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Feb. 6.
York. |
To the chamberlain of North Wales. Order to buy and provide 60
quarters of wheat, 20 quarters of malt, 5 quarters of salt, two lasts of herrings, and seven tuns of wine, and to send them to the king's castle of
Cragfergus in Ireland by the view and testimony of Thomas de Neubiggyng',
whom the king is sending to him to supervise the premises and to expedite
the carriage of the same, to be delivered by indenture to John de Athy,
keeper of the castle, for the maintenance of himself and other the king's
subjects in garrison in that castle. |
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Vacated, because it was restored and cancelled, and afterwards [it was
made] otherwise. |
Feb. 8.
York. |
To A. archbishop of Dublin, justiciary of Ireland. Order not to make
any charters of pardon for adhering to the Scotch rebels lately in Ireland
without special order from the king. By K. |
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The like to the chancellor of Ireland not to make such charters of
pardon under the king's seal of Ireland without special order from the king
making express mention of the present order. By K. |
Feb. 8.
York. |
To Walter de Norwico, Hervey de Staunton, John de Thorp, and Simon
de Hederset. Order to omit all other things and attend to their commission
to enquire by the oath of merchants and others in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk
what men, merchants or others, of those counties lately inflicted damage
upon merchants of Flanders at Crandon, and what owners (domini) of the
ships committing these damages harboured the malefactors in the ships
after the commission of these damages, and to hear and determine such
trespasses according to law and custom and according to the law merchant,
as it was agreed, in a treaty concluded between the king and the count of
Flanders by his envoys in the parliament at York, that the king ought to
cause the trespasses aforesaid to be enquired into before the feast of
St. Mary Magdalene next, so that the king and his council may then inform
the count's envoys who are coming to Westminster at the aforesaid feast
concerning the premises, and may do what shall be ordained in this matter.
If by chance Walter and Hervey cannot attend to the premises on account
of other matters that they are intending by the king's order, then Simon
and John are to execute the aforesaid commission without waiting for the
presence of Walter and Hervey. By C. |
Feb. 9.
York. |
To A. archbishop of Dublin, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause the
summons of the army of that land that he has granted to Richard de Burgo,
earl of Ulster, for the land of Ulster, to be revoked without delay, as the
king is given to understand that he has granted the summons to the earl
without the assent of the proceres of that land, which would redound to the
king's prejudice and would alienate (elongarent) the hearts of the proceres
from the king's service. By K.
[Fœdera.] |
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To W. archbishop of Cashel, chancellor of Ireland. Order to cause such
summons to be revoked without delay if he have caused it to be made by
writs under the king's seal. By K.
[Ibid.] |
Feb. 2.
York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to issue mandates
under the exchequer seal that all sheriffs and bailiffs about to account for
the king's debts by summons of the exchequer shall bring with them at
their next accounts all summonses of such debts in their possession, both
of the times of the king's progenitors and of the king's time, and when their
accounts have been rendered and finished, the summons that may be of the
estreats of any debts before the beginning of the 20th year of the late king's
reign shall be annulled and condemned, and the treasurer and barons shall
cause such summons of others debts from that time as they shall think fit
to be renewed immediately after the accounts, the old ones being wholly
condemned, and they are ordered to cause all estreats of fines and amercements and other debts of the time preceding the beginning of the aforesaid
20th year whereof estreats are in their possession to be examined diligently
whereby they have any debts to be exacted for the king's use, and to cause
the estreats of any debts from the same time and all and singular debts
that they shall see fit to be taken out, and to cause them to be estreated in
writing without change, except that in making the new rolls all titles shall, to
distinguish them from the old estreats, begin with the word 'compendium,'
thus writing 'compendium of the estreats of fines or amercements or other
debts as they occur in the old exemplar,' marking (signando) distinctly on the
old estreats that the debts so estreated are entered on the roll of compendium;
which new estreats the king wills shall hold the place of the original estreats, and that accounts shall be rendered by them, the old estreats being
deposited separately and not to be expounded thereafter upon accounts in
any wise unless dispute or doubt arise upon the debts originally accounted
for; and they are to cause new summonses to be made by the new estreats,
having caused proclamation to be made on the king's behalf that no sheriff,
bailiff, or other minister of the king shall presume to levy or distrain for
anything by virtue of the old summonses under pain of imprisonment and
forfeiture. The king issues this order because he pardoned all amercements
and forfeited issues in the courts of his progenitors prior to the beginning
of the aforesaid 20th year, and because he learns from the complaints of
many persons that sheriffs and bailiffs, having no respect to the pardon
aforesaid, distrain and disquiet the king's people because certain old summonses of the amercements and issues and of divers other debts, whereof
the debtors are acquitted at the exchequer, remain in their possession, the
king being further moved to issue this order on account of the length
of time consumed in auditing the sheriffs' accounts at the exchequer
on account of the great multitude of rolls at the exchequer of estreats of
fines, amercements, forfeited issues, and other debts, whereof a great part
are accounted for in previous accounts, that have to be explained and
examined seriatim by each head of the debts in order to charge the
accountants with what they have received or might have received of the
debts noted in those rolls, whereby the king's other business in the exchequer is delayed and the accountants suffer damage by their long detention.
The king has ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to deliver to the
treasurer and barons what they shall require for the above purpose. By K.
[Fœdera.] |
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Mandate in pursuance to the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer. By K. |
Feb. 9.
York. |
To Master Richard de Clare, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause
Robert de Welle, son and heir of Adam de Welle, 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. By K. |
Feb. 11.
York. |
To the same. Like order in favour of John Paynel, son and heir of
Philip Paynel, tenant in chief of the late king. By K. |
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The like to Ralph de Crophill, escheator this side Trent. |
Feb. 10.
York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause
Queen Isabella to have the fines, ransoms, and amercements of the men and
tenants of the following places from the time of the death of Queen Margaret,
who held them in dower, which the king granted to Isabella, having, on
1 August last, granted that she should hold the lands in dower: the manors
of Long Bynyngton, co. Lincoln; Kyngesthorp and Eston, co. Northampton; the hundred of Falwesle, in the same county; the manors of
Osprynge, Middleton and its hundreds, and West Clive, co. Kent; the
manor of Blokesham, co. Oxford; the honour of L'Aigle (Aquila) with all
appurtenances, in divers counties, saving to the king the castle of Pevenesey
and all appurtenances, and except the manor of Laghton, which John
Donnedale holds for life by demise from the late king; the manors of
Bansted, co. Surrey; Haveryng' and park and forest, co. Essex; La
Neilond, in the same county; the castle, town, and honour of Berkhumpstede,
co. Hertford and other counties; the castle and town of Marleberge, with the
Barton (Bertona) and hundred of Selkele, co. Wilts; the castle and town of
Dyvises, with the park and forests of Melkesham, Shippenham, and Pewesham, and perprestures, and with the manor of Roude, in the same county;
the manors of Woderowe, Sevenhampton, with the boroughs of Creckelade
and Hanteworth, and the hundreds of Creckelade and Hanteworth, the
manor of Stratton, the castle, manor, and park of Mere, in the same
county; the manor of Boudon and Haverberge, co. Leicester; the ferm of
the town of Suthampton with small rents in co. Southampton; the town of
Aulton with the hundred and small rents in the town, in the same county;
the ferm of the town of Andevere with the hundreds and with the increment of the ferm; the manor and town of Basyngstok with the hundred
and the rent of the tenement of the late Walter de Merton in the town, in
the same county; the castle of Suthampton and the manor of Lyndhurst,
with the park and New Forest and the bailiwicks and hundred of Rudberge, in the same county; the castle of Cristeschurche of Twynham, with
the borough and manor of Westovere and the hundred of Cristeschurche,
in the same county; the manor of Ryngewode in the same county; the ferm
of the town of Wych, co. Worcester; the manor of Gillyngham with the
Barton (Bertona) and forest, co. Dorset. By K. |
Feb. 12.
York. |
To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed with the plea before
them wherein Roger de Aspelay and Juliana his wife have impleaded for a
long time Hugh le Despenser the elder, keeper of the land of the heir of
Guy de Ballo Campo, earl of Warwick, for Juliana's dower in Berew[e]don, which they have superseded because Hugh has alleged before them
that he holds the custody of the lands by the king's commission, and to
proceed to do justice to the parties notwithstanding this allegation.
By pet. of C. |
Feb. 10.
York. |
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Oliver le Waleys, lately elected, who cannot attend to
the duties of the office because he is of the household and retinue of
John de Segrave, the elder, and is bound by deed to him to set out with
him in the king's service. |
Feb. 13.
York. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to John de Yakesle, keeper of the
king's tents, the wages of himself and of Robert de Guldeford and John
Fynche, his fellows, to wit 6d. a day for himself and 4d. a day for Roger
and John, together with the arrears of the same from the time of the
sheriff's appointment, and to continue to pay the same until further orders.
By p.s. |
Feb. 14.
York. |
To the bailiffs of the abbot of Whiteby and to the keepers of his port
there. Order to release two ships of certain merchants of Zeeland
(Seland), laden by them with white herrings in Norway for the purpose of
taking them to Kyngeston-on-Hull, and to restore them to the said merchants in the presence of Robert du Celer of Kyngeston-on-Hull and of
John de Whiteby, who have mainperned before the king in chancery
that the merchants will take the ships to Kyngeston-on-Hull and will
discharge them there and not elsewhere, the bailiffs and keepers having
arrested the ships because the merchants were unable to find them security
not to take them to the Scots. |
Feb. 16.
York. |
To John de Wysham. Order to deliver to Edmund de Wodestok, the
king's brother, the issues of the castle and honour of Knaresburgh, and of
the manors of Aldeburgh, Boroughbridge (Ponteburgi), and Rouclyf from
Michaelmas last past, provided that he sustain the charges incumbent thereupon from that time, the king having, on 2 February last, granted the
premises to him in aid of his maintenance, provided that he render to the
aforesaid John 200 marks, which the king granted that John should
receive yearly from the issues, and having ordered John to deliver the
premises to Edmund together with the armour, victuals, and all other the
king's things in the castle, which were in John's custody by the king's
commission. |
Feb. 13.
York. |
To Stephen le Blund, receiver of the king's victuals at Newcastle-onTyne, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to Simon de
Welden, John de Seton, Anthony de Ernygton, Richard de Oggel, John
de Trewyk, Richard de Cramlinton, Robert de Seton, John Grey, Walter
de Hanwyk, John de Plessys, Alan de Wilton, Adam de Mikeleye, Alan
de Hepescotes, Adam de Eresdon, Robert de Fenrother, John de Kyngton, Thomas de Burton, John de Matfen, Robert Bataille, William de
Croxton, John de Derteford, Adam de Carlton, Robert de Haukewell,
John de Morpath, Hugh de Aketon, Thomas de Witton, Adam Palmere, Thomas de Boteland, Henry de Trewyk, John de Wodeslade,
Thomas de Burghton, John de Neubigging', and Robert de Joneby,
men of the county of Northumberland, 10 tuns of wines of the 40 tuns
granted by the king at their petition to the knights and others of that
county who are lacking the necessities of life owing to the invasions of
the Scots, in aid of their maintenance, the king having appointed the
said receiver and William Rydel and Richard de Emeldon to divide
the 40 tuns amongst the knights and others according to the requirements of their estate and their merits and the amount of loss sustained
by them, which division and distribution have not been yet made on account of the petition of certain men seeking for part of the said wines;
wherefore the king grants the above 10 tuns to the above-named men on
account of their long prosecution and their necessity. By K. |
Feb. 23.
York. |
To A. archbishop of Dublin, justiciary of Ireland, and to Master Walter
de Islep, treasurer there. Order to cause the castle of Cnokfergus in Ireland, in the king's hands, to be defended sufficiently with fencible men,
armour, and victuals, as shall seem good to them and to John de Athy, to
whom the king has committed the custody of the castle during his will
and whom he is sending to them on this behalf. By K. and C. |
Feb. 27.
York. |
To the sheriff of Essex and Hertford. Order to pay, out of the first
issues of his bailiwick, to Giles de Tholosa, keeper of certain of the king's
great horses, 20l. for the expenses of the horses. By K. |
Feb. 23.
York. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Robert Benedicite, who is unable to execute the office
owing to incurable infirmity. |
Feb. 27.
York. |
To the prior of Kermerdyn, chamberlain of Kermerdyn. Order to pay
to D. bishop of St. Davids 10l., in payment of that sum lent by the bishop
to John de Athi, lately coming from Ireland to the king on the king's
affairs. By K. |
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To the same. Order to provide victuals to the value of 100 marks by
the advice of John de Athi, constable of the castle of Cracfergus, and to
cause them to be delivered to him, to be taken by him to the aforesaid
castle for the munition thereof. By K. |
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To the same. Order to provide a great ship in the town of Kermerdyn
by the advice of the aforesaid John, and to cause her to be provided with
sailors and other fencible men to set out at the king's wages in his company
for the aforesaid castle, and to cause her to be sent thither, as the king needs
such a ship for the repulse of the Scotch and the safe custody of the castle
aforesaid. If he cannot obtain the ship without buying her, he is to buy her
out of the issues of his bailiwick, and to deliver her to John, making an
indenture with him concerning the delivery and the price, whereby the
king will cause allowance to be made to the prior and [so] that the price of
the ship may be deducted from the total of the wages owing to John.
By K. |
Feb. 26.
York. |
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to take with him William de Chenereston, and to provide five ships in his bailiwick with all speed, and to cause
them to be provided with fencible men, to wit a double shipment (eskipiamento), and to deliver them thus manned to the king's clerk Thomas de
Newebigging', whom the king is sending to them in this behalf, to be taken
by him to John de Athy, admiral of the king's ships in Ireland and
constable of the castle of Krakfergus in Ulster (Ulton), to stay in the
admiral's company at the king's wages to be paid by the said clerk from the
time when the ships are delivered to him by the sheriff, as the king
greatly needs the aid of ships against the summer season for the repulse of
the Scotch rebels and the salvation of the aforesaid castle. By K.
Et erant patentes. |
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To the abbot of Tavystok. Request that he will lend the king 100l. for
which he is bound to answer to the king for his mine in co. Devon beyond the
assignment made to him for a certain term, and 300l. upon a further assignment of the mine to be made to him by the king, and that he will pay the
400l. to the aforesaid Thomas de Newebigging' for the above matters. |
Feb. 26.
York. |
To the same. Request that, if he be unable to lend the king the above
sum at present, he will apply to the abbot of Bukland to land him 20l.,
the abbot of Bukfast to lend him 30l., the prior of Plumpton to lend him
100 marks, the abbot of Torre to lend him 30l., the prior of Launceton to
lend him 20l., the prior of Bodmyne to lend him 20l., the abbot of Herteland to land him 30l., the prior of Tywardray to lend him 20l., the abbot
of Forde to lend him 40l., and the abbot of Clive to lend him 30l., whom
the king has desired to lend the abbot the above sums upon security to be
found by the abbot. By K. and C. |
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To the abbot of Bukland. Request that he will lend the abbot of
Tavestok 20l. for the above purpose upon security to be found by the
abbot. By K. |
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The like to the above-named abbots and priors. |
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Membrane 12. |
March 2.
York. |
To John de Crumbwell, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
deliver William de Shefeld, imprisoned at York for trespass of venison in
the forest of Galtres, in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to
have him before the justices of Forest pleas when they next come to those
parts. |
Feb. 26.
York. |
William son of John de Rysum, knight, and Herbert de Rysum, his
brother, in the king's prison at Ravenesrod for the death of William son of
Peter atte See, have letters to the sheriff of York to bail them until the first
assize. |
Feb. 28.
York. |
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to deliver to the keeper of the
stud (equicii) of the king's colts in the park of Risbergh what shall be
necessary for their maintenance. By K. |
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The like to the following: |
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The sheriff of Oxford for the stud in the parks of Wodestok and
Cornebir[y]. |
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The sheriff of Southampton for the stud in Odiham park. |
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The sheriff of Essex for the stud in Reylegh park. |
Feb. 24.
York. |
To Ralph de Crophull, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the goods and chattels of Margaret de Nevill, and to
cause them to be delivered to her executors to be kept by them for the
king's use, as the king has bought them from her executors and wills that
they shall remain in their custody until he shall otherwise ordain. By K. |
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The like to Master Richard de Clare, escheator beyond Trent. |
