Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1280

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1902.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1280', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 2, 1279-1288, (London, 1902) pp. 37-40. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol2/pp37-40 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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November 1280

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Nov. 3.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, to be acquitted of 85l. 10s. 0d. of the debts due from Peter Mauclerk, earl of Richmond, at his death.
Vacated, because otherwise below.
To the same. Order to cause Thomas de Tymeworth to be acquitted of 100s. of the 10l. in which he made fine with the king for respite of knighthood, as the king has pardoned him this sum at the instance of William le Brun, king's yeoman.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to charge Hugh de Estcote with 100s. due from Walter de Helyun for the ferm of the wardship of the lands that belonged to Walter de Longeford, tenant in chief, and to discharge Walter de Helyun thereof, as Hugh came into chancery and acknowledged that he was indebted to Walter de Helyun in 100s. and that he will acquit him of that sum at the exchequer, and the king, at Walter's request, will look to Hugh for this sum.
To the same. Like order concerning 10l. due from Walter de Helyun for a fine for having the marriage of the daughters and heiresses of Walter de Longeford, tenant in chief, the said Hugh having acknowledged in chancery that he owed that sum to Walter.
To the same. Order to cause Robert de Tateshal to be acquitted of 100 marks in which Robert de Tateshal, his father, was indebted at his death to the late king for a loan made to him in Gascony, as the king has pardoned Robert by letters patent.
Nov. 5.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to cause Nicholas Wascelyn to be acquitted of 40s. in which he was amerced before John de Reig[ate] and his fellows, justices lately in eyre in co. Sussex, because he did not show to them the king's letters of respite for knighthood, the king having, for a fine of 20 marks, granted to him respite of knighthood for four years from 25 January, in his seventh year, within which term he was amerced as above.
To the same. Order to cause John de Ledrede, clerk, and Alice his wife to be acquitted of half a mark in which they were amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Surrey for a disseisin, as the king has pardoned them out of charity.
To the same. Order to cause Basillia, late the wife of John de Wiscomble, to be acquitted of half a mark in which she was amerced before the aforesaid justices for not prosecuting, as the king has pardoned her out of charity.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause to be restored to Nicholas Parys, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged with the death of Walter Horskok before the justices in eyre in that county, as he has purged his innocence before R. bishop of Bath and Wells, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
To the sheriff of York. Order to restore to William de Curcy, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before the justices late in eyre in that county with the death of Robert Sargan, as he has purged his innocence before W. archbishop of York, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privileges of the clergy.
Nov. 7.
Westminster.
The like to the same in favour of Geoffrey Wyggeman, clerk, similarly accused of the death of William Ragg'.
To G. de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause R. bishop of Carlisle to have in the forest of Engelwod six does in place of the six bucks that the king lately granted to him.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to deliver to the abbot of Tyron 20 marks yearly, in accordance with the grant to them by king Richard, uncle of the late king, by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, to be received of the established alms. By the chancellor.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the men of the townships of Wesseleg, Great Lythe, Wellebeche, Neubold, Polileg, Beystan, Little Lithe, and Norton to be acquitted for ever of a mark yearly and the arrears thereof, and to cause the sheriffs of Salop for the time being to be acquitted thereof, which mark the men rendered for the herbage of the king's wood of La Lithewode, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Salop that the townships had the herbage by the grant of the late king for one mark to be rendered to the exchequer, until John de Munemuth, the late king's justice of the Forest this side Trent, ejected the townships thence, and the men of the townships have besought the king to cause the pasture to be rendered to them or to cause them to be acquitted of the aforesaid mark and the arrears thereof from the time of their ejectment, and the king wills that they shall not have the pasture henceforth.
Nov. 8.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbess of Fontevrault to be acquitted of 13s. 4d. in which she was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Dorset by reason of the common summons made before them of the eyre, as the king has pardoned her.
Vacated, because she did not have it.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, to be acquitted of 85l. 10s. 0d. exacted from him for the arrears of the debts of Peter Mauclerk, as the late king pardoned him all the arrears of debts due to the exchequer for the time when Peter held the earldom.
To the same. Order to permit the attorneys of Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, to receive yearly at the exchequer from John de Grey, whom the king has appointed to pay to her the debts in which Ralph Moryn was indebted to Hagin son of Master Moses, a Jew of London, and which are attermined at the exchequer. (fn. 1)
Nov. 12.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause 115 marks to be levied by the estreats of the fines and amercements that the justices in eyre in that county will deliver to him by the king's order, and to pay that sum to the justices for Michaelmas term last, to wit to John de Vallibus, chief justice of the eyre, 30 marks, to William de Saham 25 marks, to Roger Loveday 20 marks, to John de Meting[ham] 20 marks, and to Master Thomas de Sodinton 20 marks, for the yearly fees that the king granted to them for their office.
To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Robert Body to have four oaks fit for timber from the clearings (trencheis) that the king caused to be made in the forest of Kynefare, of the king's gift.
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to restore to Martin Heyne, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before the justices last in eyre in that county with larceny, as he has purged his innocence before S. bishop of Chichester, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
To the same. Whereas Thomas de Scalar[iis] holds certain lands of Reginald de Grey in the town of Munden for life, and he fled by reason of a battery lately made upon Richard Brun, as the king learns from Reginald: the king orders the sheriff to commit the lands to Reginald until Thomas come to the king's court and stand to right concerning the premises.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Reginald de Grey, son and heir of John de Grey, has shown the king that whereas the late king committed to John and afterwards to him the counties of Nottingham and Derby during pleasure, rendering therefor to the exchequer as much as Simon de Aslacton, sometime sheriff of those counties, was wont to render for them, and Simon used to receive yearly during all the time that he had the custody of the counties 100s. from the community of the town of Notingham and 100s. from the community of the town of Derby for sheriff's aid, as other sheriffs were wont to receive previously, and the late king, before his commission of the counties to John and Reginald, remitted and pardoned to the men of the said towns the said 10l. yearly, and the treasurer and barons charge Reginald with that sum for all the aforesaid time, although John and he received nothing thereof: the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause the said Richard (sic) to be acquitted of the said 10l. yearly during the time aforesaid, if they ascertain that the preceding assertions are true.
Nov. 13.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of York. Whereas W. archbishop of York has requested the king to cause to be presented to the custody of St. Nicholas's hospital without York, the advowson whereof the king lately deraigned against the archbishop before the justices in that county, a fit clerk who shall be able to answer for the cure of souls belonging to the parish church of that hospital, the king orders the sheriff to find out (inquiras) by the counsel of the justices at York a suitable priest or a clerk who shall cause himself to be ordained priest shortly, and to present him to the archbishop in the king's name for the custody of the hospital in form aforesaid. [Prynne, Records, iii. 247.]
Nov. 13.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Alan de Walkingham 20l. in part satisfaction of his expenses in the king's service in prosecuting the king's affairs during the last six years.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately caused to be taken into his hands a debt of 50 marks in which Robert de Percy(?) was indebted by his charter in the chests of the chirographers at York to Bonamy de Ebor[aco], a Jew, which the king ordered to be levied for his use, the king has granted to the Jew that if the debt has been levied for his use or has been taken into his hands, the Jew shall have recompence therefor in 40 marks in the old arrears, tallages, and other debts that he owes to the exchequer: the king orders them, if it be so, to cause the Jew to have allowance for the aforesaid 40 marks as above in recompence for the said debt.
Nov. 13.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Whereas the king pardoned Nicholas de Meynyl, for his good service in the army of Wales and elsewhere, a debt of 100 marks in which he was indebted to Juetta daughter of Benedict (Benetti), a Jewess of York, by a charter for 100l. under the names of Nicholas and Juetta in the chests of the chirographers at York, wherefore the king at another time ordered the treasurer and barons and justices to cause the said charter to be withdrawn from the chests and to be delivered to Nicholas, and, because a debt of 100l. is contained in the said charter and because the king's writ mentioned that the debt belonged to Joceus le [Jeove]ne, a Jew, whereas it did not, they refused to deliver the charter to Nicholas: the king, wishing to make full acquittance to Nicholas for the said debt, orders them, if the said Joceus had no such debt in the chests aforesaid, to cause the said charter to be withdrawn from the chests and delivered to Nicholas, and to cause him to be acquitted of the whole debt, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William de Monte Canisio to be acquitted of 44s. exacted from him for the summons of the eyre of the justices last in eyre in co. Kent for the arrears of the sheriff's tourn of his tenants in the town of Bocton Munchanesy and of 22s. exacted from him of the arrears of the withdrawal of his tenants of Adinton and Eccles, and of 22s. exacted from him for the arrears of the tourn of his tenants of Woteringebur[y], and 28s. exacted from him of the arrears of a suit of his tenants in Adinton and Hertleg.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause J. archbishop of Canterbury or his bailiffs to have return of the king's writs in the manor of Haudlo, which is of the archbishop's fee that Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, holds of the archbishop, in order to make return of the return to the earl's bailiffs of Haudlo, as they have been wont to do heretofore, for the execution of the writs. The sheriff is also ordered to permit the archbishop to have in that manor the amercements of his men and other things that pertain to him, in the way in which he ought to have them according to the liberties of his church.
Nov. 18.
Westminster.
To R. de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to deliver Roger de Besselawe, imprisoned at Bruges for trespass of the Forest of Shirlet, to twelve men who shall mainpern to have him before the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Salop.

Footnotes

  • 1. The enrolment is badly abridged from the writ.