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May 1.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Wolfreton, escheator in the county of Hertford. Order to
make a partition of the manor of Benyngton into three equal parts, in the
presence of Richard de Punchardon who sues for the king, if he choose to
attend, and to deliver a third part of that manor to Petronilla late the wife
of John de Bensted tenant in chief, to hold in dower, sending that partition
to the king without delay to be enrolled in chancery, as the king has
assigned a third part of that manor to Petronilla to hold in dower of all the
lands which belonged to her husband, having taken her oath that she will
not marry without his licence. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to
John de Bello Campo or to his attorney 50l. for Easter term last, as on
7 March in the 25th year of the reign the king granted him 280l. to be
received yearly for life of the issues of the customs in the ports of London
and Boston, to wit, 180l. in the port of London and 100l. in the port of
Boston. |
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The like to the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool fells in
the port of London, to pay 90l. to John or to his attorney for the same term. |
May 3.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Lincoln for the time being. Order to pay to Thomas
de Roos, brother and heir of William de Roos, son and heir of William
de Roos, tenant in chief, what is in arrear to him of 150 marks from
21 January (sic) in the 32nd year of the reign, and to pay him 150 marks
yearly henceforth, as the late king, for the castle of Werk which William
the father granted and quit claimed to him, granted that William and his
heirs should receive 300 marks yearly of the ferms of York and Lincoln, to
wit, 150 marks of each city, and William the son being dead, and Thomas
having proved his age, the king on 21 June in the said year took the
homage of Thomas for the lands which his brother held in chief and
ordered them to be delivered to him. Et erat patens. |
May 10.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham. Order to pay to Stephen
Porter 50s. for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him
of 100s. of the issues of those counties to be received yearly for life, or until
the king should take other order concerning his estate. |
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Membrane 29. |
May 4.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool fells in the port
of London. Order to pay 20l. to Thomas de Hoggeshawe for Easter term
last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 40l. to be received yearly
for life of the issues of the custom of wool in that port. |
May 8.
Westminster |
To the sheriff of Southampton for the time being. Order to cause
purveyance to be made of oats, litter, carriage and other necessaries for the
maintenance of the king's stud in his park of Odyham under the keeping
of Edmund Rose, his yeoman, for all the time that the stud shall remain
there, and to deliver them to the said keeper, and to pay him 3½d. a day for
the wages of himself and his groom, also 13s. 4d. for his robe, and 4s. 8d.
for his shoes yearly by indenture mentioning the said articles. By K. |
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Et erat patens. |
May 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to take into the king's hand a plot
called le Holme near the king's mills without York castle, and to deliver it
to William de Ketelwall, chaplain, warden of the king's free chapel of
St. George, to be joined again to that chapel, as Henry III, on 26 January
in the 16th year of his reign granted by charter to the master and brethren
of the knights Templars that plot of land which he held near the mills of
those brethren without York, which lies between those mills and the river
called Use and extends from the bar below the king's castle to the way
called 'Fissheregate,' to hold in frank almoin, and afterwards, on its being
found by inquisition that a certain plot of land called le Holme lying
between the said castle and river is of the right and appurtenances of the
said chapel near the mills without the castle, that it was in the hands of
the warden of the chapel for the time being, who took his profit thereof, as
in herbage and other issues, as pertaining to the chapel, until the 12th year
of the late king's reign, that it was enclosed in severalty at the time when
Henry de Faucomberge was sheriff of that county and always previously,
that it is now occupied by Nicholas Taverner of York, William de Crulle
of York and Roger de Whyteley of York and many others, who build
divers ships and boats there, and by the greatest part of the community of
the said city, who on feast days shoot (sagittant), wrestle and play there, so
that the present warden cannot receive the profit that he should, and that
Henry de Belton, late mayor of that city, and all other mayors and bailiffs
after him, with the community of the city have occupied it from the said
12th year until now, and hindered the wardens of the chapel by force
from enclosing it or receiving any profit therefrom for fear of death, and
the king afterwards, on being informed that the said plot occupied by
Nicholas, William, Roger, the mayor, bailiffs and community was the same
as the plot contained in the charter of Henry III, upon which the master and
brethren of the Temple built the said chapel, which plot with the chapel and
mills came into the late king's hand by the annulling of the order of the
Temple, and which the wardens of the chapel held before the said 12th year
as of the appurtenances of the chapel, ordered the sheriff to notify Nicholas,
William and Roger and the present mayor, bailiffs and community of the
said city to be in chancery on the morrow of St Ambrose last to show
cause why the plot should not be seized into the king's hand and reunited
to the chapel, and further to do and receive what the king's court should
determine, and the said Nicholas, William and Roger, John de Langeton
now mayor, Roger de Selby, Roger Strikell and Robert de Crayk, bailiffs of
that city and the said community, though notified by the sheriff, as he
has returned, when vouched in chancery on the said day did not appear,
wherefore it was determined that the plot should be taken into the king's
hand and reunited to the said chapel as it was before. By K. and C. |
May 8.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in Northumberland. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands taken into the king's hand by the death
of Alice late the wife of Richard de Cramlyngton, delivering up the issues
thereof, as it has been found by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Alice at her death held certain tenements in Cramlyngton in dower after
her husband's death, of the inheritance of Richard, brother and heir of John
de Cramlyngton, son of the said Richard and Alice, and that the tenements
held in dower together with two thirds of those tenements which Richard
brother of John holds, are held in chief by homage and by the service of a
fourth part of one knight's fee, and on 27 March in the 13th year of the
reign, the king took the homage of Richard for the lands which his brother
held in chief. |
May 6.
Westminster. |
To John de Bekynton, escheator in Somerset. Order not to intermeddle
further with the manors and lands taken into the king's hand by the death
of Simon de Fourneaux, delivering up the issues thereof, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Simon at his death held
no lands in that county in chief in his demesne as of fee nor in service,
but held divers manors and lands of others than the king. |
May 10.
Westminster. |
To Henry de Prestwode, escheator in Salop. Order not to intermeddle
further with two messuages and 33 acres of land in Rothale taken into
the king's hand by the death of Robert de Oxenford of Rothale, delivering
up the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the
escheator that Robert at his death held no lands in that county in chief
in his demesne as of fee but held the pension of another than the king. |
May 2.
Westminster. |
To John fitz Johan, keeper of the king's manor of Childrelangele. Order
to amove the king's hand from a tenement in Childrelangele which
belonged to John Janet, and not to intermeddle further therewith, delivering the issues thereof to John Rolf of Childrelangele, as the king lately
ordered John Sergeaunt, then keeper of that manor, to certify why he had
taken into the king's hand the lands of the said John Rolf in Childrelangeleye, and that keeper returned that no lands of John Rolf in the said
town had been so taken by him, but an enrolment in the king's court held
there on 6 March in the 31st year of the reign by Robert de Hadham, then
steward there, was made in the following form, a tenement which belonged
to John Janet was taken into the king's hand as a purchase of the
king's bondman, because Cristiana Reynel, the king's bondwoman of that
manor, recovered that tenement on the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle
in the 30th year of the reign before William de Thorp and his fellows,
justices of assize in the county of Hertford by verdict of an assize of mort
d'ancestor, in which tenements John Rolf asserts that he has a right, but
by what title the keeper did not know, and afterwards John Rolf petitioned
the king to order the tenements to be restored to him, as the said Cristiana
at the time of the recovery aforesaid was covered by John Proudfot, her
husband, who was named with her as a party in the king's writ for the said
assize, and after the recovery she and the said John Proudford (sic) enfeoffed
John Rold (sic) of those tenements, and the said John Rolf continued in
seisin by virtue of that feoffment until the tenements were taken by Robert
de Hadham as aforesaid, and the king appointed John Sergeaunt and John
de Ardern to take an inquisition thereupon by the oath of lawful men of that
county, by which it is found that John Proudfot and Cristiana recovered the
tenements which formerly belonged to John Janet in Childrelangele by
verdict of an assize of novel disseisin taken before William de Thorp and
his fellows justices of assize in that county on Wednesday the feast of
St. Thomas the Apostle in the 30th year of the reign, and had seisin
thereof by William Bybet, then bailiff of the liberty of the honour of Berkhampstede by virtue of the writ of seisin to him directed thereupon on the
following Thursday, and on that day John Proudfot and Cristiana enfeoffed
John Rolf of those tenements, and he continued in seisin thereof for nine
days following until John Adam, then bailiff of the said manor, seized them
into the king's hand because Cristiana was a bondwoman of that manor,
and that at the time of the recovery Cristiana was covered by John
Proudfot, who is a free man. |
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Feb. 26.
Westminster. |
To Theobald Trussel and John de Bledelowe Order not to intermeddle
further with the manors of Langeford and Wodhill of Eleanor late the wife
of John son of John de Wodhill, delivering the issues thereof to her, as the
king ordered William de Otteford, escheator in the county of Bedford,
to certify why he had taken those manors into the king's hand, and the
escheator returned that he so took them because it was found by inquisition
of office that John de Wodhill held those manors in chief, and that John
his son and heir, who married Eleanor, being then aged eighteen years and
in the king's wardship, by his charter enfeoffed Robert del Hay thereof
without licence, by the imagination and collusion of John de Molyns,
Robert del Hay and others, and afterwards, when he had reached the age of
nineteen years and rather more again acknowledged that those manors were
the right of Robert del Hay, who at another time enfeoffed the said John
the son and Eleanor thereof in fee tail, he being a minor as before, and so
the king was deprived of all the issues and profits of the said manors for
three years and of two thirds of those manors for eleven years, to wit, from
the 20th year of the reign, when John the son died, and afterwards
Eleanor informed the king that the said manors were taken into the king's
hand with other lands which belonged to John de Wodhill by his death
and by reason of the minority of John the son, and the wardship thereof
was committed to John de Molyns to hold until the son should come of
age, as may appear by the chancery rolls, wherefore the king was not
deprived of the issues of the manors for the time of the minority of John
the son, and that the feoffments made by John the son to Robert and by
Robert to John the son and Eleanor were made when John the son was of
full age and by the king's licence, and upon this she showed letters patent
of the king dated 20 April in the 14th year of the reign, praying the king to
cause his hand to be amoved from the manors, and John Gaunt who sued
for the king said that feoffments other than those specified in the said
letters were made by John to Robert without licence, and pretended to
verify this by the country, and Eleanor said that no other feoffments than
those specified in the said letters were made by John to Robert at any time,
and offered to verify this, wherefore the king appointed Peter de Salford,
Richard Wydevill and John de Braundeston, clerk, to take an inquisition
upon the matter by the oath of lawful men of that county, in the presence
of Eleanor if she chose to attend or of her attorney, and the king by letters
patent committed the keeping of the manors to Theobald and John de
Bledelowe, to hold with the issues thereof from the time of their taking
so long as they should remain in the king's hand for the cause aforesaid,
so that they should answer for the issues thereof at the exchequer if they
ought to pertain to the king, and by the inquisition so taken it is found
that John son of John, being of full age, on 1 May in the 14th year of the
reign, granted the said manors with certain other tenements by charter to
Robert del Hay with the advowsons of churches, wards, marriages, reliefs,
escheats, liberties, warrens and all other appurtenances, and afterwards at
Westminster, three weeks from Easter in the said 14th year, levied a
fine between Robert as demandant and the said John, by the name of John
de Wodhill, and Eleanor his wife as deforciants, of the said manors and
the manor of Tuderle, co. Southampton, before John de Stonore and his
fellows, then justices of the Bench, by which fine John acknowledged that
those manors were Robert's right, for which acknowledgment, fine and
agreement Robert granted those manors to John and Eleanor and rendered
them to them in the same court, to hold to themselves and the heirs of their
bodies, to wit, the manors of Wodhill and Langeford of the king and the
manor of Tuderle of the chief lords of the fee, by the services which pertain
to those manors, the king's licence being obtained beforehand both for the
feoffment and for the said fine, without that any other feoffment were made
of those manors before the levying of the fine between those parties, or any
other whatsoever without the king's licence, and it appears by inspection of
the chancery rolls that on 4 December in the 10th year of the reign the
king committed to John de Molyns the wardship of all the lands which
belonged to John de Wodhill and which were in the king's hand by his death
and by reason of the minority of John the son to hold until the said son
should come of age, together with the marriage of the said son, and on
24 April in the 14th year of the reign, John the son having proved his age,
the king took his homage for the lands which his father held in chief at his
death and rendered them to him, and by the king's said letters of licence it
appears that on 20 April in the said 14th year the king granted that John
the son might enfeoff Robert of the manors of Wodhill and Langeford
and that Robert might give them to John and Eleanor to hold to themselves
and to the heirs of their bodies, as aforesaid. By C. |
May 31.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Wolfreton, escheator in Essex and Hertfordshire. Order to
deliver to Petronilla late the wife of John de Bensted, tenant in chief, the
tenements in that bailiwick which the king has assigned to her to hold in
dower, as of the lands which belonged to John, in the king's hand by reason
of the minority of his heir, the king has assigned the following to Eleanor,
whose oath he has taken that she will not marry without his licence, with
the assent of Richard de Punchardon, to whom the king has committed
the custody of two thirds of all the said lands to hold until the heir come
of age, to wit, a third part of the manor of Benyngton, co. Hertford,
extended at 8l. 7s. yearly; a toft and 80 acres of land in Bishops Hatfeld
in the same county, extended at 10s. 6d. yearly; 30s. rent in the same town
of Hatfeld and a rent of eighteen hens there, extended at 2s. 3d. yearly; and
a third part of the manor of Harpesfeld, co. Hertford, extended at 17s. 4d.
yearly; the manor of Little Pernedon, co. Essex, extended at 10l. 10s. 7d.
yearly; a third part of two thirds of the manor of Great Stanbrugg,
co. Essex, extended at 40s. yearly; and a messuage, 87 acres of land,
1½ acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, 1½ acres of wood and 7s. rent
in Bensted, co. Southampton, which together with the rent are extended
at 40s. yearly, and 5s. 2d. yearly which are lacking of the value of a third
part of the said lands, to be received of the two thirds of the manor of
Benyngton. |
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To John de Estbury, escheator in the county of Southampton. Like
order to deliver to Petronilla the tenements and rent in Bensted assigned
to her as aforesaid. |
June 4.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Kelby, escheator in the county of Lincoln. Order to
amove the king's hand from a messuage, one carucate of land and 100s. of
rent in Welby and 30s. of rent in Navenby, and not to intermeddle
further therewith, delivering the issues thereof to the prior of Farlegh or
to his attorney, as the king ordered the escheator to certify why he had
taken into the king's hand the lands of the said prior in Welby and
Navenby and elsewhere, and the escheator returned that he had so
taken the said messuage with a chapel situate there, the said land and
rent, because it was found by inquisition of office that Henry, sometime king
of England, granted to the prioress and convent of Marcigny, whereof there
is a cell in England called the priory of Farlegh, the said messuage and
chapel, land and rent to find and maintain a chantry of one chaplain in the
said chapel for the souls of that king, his predecessors and heirs, which
chantry has been withdrawn by the prioress and prior for twenty years past,
and by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer sent
into chancery it appears that the premises with certain other lands in
England were granted in frank almoin by King (dominum) Stephen and
other progenitors of the king, sometime kings of England, to the nuns of
Marcigny for the celebration of divine service in their monastery, that
the prioress and nuns demised to the prior of Farlegh and the convent of
that place at perpetual ferm all the manors and possessions which they held
in England, with their appurtenances, rendering 55 marks yearly to them for
every service, and that all those lands were taken into the hands of
Edward I, because it was said that they had been alienated to the prior by
the prioress and nuns contrary to the form of the statute forbidding the
alienation of lands given in almoin, and for other causes, and were
restored to the prior and convent of Farlegh by process before the treasurer
and barons of the exchequer of Edward I, to hold in accordance with the
form of the said demise. |
May 26.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in Northumberland. Order not to
intermeddle further with the manors of Heddon and Southboteland in that
county, one husbandland in Northboteland, and a plot called 'le Stele' in
Redesdale taken into the king's hand by the death of William de Felton,
the elder, delivering the issues thereof to Isabel, late his wife, as the king
has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death
held the premises jointly with Isabel to themselves and the heirs of their
bodies, and that the premises are held of others than the king. |
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Membrane 27. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to pay to
Richard de Eccleshale, the king's clerk, 25 marks for Easter term last, as the
king granted to him by patent 20l. to be received yearly at the exchequer for life,
and afterwards, in consideration of his continued service and because for
certain causes he cannot obtain remuneration from the king of ecclesiastical
benefices, and because he surrendered the said letters patent in chancery to
be cancelled, the king on 11 February in the 31st year of the reign granted
him 20 marks to be received yearly for life over and above the 20l. previously
granted, to receive both the 20l. and the 20 marks of the issues of the
customs in that port. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to Edward
de Balliolo, late king of Scotland, 250l. for Easter term last before all other
assignments, having first paid those made to Queen Isabel, now deceased,
and to Queen Philippa of the issues of the customs and subsidies in that
port, as by covenants made between the king and Edward upon his granting
to the king the realm and crown of Scotland and of all his right and claim,
the king granted to Edward for the maintenance of his estate 2,000l. for
life, as is fully contained in an indenture made thereupon under the privy
seal, and the king has granted to Edward 2,000l. to be received yearly for
life in that port and in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull of the said issues. |
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The like to the collectors of the customs in the port of Kyngeston upon
Hull to pay 250l. to the same king for that term. |
June 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order upon pain of forfeiture to cause a thousand
hurdles and thirty bridges for the shipment of horses for the king's passage
to be made without delay, and taken to Sandwich, so that they be there on
or before St. Peter ad Vincula next, to be delivered by indenture to those
whom the king shall depute to receive them. By K. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Sussex for 1,000 hurdles. |
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The sheriff of Essex for 1,000 hurdles. |
May 24.
Westminster. |
To John de Neubury, keeper of the great wardrobe. Order to cause the
houses and buildings in the lodging of the king's wardrobe in Lumbardstrete, London, and all other defects there to be repaired from time to time
as may be needful. By K. and C. |
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To Henry Pycard, the king's butler. Order to deliver two pipes of wine
to John Bray, usher of the receipt of the exchequer, at Westminster at a
place which he shall make known, for the refreshment of the chancellor,
treasurer and others of the king's council when they come and stay there
upon the direction of the king's business. By K. and C. |
June 2.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Wolfreton, escheator in Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to
cause Thomas son and heir of Isabel late the wife of Geoffrey de Stanton,
tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands whereof his mother was seised
at her death in her demesne as of fee, as he has proved his age before the
escheator, and the king has taken his homage and fealty for the lands
which his mother held in chief. By p.s. [24189.] |
May 2.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in Cumberland. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands taken into the king's hand by the death of
Richard de Kyrkebride of Laurenceholm delivering the issues thereof, as
the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Richard at
his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee, because two years and
more before his death he gave to John Smalwod and Joan his own daughter
certain his lands in Laurenceholm and Randolf Levyngton, to hold to
themselves and the heirs of their bodies, and that those lands are held of
others than the king. |
May 30.
Westminster. |
To John de Hamden, Peter de Salford, John Wecche and Richard
Gregori, the younger. Order to deliver to William de Molyns the manors
of Stoke Pugeys, Fulmere, Ditton, Dachette, Rudyng, Chippenham,
Wendovere, Aston Bernardi, Ilmere, Wichindon, Adynton, Brehull,
Chardeslee, Lutgershale, Suereford, Henle upon Thames and la Boxe, so
that he find competent maintenance for John de Molyns his father and
Egidia his mother of the issues of those lands, provided that all the goods
and chattels in those manors be kept safely for the king's use until further
order, although all John's lands, goods and chattels were taken into the
king's hand and committed to the keeping of John de Hamden and the
others, because he did not come before William de Shareshull and his
fellows, late justices of oyer and terminer in the county of Buckingham,
to answer for divers felonies and misdeeds for which he was indicted,
wherefore he was put in exigents to be outlawed, as the said John, by an
indenture shown before the king, made between him and William long
before he was impeached for the said felonies and misdeeds, demised the
said manors to William to hold for life. By K. |
June 1.
Westminster. |
To William de Otteford, escheator in the county of Buckingham. Like
order to deliver to William de Molyns the manors of Brehull and Lutgershale. By K. |
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The like to the following to deliver the following manors to William,
to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Buckingham for the manors of Brehull and Lugershale. |
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The sheriff of Oxford for the manors of Swirford and Henle upon
Thames. |
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The sheriff of Wilts for the manor of la Boxe. |
May 30.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Wolferton, escheator in Norfolk. Order not to intermeddle
further with the manor of Elyngham, delivering up the issues thereof, as
the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Hawise
late the wife of John de Wysham, knight, at her death held no lands in
chief in that county, but held the said manor for life with remainder to
John de Wysham and Joan his wife and to the heirs of their bodies, and
that the manor is held of others than the king. |
May 28.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in the county of York. Order not to
intermeddle further with certain lands in Lofthous near Harewode taken
into the king's hands by the death of Thomas de Thwaytes, delivering
the issues thereof to Margaret late his wife, as the king has learned by
inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas at his death held no lands
in his demesne as of fee or in service in that bailiwick, but held the
premises jointly with Margaret of the heir of John de Insula of Rougemont,
late a minor in the king's wardship, by homage and fealty. |
