Close Rolls, Edward II: June 1317

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: June 1317', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 411-420. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp411-420 [accessed 14 April 2024]

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June 1317

June 2.
Westminster.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to Philip Middey, keeper in fee of the park of Staundon, which belonged to Gilbert de Clare, late earl of Gloucester and Hertford, the arrears of the wages that he ought to receive for that custody for the time that the park has been in the king's hands, and to continue to pay him the same wages.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Andrew Hurand, whom the king has amoved for insufficiency.
Membrane 5.
May 20.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Ellen, late the wife of Nicholas de Sancto Mauro, tenant in chief, the following of his lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower: lands in Shiffeld and Charlaxton, co. Sussex, of the yearly value of 4l. 1s. 9d.; lands in Kingeston, co. Warwick, of the yearly value of 15s. 8d.; 26s. 6½d. of yearly rent in Bassingburn, co. Cambridge, from the hands of the free tenants there; a third of the manor of Polton, co. Wilts, of the yearly value of 20l.
June 1.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Master James de Ispania, in his ferm of the manor of Hedindon, 50s. expended by him by the late king's oral orders in constructing a cowhouse (boverie) in that manor, which sum the late king, on 15 June, in the 19th year of his reign, ordered his treasurer and barons to allow to the aforesaid James.
June 5.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Margaret, late the wife of Robert de Wylughby, tenant in chief, the following of his lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower by the assent of Roger Damory, to whom he committed the custody of two parts of the lands: the manor of Wylughby, co. Lincoln, of the yearly value of 114l. 19s. 11½d.; lands in Ulseby and Drexthorp, in the same county, of the yearly value of 39s. 9d.; the manor of Wyspyngton, in the same county, of the yearly value of 18l. 8s. 4d.; tenements in Wythalle, in the same county, of the yearly value of 2s.; lands in Scryvelby, in the same county, of the yearly value of 27s. 9d.; lands in Langeton and Thymelby, in the same county, of the yearly value of 4l. 3s. 7d.; lands in Foletby, in the same county, of the yearly value of 9l. 0s. 4d.; lands in Toft, in the same county, of the yearly value of 79s. 11d.; lands in Leverton and Boston and Braitoft, in the same county, of the yearly value of 63s.
To Robert de Sapy, escheator beyond Trent. Like order to deliver to the aforesaid Margaret the following of her husband's lands: lands in Helghfeld, co. York, of the yearly value of 4l. 19s. 2d.; a moiety of the manor of Pleselay, co. Derby, of the yearly value of 4l. 15s. 8d.; lands in Mamesfeld, co. Nottingham, of the yearly value of 5s.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Like order to deliver to the aforesaid Margaret the following of her husband's knights' fees: a fee and three parts in Foletby and Oxcumbe, co. Lincoln, which Walter de Friskeyey (sic) holds, of the yearly value of 20l.; a moiety of a fee in Wodehalle, in the same county, which John de Wodehalle holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a third of a fee in Ingoldby, in the same county, which John de Ingoldby holds, of the yearly value of 4l.; a moiety of a fee in Bisshopthorp, in the same county, which John de Nevill holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a quarter of a fee in Wilghby, in the same county, which Thomas Pilat holds, of the yearly of 40s.; a twentieth of a fee in Saltfleteby, in the same county, which Robert le Vavasur holds, of the yearly value of 5s.
June 5.
Westminster.
To the same. Like order to deliver to the aforesaid Margaret the following of her husband's advowsons of churches: the church of Hoggesthorp, co. Lincoln, of the yearly value of 40 marks; the church of Spillesby, in the same county, of the yearly value of 10l.; the church of Nether Toynton, in the same county, of the yearly value of 100s.; a moiety of the abbey of Haghenby, in the same county, of the yearly value of 2s.; a third of a moiety of the advowson of the church of Holebeche, in the same county, of the yearly value of 200 marks.
To Robert de Sapy, escheator beyond Trent. Like order to deliver to the aforesaid Margaret the following of her husband's advowsons of churches: a moiety of the church of Pleselay, co. Derby, of the yearly value of 10 marks.
June 6.
Westminster.
To the chancellor of Ireland. Order to cause to be assigned to Roger Dammory and Elizabeth his wife, late the wife of Theobald de Verdun, tenant-in-chief, her dower of her said late husband's lands, knights' fees, and advowsons in Ireland.
June 6.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the abbot of Sallay, out of the tenths and other debts owing by him, 7l. 10s. 0d., due to him for five oxen, five cows, and 40 sheep, lent by him to the king for the expedition of the Scotch war in the fourth year of the king's reign, as contained in a roll delivered into chancery by Ralph de Dalton, whom the king appointed, together with the sheriff of York, to prosecute this affair with the men of religion in that county, which sum the king promised to repay him at Easter in the fourth year of his reign.
June 6.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas Wake, son and heir of John Wake, to have seisin of the lands that his father held in chief of the late king and that his mother Joan held of the present king in chief, although he has not yet proved his age, the king having taken his homage for the same, as he wishes to shew him special favour at the request of the king's kinsman Henry de Lancastre, whose daughter Thomas has married; saving to those who hold these lands by the king's demise or grant their corn sown in those lands, and their other goods and chattels in the same. By K.
The like to Robert de Sapy, escheator beyond Trent.
June 8.
Westminster.
To Robert de Sapy, escheator beyond Trent. Order to enquire by inquisition if Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, was seised at his death of a yearly rent of 4l. 16s. 7½d., from the manors and towns of Beleby, Grymthorp, Fangefosse, and Melcenby, co. York, and if he find that Henry was seised thereof, to pay to Eleanor his wife the arrears of the rent from the time when the lands of Ralph son of William, tenant in chief, by whose death the said manors and towns came to the king's hands, and to pay the same to her yearly for so long as the manors and towns are in the king's hands, she having shewn the king that, whereas the king has committed to her the custody of two parts of the said Henry's lands in the county of York during the minority of his heir, rendering therefor 400l. yearly to the exchequer, the aforesaid escheator hinders her receiving the said rent from the time of Ralph's death, although Henry died seised thereof, and she received the same until Ralph's death.
June 8.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with 18 acres and 3 roods of meadow in Saltfletby and Somercotes, co. Lincoln, and other lands in Saltflet Haven, in the same county, and 5 acres of meadow in Saltfletby, taken into the king's hands upon the death of Robert de Wilughby, as it appears by inquisition that he held the said lands in socage, to wit the meadow in Saltfletby and Somercotes and the land in Saltflet Haven of the earl of Richmond, and the five acres of meadow in Saltfletby of Thomas de Muleton, and that John his eldest son and William his younger (postnatus) son are his heirs because the above lands are partible amongst the heirs, and that John was aged 13 on Epiphany day last, and William was aged 11 and more.
June 9.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William Baret, deceased.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William Gregory, lately elected, whom the king has amoved because he is so broken down by age and frequent infirmity that he cannot attend to the office.
Membrane 4.
June 12.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to respite until Michaelmas next the demand upon the burgesses of Newcastle-on-Tyne for 200l. of their ferm for the two last years, as they have given the king to understand that they have expended that sum in divers works to enclose the town for its protection. By K.
June 11.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to pay to Stephen de Abyndon, the king's butler, all the issues of the stampage of tin (coignagio stagminis) in that county from the time when Anthony Pessaign' of Genoa have been satisfied for the assignment upon the issues aforesaid, the king having granted the issues to Stephen on 17 February, in the 10th year of his reign, to be received by him by indenture between him and the keepers of the king's stannaries (stannariarum) there, and to be retained by him for certain provisions of wine for the expenses of the king's household, with the making of which the king has charged him.
June 9.
Westminster.
To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed with the plea wherein Richard de Chillebrok impleaded Nicholas le Bachelier before them by the king's writ concerning certain tenements, notwithstanding the protection sued out by Nicholas on the pretext that he was engaged in the king's service in the marches of Scotland, as the king learns from trustworthy evidence that he is not staying there in the king's service. By p.s. [4264.]
June 15.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Cambinus Lumbard of 40s., in which he was amerced before Ingelard de Warle and his fellows, the king's justices, for wines sold contrary to the assize in London, from 9 June, in the 9th year of the king's reign, until 3 March, in the 10th year, as the king has pardoned him that sum at the instance of the merchants of the Bardi (de Barde). By K.
May 22.
Westminster.
To Ralph de Monte Hermerii. Order to deliver to Richard de Rodeneye, Ithel de Keyrewent, and Richard de Byflet, whom the king has appointed keepers of the lands of the late Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, in the counties of Northampton, Bedford, and Buckingham, at the request of the heirs and parceners of the earl's inheritance, to whom the king has granted that the earl's lands shall remain in his hands until partition thereof be made between them, the manor of Rothewelle, with its members, hamlets, etc., co. Northampton, together with the earl's views of frankpledge in the counties of Bedford and Buckingham, which are in the said Ralph's custody by the king's commission, so that the said Richard, Ithel, and Richard may depute others for the custody of the above as agreed between the heirs and parceners, the king having taken the homage of Hugh le Despenser the younger, who married Eleanor, eldest sister and co-heiress of the said earl, and the fealty of Hugh de Audele the younger, who married Margaret, the second sister of the earl, and of Roger Dammory, who married Elizabeth, the third sister, for all the lands that the earl held in chief at his death, which he has restored to them with the knights' fees, advowsons, and all other appurtenances. By K.
The like to the following:
Bartholomew de Burewassh for the manor of Brikhull, co. Buckingham, with the view [of frankpledge] there.
Richard Lovel, keeper of the manors of Cranebourn, with the chace of Pymperne, Tarente Gundevill, Stripel, with the hundred there, Portlond and Wyk, and the boroughs of Barham and Wymuth, co. Dorset.
Laurence de Rostinton for the manor of Clatford, Mapederham, and the borough of Petresfeld, and Hardingbrugge, co. Southampton.
Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent, for the manor and borough of Thornbury, and the manor of Staunden, co. Gloucester.
Master Richard de Clare, keeper of the manor of Chitelhampton, with the members of Wodecombe and Langetrewe, and the lands of Wynkeleye, co. Devon.
John de Foxle, keeper of the manor of Ryndecombe, co. Gloucester.
The sheriff of Gloucester, keeper of the fourth part of the manor of Champeden, co. Gloucester.
Richard de Rodeneye, keeper of the borough of Bedewynd, the court (curerie) of Bristol, the view of Luttleton and Staunton Quyntyn, Oldlond with Hyde, Loppeshale, Cnouk, Smalbrouk, in divers counties.
John Giffard, keeper of the land of Glaumorgan and Morganou in Wales, to deliver the same to Richard de Rodeneye and William le Flemyng. By letters close.
Order to the said John, by letters patent, to deliver all the earl's castles, manors, towns, hamlets, and lands in Glaumorgan and Morganou to the said Richard and William.
The like to the following to deliver the lands to Robert de Chenynton, John de Chelmersford, and William de Neuport:
W. archbishop of Canterbury for the manors of Rotherfeld, Ealdyngg', West Pecham, Eadonebregg, Tycheseye, and Swanton.
John Abel for all the lands in Camerwell.
John Haward for the castle and manor of Clare, with all leets, views of frankpledge in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, and all lands in Lakyngheth, Mildenhale, Fornham, and Bury St. Edmunds, and the manors of Walsingham, Brechham, Tremplesham, and Wyneton.
John de Chelmersford for lands of Sudbury and La Wodehalle, with the court of Stanburn, and the honour of the Marshalsea, the leets of Halstede Hurant, Toppesfeld, Litlynton, Arnyngton, and the court of Royston (de Cruce Roes').
Robert de Sapy for the manor of Sutho, with the leets of Sautre, Grantisden, and Welley.
J. bishop of Ely for the manor of Effingham.
John de Wotryngbury for two parts of the manor of Tycheseye.
The executors of the will of William de Trent for the manor of Stanton.
June 15.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause proclamation to be made that a fair of 40 days will be held yearly at Sandwich on the morrow of the Epiphany and following days. By K.
June 12.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Grofle to be elected in place of Lambert de Wyly, deceased.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Bukholt to be elected in place of Geoffrey Huloun, deceased.
June 15.
Westminster.
To William Inge, late chief justice to hold pleas before the king, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to Henry le Scrop, whom the king has appointed chief justice, the writs, rolls, memoranda, and all other things in his custody concerning that office. By K.
Vacated because otherwise below.
June 15. (fn. 1)
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order not to compel William de Bello Campo to render account at the exchequer for the issues of the bishopric of Worcester, the custody whereof the king committed to him, as he has paid a certain sum into the king's chamber in part payment of the issues thereof, and the king has charged him to pay the residue in like manner. By p.s. [4266.]
June 15.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Comyn, whom the king has amoved for insufficiency.
June 12.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Bartholomew de Badelesmere, constable of Bristol castle, of the ferms of the castle and town of Bristol from 30 September, in the 6th year of the king's reign, until the last day of May following, as it was found by an inquisition upon which the community of the town of Bristol had put themselves concerning divers trespasses by them against the king when they were disobedient and rebels, that the community received the issues of the castle and town of Bristol for the above time, to wit for 35 weeks, and paid nothing to Bartholomew or his attorney, the king having afterwards pardoned the community and all belonging to it, except John le Taverner, Thomas his son, and Robert Martyn, who abjured the realm.
June 15.
Westminster.
To William Inge, late chief justice to hold pleas before the king, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to Henry le Scrop, whom the king has appointed chief justice, the writs, rolls, memoranda, and all other things touching that office of the time when William was chief justice, which are in his custody. By K.
Cancelled because otherwise below.
June 16.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to cause all the writs, rolls, memoranda, and other things touching the said office of the sixth, seventh, and eighth years of the king's reign, and until Holy Trinity in the ninth year, of the time when Roger le Brabanzon was chief justice, which were delivered to William, to be brought into the treasury, and there delivered to the treasurer and chamberlains. By C.
Cancelled as above.
June 17.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to receive the above, and to deliver them to Henry le Scrop, now chief justice, to be kept by him until further orders. By C.
Cancelled as above.
Membrane 3.
June 26.
Woodstock.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to desist from demanding any issues from James de Cusancia, whom the prior of Lewes has appointed prior of Priterwelle, by reason of the late voidance of the priory, as James complains that he is doing, because it appears by the rolls of the late king's chancery that he ordered Walter de Gloucestre, then escheator this side Trent, not to molest John de Monte Martini, then prior, by reason of any issues of the priory during the late voidance, as it was found by inquisition taken by Walter that upon each voidance of the priory the late king's escheator was wont to go to the priory, and to take a seisin there in the name of the king's lordship, and to depute a gatekeeper at the priory gate for the indemnity of the convent, and that the escheator and gatekeeper left the priory without taking anything so soon as the prior elect brought the king's letters for his admission to the escheator, and because it was found by the rolls of the exchequer that nothing had been answered to him or his progenitors for any issues of the priory upon any voidance.
June 26.
Woodstock.
To Henry son of Hugh, keeper of the castle of Bernard's Castle and of the lands pertaining thereto. Order to deliver to the executors of the will of Guy de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, two thirds of the manor of Dalton, which was held of the earl by Henry de Percy as of the castle aforesaid, and the issues received therefrom by the said keeper, as the king was informed by the executors that Henry de Percy held the said manor in his lifetime by knight service as of the aforesaid castle, which is now in the king's hands on account of the minority of the earl's heir, and that the earl entered the manor after Henry's death, because his heir was under age, and assigned a third thereof in dower to Eleanor, late the wife of Henry, and held the other two parts in name of wardship up to his death, and that John le Ireys, to whom the king, after the earl's death, committed the custody of the castle and lands pertaining to it, the custody thereof having come to the king's hands on account of the minority of the earl's heir, seised the said two parts into the king's hands as if the earl had died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, and retained it all the time during which he had the custody of the castle, and the present keeper detains the same from the executors in like manner; whereupon the king ordered the present keeper to cause inquisition to be made concerning the above; by which the king learns that Henry de Percy held the manor of the earl as of the castle aforesaid by the service of a third of a knight's fee and by homage, and by doing suit of the earl's court of Gaynesford, and that the earl entered the manor in the name of custody after Henry's death on account of the minority of his heir, and that he assigned a third thereof to the aforesaid Eleanor in dower, and that he held the other two parts for a year and a half before his death in name of wardship, and that he died seised thereof in form aforesaid; and that after his death the aforesaid John, who had the custody of the castle, unjustly seised the said two parts into the king's hands, together with the other lands of the earl, and detained them from the executors all the time during which he had the custody, to wit from Thursday after the Assumption, in the ninth year of the king's reign, until the octaves of St. Martin next following, and that William Druvell, then the king's receiver of the aforesaid castle, received the issues of the two parts for that Martinmas term to the value of 10l., and that after John left the custody, John de Castro, keeper of the same castle, likewise detained the two parts from the executors from the said octaves until Christmas following, but that he received nothing therefrom during that time, and that the present keeper of the castle still detains the two parts, and that he has received the issues thereof for his time, to wit from Christmas aforesaid until now, to the value of 30l., and that the two parts are worth 20l. yearly in all issues.
June 29.
Woodstock.
To Master John Waleweyn, John de Bousser, and John de Wengrave, or two of them. Order to send to the king by the octaves of Michaelmas anything they may have attempted by virtue of their appointment as justices to enquire by a jury of the county of Hertford the truth concerning a conspiracy that John Makary alleged to the king that brother Richard de Hertford, abbot of Waltham Holy Cross, brother Gilbert Bursty of Waltham St. Laurence, brother John de Sancto Albano, brother Stephen de Norfolk, the abbot's fellow canons, brother Richard de Elynton, lay brother (conversus) of that house, and John de Tonebrigg made between them at Stansted Abbots, whereby they maliciously procured the said John Makary to be appealed at Waltham Holy Cross by William Chaunterel, the king's approver lately imprisoned at Waltham Holy Cross, for divers felonies and robberies in the counties of Essex and Hertford, and caused him to be arrested and imprisoned at Waltham until he was acquitted thereof before William de Goldington and his fellows, the king's justices to deliver that gaol, and to send at the same time the original writ and all things touching the matter, and not to intermeddle further with the same. The king has ordered the sheriff of that county to cause the king's writ to him, if still in his possession, to be before the king at the above date, and to summon John Makary to be there to prosecute his plea. The king is unwilling that such conspiracy, in which no trespass of the king's peace is alleged, shall be heard elsewhere than before him or his justices of the Bench, according to the statute of conspiracies. By p.s. [4281.]
Mandate in pursuance to the sheriff of Hertford.
July 6.
Northampton.
To the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. Whereas William, count of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland, and lord of Friesland, lately ordained, with the assent of his subjects, that 1,300l. due from him to Walter le Keu of Lincoln and his fellows, Richard Wake and John Wype and their fellows, and to Robert Elys, should be levied from the merchants, fishers, and mariners of his power wheresoever found in the towns or seaports of England, to wit from each ship bringing herring and fish upon her first coming to England once a year 20s., and from every other ship bringing other wares at all times of the year when she newly comes to England 10s. sterling, and from the goods contained in her an equal portion for each pound's worth, and that Robert and the others should be satisfied therefrom, as fully contained in the count's letters to the king; and now, after some altercations before the king in chancery between the count's attorneys and the aforesaid Robert concerning the particulars of the aforesaid debt, the king has appointed the aforesaid Walter and Henry Rudbudel, the count's attorneys, and the aforesaid Robert with others to make collection as above from the ships and to take the twentieth penny of the value of the goods found in the ships: the king orders the bailiffs to permit them to collect the above sums, and to aid and counsel them in doing so, notwithstanding any grant made to the bailiffs that ships, herrings, fish, wine, corn, or other victuals should not be arrested at any one's suit in their town until a certain time.
The like to the bailiffs of the Tolbothe of Lenne.
July 6.
Northampton.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Robert de Acton, and to restore the issues of the same, as it appears by inquisition that he held nothing of the king in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands should pertain to the king.
To the same. Order to assign dower to Isabella, late the wife of William le Coynt, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
June 26.
Woodstock.
To the same. Order to deliver to Roger Dammory and Elizabeth his wife, late the wife of Theobald de Verdon, tenant in chief, the following of Theobald's knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her in dower: two fees in Brantingthorp and Petling, co. Leicester, which the abbot of Muryval holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; a quarter of a fee in Shathewell, in the same county, which William Fyton holds, of the yearly value of 20s.; an eighth of a fee in Thorp, near Lilleburn and Bildeston, in the same county, which Walter Chaynel holds, of the yearly value of 20s.; a sixth of a fee in Little Assheby, in the same county, which John de Folevill holds, of the yearly value of 20s.; a sixth of a fee in Fleckeneye, in the same county, which John Yvon and other free tenants hold, of the yearly value of 20s.; a quarter of a fee in Stanton Harald, in the same county, which the heirs of Elias de Stanton hold, of the yearly value of 20s.; a quarter of a fee in Wortington, in the same county, of the yearly value of 20s.; a moiety of a fee in Burton Overay, in the same county, which the heirs of Robert de Normanvill hold, of the yearly value of 40s.; a fee in Nouesleye, in the same county, of the yearly value of 100s.; a fee in Suth Stoke, in the county of Salop, which the heirs of William de Lodelawe hold, of the yearly value of 6l.; a moiety of a fee in Eton, in the same county, which William de Haselshawe holds, of the yearly value of 4l.; a moiety of a fee in Alverton and Hop[e], in the same county, which the tenants in those towns hold, of the yearly value of 60s.; a quarter of a fee in Morton, in the same county, which Hugh de Say holds, of the yearly value of 20s.; a fee in Assheho and Caldecote, co. Warwick, which the heirs of Geoffrey de Symely hold, of the yearly value of 4l.; a moiety of a fee in Wolframcote, in the same county, which Robert de Langele holds, of the yearly value of 60s.; a moiety of a fee in Great Fleckenho, in the same county, which the free tenants in that town hold, of the yearly value of 40s.; a fee in Thurlaston, in the same county, which Simon son of Margery and John de Derset hold, of the yearly value of 100s.; 1¾ fees in Burton and Draycote, in the same county, which Thomas de Garsale holds, of the yearly value of 100s.; 3½ fees in Hompton, Baky[nton], Stretton, Lauton, near Kyngeslane, and Lydecote, co. Hereford, which Richard de Hompton holds, of the yearly value of 40l.; 2¾ fees in Pyonia and Houton Cotes, in the same county, which Richard de la Lynde the younger, Philip ap Houel and Res ap Houel hold, of the yearly value of 36l.; a fee in Buford and Stanford-on-Temede, in the same county, which Walter de Craneley holds, of the yearly value of 6l. 13s. 4d.
Membrane 2.
June 12.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause Edmund de Hemegrave to have seisin of two acres of land in Carleton, which, it appears by inquisition, Henry le Coupere, who was hanged for felony, held of him, as it appears by the inquisition that the land has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and it was found that Richard Weylaund, John Brunfeld of Carleton, William Payn of Carleton, Warin Muriel of Carleton, Robert le Coupere and Beatrice le Coupere of Carleton had the king's year and day of the same, and that they ought to answer to the king for the same.
To the same. Like order in favour of Richard de Weyland for two acres of land in Carleton held of him by the abovesaid Henry, whereof the aforesaid persons had the king's year and day.
June 15.
Westminster.
To William Inge, late chief justice to hold pleas before the king, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to Henry le Scrop, who the king wills shall be chief justice for the aforesaid pleas, the writs, rolls, records, processes, memoranda and all other things touching that office for the time when William was chief justice, together with all writs, etc., of the time of Roger le Brabanzon, late chief justice, which were delivered to William by the treasurer and chamberlains by indenture, which is also to be delivered. By K.
[Parl. Writs.]
June 16.
Westminster.
To Warin de Insula, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to pay to Edward Gerard, to whom the king, on 5 March, in the 6th year of his reign, granted the bailiwick of keeping the park of Kenyngton, the same wages as other parkers have been wont to receive, and to pay him the arrears of the same for the time during which Warin has been constable.
June 17.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to John de Crumbwell, constable of the Tower of London, the arrears of the wages of Lewelin Pren, and of Griffin and Yevan his sons, Welsh prisoners in the Tower, from 27 July, in the 10th year of the king's reign, until now, to wit 3d. a day each, and to continue to pay the same so long as they remain in his custody. [Fœdera.] By bill of the wardrobe.
June 12.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Walter de Huton, who is insufficiently qualified.
June 16.
Westminster.
To the collectors in co. York of the scutage of the armies of Scotland in the 28th, 31st, and 34th years of the late king's reign. Order to respite until the quinzaine of Michaelmas the exaction of the scutage due from Thomas Wake because the king has rendered to him the lands of John Wake and Joan Wake, his father and mother, tenants in chief, the king having granted him respite until then. By C.
June 10.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to J. bishop of Norwich 200l., which the king has granted him in addition to the fixed daily sum (certum diurnum) assigned to him by the king's council for the expenses of his household in going as the king's envoy to the court of Rome, staying there, and returning, the king having granted him this additional sum in aid of his expenses in attending to the king's affairs with others of the king's council at London, for a long time before he went to Rome, and in part recompense for his labours in going to Rome. By K.
Oct. 28.
Newburgh.
To Stephen de Abyndon, the king's butler. Order to pay to the king's serjeants Richard de Rothyng' and Geoffrey de la Penne, whom the king is sending to the duchy [of Aquitaine] to receive and bring to England certain wines granted to the king by the mayor, jurats, and universitas of the city of Bordeaux and by the jurats and universitas of St. Macaire in aid of the Scotch war, 11l. for their expenses in going thither.
By K. on the information of the treasurer.
June 6.
Westminster.
To treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Margaret de Henle of the ferm of the manor of Apethorp, which the king committed to her during pleasure by letters patent on 13 June, in the 2nd year of his reign, at a yearly ferm of 32l., from 20 November, in the 5th year of his reign, when the king granted the manor to John de Clavering' for life.
June 17.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a burgage in the city of Winchester, held of the abbot of Hide, a messuage, 50 acres of land, and a perch of meadow in Berton Sacy, held of Thomas de Coudrey, and a messuage and 20 acres of land in Eston, held of the prior of St. Swithin's, Winchester, and three shops on St. Giles' Hill, held of the bishop of Winchester, as the king learns that they were taken into his hands on account of the madness of Alice de Dernegate, deceased, and that Florence and Joan daughters of Alexander de Merewell are her nearest heirs and of full age.
June 17.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to cause William Pesshon, son and heir of Stephen Pesshon, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, although he has not yet proved his age according to custom, as the king has taken his homage because he learnt by the testimony of J. bishop of Winchester, who has the custody of his lands during his minority by the late king's commission, that he is of full age. By K.
June 27.
Woodstock.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Ralph de Sancto Laudo in co. Lincoln, taken into the king's hands upon the death of John de Sancto Laudo, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition that John did not hold any lands in his demesne as of fee or otherwise in that county at his death, because he enfeoffed Ralph of all his lands three weeks before he died, and that Ralph continued his seisin thereof until John's death.
June 26.
Woodstock.
To the same. Order to deliver to Roger Dammory and Elizabeth his wife, late the wife of Theobald de Verdon, tenant in chief, the following of her late husband's advowsons of churches, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the church of Farnham, co. Buckingham, of the yearly value of 10l.; the church of Luttreworth, co. Leicester, of the yearly value of 10l.; a moiety of the church of Lodelowe, co. Salop, of the yearly value of 66s. 8d.

Footnotes

  • 1. The privy seal is dated June 13.