Close Rolls, Edward I: December 1302

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 5, 1302-1307. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

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'Close Rolls, Edward I: December 1302', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: Volume 5, 1302-1307, (London, 1908) pp. 1-3. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw1/vol5/pp1-3 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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December 1302

Dec. 1.
Newbury.
To the sheriff of Cornwall and to the coroners of that county. Order to supersede until otherwise ordered by the king the putting of Roger de Ingepenne in exigent, and to cause his goods and chattels taken into the king's hands by the sheriff to be kept safely without diminution until the king shall cause ordinance to be made concerning them by his council, as Roger, who was indicted before John de Berewyk and his fellows, justices last in eyre in that county, for homicides, harbouring of felons and divers other trespasses committed in that county against the king's peace, and for which he was put in exigent at the king's suit for his contumacy, has appeared in person before the king and has submitted himself to his grace and will concerning these offences and has found mainprise before Walter de Bello Campo, steward of the king's household, to stand to right in the king's court when the king shall wish to speak against him concerning these things. By p.s. [3069.]
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to deliver to Roger his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands for the reasons aforesaid.
By p.s. [3069.]
Dec. 10.
Marlborough.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger de Hecheham, who is unable to execute the duties of the office because he is intending the collection of the murage granted to the burgesses of Newcastle-on-Tyne and also the repair of the walls of that town.
Nov. 26.
Reading.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to John de Sandale, king's clerk, keeper of the king's exchange at London, half of the ship called 'La Coge Sancte Marie de Baiona,' lately arrested at Southampton by virtue of the king's writ to arrest the goods and chattels of William de Saltu in the sheriff's bailiwick, and to deliver half of her tackle and gear, to do therewith what the king has ordered him, although it is contained in an inquisition that the king caused to be taken by John Gerberge and John de Shirle concerning a moiety of the ship that the moiety on the day of the arrest belonged to Philip de Sancto Severo, and that William had no part therein on the day of the arrest, as the inquisition was improperly taken and was contrary to the tenor of the king's writ, for which reason the king considers it insufficient, and it is also testified before the king by trustworthy men that a moiety of the ship belonged to William on the said day, and that he claimed the moiety after the arrest as his own property and prayed for delivery of it to be made to him.
By C.
Dec. 11.
Marlborough.
Henry Gotte, imprisoned at Lincoln for the death of William Gotte, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Lincoln to bail him.
Dec. 10.
Marlborough.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to John de Sandale and Thomas de Cantebrig, the king's clerks, all the issues of land and rents of aliens, as well men of religion as others, in England that were lately in the king's hands by reason of the war between him and the king of France, to be delivered by them without delay to certain noblemen, both clerks and others, of Gascony, as the king, on 17 August, in the thirtieth year of his reign, assigned all the issues aforesaid to the noblemen aforesaid, to be received from that day by the hands of said John and Thomas, or one of them, whom the king appointed to receive the money from the issues aforesaid at the exchequer and to pay it to the noblemen at the terms fixed by the king, until they should be satisfied for certain provisions granted to them by the king, as contained in his letters patent.
Dec. 28.
Odiham.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to acquit William Russel, kinsman and heir of Ralph Russel, tenant in chief, of the scutage exacted from him for the knights' fees that Ralph held of the king at his death for the king's army of Wales in the tenth year of his reign, as it appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of chancery that the said Ralph, kinsman and heir of Ralph Russel, tenant in chief, was a minor in the king's wardship at the time when the king was in the said army. It is provided that the scutage of the said fees shall be levied and answered for to the king.
To the same. Order to acquit William Russel, son and heir of Ralph Russel, tenant in chief, of the scutage exacted from him for one knight's fee for the king's army of Wales in the fifth year of his reign, as Ralph had his service with the king by his order in that army for one knight's fee that he then acknowledged to the king for a moiety of the barony of Neufmarche, as appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of his marshalsea for that army.
Dec. 27.
Odiham.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to admit John le Clerk in place of William Trente, the king's chamberlain, to execute what pertains to the office of coroner in that city, and to answer to him for all things pertaining to that office in the city, as has been usual in the like case heretofore, as William, to whose bailiwick the office of coroner in the city pertains, cannot attend personally to the execution of the office and has deputed John by his letters patent.