Close Rolls, Edward II: October 1320 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward II: October 1320', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 3, 1318-1323, (London, 1895) pp. 263-273. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol3/pp263-273 [accessed 20 April 2024]

October 1320



Oct. 1. Canford.	To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to deliver to the abbot of Fécamp or his attorney the corn and other goods and chattels of the abbot and his men, to the value of 100l., arrested by the sheriff in execution of the king's order to arrest all their goods and to detain the same until further order, which order was issued because the abbot had failed to do justice to Stephen Alayn, citizen and merchants of London, for his goods taken away from the abbot's cell of St. Valery by men of the abbot's power, as the abbot's attorney has asserted in chancery that the abbot's goods in England ought not to be arrested for the aforesaid reason, and the king has given a day to the abbot and Stephen in chancery in this matter, to wit Wednesday before St. Denis, and the abbot has found mainpernors to answer to the king and to Stephen for the above 100l. if the court shall consider that the abbot ought to be charged therewith, to wit Stephen Poer, John de Torryng', of co. Sussex, Thomas de Pernecote, of co. Surrey, William de Norwyk, of co. Worcester, Henry de Lopton, of co. Warwick, and Ralph de Condovre, of co. Southampton.
Oct. 6. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Robert Burdeyn and Hugh de Garton, late sheriffs of London, in their account 15l. 13s. 4d. paid by them to Geoffrey de Bolstrode, keeper of the manor of Fordington, co. Dorset, in execution of the king's order of 22 May, in the 7th year of his reign, to the sheriffs of London to pay all the ferm of Queenhithe for the time that it had been in their custody to the said Geoffrey for certain matters that the king had ordered him to do.
Oct. 7. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to expend up to 10l. in repairing the king's gaol of the town of Warrewyk and the king's hall there, which are broken down and ruinous, by the view and testimony of men of those parts. By C.
	Margery, late the wife of Ralph Bek of Clifton, imprisoned at Notingham for the death of the said Ralph and of Isolda daughter of John le Rede, has letters to the sheriff of Nottingham to bail her until the first assize.
	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Ralph de Craystok, son and heir of Robert son of Ralph, tenant in chief, the knights' fees and advowsons of his inheritance that were taken into the king's hands after the death of Ralph son of William, grandfather of the said Ralph, which are in the king's hands by the death of the said Robert, and which the king retained in his hands when he lately rendered to the said Ralph the lands of his inheritance in the king's hands by reason of his minority, as Ralph has proved his age before the escheator. The king has respited his homage until All Saints. By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.
	The like to Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator beyond Trent.
Oct. 7. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to expend 5 marks in covering the houses within Northampton castle and in the repair of other buildings of the castle. By C.
	To Ralph de Camoys, 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 the celebration of divine service from Michaelmas last until Michaelmas next.
Oct 10. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Robert le Belleyetere of Warrewyk, whom the king has caused to be amoved from office for insufficient qualification.
Oct. 8. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, 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, and 3s. 6½d. of rent in Sutton atte Hone and with a messuage in the same town, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, that William de Dale and Alice his sister held the aforesaid messuage, land, and rent of the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England by the service of 15s. and of doing suit at the prior's court of Sutton from three weeks to three weeks, and that the prior entered the same as escheat after the death of William and Alice because they were bastards and both of them died without an heir of their body, and as it appears by another inquisition taken by the said John that the said William held a messuage in the same town of the prior by the service of 12½d. yearly for all service, and that William was a bastard, and that the prior entered the priory for the above reason, the said Richard having taken the premises into the king's hands on the ground that the prior had entered them contrary to the statute of mortmain.
	To the sheriff of Berks. Order to arrest John de la River, John de Walyngford, Thomas de Burle, William de Tingewyk, Adam late the servant of Peter de Baa, Richard the Tailor (Cissor) of Warin de Insula, knight, John de Merlawe, Roger Sharp, Richard Barat, William Barat of Budene, Thomas Kene, Warin de Insula, knight, William Sharp, Roger de Merlawe, John Ymme, Roger Ymme, Roger atte Herne, Peter de Baa, Robert de Brylleye, and to have their bodies before the king on the morrow of All Souls next to stand to right concerning the beating and slaying of Robert de Hildesle at Pesmere, notwithstanding the king's late order to arrest them and to send them to him day by day as arrested.
	By K. on the information of the earl of Pembroke and Master Robert de Baldok.
	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and 10 acres of land in Bokelond, co. Berks, as the king learns by inquisition that John West acquired them from Richard son and heir of John de Pederton, and that they are held of John de Lenham by fealty and the service of 2d. and suit of court from three weeks to three weeks at the manor of Bokelond, the escheator having taken them into the king's hands by reason of the aforesaid alienation as if they were held of the king in chief.
Oct. 10. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of Southampton. Order to restore to Giles atte Bolle of Calais and Hugh Colne of the same by the king's special grace the two ships of theirs arrested by the bailiffs at the suit of certain merchants of London, notwithstanding the king's late order to cause the ships to be appraised and to be delivered at the appraisement to the said merchants or to Stephen le Fullere, their attorney in this behalf. The bailiffs are ordered to come to the king speedily to inform him of the cause of the arrest abovesaid. By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Thomas Lovayn, son and heir of Matthew de Lovayn, of the scutage for a knight's fee for the late king's armies of Wales of the 5th and 10th years of his reign, as Matthew had his service therefor in the said armies, as appears by the late king's rolls of the marshalsea.
Oct. 13. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Savernak, co. Wilts, to be elected in place of William de Caperynge, deceased.
	To the same. Like order for the election of a verderer in place of Adam Barbast, who is incapacitated by blindness.
Oct. 10. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive from the abbot of St. Mary's York, collector in the archdeaconry of Cliveland of the tenth granted to the king by the clergy of the province of York in the 12th year of his reign, the tenth from ecclesiastical benefices and temporalities annexed to spiritualities in the said archdeaconry that have been wasted by the Scotch rebels according to the new taxation thereof made by the archbishop of York by the king's order, the king having ordered the abbot to levy the tenth thereof according to such taxation.
	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Ralph de Cressy, who is insufficient for the office because he does not keep the things pertaining to his office, but permits the bodies of slain (infectorum) to lie without being viewed until he have a great sum of money from the neighbouring townships for exercising his office.
Oct. 13. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeney, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John Burdet, son and heir of William Burdet of Louesby, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage.
	Membrane 18.
Oct. 16. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Assheby Magna, co. Leicester, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition that James Daudele and Margaret his wife held the manor of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, by the service of homage and scutage, and that they had the manor of the feoffment of Anthony, late bishop of Durham, and that William de Assheby sometime held the manor of the earl of Nothingham and that in the time of Henry III. William committed felony, for which reason the manor came to the said king's hands as his escheat, and that he enfeoffed Edmund his son of the said manor, and that Edmund enfeoffed William Bagot thereof in fee, to have and to hold of Edmund and his heirs, and that William Bagot afterwards enfeoffed the bishop of the aforesaid manor, and it appears by the charter of Henry III., which the king has inspected, that the said king confirmed Edmund's charter to the aforesaid William; the escheator having taken the manor into the king's hands because he believed that it was held of the king in chief and that James and Margaret had entered it without the king's licence.
Oct. 13. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of Southampton. Order to restore to Ingelram de Bone and John le Gyand, merchants of the power of the king of France, 10 tuns and a pipe of woad (weyde) arrested by them in execution of the king's order to arrest goods of the merchants of the power of the king of France at the suit of certain merchants of London. The king makes this order at the request of Edmund de Wodestok, his brother. By K.
Oct. 15. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Robert de Kendale of 20l. of the 120l. whereby he made fine with the king for having release from the king for a rent of 12l., which he was wont to render yearly to the exchequer for his manor of Shalden, co. Southampton, as the king has pardoned him such sum in consideration of his good service. By p.s. [5473.]
	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Merlawe, whom the king has amoved from office as he is incapacitated by decrepitude and infirmity.
Oct. 17. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that John de Coggeshale held of other lords than the king, and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that he held nothing in chief of the king at his death except a tenement in Little Bemflete, co. Essex, as of the honour of Reylegh, in the king's hands, by the service of a knight's fee, so that the custody of his other lands ought not to pertain to the king.
Oct. 16. Westminster.	To the treasurer, barons, and chamberlains of the exchequer. Order to allow to Robert de Kendale, in the arrears of his yearly fee for the custody of the castle of Dover, 100l. due from him to the exchequer of the 120l. whereby he made fine for having a release of a yearly rent of 12l. that he was wont to render to the exchequer for the manor of Shalden, co. Southampton. By p.s.
	To John de Crumwell, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to deliver John son of William son of Adam de Graystok, imprisoned in Carlisle castle for trespass of venison in the forest of Ingelwode, in bail to twelve mainpernors of the county of Cumberland who shall undertake to have him before the justices for Forest pleas when they next come to those parts.
	The like in favour of Henry de Hoton, chaplain, in the same prison for the like trespass.
Oct. 15. Westminster.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to hold John de Donecastre, late one of the justices of the Bench, discharged of such office, as the king has charged him with divers matters to be done outside the Bench. By K.
Oct. 20. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of William de Inghou, whom the king has amoved from office because he does not reside in the county.
	To the bailiffs of York. Order to pay to William Fraunceys 25 marks out of the ferm of the city for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant of 24 April, in the 8th year of his reign, of 50 marks yearly from that ferm during pleasure in consideration of his service to the king at Dunbar.
Oct. 21. Westminster.	To Bartholomew de Badelesmere, late constable of Bristol castle. Order to deliver the body of Owayn ap David, a Welshman in [his] custody in that castle, by indenture to Hugh le Despenser, the younger, constable of the castle, or to him who supplies his place, to be kept in the castle until further orders. The king has ordered Hugh or him who supplies his place to receive Owayn's body. By p.s. [5480.]
	Mandate in pursuance to Hugh or to him who supplies his place.
Oct. 18. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause John de Monewode, John Roberd, John de (sic) Smyth, William le Pyper, Arnulph Copegray, John Hervy, Robert de Kent, Richard le Bokeler, John Mysone, Roger le Colyere, Nicholas Whyte, Henry de Shordich, William de Lyntoll, William le Whyte, John Batecok, Henry Arnold, William Beaumound, Thomas Fraunk, and Roger le Souter, who were convicted of certain trespasses upon Bartholomew de Baddelesmere and Margaret his wife at Chesthunt, in that county, before the justices appointed to hear and determine such trespasses, and for which they are imprisoned in the king's prison at Hertford, to be brought to the Tower of London at their own cost, there to be delivered to John de Crumbewell, constable of the Tower, as Bartholomew has prayed the king to cause them to be transferred to a safer prison, as the said prison is insufficient for their custody. The king has ordered the constable of the Tower to receive them from the sheriff, and to cause them to be kept therein until further orders. By K.
	Mandate in pursuance to the constable.
	Afterwards, on 12 November, the sheriff of Hertford was ordered to supersede the execution of the above order.
	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to Joan de Torthorald 10 marks of the issues of his bailiwick for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 20 marks yearly in aid of her maintenance, to be received from the issues of the escheatry this side Trent until he should cause other order to be made for her estate.
Oct. 20. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The abbot of St. Augustine's Canterbury has prayed the king by petition before him and his council that whereas it was presented before Hervey de Staunton and his fellows, justices last in eyre in co. Kent, that the abbot ought to repair the bridge of Sturey, which was then broken down, and the justices adjudged the abbot to be responsible for repairing the bridge without calling him before them, and caused him to be amerced at 10l., and the abbot has caused the tenor of the presentment and the record of the judgment to come before the king for correction of the error, wherefore he prays the king to cause the levy of the said 10l. to be superseded whilst the matter is pending before the king: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to supersede the levy of the said 10l. accordingly. By K. and pet. of C. [4069.]
Oct. 15. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to release Henry, parson of Moteston, Thomas le White, Hugh le Clerk, Nicholas Baxman, Roger le Taillor, Robert atte Wychit, Robert atte Gate, Roger Polesputte, Nicholas Pulche, Roger atte Cumbe, Philip Pleyndamour, John Robyn, William le Glede, William le Mone, William Reyn, Roger Hereward, Robert Monfort, Philip le Yonge, William Fynamour, John son of William Gileberd, Richard Jolif, John atte Gate, Henry Fraunkeleyn, and William le Freke, imprisoned in Winchester castle for trespasses committed upon Francis Pymod, merchant, wherefore they [were] put in exigent to be outlawed in the sheriff's county [court] because they did not come to answer to Francis before the justices appointed to hear and determine the said trespasses, upon their finding mainpernors to have them before the said justices at the day prefixed by them to answer to Francis, as the said Henry, Thomas, and the others have certain matters to prosecute before the king and his council, for which purpose it is necessary for them to be present. By K. and C. on the information of Master H. de Baldok.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to take into the king's hands without delay the land of Gower in the Marches of Wales, which John de Moubray acquired from William de Bruosa, who held it in chief, and which he entered without the king's licence, notwithstanding the king's late order to the escheator not to intermeddle in any way with the said land, certifying the king of his proceedings in this behalf. The king is sending his clerk John Hamelyn to supervise his actions in this matter, and to certify the king of the same, and he has ordered the sheriff of Gloucester to go to that land together with him or with his sub-escheator for the county of Gloucester, and to supervise his actions and to certify the king concerning the same. By K.
Oct. 25. Westminster.	To Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Thomas de Hoton, kinsman and heir of Thomas de Hoton, to have seisin of the latter's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage. By p.s.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage in S[c]ardeburgh, as it appears by inquisition taken by Ralph de Crophill, late escheator beyond Trent, that Thomas son of Roger Petiwell of Scardeburgh held the said messuage at his death of the prior and convent of Malton by the service of 6s. 8d. yearly for all service, and that he did not adhere to the Scotch enemies of the late king, and did not leave the late king's faith, but that he went to Berwick-on-Tweed in time of peace as a common merchant, and that he was afterwards detained and slain there by the Scotch rebels, and that he died without an heir, and that the messuage was taken into the late king's hands by an escheator of his under the belief that Thomas had adhered to the Scotch and had died against the late king's faith, and that the messuage is in the king's hands on this account. By pet. of C. returned. [4278–80.]
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to John de Crumbwell, constable of the Tower of London, the wages of Walter de Twynham, knight, Geoffrey de la Mares, John le Quent, John de Burdeux, and John son of John Page, esquires, prisoners in the Tower, to wit 2d. a day for the said knight and 1d. a day for each of the esquires, for the time that they have been prisoners there, and to continue paying the same. By K.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Roger Damory, late keeper and farmer of the castle and honour of Knaresburgh, 40l. yearly in his account for his fee for the time that he has had the custody. By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.
Oct. 22. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger de Halis, deceased.
Oct. 28. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Comyn, whom the king has amoved from office for insufficient qualification.
	To the bailiffs of Chuldrenlangele. Order not to distrain Nicholas Passelewe, son and heir of John de Passelewe, tenant in chief, for his homage for the lands that his father held of the king in chief as of that manor, as the king has taken his homage. By p.s.
	Membrane 17.
Oct. 20. Westminster.	To the collectors of the tenth of the clergy imposed by Pope John XXII. and granted to the king. Order to levy the tenth of the benefices of the bishopric of Durham, which are much impoverished and destroyed by the attacks of the Scotch rebels, according to the new taxation that the king has caused to be made at the prayer of the clergy of that diocese. By K. and pet. of C. [4095.]
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive from the prior of Durham, sub-collector of the above tenth in the bishopric of Durham, the tenth of the aforesaid benefices according to the new taxation, and to cause the clergy of that diocese to be thereupon quit of the tenth by reason of such imposition. By K. and pet. of C. [4095.]
Oct. 3. Westminster.	To John de Wysham, constable of Knaresburgh castle. Order to repair the king's houses of the castle and his pond and mills, and the palings of his parks there where necessary by the view of lawful men of those parts, out of his ferm for the castle.
Oct. 25. Westminster.	To Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Matilda, late the wife of Robert de Clifford, tenant in chief, now the wife of Robert de Well, to have dower of her said late husband's lands in Skelton, co. Cumberland, dower whereof the king, on 18 September, in the 9th year of his reign, ordered Robert de Cliderhou, then escheator beyond Trent, to assign to her, the said escheator having been amoved from office before he had executed the order, such dower to be assigned in the presence of Roger de Clifford, son and heir of the said Robert, if he choose to attend.
Oct. 23. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to those to whom they belong the issues of the lands of John de Coggeshale, other than a tenement in Little Bemflete, co. Essex, the king having ordered him not to intermeddle further with the lands, with the above exception, because it was found by an inquisition taken by the escheator that the said John held no lands of the king in chief at his death, except the above tenement, which he held as of the honour of Relegh, in the king's hands, by the service of a knight's fee, by reason whereof the custody of his other lands ought not to pertain to the king.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To Master Henry de Clyf and Adam de Brom, king's clerks. Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the priory of Bermundeseye, which the king committed to them under a certain form, as the king has amoved his hand from the priory in the hope that the priory will so rule the priory that religion and the king's alms in this behalf may be properly kept and maintained. By p.s. [5486.]
Oct. 27. Westminster.	To Henry le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order to supersede entirely the process against Robert de Chirsford, who was lately convicted before the king at the king's suit by inquisition for giving counsel and assent to the prior of Bynham that John de Leycestre, the king's serjeant-at-arms, who was sent by the king to the priory with letters of privy seal, should not enter the priory, as the king has pardoned Robert his trespass in this behalf. They are ordered not to molest or aggrieve Robert on this account. By K.
Oct. 28. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a cottage in Dorcestre, co. Dorset (Dorcestr'), and with 20 acres of land in Fordyngton, and to restore the issues of the same, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Master Richard de Clare, late escheator this side Trent, that Robert Barel held nothing in chief at his death except the above cottage and land, which cottage is of the ferm of Dorcestre, and renders 3d. yearly to the same, and the land is held of the manor of Fordyngton, which is of ancient demesne, according to the law and custom of the manor by the service of rendering 6s. yearly to the manor, and that the manor is in the hands of Hugh Daudele for the term of the life of Margaret his wife by the king's demise, and that Matilda de Westgate, aunt of the aforesaid Robert, is his nearest heir and is aged fifty years and more. The services due to the king for the aforesaid cottage and land are reserved to the king.
	To the same. Order to deliver the issues received from the aforesaid lands to those to whom they belong.
	To Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator beyond Trent. Order to expend up to 5 marks out of the issues of the manor of Westwyk, in the king's hands by reason of the minority of William son and heir of William de Stepham, tenant in chief, in repairing the manor by the view of lawful men of those parts.
	To the same. Order to repair the houses in the king's manor of Clipston.
Oct. 27. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Isabella, late the wife of John de Knoky, deceased, tenant in chief, as she has taken oath before the king not to marry without his licence.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to resume into the king's hands the custody of the fair of Lopne, and to ordain for the custody of the same as shall seem good to them for the king's profit, as Robert son of Robert son of Payn, to whom the king, on 24 November, in the 5th year of his reign, committed the custody of the said fair during pleasure, has now surrendered the fair into the king's hands. They are ordered to acquit the said Robert of the 50s. yearly that he rendered for the fair from henceforth.
Oct. 25. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle in any wise with aught that pertains to the office of Gilbert de Stapelton, king's clerk, beyond Trent, the king having, on 29 January, in the 13th year of his reign, committed to him during pleasure the office of the escheatry beyond Trent.
	To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to be intendent to the said Gilbert in all things pertaining to his office as above, and to cause knights and other lawful men of his bailiwick to appear before him to make inquisitions and to do other things pertaining to his office as often as Gilbert shall require him to do so.
Oct. 26. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Roger Dammory, late keeper and fermer of the castle and honour of Knaresburgh, in his ferm thereof at the exchequer, 91l. 4s. 6d., which sum he was unable to levy of the issues and profits for the time when the castle was occupied by John de Lilleburn and his accomplices, to wit from 5 October, in the 11th year of the king's reign, until 4 March following, as appears by inquisition taken by John Mauleverer, Richard de Aldeburgh, and William de Ponte Burgi, to wit from divers fermers of six water-mills on the bank of [the] Nidde in Bestaynmor, 40 marks 3s. 4d.; from samll issues of nuts [and] wood-honey, 1 mark; from the pannage of swine at Martinmas, 100s.; from the winter agistment of beasts in the parks there, 5 marks; from three mines, 75s.; from the services of bondmen against Christmas 160 cart-loads of wood, 20s.; from rent of 114 hens at Christmas, 9s. 6d.; from fines and amercements of seven courts that might have been held at Knaresburgh, which were not held by reason of the occupation, 16l. 6s. 8d.; from fines and amercements from seven courts that might have been held at Aldeburgh, 70s.; from the fines and amercements of seven courts that might have been held at Routheclif, 1 mark; for corn that Roger caused to be collected and carried from three carucates of land at Routheclif pertaining to the said castle, the greater part whereof he lost, to the value of 20l.; and 60s. for 30 cartloads of hay that the said John de Lilleburn caused to be carried from the manor of Routheclif to the castle; 10 marks for the land of three carucates in the said manor that lay uncultivated and not sown.
Oct. 28. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to proceed to the priory of Bynham with a sufficient force and to arrest brother William de Somerton, who calls himself prior of Bynham, brother Nicholas Spark, brother Stephen de Dunstaple, brother Ralph de Sancto Albano, brother William de Stok, brother William Quatermeyns, brother Bartholomew de Berneye, brother Robert de Gernemuth, brother William de Wetheryngsete, brother John de Romeseye, brother John de Whathamstede, brother Adam de Wyttenham, brother Simon de Bynham, and brother Robert de Westerfeld, monks of that house, and to deliver them to the abbot of St. Albans, to whom they are subject, or to his proctor in this behalf, to be corrected according to the rule of St. Benedict, and to cause them to have safe conduct from St. Albans, at their expense, to a cloister of a monastery of their profession, as brother Simon, abbot of Rameseye, presiding over the chapter general of the order of St. Benedict of the province of Canterbury, has informed the king by his letters patent that whereas in the said chapter celebrated at Norhampton diligent treaty was had, according to the usual custom, by the diffinitores, abbots, priors, and others there assembled concerning the state of the order, it was found that the above-named monks of Bynham live contrary to the substance of the order in disobedience and various insolences, to the peril of their souls and the scandal of the whole order, and that they take up arms and make assemblies of aiders to foment their boldness, and that the abbot of St. Albans has proceeded against them by both canonical and regular censure, which they have hitherto contemned, wherefore the president, in the name of the chapter aforesaid, has prayed the king to lend them the aid of the secular arm to repress the malice of the offenders. By K.
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Because it was found by an inquisition taken by the late king's order by Walter de Gloucester, then escheator this side Trent, that Henry III. granted by his charter to the abbess and nuns of Godestowe the wood in Burghwell, to hold from him and his heirs for ever, rendering 34s. therefor to the exchequer for all service, and that the abbess and nuns and their predecessors have continued peacefully their seisin of the said wood for a long time, receiving the esplees thereof, such as underwood, felling oaks and other trees at their will, pasture and agistment, and other profits thereof, without hindrance, and that John de London, to whom the late king granted the manor of Bladen for life for the resignation made by him of the church of Frodesham, ejected the abbess and nuns from the said wood wilfully and of his own authority, pretending that it pertained to the said manor, and appropriated the wood to himself as if it were an appurtenance of the manor, and that, pending the plea before the late king's justices of the Bench between the abbess and the said John concerning such ejection, both the wood and the manor came to the late king's hands by the death of the aforesaid John, and that the wood was in the late king's hands on that account, and that the wood is not an appurtenance of the said manor, but that it formerly belonged to William le Chaumberleyn, and that it and other lands of the said William came to the hands of Henry III. as escheats for the felony for which William was hanged, and that it remained in the hands of him and his successors (sic) until he enfeoffed the abbess and nuns thereof as above, the late king, on 3 June, in the 34th year of his reign, ordered his aforesaid escheator to deliver the wood and appurtenances to the abbess and nuns, to hold according to the said feoffment and as they held it before they were ejected, as appears by the rolls of the late king's chancery: the king now orders the treasurer and barons to permit the abbess and nuns to hold the wood accordingly, so that they answer to him for the aforesaid 34s. from the said 3 June, and not to molest them for any of the time during which the aforesaid John occupied the wood.
Nov. 1. Westminster.	To Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Patrick de Sutheyk, son and heir of Gilbert de Sutheyk, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage. By p.s.
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Oct. 28. Westminster.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Wyberton, co. Lincoln, taken into the king's hands with other lands of Robert de Well, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert held at his death a third of the said manor in his demesne as of fee of John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, by fee-ferm, and that the manor ought to be divided between Adam de Well and John de Well, brothers of the said Robert, according to the custom of the tenure.
Oct. 30. Westminster.	To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Creuquer and the hamlets of Fordestaple and Farlyngton, together with the advowson of the church of Farlyngton, which are in the king's hands for certain reasons, as it does not at present appear to the king that they ought to remain in his hands. By K. and pet. of C.
Nov. 2. Westminster.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, etc., in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Francis de Massa and Titrus (fn. 1) de Massa, merchants of Lombardy, to take 150 sacks of wool from that port upon payment of the custom, as they have found the king security by Vannus Brunlisk and by oath that they will take the wool, which is now in that port, to Lombardy and not elsewhere.
	To Master Richard de Clare, late escheator this side Trent. Order to restore the issues received by him from the lands that John Coggeshale held of other lords than the king, as it appears by inquisition taken by the said escheator that John held nothing in chief of the king at his death except a tenement in Little Bemflet, co. Essex, as of the honour of Relegh by the service of one knight's fee, by reason whereof the custody of his other lands ought not to pertain to the king; whereupon the king ordered Richard de Rodeneye, now escheator this side Trent, to retain the said tenement in the king's hands and not to intermeddle further with the other lands of the said John, and to restore the issues thereof received by him.
Oct. 31. The Tower.	To Richard de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain William de Sancto Georgio for homage for two virgates of land in Midlovente, co. Sussex, which he holds of the king by knight service, as the king has taken his homage. By p.s. [5496.]
Oct. 31. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Simon Warde, sheriff of York, 100l. out of the issues of his bailiwick, the king having granted him that sum for his good service past and to come. By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.
Oct. 4. Sheen.	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the water-mills near the castle of York to be repaired where necessary. By K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.
Oct. 24. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause a messuage in the suburbs of Dublin that Nicholas de Balscote bequeathed to John de Balscote and Ralph de Balscote to be extended by men of the city, and to commit it to John and Ralph by letters patent under the exchequer seal, subject to their rendering the extent thereof to the said exchequer for so long as the messuage remains in the king's hands, as John and Ralph have besought the king to grant the same to them to be held according to the extent, the messuage having been taken into the king's hands for debts due from Nicholas. By pet. of C. [1535] and by K. on the information of Master Robert de Baldok.
Oct. 27. Westminster.	To the abbot of St. Mary's York, collector in the diocese of York of the tenth of the clergy granted to the king by pope John XXII. Order to cause the tenth of benefices and temporalities annexed to spiritualities to be collected and levied according to the new taxation, which the king has caused to be made at the request of the clergy of that diocese because many benefices and temporalities have been impoverished by the ravages of the Scotch rebels. By pet. of C. [Parl. Writs.]
	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive the tenth from the abbot according to the above taxation, and to cause him to have allowance therefor, and to acquit the clergy of the diocese of the tenth by reason of such imposition. [Ibid.]
	Like letter to the prior of St. Mary's Carlisle, collector of the tenth in the bishopric of Carlisle, for the clergy of that bishopric. [Ibid.]
	Like order in the prior's favour to the treasurer and barons. [Ibid.]
Oct. 18. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the abbot of Tavystok, out of the 100l. yearly due from him for the custody of the king's stannary in co. Devon and of the water of Dertemuth, 300l., which he lent to the king for the expedition of his affairs toward Ireland, charging the same to Roger de Northburgh, keeper of the wardrobe, to whom he paid the money. By p.s. [5478.]