Close Rolls, Edward II: November 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: November 1324', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 4, 1323-1327, (London, 1898) pp. 233-245. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol4/pp233-245 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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November 1324

Membrane 26.
Nov. 6.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause Richard de Harewedon, parker of the king's park of Northampton, to have 20s., to be expended by him in repairing the walls about the park. By C.
Nov. 4.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Ellen, relict and executrix of William de Rikethorn, the king's door-keeper, 26l. 3s. 3d., which the king owed to William, to wit 14l. 11s. 7½d., for his wages and robes for the 10th and 11th years of the reign, and for recompence for a horse of his that died in the king's service in the 11th year, and 38s. 1½d. for the arrears of his wages from 8 July, in the 8th year of the king's reign, until 11 November, and 9l. 13s. 6d. for his wages allowed in the roll of the marshalsea, and for recompence for a 'hakeney' of his given in the king's alms, in the 6th year, as is found by a certificate of the treasurer returned into chancery, and as appears by three bills under the seals of Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, and Roger, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, late keepers of the king's wardrobe, which are in the possession of Ellen, who has prayed the king to satisfy her for the aforesaid sum.
By K. on the information of William de Ayremynne.
Nov. 8.
Westminster.
Stephen atte Bokholte, 'souter,' imprisoned in Guldeford gaol for the death of John le White, has letters from the sheriff of Sussex to bail him until the first assize.
Nov. 6.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to William le Rede, merchant of Almain, 45l. 19s. 1¼d., as he has suggested to the king that William de Hedersete and William de Rude, late collectors of the custom in the port of London, took that sum from him on 8 August, in the 12th year of the king's reign, for the king's use as a loan, and that they bound the king by a deed under the seal of their office called 'Le Coket' to pay the sum to William le Rede after Michaelmas, and they have not paid him, whereupon the king ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to examine the account of the collectors for the aforesaid year, and to certify the king if the collectors answered for this sum, and they have certified that the said collectors answered, in their account of the loan granted to the king by the merchants in the 11th year of his reign, for the above sum for the said loan made to the king by William le Rede upon his wool taken out of that port in the ships of divers men from 29 September, in the 11th year, until 28 August, in the 12th year, both days being included, to wit for 91 sacks and 44 nails, 10s. from each sack. By pet. of C.
Nov. 9.
Westminster.
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertford, Cambridge, and Huntingdon. Order not to intermeddle further with certain tenements in Chesthunt called 'La Mothe,' and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Aymer de Valencia, late earl of Pembroke, and Mary his wife held the tenement on the day of the earl's death jointly, to them and the heirs of Aymer, of the feoffment of Master John de Rodeswell and Walter Alisaundre, and that the tenements are held of others than the king. By C.
Nov. 10.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Henry le Scrop, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, in his account at the exchequer such fee for that bailiwick as they shall find was allowed to other keepers in times past.
Nov. 10.
Westminster.
To Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to cause the bridge of the king's castle of Hardelaugh to be repaired where necessary.
By K. on the information of W. de Ayrem[ynne].
Nov. 12.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Richard Dammory, to whom the king, on 4 March, in the 11th year of his reign, committed the forfeiture of bread (pacis) and ale of the bakers and brewers of the town of Oxford, to have at ferm from 14 February preceding during the king's pleasure, rendering therefor 100s. yearly to the exchequer, of the aforesaid ferm from 20 March last, when the king committed the custody of the assize of bread and ale in the aforesaid towns and its suburbs to the chancellor of the university and to the mayor of the town, to have during pleasure, rendering therefor 100s. yearly to the exchequer.
Nov. 10.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to supersede the demand made upon John de Bromfeld for 100l., in which he made fine with the king for adhering to the rebels, and to acquit him of the same, as the king, on 5 June, in the 16th year of his reign, pardoned him in consideration of the said fine, and assigned the fine to Aymer de Valencia, then earl of Pembroke and keeper of the Forest this side Trent, in payment of money due to him from the king for the custody aforesaid, and he ordered the keepers of the great seal by letters of privy seal to cause John to be released from prison and to cause his lands to be restored to him upon his finding mainprise for his good behaviour towards the king and for payment of the aforesaid sum to the earl, and John Loveday, Richard de Bikerton, Alexander de Middelton, Hugh de la Hulle, Thomas de Biryton, and Richard, parson of the church of Buterleye, acknowleged in chancery that they owed the aforesaid sum to the earl, with which recognisance the earl was contented, wherefore John then obtained the king's letters of pardon and of restitution of his lands.
Nov. 8.
Westminster.
To Henry de Hokkele, keeper of certain lands in co. Warwick. Order to deliver to John son of John de Peyto and Alice his wife, daughter and coheiress of Isabella de Hilles, Alice's purparty of certain lands in Palington, co. Warwick, which purparty the king, on 7 August last, ordered Master John Walewayn, then escheator, to retain in the king's hands after he had made partitition thereof between Dionisia, wife of John de Watervill, and the aforesaid Alice, wife of John de Langele, the daughters and co-heiresses of the said Isabella, as John son of John de Peyto, who has now married Alice, and Alice, who is of full age, have prayed the king to cause the purparty aforesaid to be delivered to them, and it is found by an inquisition afterwards taken by John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster, that Isabella held the said lands of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, as of the honour of Leicester by knight service, which honour the king has rendered to Henry de Lancastr[ia], brother of the said earl, now earl of Leicester, together with all knights' fees and other appurtenances of the honour.
Nov. 13.
Westminster.
To Geoffrey With and Henry de Hales, keepers of the lands of aliens and of others of the power of the king of France in co. Norfolk. Order not to intermeddle with the manors, lands, goods and chattels of the priory of Lewes in that county by virtue of any order of the king's sent to him, pending the discussion before the king and his council of the petition of John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, or until further orders, and to restore to the earl those things belonging to the priory that they have occupied by virtue of the king's order to take the lands, etc., of the priory into his hands amongst other lands of alien religions and others of the power of the king of France, as the earl has shewn the king that the priory is of his advowson, and that he ought to have the custody of the temporalities thereof in times of voidance, and that he and his ancestors have been wont to have such custody in times past, and has besought the king not to retain the lands, etc., of the said priory in his hands whereby the earl would suffer disinheritance. The king saves to himself the presentations and collations of benefices of the patronage of the prior and convent that have been vacated up to this day. By K.
The like to Peter de Wroldham (sic) and Stephen Poer, keepers, etc. in co. Sussex.
The like to Master Robert de Stotwell and Roger de Belegrave, keepers, etc., in co. Leicester.
Nov. 13.
Westminster.
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to deliver to Robert Dufford and Margaret his wife, late the wife of Thomas de Caylly, tenant in chief, the advowson of the church of Hildeburworth, co. Norfolk, of the yearly value of 30l., which the king has assigned to Margaret as dower of the advowsons of the said Thomas.
Nov. 16.
Westminster.
To Adam le Bogher, keeper of the manor of Hathelsay. Order to pay to brother John de Ryevallis, monk, who is staying at the manor by the king's order, the arrears of 5½ marks yearly from the time of the keeper's appointment, and to pay him that sum henceforth for his maintenance.
Nov. 16.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Margaret, late the wife of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, the arrears of the 2s. a day assigned for her maintenance, and to pay her that sum hereafter, the king having lately ordered the sheriff of Essex to certify the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of what he had paid to Margaret of the said 2s. daily by virtue of the king's order and of what remained to be paid, and it appears by the certificate made by Thomas Gobion, sheriff of the said county, before the treasurer and barons and delivered into the chancery by the treasurer that the said sheriff paid Margaret for her maintenance from 19 February, in the 16th year of the reign, until 28 September last 58l. 16s. 0d. for 588 days at the rate of 2s. a day.
By K. on the information of W. de Ayrem[ynne].
Nov. 18.
Westminster.
To John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster. Order to deliver to Roesia, late the wife of Henry Gregory of Eyum, mother of Henry Gregory his son and heir, as nearest [friend] of the heir, a bovate of land in Eyum, co. Derby, together with the issues thereof from the time of Henry's death, and not to intermeddle further with the other lands that Henry held at his death of other lords than the king, and to restore the issues of the same, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry held no lands in chief as of the crown at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held the aforesaid bovate of the king as of the honour of Peverel by the service of 8½d. yearly to the castle of the Peak, and that he held divers lands of other lords, and that Henry Gregory is his son and heir and is aged ten years and more.
Membrane 25.
Nov. 13.
Westminster.
To Roger le Gulden, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order to pay to Henry le Gulden the arrears of 60s. yearly from the time when the manor of Phelippeston came to the king's hands, and to pay him that sum yearly for so long as the manor shall remain in the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by John de Brideport and Walter Beril that John de Bosco, then lord of the said manor, on Monday after Midsummer, in the 4th year of the king's reign, granted by deed to Henry the aforesaid 60s. yearly for life, in consideration of Henry's service to him, to be received from the bailiff or reeve of the manor, and that Henry was seised of the rent from the day of the grant until 10 February, in the 15th year of the king's reign, when the manor came to the king's hands by the forfeiture of John Mautravers le fitz, then lord of the manor, and that the manor is held of the abbess of Wylton by the service of 25 quarters of salt yearly, and that the manor is in the king's hands solely by reason of the forfeiture of John Mautravers le fitz, and it appears by the aforesaid deed, which was exhibited in chancery, that John de Bosco granted the rent to Henry in form aforesaid. By C.
Nov. 20.
Westminster.
To Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton, and Rutland. Whereas the king by his letters patent has pardoned the prior and convent of Buttele the trespass committed by them in acquiring to their house in fee an acre and three roods of land in Bytre and Skyrbek from Benedict de Hoxne, and in entering the same after the publication of the statute of mortmain without the licence of the late king, and the king granted that they should have the land again and hold it to them and their successors, and afterwards, at the suggestion of the prior that they acquired the land from the said Benedict and not from Clement de Hoo, as is aforesaid, and that they continued their seisin thereof without change of their estate from the time of the acquisition, and that a certain plot of land, containing 12 feet and 10 'rodefalles,' and another plot, containing 12 feet of the mill hill, in Bytre are, and have always been, parcels of the said acre and 3 roods, and that the escheator has taken the said plots into the king's hands under the pretence that the prior had acquired them from the aforesaid Clement and not from Benedict without royal licence, the king ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the same; by which inquisition it is found that the prior acquired the land from Benedict and not from Clement, and that the aforesaid plots are, and always have been, parcels of the said acre and 3 roods, and that the plots are held of the earl of Richmond in socage by the service of 2d. yearly for all service, and that they are worth 6d. yearly such as in herbage: the king therefore orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the said land, and to restore the issues thereof.
Nov. 15.
Westminster.
To William de Cotes and Stephen de Delham, keepers of the houses and benefices of alien men of religion of the power of the king of France in co. Kent. Order to deliver to Master Andrew de Ferentino, parson of the church of Stalham, and to Bartholomew de Stanhou of London, 'mercer,' their corn and other goods in the church of Lyde, in that county, which the abbot and convent of St. Mary de Gloria, of the order of Flora, in the diocese of Anagni, hold to their own uses, and which Andrew and Bartholomew hold at ferm by the demise of Master Robert de Patrica, proctor of the abbot and convent in this behalf, the keepers having taken the same into the king's hands amongst other goods and chattels of the men of religion of the power of the king of France, as the king learns upon trustworthy testimony that the abbot and convent are of the parts adjoining the city of Rome and are not of the power, confederation, or affinity of the king of France.
Nov. 19.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Nicholas Larcher of Dover, to whom the king, 13 April, in the 7th year of the reign, granted the custody of the castle of Sandwich and the bailiwick of the town of Sandwich as of the value of 100 marks yearly, to be held by him until he should be satisfied for 412l. due to him from the king, to wit 200l. for the passage of the king and of queen Isabella, and of the earls, barons, knights and others crossing to France in the company of the king and queen in May, in the 6th year of the reign, and 212l. for the ships and boats hired by Nicholas for the passage of the king and queen, their men and horses, and others returning from France in July, in the 7th year, and for the ships and boats hired by him for the passage of the king, his men and horses going to France in December, in the 7th year, of the issues of the bailiwick aforesaid from 13 July, in the 8th year of the reign, when the king granted the bailiwick aforesaid to Peter Barde for life.
Nov. 22.
The Tower.
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Alan de Kernyek, deceased.
Nov. 26.
Cheshunt.
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order to deliver to John de Legh, son and heir of John de Legh, tenant by knight service of the purparty of Margaret, wife of Hugh Daudele, the younger, which purparty is in the king's hands, his father's lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his fealty.
Nov. 20.
The Tower.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains. The abbot of Westminster has shown by his petition before the king and his council that whereas the king's progenitors granted to the abbots of Westminster a tenth of the ferm of the town of Droitwich (de Wychio), co. Worcester, for which tenth the present abbot and his predecessors have received from time out of mind 8l. yearly at the exchequer, as well when the manor was in the hands of the king's progenitors as when it was in the hands of others, as the abbot asserts that he can prove by the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, until the late king granted the manor in dower to Margaret, late queen of England, which queen paid the tenth fully for all the time that she held the manor, and the abbot has received nothing of the tenth from the time of her death, to wit in the eleventh year of the king's reign, because the present king granted the manor to queen Isabella, who refused to pay the tenth for the time that she held the manor, and because the king lately granted the manor to Edmund, earl of Kent, and to the heirs of his body, as of the yearly value of 89l. 5s. 0d. yearly, who likewise refused to pay the tenth to the abbot, asserting that he was not bound to pay it; wherefore the abbot has besought the king to pay him the arrears of the said tenth and to order the same to be paid to him henceforth: the king therefore orders the treasurer, barons, and chamberlains to take advisement of the estate that queen Isabella had and that the earl now has in the manor, and, if they find that the queen and the earl ought to be charged with the tenth, they are to cause them to be charged with the same for their times, and if they find that the king ought to be charged therewith for the time of the queen and now, they are then to pay to the abbot the arrears of the said 8l. for the time that the king ought to pay that sum, and to cause the same to be paid to the abbot henceforth, as has been usual heretofore, or the treasurer and barons are to cause allowance to be made for the arrears in the debts due from the abbot to the exchequer.
By K. on the information of W. de Ayremynne.
Nov. 23.
The Tower.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to release William de Melton from prison in Neugate, upon his finding mainpernors to have him before the king in fifteen days from St. Hilary to do and receive what the king's court shall consider, the sheriffs having certified that William was arrested and imprisoned by virtue of the king's letters patent directed to the sheriffs and other ministers to arrest and imprison all who should presume to make provocations, appeals, citations, or other hindrances whatsoever in prejudice of the crown or of the king's presentation of Master Hugh de Hakford to the church of Great Lynford, because it was said that William made such hindrances, as William has prayed the king to provide for his release as he is prepared to stand to right concerning the premises.
Dec. 6.
Nottingham.
To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester, Salop, and Stafford, and in the adjoining marches of Wales. Order to deliver to William son of William Maunsel the issues of the manor of Over Lepeyate, co. Gloucester, received by the escheator from the time of the death of William's father, the king having, on 5 August last, taken the fealty of William for the manor, which his father held for life of the gift of Alexander de Duntesburn by fine levied between them in the king's court, whereby the manor remained to William the son and to the heirs of his body, which manor is held of the king in chief by knight service by reason of the lands that belonged to the earl of Hereford being in his hands, the king having ordered the escheator to deliver the manor to William the son, from whose complaint the king learns that the escheator has deferred delivering the issues thereof to him.
Membrane 24.
Oct. 26.
The Tower.
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Essex, and Hertford. Order to pay to the prior of Colne the arrears of 10s. of yearly rent from 30 acres of land, pasture, and alder-holt in Fordham, which are parcels of that manor, from the time of his appointment as escheator, and to pay the prior that sum henceforth, as the king ordered Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, to pay the above sum yearly for so long as the lands should be in the king's hands, together with the arrears of the same from the time of the escheator's appointment, because it was found by an inquisition taken by Richard de Redeneye, late escheator this side Trent, that the prior and his predecessors received the said sum at the time of the death of John de Argentein, tenant in chief, and for more than a hundred years previously from the said land, parcel of the aforesaid manor, which is in the king's hands by reason of the minority of the heir of the said John, and the prior says that he has not received the rent from the time when Master John was amoved from office.
Nov. 10.
Westminster.
To Thomas de Warthecopp, keeper of the rebels' lands in cos. Cumberland and Westmoreland. Order to deliver to Robert de Wulsley certain lands in Sandford and Keldesik, in the said counties, which are of the dower of Alice his wife, and the issues thereof from the time when they were taken into the king's hands, the king having, at the suggestion of Robert that the lands had been taken into the king's hands because it was imputed to him that he was the bailiff of Roger de Clifford, a late rebel, at Skipton-in-Cravene, ordered Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king, to hear and discuss the reasons of Robert in the premises, and to cause justice to be done to him, and it is found by an inquisition taken by the sheriff of Cumberland and returned before the said justices that Andrew de Harcla took the lands in Keldesik, co. Cumberland, into the king's hands, charging Robert with having borne arms against the king at Burghbrugg, and that Robert did not bear arms against the king in any place, but was bailiff of the said Roger at Skipton, and it is likewise found by inquisition taken by the sheriff of Westmoreland and returned before the justices that Andrew, when he was keeper of the marches of Scotland, took the lands in Sandford, in that county, into the king's hands, charging Robert with having borne arms against the king at Burghbrugg, as is aforesaid, and that Robert did not bear arms against the king at that place or elsewhere at any time, and it is found by an inquisition taken by the sheriff of York and returned before the justices that Robert was never at Burghbrigg or elsewhere in co. York of the adherence of the said Roger, bearing arms or otherwise aiding against the king; wherefore it seemed to the justices that the aforesaid tenements and the issues thereof ought to be delivered to Robert, as appears by the record and process before the said justices in the Bench, which the king has caused to come before him in chancery.
To William de Tatham, receiver of the issues of forfeited lands in cos. Cumberland and Westmoreland. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Robert all the issues of the above lands since they were taken into the king's hands.
Nov. 16.
Westminster.
To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to supersede the king's order to assign dower to Margery, late the wife of John de Sancto Johanne of Lageham, tenant in chief, as it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator and by the inspection of parts of certain fines exhibited in chancery that John held no lands of the king in chief or of others at his death by reason whereof Margery ought to be dowered by the king.
Nov. 22.
The Tower.
To the bailiff of Tyndale. Order to cause a coroner for the parts of Tyndale to be elected, as the king understands that the coroner is dead.
By K. and it was agreed by C.
Nov. 24.
The Tower.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to release William de Rud, lately one of the collectors of the new custom in the city of London, from Flete prison, to which he was adjudged because he was in arrears to them upon his account of the issues of the custom, there to remain until he should satisfy the king for such arrears, as the king wills that he shall follow him and shall intend the office of the household that he previously intended. They are to certify the king of the sum due from William for the arrears. By K.
Nov. 20.
The Tower.
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Vilers, whom the king has amoved from office because he is insufficiently qualified.
By testimony of the earl of Winchester.
Nov. 22.
The Tower.
To John de Weston, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Joan, late the wife of Richard de Chigwell, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that she held no lands in chief at her death by reason whereof the custody of her lands ought to pertain to the king.
Nov. 26.
Huntingdon.
To J. bishop of Winchester. As the king wills that in his letters made to the bishop and others, granting them power to treat with the king of France in his name, concerning the contents of the same, the clause ac quodlibet etiam genus liciti sacramenti in animam nostram prestandi shall be wholly amoved, he has caused new letters patent to be made without this clause, which letters he sends by the bearer, and he orders the bishop and the other envoys to send the previous letters to the chancery without delay to be cancelled, using the letters now sent to them. By p.s.
Nov. 22.
The Tower.
To Robert de Hungerford, keeper of certain forfeited lands in co. Wilts. Order to deliver to Margaret, late the wife of Henry Tyeis, a messuage, 3 carucates of land, 3½ acres of meadow, and 104s. 3½d. of yearly rent in Burbach Savage, and the issues thereof, as it appears by part of a fine levied before William de Bereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench, in the 9th year of the king's reign, between Henry and Margaret, demandants, and Philip Sturmy and Sarah his wife, deforciants, concerning the said tenements, that Henry acknowledged them to be the right of Sarah, and that Philip and Sarah, in consideration of that acknowledgment, granted and rendered them to Henry and Margaret, to have to them and the heirs of Henry, and it was afterwards found by an inquisition taken by John de Foxle, William de Harden, and Robert de Hungerford in the presence of the said Robert that Margaret continued her seisin together with Henry by virtue of the fine aforesaid without change of her estate until the tenements were taken into the king's hands with other tenements of Henry's upon his forfeiture, and that they are in the king's hands solely by reason of Henry's forfeiture, and that they are held of John de Goldyngham by the service of a gillyflower yearly, and that they are worth in all issues 54s. yearly, and the king has frequently ordered the said keeper to deliver the tenements to Margaret, and the keeper has returned that he has not done so because John de Tycheburn, late sheriff of that county, delivered the tenements to him as the tenements of Nicholas de Percy, a late enemy of the king, now deceased, to whom the said Henry had demised them, to be held whilst Nicholas served him. The reversion of the tenements to the king after Margaret's death is saved. By C.
Nov. 22.
London.
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and 5 acres of land in Stoke, and to restore the issues thereof to Roger de Rypon and Juliana his wife, as the escheator has certified the king that he did not take any tenements in Stoke into the king's hands, but that it is contained amongst the parcels delivered to him by Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent, that there are certain tenements in Stoke in the king's hands by reason of the alienation thereof made by John de la Puyle, who held them in chief, to the aforesaid Roger and Juliana, which tenements are demised for 6s. yearly, and it is found by an inquisition taken by the escheator that Roger and Juliana held the messuage and land of John at his death as of Juliana's inheritance by the service of 3s. yearly, a cock and a hen or 4d., and suit of court from three weeks to three weeks for all services, and not by the alienation of the said John, and that they have held the messuage and land as of Juliana's inheritance for ten years by the services aforesaid, and that Thomas de Wodebrugge, Juliana's father, held them for sixty years of John and his ancestors by the services aforesaid, and that the messuage is worth 20d. yearly and the land 20d. yearly beyond reprises. By C.
Membrane 23.
Nov. 21.
The Tower.
To the steward and marshals of the king's household. Order to deliver Henry Philipp, who is imprisoned in the prison of the marshalsea of the king's household for the death of John Billok, in bail to twelve men of co. Kent who shall mainpern to have him before the justices at the first assize in those parts, to stand to right if any will speak against him, as the king learns by the record of the steward and marshals that Henry slew John in self-defence and not by felony or of malice aforethought.
Nov. 24.
Cheshunt.
To the sheriff of Hertford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Legat, who is insufficiently qualified.
Nov. 24.
Puckeridge. (Pokerich.)
To Henry de Cobham, keeper of certain rebels' lands in co. Kent. Order to deliver to Emma de Tappenesse a messuage, 80 acres of land, 5½ acres of meadow, 100 acres of wood, 6s. 8d. of rent, and a rent of a cock, three hens, and 40 eggs in Leghe, as, at the petition of Emma, suggesting that the late Thomas Colepeper had unjustly disseised her of certain tenements in Leghe, which had been taken into the king's hands amongst other lands of the said Thomas by his forfeiture, the king assigned Edmund de Passele and Robert de Stanegrave to make inquisition concerning the same, whereby it is found that Thomas disseised Emma of the aforesaid tenements, and that he continued his seisin by such disseisin until his death, and that Emma never made any acquittance of the tenements to him after the disseisin, and that they were taken into the king's hands by reason of the forfeiture aforesaid, and the king, wishing to be certified in what manner Emma had freehold in the tenements, etc., appointed Thomas de Faveresham and William de Ponte Roberti to make inquisition concerning the same, and it is found by such inquisition that one Benedict de Tappenesse, Emma's father, was seised of the tenements aforesaid in his desmene as of fee, and died seised thereof, and that Emma, as his daughter and heiress, entered them after his death, and that she continued her seisin thereof until Thomas disseised her, and the king afterwards, wishing to be certified whether Emma made any estate thereof to Thomas by deed after or before the disseisin, ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to search the charters, deeds, and other muniments of Thomas, if there were any in the treasury, and to send to him a transcript of any charters, deeds, or muniments that they should find touching the matter, and ordered the aforesaid Henry to search in like manner the charters, deeds, and other muniments of Thomas in his custody, and the treasurer and chamberlains and Henry have returned that they have made such search and that they have found no deeds touching the said matter. By p.s.
Nov. 24.
Puckeridge.
To the official of the court of Canterbury and to his commissary. Thomas de Heselwod, parson of the church of Great Linford, has shewn the king that whereas he was lately presented to the said church, then void and of the patronage of Edmund le Botiller of Ireland, now deceased, by Nicholas de Marreys, then attorney of the said Edmund and having special power from Edmund to present to all churches of the latter's patronage in England, and he was instituted canonically to the same by the diocesan, and held the same for some time peacefully and quietly, and that Master Hugh de Hatford, scheming to defraud Thomas of the said church, suggested to the king that the church was void and that it pertained to the king's presentation by reason of the wardship of the land and heir of Edmund being in the king's hands, and obtained the king's letters of presentation to the same directed to the bishop of Lincoln, and subsequently prosecuted a writ pleadable before the justices of the Bench against Nicholas so far in the king's name that Nicholas said before the justices that he claimed nothing in the advowson of the church aforesaid, wherefore it was considered by the justices that the king should recover his presentation to the church notwithstanding Nicholas's reclamation, and the aforesaid bishop was thereupon ordered to admit a suitable person to the church at the king's presentation, and appeal was afterwards made to the court of Canterbury on Hugh's behalf because the bishop refused to admit Hugh to the church by virtue of the judgment aforesaid at the king's presentation, the said Thomas not having been canonically amoved, but Hugh, desiring to amove Thomas from possession of the said church, procured certain letters patent of the king's directed to his sheriffs and ministers to arrest all those who presumed to impugn by appeals or other processes the king's royal rights and the judgments rendered in his court, by colour of which letters Thomas and certain of his adherents were committed to prison, so that he could not defend himself in the cause of the appeal aforesaid and could not find proctors or advocates who durst defend him in the said cause for fear of such arrest and imprisonment, wherefore Thomas was amoved from the possession of the said church by sentence of the court aforesaid as being undefended, and Hugh was admitted thereto by virtue of the king's recovery aforesaid and of the king's writ directed to the official, from which sentence Thomas appealed to the audience of the official, but he dare not prosecute his right for fear of the said judgment rendered for the king and of the king's letters aforesaid, and he cannot find any who will assist him in such prosecution, wherefore he has prayed the king to provide him with a remedy: as it appears by the record and process of the said plea, which the king has caused to come before him in chancery, that the aforesaid Nicholas, in pleading against the king in the action, said nothing of the right of the aforesaid Edmund, but only said that he himself claimed nothing in the advowson, and it likewise appears by the evidences exhibited in chancery by Thomas that Nicholas presented Thomas to the church not in his own right but in the right of Edmund as his attorney, having special power to do so from Edmund, the king orders the official to cause speedy justice to be done to Thomas for the restitution of the same, if he was amoved therefrom for no inability of person but by pretext of the aforesaid recovery by the king and of the king's presentation of Hugh, or because he did not defend himself in the said cause for fear of the king's letters aforesaid, the king's presentation, recovery, or writs notwithstanding. By C.
Nov. 24.
Cheshunt.
To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to restore the issues of the manor of Okenhill, co. Suffolk, received by him from the time of the death of Richard de Aumundevill, as the king lately ordered John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford, not to intermeddle further with the said manor, and to restore the issues thereof, because it was found by inquisition taken by Master John that Richard and Elizabeth his wife were enfeoffed jointly of the manor by fine levied in the king's court, to them and the heirs of Richard, and that the manor is held of the king in chief as of the honour of Eye by the service of a knight's fee, and by the service of 20d. to the ward of the castle of the honour at the end of every 32 weeks, and by the service of doing suit at each court of the honour, and that Elizabeth continued her seisin of the manor jointly with Richard until his death, and it appears by inspection of part of the aforesaid fine exhibited in chancery that the fine was levied at Westminster in fifteen days from Holy Trinity, in the 5th year of the king's reign, before William de Bereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench, at which time the honour was not in the king's hands.
Nov. 24.
The Tower.
To Robert de Swalueclyve. Order to pay to the prior of Holy Trinity, London, a yearly rent of 22s. for so long as he shall have the custody of the tenements of John de Bourne, and the arrears of the same from the time when he received the custody, the king having lately ordered Edmund de Flete, keeper of certain lands in the city of London in the king's hands, to pay the arrears of the said rent to the prior from the time when the tenements aforesaid came to the king's hands upon John's forfeiture, and to pay him the same yearly thereafter, as the prior had shewn the king that the tenements were held of the prior by the said John de Bourn by the service of that sum yearly as of his church aforesaid, and the prior and his predecessors have been seised of the rent by the hands of the said John and of other tenants from time out of mind, and the said Edmund has signified to the king that it is found by inquisition that the tenements are held of the prior by the service aforesaid as of the right of his church, and that the prior and his predecessors were seised of the rent aforesaid from time out of mind until the tenements came to the king's hands by the forfeiture of the said John, and that he could not pay the rent to the prior because he had previously delivered the tenements, together with other lands in the king's hands in his custody, to the aforesaid Robert by the king's order.
Dec. 8.
Nottingham.
To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Order to assign dower to Agnes, late the wife of Adam de Waunervill, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.
Dec. 15.
Nottingham.
To William de Aune, constable of Tykhill castle. Order not to distrain Robert Maulovel for his homage for the manor of Rampton, co. Nottingham, which he holds in chief by knight service as of the honour of the said castle, as he has done homage to the king. By p.s. [7029.]
The like to John de Bolyngbrok, escheator in cos. Nottingham, Derby, Warwick, Leicester, and Lancaster. By p.s.
Membrane 22.
Nov. 24.
Cheshunt.
To John de Blounvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to deliver to Mary, late the wife of Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, tenant in chief in England, Wales, and in the marches of Wales, the following of the earl's lands, which the king has assigned to her in dower: the manor of Foxle, co. Norfolk, of the yearly value of 34l. 4s. 0½d; the manor of Saxthorp, in the same county, of the yearly value of 16l. 6s. 2d.; the manor of Bergh, in the same county, of the yearly value of 22l. 17s. 6d.; the manor of Fylby, in the same county, of the yearly value of 16l. 18s. 10½d.; the manor of Goderiston, in the same county, of the yearly value of 33l. 9s. 2¾d.; the manor of Hocham, in the same county, of the yearly value of 17l. 11s. 2¾d.; the manor of Kerbrok, in the same county, of the yearly value of 11l. 15s. 8¼d.; the manor of Ixenyng, co. Suffolk, of the yearly value of 36l. 10s. 7d.; the manor of Pyriton, co. Hertford, of the yearly value of 15l. 8s. 2½d.; the manor of Brakstede, co. Essex, of the yearly value of 17l. 7s. 1d.; the manor of Fordham, in the said county, of the yearly value of 16l. 8s. 0d.; the manor of Rydeswell, in the same county, of the yearly value of 9l. 5s. 5¾d.; the manor of Hassyngbrok, in the same county, of the yearly value of 7l. 7s. 9½d; the manor of Wallebury, in the same county, of the yearly value of 10l. 14s. 5d. The king has also assigned to her the manor of Melton, co. Kent, of the yearly value of 14l. 15s. 9d.; the manor of Ludesdon, in the same county, of the yearly value of 17l. 3s. 5d.; the manor of Hertleye, in the same county, of the yearly value of 101s.; the manor of Wykham, in the same county, of the yearly value of 67s. 3d.; the manor of Swyndon, co. Wilts, of the yearly value of 20l. 2s. 1½d.; two parts of the manor of Shrivenham, co. Berks, of the yearly value of 33l. 7s. 5d.; the manor of Donynton, with a rent of 4l. in Hertwelle, co. Buckingham, of the yearly value of 54l. 5s. 7¾d.; the town of Dounham with its soke, co. Nottingham, of the yearly value of 70l. 19s. 8d.; the manor of St. Florence in Wales, of the yearly value of 33l. 14s. 0d.; the manor of Felton with certain lands in Thrastreston, co. Northumberland, of the yearly value of 29l. 2s. 11½d.; 9l. 18s. 6¼d. of land and rent in Pounteland, in the same county; 40l. of land and rent in the manor of Castel Martyn in Wales; and 10l. of rent in Beverle, Scoureburgh, Besewyk, Fosceton, Nafferton, Louthorp, Alburn, Fyvele, Tweng, Sixindale, Killum, and Brunneby, co. York.
Memorandum, that this assignment of dower was made by the court in the chancery by the king's order because John de Hastingges, kinsman and co-heir of Aymer, and David de Strabolgi, earl of Athole, who married Joan, kinswoman and co-heiress of Aymer, appeared in chancery in person, and Elizabeth Comyn, kinswoman and co-heiress of Aymer, appeared in chancery by her attorney, and they could not agree concerning the assignment of the dower aforesaid, and they willed and consented that the assignment should be made in chancery.
Nov. 24.
Cheshunt.
To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester, Salop, Stafford, and in the adjoining marches of Wales. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Mary the said manor of St. Florence and 40l. of land and rent in the manor of Castle Martyn in Wales, which the king has assigned to her in dower.
To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Westmoreland, Northumberland, and Cumberland. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Mary the said manor of Felton with certain lands in Thrastreston, co. Northumberland; 9l. 18s. 6¼d. of land and rent in the manor of Pounteland, in the same county; and 10l. of rent in Beverle, Scoureburgh, Besewyk, Fosceton, Nafferton, Louthorp, Alburn, Fyvele, Twenge, Sixindale, Killum, and Brunneby, co. York, which the king assigned to her in dower.
Nov. 24.
Cheshunt.
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Mary the said manors of Melton, Ludesdon, Hertleye, and Wykham, co. Kent, which the king has assigned to her in dower.
Nov. 24.
Cheshunt.
To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Mary the said manor of Swyndon, co. Wilts; two parts of the manor of Shrivenham, co. Berks; and the manor of Donyton with a rent of 4l. in Hertwell, co. Buckingham, which the king has assigned to her in dower.
To John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Mary the town of Dounham, and its soke, co. Nottingham.
Nov. 24.
Cheshunt.
To Walter de la Pulle, escheator in Ireland. Order to assign dower to the aforesaid Mary of the lands, knights' fees, and advowsons of churches of the aforesaid Aymer in his bailiwick, as she has taken oath before the king not to marry without his licence.