Close Rolls, Edward II: February 1314 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1893.

'Close Rolls, Edward II: February 1314', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 37. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/p37 [accessed 24 April 2024]

February 1314



Feb. 4. Windsor.	To the same. Order to cause John de Burgo and his wife Sybil, daughter and heiress of Roger de Carom of Shirington, a tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of the said Roger's lands, as she has proved her age before the said escheator and the king has taken fealty of her husband for the above lands.
	To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas de Derset (sic), who has no lands in that county to qualify him.
	Membrane 12.
	Enrolment of composition between John de Merton and Stephen de Brawode, appointed by the king to make inquisitions in the county of Norfolk concerning the arrests of the goods of the merchants of William, count of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, arrested in satisfaction of the sum of 954l. due to Walter le Keu of Lincoln and his fellows and of 259l. due to Richard Wake and John Wyp, acknowledged by the count's envoys at the parliament of Estaunford, in the third year of the king's reign, for which the count bound himself to Robert Elis of Great Yarmouth, who became surety for payment of the same to the said merchants, and between William de Brawod and John de Turnay, the count's envoys sent by him to request the king to make inquisition concerning the said arrests, so that the count might cause the said merchants to be satisfied for what was still due to them. It was found by inquisition that goods to the value of 70l. 17s. 0d. were arrested at Great Yarmouth, in the fourth year of the king' reign, and were delivered to Robert Elis; that 70l. of the money of the count's men in the hands of men of the same town were arrested but not levied in the same year; that goods to the value of 111l. 7s. 0d. were arrested at Lynn, in the same year, and were delivered to the said Walter as attorney of Robert Elis; and that Walter has received in addition 35l. 11s. 0d.: total 287l. 15s. 0d., whereof Walter has received from Robert and in Robert's name 217l. 15s. 0d., in part payment of the aforesaid 954l. The count, the king, and the envoys agree that Walter shall have a writ to levy the 70l. in the hands of the men of Yarmouth, and that Walter shall go with the envoys to the count to receive satisfaction for the balance due to him and for his damages, and that, if the count fail to satisfy him, he shall recover from the goods of the count's merchants coming to England. It is agreed that Robert Elis shall receive nothing by virtue of the aforesaid obligation in right of the said merchant's debts and of the debt of 259l. due to Richard Wake and John Wyp, as Richard and John were present at the inquisition and were found not to have received or arrested anything. Whereupon they were desired to come to the king's court to receive award, which they promised to do; but they did not appear, though the envoys long awaited them. It is agreed that they shall [not] sue or make arrest, but shall go to the count in person, unless they agree that Walter shall represent them. Dated and enrolled at Westminster in the king's chancery, January 31, in the seventh year, one part of the indenture being delivered to the envoys and the other to Walter in the name of himself and the said Richard and John. French. [Fœdera.]