Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1333 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 3, 1333-1337. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1333', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 3, 1333-1337, (London, 1898) pp. 115-122. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol3/pp115-122 [accessed 19 April 2024]

June 1333



June 3. Tweedmouth.	John son of Roger de Cayton of Cotum acknowledges that he owes to Thomas de Cayton of Helperthorp 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Membrane 11d.
June 3. Tweedmouth.	To John Gabriel and Ralph de Mallyng. Order not to intermed Ile further with the collection of the ancient and new customs on wool, hides, and wool-fells, and other merchandise in the city of Winchester, by reason of the commission previously made to them, but to permit them to be collected by John Devenish and Nicholas de Excestr[ia], whom the king has appointed collectors of the said customs during pleasure with the custody of the 'coket' seal. By C.
June 5. Tweedmouth.	To L. count of Flanders. Notification that the king has received his letters by the bearer of these presents and has sent envoys, with all speed, to the said count to inform him of what the king intends to do with respect to the same; with request that the count will stay all action against the king's subjects, who are accused of having harmed the duke's subjects, until the arrival of the said envoys, because whatever things are found to have been wrongfully committed by the king's subjects against the count or his subjects shall be corrected and amended with all speed. [Fœdera.]
	To the burgomasters, echevins, consuls and community of Brugges in Flanders. Notification that the king has sent envoys to the count of Flanders as aforesaid, to show to him and them the king's intention upon the premises.
	[Ibid.]
	The like to the following:
	The échevins, consuls and community of Gaunte in Flanders.
	The échevins, consuls and community of Ipre in Flanders. [Ibid.]
June 7. Tweedmouth.	To L. count of Flanders. The king was lately informed that certain sailors and others of that count's dominion made a confederacy with the Scots, who have several times invaded the kingdom, violating the peace lately made between the king and Robert le Bruys, and the king requested the count to compel such men to withdraw from such undertakings, whereupon the count wrote back to the king that he had never heard that any of his subjects had made alliance with the Scots against the king, but that he had noticed that certain malefactors of certain towns of England had taken several ships of the count's lordship upon the coast of Flanders, together with the goods found in them, and had carried them off, having killed both the merchants and the sailors, and because the count had never previously informed the king of this, and the king is very anxious that the peace between him and the count and their subjects shall be observed, he is ready to cause these malefactors to be punished, and to cause speedy justice to be done for the recovery of the said goods, he therefore asks the count to release from arrest those merchants, whom he had caused to be arrested by reason of the said crimes, until the amends due for the said damage and trespasses have been made, because the said merchants are innocent. The king also sends to the count Master John de Hildesle, canon of Chichester and baron of the exchequer, William de la Pole and Robert de Kelleseye, citizens, plenipotenciaries to treat concerning the said matter, requesting the count to give credence to them. [Ibid.]
June 7. Tweedmouth.	To the burgomasters, échevins, consuls and community of Brugges. The like request. [Ibid.]
	The like to the following:
	The échevins, consuls and community of Gaunte.
	The échevins, consuls and community of Ipre. [Ibid.]
June 9. Tweedmouth.	John, prior of Watton, acknowledges that he owes to William, archbishop of York, 100l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment.
May 23. Tweedmouth.	William de Torryng of Fletestrete, 'skynner,' acknowledges that he owes to Richard le Keu of Hemyngburgh 8 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in the city of London.
	Cancelled on payment.
June 5. Tweedmouth.	To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause proclamation to be made on sight hereof, in Croyland, Spaldyng and elsewhere in that county, that the abbot of Croyland and the prior of Spaldyng or any other person, under pain of forfeiture, shall make no assemblies of men-at-arms or others by which the king's peace may suffer or the people be terrified, nor to do any harm to Thomas Wake of Lydel, who is in the king's service, and if after such proclamation the sheriff shall find that any have done such harm, he shall inform the king of their names, as some while ago because divers gatherings of men-at-arms and others took place in that county, by reason of the hostility and discords between the said Thomas on the one hand, and the said abbot and prior on the other, the king then forbade both Thomas and the abbot and prior under pain of forfeiture, to make such gatherings, or to do harm to each other, and now the king has learned that the abbot and prior notwithstanding such prohibition, make, and continue to make, divers gatherings of this kind by force and do much injury to the said Thomas, who is serving with the king in Scotland by his order, in his marshes of Depyng and Brunne. By p.s. and C.
	Membrane 10d.
—	Richard de la Ryvere, knight, puts in his place William Bernak and Hugh de Bardelby, to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 200 marks, made to him in chancery by Alice, late the wife of Roger Beler, William son of William la Zousche, knight, Robert de Sadyngton, and Robert de Whatton.
June 4. Tweedmouth.	John son of Hugh de Whistowe, John de Neuthorp, John de Moreby, 'irnemanger,' William de Denton and Thomas de Leuesham, acknowledge that they owe to Master Ralph de Conyngsburgh, parson of a moiety of the church of Derfeld, 51l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment; acknowledged by John de Whistan, Ralph's attorney.
	John, prior of Kirkham, acknowledges that he owes to William, archbishop of York, 200 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. York.
June 3. Tweedmouth.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately granted by charter to John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall, his brother, amongst other manors and lands, the hundreds of Hertesmere and Stowe, co. Suffolk, and the yearly ferm of Queenhithe (Ripa Regine) in the city of London, for himself and the legitimate heirs of his body, to the value of 100 marks of land yearly, and the king wishing to ascertain how much was answered for to his progenitors for the said hundreds by the sheriff of that county, and how much has been deducted from the ferm of that county by reason of the said grant and of the true value of the said hundreds, orders the treasurer and barons to inspect the rolls of the accounts of the sheriffs of that county and other rolls and memoranda touching the same, informing the king of the said particulars, and to permit the earl to have the custody of the hundreds until Michaelmas next notwithstanding the king's order to take such hundreds into his hand, and rejoin them to the counties, so that the king may be further informed thereupon in the meantime.
	To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to supersede a previous order directing him to take the said hundreds into the king's hand, and to restore them to the earl, together with the issues thereof, if he has already so taken them.
June 4. Tweedmouth.	To the sheriff of York. Order to cause Hugh de la Sale of Saxton, who withdrew from the king's service in Scotland, without the king's liecnce, and whom that sheriff had caused to be arrested and safely guarded by virtue of an order directed to him by the king to arrest such deserters, to be released from prison; if Hugh will find sufficient security that he will return to Scotland, to remain in the king's service there.
June 7. Tweedmouth.	John de Clotherum, Richard de Tanfeld and John de Ripoun acknowledge that they owe to William, archbishop of York, 10 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. York.
June 8. Tweedmouth.	John de Parys acknowledges that he owes to John de Wodehous, clerk, 20s. 4d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Sussex.
June 6. Tweedmouth.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas among other manors, hundreds and lands which the king assigned to Margaret, late the wife of Edmund, earl of Kent, tenant in chief, in recompence of her dower from the castle, borough and honor of Arundel and certain other lands, of which the said earl died seised, and which the king afterwards caused to be delivered to Richard son of Edmund, earl of Arundel, as they were of his inheritance, with the consent of parliament at Westminster, the king assigned to the said Margaret the hundred of Berdestaple, co. Essex, in the king's hand by reason of the minority of the heir of the said earl of Kent, which hundred was extended at 15l. yearly, to have as her dower until the said heir should come of age, or until the king had caused her to be provided with other lands of the same value; the king wishing to ascertain how much was answered for to his progenitors for the said hundred by the hands of the sheriff of the said county, for the time being, and how much has been deducted from the ferm of the said county by reason of the said grant, and what is the true value of the said hundred, orders the treasurer and barons to inspect the rolls of the accounts of the sheriffs of that county, and other rolls and memoranda touching the same, and to inform the king of the truth, and to permit Margaret to hold the said hundred until Michaelmas next, notwithstanding the king's late order directing them to take such hundreds into his hand.
	To the sheriff of Essex. Order to supersede a previous order directing him to take the said hundred into the king's hand, and to restore the said hundred together with the issues thereof to the said Margaret, if he shall have so taken it.
June 10. Tweedmouth.	Adam de Wavervyll acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Wylesthorp 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment.
June 11. Tweedmouth.	Thomas le Graunt and John de Rysyng of Woderisyn, acknowledge that they owe to Theobald Poleyn 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Norfolk.
	Cancelled on payment.
June 12. Tweedmouth.	Thomas de Swanlond, citizen of London, acknowledges that he owes to William, archbishop of York, 50l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in the city of London.
	Cancelled on payment.
	John son of Roger Haye acknowledges that he owes to Henry de Morby 100l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
—	Henry de Moreby puts in his place Hugh de Bradeford to prosecute the execution of the preceding recognisance.
June 12. Tweedmouth.	Geoffrey son of Robert de Stutevill of Cotyngham acknowledges that he owes to John Jordan of Beverley, merchant, 60l.; to be levied in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment.
June 13. Tweedmouth.	John de Hasthorp, knight, acknowledges that he owes to William, archbishop of York, 40l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
June 14. Tweedmouth.	Thomas Proketour of Redenesse and Walter de Trusseleye acknowledge that they owe to Alan de Styvelyngflet 8 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. York.
June 18. Tweedmouth.	John de Wandesford and Patrick de Langedale acknowledge that they owe to Edmund de Grymesby, clerk, 5 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment.
June 6. Tweedmouth.	To Philip, king of France. Request to deliver to Asnarot, burgess of Pampelyon, and to John de Gernache, letters of safe-conduct, permitting them to take certain horses, destriers and others, which they have provided in Spain for the king's use, through Philip's dominions. [Fœdera.]
June 17. Tweedmouth.	William de Slengesby acknowledges that he owes to William de la Pole 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment.
	To Robert de Kelleseye. Order to make ready with all haste to accompany Master John de Hildesleye, canon of Chichester and baron of the exchequer, and William de la Pole, as the king has appointed them to go to Flanders for the expedition of certain affairs with the count of Flanders and with the burgomasters, échevins, consuls and community of Brugges, Gaunt and Ipre. By K. and C.
June 17. Tweedmouth.	To John de Preston, mayor of London. Order to lead the said Robert together with the said John and William to the said parts for the said cause so that the affairs may not be delayed by his absence. By K. and C.
	To William de Clynton, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover. Order to cause Master John de Hildesleye, canon of Chichester and baron of the exchequer, William de la Pole and Robert de Kelleseye, citizen of London, whom the king is sending to Flanders for the expedition of certain of his affairs there, to have a ship for their passage to the said parts in that port, to be paid for by their money. By K. and C.
June 16. Tweedmouth.	To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to go to Bedminster in person, and to cause proclamation to be made there and elsewhere in that bailiwick that no one, of whatever state or condition he may be, under pain of forfeiture of body and goods, shall make or cause to be made gatherings of armed men or others or any meetings by which the king's peace may be disturbed or his people terrified, and to cause all those who after the said proclamation shall be found doing the contrary, to be taken, arrested and safely guarded in prison, until the king shall order otherwise, and to make known to the king the names of those who are so arrested; as some time since the king caused such proclamations to be made throughout the kingdom, and he has now learned that certain men in that bailiwick, after the said proclamation, under pretence of a dissension between Master Robert de Baldok, prebendary of Bedminstre in the church of St. Mary, Salisbury, and William de Hale and Richard de Hale made such gatherings on behalf of the said William and Richard, and continue to do so, to amove the said clerk from that prebend by armed force and to do him other damage. By C.
	MEMBRANE 9d.
—	Hugh de Garton, brother and heir of Master Thomas de Garton, late rector of Ovre church, puts in his place John de Thorp to defend the execution of a recognisance for 60 marks, made in chancery by the said Thomas to William de Rysele, parson of Misne church.—Michael de Wath received the attornment.
June 19. Tweedmouth.	William de Excestr[ia] acknowledges that he owes to James de Popelton, chaplain, 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Sussex.
June 20. Tweedmouth.	To William de Clynton, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover. Order to permit brother Peter Burdon, monk of the abbey of Préaux (de Pratellis) who is going to his abbey by the order of the abbot of that place, to cross from that port with his horses, equipments, men and reasonable expenses.
	By K.
June 21. Tweedmouth.	John Sturmy of Drommideby acknowledges that he owes to John de Neusom 100s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment.
June 22. Tweedmouth.	Nicholas de Eston of Staunford, clerk, acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Kelm, clerk, 10 marks 6s. 8d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Lincoln.
	James de Galmethorp acknowledges that he owes to William son of Elizabeth de Yapom 17 marks 6s. 8d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Richard son of Robert de Fetherstan acknowledges that he owes to the master and brethren of the hospital of St. Leonard, York, 16l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
May 11. Tweedmouth.	Richard de Mirymouth, clerk, has letters to the abbot and convent of Shrewsbury, to receive a certain yearly pension from that house, which the said abbot owes to one of the clerks of the king by reason of his new creation.
	By p.s.
June 23. Tweedmouth.	William Bret of Hilderskelf acknowledges that he owes to the prior of Kirkeham 6l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
June 24. Tweedmouth.	To the keeper of the king's stannaries, co. Devon. Order not to permit the tinners (stannatores) to dig in the arable lands or woods of the men of that county, so that complaint may not again come before the king for his defect in this respect whereby it would be necessary for the king to lay a heavier hand for this because the king has heard from the complaint of the men of that county that the said keeper and the tinners of the said stanneries digged in such lands and woods, neglecting the waste lands of which there is sufficient for these works.
June 10. Tweedmouth.	To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause proclamation to be made in that bailiwick that no one under pain of forfeiture shall make such gatherings of malefactors or armed force or anything to disturb the king's peace or to terrify his people, and if any one shall do so after such proclamation has been made, to take them and cause them to be guarded in prison until the king orders otherwise, so that the king may not have cause to complain of his negligence or default; as the king has learned that after he had set out on his journey to the march of Scotland with his army for the defence of his kingdom, several malefactors and disturbers of the peace made illicit gatherings and meetings in divers places of that county and in fairs, markets, market towns, and other places armed men enter beating, wounding, mutilating, and even killing, plundering the goods of some and doing other damage and crimes.
	The like to the following:
	The sheriff of Salop and Stafford.
	The sheriff of Hereford.
	The sheriff of Worcester.
June 11. Tweedmouth.	To John de Warenna, earl of Surrey and Sussex, lord of the lands of Bromfield and Yal in Wales or to his steward there. Order to cause a like proclamation to be made in the lands in his lordship. By K. and C. [Fœdera.]
	The like to the following:
	Richard, earl of Arundel, lord of Clon and Oswaldestre, or his steward there.
	John de Cherleton, lord of Powys, or his steward there.
	William de Monte Acuto, lord of Dymbegh, or his steward there.
	John, earl of Hereford, lord of Breghennok, or his steward there.
	William de la Zouche, lord of Glaumorgan and Morgannon, or his steward there.
	Elizabeth de Clare, lady of Usk, or him who supplies her place there.
	Hugh de Audele, lord of Neuport, or his steward there.
	The keeper of the land of Bergeveny.
	The keeper of the land of Pembrok.
	John de Crombewell, lord of Hope, or his steward there.
	John de Moubray, lord of Gower, or his steward there. [Ibid.]
	To Edward de Bohun, justice of North Wales, or to him who supplies his place. The like order. By K. and C. [Ibid.]
	The like to Gilbert Talbot, justice of North Wales, or to him who supplies his place. [Ibid.]
	MEMBRANE 8d.
June 16. Tweedmouth.	To the justices of the Bench. Whereas in a certain jury of 24 knights which Richard le Freman of Staneweye arramed before the justices against the abbot of Teukesbury, to convict the jurors of a certain inquisition which was lately taken before those justices, by the king's writ, between the abbot, demandant, and Richard, tenant, concerning a messuage and 3 virgates of land in Staneweye, which great jury needs examination, divers subornings and procuration of the jurors were continually made by the abbot to defraud Richard of his right in this respect, and Richard is now in the king's service in Scotland, wherefore he cannot appear in person before those justices in that jury on the morrow of Midsummer next, which day the abbot has against him, and he fears that he may be in some danger of being disinherited in his absence in this matter, by such subornings and procurations; the king therefore orders the justices to continue that plea in the same state in which it now is, until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, if Richard's attorney asks for this, adjourning the parties to that day so that Richard may then pursue his right in person as he ought. By K. and C.
June 17. Tweedmouth.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the late king by letters patent granted to Richard de Clebury for his good service to him the bailiwick of the hundred of Bradeford, co. Salop, for life, rendering thereon to the exchequer 25 marks yearly (fn. 1), which grant the king afterwards confirmed, and now wishes to ascertain how much was answered for to his progenitors for the said hundred, and how much has been deducted from the ferm of that county by reason of the said grant, and what is the true value of that hundred, the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to inspect the rolls of the accounts of the sheriffs of that county and other rolls and memoranda of the exchequer touching the same, and to inform the king of the truth, and to permit Richard to have the custody of the said hundred until Michaelmas next, notwithstanding the king's recent order for taking such hundreds into his hand and reuniting them to the counties, so that in the meantime the king may cause to be done what shall seem good to the council. By p.s. [6425.]
June 28. Tweedmouth.	Walter Flour acknowledges that he owes to Peter Reynaud 60l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Buckingham.
June 27. Tweedmouth.	Philip de Heghterdebury came before the king on Sunday after Midsummer last, and sought to replevy the advowson of a moiety of the church of Eremuth, Isle of Wight, of the prior of Christ Church, Twynham, to the said prior, which advowson was taken into the king's hand on account of the prior's default before Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. This is signified to the justices.
July 1. Tweedmouth.	Thomas de Colvill acknowledges that he owes to William de Melton, archbishop of York, 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
	Cancelled on payment.
—	Robert son of John de Langeton puts in his place John de Langeton, the elder, and Henry de Haydok to defend the execution of a recognisance for 300l. made by him in chancery to John de Langeton, knight, deceased.— Master John de Blebury received the attornment.
June 26. Tweedmouth.	To William de Clynton, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover. Order to permit the abbot of Deulacres of the Cistercian order, who is going by the king's licence to his chapter-general at Citeaux, to cross from that port with his men, horses, and the reasonable expenses of himself and household.
July 1. Tweedmouth.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit Peter de Saltmerssh, sheriff of York, to have respite until the morrow of Michaelmas next, for rendering his account of the issues of the said county, and not to molest him in the meantime for this cause because he is intending certain arduous affairs of the king in that county wherefore he cannot intend to the rendering of his said account. By K.
	Membrane 7d.
June 20. Tweedmouth.	To William de Clynton, constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover. Order to permit brother Peter Burdon, monk of the abbey of Préaux (de Pratellis) who is going to his abbey by the command of the abbot of that place, to cross from that port with his horses, equipments and men, and with his reasonable expenses.
	Vacated because otherwise below.
June 25. Tweedmouth.	Thomas de Grenfeld of Shirbourn, acknowledges that he owes to William de Melton, archbishop of York, 20l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.
—	William Pedefer, clerk, puts in his place Thomas de Knaresburgh and Robert de Roderham to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 50s. made to him in chancery by John son of Elias de Queneby.
June 30. Tweedmouth.	Thomas de Colevill, knight, acknowledges that he owes to the abbot of St. Mary's, York, 10 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. York.—The chancellor received the acknowledgment.