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Membrane 7. |
Dec. 4. Knaresborough. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause due
allowance to be made to John de Wodehous, keeper of the hanaper, in his
account for the issues of the said hanaper, for 200l. from those issues,
which he paid to John, bishop of Winchester, the chancellor, by the king's
order, in part payment of 1000 marks that the king owes to the bishop
for various sums paid by the latter to divers merchants by the king's order. |
Dec. 6. York. |
To John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Katherine,
late the wife of Hugh le Lorymer, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath
not to marry without the king's licence. |
Dec. 14. York. |
To Hamo Massy of Tatton, escheator in co. Chester. Order not to
intermeddle further with the manor of Thurstaneston, which he has taken
into the king's hands on the death of William son of Peter de Brikhull,
and to restore the issues thereof to Cicely, late the wife of the said William,
as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that William and Cicely
were jointly enfeoffed of that manor by the grant of John de Sywenston,
chaplain, by fine levied in the court of Chester by the king's licence, and
that the manor is held in chief by the service of a third of a knight's fee. |
Dec. 16. York. |
To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to cause the necessary repairs to be
done to Stafford gaol, expending up to 10l., by the view and testimony of
Robert Selyman. By C. |
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Vacated, because otherwise below. |
Dec. 16. York. |
To the same. Order to cause Stafford gaol, which is ruinous, to be
repaired so far as is necessary, expending up to 10l., by the view and
testimony of Robert Selyman. By C. |
Dec. 18. York. |
To John de Kyngeston, constable of Baumburgh castle. Order to cause
necessary repairs to be done to divers houses in that castle, which are ruinous,
expending up to 20l., by the view and testimony of William de Bedenale. |
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By the treasurer. |
Dec. 10. York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the
exaction made on the men of Newcastle upon Tyne, co. Northumberland,
for debts for victuals bought by them at Newcastle from the king and his
father to be superseded, and to cause them to be discharged thereof, as the
king, on 27 October last, pardoned the men of Northumberland all debts for
the victuals bought from him and his father, in consideration of the loss,
damage, fire and devastation sustained by them by reason of the late wars
between the king and the land of Scotland. By p.s. |
Dec. 10. York. |
To the same. Order to cause Roger de Aylesburi, sheriff of Warwick
and Leicester, to be discharged and acquitted of an amercement of 5 marks,
imposed upon him because he did not appear at the exchequer on the
morrow of Michaelmas last to make his proffer there, as he was intending
by the king's order certain other affairs before Geoffrey le Scrop and others
appointed to enquire concerning certain felonies and trespasses in co.
Leicester, and also before the king in his presence. By K. |
Dec. 15. York. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to restore to Nicholas Froward of
Wirkesworth, diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, clerk, his lands, goods, and
chattels, which were taken into the king's hands upon his being indicted
before Richard de Grey and his fellows, justices of oyer and terminer in that
county, for maintaining and receiving James Coterel, Roger Sauvage,
Walter, servant of the said James Coterel, Thomas de Bukstones, William,
brother of the said Thomas, and John Coterell, outlawed for divers felonies
committed by them in that county, knowing them to be so outlawed, as the
said Nicholas has purged his innocence before W. archbishop of York, to
whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with the privilege of
the clergy. |
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To the sheriff of Derby. The like in favour of the same Nicholas
Froward. |
Dec. 12. York. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause the demand made on the
men of Ednestowe and other hamlets adjacent for 19 marks for the fee-farm
for the present year to be superseded, as the king, on 28 August, in the 2nd
year of his reign, granted this fee-farm to Geoffrey de Mildenhale, marshal
of his hall, for life, and the said men have paid the fee-farm for the present
year, as Geoffrey has acknowledged in chancery. |
Dec. 12. York. |
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to cause John de Liston, son
and heir of John de Liston, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's
lands, as he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has taken
his homage for the lands that his father held in chief. By p.s. |
Dec. 8. York. |
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with certain lands in
Rammesdenecreye, co. Essex, which he has taken into the king's hands on
the death of John de Liston, and to restore the issues thereof, as it is found
by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said John held the said
lands of the inheritance of Eleanor his wife, and that they are held of the
heirs of the earl of Pembroke by knight service. |
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To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage in
Maldon, co. Essex, and to restore the issues thereof, as it is found by
inquisition taken by the escheator that the said John de Liston and Eleanor
his wife held the messuage jointly at his death, and that it is not held of the
king. |
Dec. 12. York. |
To the same. Order to cause to be delivered to Eleanor, late the wife of
John de Liston, tenant in chief, the following of her husband's lands, upon
her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence, in the
presence of John de Lyston, John's son and heir, which lands the king has
assigned to her in dower: a third of the manor of Lyston, co. Essex; a
third of a moiety of the manor of Westonehall in the town of Foxherde, in
the same county; and a third of a messuage, of a mill, of 209 acres of
land, of 18 acres of meadow, of 60 acres of pasture, of 220 acres of wood,
and of 7l. 12s. 8d. of rent in Gosfeld in the same county. |
Dec. 16. York. |
To William de Clynton, justice of Chester, and to the chamberlain
there. Whereas lately at the prosecution of William de Prayers—shewing
the king that he was recently appointed to the office of sheriff of Chester, to
hold for a certain time with all the appurtenances, rendering to the king 240l.
a year, and divers men of that county called 'chartreres' were discharged of
divers customs belonging to the office of sheriff worth 80l. a year (which
William and his predecessors had been accustomed to receive in aid of their
ferm) by a judgment lately rendered in the king's court at Chester and by
orders made to William, after he had been appointed to the said office, and
that the justice has nevertheless hitherto exacted the whole ferm from
William—the king ordered the justice to certify him concerning the matter,
and the justice certified that William was commissioned to hold the said
office from Christmas day, in the 4th year of the reign, for a term of four
years, with all the appurtenances, as other sheriffs there had received them,
rendering 240l. yearly, and that William held that office from the said
Christmas until St. Bartholomew last, and that the said customs that the
said 'chartreres' used to pay belonged to that office long before William
was appointed, and that William and other sheriffs were accustomed to
receive the said customs in aid of their ferm in the time of Edward I.
and until now, and that the said customs were usually worth 68l. 8s. 10d.
yearly, and that the 'chartreres' were discharged of the said customs by
divers writs of the king and by judgment delivered in the county
of Chester on Tuesday the morrow of Epiphany last: the king therefore
orders the justice to cause the said William to be discharged of this sum
from the date of the said judgment for the time that he has held the said
office, causing due allowance to be made to him for it in his ferm. |
Dec. 11. York. |
To the said justice, or to him who supplies his place. Order to
cause to be delivered without delay to John de Sancto Petro, knight,
all his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands as
forfeited on his being indicted before the justice for certain felonies and
trespasses committed by him in that county, because he did not come before
the justice on the day fixed for him, as the king has restored the said goods
to John, because he was in the king's service on the said day in the
company of William de Monte Acuto. By p.s. [5965.] |
Dec. 13. York. |
To John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland. Order not to distrain William Whytik for his
homage and fealty, as he has done homage and fealty to the king for the
lands that he holds of him. By p.s. [5990.] |
Dec. 13. York. |
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Order to cause Robert de Scales, son
and heir of Robert de Scales, to have seisin of all the lands that his father
at his death held of the late king in chief, as the king has taken the
homage of the said Robert, although he is not yet of full age, for the said
lands. By p.s. |
Dec. 7. York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Amice,
late the wife of John Druel, tenant of part of her husband's lands, to have
the following terms for the payment of a debt of 190l. which John owed
to the king, to wit 50s. to the treasury every Easter and Michaelmas until
the debt be discharged, upon her finding security for payment of the said
100s. every year. By p.s. [5954.] |
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Membrane 6. |
Nov. 4. York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas upon its being
found by inquisition taken by William Trussel, then escheator beyond
Trent, that Eleanor, late the wife of Robert de Bruys, whom Richard le
Waleys afterwards married, held in dower on the day she died a third
of the manors of Writele and Hatfeld Regis, co. Essex, of the inheritance
of her husband Robert, and that the late king granted the said manors to
Humphrey de Bohun, formerly earl of Hereford and Essex, and Elizabeth
his wife, to hold to themselves and the heirs of their bodies, together with
the dower that Eleanor held after the death of her husband Robert, when
it should fall in, and that the said Richard and Eleanor afterwards attorned
themselves to the earl for their fealty, and the king, at the prosecution of
John de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex, son and heir of the said
Humphrey and Eleanor (sic), ordered the escheator to deliver the lands
to the said earl, which lands had been taken into the king's hands on the
death of Eleanor, together with the issues from the time of Eleanor's death,
to be held at pleasure, or until the king should otherwise order, on condition
that the earl should answer to the king for the issues of the said lands if
they ought to belong to the king, and the king has now confirmed the
charter by letters patent: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons
to permit the earl to hold the manors, and to cause him to be discharged of
the demand made on him for the issues thereof. |
Nov. 20. Knaresborough. |
To John de Harnham, keeper of the town of Wilton, now in the king's
hands. Order to pay to the brethren and sisters of the hospital of St. Giles,
Wylton, the arrears of a rent of 6 marks a year from the town of Wilton,
from the time of the death of Mary, a nun of Aumbresbury, the king's aunt,
and to pay that rent henceforth every year from the issues of the said town,
as Edward I. on 4 April, in the 29th year of his reign—upon its being
found by inquisition taken by Walter de Gloucestre, then escheator beyond
Trent, that the brethren and sisters received the said rent by the gift of
that king's progenitors, for the maintenance of a chaplain celebrating divine
service every day in the said hospital for the souls of the said progenitors,
and that the brethren and sisters received that rent from the first gift
made to them from certain rents and issues of that town by the hands of
the bailiffs there, as well for the time when the town was in the hands of
the said progenitors as when it was in the hands of Richard, formerly king
of Almain, and of Edmund, formerly earl of Cornwall, without interruption
until Christmas then last past, when the town came into the hands of
Edward I. by the death of the said Edmund, earl of Cornwall—ordered
his bailiffs of that town by writ to cause the said brethren and sisters to
have the rent until otherwise ordered; and the king—at the prosecution of
the said brethren and sisters, shewing him that they received the said rent
both in the time of the aforesaid Mary, to whom the late king granted
the said town for life, and in the time of other lords of that town, and that
the said John de Harnham has retained that rent from the time when the
town came to the king's hands by the said Mary's death—ordered Robert
Selyman, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford
and Buckingham, to make inquisition concerning the truth of the matter,
by which it appears that the said brethren and sisters received the said
rent as above from time out of mind until 29 May last, when the said Mary
died, and that they have not remitted the rent to the king, or changed their
estate therein. |
Nov. 22. Knaresborough. |
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order not to intermeddle further with
the lands that John de Swyneford held in Great Styvekle, which he has
taken into the king's hands on the death of the said John, and to restore
the issues thereof, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that
John at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee of the king in
chief, but that he held the said lands of the abbot of Rameseye by certain
services, and that John son of the said John is his next heir, and is aged
four years. |
Nov. 4. York. |
To Master Robert de Staunford, clerk. Order to proceed speedily to
the exchequer, and receive all the processes and memoranda touching the
duchy of Aquitaine—both those that were in the custody of Master Elias
de Joneston of the time when he was clerk of Master Philip Martel,
formerly appointed by Edward I. to prosecute the affairs of the duchy, and
those that were delivered to Elias by the ministers of the king and his
father—from the said Elias by indenture in the presence of the treasurer
and chamberlains, and to cause them to be kept safely, to be shewn by him
when required to the commissaries, envoys, and proctors of the king for
counsels and treaties in these affairs, for their information. The king has
ordered Elias to be present at the exchequer and to deliver up the processes and memoranda as aforesaid, and has ordered the treasurer and
chamberlains to pay to Robert whilst thus employed such wages and robes
as Elias received. By p.s. [5925.] |
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To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause the said wages and
robes to be delivered to Master Robert de Staunford. By p.s. [5926.] |
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Mandate in pursuance to Elias de Joneston. By p.s. [5927.] |
Dec. 2. Knaresborough. |
To John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Order not to intermeddle further with certain
lands in Catwyk and Carleton, which he has taken into the king's hands on
the death of Walter Whitik of Catwyk, and to restore the issuss thereof, as
it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said Walter held
those lands in his demesne as of fee at his death of the king in chief as of
the honour of Albemarle, by knight service, and that William Whitik is
his next heir, and is of full age, and the king—because the said William gave
him to understand that he did fealty in the second year of the reign for the
said lands to Queen Isabella, who held the said honour with its knights'
fees by the king's grant, after the death of the said Walter his father, and
satisfied her for his relief from those lands and had livery of the lands—
ordered John de Oxenden, treasurer of the said queen, to search her memoranda concerning the matter, and to certify the king, and he certified that he
found by the rolls of account of John de Thwet, late bailiff of the said
queen of her manor of Brustwyk, that Walter de Whitik held 10 carucates
of land of the said queen in Catwyk, Carleton, and Seton, by knight service, and that he died in the second year of the king's reign, and that
William his son and heir, then of full age, satisfied the said queen for the
relief due to her in this behalf. |
Dec. 7. York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause due
allowance to be made to Henry de Bisshebury, late sheriff of Salop, in his
account for four cartloads of lead that belonged to Roger de Mortuo Mari,
late earl of March, in the town of Stretton in Strettonesdale, which he has
delivered to Hugh Tyrel, king's yeoman, of the king's gift by the king's
order under the privy seal. |
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To the same. Like order to cause allowance to be made to the said
Henry for two loads of lead delivered in like manner to Hugh Tyrel. |
Dec. 10. York. |
To Robert Selyman, late escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to
the prior and convent of Wirmegeye all the issues received from the lands
of the priory in Narburgh, co. Norfolk, which he has taken into the king's
hands upon the last voidance, as the prior and convent have the right of
receiving the said issues during voidance, and the king ordered William
Trussel, late escheator beyond Trent, not to intermeddle further with the
lands of that house [as at page 468 above]. |
Dec. 10. York. |
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to deliver to Roger le Veel, clerk,
his lands and goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands
on his being indicted before John de Stonore and his fellows, justices
of oyer and terminer in that county, for the death of Bartholomew le Moul
of Rudruth, as he has purged his innocence before J. bishop of Exeter, the
diocesan, to whom he was delivered by the said justices in accordance with
the privilege of the clergy. |
Dec. 8. York. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of the town of Boston. Order
to pay to the count of Julers 450 marks for Michaelmas term last from the
issues of the customs, in accordance with the king's grant to him of
900 marks yearly from the issues of the said customs. |
Dec. 11. York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance to be made to the said collectors in their account for the said 450 marks
paid by them in execution of the preceding order. |
Dec. 15. York. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause Margaret de Lound to have
seisin of a toft and 2 bovates of land in Howom near Lokynton, which
John son of Thomas de Howom held, who was outlawed for felony, as the
king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that they have been in the
king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held them of the said
Margaret, and that Ralph de Bulmere, late sheriff of that county, had the
king's year and day thereof, and ought to answer to the king for the same,
and that there was no waste there because the said John had no building or
growing trees in those tenements. |
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To the same. Order to cause William de la Wodehalle to have seisin of
2 bovates of land in Lund, which John son of Thomas de Howom held,
who was outlawed for felony, as it is found by inquisition taken by the
sheriff that John held the said bovates of William, and that Ralph de Bulmere, late sheriff of that county, had the king's year and a day thereof, and
ought to answer to the king therefor, and that there was no waste there
because the said John had no building or growing trees in those tenements. |
Dec. 20. Kirkham. |
To John de Kyngeston, constable of Baumburgh castle. Order to pay
to Roger de Horsele 20 marks from the issues of that castle for Michaelmas
term last, in accordance with the late king's grant, on 20 November, in the
12th year of his reign, of 40 marks yearly to the said Roger for life. |
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Membrane 5. |
Dec. 8. York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Henry
de Cantuaria, clerk, 100l. Tournois, and to discharge him thereof, as John
Travers, constable of Bordeaux, and John Guytardi, controller in Bordeaux
castle, have testified by letters to the treasurer and barons exhibited in chancery that it is found by Anthony de Pesseigne's account with Master Galhard
de la Casa, late constable of Bordeaux, for the time when Anthony was
the late king's seneschal of the duchy and receiver of certain moneys
there, that Anthony delivered 100l. Tournois to the said Henry, then
sent by the late king to the duchy, towards his expenses, and that the
said 100l. Tournois, with which Henry charged himself in his account
of certain receipts of his in the said parts made with Richard de Ellesfeld,
afterwards the late king's constable of Bordeaux, were deducted from a
certain greater sum then owing to Henry by the late king. |
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By letter of the chancellor. |
Dec. 16. York. |
To the taxors and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Oxford.
Order to acquit the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John
without the east gate of Oxford of the said tenth and fifteenth for the
goods of the hospital, which was founded by Henry III. of his alms, as it
is so slenderly endowed that its goods now hardly suffice for the maintenance of the master and brethren and of the weak and infirm therein,
and of other alms to be made according to the ordinance of the said king,
and if it be charged with the aids granted to the king by the community
of the realm, it will be necessary for the master and brethren to diminish
the said alms. |
Dec. 12. York. |
To Henry le Gulden, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and
Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands that belonged to
Robert atte Mulle in Gussich All Saints, which were taken into the king's
hands by William Trussel, late escheator this side Trent, and to restore the
issues thereof, as the escheator has certified the king that the said William
had not certified him of the reason for taking these lands into the king's
hands, but that John de Ledrede, then sub-escheator of the said William in
cos. Somerset and Dorset, informed him that Robert held the lands in chief
of the king by the service of feeding one of the king's foals every year
in herbage time for three weeks at his own expense, for which reason
they were taken into the king's hands, and the king—upon Roger son and
heir of the said Robert giving him to understand that the said lands are
not held in chief of the king, and owe no service to the king—ordered
Henry to cause inquisition to be taken concerning the matter, whereby it
was found that the lands are not held in chief of the king and owe no service, but that they are held of the abbess of Tarente and of the prior of
God's House, Southampton, by the service of 32s. a year, and that Roger
atte Mulle, son of the said Robert, is his next heir, and is aged 22 years
and more. |
Dec. 15. York. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to deliver the following manors, lands
and rents that were held by the military order of the Temple in that county
at the time of the cession of the order, which he has taken into the
king's hands in execution of his previous order [as at page 496 above],
to the prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, together
with the issues thereof: the manor of Templecoumbe, worth 30l. yearly,
which Geoffrey de Stawell occupied; certain lands and rents at La Lade in
Mertok, worth 9l. 5s. 1½d. yearly, which William de Faucomberge occupied; 64 acres of land and 12 acres of meadow at Mertok, worth 77s. 4d.
yearly, which John le Fiendles occupied; certain lands in Westlepene,
worth 7l. 6s. 8d. yearly, which Richard Lovel and Henry Power occupied;
a messuage and a moiety of the manor of Wiliton, worth 7l. 4s. 4d. yearly,
which Ralph le fitz Urs occupied; certain lands at Hidone and Blakedon, worth 40s. yearly, which Philip de Columbariis occupied; certain
lands at Godele in Stok Gommere, worth 22s. yearly, which Robert le fitz
Payn and John de Forde, parson of Okford church, occupied; 13 acres of
meadow at Horwode near Wyncaulton, worth 2s. yearly, which Richard
Lovel occupied; 18d. of yearly rent issuing from a tenement that John de
Neubury held of the order of Knights Templars in Babynton; 18d. of
yearly rent from a tenement in Babynton, which Agnes Samuel held of the
same order, and which Philip de Columbariis occupied; a messuage and a
virgate of land in Lameyete, worth 20s. yearly, which Thomas de Rodeneye
occupied; 12d. of yearly rent from a certain tenement in Bruton, which
the prior of Bruton occupied; 2 messuages in Mulebourn Pourt, worth
15d. yearly, which the bailiff of the town of Mulebourn Pourt occupied; a
messuage at Shepton Malet worth 6s. 8d. yearly, which John de Bello
Campo and John le Bakere occupied; a messuage at Shepton Malet, worth
6s. 8d. yearly, which Herbert son of Reginald and James Uppehull occupied; a messuage and a virgate of land in Maperton, worth 13s. 4d. yearly,
which John de Moeles occupied: which the said men occupied as their
escheats by reason of the cession and annulling of the said order of the
Temple. |
Dec. 16. York. |
To Henry de Guldene, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and
Cornwall. Order not to intermeddle further with a mill and 21 acres of
land in Wyleford near Northcadebury, which William Trussel, late escheator
beyond Trent, took into the king's hands pretending that the prior of Montacute had acquired them after the publication of the statute of mortmain
without royal licence, and to restore the issues to the prior, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by Henry that Mark, sometime prior of Montacute, acquired the mill and lands to him and his church from Roger Balon
in the time of Henry III. forty years before the publication of the said
statute, and that they are held of the king in chief in frankalmoin, and are
worth 66s. 8d. yearly in all issues |
Dec. 6. York. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to release and
give acquittance to Roger Chaundos, late sheriff of Hereford, in his account,
of the issues, goods and chattels of the manors of Mawardyn and Wynferton, co. Hereford, which he delivered to Maurice de Berkeleye by the king's
order, as the king, for the good service Maurice had rendered him, and in
order that Maurice might maintain himself more fittingly in his service,
granted to him the said manors, which belonged to Roger de Mortuo Mari
of Chirk, and which came to the king's hands as escheats by reason of the
forfeiture of Roger de Mortuo Mari, late earl of March, nephew and heir of
the said Roger, to be held under a certain form, and the king afterwards
granted to Maurice all the issues of the said manors from the time of the
said forfeiture for which answer had not been made to the king, and also
all the king's goods and chattels in those manors, to be held of his gift, and
ordered the sheriff of that county to deliver the issues and goods to
Maurice. |
Dec. 7. York. |
To the same. Order to cause Roger Chaundos, late sheriff of Hereford,
to be discharged in his account of the oxen, plough beasts (affris carucarum), armour, brazen pots, bowls, and other domestic utensils, and tapets,
wall-hangings (dosser'), and beds (lecta) of the arms of Edmund son of
Roger de Mortuo Mari, and of the other small things that belonged to
Roger in the castle and manor of Wyggemore, the land of Melenyth, with
the castles of Kenthles and Dynband in the same land, the land of Kedewynk, with the castle of Dolvoreyn, the land of Comotoyder, which Roger
held for life, with remainder to Edmund, which were taken into the king's
hands by reason of Roger's death, as the king restored the said castle,
manor, and lands to Edmund, and granted to him the said goods, which
he ordered the sheriff of Hereford to deliver to him by indenture. |