Close Rolls, Edward II: June 1324

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

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'Close Rolls, Edward II: June 1324', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327, (London, 1898) pp. 118-126. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol4/pp118-126 [accessed 11 April 2024]

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June 1324

Membrane 3.
June 26.
Tunbridge.
To John de Frylond, keeper of certain rebels' lands in co. Gloucester. Order to cause to be paid to Matilda, late the wife of Adam Tilly, the arrears of a quarter of beans and 3½ yards of cloth, price 40d., of such cloth as Thomas de Berkeleye, late lord of Berkeleye, used to give to poor men, yearly from the time when the manor of Alkynton was taken into the king's hands, and to cause the same to be paid to her yearly hereafter, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Aston and John de Hampton that the said Thomas granted the above beans and cloth to Matilda, to be received yearly from his manor of Alkynton during her life, and that she released to him, in consideration of this grant, her right of dower in a third of a messuage and of a virgate of land within the said manor, and that the said third is worth yearly 13s. 4d., and is now in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Maurice, son and heir of the said Thomas, and that Matilda was seised of the beans and cloth from the time of the grant until the manor was taken into the king's hands without any change of her estate, and that she did not release or demise them to anyone, and that the manor is held in chief by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and is worth 64l. 19s. 9¾d. yearly.
June 27.
Tunbridge.
To John de Hampton. Order to deliver to Hugh le Despenser, earl of Winchester, all the charters in his custody that concern the earl, who has shewn the king that John Giffard, a late rebel, took certain of the earl's charters and muniments at Stanle by force, and carried them thence to Gloucester, and deposited them in the abbey of St. Mary and in the priory of St. Oswald, which charters afterwards came to the hands of the said John de Hampton when he was sheriff of Gloucester. By K.
June 26.
Tunbridge.
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to assign dower to Alice, late the wife of John de Thorp, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
June 27.
Tunbridge.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the following manors, and to restore the issues thereof to Alice, late the wife of John de Thorp, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said John and Alice held jointly on the day of John's death, to themselves and his heirs, the manor of Horham, co. Suffolk, and the manors of Esshewellethorp, Wremyngham, Fundenhale, Bon[ewelle], and Tyveteshale, co. Norfolk, of the gift of Alexander de Refham, parson of Stulton church, by fine levied in the king's court, and that they held jointly on the said day to themselves and the heirs male of their bodies the manor of Little Massyngham, co. Norfolk, with remainder to the right heirs of the said John, of the gift of Hugh de Esshewell, parson of Massyngham church, by fine levied in the king's court, and that they held jointly on the said day a messuage in Norwich in free burgage, which manors and messuage are held of others than the king.
June 26.
Tunbridge.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause proclamation to be made in his county [court] that a fair shall be held at the queen's manor of Kyrketon-in-Lyndeseye, on the eve and day of St. Mark and for six following days, yearly, and another fair on the eve and day of St. Andrew and for six following days, yearly, and that a market shall be held in her manor of Spetele ' in the Strete' on Friday in every week, and a fair on the eve and day of St. Ed[mund] the King and six following days, the king having granted that the queen shall have the said fairs and markets in the aforesaid manors which she holds in dower of his assignment.
By K. on the information of William de Ayremynne.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Ralph Coterel, son and heir of Ralph Coterel, of 4l. 5s. 5d. yearly from 16 July, in the third year of the king's reign, the late king having, on 24 October, in the 30th year of his reign, committed to Ralph Coterel, the father, the custody of two parts of the lands that belonged to Robert de Derleye in co. Derby, with the exception of the dower of Alice, late the wife of the said Robert, during the minority of John, brother and heir of the said Robert, rendering therefor to the exchequer the above sum yearly, as the present king, on the said 16 July, rendered the lands to the said John de Derleye, who had proved his age before Gerard Salvayn, the late king's escheator beyond Trent.
July 26.
Tunbridge.
To the same. Order to desist from distraining the executors of the will of John de Grey, son and heir of Reginald de Grey, for 125 marks, which sum Henry III., on 17 May, in the 52nd year of his reign, ordered the treasurer and barons of his exchequer to allow to the said Reginald in the debts due from him, which sum the said king owed to John de Grey for the arrears of the fee that he was wont to receive at the exchequer, and to allow the said sum to the said executors.
Vacated because otherwise below.
June 28.
Tunbridge.
To John de Bolynbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Gunthorp, co. Nottingham, which he has taken into the king's hands, pretending that it is held of the king as of the crown, and that Peter de Monte Forti, grandfather of Peter de Monte Forti, entered the same without royal licence, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Peter de Monte Forti and his ancestors have held the manor from time out of mind in inheritance, and that the manor is held of the honour of Leicester by the service of 40 marks yearly and not of the king.
June 16.
The Tower.
To Richard de Musele, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in Wakefeld. Order to pay to Master Albertinus Rogerii de Pystore and John de Triple the arrears due to them of the rent of 21l. yearly that the prior of Lewes ought to receive from him, and to pay them the same rent yearly hereafter, as it is found by inquisition taken before the keeper and John de Doncastre that the prior and convent of Lewes have been wont to receive that rent yearly from time out of mind for a tithe of the rents of the earl Warenne for all his lands in co. York, to be received from the hands of his receiver at Wakefeld, by grant of the said earl, and that the present prior and the convent of Lewes received the said rent all the time that the aforesaid rents were in the hands of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, with the other lands of the earl Warenne, by the hands of William de Acworth, the late receiver of the said earl Thomas at Wakefeld, until the rents aforesaid came to the king's hands by the forfeiture of earl Thomas, and that the prior and convent have granted to the said Albertinus and John for five years all their manors, churches, and lands of Halifax, Conyngesburgh, and B[ray]thewell, in the diocese of York, with all fruits, rents, etc., and profits pertaining to them in the said diocese. By C.
June 26.
Tunbridge.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the executors of John de Grey, son of Reginald de Grey, out of the debts due from Reginald to Henry III., the sum of 125 marks, which Henry III., on 17 May, in the 52nd year of his reign, ordered the treasurer and barons of his exchequer to allow to Reginald in the debts due from him, which sum the said king owed to John de Grey, of whom Reginald was the kinsman and heir, for the arrears of the fee that he used to receive at the exchequer, as the king understands that the treasurer and barons cause the executors to be distrained for the above sum.
July 1.
Rotherfield.
To Margaret, late the wife of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, a late rebel. Signification that she may go to her friends within the realm whither she will, provided that she be always ready to come to the king when summoned, the king having, on 3 November, in the 16th year of his reign, ordered Roger de Swynnerton, then keeper of the Tower of London, or him who supplied his place, to cause her to be delivered from the Tower by the mainprise of William de Ros of Hamelak, Henry de Percy, William le Latymer, Peter de Malo Lacu, the elder, John de Cromwelle, and Robert de Welle, knight. By K.
To John de Neville, Richard de la Bere, and Peter de la Rokele, justices—
Vacated.
June 28.
Tunbridge.
To John de Neville, Richard de la Bere, and Peter de la Rokele, justices appointed to hear and determine certain trespasses committed upon the king at Fraunkton, co. Lincoln. Order to cause the exaction and outlawry of Richard de Furneux and all further process against him to be superseded entirely, the said Richard having been put in exigent to be outlawed in that county for not appearing before the said justices, as he has satisfied the king for his trespass. By K.
To the same, justices appointed to hear and determine certain trespasses committed upon Hugh le Despenser, the younger, at Fraunkton aforesaid. Like order concerning the said Richard, who has satisfied Hugh for the trespass, as Hugh has testified personally before the king. By K.
Membrane 3—Schedule.
Warantia Dierum.