Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1347 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1905.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1347', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349, (London, 1905) pp. 134-135. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol8/pp134-135 [accessed 18 April 2024]

January 1347



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Jan. 10. Eltham.	To the sheriff of York for the present or the future. Order to pay to Thomas de Rokeby, 200 marks yearly, in accordance with the king's grant to him, to maintain him as a banneret, of 200 marks to be received yearly of the issues of that county for the life or until the king shall provide him with 200 marks of land or rent yearly in Scotland or elsewhere, for life.
	By K.
Jan. 14. Eltham.	To Reginald Forester escheator in co. Surrey. Order to take a simple seisin in the name of the king's royal lordship in the gates of the abbey of Certeseye, now void by the death of John the late abbot, and not to intermeddle further with the custody of the abbey or its appurtenances, restoring the issues thereof to the prior and convent, saving to the king the knights' fees and advowsons pertaining to the abbey and the custody of the lands acquired after 26 February last, as on that day, in consideration of the destruction during voidances of the woods and groves and other things pertaining to the abbey, by escheators and others, wishing to observe the statute passed in the parliament held at Westminster in the 14th year of the reign, and at the request of John then abbot, the king granted that the prior and convent should have the custody of the abbey during voidances and of all its temporalities and appurtenances, saving to the king the knights' fees and advowsons, for rendering 50 marks for a voidance of four months or less, and pro rata for a longer time, and that no escheator or other minister should intermeddle with the custody of the abbey and its appurtenances during a voidance, except that the escheator should take a simple seisin in the form aforesaid, and if the king should summon an army during a voidance of the abbey, the prior and convent should not be bound for their own and the demesne knights' fees of the abbey in their hands to any service in that army.
Jan. 17. Eltham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to account with John de Wodehous, the king's clerk, whom the king appointed on 7 June in the 19th year of the reign to receive all the money of the tenth granted by the clergy and of the tenth and fifteenth granted by the laity in cos. Nottingham, Derby, York, Lancaster, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland, at the city of York, and to keep it safely and make payments for wages and other things necessary for the defence of England and of the marches thereof towards the North, for the time when he remained in that office from the said 7 June until 15 January last, and to allow him 40l. for a year for his expenses and pro rata for the time exceeding that year, in the money of the said tenth and fifteenth in his possession.
Jan. 12. Eltham.	To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Roger Deneys, who is so weak that he cannot execute the duties of the office.
Jan. 24. Eltham.	To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Hugh de Wotton, who makes no stay in the county, wherefore he cannot execute the duties of the office.
Jan. 15. Eltham.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to direct the collectors of the biennial tenth last granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury in the places where the benefices of the provost and scholars of the house of St. Mary, Oxford, are situated, to allow 100l. to the said provost and scholars in their portion of that tenth, as the king has pardoned them their portion of the tenth up to 100l. By p.s. [18010.]