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Membrane 8. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to mainpern Adam le Yenge,
imprisoned at Winchester for the death of Agnes, late the wife of William
le Mouner, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of
Simon de Wyntonia and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver that
gaol, that Adam is not guilty of the death aforesaid. Witness: Edmund,
earl of Cornwall. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent and the coroners of the same county. Order to
deliver to Thomas, bishop of Rochester, all the goods and chattels of
Robert le Mestre, his tenant of Trotteclive, which were taken into the
king's hands upon Robert's flight for the death of John le Sterre, wherewith
he is charged, at the price at which the goods were valued, upon his
finding security to render the price before the justices at the first assize
when they come to these parts. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
Feb. 20.
Westminster. |
To Geoffrey de Pycheford, keeper of the forest of Windesore. Order
to permit Hugh le Despenser to make his profit (apruiare se) of his
alder-holt of Beaumes, which is within the bounds of the forest aforesaid,
and that he may let at rent and bring into cultivation a piece of land
adjoining the wood of Brokewode lying near Coresbrok, and to permit him to
hold it to himself and his heirs thus let at rent or brought into cultivation,
as the king has granted by his letters patent to Hugh that he may let at rent
or bring into cultivation the said alder-holt and the said piece of land,
which latter contains forty acres of land [measured] by the forest perch,
provided that the piece of land be enclosed with a ditch and a low hedge,
so that the king's deer may freely pass through it in entering and leaving
it. Witness: Edmund earl of Cornwall. |
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To the sheriff of York. Order to mainpern Agnes la Tyler, imprisoned
at York for the death of Henry de Braban, wherewith she is charged, as
the king learns by the record and process of an inquisition lately made
before N. de Stap[ilton ?] and John de Reygate at Shireburn in Elmet by
his writ that Agnes slew Henry in self-defence. |
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To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause John le Leche, imprisoned
at Lyminystre, co. Hereford, for the death of William de Draycote, lately
slain in the park of Stretton, co. Stafford, to be released from prison, as
the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Stafford that John
slew William in self-defence, and John has found the king Clement de
Lond[onia], William Gilbert, Thomas le Espycer, Richard le Pestur,
Robert de Charteleye, Ralph de Cotene, Philip le Harpur, Roger del
Medwe, Richard le Mareschal, John le Blakelowe, Simon le Wolf of
Stafford, and Henry Warmete of Stafford, all of co. Stafford, who have
mainperned to have him at the first assize. |
Feb. 20.
Westminster. |
John Prat of Benteley, imprisoned at Teukebyri for the death of
Geoffrey le Waryner of Holdernesse, has letters to the sheriff of York to
bail him. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
April 7.
Westminster. |
Richard le Bercher, imprisoned at Maydenstan for the death of Alice,
daughter of Roger le Mouner, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the
sheriff of Kent to bail him. |
Feb. 6.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the
abbot and convent of St. Edmunds to be acquitted of 50l., in part payment of 100l. by which they made fine with the king for the fifteenth
falling upon them and the men of Bury St. Edmunds, as the king, on
9 April, in the fifth year of his reign, acquitted them of this 50l., which
they had paid into the wardrobe on Friday after St. Ambrose, in the said
year, to Thomas, now bishop of St. Davids, then keeper of the wardrobe.
Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the sheriff of York. Order to mainpern Henry le Clerk of Escrik,
imprisoned in the king's gaol of the liberty of St. Mary's, York, for the
death of Richard le Mouner, wherewith he is charged, as the king learns
by the record of Geoffrey Aguilon and his fellows, justices to deliver
the said gaol, that he slew him in self-defence. Witness: Edmund,
earl of Cornwall. |
Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
To the keeper of the forest of Dene. Order to cause Queen Eleanor,
the king's mother, to have in that forest five oaks fit for timber for the
repair of the bridge of the king's castle of Gloucester. Witness: Edmund,
earl of Cornwall. |
Feb. 7.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Ralph
de Freschenvill, son and heir of Auker de Freschenvill, tenant in chief of
the late king, to be acquitted of 60l. that they exact from him for scutage
for the king's use for the king's armies of Wales in the fifth and tenth
years of his reign, as it appears to the king by the inspection of the rolls of
chancery that Ralph was a minor and in the custody of Ralph de Grey by
the late king's grant at the said times. It is provided that answer shall
be made to the king for the scutage of the knights' fees that are held of
Ralph for the times aforesaid. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to notify the king of twelve mainpernors for John le Leche, imprisoned at Lemynistre, co. Hereford, for the
death of William de Draycote, lately slain in the park of Stretton, co.
Stafford, so that the king may cause him to be delivered from prison by
their mainprise, as he learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that John
slew William in self-defence. |
Feb. 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Ralph
Basset of Welledon to be acquitted of 80 marks by which he made fine
with the king for the service of two knights' fees that he acknowledged
to the king for the army of Wales of the fifth year, as the king, on
18 August, in that year, acquitted Ralph by letters patent of the said sum,
which Ralph had paid on Monday the morrow of the Translation of
St. Martin, in the same year, to Thomas, now bishop of St. Davids, then
keeper of the wardrobe. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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The like to the same in favour of Ralph for 100 marks by which he
made fine with the king for the service of two knights' fees for the army
of Wales in the tenth year, which Ralph paid on Friday after St. Luke,
in the same year, to Master William de Luda, keeper of the wardrobe. |
Feb. 12.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause William le Moygne to be acquitted of the
relief that they exact from him by reason of the homage that he did to the
late king for a tenement in Wunfrot, as the king sends them the record
and process of an assize of novel disseisin that John de Novo Burgo
arramed before Henry de Monte Forti and Henry de Wollavinton, then
justices appointed for this purpose, against Henry de Novo Burgo and the
said William concerning the said tenement, in which assize a judgment
was rendered in the king's court before Martin de Littlebur[y], which
judgment was afterwards revoked because John recovered his seisin of the
tenement against Henry and William by consideration of the said court,
and the homage that William had done to the late king and the fine made
in his court in this behalf were annulled, as will appear to the treasurer and
barons by the record aforesaid. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
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To Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver
to James de Oxton the custody of the priory of Modbur[y], as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the custody thereof during
voidance pertains to James, and that his ancestors were wont to have the
custody thereof whenever the priory was void. Witness: Edmund, earl of
Cornwall. |
Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to release William le Chaumberleyn and
Payn le Mareschalesman, indicted before the justices last in eyre in co.
Dorset of a trespass against the king's peace in the park of William de
Gouiz at Donetisshe, who were put in exigent for this reason after the
eyre, to six men each, who shall mainpern to have them before the king's
council at Westminster in fifteen days from Easter, as they have now
surrendered themselves to the king's peace and prison at Shireburn to
stand to right. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
Feb. 27.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to mainpern John le Tayllur of
Bromleye, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of Henry Balle of Bromlegh,
wherewith he is charged, as the king learns by the record of William
Bagot, William de Cavereswell, Robert de Knyghtele, and Adam de Glasele,
justices appointed to deliver Stafford gaol, that he slew him in selfdefence. Witness: Edmund, earl of Cornwall. |
