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Feb. 3.
Westminster. |
To John de Wyndesore, escheator in the county of Warwick. Order to
cause Walter son and heir of Isabel, late the wife of Reynold de Botriaux,
tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands of which his mother was
seised at her death in her demesne as of fee, as Walter has proved his age
before the escheator, and the king has taken his homage for all the lands
which Isabel held in chief and has rendered them to him. By p.s. [22320.] |
Feb. 1.
Westminster. |
To Richard de Brugge, escheator in the county of Hereford. Order to
pay to Thomas son of Maurice de Berkele, lord of the manor of Maurdyn,
10s. yearly of a messuage and 100 acres of land in Maurdyn, together with
the arrears thereof, so long as the premises are in the king's hand, as it is
found by inquisition taken by the escheator that Roger le Forester, tenant
in chief, held at his death the premises of the lord of Maurdyn, by the
service of 10s. yearly, and the messuage and land are in the king's hand by
reason of Roger's death and the minority of his heir. |
Feb. 3.
Colchester. |
To Richard de Kelleshull and his fellows, justices appointed to preserve
the peace in the county of Cambridge. Order to stay proceedings upon
certain indictments before them made, and not to impede stationers and
others in the exercise of their trades, permitting the chancellor of the
university of Cambridge, or one who supplies his place to have cognisance
of trespasses and excesses by them committed; according to the petition
of the said chancellor, for himself and the masters and scholars of the
university, stating that from the time of the foundation of the university
the chancellors or those who supply their places, have had cognisance
of whatsoever pleas of trespasses and excesses not touching felony or
mayhem, within that town committed by stationers, writers, binders of
books and illuminators there continually abiding, who are reputed common
servitors of the university and the students there although from time
to time hired by others, that the chancellors, as often as they saw
fit, have held inquisitions concerning such trespasses and excesses
and have punished the guilty according to their discretion, but that by
reason of certain indictments made before those justices at the suit of
certain persons who envy the university and its students and scheme to
infringe its liberties, containing that the said stationers and others had
committed divers excesses in the exercise of their trades, the cognisance and
punishment of such excesses (if any) pertaining to the chancellor, and some
of the said stationers and others are arrested by the king's order and
aggrieved in divers ways, and some have withdrawn from the town for
that cause or are attempting to do so. By C. |
Feb. 8.
Westminster. |
To Peter de Nuttle, escheator in the county of York. Order to take the
fealty of John son and heir of John de Cave of Middelton, who held by
knight service of the heir of William de Roos of Hamelak, late a minor
in the king's wardship, in accordance with the form of a schedule enclosed
and to cause him to have seisin of the lands of which his father was seised
in his demesne as of fee, as John has proved his age before the escheator. |
Feb. 21.
Westminster. |
To William de Rothewell, warden of the mint in the Tower of London.
Order to deliver to Henry de Brisele, master moneyer in the city of York,
five standards and fifteen trussels for the works of the money called 'le
Grosse,' 5 standards and 15 trussels for the works of the money called
'demy Grosse' and 3 standards and 9 trussels for the works of the king's
money of sterling, without delay. By C. |
March 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to account with Henry de Bruseleye, the king's merchant, for all the
sums received by him or by William marquis of Juliers of the 1,000l. which
the king granted to the marquis to be received yearly, to wit 600l. of the
customs in the port of Boston and 400l. at the exchequer from Easter in
the 23rd year of the reign, and to pay Henry what is found to be in arrear
to him of 4,633l. 6s. 8d. from that feast, as the marquis, by the king's
licence, has granted to Henry the said 1,000l. yearly to be received from
the said Easter until the end of eight years next following, in satisfaction
of certain sums of money due to him from the marquis which are said to
amount to 4,633l. 6s. 8d., paid to him by Henry in florins, the florin
del'ecu being reckoned at 40d., and it has been agreed between the king
and Henry that the king will cause Henry to be satisfied for what is in
arrear to him of the 4,633l. 6s. 8d., and he will surrender the king's letters
patent to the exchequer to be cancelled, and will remit to the king all
the residue of the 1,000l. yearly until the end of the eight years, which
extends to 3,366l. 13s. 4d. By bill of the treasurer. |
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Vacated because it is enrolled in the Close Roll of the 27th year under date
12 September. |
Jan. 30.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to deliver to William de
Middelton all his lands, goods and chattels taken into the king's hand for
certain causes, together with the issues of the lands. By K. |
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Membrane 29. |
Feb. 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham. Order to cause the king's
gaol of Aylesbury, which is partly ruinous, to be repaired or, if necessary,
new built, by the view and testimony of Geoffrey de Lucy and Alan
Carbonel. By K. and C. |
Feb. 18.
Westminster. |
To Peter de Grymesby, escheator in the liberty of Holderness. Order
to amove the king's hand from the manor of Oustewyk and not to
intermeddle further therewith, delivering the issues thereof to William de
Melton son of Henry de Melton, kinsman and heir of William de Melton,
sometime archbishop of York, as the king ordered the escheator to certify
why he had taken the said manor which belonged to the said archbishop,
into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had so taken it
because the manor is held in chief as of the honour of Albemarle, and the
archbishop was seised thereof at his death, in his demesne as of fee, and
the said William son of Henry had entered it without licence after the
archbishop's death, and afterwards the said William showed the king that
the archbishop was not seised of that manor at his death but that long
before his death, he had enfeoffed William thereof, by virtue of which
enfeoffment William remained in seisin of the manor until it was taken as
aforesaid, and William beseeching the king to order his hand to be amoved,
the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by
which it is found that the archbishop enfeoffed William of the manor
four years before his death, that William was seised of the manor until
it was taken as aforesaid, and that the manor is held in chief as of the said
honour by knight service. |
Feb. 21.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to the attorney of
Henry duke of Lancaster who is about to set out to parts beyond the sea in
the king's service, as many hurdles, bridges, rings and staples as are
necessary for the shipment of 1,000 horses. |
Feb. 20.
Westminster. |
To John de Kyngesdon, escheator in the Isle of Wight. Order to take
into the king's hand without delay all the wine and merchandise of a
certain ship cast ashore near Hanemouth in the island, and the tackle of
the ship and to keep them safely until further order, certifying the king in
chancery of the nature of the things so taken and their value, as the king
is informed that one of the mariners of the ship came alive to land,
whereby it ought not to be called sea wreck, so that they may be delivered
to those to whom they belong, when they wish to sue for the same. |
Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To Miles de Stapelton. Order to release certain merchants of Scotland
and to dearrest their goods and chattels, and deliver them to them,
as the king has learned that a ship of Flanders, laden with divers goods
of the said merchants, to wit 4 sacks of wool of the sort of Scotland, forty
sheep fells, 80 lambs' fells, 12 ox-hides and a barrel of cheese value
4l. 2s. 6d., was wrecked when sailing from Flanders to Scotland, by storm,
at Waxtenesham, co. Norfolk, in Miles's lordship, and the goods found in
the ship have been arrested by the king's ministers, as forfeit to the king,
because they were pretended to be of the king's enmity, and the merchants
have besought the king to provide a remedy for the release of their persons
and the dearresting of their goods as the wreck took place within the time
of the truce last concluded between the king and those of Scotland, and
the king is informed that this is so and he does not wish to infringe the
truce. By K. and C. |
Feb. 22.
Westminster. |
To John de Stonore. Order to deliver by indenture to Roger Hillary or
to his attorney, the rolls, writs, memoranda and other things touching the
Common Bench, without delay, as the king thanks John for his many
services to the late king and himself, and he knows that weakness of body
excuses him from further travail in the office of justice, wherefore the
king discharges him of the cares of the court, but wishes him to remain
of the privy council. By K. |
Feb. 1.
Westminster. |
To John de Berneye and William de Wichyngham. Order not to
intermeddle further with any of the things contained in their commissions,
although the king appointed them to preserve the peace and to maintain
the ordinances concerning labourers in Norfolk, as the king has revoked
those commissions. By K. |
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The like to Gilbert de Debenham, lately appointed to execute the premises
in Suffolk. By K. |
March 2.
Westminster. |
To John de Weston, escheator in co. Gloucester. Order to cause the
heir of John de Suidle to be seised into the king's hand and kept safely
until further order, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the
escheator that John and Eleanor his wife, held jointly at John's death the
manor of Suidle in chief by barony, except the services of Thomas
Blaunkfrount, knight, for his lands in Stanleye Pountelarge and the
services of Richard Dastyn of Grete for lands in Grete, which said Thomas
and Richard held their said lands of John by knight service, of which
services, John, the king's sole tenant, died seised in service as in his
hereditary fee, and by reason of the services of Thomas and Richard the
marriage of the said heir, still a minor, ought to pertain to the king. |
March 10.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause as many fishermen, nets and
boats as are necessary for taking fish to the value of 40l. to be taken and
delivered to Walter Whithorsse, the king's yeoman, keeper of the water of
Fosse, and to cause sufficient carriage to be taken for timber for repairing
the pond of that water and the mills of York castle from the forest of
Galtrees to the said pond and mills and for other works there, and to pay
the costs of the premises by the view and testimony of Roger de
Normanvill and Master John de Barton, surveyors of the king's works
there, as the king ordered Walter by writ of privy seal to cause fish of the
said value to be taken and sold for repairing the said pond and mills, and
the price to be delivered to the sheriff for making payment therewith,
and by another writ the king ordered the keeper of the said forest or
him who supplies his place to deliver timber for those works to Roger and
John. By K. on the information of John de Bello Campo. |
March 11.
Westminster. |
To John de Alveton, escheator in the county of Oxford. Order not to
intermeddle further with the manor of Lyllyngstandansy in that bailiwick, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition
taken by the escheator that Thomas de Ferrariis, deceased, held the said
manor for life with reversion to William Baret, and that the manor is
held of another than the king. |
March 10.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin. Order to
discharge William Barton, Peter Wakefeld and William Bette of 1006
crannocks and 6 bushels of oats, as on 30 January in the 27th year of the
reign, under the seal of Ireland, the king appointed them to buy and purvey
in the counties of Dublin, Meath, Louth, Kildare and elsewhere in Ireland,
2000 crannocks of oats for his money, and by the certification of the
treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer, England, sent into chancery,
it is found that William Barton accounted before the treasurer and chamberlains for 1006 crannocks 6 bushels of oats of the said sum, to wit for
2012 quarters 6 bushels by the standard of England taken by him and his
fellows for the king's use by virtue of the said letters, and delivered
them for the expenses of the king's horses. |
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Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the customs and subsidies in the port of London.
Order to pay to Thomas de Mutton of Shrewsbury or to his attorney
21l. 3s. 0½d. in arrear to him, without delay, endorsing the king's letters
patent with the sums so paid to him, and that done to receive the letters
patent to be taken to the receipt of the exchequer in the king's discharge,
as by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, sent into
chancery, it is found that Thomas has been satisfied for 18l. 16s. 11½d. of
a sum of 40l. lent by him to the king, which the king granted to him
by letters patent upon the issues of the customs and subsidies, to be
received in two years by the hands of John Malewayn, late receiver of the
customs and subsidies, and of John Lovekyn and Adam de Bury, collectors
of the customs and subsidies in the port of London, by virtue of the king's
writ to them. |
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The following have like writs, to wit:— |
Feb. 13.
Westminster. |
Roger atte Yate of Shrewsbury, satisfied in the port of London for
10 marks of 40 marks, for the remaining 30 marks in the same port. |
March 10.
Westminster. |
John Saunsom of Bristol, satisfied in the port of Bristol for 50s. of
10l., for the remaining 7l. 10s. in the port of London. |
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Edmund Fyel of Bristol, satisfied in the port of Bristol for 5 marks of
20 marks, for the remaining 15 marks in the port of London. |
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John de Cobyndon of Bristol, satisfied in the port of Bristol for 100s.
of 20l., for the remaining 15l. in the port of London. |
May 6.
Westminster. |
John Russel of Bristol, satisfied in the port of Bristol for 50s. of 10l,
for the remaining 7l. 10s. in the port of London. |
Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause all the goods and chattels in
that city of Francis de Spinola, merchant of Genoa, who is bound to the
king in divers debts for customs and subsidies and other things, as John
Malewayn, surveyor of the customs and subsidies in all the ports of
England, has testified, to be taken into the king's hand and kept safely
until further order, as he has secretly betaken himself to foreign parts. |
Feb. 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to William le Whyte
of Berkele, Richard de Pille and John de Nutstede, whom the king has
charged to repair his manor of Lyndhurst and the enclosure of his park
there, sufficient carriage for those repairs as often as they shall notify
him. |
Feb. 1.
Westminster. |
To John de Palton, escheator in Somerset. Order to assign dower
to Isabel late the wife of Thomas de Hunteleye, who held by knight
service of the heir of Laurence de Hastynges, earl of Pembroke, tenant in
chief, a minor in the king's wardship, of all the lands which belonged to
her husband at his death. |
Feb. 12.
Westminster. |
To John de Alveton, escheator in Berks. Order to assign dower to
Emelina late the wife of Edmund de Polhampton, tenant in chief, of all
the lands which belonged to her husband at his death, upon her taking
oath that she will not marry without the king's licence. |
Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to account with Henry de Percy, keeper of the castle of Berwick
upon Tweed, for what is in arrear to him of his yearly fee for the custody
of that castle and to give him payment or an assignment for what is found
to be due to him by that account. |
Feb. 12.
Westminster. |
To John de Alveton, escheator in Berks. Order not to intermeddle
further with a messuage and 2 carucates of land in Enedebourne, and a
messuage and 1½ carucates of land in Hungerford and Inkepenne, delivering
the issues thereof to Emelina late the wife of Edmund de Polhampton, as
the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Edmund at
his death held the said messuages and land jointly with Emelina for their
lives, with remainder to Edmund's right heirs, and that the messuages and
land are held of others than the king. |
Feb. 18.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Gerard
de Braybrok, sheriff and approver in the counties of Bedford and Buckingham, such wages as have been allowed to other sheriffs and approvers in
those counties. |
Feb. 18.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Hadham, escheator in Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands taken into the king's hand on the death of
John Huchun, in Totenham and Edelmeton, delivering the issues thereof,
as the king ordered the escheator to certify him why he had so taken those
lands, and the escheator returned that he had not taken any of John's lands
into the king's hand, but that he had so taken certain lands in Totenham
and Edelmeton which belonged to John Steven of Totenham, and
descended by his death to John his son and heir, aged thirteen years,
because he had been an idiot from his birth, and that John Huchun
unjustly occupied those lands, as was found by inquisition of office taken by
the escheator, and by examination of the said John son of John made in
chancery, the king has found him of sound mind. |
