Close Rolls, Edward I: July 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: July 1276', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 300-305. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp300-305 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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July 1276

July 3.
Romney.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Whereas the king, to remove the cause of disturbance and dispute between the prior and convent of Norwich and the citizens of the same town, ordered the sheriff to take with him two discreet knights of that county and to go in person to the priory and to cause to be provided, by the common assent of himself, the knights, and of the men of religion aforesaid, a place to make their gates to the water of Norwich and for a bridge over the same water, where they might most conveniently have their egress and ingress, provided that this should not be done to the prejudice of the king or of any other, and to certify the king of his proceedings, and the sheriff has written back that he has, in the presence of Robert de Castre and John de Hestreu, knights, with the consent of the prior and convent, provided that they shall have their gates, ingress and egress over the water of Norwich from their land on the east and west, and that they shall cause to be there constructed a bridge of the width of 20 feet, and that it is not to the damage of the king or of any one else, and that the gates cannot be made elsewhere more conveniently to remove the cause of the strife aforesaid; the king has granted to the prior and convent that they may erect the gates and bridge in form aforesaid, on condition that the present gates of the priory shall be blocked up: the king therefore orders the sheriff to go in person to the water aforesaid and to assign to them a place of the width of 20 feet for the construction of the bridge, provided that, when the said bridge and gates have been erected, they shall forthwith cause the previous gates to be blocked up.
July 4.
Horton.
Simon de Oldebury, Thomas son of Richard de Oldebury, Walter son of Geoffrey, and William Thedriche, imprisoned at Bruges for the death of John le Rus, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Salop to bail them.
July 7.
Canterbury.
William Bates, imprisoned at Lancaster for the death of Henry fiz Ricun, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Lancaster to bail him.
John son of Ralph de Scamelesby, imprisoned at Lincoln for the death of Hugh de Merle, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him.
July 7.
Canterbury.
To Philip de Wileby and Ralph de Broucthon, [appointed] to make search of the debts of the Jews in the chest of the chirographers of the Jews of London. Order not to intermeddle with the body of Aaron son of Vives, a Jew of London, or with his debts, goods and chattels, and to permit him to have full administration of the same to make his profit thereof as shall seem fit to him, as the late king granted to Edmund, the king's brother, the said Aaron and all his debts, goods and chattels, as contained in the late king's charter to Edmund.
July 8.
Canterbury.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Whereas the barons of the Cinque Ports ought not, as they say, to plead or answer appeals or other pleas elsewhere than in the king's court of Shipeweye before the constable of Dover castle, the warden of the said ports, according to their liberties and free customs, and Hugh de Kersingham, John Serles, John Luteriche, John his son, Henry Kinnet, Roger le Fauconer, Ralph de Orpinton, Thomas Hermer, Hugh son of Ralph de Cantuaria, Richard le Brechere, Robert Thez, and Nicholas Hunfrey, twelve barons of the port of Romenale, have mainperned before the king for John son of Ralph le Clerc of Folkestane, their com-baron of the port of Hethe, imprisoned at Newcastle for the death of certain men slain on the sea near Neubigging, wherewith he is charged, to have him before the said constable, the warden of the said ports, to stand to right in the aforesaid court if anyone wish to speak against him: the king therefore orders the mayor and bailiffs to deliver the said John son of Ralph to the aforesaid men or to four of them, on condition that they shall have him before the said warden; and to tell all who appeal him of the said death to come to the chancery, when the king will cause a day to be prefixed for them to prosecute their appeal in the court of Shipweye, and will cause justice to be done to them.
To the taxors of the fifteenth in co. Kent. Order to supersede until further orders the demand upon Master William de Middelton, archdeacon of Canterbury, for the things of his archdeaconry that are purely spiritual, as the king wills that nothing shall be taken at present from the archdeacon's things that are purely spiritual.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to deliver William le Fraunkeleyn of Sloghtre, who is imprisoned at Sloghtre for the death of William son of Ranulph, wherewith he is charged, to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices at the first assizes in that country, to stand to right if anyone wish to speak against him for the said death, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that William le Fraunkeleyn slew the said William in self-defence and not of malice aforethought.
July 11.
Rayleigh. (Releg'.)
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause to be delivered to Ermengard (Ermegarde), wife of Henry de Sancto Mauro of Comynton, all the corn sown in the manor of Comynton, saving to the king any expenses that he may have incurred on the king's behalf, as the king lately ordered him to deliver the manor, which was taken into his hands by reason of Henry's flight, to Ermengard, for her maintenance during the king's pleasure.
July 12.
Rayleigh.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to assist Robert Paynel and Eva his wife in distraining their customary-tenants (consuetudinar') of Hornleye and Hornynton to do the customs and services due to Robert and Eva, as the king learns by an inquisition, upon which Robert and Eva and their said tenants had placed themselves before the king, taken by the sheriff that the customary tenants were wont in the times of the king's progenitors to do the customs and services that Robert and Eva exact from them.
July 12.
Eastwood.
Walter fiz le Prestre of Mereseye, imprisoned at Colchester for the death of William son of Richard Faleys, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Essex to bail him.
Robert de Burnavill has respite for two years of becoming a knight (ad arma militaria), etc., in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex.
Ernald le Mouner of Rokingham, imprisoned at Okham for the death of Geoffrey Cete of Lidington, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Rutland to bail him.
John Upetun, imprisoned at Baldak for the death of Alexander le Mesre, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Hereford (sic) to bail him.
July 19.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Devon, escheator in the same county. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Isolda, late the wife of Walter de Bromhull, tenant in chief upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
July 13.
Eastwood.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Whereas the late king, in recompence of the arrears due to Philip de Arcy of the yearly fee of 20l. that he was wont to receive from the said king, which fee Philip wholly remitted to the said king, pardoned Philip a debt of 100l. due to Master Elias son of Master Moses and to Gamelin, Jews of London, and a debt of 20l. that he owed to the same Jews of yearly fee, and the said king ordered the justices to cause Philip to be acquitted of the debts aforesaid, and to cause to be restored to him the charters whereby he was bound in the said debts, and to cause the debts to be allowed to the Jews in their tallage or in other debts that they owed to the said king, as appears by the rolls of the said king's chancery, and certain sums of the aforesaid fee of 20l. still remain to be allowed to the Jews: the king therefore orders the justices, as he ordered them at another time, to allow the remainder of the debts to the Jews in the tallage assessed upon them in the king's time or in other debts due from them to the king.
July 19.
Westminster.
To the same. The king learns that the late king was wont to have in the exchequer of the Jews a Jew executing the office of the escheatry concerning lands and chattels that ought to fall to him by the death or trespasses of Jews or for any other reason, and that the king has not now, and has not had since the death of his father, any Jew executing the said office, by reason whereof he has, as he learns, suffered no small damage: he has therefore appointed Benedict de Wintonia, a Jew, to execute this office in form aforesaid, and orders the justices to admit Benedict to this office, after he have taken oath to conduct himself faithfully in the same.
Hugh le Bercher of Bloxham, imprisoned at Lincoln for the death of Richard de Athelington, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him.
Philip de Stanburn, constable of the castle of Staunford. Order to deliver Dyay, a Jew of Staunford, imprisoned in that castle for divers trespasses, in bail to six Jews, who shall mainpern to have him before the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews in fifteen days from Michaelmas to answer to the king and others.
Membrane 6.
July 19.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause the prioress of Hegham to have seisin of an acre of land in Hegham, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Stephen Gyd, who was outlawed for felony, held the said land of the prioress, and that the land is still in the king's hands by reason of the felony aforesaid, and that Ralph the smith (faber) answered for the year, day and waste thereof in the eyre of the justices last in eyre in that county.
To the justiciary of Ireland and to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to allow to William de Lond[onia] the expenses incurred by him about the custody of the castle of Dungervan by the order of James de Audelegh, then justiciary, and the arrears of the fee that he was wont to receive there for the custody of the county of Waterford and of the castle aforesaid, and also his expenses incurred in the king's service in the land aforesaid for which he has not yet been satisfied, such as he shall show before them ought to be allowed to him, as the king understands for certain that William conducted himself well and faithfully all the time that he was in the king's service in that land.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order not to vex Reymund de la Barbane, merchant of Bordeaux, by reason of the action that the king had against him because a piece of plate (cujusdam platene) was found in his hands at Bristol made of metal other than pure silver, for which Reymund is attached to answer before the said justices, and to permit him to go quit, as the king has pardoned him the said action.
Vacated, because he did not have [the writ.]
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order not to meddle further with the manor of Lavington, which belonged to Emelina de Lascy, sometime countess of Ulster, and which the sheriff took into the king's hands after her death because he believed that she held in chief, as it is testified before the king that she held nothing in chief.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Edmund, earl of Cornwall, to have six bucks in the forest of Rokingham, of the king's gift.
July 24.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Whereas the king learned by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Henry de Sancto Mauro, then imprisoned at Warwick for the death of John le Graunger, wherewith he was charged, was charged with the death out of hatred and malice and not because he was guilty thereof, and the king for this reason ordered Henry to be delivered in bail to twelve men, who mainperned to have him before the justices at the first assizes in that county; and the sheriff now, by reason of an inquisition afterwards made regarding the same death, intends to take him for such charge, upon which he had been previously taken and imprisoned, and to vex him in his body and goods, as the king learns: as the king wills that Henry shall be treated (deduci) according to the law and custom of the realm hitherto used, he orders the sheriff not to vex Henry in his body, lands or goods contrary to the form of the mainprise aforesaid, and to leave him in peace until the assize by the mainprise.
To Thomas de Clare and Robert Bagot, justices of the Bench of Dublin. Grant to them of power to receive the fealty of Maurice son of Maurice for the lands that Emelina, sometime countess of Ulster, held in chief in England at her death and which fall in inheritance to Emelina wife of Maurice, the daughter and heiress of Emelina, and order to take the fealty and to certify the king of the same, so that he may cause to be done for Maurice and Emelina in this behalf what ought to be done.
July 25.
Westminster.
To Geoffrey de Picheford, constable of Windesore castle. Whereas certain purprestures are made upon the king in the forest of Windesore whereof tithes have not hitherto been given, as the king understands, and the dean and chapter of Salisbury and the abbot of Waltham claim right in the tithes against each other: the king, not wishing that prejudice shall be done to either of them or to him or his heirs by such new possession, orders the constable to cause the tithes in question to be put in some safe place, and not to permit either of the claimants to lay hands on them until the king be certified as to his indemnity or until further orders. [Ryley, Placita, Appendix, p. 185.]
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Constance, late the wife of Richard de Tillebiry, tenant in chief, to have respite until the quinzaine of Michaelmas for 100 marks in which she made fine with the king for the custody of the land and heir of Richard, as the king has granted her such respite.
July 24.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains of Dublin. Order to cause Geoffrey de Gyenvill to have out of the treasury 20l. that he expended of the money of Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, in Ireland in the king's service, as the king learns from Geoffrey's letters directed to him.
To Master R. de Seyton and his fellows, justices next going in eyre in co. Bedford. Order not to permit the king's Jews of Bedford to be impleaded before them in the eyre concerning matters pertaining to the king's Jewry, as the king's Jews ought not to plead or be impleaded concerning such matters except before the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews; provided that they shall answer in the eyre for other things, as has been usual in other eyres in times past.
July 24.
Westminster.
To Gregory de Rok[esleye], taker of the king's wines. Order to deliver to the sheriff of Lincoln the twenty tuns of wine of the king's right prise that are in Gregory's custody, to be carried by the sheriff whither the king has enjoined him.
July 25.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause ten tuns of the wine that Gregory de Rokesle or his attorney will deliver to him at the coming fair at Boston to be carried to Lincoln and the other ten to Notingham.
July 25.
Westminster.
To the constable of St. Briavells. Order to cause Walter de Helyun to have two bucks in the king's forest of Dene, of the king's gift.
July 26.
Westminster.
To Luke de Tany, seneschal of Gascony. Order to cause Elias de Hauvill, lately arrested for divers prises and trespasses charged against him, to be delivered, with his goods and chattels, as he has found before the seneschal John de Monte Alto, Richard de Bosco, William de Muntrevell, and William le Brun, who have mainperned that he will stand to right in Gascony to the king and others wishing to speak against him for things that he did not receive for the king's use and for which he is not charged in his account, and that he will stand to right before the king for those things that pertain to the king; provided that Elias be not charged or challenged concerning those things that he expended in the king's service.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Whereas the king has assigned to Joan, late the wife of John de Hardreshull, tenant in chief, ten pounds of land yearly of the lands that belonged to the said John, to be held in tenancy until the king cause dower to be assigned to her; the king orders the sheriff to assign to her in the meantime the said land by lawful extent.
To Markes Brachesford, constable of Haresford castle. Notification that Giles de Sancto Fusciano and Thomassinus, the yeomen of Nicholas le Herier, have satisfied the king, for the said Nicholas and others his fellows, merchants of Amiens, for the custom that the constable exacts from them for the king's use on the wool that they carried last year without the king's licence from Wales in the ship of Allellinus de Bauchant to parts beyond sea, and order to cause the said Giles and Thomassinus to be released from arrest.
To Bartholomew le Jevene, constable of Bristol castle. Like notification, and order to release the aforesaid Nicholas.
Thomas de Essexa, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of Robert Wash, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail him.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to commit to Henry de Gaunt and Isabella his wife, one of the heiresses of Matilda de Avereng', the manor of Audebiry, to be held during the king's will, as the king lately ordered the sheriff to take the manor into the king's hands because Henry and Isabella had alienated it to Giles Boys without the king's licence, as Giles has in the king's court remitted all his right therein to Henry and Isabella, saving to himself the issues of the manor from the time of the alienation.
William Dobel, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of John son of Robert, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him.
William de la Borne, imprisoned at Launceveton for the death of Margery daughter of William son of William de Aqua, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Cornwall to bail him.
July 27.
Westminster.
To the constable of Bristol castle. Order to release all the goods of Reymund de la Barbane, which were arrested by the constable by reason of the suspicion that was held of Reymund concerning certain silver plates lately found with him at Bristol, as William de Munrevell, Poncius de la More, John Blanket, and Ameneus Deuport of St. Makary, merchants, have mainperned before the king to have Reymund, who is imprisoned in the Tower of London for the said suspicion, at the parliament after Michaelmas to stand to right before the king if anyone wish to speak against him, wherefore the king has ordered the constable of the Tower to cause Reymund to be released from prison.