Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1375 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 14, 1374-1377. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1913.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1375', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 14, 1374-1377, (London, 1913) pp. 187. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol14/p187 [accessed 24 April 2024]

October 1375



Oct. 28. Westminster.	To the bailiffs of Hungreford of John king of Castile and Leon. Order to desist from bringing distresses, disturbances and grievances as hereinafter rehearsed upon the prior of St. Frideswyde's Oxford, suffering him to hold the manor of Hudden and town of Edeneton quit and discharged of aids towards marrying the said king's daughters, and to have the cattle called 'wayf' in the said manor and town as he ought to do according to the charter of Edmund sometime earl of Lancastre and Leycestre and the late king's confirmation, and as he and his predecessors have been used to do since that time, and releasing any distresses made for that cause; as the said earl by charter, confirmed by the late king, among other things granted to the church of St. Frideswyde and the canons there in frank almoin the said manor and town without any secular service, demand or contribution to the earl or his heirs, as his ancestors granted the same to the said canons; and now by complaint of the now prior it is shewn the king that although by virtue of the said charter and confirmation the prior ought to hold the premises quit of such aids and of other secular services whatsoever, and to have the cattle aforesaid therein, and although he and his predecessors since the date of the said charter and confirmation have heretofore been used so to do, the said bailiffs are distraining him by reason of the said manor and town for aids towards marrying their lord's eldest daughter, as if he held the same by knight service which he does not, are demanding the cattle aforesaid to their lord's use, and are unlawfully troubling the prior, contrary to the said charter.