Close Rolls, Edward I: December 1294

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: December 1294', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 3, 1288-1296, (London, 1904) pp. 406-408. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol3/pp406-408 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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December 1294

Dec. 7.
Chester.
To the keeper of the forest of Fekenham. Order to cause Mary, wife of Richard Siward, to have in that forest twelve does, of the king's gift.
By K.
Dec. 6.
Chester.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Robert le Norreis, son and heir of Mary la Norreis, to be acquitted of 10l. exacted from him for a fine that Mary made with the king for the service of a knight's fee that she acknowledged to the king in his army of Wales in the tenth year of his reign, as she paid this sum to Baruncinus Walteri and his fellows, merchants of Lucca (Luk'), on Thursday after St. Matthew, in the said year, as appears by inspection of the rolls of chancery.
Vacated, because he did not have the writ.
Dec. 8.
Chester.
To Richard son of Alan, earl of Arundel, or to him who supplies his place at Oswoldestrete. Order to cause Master Anian Says, clerk, who is imprisoned at Oswoldestrete because he is a Welshman, to be released without delay, as it is testified before the king by the bishop of St. Asaph that Anian is a clerk of the bishop of Bangor.
Nov. 25.
Worcester.
To the sheriff of Westmoreland. Order to restore to Gilbert de Burnnolfisheved, clerk, his lands, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged before the justices last in eyre in co. Westmoreland with harbouring John le Wyse, a thief, who was hanged, and of other common thieves who were solemnly indicted when he was sheriff of that county, and with receiving money and other goods and chattels from such thieves to protect them (pro advocaria habenda), as he has purged his innocence before J. bishop of Carlisle, the diocesan, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, and the king learns by an inquisition that he afterwards caused to be made by the sheriff and coroner of that county that Gilbert is of good fame and faithful conversation, and was never a public or notorious evildoer.
The like to the sheriff of Lancaster.
To Stephen de Penecestre, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Whereas the king learns by proof taken before the said Stephen and Thomas de Sandwyco that Bernard Desce and John Deynorbe are merchants of the realm of Aragon and not from anywhere else, and that 10l. of silver in the hands of John Peny of Sandwich, two bales of cat-skins (pellium murilegorum) in the hands of Reymund Gausope, and eight bales of Baudrez, and four bales of divers peltry (peletria) in the hands of Reymund Petri, baker, and Robert Monyn of Sandwich, which the king lately ordered to be arrested by the said Stephen, are the proper goods and wares of the merchants, and were their own property at the time of the arrest, and that no one of the realm of France or elsewhere has any part in the same; the king orders Stephen to deliver to the said merchants their goods and wares aforesaid to make such use thereof as shall seem fit to them. He is ordered to cause them to be satisfied for the freight and other costs that they have paid for divers goods and wares of certain merchants of Navarre arrested among their goods and wares, which goods and wares of the merchants of Navarre are still in Stephen's custody, out of the latter goods and wares.
Dec. 6.
Chester.
To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause two coroners for that county to be elected in place of Ralph de Mersshton and John Pede, deceased.
Dec. 8.
Chester.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause Henry de Blockesworth to have seisin of a messuage and 24 acres of land in Wynterburne and in the town of Whitchirche, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage and land, which John de Rocheford, who was hanged for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held them of Henry, and that the tithing (decena) of Wynterburne Whytchirche now hold them, and ought to answer to the king for his year and day.
To John Buteturte, under-captain of certain sailors and mariners of the king, or to him who supplies his place at Yarmouth. Order to permit Brother William de Tadyngton, minister-general of the order of Friars Minors in Ireland, and seven of his brethren, who have come to Yarmouth in order to cross the sea to their general chapter at Assisi (Assisam), to cross from there without hindrance in the form enjoined upon John at another time concerning such crossings.
By K. on the information of G. de Genevill.
Dec. 6.
Chester.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order made at the instance of Geoffrey de Geynvill, who is staying with the king in his service in Wales, to take security from the prior of the priory of Foure, which is a cell of St. Taurin's abbey, Evreux, in Normandy, and which is within Geoffrey's liberty of Trym, that he will render to the said exchequer yearly until the king shall otherwise ordain his yearly payment (de apporto suo) that he was wont to render to the abbot of the said abbey and that he will not eloign out of that land any of his remaining goods under any sinister colour, permitting him then to dispose freely of his remaining goods and to make his profit in form aforesaid.
By K. on the information of J. de Cadamo.
Dec. 13.
Wrexham (Wrightesham.)
To the bailiffs of Scardeburgh. The king learns from the complaint of Andrew de Camp and John de Catlond, merchants of Almain, that whereas they lately arrived in that port with twelve ships that are called 'cogges,' laden with divers their goods and wares, the bailiffs made them discharge the aforesaid goods and wares against their will, and took a certain part of them for the king's use, and detained and do still detain the remainder in their hands, exacting at the same time payage (paiagium) thereon from the said merchants, and molest them in other ways: the king orders the bailiffs to cause the ships and all the goods and wares aforesaid, except those that have been taken for the king's use, to be delivered to the merchants to trade therewith within the realm, after taking from them security that they will not go elsewhere than within this realm with the ships, goods and wares. The bailiffs are ordered to desist from undue exaction of the payage aforesaid, so that renewed complaint may not reach the king by reason whereof he may be again solicited.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Whereas the king learns from the complaint of John de Lubek, merchant of Almain, that whereas he arrived in the port of that town with eleven ships called 'cogges' laden with divers goods and wares, the mayor and bailiffs arrested the ships and the goods and wares in them, and took a part thereof for the king's use, and still detain the whole residue; the king orders the mayor and bailiffs to deliver the ships and all the goods and wares aforesaid, except those that have been taken for the king's use, to the merchants, etc. [as in preceding order].
To the same. Whereas the king learns from the complaint of John de Lubek, merchant of Almain, that John Dutre, burgess of Newcastle-onTyne and keeper of the water there, entered the ships that the complainant had brought thither with force and arms, and took and carried away five barrels of herrings, four barrels of ale, 20s. sterling, and divers other goods found in the ships against the complainant's wish, and detain them from him: the king orders the mayor and bailiffs to cause full restitution to be made to the merchant for the goods and wares thus taken, and to cause full amends to be made to him for the trespass aforesaid, if it be as stated, lest renewed complaint come to the king, wherefore he would have to apply a heavier hand.
Dec. 12.
Wrexham.
To the sheriff of Derby. Order to cause John de Bentelegh to have seisin of two messuages and a bovate of land in Bentelegh, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuages and land, which John le Fraunceys of Bentelegh, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held them of John de Bentelegh, and that they are now in the king's hands, and that the township of Bentelegh had the king's year and day thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same.