Close Rolls, Edward II: August 1323

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: August 1323', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327, (London, 1898) pp. 20-21. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol4/pp20-21 [accessed 20 April 2024]

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August 1323

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Aug. 29.
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To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to cause John son of Thomas de Ferrers to have seisin of a messuage, 20 acres of land, and 2 acres of meadow in Great Lokesle, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that William son of Richard le Hore of Frodeswell and Alice his wife, who were outlawed for felony, held the premises of the said John, and that they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Robert le Hunte had the king's year, day, and waste, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
Aug. 24.
Edgeton.
To John de Kilvyngton, keeper of the lands of certain rebels in co. York. Order to pay to Isabella, late the wife of Gilbert de Briddeshale, the arrears of 8 marks yearly out of the issues of the manor of Hugate from the time when it was taken into the king's hands, and to restore the manor to her to be held in dower, unless he think it more to the king's advantage to retain the manor in his hands for the unexpired year of the two years after the death of Bartholomew Bakun, in which case he is ordered to pay her 8 marks for that year, and to restore the manor to her at the end of the year, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the keeper that Isabella was dowered of the aforesaid manor at the church door by the said Gilbert on Thursday before Christmas, 22 Edward I., and that Gilbert dowered her of the manor by charter, and that Gilbert afterwards demised the manor to the aforesaid Bartholomew for life and for two years after his death for the execution of his will, rendering therefor to Gilbert 8 marks yearly, and that Isabella accepted the demise after Gilbert's death, and that she received the said sum yearly from Bartholomew from St. Nicholas, 20 Edward I, until St. Barnabas, in the fifteenth year of the present reign, when the manor was taken into the king's hands by reason of Bartholomew's adherence to certain rebels, and that she received the 8 marks in name of dower in form aforesaid. If the manor have been demised at ferm by the king's order, Isabella shall satisfy the fermers for their expenses in the manor from the time of the demise by the keeper's view. By p.s.
Aug. 29.
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To Robert de Hungerford, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in co. Berks. Whereas the king lately ordered him not to intermeddle further with a messuage and two carucates of land in Scryvenham, because it was found by inquisition that Ralph son of John de Wylyngton was seised thereof by feoffment of the said John, who enfeoffed him thereof on Monday after St. Margaret, in the 15th year of the king's reign, to him and the heirs of his body, and that Ralph continued his seisin from the said Monday until the Epiphany following, when the premises were seised into the king's hands by John de Brampton, then sheriff of that county, because the aforesaid John was an adherent of the rebels, and that Ralph did not adhere to the rebels and was not an adherent in his father's rebellion, and it is now found by another inquisition taken by the keeper by the king's order that 13l. 19s. 6d. of rent of freemen and bondmen and boon-works of bondmen, with a moiety of the perquisites of the hundred of Shrivenham, which formerly belonged to the said John in the manor of Shrivenham, pertain to the aforesaid messuage and two carucates, and that William Longespeye, sometime earl of Salisbury, was seised of the said messuage and land, and that the said rent, boon-works, and moiety of the perquisites then pertained to the messuage and land, and that the earl enfeoffed Reginald de Albo Monasterio, ancestor of the aforesaid John de Wylyngton, of the aforesaid messuage and land, and John was seised thereof together with the rent, boon-works and moiety aforesaid, and so from heir to heir successively until John enfeoffed Ralph of the messuage and land, and that the rent, works, and moiety aforesaid pertain to the said messuage and land, and that they were taken into the king's hands with the messuage and land for the above reason; the king orders the keeper not to intermeddle further with the aforesaid rent, boonworks, and moiety, and to restore the issues thereof to Ralph. By C.
Aug. 30.
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To Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order not to molest Thomas de Benton for the issues of two parts of the manor of Great Benton, co. Northumberland, which were demised to him by Ralph, late baron of Graystok, for his life, as the king has assigned the two parts in dower to Alesia, late the wife of Ralph.
Aug. 31.
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To the same. Order to cause partition of a messuage in Wormhull, co. Derby, to be made between Elizabeth, eldest sister (sic) and co-heiress of Richard Danyel of Tyddeswell, tenant in chief, whom Thomas Meverel, deceased, married, and Katherine, the second daughter (sic) and co-heiress of Richard, and Joan, the third daughter (sic) and co-heiress, so that each of them have an equivalent portion of the tenement, and that Elizabeth have a portion suitable to her esnecy, as it was the king's intention that they should have equivalent portions when he assigned a third of the messuage to each of them. If it be necessary to deliver a better part of the messuage to any of the heiresses as in the easement of houses or other things, he is to cause due compensation therefor to be made to the others out of other lands of the inheritance.
Aug. (sic) 6.
Whorlton. (Wherleton.)
To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Margaret, late the wife of Nicholas Pecche, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence, according to the extent made by the escheator or others to be made, if necessary, in the presence of Richard Pecche, son and heir of Nicholas, if he choose to attend.