Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1310 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1892.

'Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1310', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, (London, 1892) pp. 197-202. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp197-202 [accessed 23 April 2024]

March 1310



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March 2. Westminster.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower to Matilda, late the wife of Robert de Tony, tenant in chief, in the presence of Guy de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, and Alice his wife, sister and heiress of the said Robert, if they wish to attend, she having taken oath before the king not to marry without his licence.
March 3. Westminster.	Peter le Taillur, of Shellonde, and Gilbert de Goderode, in the king's prison at Ipswich for the death of William Frere, of Buxhale, and of Agatha his sister, have letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail them until the first assize.
March 2. Westminster.	To Nigel le Brun, escheator of Ireland. Order to deliver to Theobald, son and heir of Theobald de Verdun, the issues and profits from September 28 last of his father's lands, the king having on that day taken his homage and restored them to him, although the inquisitions concerning his father's lands had not been returned into the chancery by the said escheator, and having thereupon commanded the said escheator to cause him to have full seisin of the said lands upon his finding security for payment of his relief, as he has complained that the escheator withholds from him divers issues and profits of the same lands. He is ordered to send the inquisitions abovesaid into the chancery without delay.
Feb. 28. Westminster.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Alexander de Balliolo the custody of the manor of Hugham, co. Kent, and the issues thereof received by him, as it was found by an inquisition taken in the late king's reign that Robert de Hugham held at his death of the king a tenement in Wanerynge, co. Kent, by the service of finding the king in his Welsh war a man and a horse, price 5s., a sack and a broach for 40 days only, and that he held the manor of Hugham of the said Alexander as of the barony of Chilham by the service of one knight's fee, and because it appears by a judgment of the court of Henry III. before him and his council that, by reason of the said service due to the king, the custody of lands and tenements held of other lords does not pertain to the king.
March 2. Westminster.	To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Leveney and certain tenements in Bury St. Edmunds, as it appears by inquisition that William de Criketot, deceased, and Joan his wife were jointly enfeoffed thereof by William de Criketot, father of the said William, and that the said Joan peacefully continued her joint-seisin thereof until the death of her husband, and that the premises are not held of the king. He is to restore to the said Joan any issues thereof received by him.
	To the same. Order to deliver to the above Joan the manor of Onesden, co. Suffolk, and the issues of the same, as it appears by a fine levied in the late king's court before Ralph de Hengham and his fellows, justices of the Bench, that Walter, parson of the church of Onesden, and Robert de Asshefeld granted the said manor to Mary, late the wife of William de Criketot, for her lifetime, with remainder over to William, son of William de Criketot, and to the said Joan his wife, and to their heirs, to be held of the king by the services therefor due, and as it appears by inquisition that the said William and Joan continued their seisin thereof from the death of the aforesaid Mary to the time of the said William's death, and that the manor is held of the king in chief as of the honour of Boulogne by the service of one knight's fee; the king having taken her fealty for the same.
March 5. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to deliver to Thomas, earl of Lancaster, seisin of 10½ acres of land in Tuttebury that John Foun, of Tuttebury, hanged for felony, held of him, the land having been in the king's hands for a year and a day. The township of Tuttebury, who now hold it, have had the king's year and day of the same, and ought to answer therefor.
March 5. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to repair the king's houses within the castle of Cauntebrigg'.
March 4. Westminster.	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Bodrigan and the tenements in Penarth and Gargoit, co. Cornwall, that Henry de Bodrigan held, as it appears by inquisition that he held the manor of Tremodret, co. Cornwall, of the king in chief as of the honour of Lanceveton by the service of three knights' fees, and that Otto, his son and heir, is 19 years of age, and that the said Henry held the aforesaid manor of Bodrigan and the tenements in Penarth in (sic) Gargo[it] of Henry de Campo Arnulphi by the service of three knights' fees. He is to deliver the issues by him received of the manor of Bodrigan and of the said tenements to those to whom they belong, retaining in the king's hands the manor of Tremodret. The king reserves to himself power to resume the premises into his hands if it shall be found hereafter that the wardship thereof ought to pertain to him by reason of his prerogative or otherwise.
	To the same. Like order regarding the lands of the said Henry, retaining in the king's hands the hamlet of Trethen, co. Cornwall, which the said Henry held, as appears by inquisition, of the heir of Joceus de Dynham, a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of one knight's fee.
March 5. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Fulco Payforer of 50 marks, the remainder of 100 marks in which he made fine with the late king at the exchequer for a trespass whereof he was convicted before Roger le Brabanzon and his fellows, then justices of oyer and terminer in the city of London, the king, who previously pardoned him 50 marks thereof, having now pardoned him the remainder. By p.s. [940.]
March 10. (fn. 1) Westminster.	To W. de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manors of Wolde Lammersh and Wykes, co. Essex, and of Kerseye and Leyham, co. Suffolk, and Oxcroft, co. Cambridge, lately taken into the king's hands by virtue of an order to seize the lands and goods of Hugh le Despenser the younger because he had gone to parts beyond sea contrary to the king's inhibition, and to restore the same and the goods and issues of the same to Hugh le Despenser the elder, as the king learns by inquisition that the elder Hugh assigned the issues of the said manors to the younger Hugh for his maintenance to receive them during his pleasure, the younger Hugh having no other estate in the same.
	By p.s. [944.]
March 8. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge John le Bretun, sometime keeper of the city of London, of 100s. that they demand from him for the goods of two felons, as they have certified the king that he delivered the same to the king during his father's lifetime.
March 10. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit J. bishop of Norwich of 170 marks of the 1,000 marks for the fine that he made with the late king for the corn sown in the lands of the bishopric at the time of the last voidance, the king having previously pardoned him 100l. of that fine for his expenses as envoy of the king to the pope, for which expenses the king has now pardoned him the above 170 marks.
	By K. on the information of the treasurer.
March 18. Westminster.	To the master and scholars of St. Peter's House, Cambridge. Order to admit to their house Roger de Mouneye, of Huntyngfeld, and to supply him with the necessaries of life as a scholar, the king having granted to him, because the see of Ely is void, the place and estate that Master John de Herwardestok held in that house.
March 20. Westminster.	To John de Segrave, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to deliver to the king's clerk John de Hoth[um], escheator beyond Trent and keeper of the king's manor of Clippeston, twelve oaks fit for timber from the forest of Shirewode to repair therewith the houses of the said manor and the king's weirs there. By K.
	To John de Hothum, escheator beyond Trent and keeper of the manor of Clippeston. Order to repair the houses of the said manor and the king's weirs there, by the view of lawful men. By K.
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March 3. Westminster.	To W. de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to James de Perers and Ela his wife, late the wife of Griffin de la Pole, who died a minor in the king's wardship, the following of his lands which the king has assigned to them as her dower: a curtilage and garden in the town of la Pole in the parts of Powys in Wales, of the yearly value of 3s. 4d.; a third part of 200 acres of arable land in the same, which part is of the yearly value of 40s.; a third of 30 acres of meadow in the same, which third is of the yearly value of 20s.; a third of a dovecot there of the yearly value of 2s.; a third of a water mill there, of the yearly value of 13s. 4d.; a third of a fishpond (vivarii) in the same, which third is of the yearly value of 2s.; a third of the profit of three fairs there, of the yearly value of 4l.; a third of the profit of a toll of the yearly value of 4l.; a third of the profit of the assize of ale there of the value of 4l.; a third of the pleas and perquisites of the court of the yearly value of 26s. 8d.; a third of 8l. 3s. 8d. of yearly rent from 173 burgesses in that town; the town of Disserth liberi, of the yearly value of 24s. 6¾d.; the town of Lannerchudel liberi, of the yearly value of 38s. 0½d.; the town of Trallungolleyn nativi, of the yearly value of 16s. 8½d.; the town of Bruthur nativi, of the yearly value of 31s. 4d.; the town of Tidinprid nativi, of the yearly value of 14s. 8d.; a third of 100 acres of arable land in Garthkenen, of the yearly value of 20s.; a third of 16 acres of meadow, of the yearly value of 10s. 8d.; a third of a water mill, of the yearly value of 26s. 8d.; 20d. of yearly rent in the mill of Guynua; the rents and services of David ap Howel ap Ruyn Howel Voil Duy, Gronou ap Adaph, and their co-parceners, free Welsh tenants in Femmenarthur, Guynna, and Bodwarth, which rents and services are of the yearly value of 24s. 7d.; a third of 100 acres of arable land in Glasmeniok, of the yearly value of 20s.; the rents and services of Eynon, Blamekyn, Mapkaam, Mapwathan, Map Adaf ap Gronou, and Madak ap David, and their co-parceners, free Welsh tenants in the same town, which rents and services are of the yearly value of 27s. 4½d.; a third of the autumn boonworks (operum) of the nativi there, which third is of the yearly value of 10s.; the town of Lannetlyng, of the yearly value of 4l. 1s. 4d.; the town of Keyningon, of the yearly value of 6s. 8d.; the town of Nauntfalon, of the yearly value of 21s. 8d.; the town of Kelleymok, of the yearly value of 2s. 6d.; a third of a custom called 'Porcheant (fn. 2) Gayf' in Moghant of the yearly value of 6l. 13s. 4d.; a third of a custom there called 'Porchhaf' (fn. 3) of the yearly value of 66s. 8d.; a third of a water mill in Meychhabert of the yearly value of 10s. 8d.; a third of the pleas and perquisites of the court of Morthnant, of the yearly value of 10s.; the chief messuage in Talgarth, of the yearly value of 10s.; a third of 80 acres of arable land there, of the yearly value of 10s.; a third of 10 acres of meadow, of the yearly value of 6s. 8d.; a third of two water mills, which third is of the yearly value of 40s.; a third of a fulling mill, of the yearly value of 20s.; a third of the rents and customs of certain free tenants there of the yearly value of 19l. 12s. 6d.; a third of the rents and services of certain customary tenants (custumariorum) there of the yearly value of 6l. 1s. 8d.; a third of the pleas and perquisites of the court there of the yearly value of 40s.; a third of 60s. of yearly rent from divers tenants in Lanrigg'; a third of the chief messuage in Pempres of the yearly value of 5s.; a third of 100 acres of arable land of the yearly value of 20s.; a third of 20 acres of meadow, which third is of the yearly value of 13s. 4d.; a third of the rents, services, and customs of certain free Welsh tenants of the yearly value of 22l. 0s. 10d.; a third of the rents, services, and customs of nativi there of the yearly value of 7l. 8s. 5d.; a third of the pleas and perquisites of the court there, which third is of the yearly value of 40s.; 66s. of yearly rent in Lanylezeles from certain burgesses in that town; a third of the profit of two fairs there, which third is of the yearly value of 4l.; a third of the profit of the toll there of the yearly value of 4l.; a third of the pleas and perquisites of the court there of the yearly value of 20s.; the town of Ranwyriarck, of the yearly value of 37s. 2d.; the town of Pentrich, of the yearly value of 60s. 6d.; the manor of Dolreth, of the yearly value of 10s. 1d.; the town of Pennarth nativi, of the yearly value of 76s. 8d.; a third of a water-mill in Langadevan, of the yearly value of 100s.; the rents and services of [blank], sons of Yeuaf ap Ithol and Eynon ap Heylyn, free Welsh tenants there, of the yearly value of 16s. 9d.; 26s. 8d. of yearly rent to be received from Joan (Johanne), late the wife of Owen (Audoeni) de la Pole, from the 4l. of yearly rent that she pays for the excess of her dower; a third of the market town (ville mercatorie) of Maghhenelet in Keveylok'.
	To the sheriff of York. Order to be intendent to the prelates and inquisitors appointed to inquire against the order of the Templars in England in separating the Templars one from another, and in executing what they shall order to be done concerning the Templars and their bodies according to ecclesiastical law. [Fœdera].
	The like to the sheriff of Lincoln. [Ibid.]
March 6. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Adam de Eglesfeld and Nicholas de Derleye, executors of the will of John de Kirkeby, clerk, who held at ferm of the late king the lands whereof Alexander de Boukhill died seised, of the ferm of the same from July 10, in the 32nd year of the late king's reign, when the late king, with the assent of his earls, barons, and other proceres then with him in Scotland, received into his peace David de Breghhyn and Margaret his wife, who were then against him in the Scotch war, and ordained that the said David and Margaret should be seised of the lands of the said Alexander, father of the said Margaret, to be held by them during his pleasure, and ordered the sheriff of Cumberland to deliver to them seisin of the same.
March 13. Westminster.	To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to permit brother Ralph de Burun, the elect of the church of St. Augustine, Canterbury, to pass the seas to prosecute the affairs concerning his election, notwithstanding the king's inhibition of any notable person leaving the realm without his licence.
March 9. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Adam de Eglesfeld and Nicholas de Derley, executors of the will of John de Kirkeby, clerk, sometime remembrancer of the exchequer, of 62l. 2s. 0d., which they exact from them for the ferm of the castle and honour of Cokermuth, which were granted to the said John for seven years by the late king on December 9, in the 31st year of his reign, to be held from Michaelmas following, at a yearly ferm of 125l., provided that all issues of the same from Michaelmas aforesaid until the following Michaelmas, and the rents and ferms of the same from the term of the said Martinmas (sic), which the late king had granted to the executors of the will of John de Sancto Johanne, who held the castle and honour for life, for the execution of his will, should be allowed to the said John de Kirkeby in his ferm at the first term of payment; the executors of the said John de Kirkeby having now shewn to the king that, although John de Stok, executor of the will of the said John de Sancto Johanne, acknowledged at the exchequer for himself and his coexecutors that they had received 62l. 2s. 0d. of the issues and rents aforesaid for time abovesaid, the treasurer and barons still exact that sum from the said executors.
March 15. Westminster.	To W. de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign to Isabella, late the wife of Alexander de Crokedaik, dower of her husband's lands, as it appears by inquisition that he held certain tenements in Wrestlingworth, co. Bedford, and Paxton and Keyston, co. Huntingdon, of other lords than the king, and that John, son of John de Crokedaik, nephew (nepos) of the said Alexander, a minor in the king's wardship, is next heir, by reason of whose minority the wardship of the said lands pertains to the king.
March 15. Westminster.	To W. de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Edmund de Cornubia and Elizabeth his wife, the youngest daughter and co-heiress of Brian de Brompton, a tenant in chief of the late king, to have her purparty of her father's lands, held both of the king and of others, she having proved her age before the said escheator, and the king having taken the homage of the said Edmund and restored to them her purparty, to wit the manor of Kynlet, co. Salop, of the yearly value of 25l. 9s. 7d.; certain lands in Stanegge, in the same county, of the yearly value of 7l. 15s. 1½d.; 11l. of land and rent of the lands in the manor of Asshton, co. Hereford, of the yearly value of 17l.: which the king has assigned to the said Edmund and Elizabeth with their consent and that of Robert de Harle, who married Margaret, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of the said Brian.
March 21. Westminster.	To Payn de Tybotot, justice of Chester. Order to pay by indenture, out of the ferm of the said justiceship, to the king's yeoman Andrew de Kendale, rider (equitatori) of the king's forest of Wyrhale, 6d. daily for his wages for so long as he shall be rider. By p.s. [955.]
Jan. 16. The Grove.	To the king's bailiff of the High Peak. Order to pay to Walter de Waldeshef, forester of the forest of the High Peak, the wages that he was wont to have for the custody of the said forest, and to pay him the arrears of the same.
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March 23. Westminster.	William son of William le Provost of Lubethorp, in the king's prison at Leicester for the death of William le Bikere, has letters to the sheriff of Leicester to bail him until the first assize.
	To Walter de Gloucester, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John le Chaumberleyn, deceased, as it appears by inquisition that he held no lands by reason whereof the wardship of his lands should pertain to the king.
	To the same. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of John le Chaumberleyn, certain tenements in Little Radewynter held of the king as of the honour of Albemarle, and two parts of two parts of the manor of Great Radewynter held of other lords than the king, as it appears by inquisition that she was enfeoffed thereof jointly with her late husband, the king having taken her fealty for the tenements in Little Radewynter. He is to restore to her the issues thereof received by him.