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Aug. 5. Clarendon. |
To John de Bisshopeston escheator in Kent, Surrey and Middlesex.
Order in the name of the king's lordship to take a simple seisin within
the gates of Certeseye abbey, now void by the death of William the
last abbot, and forthwith to depart without taking fine, fealty or
acknowledgment whatsoever of any tenant thereof or otherwise, so
that he shall not by reason thereof abide more than one day nor leave
any substitute in his room, but shall suffer the now prior and the
convent freely to administer the said abbey, the temporalities, goods
and property whatsoever thereto belonging, taking and disposing
of all emoluments, according to the king's letters patent, and shall not
by reason of this vacancy meddle with the keeping of the said abbey,
the manors, granges, lands, rents, property or goods thereof whatsoever, nor trouble the said prior and convent in aught contrary to
the said letters patent, saving to the king the knights' fees and
advowsons thereto belonging, and saving also 50 marks, and the
issues of any lands purchased by the abbot and convent or by their
predecessors since 26 February in the 16th year of the reign; as
on that day the king by charter granted to John then abbot and
to the convent that at every vacancy by death, cession, resignation
or otherwise the prior and convent and their successors should have
the keeping of the said abbey and of the temporalities thereof, and all
property and goods thereto belonging as fully as any abbot had in times
past when the see was filled or as the king might or ought to have had if
the same were kept in his hand, with free administration of the said
abbey etc., taking and disposing of all manner of emoluments as
they should think best, saving to the king during such vacancies
the knights' fees held of the abbey and the advowsons of churches,
rendering to the king at every vacancy 50 marks if it should last four
months or less, and if longer in proportion, and granted that no
escheator, sheriff, bailiff or minister of the king should meddle with
the keeping of the abbey etc. at any vacancy, except that in the
beginning of every vacancy his escheator or other minister should
take a simple seisin and depart as aforesaid, not abiding more than
one day or leaving any substitute in his room; and the said abbey
is now void as aforesaid, as the prior and convent have certified to
the king. |
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To John Foille (sic) escheator in Berkshire and Wyltesir. Like
order to suffer the said prior and convent freely to administer the
temporalities, goods and property of the said abbey within his bailiwick; as the king has commanded John de Bisshopeston escheator
in Surrey and Sussex to take a simple seisin in form aforesaid. |
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Membrane 10. |
May 14. Westminster. |
To William de Wyndesore the king's lieutenant in Ireland, and
to the chancellor and treasurer in Ireland. Order, upon a petition
made on behalf of Anabilla who was wife of John Comyn and of his
heirs, if the said John's lands in Ireland are in the king's hand for
the cause hereinafter mentioned and for none other, to cause them
to be fully restored and delivered to the said Anabilla and the said
heirs, of the king's favour delivering to them also any issues taken of
the same, notwithstanding that lately with the assent of the prelates,
nobles and others of his council the king made order that all lords
and others of England having or claiming lordships or lands in Ireland
should at Easter in the 43rd year of his reign be in Ireland well arrayed
and furnished with arms and men to dwell upon their lands and upon
the conquest thereof, that in case for any necessary hindrance any
such lord might not go thither in person he should send other
sufficient men in his name there to abide at his own cost upon the
defence, governance and conquest thereof, and that in case he would
not so do the king should take the said lands and lordships into his
hand to be given at his pleasure to others who would dwell there
upon the defence and conquest thereof; as the said petition shews
that though the king of his favour granted the said John licence for
particular causes to abide in England from the said feast until Easter
last, promising that he should be no loser because of his absence
from Ireland, nor be troubled for that he sent not other men thither
in his name as he ought to have done according to the said ordinance,
and by letters under the privy seal commanded the said lieutenant
notwithstanding the same to suffer the said John of the king's
favour to have respite until Easter last of coming thither and
sending other men in his name as aforesaid, who died before
Easter last as the king has learned, the said lieutenant and the
others have commanded all his lands in Ireland to be taken as
forfeit into the king's hand contrary to his said licence, for that
the said John came not thither nor sent other men there to abide as
aforesaid, praying for remedy; and for the said John's good service
as well to the king as to Lionel duke of Clarence his son the king
would deal generously with the said Anabilla and with his said heirs.
Proviso that they shall do and find what is fitting for the said lands
from Easter last according to the said ordinance. By K. |
May 15. Westminster. |
To Ralph Basset, guardian of certain lands which were of John
Moubray of Axiholm tenant in chief deceased and are in the king's
hand by reason of the nonage of his heir. Order, upon the petition
of brother Philip Renulphi proctor in England of the abbot of Fécamp,
to whom the king has committed the keeping of all the said abbot's
lands and possessions in England, if assured that the said abbot and
his predecessors heretofore took and ought to take every year of the
chace of the woods of Stanherst and Rippefeld, which chace is of the
said heir's heritage, five good bucks in time of grease (in gresso) and
five does in time of fermison, all whole with their hides, to cause the
same to be delivered for this year's season to the said abbot or his
proctor as used to be done heretofore; as his petition shews that
by virtue of a fine levied in the court of King Henry III between
the then abbot and John de Braheuse ancestor of the said heir, the
abbot ought to take the bucks and does aforesaid, which at his
summons ought to be taken and delivered to him or his bailiffs by the
said John de Braheuse and his heirs or by their bailiffs, and that from
the levying of the said fine until for the cause aforesaid the said chace
came to the king's hands he and his predecessors were in peaceable
possession thereof by the hands of the keepers of the said chace, praying
for livery of the arrears thereof from the time the chace came to the
king's hand. |
Aug. 3. Clarendon Manor. |
To the customers in the port of London for the time being. Order
charging them to view and examine certain indentures made between
the king and several prelates, earls, lords, knights, clerks and others
of the one part and Richard earl of Arondell and Surreye of the other
part, and to suffer the said earl or his deputies, by indenture to be
made between them and the customers, to levy and have 2½ marks
of every sack of wool which shall be laded in the said port between
this date and Midsummer next until the said earl be contented of what
is due to him according to the form of the indentures aforesaid, and
further it is the king's pleasure that, as better security for the said
payment, the customers shall deliver to the said earl or his deputies
one part of the cocket seal, expressly forbidding any wool [to be
sealed] in the said port with the part remaining with the customers
without that part and so to be laded and pass out during the said
term of payment, and by the acquittance to be received of the said
earl and his deputies for the sum so paid on behalf of the king and
those bound with him and by these presents the customers shall be
discharged of so much in their account at the exchequer; as the king
and the said prelates and others are bound to the said earl in 20,000l.
which the king has received of him in name of a prest, to be paid to
the said earl or to his deputies at the Ascension and at Midsummer
next, for payment whereof the king and some of them have given
their bond in 20,000 marks, and for payment of other 10,000 marks
the king and some of his officers are likewise bound upon the subsidies
and customs for wool laded in the said port, to wit 2½ marks a sack,
as is contained in the said indentures one part whereof remains with
the said earl. French. |
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Et erat patens. |
Aug. 15. Clarendon. |
John Wilmyn the younger, taken and imprisoned in the king's
gaol of Lyndhurst for a trespass of vert and venison in the New Forest,
has a writ addressed to John de Foxle keeper of the king's forest this
side Trent or to his representative in the New Forest, directing him to
deliver the prisoner to bail. |
Aug. 20. Westminster. |
Richard Vernoun and William Loueras, taken and kept under
arrest for a trespass of venison in Selewode forest, have the like writ
addressed to the said keeper or to his representative in Selewode
forest. |
Aug. 10. Clarendon. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne and
the controller thereof in the said port. Order to receive the seal
called 'coket' appointed for the customs in the said port, which the
king is sending under seal of the treasurer's office, and to keep the same
as usual, namely one part with the collectors under the controller's
seal, the other part with the controller under the collectors' seal,
dealing therewith further as they know to pertain to the said seal
and as used heretofore to be done. |
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The like to the collectors of customs and controllers of customs
in the following ports: |
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Kyngeston upon Hull. |
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St. Botolph. |
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Great Jernemuth. |
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London. |
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Quenesburgh. |
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Cicestre. |
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Suthampton. |
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Exeter. |
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Bristol. |
July 26. Westminster. |
To John de Olney escheator in Huntingdonshire and Bukinghamshire. Order to take the fealty of Maud late the wife of Reynold de
Grey of Wilton upon Wee according to the form of a schedule enclosed,
and not to meddle further with the manor of Touslond co. Huntingdon
taken into the king's hand by the said Reynold's death, delivering
to her any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by
inquisition, taken by the escheator, that by grant of Henry de Grey
his father the said Reynold at his death held that manor jointly with
the said Maud, and that the same is held by knight service of the king
as of the honour of Huntyngdon of the purparty of Robert de Brous
which is in the king's hand. |
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To Walter de Kelby escheator in Lincolnshire. Order not to meddle
further with the manor of Hemmyngby taken into the king's hand
by the death of Reynold de Grey of Wee, delivering to Maud late
his wife any issues etc. (as above); as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that at his death the said Reynold held
the said manor jointly with the said Maud, and that the same is held
of others than the king. |
Aug. 14. Clarendon. |
To Robert de Twyford escheator in Derbyshire. Order to take of
Maud who was wife of Reynold de Grey of Wilton upon Wee tenant
in chief an oath that she will not marry without the king's licence,
and in presence of Henry de Grey knight son and heir of the said
Reynold, if being warned he will attend, to assign her dower of her
said husband's lands taken into the king's hand by his death, sending
the assignment to be enrolled in chancery. |
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The like to the following: |
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William Auncel escheator in Herefordshire and the march of
Wales adjacent. |
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John atte Welde escheator in Essex and Hertfordshire. |
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John Froille escheator in Wiltesir. |
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John de Olney escheator in Bedfordshire, Bukinghamshire,
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. |