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Feb. 18.
Westminster. |
To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas Lecia, late
the wife of Ralph de Rugemund, demanded in the late king's court before
William de Bereford and his fellows, then justices of the Bench, by the
said king's writ, 4 messuages, 2 tofts, 15 bovates of land, 4 acres of meadow,
and 10s. 11d. of rent in Holm near Pykhale, as her right and marriage,
against John de Thornton, chaplain, and Alexander le Clerk of St. Leonard's
hospital, York, and the said John and Alexander said in court that they
were tenants of the said tenements on the day when the said writ was
sued out, and Lecia afterwards recovered the tenements against them by
consideration of the court, as appears by the record and process of the
suit, which the late king caused to come before him and which have been
seen and examined by the king and his council, and the king learns by an
inquisition taken by Thomas de Eyvyll and Adam de Hoperton by the late
king's order that John and Alexander were tenants of the said tenements
on the day when the said writ was sued out, to wit 10 February, in the
14th year of the late king's reign, and that they, whilst the plea was pending before the justices aforesaid, enfeofled John de Hartcla of the said
tenements, to wit in three weeks from Michaelmas, 15 Edward II., and
that the said John [de Hartcla] within 15 days following enfeoffed Andrew
de Hartcla, his brother, of the aforesaid tenements, who held them until
his death, by whose forfeiture they came to the late king's hands, and that
Lecia could not have seisin of the tenements because they were thus in the
late king's hands at the time of the recovery, and that the tenements that
were in the late king's hands in Holm by Andrew's forfeiture are the same
tenements that Lecia recovered against John de Thornton and Alexander,
as is aforesaid, and that she never remitted them to John de Hartcla or to
Andrew or made any estate thereof to them, and that she died whilst the
matter was pending undiscussed, to wit on Monday before Christmas,
19 Edward II., in her bed by natural death, and that Richard de Ruchemund, chaplain, is her son and heir, and is aged 40 years, and that the
tenements are held of Robert Coiguers by knight service, and are worth
yearly in all issues 100s.: the king orders the escheator to deliver the
aforesaid tenements to Richard, if they are in the king's hands solely by
reason of Andrew's forfeiture. By pet. of C. [3475.] |
March 3.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Southampton and to the bailiffs of that town. Whereas the
king—at the prosecution of Arnald Artinh, merchant of Gascony, by petition
before him and his council, suggesting that whereas he came to Southampton with his goods and merchandise relying upon the late king's proclamations made at London and Bordeaux that strange merchants might come
into England with their goods and merchandise safely and securely to trade
therein with the same, the bailiffs of that town arrested him and his goods
by virtue of an order of the late king's to arrest all merchants of the power
of the king of France and all their goods and chattels, wherefore Arnald
prayed the king to provide a remedy—ordered the bailiffs to certify him of
the time when Arnald came to that town with his goods and merchandise,
and at what time he was arrested and his goods taken into the late king's
hands, and for what cause, etc., and they have signified that Arnald arrived
in the port on 5 April, in the 19th year of the late king's reign, and that on
Sunday before the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the same year
by the order of John de Hildesle, the late king's clerk, and of Andrew
Rosekyn, shewing the late king's order to arrest all men of the power of the
king of France and their goods and chattels, the said Arnald and
10l. 13s. 4d. of his money in the hands of Richard Bagge, his creditor, and
30s. in the hands of Robert de Neuweton, another of his creditors, were
arrested, and still remain arrested: as it appears by inspection of the rolls
of chancery that the late king, on 1 May, in the 19th year of his reign, took
all strange merchants into his protection, willing that they should come
safely into England with their goods, and it appears by the return that
Arnald and the said sums of money were arrested on the aforesaid Sunday,
which was before the proclamation that the merchants of the power of the
king of France should not come except at their peril, the king orders the
sheriff and bailiffs to release Arnald and the said sums of money from arrest,
and to cause the sums to be delivered to Arnald. |
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March 13.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The abbot of Westminster has shewn the king, by petition exhibited before him and his
council in parliament after the Purification, that whereas the king's progenitors granted to the abbots of that place, his predecessors, a tenth of the
ferm of the town of Droitwich (de Wychio), in co. Worcester, for which
tenth the present abbot and his predecessors have heretofore received 8l.
yearly at the exchequer, as well in the times when the manor was in the
hands of the king's progenitors as in the hands of others, as the abbot
asserts that he can prove by the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer,
until the time when Edward I. granted the manor to Margaret his consort
in dower, and Margaret paid the tenth to the abbot all the time that she
held the manor, and the abbot has received nothing from the time of her
death, to wit from the 11th year of the late king's reign, and was unable to
receive anything because the late king granted the manor to Queen
Isabella, who refused to pay the tenth for the time that she held it, and also
because the late king granted the manor to Edmund, earl of Kent, to him
and the heirs of his body, as of the value of 89l. 5s. 0d. yearly, and the earl,
asserting that he was not bound to pay the tenth, refused to pay it to the
abbot, and the abbot has prayed the king to cause the arrears of the said
tenth to be paid to him, and to order the tenth to be paid to him henceforth:
as the abbot has exhibited before the king and his council a charter of
William the Conquerer, the king's progenitor, who gave the tenth to the
abbot by the same charter and by the following words 'I have moreover
given the tenth of Wych of the part that pertained to me, and I have again
rendered to them the same part, which was unjustly taken away from
them, which part king Edward had previously given to them,' and it is
found by certificate made before the king and his council by the treasurer
and barons that the abbots of Westminster were paid the said 8l. at the
exchequer for the tenth aforesaid, sometimes in money, sometimes by allowances in the debts then owing by them to the exchequer, and also by the
hands of the aforesaid Margaret for all her time, the manor being assigned
to her as of the value of 81l. 5s. 0d. besides the fixed alms, until the ferm of
the town was granted to Queen Isabella, who paid nothing of the tenth
because the charter that she had made mention of the whole ferm without
any exception of the tenth being made, and that the ferm is now granted to
the said earl without any exception of the tenth being made, the king
orders the treasurer and barons to cause the abbot to have allowance
in the debts owing by him for the arrears of the said tenth for the time
aforesaid. The king has ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to pay
the tenth to the abbot henceforth out of the treasury. By pet. of C. |
March 13.
Westminster. |
Mandate in pursuance to the treasurer and chamberlains. By pet. of C. |
March 17.
Westminter. |
To Richard de Kenebrok, king's clerk. Order to sell the king's small
ships and boats in his custody by the view and testimony of Alan le Palmere
and Martin his brother, the king's carpenters, as shall seem best for the
king's benefit, and to answer to the exchequer for the moneys thence
arising, as the king learns from him that the said ships and boats deteriorate
daily for lack of good custody and will be lost altogether shortly unless
provision be made speedily. By bill of the treasurer.
[Fœdera.] |
March 17.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to
Avelina, late the wife of John Giffard of Brymmesfeld, tenant in chief of
the late king, the following of the said John's lands, which the king has
assigned to her in dower: the castle and manor of Brymmesfeld, co.
Gloucester, of the yearly value of 25l. 8s. 9½d.; the manor of Rokhampton,
in the same county, of the yearly value of 27s.; a third of the manor of
Begeworth, in the same county, of the yearly value of 11l. 18s. 1d.; a
moiety of the manor of Stapelford, co. Wilts, of the yearly value of 18l.;
the wood of Cayllye in Walles, co. Gloucester, of the yearly value of 6s. 8d. |
March 23.
Westminster. |
To Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to pay the fees
and wages of the justices, constables, and officers within his bailiwick from
the time of his appointment, and to pay the same hereafter until otherwise
ordered. |
March 24.
Westminster. |
To William Trussell, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower
to be assigned to Agnes, late the wife of Roger de Elmerigg, tenant in
chief of the late king, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's
licence. |
March 25.
Westminster. |
To R. bishop of Salisbury. Signification that he may do what pertains
to him at the presentation of the prior of Toft, proctor in England of the
abbot of Preaux, of the power of the king of France, to the church of Speghtebury, co. Dorset, in that diocese, notwithstanding the king's writs of prohibition directed to him, the king having prohibited the bishop admitting any
person to the church until it should be discussed in his court whether the
advowson of the church pertained to him or to the prior, because he was
given to understand that the church, which is of the said abbot's advowson,
was vacated before the king, on 5 February last, restored the lands, fees,
and advowsons of alien men of religion of the power of the king of France
within this realm, which the late king had caused to be taken into his hands
by reason of the war between him and the king of France, as the king
learns by the bishop's letters patent and by the certificate of the sheriff of
that county that the church began to be void by the death of Master Ralph
Morel, the last rector, on Sunday after the Purification last, to wit on
8 February. |
March 24.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Bartholomew Payne, whom the king has amoved from
office because he is incapacitated by illness and age. |
March 27.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to the king's serjeant
William le Mareschal, keeper of certain horses of the king's staying at
Redyng', the necessary costs for the maintenance of the said horses, as used
to be paid to Hugh Beaurepeir, the late king's keeper thereof. By p.s. [540.] |
March 25.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to desist from
disquieting John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, for entering the manor and
town of Theford, and to permit him to hold the same until further orders,
and to restore to him any issues received thence, as the earl has shewn the
king, by petition before him and his council in parliament, that whereas he
demised the manor and town to Ralph de Cobham for life, and entered
the same after Ralph's death, and holds them at present, the escheator
disquiets him because he entered the manor and town without the king's
livery, and exacts the issues thereof from him for the king's use, wherefore
the earl has prayed the king to provide a remedy, and he has found security
before the king in chancery by Alan Talbot to answer to the king at the
exchequer for the issues thereof if they ought to pertain to the king. |
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To John de Blomvill, late escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to deliver to the aforesaid earl
all the issues of the said manor and town received by him. |
March 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause the executors of
Christiana de Mariscis to be satisfied by payment or assignment for
221l. 16s. 5d., in accordance with the late king's order to Walter de
Norwyco, then supplying the place of his treasurer, by writ of privy seal,
to cause the stock (instaurum) and goods and chattels in the manors of
Langele and Wyrardesbury, which manors Christiaua held for life of the
grant of Edward I. in exchange for certain lands in Ireland, whereof she
had previously enfeoffed him, to be appraised by John de Mauwardyn for
the use of the late king, and to cause the said executors to be satisfied for
the above sum, at which the stock, goods and chattels were appraised in the
presence of the executors, the late king having afterwards ordered Ingelard
(Ingelrardo) de Warle, then keeper of his wardrobe, to cause the said sum
to be paid to the executors without delay, but the executors have not yet
obtained payment thereof, and they have not yet been satisfied therefor, as
the king learns from their petition before him and his council, although the
late king frequently ordered the treasurer and barons of his exchequer to
call before them the said Ingelard and the executors, and to hear the
reasons on both sides, and to cause the executors to be satisfied, and
although Ingelard and the executors appeared before the treasurer and
barons in accordance therewith. By pet. of C. |
March 30.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain
John de Bures, the elder, for his homage for the lands that he holds of the
king, as he has done homage to the king. By p.s. [552.] |
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Feb. 24.
Westminster. |
To Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to pay to Oillard
de Well, constable of Hardelagh castle, the arrears of his wages from the
time of the chamberlain's appointment, and to pay him the said wages henceforth. |
March 8.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the men
of Richemondeshire and Northtrithinge, co. York, to have respite until
Easter next, and for two years from then for the debts due to the exchequer
for the late king's victuals bought by them, as the king has granted them
such respite in consideration of the damages sustained by them by the
frequent comings of the Scots into those parts. By pet. of C. |
March 8.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to Richard de
Moseleye, late receiver of the issues of the honour of Pontefract, then in
the late king's hands, for 384l. 14s. 5d. in the money due from him for the
issues of his bailiwick, if they find by the account rendered by Roger de
Horsle, late constable of Baumburgh castle, that Roger bought corn to the
above value from Richard for the munition of Baumburgh castle, as Richard
has prayed the king to cause this sum to be allowed to him in the debts due
from him to the exchequer for the issues of his bailiwick.
By pet. of C. [13972.] |
Feb. 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to receive from Otto de Bodringan all
the king's victuals in his custody in the Island of Lunday by indenture, the
king having ordered Otto to deliver them to the sheriff, and to expose
them for sale as quickly as possibly by the view and testimony of Otto, and
to pay out of the money received for them Otto's wages for the time when
he had the custody of the Island. |
Feb. 25.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Richard
de Perrers, sheriff of Essex, executor of the will of James de Perers, in the
arrears of his account as sheriff 14l. 13s. 4d., which the late king owed to
James, a knight of his household, for his fee and robes between 1 December,
in the 8th year of his reign, and the last day of January, in the 9th year, in
the time of W. archbishop of York, then keeper of the wardrobe, as appears
by a bill of the wardrobe delivered by James to Richard for a debt due to
him, as Richard has besought the king, by petition before him and his
council, to cause the aforesaid sum to be allowed to him in the arrears of
his account. |
March 9.
Westminster. |
To the keeper of the manor of Assheton near Boyton. Order to
pay to John Torny of Werston the arrears of the yearly rent and robe
mentioned below from the said manor, and to pay him the rent and
robe hereafter for so long as he shall be keeper of the manor, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by Adam Walrond and Peter Doynel that John
Giffard of Brymmesfeld, on Sunday the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, in
the 9th year of the late king's reign, granted to the said John Torny and
his heirs by deed, for a moiety of the manor of Stapelford granted to him
and his heirs by the said John Torny, 10l. yearly from his manor of
Assheton near Boyton, co. Wilts, and that he granted to the said John
Torny by another deed 10l. yearly and a robe, price 20s. yearly for life
from the said manor, and that he charged payment thereof upon the said
manor, and that John Torny was seised of the said rent and robe by the
said John Giffard by the aforesaid deeds from the feast of St. Thomas
aforesaid, and that he received the rent and robe yearly for six years
following by the hands of the said John Giffard and his bailiffs of the
manor aforesaid, until the manor was taken into the late king's hands with
other lands of the said John Giffard upon his death, and that the manor is
now in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, the elder,
to whom the late king granted the manor, and that the manor is held of the
heir of William Mautravers by fealty for all service. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause to be
allowed to Elizabeth, late the wife of David de Langeton, and executrix of
his will, 84 marks due from her for a fine for the custody of the land and
heir of David, and the marriage of his heir and for licence to marry whom
she please, in the 98l. due from the late king to David for his stay in the
castle of Werk, as appears by a bill under the seal of Robert de Wodehous,
late keeper of the late king's wardrobe, in her possession, as she has prayed
the king, by petition before him and his council in parliament, to cause
such allowance to be made to her. By pet. of C. [2783.] |
Feb. 26.
Westminster. |
To Otto de Bodrygan. Order to deliver all the king's victuals in the
Island of Lunday in his custody to the sheriff of Devon by indenture, whom
the king has ordered to receive them, and to sell them by Otto's view and
testimony, and to pay to Otto the wages due to him for the time when he
had the custody of the Island. |
Feb. 22.
Westminster. |
To the steward of Gower. Order to resume into the king's hands the
lands that belonged to the Templars delivered by him to David Baret, in
execution of the king's order to deliver to David the land of Stephen Baret,
knight, his brother, which were in the king's hands by reason of the riding
of the barons in the quarrel of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, and to
deliver the said Templars' lands to the prior of the Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem in England or to his attorney in this behalf, as it was not, and is
not, the king's intention that any Templars' lands in the late king's hands
should be delivered to David by virtue of the aforesaid order. By C. |
Feb. 28.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Whereas it is found by inquisition taken
by John de Denum and Robert de Barton by the late king's order that the
community of that county made fine with Edward de Bruys, late warden of
the marches of Scotland, to have sufference until a certain time for the
salvation of those parts, and Richard le Brune, at the request of the said
community, bound himself and his heirs for the community to Gilbert son
of William in 20l. to be paid at a certain time, because the community
could not pay the fine as speedily as was necessary, and that Robert, son
and heir of the said Richard, satisfied the executors of Gilbert's will for the
said 20l. in default of the community, and that the community have not
hitherto taken care to satisfy him for the same ; the king orders the sheriff
to cause the said 20l. to be levied from the men of the community aforesaid
who had salvation by such sufference, and to cause the same to be paid to
Robert without delay. By pet. of C. |
Feb. 22.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover castle and warden of the
Cinque Ports. Order to permit the master and brethren of the hospital of
God's House, Dover, to receive from the issues of the port of Dover 50s.
yearly and 10l. at Michaelmas yearly and 10l. at Easter yearly, in accordance with the charter of Henry III., which the king has inspected, by
virtue whereof they have heretofore received 50s. yearly from the said
issues by the hands of the bailiffs of the port for the maintenance of a chaplain celebrating divine service in the hospital daily for the soul of Reymund
de Burgo, and 10l. at Michaelmas yearly for the maintenance of themselves
and the poor of the hospital, and 10l. yearly at Easter that the said king
granted to them as dower of the hospital. |
Feb. 26.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas at the prosecution of William Esquidor, Vydalus de Ryvassel, William Forton, John
Boyldour, Arnald de Mouleg', Peter Gouffrey, Peter Rous, Gaillard
Gouffrei, merchants of Rabastenx, Gaillard de Armynak, merchant of
Gascony, Peter del Fount, merchant of Caus, and Peter Dosset, merchant
of Leytore, by their petitions before the king and his council, suggesting
that they, confiding in the late king's proclamations made at London and
Bordeaux that all strange merchants might come into England safely with
their goods and merchandise for the purpose of trading, carried their wines
to London, and paid the customs due and usual thereon, and that John de
Cotun and Gilbert de Mordon, late sheriffs of London, arrested them and
their wines and other chattels, and their debts in the hands of their
creditors by pretext of an order of the late king to arrest all merchants of
the power of the king of France and their goods and chattels, and that
John and Gilbert detain them and their chattels and debts under arrest, and
that part of their wines was delivered to Benedict de Fulsham, the late
king's butler, by the said sheriffs by the late king's order, for which they
prayed the king to provide a remedy, the king ordered the present sheriffs
of the city by his writs to certify him of the time when the aforesaid
merchants and their wines, chattels, and debts were arrested, and for what
cause, etc., and the sheriffs have signified that the aforesaid merchants and
their wines, chattels, and debts were arrested, by pretext of the late king's
order to arrest all merchants of the power of the king of France, on 6 July,
in the 19th year of the late king's reign, and that they are still under
arrest; as it appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of chancery that
the late king, on 1 May, in the said year, took all strange merchants into
his protection, willing that they should come into England with their
merchandise safely for the purpose of trading, and as it appears by the
aforesaid return that the aforesaid merchants were arrested with their
wines, chattels, and debts aforesaid on 6 July, which was before the making
of the proclamation that merchants of the power of the king of France
should not come into England except at their peril, the king wills that the
aforesaid merchants shall be released from arrest, and that their wines,
chattels, and debts shall be delivered to them: the king therefore orders the
treasurer and barons to call before them the aforesaid John de Cotun and
Gilbert de Mordon, who are charged at the exchequer with the wines,
chattels, and debts aforesaid by indentures made between Nicholas de Acton,
clerk, Reginald de Conductu, and John de Oxonia, appointed for this purpose
by the late king's writ of the exchequer, and them, and to call before them
the aforesaid Benedict, and to cause the said John de Cotun, Gilbert, and
Benedict to be acquitted at the exchequer of the wines, chattels, and debts
aforesaid, and to cause the aforesaid merchants to be released without
delay, and to cause them to have the said wines and chattels, or the price
thereof, and their debts aforesaid. By pet. of C. [10368.] |
Feb. 25.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause brother Peter Marie and Stephen Power,
late keepers of the lands that the abbot of Fecamp holds of the king in
England, to be discharged and acquitted of the fixed sum (certo) due from
them to the exchequer for the lands aforesaid from 18 February last, when
the king took the fealty of brother Peter Rogerii, abbot of Fécamp, for the
lands that he holds of the king in England, which were in the late king's
hands by reason of the death of brother Robert Depiccot (sic), late abbot of
the aforesaid place. |
March 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Thomas Alanayne, merchant of Amiens, has
shewn the king, by petition before him and his council, that whereas
he came to Beverley with eight barrels of woad to trade therewith during
the truce between the late king and the king of France, Roger de Somervill, late sheriff of that county, arrested the woad during the truce aforesaid, and afterwards sold it for 80l., which money he delivered for custody
to Thomas du Clay, Adam de Tyrewyth, and William le Lombard, burgesses of Beverley, and the said money is still detained under arrest, and
the said Thomas has prayed the king to provide a remedy : the king therefore orders the sheriff to cause the aforesaid money to be released from
arrest and delivered to Thomas or his attorney, if it appear to him that
Thomas came to the said town with the woad during the truce aforesaid,
and that Roger arrested it during the truce, and afterwards sold it, as is
above said. By pet. of C. |
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The like to the bailiffs of Beverley. |
Feb. 23.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the
cardinals of the Roman church beneficed in England to be discharged and
acquitted of all debts exacted from them by summons of the exchequer for
their benefices by reason of tenths and aids imposed upon the clergy of the
realm by the pope and his predecessors and granted to the king or his
ancestors by the prelates and clergy of the realm, as the king has pardoned
the cardinals such debts in consideration of their affection to the crown.
[Fœdera.] By p.s. [181.] |
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March 29.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to deliver to John de Sutton and
Margaret his wife the castle of Duddeleye and the manors of Seggeleye,
Swyneford, Rouleye Somery, and Prestwold, in that county, as the king—
at the petition of John and Margaret before him and his council in the last
parliament, suggesting that Hugh le Despenser, the elder, and Hugh le
Despenser, the younger, being led by cupidity, asserting that John had
adhered to Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, caused him to be taken at Westminster, in co. Middlesex, and to be imprisoned in the late king's prison
until he enfeoffed Hugh, the elder, of his manor of Eykerynge, co. Nottingham, and the said Hugh, the younger, of the castle of Duddeleye and the
aforesaid manors in co. Stafford, the town of Duddeleye, co. Worcester, the
manor of Bradefeld, co. Berks, and the manor of Doneaphowys in Wales,
which are of Margaret's inheritance, and until he made letters patent under
his seal to William de Ayleston to deliver seisin of the castle and manors
aforesaid to them, and until he made letters of quit-claim thereof to them,
wherefore they prayed the king to provide a remedy—appointed Robert de
Swalclive, Robert de Kelleseye, and Henry de Secheford to make inquisition concerning the premises by the oath of men of co. Middlesex, and it is
found by the said inquisition that the aforesaid Hugh and Hugh, on
Monday before St. Valentine, in the 18th year of the late king's reign,
caused the said John to be attached by Simon Croyser at Westminster, in
the said county, because he had adhered to the aforesaid earl Thomas in
the company of Humphrey de Bohoun, then earl of Hereford, against the
said king, and caused him to be kept in the late king's prison under the
custody of his marshal in chains until he, thus in prison, under fear of
death, made charters to the aforesaid Hugh and Hugh and letters patent
and letters of acquittance as specified above, and until Hugh and Hugh had
been seised of the castles and manors aforesaid, the king being unwilling
that John and Margaret shall suffer prejudice by pretext of the aforesaid
charters and letters thus made in prison. By p.s. and pet. of C. [8384.] |
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The like to the following for the following manors: |
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The sheriff of Nottingham, for the manor of Eykeryng. |
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The sheriff of Worcester, for the town of Duddeleye. |
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The sheriff of Berks, for the manor of Bradefeld. |
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William la Zouche of Assheby, keeper of the king's land of Glamorgan,
for the manor of Doneaphowys in Wales. |
April 9.
Peterborough. |
To Henry de Bisshebur[y], keeper of the castle of Duddeley and of the
manors of Seggeleye, Swyneford, Rouleye Somery, and Prestwode, co. Stafford,
and of the town of Duddeley, co. Worcester. Order to deliver to the aforesaid John de Sutton and Margaret his wife the said castle and manors, as
the king—at their petition before him and his council in the last parliament, suggesting that Hugh le Despenser, the younger, asserting that
John had adhered to Thomas, earl of Lancaster, caused him to be taken at
Westminster, co. Middlesex, and to be kept in the late king's prison until
he enfeoffed Hugh of the castle, manors, and town aforesaid, which are of
his wife's inheritance, and until he made letters patent to William de
Alveston to deliver seisin thereof to Hugh—appointed Adam de Brom,
William de Sareshull, Robert de Swaleclyve, and Robert de Kelleseye to
make inquisition concerning the premises by the oath of men of co. Middlesex, and also appointed Roger Hillary, Ralph de Perham, and Thomas
de Norton to make inquisition by the oath of men of cos. Stafford and
Worcester whether or not the aforesaid William delivered seisin of the said
castle, manors, and town to Hugh, etc., and it is found by inquisition taken
by Adam and William that Hugh took John at Westminster on Tuesday
before St. Gregory, in the 17th year of the late king's reign, asserting that
he had lately adhered to the said earl, and delivered him to Simon le
Croyser to be kept in the prison of the late king's marshalsea, and Simon,
who durst not resist Hugh, received him by Hugh's order, and detained
him in prison for the three following weeks, within which time John,
through the hardships and duress of the prison, and at Hugh's persecution, unwillingly and being forced against his will, made charters of feoffment to Hugh of the castle, manors, and town aforesaid, which are of his
wife's inheritance, and also his letters patent to the said William de Alve-ton,
then journeying to the parts aforesaid, to deliver seisin thereof to Hugh,
and he thus remained in prison for the whole time until William returned
to Westminster and testified that he had delivered the aforesaid seisin to
Hugh, and it is also found by inquisition taken by the aforesaid Roger and
Thomas, in the presence of the said keeper, that William de Alveston
delivered seisin of the castle, manors, and town, which are of Margaret's
inheritance, to Hugh by letters patent of the said John dated at Westminster
on the day of St. Benedict next following after the aforesaid feast of
St. Gregory, and that John le Botiller of Teukesbur[y] was then there in
Hugh's name and took the fealties of the tenants of the castle, manors,
and town, and that William de Alveston, after seisin had been thus delivered
to Hugh, returned forthwith to Westminster to testify to Hugh the delivery
of the seisin, and the king is unwilling that John and Margaret shall be
prejudiced by pretext of the charters and letters aforesaid thus made in
prison. By pet. of C. [10301.]
Et erat patens. |
April 13.
Peterborough. |
To the bailiffs of the city of Lincoln. Order to pay to William de Ros
of Hamelak 75 marks of the ferm of their city for Easter term last, in
accordance with the late king's grant of 22 August, in the 16th year of his
reign, of 150 marks yearly from the ferm of the city of Lincoln and
150 marks yearly from the ferm of the city of York, to be received from
the bailiffs of the said cities until the said king or his heirs should provide
William or his heirs with 300 marks yearly of land or rent between the
waters of Thames and Tees, or until the late king or his heirs should restore
to William Werk castle, which William granted and quit-claimed to the
late king. |
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The like to the bailiffs of the city of York. |
April 15.
Stamford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Orders to cause allowance to be made to the bailiffs of the city of Lincoln for the aforesaid
75 marks, paid by them in execution of the preceding order. |
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The like in favour of the citizens of York. |
April 13.
Peterborough. |
To Simon de Grymesby, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to
William son of William le Latymer the manor of Danby, which was taken
into the king's hands by reason of the latter's death, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the escheator that William le Latymer held the manor
for life of the late king's gift, with remainder to the said William, his son,
and that the manor is held of the king by the service of one knight's fee,
the king having taken the son's homage. |
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To the same. Order to deliver to William son of William le Latymer
the manors of Gamelsby and Unthank, co. Cumberland, and the issues
thereof since 8 March last, as the king on that day pardoned the said
William the son, for a fine that he made with the king, his trespass in
acquiring the said manors to him and the heirs of his body from William le
Latymer, who held them in chief of the king, and in entering them without
the king's licence, which manors were taken into the king's hands by reason
of the said trespass, the king having then granted to the said William son
of William that he shall have and hold the manors aforesaid to him and the
heirs of his body of the king by the services therefor due and accustomed,
with remainder to Thomas son of William le Latymer and the heirs of his
body, with remainder to Thomas le Latymer of Wardon and Warin his son,
and to the heirs male of Warin's body, with reversion to the said William
le Latymer and his heirs, as contained in the king's letters patent, and the
king has now taken the homage of the said William son of William for the
manors aforesaid. |
April 13.
Peterborough. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance
to be made to the sheriff of Lincoln for 10l. paid by him to Wenthliana,
daughter of Llywelin, late prince of Wales, a nun of Sempyngham, for
Easter term last, in execution of the king's order of 23 February last to
pay her 20l. yearly at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions, the king
having granted her 20l. yearly from the issues of the county of Lincoln in
aid of her maintenance. |
April 10.
Peterborough. |
To the same. W. bishop of Norwich has shown the king, by petition
before him and his council, that whereas the bishop's manors of Wylughby.
Silkeby, Merston, and a third of the soke of Waltham, co. Lincoln, and the
manors of Northduffeld, Thornton Styward, Crathorn, Rungeton, Prestonin-Cravene, Drax Paynel, and Yucflet, co. York, and the manors of Isle
(Insula), Bradebury, Cokeshou, and Snaypegest, in the bishopric of Durham,
and the ferm of the church of Estrington, co. York, were taken into the
late king's hands and retained therein for a long time without reasonable
cause at the procurement of certain of his rivals, and the late king's keepers
of the manors and ferms aforesaid, sheriffs and other ministers levied therefrom issues to the value of 500l. for that time, and paid that sum into the
late king's wardrobe and treasury, and although the manors and ferms aforesaid, with the goods and chattels in the same, were afterwards restored to
the bishop by the late king's order, and the late king ordered the issues
thereof for the said time to be delivered to the bishop, payment has not yet
been made to him of the above 500l., and the bishop has prayed the king
to cause him to be satisfied for the said 500l., or to pay him as much as was
levied and paid thereof to the said king's use, or to cause satisfaction or assignment otherwise to be made to him: the king therefore orders the treasurer
and barons to cause assignment to be made to the bishop upon wardships
and marriages now in the king's hands or that shall next come to his hands,
or to cause satisfaction to be made to him otherwise for what they shall
ascertain, by inspection of the rolls of chancery or by the certification of
the memoranda of the wardrobe or otherwise, was paid for the use of the
late king of the issues aforesaid. By pet. of C. |
April 12.
Peterborough. |
To John de Brympton, keeper of the manor of Bradefeld. Order to
deliver the said manor to John de Sutton and Margaret his wife, as the
king, at their prosecution, by petition before him and his council—suggesting that Hugh le Despenser had unjustly disseised them of the said manor,
in co. Berks, which they held in fee of Margaret's inheritance, and that he
unjustly detained the manor until it was taken into the late king's hands by
his forfeiture, and praying the king for remedy—appointed William de
Sareshull, John le Moigne, and John Loveday to make inquisition by the
oath of men of that county concerning the premises, and it is found by their
inquisition that John and Margaret held the manor in fee of Margaret's
inheritance, and were seised thereof in the 19th year of the late king's
reign, until Hugh disseised them thereof, and so occupied and held the
manor by his disseisin until it was taken into the late king's hands by his
forfeiture, and that the manor came to the king's hands in this way, and is
in his hands for this reason and for no other, and that John and Margaret did
not remit or quit-claim the manor to Hugh, or change their estate therein
in any way. |
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Membrane 6. |
March 7.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The abbot of St. Mary's,
York, has shewn the king, by petition before him and his council, that
whereas he has accounted at the exchequer for the time when he and
certain of his predecessors were collectors of divers tenths and aids granted
to the late king by the clergy of England and of divers tenths imposed
upon the clergy by the Roman court for the late king's use, and of the
arrears of 987l. 15s. 4¼d. the sum of 170l. 15s. 9d. ought to have been
levied of the temporalities of men of religion and of the tenths of churches
and other ecclesiastical benefices in the northern parts wasted and destroyed
by the Scots, and the abbot has been unable to levy anything of the latter
sum by reason of the destruction aforesaid, and he has prayed the king to
provide a remedy in this behalf: the king therefore orders the treasurer
and barons to inform themselves as best they can concerning such benefices
and temporalities wasted and destroyed in the parts aforesaid, and to discharge
the abbot of the sum that they shall ascertain he was unable to levy by
reason of the destruction aforesaid, charging each head of such debts
according to the particulars concerning it. By pet. of C. |
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To the same. The aforesaid abbot has shewn, by petition before the king
and his council, that John de Castre, the late king's keeper of Bernard's
Castle, and William Druel, then receiver of the issues of the same, took
corn of the abbot at Gaynford, within the bishopric of Durham, to the value
of 45l. 0s. 5d. for the garnisture and saving of the said castle, for the late
king's use, in the 9th year of the reign, without any payment being made to
the abbot therefor, and the abbot is indebted to the king in divers debts for
the tenth for two years last collected by him, and he has prayed the king to
cause the aforesaid 45l. 0s. 5d. to be allowed to him in the debts due from
him for the tenth aforesaid: the king therefore orders the treasurer and
barons to examine the account of the said John and William rendered to
the exchequer for the issues of the castle and victuals aforesaid, and if they
find that they answered to the late king for the corn aforesaid, to cause the
abbot to be allowed the price thereof in his said debts. By pet. of C. |
Feb. 21.
Westminster. |
To John de Kilvyngton, late keeper of the castle and honour of Pikeryng',
co. York. Order to deliver to John de Kynardeseye, Michael de Meldon,
and Elias de Stapelton, executors of the will of Thomas, late earl of
Lancaster, for the excution of his will, all the issues received by him from
the castle and honour aforesaid and from the other lands of the earl in that
county for the time that the said keeper had the custody thereof, for which
answer was not made to the late king, and to deliver the earl's goods and
chattels in his custody to the executors, as it is agreed in the present parliament that all those who were of the earl's quarrel in the late king's time to
pursue Hugh le Despenser the elder, and Hugh le Despenser the younger,
shall have their lands again, which were taken into the late king's hands as
forfeited, and also the issues and arrears of ferms for which answer was
not made to the late king, and also their goods and chattels still in the
king's hands, because the quarrel is adjudged good and just in the said
parliament and the judgments against those who were of the quarrel have
been annulled. By K. and C. |
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Vacated, because it was restored. |
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The like to the following: |
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John de Leyk, keeper of the castle and honour of Tuttebury. |
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John de Lancastria, keeper of the castle and honour of Lancaster. |
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William de Tatham, keeper of the said earl's lands in Blakeburnshire
and Bouland. |
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Thomas Deyvill, keeper of the castle and honour of Pountfreit. |
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Richard de Moseleye, keeper of the castle of Sandale and Wakefeld. |
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Odo (Edoni) de Stoke, keeper of the castle of Kenylleworth. |
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Robert de Hungerford, keeper of the said earl's lands in Wilteshire. |
March 25.
Westminster. |
To Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to pay to Giles
de Bello Campo, to whom the king has committed the custody of the castle
of Beaumaris and the shrievalty of Kaernarvon, during pleasure, in the same
way as John de Sapy lately had the custody by the late king's commission,
or to him who supplies his place the usual fees and wages for himself and
for the prisoners there, as was usual in the late king's time. |
March 21.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands that belonged to John Haddok, a madman and
idiot, which were taken into the late king's hands by reason of his madness,
and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by
the escheator that the said John held at his death no lands in chief of the
late king by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to
the king, but that he held at his death divers lands of John de Appeton by
various services. |
March 14.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of the city of Hereford. Order to cause John Hamelyn
to be delivered from prison in that city, as the sheriff of Hereford has
returned to the king, in response to his order to certify him of the cause
of John's arrest, that he caused the bailiffs to have return of the king's writ
according to the liberty of the city, and that the bailiffs had answered to
him that they caused the said John, notoriously a rebel and an adherent of
the enemies of Queen Isabella and the king, to be attached and imprisoned
by virtue of an order of the said queen and of the king before his accession
to arrest and keep safely all persons then adhering notoriously to their
enemies, and it is now shewn the king on behalf of John that he never
adhered to the enemies of the said queen or of the king, and that he is prepared to stand to right when the said queen or the king will speak
against him concerning the premises, and Andrew Pendok and William
Strug of co. Gloucester, John de Aulton of co. Southampton, and Thomas
de Shirig of co. Somerset have mainperned before the king in chancery to
have the said John before the king in fifteen days from Easter Sunday to
stand to right. |
March 25.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wygemor. Order to cause 20l. yearly to
be paid to the prior and monks of St. Mary's, Bergeveny, for so long as he
shall have the custody of the lands of John de Hastingg', tenant in chief of
the late king, which the king committed to him during the minority of John's
heir, as the said John granted by his charter, which the king has inspected, to
the prior and monks and their successors, for the health of his soul and the
souls of his ancestors and successors, in augmentation of the estate of the
priory and of the maintenance of the monks there, 20l. yearly to be received
from his manor of Penros in Wales, until he or any of his heirs should provide the prior and monks with a lay fee or ecclesiastical benefice to the
value of 20l. yearly in perpetual arms, and the prior and monks have
received the said 20l. yearly from the time of the grant before and after
John's death, and they have not been provided with a lay fee or ecclesiastical
benefice in lieu thereof. |
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To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer. Order to discharge
Walter de Norwyco of the ferm of certain lands that belonged to William
de Huntingfeld, tenant in chief of the late king, and of a third of the manors
of Huntingfeld and Boeng, from 8 March last, when the king took the
homage of Roger de Huntingfeld, son and heir of William, for his father's
lands, and rendered them to him, the late king having committed the custody
of the said lands and of the third of the said manors, which Sibyl, late the
wife of William, held in dower of the inheritance aforesaid, and which were
taken into the late king's hands upon her death, to the said Walter during
the minority of the heir for a certain ferm. |
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Vacated, because below. |
March 23.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause all the king's goods and
chattels in the manor of Retheresfeld and the corn sown in the demesne
lands of the manor to be appraised and delivered to Alesia, late the wife of
Edmund, earl of Arundel, or to her attorney by indenture, and to send the
said indenture containing the price of the goods, chattels, and corn aforesaid
to the exchequer with this writ, to be delivered to the treasurer and barons
so that the price may be levied for the king's use, as Alesia has besought
the king to grant her the said goods, chattels, and corn at a certain price,
the said manor having been granted to her by the king in aid of the maintenance of herself and her boys until other ordinance should be made for
her, and Robert de Estdon and William de Northoo of that county have
mainperned in chancery on her behalf to answer for the price of the goods,
chattels, and corn aforesaid. |
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The like to the following: |
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The sheriff of Southampton, for the manors of Mapelderwell, Berton,
and Farlington. |
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The sheriff of Berks, for the manor of Stanvord. |
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The sheriff of Gloucester, for the manors of Marston and Fayreford. |
March 1.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with certain lands in Hounespell, co. Somerset, which were taken
into the late king's hands by reason of the death of Herbert de Marisco,
tenant in chief of the late king, and to restore the issues thereof to Isabella
de Roges without diminution, as, upon its being found by inquisition taken
by Robert de Bikkemore, the late king's escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon,
Somerset, and Dorset, that Herbert demised the said lands to Isabella for
life, and that the lands are worth 10l. yearly in all issues, the king ordered
the said Robert not to intermeddle further with the said lands and to restore
the issues thereof to Isabella without diminution, and Robert was amoved
from office before he had executed the said order. |
April 18.
Stamford. |
To the same. Order to pay to Richard le Mareschal 25l. out of the
issues of his bailiwick for Easter term last, in accordance with the late king's
grant of 23 September, in the 11th year of his reign, of 50l. yearly in
aid of his maintenance from the issues of the escheatry this side Trent,
because Richard was ruined by the Scots. |
April 23.
Stamford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow the said
25l. to the aforesaid escheator, which he has paid by virtue of the preceding order. |
April 22.
Stamford. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain the
abbot of Evesham for fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as the
king has taken his fealty. |
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The like in favour of the following: |
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The abbot of Wynchecombe. |
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The abbot of Abyndon. |
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The abbot of Rammeseye. |
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John Pygot, for homage and fealty. |
By p.s. |
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Hugh de Plescy, for homage and fealty. |
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The abbot of St. Benedict, Holme, for fealty. |
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The abbot of Leicester. |
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John Pygot, for homage. By p.s. |
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The abbot of Chetewode. By the same writ. |
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John de Wolfreton, for homage and fealty. By the same writ. |
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Adam de Herthall, for homage. By the same writ. |
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Membrane 5. |
Feb. 13.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Eyvill, keeper of the castle of Pontefract and receiver of
the issues there. Order to pay to Ralph de Bulmere 60l. by indenture, as,
according to an account made with him, the wages of himself as a banneret
and of two knights and other men-at-arms from 22 November last amount
to more than 60l., on which day William de Ros of Hamelak, whom Queen
Isabella and the king before his accession appointed keeper of co. York, and
to whom they granted power to take into their hands the castle aforesaid,
and to ordain for the safe custody thereof, deputed Ralph with ten men-atarms for the custody of the said castle at the king's wages. By p.s.
[Fœdera.] |
April 5.
Huntingdon. |
To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Simon Hourgis, merchant of Amiens,
has shewn the king that whereas the late king ordained that the staple of
wool, hides, and wool-fells should be held in certain places in the realm and
not elsewhere, and caused proclamation to be made throughout his realm
that all alien merchants should come into his realm with their goods and
wares safely and securely, and for their greater security took alien merchants into his special protection, and Simon, confiding in the said
proclamation, came to Huntingdon with divers goods and wares to trade
there with the same, the sheriff took him at Huntingdon and arrested divers
of his goods and wares by virtue of an order of the late king to arrest men
and merchants of the power of the king of France with their goods and
chattels, and still detains him in prison and keeps his goods and chattels
under arrest, wherefore he has prayed the king to provide a remedy: the
king therefore orders the sheriff to cause Simon to be delivered from prison
and his goods and wares to be released from arrest and delivered to him, if
he ascertain that Simon came to that town confiding in the said proclamation with his goods and wares, and that he and his goods and wares
were arrested by virtue of the said order of the late king. By p.s. [581.] |
March 25.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Peter de Sancto Fuciano,
Robert de Sancto Fuciano, John Roundel, and Hugh Lengleche, merchants
of Amiens, have shewn the king, by their petition before him and his
council, that whereas they came to that town, during the truce between the
late king and the king of France, with 19 sarplers of wool containing
23 sacks and 46 nails of wool, price 205l. 6s. 8d., and 12 barrels of woad,
price 128l. 2s. 8d., for the purpose of trading there with the same, John
Clyve and Hugh Sampson, late collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and
woolfells in the port of that town, and the mayor and bailiffs of the town
arrested the wool and woad during the truce aforesaid, and the wool and
woad were afterwards sold by the late king's order to Thomas de Bynedon,
burgess of that town, and the money thence arising is still in his hands
under arrest, wherefore the said merchants have prayed the king to provide
a remedy: the king therefore orders the mayor and bailiffs to cause the
said money to be released from arrest, and delivered to the said merchants,
if they ascertain that the merchants came to that town during the truce
aforesaid, and that the wool and woad were arrested during the truce and
were sold to the said Thomas, and that the money therefor is still in his
hands. By pet. of C. |
March 8.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to release the aforesaid wool and woad from arrest,
and to deliver it to the said merchants, if they ascertain that the merchants
came to that town with the wool and woad during the truce aforesaid, and
that the wool and woad were arrested during the truce. By pet. of C. |
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The like to the sheriff of Southampton 'de verbo ad verbum.'
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March 25.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Bynedon, burgess of Southampton. Order to deliver to
the aforesaid merchants the money arising from the said wool and woad, if
he ascertain that they came to the town during the aforesaid truce, and
that the wool and woad were arrested during the truce. By pet. of C. |
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge
Walter de Norwico of the ferm of certain lands that belonged to William
de Huntingfeld, tenant in chief of the late king, and of a third of the
manors of Huntingfeld and Beeng, from 8 March last, when the king took
the homage of Roger de Huntingfeld, son and heir of William, for his
father's lands, and rendered them to him, the late king having committed
the custody of the said lands and of the third of the said manors, which
Sibyl, late the wife of William, held in dower of the inheritance aforesaid,
and which were taken into the late king's hands upon her death, to the said
Walter during the minority of the heir for a certain ferm. |
Feb. 28.
Westminster. |
To the justiciary of Ireland for the time being or to come, or to him who
supplies his place. Order to deliver to James le Botiller, son and heir of
Edmund le Botiler of Ireland, the issues of his father's lands from
2 December, in the 19th year of the late king's reign, when the said king
took his homage for his father's land, and rendered the same to him, as it
is now shewn to the king on behalf of the said Edmund (sic), by petition
before him and his council, that although he entered the lands in Ireland
that are of his inheritance by pretext of the said order, the issues thereof
from the said 2 December until 18 March following are detained from him.
By pet. of C. |
Feb. 5.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to receive from
Benedict de Fulsham and John de Causton, late sheriffs of London and of
the county of Middlesex, 300l. for the said shrievalties for their time, and
to cause them to be discharged and acquitted of what is exacted from them
over that sum for the said shrievalties for the time when they were sheriffs,
as they have shewn the king that whereas his progenitors, kings of
England, granted by their charters to the citizens of London the shrievalties
aforesaid for 300l. yearly, to be held for ever, as is contained in the said
charters, which the king has confirmed by his charter, and he has granted
that nothing shall be exacted from the citizens beyond the 300l. for the
shrievalties aforesaid, nevertheless the said Benedict and John are charged
upon their account for that time with 400l. for the shrievalties aforesaid,
which sum runs in demand against them contrary to the tenor of the
charters aforesaid and the king's grant; wherefore they have prayed the
king to provide a remedy. By pet. of C. |
March 1.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with certain lands in Hounesfell, co. Somerset, which were,
taken into the late king's hands by reason of the death of Herbert de
Marisco, tenant in chief of the late king, and to restore the issues thereof
to Isabella de Roges without diminution, as, upon its being found by
inquisition taken by Robert de Bikkemore, the late king's escheator in
cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, that Herbert demised the said
lands to Isabella for life, and that they are held of Richard Cogan, knight,
by the service of ½d. yearly, and that they are worth 10l. yearly in all issues
the king ordered Robert not to intermeddle further with the said lands and
to restore the issues thereof to Isabella without diminution, and Robert
was amoved from office before he had executed the said order. |
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Vacated, because above. |
March 8.
Westminster. |
To Drogo Barentyn, keeper of the manor of Avynton, in the king's
hands by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, late earl of Winchester.
Order to deliver the aforesaid manor to Emelina Longespee, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by William de Harden and Robert de Hungerford that Emelina was seised of the manor by the demise of Thomas, late
earl of Lancaster, who demised it to her by deed for life in May, in the
7th year of the late king's reign, and that she was seised thereof and continued her seisin until 24 July, in the 16th year of the said king's reign,
when the aforesaid Hugh disseised her of the same, and thus Hugh occupied
the manor all his life by this disseisin, and that Emelina did not remit the
manor to Hugh or change her estate therein in any way, and that the
manor is in the king's hands by Hugh's forfeiture, and is held of the earl
of Salisbury by the quarter of a knight's fee, and is worth in all issues 12l. |
March 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause 60l. 2s. 0¾d.
to be paid to Richard de Shupene, merchant, out of the issues of the custom
of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of London, or to cause that amount
to be allowed to him in the money to be rendered on his wool to be taken
out of that port, as he has shewn the king, by petition before him and his
council, that the late king, by his letters patent under his seal called 'koket'
of London, acknowledged that he had received the above sum as a loan from
Richard, then a native merchant, in the 12th year of his reign, by the hands of
William de Hedersete and William de Rude, then collectors of the custom of
wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of London, and granted by the same
letters that Richard should be satisfied for the said sums out of the issues of
the custom aforesaid, and he has not been satisfied for the same sum, wherefore he has prayed the king to cause that sum to be paid to him out of the
issues of the said custom or to be allowed to him as above. By pet. of C. |
March 14.
Westminster. |
To Ralph de Bereford, John de Scures, and John de Ticheburn. Whereas
lately—at the prosecution of Margery, late the wife of Robert Lewer,
by petition before the king and his council, suggesting that she had arramed
an assize of novel disseisin before the said Ralph, John, and John against
Ralph de Camoys and Elizabeth his wife, and Hugh their son, and others
named in the original writ, concerning a tenement in Westbury, and that the
said Ralph, Elizabeth, and Hugh in pleading before Ralph, John, and John
proffered a charter of the late king's, whereby they asserted they held the
tenement put in view of the grant of the said king, and alleged that they
ought not to answer without the king, and that Ralph, John, and John
deferred proceeding further in the assize for this reason—the king ordered
the said Ralph, John, and John to proceed to the taking of the said assize
according to the law and custom of the realm, notwithstanding the allegation aforesaid, and ordered them not to proceed to render judgment therein
without consulting him; and afterwards the king, being given to understand
that they had taken the assize by virtue of the said order, ordered Ralph to
send to him the tenor of the record and process of the assize under his seal,
and it is now found by the tenor of the assize aforesaid, thus sent to the
king and seen and examined by him and his council, that Ralph, Elizabeth,
and Hugh disseised Margery of the manor of Westbury, which she placed
in view, long before the making of the said charter, which they afterwards
acquired from the late king: the king therefore sends the tenor aforesaid
enclosed in the presents to Ralph, John, and John, and orders them to proceed to render judgment in the assize aforesaid with all speed, notwith
standing the allegation aforesaid or any order of the king's to the contrary
previously directed to them. By pet. of C. |
March 4.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the men of
the community of the county of Lancaster to be discharged and acquitted of
fines for trespasses, and for escapes of thieves, and for having writs, and
forfeited issues, and all amercements, and chattels of felons and fugitives of
all the times of the king's progenitors until the first year of the late king's
reign, as the king has pardoned them the same in response to their petition
before him and his council, praying that he would pardon them all the
debts exacted from them by summons of the exchequer for all the times of his
progenitors until the first year of the late king's reign, in recompence for the
damages and losses suffered by them by the burnings, robberies, and imprisonment at the hands of the Scots and other rebels and malefactors, and
also all chattels of felons and fugitives of the time aforesaid. By pet. of C. |
March 4.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause each of the men of the aforesaid community
to have moderate attermination according to his estate at their discretion for
all debts due from the men of the said community to the exchequer for
fines and ransoms made by them before Hervey de Staunton and his fellows,
the late king's justices to hold pleas before him. By pet. of C. |
March 10.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to receive from John de Cotom and Gilbert de
Mordon, late sheriffs of London and co. Middlesex, 300l. for the said
shrievalties for their time, and to cause them to be discharged and acquitted
of what is exacted from them over that sum for the said shrievalties for the
time when they were sheriffs, as they have shewn the king that whereas his
progenitors, kings of England, granted by their charters to the citizens of
London the shrievalties aforesaid for 300l. yearly, to be held for ever, as is
contained in the said charters, which the king has confirmed by his said
charter, and he has granted that nothing shall be exacted from the citizens
beyond the 300l. for the shrievalties aforesaid, nevertheless the said John
and Gilbert are charged upon their account for that time with 400l. for the
shrievalties aforesaid, which sum runs in demand against them contrary to
the tenor of the charter aforesaid and the king's grant, wherefore they have
prayed the king to provide a remedy. By pet. of C. |
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March 4.
Westminster. |
To John de Lancastria, keeper of the lands that belonged to Robert de
Holand in co. Lancaster, in the king's hands. Order to amove the king's
hand from a third of a messuage and of 60 acres of land, and of 8 acres of
meadow, and of 180 acres of pasture and several wood in Haydok, and from
a third of a messuage of 15 acres of land in Orel, and from a third of a
messuage and of 120 acres of land, and of 8 acres of meadow in Bartonnear-Mancestre, and from a third of a messuage and of 7 acres of land and
of 60 acres of pasture in Swynton near Le Hope, and from a third of a
messuage and of 44 acres of land, and of 6 acres of meadow, and of 62 [acres]
of several pasture, and of 10s. of rent in Heton near Fanfeld, and to permit William de Multon and Joan his wife to have the same, as it is found
by inquisition taken by Robert de Notyngham and Gilbert de Syngelton in
the keeper's presence by the late king's order that the said Joan was dowered
of the premises after the death of William de Holand, her former husband,
by the assignment of Robert de Holand, brother and heir of the said William
de Holand, and that she continued her seisin thereof at her will, and that
she afterwards demised the premises to the said Robert at ferm, to be held
from year to year at her will, until she was ejected thence by John Travers
and William de Tatham after Robert's forfeiture, and that Robert had no
other estate in the tenements except in name of ferm during her will, and
that William de Holand was seised in his demesne as of fee of the lands
aforesaid on the day of his death, so that Joan ought to be dowered of a
third thereof, and that William de Multon and Joan or Joan by herself have
not remitted or quit-claimed their right to the dower to any one, and have
not changed their estate therein in any way, and that there is no cause why
Joan ought not to be dowered of the tenements whereof William de Holand
died seised in his demesne as of fee, and that Joan was the wife of the said
William de Holand on the day of his death. |
April 6.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Richard
de Perers, in the debts due from him to the exchequer, 99l. 18s. 5d. due to
him from the late king for money paid by him to William de Wendovere
and his fellows, soldiers (soldariis), for the arrears of their wages for staying
in divers garrisons in Scotland, and for recompence for their horses lost in
the said king's services in the garrisons aforesaid, in the 5th, 6th, and 7th
years of his reign, as appears by a bill of the said king's wardrobe in
Richard's possession, as Richard has besought the king to cause the above
sum to be allowed to him in the debts due from him for the time when he
was the late king's sheriff of Essex and Hertford. By pet. of C. |
March 5.
Westminster. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands of Bartholomew de Assheburnham, and to restore the
issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by William de Weston,
late escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and in the city of
London, that Bartholomew held no lands at his death in chief of the late
king by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king,
but that he held the manor of Essheburnham of John de Britannia, earl of
Richmond, in barony by knight service. |
March 4.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause to be paid to Dougal
Macdowell, executor of the will of John Daragill, what they shall find was
in arrear to John at the time (a tempore) of his death of the 200 marks
yearly granted to him by the late king, as Dougal has prayed the king, by
petition before him and his council, to cause the arrears to be paid to
him in order to pay John's debts therewith, Dougal having shewn in his
petition that when John returned to England from the late king's service in
Ireland in the 9th year of his reign, the late king, because John was then
impotent, so that he could not labour any more, and his lands in Scotland
had been destroyed and wasted, ordained that he should dwell in London
with his household, and that he should receive 200 marks yearly for his
maintenance, and thereupon ordered his treasurer and chamberlains to pay
John that sum yearly, and that although John dwelt at London for a year
and a half after the said ordinance, when he died, he only received 100
marks for that time from the treasurer and chamberlains, for which reason
John was indebted to divers men at the time of his death for debts for his
maintenance, which debts are now exacted from Dougal. By pet. of C. |
April 16.
Stamford. |
To the collector of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port
of Boston. Whereas Edward I. was indebted at his death by letters
patent to divers men of the duchy [of Aquitaine] for the arrears of their
wages of the time when they were in his army in the duchy, of which men
Peter de Besaz is the proctor, and of the said debts 735l. sterling are still
in arrear, wherefore the late king, at Peter's prosecution, ordered the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer of Dublin to pay this amount to
Peter, in the name of the said men, out of the first moneys of the issues of
the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the ports of Dublin and Droghda
in Ireland; and Peter has now brought back into chancery and restored the
writ of the late king ordering this payment, and has besought the king to
cause payment to be made to him from the custom of wool, hides, and woolfells in Boston or Kyngeston-on-Hull; and the king, pitying Peter's estate
and wishing to accede to his supplication for the discharge of the souls of the
king's grandfather and father, has granted that Peter may have and receive
the 735l., in the name of the said men, from the first moneys received of the
issues of the custom at Boston by the hands of the collectors thereof, and
he ordered the collectors to pay Peter this sum accordingly as speedily as
possible, notwithstanding any order directed to them by the treasurer and
barons of the exchequer to carry the money from the custom to the exchequer: the king, wishing to hasten the payment, orders the collectors to pay
200l. to Peter out of the money collected by them and in their custody,
notwithstanding any order of the treasurer or barons to carry the money
from the issues of the custom to the exchequer. By p.s. |
March 10.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to admit Henry,
son and heir of John de Grey, tenant in chief of the late king, to cause
Robert de Sapy to come in the king's name to the exchequer to render
account of the issues of the castle of Wilton, co. Hereford, and of the
manor of Kempeleye, co. Gloucester, from 1 November in the 17th year of
the late king's reign, until 15 March following, and to cause Richard de
Grey of Codenovere to come in like manner to render account of the issues
of the said castle and manor and of all the lands that descended to Henry
from the aforesaid 15 March until the feast of St. Mary Magdalene after the
feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the 17th year aforesaid, and to cause the
money found to be due from Robert and Richard after they have rendered
account to be paid to Henry, as Henry has shewn the king, by petition
before him and his council, that whereas he was in Gascony in the late
king's service by his order from the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the
17th year of his reign, until the feast of St. Mary Magdalene following,
during which time his father died, to wit at the feast of SS. Simon and
Jude, and he could not forthwith leave the said king's service to prosecute
his seisin of the lands that descended to him in inheritance after his father's
death, and the said Robert and Richard had the custody of the aforesaid
castle, manor, and lands for the periods aforesaid by the late king's commissions to answer to him for the issues thereof, and they have not yet
accounted for the issues in the exchequer and have not paid anything
thereof to the king or his father, wherefore Henry has prayed the king to
restore to him the issues received by Robert and Richard from the lands
aforesaid, and the king, in consideration of the damages sustained by Henry
by his stay in the said service and of the grateful service rendered by him
to the king and his father, has granted to him the issues of the castle and
lands levied by Robert and Richard for which answer has not yet been
made to the king or to his father, and wills and grants that Henry shall be
admitted at the exchequer in his name to cause Robert and Richard to come
to the exchequer to render account. By pet. of C. [14,481.] |
March 3.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Whereas, at the prosecution of Richard de
Betoigne, Richard de Hakeneye, John Priour, and John de Wrotham,
citizens of London, suggesting that John le White of Almain and Arnald
his brother, who had dwelt in the city for a long time, had secretly and
fraudulently left the city, and that they were bound to the said Richard de
Betoigne in 104l., to Richard de Hakeneye in 253l. 6s. 8d., to John Priour
in 65l., and to John de Wrotham in 32l. 14s. 0d., and had not satisfied
them therefor in any way, and the said John le White had gone to the
town of Wismere, in the lordship of Henry de Matlenbergh, lord of Wismere, Rustok, and Stralsund (Stravensonde), and Arnald had gone to the
towns of Lübeck (Lubisk) and Hambergh with their goods, the late king
frequently requested the said Henry and the burgomasters, schöffen, aldermen, and commoners (coiarios) of the towns of Lubeck and Hambergh by
his special letters to cause justice to be done to the aforesaid citizens for the
sums thus due to them from John and Arnald and for their damages; and
the said Henry and the burgomasters, schöffen, aldermen, and commoners,
having received the late king's letters, did nothing in response, although
they were frequently requested by the attorneys of the said citizens specially
sent to those parts, but altogether failed to do them justice, as the mayor
and community of the said city, having full information and proof of the
matter, have testified to the king by their letters under their seal: the king,
who is bound to aid all and singular his subjects in their just quarrels, not
wishing to refrain any longer from aiding the aforesaid citizens in the
recovery of their debts, orders the sheriffs to arrest all the goods and wares
of the men and merchants of the lordship and power of the said Henry
and of the said towns of Lubeck and Hambergh within their bailiwick to
the value of 200l., in part payment of the aforesaid 455l. 0s. 8d., and to
cause the same to be kept safely until the said citizens have been satisfied
for the aforesaid 200l. together with their damages, or until further orders,
certifying the king of their proceedings. The king has ordered the sheriff
of Lincoln to arrest goods in like manner to the value of 127l. 10s. 4d.,
and the bailiffs of Kyngeston-on-Hull to arrest goods in like manner to the
value of 127l. 10s. 4d., in full payment of the aforesaid sum. |
May 2.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Thomas
le Blount and Juliana his wife to have all the goods and chattels in the
manors of Sutton, Wynferthyng, Juvenelesbur[y], Suthanyfeld, Thurton,
Reydon, and Toucestre, and in certain lands in Fanges and Assheden, and
in a messuage in Suthwerk, which manors, lands and messuage were
assigned to them by the king as Juliana's dower, and which came to the
king by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, to whom the
late king committed the custody of the said manors, lands and messuages
during the minority of the heir of John de Hastynges, and to cause Thomas
and Juliana to have all the issues of the manors, messuage, lands and tenements pertaining to the king by reason of the premises for which answer
has not yet been made to the late king, as the king has granted to Thomas
and Juliana, in recompence for the damages sustained by them by the
detention of Juliana's dower of the purparty falling to John de Hastynges,
her former husband, of the lands of Aymer de Valencia, late earl of Pembroke, all the goods and chattels in the manors assigned to them for
Juliana's dower, and all issues thereof for which answer has not yet been
made to the king or to his father. |
March 25.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Bynedon, burgess of Southampton. Peter de Sancto
Fuciano, Robert de Sancto Fuciano, John Roundell, and Hugh Lengleche,
merchants of Amiens, have shewn the king, by their petition before him
and his council, that whereas they came to that town, during the truce
between the late king and the king of France, with 19 sarplers of wool,
containing 23 sacks and 46 nails of wool, price 205l. 6s. 8d., and 12 barrels
of woad, price 128l. 2s. 8d., for the purpose of trading there with the same,
John de Clive and Hugh Sampson, late collectors of the custom of wool,
hides, and wool-fells in the port of that town, and the mayor and bailiffs of
that town arrested the wool and woad during the truce aforesaid, which
were afterwards sold by the late king's order to the aforesaid Thomas, who
made a recognisance in the exchequer to the late king for 359l. 5s. 2¼d. for
the wool and woad, and that money is still in his hands, wherefore the said
merchants have prayed the king to provide a remedy: the king therefore
orders Thomas to pay the money thus due by the recognisance to the late king
to the aforesaid merchants or their attorney in this behalf. By pet. of C. |
