Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1342

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 6, 1341-1343. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1902.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1342', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 6, 1341-1343, (London, 1902) pp. 616-617. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol6/pp616-617 [accessed 23 April 2024]

December 1342



Dec. 17. Westminster.	To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to deliver to Thomas son of Roger de Ormesby the manor of Ormesby, together with the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Roger de Ormesby at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee, but that he held the said manor for life of the gift and enfeoffment of Thomas de Hikelyng, parson of Malteby church, by the king's licence, so that after his death the manor, except 2 messuages, 102 acres 3 roods of land, 36 acres of pasture, 20 acres of turf, 18 acres of heath, 44s. 9¼d. rent and fifty-two works of free tenants in the autumn and a rent of 59 hens, which are parcels of the manor, should remain to Thomas son of the said Roger and to the heirs of his body, and the messuages, land, pasture, turf, heath, rents and works should remain to the same Thomas and to Margaret his wife and to Thomas's heirs, and that the entire manor is held in chief as in socage by the service of 16l. yearly, and the king has taken Thomas's fealty.
Dec. 20. Berkhampstead.	To Thomas Crosse, keeper of the great wardrobe. Order to keep until further orders all the goods which he received of the goods in two ships called 'Tarites,' which lately touched at Dertemuth, informing the king of all the goods so received by him and how much if any has been sold and for what price.
Dec. 26. Berkhampstead.	To Nicholas de Karliolo and Richard de Grymesby, the king's sergeant at arms, appointed to arrest non-coketted and non-customed wool in ships in the water of Hull and elsewhere in those parts. Order to deliver 41 sacks 3 pockets of wool, arrested by them in a ship near Hull because it was not coketted or customed, and in their custody as forfeit to the king, to Hugh de Neysy, clerk and attorney of the treasurer, by indenture, to be taken to Flanders for the king's benefit, as has been fully ordained by the council.
Dec. 26. Berkhampstead.	To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit Hugh de Neysy to lade the said 41 sacks 3 pockets of wool in that port and take them to Flanders, after paying at the rate of ½ mark a sack for the custom.