Close Rolls, Edward II: August 1315

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1893.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: August 1315', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 2, 1313-1318, (London, 1893) pp. 240-245. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol2/pp240-245 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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August 1315

Aug. 1.
Langley.
To the chamberlain of Kaermerdyn. Order to expend up to 20 marks in repairing the houses, walls, towers and other buildings within the castle of Drosselan by the view of Thomas le Blound, the constable.
To William Martyn, justice of South Wales. Order to survey the king's castles in his bailiwick, and to cause the houses, walls, towers and other buildings in the same to be repaired out of the issues of the chamberlainship of South Wales by the chamberlain according to the directions of the justice.
Mandate in pursuance to the chamberlain.
Aug. 1.
Langley.
To the chamberlain of South Wales. Order to pay their usual fees to the constables of the king's castles and other the king's ministers.
Aug. 3.
Langley.
To the chamberlain of Kaermerdyn. Order to expend up to 40l. without delay in repairing the king's new castle of Emelyn by the view and testimony of the constable, William Martyn, justice of South Wales, having certified that the defects of the castle amount to 60l.
Aug. 5.
Langley.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Anthony Pessaign of Genoa 4,084l. 15s. 4d. out of the tenth of the clergy and from the twentieth and fifteenth and other issues of the realm, in payment of the like sum paid by him into the king's wardrobe in the sixth, seventh and eighth years of the king's reign, as appears in sixteen bills under the seal of Ingelard de Warle, then keeper of the wardrobe. By p.s.
Cancelled because otherwise below.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and woolfells in the port of Kyngeston-on-Hull. Order to pay to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa, or Robert de Sandale his attorney, 1,050l. from the issues of the custom, for money paid by him into the wardrobe in the eighth year of the reign for the expenses of the household, as contained in a bill under the seal of Ingelard de Warle, keeper of the wardrobe, the payment to begin after John de Sandale have been satisfied for the sums to be received by him from the custom. By p.s.
July 18.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Salop. Order to release from Shrewsbury prison Robert Tangwastel of Shrewsbury and John de Wylder of Leye, imprisoned for a trespass not amounting to (tangente) felony, for which they were indicted before William le Botiller of Wemme, Richard de Harley and William de Lodelawe, keepers of the peace in that county, upon their finding mainpernors to have them before Peter Corbet, John Hastang', William Trussel the elder and Ralph de Rolleston, whom the king has appointed to hear and determine such trespasses, provided that they be repleviable for such trespass.
Aug. 6.
Langley.
William Rose, in the king's prison of Gildeford castle for the death of Robert le Milleward, has letters to the sheriff of Surrey to bail him until the first assize.
Aug. 5.
Langley.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa 7,084l. 15s. 4d., in payment for 3,000l granted to him by the king, and for 4,084l. 15s. 4d. paid by him into the king's wardrobe in the sixth, seventh, and eighth years of the king's reign, out of the tenth of the clergy and the twentieth and fifteenth and other issues of the realm.
By p.s.
Aug. 20.
Northampton.
To Robert de Cliderhou, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Dionisia, late the wife of John de Wygeton, tenant in chief, the manor of Blakhale and the issues of the same, although it was found by inquisition taken by virtue of a writ of diem clausit extremum that John was seised in his demesne as of fee of the said manor, together with other lands in the escheator's bailiwick, that the manor is held in chief by homage and cornage of 8s. 6d. yearly, and that Walter de Kirkebride, son of the late Christina sister of the said John, Joan daughter of John de Raygate, another sister, whom Nicholas Bart married, Florence de Wygeton, the third sister, whom Ector Askelock married, Margaret, the fourth sister, whom Robert de Metheleye married, and Elizabeth, the fifth sister, are the nearest heirs of John and of full age, as it appears by another inquisition taken at the suit of Dionisia that she was enfeoffed of the manor jointly with her husband by Walter de Wygeton, her husband's father, except the wood and moor, and that she and her husband continued their joint-seisin from the time of the feoffment until the fifth year of the king's reign, to wit for twenty-six years; whereupon certain of the heirs and parceners alleged in chancery that Dionisia had made a quit-claim of the manor, so that she ought not to have seisin, but they did not produce any such writing on the day prefixed for them to do so; wherefore the king issues this order, he having taken Dionisia's fealty, as the above feoffment is enrolled in the rolls of the late king's chancery in the 13th year of his reign. By C.
Aug. 23.
Market Overton.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Agnes, late the wife of Henry de Godrevy, as nearest [friend] of his heiress, the lands that he held of the heir of William Basset, a minor in the king's custody, together with the issues of the same, as it was found by inquisition that he held the hamlet of Godrevy of the said heir by the service of 5s. to be rendered yearly at Tyhidy, and by doing suit from three weeks to three weeks, and that he held no lands in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, and that Thomasia his daughter is his nearest heir and is aged forty-two weeks. He is ordered not to intermeddle further with the lands that he held of other lords.
Aug. 22.
Rockingham.
Henry de Aspenwalle, in the king's prison of Stafford for the death of John de Aspenwalle at Ormeschirche in the county of Lancaster, has letters to the sheriff of Lancaster to bail him until the first assize.
Aug. 18.
Northampton.
To Roger le Brabanzon and his fellows, justices to hold pleas coram rege. Order to cause the inquisition of the country upon which Geoffrey son of Adam de Sibeton and Adam his brother, imprisoned in the marshalsea, have put themselves to be taken by jurors of the vicinity of St. Faith's, and to release them upon their finding mainprise, the said Geoffrey and Adam having surrendered themselves in the county of Norfolk for John son of Adam de Sibeton and Adam his brother, on account of a diversity of name of the said Geoffrey [who was also called] Jecke (fn. 1) according to the custom of Norfolk, Thomas de Herdersete, 'trumpour,' and John de Upestone, 'tabourer,' who were hanged by decision of the court, having stated in their appeal concerning a fire in Lenne that they the said Thomas and John feloniously caused the fire with Nicholas atte Wyleghes, Nicholas son of Nalle de Loudham, and John son of Richaud Benk of Hornyng' by procurement and agreement made between them and John son of Adam de Sybetone and Adam his brother, who met the said Thomas and John in the fields of the prior of St. Faith in going from Spikesworth to Norwich; the king wishing to shew favour to the said Geoffrey and Adam at the request of Emma wife of Robert de Monte Alto.
Membrane 27.
July 13.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a verderer for Salcey (de Salseto) forest to be elected in place of Adam de Forho, who is insufficiently qualified.
July 12.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage, 34 acres of land, an acre and a rood of meadow, 4½ acres of pasture, 3s. 6½d. of yearly rent in Sutton-atte-Hone, taken into the king's hands by the said escheator under the belief that the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England had entered the same contrary to the statute of mortmain, as it appears by inquisition that William de la Dale and Alice his sister held them of the prior by the service of 15s. and of doing suit from three weeks to three weeks at the prior's court of Sutton, and that the prior entered the same after the death of William and Alice as his escheat because they were bastards and died without heirs of the body, and it appears by another inquisition that William held a messuage of the prior in Sutton-atte-Hone by the service of 12½d. yearly, and that the prior entered it for the above reasons.
July 13.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to deliver to the king's yeoman Adam de Bray, whom the king is sending with 28 horses of the king's and two of his own and two horses of Master Richard de Stanes, farrier (marescallus) of the king's horses, to stay at Malmesbury until further orders, hay, oats, litter and other necessaries for the horses, and to pay him his wages, to wit 6d. daily for himself and his groom, and 6d. a day for Master Richard and his groom, and 4s. 8d. daily for 28 grooms attending the horses, to wit 2d. a day each, and 2d. a day each for a farrier (ferratore) and an ostler (hostelario).
July 14.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit William de Rale, son and heir of Thomas de Rale, of the demand for the goods of Stephen de London, citizen of Exeter, clerk, taken into the late king's hands by the sheriff of Devon upon his indictment before William Martyn and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer in that county, for robbery and furtive carrying away of the goods of Matilda de Tyeford at Tyeford and for the homicide of Amice her daughter, the late king having ordered the sheriff to restore to him his lands and goods as he had purged his innocence before the bishop of Exeter, to whom he was delivered according to the privilege of the clergy, by virtue whereof the said Thomas, then sheriff, restored his lands and goods.
July 9.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Nicholas son of Nicholas de Warewyk, who married Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Richard de Loges, tenant in chief of the late king, the lands of the said Elizabeth and the issues of the same, for which the king took his fealty on May 26, in the sixth year of his reign, the escheator having taken them into the king's hands upon her death although there was issue between them, as appears by the inquisition taken after her death.
July 12.
Westminster.
To the same. Order not to distrain Hugh de Lachyndon, brother and heir of William de Lachyndon, for homage for his brother's lands, for which the king took his fealty on March 30, in the sixth year of his reign, when he respited his homage until the quinzaine of Easter then next following, as the king has now taken his homage.
July 13.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to cause John son and heir of Walter Alewy, who held certain lands in chief as of the manor of Kyngesburyport by the service of 4d. yearly, to have seisin of his father's lands upon his finding security to answer for his relief, the king having, on June 30, in the sixth year of his reign, taken his fealty and ordered John Abel, then escheator this side Trent, to cause him to have seisin of his father's lands upon his finding security as above, the said escheator having been amoved from office before he had executed that order.
July 20.
Langley.
To Robert de Umframvill, earl of Angos. Order to deliver Richard son of William Basage of Carleton, in the king's prison at Notyngham for trespass of venison in the forest of Shirewode, in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall mainpern to have him before the justice of forest pleas when they next come to those parts.
July 18.
Langley.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to send a person in whom they can confide to the sheriff of Kent in order that he may, together with the sheriff, receive a fine for the king's use from John de Sudbury, imprisoned in Canterbury castle for a re-disseisin made by him upon John de Swyneford of nine messuages, 240 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, and 60s. of rent in Hemmyngford Trumbevill, in the county of Huntingdon, whereof he was convicted before the sheriff and coroners, and that he may order his release. By the chancellor.
Aug. 1.
Langley.
To the taxors and collectors of the fifteenth in the county of Cornwall. Order to supersede until further orders the levy of the fifteenth upon the goods of the miners working the king's mine in that county, and to release any distraint that he may have levied in this behalf.
The like to the sheriff of Cornwall.
Aug. 2.
Langley.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to make provision of other necessary victuals to the amount of victuals that the king lately ordered him to provide and send to Berwick-on-Tweed for the maintenance of the men in garrison there, as the king understands that he is unable to find victuals to the amount ordered in his bailiwick.
Aug. 6.
Langley.
To the justices of the Bench. Order to supersede until the next parliament the plea wherein Dionisia, late the wife of Alexander Cheverel, seeks by writ of dower her dower of her husband's free tenement against Richard Lovel, which tenement Alexander had by the king's grant, and which Richard holds of the king's gift, as it was not the king's intention that Alexander should have any estate therein except for life. By p.s. [3416.]
To John de Foxle and his fellows, justices of assize in the county of Somerset. Order to supersede until the next parliament the taking of an assize of mort d'ancestor instituted by the heirs of the abovesaid Alexander against the said Richard concerning tenements in that county that Alexander had of the king's gift, etc., as above. By p.s. [3416.]
July 10.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause proclamation to be made that taverners and vintners selling wine by retail in that county in cities, boroughs, market towns and other places within a distance of five leagues (leucas) of the ports where wine is imported shall sell a gallon (lagenam) of wine for 3d., and in other places beyond that distance for 3½d. and in places beyond thirty leagues for 4d. By K.
The like to the sheriffs of the following counties:
Norfolk.
Suffolk.
Lincoln.
Somerset.
Dorset.
Gloucester.
Hereford.
Aug. 6.
Langley.
The like to William Martyn, justice of West Wales. By K. and C.
Membrane 26.
Aug. 8.
Langley.
Nicholas de Baukewell, in the king's gaol at Guldeford for the death of William de Soham, has letters to the sheriff of Surrey to bail him until the first assize.
Aug. 11.
Langley.
To Master John Waleweyn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands in Bisshampton and Kyngton that Paulinus de Kerdif, tenant in chief, and Eleanor his wife held jointly of the grant of William de Kaerdif, who enfeoffed them in free marriage, as it appears by inquisition that she continued her joint-seisin thereof until her husband's death, and that the lands are held of Philip ap Howel by knight service.
To the same. Order to assign dower to the said Eleanor upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Aug. 15.
Newport Pagnell.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence 2,884l. 15s. 4d. out of the tenth of the clergy and the fifteenth and twentieth, in part payment of 7,084l. 15s. 4d. that the king ordered them to pay to Anthony Pessaigne of Genoa, as he has given the king to understand that he borrowed that sum of the said merchants and has prayed the king to repay them in his name. By K.
Aug. 24.
Somerton.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a verderer for Salcey (de Salceto) forest to be elected in place of Philip de Queneton, deceased.
Aug. 28.
Lincoln.
To Henry de Baiocis and Robert de Gunwardeby, taxors and collectors of the twentieth and fifteenth in the parts of Kesteven in the county of Lincoln. Order to pay all money collected and to be collected by them into the king's wardrobe for the expenses of the king's household or other the king's affairs or debts, according to the directions of Walter de Norwyco, the treasurer.
The like to the following:
Richard de Buselingthorpe and Peter de Lekebourn, taxors and collectors in the parts of Lyndeseye in the same county.
Roger de Cubbeldyk and Thomas de Novo Mercato, taxors and collectors in the parts of Holand, in the same county.
Aug. 28.
Lincoln.
To Thomas de Cheddeworth, chamberlain of Karnarvan. Order to proceed to the castle of Beaumaris and to survey the defaults of the same, and to provide it with suitable stores, armour, etc., in the presence of John de Sapy, to whom the king has committed the custody of the castle, the chamberlain having delayed executing the king's previous order to this effect. By p.s.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert de Boulton, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
Aug. 30.
Lincoln.
To the constable of Tikhill castle. Order not to distrain Robert de Hoton for homage for the lands held of the king as of the honour of Tikhill, the king having granted him respite until the next parliament.

Footnotes

  • 1. 'Pro quadam diversitate nominis ejusdem Galfridi [qui ?] et Jecke secundum morem parcium comitatus Norffolcie usitata.'