Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1893.
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'Close Rolls, Edward II: September 1315', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 245-250. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp245-250 [accessed 17 April 2024]
September 1315
Sept. 1. Lincoln. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to release Theobald de Tyllio, proctor of Pandulph de Tyllio, from the king's prison of York, where he is imprisoned for a suit made by him against the king outside the realm concerning the prebend of Northneubald in St. Peter's church, York, upon his finding security not to do anything to the prejudice of the king or his crown in any place. | ||||
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Sept. 1. Lincoln. |
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Adam de Herwynton, Simon de Sutton, and William de Wellesbourn the manors of Gretham, in the county of Rutland, Kibbeworth Beauchamp and Harecourt, in the county of Leicester, and Wykewane, in the county of Gloucester, taken into the king's hands by him upon the death of Guy de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, and to restore to them the issues of the same, as the earl demised the manors to them for ten years from Friday after St. Gregory, in the eighth year of the king's reign, at a yearly rent of 200l., which demise the king confirmed. | ||||
To Ralph de Monte Hermerii, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Philip de la Beche, sheriff of Wilts, to have ten oaks fit for timber from the forest of Pambere, to repair therewith the houses and buildings in the castle of Old Sarum. | |||||
To Richard de Bernyngham and his fellows, late taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in Westrithing in the county of York granted to the king in the seventh year of his reign. Order to pay up to 100 marks out of the arrears to John le Irreis for the wages of himself and those in his company in the king's service in the marches of Scotland. | |||||
By K. | |||||
Sept. 2. Lincoln. |
To the taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the county of Norfolk. Order to pay to Henry de Shyrokes as much money as Walter de Norwyco, the king's treasurer, shall tell them by his letters patent to pay for the wages of the men in the king's fleet on the sea setting out in the company of John Botetourte. By K. | ||||
To Robert de Umframvill, earl of Anegos, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause the bailiffs of the city of Carlisle to have twelve oaks fit for timber in the king's forest of Ingelwode, to construct anew therewith the king's mills and fisheries burnt by the Scotch rebels. By K. | |||||
Sept. 1. Lincoln. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the abbot of St. Benedict of Fleury-sur-Loire (Leyre) of five marks, in which he made fine with the king to have a general attorney in England, the king having pardoned him the same at the request of queen Isabella. By K. | ||||
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to supersede altogether the demand made upon the abbot for the above. | |||||
To Robert de Umframvill, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Inglewode. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of Carlisle a tithe of the venison taken and to be taken this year in the forest of Inglewode, as he and his predecessors have been wont to have such tithe. | |||||
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William Cause, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity. | |||||
Sept. 1. Lincoln. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to pay to the king's clerk John de Hothum, whom the king is sending to Ireland upon certain of his affairs, his expenses during his stay there, to wit 40s. daily and his passages going and coming. By K. | ||||
To the taxors and collectors of the fifteenth and twentieth in the county of Nottingham. Order to pay to the above named John 200 marks in aid of his expenses in going to Ireland. | |||||
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay 2,884l. 15s. 4d. to the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, in part payment of the 7,084l. 15s. 4d. that the king ordered them to pay out of the tenth of the clergy and the twentieth and fifteenth and other issues of the realm, to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa, as he has given the king to understand that he borrowed that sum from the Bardi and he has prayed the king to cause it to be paid to them in his name. | |||||
Sept. 7. Spalding. |
To Ralph de Monte Hermerii, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause to be replevied to John de Daggeworth until the coming of the justices in eyre for pleas of the forest his wood within the bounds of the forest of Essex, which the keeper took into the king's hands because John caused five oaks to be felled therein, whereas he ought not to take any oak without the view of the foresters and verderers, so that he wasted the underwood of the forest. | ||||
Sept. 8. Spalding. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Order to buy and provide 300 quarters of wheat and 200 quarters of barley, and to cause them to be taken without delay to Berwick-on-Tweed, so that they be there before the feast of All Saints, for the munition of that town. | ||||
The like to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for the like quantities. | |||||
The like to the sheriff of Essex for 600 quarters of oats. | |||||
Membrane 25. | |||||
Sept. 1. Lincoln. |
To the abbot and convent of St. Mary's, York, collectors in the archdeaconries of York, Estrithingg' and Cliveland of the twelvepence in the mark granted by the clergy of the province of York in aid of the Scotch war. Grant that they may retain 250l. out of the above in part satisfaction of the 300l. of the tenth of the clergy for six years imposed by Clement V. that they lent to the king by the hands of Anthony de (sic) Pessaigne of Genoa. The king has ordered the abbot and convent of Selby, collectors of the said money in the archdeaconry of Richemund, to pay them the remaining 50l. Et erant patentes. | ||||
Mandate in pursuance to the abbot and convent of Selby. | |||||
Et erant patentes. | |||||
Sept. 1. Lincoln. |
To Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Idonia, late the wife of Thomas Traynez, as nearest [friend] of her son John son of the said Thomas, kinsman and heir of John Traynez, the lands of the said John in Pynelthorp, Stokbrigge, Kilpyn, Skelton, Neubaud, Linton, Benetland, Estrington, Thorp, Houeden and Barneby, held by the deceased of the bishopric of Durham, lately void and in the king's hands, by homage and service of 103s. 10d. of free ferm yearly, which the king ordered Robert de Wodehowse, late escheator beyond Trent, to deliver to Idonia in accordance with the finding of an inquisition taken by him, by which it was found that the heir was then nine years and that the deceased held no lands of the king or the bishopric by knight service; which lands the king afterwards ordered the said Robert de Wodehowse to resume into his hands because it was found by another inquisition taken by him that the bishops of Durham always had in times past the custody of the lands of other men in those parts holding by like service, and the king ordered him to deliver the said lands to Nicholas de Chilleham, to whom the king had committed the custody of the lands and heir, to hold in tenencia until the parliament summoned to meet at Lincoln on Sunday after St. Mary Magdalene, in the fifth year of the king's reign, Nicholas having asserted that he would prove that the custody pertained to the king: it now appearing by an inquisition taken by the present escheator, in accordance with the king's order issued because Idonia by petition in the last parliament at Westminster gave the king to understand that the lands are held of the bishopric in socage, that the lands are held of the bishopric of Durham as of the manor of Houeden by the service above-named and not by knight service nor socage, and that the bishops of Durham never had the custody of any of the heir's ancestors by reason of the said lands, and that they had not of right the custody of other men holding of them by like service in those parts. | ||||
Sept. 2. Lincoln. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to deliver to the king's yeomen Adam de Bray, whom the king is sending with twenty-six great horses of the king's and two horses of his own, and two horses of Master Richard the farrier (marescallus) of the said horses to stay at Lenton until further orders, hay, oats, litter, and other necessaries for the horses, and to pay Adam 6d. a day for the wages of himself and his groom, 6d. a day for Richard and his groom, and for twenty-six grooms attending the horses their usual wages. | ||||
To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver to the king's yeoman Giles de Tholosa, whom the king is sending with twenty-two of the king's horses and two of his own, and two horses of Master John the farrier of the horses to stay at Wellebek abbey until further orders, hay, oats, litter, and other necessaries for the said horses, and to pay him 6d. a day for the wages of John and his groom, and the usual wages of the thirty-two grooms keeping the horses. (fn. 1) | |||||
To Robert de Umframvill, earl of Anegos, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause William de Clif, steward of the forest of Galtres, to have the following allowances, which Master Robert de Pykeryng, dean of St. Peter's church, York, John de Donecastre, and Alexander de Cave, appointed by the king to enquire what pertained to the office of the steward of Galtres forest, have found by inquisition that he ought to receive; to appoint and discharge foresters therein at his will, and to have the bark (tanna) and branches of all oaks felled by the king, to have his puture therein, and to have two launds (landas) called 'Hanterwayth' and 'Ercedekneclos,' rendering therefor to the king 5s. yearly, and to have chiminage and head-tax (caplicium), rendering therefor 10s. yearly, and to have the profit of swine entering the covert of the forest in the forbidden month, to wit ½d. from each swine. | |||||
Sept. 8. Spalding. |
Nicholas de Tarente, clerk, has letters of presentation, directed to R. elect confirmed of Salisbury, to the church of Tarente Hyneton, void by the resignation of Master John de Tarente, the last rector, pertaining to the king's donation by reason of the abbey of Shaftesbury being void and in the king's hands. | ||||
Vacated, because on the Patent roll. | |||||
Thomas de Spyneye of Grantisden, clerk, has letters of presentation to the church of Lyndon, diocese of Lincoln, void and pertaining to the king's presentation, directed to J. [bishop] of Lincoln—[Incomplete entry.] | |||||
Vacated, because on the Patent roll. | |||||
To John de Cherleton, constable of Buelt castle. Order to repair the houses, walls, and other buildings within the castle by the view of Richard de Mustlewyk, the king's chamberlain in those parts. | |||||
To the same. Order to provision the said castle with victuals and other dead garnisture by the view of the said Richard. | |||||
Sept. 16. Ramsey. |
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Essex to be elected in place of William de Bomstede, deceased. | ||||
Sept. 20. Ditton. |
To the taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the county of Kent. Order to pay 100l. out of the above to John de Sandale, the king's chancellor, at Canterbury on Sunday the eve of Michaelmas, for the king's affairs. | ||||
The like to the taxors and collectors in the county of Sussex for 100 marks. | |||||
Oct. 1. Ditton. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to pay to Peter Faber of Monpellier, keeper of the king's leopard in the Tower, 6d. a day for the maintenance of the leopard and 1½d. a day for his wages from Michaelmas last. | ||||
Sept. 27. Ditton. |
To William Martyn, justice of West Wales. Order to permit the king's yeoman John de Skydemore, constable of Lampadervaure castle, to hold the constabulary of Meveneth, which he has held from the late king's reign at ferm, which ferm he has paid in full, as the king learns that the justice intends to amove him from that constabulary at the procurement of other persons. By p.s. [3468.] | ||||
Sept. 24. Ditton. |
To the same. Order to cause any inquisition that may have to be taken by reason of the disputes between the abovesaid John and the Welsh of Generglen of the county of Cardigan to be taken by Englishmen of that county and not by Welshmen, as John complains that he intends doing, as the Welsh hate the said John because he inflicted much damage upon them during the war in the late king's time. By p.s. | ||||
Oct. 1. Ditton. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to the king's yeoman Giles de Tolouse, staying in his county (sic) at Wellebek with thirty-two horses of the king's and two of his own and two of Master John Gylemyn, the farrier (marescallus) of the said horses, 18s. daily from September 1 last during his stay there, for the maintenance of the horses and the wages of Giles and John and the grooms attending the horses. By C. | ||||
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph Hathewy, who is insufficiently qualified. | |||||
Sept. 1. Lincoln. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, in addition to the sum of 2,884l. 15s. 4d. that the king ordered, on August 15, to be paid to them in part-payment of 7,084l. 15s. 4d. due to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa, the sum of 331l. paid by the said Anthony to Gilbert Pecche and Master Richard de Plumstok for their expenses in going on the king's affairs to Avignon in December last, as appears by a bill sealed by William de Melton, keeper of the wardrobe, the merchants of the society of the Bardi having satisfied Anthony for this sum. By K. | ||||
Oct. 6. Walsingham. |
To the taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the county of Norfolk. Order to pay to Master Roger de Acton, the king's lardener, 300l., to pay for sixty thousands of 'stocfissh' and twelve score of codfish (vintoni de moru) bought for the king's use, and for earnest (ad arras) for sixty thousands of herrings, by the view of Geoffrey de Ely appointed for this purpose by Walter de Norwyco, the treasurer. By C. | ||||
Membrane 24. | |||||
Sept. 18. Ditton. |
To Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Matilda, late the wife of Robert de Clifford, tenant in chief, of her husband's lands in Skelton, in the county of Cumberland, whereof she has not yet received dower. | ||||
With the assent of the keeper of Robert's heir | |||||
To the same. Order to deliver to the said Matilda the following rents, which the king has assigned to her, with the consent of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, keeper of the said Robert's lands and heir, in recompence for 13 marks, 4s. 54/12d., her dower of 40 marks wherewith her husband after the marriage charged the manor of Burgh-under-Staynmore for the lives of Thomas de Mounteny and John de Mounteny; 5s. 0d. of rent in Melcanthorp, in the county of Westmoreland, from Margaret de Ros; 6d. of rent in Colleby, in the same county, from Thomas de Colleby; 6d. in Souleby and Warthecop, in the same county, from Thomas Bowet; 4l. of rent in Milneburn, in the same county, from Thomas de Halteclogh and Adam Baret; 6d. of rent in Rokeby, in the same county, from Robert de Askeby; 6d. of rent in Cliburn, in the same county, from William de Tyl; 5s. of rent in Tybay, in the same county, from the heirs of Thomas de Hastyng'; and 6s. 8d. of rent in Burgh, in the same county, to be received from Alan de Cabergh for having common of pasture between Mousegill and Belewe. |