Close Rolls, Edward II: July 1318

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1895.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: July 1318', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 1-6. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp1-6 [accessed 25 March 2024]

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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS. 12 EDWARD II.

July 1318

Membrane 31.
July 9.
Northampton.
To Simon de Dryby, keeper of the manors of Twancastre and Grymmesby, co. Lincoln. Order to pay to Margery, late the wife of Duncan de Frendraght, 100s. out of the issues of the above manors, in addition to the fixed sum (certum) rendered by him yearly to the king, in part payment of 20 marks yearly granted to her by the king during pleasure in aid of her maintenance. By K.
The like to the aforesaid Simon, late keeper of the manors of Briggestowe and Clyve, co. Northampton, to pay her 100s. yearly out of the issues of the said manors in his hands. By K.
July 10.
Northampton.
To Andrew de Harcla. Order not to intermeddle with the custody of the county of Cumberland, nor to procure the delivery to him of the castle of Carlisle, although the king lately committed to him the custody of the castle and county, and to come without delay to the king to inform him, in the presence of John de Castre, to whom the king had previously committed the custody, concerning certain matters touching the premises. By K.
July 10.
Northampton.
To John de Castre. Order to continue the keeping of the county and castle aforesaid as heretofore, notwithstanding the king's commission thereof to Andrew de Hartcla, and to depute one or more of his men, a clerk or another in whom he can confide, to have the custody thereof in his name, and to come afterwards to the king without delay to inform him concerning certain matters touching the premises. By K.
July 11.
Northampton.
To Roger de Mortuo Mari of Chirk, justice of Wales. Order to view the king's letters in Edmund Hakelut's possession, committing to him the custody of the castle of Dynevor and certain of the king's lands there under a certain form, and to deliver the custody thereof to him, as the castle and lands have now come to the king's hands for certain causes, the king having afterwards committed the custody thereof to Hugh le Despenser, the younger, under another form.
By K. on the information of Master John Walewayn, treasurer.
July 17.
Northampton.
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Wotton, who is incapacitated by age and infirmity.
July 12.
Northampton.
To J. bishop of Winchester, collector of the tenth of the clergy granted to the king by Pope John XXII. Order to pay, out of the money of the second payment of the tenth in the bishopric of Durham, to the king's clerk Roger de Barton, receiver of the king's victuals in the parts of Carlisle, 100l. for the maintenance of the men-at-arms garrisoning that city and the castle of the same, ordering his sub-collectors in the bishopric aforesaid to receive from Roger his letters of acquittance, whereby the king will cause allowance to be made to him in his account. He is also ordered to pay to Roger all the money from the said tenth in the bishopric of Carlisle for the munition of the castle and town. By K.
July 18.
Northampton.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to discharge Walter Wogan of 150l. in the debts due from him to the exchequer, the king having, in response to his petition, pardoned him this sum, which is due from him by divers particulars, in consideration of his service to the king in Ireland against the Scotch rebels and at divers time against the Irish in the company of Roger de Mortuo Mari, lately supplying the king's place in Ireland, and in the company of divers justiciaries there, and in consideration of the loss of horses, arms, and armour sustained by him in the war of the Irishmen of Leynester and Gleynfeyl; taking from him a sufficient acquittance for what pertains to him for the services and losses aforesaid, and making account with him of what is due from him to the exchequer. By K.
July 15.
Northampton.
To Robert de Sapy, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Isabella, late the wife of John de Holaym, of Penysthorp, tenant in chief, in the presence of Ralph de Holaym, son and heir of the said John, if he choose to attend, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
July. 18.
Northampton.
To Master Richard de Clare, escheator this side Trent. Order to supersede entirely the execution of the king's order to resume into his hands the manor of Kenyngton near Lamhethe, lately given by the king to Anthony Pessaign of Genoa, which order was issued as if the gift had been made contrary to the ordinances lately made and approved by the king, as it now appears by the letters patent made to Anthony that the king granted the manor to him and his heirs for ever, in exchange for his houses in London, formerly owned by William Servat, which Anthony gave to the king by his charter. By p.s. [4802.]
July 12.
Northampton.
To J. bishop of Lincoln. Order to pay to Robert de Barton, keeper of the king's victuals in the parts of Carlisle, 100l. without delay, from the money collected by the bishop in the city and diocese of Lincoln of the tenth for six years imposed upon the clergy by Pope Clement V. in the council of Vienne, and lent to the king by Pope John XXII., the king having assigned this sum to Robert for the munition of the town and castle of Carlisle, receiving from Robert the king's letters patent of obligation and Robert's letters patent of receipt. By K.
To L. bishop of Durham. Like order to pay 100l. of the money aforesaid collected by him to the said Robert, for the above purpose. By K.
To the prior of St. Katherine's without Lincoln, sub-collector in the diocese of Lincoln of the tenth granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury for the expedition of the Scotch war. Order to pay to the aforesaid Robert, for the above purpose, 100l. out of the arrears of the said tenth, receiving from him the king's letters patent of acquittance. By K.
July 20.
Northampton.
To Anthony de Lacy, constable of Carlisle Castle, and keeper of the town of Carlisle, and to Robert de Barton, keeper of the king's victuals in those parts. Order to admit Walter de Bosco and certain others, whose names are contained in a schedule enclosed herein, to stay in garrison there at the king's wages, and to cause their wages according to their estate to be paid to them as heretofore, they being about to set out thither by the king's orders, having been previously in garrison there at the king's wages.
By K.
These are the names of those thus sent:
Philip de Bosco, soldiers-at-arms.
Richard le Brett,
Richard de Melburn,
Richard de Lynthwayt,
Richard Fithyan.
Laurence de Brakanhil, hobelers.
William de Skelton,
Hugh de Routhecleve,
William de Buckestanes,
Stephen Bethayt,
Robert de Leynster.
John de Dunolm[ia], cross-bowman.
July 21.
Northampton.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause proclamation to be made in Boston fair, and in the cities, boroughs, market-towns, and elsewhere in his bailiwick, that merchants wishing to go to the ensuing fair at Boston with their goods may do so safely, and may sell their goods therein as in times past, notwithstanding any previous proclamations or prohibitions, provided that they shall not after this fair expose for sale, buy, or sell any goods in the fair before the day upon which it should begin, nor stay there with their goods after the time when it should close, under the pains contained in the king's late proclamation forbidding the holding of fairs upon days earlier than they ought to be held or after the time when they ought to close, as the king understands that native and alien merchants withdraw themselves and their goods from the present fair because they are ignorant of the time when it ought to commence and end, on account of the king's proclamation forbidding merchants to expose goods for sale or to buy or sell in fairs before or after the times when the fair ought to commence and end; the king wishing to avoid the damage that may arise to himself by reason of the absence of the merchants from the said fair, as it will be necessary to provide divers goods at the fair for his use, and to the magnates and others of the northern parts who have been accustomed to make their provisions in the said fair.
By K. at the instance of the earl of Richmond.
July 23.
Woodstock.
To Master Richard de Clare, escheator this side Trent. Although the king lately committed to Walter le Venour the manor of Kyrketon with hamlets and appurtenances, co. Lincoln, and to Gilbert de Holm the castle and manor of Okham with members and appurtenances, co. Rutland, and the manor of Whytewell, co. Northampton, and to Nicholas de Fairford the castle and manor of Eye, the manor of Hanlegh, co. Suffolk, and the manor of Neuport, co. Essex, and to Peter de Lymesy the manor of Bradenach, and the chace of Dertemor with the manor of Lydeford and of Wyke, Suth Tenge, in the same (sic) county, and the manors of Harewell, co. Berks, Fordyngton and Whitewell, co. Dorset, the manor and town of Henle, co. Oxford, and certain lands in Old Shorham, all of which the king lately assigned to Margaret, countess of Cornwall, his niece, under a certain form, in aid of her maintenance, and which the king caused to be resumed into his hands by virtue of the ordinances, together with the goods and chattels in the said castles, manors, towns, and lands, and which he committed to the aforesaid persons under a certain form, so that they should answer to the king for the issues thereof and for a reasonable price for the goods and chattels therein; the king now orders the escheator to cause all the goods and chattels found in the said castles, manors, towns, and lands when they were resumed into the king's hands to be delivered to Hugh Daudele, the younger, or to his attorney in this behalf, by indenture and at a certain price to be fixed in due form, as Hugh, who has married the aforesaid Margaret, has found surety to answer at the exchequer for the price of the goods and chattels. By p.s. [4813.]
The like to Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent.
Aug. 1.
Northampton.
To Master John de Everdon, dean of the free chapel of Wolvernehampton. Intimation that it was not, and is not, the king's intention that the dean should, by pretext of any mandate of the king's to him in favour of Gregory de Canvill concerning the prebend of Wybaston in that chapel, inflict any wrong or prejudice upon Master Geoffrey de Blaston, incumbent, as it is said, of the said prebend, but that the king would rather that justice should be done to them herein in those things that pertain to the dean and to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, saving the immunity of the chapel.
July 10.
Northampton.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to John de Neivill of Stoke, late sheriff of Lincoln, in his account, 108l. 10s. 0d. (sic), the value of 80 quarters of wheat, price 64l., 70 quarters of malt, price 31l., 20 quarters of beans and pease, price 9l., and 10 quarters of beans and pease, price 4l., which he delivered, when sheriff of Lincoln, at Boston to Hugh Fraunceys, master of the ship called 'Le Blithe' of Gernethorp, to take to Berwick-on-Tweed for munition thereof, as appears by an indenture made between him and Hugh in the presence of lawful men of the parts of Boston, in execution of the king's order to provide and send to Berwick 80 quarters of wheat, 70 quarters of malt, and 30 quarters of beans and pease, as it was found, by an inquisition concerning this matter taken at John's petition, that, on Monday after the Nativity of St. Mary, in the ninth year of the king's reign, the said sheriff delivered to Hugh, master of the aforesaid ship, 80 quarters of wheat, price 6s. (sic) a quarter, 70 quarters of malt, price 9s. a quarter, 20 quarters of beans and pease, price 9s. a quarter, and 10 quarters of beans and pease, price 7s. a quarter, and that the ship on her voyage on the high sea near Scardeburgh was robbed, together with two other ships laden with victuals of merchants at Boston voyaging to Berwick, by common robbers of three ships of Flanders and Zeland (Seland) of the said corn and of all other goods found in her, and that the mariners in 'La Blithe' and in one of the other ships were slain without blame of the said John, and that the third ship so loaded there passed with great peril (maxima pena) to the port of Whelpeshaven near Scardeburgh and Fyveleye on Wednesday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in the aforesaid year, and that the ship that so escaped was of Newcastle-on-Tyne. They are also ordered to allow John for the freightage and carriage of the corn, receiving from him the aforesaid indenture and the king's writ of precept.
Membrane 30.
July 20.
Northampton.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be respited until the next parliament the demands made upon the dean and canons of the king's free chapel of St. Martin-le-Grand, London, by the sheriffs of London and of Essex in the rents and possessions annexed to the chapel for the current tenth and for other tenths, for which the sheriffs are distraining them, the dean and canons having shown the king that they and their predecessors from time out of mind have been wont to be quit of all impositions, taxes, and contributions within this realm. The treasurer and barons are ordered to certify the king and his council in the said parliament whether or not the dean and canons and their progenitors have been wont to pay such tenths of their rents and possessions. By K.
To the chamberlains. Order to receive by indenture from Henry de Cantuar[ia], the king's clerk, the instruments and memoranda touching the state of the account of the duchy of Aquitaine that he shall deliver to them, to be kept in the treasury.
To the same. Order to intend the transcription of the rolls, processes, and memoranda touching the state of the duchy of Aquitaine, as ordained by the king's council, with all diligence until the end of the matter, which the king wishes to accelerate.
July 24.
Woodstock.
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to the king's yeomen John de Jakesle, Richard de Lodelowe, and John du Chastel, who are staying in York castle for the custody and repair of the king's tents, their wages from the time of the sheriff's appointment, and to continue to pay the same until further orders, to wit 6d. a day to John de Jakesle, 4d. a day to Richard, and 5d. a day to John du Chastel.
By K. on the information of Roger de Northburgh.
July 23.
Woodstock.
To W. archbishop of Cashel (Cassalen'), chancellor of Ireland, and to Master Walter de Islep, treasurer there. Order to amove Nicholas de Balsecote, clerk, immediately from all offices in those parts touching the king, and to cause him to be attached by his body, so that they have him before the king on the morrow of the Nativity of St. Mary, to answer to the king for his contempt, and to do and receive what shall be then ordained by the king and his council, the king having lately revoked the collation that Nicholas asserted that he had from Roger de Mortuo Mari, lately supplying the king's place in Ireland, of the chancery and prebend of Fynglas in St. Patrick's church, Dublin, and having ordered him to amove himself wholly from the possession of the said chancery and prebend and to permit the king's clerk Master James de Ardyngellis, to whom the king had previously given the chancery and prebend, to have them according to the king's grant, or to appear personally before the king at a day now past, as Nicholas has neither amoved himself nor appeared on the said day. They are ordered to ordain so that the fruits of the chancery and prebend aforesaid be kept safely in certain places, so that neither Nicholas nor any of his men may intermeddle therewith or lay hands upon them, until further orders. By p.s. [4812.]
Like writ was sealed returnable on the morrow of Michaelmas next.
July 6.
Northampton.
To J. bishop of Winchester, principal collector of the tenth imposed upon the clergy of England and granted to the king. Order to cause to be paid to the king's yeoman John de Rithre, constable of the castle of Skipton-in-Cravene, 100l. of the money of the first term of payment of the tenth in the diocese of York by the hands of the abbot of St. Mary's York, sub-collector of the tenth in that diocese, notwithstanding any assignment previously made by the king, receiving from him bills [of the wardrobe] to that amount and his letters of acquittance, in part payment of 328l. 3s. 4d. due to him from the king for the custody of the castle aforesaid, as appears by bills of the wardrobe under the seal of Roger de Northburgh, keeper of the wardrobe, in John's possession. By p.s.
July 28.
Northampton.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to expend up to 40l. in repairing the castle of Corf, by the view and testimony of any one whom Roger Damory, to whom the king has committed the custody of the castle, shall depute in his place. By K. on the information of Master Thomas de Cherleton.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause proclamation to be made that a market shall be held at the manor of St. Briavels on Tuesday weekly, and a fair of three days on the eve, day, and morrow of the Nativity of St. Mary. By K.
July 30.
Northampton.
To Master Richard de Clare, escheator this side Trent. Order to supersede the execution of the king's late order to resume into his hands the manor of Cornhull, co. Middlesex, and certain lands in Harwe and Little Greneford, in the same county, and the advowson of the church of Little Greneford, which the king lately granted by his charter to Henry de Bello Monte, as the order was issued as if the gift had been made contrary to the ordinances, whereas the premises were granted to the king by Walter, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, for the use of the said Henry, so that they ought not to remain in the king's hands. By K.
July 30.
Northampton.
Ralph Reynald of Paston, in the king's prison at Norwich for the death of Warin son of Geoffrey Fraunk of Edithorp, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him until the first assize.