Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1329

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 1, 1327-1330. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1896.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1329', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 1, 1327-1330, (London, 1896) pp. 485-489. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol1/pp485-489 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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August 1329

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.
Membrane 11.
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.