Close Rolls, Edward III: July 1344 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward III: July 1344', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 7, 1343-1346, (London, 1904) pp. 322-334. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol7/pp322-334 [accessed 20 April 2024]

July 1344



July 15. Westminster.	To Thomas Cary, escheator in co. Dorset. Order to take the fealty of Margaret late the wife of John de Cerne for a messuage, 2 carucates of land, 10 acres of meadow, 30 acres of wood and 50s. rent in Upmelcombe, in accordance with the form of a schedule enclosed herewith and to deliver them to her, but not to intermeddle further with the lands held of John le Plombere and the bishop of Salisbury, restoring the issues thereof to Margaret and certifying the king of her fealty, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John de Cerne at his death held no lands in chief in that bailiwick in his demesne as of fee, but that he held the said messuage, land, meadow, wood and rent jointly with Margaret of the son and heir of John de Clynton of Makestok, a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee and rendering 100s. yearly to the heir, of the gift of Henry de Cerne, clerk, by a fine levied in the king's court, and that he held jointly with Margaret 5 messuages and 3 carucates of land in Weseford, Folke, Wyghtoneton, Westmynton and Russhton of John le Plombere and the said bishop, by divers services, of the gift of Thomas Fremantel and John Brunyng by another fine levied in the king's court.
July 14. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to cause the abbot of Kirkestede to have payment or allowance for 223l. in which the king is bound to him for certain of his wool taken in parts beyond the sea by the king's ministers deputed for this, of which sum the king promised to pay him one moiety at Michaelmas in the 13th year of the reign and one moiety at Easter following, and the abbot by his petition before the king and his council in the last parliament at Westminster has besought the king to order payment of the satisfaction to be made to him, as he has not yet obtained any. By pet. of C.
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June 2. Westminster.	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause a tally for 100s. to be levied at the king's receipt and delivered to William de Ravendale, keeper of the hanaper of chancery, in his discharge, as by the king's order he paid that sum to Elias de Grymesby, whom the king sent to Norfolk to have the custody of the temporalities of the bishopric of Norwich, then void and in the king's hand, for his expenses in going to the said parts, staying there and returning thence to London. By C.
July 9. Westminster.	To Thomas de Rokeby, escheator in co. York. Order not to intermeddle further with a rent of 92l., restoring anything which he has levied thereof to John de Moubray, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Clemencia de Vescy, at her death, held no lands in her demesne as of fee in that county, but that she held for life a yearly ferm of 92l. of John's grant, to be received of his coffers for the manor of Neusom in that county, which belonged to her and which John holds in fee, and that the said rent is taken into the king's hand because Clemencia was in the company of Charles de Bloys, the king's enemy, and adhered to him, it was said, by reason of the king's order to the escheator, and by pretext of a writ of diem clausit extremum to seise into the king's hands all the lands which belonged to Clemencia at her death, and that she died on Friday after Michaelmas last. By pet. of C.
April 15. Westminster.	To Thomas Cary, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with the castle of Shirburn, co. Dorset, and the manor of Donyate with the advowson of the church there, restoring the issues thereof to Katherine late the wife of William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that the earl at his death held the said castle jointly with Katherine, in chief, with the custom of all there and its other appurtenances, and the said manor and advowson, of the gift and grant of Wakelin, parson of Chedeseye church, and Gilbert, rector of Buthill church, by a fine levied thereupon in the king's court by his licence, and the king has taken Katherine's fealty.
July 8. Westminster.	To Thomas de Rokeby, escheator in co. York. Order to take the fealty of Isabel late the wife of Robert de Clifford, according to the form of a schedule enclosed herewith, and not to intermeddle further with the castle and manor of Skipton in Craven in that county, restoring the issues thereof to Isabel and certifying the king of her fealty, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in co. York, but that he held the said castle and manor for life jointly with Isabel of the gift of Master William de Brampton, chaplain, John de Morland, chaplain, and Thomas de Warthecopp, chaplain, for their life, by a fine levied in the king's court by his licence, and that the castle and manor are held in chief by the service of 2½ knights' fees.
July 4. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to cause allowance to be made to Simon bishop of Ely, John de Wynkefeld, Robert de Burton and the other executors of the will of William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury, of the debts in which the king is bound to him in the sums assigned to him, if after viewing the evidences they find that the king is bound to him, as the executors have besought the king to order the exaction made upon them to be superseded, as 9,016l. 13s. 4d. of the biennial ninth granted to the king in co. Lancaster, the North and West Ridings, co. York, were assigned to the earl for his wages for the time when he was in the king's service in parts beyond the sea, 1,008 marks 6s. 8d. of the money of the fines adjudged before Thomas de Berkele and his fellows, late justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in co. Somerset, were assigned to him for 120 sacks of wool bought from him for the king, 4,000 marks of the fines, redemptions, forfeited issues and amercements made before the justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in co. Suffolk in part satisfaction of debts in which the king was bound to him, and 128 sacks of wool of co. Sussex were assigned to him upon his wages and those of the men about to set out with him to Britanny, and the earl received divers other sums by tallies of the exchequer, and now those sums are exacted of the executors by summons of the exchequer. By C.
July 12. Westminster.	To Thomas Cary, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Tarente Russenston, 2 virgates of land in Sturmynstre Mareschal and a moiety of the hundred of Conekesdich, restoring the issues thereof to Thomas de Clifford, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert de Clifford held no lands at his death in chief in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, but that he held for life the said moieties and land of Elizabeth de Burgo, by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee of the gift and grant of Thomas de Mousgrave and Thomas de Ouston, parson of Severnestok church, with remainder to Thomas.
July 12. Westminster.	To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Surrey and Sussex. Order not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Shaldeford, restoring the issues thereof to Thomas de Clifford, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert de Clifford at his death held no lands in chief in his demesne as of fee, nor in service, but that he held the said moiety for life of Hugh le Despenser, by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, with remainder to Thomas his son, to hold for life.
July 25. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi what they shall find those merchants to have paid in buying what was lacking of a sum of 580 sacks of wool for the burgesses of Lovaigne and 300 sacks as damages for delay of payment and for taking it to Lovaigne, in their account, notwithstanding that they have not the letters of acquittance of the burgesses, as they have besought the king to order such allowance to be made to them, as they undertook to buy the said wool, estimated at 3,000l., and they acquitted the king thereof towards those burgesses, and they have sustained imprisonment and other grievances by reason of that payment. By p.s.
June 6. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Whereas the king was bound to John de Stryvelyn in certain great sums, as might appear by part of an indenture under the privy seal and by divers bills under the seals of Richard de Feriby, Edmund de la Beche, William de Northwell, William de Cusancia and William de Edyngton, successive keepers of the wardrobe, and he has now besought the king to provide a remedy for his discharge, as by pretext of divers orders of the king to Robert de Spyneye, late receiver of the ninth of sheaves, lambs and fleeces and of the biennial tenth granted by the clergy in cos. Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmoreland, and in the East and a moiety of the West Riding, co. York, and to Nicholas de Punchardon and his fellows, vendors and assessors of the said ninth in co. Northumberland, to pay certain sums to him he received 536l. 21d., to wit 127l. 6s. 11d. of Robert and 408l. 14s. 10d. of Nicholas of the said sums, and retained the said bills and indenture, and for that cause and by reason of the accounts of Robert and Nicholas rendered at the exchequer, containing that they paid 536l. 21d. to him and no mention of the livery of the bills or indenture to them, the 536l. 21d. are exacted of John by summons of the exchequer: the king therefore orders the treasurer, barons and chamberlains to view the accounts of Robert and Nicholas and other memoranda of the exchequer, receiving from John the indenture and bills and deducting the sums contained therein, and to discharge him of the said 536l. 21d., causing the bills and indenture to be endorsed with the deduction. By K.
July 4. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver a ship called 'la Croier' of Flanders which John de Baddeby, the king's clerk, arrested, because certain wool was found therein not coketted or customed, to be taken to parts beyond the sea, together with the tackle thereof and 5 sacks 6 stones of wool, 21 wool-fels, 4 pockets of lead, 3 chests, 2 beds, a robe, two waggons and 3 farm-horses also found in that ship, to . . . countess mareschall. By p.s. [16303.]
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June 30. (fn. 1) Westminster.	To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford for the present or the future. Order, when he receives the king's orders to levy tenths or other such subsidies of the dean and prebendaries of the free chapel of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, in the jurisdiction of that chapel, to direct that order to the dean, so that he may levy them and answer to the king therefor, and not to enter the fee or jurisdiction of the chapel to levy any distraints for that cause, unless the dean neglect to execute such orders, in accordance with the grant of Edward I of such liberties to the dean and prebendaries.
	Et erat patens. By p.s. [16247.]
June 23. Westminster.	To Thomas de Ferrar[iis], constable of Jerseye castle, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver to William Bolard of the island of Jereseie the custody of the gate of that castle and to pay him 2d. a day for his wages, so long as Thomas is constable, in accordance with the king's grant to him, in recompence for his services in the king's wars in the company of Walter de Mauny and John Darcy 'le fitz' of that custody to hold for life, receiving 2d. daily for his wages, as Humphrey Badwell, deceased, who held that custody, used to receive the same.
	By p.s. [16253.]
June 20. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to account with Gilbert de Halghton, the king's clerk, for the days when he was on the king's service in going to Perth, staying there and returning thence, allowing him 6s. 8d. for his expenses for every day so spent, as they shall find, and to pay him what they find to be due to him beyond 10l., which the king ordered to be paid to him in accordance with the tenor of a previous order [as in this Calendar 9 Edward III, page 440], and the treasurer, barons and chamberlains certified in chancery that they did not proceed to allow Gilbert's expenses because between 10 July and 16 August in the 9th year of the reign, when he was receiver and keeper of the king's victuals to be sent to Scotland, he did not charge himself in his account with the receipt and livery of any such victuals sent there, and also because Robert de Tonge, keeper and receiver of the king's victuals at Newcastle upon Tyne accounted for the victuals received and delivered by him there from 29 October in the 8th year of the reign until 12 April in the 12th year of the reign, making no mention in the account of the supervision of Gilbert or of any others; and it is testified by those in whom the king has confidence that Gilbert went to Perth by reason of his office and stayed there with seven men at arms for the whole time that the king was staying there at his own cost.
June 18. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon John de Stryvelyn for rendering his account for the wool of co. Northumberland, as he has shown the king that although he was appointed with other lieges to assess all the men of that county, except the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, at the portion of the 521¾ sacks 1 stone 8¾ pounds of wool apportioned to that county, and to receive that wool at the price of 5 marks the sack, according to the price ordained at Nottingham, and to distrain those men to pay their portions, so that he should answer to the king for the wool or the price thereof, and to do certain other things contained in the king's letters, he has been wounded, so that his life was despaired of, wherefore he could not execute the premises, as has been testified to the king, yet the treasurer and barons intend to compel him to render his account for the wool as if he had intermeddled therewith, when he could not. By K.
June 22. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Wilts. Whereas the king has pardoned Ed[mund] de la Mare the suit of his peace for certain felonies whereof he is indicted and also the outlawries promulgated against him for that cause, and has granted him the king's peace, so that he stands to right in the king's court when anyone wishes to speak against him for those felonies, and he has found the following mainpernors before the king in chancery, to wit Richard atte Boure, of co. Essex, Henry Lancatour of Ashton, Walter de Berton and Adam de Wadworth of co. Cambridge, who have undertaken for his good behaviour: the king orders the sheriff to cause these letters to be read and proclaimed in the county, and to be observed in accordance with the tenor of the king's letters.
July 4. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon Master John de Offord, the king's clerk, for the arrears of his ferm for the manor of Ledecombe, co. Berks, from the time that it was taken into the king's hand, and to discharge him of a ferm of 100s. yearly so long as the manor is in the king's hand, as the king lately committed to Master John de Offord the custody of that manor, which belongs to the abbot of Cluny and was taken into the king's hand among the lands of the alien religious by reason of the war with France, to hold so long as the manor should remain in the king's hand, to the value of 80 marks yearly in part satisfaction of 100l. yearly which the king granted to John to hold under a certain form, and now the king has learned that 100s. of a yearly ferm due to the king for that manor before it came to the king's hand are exacted of John, and the king has pardoned him the said 100s. for the aforesaid time. By K.
July 6. Westminster.	To the same. Order to discharge the warden and chaplains of the chapel of St. Peter, Kirkeby upon Wrethek, of all tallages, aids, watches and contributions to the king, in accordance with the terms of the late king's grant to them by charter of discharge from such aids, as they have shown the king the said charter, by their petition before the king and his council in parliament, and although they have been quit of them from the time of that charter until the 12th year of the reign, yet the treasurer and barons have delayed to allow that charter at the exchequer from the said 12th year and to acquit them of such charges, whereupon the keeper and chaplains have besought the king to provide a remedy, and by the advice of the council in parliament the king wishes the charter to remain in force. By pet. of parliament.
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July 7. Henley.	To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to supersede the demand made upon the prior of Wymundham for 30l. of the 50l. by which he made fine before John de Shardelowe and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses committed by the king's ministers and others in that county, by reason of concealments, detaining the king's money and other trespasses committed by him for the time that he was collector of the ninth of sheaves, lambs and fleeces in that county, whereof he is indicted before those justices, after receiving 20l. of that sum from him. By K. and C.
July 6. Westminster.	To John de Brunham, parson of Wodedallyngg church, late one of the collectors of the ninth of sheaves, lambs and fleeces in co. Norfolk. Order to supersede the levying of the ninth still in arrear, and if he has levied anything after the certificate made by John de Shardelowe, late one of the justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in that county, then he shall deliver it to Robert de Clere, John de Lympenhowe, John de Bagworth and Thomas atte Gannok, clerk, by indenture, together with the letters obligatory of the law merchant for the said ninth in his custody, as the king has appointed Robert, John, John and Thomas to levy and collect all the sums acknowledged before Edward de Cretyng, sheriff of the county, and the said Robert and John, appointed to receive acknowledgments of all of that county who wish to acknowledge before them that they were bound to the king in any sums for that ninth, and to receive that money by John de Lympenhowe and Thomas and take it to London to be delivered to the king there, and to do certain other things contained in the king's letters patent. By C.
July 11. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon Walter de Swanewych, parson of Swanewych church, for the portion touching him of the second year of the triennial tenth granted by the clergy, as he has besought the king to pardon him that sum, as before Whitsuntide in the 12th year of the reign both his own goods and chattels at the rectory and the houses, possessions, goods and chattels of all the men then dwelling in his parish were burned by certain alien enemies of the power of France, so that he has nothing for himself and his serjeants wherewith to live, without help, and the king has pardoned him his portion of the said tenth because it has been testified by trustworthy persons that the premises contain the truth.
July 16. Westminster.	To George Kirkyn and Lottus Nicholyn of Florence, late masters and workers of gold and silver money in the Tower of London. Order to deliver to Percival de Porche of Luca, whom the king has appointed master and worker of the said money in the Tower, the said office and the instruments and all other things touching it, with the money in their custody, by indenture and not to intermeddle further with the office. By K. and C.
	To the constable of the Tower of London or to him who supplies his place. Order to permit merchants and all others who wish to come to the exchanges in the Tower with gold and silver, to do so freely from sunrise to sunset. By K. and C.
July 14. Westminster.	To John de Flete, keeper of the exchanges in the Tower of London. Order to deliver to Percival de Porche of Luca, whom the king has appointed master and worker of gold and silver money in the Tower, and to his fellows, the balances, weights and all other instruments touching that office, by indenture. By K. and C.
July 14. Westminster.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to direct the clerks and all others of the said Bench to aid Matthew de Canaceon, merchant of Ast, in collecting and levying the money of judicial writs of that Bench, and to permit him or his deputies to receive that money, so that writs at the king's suit there are delivered by the view and testimony of those for whom they are sued there, and writs made for the men of the king's courts and for poor men are delivered without paying anything thereon, as has hitherto been customary in chancery, as for 2,000l. of which Matthew discharged the king, in debts in which he was bound to certain persons in the duchy of Aquitaine, the king granted that he should receive all the profits of all writs of that and the other Bench, until the term of ten years, to the value of 300l. yearly, so that they should pay 200l. of the issues of those writs for the use of the keeper of the hanaper of chancery each year, and reserve all the remaining profit in recompence for the said 2,000l., and that the king would cause a seal to be made in each of the said Benches for sealing the said writs with wax, as is fully contained in an indenture made with Matthew.
	The like to the justices appointed to hold pleas before the king, 'mutatis mutandis'.
July 3. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to account with William de Cheigny, knight, and John de Hungerford, clerk, lately appointed to do certain things in the islands of Gernereye, Jereseye, Seerk and Aureneye, for their wages, allowing them ½ mark and 3s. 4d. respectively for every one of the sixty-one days when they were attendant upon the said affairs, in going to the islands, staying there and returning, and to pay them what is found to be due to them by such account beyond anything which they have received.
July 17. Westminster.	To the justices of the Bench. Whereas at the suit of William de Acton showing that he had sought the manor of Catmere except the advowson of the church of the manor, which Meliora de Tubervill gave to Richard de Tuberville and Margery his wife and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder after the death of themselves and of Amicia their daughter and heir, to the said William, Amicia's son and heir, against Eleanor de Sturton, and because it was alleged that the late king gave that manor, which came to him by the forfeiture of Rogo Gacelyn, an enemy and rebel, to Ed[mund] Gacelyn to hold for life, and by reason of the king's writ the justices delayed to proceed in that plea, the king ordered them to proceed to take inquisition thereupon, but not to proceed to render judgment without consulting the king, as may appear by the tenor of the record and process held thereupon, which the king has caused to come into chancery; and now William has informed the king that although the justices proceeded to take the said inquisition, yet judgment still remains to be rendered, and he has besought the king by his petition before the king and council in parliament to provide a remedy: the king orders the justices to view the record and process held before them and further to proceed to render judgment with all lawful speed, notwithstanding any order to the contrary.
	By pet. of C.
July 20. Westminster.	To Maurice fitz Thomas, earl of Dessemount. Order to send to England the money for which the king sold to him the marriage of the son and heir of James le Botiller, earl of Ormound, tenant in chief, with all possible speed, and the king is ready to receive his letters there, which it was agreed between him and John Coterel of Ireland, in the earl's name, to keep inviolable, if the earl would do his part, as the king sold that marriage to the earl until John, with whom the agreement was made concerning that affair, who had set out to Ireland to get the said money and bring it to the king in England, should return, of which money the king has not yet received payment, although John set out long since, but now the king has learned that by pretext of a proclamation which the earl pretends was recently made in Ireland, that no one should leave the county upon pain of forfeiture, which proclamation, if made, was done without the king's knowledge or wish, the earl has excused himself from sending the money, whereat the king is much angered. The king has ordered the justiciary of Ireland, the chancellor there and the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin, to permit John or others whom he shall depute to take the money to England to depart from Ireland and come to England, notwithstanding the said proclamation.
July 12. Westminster.	To Ralph de Nevill, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Shirewod. Order to cause as much timber as will suffice for repairing Notyngham castle to be delivered without delay to the constable of the castle or to him who supplies his place. By p.s.
July 8. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order not to charge William de Felton, late sheriff of Northumberland, with any rents, ferms or other profits which he could not levy by reason of the frequent incursions of the Scots in those parts, if they find, by inquisition or otherwise, that he could not levy them by reason of the destruction wrought by the Scots, as he has shown to the king, as the treasurer and barons intend to charge him with the said profits as if the lands had not been destroyed.
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June 20. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Bernard, who is so weak that he cannot exercise the duties of the office.
	To the sheriff of Leicester. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Philip de Folevill, who is so occupied on divers affairs of the king that he cannot exercise the duties of his office.
June 16. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Hoo of Laxfeld, who is so sick and broken by age that he cannot exercise the duties of the office.
July 4. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to inspect the rolls of Robert Parvyng and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers damages and deceits in co. Essex, which the king sends to them under the half seal, and if they find that Richard le Spicer only made one fine by 40 marks before those justices by pledge of John de Wyngefeld, then to receive the said fine from John or Richard, and to supersede the demand made upon them for another fine of 40 marks, causing the other fine to be annulled in the extracts of the said justices, as John has shown the king that whereas Richard made fine by 40 marks for divers forfeited wool and wool-fells and divers falsities committed by him for the time when he was customer in the port of Ipswich, whereof he was convicted before the said justices, by the pledge of John, and although he made no other fine before those justices, and John was not his pledge for any other fine, yet the treasurer, barons and chamberlains distrain John for another fine, pretending that Richard made two fines of 40 marks each before those justices, by John's pledge, whereupon John has besought the king to provide a remedy. By C.
June 12. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Whereas the king ordered him to deliver to Nicholas atte Tounende his lands which were taken into the king's hand because he had received and abetted Thomas Morgan, formerly his serjeant, in feloniously killing John de Neusum at Harewode [as at page 13 above] and afterwards Robert atte Tounende, who calls himself son and heir of Nicholas, besought the king to order the lands of Nicholas to be delivered to him, the king ordered the sheriff to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that Nicholas died on Wednesday the eve of All Saints in the 15th year of the reign, and that 1½ burgages, 2 bovates and 2 acres of land in Harewode, which belonged to Nicholas, were taken into the king's hand on the day of his conviction, and that the said burgages and land are held of others than the king and that Robert is Nicholas's next heir and aged sixteen years: the king therefore orders the sheriff to deliver the said burgages and land to Robert without delay, of the king's grace.
June 19. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Whereas the king was bound to Henry de Percy and Ralph de Neville in certain great sums, as might appear by bills under the seals of William de Edyngton and William de Cusancia, late keepers of the wardrobe, in their possession as they assert, and Henry and Ralph have now besought the king to provide a remedy for their discharge, as by pretext of divers orders of Nicholas de Punchardon and his fellows, late vendors and assessors of the ninth of sheaves, lambs and fleeces in co. Northumberland, to pay certain sums to Henry and Ralph, Henry received 161l. 9s. 4d. and Ralph 328l. 10s. 11d. from Nicholas in part payment of the sums due to them by the king, and the bills thereupon remain in their possession, and the said 490l. 0s. 3d. are exacted of them because the bills are so used by them, of the account of Nicholas which contains no mention of the livery of such bills to Nicholas: the king therefore orders the treasurer, barons and chamberlains to view the account of Nicholas and other memoranda of the exchequer, and if they find it is as aforesaid, then to receive the said bills from Henry and Ralph and deducting from the sums contained therein the said 409l. 0s. 3d. to discharge Henry and Ralph of that sum.
July 12. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, in their account, the following sums delivered by them, as they have besought the king to cause them to be discharged of those sums in their account, as on 22 November, in the 12th year of the reign, they delivered by the king's order to Matthew Redeman, yeoman of William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, 10l. for his expenses in going to Boston to lade 1,000 sacks of the king's wool there, and they delivered 8 sacks of 'Coteswolde' wool, price 53l. 6s. 8d. in the month of March in the 14th year of the reign to Roger butler of Queen Philippa, for her use, of the king's gift, by his order, and on 10 October in the 11th year of the reign they delivered 200 florins of Florence to William, marquis of Juliers, in full payment of 2,000 florins due to him, by order of the council, and by the view and testimony of Master Paul de Monte Florum they delivered 400l. to divers men of the parts of Genoa, by the king's order, for his affairs; and it has been testified to the king that the merchants paid those sums as aforesaid. By K. and C.
July 15. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to Edmund de Grymesby, appointed with other lieges to be justice to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in that county, 110s. for his wages for eleven days when he was attendant upon the premises, to wit from 8 December last to the 18th day of that month, inclusive, at 10s. a day, in accordance with the king's grant to him. By C.
July 18. Westminster.	To John de Stouford. Order to deliver all the rolls, writs and other memoranda in his custody for the time when he was chief justice appointed to take assizes in cos. Oxford, Berks, Southampton, Wilts, Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall, touching such assizes, to William de Shareshull, whom the king has appointed to take such assizes in those counties.
July 10. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge William de Catesby, late escheator in cos. Leicester, Warwick, Nottingham, Derby and Lancaster, and Richard de Merton, afterwards escheator in those counties, of the issues and profits of the lands which belonged to Geoffrey Lescrop, tenant in chief, as on 29 December in the 14th year of the reign the king granted the custody of those lands to Henry Lescrop, Geoffrey's son and heir, to hold so long as those lands should remain in the king's hand, together with the issues thereof, without rendering anything to the king therefor, and the king ordered William to deliver those lands to Henry to hold in the form aforesaid.
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June 16. Westminster.	To the chancellor of Ireland. Order to direct by writs of the chancery of Ireland that John de Mohun, kinsman and heir of John de Mohun, tenant in chief, shall have seisin of all the lands whereof John his said grandfather was seised at his death in Ireland in his demesne as of fee, as the king has taken John's homage for all the lands which his grandfather held at his death in chief and has rendered them to him, ordering divers escheators in the realm to cause him to have seisin thereof. By p.s.
June 11. Westminster.	To the treasurer, barons and chamberlains of the exchequer, Dublin. Order to inspect the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, and if they find that 52l. 11s. 8¾d. are in arrear to Richard bishop of Ossory, and 23l. are exacted of him for amercements in which he afterwards fell, then to cause the 23l. to be allowed to him in the 52l. 11s. 8¾d. and to pay the residue of that sum to the bishop or to his attorney, as the bishop has besought the king to order such allowance and payment to be made to him, as in the 5th year of the reign the king amoved his hand from the temporalities of the bishopric and ordered John Darcy, then justiciary of Ireland, and him who supplied his place there to deliver the issues thereof to the bishop or to his attorney, which issues reached the sum of 204l. 14s. 1¼d. as he asserts, and 52l. 11s. 8¾d. are in arrear to him of that sum, whereof he has not yet obtained allowance or satisfaction.
	By p.s. [16174, 16175.]
June 21. Westminster.	To Henry de Greystok, keeper of the lands of John Molyns which are in the king's hand. Order not to distrain John Bardolf, knight, for his homage and fealty, as he has done homage and fealty to the king for the lands which he holds of him in Wendore. By p.s. [16238.]
June 20. Westminster.	To Robert Pavely, escheator in co. Northampton. Order, if a messuage a water mill, 2 carucates of land and 35s. rent in Sulgrave are held of the barony of Wedon Pynkeneye as of fees of Pynkeneye, and that Robert has received relief from Stephen de Strafford son of Elizabeth Mohant for the same, then to deliver that relief to Henry de Greystok, keeper of the said fees and of certain lands reserved to the king's chamber by indenture, as on its being found by inquisition taken by the escheator that Elizabeth at her death held the premises in chief of the said barony, which is in the king's hand, by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and that Stephen is her next heir and of full age, the king took Stephen's homage and ordered the escheator to cause Stephen to have seisin of all the lands of which his mother was seised in her demesne as of fee, after taking security from him for rendering his relief at the exchequer, and the king has reserved all fees of Pinkenye to his chamber.
April 22. Westminster.	To Thomas Cary, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order to deliver to Henry de Greystok, the king's clerk, the manor of Stoktristre, by indenture together with the issues thereof and all the goods and chattels found therein, so that he may be able to answer therefor in the king's chamber, as has been fully enjoined upon him, as the king has reserved to his chamber the said manor, which belonged to John de Molyns and which has been taken into the king's hand and is in Henry's custody by the king's commission. By letter of the secret seal called 'Griffoun.'
June 22. Westminster.	To the justices of the Bench. Order to supersede the plea between the king and Vitalis de Testa for the prebend of Torleton in the church of St. Mary, Salisbury, although the king, believing the prebend to be void and pertaining to his donation, lately conferred it on John de Makelesfeld, because he has been informed that Vitalis has been in peaceful possession thereof by just title for a long time past, wherefore the king has revoked the collation to John. By p.s.
July 15. Westminster.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to pay to Katherine daughter of William Due of Brussels and to Henry Estor her son, or to their attorney, 100l. for the Purification and Midsummer terms last, in accordance with the king's grant to them of 100l. to be received yearly for their life of the issues of the said custom.
July 6. Westminster.	To Mary countess of Pembroke, fermor of the lands which belonged to William de Councy, tenant in chief, in co. Westmorland. Order to pay to the chaplains of the chantry of Marieholm in the island of Wynandermer a rent of 10 marks yearly of certain tenements in Stirkelandketill, as their appointed alms, so long as the farmery is in her hands, as at the suit of the chaplains, showing the king that Hugh de Moriceby, escheator in the said county, by reason of a writ directing him to take into the king's hand all the lands whereof William was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, so took the said tenements, whereof the said rent arises, which the chaplains ought to receive, as they say, as they have received it from time out of mind, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the chaplains were seised of that rent from time out of mind arising from a water mill at Apilthwayt in the town of Stirkelandketill of alms appointed for their maintenance by Walter de Lyndessy, formerly lord of a moiety of the lordship of Kendale, whereupon the chaplains have besought the king to order the rent to be paid to them so long as the mill remains in his hand, and the king ordered the sheriff of the said county to cause Mary to be before the king in chancery on the octaves of Midsummer last to show cause why the rent should not be paid to the chaplains, and the sheriff returned to chancery that he had done this, and the countess did not appear on that day either in person or by attorney, wherefore the chaplains have besought the king to order the rent to be paid to them.
July 8. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause 56l. 6s. 4d. to be allowed to the abbot of St. Mary's, York, in the wool in which he is bound to the king, if they find that the king is bound to him in that sum, as he has besought the king to cause such allowance to be made to him, by his petition before the king and council in parliament, as the king is bound to him in that sum for a moiety of his wool taken for the king's use, as may appear by letters in his possession, as he asserts, under the great seal, and he is bound to the king in certain wool granted by him among the other prelates in the 12th year of the reign.
	By pet. of parliament.
July 26. Westminster.	To the same. Order to discharge William Fraunk of the custody of certain lands in Beseby, co. Lincoln, and of the issues thereof if they find that William Trussel resumed them into the king's hand and delivered them to the executors of the will of Edmund Bacoun, in accordance with the king's order to him, as on being informed that Edmund held for life certain lands in Beseby of the inheritance of John son and heir of Edmund earl of Kent, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, and that those lands were in the king's hand for that cause, the king committed the custody thereof to William Fraunk to hold until the heir should come of age, and the king ordered William Trussel to deliver those lands to him and afterwards the king ordered William Trussel to resume those lands and deliver them to the executors as aforesaid, because it appeared by other letters shown in chancery by the executors that the king committed that custody to Edmund to hold until the said heir should come of age.
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July 15. Westminster.	To William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order to supersede holding further process against John le Graungere of the Isle of Wight by reason of indictments made before Richard de Lymboldeseye and his fellows, justices appointed to enquire concerning the plundering of certain ships in co. Southampton and concerning other trespasses, or before Robert Parvyng and his fellows, late justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in that county and also indictments made before Richard and his fellows, and to release John from prison, as the king has pardoned him for his trespass in plundering the ships of the duke of Guelders at sea, with others, and for all other trespasses whereof he was indicted before the said justices. By K. and C.
	To the same. Like order in favour of Thomas atte Hale, whom the king has pardoned for his trespass in plundering the said ships, and for other trespasses in the form aforesaid, for a fine of 20 marks which he made with the king. By K.
	Memorandum that Thomas de Knaresburgh, parson of Todyngton church, co. Buckingham, and William atte Bere of co. Southampton mainperned for Thomas to pay the said 20 marks.
June 16. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon Nicholas atte Flode, parson of Nieucherche church, John de Insula of Bathyngborn, Roger Lisewy and William de Ryngeborn for rendering their account at the exchequer, as the king appointed them to enquire concerning the lands of the king's demesnes in the isle of Wight occupied and detained out of his hand by certain men, of their names, of the names of fugitive bondsmen, what lands they held and what goods and chattels and the true value thereof, and to seise all such lands into the king's hand together with the goods and chattels of the bondmen and to take such bondmen and bring them back to the isle of Wight, certifying the king of all their action in the matter, and now the king has learned that the treasurer and barons exact an account of them, and the king has reserved their account to his chamber.
	By letter of the secret seal called 'Griffoun.'
July 13. Westminster.	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause a fine of 40 marks to be assigned to Giles de Bello Campo and to cause a tally for that sum to be levied in the name of Emma late the wife of John Berenger, tenant in chief, and delivered to him in her discharge, as the king granted to Giles the custody of two parts of the lands which belonged to John, which were in the king's hand by reason of the minority of Ingelram, John's son and heir, to hold until the heir should come of age, together with the marriage of the heir, without rendering anything to the king therefor, and also any fine made to the king by John by reason of the alienation without licence of lands which he held in chief, and now Emma has made fine with the king by 40 marks for the moiety of the manor of Eblesbournewak, which belonged to John and which he held in chief, alienated by him to certain persons and afterwards acquired by Emma, without licence, by reason of which trespass the lands which belonged to John were taken into the king's hand.
July 12. Westminster.	To John de Musters, escheator in cos. Nottingham and Derby. Order to amove the king's hand from two messuages and a bovate of land of Cicely daugher of John de Markham in Wyston and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to Cicely, as the king ordered Nicholas de Langeford, late escheator in those counties, to certify him why he had taken the said messuages and land into the king's hand, and Nicholas returned that he had so taken them because he had found by inquisition of office that Henry le Norreys, who held a messuage and a bovate of land in Wyston in chief of Edward I as parcel of his serjeanty there, alienated them in fee to Sibyl his daughter, after whose death John de Markham, her son and heir, entered the same, as did Cicely, his daughter and heir, after his death, without making process in the king's court or doing service to the king, and afterwards Cicely informed the king that the messuage and land taken into the king's hand are held of Alan de Bekyngham and not of him, and she besought the king to order his hand to be amoved therefrom, and the king ordered Nicholas to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the said messuages and land at the time of the said alienations and entries were held of Alan and not of the king. By pet. of C.