Close Rolls, Edward I: February 1277

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: February 1277', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 369-372. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp369-372 [accessed 24 April 2024]

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February 1277

Feb. 3.
Woodstock.
To John le Eyr, bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause the Friars Preachers of Oxford to have six oaks in the clearings (trencheis) within the park of Wodestok for timber, of the king's gift.
John Oty, imprisoned at York for the death of Robert de Cave, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
William de Greinvill of Wuton, imprisoned at Brehull for trespass of the Forest, wherewith he is charged, has letters to John son of Nigel, keeper of the forest of Bernwod, to bail him.
Feb. 5.
Woodstock.
To Thomas de Langeleye, keeper of the forest of Whychewod. Order to cause Godfrey, bishop of Worcester, to have 20 deer (feras bestias), bucks and does, to stock his park of Blockele therewith, of the king's gift.
To Geoffrey de Picheford, keeper of the forest of Wyndesor. Order to cause Master Simon de Beuveys, the king's surgeon, to have six oaks for his fuel, of the king's gift.
Feb. 4.
Woodstock.
To John son of Nigel, keeper of the forest of Bernewode. Order to deliver Peter le Provost and John his son, imprisoned at Brehull for trespass of the Forest, in bail to twelve men who shall mainpern to have them before the justices for pleas of the Forest when they come to those parts.
To Gregory de Rockele, taker of the king's wines. Order to cause the archbishop of Rages (Ragen') to have two tuns of wine from the wines of the king's right prise in Gregory's custody, of the king's gift.
To Robert le Eyr, bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause the prior of Coldenorton to have thirty cartloads of brushwood for his fire from the clearings (trencheis) that the king lately caused to be made within his park of Wodestok, of the king's gift.
Henry le Marchaunt, imprisoned at Oxford for the death of Roger Wimark, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Oxford to bail him.
To John de Grymested, keeper of the park of Melchet. Order to cause Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, to have twenty oaks to make laths (latas) thereof for the use of her manor-house (manerii) of Lindhurst, of the king's gift.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to permit Joceus son of Samuelotus, a Jew, to dwell with his household in the town of Chastreton near Cambridge, so that he may have access to Cambridge to ply his merchandise there, and to repair the houses that he has in the same town.
Feb. 7.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to deliver Richard Blofot, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of his wife and two children (puerorum), to four of his friends, who shall keep him securely so that damage or peril shall not arise from him to anyone, as the king learns by the record of John de Lovetot concerning the delivery of Norwich gaol that Richard is insane (freneticus) and has been long so, and that he slew his wife and children in his frensy and not by felony or of malice aforethought.
To Gregory de Rockele, taker of the king's wines. Order to cause the archbishop of Rages (Ragen') to have two tuns of wine from the wines of the king's right prise in his custody, of the king's gift.
Feb. 7.
Woodstock.
To Giles de Audenard, constable of the Tower of London. Order to cause Nicholas de Cugeho to have a tun of good wine from the king's wines of the right prise in his custody.
Bartholomew son of Adam Unbeyn, William le Welwrihte and Richard his brother, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of Baldwin de Elmham, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail them.
Feb. 7.
Woodstock.
To the keeper of the forest of Menedep. Order to permit R. bishop of Bath and Wells to assart up to 60 acres, [measured] by the forest perch, of his woods of Ceddre and Axebrigg, and to hold to him and his successors when brought into cultivation, as the king has granted that the bishop and his successors may assart and bring into culture 60 acres as above where it may be done for the greatest advantage of the bishop and the least damage of the forest, provided that the bishop enclose them with a little ditch and a low hedge, according to the assize of the Forest.
To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by them that William de Bozale, who was the late king's sheriff in co. York in the 48th and 49th year of his reign, received nothing and was unable to receive anything from the issues of the county for the last quarter of the 48th year because Robert de Nevill, who was the last sheriff before him, would not deliver to him the rolls or writs or anything else touching the office, so that William could not then execute the office of sheriff, and that William received about 40l. of the issues of the county in the 49th year, and that he was unable to receive more, because he was hindered by reason of the disturbance then existing in the realm by John de Eyvill, John de Vescy, Ralph de Handesacre, and Thomas de Furnivall, who received the remainder of the issues of the county for that year and have not yet answered to the king for the same: the king orders the barons not to charge William beyond the said 40l. in his account at the exchequer for the issues of the county for the said time, and to discharge him of anything in excess of that sum with which they may have charged him, provided that John de Eyvill, John de Vescy, Robert and Thomas be charged with the residue of the county for the time aforesaid.
William de Strangerwath and Adam his brother, imprisoned at Appelby for the death of Richard Dilli, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Westmoreland to bail them.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has granted to Roger Bygod, earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, respite for all debts due to the exchequer from the time of the war moved between the king and Llewelyn son of Griffin for five years from then, and order to cause the earl to have these terms, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
Feb. 6.
Woodstock.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews and to Adam de Wyntonia. Order to cause to be assigned to Henna, late the wife of Jacob de Oxonia, a Jew of London, her dower of the goods and chattels that belonged to Jacob, according to the tenor of a charter made concerning her dower, and if the goods and chattels do not suffice for her dower, to cause what is lacking thereof to be assigned to her from Jacob's houses in London, according to the custom of the said Jewry, and, when such assignment shall have been made to her, they are not to aggrieve or molest her by her body or goods for any debts in which Jacob was indebted to the king or others.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to Nicholas de Yatingeden, sometime constable of Wyndesore castle, for 15l. 8s. 2d., as John Ferre has acknowledged before the king that he received from Nicholas the said sum of the ransom of 30l. of land that the late king granted to him from the eyre of the said Nicholas and his fellows, justices of the late king to hear and determine in co. Northampton and adjoining counties pleas of lands given by reason of the disturbance in the realm, whence the aforesaid 15l. 8s. 2d. were levied for John's use by the justices' estreats of their eyre in co. Berks in the time of Thomas de Sancto Vigore, then sheriff of that county.
Feb. 18.
Banbury.
To Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland. Order to provide together with S. bishop of Waterford, the treasurer, to whom the king has written in this behalf, 600 quarters of wheat and 1,000 quarters of oats in Ireland for the king's use, and to cause them to be carried to Chester before Midsummer, so that they shall be there three days before then, as the king greatly needs wheat and oats for his affairs in the Marches.
To Robert le Eyr, bailiff of Wodestok. Order to cause the constable of Bannebyr[y] castle to have five oaks with their severed-branches (coupon') and all other strippings from the clearings (trench') within Wodestok park, for the repair of certain stables in Bannebyr[y] lately broken by certain servants of the king, of the king's gift.
Feb. 21.
Banbury.
To the same. Order to cause the Friars Preachers of Oxford to have from the said clearings six oaks for their fuel and a good oak to make tables for their use, of the king's gift.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to deliver Richard de Selveston, John his son, Henry de Selveston, and William Smart, imprisoned at Selveston for trespass of venison, in bail to six men each, who shall mainpern to have them before the king at his pleasure to answer to him for the trespass.
Feb. 23.
Halse.
To Gregory de Rockesle, chamberlain of London. Order to cause twelve tuns of the king's wines of the right prise in his custody to be brought to Norwich against the king's arrival there, so that they shall be there eight days before Easter, and to cause 40 tuns to be taken to Westminster against the parliament after the said feast.
— — William Hardewyn of Houeden, imprisoned at York for the death of Robert son of Adam de Hirst, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
Robert le Fisshere of Wyseberg, imprisoned at Arundel for the death of William de Bloare, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Sussex to bail him.
To the steward of the forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stanf[ord]. Order to cause Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, to have four oaks fit for timber in the forest of Salcey (de Salseto), of the king's gift.
Feb. 27.
Buckingham.
To the same. Order to cause Nicholas de Cuggeho to have five oaks for timber in the aforesaid forest, of the king's gift.
To Gregory de Rokesle, the king's chamberlain of London. Order to cause the prior of Neuton Longevill to have two tuns of the king's wines in Gregory's custody, of the king's gift.
To the keeper of the forest of Whichewod. Order to cause Eleaner, daughter of Nicholas de Cuggeho, to have three leafless oak-trunks (robora) of little value for her fuel, of the king's gift.
William de Rude, imprisoned at Arundel for the death of Richard Shynewod, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Sussex to bail him.