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Feb. 3.
Eltham. |
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of
Boklond and with the advowson of the church of that manor, which he
has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of John de Boklond,
knight, and to restore the issues thereof to Joan, late the wife of the said
John, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John
and Joan held the manor and advowson jointly on the day of John's death
to them and to the heirs of their bodies, by fine levied in the king's court,
and that the manor is not held of the king. |
Jan. 26.
Eltham. |
To Robert de Hornclif, constable of Baumburgh castle. Order to pay
to Roger de Horsele 40 marks for Easter and Michaelmas terms last out
of the issues of that castle, in accordance with the late king's grant, of
20 November, in the 12th year of his reign, of that sum yearly from the
said issues in consideration of Roger's good service, until he should provide
Roger with 40 marks of lands yearly in England for life. |
Feb. 4.
Eltham. |
To the chamberlain of South Wales. Order to cause the king's castles
in South Wales to be repaired by the view and testimony of those whom
Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, justice of Wales, shall appoint by
letters patent to survey the castles and the defects thereof, as the king
understands that the castles are so much decayed in the walls, towers, quays,
gates, bridges, and other buildings that their ruin is feared until they be
speedily repaired. The king has ordered the justice to appoint men for the
above purpose. By K. |
Jan. 25.
Eltham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to
Thomas de Bello Campo, son and heir of Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of
Warwick, or to one to be deputed by him, the office of the king's chamberlainship in the exchequer, in the manner in which the office was usually
delivered to his ancestors in times past, as the king, on 20 February last,
took Thomas's homage for his father's lands although he had net yet come
of age, and rendered the lands to him. |
Feb. 8.
Eltham. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to the
prior of Colne the arrears of 10s. yearly for the time that the escheator has
had the custody of the lands of John de Argentein, tenant in chief of the
late king, and to pay to him that sum henceforth for so long as the lands
shall be in the escheator's custody, as the late king—upon its being found
by inquisition taken by Richard de Rodeneye, then his escheator this side
Trent, that the prior and his predecessors received 10s. of yearly rent at
the time of the said John's death and for a hundred years previously from
30 acres of land, pasture, and alder-holt in Fordham, which are parcels of
that manor, which manor was then in the said king's hands by reason of the
minority of John's heir—ordered Master John Walewayn, his late escheator
this side Trent, and John de Blomvill, afterwards his escheator in cos.
Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford, to pay to
the prior the arrears of the rent aforesaid for the time that they were
escheators, and to pay to him the rent thenceforth. |
Feb. 12.
The Tower. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain
John Alred for his fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has
done fealty to the king. |
Feb. 10.
Eltham. |
To the justices of the Bench. The abbot of Lire has shewn the king
that whereas the king—at the abbot's prosecution, by petition before him
and his council, suggesting that he lately impleaded Master Richard de
Clare, dean of Wymbourn, that the dean should render to him 240 marks,
the arrears of 8 marks of yearly rent due to him, and the justices had
superseded the holding of the plea because the dean's attorney alleged
before them that the dean held the deanery for life of the king's advowson
by the late king's collation, and that he found the deanery discharged of the
said rent, and that he could not answer to the abbot without the king, and
that he prayed aid from the king—ordered the justices to proceed in this
plea notwithstanding the dean's allegation or petition for aid, provided
that they did not proceed to render judgment without consulting the king,
and that they have deferred rendering judgment although they have proceeded in the said plea up to the rendering of judgment, and the abbot has
therefore besought the king to order judgment to be rendered: the king
therefore orders the justices to proceed to render judgment with all speed,
notwithstanding the dean's said allegation or petition or the king's order
aforesaid not to proceed to render judgment. |
Feb. 21.
Windsor. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower
to Agnes, late the wife of Richard de Sancto Andrea, tenant in chief, upon
her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence. |
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Feb. 2.
Eltham. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede until
the octaves of Holy Trinity next the demand upon William de Gosfeld for
50 marks by reason of a recognisance for that sum made by him in the
exchequer to Hugh le Despenser, the elder, after Hugh's exile, as the king,
in response to William's suit, has ordered the treasurer and barons to send
to him the tenor of the recognisance so that he might cause to be done what
ought to be done according to the agreement in the parliament at Westminster for the annulling of recognisances made by force and duress after
the exile of the Despensers and others, and William has now besought the
king, by petition before him and his council, to cause the demand to be
superseded until the premises be determined (discuciantur) before the king. |
Feb. 12.
The Tower. |
To the same. Whereas Edward I. before his accession, to wit on
5 April, 50 Henry III., granted to the abbot and convent of Tynterne, in
consideration of their merits and their good service to him, and to their
church of Tynterne in frankalmoin whatever he had in the town of
Huwaldesfeld, and after his accession he, on 20 March, in the 35th year of
his reign, confirmed the said grant, as appears by his charter, which the
king has inspected; and the king at the prosecution of the abbot and
convent, by their petition before him and his council in the parliament at
Northampton—suggesting that Edward I. in the 8th year of his reign,
caused the said town to be resumed into his hands without reasonable cause,
at the procurement of certain of his ministers, and that [they] procured
certain letters patent of the said king's to be made in the name of the abbot
and convent without their knowledge or will, containing that the abbot and
convent should render yearly 61s. 5d. to the exchequer, in order that they
might aggrieve the abbot and convent, and that the said letters patent never
came to the abbot and convent, by pretext of which letters the said sum
has been hitherto exacted from the abbot and convent, and that they were
compelled to pay certain arrears thereof by the procurement of Hugh le
Despenser, the younger, who caused certain of their goods to be taken into,
and detained in, the late king's hands until the said king had been satisfied
for the arrears—ordered the treasurer and barons to obtain information
concerning the cause of the resumption of the town into the hands of
Edward I., and the cause of the exaction of the aforesaid 61s. 5d., and to
certify the king of what they found, and they certified the king that,
having made search concerning the premises, they found in the originalia
(originali) of the 8th year [mem. 18.] that Edward I. on 15 November, in the
same year, received into his hands for certain causes all that he had given
in the said town by his charter in the time of Henry III. to the abbot and
convent, which gift was worth 61s. 5d. yearly, as the said king learned by
an extent thereof that he ordered to be made by Ralph de Sandwico, then
his steward, and the said king rendered all that he had taken into his hands
to the abbot and convent, rendering therefor 61s. 5d. yearly to the
exchequer, with which sum they are charged yearly as of a yearly ferm at
the exchequer from 15 November aforesaid, and that the treasurer and
barons found no other cause for the resumption of the town into the said
king's hands: the king, having consideration to the premises and to the
long service of the abbot and convent, orders the treasurer and barons to
cause them to be discharged of the aforesaid 61s. 5d. thus exacted from
them, and of any arrears thereof, and to release any distraint that they may
have made for this reason. By p.s. [3265.] |
Feb. 18.
Westminster. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Trevelowe and with other lands of Henry
de Campo Ranulphi, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry at his death held no lands of
the king in his demesne as of fee, but that he held for life of the gift of
William de Kancia, parson of the church of Cardian (sic), and of Peter de
Bodrigan, the manor aforesaid, as of the honour of Tremeton, in the
hands of Queen Isabella, and that he held divers lands of other lords by
various services by fine levied in the king's court, and that the manor and
the lands ought to remain after his death to William his son and to the
heirs of his body by virtue of the fine aforesaid, and that William is aged
sixteen years. |
Feb. 21.
Windsor. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to deliver to John filz
Simond all his lands, goods and chattels, which the king lately ordered to
be taken into his hands by reason of certain trespasses, excesses, and disobediences committed against him by John, and to restore the issues
thereof, as the king has rendered them to John of his special grace. By K. |
Feb. 21.
Windsor. |
To Roger de Chaundoys, sheriff of Hereford, keeper of the king's land of
Gloumorgan and Morgannou. Order to permit William la Zcusche de
Mortuo Mari and Eleanor his wife to take away and make their profit of
their goods and chattels in the said land, and to levy their debts and arrears
of their ferms, and to dispose and ordain of wardships and marriages
without hindrance, and to restore to them any of the goods, chattels, wardships and marriages, and debts that may have been taken into the king's
hands or levied, and to aid and counsel them in levying the debts and
arrears, as it was not the king's intention, when he ordered Roger to take
the land into his hands because William and Eleanor had granted it to him,
that Roger should intermeddle with their goods and chattels or with the
debts and arrears that were owing to them before their grant to the king,
or with the wardships and marriages that fell to them before the grant. |
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By K. |
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The like to the following: |
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The sheriff of Worcester concerning the manor of Hanle. By K. |
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The sheriff of Gloucester concerning the manor of Teukesbery. By K. |
Feb. 13.
The Tower. |
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to
Benedicta, late the wife of John de Shelvyng, a rent of 40s. in Weveringge,
together with the issues thereof, taking her fealty therefor, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held the
rent jointly with Benedicta, to him and Benedicta's heirs, of the king in
chief by the service of finding him in his army of Wales a horse with a
sack and of carrying a spit (broch'), price 6s. 4d., for his scullery
(esquiler'), and that John held no lands in chief at his death as of the
crown by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to
the king. |
Jan. 26.
Eltham. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause the houses within
Winchester castle to be repaired without delay for the king's stay there, as
the king has disposed to hold a parliament (colloquium) and treaty at Winchester on Sunday before St. Gregory the Pope, and has ordained to stay
in the castle during the parliament. |
Feb. 18.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Berkshire. Order to cause William de Sancta Elena to
have seisin of 24s. of rent of the 100s. of rent in Abyndon that John le
Spicer of Abyndon, who was outlawed for felony, held of him, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by John de Buklond, late sheriff of that county,
that two messuages and the 100s. of rent aforesaid in Abyndon, which the
said John le Spicer held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a
day, and that John held 24s. of the rent of the said William, and that
William now holds the said 24s. of rent, and that he had the king's year and
day thereof, and that he ought to answer to the king therefor. |
