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June 3.
Canterbury. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further at present with the manor of Ketelbergh, or with the other
lands taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Edward Charles,
as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that Edward at his
death held no lands of the king in chief in his demesne as of fee, but that
he held the said manor for the term of his life of the king in chief by knight
service, and that it ought to remain after his death to Edward his son, and
to the heirs of his body, by fine levied in the late king's court by his
licence, and that he held divers lands of other lords by various services, and
the king has caused the homage due to him for the said manor to be
respited during pleasure, by reason of certain claims made upon the said
manor before the council. Witness: John de Eltham. By C. |
June 2.
Canterbury. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to supersede the king's late order
to deliver to Elias de Stubton a ship of Hugh de Colne of Caleys called
'the ship of St. John' of Calays, and her tackle, arrested at Portesmuth
[as at page 450 above], and to deliver the ship to Hugh, upon his finding
security to answer to the king for the price thereof, if he will speak against
him concerning the same, as the king has set out for France, and the king
of France has requested him to restore the said ship to Hugh. Witness:
J. de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, keeper of the realm. By p.s. |
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To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause the abbot of Abyndon to
have seisin of a messuage in Abyndon, as the king learns by inquisition
taken by the sheriff that William le Bowyare of Abyndon, who was hanged
for a felony, held the messuage of the abbot, and that it has been in the
king's hands for a year and a day, and that John de Brumpton, late sheriff
of that county, had the king's year, day, and waste thereof, and ought to
answer to the king for the same. |
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To the same. Like order concerning a messuage and a virgate of land
in Abyndon that Richard Reygnald, who was hanged for felony, held of the
abbot. |
June 3.
Canterbury. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause verderers for the forest of
Dene, which Queen Isabella holds for life, to be elected in place of Elias de
Aylbrighton, Richard de Billyngg', and William Lewelyn, whom the king
has amoved from office because he learns that they are insufficiently qualified.
Witness: J. de Eltham. By testimony of Robert de Aspale. |
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Thomas son of Roger de Weryngton, imprisoned in Lancaster gaol for
the death of Robert de Wavertre, has letters to the sheriff of Lancaster to
bail him until the first assize. |
June 4.
Canterbury. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage, an adjoining close, and 19 acres of land in
the town of Westminster, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the
escheator that Edward Charles at his death held no lands in chief in his
demesne as of fee, but that he held the manor of Ketelbergh of the king in
chief by knight service, and that the manor ought to remain after his death
to Edward his son, and to the heirs of his body by fine levied in the late
king's court by his licence, and that he held at his death in his demesne as
of fee the said messuage and land of the abbot and convent of Westminster
and of the master of the hospital of St. James, Westminster, by divers
services, and that William Charles, son of William son of the aforesaid
Edward Charles, is his kinsman and next heir and is aged sixteen years.
Witness: J. de Eltham, etc. |
June 6.
Canterbury. |
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, justice of Wales. Order to
appoint William de Shaldeford, king's clerk, and one other in whom he has
confidence, by letters patent, to survey the king's castles in North Wales
and the defects therein, and to cause the defects most needing repair to be
repaired by the view and testimony of the chamberlain of North Wales
with all speed, as the king understands that the castles greatly need repair
in the walls, turrets, bridges and other buildings, insomuch that their ruin
is feared unless they be speedily repaired. The king has ordered the
chamberlain to obey and to be intendent to the justice in the premises, and
to deliver by indenture as much money as shall be needed for the repairs to
those whom the justice shall thus depute. Witness: J. de Eltham, etc.
By p.s. |
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Mandate in pursuance to Nicholas de Acton, chamberlain of North
Wales. By p.s. |
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Vacated, because otherwise below. |
June 12.
Dover. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to William
de Orlaston in his account for the time when he was sheriff of Kent
100 marks, paid by him to Bartholomew de Burgherssh in execution of the
king's order [as at page 426 above]. |
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To the same. Like order for allowance to the said William of 12l. 2s. 5d.,
expended by him for the maintenance of the horses of the men of Hainault
received by William de Scothowe, the king's clerk, at Dover and for the
wages of the keepers of the same horses, as appears by an indenture made
between him and the said clerk, in execution of the king's order. |
June 16.
Canterbury. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the priory of Donmawe, which he has taken into the
king's hands by reason of the last voidance, and to restore the issues thereof
in full to the present prior and convent, as the king learns by inquisition
taken by the escheator that the priory is of the patronage of the heir of
Robert le fitz Wauter, a minor in the king's wardship, and that the
heir's ancestors received no profits from the priory in times of voidance. |
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Membrane 18. |
June 12.
Dover. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to William
de Orlaston, in his account of the time when he was sheriff of Kent, 20l.,
paid by him to Waresius de Valoyns, then captain and admiral of the king's
fleet of all the ships from the mouth of the Thames to the west, for his
wages, in execution of the king's order to pay to Waresius 5s. a day for the
wages of himself and a clerk and two grooms during the time that they
should be employed in choosing in co. Kent mariners and other men for the
ships of the Cinque Ports and other ports then about to set out in the king's
service for Scotland. |
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To the same. Like order for allowance to the said William of 28s. 0½d.,
paid by him to William de Harwe, in execution of the king's order to pay to
the said William de Harwe, whom the king had ordered to come to him
with one of the king's carts and six of his cart-horses, for the maintenance
of the horses and for repairing the harness of the horses and carts. |
June 14.
Canterbury. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manors of Waye and Pydele, co. Dorset, and to
restore the issues thereof to Isabella, late the wife of Peter Rabayn, as the
king learns by inquisition taken by William Trussel, late escheator this side
Trent, that Peter and Isabella held the manors to them and the heirs of their
bodies on the day of Peter's death by fine levied in the late king's court by
his licence, and that the manors are held of the king in chief by the service
of one knight's fee, and the king has taken Isabella's fealty for the manors. |
June 16.
Canterbury. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause 91 pipes of wine of
Constantine de Rasero, Reymund de Garrit, and John de Bastida of Mont
Abon, arrested by him in a ship of Richard le Stotter, in execution of the
king's order to arrest goods of the men and merchants of France, Normandy,
and Poitou, at the prosecution of Hugh Sampson, to be appraised in the
presence of the said Constantine, Reymund, and John, and to cause the
wines to be restored to them upon their finding security to answer to the
king for what the wines are worth beyond the freight, any order of the
king's to the contrary notwithstanding, certifying the king of the security
and of the price of the wines, as a treaty is to be held shortly between the
king and the king of France concerning the damages inflicted upon both
sides. By p.s. [2675.] |
June 16.
Canterbury. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Whereas the king
granted to John de Aspale, his yeoman, in consideration of his good service
to him and Queen Isabella, the lands in Balsham, co. Cambridge, that belonged to Hugh le Despenser, the younger, which came to the late king's
hands by his forfeiture, for life if they remained in the king's hands, as of
the value of 10l. of land yearly; and the king, understanding that John had
entered certain lands on the king's seisin in Wrottyng, in that county,
which belonged to the said Hugh, under colour of the said grant, ordered
the escheator to resume the said lands in Wrattyng into the king's hands;
and John has asserted before the king and his council that the said lands
are appurtenances of the lands in Balsham, and that they were delivered
to him by the sheriff of Cambridge as appurtenant to the lands in Balsham,
by virtue of the aforesaid grant, and he has prayed the king to cause them
to be restored to him: the king orders the escheator to cause the lands in
Wrattyng and any issues received therefrom and the goods and chattels
therein to be restored to John, to hold until it be decided whether the lands
ought to pertain to the king or to John, notwithstanding the king's commission of the lands in Wrattyng to the aforesaid (sic) James for a term
of years and the king's order to deliver them to James. |
June 22.
Rochester. |
To the same. Order to deliver to Edward son of Edward Charles the
issues of the manor of Ketelbergh from the time when it was taken into
the king's hands, the king having ordered the escheator not to intermeddle
further with the said manor [as at page 467 above], by virtue of which
order Edward has entered the manor, and the king has granted to him the
issues thereof as of his gift in response to Edward's petition. By p.s. [2698.] |
June 16.
Canterbury. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Whereas Dynus Forsetti, Peter Byne, Francis de Boos, and their fellows,
merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, have promised to pay
for the king to John de Hanon[ia] 7,406l. 6s. 9d., in full payment of a
greater sum due to him by the king's letters obligatory, and have found
security in chancery to acquit the king for this sum against John, and to
restore to him the said letters obligatory, on condition that they be satisfied
for the aforesaid sum at the terms mentioned below; and the king wills that
they shall have in part payment thereof 10,000 marks of the money that the
king of Scotland is bound to pay to him according to the concord between
the said kings, to wit 5,000 marks at Michaelmas next and 5,000 marks
at Martinmas following, and the remaining 739l. 13s. 5d. at Michaelmas
aforesaid out of the money then coming to the exchequer from the proffers
of sheriffs and other sources: the king therefore orders them to pay
to the said merchants at Michaelmas the 5,000 marks that they ought to
receive from the king of Scotland at Midsummer, together with the said
739l. 13s. 5d., and to cause the other 5,000 marks due from the king of
Scotland at Martinmas to be assigned and paid to them. The king wills
that no assignments shall be made at the exchequer, by pretext of any orders
previously sent to them or to be sent to them hereafter, upon any issues
and customs until the merchants have been satisfied for the aforesaid
7,406l. 6s. 9d., the more especially as the merchants have undertaken to
satisfy the said John at the king's request on condition that they be satisfied
at the terms aforesaid, and it will be to the king's damage and shame if
John be not satisfied at the term fixed. By p.s. [2690.] |
June 22.
Rochester. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with 4 acres of land of Roger Spilfot in Upton, and to
restore the issues thereof, as the escheator has returned that William
Trussel, late escheator this side Trent, delivered the land to him by indenture
at the time of his appointment as escheator, asserting that they were in the
king's hands by reason of the trespass that Roger Spilfot, Alice his wife, and
Stephen their son made in acquiring them from Matthew de Redham, who
held them in chief of the late king, without the late or present king's licence,
and the king afterwards, at Roger's suggestion that the land is held of John
son of John Botetourt and not of the king in chief, ordered the escheator
to make inquisition concerning the same, and it is found by such inquisition
that the land is held of John son and heir of Thomas Botetourt as of
the manor of Upton by knight service, and not of the king in chief. |
June 20.
Canterbury. |
Roger del Hay of Wyrkesworth, imprisoned at Notingham for the death
of Nicholas son of Nicholas de Middelton of Wyrkesworth, has letters to the
sheriff of Derby to bail him until the first assize. |
June 22.
Rochester. |
To John de Insula, constable of Wyndesore castle, or to him who
supplies his place. Order to deliver to the abbot of Westminster eight
bucks at the eve of St. Peter ad Vincula next from that forest, to be taken
and carried to Westminster at the king's cost, in accordance with the
charter of Henry III. which the king has inspected, granting to the abbot
eight bucks yearly, to be taken in Wyndesore forest at the king's cost
by the hands of the constable of Wyndesore, to be carried by the constable
to Westminster at the eve of the said feast, so that they who thus carry the
venison shall make two (meneyas) before the great altar of
St. Peter's, Westminster, yearly. |
June 22.
Rochester. |
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to restore to Henry Founteyn, clerk
of the diocese of Exeter, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken
into the king's hands upon his being charged before John de Stonore
and John de Cantebrigg, late justices to deliver Exeter gaol, with theft of a
plough-beast (jumento) of Walter de Badeworthi, as he has purged his
innocence before J. bishop of Exeter, to whom he was delivered according
to the privilege of the clergy. |
June 28.
Eltham. |
To the sheriff of Leicester. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken
by William Herle, Robert de Gaddesby, and Roger de Belegrave that the
abbot of Leicester bought a parcel of wood in Haliwellehagh near Loughteburgh from Henry de Bello Monte long before Henry's rebellion against the
king, to wit on Monday the morrow of Sunday in Mid Lent, in the second
year of the king's reign, and that the abbot on the same day paid 28l., for
which he bought the wood, to Henry in the manor of Loughteburgh, and
that the said parcel of wood contains about 2 acres, and that the abbot
felled part of it and carried it away in the same season (seisona), and that a
certain part of the parcel was taken into the king's hands upon the rebellion
of the said Henry with his other lands, and that the wood is in the king's
hands solely for this reason: the king therefore orders the sheriff not to
intermeddle in any way with the wood thus bought from Henry and
felled by the abbot after the purchase, and to permit the abbot to carry
away whither he will the wood thus bought and felled. |
June 25.
Rochester. |
Almaric Pauncefot, imprisoned at Worcester for trespass of venison in the
forest of Feckenham, has letters to John Mautravers, keeper of the Forest
this side Trent, to bail him. |
June 20.
Canterbury. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Wysete, and to restore the issues thereof
to Agnes, late the wife of John de Nerford, after receiving her fealty,
as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John and Agnes
were jointly enfeoffed of the manor by fine levied in the late king's court,
and that Agnes continued her seisin thereof jointly with John until the day
of his death, and that the manor is held of the king as of the honour
of Richmond by the service of one knight's fee. |
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June 25.
Rochester. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to Hugh de Colne
of Calays his ship called 'the ship of St. John of Calays' and her tackle,
which were arrested by Richard de Norhampton, bailiff of Portesmuth,
in execution of the king's order to arrest goods of the men and merchants
of Normandy and elsewhere in France, in part satisfaction for the damages
sustained by Elias de Stubton [as at page 450, above], as it is agreed
between the king and the king of France that certain persons shall be
assigned to enquire concerning the trespasses inflicted upon men of this
realm by men of France and upon the men of France by the king's subjects,
and to do justice concerning the same, and Robert de Watevill and
Alexander Hurtyn of Dover have mainperned before the king in chancery
on Hugh's behalf to answer to the king for 80l., at which the ship and
tackle are appraised, when the king will speak against them concerning the
same. By K. & C. |
