Close Rolls, Edward I: June 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: June 1278', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 1, 1272-1279, (London, 1900) pp. 459-468. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol1/pp459-468 [accessed 18 April 2024]

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June 1278

Membrane 8.
June 2.
Westminster.
To the keeper of the warren of Purbik. Order to cause John Giffard to have in that warren four harts, of the king's gift.
To Ralph de Sandwyco, the king's steward. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Lucy, late the wife of Jordan Bissop, after making an extent of the said lands, which are in the king's hands by reason of Jordan's death, if it can be done without damage to the king or wrong to any other.
May 4.
Westminster.
To Thomas de Normanvill, the king's steward. Order to deliver to Edmund, the king's brother, all the lands in Haddon, Basselawe, Bubinhull, and Roulislegh that belonged to Gilbert le Fraunceis, tenant in chief, which were taken into the king's hands by the steward by the king's order, because the king believed that Gilbert held them in chief of the king as of the crown, and to deliver to Edmund everything received thence, the lands being of Edmund's fee.
The like to Richard de Holebrok and Ralph de Sandwyco.
July 4.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, for a fine of 200l., granted to Thomas, bishop of Hereford, the custody of the lands and heirs of Philip de Arleye, tenant in chief, until the heirs came of age, and the king learns by an inquisition taken by Ralph de Sandewyco, the king's steward, that the custody of the manor of Northpetherton, co. Somerset, which belonged to Philip and which the king before the said grant had granted to brother Joseph, prior of [the Hospital of] St. John of Jerusalem in England, and to brother Richard, warden of the house of that Hospital at Rocland (sic), to hold until the heirs come of age, for 21l. to be rendered to the exchequer, ought to pertain to the bishop by reason of the said grant: the king orders the treasurer and barons [to cause] the prior and Richard to pay the 21l. to the bishop, and to cause them to intend and answer the bishop until the heirs come of age, and to cause them to be acquitted thereof so far as pertains to the king.
To Richard de Holebrok. Order [to deliver] to Reginald de Grey the wardship of the lands that belonged to John de la Mare, tenant in chief, to have until John's heir come of age with the marriage of the heir, together with the issues received thence from the time of the sale of the wardship to Reginald by Richard, which sale the king confirms and accepts.
To Nicholas de Cugeho, steward of the forest of Brikstok. Order to deliver Alexander son of Peter, imprisoned at Bri[k]stok for trespass of the Forest, to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices for Forest pleas when they come to those parts.
Thomas Wlvet, imprisoned at Notingham for the death of Adam le Muner of Litton, has letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail him.
June 8.
Westminster.
To Guncelin de Badelesmere, justice of Chester. Order not to receive anything from the fines, amercements or other issues of that county, and not to permit any one to make fines for trespasses except in the presence of Leonius son of Leonius, or of his deputy, as the king has committed to Leonius the office of the chamberlainship of Chester and the custody of his works on the abbey of Vale Royal during pleasure, so that the said works shall be constructed from the issues of the county of Chester brought to the exchequer of Chester.
June 9.(?)
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause proclamation to be made that the king wills that the county [court] of Somerset, which has been hitherto wont to be held at Yivelcestre, shall hereafter be held at Somerton, and to cause the county to be so held.
To the barons of the exchequer. Although the king lately committed to Ralph de Sandewico and William de Saham the archbishopric of Canterbury, void and in the king's hands, to be kept during his pleasure, he does not wish that William shall be charged with the issues thereof or shall answer to the king for the same, but that he shall intend the custody aforesaid with the said Ralph and shall be controller of all the issues aforesaid, so that Ralph shall answer to the king for the issues by the view and testimony of William: the king therefore orders the barons not to charge William with the issues, provided, however, that he shall be present as controller with Ralph at the rendering of the account.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause the hundreds of Ringslo, Blengate and Dunhamford, which the abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, lately rendered into the king's hands as the king's right, to be held henceforth under the same laws, uses, and customs as they were wont to be held under when they were in the hands of the king's predecessors.
To the keeper of the forest of Wyhtlewode. Order to cause Elizabeth, wife of David son of Griffin, to have two oaks fit for timber in the wood of Henley, which is within that forest.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king, at the instance of Roger de Clifford, the younger, has pardoned Michael de Hercla 150l. of the 300l. in which he made fine with the king for his trespass in marrying Richard, son and heir of Gilbert le Fraunceys, tenant in chief, without the king's licence and will, and order to cause him to be acquitted of 150l. and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
Memorandum, that the aforesaid Roger mainperned to have the body of Michael before the king in the quinzaine of Michaelmas next to hear the king's will.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Robert de Veer, earl of Oxford, to have three bucks of the king's gift, in the forest of Hasfeud.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Notification that the king has given to William le Wasteneys, for his faithful service, 20 marks of the debt of 40 marks that Richard de Carleby, knight, owes to Meyrok son of Sampson, a Jew of Stanford, by his charter in the chest of the chirographers, and order to cause the 20 marks to be levied and paid to William, and to cause Richard to be acquitted thereof, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Hugh de Oddingeseles to be acquitted of 50 marks in which he was lately amerced before the king for a disseisin that he was said to have made upon the abbot of Westminster, as the king has pardoned him this sum.
By K. in the presence of his council, as it was answered in his petition.
[June] 12.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to cause Alice la Seculere, daughter and heiress of Nicholas le Seculer, tenant in chief, to be acquitted of 50 marks of the 100 marks in which she made fine with the king in order that she and Dionisia and Christiana, her sisters, and parceners of the inheritance of Nicholas, might marry whom they wish provided they be of the king's fealty, as the king has pardoned her 50 marks. Anthony Bek ordered [this] by K.
To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order not to molest or aggrieve Robert de Baillol, charged with a trespass of vert and venison, by reason of this charge, but to leave him in peace until otherwise ordered by the king, as John de Eyvill, Peter de Chaumpaigne, Roger le Peytevyn, Elias de Flaunvill, Guncelin de Eyvill, Walter le Graunt, John de Thorneton, Robert de Marton, Richard de Lacy, William de Rednes, Henry le Barber, and William le Chaumberleyn have mainperned to have him before the king at his will.
June 14.
Westminster.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to deliver to J. bishop of Rochester the manor of Middelton, which was taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Walter de Merton, late bishop of Rochester, to hold in the king's name until the king shall otherwise order.
The like to Ralph de Sandwico, the king's steward, for the manor of Cobbehambir [y].
The like to the sheriff of Northampton (sic) for the manor aforesaid.
To Ralph de Sandwyco, the king's steward. Whereas the king lately granted to Anian, bishop of St. Asaph, the custody of the manor of Wrocworthyn, which belonged to Robert Lestrange (Extranei), tenant in chief, to have until Robert's heir come of age, and Nicholas Gamage afterwards recovered 100s. of the issues of the manor against the bishop by consideration of the king's court, wherefore the king wishes to make recompense to the bishop; he therefore orders Ralph to cause the bishop to have recompence for the 100s. in some other fitting place by extent, to be received until the heir come of age.
To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king granted to Thomas, bishop of Hereford, the custody of the lands of Philip de Erleye, and it was found by inquisition that the custody of the manor of Norton Petherton, co. Somerset, which the king had granted to brother Joseph, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and to brother Richard, warden of the house of the said Hospital of Bocland, for 21l. yearly, ought to pertain to the bishop (as at page 460 above), and 4l. 9s. 2½d. are subtracted from Joseph and Richard's ferm aforesaid for the dower of Roesia, late the wife of the said Philip, and 5 marks are assigned to her for the increment of the extent of the manor, so that Joseph and Richard shall pay to the exchequer the remainder of the ferm, to wit 13l. 4s. 1½d. (sic); the king orders the barons to cause them to pay the latter sum to the bishop until Philip's heirs come of age, and to cause them to be acquitted thereof, and to cause to be allowed to the bishop in the fine of 200l. made by him to have this wardship whatever the barons may have received from the aforesaid ferm for the king's use, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, to have respite until Martinmas for all debts due from him to the exchequer.
To the same. Order to cause Henry de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, to have the arrears of his fee that he receives in the name of the earldom of Lincoln from the day when he was of full age, to wit St. Hilary, 56 Henry III., until the day of the making of the presents.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to search the rolls of that exchequer and to certify the king within his next parliament in what and in how many debts William de Alditeleghe, son and heir of James de Alditeleghe, is indebted to the king at that exchequer for the debts of his father, and whether or not he has paid anything of the said debts after his father's death, and if so, how much, and how much still remains to be paid, and to leave William in peace concerning the said debts in the meantime.
The like to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of England.
June 14.
Westminster.
To William de Valencia. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Berks that the thirty-five sheep that William's bailiffs of Benham lately took into his hands by reason of the felony that John de Crekkelad, chaplain of Boxore, made and for which he was outlawed, which sheep Geoffrey de la Croiz, chaplain, committed to John at Boxore for custody, belonged to Geoffrey and not to John, and that the bailiffs took the sheep solely by reason of the said felony: the king orders William to give orders to his said bailiffs to cause restitution of the sheep to be made to Geoffrey. By K.
To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas, bishop of Hereford, to have six oaks fit for timber in the forest of Lithewod, of the king's grant.
To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to permit William de Colewik to have and hold his park of Colewik, which is within the forest of Shirewode, enclosed as he and his ancestors were wont to hold it hitherto, until the coming of the justices for pleas of the Forest or until otherwise ordered.
June 18.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Whereas Ralph le Botiller asserts that he ought to be quit of doing suit at the king's hundred of Grymboldeshash and that he and his ancestors were wont to be quit thereof, wherefore the king has adjourned him before the king at his next coming to those parts or before the justices next in eyre for common pleas in that county: the king orders the sheriff to supersede in the meantime the exaction that he makes upon Ralph for this reason, and to deliver to him his cattle taken for this reason.
June 18.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Devon. Orders to cause Richard de Pultimore to have again seisin of tenements in La More and La Langfore, together with the damages adjudged to Joel de Stokes in an assize of novel disseisin that he arramed before Solomon de Roff[a] and Master Thomas de Sadinton against Richard concerning the said tenements, which damages were levied from Richard's goods and chattels by the sheriff by writ of judgment or by order of the justices aforesaid after the rendering of judgment in the assize, as the king has caused the judgment to be revoked by his council and has caused seisin to be adjudged to Richard under a certain form.
By K. and all the C.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Roger de Mortuo Mari to have four stags of the king's gift in the forest of Salop.
Membrane 7.
June 20.
Westminster.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Henry de Penebrugg to have ten oaks in the forest of Lythewode, of the king's gift. By K. on the information of Roger de Clifford.
To Ralph de Sandwico, the king's steward. Order to cause John de Shotesbrok, son and heir of Robert de Shotesbrok, to have seisin of his father's lands in Shotesbrok, whereof Thomas de Weyland had the custody by the king's commission, as the king has taken John's homage and rendered the lands to him by consent of Thomas.
To Master Roger de Seyton. Whereas Margery de Cante Lupo impleads Master Elias, a Jew of London, before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of this that he should acquit her against Thomas de Wesenham of 40l. that Thomas exacts from her in the exchequer, the king has associated Roger with the treasurer and barons to hear and determine the said suit, and orders him to attend to this at certain days to be provided for this purpose. The king has ordered the treasurer and barons to admit Roger as their fellow.
June 19.
Westminster.
John Isunber and John his son, imprisoned at Wilton for the death of Augustine le Poleter, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Wilts to bail them.
To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause the prior of Blyth (Blida) to have ten oaks for timber in Shirewod forest, of the king's gift.
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to permit Stephen son of Stephen de Cheyndut to have the corn growing in the lands of the manor of Chetindon that he has sown this year, together with his stock and other goods in the same manor. He is enjoined not to omit doing this by reason of the lands being taken into the king's hands by his order.
June 22.
Westminster.
To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause John de Nevill to have three bucks in the forest of Essex, of the king's gift.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the barons of the port of Favresham to be acquitted of 72½ marks in which they were amerced before Nicholas de la Tur and his fellows, justices last in eyre in co. Kent, by reason of the common summons of the eyre made before the justices, as the king has pardoned them.
To the same. Order to cause all debtors of L. late bishop of Rochester to come before them at the exchequer, and to cause to be levied from them as quickly as possible the debts that the executors of the bishop's will can prove to be owing, and to cause the executors to have the same in order to render to the king the debts due to him from the bishop and to make execution of the latter's will, as the bishop at his death was indebted to the king in divers sums and the executors have found the king security for payment thereof, and many of the king's realm were indebted to the bishop at his death for debts that they ought to have rendered to him long since, and of which they have not taken care to satisfy him or his executors, wherefore the executors are unable to pay to the king the said debts and to make execution of the will aforesaid.
To Nicholas de Stapelton, constable of Tykehull castle. Order to cause three monks celebrating divine service in the king's chapel of Tykehull, each of whom receives 20s. yearly for his wages, to have their wages for their maintenance in the same way as other keepers of that castle have done.
To Ralph de Sandwyco, the king's steward. Order to restore to the dean and chapter of Exeter (Oxon') the manor of Thorverton, with everything received thence since it was taken into the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John Wyger, who had the manor of the demesne of the abbot and convent of Marmoutier (Mermuster), who held it peacefully for a hundred years, gave the manor to the dean and chapter in frankalmoin for the maintenance of three chaplains celebrating divine service, whereby the dean and chapter had peaceful seisin thereof before the death of John from the eve of St. Andrew until the morrow of St. Thomas the Martyr in the feast of Christmas and long afterwards, until the steward took the manor into the king's hands.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has pardoned Geoffrey de Lucy a moiety of 253l. in which he is indebted at the exchequer, as the king understands by the letters of the treasurer and barons, and has granted to him that he may pay the remainder by 100s. yearly, and order to cause him to be acquitted and to have the terms aforesaid, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
June 22.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to cause the barons of Fordwich (Forwyco) to be acquitted of 100s. in which they were amerced before Master Roger de Seyton and his fellows, justices last in eyre in co. Kent, by reason of the common summons of the eyre made before them, as the king has pardoned them.
To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver Robert son of William, Richard le Whelp, Peter le Whelpe, Peter Tuck, and Robert Ayllard, imprisoned at Brikstok for trespass of the Forest, in bail to twelve men each who shall mainpern to have them before the justices of the Forest when they come to those parts.
June 22.
Westminster.
To the justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause to be assigned and delivered to John le Walhop 30l. yearly of land from the king's waste (wastivis) lands in Ireland, to be held by the services to be assigned by the justiciary, as the king has granted this land to John for his long service to him.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause Christina de Worting, Peter de la Clyve, Agnes de Ewell, Richard Olyver, Edith wife of Thomas Taillard, and Alan de Portesmue, heirs of Walter de Merton, late bishop of Rochester, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the manor of Kibbeworth, with everything received thence from the time of its being taken into the king's hands, to be parted between the heirs, saving to the warden and scholars of the House of the Scholars of Merton their right in the said manor, so that the king may do justice to them when they wish to speak in this matter, saving also to Saer de Harecourt the chief messuage of the manor, his chattels, and his corn that he caused to be sown in the lands of the manor after the bishop's death.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has pardoned the abbot of Wardon, in consideration of the remission by the abbot of the arrears of the debts due to him from the king and his father, the 100 marks in which he made fine with the king before Master Roger de Seyton and his fellows, justices lately in eyre for common pleas in co. Bedford, for certain trespasses, and order to cause the aforesaid remission to be enrolled and to cause the abbot to be acquitted of the said 100 marks.
June 23.
Westminster.
To Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause Roger Lestrange (Extraneo) to have four bucks in the forest of Caltres, of the king's gift.
Vacated, because otherwise below.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to permit John de Lovetot to hold a tenement in Great Stanebrigge with the advowson of the church of that town, of the king's fee, which John has entered by the king's licence of the gift and feoffment of Richard de Tany, tenant in chief.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order to respite until the parliament after Michaelmas next all the exactions upon Henry de Shobery for divers debts of the king's Jews.
June 24.
Westminster.
To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order not to molest or aggrieve Walter de Helyun and John le Stedeman, the king's groom, for the taking of a buck by John with Walter's greyhounds in the forest of Den without the king's licence, as the king has pardoned them.
The like to the justices next in eyre for common pleas in co. Gloucester.
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to take into the king's hands the body of the castle of Erdeslegh, which Roger de Cliff[ord] lately rendered into the king's hands, and to cause it to be guarded safely until the king shall otherwise order.
Richard son of Agatha, Roger le Ward, John atte Grene, Richard son of Stephen Godweyne, Richard Herleweyn, Simon Fox, Walter atte Grene, John de Raveneston, Richard le Noreys, and Richard Godweyne, imprisoned at Noting[ham] for the death of Ralph son of Henry le Lung, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Northampton (sic) to bail them.
June 26.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Eyvill to be acquitted of 70 marks of the fine of 200 marks that he made with the king for his trespass in marrying Matilda, late the wife of James de Audithelegh, tenant in chief, without the king's licence and will, of which fine he has paid 30 marks at the exchequer, as the king has pardoned him the said 70 marks.
To the bailiffs of Holdernesse. Order to release any distraint that they may have made on the abbot of Aumale (de Albe Marle) for his fealty for the lands that he holds of the king in their bailiwick, as he has done fealty before the king.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Whereas the king granted to Queen Eleanor, his consort, Jacob de Oxonia, a Jew, lately deceased, with all his goods, debts and chattels free and quit of all tallages, aids, imprests and demands pertaining to the king, so that she should have and hold the Jew with all his goods and chattels and with all liberties, laws and customs of the Jewry, and the greater part of the goods, debts and chattels that belonged to the Jew have come to Henna, late his wife: the king orders them to cause all the Jew's goods, debts and chattels aforesaid together with all his goods, debts and chattels that belonged to him at his death and that pertain to the king of right to whose hands so ever they may have come to be delivered to the queen aforesaid, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
To the barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has granted respite to Edmund, earl of Cornwall—[Imperfect.]
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause Edmund, earl of Cornwall, to have his town of Wilton until the next parliament, which the king lately ordered the sheriff to take into the king's hands by reason of a trespass committed therein against the king's peace.
June 26.
Westminster.
To Thomas de Normanvill, the king's steward. Order to cause John de Eston to have 100 marks, the remainder of 100l. that the king granted to him for his damages and expenses in prosecuting the right claimed by him in the inheritance that belonged to Avelina, daughter and heiress of William de Fortibus, sometime earl of Albemarle, against the king in his court before him, of which sum John has received only 50 marks.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to deliver to William de Monte Caniso of Edwardeston and Beatrice his wife the chief messuage of Belcham, which Amicia, late the wife of William de Bello Campo of Bedeford held in dower of her husband's inheritance, to have entirely in William and Beatrice's purparty, on condition that Roger de Mubray, a minor in the king's wardship, John de Steyngrive and Ida his wife, John de Horebir[y] and Elizabeth his wife and Michael Picot and Joan his wife shall have from William and Beatrice's purparty in that town the value of a third of the chief messuage and Roger, John and Ida, John and Elizabeth, Michael and Joan shall have from the same purparty in the same town the value of a like third of the said messuage, to be held according to what was considered before the king.
To Richard de Holebrok, the king's steward. Order to cause the aforesaid manor, which Amicia held as above, except the chief messuage, to be divided into three equal parts, and, after retaining in the king's hands for his use and the use of Roger de Mubray, a minor in his wardship, who is of the esnecy of the heirs of William de Bello Campo, until Roger come of age, to cause John de Steyngrive and Ida his wife, Joan de Horebirt[y] and Elizabeth his wife, and Michael Picot and Joan his wife to have seisin of one third of the manor, and to cause William de Monte Caniso of Edwardeston and Beatrice his wife, as heirs of the said Roger (sic) of the inheritance of the aforesaid William, to have seisin of a third, and to cause the chief messuage to be extended by itself and to be divided into three equal parts, and, after retaining the value of a third thereof for the use of the king and of Roger as above, to cause the said John and Ida, John and Elizabeth, Michael and Joan to have seisin of lands and rents of William and Beatrice in the same town to the value of a third of the chief messuage.
Membrane 6.
June 26.
Westminster.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the men and tenants of the manors of Thorp, with the hundred, and Boudon and Haverberg of the ferms and other issues of the manors for all the time during which Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, has held and shall hold the manors, as the late king, at the feast of St. Andrew, in the 51st year of his reign, granted the manors to the said queen.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause the abbess and nuns of Préaux (Pratell') to have 100s. a year, with the arrears thereof for the sheriff's time, as the king lately ordered him to pay this sum, which Roger de Quency, sometime earl of Winchester, assigned to them by his charter, to be received from the sheriff of that county, by whose hands the earl was wont to receive yearly his rent of the earldom of Winchester, as contained in the king's letters patent in the possession of the abbess and nuns. The king has ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to cause this money to be allowed to the sheriff.
To Elias de Tingewyk, keeper of the king's forest of Litlewode. Order to cause the sheriff of Northampton to have in the king's park of Hanlegh, which is within the forest aforesaid, twelve oaks, to wit eight fit for shingles (cindulas) and four to make tables and forms (tabulas et formulas), for the works of the king's castle of Northampton.
William Knyvet of Spalding, imprisoned at Okham for the death of Henry son of John the carpenter, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Rutland to bail him.
William de Aneseye, imprisoned at Okham for the death of Henry son of John le Carpenter, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Rutland to bail him.
June 28.
Westminster.
To Richard Wolward. Whereas the abbot and convent of Westminster have rendered into the king's hands the liberty that they claimed to have of the return of the king's writs in the lands of the abbey and the other things pertaining to such return in co. Middlesex, the king has assigned Richard to execute what ought to be done by the king's writs or precepts in the said lands, as the sheriff of that county shall signify to him by bills to be delivered to him, until the king shall otherwise ordain: the king therefore orders Richard to receive the bills and precepts from the sheriff and to execute them, and to do what pertains to them in the said lands.
To the sheriff of Middlesex. Order to cause bills to be made and delivered to the said Richard of the king's writs and precepts concerning the said lands.
Simon son of Thomas de Hokeringham, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of Gunnilda de Caumpel[eye], wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.