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Aug. 1.
Arbroath (Aberbrothok). |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
dower to be assigned to Alice, late the wife of Simon le Havekere, tenant
in chief, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's
licence. |
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Membrane 5. |
Aug. 1.
Arbroath |
To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Order to restore
to Hugh de Aldithele and Isolda, his wife, a third of the manor of Great
Markeleye, which is held of the king in chief, together with the issues
received from it since it was taken into the king's hands, as they have
shown the king that whereas they have long held the said part in her
dower of the free tenement of Walter Balun, her first husband, and they
have now acquired the right and fee of the said part to them and to
Hugh's heirs from John de Balun, kinsman and heir of Walter, to
whom the said part ought to have reverted after her death, without
obtaining the king's licence, the escheator has taken that part into the king's
hands by reason of the acquisition aforesaid, and the king wishes to show
favour to Hugh for the good service rendered by him and his ancestors
and because he is with the king in his service in Scotland. The part is
to be held by them in form aforesaid until further orders. By p.s. |
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To the same. Whereas the king learns by an inquisition taken by the
escheator that Thomas de Nevill, tenant in chief, held at his death a
messuage, three cottages, 180 acres of arable land, seven acres of meadow,
two acres of pasture, twelve acres of wood, and 32s. yearly of rent in
Driestok, co. Rutland, of the bishop of Lincoln by homage and knight
service and by doing suit at the bishop's court of Lydington from three
weeks to three weeks, of the gift and feoffment of Robert de Nevill, his
father, to have to him and the heirs of his body, with remainder to
Thomas de Nevill, Robert's brother, and the king thereupon ordered the
escheator not to intermeddle further with the lands, which he had taken
into the king's hands by reason of Thomas's death, saving to the king
any services due to him from the said tenements: the king, wishing to
show favour to Thomas, brother of Robert, who entered the lands
by the form of the gift after the escheator had not intermeddled with it
by virtue of the said order, orders the escheator to cause him to have the
issues thereof for the time when they were in the king's hands. |
Aug. 1.
Arbroath. |
To J. count of Namur, son of Guy, count of Flanders. Whereas
William Servat, citizen and merchant of London, as he has complained
to the king, lately sent Peter Andreu, his servant, to Provence to make
divers provisions of spices and other necessaries for the king's wardrobe
there, and Peter wished to carry the provisions made by him to London
to be delivered to the keeper of the wardrobe, Lambert Lebote, master of
the ship called 'Ludewyk' of La Hok of Flanders, Peter de Wyningges,
William de la Mote, and Topardus de la Mote and certain other mariners
of that ship assaulted the said Peter on the sea coast near Wynchelse by
force and arms, and took and carried away the spices and other necessaries
found with him to the value of 445l. 2s. 10d.; and Lambert and the
mariners, after their ship [with] the spices and necessaries aforesaid had
been driven by contrary winds into the port of Wynchelese, were arrested
by the bailiffs of that town at William's suit and were attached, as
is the custom in such cases, to answer to William before the
warden of the Cinque Ports for the spices and wares aforesaid and to do
and receive what justice should require in this behalf, the said Lambert
and the mariners broke the arrest and attachment and secretly and
fraudulently went away, with the ship and the spices and merchandises
aforesaid, without making any satisfaction to the king or to William, to
the contempt and prejudice of the king: wherefore the king requested
the count to cause William to have due restitution of the goods and wares
and due and speedy remedy for the damages sustained by him in this
behalf; and William has signified to the king that Lambert, Peter,
William and Topardus have satisfied him in full for the trespasses and
damages aforesaid by a fine of 2,400l. of Paris that they have made with
the said Peter Andreu, his attorney, with which William holds himself
content: the king, accepting this satisfaction, acquits Lambert, Peter,
William and Topardus and their fellows of this matter so far as pertains
to him, and he makes this known to the count and all whom it may
concern by the presents. |
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To Henry Spigurnel and Richard de Walsingham, late justices appointed
to deliver Norwich gaol. Whereas the king lately pardoned by his letters
patent William le Furmager, John Cotyng, John Gilebert, Stephen
Strikebert and Thomas del Hul, lately imprisoned in that town for the
robbery of 35s. charged against them, the suit of his peace for the larceny
[Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1301–1307, p. 54], and he afterwards granted to
them a ship of theirs in which they were taken, together with the goods
and chattels found in it, which were taken into the king's hands by reason
of the larceny, although they were forfeited, and he ordered the sheriff of
Norfolk to cause the ship, goods and chattels to be restored to them or to
signify to him the reason why he would not or could not execute the
king's order, and the sheriff returned that the ship, goods and chattels
were appraised before him as forfeited at 20 marks, and were delivered by
him to the men of the county (patrie) in order that they might answer
therefor before the justices at the first assizes, and that the men are thus
charged by him with the goods, wherefore he could not deliver the ship,
goods and chattels from their hands without a warrant directed to them
by Henry and Richard by which they could be discharged thereof in the
next eyre of the justices in that county: the king orders Henry and
Richard to cause the ship, goods and chattels to be restored to William,
John, John, Stephen and Thomas, or to their attorney, and to cause the
said men to be discharged thereof. |
Aug. 1.
Arbroath |
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to supersede until the quinzaine of
Michaelmas the demand by summons of the exchequer from Joan, late
the wife of Peter de Geynvill, daughter of Geoffrey de Geynvill, for 223l.
6s. 8d. by reason of the lands in her hands that belonged to Geoffrey, as
the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin have signified the
king at his order that Geoffrey paid into that exchequer 56l. 13s. 4d. of
the 223l. 6s. 8d. received by him from the king in England as a loan,
which the king granted to him that he should pay by 50 marks yearly to
that exchequer. |
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The like to the sheriff of Salop. |
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To Walter de Glouc[estria], escheator beyond Trent. Whereas J.
bishop of Lincoln asserted after the death of Thomas de Nevill that
certain lands in Dryestok that Thomas held of him, which the king caused
to be taken into his hands with other lands that Thomas at his death held
of him in chief, pertain to him as escheat as chief lord of the fee, and
prayed the king that the lands should be rendered to him, and the king
learns by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Theobald de Nevill
is kinsman and next heir of Thomas, if the law permit, and the king has been
besought by Theobald not to render the lands to the bishop to his prejudice
while he is in the king's service in Scotland: the king orders the escheator
to warn Theobald and John de Nevill, another kinsman of Thomas, who
claim hereditary right in the lands, to be before the king and his council at
York in fifteen days from Michaelmas, which day he has prefixed to the
bishop, to do and receive what the court shall consider in this behalf. |
Aug. 14.
Brechin (Breyghyn). |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to permit
the executors of the will of Robert de Tateshale, tenant in chief, to have
ten bucks of the present [grease] time in the park of Buckenham and ten
in the chace of Tateshale, which belonged to Robert, as the king has
granted to the executors that they may take these twenty bucks.
By p.s. [3380.] |
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To the same. Order to cause Robert's executors to have full and free
administration of his goods for the execution of his will, upon their finding
security to answer to the exchequer at the king's will for all the debts due
to it from Robert at his death. |
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The like to Master Richard de Havering, escheator this side Trent. |
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To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Like order to permit the
executors to have administration until otherwise ordered. By p.s. [3380.] |
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The like to the sheriffs of Lincoln, Berks and York. |
Aug. 23.
Aberdeen. |
To Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Order to give
credence to what John de Drokenesford, keeper of the king's wardrobe,
shall tell him on the king's behalf, as the king has enjoined upon John
certain matters touching him to be explained to the escheator. |
Aug. 23.
Aberdeen. |
To the same. Order to take all the venison of the present season that
he can take without destruction at Tateshale and elsewhere in the parks
and chaces that belonged to Robert de Tateshale, tenant in chief, which
are in the king's hands by reason of the heir's minority, to be taken by
the view of John de Fulham, the king's huntsman, and to cause it to be
well salted and kept until otherwise ordered. The king has ordered John
to assist him in this. |
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To John de Fulham. Order to go upon sight hereof to Tateshale with
the king's hounds, and to take there and elsewhere in the aforesaid parks
and chaces all the venison of the present season that can be taken without
destruction, by the view of the escheator aforesaid. |
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To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Whereas the king lately ordered
them for certain reasons to arrest goods of merchants of Flanders who
are not of the party of the king of France found within the city to the
value of 522 marks and over, and to cause them to be kept safely until
otherwise ordered; by virtue of which order they have arrested cloth and
other goods of Walter de Bruges, clerk and merchant of Elizabeth,
countess of Hereford, the king's daughter, who, although born in Flanders,
did not adhere to the Flemish enemies and rebels of the king of France
after the war between them, as the countess suggested to the king by
her letters; whereupon the king ordered them to cause an inquisition to
be made by the oath of alien merchants in the city and of men of the city
whether or not Walter adhered to the said Flemings against the king of
France after the war, and if the goods at the time of the arrest were
Walter's own goods so that no one had any share in them, and if there be
any such sharer, whether or not he adhered to the said Flemings, and the
nature and value of the goods; and the king learns by the inquisition that
Walter did not adhere in any way to the said Flemings against the king of
France, and that the goods were not at the time of the arrest Walter's own
goods, because John Brusseles, his partner (socius), had and still has a
moiety of them, and that John did not and does not adhere to the said
Flemings, and that the goods thus arrested are 104 pieces of rayed cloth,
and that they are worth 208l. sterling; the king orders them to cause the
cloth to be delivered to Walter, in accordance with his previous order. It
is provided that they shall cause goods of other merchants of Flanders
coming to the city to be arrested to the value of the aforesaid 522 marks
and over. |
Aug. 14.
Brechin. |
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to restore to Robert de Respek,
clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's
hands upon his being indicted before Henry Spygurnel and his fellows,
justices last in eyre at Lanceveton, with burglary of the house of Thomas
de Pridiaus at Penstradon and with robbery of 11s. 6d. from Thomas de
Lake, Thomas's reeve (preposito), as he has purged his innocence before
Thomas, bishop of Exeter, to whom he was delivered by the justices in
accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
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Like order to the same in favour of John le Archer of Cornwall, clerk,
indicted before the said justices of the death of John de Sancto Rumone. |
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To Robert de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent, or to him
who supplies his place. Order to cause the abbot and convent of
St. Mary's, York, to have a tenth of the king's venison taken and hereafter to be taken in his forest of Galtres, in that county, as they ought
and as they and their predecessors have been wont to have it heretofore
by virtue of the charter of King Richard granting them a tenth of his
venison taken in the county of York. |
Aug. 28.
Aberdeen. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Richard de Hoton, deceased. |
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Alice Haliday, imprisoned at York for the death of William Bogh,
wherewith she is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail her. |
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To Master Richard de Havering, escheator this side Trent. Order to
cause dower to be assigned to Ellen, late the wife of John Passemer,
tenant in chief, as of the honour of Albemarle, which is in the king's
hands, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's
licence, in the presence of William Sturmy, who married Isabel, John's
eldest daughter and co-heiress, and Henry le Taillur, who married Beatrice,
the third daughter and co-heiress, if they choose to be present. |
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To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Adam atte Welde, deceased. |
Aug. 25.
Aberdeen. |
To the sheriff of York and to the coroners of that county. Order to
supersede the execution of the exigent against William le Latimer, the
younger, until Christmas or until his return to England, so that he shall
not in the meantime incur loss or damage, as the abbot of Whiteby lately
impleaded him before the justices of the Bench for a trespass committed
upon him, and William is put in exigent at the king's suit to be outlawed in that county [court] because he did not come before the justices
to answer to the abbot, and the king wishes to show him favour because
he is staying in his service by his order in Scotland. By p.s. [3391.] |
