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Membrane 3. |
July 1.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to expend up to 20 marks in repairing
a turret within the castle of Norwich. By C. |
July 2.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Robert de Wodehous, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to
Philip Darcy, a co-heir of Roger Bertram, a third part of the mill of
Felton, which mill is of the yearly value of 10l., which the said Roger held
of the late king and which was taken into the king's hands upon his death,
to be held by the said Philip until the morrow of the feast of St. Laurence
next, which day the king has appointed for the said Philip to receive his
purparty together with Elias de Pannebury and William son of William
de Emeley, who were found by inquisition to be next heirs and of full age.
In the meantime the escheator is to find by inquisition by what services
and in what manner the said mill is held. |
June 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriffs of London. Whereas lately, on the complaint of William
de Finchingfeld, citizen and merchant of London, that he had sold certain
goods to John Payner, Eustace Kyde, and Eustace Everwyn, burgesses and
merchants of Gynes, for 33l. sterling to be paid at a term long past, which
debt they have not yet paid, the king requested the échevins and men of
the said town to cause justice to be done to the said William according to
the form of a bond made to him by the said John, Eustace, and Eustace;
and afterwards, because the said échevins had not done anything in this
matter, but had altogether failed to do the said William justice, as appears
by the letters testimonial of the community of the city of London, the king
commanded the said sheriffs to arrest all goods of the men and merchants
of that town to the value of the debt and the estimated damages of the
said William, and to keep the same until he had been satisfied; and
they returned that they had arrested twelve bales (sarpleras) of wool, of
the value of 60l., of the goods of John Risshewere, merchant of Gynes;
and although the king ordered them to deliver wool therefrom to the value
of the said 33l. to the said William by appraisement made in the presence
of the said John, if he chose to attend, taking from the said William
security to answer for the same if the king or the said John should implead
him thereof, and to detain wool therefrom to the value of the said damages
and expenses to be taxed by the oath of merchants; because, however,
Philip, king of France, Joan, countess of Eu and Gynes, and the mayor
and échevins of Gynes have written to the king that the said William has
been satisfied for the said debt with the exception of 40s., and the said
William has appeared before the king's council in the presence of certain
merchants of Gynes and has produced the bond of the said John, Eustace,
and Eustace and has asserted that he has not been satisfied for the said debt
nor for any part thereof, and the said merchants did not exhibit any
acquittances of the said debt or anything else whereby it might appear that
the said John, Eustace, and Eustace had paid the balance of the debt to the
said William, it was ordained by the council that, out of reverence to the
king of France, 40s., which the said merchants admitted to be still owing
of the above debt, should be paid to the said William out of the aforesaid
wool, and the rest of the wool should be released and restored to the said
merchants, provided that the said William may proceed as shall seem fit to
him against the said merchants according to the law and custom of this
realm for recovery of the said debt; wherefore the king orders the above
sheriffs to take from the said merchants the said 40s. and to restore to them
the wool aforesaid or the price thereof. |
July 5.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
Richard Knyvet, of Suthwyk, and Joan his wife, daughter and heiress of
John de Wurth, a tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of the
said John's lands, as she has proved her age before the said escheator
and the king has taken the fealty of her husband. |
June 20.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to
Ottelin Ferre, the king's yeoman, to whom the king has granted the
custody of the land of the late William Russell, a tenant in chief, goods and
chattels of the said William to the value of 100l. (libratarum), if the said
goods be still in the king's hands and ought to remain in the king's hands
for the debts due from the said William at his death; or to lend to him
100l. in money if the said goods have been eloigned and sold for the king's
use, on condition that he pay 20 marks yearly to the exchequer until the said
100l. have been repaid. By p.s. [2142.] |
June 17.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to charge
Bartholomew de Badelesmere, to whom the king lately committed the
castle, town and barton of Bristol, with 210l. yearly for the first two
years when he held them on condition that he answered to the exchequer
for all issues thereof, and to exonerate him from rendering an account of
the issues for the said two years, after which time the king granted him the
custody during pleasure at an annual rent of 210l. in addition to other
charges that he was bound to sustain, as the king understands that his
clerk, by whom he would most accurately (consultius) have rendered
account of the issues for the said two years, is dead, so that the said
Bartholomew cannot safely render account. By p.s. [2133.] |
June 25.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator beyond Trent. Order to restore
his lands and the issues thereof to Robert de Echyngham, seised into the
king's hands by Walter de Gloucester, then escheator beyond Trent, for
his trespass in going to parts beyond sea against the king's inhibition, as
Bartholomew de Badeslesmere (sic), of co. Kent, and John Botetourte, of
co. Norfolk, have mainperned before the king to have him before the
king to answer for the said trespass. By the keeper of the realm. |
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To Walter de Gloucester. Order to deliver to the said Robert the issues
of his lands received by him. |
June 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause the 40 (sic) and 30 quarters of
wheat, 240 quarters of barley, 130 quarters of oats, and 80 quarters of salt
that the king ordered him to buy and provide and send to Berwick-onTweed for the Scotch expedition, to be carried to London against the
parliament to be held there on Sunday before the feast of St. Laurence
next, there to be delivered to the keeper of the king's provisions. By C. |
July 6.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Robert de Barton, receiver of the issues of the bishopric of Durham.
Order to pay 20l. out of the said issues to the king's clerk Adam de Brom,
to whom the king has committed his seal appointed for the custody of the
liberty of the said bishopric during the present voidance; which sum the
king has granted to him for his expenses in going to the aforesaid parts of
Durham, remaining there, and exercising the office of chancellor, and for
returning home. By C. |
June 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Richard de Grey, of Sandiacre, deceased,
and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by
Walter de Gloucester, late escheator beyond Trent, that he held nothing
of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to
pertain to the king. |
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Membrane 2. |
July 4.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Walter Broun, incapacitated by age and infirmity. |
July 5.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Anthony, late bishop of Durham, and to
restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by Walter de
Gloucester, late escheator beyond Trent, that he held no lands in chief of
the king in his bailiwick by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought
to pertain to the king. |
July 6.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to
Simon de Harecurt and Katherine his wife, late the wife of William
Russel, tenant in chief, the following of the lands of the said William,
which the king has assigned to her as dower: a moiety of the manor of
Herdewyk, co. Buckingham, which moiety is of the yearly value of
13l. 12s. 7d.; a fourth of the manor of Upton, co. Berks, which fourth is of
the yearly value of 118s. 1½d.; all the lands in Auste, co. Gloucester, of the
yearly value of 8l. 0s. 8d.; a third of the manor of Yoverland, co.
Southampton, which third is of the yearly value of 15l. 0s. 6¼d.; a
third of the manor of Wathe, in the same county, which third is of the
yearly value of 12l. 9s. 0¾d.; 32s. 6d. of yearly rent in Haselbere from
three free tenants within the manor of Haselbere: provided that the said
Simon and Katherine shall be bound to pay 7s. 8½d. yearly, the value in
excess of her dower, to the keeper of the lands of the said William, and
to his heir when the heir comes of age. |
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To William Servat and John de Lincoln, collectors of the custom of
wool, hides, and wool fells in the port of London. Order to deliver to the
king's clerk Richard de Luda, controller of the said custom, one part of
the king's seal called called 'coket' (cokettum), to be kept by him during
the king's pleasure, retaining the other part themselves, so that they and
the said Richard shall seal letters concerning the said custom. |
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To Robert de Wodehous, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay 6l.
yearly during his custody of the lands and heir of John Wake, and the
arrears of the same, to Robert de Tymparon, master of the hospital of
St. Leonard, Cestrefeld, who has complained to the king that whereas he
ought to have, by virtue of charters of the king's progenitors to his predecessors, the said sum yearly from that manor by the hands of the bailiff
of the manor, and that his predecessors have always received the same since
the said charters, as well when the manor was in the hands of the king's
progenitors as also afterwards at all times when the manor had come to the
hands of other lords, and that he has received 60s. by the king's order for
one term from John de Hothum, late escheator this side Trent, after
the manor came to the king's hands by reason of the custody of the land
and heir of John Wake, a tenant in chief of the late king, he has not
been paid 6l. for two other terms after the manor came to the king's
hands. |
July 6.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To Roger de Wellesworth, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to
Alice, late the wife of Nicholas Tuchet, who held of the heir of Philip de
Chauncy, a minor in the king's wardship, by knight service, the following
of her said husband's lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower:
all the lands in Suthereie, co. Lincoln, excepting a fishery there, which
lands are of the yearly value of 35s.; a fourth of 64 acres of land in
Hainton, in the same county, which fourth is of the yearly value of 64s.;
three acres of meadow in the same town, of the yearly value of 9s. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Richard
de Picheford, son and heir of Geoffrey de Picheford, of 1,228l. 10s.,
which the late king pardoned him, on March 30, in the 33rd year of his
reign, in consideration of his father's good service, by whom that sum was
owing at his death for the issues of the wardships pertaining to Wyndesore
castle for the time when he was constable thereof. |
July 5.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause Robert de Clifford to have
reasonable aid of his knights and free tenants to marry his eldest daughter,
according to the form of the statute provided by the common council of the
king's realm. |
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The like to the sheriffs of Worcester, Westmoreland, and Hereford. |
May 25.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king,
on November 7, in the 16th year of his reign, committed to William de
Morlegh all the lands that had belonged to John de Anylley, a tenant in
chief of the said king, to be kept during the said king's pleasure, provided
that he answered to the exchequer for the issues thereof; and on the same
day he commanded Master Henry de Bray, then escheator beyond Trent,
to assign lands of the yearly value of 10l. of the said John's lands in Brom,
co. Suffolk, to Amice de Berneford, formerly the nurse of Henry, the
deceased brother of the present king, for her maintenance until the said
John's heir came of age; and lately, on the suit of Cicely, late the wife of
the aforesaid William, suggesting that although John had no lands at his
death except what he had in Brom aforesaid, and that they were delivered
to Amice for the said 10l. yearly of land by the said escheator, so that none
of John's lands came to the hands of William by virtue of the above commission whereof he ought to render account, nevertheless the treasurer and
barons have distrained her to render account of John's lands from the
aforesaid November 7, the king commanded them, if they found that John
had no other lands than those in Brom, and that they were delivered to
Amice, and that none of John's lands came to the hands of William, not
to distrain Cicely to render such account, but to acquit her; the king
understands from Cicely that they are distraining her to render account of
the issues of the manor of Everwarton, because it was found by inquisition
that John held that manor at his death together with the said lands in
Brom; as the king learns from the rolls of the late king's chancery that
he, on November 9 in the aforesaid year, ordered the aforesaid escheator to
deliver the said manor to Isabella, late the wife of John, to hold in dower,
as it was found by inquisition that the aforesaid John endowed her at her
marriage with the said manor and with the advowson of the church of that
manor with the consent of his father Bartholomew: the king now orders
them to acquit Cicely from rendering account of the lands of the said
John, if they find by the aforesaid inquisition that he held no other lands
than the above. |
July 6.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Walter
de Gloucester of 16l., the estimated value of the custody of two parts of
the manor of Hertrugg, co. Berks, formerly John de Hertrugg's, in the
king's hands by reason of the minority of the said John's heir, which was
delivered by the said Walter to Hugh le Despenser, in execution of the
king's order of May 23, in the first year of his reign, to deliver to him
2,000l. from the issues of wardships and marriages beyond Trent, in part
payment of 2,544l. 6s. 8d. owing to the said Hugh by the late and the
present kings, the balance whereof the king ordered the escheator this side
Trent to pay in like manner. |
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Membrane 1. |
June 17.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool fells in the port
of London. Order to answer to the king at the exchequer for all issues of
the said custom after the feast of Whitsuntide last and hereafter, notwithstanding the king's former order to pay all money arising from the
custom to the merchants of the society of Friscobaldi of Florence, and to
receive from the said merchants the second part of the king's seal called
'coket' in the same port, which the king lately caused to be delivered to
them, and to keep such seal in the same manner as before the assignment
of the custom to the said merchants. The king has ordered the merchants
to deliver to them the issues of the custom received by them after the
above feast, and also the part of the seal in their possession. By p.s. |
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The like to the collectors of the said custom in the following ports:— |
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The town of Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
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Kyngeston-on-Hull. |
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The town of Boston. |
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Jernemuth. |
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Lenne. |
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Ipswich. |
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Sandwich. |
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Chichester. |
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Exeter. |
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Southampton, in this case with the exception of the portion of the
said custom that certain men of Gascony received of the king's
grant. |
June 30.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Worcester. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of
Feckenham, which Margaret, queen of England, holds for her lifetime by
grant from the king, to be elected in place of William de Lenghes, whom
the king has caused to be amoved because he is unfit for the office. |
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Like orders to cause a verderer for the same forest to be elected in place
of Robert Pipard, amoved by the king for the same reason. |
July 1.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to the king's yeoman John
Lovel, whom the king is sending with twenty-four running dogs, six greyhounds, two berners, and a veutrer (veutrario) to take the king's fat venison
(pinguedinem) in the forests in the said county, his wages from Midsummer
last at the rate of 12d. daily whilst in his bailiwick, and 3d. daily for the
two berners, 2d. daily for the veutrer, and ½d. daily for each of the above
dogs and greyhounds. He is also to deliver to him salt for the said venison,
and carriage for the same to London. |
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To the keeper of the forest of Wolmere. Order to assist the above John
and William de Balliolo in taking the venison aforesaid whenever he shall
be warned by them, and to make an indenture of the number of harts and
hinds taken by them in the said forest. |
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To the sheriff of Northampton. Like order to pay the same wages to
the said William de Balliolo and Robert Squyer, huntsmen, whom the
king is sending with twenty-four haieretti dogs, eighteen greyhounds, two
berners, two veutrers, a berseletter, a bercelet, and a lardener to take
harts in Whitlewode forest, paying them the same as above for the aforesaid dogs, greyhounds, berners, and veutrers, and 2d. daily for the said
berseletter, ½d. daily for the said bertelet, and 2d. daily for the said
lardener, from Midsummer, and to find them salt, etc., as above. |
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To the keeper of the forest of Whitlewode. Order to aid the said
William and Robert in taking the aforesaid deer. |
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To the sheriff of Norfolk. Similar order to pay to William de Balliolo,
whom the king is sending with eighteen haieretti dogs, ten greyhounds,
one berner, two veutrers, to course in the park of Burgh, his wages from
Midsummer, salt, etc., as above. |
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To the keeper of the park of Burgh. Order to aid the said William in
taking the said deer. |
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To the sheriff of Southampton. Similar order to pay to the said William
de Balliolo and Robert Squyer, whom the king is sending with twenty-four
dogs, etc. word for word as in the order to the sheriff of Northampton,
except that the forests of Wyndesore and Pambere are substituted for the
forest of Whitlewod. |
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To the keeper of the forest of Wyndesore. Order to assist the said
William and Robert, as above. |
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The like to the keeper of the forest of Pambere. |
