Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1296

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: November 1296', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 1-4. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp1-4 [accessed 24 April 2024]

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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.

25 EDWARD I.

November 1296

Membrane 24.
Nov. 23.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To John de Havering, justice of North Wales. As the king wills that the market held on Saturday at Launvoys shall be held henceforth on the same day in every week at his town of Beaumaris (de Bello Marisco), and that two fairs shall be held at Beaumaris yearly henceforth, one on the eve, day and morrow of the Assumption and for five days following, and the other on the eve, day and morrow of the Nativity of St. Mary and for five days following; he orders the justice to cause the said market and fairs to be proclaimed publicly and to be held in that town.
Nov. 21.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To Malcolm de Harl[eye], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and two carucates of land in Stredlegh, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Joan Peverel demised them by her deed to Hugh Peverel, deceased, tenant in chief of the king, and to Margery, his wife, for their lives, and that Margery continued her seisin thereof with Hugh until his death, and after his death until the escheator took them into the king's hands by reason of Hugh's death, and it appears by a fine levied between Hugh and Margery and Joan before Thomas de Weylaund and his fellows, late justices of the Bench, which the king has inspected, that the messuage and land were demised to Hugh and Margery in form aforesaid.
Nov. 23.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Alexander de Balliolo of Cavers demised, at Michaelmas in the twenty-second year of the king's reign, to Ralph de Eseling a moiety of the manor of Ludenham for six years from that feast, and Ralph was in seisin thereof by virtue of the demise, the sheriff of Kent took the moiety into the king's hands by virtue of the king's order to take into his hands the lands of all those who had lands in England and did not dwell in that realm but in the realm of Scotland at the time of the war; as it appears to the king by trustworthy testimony that Ralph dwelt in England at the time of the war and was always in the king's faith, the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause the moiety to be delivered to Ralph, with the issues received from it in the meantime, if they ascertain that the moiety was thus demised to Ralph, and that he was in seisin thereof until it was thus taken into the king's hands, and if they were taken into the king's hands solely for this reason.
Nov. 22.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To Ralph de Berners. Whereas the king has granted to John de Balliolo that he shall have in his household (hospicio) a huntsman with his page (pagetto) and ten coursing dogs to have sport (deductu) therewith, he orders Ralph to cause necessaries to be found for the huntsman, page and dogs.
March 26.
Wark.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the executors of the will of J. late archbishop of York of 4,000 marks by which he made fine with the king for a contempt and trespass committed by him against the king, as the king has pardoned the executors this sum.
Vacated, because otherwise in the roll for the twenty-fourth year.
Nov. 23.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To William Inge, keeper of the lands that belonged to Edmund, the king's brother. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Alice, late the wife of John de Monteforti, tenant by knight service of Edmund, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Joan, late the wife of William de Valencia, tenant in chief, to be acquitted of the relief due to the king for the lands of her inheritance, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of William's death, as the king has pardoned her what pertains to him of her relief.
To Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester. Order to cause W. elect of Coventry and Lichfield to have in the forest of La Mare thirty oaks for the palings (palicium) of his park at Terne.
Nov. 24.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To the keeper of the forest of Shirewode. Order not to permit Isabel de Ros or her men to take any of the eight bucks and four does that the king lately granted to her in that forest, as the king has granted to her in recompence therefor the like number in the forest of Rokingham.
By K. on the information of W. [elect of] Coventry and Lichfield.
To the keeper of the forest of Rokyngham. Order to cause Isabel or her men to have the aforesaid bucks and does in that forest.
By K. on the information of W. elect of Coventry and Lichfield.
Nov. 23.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To Henry de Cobham, keeper of the islands of Gerseye and Gerneseye. Whereas the king has granted to Reginald de Cartreto for his good service in the island of Gereseye, the seven tuns of wine that he took for the king's use from the king's wines lately captured from the king's enemies in those parts, the king orders the keeper to supersede entirely the demand that he makes upon Reginald for 35l. sterling for the king's use for the said seven tuns, and to cause him to be acquitted thereof. The king also orders the keeper to pay to Reginald the arrears of his wages for the time when he was in the king's service in his castle of that island.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has pardoned John le Leutour, citizen of London, the king's yeoman, in consideration of his good service to the king in the last expedition to Wales, the sixth of his goods and chattels in that city due from him by reason of the sixth lately granted to the king by the citizens and burgesses of the realm, and order them to cause the demand made upon him by summons of the exchequer to be released.
Nov. 27.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To the keeper of the Hay of Hereford. Order to cause William de Mortuo [Mari], who is setting out for Scotland in the king's service, to have in that Hay six oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
Nov. 25.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To the keeper of the forest of Cannock (de Canano). Order to cause Master John de Cadamo to have in that forest ten oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause Eustace le Poer to have in the forest of Glencry six bucks and six does, of the king's gift.
To the king's bailiff of the Isle of Wight. Order to permit William Arnald Duyre, the king's citizen of Bayonne, to load his ship in that island with wheat and to take it thus loaded to Bayonne without hindrance, as the king has granted him licence thus to load and take the ship.
Nov. 24.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To the keeper of the island of Gerneseye. The king learns from the complaint of Peregrina Darcuson, daughter and heiress of Arnald Reymundi Darcuson, late citizen of Bayonne, who lately died in that island, that the keeper has put into the king's hands all the goods that Arnald Reymundi possessed in that island at the time of his death, both his own goods and those belonging to others (tam propria quam aliena), and detains them to the prejudice of the said daughter and from the executors of the deceased. The king orders the keeper to restore the goods to the daughter and executors, if he ascertain that Arnald was in the king's faith, and that the daughter and executors are likewise in his faith, and that the goods ought of right to remain to them.
Nov. 15.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To John de Lythegraynes, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the third of the lands that belonged to William de Valencia, tenant in chief, which third he still retains in the king's hands by reason of the dower of Joan, late the wife of the said William, as Aymer, son and heir of William, has assigned to Joan with her assent for her dower of the lands that belonged to William in England and Wales the manor of Morton, co. Gloucester, the manor of Watdon, in the same county, the manor of Sopworth, co. Wilts, the manor of Cherdesle and Policote, co. Buckingham, the manor of Compton, co. Dorset, with the advowson of the church of that manor, and the advowson of the church of Wridelington, co. Suffolk, the manor of Colingburn, co. Wilts, the manor of Swyndon, in the same county, and all the lands and rents that William acquired in the maner of Braburn, co. Kent, and all the lands and rent that he acquired in the manor of Sutton, in the same county, and all the lands that he acquired in the manor of Intebergh and Bereford, co. Wilts, and all the lands that he acquired in the manor of Goodrich Castle (Castri Godr'), and 14l. 5s. 8d. yearly of land and rent that he acquired in co. Pembroke, as appears to the king by inspection of an indented deed made between Aymer and Joan and sealed with her seal.
Nov. 24.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To the keeper of the forest of Shirewode. Order not to permit Isabel de Ros or her men to take anything in that forest by reason of the king's grant to her of eight bucks and four does in that forest, as the king has granted to her in recompence as many bucks and does in the forest of Rokyngham. If she have had all or any of the bucks and does, the keeper is ordered to certify the king without delay of the number.
Nov. 24.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To the keeper of the forest of Rokyngham. Order to cause the said Isabel to have eight bucks and four does in that forest, in recompence for the like number granted to her in the forest of Shirewode.
Nov. 25.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. The king learns from the complaint of the master of St. John's hospital, Down (Duno), that the justiciary has caused to be taken into the king's hands certain lands in the adjoining parts that the master had acquired for the maintenance of the poor living in that hospital, by reason of the statute of mortmain that the king caused to be made within the realm of England as if that statute had been sent to Ireland and there published. As it is testified before the king by Master Thomas Cantok, chancellor of Ireland, that the statute has not yet been published in Ireland, the king orders the justiciary to cause the lands to be replevied to the master, to be held by him until after the parliament after Easter next, on condition that he shall answer to the king for the issues received thence in the meantime in case they ought to pertain to the king.
The like letters for the prior and convent of St. Patrick, Down.
Nov. 27.
Bury St. Edmunds.
To John de Lythegraynes, escheator beyond Trent, guardian of the archbishopric of York. Order to permit Thomas de Weston, the king's bailiff of Holdernesse, to take in the park of the archbishopric at Beverley ten bucks and fifty does in order to stock therewith the king's park of Sprotteleye, which is in his custody, as the king has enjoined upon him.