof they were robbed in the king's
highway between Arnyngton and Caxton, in the hundred of Stowe, in that
county, which order to supersede the king issued because he learned from
the men of the said hundred that many malefactors were taken and
imprisoned for the robbery within forty days of its perpetration at the suit
of the men of those parts, and were detained in prison at Cambridge, and
he ordered the mayor and bailiffs of Cambridge to certify him before the
said feast of the names of the malefactors aforesaid, etc., and he ordered the
sheriff and the coroners of the county to send him the indictment, if one
had been made, for the robbery; and the parties appeared by their attorneys
in chancery on the said day, and the king prefixed a day for them to be
before him in parliament at Salisbury on Sunday after the quinzaine of
Michaelmas last; at which day Richard and Geoffrey offered themselves by
John de Norton, their attorney, against the men of the hundred, and prayed
that execution should be made of the men's goods and chattels according to
the statute, and the king gave the parties a day to be before him in the
quinzaine of Martinmas last, because the men alleged that the returns of the
aforesaid writs addressed to the sheriff and coroners and to the said mayor
and bailiffs were false; and the king sent the inquisitions, together with
the sheriff's return and the returns of the coroners and of the mayor and
bailiffs sent before him in chancery, and the petition of the men exhibited
in chancery to Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas
before him, sub pede sigilli, and ordered the justices to inspect them and to
cause justice to be done to the said merchants according to the statute; at
which quinzaine the said merchants and the said men, to wit William
Avenel, knight, and certain other men of the hundred, appeared, and the
men said, as before, that the returns of the said writs were false, and that
Ralph le Thresshe and certain other thieves were taken and detained in
prison at Cambridge within forty days after the commission of the robbery,
and this they proffered to verify, wherefore a day was given them until the
morrow of the fourth day of the said quinzaine; at which day the merchants
came, and the men of the hundred, being solemnly called, did not come, and
did not prosecute their verification aforesaid, and the merchants prayed that
execution may be adjudged to them according to the statute for the recovery
of their stolen goods and chattels, because it appears plainly by the returns
of the sheriff and the coroners and the mayor and bailiffs that no indictment
was made before the sheriff and coroners for the robbery, and that no thief
was taken and imprisoned at Cambridge for the robbery within forty days
after the commission of the robbery: as it was considered by the said
justices that the merchants shall return to chancery and there prosecute to
have execution for their goods, since the matter was sent out of chancery
before the king because the said men pretended their said verification in
chancery and did not prosecute it before the king, as appears by the record
and process of the whole matter remitted into chancery, the king orders
the sheriff to cause execution of the statute as to the said 130l. to be made
without delay, and to cause Richard and Geoffrey to have that sum, certifyin the king in the octaves of St. Hilary of his proceedings. |
Dec. 13.
Gloucester. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with 5½ acres of land of Hugh Randulph in Chirchecouel[e],
and to restore the issues thereof, as the escheator has returned that he did
not take the land into the king's hands, but that William Trussel, the late
escheator, delivered it to him amongst other things, asserting that it was in
the king's hands by reason of the trespass committed by the abbot of
Oseneye in appropriating the land to him and his house by certain of his
bondmen without royal licence after the publication of the statute of
mortmain, and that Simon found by inquisition that one Thomas Randolph,
a freeman and of free condition, acquired the land to him and the aforesaid
Hugh his son for their lives from Andrew Amori, after whose death William
Amori, his son and heir, quit-claimed the land to Hugh and to his heirs,
and that John de Croxford, the late sub-escheator in co. Oxford, took the
land into the king's hands because Hugh then held a villein's holding
(villenagium) of the abbot, understanding that Hugh was a bondman and
that the abbot had put his hand on the land, which he had not done. |
Dec. 15.
Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause
Peter Pugelot, to whom the king lately committed the custody of his custom
of wool, hides, and wool-fells in Ireland during pleasure, to come to the said
exchequer, and to cause his account for the time that he had the custody to
be audited, and to cause all other things pertaining to such account to be
done, and to cause allowance to be made to him for his fee. |
Dec. 13.
Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to supersede the placing in exigent to
be outlawed of Thomas de Multon of Kyrketon, Ralph fitz Wauter, John de
Casthorp, and Robert son of Clement de Buttele, who were lately indicted
before William de Ros and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer in that
county, for divers felonies and trespasses, and who are placed in exigent at
the king's suit because they did not come before the justices to answer, as
the king has ordered the said William to send the indictments to him
because he wills that they shall be determined before him and not elsewhere,
and Thomas, Ralph, John, and Robert have come into chancery in person
and have found mainpernors to have them before the king in the octaves of
St. Hilary next to stand to right concerning the said indictments.
By K. & C. |
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Memorandum, that Robert de Ardern of co. Warwick, Alexander de
Cobeldyk of co. Lincoln, Robert Knyvet of co. Nottingham, and John de
Meres of co. Lincoln, mainperned for the said men as above. |
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Mandate in pursuance to the said William de Ros. By K. & C. |
Dec. 16.
Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause the forest of Kyngeswode
and the chace of Filwode to be taken into the king's hands without delay,
and to cause them to be kept safely until further orders, as the king learns
by inquisition taken by William de Bello Campo and Robert de Aston that
Michael de Aune, keeper of the said forest and chace, felled a hundred oaks
of the king's wood in the forest, price 10l., and 80 acres of 'gorst,' price
10l., without licence and warrant after the king's accession, and caused them
to be sold, and took the profit thereof for his own use, and that he likewise
took and had his will of six bucks and six does of the king's venison
without warrant, and that the forest is badly kept in vert and vension in
his default. By p.s. [2273.] |
Dec. 19.
Gloucester. |
To John de Roches, keeper of the islands of Gerneseye, Jereseye, Serk,
and Aurneye. Order to cause the king's ferms and rents in the island of
Jereseye to be levied according to the value of the money now current
there, and to supersede until the next parliament the levy of the remainder
as to the value of the old money, so that the king may then cause ordinance
to be made concerning this matter, the king having lately ordered him to
take his ferms and rents to the value of the old money, whereof four made a
sterling, whereas eight pennies of the money now current there are not worth
a sterling, as the king learns from the complaint of the men of Jereseye that
they and their ancestors in the times of the king's progenitors have always
used such money in the islands as the men of Normandy used in those
parts, and that if the ferms and rents in the island be levied from them to
the value of the old money by pretext of the said order, it would be to their
impoverishment and contrary to the custom aforesaid, and they have prayed
the king to provide a remedy. By C. |
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The like in favour of the men of the islands of Gerneseye, Serk, and
Aurneye. |
Dec. 20.
Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de
Multon to have allowance for 120l. due from him for the custody of the
lands of his inheritance, which he has paid by the king's order to Anthony
de Lucy, keeper of the castle and town of Carlisle, in part payment of
369l. 7s. 1d. due to him from the king for the custody of the castle and
town from the last day of May, in the first year of the reign, until
7 September following, as appears by a bill under the seal of Robert de
Wodehouse, late keeper of the wardrobe. |
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Membrane 3. |
Nov. 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to pay to Alesia, late the wife of
Edmund, earl of Arundel, the arrears of 180l. yearly from the ferm of that
city from 11 August last, and to pay her that sum yearly henceforth for so
long as they shall be sheriffs or until otherwise ordered, as the king on the
said day granted to her—in recompence for the manors of Fairford,
co. Gloucester, and Caversham, co. Oxford, and for 100l. yearly due to the
exchequer from Walter Turk for the ferm of Merlawe and Bolestrode,
co. Buckingham, which the king lately assigned to her as of the value of 320l.
yearly amongst other things in aid of the maintenance of her and her boys,
and which the king afterwards rendered to Eleanor, late the wife of Hugh
le Despenser, the younger, as her right and inheritance—180l. from the
ferm of the city in addition to the 80l. that she receives from the same by his
assignment, and 140l. from the ferm and issues of cos. Surrey and Sussex. |
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The like to the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex concerning the arrears of
the said 140l. from the issues of those counties. |
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To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to release and restore to
Firmin de Arraz, merchant of Amiens, his goods and wares, which they have
arrested by virtue of the king's order to the sheriff of Southampton to arrest
the goods of the men and merchants of France, Normandy, and Poitou, as
the king, on 2 November last, took Firmin into his protection for one year,
and he found the king security upon another occasion to answer to him for
his goods and wares when the king will speak against him concerning them. |
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The like to the following, 'mutatis mutandis'; |
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The sheriff of Wilts. |
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The sheriff of Devon. |
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The sheriff of Southampton. |
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To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Like order in favour of
Thomas Alanayne and Firmin Averdraps, merchants of Amiens, whom the
king received into his protection on 29 October last for two years. |
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The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to the following: |
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The sheriff of Wilts. |
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The sheriff of Devon. |
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The sheriff of Southampton. |
Dec. 1.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port
of London, for the present and future. Order to pay to Philip de Castro
100 marks yearly from the issues of the custom, in accordance with the
king's grant of 10 February, in the first year of his reign, notwithstanding
any assignments of the custom made or to be made hereafter by the king,
as the king wishes to provide for Philip's security so that he may not be
hindered from obtaining payment by any such assignments. By K. |
Dec. 1.
Westminster. |
To the same. Like order in favour of John de Hanon[ia] for payment
of 1,000 marks yearly, in accordance with the king's grant of 7 February,
in the first year of his reign. By K. |
Dec. 1.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to pay to Bartholomew de Burghessh,
whom the king has appointed with others to hear and determine felonies
and trespasses in co. Kent and divers other counties, 100 marks from the
issues forfeited, amercements, fines, and other profits pertaining to the king,
according to the estreats delivered to the sheriff on the king's behalf, as the
king has granted this sum to Bartholomew in aid of his expenses in his
service. By p.s. |
Dec. 13.
Gloucester. |
To Robert atte Barre, bailiff of Southampton. Order to deliver to John
de Deen, usher of the queen consort's chamber, or to his attorney, the office
of tronage of wool in that port, which Richard de Biflet, who had the office
by the late king's commission, has delivered to the bailiff by the king's
order, as the king has granted the office to John for life in consideration of
his good service past and to come. |
Dec. 15.
Gloucester. |
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, justice of Wales. Order to
cause Hugh son of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, who is imprisoned in
his custody by the king's order, to come to Bristol, there to be delivered by
indenture to Thomas de Gournay, constable of Bristol castle, for custody in
prison there, as enjoined by the king. By K. |
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Mandate in pursuance to the said constable. |
Dec. 15.
Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance
to be made to Philip de Hardreshull, in his account for the time when he
was keeper of forfeited lands in co. Berks, for 8l. 15s. 0d. paid by him out
of the issues of the manor of Wohfeld to Richard son of Thomas Danvers,
in execution of the late king's order of 16 (sic) March, in the 18th year of
his reign, to pay to Richard the arrears of 100s. yearly for the time that he
had had the custody of the manor of Newebury, in that county [as in this
Calendar, 18 Edward II. p. 264]. |
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Like order to allow Philip 8l. 15s. 0d. paid by him, in execution of a
similar writ, to William son of Thomas Danvers, for the arrears of a yearly
rent of 100s. granted to him by Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wyggemore. |
Dec. 16.
Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to William
de Leycestria and John de Braideston, keepers of the goods of Walter, late
archbishop of Canterbury, the money, jewels, corn, goods and chattels of
Walter delivered by them to Simon, archbishop of Canterbury, by the
king's order [as at page 338 above], as appears by divers indentures made
between them and the archbishop. |
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To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to the said keepers
for 300l. paid by them to Reginald de Cobeham by the king's order, as
appears by Reginald's letters patent of receipt. |
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To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to the said William
de Leycestria for his expenses suitable to his estate during his stay as one
of the keepers of the temporalities of the archbishopric of Canterbury, as
the king, on 20 November, in the first year of his reign, committed the
custody of the temporalities to the said William, John de Ifeld, and John
de Breydeston, and William has now shewn the king that he has made a
continuous stay in the said custody from that day until now, incurring great
expense, and he has prayed the king to cause allowance to be made to him
in his account for wages suitable to his estate. |
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Membrane 2. |
Dec. 28.
Worcester. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause Bartholomew de Burghesshe,
constable of Dover castle, to have as many men from his bailiwick for the
custody of the castle as the constable or he who supplies his place shall require from the sheriff, in case the constable require an aid of men for the
custody thereof beyond the garrison, and to aid in the custody of the castle
with the posse of the county whenever summoned by the constable or
him who supplies his place. By K. |
Dec. 18.
Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause all goods of the men and
merchants of France, Normandy, and Poitou, except of the men and
merchants of Amiens, arrested by the sheriff in execution of the king's
order to arrest and detain such goods until John Pike and John Gyme of
London and other merchants of the realm be satisfied for the damages
inflicted upon them by malefactors of the said lands, to be appraised in the
presence of the owners of the goods, and to cause the goods, to the value of
226l. 13s. 4d., to be delivered to the said John and John, in part payment
of 426l. 13s. 4d., upon their finding security to answer to the king for the
said goods or their price when summoned by him, certifying the king of
his proceedings, as the king afterwards, in response to the petition of
John and John to cause justice to be done to them, appointed John
Randolf, John de Tichebourn, Robert de Hungerford, and Ralph de
Bereford to make inquisition concerning the losses of the said John and
John, by the oath of merchants trading beyond sea and of others in
co. Southampton, and it is found by the proof taken before them and
returned into chancery that malefactors of France, Normandy, Poitou, and
elsewhere in the realm of France took, burned, and had their will of a ship of
the said John and John called 'La Nicholas' of London, with the tackle
of the same, price 200l., and other goods and chattels of the said John and
John to the value of 126l. 13s. 4d., and 100l. in ready money found in the
ship, in addition to the slaying of men and the damages sustained in this
behalf, wherefore John and John have besought the king to cause the said
goods and chattels to be delivered to them so that they may not be wasted
or eloigned. The king has ordered the bailiffs of Ipswich to cause goods
and chattels arrested in like manner to the value of 200l. to be appraised
and delivered to the said John and John. By p.s. |
