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Oct. 22.
York. |
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to pay to John de Ispania, the
elder, to whom the king, on 20 December in the 10th year of his reign,
committed for life the custody of the gate of Carlisle castle, receiving
therefor 4d. daily from the sheriff of the county, the arrears of his wages
from the time of the sheriff's appointment, and to continue to pay the
same. |
Oct. 10.
York. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of William de Colewych, who is incapacitated by
infirmity. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to provide amongst
them from what lands of the king and in what places satisfaction may be
made to the countess of Gloucester for the value of her dower of the lands
lately granted by the king to David de Strabolgy, earl of Athole (Dathel'),
and to cause them to be assigned to her, so that the said earl may hold the
lands thus granted to him in full. By p.s. [5100.] |
Oct. 12.
York. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John de Fletham, deceased. |
Oct. 10.
York. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that
county to be elected in place of Hamo de Vileston, who is incapacitated by
infirmity. |
Oct. 8.
York. |
John son of Alexander de Peyntour, imprisoned in Wyndesore castle for
trespass of venison in Wyndesore forest, has letters to Ralph de Monte
Hermerii, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, to bail him until the first
assize. By p.s. |
Oct. 12.
York. |
To John de Crumbwell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him
who supplies his place. Order to deliver William de Bevercote, prebendary
of Rampton in St. Mary's church, Suwell, imprisoned at Notyngham for a
trespass in the forest of Shirewode, to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the justices of Forest pleas in co. Nottingham to
stand to right concerning the trespass. |
Oct. 13.
York. |
John Tronkard Bythario, in the king's prison at Exeter for the death
of John Stibba, slew the said John in self defence. He has letters to bail
him until the first assize. |
Oct. 8.
York. |
To Oliver de Burd[egala], constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to deliver
to the king's chaplains celebrating in the chapel of the castle bread, wine,
oil, and other small necessaries for divine service from Michaelmas last
until next Michaelmas. |
Oct. 16.
York. |
To Bartholomew de Badelesmere, constable of Bristol castle. Order to
pay to John de Kemesyng', to whom the late king granted the custody of
the gate of Lafford in Bristol for life, receiving therefor 2d. a day for his
maintenance from the constable of Bristol, any arrears of his wages for the
time of Bartholomew's office. |
Oct. 7.
York. |
To the mayor, bailiffs, and whole community of the town of Southampton.
Order not to disquiet the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence
by reason of the disputes between the mayor, bailiffs, and community and
certain merchants [and] mariners of Venice coming to that town in galleys,
and not to arrest their goods, chattels, or wares, but to treat them favourably in all things that pertain to the mayor, bailiffs, and community, so
long as they pay the due customs and other things that they ought to do,
as the king has taken the merchants of the said society and their goods
under his special protection. |
Oct. 20.
York. |
To Master Richard de Clare, escheator beyond Trent. Order to make
partition into two parts of the lands whereof William de Nevill, tenant in
chief, was seised in his demesne as of fee, taken into the king's hands by
reason of his death, and to cause John de Hadersham and Nicholaa,
daughter and heiress of the said William, to have seisin of her purparty as
einescy of the inheritance, as she has proved her age before the escheator
and the king has taken her husband's homage for her purparty. By p.s. |
Oct. 12.
York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Roger
Damory, late keeper of the castle and honour of Knaresburgh, in his ferm
of the castle and honour, the sum of 55l. 4s. 11d., for which he has
besought the king for allowance, as the king learns by inquisition taken by
John Mauleverer, Robert de Plumpton, and Richard de Aldeburgh that
Roger expended the above sum when the castle was occupied by John de
Lilleburn and his accomplices in making new engines and hoardings
(hurdeicias) and repairing old ones for besieging the said John and his
accomplices, and for carriage thereof from divers places to the siege, and in
the wages and expenses of carpenters, masons, and other workmen repairing
the said engines and hoardings. |
Oct. 20.
York. |
To Henry de Shirokes, chamberlain of Caernarvan. Order to pay to the
king's serjeant Master Henry de Ellerton, master of the king's works at
Caernarvan, the arrears of his wages from the time of the chamberlain's
appointment, and to continue to pay the same as heretofore. |
Oct. 25.
York. |
To John de Crumbwell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him
who supplies his place. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of
Carlisle a tithe of the venison taken in the forest of Inglewode for this year,
as they ought to have it. |
Oct. 23.
York. |
To Ralph de Monte Hermerii, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order
to deliver Edward Cubbel, detained in the king's prison at Wyndesore for
trespass of venison in Wyndesore forest, to twelve mainpernors who shall
undertake to have him before the justices of Forest pleas in co. Berks when
they come thither to stand to right concerning the said trespass. |
Oct. 20.
York. |
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Roger Gargevill, who is insufficiently qualified. |
Oct. 8.
York. |
To the chamberlain of Caernarvan. Order to pay to John le Scot, a
prisoner in Cruk castle, the arrears of his wages for the time that he has
been in the castle, and to continue to pay the same during his stay there,
and also to pay his wages in coming to the king at York. |
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Oct. 20.
York. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of William Loveday, who is insufficiently qualified. |
Oct. 22.
York. |
To the bailiffs of the Tolbooth of the town of Lenne. Order to permit
John Chamberleyn of Ely to take 100 barrels of ale from that port to
foreign parts, upon his finding security not to take them to the Scotch
rebels, the king having granted him permission to export so many barrels.
By C. |
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The like to Nicholas de Fakenham of Lenn for 100 barrels. |
Oct. 24.
York. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin. Order
to pay to Philip de Slane, of the order of Friars Preachers, who is sworn
of the king's council of Ireland, 5 marks yearly for life, the king having
granted that he shall receive that sum yearly at the exchequer of Dublin in
consideration of his good service. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to John
de Castre in his account at the exchequer for the time when he was keeper
of the castle of Carlisle the following sums, which he expended when
keeper for the safe-guarding (salvacione) of the castle in repairing the
great tower, turrets, engines, bridges and peel of the castle, as appears by
an inquisition taken by Robert de Barton and Adam de Skelton: the wages
of divers men covering a part of the new tower in the inner bailey of the
castle with the king's lead, 6s. 8d.; in repairing divers holes of the queen's
chamber in the same bailey, and in repairing the gutters of the same chamber,
22s.; in making anew a certain small engine in the said bailey, 20s.; in
repairing another engine in the same bailey, 13s. 4d.; in repairing a great
bretasche near the great tower in the same bailey, 6s. 8d.; in repairing the
roof (cooperture) of the great hall in the outer bailey, and in roofing the
great kitchen near the same hall, 36s.; in laying (subposicione) of the joists
in a chamber near the postern of the castle, 5s.; in making a wooden stair
(gradus) to ascend the great wall in the outer bailey, 4s.; in mending the
great paling on one side of the small garden without the outer bailey, 20s.;
in repairing a peel between the gardens of the castle and the town, 20s.; in
repairing the bridges and barriers of the gates of the castle, 13s. 4d.; in
two cables (cablis) for two great engines, and in three cords called 'bridels'
for the same engines and for another engine, and in six cords for the slings
(fundis) of these engines made anew, 47s.; in the stipends of divers men
working timber for a chapel in the outer bailey of the castle, and for
carriage of the same, 22s. 4d. |
Oct. 20.
York. |
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Robert de Syndlesham, whom the king has caused to be
amoved from office because he is incapacitated by age.
By the testimony of John de Foxle. |
Oct. 24.
York. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of William Loveday, who is insufficiently qualified.
By the testimony of John de Canteb[rigge]. |
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To Ralph de Crophull, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower
to be assigned to Margery, late the wife of John de Ros of Ryngburgh,
tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's
licence. |
Oct. 27.
York. |
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage of
Laurence Lyggeard's in Raveneserod, and to restore the issues thereof, as it
appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that one Hugh le Flekmaker,
deceased, occupied a plot of land on the king's soil of Ravenesrod, in what
manner or by what warrant being unknown, upon which he built a messuage, which the said Laurence now holds, and that it was never arrented
to the king, for which reason the escheator took it into the king's hands:
which reason the king deems insufficient. |
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To Ralph de Monte Hermerii, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to
him who supplies his place in the forest of Kyngeswode. Order to cause
Queen Isabella to have 20 oaks fit for timber from that forest for the repair
of her mills of Stok Neylaund. By K. |
Oct. 28.
York. |
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Ralph de Chastiloun, who cannot attend to the duties of
the office, as he is continually occupied in the office of verderer in the forest
of Wuchewode. |
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To the taxors and collectors of the eighteenth in co. Lancaster. Order
to supersede until further orders the taxation and levying of the eighteenth
in that county, as the men of those parts have suffered so much from the
incursions of the Scotch rebels that they are unable to pay the eighteenth
from their goods. By C.
[Parl. Writs.] |
