Close Rolls, Edward I: March 1299

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: March 1299', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 4, 1296-1302, (London, 1906) pp. 233-239. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol4/pp233-239 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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March 1299

March 2.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to acquit A. bishop of Durham, tenant of certain of the lands that belonged to William de Vescy, deceased, of the demand made by summons of the exchequer for certain debts of William or John de Vescy, his brother, or of others his ancestors for any cause, as the king, in consideration of the grant and surrender that William made to the king of the castle, manor, and county of Kildar and of the grant of the manor of Sprouston, whereof Clemencia, late the wife of John de Vescy, William's son, holds two parts and Isabel, late the wife of John de Vescy, William's brother, holds a third in dower, pardoned William by his letters patent all debts due to him both for fines and amercements into which he fell and for other debts of his and of John de Vescy, his brother, and of others his ancestors for any cause whatsoever.
The like to the sheriffs of York and Lincoln for William de Vescy of Kildar.
March 8.
Kingston.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Reginald de Sancto Martino, son and heir of William de Sancto Martino, of the scutage exacted from him for one knight's fee in the king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as William had his service with the king in the said army for one knight's fee, which he then acknowledged to the king, as appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of his Marshalsea for that army.
The like to the sheriff of Wilts.
March 12.
Merton.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king, on 14 May, in the 19th year of his reign, committed by his letters patent under the seal of the exchequer to Robert Russel, deceased, the manor of Kingesbir[y] with the Hundred of Horethorne and other appurtenances during pleasure, rendering therefor to the exchequer 38l. yearly, saving to the king the corn sown in the lands and the dead stock and all other goods found in the manor; and the king afterwards, on 12 February, in the twentieth year of his reign, committed the manor, with the rent of assize of Melburn and the Hundred of Horethorne and all appurtenances, during pleasure, to Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, rendering therefor at the exchequer to the executors of Queen Eleanor, the king's late consort, 42l. 14s. 10½d., as appears to the king by inspection of the said letters of the exchequer and of the rolls of chancery: the king orders the treasurer and barons to discharge William Russel, brother and heir of the said Robert, of 285l. exacted from him by summons of the exchequer for the ferm aforesaid from the said 12 February, when the king committed the manor with the Hundred to the earl. By the roll.
March 16.
Westminster.
To Walter de Glouc[estria]. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Petronilla, late the wife of William de Gouiz, tenant in chief, from the knights' fees and advowsons of churches that belonged to William in the said escheator's bailiwick, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence.
March 18.
Westminster.
To Robert de Clifford, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to cause William de Rasne, clerk, to have in the king's wood of Clipston Park, which is within the bounds of the forest of Shirewode, six oaks fit for timber, of the king's gift.
March 16.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Ralph Perot to be acquitted of the scutage exacted from him for the service of two knights' fees for the king's army in Wales in the fifth year of the king's reign, as he was in the king's service by his order in the said army for the service of two knights' fees that he then acknowledged to the king, as appears by inspection of the rolls of the king's Marshalsea for that army.
The like to the same for the tenth year.
To the same. Whereas the king granted by his letters patent [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1281, p. 5] to the late Queen Eleanor, his mother, that she should receive all her life 11l. 1s. 6d. from the 15l. due to him yearly from the manor of Radewell, co. Essex, which is in the hands of Dionisia de Monte Caniso; for which reason he ordered Dionisia, on 8 November, in the eleventh year of his reign [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1283, p. 88, under Nov. 15], to pay the former sum yearly to Queen Eleanor for her life, as appears to him by inspection of the rolls of chancery; the king orders the treasurer and barons [to discharge] Dionisia (fn. 1) — [Incomplete.]
[Cancelled.]
March 16.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Philip le Gay, who is intending the affairs of the king's forestry of Bradene by the order of Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent, so that he cannot conveniently execute the office of coroner, as the king learns from Hugh's testimony.
Vacated, because below.
March 16.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king granted by his letters patent [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1281, p. 5] to the late Queen Eleanor, his mother, that she should receive all her life 11l. 1s. 6d. from the 15l. due to him yearly from the manor of Radewell, co. Essex, which is in the hands of Dionisia de Monte Caniso; for which reason he ordered Dionisia, on 8 November, in the eleventh year of his reign [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1283, p. 88, under Nov. 15], to pay the former sum to Queen Eleanor for life, as appears to him by inspection of the rolls of chancery: the king orders the treasurer and barons to discharge Dionisia of the said sum yearly from the said 8 November until the day of the said Queen Eleanor's death. By the roll.
March 18.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Noers, as it is testified before the king by Ralph de Shirle, sheriff of that county, that Robert is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Osbert le Lung, as it is testified before the king by Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent, that Osbert is at this time occupied with the office of the sub-escheatry in cos. Nottingham and Derby.
March 15.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the escheator. Notification that the king has granted to Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, that he may pay to the exchequer all the debts due from him, both for the debts of Humphrey de Bohun, his father, and of other his ancestors and for his relief due to the king, by as much yearly during the king's pleasure as the said earl, his father, was wont to pay there yearly for the said debts.
By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
March 17.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Polingfold, as it is testified before the king by John Abel, sheriff of that county, that John de Polingfold is incapacitated by infirmity, for which reason the king has caused him to be amoved from office.
March 18.
Westminster.
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to Thomas de Saunford, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of his death, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas at his death held nothing of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king. By C.
March 18.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert Waundard, as it is testified before the king that he is insufficiently qualified.
Membrane 16.
March 18.
Westminster.
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Petronilla, late the wife of William de Gouiz, tenant in chief, from the knights' fees and advowsons of churches that belonged to William.
To the same. Order to deliver to Isabel, late the wife of William de Cotestede, as nearest [friend] of his heir, the manor of Cotestede and certain lands in Stokebyry, Newenton, Hertlepe, Reyham, Stapey and Haleghstowe, co. Kent, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of William's death, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that William held the said manor and lands at his death of the king in socage, and it does not appear to the king by the inquisition that William held of him elsewhere in the escheator's bailiwick by knight service, for which reason the wardship of the lands ought to pertain to Isabel as nearest [friend] of the heir. By C.
March 23.
Westminster.
John Brunsun of Barkeston, imprisoned at York for the death of Henry son of William de Hornington, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
William 'in the Walles,' imprisoned at York for the death of Henry son of William de Hornington, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
March 24.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has granted to Henry de Urtiaco that he may pay the debts due from him to the exchequer at the rate of 10 marks yearly, and order to cause him to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
By K. on the information of J. de Benstede.
March 26.
Westminster.
To the same. Notification that whereas the king granted to John de Mohun that he might pay all the debts due from him to the exchequer by 100s. yearly, as contained in the king's writ in their hands at the exchequer, he has now, although John has not kept the terms, granted to John that he shall recover the terms, so that he shall pay 100s. yearly, and order to cause him to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
March 26.
Westminster.
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John son and heir of William de Benteleye, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage.
March 28.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has granted to Ralph de Monte Hermeri, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, respite until All Saints next for all debts due to the exchequer, and order to cause him to have such respite. By K.
March 26.
Westminster.
To the same. Whereas William de Munes, late chamberlain of the exchequer, is deputed by the king to another office of the exchequer, the king, trusting in Master Gilbert de Arderne, his clerk, sends him to them in order that they may admit him to the office of chamberlain vacated by William; so that he shall have and receive in that office as much as William was wont to do for so long as he shall behave himself well in that office and during the king's pleasure.
By K. on the information of the treasurer.
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause the abbess of Wilton to have in the forest of Chuet twenty oaks fit for timber for the construction of the houses of the abbey, which were lately burnt by mischance, of the king's gift. By K.
March 28.
Westminster.
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Whereas the king lately granted by his letters patent to John de Crepping' the demise for seven years made to him by indenture by Roger de Moubray of all the lands that belonged to Roger in the town of Crek, co. Northampton, and of 10 marks of rent in the town of Melton Moubray [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1297, p. 325]; and the king afterwards, not remembering this confirmation, caused the said lands and rent to be taken into his hands with the other lands that belonged to Roger by reason of Roger's death, and because no mention was made of the demise and confirmation in the inquisitions made by the escheator concerning Roger's lands, caused a third of the aforesaid lands and rent to be assigned in dower to Roesia, late the wife of Roger, John being then in the king's service in Flanders: the king—wishing to provide for John's indemnity for the time when he stayed with him in the said parts, especially as if John had been then in England and had shown the confirmation aforesaid in chancery, Roesia would not have been dowered by the king of the said third—orders the escheator to cause John to have the value of the said third from the other lands that belonged to Roger that are now in the king's hands in name of wardship, to have until the end of the term aforesaid, in accordance with the king's confirmation aforesaid.
By K. and C.
To the same. The king learns from the complaint of the sub-prior and canons of Ledes that whereas Robert son of Hamo de Crevequer, the younger (junioris), granted by his charter that the canons and their successors should have, when their conventual church, the right of patronage whereof belonged to him in full right, should be void by the death or resignation of any prior or in any other way, the full custody and free administration of their house and its possessions and of all their goods, without any hindrance or challenge from him or his heirs or assigns by reason of the right of patronage aforesaid, and that they should have power to choose whom they would as prior without asking his consent, saving only to him and his heirs the presentation to him and his heirs of the prior; and the king, after he had acquired the right of the patronage aforesaid from the said Robert by his enfeoffment, confirmed the grant aforesaid by his charter, and granted to the canons that they might choose a suitable prior upon every voidance of the priory without seeking licence from the king, and that upon each voidance the king would put no keeper into the priory in his name, but that they should have free administration to dispose of all the things of the priory, provided that after each election they should present their elect to the king; and the escheator, upon the voidance of the priory by the resignation of Brother Adam de Maydenestan, the late prior, has intruded himself into the priory and its possessions and detains them in the king's hands, contrary to the tenor of the aforesaid charter and of the king's confirmation, as if the custody thereof pertained to the king, not permitting the canons to have administration thereof: the king, not wishing to injure the canons in any way contrary to the said grant and confirmation, orders the escheator not to intermeddle in any way with the priory, and to cause to be restored to them anything that he may have taken thence.
By C.
March 28.
Westminster.
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Herbert, son and heir of John de Mariscis, to have seisin of his father's lands, as the king has taken his homage.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause two coroners for that county to be elected in place of Adam de Spalding and William de Ernesby, who are insufficiently qualified, as the king learns by the letters of the burgesses of Oxford sealed with the seal of their community.
March 26.
Westminster.
To Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester. Order to cause the prioress and nuns of Chester to have 20l. 17s. 0d. for the twenty-sixth year of the reign, as the king granted to them by his letters patent [Cal. Patent Rolls, 6 Edward I, p. 246] 24 marks yearly from the ferm of Middlewich (de Medio Vicho), until he should cause this sum to be assigned to them in some certain places for ever, for certain alms granted to them by the king's predecessors, sometimes lords of Cheshire, and he also granted to them by the same letters 4l. 17s. 0d. yearly from the same ferm in recompence for the damages that they sustain yearly to that amount by the withdrawal from them by the abbot and convent of Vale Royal of the tithes pertaining to the church of the prioress and monks at Ovre, such as in tithes of hay, fishponds, gardens, cows, calves, and servants in Lent and from other small tithes, until the king should provide them with that sum yearly in some certain place, as contained in his letters patent, and 20l. 17s. 0d. are in arrear thereof for the twenty-sixth year.
March 29.
Westminster.
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause Eustace de Hache, constable of Marleberge castle, to have in the forest of Savernak eighty oaks fit for timber, in order to repair therewith the king's chapel and chambers in the castle. By K.
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator this side Trent. Whereas the king lately ordered him to deliver to Baldwin, son and heir of Geoffrey de Insula, the manor of Kauleburn, which Agnes, late the wife of William le Estur, held in free marriage, and the manor of Whytewell, which she held in dower of Baldwin's inheritance, which manors the escheator had taken into the king's hands by reason of Agnes's death and for which Baldwin did homage to the king: the king, wishing to show Baldwin special favour, orders the escheator to deliver to him the issues received from the manor of Whytewell from the time when it was taken into his hands. By pet. of C.
March 30.
Westminster.
To the taker of the king's wines of his right prise at Southampton. Order to cause the abbot and convent of St. Edward's, Netley (Letteleye), to have a tun of wine of the said prise for the present year, in accordance with the late king's grant to them of a tun of wine yearly for the celebration of divine service in their church, which grant the king accepted and confirmed.
March 29.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to permit Hugh de Mortuo Mari to have respite for all debts due to the exchequer until a month from Easter next, as the king has granted him such respite.
The like to the sheriffs of Salop, Hereford, Essex and Northampton.
March 27.
Westminster.
To Hugh le Despenser, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to permit the abbess of Wilton to fell in her own wood within the bounds of the forest of Savernak sixty oaks fit for timber, and to carry them out of the forest without hindrance from him or the king's ministers of the Forest, as the king has granted to her permission to fell and carry the said oaks to her abbey, in order to rebuild therewith certain houses in the abbey that were lately burnt by mischance.
By K. on the information of Brother W. de Winterburne.
March 29.
Westminster
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that whereas the king granted to William de Ferar[iis] that he may pay all the debts due from him to the exchequer at the rate of 20 marks yearly, he has now granted to him that, although he has not kept these terms, he may recover them, and order to cause him to have these terms and to cause this to be so done and enrolled.
April 1.
Westminster.
To the same. Hawysia de la Pole has shown the king that the king lately ordered forty-six Welshmen, hostages in the king's last war in Wales in the castle of La Pole, which is in her custody by the king's commission, to be delivered to her for custody, and she paid to them 157l. 9s. 4d. for their wages for an entire year and seven weeks, during which term they were in her custody, to wit each of them 2d. a day, and she also expended when the king was last in Flanders by order of John de Haveryng, justice of North Wales, 60l. in providing the castle with victuals and other necessaries, for which sums of money she has not yet obtained any allowance, and she has besought the king to cause due allowance to be made to her for them: the king therefore orders them to hear her proofs (racionibus) and to view her account of the premises, and to cause her to have due allowance therefor in her ferm of the castle.
By pet. returned from the C.
Membrane 15.
March 29.
Westminster.
To the same. Notification that the king has pardoned to Alexander Cheverel, in considertion of the good service rendered by him in Gascony, 57 marks of the 100 marks in which he made fine with him before Roger de Moeles and Adam Gurdun, appointed by the king to take fines and ransoms for trespasses in the forests, for a trespass of the Forest beyond Trent whereof he was indicted before Roger and Adam, and that he shall pay the remaining 40 (sic) marks at the rate of 5 marks yearly, and order to cause him to be thus acquitted of the 57 marks and to have the aforesaid terms for payment of the remaining 40 (sic) marks, and to cause this to be so done and enrolled. By K.
March 30.
Westminster.
To the same. As Hugh Bardolf is indebted to the king at the exchequer in divers sums for his own debts and the debts of his ancestors and for other causes, and the king is indebted to him for the arrears of his wages and the loss of his horses for the time when he was in the king's service in Gascony, as appears to the king by the testimony of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, who supplied the king's place in Gascony: the king, wishing to assist Henry in consideration of his good and faithful service, orders the treasurer and barons to search the rolls of the exchequer of all debts due to him from Henry, and to cause allowance to be made therefrom for the debts due to Henry from the king according to the letters patent of the said earl testifying the debts under his seal, and to certify the king under the exchequer seal of any debts that Henry may owe to him beyond the total of the allowance, and also of any debts that the king may owe to him beyond the aforesaid allowance, and to cause Henry to have respite in the meantime for any debts that may be due from him, receiving from Henry the earl's letters patent for annulment (condempnandas). By K. on the information of the treasurer.

Footnotes

  • 1. The complete enrolment occurs below.