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Membrane 6. |
May 2.
Kenilworth. |
To Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton, and Rutland.
Order not to intermeddle further with a toft and 20 acres of land of the
prioress of Brodholm in Saxelby co. Lincoln, and to restore the issues
thereof to the prioress, as the escheator has signified to the king that he
took the said lands into the king's hands because he found by an inquisition
of office that the prioress had acquired the toft and land after the death of
Margaret Warrok in fee to her and her successors after the publication of
the statute of mortmain without the king's licence, and the king afterwards,
—at the prosecution of the prioress, asserting that the tenements were held
of her, and that she entered them after the death of the aforesaid Margaret,
her tenant thereof, because Margaret died without an heir, making no other
acquisition,—ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the
premises, and it is found by the inquisition that Matilda, sometime prioress,
and the convent of the said place, being seised of the toft and land aforesaid,
enfeoffed John Warrok, a bastard lately deceased, thereof, to have to him
and his heirs of the prioress and convent by the service of 6d. yearly for all
service, and that the said John lawfully begot Henry Warrok and the aforesaid Margaret, and that Henry, being seised of the tenements after John's
death as his son and heir, died without an heir of his body, and that
Margaret, sister and heiress of the said Henry, being seised thereof after
Henry's death, likewise died without an heir of her body, and that the
prioress entered the tenements after Margaret's death as her escheat, and
that she made no acquisition thereof. |
May 12.
Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of
Essex to be elected in place of John de Dovre, who is incapacitated by
infirmity. |
May 21.
Croydon. |
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex,
and in the city of London. Whereas the king has assigned to Mary, late
the wife of Ralph de Cobham, tenant in chief, the following of his lands:
a third of the manor of Ardynton, co. Berks, of the yearly value of
47l. 16s. 0d., one pound of wax, and half a pound of pepper; a third of
certain lands in Worth, co. Sussex, which lands are of the yearly value of
47s. 6d.; a third of certain lands in Wyvelesfeld, in the same county, which
lands are of the yearly value of 10s. 3d.; a third of certain lands in Claytone,
Peccham, and Bulneye, in the same county, which lands are of the yearly
value of 11l. 6s. 4d.; a third of certain lands in Botelegh, in the same
county, which lands are of the yearly value of 5s. 8¼d.; a third of certain
lands in the city of London, which lands are of the yearly value of 106s. 8d.;
a moiety of certain lands in Dertford, co. Kent, which are of the yearly
value of 42s. 11d.; a moiety of certain lands in Westterham, in the same
county, which are of the yearly value of 7s. 1d.: the king therefore orders
the escheator to cause a third of the lands aforesaid in Worth, Wyvelesfeld,
Chaytone (sic), Peccham, Bulneye, Bottelegh, and in the city of London, and
a moiety of the said lands in Derteford and Westterham to be assigned and
delivered to the said Mary. |
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To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford,
Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Like order to cause a third of the
aforesaid manor of Ardinton to be assigned and delivered to the said Mary. |
May 24.
Croydon. |
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Whereas the king learns by inquisition
taken by the escheator that Ralph de Cobham held on the day of his death
certain lands in the city of London of the king in free burgage, and certain
lands in Worth, Wyveleston, and Botteleg' of John de Warenna, earl of
Surrey, John atte Bisse, Simon de Perepount, and Nicholas de Shelvestrode
in socage, and certain lands in Westerham and Dertford of the bishopric of
Rochester, the heirs of John de Hastinges, Henry de Sancta Ositha,
William de Grandisono, the prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England,
and the abbot and convent of Westminster in 'gavelkynde,' and that he
held no other lands in chief on the said day as of the crown by reason
whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, and that
John de Cobham, son of the said Ralph, is his next heir and is aged one
year; the king orders the escheator to deliver the said lands and the issues
thereof to Mary, late the wife of the said Ralph, mother of the heir, as
nearest [friend] of the heir, to be held for the heir's use, saving to her her
dower thereof. |
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To the same. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by Richard
le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford,
and Buckingham, that Ralph de Cobham held on the day of his death in
his bailiwick the manor of Ardinton of the king as of the honour of Walingford by the service of a knight's fee, and it is found by inquisition taken
by the said William by the king's order that Ralph held on the aforesaid day
certain tenements in Claytone, Peccham, and Bolneye of John de Warenna,
earl of Surrey, by knight service, and that he held no other lands in chief
on the day of his death as of the crown by reason whereof the custody of
his other lands ought to pertain to the king, and that John de Cobham, his
son, is his next heir and is aged one year; the king orders the escheator
not to intermeddle further with the lands that Ralph thus held of the earl,
which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Ralph's death, and
to restore the issues thereof. |
June 1.
Saltwood. |
To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester,
Salop, Stafford, and in the adjoining marches of Wales. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands of Gilbert de Dunnesleye, and to restore
the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator
that he held no lands in chief on the day of his death by reason whereof
the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king. |
April 15.
Kenilworth. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Whereas the king has ordered
Thomas de Sibethorp, keeper of the hanaper of chancery, to cause to come
to the exchequer without delay all charters sealed with the great seal in his
custody from the time when he was keeper of the hanaper until 3 February
last, of whatsoever fee they may be, and also all other charters whatsoever
of the times of other keepers of the hanaper, if there be any in the
hanaper, to be delivered by indenture to the treasurer and chamberlains;
the king orders the treasurer and chamberlains to receive the charters
aforesaid from Thomas, and to cause them to be placed in the treasury,
and when any one will pay the due fee for any of the said charters, to
cause such charter to be delivered to him, and the money thence
pertaining to the king shall be entered on the great roll and the money
pertaining to others for their fees shall be delivered to them. By K. & C. |
April 20.
Kenilworth. |
To Thomas de Sibthorp, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to
deliver the charters aforesaid to the treasurer and chamberlains, and notification of the king's orders to the treasurer and chamberlains as aforesaid. |
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By K. & C. |
May 19.
Marlborough. |
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order not to intermeddle further with the
lands of Ralph de Cobham in Westderham, and to restore the issues thereof,
as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Ralph held the
said lands on the day of his death at the will of John de Cobham, his
father, of the abbot and convent of Westminster by divers services. |
May 31.
Saltwood. |
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the body of
Nicholas son of John Barrok or with his lands by reason of his alleged
idiocy, and to restore the issues thereof, although the king, being given to
understand that Nicholas was an idiot from his birth, ordered the escheator
to cause Nicholas's body to be brought before the king in chancery on
the morrow of Holy Trinity last to be examined, as it is found by the
examination made of him in chancery that he is not an idiot and that he
is sufficient for the government of himself and of his lands. |
April 30.
Kenilworth. |
To Thomas, earl of Norfolk, the king's brother. Whereas lately,—at
the prosecution of Christiana, late the wife of Giles de Mountpynzon, by
her petition before the king and his council, suggesting that a third of the
manor of Great Riburgh with the advowson of the church of that manor
had been assigned to her in dower after Giles's death, and that she, after
having had seisin thereof, demised the third part to Robert de Walkefare
for her life for 24l. 13s. 4d. yearly, and the sheriff of Norfolk took the said
part into the king's hands by pretext of the king's order to take into his
hands all the lands of the said Robert because he adhered to certain of the
rebels, and the sheriff detained the said rent from her,—the king ordered
the sheriff to cause inquisition to be made concerning the premises, and it
was found by the inquisition that a third of the manor was assigned in dower
to Christiana after the death of Giles, and that she had it and peacefully
held it long before Robert had anything in the said manor, and that she
afterwards demised at ferm to Robert and Margaret his wife all the lands
that she held in dower in Great Riburgh for her life for 24l. 13s. 4d.
yearly; whereupon the king caused the said sum to be paid to Christiana
for all the time that the manor has been in the king's hands; and she has
now given the king to understand that the earl detains the said sum from
her for all the time that he has had the manor by the king's grant, and she
has prayed the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore orders the
earl to pay to her the arrears of the aforesaid sum for the time that he has
held the manor, and to cause the same to be paid to her yearly henceforth,
so that renewed complaint may not come to the king, as it was not the
king's intention in making the grant of the manor to the earl that any
prejudice should be done to Christiana concerning the sum aforesaid. |
May 2.
Hailes. |
To Henry de Cobham, keeper of forfeited lands in co. Kent. Order
to pay to Nicholaa de Aldham the arrears of 15s. 9d. yearly for the time
that the manor of Chitinglegh has been in Henry's custody, and to pay her
the same yearly henceforth out of the issues of the manor, as the king learns
by inquisition taken by Giles de Briaunzon and John Filiol that the manor
is held of Nicholaa by the service of the above sum yearly, and that she
was seised thereof by the hands of Nicholas de la Beche, who lately held the
manor of her by that service, and by the hands of other tenants of the
manor until the manor was taken into the king's hands by the forfeiture of
the aforesaid Nicholas, and that the rent is in arrear for two years, and that
she has never changed her estate in the said service, and that the manor is
in the king's hands solely by reason of the forfeiture of Nicholas [de la
Beche], and that it is worth in all issues 10 marks. |
May 2.
Hailes. |
To Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Rutland, and Northampton.
Order not to intermeddle further with a rent of 24s. of Ralph de Clathorp
in Aghthorp, and to restore to Ralph anything that he may have levied
therefrom since it was taken into the king's hands, as the escheator has
certified that he took the said rent into the king's hands because he found
by an inquisition of office taken by him that Ralph acquired the rent to him
and his heirs from John de Weston, who held the rent of the king in chief,
without the king's licence, and the king afterwards,—at Ralph's prosecution,
suggesting that the rent is held of William de Kyme and not of the king,
and praying the king to provide a remedy,—ordered the escheator to make
inquisition concerning the same, and it is found by the inquisition that the
rent is held of the said William by the service of a pair of gilt spurs and a
yearly attendance at William's great court of Burwell after Michaelmas for
all service, and not of the king. |
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Membrane 6—Schedule. |
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Waranthia dierum. |
July 10.
Westminster. |
To the justices of the Bench. Order not to put Martin son of Peter de
Fisshacre in default for his failure to appear before them in five weeks from
Easter last, as he was employed in the king's service on the Sunday in the
said five weeks and on the Monday following, so that he could not appear
before them in the action of warranty in which the said day was given to
him, Roger de Pridias and Elizabeth his wife, John de Alneto and Sibyl his
wife seeking before the justices against Richard de Portalla and Ela his
wife two parts of a messuage, of two acres of land and of 2 acres of meadow
in Portalla, and against Ralph de Portalla and Isabella his wife two parts of
a messuage and of 2 acres of meadow in the same town, and against Stephen
de Portalla, chaplain, two parts of a messuage and a moiety of a ferling of
land in the same town, and against John son of Thomas de Killye a ferling
of land and two parts of a messuage in the same town, and against Alice,
late the wife of Hamelin de Portalla, a messuage, a third of 4 acres of land
and of a ferling of land, and of three-quarters of an acre of meadow in the
same town, and against John son of Roger de Heyles an acre of land in
Polloyou and Wytelegh, and the said Stephen, John son of Thomas, Alice,
and John son of Roger vouched to warranty the said Richard, Ela, Ralph,
and Isabella, who warranted the tenements to them, and the said Richard,
Ela, Ralph, and Isabella vouched the aforesaid Martin to warrant both the
tenements that they had thus warranted and the said tenements sought
against them. By p.s. |
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Membrane 5. |
May 2.
Hailes. |
To Stephen Alard of Wynchelse. Order to deliver to John de Bello
Campo of Sumersete a moiety of the manor of Sellynges, co. Kent, which
is in Stephen's custody, as the king,—at John's petition suggesting that
Cicely de Bello Campo of Somersete, his mother, of whom he is the heir,
demised to Bartholomew de Badelesmere for his life a moiety of the said
manor, that Bartholomew assigned the moiety to Walter Colepeper, and that
the moiety was afterwards taken into the king's hands by Walter's forfeiture,—appointed Henry de Cobham, Richard de Podesgrave, and Thomas
de Faversham to enquire concerning the premises, and it is found by their
inquisition, taken in Stephen's presence, that Cicely was seised of the moiety
aforesaid as of her right and inheritance, and that she demised it to Bartholomew for the term of his life, and that she never afterwards made any
other estate therein to him or to Walter, and that John is her next heir, and
is aged 30 years and upwards, and that Bartholomew granted the moiety for
his life to the said Walter, and that it was taken into the king's hands by
Walter's forfeiture, and that it is in the king's hands solely for this reason,
and that it is held of the king in chief by the service of a moiety of a
knight's fee, and of rendering 5s. at the end of every fiftieth week to the
ward of Dover castle, and of rendering 9d. yearly to the tourn of the sheriff
of Kent, and of doing suit at the king's court of La Relenette from three
weeks to three weeks. The king makes this order because he wishes to do
what is just to the said John, Stephen having restored to chancery for cancellation the king's letters patent granting to him the aforesaid moiety for
life, and the king has granted to him other lands for life in recompence. |
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By K. |
April 29.
Kenilworth. |
To L. bishop of Durham. Order to cause his castle of Norham and his
other places in Cumberland and Northumberland and other adjoining parts
to be provided and fortified with men-at-arms, victuals, armour, and other
necessaries, certifying the king without delay of the number of men-at-arms
thus placed by him in the said castle and other places and of all his proceedings in this matter, as the king understands that certain of the Scotch rebels
have, without the consent of the magnates of Scotland, as the king believes,
lately entered the realm in those parts by night, and have endeavoured to
surprise (surripuisse) certain castles and fortlets in those parts, and propose to invade those parts and others in the marches of Scotland in greater
multitude. It is provided, however, that nothing shall be attempted contrary to the form of the truce between the king and the Scots, which the
king wills shall be observed so far as lies in his power. By K. |
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The like to the following: |
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Henry de Percy, concerning his castle of Alnewik. |
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Henry de Lancastria, earl of Leicester, concerning his castle of Dunstanburgh. [Ibid.] |
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To John de Claveryng. Like order concerning his castle of Werk,
ordering him to go in person to the said castle, there to remain for the
defence of those parts, so conducting himself in this behalf that it may not
behove the king to take the castle into his hands and to provide for its
custody. By K.
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April 30.
Kenilworth. |
To William la Zousche of Haringworth. Order to cause his castle of
Toteneys to be furnished and fortified with men-at-arms, victuals, arms, and
other necessaries, certifying the king of the number of men-at-arms thus
placed therein and of all his proceedings in this matter. The king makes
this order by reason of certain rumours that have come to his ears. By K. |
May 2.
Hailes. |
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to cause dower to be assigned
to Alice, late the wife of Walter de Welles, tenant in chief, upon her taking
oath not to marry without the king's licence. |
May 1.
Hailes. |
To Thomas, earl of Norfolk, marshal of England. Whereas the king
lately,—at the prosecution of Edmund Burglioun and Eleanor his wife,
suggesting, by petition before the king and his council, that Eleanor
recovered against Robert Walkefare before the justices of the Bench a third
of 20l. of rent as her dower of the lands that belonged to William de
Mountpynzon, her late husband, to be received from the manor of Great
Riburgh, and that the sheriff of Norfolk took the said third into the king's
hands with other lands that belonged to the said Robert by pretext of the
king's order to take into his hands all the lands of the said Robert because
he adhered to the rebels, and that the sheriff detained the said third from
Edmund and Eleanor,—ordered William de Bereford to send to him the
record and process of the suit that was before him and his fellows, justices
of the Bench, between Eleanor, demandant, and the said Robert, deforciant,
concerning her dower in Great Riburgh; and afterwards, when it was
found by the said record and process that Eleanor recovered by consideration of the court the aforesaid third part against Robert and Margaret his
wife, the king, wishing to be certified whether Eleanor was seised of the
said third after she had thus recovered it, and whether she demised her
estate therein to Robert or not, ordered the sheriff to make inquisition concerning the premises; and afterwards, because it was found by the inquisition that Eleanor was seised of the third in name of dower after she had
thus recovered it, and that she did not make any estate thereof to Robert,
the king caused 10 marks yearly to be paid Edmund and Eleanor for all the
time that the manor was in his hands, for the said dower; and Edmund and
Eleanor have now given the king to understand that the earl detains from
them the said 10 marks yearly for all the time that he has had the manor of
the king's grant, and they have prayed the king to provide a remedy; the
king therefore orders the earl to pay to them the arrears of the said sum for
all the time that he has had the manor, and to pay the same yearly henceforth during Eleanor's life, so that renewed complaint may not come to the
king, as it was not the king's intention when he made the grant of the
manor to the earl that any prejudice should be done to Edmund and
Eleanor. |
May 12.
Gloucester. |
To Robert de Bikkemore, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and
Cornwall. Order not to distrain W. bishop of Exeter for fealty for the
manor of Bishop's Clyst, co. Devon, which he holds by knight service of
the heir of William Martin, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, as the king has taken his fealty. |
April 28.
Kenilworth. |
To Richard Walewayn. Order not to intermeddle further with the
temporalities of the priory of Farleghe, which he has taken into the king's
hands by reason of the cession of brother John de Fiscampo, late prior
thereof, William de Bucsted and Andrew Paynel, monks of the said house,
having lately come to the king with letters of the sub-prior and convent,
praying that, whereas the said house, which is of the king's advowson by
reason of the lands that belonged to Humphrey de Bohun, late earl of
Hereford, being in his hands, is void of pastoral rule by the cession of the
said John, and that it is contained in a composition between Henry, sometime earl of Hereford, and the prior and convent, on the one part, and the
prior and convent of Lewes, on the other, that, upon the voidance of the
priory of Farleghe, the envoys of the earl and of his successors with two
monks of the house of Farleghe appointed for this purpose shall come to
Lewes, and shall ask the prior of Lewes for a prior, and the prior of Lewes
shall nominate to the envoys and monks two persons whom he shall think
fit from the house of Lewes or of Farleghe, or of other houses of the Cluniac
order, which envoys and monks shall take to them as prior one of the two
persons whom they shall believe to be most fitting, and shall have him for
prior, and the king, wishing to observe the said composition, has sent Robert
de Bardelby, canon of Chichester, and Master William de Swanton, dean
of Suth Mallyng, to the prior of Lewes with the said monks for this cause,
so that the prior of Lewes should do what pertained to him according to the
form of the composition, and the said Robert and William and the monks
have been to the prior, and have besought that the composition aforesaid
should be observed, and the prior of Lewes has named to them brothers
Geoffrey de Sancto Lupo and Robert de Strete, monks of Lewes, and has
presented them to the said envoys and monks, and they, after careful examination into the manners and conditions of the said monks thus nominated,
have taken to them the said brother Robert and have admitted him as prior,
as appears by the certificate of the said clerks; which admission the king
accepts. |
May 14.
Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Derby. Order to cause sixty of the strongest and most
suitable workmen of that county to be elected and to be delivered to
Thomas Robyn, the substitute of Richard de Wygornia, king's clerk, keeper
of the king's mines in cos. Cornwall and Devon, to be taken by him to those
counties to work in the mines at the king's wages, which wages the king
will cause to be allowed to the sheriff upon his account, as the king wills
that the aforesaid number shall be chosen and taken to the said counties for
the above purposes. By C. |
May 1.
Hailes. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas lately,—at the
prosecution of the abbot of Croyland, suggesting by his petition before the
king and his council that the king's escheators in cos. Lincoln, Northampton, Cambridge, and Leicester, in whose custody the temporalities of the
abbey were by reason of the last voidance, have deferred exhibiting to the
prior and convent, recipients of corrodies (corrodariis) and servitors, officers,
and other necessary ministers of the abbey their maintenance during the
said voidance out of the issues of the temporalities of the abbey, and that
the treasurer and barons have hitherto deferred doing justice to the abbot
complaining before them concerning the escheators' accounts at the
exchequer, because they did not find in the rolls of the exchequer concerning other voidances of the abbey that any such allowance had previously
been made,—the king, considering it just and reasonable that the prior and
convent, recipients of corrodies, servants, officers, and ministers should be
maintained out of the issues of the abbey during voidance, ordered the
treasurer and barons to search the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer
touching the accounts of voidances of other religious houses in the realm
that are of the king's patronage concerning what was done in like case, and
to certify the king thereof; and it is found by their certificate that, in the
times of voidances of other religious houses of the king's patronage, allowances for the maintenance of the monks and other such servitors were made
to the keepers of the abbeys in the times of the king's ancestors and in the
king's time; the king orders the treasurer and barons to eause allowance
to be made to the aforesaid escheators, in their accounts of the said issues,
for the maintenance of the prior and monks of the abbey for the time of the
last voidance, to wit 6d. a day for the said prior, 3d. a day for each of the
monks, and for every one having a corrody in that house as much as a
monk, having consideration to the corrodies that they receive when the
abbey is not void, and 2d. a day for each of the ministers and officers of the
abbey, and to cause answer to be made therefor to the abbot by the
escheators, and to cause to be done further in this matter what they
shall see fit, notwithstanding that such allowances were not made in other
voidances of the abbey. |
April 25.
Kenilworth. |
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order to deliver to Claricia de Okstede,
sister of Alina, late the wife of John de Hamme, a moiety of the manor of
Okstede, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Alina's
death, and not to intermeddle further with the other moiety, and to restore
the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator
that Alina held no lands in chief in her demesne as of fee at her death in
his bailiwick, but that she held for life a moiety of the said manor, except
51s. of rent from the abbot of Battle, of the demise of Henry de Lodegershale by fine levied in the king's court by the king's licence, and that
the moiety ought to remain to Claricia for life after Alina's death according to the fine, and that a moiety of the said moiety is held of the king in
chief as of the honour of Boulogne by knight service, and that the other
moiety is held of Hugh de Nevill likewise by knight service, the king
having taken Claricia's fealty for the moiety thus held of him. |
May 2.
Hailes. |
To Henry de Cobham, keeper of forfeited lands in co. Kent. Order to
deliver to John de Bello Campo of Somersete a moiety of the manor of
Sellyngges, co. Kent, which Stephen Alard has surrendered into the king's
hands by reason of the claim that John made therein [as stated at page 476
above]. By K. |
May 20.
Crookham. |
To the constable of Berkeley castle, or to him who supplies his place.
Order to cause all prisoners, enemies and rebels of the king, imprisoned in
the castle in the constable's custody, to be kept safely and securely so that
they may not escape from prison, or peril of escape may not arise, under
penalty of his life and limb and of forfeiture of his goods and chattels at the
king's pleasure, as certain of the king's enemies and rebels have escaped
from divers prisons wherein they were confined by the king's orders. |
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[Fœdera.] By p.s. |
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The like to the constables, or those who supply their places, of the
following castles: |
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Exeter. |
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Wyndesore. |
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Kenilworth. |
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Notingham. |
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Hereford. |
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Rochester. |
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Dover. |
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Pevensey. |
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Bernard's castle. |
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Colcestre. |
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Sandale. |
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Gloucester. |
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Corf. |
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Warwick. |
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York. [Ibid.] |
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May 29.
Canterbury. |
To Richard de Mosele, late keeper of the castles, towns, and manors of
Conyngesburgh and Sandale, and of the manors of Wakefeld, Souresby,
Braithewell, Fisshelake, Dewesbury, and Halifax, co. York. Order to
deliver to John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, the ferms, rents, and issues of
the castles, towns, and manors aforesaid from 7 May last, the king having
granted the castles, towns, and manors to him for life, in consideration of
the grant, quit-claim, and warranty of the said castles, towns, and manors
and of the manors and towns of Staunford and Grantham, co. Lincoln, as
the king has granted to him the ferms, rents, and issues from 7 May last
because he granted the castles, towns, and manors in co. York to the earl
for life on that day, although the earl had not then the king's letters patent.
The king wills that, if the earl wish to buy the king's victuals in the said
castles, the keeper shall permit him to have them at such price as others
would give therefor, receiving the price from him first. By K. and by p.s. |
May 2.
Hailes. |
To Payn de Portes, keeper of forfeited lands in co. Hertford. Order
not to intermeddle further with two messuages, 200 acres of land, 16 acres
of meadow, 8 acres of pasture, 4 acres of wood, and 9s. of rent in Stanstede
Abbots and Hunesdon, in the aforesaid county, if they are in the king's
hands solely by reason of the alleged adherence of John Joce to Bartholomew de Badelesmere, a late rebel, as the king learns by inquisition
taken by John de Denum and John Ben that John de Liston granted the
premises to John Joce and Christiana his wife by fine levied before the
justices of the Bench, in the second year of the king's reign, to have to
them and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder, in default of such heir,
to the right heirs of John Joce, and that John Joce and Christiana were
seised of the premises from the time of the levying of the fine until Sunday
after the Purification, in the 12th year of the king's reign, on which day
Christiana died at Stanstede Abbots, and that John Joce, after her death,
held the tenements until Monday the feast of St. Lucy, in the 15th year
of the king's reign, when the tenements were taken into the king's hands
because it was said that John was an adherent of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, and that the tenements are in the king's hands for this reason, and
that John Joce died whilst journeying with the king to Scotland in the
16th year of the reign, and that the tenements ought to remain to Thomas
son of the aforesaid John Joce and Christiana, according to the fine aforesaid, and that they are held of other lords than the king by divers services,
and that they are worth yearly in all issues 74s. 6d. |
