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Dec. 5. Westminster |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to deliver, by indenture, to John
Goterest, spicer of Bristol, all his goods and chattels except his ship called
'la Elizabeth,' without delay by the mainprise of Thomas de Coventre of
Bristol, Thomas de Thorneye, and Eudo Purchas of London, who have
undertaken before the king and his council at Westminster for the said
John, who has been placed in forfeited issues to no small sums because he
did not come before Thomas de Bradeston and his fellows, justices appointed
to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses and excesses in the
county of Gloucester, and whose goods and chattels have been arrested for
that cause by the sheriff, to answer the king on the quinzaine of Hilary
next concerning the said goods and chattels and other debts which he is
found to owe by reason of the session of those justices. By C. |
Nov. 27. Westminster. |
To Roger de Leukenore, escheator in Sussex. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which are of the dower of Elizabeth wife of
Gerard de Insula, late the wife of Edmund de Sancto Johanne, tenant in
chief, after Edmund's death, delivering the issues thereof to her and Gerard,
as by letters patent the king pardoned Gerard and Elizabeth the trespasses
committed by them in marrying without his licence. |
Oct. 21. Westminster. |
To Henry Pykard, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place
in the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to Joan de Carrue 6 tuns of wine
for the present year in that port, receiving from her what he is bound to
pay in the king's name to the merchants from whom the wine is taken, as
the king granted to her 6 tuns of wine to be received yearly, during
pleasure, of his right prise in that port, and afterwards on 22 April in the
14th year of the reign, the king further granted that she should receive
that wine for life paying to the butler what he shall be bound to pay to the
merchants. |
Dec. 12. Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to
Queen Isabel or to her attorney 250l. for Michaelmas term last, in
accordance with the king's grant to her of 1,500l. to be received yearly for
life in the ports of Boston, London and Kyngeston upon Hull, to wit 500l.
in each port. |
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The like to the following to wit:— |
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The collectors of customs in the port of London. |
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The collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. |
Dec. 10. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause 10l. to
be levied of the lands and chattels of Robert FitzPayn and Ela late his
wife, without delay, as they are bound to the king in that sum for licence
to enfeoff Thomas Wygot, parson of Wotton church, and Robert de Saumbourn, clerk, of the manors of Cary and Cherleton Makerel, co. Somerset,
and the advowson [of the church] of the manor of Cherleton, which are
held in chief as is said. |
Dec. 12. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to continue in the same state in which
they now are until the quinzaine of the Purification next any exigents in
which John Sampson, parson of Bradeford church, warden of the king's
works at his manor of Eltham, may be placed in that county,
and to certify the king without delay of the tenor of a process begun
against John so that the king may further cause what is right to be
done thereupon, as John has besought the king to order the exigents
to be superseded, or to grant that he may return to the said county
and render himself to prison, there to stand to right thereupon in
accordance with the law and custom of the realm, as he was occupied for
a great while upon the said works, and has been recently placed in
exigents to be outlawed in Devon by process made there, he being entirely
ignorant thereof. |
Dec. 14. Westminster. |
To Miles de Stapelton, escheator in the county of York. Order to cause
Roger son of Robert de Clifford, brother and heir of Robert son and heir of
the said Robert de Clifford, tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands
which came into the king's hands by his father's death and by reason of the
minority of his said brother, as Roger has proved his age before Hugh de
Louthre, escheator in Westmorland, and the king has taken his homage
for all the lands which his father held in chief at his death, and rendered
them to him, the said Robert son of Robert, his brother, having died a
minor in the king's wardship. By p.s. [22635.] |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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Richard de Williamescote, escheator in the counties of Oxford and
Berks. |
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Leo de Perton, escheator in the county of Worcester. |
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Richard de la Bere, escheator in the county of Hereford and the
adjacent march of Wales. |
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Hugh de Louthre, escheator in Cumberland and Westmorland. |
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Saier de Rocheford, escheator in the county of Lincoln. |
Dec. 14. Westminster. |
To John Everard, escheator in Wilts. Order to cause Edward son
and heir of Roger de Stokke, lately a minor in the king's wardship, to have
seisin of the manor of Rusteshale, as the king has learned by inquisition
taken by the escheator that Robert de Hungerford, deceased, held that manor
for life of Edward's inheritance, and that the manor is held in chief by the
service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, and Edward has proved his age
before Thomas de la Ryvere, late escheator in that county, and the king has
taken his homage and has rendered the manor to him. By p.s. [22636.] |
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To the same escheator. Order to cause Edward son and heir of Roger
de Stokke, tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands which Robert de
Hungreford and Geva his wife, now deceased, held for their lives of his
inheritance, as Edward has proved his age before the escheator and the
king has taken his homage and has rendered the said lands to him. |
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By the same writ. |
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Membrane 6. |
Oct. 30. Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Shorham. Order to cause a third part of the goods
of certain merchants of the parts of Normandy, in the keeping of John
Bernard, burgess of Shorham, to be appraised by the oath of merchants
and other lawful men of that town, and to deliver them to Thomas
Paterlyng for the use of himself and his fellows, merchants of London,
whose goods and merchandise were previously plundered by the French
at sea, if he shall find security that he will restore that third part to the
French without delay upon the restitution of his own goods plundered by
the French, or the price thereof, as the king ordered the said bailiffs to
receive from Ralph de Sancta Fide, burgess of Depe in Normandy, his two
sons as hostages and place them in the keeping of Thomas, and after
delivering a third part of the goods of the said merchants of Normandy to
John Bernard to deliver the remaining two parts to Ralph or to his attorney
[as at page 28 above], and now Thomas has besought the king to order the
said third part to be delivered to him, as Ralph is dead and no restitution
has been made to Thomas and his fellows of the goods plundered from them. |
Nov. 23. Westminster. |
To the justices of the Bench. Robert bishop of Salisbury has shown the
king that whereas he is suing in the king's court by writ of right against
William earl of Salisbury, for the castle of Shirburne, co. Dorset, as the
right of his church of St. Mary, Salisbury, and the earl, pleading in that
suit, has alleged that the king granted that castle to William de Monte
Acuto, the earl's father, and to Katherine, his wife, to hold to themselves and
the heirs of the body of the said William de Monte Acuto, with reversion to
the king in default of such heir, and that so he could not answer therefor
without consulting the king, by pretext of which allegation the justices
have hitherto delayed to proceed in that plea, whereupon the bishop has
besought the king to provide a remedy; order to proceed with that plea
and to cause full and speedy justice to be done to the parties in accordance
with the law and custom of the realm, notwithstanding the said allegation,
but not to render judgment without consulting the king. By p.s. |
Nov. 20. Westminster. |
To the bishop of Durham. Order to permit the collectors appointed by
the king to levy and collect for his use in the liberty of Durham the
subsidy on each cloth for sale beyond the custom due thereon, granted in
the great council held in the 27th year of the reign, for remission of the
forfeiture of the alnage of cloth, pertaining to the king as of the right of
the crown, to seal the cloth and arrest the forfeitures pertaining to the
king in the matter, and freely to do all things touching their office in
accordance with the commission made to them, and not to intermeddle
in the taking of such subsidy or arrest, of such forfeitures for his own
use, but if he has levied aught of the subsidy of cloth not sealed or has
arrested cloth as forfeit because it was exposed for sale before being
sealed, to deliver them to the collectors by indenture, so that they may be
able to answer the king therefor, and to restore without delay any money
levied by him in the name of the said subsidy for his own use and any
sealed cloth arrested by him by reason of such subsidy to him payable,
so behaving that a complaint thereupon may not reach the king, as
although, in accordance with the form of the grant, the king appointed
certain collectors to levy the subsidy in the liberty of Durham, and to seal
each cloth when the subsidy had been paid under the seal ordained
therefor, and to take as forfeit to the king all cloths not so sealed
which are exposed for sale, yet the bishop hinders those collectors from
exercising their office, claiming that the subsidy on cloth brought into his
liberty ought to pertain to him, and causes the subsidy to be exacted for
his own use both of cloth on which it has been paid and of cloth on
which it has not been paid, and cloth to be arrested for that cause,
and the king wonders that he has presumed to do such things, especially
as he is bound by oath to the preservation of the king's rights, and
it is not lawful nor reasonable that such a subsidy, which pertains
purely to the king as of the right of his crown, by reason of the remission
aforesaid, should be collected by any except his ministers especially
deputed for the purpose. |
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Vacated because the writ was surrendered and nothing was done thereupon. |
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Membrane 5. |
Nov. 7. Westminster. |
To Reynold de Cobham, captain of the king's town of Calais. Order to
arrest and keep safe until further order all goods and merchandise of John
Tynard and Florus Fleure of St. Valéry and John Mountstroill and Clays
de Bak of the realm of France and of merchants and others of the town of
St. Valéry and elsewhere of the power of France, found in the port of
Calais, certifying the king in chancery from time to time of the nature and
value of the goods so arrested and of their owners, as lately at the suit of
Robert Clement of Hamelhok showing that the said John, Florus, John,
and Clays had attacked a ship of his called 'la Nicolas' of Hok, laden with
35 tuns of wine, 2 bales of 'cordewan,' 2 bales of almonds, and 2 bales
of skins of budge, whereof 4 tuns and one pipe of wine belonged to Robert
and the residue of the said wine and merchandise belonged to Richard de
Crosedale, Henry de Sutton and John Taverner of Great Yarmouth, at the
time of the truces last begun between the king and his adversaries of France,
when sailing at sea near Sandwich, and they killed several men then found
in the ship, and took Robert with the ship and goods and carried them to
St. Valéry and did their will therewith, and imprisoned Robert, and he
beseeching the king to provide a remedy, the king ordered Bartholomew
de Burgherssh, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports
to take inquisition upon the matter, by which it was found that the said
John, Florus, John and Clays and certain other unknown pirates of the
power of France, entered that ship, price 55l. laden with the cases aforesaid
price 200l., owned as aforesaid, at sea near Sandwich, in the time of
the said truces, to wit on 26th May last, killed several men in the ship
took Robert and the ship with the merchandise therein to the town of St.
Valéry and imprisoned Robert there, without making any restitution to
him or to the said merchants, contrary to the form of the said truces, and
the king ordered the said captain to write to the keepers of the said truces
in the parts of St. Valery or others who are bound to reform such attempts
in accordance with the truces, for the reformation of the premises, and
the captain returned that although he had requested the lord of Landas,
captain of Boulogne, to reform the premises, in accordance with his office,
yet he has not hitherto cared to do so. By C. |
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The like to the following, 'mutatis mutandis,' to wit:— |
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The bailiffs and 'écherins of Calais. |
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The mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich. |
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The bailiffs of Weymuth. |
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The bailiffs of Shorham. |
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Membrane 4. |
Dec. 26. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to inspect the
rolls and memoranda of the exchequer touching the foundation of the
hospital of St. James near Westminster, and after taking inquisition if
necessary concerning the lands and rents conferred upon the hospital by the
king's progenitors, to cause all such lands and rents which have been
alienated by the presidents or masters of the hospital, in whosesoever hands
they may be, in the king's city or its suburbs or in other places, to be taken
into the king's hand, and to maintain with the issues thereof those who
support the charges incumbent on the hospital and ought to live of its alms
in accordance with the foundation thereof, as the second statute passed at
Westminster in the time of Edward I contains that if the wardens of
hospitals and other religious houses founded by that king or his progenitors
alienate the lands conferred upon their houses by the king, those lands shall
be taken into the king's hand and held at will, and the purchaser shall lose
his recovery both of the land and of the money which he paid, and now
the king has learned that some lands and rents of the said hospital, which
is of royal foundation, have been alienated by the presidents or others
pretending themselves to be masters of the hospital, to the prejudice of the
hospital and the annulling of the chantries and other alms established
there. By C. |
Dec. 12. Westminster. |
To John de Berneye, Thomas de Drayton, Reynold de Eckles and Hugh
de Fastolf. Order not to take any inquisitions concerning men dwelling
in towns on the sea coast without the port of Great Yarmouth, by reason
of their buying of herrings brought to those towns freely by the fishermen,
and not to molest them or others except those who meet ships and goods
coming to Great Yarmouth to forestall the same either in that port or at
sea, and so buy or bespeak those goods, whom the king wishes to be duly
punished, as on being lately informed that certain merchants and others
meet ships coming to the king's town of Great Yarmouth laden with
herrings and other goods for the port and fair of that town both in the
port and on the sea coast near the port, and buy and bespeak the goods and
merchandise before they can reach the town to be unladed and sold, fore
stalling them for their own gain, the king appointed John, Thomas,
Reynold and Hugh to take an inquisition upon the matter by lawful men
of the county of Norfolk and to certify him thereupon, and now the king
has learned from the plaint of the men of the towns adjacent to that port
on either side that John and the others unjustly molest them because they
buy herrings which the fishermen take at sea and bring to those towns
freely and there expose for sale, although they may lawfully do so in
accordance with the ordinance of the king and council thereupon, whereupon the said men have besought the king to provide a remedy. By C. |