Close Rolls, Edward I: January 1278

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 1278', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 435-440. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp435-440 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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January 1278

1278.

Jan. 4.
The Tower.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to cause the Friars Minors of Northampton to have four oaks fit for timber in the park of Silviston, of the king's gift.
Ralph son of Walter le Paumer, imprisoned at Certesey for the death of Ralph son of Richard de Crokesford, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Surrey to bail him.
To Gregory de Rokesle, taker of the king's wines throughout England. Order to cause Bartholomew de Briaunzun to have three tuns of wine of the king's right prise, of the king's gift. By Anthony Bek.
To Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland. Order not to compel Roger de Mortuo Mari or his men and tenants of those parts to contribute to tallages made or to be made to invade the king's enemies and rebels until further orders, as the king understands that Roger has lands near to the king's enemies and rebels in those parts, whereby he incurs grievous and continuous costs about the defence of his lands.
Jan. 4.
The Tower.
To the sheriff of Sussex and Surrey. Order to seise into the king's hands at once, if he have not already done so, the lands that were of the acquisition of W. de Merton, late bishop of Rochester, and that are of the fee of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and to commit the seisin thereof to the earl, to hold until the king shall cause justice to be done to those claiming right therein.
To John Bek. Order not to proceed to judgment in the pleas of debt brought by certain merchants against Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, before the quinzaine of Easter next, and to revoke until then any order that he may have given to levy from the earl's lands and chattels by writs of judgment, restoring to the merchants any instruments of theirs that may be in his hands, so that the earl may compound with them in the meantime and may receive their instruments from them, as the earl has served the king laudably in the present war of Wales, not without immense labours and expenses.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to permit Richard Pauncevot, charged with trespass of the Forest and with certain other trespasses, to have peace concerning the same, as he has found security by the king's steward to stand to right at the king's order if any one wish to speak against him.
Membrane 14.
Jan. 7.
The Tower.
To Thomas de Normanvill, the king's steward. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margery, late the wife of Robert de Hampton, tenant in chief.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver William de Oevre, John Henry, and Roger Thursteyn, imprisoned at Winchester for trespass of the Forest, each in bail to twelve men of co. Southampton who shall mainpern to have them before the justices for pleas of the Forest when they come into those parts.
To the bailiffs of the archbishop of Canterbury at Otteford and Northflete. Order to deliver to the barons of the Cinque Ports Michael Cobbeham, Adam son of Adam, and Richard Emet, barons of the port of Sandwich, attached by the bailiffs at Northflete and imprisoned in the archbishop's prison of Otteford, and to deliver any goods that they may have arrested with the same men, as the barons of the Cinque Ports have the liberty that if any one of their liberty shall be taken and detained anywhere within the realm for any trespass, he ought to be delivered to the barons to stand to right within their liberty if any one wish to speak against him.
Jan. 8.
The Tower.
To the sheriff of Oxford, escheator in the same county. Order to cause Richard son and heir of William de Harecurt to have seisin of his father's lands, as the king has taken his homage.
The like to the sheriff of Leicester, escheator in the same county.
Jan. 10.
The Tower.
To R. archbishop of Canterbury. Order to cause to be delivered to the barons of the Cinque Ports without delay Michael Cobeham, Adam son of Adam, and Richard Emet, barons of the port of Sandwich, who were appealed by Robert le Coker of Gravesende of maiming, robbery and breach of the peace and were taken and imprisoned in the archbishop's prison of Otteford, and to cause their boat arrested by the archbishop's bailiff at Northflete for this reason to be delivered to the barons, as the barons of the Cinque Ports have the liberty that if any one of their liberty be taken anywhere in the realm for any cause, he ought to be delivered to them to stand to right within their liberty if any one wish to speak against him.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Sancto Johanne to be acquitted of 200 marks of the debts that he owes to the king, as the king has pardoned him this sum for his good and praiseworthy service in the Welsh expedition.
To the same. Order to cause John Lestrange (Extraneus), the king's yeoman, to be acquitted of 200l. in which he is bound to the king at the exchequer for the debts of John Lestrange, his father, deceased, as the king has pardoned him this sum for his grateful service.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until the quinzaine [of Easter?] next the arrears in which Bogo de Knovill, sheriff of Salop and Stafford, is indebted to the king at the exchequer for his last account.
Simon de Delvedon, imprisoned at Canterbury for the death of Simon de la Pelle, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriffs of Kent to bail him.
Thuberus (sic) de Delvendon and Geoffrey de Delvenden, imprisoned at Wy for the death of Simon de la Pelle, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail them.
Jan. 13.
The Tower.
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Order to cause the abbot of Vale Royal to have 105l. in order to buy the land of James le Vilour, of the king's gift.
To Richard de Helebrok, the king's steward. Order to cause Hugh son of Otto to have six good oaks for timber in the park of Longeleye for timber, and 200 live bream (beeimas) in the king's pond there in order to stock a pond of his.
Jan. 17.
Westminster.
To Adam Gurdoun, keeper of the forest of Wulvemar' and Asshiolt. Order to take all those who are indicted by inquisition of trespass of the Forest, and to cause them to be kept safely until otherwise ordered, and to cause them and others at present imprisoned for trespass of the Forest at the information (denunciacionem) of the Justice of the Forest this side Trent to be delivered by mainprise.
To the keeper of the forest of Essex. Order to cause ten does to be taken in the forest, and to cause them to be taken to Westminster, so that they shall be there on Tuesday after SS. Fabian and Sebastian to be delivered to the steward of Queen Eleanor, the king's consort.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Robert de Halstede, the king's yeoman, to be acquitted of 4s. due from him to the exchequer, as the king lately pardoned him 28l. 10s. 10d. due to the exchequer, and 4s. beyond that sum are exacted from him, which sum the king has now pardoned him.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Luke de Luk' and his fellows, merchants of Lucca (Luk'), to be acquitted of 40l. in which they were amerced before the justices last in eyre at the Tower of London for cloth sold contrary to the assize, as the king has pardoned them.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to permit the dean and chapter of St. Martin's-le-Grand to hold until further order the rents and tenements that belonged to Master Adam Linton, who was charged with the death of William Matebot, mercer, in London, as the king learns by the record of Master Roger de Seyton that the said rents and tenements, whereof Adam in his lifetime had enfeoffed the dean and chapter, are not the king's escheats because Adam was never convicted of the felony aforesaid.
Jan. 18.
Westminster.
To Reiner de Luk' and his fellows, merchants of Lucca (Luk'). Order to cause Anthony Bek, keeper of the Tower of London, to have 50l. for Michaelmas term last of his fee of 100l. yearly for the said custody.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Alexander de Monte Gomery to be acquitted of 100l. in which Philip son of Alexander de Monte Gomery made fine with the late king for having an inquisition, which are now exacted from Alexander as heir, as it appears to the king that Philip paid this money in his lifetime to Hamo Lestrange (Extraneo), late sheriff of Salop and Stafford.
To Robert de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause John Tolekyn of Munkerothe and his sureties, if he found any, to be acquitted of 40 marks at which a certain ship of his and the goods in her, arrested by the justiciary by reason of the war (turbacionis) between the king and the countess of Flanders, were appraised, and to permit John to return home peacefully, as the king has pardoned him this sum.
To the constable of the Tower of London. Order to cause Manasser (Manserum) son of Aaron, a Jew of London, lately arrested by the constable upon suspicion of clipping money and imprisoned in the Tower, to be released upon mainprise until the king shall send justices to the Tower to enquire whether Manasser or another is guilty of the clipping aforesaid.
Jan. 18.
Westminster.
To Matthew de Columbariis, keeper of the forest of Ceute. Order to cause Matilda Waleraund to have two roebucks (capriolos) in that forest, of the king's gift.
Jan. 18.
Westminster.
To Elias de Tingwik, keeper of the forest of Whittlewod. Order to cause Gilbert de Kyrkeby, sheriff of Northampton, to have twelve oaks in the wood of Hanlee, which is within the said forest, to repair therewith the king's houses within the castle of Northampton.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Master Simon, chancellor of Salisbury, to be acquitted of the demand for half a mark, in which he was amerced before Roger de Cliff[ord] and his fellows, justices last in eyre for Forest pleas in co, Oxford, for waste made in the wood of Prestegrave, and of the demand for 10l. because he was not present at the common summons of the eyre aforesaid, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the treasurer and barons that Simon has no lay fee within the bounds of Wycchewode forest, co. Oxford, by reason whereof he ought to have shown his presence before the said justices for the common summons of the eyre, and that neither he nor his predecessors showed their presence before such justices by reason of the common summons, and were not molested or amerced for their absence, and that he has not done waste in the wood of Prestegrave, within the said forest, and that he could not do waste therein because the wood is not his, but pertains to the church of Shypton, which is a prebend of the church of Salisbury. It is provided that the holder of the wood of Prestegrave shall answer to the king for the amercements aforesaid.
To the constable of St. Briavells castle. Order to cause John de Malemert to have in the forest of Dene two beech-trees for shafts (flecchas) for quarells and two oak-trees to make two chests for the king's use to place the said quarells in.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Thomas Neel and Richard Costard to be acquitted of 59s. of the issues that they received from the lands that belonged to Hugh Peverel in Coleworth and Colecote for the time when they were in the late king's hands by reason of certain trespasses charged against Hugh, as Hugh has acknowledged before the king that he has received this sum from Thomas and Richard.
To the same. Order to respite until the quinzaine of Easter next up to 20l. of the arrears of the account of Henry de Shotesbrok, sheriff of Oxford and Berks, as he asserts that he has incurred many expenses and costs about the collection of the fifteenth in those counties and about other things that concerned the fifteenth, whereof [he prays] that allowance may be made.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Whereas William le Specer of Oxford is indebted to the king in 20l. of the debts of the Jewry, and William de Middelton, king's clerk, has mainperned before the justices to acquit William le Specer of 10l. of the aforesaid debt; the king orders the justices, if it be so, to cause the said William [de Middelton (fn. 1) ] to be acquitted of 5 marks for the carriage of the rolls and writs of the Bench from London to Shrewsbury and thence to London, and of the remaining 10 marks, which the king granted to him in aid of his expenses in keeping the rolls and writs aforesaid.
Membrane 13.
Jan. 18.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until the quinzaine of Easter next up to 20l. of the arrears of the account of Walter de Shelfhangre, late sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, as he asserts that he has incurred many expenses and costs about the collection of the fifteenth in those counties and about other things that concerned the fifteenth, whereof he prays that allowance may be made.
To the same. Order to supersede entirely the demand upon John de Bruylly for 20 marks for a fine that he made with the king for the wardship of the land and heir of Ralph de Ludinton until the heir come of age, and to cause him to be acquitted thereof, as it was afterwards found by inquisition that the wardship pertained to William de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, and not to the king, wherefore the king caused the wardship to be restored to the earl, for which reason John obtained no profit by reason of the wardship.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order not to permit anyone of the town of Southampton to be molested before them hereafter by reason of a trespass that some men of that town were said to have committed upon Deudoney, a Jew of Winchester, except those who were found guilty thereof by an inquisition taken by the justices, and who were attached at another time, as the king learns that the justices disquiet and molest the community by reason of the aforesaid trespass, of which the community is guiltless.
To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king granted to William de Insula, deceased, that of all the debts due to the said king he should render yearly 100s., to wit a moiety at the Easter exchequer, in the 51st year of the reign, and another moiety at the following Michaelmas exchequer, and so from year to year until the debts should be fully paid, and the king has granted the same terms to Roger son and heir of the said William: the king therefore orders the barons to cause Roger to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
Jan. 28.
Dover.
To the justiciary of Ireland. Robert de Sancto Edmundo, the king's serjeant, has shown the king that whereas James de Audidelegh, sometime justiciary of Ireland, granted to him the chattels that belonged to Henry Judas, who was hanged for felony, appraised at 13l., for the damages that Robert sustained in an expedition with the said James against the Irish of the parts of Desmond (de Essemund), the king's rebels, Miles de Norhaugh, coroner of co. Waterford, still detains these chattels and refuses to deliver them to Robert: the king orders the justiciary, if it be as stated, to cause Robert to have the chattels, in accordance with the grant.
To the same. The aforesaid Robert has shown the king that whereas James de Audidelegh, the late justiciary, deputed him to store certain castles in Ireland with corn and other victuals, whereof Robert rendered account before the attorney of James, and left quit, so that 10l. 10s. 4d. that Robert paid for victuals after the account was closed are owing to Robert, neither James nor any other on the king's behalf has taken care to satisfy him for that sum: the king orders the justiciary, if he ascertain by the said account that it is so, to cause Robert to have the said 10l. 10s. 4d.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to cause John son of John le (sic) Verdun to have seisin of a moiety of the manor of Culfho, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Richard that John le (sic) Verdun held nothing in chief, and that he held a moiety of the aforesaid manor of Giles de Wachesham, tenant in chief, and that the moiety came into the king's hands by reason of the wardship of Gerard, son and heir of Giles, whilst the heir was under age, as wardship of a wardship, and that John son of the said John le Verdun is his next heir and is of full age, to wit twenty-one years, and the king has rendered the moiety to him.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has pardoned Walter de Essex[ia], late sheriff of Essex and Hertford, a moiety of all the amercements exacted from him by summons of the exchequer for the time when he was sheriff of those counties, and that he has granted to him respite for payment of the other moiety until a month from Easter, and order to cause Walter to have acquittance of the said moiety, unless he have previously had it by another writ, and to cause him to have the said respite, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.

Footnotes

  • 1. According to the marginal abridgment.