Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1343

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1343', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346, (London, 1904) pp. 263-265. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol7/pp263-265 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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December 1343

Membrane 3d.
Dec. 15.
Rising.
Hugh de Sadelyngstanes acknowledges that he owes to Richard de Birton 10l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Northumberland.
Cancelled on payment.
Nov. 20.
Westminster.
To William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Whereas Simon de Grymesby, late keeper of the manor of Brustwyk in Holdernesse and escheator in Holdernesse, seised into the king's hands by reason of his office certain land in Hedon and Preston which belonged to Nicholas de Redynges, tenant in chief, which lands John de Sancto Neoto, supplying the place of William Lengleys, to whom the king committed the custody of the said manor and office of escheator after Simon's death, continued the seisin thereof, and now Edmund Lacy, scheming to defraud the king of his right, has arramed an assize of novel disseisin against John de Sancto Neoto and others contained in the writ, for the said tenements: the king therefore orders the justices to behave so circumspectly in that affair that no prejudice shall come to the king without his being consulted.
Dec. 17.
Ditton.
Hervey son of Anger de Stanton acknowledges that he owes to Master Hervey de Stanton, parson of Elm church, 300l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Suffolk.
Adam son of John de Lymbergh acknowledges that he owes to William de Ravendale, parson of Nettilton church, 9l.; to be levied etc. in co. Lincoln.
Dec. 7.
Westminster.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause proclamation to be made that no one, upon pain of forfeiture shall place in cellars any wine brought to the port of that city, sell or otherwise eloign it, before it has been gauged by Thomas de Colleye, the king's yeoman, appointed gauger of wine in England, or by him who supplies his place in that city, and to arrest any found doing such things after the proclamation and keep them safely until further order, certifying the king from time to time of the wine so arrested and the value thereof. By letter of the secret seal.
[Fœdera.]
The like to the following, to wit:
The mayor and bailiffs of Kyngeston upon Hull.
The mayor and bailiffs of Southampton.
The bailiffs of Great Yarmouth.
The mayor and bailiffs of Bristol.
Dec. 15.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to do what is just for Henry Mudpenying, John atte Wold, Tidemannus de Lymbergh and their fellows, merchants of Almain, after calling before them those they see fit in accordance with the information of the merchants; as the king assigned to those merchants all the customs due in all the ports of England to be received until they were satisfied for the sums in which he was bound to them, and now he has learned that certain persons have received those customs in certain of the ports from the time of the said assignment, and refuse to pay them to the merchants, thus retarding the payment of the debts in which the king is bound to them.
Dec. 22.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to keep Robert de Wadenhoo, rector of Twyford church, in prison, so that he be not released without the king's special order, and to seise all Robert's lands, goods and chattels into the king's hand and keep them safely, so that answer therefor is made at the exchequer, and to take inquisition upon the receptions and abetting done after Robert's outlawry, informing the king of what is found before Hilary next, as it appears by the record and process of outlawry against Robert that he was outlawed because he did not come before the king to answer for certain trespasses whereof he is indicted, and afterwards, on hearing that he was outlawed and was at large in cos. Cambridge and Huntingdon, the king ordered the sheriff of those counties to take him, by writ de judicio under the testimony of William Scot, the chief justice, and keep him in prison, and to have him before the king on a certain day before this date, and now the king has learned that Robert has been taken and imprisoned at Northampton for another cause.
Dec. 20.
Westminster.
To Edward de Cretyng. Order to be before the king and his council at London on St. Thomas the Martyr next, to do what shall be enjoined upon him. By C.
Dec. 28.
Woodstock.
To the justices of the Bench. Joan late the wife of Ralph Basset of Drayton has besought the king to provide a remedy, as she seeks in the king's court against Richard de Stafford a third part of a fourth part of the manor of Campeden with appurtenances, extended at 10 marks 19¼d. and ⅓ farthing yearly, as her dower of her husband's donation and Richard in pleading in that court called to warranty Ralph son of Ralph Basset of Drayton, kinsman and heir of the said Ralph, whose person and lands are in the custody of Thomas de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, and because the earl, as guardian of the heir, appearing before the justices, alleged that he had the custody of the heir and of the lands which belonged to Ralph Basset of Drayton, tenant in chief, by the king's commission until the heir should come of age, and cannot answer further without the king and further seeks aid of the king, the justices have hitherto delayed to proceed in that plea: the king therefore orders them to proceed in that plea and do the speedy complement of justice to her in accordance with the law and custom of the realm, notwithstanding the said allegation. By C.
Dec. 22.
Westminster.
To John de Houton, late steward of the Tolbothe, of Lenn, and to Simon de Walsyngham, John de Refham and John Charer, late bailiffs of that town. Whereas by reason of a plunder committed upon Roger de Bury and Thomas de Penereth, merchants of the realm, of their goods and merchandise to the value of 165l. 6s. 8d. at sea, by certain malefactors of the town of Durdraght and Middelburgh, the king ordered them to arrest all the goods and merchandise of the said malefactors of the said towns and of other men and merchants of Durdraght, up to the sum of 82l. 13s. 4d. in part satisfaction of the 165l. 6s. 8d., and to keep them safely until further order: the king orders them to certify him as to what they have arrested by virtue of the said order, and to supersede the further execution of the order. By C.
To the same. Order to be before the king and his council in chancery on the quinzaine of Hilary next to answer for their contempt and further to do and receive what the king's court shall determine, as the king has learned from Roger and Thomas that they arrested divers goods of the said malefactors by virtue of the king's orders and delivered them to the said malefactors for gifts received from them.