Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1372 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1372', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374, (London, 1911) pp. 402-404. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol13/pp402-404 [accessed 13 April 2024]

August 1372



Aug. 3. Westminster.	Factum est inde sicut alias, vel causam etc.
Aug. 4. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Essex. Order without difficulty to deliver and restore to S. bishop of London and his ministers his goods, chattels and temporalities, if taken into the king's hand by virtue of his recent writ, not meddling further with the same by colour of the said writ; as by reason of arrears to him due of the subsidy last granted by the said bishop and all the clergy of the city and diocese of London for the needful protection and defence of the realm, by the said writ the king ordered the sheriff to take into his hand all goods and chattels and all temporalities of the said bishop, and to keep them in safe custody until further order; but that writ issued from the king's court by inadvertence contrary to his will and intent, and the king revokes the execution thereof, and whatsoever has followed or hereafter may follow the same. Nevertheless it is the king's will that with all possible speed full satisfaction be made of the arrears of the said subsidy. By K. and C.
	Membrane 15.
Aug. 8. Westminster.	To John Bataille escheator in Essex. Order to cause Henry son and heir of John Sompnour tenant in chief to have seisin of his said father's lands taken into the king's hand by his death; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and the king has taken his homage and fealty. By p.s. [29278.]
July 15. Westminster.	To John Cavendissh. Order to be intendant upon the office of chief justice for holding pleas before the king; as it is the king's will that he be chief justice during pleasure.
	Membrane 14.
Aug. 20. Preston Manor.	To the mayor, sheriffs and aldermen of the city of London. Order upon their allegiance, as the king trusts in them and as they would avoid his grievous anger and such pain as they may incur toward him, to cause such order to be taken with all speed they may that no rushes, dung, filth or noxious matter be henceforward cast into the water in that port, but that the same be thence removed and altogether abated to the mending of the port and to enlarge the channel of the river Thames, so behaving in this behalf that the king shall have no cause for wrath against them; as the king has particular information that rushes, dung, filth and noxious matter from the said city and the suburbs thereof have long been cast into the said river and are daily cast therein, that the said river and port are so obstructed and the channel so straitened that great ships and vessels may not now resort to the said city as of old time they used to do, but are hindered therefrom, to the damage of the king and the said city and of the lords and others of the people flocking thither; and the king would apply a fitting remedy. By K. and C.
	Membrane 13.
Sept. 3. Wallingford.	To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to admit William de Hockele, the substitute appointed by William de Strete the king's serjeant, his butler, to execute the office of coroner in the city of London in his room when by the said butler required, taking nevertheless of the said substitute an oath that he will behave well and truly in the said office so long as he shall be therein; as the said butler, to whom pertains the said office, is engaged upon divers the king's business in divers parts of England, and may not have leisure to execute the office in person. (fn. 1)
	Membrane 12.
Aug. 16. Westminster.	To Thomas de Navenby escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to keep in the king's hand until further order the moiety of a messuage, 90 acres of land and 15 acres of pasture in Coleby held of the king as of the honour of Huntyngdon, and not to meddle further with the other moiety of the said messuage, 90 acres of land, 15 acres of pasture and 54s. 4d. of rent in the said town held of the honour of Richemond, delivering up any issues taken of the latter premises since the death of Hugh de Swynford knight; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Hugh at his death held in fee tail the premises of the honour of Huntyngdon by the service of the moiety of one knight's fee, and the other premises and the rent aforesaid by knight service of John duke of Lancastre as of the honour of Richemond which was then in his hand, and that Thomas de Swynford is son and next heir of the said Hugh, and is within age.
Aug. 4. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Norhampton. Order by distraint of their goods and chattels and by such other means as he best may to compel all and singular the parsons and men of the church who are refusing to pay the sums at which they are reasonably assessed towards the subsidy of 50,000l. granted by the prelates and clergy of the provinces of Canterbury and York, whose names John bishop of Lincoln shall certify under his seal as rebellious and excommunicate, aliens excepted whose possessions are in the king's hand, to pay such sums as are in arrear; as for the safety and defence of the realm and the church of England the said prelates and clergy granted that subsidy to be paid at the exchequer at Michaelmas last and the Purification then next by even portions, and in order that the same might the more easily be borne to the peace of the clergy the king willed that parsons and men of the church whatsoever, exempt and not exempt, should contribute rateably to the said sum of their benefices and possessions whatsoever within the said provinces taxed and not taxed, and stipendiary priests of those provinces of their stipends, any privileges heretofore granted by the king or his forefathers or by others whatsoever notwithstanding, and notwithstanding that some of them used not to contribute to such charges, and that in case any of them should refuse so to contribute or should be rebellious, the king should cause them to be compelled to pay the sum falling upon them and upon every of them according to the assessment made by the bishop of the diocese; and divers parsons and men of the church of that county have taken and do yet take no heed to pay the portions reasonably falling upon them by assessment of the said bishop made according to the king's commission, though by him many times requested so to do, wherefore by the bishop's authority they have fallen under sentence of excommunication, nor will they be justified (se justitiari) by ecclesiastical censure, and so by their rebellion great sums of money of the said subsidy which ought to have been paid at the terms aforesaid are in arrear to the king's prejudice and hurt, delaying the furtherance of the business of the realm.
	The like to the following:
	The sheriff of Hertford.
	The sheriff of Bedford.
	The sheriff of Bukingham.
	The sheriff of Oxford.
	The sheriff of Huntingdon.