Close Rolls, Edward I: September 1289

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: September 1289', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296, (London, 1904) pp. 20-22. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol3/pp20-22 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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September 1289

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Sept. 2.
Rayleigh.
To A. bishop of Durham. Order to deliver to Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, a set of chamber-hangings of tartarin (quandam cameram de panno tartareo) belonging to her that he received amongst the jewels that belonged to John de Vescy, deceased, which the king lately ordered to be delivered to the bishop.
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to supersede entirely the demand upon the abbot of Vale Royal for 100s. at which he was amerced before William de Vescy and his fellows, justices last in eyre for pleas of the Forest in that county, by reason of the common summons of the eyre, as the king has pardoned the abbot this sum.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbot to be acquitted of this sum.
To John de Northwode, bailiff of Middelton. Order to cause Queen Eleanor, the king's consort, to have in the king's woods of Peysill and Mereden thirty oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
To Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent. Order to permit A. bishop of Durham to take thirty bucks in the park of Brustewyk, and to salt them, and to cause them to be carried thus salted under good custody to Westminister, there to be delivered to the king's larder.
The like to the same for thirty bucks to be taken by the bishop in the park of Werk in Tindale.
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Richard de Chauton, lately elected, whom the king has amoved from office as he learns that he is a cripple (impotens sui) and is insufficiently qualified.
Sept. 5.
Rayleigh
Stephen de Bolton and Alice, his wife, imprisoned at York for the death of Adam son of William le Rus of Clapeham, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
Adam son of Ralph le Pestur of Burton in Lonesdale, clerk, imprisoned at York for the death of Adam son of William le Rus, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
Robert de Thomoteby, imprisoned at York for the death of Maud de Malteby, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to release on bail William le Fevre, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of Alice Whitfax, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of William Bagot and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver Stafford gaol, that William is not guilty of the said death.
Sept. 4.
Rayleigh.
To the constable of the castle of Bordeaux. Whereas the king has granted to the merchants of wine of St. Emilion and those parts that they may sell their wines in those towns and parts to merchants of England and others, to be taken to Bordeaux and not elsewhere without the king's licence, so that the merchants buying the wines shall render to the constable at Bordeaux the right custom due to the king thereon, and not at any other place, and that, after they have received from the constable his letters testifying the receipt of the custom, they may lawfully go to England with the wines: the king orders the constable to execute the premises in form aforesaid. Enrolled. And they are close.
Sept. 10.
Rayleigh.
To the sheriff of Hereford (sic). Order to release William de Oke, imprisoned at Hycche, co. Hertford, for the death of Gilbert de Brochampton, Thomas son of Thomas de la More, Juliana de la More, Edith de la More, and Edith Hurtehevene, slain at Monesle, co. Hereford, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Hereford that William is charged with the said deaths out of hatred and malice and not because he is guilty thereof, and William has found the king Roger Moryn, John de Sweyneston, Philip de Swyneston, Thomas de Dylewe, Roger de la Thorne, Robert Overse, Walter le Whyte, John son of Adam, William in Thehale, Roger de Sweyneston, Philip de Sweyneston, and Henry de Heymeston, all of co. Hereford, who have mainperned to have him before the justices at the first assize.
Sept. 7.
Woodham Ferrers.
To the sheriff of Cambridge and the coroners of that county. Order to cause a horse of Richard de Harecurt, which was taken into the king's hands as deodand because a woman in the fair of Royston (Crucis Roes') was killed by it, to be appraised and delivered to Richard according to the appraisement, of the king's special grace, so that he may answer for the price before the justices at the first assize.
Sept. 19.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To Walter de Everle, keeper of the forest of Pambere. Order to cause Richard Fokeram to have in that forest two bucks, of the king's gift.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to supersede the exigent to be outlawed of John de la Neylaunde until the octaves of Martinmas, as John, who is put in exigent to be outlawed in that county [court] for a default before the justices of the Bench against the dean and chapter of St. Martin's le Grand, London, in a suit before the justices concerning a trespass committed upon the dean and chapter by him, has found the king in chancery Robert de Bures of co. Suffolk, Richard de Offinton, Richard Canun, and William de Stouw, of co. Essex, who have mainperned to have him before the justices at the said octave.
Sept. 30.
Peterborough.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause Master William de Prene, the king's carpenter in Ireland, to be acquitted of 15l. due to that exchequer for 100s. yearly for a township of land in Ireland called Moyavennan in Connaught, which S. sometime bishop of Waterford, justiciary of Ireland, granted to him in the king's name for 100s. yearly, which grant the king afterwards confirmed, as the king has pardoned him the aforesaid sum because he was unable, by reason of the war then existing to Ireland, to levy or pay the 100s. for the 15th, 16th and 17th years of the king's reign, as is testified before the king by trustworthy men.
Sept. 24.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to release on bail William Wyrlyspek, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of John le Cork, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Henry de Ralegh and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver Exeter gaol, that John, while passing over the field of Dodewellesdon, accidentally wounded himself in the thigh with William's scythe without William's will or knowledge, so that he died thereof.