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Aug. 17. Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of John Methelan, the elder, who is incapacitated by
age and infirmity. |
Aug. 16. Gloucester. |
To John Mautravers, keeper of the Forest this side Trent. Whereas
the king, on 1 May, in the first year of his reign,—upon its being found by
John de Blumvill, his late escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford, that Thomas son of Richard de Clare at his
death held of the late king in chief the stewardship of the forest of Essex,
by the service of 1d. to the exchequer yearly, and that Margaret, late the
wife of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, aunt of the said Thomas, and Robert
son of Matilda, late the wife of Robert de Clifford, kinsman of the said
Thomas, are his next heirs, and that Margaret was then aged 40 years and
the said Robert was then under age—rendered to Margaret her purparty of
the stewardship and committed to her the custody of Robert's purparty
during his minority, in response to her petition, and ordered William
Trussel, then escheator this side Trent, to deliver to her the stewardship
aforesaid, taking from her security for her relief for her purparty; and, on
20 August following, the king took Robert's homage for the lands that
Matilda his mother held at her death of the late king, and ordered Simon
de Bereford, escheator this side Trent, to cause Robert to have seisin of
his mother's lands: the king orders the keeper to deliver to Margaret and
Robert the stewardship aforesaid, and to restore to Margaret all issues of
her moiety thereof from the said 1 May, and to restore to Robert all the
issues of the other moiety from the said 20 August. |
Aug. 17. Gloucester. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a hide of land called 'la Neulond' in Neubury, and to
restore the issues thereof to the abbot of Préaux, as the king—at the abbot's
prosecution, suggesting that his predecessors acquired the hide long before
the publication of the statute of mortmain, and had hitherto held it peacefully, and that the escheator had taken it into the king's hands, pretending
that the abbot or the prior of Aston, his attorney in England, had acquired
the hide from Robert de Ludham, late parson of the church of Neubury,
after the publication of the statute without the king's licence—ordered the
escheator to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by
the inquisition that neither the abbot nor the said prior nor other attorneys
of the abbot in England acquired the hide, which is now built upon, after
the publication of the statute, but that the abbot and his predecessors held
it peacefully from time out of mind. |
Aug. 19. Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Whereas
Clement V. granted to Richard de Sancto Leodegario the archdeaconry of
Dublin, which was void by the death of Master John de Haveryng, the late
archdeacon, in the pope's court; and the late king confirmed and accepted
the pope's gift of the archdeaconry to Richard, because he understood that
certain persons, pretending that the archdeaconry was void in his right in
the said court at the time when the temporalities of the archbishopric of
Dublin were in the hands of Edward I., molested Richard upon his possession of the archdeaconry under colour of the royal right of the late king,
and the late king willed that all processes begun in his name against Richard
concerning the archdeaconry by reason of the said right of Edward I. should
be revoked and annulled; and Richard has now given the king to understand that a plea was moved between the late king in his court of Ireland
against Richard and the dean and chapter of St. Patrick's, Dublin, for this
that the dean and chapter should permit the said king to present a fit
person to the archdeaconry for the reason aforesaid, and that the dean and
chapter were amerced in 20l. in that plea, which are exacted from them by
summons of the said exchequer: the king, having consideration to the
aforesaid grant and acceptance and to the revocation of all processes against
Richard concerning the premises, orders the treasurer and barons to super
sede entirely the exaction of the said 20l. from the dean and chapter, and
to cause them to be discharged thereof. |
Aug. 20. Gloucester. |
To Richard de la Pole, the king's butler. Order not to distrain William
de Layburn, merchant, to pay customs on his wines brought into this realm
otherwise than as native merchants do, as the king learns from his complaint
that Richard and his ministers, asserting that William is an alien because he
has a wife residing in the king's city of Bordeaux, where he stayed for some
time, exact from him customs for his wines as an alien merchant, and
distrain him therefore, wherefore he has prayed the king to provide a
remedy, and William was born (oriundus) in the town of Aldebergh,
co. Norfolk, and is a burgess of the town of Lyme, co. Dorset, and has there
a perpetual dwelling, as the king learns by trustworthy testimony. It is
provided that William shall not avow the wines of alien merchants as his
own, under the incumbent pain. |
Aug. 18. Gloucester. |
To the justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order to
take into the king's hands a messuage and 180 acres of land in Bretouneston
in Ireland, and to cause them to be delivered to the abbot and convent of
Dundraynan in Scotland, if he ascertain that they held the messuage and
land as of the right of their church before their lands were taken into the
late king's hands by reason of the Scotch war, as the king lately ordered
him to restore to the abbot and convent their lands in Ireland [as at
page 337 above], and the justiciary has signified that he could not execute
that order because the king had granted the messuage and land aforesaid to
Thomas de Warilowe for life before the order was delivered to the justiciary,
and the abbot has prayed for delivery thereof according to the treaty between the king and Robert, late king of Scotland. By K. & C. |
Aug. 22. Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a verderer for the forest
of Whitlewode to be elected in place of Henry Gobyoun, who is insufficiently
qualified.
By the testimony of John Mautravers, keeper of the forest aforesaid. |
Aug. 26. Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to expend up to 20l. in repairing the
houses, walls, and other buildings of the castle of Corf, by the view and
testimony of John Mautravers, keeper of the castle. By K. |
Aug. 18. Gloucester. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain
Robert de Ufford for his homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of
the king, as he has done homage and fealty to the king. By p.s. [2850.] |
Sept. 3. Gloucester. |
To the same. Order to cause John Kyriel, son and heir of Nicholas
Kyriel, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has
proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage.
By K. |
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Aug. 28. Gloucester. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to supersede until the feast of All Saints
next the execution of the king's order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Ralph le Longe. By C. |
Aug. 30. Gloucester. |
To Robert Selyman and John de Trevaignon, justices to take assizes in
co. Southampton. Whereas the king lately ordered them to proceed to the
taking of an assize of novel disseisin arramed before John de Stonore and
the said John de Trevaignon, then justices to take assizes in that county,
by John le Mareschal of Bovyndon and Constance his wife against Thomas
son of John de Venuz and Edward de Sancto Johanne and others concerning tenements in Est Worldham, which assize remained to be taken
before Robert and John, notwithstanding Edward's allegation that he holds
the manor of Est Worldham during the minority of the aforesaid Thomas
by the king's letters patent; and the king, upon being given to understand
that Robert and John had proceeded to the taking of the assize, ordered
Robert to send to him the tenor of the record and process of the assize, and
it is contained therein that it was found by the recognition of the assize
taken before Robert and John by the assent of the parties that the manor of
Est Worldham, concerning which the assize is arramed, was formerly in
the seisin of John de Venuz, grandfather of the aforesaid Thomas, as of his
right and inheritance, and that John, by the late king's licence and by fine
levied before his justices of the Bench, enfeoffed Thomas le Mareschal of
the manor, and that Thomas, after he had full seisin thereof, granted the
manor to the said John de Venuz and Margery his wife for their lives, with
remainder to the aforesaid John le Mareschal and Constance and to John
le Mareschal's heirs, by virtue of which fine John de Venuz and Margery
were seised of the manor, and afterwards the aforesaid John de Venuz,
father of the said Thomas, unjustly disseised John de Venuz and Margery
of the manor, by reason whereof they brought a writ of novel disseisin
against the said John, father of Thomas, before certain justices of the late
king, and it was found by the assize taken between them at Audevre that
John, father of Thomas, unjustly disseised the said John de Venuz and
Margery of the manor, wherefore it was considered that they should recover
their seisin, and they were placed in seisin of the same, and continued their
seisin during the life of John de Venuz, after whose death John, father of
Thomas, again ejected Margery from the manor, wherefore she sued out a
writ of re-disseisin against him, and recovered the manor by process before
the sheriff and coroner, by whom she was placed in seisin, and that after
her death John le Mareschal and Constance entered the manor as what
ought to remain to them by virtue of the fine aforesaid, and were seised
thereof as of their freehold until John, father of Thomas, and others disseised them thereof: the king, having consideration to the divers processes
in the late king's court and to the judgments rendered herein against John,
father of Thomas, and to the fact that Thomas cannot claim any right in
the manor through his father, orders the justices to proceed to render judgment herein, notwithstanding that Thomas is a minor in the king's wardship or the allegation aforesaid. By p.s. [2887.] |
Sept. 2. Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause A. bishop
of Worcester to have allowance at the exchequer for 11l. 7s. 2d., taken
from the manor of Temple Gutyng, co. Gloucester, in the king's hands by
the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, the custody whereof the
king committed to him when he was bishop of Hereford, by Master Pancius
de Controne, the king's physician (medico), during the time that he had the
manor, which the king afterwards granted to him for life, from the corn
growing therein and the corn in the barns, which were the bishop's chattels.
By p.s. [2907.] |
Aug. 20. Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains.
Order to cause payment to be made to Dinus Forsetti and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, out of the first moneys
coming to the receipt of the exchequer for the debts due to them from the
king, or to cause assignment therefor to be made to them in places where
they may be speedily satisfied, as they have promised to find a certain sum
of money daily for the expenses of the king's household for a certain time,
and the king assigned to them certain customs within the realm, and the
king wishes speedy satisfaction to be made to them for other debts due to
them for which they have letters obligatory under the great seal and bills
under the seal of Richard de Bury, keeper of the wardrobe, and bills under
the seals of other keepers of the wardrobe. By p.s. |
Sept. 2. Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause a recognisance for 200 marks made in the late king's exchequer to Hugh le
Despenser, the elder, by Peter de Skidmor and Thomas West to be
cancelled and annulled, as the king learns upon trustworthy testimony that
Peter was of the quarrel of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, and was for
that reason detained for a long time in the late king's prison, and that he
and Thomas West made the recognisance aforesaid to save his life and to
have his lands again, which had been taken into the late king's hands for
this reason. By p.s. [2904.] |
Sept. 1. Gloucester. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Henry
de Ferariis, knight,—who acknowledged in chancery, on 9 February last,
that he owed to the king 2,000 marks, whereof 750 marks were to be
paid at certain specified terms and the other 1,250 marks at the king's
pleasure—to be discharged of 200l. in the first terms of payment of
the aforesaid 750 marks, as the king afterwards pardoned him that sum
out of the 750 marks. By K. |
Aug. 28. Gloucester. |
To the same. Whereas the king lately, when he was in the parts of
York, ordered Richard de la Pole, his butler, by word of mouth to cause to
be delivered to John de Hanon[ia], in addition to the 40 tuns of wine that he
ordered by letters of privy seal to be delivered to him, a tun of wine daily
whilst John was at York towards his wages, by the view and testimony of
Augustine de Woxebrigg and John de Milford, whom the king deputed to
stay with John, and Richard caused to be delivered 22 tuns of wine to
Augustine and to John de Milford for the use of John de Hanonia by
virtue of the order aforesaid, as is contained in an indenture made between
them, and Augustine and John de Milford have charged themselves with
the said 22 tuns, and have rendered account thereof before Robert de
Wodehous, then keeper of the wardrobe, as Richard states that he can
prove; and the treasurer and barons defer allowing these 22 tuns to
Richard in his account, wherefore he has prayed the king to provide a
remedy: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to examine the
indenture aforesaid, and if they find it is as stated, and if it appear by the
said Robert's certificate that Augustine and John de Milford have charged
themselves with the said 22 tuns, and have accounted therefor before him,
to cause the said 22 tuns to be allowed to Richard in his account. |