Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1330 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1330', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 50-57. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/pp50-57 [accessed 21 April 2024]

August 1330



Aug. 2. Northampton.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to deliver to William de la Porte of Northampton his goods and chattels if they be extant, or 10l. for their price otherwise, with which 10l. the sheriff is charged against the king, as the king has granted the said goods or money to William at the request of Queen Isabella, the goods and chattels having been taken into the king's hands when William was charged before Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices in eyre in co. Northampton, with the death of Thomas Irento of Brackele, and having afterwards been adjudged in the eyre to the king as forfeited, the king having, on 9 March, in the first year of his reign, pardoned William the suit of his peace for all offences committed by him against the late king's peace wherewith he was indicted, charged, or appealled. By K.
Aug. 1. Northampton.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of John son of John de Stanton Lymar, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held no lands of the king in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.
Aug. 3. Northampton.	To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause John, prior of Dunstaple, to be released from prison, wherein he is detained because he is indicted before the justices in eyre in that county for divers felonies, trespasses, and conspiracies, as he has found mainpernors before the king in chancery to have him before the said justices in the quinzaine of Michaelmas next to stand to right if the king or any one else will speak against him concerning the same. By K.
	The mainpernors: Oliver de Ingham, knight, John de Crombewell, knight, Geoffrey le Scrop, Robert de Rocheford, Thomas Latymer, Richard de Perariis.
Aug. 8. King's Cliffe. (Clyve.)	To Roger de Mortuo Mari, justice of Wales, or to him who supplies his place there. Order to arrest and imprison all those of Wales whom he shall find to be adhering or consenting to Rhys ap Griffyn, or aiding or counselling him, and to release them, if he see fit, when they offer sufficient hostages or mainpernors to have them before the king, or elsewhere before his justices at his order, as Rhys is charged with adhering to Edmund de Wodestok, late earl of Kent, and has gone to parts beyond sea without the king's licence, and proposes to enter the realm with certain other enemies and rebels with a multitude of armed men, and the king understands that many in Wales, both relations of Rhys and others, are of his confederacy and alliance. By K.
	[Fœdera.]
Aug. 7. King's Cliffe.	To John Darcy, lord of Werk in Tyndale, or to him who supplies his place there. Whereas the king has assigned to David de Strabolgi, earl of Athole, son and heir of Joan, late the wife of David de Strabolgi, late earl of Athole, eldest sister and co-heiress of John Comyn of Badenagh, tenant in chief of the late king, the following of the said John's lands in Tyndale, with the assent of Richard Talbot and Elizabeth his wife, sister and co-heiress of the said John, David having proved his age before John de Bolyngbrok, escheator beyond Trent: the site of the manor of Tirsete with the orchard, of the yearly value of 2s.; 80 acres of land there in demesne, of the yearly value of 4l.; 171 acres and a rood in demesne at Thornton, of the yearly value of 8l. 11s. 3d.; a moiety of a park at Tirsete, of the yearly value of 10l.; a moiety of a hope (hope) there called 'Tirsethop,' which hope is of the yearly value of 26l. 13s. 4d.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Hemelhop,' which hope is of the yearly value of 6l. 13s. 4d.; a moiety of a 'skalinga' there called 'le Grenhalgh,' which 'skalinga' is of the yearly value of 8l.; a moiety of a hope there called 'le Carite,' which hope is of the yearly value of 106s. 8d.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Keilder,' which hope is of the yearly value of 26l. 13s. 4d.; a moiety of a 'skalinga' called 'Keilderheis,' which 'skalinga' is of the yearly value of 4l.; a moiety of a hope called 'Thornybourn' with le Brendes, which hope is of the yearly value of 12l. 10s. 0d.; a moiety of 14 bondages (bondagiorum) in Charleton, which bondages are worth 14l. yearly; a moiety of a pasture there called 'Birchenshorp,' which pasture is of the yearly value of 13s. 4d.; a moiety of a hamlet there called 'Grenstede,' which hamlet is of the yearly value of 60s.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Donchwode,' which hope is of the yearly value of 8l.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Waynhope,' which hope is of the yearly value of 9l.; a moiety of another (sic) park there, which park is of the yearly value of 8l.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Ternetbourn' with le Grene, which hope is of the yearly value of 26l. 13s. 4d.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Poltrerneth,' which hope is of the yearly value of 12l.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Belles' with 'le Bowes,' which hope is of the yearly value of 12l.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Stokhalgh,' with le Bernes, which hope is of the yearly value of 9l.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Hancop,' which hope is of the yearly value of 10l. 13s. 4d.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Sundayheygh,' which hope is of the yearly value of 53s. 3d.; a moiety of a watermill there, of the yearly value of 30l.; a moiety of a hope there called 'Shonelburn,' which hope is of the yearly value of 26l. 13s. 4d.; a moiety of two hopes there called 'Yarehalgh' and 'Smale,' which hopes are of the yearly value of 14l.; a moiety of the site of the manor of Thornton with the orchard, of the yearly value of 20s.; a moiety of the remaining 128 acres and 3 roods of land in demesne there, counted by the smaller hundred, which land is of the yearly value of 128s. 9d.; a moiety of 13 bondages at Thornton, which are of the yearly value of 13l.; a moiety of four cottages there with crofts, which cottages are of the yearly value of 13s. 4d.; a moiety of a water-mill there, of the yearly value of 66s. 8d.; a moiety of a town there called 'New Borough,' which town is of the yearly value of 4l. 9s. 6d.; a moiety of a hamlet there called 'Quarneleye,' of the yearly value of 75s.; a moiety of two cottages with crofts there, which crofts are of the yearly value of 5s.; a moiety of a pasture there called 'Quarneleywode,' which pasture is of the yearly value of 6s. 8d.; a moiety of four bondages in a hamlet called 'le Side,' which bondages are of the yearly value of 4l.; a moiety of three cottages there with crofts, which cottages are of the yearly value of 9s. 6d.; a moiety of a hamlet there called 'Stayncroft,' of the yearly value of 20s.; a moiety of 20 acres of meadow at Walwyk in demesne, which 20 acres are of the yearly value of 20s.; a moiety of 14 bondages there, which bondages are of the yearly value of 16l. 16s. 0d.; a moiety of four cottages with crofts there, which cottages are of the yearly value of 8s.; a moiety of a water-mill there, of the yearly value of 66s. 8d.; a moiety of a park there, of the yearly value of 26s.; a moiety of a hamlet there called 'Handen,' of the yearly value of 13l. 6s. 8d.; a moiety of 40 acres of meadow in the town of Walwyk, which 40 acres are of the yearly value of 60s.: to have as the said earl's purparty. As the king has respited the earl's homage for those of the above lands that are held of him until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, and has rendered to him this purparty, the king orders John to cause the earl to have seisin of the aforesaid site of Tirsete with the orchard, 80 acres of land there, and 171 acres and 1 rood of land in demesne at Thornton, and to cause a moiety of the aforesaid 128 acres and 3 roods of land, hopes, parks, 'skalinge,' hamlets, mills, bondages, cottages, towns, pasture, meadow, and site of Thornton, to be assigned to him in the presence of Richard Talbot and Elizabeth, if they wish to be present, saving to Margaret, late the wife of the aforesaid John Comyn, her dower of the said lands if she ought to have dower of right. By K. & C.
Aug. 9. Stamford.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to John Pecche, knight, all his towns, manors, lands, goods, and chattels, which the king lately ordered to be taken into his hands because John was charged with adhesion to Edmund de Wodestok, late earl of Kent, as John has rendered himself to the king's will and has found security to do the king's will when the king shall speak against him in this matter. By K. & C.
	The like to the sheriffs of Gloucester, Warwick, Somerset, and Dorset.
	The mainpernors: John de Crumbewell, knight, Maurice de Berkele, knight, Simon de Bereford, knight, Hugh de Turpinton, knight, John de Idle, knight, Richard de Perrers, knight, John de Nevill of Horneby, knight, John Murdak, knight.
Aug. 12. Bourne.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas, (fn. 1) deceased.
Aug. 10. Stamford.	To John de Stonore, Thomas de Louth, and Thomas Bakun. Order not to molest or aggrieve William de Aune, who was indicted for adhesion to Edmund de Wodestok, late earl of Kent, before certain of the king's subjects lately appointed to enquire concerning those who adhered to the earl, at the king's suit concerning the adhesion aforesaid by pretext of their appointment by the king as his justices to hear and determine the inquisitions and indictments taken before his aforesaid subjects, which were sent into the chancery and which the king sent to the said justices sub pede sigilli, as William has rendered himself to the king's will and has found security to do the king's will when the king shall speak against him in this matter. By K.
	Mainpernors: Simon de Bereford, knight, John Pecche, knight.
	Membrane 24.
July 28. Woodstock.	To the sheriff of Salop. Order not to intermeddle further with the liberty of the manor of Stoke-on-Tyren, in that county, specified below, and to permit Bartholomew de Burghersh and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and co-heiress of Theobald de Verdoun, to have and exercise the said liberty, in the same way as Theobald's ancestors were wont to have and exercise the aforesaid liberty before the manor was taken into the late king's hands, as the king—at the prosecution of Bartholomew and Elizabeth, suggesting that Theobald and all his ancestors from time out of mind had in the said manor, which Bartholomew and Elizabeth now hold in Elizabeth's purparty of Theobald's inheritance, the following liberties, to wit 'infangenthef,' 'outfangenthef,' and view of frankpledge with all things pertaining to these liberties until the time when the late king took the liberties into his hands by reason of the rancor that he had against Theobald because Theobald had married Elizabeth de Burgo without his licence, and that the liberties have been in the hands of the late king and of the king until now, and they have prayed the king to cause the liberties to be delivered to them— appointed William le Botiller of Wemme, Robert Corbet of Morton, Hugh Say, Laurence Tourney, and Roger de Pikeryng to enquire concerning the premises, and it is found by their inquisition that John de Verdoun, sometime lord of the said manor, and his ancestors had in the manor and its members the aforesaid liberties from the time aforesaid until Stephen de Denton, who had committed a felony within the liberty, and was taken at the suit of the party [prosecuting], was beheaded before the court was held in the manor or judgment was made in form of right, by reason whereof Edward I. in the sixth year of his reign caused the liberty to be taken into his hands by his ministers, and he and the late king held the liberty in their hands until the fifth year of the late king's reign, when the late king, for a fine made with him by Theobald, delivered the liberty to Theobald, and that the said king, in the fifth year of his reign, took the liberty into his hands because Theobald married Elizabeth de Burgo against his will, and that the liberty is still in the king's hands, and the king does not wish the liberty to be detained in his hands for this reason.
July 23. Woodstock.	To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause William son of William de Emeleye to have seisin of a messuage, a bovate of land, an acre of meadow, and 3s. 9d. of yearly rent in Westdraiton and Bevercotes, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the premises, which William Veisin, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that William Veisin held them of the said William son of William, and that they are still in the king's hands, and that John de Bolingbrok, then escheator in cos. Nottingham and Derby, had the king's year and day thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same.
July 26. Woodstock.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to take into the king's hands and to deliver to H. bishop of Lincoln—to whom the king, on 6 February, in the second year of his reign, granted the custody of the lands that belonged to Bartholomew de Badelesmere, tenant in chief of the late king, during the minority of Giles, son and heir of Bartholomew —the manor of Laghton, co. Sussex, which John de Ulvedale, who died in Bartholomew's lifetime, as the king learns, held for life, and which ought to have remained after John's death to Bartholomew and his heirs by the late king's grant, as contained in the said king's letters patent, if it have not yet been taken into the hands of the late king or of the king, and to deliver to the bishop the issues thereof from 6 February aforesaid.
July 23. Woodstock.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the prior and canons of Chikesand to have respite for a year for the tenth due from them by reason of the grant to the king of a tenth by the clergy of the bishopric of Lincoln, which is exacted from the ecclesiastical goods of the priory in that diocese, as the prior and canons have besought the king to grant them some respite because they are so much in debt that all the manors, lands, rents, and churches pertaining to the priory are now in the hands of creditors, whereby they are so impoverished that they have not whereof they may be sustained, and many of the canons and nuns of the priory have been dispersed (mittuntur in dispersionem) by the prior for this reason. By K.
July 28. Northampton.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of James de la Hide of Great Waltham in Great Waltham, which were taken into the late king's hands by reason of James's death, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that James at his death held in his demesne as of fee certain lands in Great Waltham of the earl of Hereford as of the manor of High Estre, which is of the honour of Maundevile, by the service of an eighth of a knight's fee, and that the lands were taken into the late king's hands after James's death by reason of the lands of Humphrey de Bohun, late earl of Hereford and Essex, being in the said king's hands, and by reason of the minority of the earl's heir, and that they are still in the king's hands, and that Elizabeth de Hemenhale, daughter of James, is his next heir and of full age, and the king lately took the homage of John, now earl of Hereford, and caused his father Humphrey's lands to be delivered to him.
May 11. Woodstock.	To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the king. Order not to molest or aggrieve until otherwise ordered Nicholas Dauneye by reason of his adhesion to Edmund de Wodestok, late earl of Kent, wherewith he is charged, as he has found security before the king and his council to answer to the king at his pleasure.
	By K. on the information of John Mautravers.
Aug. 3. Northampton.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John le Waydour, who has no lands in the county, so that he is insufficiently qualified.
Aug. 8. King's Cliffe.	To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to resume into the king's hands the manor of Ulvedale, and to deliver it to H. bishop of Lincoln, together with the issues thereof from 6 February, in the second year of the king's reign, when the king granted to the bishop the custody of the lands that belonged to Bartholomew de Badelesmere during the minority of his heir, as the bishop has shewn to the king that John de Penreth, deceased, held the aforesaid manor for his life by demise of Bartholomew, and that it ought to have reverted after John's death to Bartholomew and his heirs, and that it was taken into the late king's hands after John's death, and that it is in the king's hands and in the custody of Anthony de Lucy by commission of the exchequer for a fixed sum (certo) to be rendered to the exchequer yearly, and he has prayed the king to cause it to be delivered to him with the issues from the aforesaid 6 February.
Aug. 8. King's Cliffe. (Kingesclif.)	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause to be delivered and assigned to John de Sully and Isabella his wife, late the wife of John de Chaucombe, a quarter of certain lands in Avene, co. Southampton, of the yearly value of 112s. 7¾d., and 12s. 0½d. of yearly rent from certain tenants of a fourth of the manor of Middelton, in the said county, as Isabella's dower of John de Chaucombe's lands, as the king lately took the homage of Henry de Chaucombe, brother and heir of John de Chaucombe, for the lands that the latter held at his death of the king in chief, and ordered the escheator to cause Henry to have seisin thereof, saving Isabella's dower thereof, and afterwards—at the prosecution of John de Sully and Isabella, praying the king to cause her dower of the said lands to be assigned to them—the king gave them a day in chancery, to wit Monday the morrow of St. Oswald last, to receive the dower, and ordered the sheriff of Southampton to summon Henry to be present at the assignment at that day, if he saw fit, at which day Henry did not come, wherefore the king has assigned to John de Sully and Isabella the aforesaid quarter and rent.
Aug. 6. King's Cliffe.	To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to restore to Richard de Grendon, clerk, his lands, goods, and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being charged (allocutus) with the homicide of Walter son of Andrew Wolman and with arson of the manor of Assheby Mars before Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, the king's late justices in eyre in that county, as he has purged his innocence before H. bishop of Lincoln, the diocesan, to whom he was delivered by the justices according to the privilege of the clergy.
	To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to supersede until the quinzaine of Easter next the demand made upon David de Strabolgi, earl of Athole, son and heir of David de Strabolgi, late earl of Athole, for 100 marks, which the late king caused to be paid to David the father, towards his expenses in going in his service to Gascony, by imprest of the wardrobe. By K.
Aug. 9. Stamford.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Whereas, upon its being found by inquisition taken by William Trussel, then escheator this side Trent, that John Daniel at his death held no lands of the king in his demesne as of fee, but that he held for life by demise from Richard Daniel, lately deceased, a moiety of a virgate of land and a plot of meadow in Wynstanton of the king by the service of 9d. for all service, and 35s. of yearly rent in Hamfraieston by the service of 5s. to be rendered to the king yearly at the hundred of Wormeslowe for all service, and divers other lands of other lords by various services, and that Elizabeth, Katherine, and Joan, daughters of the said Richard, are Richard's next heirs of the said lands, and that they are of full age, the king took the fealties of Ralph de Marchynton, who married Elizabeth, and of Reginald de Marchynton, who married Katherine, for their purparties, and ordered the said William to take security from them for their reliefs, and to make partition into three parts of the lands thus held of the king, which were taken into the late king's hands by reason of John's death, and which were still in the king's hands, in the presence of Ralph and Reginald and of John de Lutrington, who married the aforesaid Joan, if they wished to be present, and to cause Ralph and Elizabeth, Reginald and Katherine to have seisin of their purparties, retaining in the king's hands the purparty of John and Joan until otherwise ordered; and the king, on 11 March, in the third year of his reign, took the fealty of John de Lutrington for Joan's purparty, and ordered Simon to take security for them for their relief, and to make partition of the lands thus held of the king, if it had not been made, and to cause John and Joan to have seisin of their purparty; and afterwards a divorce was celebrated between John and Joan, as appears by the letters patent of Master Walter de Askeby, vicar-general of R. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, ordinary of the place, the bishop being in remote parts, and as appears by public instruments thereupon made shewn in chancery, and John Turvill, who has now married Joan, has given the king to understand that his order for the delivery of Joan's purparty has not yet been executed, and has prayed the king to cause the purparty to be delivered to him and Joan: the king has taken John Turvill's fealty for Joan's purparty, and therefore orders the escheator to cause John and Joan to have seisin of the purparty, and orders him not to intermeddle further with the lands that are thus held of others, if they are still in the king's hands by reason of John Daniel's death, and to restore the issues of the lands held of other lords, and to deliver to John de Turvyll and Joan the issues of the lands of the said purparty from the aforesaid 11th day.
	The like to John de Bolingbrok, escheator beyond Trent.
	Vacated because it was not sealed.
Aug. 10. Stamford.	To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to restore to Thomas de Beltoft, the younger, clerk of the diocese of York, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being indicted before Robert de Malberthorp and Robert de Scorburgh, late justices in eyre in co. Nottingham, for having received into his houses of Claworth and Hayton Ralph son of Thomas de Beltoft, the elder, outlawed for the death of John de Bekyngham and for other crimes, as he has purged his innocence before William, archbishop of York, to whom he was delivered by the justices according to the privilege of the clergy.
	Membrane 23.
Aug. 16. Bourne.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain Roger Bate of Haucomby for his homage and fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has done his homage and fealty to the king. By p.s.
Aug. 15. Bourne.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John le Mareschal, sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham, to be acquitted and discharged of the 52l. specified below, at John's petition, as the king, upon being given to understand that Thomas Rocelyn, Thomas Withre, and other malefactors lately went to Bedeford with armed power, and took and carried away divers goods and chattels of the king's and of the men of that town, ordered his justices in eyre in co. Bedford by letters of privy seal to make inquisition concerning the premises, and the justices have certified the king that it was found by the inquisition taken before them that the said Thomas and Thomas and other malefactors went to John's house at Bedeford, he being then sheriff, and there broke his close and took and carried away 52l. of the king's money there found. By K.
Aug. 20. Heckington.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to John de Eynesham of London, 'peleter', the manor of Stibenheth, to hold until the end of the term for which it was demised to him, as the king at John's prosecution—suggesting that Thomas Wake of Lydel lately demised to him the said manor for the term of twelve years, for a sum of money paid by John beforehand, and that John held the manor by virtue of the demise from the time of the making of the writing until the time when it was taken into the king's hands with the other lands of the said Thomas, and beseeching the king to cause the manor to be restored to him—appointed Robert de Asshele, Robert de Kelleseye, and George atte Shyre to make inquisition concerning the premises, and it is found by the inquisition taken by the said Robert de Kelleseye and George that Thomas, on 16 March, 12 Edward II., demised that which is called the manor of Stibenheth for twelve years to John, for a sum of money paid to him beforehand, and that John held the manor until it was taken into the king's hands amongst other lands of the said Thomas, and that it is not held of the king, and that it is worth yearly in all issues 10s. By p.s. [3869.]
July 12. Osney.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. The abbot of Biland has shewn the king, by petition before him and his council, that the king is bound to him in 15l. 15s. 0d. for divers victuals taken from him for the use of John de Hanonia, lately staying in England, by the king's order, as appears by a bill of Robert de Wodehous, archdeacon of Richmond, then keeper of the king's wardrobe, in the abbot's possession, and the abbot is bound to the king at the exchequer in 16l. 15s. 4d. for the tenth for two years granted by the clergy to the late king, and he has prayed the king to cause the former sum to be allowed in the latter sum: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to see the bill aforesaid, and to cause to be allowed to the abbot in the latter sum what they shall ascertain that the king owes to him.
Aug. 24. Lincoln.	To John de Crumbewell, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to deliver John de Musgrave, imprisoned at Carlisle for trespass of venison in Inglewode forest, in bail to twelve mainpernors who shall undertake to have him before the justices for pleas of the Forest in co. Cumberland when they come to those parts.
Aug. 24. Lincoln.	To John de Bolingbrok, escheator beyond Trent. Order to pay, out of the issues of the lands of Thomas Wake of Lidel, to Henry de Percy 100 marks, which the king granted to him for his expenses about the carriage of certain moneys of the king from Scotland to Newerk. By K.
Aug. 29. Clipston.	To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause the manor of Laghton and the hundred of Sheplak to be taken into the king's hands, and to deliver them to Henry, bishop of Lincoln, together with the issues thereof from 2 February, in the second year of the king's reign, when the king granted to the bishop the custody of the lands that belonged to Bartholomew de Badelesmere, tenant in chief of the late king, during the minority of Giles, son and heir of Bartholomew, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John de Ulvedale held at his death the said manor and hundred for life of the inheritance of the aforesaid heir, and that the manor and hundred are held in chief as of the honour of Laigle, and the king, after the grant of the aforesaid custody to the bishop, granted that the bishop should have the custody aforesaid, together with the reversions of dowers and of other lands that are held for term of life or otherwise of the heir's inheritance, and with the issues received after the said 2 February from the lands that are thus held in dower or otherwise for term of life or otherwise.