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July 1.
Eltham. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Whereas the king
lately ordered the escheator to certify him of the reason for taking into the
king's hands 4 messuages and 40 acres of land in Basyngestok belonging to
Master John de Wanetynge, warden of the house of the scholars of Merton
Halle, Oxford, and the escheator has returned that he had taken the
messuages and land into the king's hands because the warden and his
predecessors were endowed (fundati) therewith to find two chaplains celebrating divine service daily in the chapel of St. John the Baptist, Basyngestok, and to distribute daily to seven poor men for the souls of the king's
progenitors, and it appears by a charter of Henry III. shewn in chancery
that the said king founded, in what was then his demesne manor of Basyngestok, an hospital in honour of God and the Virgin Mary and of St. John the
Baptist, for the perpetual maintenance of the ministers of God's altar verging
on imbecility and of the poor infirm there, and he willed that the hospital
should enjoy the royal privilege and indulgence, both in free chapel and in
the celebration of divine service and in other things, as founded by him in
his own manor, in the same manner as other places founded by him and his
progenitors, and he received the lands, rents, and possessions thereof into
his protection, willing that they should be discharged and free of all service
and exaction, in which charter there is no express number of the chaplains
celebrating in the hospital, which is now called 'the chapel of St. John the
Baptist,' or of the poor men to be found there, and the warden has given
the king to understand that the messuages and lands are of the appurtenances of the lands wherewith the hospital was thus founded, and the warden
has prayed the king for remedy: the king therefore orders the escheator not
to intermeddle further with the messuages and land, if they be of the appurtenances aforesaid and be in the king's hands solely on this account, and to
restore the issues thereof. |
July 1.
Eltham. |
To Richard Caleware. Order to deliver to Hugh Daudele and Margaret
his wife, sometime the wife of Peter, earl of Cornwall, the castle of Lydeford, co. Devon, of the value of 11l. 8s. 11¼d., the chace of Dertmore, in the
same county, of the value of 65l. 2s. 5½d., and the hamlet of Wyk Suthtenge,
in the said county, of the value of 20l. 15s. 11½d., which the late king, on
20 July, in the 13th year of his reign, granted to Hugh and Margaret for
her life because she had no dower of the said earl's lands, and the king
ordered the sheriff of Devon not to intermeddle further with the castle, chace,
and hamlet, which, it was said, he had taken into the king's hands, and he
has certified that he could do nothing concerning them because Richard had
the custody thereof long before the receipt of the king's order by commission
of the exchequer. |
June 16.
Canterbury. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be
assigned to the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence all the
issues of the custom of London after John de Hanon[ia] have been satisfied
for the sum of money assigned to him therefrom, and of the custom of
Southampton after John de Pultenay have been satisfied for what is due to
him from the little custom of the city and from the custom of that town, and
the issues of other customs in places where the merchants may be speedily
satisfied for the sums due to them, as they have lent to the king divers sums
and assignments therefor have been made to them upon the customs and other
issues in the chancery and at the exchequer by divers commissions, and a great
part of the money thus borrowed from them is still in arrear. By p.s. [2690.] |
June 28.
Eltham. |
To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to Simon, archbishop
of Canterbury, in the tenth granted to the king at Leicester in the time of
Walter, the late archbishop, and in other debts due to the king from Walter,
for 300l., which the king ordered William de Leycestria and John de
Braydeston, keeper of the goods of the said Walter, to pay to Reginald de
Cobham out of Walter's goods, which goods the king ordered them to
deliver to archbishop Simon [as at page 338 above]. |
June 28.
Eltham. |
To the justice of Wales, or to him who supplies his place, and to the
chamberlain of Kaernervan. Order to commit to Master Matthew, archdeacon of Anglesey in North Wales, the king's mills of the county of
Anglesey for ten years, rendering therefor the usual ferm and 20s. yearly as
increment, unless it appear to them that such commission is to the king's
damage and prejudice, as Matthew has besought the king, by petition before
him and his council at Northampton, to commit the mills to him under this
form, in consideration of his and his ancestors' services. By pet. of C. |
June 26.
Eltham. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to supersede until otherwise ordered the
execution of the king's order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected
in place of Ralph le Longe of Coueleston, which order the king made
because he understood that Ralph was insufficiently qualified, as he now
learns upon trustworthy testimony that Ralph is sufficient and fit for the
office, and to enjoin Ralph to execute the office henceforth.
By the testimony of John Mautravers. |
July 3.
Reigate. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to
Alice, late the wife of Andrew Peverel, two parts of the manor of Blachynton, and not to intermeddle further with the manors of Smythyngg' and
Ywhurst, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Andrew's
death, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition
taken by the escheator that Andrew and Alice were enfeoffed jointly for their
lives of the said manors and two parts by fines levied in the late king's court
by his licence, with remainder to Andrew, son of the said Andrew, and to
the heirs of his body, and that Alice continued her joint seisin thereof until
the day of her husband's death, and that the manors are held of Alina de
Moubray as of the honour of Brombre (sic) by the service of three knights'
fees and by doing suit at the court of Brembre from three weeks to three
weeks for all service, and that the two parts are held of the king by the
service of two parts of a knight's fee and by rendering half a mark yearly to
Pevenseye castle, which is of the honour of Laigle, for all service, and the
king has taken Alice's fealty for the said two parts. |
July 4.
Reigate. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to pay to Bertram de la More, the
king's serjeant, 10 marks from the ferm of the city for Michaelmas next, in
accordance with the late king's grant of that sum to him for life at Michaelmas yearly. |
July 5.
Guildford. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause John
son and heir of Henry de Brok, tenant in chief of the late king, to have
seisin of his father's land, as he has proved his age before the escheator and
the king has taken his homage. By p.s. [2744.] |
July 4.
Reigate. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to pay to John de Hanon[ia], or to Dinus Forsetti and
Peter Byne and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of
Florence dwelling in that city, John's attorneys in this behalf, 500 marks
for Easter term last of the 1,000 marks yearly granted to him by the king,
on 7 February, in the first year of his reign, from the issues of that custom,
notwithstanding any assignments of the customs made or to be made by the
king, as the king wishes to provide so that John shall not be hindered in
receiving his rent aforesaid by any such assignments. |
July 3.
Reigate. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the account
of Stephen le Blount for the time when he was the late king's chamberlain
of Scotland and receiver of his victuals at Berwick-on-Tweed, and to cause
to be done what they shall see fit for the final issue of the account. |
July 6.
Guildford. |
To the same. Order to cause Nicholas de Tunstal to be discharged of
32l. from the sale of the woad of Peter de Sancto Fussiano, merchant of
Amiens, which he arrested, when he was the late king's bailiff of Shorham,
co. Sussex, by reason of the war between the said king and the king of
France, at Shorham, in the custody of Denis de Gyencourt, Peter's yeoman,
which sum the king ordered him to pay to Peter. |
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July 3.
Reigate. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Roger de Huntyngfeld, and to restore the
issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Roger held no lands in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of
his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held divers lands of other
lords by various services. |
July 1.
Eltham. |
To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of William de Shepeye, who has no lands in that county
except those that he holds in fee tail jointly with his wife. |
July 4.
Reigate. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance
to be made to Thomas de Leycestria, late keeper of the manor and park of
Wyndesore, for as much yearly for the custody for the time of his office as
was usually allowed to others who had that custody in their accounts. |
July 2.
Eltham. |
To the same. Order to cause such process under the exchequer seal to
be made against the fermors, bailiffs, and other ministers of Queen Isabella,
and the receivers of the issues of the lands that she holds in dower or otherwise for term of life, and against the executors of the wills of such bailiffs,
ministers, and receivers to render their ferms and rents to her exchequer as
has been usually made against the like officers of the king hitherto, as the
king is given to understand that her bailiffs, ministers, and receivers refuse
to pay the ferms and issues to her exchequer or to come to her exchequer
to make such payments or to render their accounts. By K. |
July 4.
Reigate. |
To Queen Isabella's bailiffs of Cippenham. Order to pay to the abbot
of Westminster the arrears of a yearly rent of 50s. from that manor from
the time that it came to Queen Isabella's hands, and to pay the same rent
to the abbot yearly hereafter for so long as the manor shall be in her hands,
and in their custody, as the late king—upon its being found by an inquisition taken by the keeper of the manor, which was then in his hands, that
the abbot of Westminster ought to receive and have from the manor the said
yearly rent, because the manor is held of him as of the chief lord by the
service of rendering the aforesaid rent yearly for all service, and that the
abbot and his predecessors were always seised of the rent aforesaid from
time out of mind, as well by the hands of the earl of Cornwall as by
the hands of others who held the manor, until the Annunciation, in the 6th
year of the said king's reign, at which time the manor came to his hands,
since which time nothing had been paid to the abbot—ordered the keeper
of the manor to pay to the abbot the arrears of the rent from the time when
it came to his hands, and to pay the rent thereafter, and the manor is now
in Queen Isabella's hands by the king's grant, and the abbot has not
obtained payment of the rent from the time that the manor thus came to her
hands. By C. |
July 12.
Chichester. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Ralph de Cressy, who is incapacitated by infirmity. |
July 4.
Reigate. |
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause Henry Husee, knight, to have
seisin of 50 acres of land, 20s. of rent, and a third of a messuage in West
Wyttenham, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that
Ingelram le Spicer of Abyndon, who was outlawed for felony, held the
premises of Henry, 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
therefor. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the
mayors of the city of London to be charged with wardships and marriages
and all other things pertaining to the office of escheatry in that city from
6 March, in the first year of the king's reign, when he granted by charter
to the citizens that no escheator or other minister of his should exercise the
office of escheatry in the city, but that the mayor of the city for the time
being should execute that office. |
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To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to Simon de
Bereford, whom the king appointed escheator this side Trent on
13 December, in the first year of his reign, in his account for as much for
his fee from that day and hereafter as has been usually allowed to other
escheators for their fee hitherto. |
July 8.
Chichester. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to
John de Norwico, son and heir of Walter de Norwico, all issues received
from the manors of Bradefeld and Dalham from the time of Walter's death,
as the king, on 20 February last, ordered the escheator to take into his
hands all the lands that belonged to Walter, who was then dead, and it was
found by inquisition taken by the escheator that Walter held no lands in
chief of the king on the day of his death, but that he held the aforesaid
manors at fee-ferm, rendering therefor 40l. to the exchequer yearly, and the
king took John's fealty for the manors on 7 April, and ordered them to be
delivered to him, and John has now shewn the king that the escheator
defers delivering to him the issues of the manors although he is charged
with the ferm thereof from the time of Walter's death. |
July 11.
Chichester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge
Richard de la Pole and William his brother of 1,001l. 5s. 11d. paid to them
by the collectors of the custom in Boston and of 1,000l. paid to them by the
collectors of custom in Kyngeston-on-Hull, in execution of the king's order
of 24 August, in the first year of his reign, which sums they have allowed
to the collectors [as at page 277], as the king understands that they charge
Richard and William with the aforesaid sums because the collectors did
not deliver to them the king's letters ordering the payment, which letters
the treasurer and barons are to receive from them. |
May 25.
Dover. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause a tally at the king's
receipt to be levied and delivered to the collectors of the custom of wool in
Kyngeston-on-Hull and in Southampton, if they ascertain that the collectors
have paid the 500 marks from each port that the king ordered them to pay
to James Nicholas, Peter Reyner, and their fellows, merchants of the society
of the Bardi of Florence [as at page 445 above]. |
July 12.
Chichester. |
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of
Whucchewod to be elected in place of Thomas Golafre, who is incapacitated
by infirmity and age. |
July 12.
Chichester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made upon William la Zousche of Haringworth, one of the heirs of
George de Cantilupo, tenant in chief of Edward I. for the ferm of Calne
or other ferms that George was wont to render to the exchequer for his
lands, for the time that the lands were in the hands of the said king, who,
on 4 November, in the first year of his reign, ordered Master Richard de
Clifford, then escheator this side Trent, to take all the lands of the said
George, then dead, into his hands, the said king having, on 1 May, in the
second year of his reign, taken the fealty of Eudo la Zousche, who married
Milicent, sister and co-heiress of George, for the purparty of George's
inheritance falling to her, which purparty he ordered to be delivered to them. |
July 2.
Dover. |
To Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, justice of Wales. Order to
appoint some persons in whom he can trust to survey the king's castles in
North Wales and the defects therein, who shall obey and be intendent to
Nicholas de Acton, chamberlain of North Wales in the premises, as the
king has ordered the chamberlain to cause the defects in the castles that
most need repair to be repaired by the view and testimony of those to be
thus appointed by the justice. By K.
[Fœdera.] |
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Mandate in pursuance to the chamberlain. By K. |
July 10.
Chichester. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain
Roger de Pedwardyn for homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of
the king, as he has done homage and fealty to the king. |
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July 7.
Guildford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be
levied for the king's use 200 marks for Midsummer term last due to the
king from brother Peter Marie, proctor in England of the abbot of Fécamp
in Normandy, the king having, on 3 May last, committed to him the custody
of the temporalities and goods of the abbey in the king's hands, to have
with all liberties and other things pertaining to the custody and the issues
thereof from the time of the voidance of the abbey, for so long as the
temporalities shall remain in the king's hands, rendering therefor to the
exchequer 433l. 6s. 8d. at Midsummer, Michaelmas, Christmas, and Easter,
to wit 200 marks at Midsummer and 100l. at each of the other terms, for
so long as the temporalities are in the king's hands. |
July 4.
Reigate. |
To Robert Selyman and John de Trevaignon, justices to take assizes in
co. Southampton. Whereas the king ordered John de Stonore and the
aforesaid John, then his justices to take assizes in the said county, to proceed to the taking of an assize of novel disseisin arramed before them by
John le Mareschal of Bovynden and Constance his wife against Thomas son
of John de Venuz, Edward de Sancto Johanne, and others named in the
original writ concerning tenements in Estworldham, the taking of which
assize had been long delayed, or to certify the king why they could not proceed to take the assize, and they returned that the assize is thus arramed
concerning a manor in Estworldham, and that the said Edward came before
them and said that the aforesaid Thomas is the son and heir of John de
Venuz, who held the manor of the king in chief and died seised thereof,
and that the king had granted the manor to Edward until the said heir
came of age, and he proffered the king's letters patent testifying this, by
reason whereof they had deferred proceeding to take the assize without
consulting the king; and the king learns from John le Mareschal and
Constance that John de Venuz, grandfather of the aforesaid heir, enfeoffed
Thomas le Mareschal of the aforesaid manor by the late king's licence and
by fine levied in his court, and that Thomas, having had seisin thereof,
granted it to the said John de Venuz and Margery his wife for their lives,
so that it should remain after their death to the aforesaid John le Mareschal
and Constance and John's heirs, as is contained in the said licence and in
the fine, and that after the death of John de Venuz and Margery the said
John le Mareschal and Constance entered the manor, and held it peacefully
for a long time, until John de Venuz, father of the aforesaid Thomas, and
the said Thomas with many others unjustly disseised them thereof, for
which reason they arramed the aforesaid assize against Thomas as the
principal disseisor and against others named in the original writ, and they
have besought the king to provide them with a remedy since Thomas was
the principal disseisor, as they assert they are prepared to prove; and the
assize remains to be taken before the aforesaid Robert and John by the
king's commission to them to take all juries and certificates arramed before
his justices in that county: the king, having consideration to the letters of
his father and to the fine aforesaid and to the fact that the assize is arramed
against Thomas as principal disseisor, orders the justices to proceed to take
the assize as speedily as possible, notwithstanding Edward's allegation
aforesaid, provided that they do not proceed to render judgment without
consulting the king. By p.s. [2739.] |
July 11.
Chichester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance
to be made to the collectors of the old and new custom in the port of Lenne
for 150l., paid by them to Thomas de Useflet, the late clerk of the great
wardrobe, in execution of the king's order of 16 July, in the first year of
his reign, to pay this sum to Thomas towards the expenses of his office. |
July 7.
Guildford. |
William Diryvol of Dersham, chaplain, and Robert Miriel of Yoxford,
imprisoned at Ipswich for the death of Richard son of Richard de Bandon
of Yoxford, have letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail them until the first
assize. |
July 14.
Chichester. |
To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower
to be assigned to Katherine, late the wife of Thomas Basset, tenant in
chief, as she has taken oath before the king not to marry without his
licence. |
July 11.
Chichester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede
the demand made upon William la Zousche of Haryngworth, one of the
heirs of George de Cantilupo, for the ferm of Calne or other yearly ferms
that William de Cantilupo used to render to the exchequer for his lands, for
the time when they were in the hands of Henry III. and Edward I., and
to discharge William la Zousche thereof, as Henry III., on 10 December,
in the 38th year of his reign, ordered the abbot of Persore and James Fris',
then his escheators, to take into his hands all the lands of William de
Cantilupo, deceased, tenant in chief, and Edward I., on 1 May, in the first
year of his reign, took the fealty of George de Cantilupo, son and heir of
William, for the lands that his father held of Henry III., and ordered the
lands to be rendered to him. |
July 15.
Chichester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Marca,
late the wife of Henry Dyve, tenant in chief, of the value of Henry's lands,
which lands the king committed to her, on 9 August, in the first year of
his reign, during the minority of John son and heir of Henry, from
4 September following, when the king granted the value that she was bound
to render therefor to William de Clynton, and when he ordered her to pay
the value to William. |
July 12.
Chichester. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to supersede the king's order to cause a
coroner for that county to be elected in place of Nicholas de Metham,
which order the king issued because he was given to understand that Nicholas
was insufficiently qualified, as he now learns upon trustworthy testimony
that Nicholas is sufficient and fit for the office, which office the sheriff is to
enjoin him to execute henceforth. |
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To the sheriff of Rutland. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of
Roteland to be elected in place of Peter le Venour, deceased. |
July 15.
Chichester. |
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 Adam le Barbour of Abyndon, who was hanged for
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 that he ought to
answer the king therefor. |
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William de la Wode of Tittele, imprisoned in Hereford castle for the
death of William son of John de la Halle, has letters to the sheriff of
Hereford to bail him until the first assize. |
July 17.
Farnham. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to sepersede entirely his distresses of the
men and tenants of the abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, of his manors
of Menstre in the Isle of Thanet, Chistelet, Stureye, Litleburn, Northburne,
Lenham, and Plomstede to come to the sheriff's tourns by the borsholders
(borghesaldri) and four men of each tithing (borgha) of those manors to
bring a rent called 'the sheriff's tourn,' provided that the rent be paid to
the king in full at the tourns by one man, in accordance with the late
king's order [as in this Calendar, 19 Edw. II., p. 444], as the king learns
from the complaint of the men and tenants that the sheriff distrains them
to come to this tourn by the borsholders and four men of each tithing,
contrary to the said order, and they have prayed the king to provide a
remedy, and the king, having consideration to the fact that it is contained
in the record and process in the aforesaid matter that view of frankpledge
in the said manors was allowed to the abbot in the court of his progenitors
and in the late king's court, and that it was agreed by the late king and his
council that the sheriff should be ordered to supersede distraining the men
and tenants to come as aforesaid, wills that the men and tenants shall not
be aggrieved contrary to the allowances, consideration, and order aforesaid. |
July 13.
Chichester. |
To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order to amove the
king's hand from the land, fishery, and rent in Wolston specified below,
and to permit the abbot of Shrewsbury to hold them without hindrance, and
to restore to him any issues received therefrom, as the escheator has
returned to the king that he did not take into the king's hands a rent of 20s.
and a tithe of sheaves of the abbot in Wolston, but that Simon de Grymesby,
late escheator beyond Trent, delivered to him, at the time of his appointment, by indenture a plot of land called 'Wyldegrene' containing a carucate
of land, a fishery in Mersee, and 20s. of rent from the manor of Wolston,
co. Lancaster, asserting that they were in the king's hands because one of
the king's progenitors gave the land, fishery, and rent to a certain abbot of
Shrewsbury, in order to find a monk celebrating divine service in the
chapel of Wyldegrene for the souls of the kings of England, and that the
present abbot withdrew the said chantry, and that the tenements are still in
the king's hands for this cause, and the king is given to understand by the
abbot that he and his predecessors from time out of mind held the land,
fishery, and rent of the gift of Ranulph, sometime earl of Chester, quit and
discharged of all service and exaction, and he exhibited the earl's charter
to this effect in chancery. |
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July 15.
Odiham. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to deliver to John de Kyngeslond of that
county by indenture at a reasonable price all the goods that belonged to
Thomas de Stokyngham, deceased, which the king lately ordered to be
taken into his hands because Thomas was bound to him and to Queen
Isabella in divers debts and accounts to be rendered of the time when he
was bailiff of her liberty in cos. Southampton and Wilts and for other
causes, as John Roger of Challok, John de Stokyngham of Challok,
William de Stokyngham of Godmersham, and Stephen atte Sle of Godmersham, of that county, have mainperned in Queen Isabella's exchequer at
Westminster on behalf of the said John de Kyngeslond that he shall come
to the exchequer on the morrow of Michaelmas next, and shall there render
account to Queen Isabella for all the time that Thomas held the bailiwick
aforesaid and did not render account therefor, and shall fully satisfy the
king and her for all debts due from Thomas, so far as the said goods shall
suffice for this purpose. |
July 16.
Chichester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede until
further orders the demand made by them upon Marca, late the wife of
Henry Dyve, tenant in chief, for the value of Henry's lands, which lands
the king committed to her on 9 August, in the first year of his reign,
during the minority of John son and heir of Henry, the king having afterwards, on 4 September following, granted the said value to William de
Clynton, to whom he ordered her to pay the value. |
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To Richard Caleware. Order to deliver to Hugh Daudele and Margaret
his wife all the issues of the castle of Lydeford, the chace of Dertmore, and
the hamlet of Wyk Suthtenge, co. Devon, for which Richard has not
answered to the exchequer, the king having lately ordered him to deliver
the castle, chace, and hamlet to them [as at page 472 above], as Hugh and
Margaret have given him to understand that Richard detains from them the
issues, although he has delivered to them the castle, chace, and hamlet. |
July 22.
Windsor. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Robert
de Colvill, son and heir of Edmund de Colvill, tenant in chief of the late
king, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved his age before
John de Blomvill, the said king's escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex,
Hertford, Cambridge, and Huntingdon, and the king has taken his homage.
By p.s. [2778.] |
July 23.
Windsor. |
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Richard de Hokeneshowe, whom the king has amoved
from office for insufficient qualification. |
July 24.
Windsor. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with Clemencia de Vescy's manor of Stapelford, co. Leicester,
and to restore the issues thereof to her, as she has shewn the king that the
escheator has taken the manor into the king's hands pretending that she
had died, wherefore she has prayed the king to provide a remedy, and the
king learns upon trustworthy testimony that she is in good health. |
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To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner to be elected in
place of Robert de Hitton and John de Bradekerke, verderers of Lancaster
forest belonging to Henry, earl of Lancaster, whom the king has amoved
because he learns that they are insufficiently qualified. |
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To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of Christina, late the wife of Adam de la
Forde, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition
taken by the escheator that she held no lands of the king in chief at her
death by reason whereof the custody of her lands ought to pertain to the
king, but that she held divers lands of other lords by various services. |
July 22.
Windsor. |
To Matthew de Crauthorn, keeper of the king's silver mine in
co. Devon. Order to pay to Adam de Withiford, king's clerk—to whom
the king, on 7 April, in the first year of his reign, granted the office of
controller of his silver mine in that county during pleasure—such wages as
others have been wont to receive for that office. |
July 28.
Windsor. |
To John de Bolingbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to distrain Matthew son of Herbert for his homage and fealty for the lands
that he holds of the king, as he has done his homage and fealty to the king.
By p.s. [2798.] |
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The like to Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. |
July 2.
Windsor. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Ralph le Longe, whom the king has caused to be
amoved from office for insufficient qualification. |
July 15.
Chichester. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the tenements specified below, and to permit the master
of the house of Ospreng to receive the rent named below, and to restore any
issues received from the tenements, as the king—at the prosecution of the
said master, suggesting that Peter, formerly master of that house, demised
at fee-ferm to Thomas le Keu 15 acres of land in Ospreng forty years ago,
rendering therefor to the master eight quarters of barley, and also to the
abbot of L'Ile Dieu a messuage and 15 acres of land in Opchirche for a
term of years for eight loads of barley to be rendered to the master, and
that, although the tenements were demised at their true value, so that the
demise was not to the damage of the king or any other, or to the diminution of the estate of the house, the escheator has taken the lands into the
king's hands by reason of such demise, detaining them so that the master
could not receive the rent aforesaid—ordered the escheator to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by the inquisition that
the aforesaid Peter, in 15 Edward I., demised to Thomas 15½ acres of
land in Ospreng, to him and his heirs for ever, rendering therefor to Peter
and his successors 8 quarters of barley, and that the said Peter granted and
demised to the abbot of St. Mary's, L'Ile Dieu, in the year 1289, 8 acres
of land in the town of Opchirche for a term of 100 years, rendering therefor to the master and his successors 4 quarters of barley, and that Alexander,
late master of the said house, in the year 1309 demised to the said abbot
and his successors a messuage and 100 acres of land in Opchirche for the
term of 80 years, rendering therefor to the master and his successors
4 quarters of barley yearly, and that the tenements in Ospreng are held of
the king in 'gavelkende' as of the manor of Ospreng by suit at the said
manor from three weeks to three weeks, and that the tenements in
Opchirke (sic) are held of the king in 'gavelkende' as of the manor of
Midd' in frankalmoin, except three acres thereof, which are held of John
de Broke by the service of 12d. yearly, and that all the tenements are
worth nothing beyond the rent aforesaid, and that the demise of the tenements is not to the damage of the king or any one else or to the diminution
of the estate of the said house. |
July 20.
Windsor. |
To the same. Whereas the king lately ordered the escheator to certify
him of the reason for taking into his hands a moiety of an acre of land in
Wygetoft and the advowson of the church of that town belonging to the
abbot of Croyland, and the escheator has signified to the king that he did
not take the moiety into the king's hands, but that William Trussel, late
escheator this side Trent, delivered the land to him at the time of his
appointment to that office as glebe of the advowson aforesaid, asserting that
it was in the king's hands by reason of the trespass committed by the
abbot in appropriating to him and his house the land and advowson after
the publication of the statute of mortmain without the late king's licence;
and the king is now given to understand by the abbot that the abbot
acquired the moiety by the licence of Edward I., as contained in that king's
letters patent, and he has prayed the king to cause his hand to be amoved
from the moiety and to cause the moiety to be delivered to him: the king
therefore orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the land and
advowson, if he find by inspection of the said letters patent that they are
the land and advowson acquired by the licence aforesaid. |
July 29.
Windsor. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with 6 acres of land and 100s. of rent in Sutton and
Maurdyn belonging to the dean and chapter of St. Ethelbert's, Hereford,
and to restore the issues thereof to them, which land and rent he has taken
into the king's hands, pretending that the dean and chapter appropriated
them after the publication of the statute of mortmain without licence from
the king or his father, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the
escheator that the dean and chapter acquired the land and rent from divers
men there twenty years before the publication of the said statute, and
that they acquired nothing in those towns after the publication of the
statute, and that the land and rent are held of others than of the king
by divers services. |
July 24.
Windsor. |
To John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and a carucate of land of Master Richard
de Eryom in Eryom, and to restore the issues thereof to Master Richard,
as the escheator has returned that he took into the king's hands the
messuage and land aforesaid because he found by inquisition that William
de Horeworth, who held them in fee, adhered to the Scots, the king's late
rebels and enemies, and that they are in the king's hands for this reason,
and the king afterwards—at Richard's prosecution, suggesting that William
never had any estate in the messuage and land, and praying the king to
provide a remedy—ordered the escheator to cause inquisition to be made
concerning the premises in Richard's presence, if he wished to be present,
and it is found by such inquisition that William had no estate in the
messuage and land at any time, and was not seised thereof, but that
Walter de Horeworth, William's brother, acquired the messuage and land
in fee to him and his heirs from Robert de Eryom Mareschal, and that
Walter was seised thereof in fee on the day of the adhesion aforesaid,
and that he enfeoffed the said Richard thereof, and that the messuage
and land are held of Andrew de Merkyngfeld by the service of 5d. yearly
for all services, and are worth yearly in all issues 20s. 10d. |
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Membrane 13. |
July 28.
Windsor. |
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to deliver to Stephen de Swynnerton
all his lands, goods and chattels, which the king lately ordered to be taken
into his hands for certain trespasses, excesses, and disobediences, and all issues
received therefrom. |
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The like, 'mutatis mutandis,' to the following: |
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The sheriff of Middlesex. |
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Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. |
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John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent. |
July 28.
Windsor. |
To John Darcy, lord of Werk in Tyndale, or to him who supplies his
place. Whereas it was found by inquisition taken by Richard de Denton
and Thomas de Fetherstanhalgh by the king's order that John Comyn,
tenant in chief of the late king, was seised in his demesne as of fee on the
day of his death of the manor of Hensalgh with the park there, and of the
forest of Lowes, in the parts of Tyndale, and no mention was made of the
inquisitions taken by the late king's order after John's death, and the king
thereupon ordered John Darcy to take the manor, park, and forest into the
king's hands, and to cause them to be delivered to Richard son of Gilbert
Talbot, to whom the king had committed the custody of the lands in the
parts of Tyndale that belonged to John; and David de Strabolgi, earl of
Athole, has asserted before the king in chancery that John Comyn granted
by charter to David de Strabolgi, late earl of Athole, father of the said
David, of whom David is the heir, the manor with the park and forest
aforesaid, and that David his father was seised thereof from the time of the
gift until the day of his death, and that David the son entered the manor,
park, and forest by the king's delivery after he had done homage therefor,
and that he holds them at present, and this he offered to verify as the king's
court should consider; wherefore the king gave him a day before him in
chancery, to wit the octaves of Michaelmas next: the king therefore orders
John Darcy to supersede in the meantime the execution of his order to
deliver the manor, park, and forest to Richard. By C. |
July 26.
Windsor. |
To Queen Isabella. Order to cause to be paid to the abbot of Westminster
the arrears of a rent of 50s. from the manor of Cippenham from the time
when the manor came to her hands, and to pay to him the said rent henceforth, as the late king—upon its being found by an inquisition taken by
the keeper of the manor, which was then in his hands, that the abbot of
Westminster ought to receive and have from the manor the said yearly
rent, because it is held of him as chief lord by the service of rendering that
rent yearly for all service, and that the abbot and his predecessors were
always seised of the rent aforesaid from time out of mind, as well by the
hands of the earl of Cornwall as by the hands of others who held the manor,
until the Annunciation, in the 6th year of the said king's reign, at which
time the manor came to his hands, since which time nothing has been paid
to the abbot—ordered the keeper of the manor to pay to the abbot the
arrears of the rent from the time when it came to his hands, and to pay the
rent thereafter, and the manor is now in Queen Isabella's hands for the
the term of her life, and the abbot has not obtained payment of the rent
from the time when the manor thus came to her hands. By C. |
July 30.
Reading. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and a bovate of land of the abbot of Croyland in Kyrkeby Lailthorp, as the king ordered William Trussel, late
escheator this side Trent, to certify him of the reason for taking them into
the king's hands, and William signified that he did not take them into the
king's hands, but that Matthew Broun, the late king's escheator in
cos. Lincoln, Northampton, and Rutland took them into the said king's
hands because it was found by an inquisition of office taken by him that
the abbot entered the tenements, which William Drury formerly held, after
the publication of the statute of mortmain without licence from the late
king, and that Matthew delivered the tenements with other lands by indenture to William Trussel for custody, and the king afterwards—at the abbot's
prosecution, suggesting that he had in no wise intruded himself in the
tenements, but that he and his predecessors were seised thereof as of the
right of their church at all times past, and praying the king to cause them
to be delivered to him—ordered Simon to make inquisition concerning the
premises, and it is found by such inquisition that the abbot did not intrude
himself in the messuage and land, but that he and his predecessors were
seised thereof as of the right of their church from time out of mind, and
that the said William Drury did not hold them at any time except at the
abbot's will, and that they are in the king's hands for this reason, and that
they are not held of the king. |
July 29.
Windsor. |
To Robert de Poleye, king's yeoman. Order not to intermeddle further
with the office of the assay of ulnage of 'Worstedes' in the city of Norwich and elsewhere in co. Norfolk, which office the king granted to him
for life at Queen Isabella's request, and to bring the king's letters patent of
appointment to the chancery to be cancelled, as the king has caused the
grant to be revoked by the counsel and assent of the prelates and magnates
of the realm, because he understands that such assize of cloths of Worstedes
was not wont to be made in the times of his progenitors, and that the
workers of that cloth withdraw themselves from their work by reason of
the grant of the assize aforesaid, whereby they and the merchants and
others who were wont to buy such cloth are damnified and impoverished,
concerning which matter divers complaints are daily brought to the king
by prelates, magnates, and others of the realm. |
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Memorandum, that Robert came into chancery at London, on 1 August,
and brought the said letters thither to be cancelled, and they are cancelled. |
July 30.
Reading. |
To the sheriff of Rutland. Order to take anew the oaths of those verderers for the forest of Roteland elected in the late king's time who are sufficiently qualified, and to cause others to be elected in the places of those
who are insufficiently qualified, causing to be elected those who best know
and can execute the office, certifying the king of the names of those thus
remaining in office and of those to be thus elected. |
July 29.
Windsor. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to cause proclamation to be made that
all workers of cloths of 'Worstedes' shall work them and sell them without
an assay being made thereof, according to the custom in the times of the
king's progenitors, notwithstanding the king's commission of the office of
the assay of the ulnages of Worstedes to Robert de Poleye, as the king
has caused the commission to be revoked for the reasons stated in the next
preceding order, and has ordered Robert to bring the letters of appointment
to the chancery to be cancelled. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king was
given to understand that in the manor of Bustlesham, which belonged to
Hugh le Despenser, the younger, and which is in the king's hands by his
forfeiture, there are many defects in the houses, mills, walls, and ponds, and
that they greatly need repair, and wishing to be certified by the sheriff of
Berkshire what defects—Incomplete. |
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Vacated. |
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To the same. Order to cause William de Langeford, to whom the king
committed the aforesaid manor during pleasure, to have allowance in his
account at the exchequer for the expenses about the repair of the houses,
mills, walls, and ponds of the manor, examining the inquisition that the
king caused to be made by the sheriff of Berks concerning the defects in
the houses, etc., whereby it appears that William caused certain of the
defects to be repaired, which inquisition the king sends to them sub pede
sigilli, as William has besought the king to cause allowance to be made to
him for such expenses. |
July 30.
Reading. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause Neugate gaol to be repaired
by the testimony of John de Stonore and Robert de Wodehous, as the king
is given to understand that the gaol is so weak and threatened with ruin
that the prisoners cannot be kept therein unless it be speedily repaired. |
July 28.
Windsor. |
To Simon de Hedersete, John Claver, and Walter de Fileby. Order to
supersede entirely the execution of the king's late appointment of them as
justices to make inquisition in co. Norfolk what malefactors with Thomas
Martyn, Alan Isoude, Richard de Spettisham, Roger Isoude, Edmund
Payn, Richard de Bloundeston, Thomas Costyn, Robert de Wode, Hugh
Clement, John Cokesson, John Irish, John Curteys, and Robert Bond took
and carried away Queen Isabella's goods at Great Yarmouth to the value of
100l., and assaulted Walter Stampard of Ipswich, her servant, whereby she
lost his service for a long time, and to hear and determine this trespass. As
the king understands that the aforesaid men with Henry Man, Henry Oldman, Richard Dekne, Henry de Bloundeston, Thomas Jermeyn, John
Taverner, Richard Dennyesman of Blundeston, Bartholomew Cappe, John
Red, and Richard Braunche, who are indicted for the trespass aforesaid
before the justices, are placed in exigent to be outlawed in that county
because they did not come to answer to Queen Isabella, the king has ordered
the sheriff to supersede entirely their exaction in this behalf. |
July 27.
Windsor. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Henry
de Percy, to whom the king, on 13 August last, committed the custody of
the castle of Scardeburgh during pleasure, to have 40 marks yearly for his
fee for the custody from the issues, prises and profits of the castle, and from
the ferm of the town of Scardeburgh, as he has prayed the king to cause
this sum to be paid to him, asserting that other constables of the castle
received 40 marks for the custody in the times of the king's progenitors. |
July 27.
Windsor. |
To William de Okle, keeper of the manor of Ellesmere. Order to
associate with him John de Hinkele, sheriff of Salop, and obtain information
concerning the bounds placed round the manor in the late king's time, and
if he find that any purpresture has been made within the said bounds, to
cause that whereof the purpresture is made to be resumed into the king's
hands, and to cause the manor to be kept bounded in the same state as it
was previously, as the late king, when the manor was in his hands, understanding that many men having lands adjoining the lands of the manor
made purpresture in divers manners upon the lands and other things pertaining to the manor, ordered the keeper of the manor to cause it to be
bounded by certain bounds, which was done, and the manor is now in the
hands of Queen Isabella by the king's grant, and the king is given to understand on her behalf that divers men having lands adjoining the said manor
have made purpresture upon the lands of the manor in the time when the
manor was in the king's hands and after it came to her hands, and do so
still. By K. |
May 25.
Dover. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause James
Daudele, son and heir of Nicholas Daudele and kinsman and co-heir of
William Martyn, tenants in chief of the late king, to have seisin of his
father's lands and of his purparty of William's lands, as the king has
rendered to him the said lands and purparty although he is not yet of full
age. By p.s. [2669.] |
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To Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March. Order not to intermeddle
further with the aforesaid lands and purparty, which are in his custody by
the king's commission. By the same writ. |
Aug. 19.
Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to expend up to 20l. in repairing
the houses within Northampton castle, by the view and testimony of
William de Pillarton, constable of the castle, and of William Gauge of
Northampton. By p.s. [2856.] |
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Membrane 12. |
July 28.
Windsor. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowances
to be made to John de Crumbewell, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, for
what he has paid to the prior of St. Mary's, Carlisle, for the tenth penny of
all extra-parochial agistments in the forest of Inglewod, in execution of the
king's order [as at page 461 above]. |
July 27.
Windsor. |
To Oliver de Ingeham, justice of Chester. Whereas at the prosecution
of Oliver de Burdegala and Matilda his wife—suggesting that they were
seised of the manor of Smalwode, co. Chester, as of Matilda's right until
the death of Joan, late the wife of Nicholas Daudele, and that the king's
ministers in that county before his accession seised the manor into his hands
after Joan's death, and detained it until the king caused it to be delivered
to Oliver and Matilda by process made by them against him, and that the
said ministers received all the issues thereof all the time that it was thus in
the king's hands, which issues remained in the king's possession upon the
delivery aforesaid, and praying for restitution of the issues aforesaid—the
king ordered the justice of Chester of that time to make inquisition concerning the value of the manor and how long it was in the king's hands, and
it was found by the inquisition taken by the said (sic) Richard that all the
lands of the manor are in the hands of bondmen and render yearly
22l. 11s. 8d., and that there is a water-mill there in the hands of the bondmen, for which they render yearly 106s. 8d., and that the bondmen render
yearly at Martinmas 79s. 8½d. of a custom called 'le yeelde,' and 4l. at
Whitsuntide every third year for a custom called 'le couyeld,' and that the
pleas and perquisites of the hallmoot (hallemote) of the manor are worth
yearly 6s. 8d., and that the aforesaid Joan died about the feast of St. Peter
ad Vincula, 16 Edward II., and that the manor was taken into the king's
hands immediately after her death by his escheator in co. Chester before
his accession, and that it was detained in his hands until 12 April,
17 Edward II., and that the king meantime took the issues and profits of the
manor, such as in rents, customs, and ferms, together with 4l. of the said
custom called 'le couyeld' that fell due at Whitsuntide, 16 Edward II.,
wherefore the king ordered the aforesaid Richard and John Paynel, then
chamberlain of Chester, to pay to Oliver the issues of the manor up to the
said 12 April; and Oliver has only received, as he says, 26l. 6s. 8d. of the
said issues, which amount to 68l. 9s. 5d. for the said time, as is contained
in the inquisition: the king orders the justice to take information of the
sum received by Oliver of the said issues by virtue of the king's orders
aforesaid, and to cause the arrears thereof to be paid to him.
By p.s. [2794.] |
July 12.
Chichester. |
To John Darcy, justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place.
Order to deliver to Richard Talbot and Elizabeth Comyn his wife the issues
of the manor of Bauma in Ireland, of the yearly value of 27l. 18s. 7½d., the
town of Jerpoint (Jeripontis), of the yearly value of 8l. 9s. 6d., a rent
of 68s. 2½d. to be received by the hands of the burgesses of Ederdrym, and
a moiety of two parts of the manor of Fernes, which moiety is of the yearly
value of 30l. 8s. 8d., from 22 March, in the 18th year of the late king's
reign, when the said king assigned them to Elizabeth, kinswoman and
co-heiress of Aymer de Valencia, late earl of Pembroke, as her purparty, the
late king having ordered the said John Darcy, then justiciary of Ireland, to
cause Elizabeth to have seisin of the premises, and the king, at the suggestion
of Richard and Elizabeth that the order had not been executed, ordered
Thomas le fitz Johan, late earl of Kildare, justiciary of Ireland, to deliver
the premises to them, and the king now learns from their complaint
that the issues thereof are detained from them from the said 22 March,
although the said Thomas delivered the premises to them, wherefore they
have prayed the king to provide a remedy. If there be any cause why the
justiciary cannot execute this order, he is to certify the king of it under his
seal without delay. |
