Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1276

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1900.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1276', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 262-267. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp262-267 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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January 1276

Jan. 4.
Bindon.
To the taxors and collectors of the fifteenth in co. Somerset. Order to supersede until the quinzaine of St. Hilary next the taxation and appraisement by reason of the said fifteenth of the goods and chattels of the abbot and convent of Glastonbury within the twelve hides.
Jan. 7.
Canford.
To the sheriffs of London. It is shown to the king on behalf of Richard de Staunford that whereas Isabella de Chadeston lately sued out by fraud and malice a writ of the king directed to the sheriff of Lincoln, in which county Richard has no house, land, or tenement, to attach him to answer to her before the justices of the Bench for rape and breach of the peace, although he dwelt in the city of London a long time before and after that time, and although he and Isabella dwelt in the same city and they were fully acquainted with one another (de conversacione sua . . . . plenam adinvicem noticiam habentes) in the same, and he was exacted from county [court] to county [court] at her suit by consideration of the said justices because he did not appear before them and was outlawed in the said county [court] for his contumacy, and he, feeling guiltless, has now voluntarily rendered himself to the prison of Neugate, as the king learns from the sheriffs' letters testimonial, prepared to stand to right if Isabella wish to sue her appeal against him, and the king understands by inquisition taken by the sheriffs that the said Richard for seventeen years continuously with his wife and household and the said Isabella for a long time before the sueing out of the writ, and afterwards, and at the time of the sueing out were acquainted (conversarunt) with one another in Richard's house and in the neighbourhood adjoining, and that Richard was fraudulently outlawed at her suit, he being wholly ignorant of the appeal: the king, wishing to be fully certified concerning the premises, orders the sheriffs to deliver Richard in bail to twelve approved and lawful men of the city who shall mainpern to have him before the king in the octaves of St. Hilary to stand to right if Isabella wish to prosecute her appeal, and to warn Isabella to be there then to prosecute her appeal.
Jan. 5.
Wareham.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has granted to William de Stok that he shall render the 50 marks that he owes to the king for trespass of venison by 100s. a year at the Easter and Michaelmas exchequers, and order to cause him to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
Jan. 10.
Nursling. (Nuscelingg'.)
To Geoffrey de Pycheford, constable of Wyndesor castle. Order to go to the king's park of Odyham immediately upon sight of these letters, and to cause 130 live does to be taken therein, and to cause 100 of them to be carried to Kenynton and to be there placed in the king's park in order to stock it, and to deliver the remaining thirty to Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, for the stocking of her park of Langel[eye] Cheyndut, of the king's gift. The keeper of the said park [of Odyham] is ordered to aid and counsel Geoffrey in this behalf.
Mandate in pursuance to the keeper of the park of Odyham.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order not to make any payments from the money now in the treasury and from the money to be paid at St. Hilary and thereafter, by pretext of any writs of liberate or of other writs, until otherwise ordered, as the king proposes to ordain specially concerning the said money for the expedition of certain of his affairs.
Jan. 11.
Winchester.
To John Russel, bailiff of Clarendon. Order to deliver to the sheriff of Wilts fifteen swans from the king's swans in his custody, to be carried to the king at Winchester by the king's order.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to receive the said swans and to cause them to be carried to Winchester.
Jan. 13.
Winchester.
To Reginald son of Peter. Order to deliver the king's houses of Freytmauntel, together with the king's timber and other things therein, to [Payn de Cadurcis (fn. 1) ] in order to do therewith what the king has enjoined upon him.
Membrane 17.—Schedule.
Let a scrutiny of the chest of the Jewry of London be made by Roger de la Leye and William de Midelton.
Gloucester, Hereford, and Bristol by Walter de Helyun and by those whom he shall cause to be associated with him.
Exeter by John Wyger and Roger de Evesham.
Winchester, Wilton, and Devises by Robert de Ludham and William Girbert.
Canterbury by Reginald de Norwode and by him whom he shall associate with him.
Norwich, Colchester, and Sutbury by William de Middelton and him or those whom he wish to associate with him.
Huntingdon, Bedford, Northampton, and Oxford by Hugh de Stapelford and Adam de Wetenhale.
Lincoln and Stanford by Hamo Hauteyn and him whom he shall associate with him.
Notingham by the prior of Lenton and W. de Stircheleg.
York by Nicholas de Stapelton and the abbot of St. Mary's, York.
Membrane 16.
Jan. 13.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to permit Payn de Cadurc[is] and his men to pull down the king's houses of Freytmauntel, and to take them away together with king's timber, walls and other things in them, and to make his profit thereof as shall seem expedient to him, as the king has given the houses, timber, etc., to him.
— — Henry son of Roger le Keu of Cotesbrok, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of Simon le Charetter, whereof he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail him.
To the barons of the exchequer. Robert de Vernun, son and heir of John de Vernun, has shown the king that whereas John was the late king's sheriff of Wilts and received the custody of that county with the hundred of Melkesham, of which hundred 52s. of rent of assize and 40s. of pleas and perquisites were wont to be received yearly, and the late king [committed] the manor and hundred of Melkesham to Amice, countess of Devon, at the beginning of [John's] receipt of the county, and the countess held the manor and hundred for the five years during which John was sheriff, and she received in full the profits and emoluments thereof, the barons exact from Robert 23l. for the arrears of the said 6l. 12s. 0d. (sic) for the time aforesaid: the king orders the barons to search the rolls of the exchequer, and to make inquisition if necessary, and if they find it to be as stated, to supersede the demand aforesaid, and to discharge Robert thereof.
To the taxors and collectors of the fifteenth in co. Surrey. Order to cause to be restored to Henry Trenchard his manor of Perfright, as the king understands that they have taken this manor into his hands because Henry did not come before them to tax and appraise with others the goods of that county, as they had enjoined upon him on the king's behalf.
— — Richard de Refham, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of John de Hadenham, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him.
Jan. 14.
Winchester.
To the bailiff of Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, of Cocham. Order to cause the abbot and convent of Cirencestre to have two quarters of rye, a swine, and a beech-tree yearly from the issues of that manor for the time during which it has been in the said queen's hands, and the arrears thereof for that time, as the abbot and convent ought to have and were wont to have the things aforesaid of the gift and grant of the king's progenitors.
Jan. 15.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause to be replevied to William de Godested until the quinzaine of Easter his aldermanry (aldemanriam) within the city of Canterbury, which the sheriff took into the king's hands because William demised it at fee-ferm without the king's will and licence; provided that the aldermanry and its appurtenances shall then be taken into the king's hands unless William agree with the king (gratum nostrum fecerit) in the meantime, and unless the sheriff be otherwise ordered.
Jan. 18.
Westminster (sic).
To brother Joseph de Chauncy, the treasurer. Whereas the king has assigned the arrears of the tenth in England lately granted to him and of the tallage lately assessed upon the Jews to complete the works of the Tower of London, which arrears cannot be levied with the speed that is expedient, and the king wills that the works aforesaid shall not be in any way delayed, the king orders the treasurer to pay to Giles de Audenard, keeper of the works aforesaid, 1,000 marks out of the sum of money that the treasurer has in deposit at the New Temple, London, in the king's name. When the treasurer shall have paid this sum, the king will cause him to have his writ of liberate or of quittance.
Jan. 20.
Winchester.
To Geoffrey de Pycheford, constable of Wyndes[ore] castle. Order to cause the constable of the Tower of London to have 30 oaks in Wyndes[ore] forest to burn lime with for the works of the said Tower.
Jan. 15.
Winchester.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to send to the king under the exchequer seal the total of the arrears of the tallage last assessed upon the Jews of England, and order not to pay anything thenee except to the works of the Tower of London, and not to make assignments (deputetis) thereof to any one without the king's special order, as the king has assigned the arrears to the works of the Tower.
Jan. 18.
Winchester.
To Master Roger de Seyton and his fellows, justices in eyre at the Tower of London. Order not to permit the king's Jews of London to be impleaded before them in that eyre concerning the things that relate to the king's Jewry, as Jews ought not to plead or be impleaded concerning such things except before the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews; provided however that they shall answer concerning their lands within the city of London and concerning other things as was the custom in other eyres of justices there in times past.
To Adam de Wynton[ia], keeper of the town of Southampton. Order to cause the abbot and convent of the place of St. Edward (fn. 2) to have a tun of wine of the king's right prise in that town for the present year, and the arrears of a tun yearly from the time of the late king's death, as the said king granted to them by his charter, which the king has inspected, a tun of wine of his right prise yearly for the communion (ad corpus Christi . . . inde conficiendum) in their church, to be received from the keepers of his wines of the said prise at Southampton.
To the taxors of the fifteenth in the city of London. Order to supersede until three weeks from Easter next the taxation of the goods and wares of James Agolantis, Hugelinus de Wichio, Manettus Bechi, Bartholomew Marchi, Bonaventura Johannis, Frank Plenanell', Henry Pelaphy, and their fellows, citizens and merchants of Florence, Pistoia, and Siena (Senenen'), by reason of the said fifteenth, so that there may then be done what the king shall then cause to be provided by his council.
Jan. 20.
Winchester.
To Adam de Wynton[ia], keeper of the town of Southampton. Order to cause the abbot and convent of King's Beaulieu to have a tun of wine of the right prise at Southampton for the present year, as the late king granted to them by his charter a tun of wine of the right prise in that town to be received yearly from the takers of the king's wines there for the celebration of divine service in the abbey.
To John de Wauton, keeper of the forest of Arundell. Order to cause R. archbishop of Canterbury to have thirteen bucks and thirteen does yearly in that forest, in accordance with the composition entered into between Boneface, sometime archbishop of Canterbury, and John son of Alan, sometime lord of the forest of Arundell, for so long as the forest shall be in the said keeper's custody, and to permit the archbishop to have once a year on his journey to his manor of Slindon and on his return a coursing (cursum) in the forest, in accordance with the said composition.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Whereas the king lately ordered them not to permit any strange merchants to stay in the city with their wines beyond forty days after their arrival, and certain men and merchants of Bordeaux have lately shown to the king that they are unable to make their profit of their merchandise and wines brought by them to the city within this time, by reason whereof the king has prefixed a day for them before him in five weeks from Easter to ordain between them and the citizens of London: the king therefore orders the mayor and sheriffs to permit the said men and merchants to come to the city and to stay therein, and to sell their wines and other wares there in the due and accustomed manner without impediment until the time aforesaid.
To the taxors of the fifteenth in the city of London. Order not to intermeddle in any wise until otherwise ordered with the taxing and appraising of the wines of the men and merchants of Bordeaux that have been brought into the city by them after the granting of the fifteenth.
— — John le Vigorus of Sutton, imprisoned at Nothingham for the death of Robert de Hotot, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail him.
Richard son of William de Trowell of Stanford on Sore, Robert son of William Poyne of Rotinton, and Robert son of Matilda de Hykeling, imprisoned at Nothingham for the death of Robert de Hotot, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail them.
Jan. 20.
Winchester.
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Order to cause David son of Griffin to have 100 marks, half at the quinzaine of Easter and half at the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, of the king's gift.
Jan. 23.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause certain prisoners, whom the king is sending to Corf castle to stay therein until otherwise ordered, and their keepers to have necessaries as befits.
Jan. 26.
Winchester.
To Adam de Wynton[ia], keeper of the town of Southampton. Order to desist wholly from distraining the men of Southampton for trespasses of wool and by reason of the payment of the new aid, and to permit them to have peace concerning the same, and to restore to them anything received from them in this behalf.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause the abbess of Shaftesbir[y] to have twenty oaks for timber in the forest of Gillingham, of the king's gift.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to make view of the account of Master Richard de Cliff[ord] for the time when he was keeper of the archbishopric of Canterbury in the last voidance of the same, and to respite until the quinzaine of Easter next the demand for 119l. that he paid, as he asserts, to R. archbishop of Canterbury for the amendment of the houses of the archbishopric, with which sum the barons charge him in his account.
To Nicholas son of Martin, keeper of the island of Scugholm. Order to cause Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, to have seisin of that island, as he lately appeared in the king's presence and sought that the king should restore the island to him as his right and inheritance, and the king thereupon caused Robert de la Vall, who likewise claimed right in the same island, to come before him at a certain day to show cause why the king should not restore the island to Humphrey, and Robert had or showed nothing for himself before the king and his council on the said day whereby any right in the island could be proved for him.
Jan. 27.
Winchester.
To the sheriff of Wilts, escheator in that county. Order to cause John de Grimested to have again seisin of the wardship of the maner of Cumpton, saving the right of others and saving to Joan, late the wife of Nicholas son of Nicholas de Haversham, tenant in chief of the late king as of the honour of Peverel, her dower of the manor, which the sheriff is to cause to be assigned to her before making seisin to John, and saving to Joan all her goods in the manor and sown in the lands of the same, and saving to her easement of the houses and other things in the manor to make her convenience of her goods there, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Nicholas was of full age on the day of his father's death, and that he was never in the late king's wardship, and that Emma, late the wife of his father, was dowered by him of the said manor, which his father held in chief of the aforesaid John, who had seisin thereof in name of wardship immediately after the death of Nicholas the son, until he was ejected thence by Master Richard de Clifford, then escheator this side Trent.
Jan. 26.
Winchester.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has granted that Stephen de Eddeworth shall pay the 62l. 15s. 5d. due to the king by five marks at the quinzaine of Easter and five marks in the octaves of Michaelmas next, and thus from year to year, and order to cause Stephen to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
To Walter de Kanc[ia], steward of Queen Eleanor, the king's consort. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of Nicholas de Haversham, which Nicholas held the manor of Haversham of the king in chief as of the honour of Peverel, from the said manor, which is in the queen's hands by the king's commission, as it is provided before the king and his court that Joan shall have dower of the manor aforesaid.
Jan. 25.
Winchester.
To the same. Whereas the king, after the death of the aforesaid Nicholas, caused to be taken into his hands the manor of Cleybrok, which Nicholas held of Arnald de Bosco by knight service, and the king afterwards by consideration of his court rendered the manor to Arnald and retained in his hands a third of it in order to dower Joan, late the wife of Nicholas, therewith, the king orders Walter to deliver to Joan in name of dower the aforesaid third, which is in the hands of the said queen by the king's commission.
John de Corbyset, Adam le Clerc of Morton, Richard his brother, Roger Nichole, and Joan atte Forthe, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Robert de Langedon, have letters to the sheriff of Devon to bail them.

Footnotes

  • 1. The name has been omitted by inadvertence. See the first enrolment on Membrane 16.
  • 2. That is, Netley Abbey.