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Nov. 13.
Westminster. |
To John de Swynnerton, escheator in Salop. Order to take the fealty
of Reginald son of Cecily de Habberleye in accordance with the form of a
schedule enclosed, and to deliver to him and to Alice daughter of John de
Lee a moiety of the manor of Leton in that bailiwick, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Roger de Leton, at his
death, held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, but that he
held the said moiety for life of the grant of William de Bikerton, chaplain,
and William Banastre of Hadenhale, by the king's licence, with remainder
to the said Reginald and Alice and to the heirs of their bodies, and that
the moiety is held in chief by the service of paying 3s. 4d. yearly to the
exchequer by the hands of the sheriff of the county. |
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Membrane 8. |
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Memorandum that Otto de Grandissono and all the other mainpernors
contained in the writ below are discharged of their mainprise as concerns
the body of Richard de Cressevill, because on Thursday before the
Purification in the 28th year of the reign, he was taken by the king's order
and imprisoned in the Tower of London. |
Nov. 14.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. Order to release Richard de
Cressevill, parson of Rolvynden church, imprisoned in Neugate, and if he
shall find security to answer to the king for all his goods and chattels if
they ought to pertain to the king, to deliver his goods and chattels to him
by indenture, as Otto de Grandissono, knight, Roger Husee, knight, Thomas
de Haukeston, knight, John Brocas, knight, Ralph de Seint Oweyn,
knight, and Edward de Kendale, knight, have mainperned to have Richard
before William de Shareshull and his fellows, justices appointed to hold
pleas before the king, from day to day, to answer the charges against him. |
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By C. |
Nov. 14.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to supersede the promulgation of exigent
and outlawry against Richard de Cressevill, parson of Rolvynden church,
and the taking of his body, as he is put in exigent to be outlawed in that
county because he did not come before John de Molyns and his fellows,
justices of oyer and terminer in that and in other counties, at the suit of
the king and of Queen Philippa, to answer for certain trespasses for which
he was indicted before those justices and Richard has found mainpernors
in chancery who have undertaken to have him before the king to stand to
right upon the said indictments. By C. |
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The like to the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. |
Oct. 24.
Westminster. |
To John de Wyndesore, escheator in the county of Leicester. Order to
cause John son of John de Moubray and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of
John de Segrave, to have seisin of the hamlet of Oleby near Meelton,
saving to Margaret late John's wife her reasonable dower, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John de Segrave at his
death held the said hamlet in his demesne as of fee of another than the
king, and it is found by other inquisitions that John held in his demesne
as of fee divers other lands in divers counties in chief by knight's service,
and that Elizabeth is his next heir and of full age, and the king has
taken John's fealty for the lands which are held in chief, and has ordered
the escheator in the county of Warwick to take security from them for
paying their relief to the king. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To Richard de Brugge, escheator in the county of Hereford. Order to
take the fealty of Maud late the wife of Roger de Chaundos in accordance
with the form of a schedule enclosed, and not to intermeddle further with
the manor of Welynton in that county, restoring the issues thereof to her,
as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Roger
de Chaundos at his death held the said manor jointly with Maud of the
grant of Master Thomas de Chaundos by the king's licence, for themselves
and Roger's heirs male by Maud's body, and that the manor is held in
chief by knight's service. |
Nov. 14.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to cause
the houses, tower and bridges of that castle, the houses and ponds of the
king's park of Wyndesore, and the paling and close about the king's parks
there to be repaired where necessary by the view and testimony of the
surveyors of the king's works there, up to the sum of 40l. |
Nov. 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to pay to Roger Hillary, William
de Thorp and William de Skipwyth appointed as justices of oyer and terminer
in that county and in Somerset their wages for every day spent by them
in that service after 5 December next, and for five days in addition for their
return to London, as the king sent them to those counties to hold their
sessions there and has caused wages to be paid to them at the receipt of the
exchequer from the present 15 November until 5 December next, inclusive,
to wit to Roger and William de Thorp, 10s. each and to William de
Skipwyth 8s. a day. By C. |
Nov. 13.
Westminster. |
To John de Swynnerton, escheator in co. Salop. Order to take the
fealty of Reginald son of Cecily de Habberleye etc. [as on Membrane 9]. |
Nov. 16.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the customs and subsidies in the port of London.
Order to pay to Wolfard de Gistellis or to John his son, his attorney,
25 marks for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to
Wolfard and to Eleanor his wife, deceased, of 50 marks, to be received
yearly for their lives of the issues of the customs in that port. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Brewes, keeper of the forest this side Trent or to him
who supplies his place in the forest del Peek. Order to bail Henry le
Hayword of Wheston imprisoned in the king's castle of High Peek for
trespass of vert and venison in the forest del Peek, if he shall find twelve
mainpernors of that bailiwick who will undertake to have him before the
justices next in eyre for pleas of the forest in the county of Derby, to stand
to right for that trespass, if he is repleviable according to the assize of the
forest. |
Nov. 12.
Westminster. |
To Miles de Stapelton, escheator in the county of York. Order to assign
dower to Stephen Shawe and to Emma his wife, late the wife of Hugh
de Ulram, tenant in chief, whom he has married by the king's licence, of all
the lands which belonged to Hugh at his death, sending that assignment
under his seal to chancery to be enrolled there. |
Nov. 18.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. William de la Pole, the
elder, has besought the king to order allowance to be made to him of
463l. 9s. 8¾d. in which he is bound to the king for 46 sacks 9 stones 1 pound
of the wool of Godfrey de Barton taken uncustomed out of England in
William's name and therefore forfeited to the king, in those 500l. in which
the king is bound to him by a bill under the seal of William de Northwell,
late keeper of the wardrobe, containing 2100l. with which William de
Northwell is charged in his account rendered at the exchequer; and
because William de la Pole has freely released to the king 36l. 10s. 3¼d. of
the 500l. so due, the king orders the treasurer and barons to receive the said
bill, and if they find after by inspection of the rolls and memoranda of the
exchequer that the king was bound to William in 500l. and that he was
bound to the king in 463l. 9s. 8¾d. then to cause the bill to be cancelled and
to cause such allowance to be made, discharging William and Godfrey of
the 463l. 9s. 8¾d. and the king of the 500l. |
Nov. 20.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of Boston. Order to pay to Ralph earl of Stafford 250 marks for Michaelmas
term last, as the king granted to him for his stay with the king for life
with a hundred men at arms in time of war and peace 1000 marks, to be
received yearly for life of the customs in that port and in the port of
London, so that he should not stay in the retinue of anyone but the king.
The king has ordered the collectors of customs in the port of Boston
[? London] to pay 250l. to the earl for the said term. |
Nov. 26.
Westminster. |
To John Waleys, escheator in the county of Nottingham. Order to
retain in the king's hand until further order the lands in Strilley, Bilburgh
and Chilwell in that bailiwick which are held of the king, and not to
intermeddle further with a messuage and 7 virgates of land in Shippeley
in that bailiwick, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by
inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert de Strelley, at his death,
held divers lands in his demesne as of fee in Strelley, Bilburgh and
Chilwell in chief as of the honour of Peverel, in the king's hand, by
knight's service, and a messuage and 7 virgates of land in Shippeley of
another than the king. |
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Membrane 7. |
Nov. 13.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas at the suit of
Henry earl of Lancaster by his petition before the king and his council in
parliament, asserting that Henry III by his charter gave to Edmund, the
earl's father, whose heir he is, the castle, town and forest of Pikeryng and
the manor of Scalleby with the fees and all other appurtenances, for him
and the heirs of his body, in which forest one Roger Bygod then held a
bailiwick called 'Scallebybaillie,' at a rent of 4 marks 10s. yearly to the
manor of Pikeryng, as service due thereto, and although Roger attorned
himself to Edmund for that rent from the time of the grant, and Edmund
was seised thereof until Roger was amoved therefrom for divers trespasses,
by process held before the justices in eyre for pleas of the Forest, and
the bailiwick was taken into Edmund's hand as forfeit, yet the treasurer
and barons, pretending that the said rent ought to pertain to the king from
the time of the said grant, exact the arrears thereof from the earl, the king
ordered the treasurer and barons to view the said charter and if they found
by inspection of the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer that the rent
and arrears had been exacted and that the bailiwick pertained to the said
forest from the time of the grant, then to discharge the earl of the said
rent and arrears, informing the king if there was any cause why they
should not do so; and they returned that they had found in a charter of
Henry III dated 27 May in the 40th year of the reign, enrolled in the
exchequer, that the said king granted to Hugh le Bygod for his homage
and service and for 10 marks of gold, all the bailiwick of Hays (de haia) in
the forest of Scalleby and all the lands and rents in Pikeryng which Osbert
son of Ralph de Bulbek held of that king and which Osbert surrendered to
the king in his court for the use of Hugh, to whom Osbert previously
granted the same, to hold in chief in fee and inheritance at a rent of
4 marks 10s. yearly at the exchequer for every service, for which Osbert
used previously to render 4 marks yearly, and that the said rent and 81l. of
the arrears thereof were exacted at the exchequer under the name of Roger
le Bygod, Hugh's son and heir for that bailiwick, from the said 27 May;
and they found in another charter of Henry III, dated 30 June in the 51st
year of his reign, which the earl showed in the exchequer, that Henry
granted to Edmund his son the manor, castle and forest of Pikeryng and
the manor of Scalleby, for himself and the heirs of his body, no mention
being made in the said charters or in the rolls and memoranda that the
bailiwick at that time pertained to the forest of Pikeryng or that any
service was due to the manor of Pikeryng, and they found nothing of the
attornment to Edmund, of any rent for the bailiwick made by Roger, or of
any other seisin of Edmund of the said rent or bailiwick or of the forfeiture
of the bailiwick in the form aforesaid, and afterwards Henry son and heir
of Henry earl of Lancaster informed the king that although it was found
by inquisition taken at the suit of Roger son of John le Bygod in the
exchequer that the bailiwick from time out of mind has been parcel of
the manor of Pikeryng, and that Roger attorned himself to Edmund
for the said ferm, and Edmund recovered the bailiwick against Roger on
account of trespasses committed by Roger in the said forest, and that
Edmund, Henry and Thomas his sons, earls of Lancaster, held the
bailiwick as appurtenant to the manor of Pickeryng and the said Henry son
of Henry now holds it so, without Roger son of Hugh having anything
therein; yet the treasurer and barons have exacted the said ferm and
arrears from Henry son of Henry, and subsequently at his suit the king
ordered them to view the process held before them upon the premises and
the inquisition taken thereupon and if they found that the bailiwick was
parcel of the said manor, that Roger attorned himself and that Edmund
was seised of the bailiwick as aforesaid and that Henry son of Henry ought
not to be charged with the ferm as aforesaid, then to discharge the said
Henry, Roger and Roger of that ferm and of the arrears thereof,
provided that answer should be made to the king therefor before the grant
to Edmund, and to certify the king if there was any cause why they
should not do this; and they returned that they did not proceed to the said
discharge because the charter of Henry III to Edmund his son containing
that the king gave him the castle, manor and forest of Pikeryng and
the manor of Scalleby with appurtenances, makes no mention of the
said ferm, which, as it seems to them, was at that time and long before an
entity by itself due to the king and not pertaining to the manor of Pikeryng
but arising from the said bailiwick, although the bailiwick was annexed
previously to the manor as parcel thereof, so that the said entity could not
be transferred from the king to another by any general words among
the appurtenances of the manor, and no attornment thereof could be made
to any but the king without his grant and order making mention thereof, of
which grant and order nothing has yet been shown in the exchequer, and no
other rolls are found there of the record and process before the justices for
pleas of the forest, before whom it is supposed above that Roger was
convicted and amoved from the bailiwick, or of the manner of the forfeiture
of the bailiwick, and if such forfeiture happened, it pertained to the
king, especially of a tenement held of him and not of another; and the
king having viewed the said certificate and the whole affair having
been examined at divers times before the council, it seemed to them that the
said ferm and the homage and service of the tenant of the said bailiwick are
an entity by themselves after the said grant to Edmund and before,
separate from the manor of Pikeryng and from the said ferm, and nothing
is found in the process whereby it may appear that the ferm or the homage
and service aforesaid were granted to Edmund or to his heirs: the king
therefore orders the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to proceed to
render judgment upon the said process in accordance with the decision of
the council. |
Nov. 15.
Westminster. |
To the justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order to
deliver to Nicholas Bacoun the bailiwick of chief serjeanty of the county of
Meath and of the liberty of Trym in Ireland, if he finds that John Bacoun
is dead, that he held the bailiwick in fee and that Nicholas is his son and
next heir, notwithstanding the commission of the bailiwick to Walter Warde,
as by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin,
sent into the chancery of England by the king's order, it is found that the
said bailiwick, which belonged to John, was taken into the king's hand because
John did not make the return of a writ directed by Henry son of Otuel de
Cruys, late sheriff of Meath, to make execution thereof, on the day
appointed by the sheriff, for which he was convicted before the said
treasurer and barons; and lately at Nicholas's suit asserting that he is
John's son and heir and beseeching the king to deliver to him the said
bailiwick, which Walter now holds by the king's commission, for making
fine with the king for the said contempt especially as the bailiwick is not
forfeited but taken as a distraint for the contempt, the king ordered the
justiciary to notify Walter to be in chancery in England on the quinzaine
of Michaelmas last to show cause why the commission of the bailiwick to
him should not be revoked and the bailiwick delivered to Nicholas by a fine
as his right and inheritance, and Walter did not come when solemnly
called. For 40s. paid in the hanaper. |
Oct. 10.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to Elizabeth late the wife of
William de Sancto Omero 12l. 10s. for Michaelmas term last in accordance
with the king's grant to them of 25l. to be received yearly at the exchequer,
which on 15 December in the 24th year of the reign the king of his favour
changed to the issues of that county, to be received by Elizabeth for life,
because she surrendered the previous letters patent into chancery to be
cancelled. |
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To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to pay to William marquis of
Juliers or to Tilemannus de Werda and William Muschet, his attorneys,
10l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him
on 7 May in the 14th year of the reign, of 20l. to be received yearly for
himself and the heirs of his body, of the issues of that county. |
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To William de Clynton, earl of Huntyngdon, fermor of the priory of
Treulegh, in the king's hand by reason of the war of France. Order to
pay the Gawan Corder or to his attorney 20l. for Michaelmas term last,
in accordance with the king's grant to him on 18 February in the 16th
year of the reign, of 40l. to be received yearly of the ferm of that priory so
long as it remains in the king's hand. |
Nov. 30.
Westminster. |
To John Waleys, escheator in the county of Nottingham. Order to take
the fealty of John son of John de Drieby in accordance with the form of a
schedule enclosed, and to cause him and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and
heir of Thomas de Heriz, tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands
whereof Thomas was seised at his death, as Elizabeth has proved her age
before the escheator. |
Oct. 28.
Westminster. |
To Ralph de Seynt Owayn, escheator in Surrey. Order not to intermeddle further with the tenements called 'Neubrich' in the parish of
Wolkenstede in that county, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John Latymer at his
death held no lands in his demense as of fee or in service in chief in that
bailiwick, because seven years before his death he alienated the said
tenements to William Filol and Mary his wife in fee, and that those
tenements are held of another than the king. |
