1285-6, membranes 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16

1285-6, membranes 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16

14 EDWARD I.

MEMBRANE 26.

1285. Nov. 27. Canford.

Presentation of Hugh de Kendale to the church of Ledered in the diocese of Winchester, void by the death of Fulk Lovel, late rector.

Pardon to Henry de Exonia for the death of Walter le Couherde of Berkamstede, as it appears by the inquisition of the sheriff and coroners of the county of Gloucester that he killed him by misadventure.

Dec. 1. Corfe.

Letters for the abbot of Preaux (de Pratell') in Normandy, nominating Robert de Gresteno, his fellow monk, and Alan de Kyrk, clerk, his attorneys in England for three years.

The like for the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, going to Scotland, nominating Nicholas de Accumbe and Henry son of John Comyn of Colinwrth, until Midsummer.

Dec. 3. Corfe.

Grant to Eleanor, the king's consort, of the goods of John de la Huse and of Peter de la Huse his brother, which appertain to the king by reason of their flight for the death of John de Wartsettle in the town of Wynteneye in the hundred of Odyham, and whereof they were acquitted by inquisition before the king, saving to them the goods they have acquired since the said acquittal.

Mandate in pursuance to the sheriff of Berks.

Dec. 7. Sherborne.

Safe-conduct for one year for Orlandinus de Podio, going beyond seas on the king's affairs.

Sherborne.

Mandate to Baruncinus Galteri, Reyner de Luk', and Orlandinus de Podio and their fellows, merchants of Lucca, to pay to Otto de Grandisono as much money as he may require of them for the king's affairs, and the king will reimburse them.

Dec. 8. Camel.

Acquittance to William Johannis for the payment to John de Berewyk', king's clerk, keeper of the queen's gold, of 400l., to wit, 200l. from concealed goods of condemned Jews, and 200l. for the fine which Salomon de Roff' and his fellows, justices appointed to enquire touching such concealed goods, imposed upon the said William for his concealment of the same.

Protection, with clause volumus, until St. Peter ad Vincula for Henry de Cobeham, going beyond seas with Otto de Grandisono on the king's affairs.

Dec. 13. Somerton.

The like in Ireland until Midsummer for Philip Theling, staying in England.

Dec. 17. Stokes.

Grant to Peter de Stanye of the marriage of the daughter and heir of Robert de Twenge, tenant in chief.

Dec. 15. Somerton.

Pardon to Richard le Palmere for the death of Simon son of the Reeve of Crek', as it appears by the testimony of John de Vallibus and his fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Northampton, that he killed him in self-defence.

Protection, with clause volumus, until two years after Easter for Thomas bishop of Rochester, gone beyond seas.

The like for one year for Master Gregory de Huntingefeld, parson of the church of Great Legh, going to the court of Rome.

Dec. 15. Ford.

Reginald de Clifton and John de Leminton, canons of Roucestre, bringing news of the cession of Walter de Dodelegh, their abbot, have letters of licence to elect.

Dec. 20. Flokeston.

Acquittance to the justiciary of Ireland for the payment to Master Richard de Abindon, chamberlain of Wales, of 500 marks by the hands of Henry de Aune, yeoman of the said justiciary, at Kaer in Arvan.

Dec. 25. Exeter.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Elias de Bekingham to the abbot and convent of Peterborough of four bovates of land and a rent of 2s. in Pokebrok, which are of their own fee.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Michaelmas, for Humphrey de Bello Campo, going beyond seas.

Safe-conduct, for one year, for the same.

Dec. 27. Exeter.

Licence for Leonius son of Master Elias Bagard, Jew of Canterbury, to sell to Joan la Cordere of Northampton one messuage there, situate between the messuage of the said Joan and that of Henry de Langevile.

Dec. 28. Exeter.

Licence, after inquisition ad quod damnum, for Laurence de Sancto Michaele to stop a way in his wood of Slirigge, co. Hertford, which leads from the town of Dykeneswell to Hatfeld Bishop, and to hold the same for ever, provided that he construct another way on his own ground without his said wood on the east side of the same length and breadth and running into the said road to Hatfeld.

Pardon, at the instance of William de Warenna the king's kinsman, to John le Barber for the death of Alan de la Felde.

Protection, with clause pres' &c., for one year, for John Wogan, going beyond seas.

Dec. 31. Exeter.

Grant to Robert son of John of the custody, during minority of the heir, of the manor of Cotes extended at 41l. 2s. 11½d., late of Almaric de Sancto Amando, tenant in chief.

1286. Jan. 3. Exeter.

Letters for the prior of Longeville Giffard, staying in Normandy, nominating Odo prior of St. Andrew's, Northampton, and John de Haynayo, clerk, his attorneys in England for three years.

The like for :—

Robert de Brus, staying in Scotland, nominating Master Adam de Crokedaik and William de Cumbertrees for two years.

John Barry, staying in England, nominating Nicholas son of James and Robert Nuel in Ireland for one year.

Jan. 5. Exeter.

The abbot of Berneye, nominating brother William Mile and William Fornase for three years.

Jan. 8. Exeter.

William Martin, going beyond seas, nominating John Colston and Robert de Maleston for one year.

The abbot of St. Catherine's du Mont, Rouen, nominating Geoffrey de Tingewyk and Thomas de Blida for three years.

Jan. 16. Canford.

Thomas son of Maurice, staying in England, nominating Nicholas le Waleys and William Ermy in Ireland for one year.

1285. Dec. 28. Exeter.

Pardon to Robert de Brus, earl of Karrik, for all his trespasses in the forest of Englewod.

Mandate to William de Vescy, justice of the forest beyond Trent, in case the said earl be amerced by him or his ministers for the same, to strike such amercement out of his rolls.

Safe-conduct for two years for Godfrey Peleryn, burgess and merchant of Yarmouth, going beyond seas, on the king's affairs.

1286. Jan. 1. Exeter.

Pardon to William de Netelschawe for the death of Hugh de Langthwth, as it appears by the record of Geoffrey Aguillun and his fellows, justices appointed to deliver York gaol, that he killed him in self-defence.

Grant to Richard de Brus of the custody, during minority of the heirs, of the manor of Asheby la Zuche, co. Leicester, and of the manor of North Multon, co. Devon, late of Roger la Zuche.

Jan. 5. Exeter.

Licence for the prior and convent of St. Nicholas, Exeter, to hold in mortmain the 7s. 10d. in rent in the city of Exeter, lately granted to them by the will of Martin Derling, of Exeter, to wit, 5s. 10d. rent of the house late of John le Eyr, and 12d. rent of houses late of Christiana Ludele, and 12d. rent of houses late of Walter Torsy.

Vacated because otherwise below.

Pardon to the abbot and convent of Tavystok for having bought without licence in mortmain a messuage in Exeter of Alfred de la Porte before the felony for which he was hanged.

MEMBRANE 25.

1285. Dec. 28. Exeter.

Commission to W. de Wymb[urne] and P. Heym to enquire by the oath of the vicinage of Macre whether James de Oxton, born and baptized at Macre, who by demise of the king is by reason of his minority in the custody of Nicholas de Monte Forti, is now of full age.

1286. Jan. 1. Exeter.

Commission of oyer and terminer to W. de Wymb[urne], N. de Monteforti, P. Heym and R. de Littlebury, touching Nicholas del Punt, Roger le Turnur, Gilbert de Lington, Walter de Grateclive, John le Fughlere, Richard Amadas, Roger de Cheynee and Richard de Lucy, found by inquisition of the sheriff of Devon to have hunted and taken deer and killed a colt (pullum) in the park of Richard de Pultimore at Pultimore.

Jan. 4. Exeter.

Commission to Geoffrey de Pichford and William son of Warin to make a general inquisition touching offences against the peace in the county of Oxford, within and without liberties.

The like to the same for the counties of Buckingham and Hertford.

Mandate to the people of Kent to assist the sheriff and posse comitatus with all diligence in matters concerning the preservation of the peace.

MEMBRANE 24.

Jan. 1. Exeter.

Licence for Peter the bishop, and the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of St. Peter, Exeter, to enclose the churchyard and precinct with a stone wall all round, making sufficient gates and posterns, to be closed at night and opened at dawn.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by William de Cantilupo and Matilda his wife to the prior and convent of Bridelington of a messuage, four carucates of land, and 10l. in rent in Bridelington, the said prior and convent rendering to the said William and Matilda and their heirs 30l. yearly.

Jan. 5. Exeter.

Mandate to Master Henry de Bray, the escheator this side Trent, to restore the temporalities of the abbey of Berneye to William de Vallibus, one of the monks, preferred to be abbot by W. bishop of Lisieux.

Jan. 7. Exeter.

Safe-conduct, until Easter, for John de Falevy, knight, going as king's envoy to divers parts.

Pardon to Richard son of Richard de Hope Bouclers, detained in the prison of Shrewsbury for the death of William de Tuttebiry, as it appears by the inquisition of the sheriff and coroners of Salop that he killed him in self-defence.

Jan. 6. Exeter.

Pardon to Henry de Menhinak for the death of Ralph de Scauhan, as it appears by the record of Salomon de Roff' and his fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Cornwall, that he killed him in self-defence.

Jan. 7. Exeter.

Grant to the nuns (canonicabus) in the priory of Leye, in the diocese of Exeter, who, with the assent of the king and the bishop, have replaced the canons formerly there, that they may hold in frank almoin the 20s. in rent in Allingdone, which king John formerly granted to the prior and canons then dwelling in the said priory. [Monasticon, vol. vi., p. 334.]

Pardon to John Danesy, surrendered by privilege of clergy to the bishop of Lincoln and detained in the prison of Bannebury, for the death of William Holdberd, as it appears by the record of John de Vallibus and his fellows, justices lately in eyre in the county of Northampton, that he killed him in self-defence.

Membrane 24 (Schedule).

Jan. 7. Exeter.

Inspeximus and confirmation of a charter of Robert bishop of Bath and Wells, dated at Crukerne 2 (secundo nono) April 1280, in the fifth year of his consecration, to the burgesses of Cerde, reciting and confirming—

(1) A charter of Jocelin, sometime bishop of Bath, dated at Wermynstre by the hand of Master Walter de Maydenestan, the day of St. Maurus in the 29th year of his pontificate, whereby the said Jocelin, with a view to the improvement of the manor of Cerde, grants that the town (villa) of Cerde shall be a free borough within the following metes and bounds:— On the east Schireford, on the south the gate of the bishop's court, on the west la Staunesmith, on the north la Hertbyry, by the cross near Kynemercerde; and also grants within these bounds, to all persons desiring to build, single acres at 12d. an acre yearly ; and that every person within these bounds, already possessing a burgage, or hereafter to possess one, have free liberty of dwelling, going and returning there, of mortgaging their houses, and selling them, except to Jews, of transferring them to any use, except to the use of religious houses or of churches, which they may not do without licence of the said bishop or his successors, but so that, however the said burgages are disposed of, there shall always be paid to the said bishop 12d. yearly for every burgage; and also that if any suit arise touching the same, the said burgesses shall have licence to concord without fine, and finally prohibiting any person from buying untanned fells or hides, unless he be in lima et lagha of the burgesses of Cerde.

(2) A charter of William, bishop of Bath and Wells, the second of that name, dated at Kyng[ston], Monday next after the feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle, in the fifth year of his pontificate, whereby the said William grants to the burgesses of Cerde that they may hold without diminution their fair of St. James within the bounds of the borough and their market every Monday, as of old, saving to the bishop the toll and amercements and other profits arising from trespasses there; and granting them licence to dispose of their burgages in their wills as they please, except to Jews or religious houses, saving to the bishop the rents and services due therefrom ; and granting that none shall be bound to do suit except at two hundreds yearly in the said borough, to wit, at Michaelmas and Hockday, saving attendance at the three weeks' court for pleas begun and terminable in the said hundreds, for pleas under the king's writ, for doing justice upon thieves, and also, upon lawful summons, for matters concerning the peace and rights of the king or bishop.

Appointment of Richard de Bosco and Walter de Marisco, parson of the church of Bromesburwe, to lay out, with sufficient streets and lanes and adequate sites for a market and church and plots for merchants and others, a new town with a harbour in a place called Gotowre super Mare, in the parish of Stodlaund and on the king's land, which was late of Robert de Muchegros and contiguous to the said place, the lands and tenements of which said new town the king is prepared to commit to merchants and others willing to take them and to enfeoff them thereof for building and dwelling purposes.

Notification that all merchants and others taking plots (placias) in the said land and beginning to build there, shall enjoy the same liberties and customs as the burgesses of Lyme or of Melecumbe, and that a charter to that effect shall be made.

Grant to the bailiffs and good men of the town of Fordingbrugge, in view of the constant traffic through their town and over their bridge which will soon be in ruin, of pontage (paagium) for four years from the Purification, in aid of their bridge, viz. for every cart laden with goods for sale crossing the bridge ½d., and for every horse load ¼d.

Licence, after inquisition ad quod damnum, before Roger Le Strange, justice of the forest this side Trent, for Walter de Beyssen to assart and enclose with a small dike and low hedge his wood of Rogewey, which is within the bounds of the forest of Shirelet, and contains 1½ acres.

Presentation of Hugh de Quikeshull to the church of Gayton, in the diocese of Lincoln, in the king's gift by reason of his custody of the land and heir of John de Nevill, tenant in chief.

Jan. 7. Exeter.

Licence for the prior and convent of the church of St. Nicholas, Exeter, to hold in mortmain the 7s. 10d. in rent in Exeter, given to them by the will of Martin Derling of Exeter, to wit, 5s. 10d. rent of a house late of John le Eyr to provide two torches (torticia) to be lit daily at the elevation of the host, and to be kept alight in the masses sung before the great altar of the church of St. Nicholas and of the chapel of St. Mary, and 12d. rent of houses late of Christiana Ludele, and 12d. rent of houses late of Walter Torsy, to find two lights (luminaria) likewise before the altars of St. Martin and St. Edmund the Confessor in the said church.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain to the dean and chapter of the church of St. Peter, Exeter, of one messuage in Exeter, each, by Richard de Brendeswrth, Master Henry de Bolleye, archdeacon of Cornwall, Alexander Belebuche, the abbot of Bukfestre, Henry Wyger and Thomas Wyger, Peter, bishop of Exeter, Roger Hauek', and licence to hold in mortmain the messuage formerly given to them by Clement, sometime chancellor of the said church ; for the enlargement of their dwellings.

Jan. 12. Forde.

Simple protection, for three years, for the brethren of the house of St. Margaret the Virgin and St. Anthony, Wymburneminstre, begging alms.

Jan. 16. Blandford.

Mandate to John de Sarum, coroner in the county of Dorset, to execute whatever injunctions he may receive from Richard de Boylaund and Roger Luved[ay], who have oral instructions from the king to make inquisitions touching certain affairs of the crown. By p.s.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Richard de Nyton and Cicely his wife to the prior and brethren of the hospital of St. Mary, Cicestre, of 11 acres of land in Grenefeld by Sidlesham.

Simple protection for :—

Francis Malisard and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, going to Ireland on the king's affairs, for three years.

Richard Stede of Yoghul, in Ireland, for four years.

Safe-conduct, for four years, for the said Richard, trading.

Jan. 17. Canford.

Protection with clause volumus [in Ireland], for one year, for Thomas son of Maurice, staying in England.

Jan. 8. Exeter.

Pardon, at the instance of Eleanor the king's consort, to Savaric de Inythorn for murders and thefts alleged against him, for breaking prison from Ivelcestre and for trespasses in the forest of Selewode.

Jan. 16. Canford.

Letters for Peter le Botyller, staying in England, nominating John son of Philip his attorney in Ireland for one year.

The like for Walter de Edelingham, going to the court of Rome, nominating Thomas de Queneby and Nicholas de Queneby, until Michaelmas.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Michaelmas, for Roger de Evesham, clerk, going beyond seas.

MEMBRANE 23 (Schedule).

Jan. 23. Marlborough.

Grant to Eleanor the king's mother that, although she should enter any religious order, whether professed or not, she shall retain all her possessions in England or Gascony until Michaelmas 1287, whether the kingdom is in the king's hands or in the hands of councillors or custodians. Dated at Marleberge by the hand of Robert, bishop of Bath and Wells, 23rd January.

The like to the same Eleanor and the executors of her will, in case she should die in the meantime. Witnesses:—Edmund the king's brother, Robert, bishop of Bath and Wells, William de Hothum, provincial prior of the Friars Preachers, and Brother Salomon, of the order of Friars Minors, and others.

Jan. 23. Marlborough.

The like to the same Eleanor that, in whatever state she be, and in whatsoever hands the realm may be, she shall have, for life, the following castles, lands and tenements, to wit:—The castle and manor of Shipton, the manors of Pokelington, Helewell, Stratton, Brikestoke and Clive, with the forest of Clive, the city of Worcester, the town of Gloucester with the tina and barton thereof and the fishery, the barton of Bath, the towns of Andovre, Basingestok, Portesmuth, and Suthampton, with the prise of wine there, the farm of Waltham, the mills of Oxford, the manors of Haneberg, Bloxham, and Ospring, the town, castle, and manor of Marleberg, the town of Lutgershale, the manors of Gillingham and Palhampton, the whole honor of Aquila, the manors of Whytele, Costeseye and Langabeninton.

Membrane 23.

Jan. 22. Marlborough.

Letters for Imer, abbot of Bec and the convent there, nominating William de Sancto Paterno, proctor general of the abbey in England, their attorney until three years after Easter.

Jan. 20. Amesbury.

Appointment of Robert de la Sale, executor of the will of Mabel de Cancell', to receive from William Brachel and Terricus de Calne, executors of the will of Master Nicholas de Marleberg, 34l. due from the said Nicholas to the said Mabel for the custody of the land and heir of Reginald de Stottescumbe, which the said Mabel sold to him.

Jan. 20. Amesbury.

Mandate in pursuance to the said executors to pay the said 34l. to the executor of the said Mabel, late the wife of Emericus de Cancell', deceased, without delay, by reason of the said Mabel having, shortly before her death, charged all the lands and tenements, which she held of her own inheritance, with the payment of the debts of her husband to the king.

Jan. 23. Marlborough.

Safe-conduct, for three years, for William Fraunk of Harwich, merchant, trading.

The like, for three years, for Elias de Bannebury, burgess of Rading', going beyond seas, trading.

Grant to William de Birlay, king's clerk, of the prebend late of Geoffrey de London, deceased, in the church of Hastings, in the diocese of Chicester, with mandate in pursuance to the dean and chapter.

Presentation of the same to the said prebend.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year for Philip Cristofre, of Ireland, going beyond seas on pilgrimage.

Association of Walter de Hopton with Salomon de Roff', Richard de Boylaund, Robert Fulcon[is], Master Thomas de Sudington and Walter de Stircheleye, in a commission to go on a general eyre in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.

Jan. 27. Caversham.

Pardon to Hugh Pecche and those of 1 is household for their trespasses during the troubles of the reign of Henry III. from the commencement of the troubles to his surrender of the Isle of Ely.

Mandate in pursuance to Salomon de Roff' and his fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Norfolk, with direction not to proceed to judgment against him for trespassses subsequent to the said surrender until they have certified the king and received his commands.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Michaelmas, for Walter de Edlingham, going to the court of Rome.

Feb. 4. Langley.

Confirmation at the instance of Eleanor the king's mother, to Henry de Broke, her yeoman, of the exemption from being put on assizes, juries, or recognisances granted to him by Henry III.

Feb. 10. Westminster.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain to the prior and convent of Coventre by John le Veneter of 22s. in rent in Coventre; by Adam Oliver of 4 acres of land, one mill and 70s. in rent there; by Reginald le Crisppe of a messuage and virgate of land in Merston by Herdewyk.

Feb. 16. Westminster.

Pardon, at the instance of Edmund earl of Lancaster, to William de Langeford, detained in the prison of Warwick, of his outlawry for divers trespasses, as it appears by the testimony of the said Edmund that he was in prison on the day on which the said outlawry was pronounced against him.

Mandate to the executors of the will of Matthew de Columbariis to deliver by indenture to Roger Le Strange, justice of the forest this side Trent, all the rolls and writs of the time that the said Matthew was justice in eyre of the forest in divers counties.

The like to Roger de Clifford in respect of the rolls and writs for the time when he was justice of the forest on this side Trent.

Feb. 13. Westminster.

Licence, after inquisition ad quod damnum taken by Roger Le Strange, justice of the forest this side Trent, for Leonius son of Leonius to assart and enclose 20 acres of his waste in the manor of Kynefare, which is within the bounds of the forest of Kynefare.

Letters for Richard de la Hyde, staying in England, nominating Edmund de la Hyde his attorney in Ireland for three years.

The like for :—

The abbot of Bon Repos (de bona requie), going beyond seas, nominating Richard de Crawedene, monk, and Roger de Stanegrunt for five years.

Feb. 18. Westminster.

Walter de Sweynesheved, staying in England, nominating Thomas le Ercedeken and Walter le Keu in Ireland for three years.

John de Swynesheved, staying in England, nominating the same there for three years.

Christiana de Maulia, going to Scotland, nominating Robert de Walden, chaplain, and John Hubert of Herlawe for one year.

Feb. 12. Westminster.

Pardon to Walter Wraw for the death of his wife Alice, as it appears by the record of John de Vallibus and his fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Buckingham, that he was mad at the time when he killed her.

Pardon to John Brid for the death of William le Fevre, as it appears by the record of the same that he killed him in self-defence.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain to the abbot and convent of Malmesbury by Geoffrey de Fynemor of a virgate of land in la Blakelonde; by Richard de Kemele of two virgates in Kemele ; by John de Eston of a virgate in Wynekewrth ; by Richard Pinnok of Borughton of 20 acres of land in Coufaude; by Roger de Evesham of 16 acres in Alynton; by John de Slaghtreton of 8 acres there.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year for Richard de Sancto Egidio, clerk, going beyond seas.

Feb. 14. Westminster.

Writ de intendendo for William de Vescy, Thomas de Normanvill and Richard de Crepping, commissioned to go on eyre in the county of Northumberland, to take pleas of the forest from the time of the last eyre until the disafforestation of the said county.

Feb. 12. Westminster.

Grant to Eleanor, the king's mother, for 10,000 marks in which the king is bound to her for executing her will, that, whether the kingdom is in the hands of the king or custodians, his heir being under age, she shall retain all her lands and tenements in Gascony in their integrity from the morrow of Michaelmas 1287 for two years.

Feb. 16. Westminster.

Mandate for restitution of the temporalities of Roucestre Abbey to Robert, prior of Greseleye, preferred to be abbot by R. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

Writ de intendendo directed to the tenants.

Membrane 23 (Schedule).

Feb. 17. Westminster.

Pardon to John de Novo Burgo, Hugh Fillol, William Harang, William Manning, Walter de Morton, John de la More, William de Moung, Roger de Westwode, John le Bilkere and William son of John de la Hille for the death of [Richard] Ruddok and John del Freygne.

Pardon to Roger Wytlok, Robert Bennok and Robert Capie for the same.

Pardon to John de Novo Burgo for the same.

Feb. 13. Westminster.

Mandate to the sheriffs of London to pay to Andrew de Gyse for life the 12l. yearly arising from the farm of Queenhithe (ripe Regine) which Edmund, earl of Cornwall, has exchanged with the said Andrew for certain lands.

MEMBRANE 22.

Feb. 16. Westminster.

Grant to the mayor, bailiffs and burgesses of Leicester of murage and pavage for five years.

Feb. 15. Westminster.

Inspeximus and confirmation of letters patent, dated 15 May, 55 Henry III., granting to the Friars Preachers of Yarmouth in frank almoin a plot of land 500 feet square in Gernemuth, called la Straunde, and confirming a grant by William Charles to them of another plot of land there adjoining their habitation.

Pardon to Aaron de Wygornia and Isaac his son, Jews of Oxford, of their outlawry for non-appearance to answer touching the death of Robert le Porter; as it appears by the testimony of Ranulph de Dacre, late constable of the Tower of London, that being indicted thereof before the justices last in eyre in the county of Oxford they surrendered to the Tower on Monday a fortnight after Easter, 13 Edward I., and remained there until the Monday next after three weeks from Trinity, on which day Roger Luveday, one of the aforesaid justices, commanded the said constable to keep them in safe custody, and they have been detained ever since, and while in prison were put in exigent in the said eyre and outlawed for contumacy, as appears by the record and process of their outlawry sent to the king by the sheriff of Oxford.

Grant to the king's men and merchants of the town of Raveneserod that no stranger presume to bring bread and ale in ships, and sell the same in the port or at sea near the said town; as it appears by the inquisition made by Thomas de Normanvill, escheator beyond Trent, that they themselves are sufficient at all times to provide good bread and ale for persons resorting thither.

Feb. 17. Westminster.

Grant to William de Monte Revelli for certain debts in which the king is bound to him, and for his expenses in the king's service, of the custody during minority of the heir, of the lands late of Almaricus de Sancto Amando, tenant in chief, in Crendon, Blaxham, Hildesleye, Wydehaye, Netheraven, Wamburg, Ippelpenn, Catton and Gormanneston.

Aquittance to Dervergulla de Balliolo for the payment to Master William de Luda, king's clerk, keeper of the wardrobe, of 50 marks fine for the service of one knight's fee in the expedition into Wales, 10 Edward I., to wit, 40 marks in 11 Edward I., by the hands of Richard de Bures, and 10 marks, on 15 February, 14 Edward I., by the hands of William de Scaccario. By bill of wardrobe.

Feb. 15. Westminster.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain to the prior and convent of Holy Trinity, Norwich :—

Of a messuage, 20 acres 3 roods of land in Thornham, by William son of Robert de Secheford.

Of 4½ acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 2 acres of pasture, 21¼d. in rent in Martham, by Bartholomew de Castre.

Of 10 acres of land in Secheford by Ralph de Barsham, chaplain, and Adam de Hindringham.

Of a messuage in Secheford by Ralph le Chapeleyn of Barsham.

Of 4 acres of meadow in Trous by John son of Ralph de Hegham.

Of 1 acre of meadow in Trous by Clement de Reymereston.

Of 11 acres 3 roods of land in Hemesby by John Everard of Ormisby.

Of 21 acres of land in Ildolveston by Ranulph le Culyur and Adam le Culyur.

Of 20s. in rent in Dilham by Ralph le Botyler of Eselinton.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Brian son of Alan to the abbot and convent of Jervaux of two messuages and a carucate of land in Estwytton and Bedale.

Protection and safe-conduct for Henry Blakeman of Lenne, merchant, trading.

Feb. 13. Westminster.

Pardon to John de Vescy, William his brother, Robert de Hilton and their households for taking deer in the forest of Ingelwod during the troubles in England in the late king's reign.

Feb. 20. Westminster.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by John de Exonia, treasurer of the cathedral church of St. Peter, Exeter, of 12 marks in rent in Exeter and the suburb to two chaplains celebrating divine service in the chapel of St. Edward the King situated in the churchyard near the said monastery.

Feb. 20. Westminster.

Mandate to Masters Ralph de Ivyngeho, chancellor of the church of St. Paul, London, and Thomas de Bredestrete, receivers of the arrears of the fifteenth and twentieth in the province of Canterbury, to pay over the same to the merchants of the society of Lucca.

Protection for Michael le Blund of Douay, staying in England.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Easter, for Emericus de Rupe Cawardi and Matilda his wife, gone beyond seas.

Simple protection, for four years, for the master of the house of All Saints, Writell, proctor in England of the hospital of the Holy Spirit, Rome, and for the brethren thereof.

Grant to Christiana de Marisco of 30l. yearly in land for 10 years out of the wardships first accruing in the bailiwick of the escheator this side Trent, in recompence of the knights' fees and advowsons of churches in Ireland whereof the said Christiana has enfeoffed the king and Eleanor his consort.

Feb. 18. Westminster.

Grant to the abbot and convent of Westminster, out of reverence for St. Peter and St. Edward the King, and for the souls of Henry III., and of the king's children whose bodies repose in the said church, and for the souls of the king, his mother, consort, progenitors and heirs, and that the said church may be as free as any other in the realm, that the king will abstain from exercising his customary rights in time of voidance, to wit, from laying hands upon the corn in the granges, the sheep and oxen, horses and other animals, saddle horses (equitaturam), silver vessels, jewels, books, treasure, and other goods of deceased abbots, saving that the issues arising from the portion assigned to abbots be taken by the king and heirs as usual in time of voidance.

Ratification of a grant to Adam le Bret, for his life, of the bailiwick of the bedelry of the county of Somerset which (que) is to the west of the Parret, to wit, the making of summonses, distraints and other things belonging to the said bedelry, made to him with the king's licence by Walter son and heir of John de la Lynde, by virtue of a grant thereof, in fee simple, to his father by letters patent of Henry III.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year, for Otto de Grandisono, gone beyond seas.

Pardon to Henry de Verny, detained in the prison of Neuport Paynel, for the death of John de Penrith, as it appears by the record of John de Vallibus and his fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Buckingham, that he killed him in self-defence.

MEMBRANE 21.

Feb. 15. Westminster.

Promise to Guy, count of Flanders, marquis of Namur, that, upon his paying 1,131l. 11s. 6½d., residue of the sum of 10,627l. 10s. 2d. sterling, in which Margaret his mother, sometime countess of Flanders and Hainault (Haynonie), was bound to Henry III., in restitution of the arrested goods of the merchants of England, Ireland and the marches of Wales, to the payment of which residue the said count and his land are pledged, that then the king will restore to him all the letters, muniments and instruments touching this matter, and acquit him of all further liability in the premises.

Feb. 21. Westminster.

Acquittance to O. bishop of Lincoln, for the payment by the hands of Thomas de Wymundham, clerk, late collector of the twentieth from the clergy in the said see, of 148l., to wit, Sunday after the feast of SS. Peter and Paul, 13 Edward I., 108l., and Friday after the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 13 Edward I., 40l. Also for the payment by the hands of Thomas de Bredestrete and Orlandinus de Podio, receivers of the said twentieth, 30 October, 13 Edward I., of 212l. 10s., and by the hands of Thomas de Bredestrete, 9 February, 14 Edward I., of 227l. 17s.

Acquittance to the same for the following payments of 95l. 16s. 9¾d., arrears fifteenth, to wit, 30 October, 13 Edward I., by the hands of Orlandinus de Podio, merchant of Lucca, receiver of the said fifteenth, 40l. 20d.; 9 February, 14 Edward I., by the hands of Master Ralph de Ivyngho, chancellor of St. Paul's, London, also receiver of the same, 55l. 15s. 1¾d.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Ralph de Lokynton to the abbot and convent of Whyteby of two bovates of land in Filing' and one toft and one croft in Hilderwell by Alan Fox.

Association of the abbot of Vale Royal with Reginald de Grey, justice of Chester, to hold pleas of the forest in the county of Chester.

Appointment of Peter de Leyc' and William Attemulne to audit the accounts of the collectors of the pavage recently granted to the burgesses of Worcester, as it appears that the said collectors have diverted a great part thereof to other purposes and the said town is not paved.

Feb. 23. Westminster.

Protection, with clause volumus, until the Ascension for Master Walter de Bathonia, going beyond seas on the king's affairs.

Safe-conduct for the same.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year, for John son of David de Barry of Ireland, staying in England.

Protection, for five years, for Ralph de Hading', Robert de Bonevill, Robert de Calventon and William de Hamme, proctors of the house of St. Robert of Knaresburgh and Oxford and of the order of the Holy Trinity and the Redemption of Captives of the Holy Land.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Michaelmas, for Eleanor de Gouiz, going beyond seas.

The like in Ireland, for one year, for Master John de Dumbelton, parson of the church of Kenles, staying in England.

Feb. 24. Westminster.

Ratification of a grant by Floria late the wife of Master Elias, Jew of London, to Abraham one of his sons and heirs, as his purparty by the custom of Jewry, of 12 feet of land of the curtilage at the back of the great sollar (solarium) of the stone house, late of Jacob le Tourk, in which the said Elias lived.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year for :—

William de Oddingeseles, going to Ireland.

Christiana de Maulia, going to Scotland.

Feb. 20. Westminster.

Licence, for life, for Robert de Mortuo Mari to hunt with his own dogs the fox and hare, badger and cat, in the forest of the county of Essex, whenever he will except in the fence month.

Feb. 25. Westminster.

Grant, in fee simple, to Richard de Merewell, citizen of Winchester, of a house there, lately recovered by the king by judgment of the king's court against Richard de Wherewell and others of the said city, situate between the houses of Roger Dalerun on the east and west sides, for which house 6l. has been wont to be rendered yearly to the farm of the said city, besides 60s. of increment for keeping a drapery; the said Richard to hold the same as a drapery for ever, rendering yearly to the Exchequer 10l. in addition to the above 6l. and 60s., and building and repairing the house at his own cost.

Grant to Master William de Kynebalton, king's baker, of 10l. or 20 marks in land for ten years out of wardships.

Feb. 25. Westminster.

Letters for Robert de Stutevill and Eleanor his wife, going beyond seas, nominating Henry Espring and Thomas de Perers their attorneys.

The like for:—

Nicholas de Carreu, staying in England, nominating Philip Russel, in Ireland for one year.

The prior of Bermundeseye, going beyond seas, nominating brother John de Sancto Dunstano and Geoffrey de Essex, clerk, until Michaelmas.

Master Geoffrey de Aspale, going beyond seas with the king, nominating Ralph de Creppinge for two years.

Walter, abbot of Westminster, going beyond seas, nominating John de Sutton, his monk, and Elias de Elding, clerk, for one year.

Feb. 26. Westminster.

Pardon to Reginald de Grey and John de Grey and their households, of their trespasses in taking deer in the forests or parks of the counties of Nottingham, Northampton, Huntingdon and Rutland during the late troubles in England.

Mandate in pursuance to the justices of the forest in the next eyre in the said counties.

Acquittance to Master Adam de Botyndon, king's clerk, for the payment on 11 April, 12 Edward I., to Master William de Luda, keeper of the wardrobe, of 333l. 6s. 8d. of the fifteenth from the clergy in the diocese of Lincoln.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Edmund, earl of Lancaster, to the abbot and convent of Stonlee of 4 acres of land in Kenilleworth.

Feb. 28. Westminster.

Grant to Master Bonettus de Sancto Quintino, king's clerk, of a prebend in the church of Southwell, void by the promotion of Sanctius de Pynea, bishop-elect of Tripoli (Trirolitanum), and in the king's gift by reason of the voidance of the see of York.

Grant to Master Henry de Newerk, archdeacon of Rychemund, king's clerk, of the prebend late of Fulk Lovel, deceased, in the church of York.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year, for Roger de Thornton and Isabel his wife, going to Ireland.

Feb. 20. Westminster.

Pardon to Alice daughter of Thomas le Ster of Tregonek, detained in the prison of Lanceveton for the death of Thomasia daughter of Belesanda, as it appears by the testimony of Salomon de Roff' and his fellows, justices in eyre in the county of Cornwall, that she killed her by misadventure.

MEMBRANE 20.

Feb. 28. Westminster.

Protection, for two years, in Ireland for Nigel le Brun, going to England.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Falcasius le Taverner to the prioress and nuns of Kelburn of 13s. 4d. in rent in the parish of All Hallows, Bredestrete, London.

The like by Thomas de Arderne of Rotheley to the prior and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England of the manor of Ruton in Donnesmor.

Grant to Lewis de Bello Monte of the prebend late of Master Henry de Neuwerk, resigned, in the church of [St. Peter, York,] in the king's gift by reason of the voidance of the see of York.

Presentation of Robert de Burnedis to the church of Fakenham Aspes, in the diocese of Norwich, in the king's gift by reason of the minority of the heir of William Comyn, tenant in chief.

Mandate to Stephen de Penecestre, warden of the Cinque Ports, to lay out in lots at fixed rents for dwelling purposes a place called 'le Kenel' for the enlargement of the town of Wynchelese, making a return for registration in the Exchequer of the names of all the inhabitants, their tenures and rents.

Protection, with clause volumus, for :—

The prior of Bermundeseye, going beyond seas, until Michaelmas.

Nicholas de Karreu, staying in England, for one year in Ireland.

Grant to William le Botyler of Werington of the custody, during minority of the heir, of two parts of the lands and tenements in the counties of Lancaster and York, late of Theobald le Botiler, tenant in chief.

Pardon to Roger le Provost of Layrebrok for the death of Thomas son of Peter le Mouner of Cokeraym, as it appears by inquisition of the sheriff and coroners of Lancaster that he killed him in self-defence.

Feb. 28. Westminster.

Confirmation of a grant in fee simple by Richard de Leghton to R. bishop of Bath and Wells, of a messuage and an acre of land in Leghton with the advowson of the church there, and of a re-grant of the premises by the said bishop to the abbot and monks of Bildewas in frank almoin, and of a grant by R. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to the said abbey of a licence to appropriate the said church.

Grant to Henry le Waleis, citizen of London, in fee simple of the plots of land adjoining St. Paul's churchyard wall, whereon certain houses were with the king's licence lately built, but afterwards, on account of the damage they caused the dean and chapter and the said wall, were ordered to be removed by judgment of the King's Court, for him to build thereon after execution of the said judgment. The king also gives licence, after inquisition ad quod damnum taken by Ralph de Sandwico, keeper of the city, and the sheriff thereof, for the said Henry to enlarge part of the said plots, to wit, from the churchyard gate opposite the church of St. Michael le Querne (ad bladum) to the other churchyard gate, opposite Ivylane, by two feet in breadth on the north side, and from the king's high road of Westchep to the fifth shop towards the gate of St. Augustin's, a distance of 84 feet, by 1½ feet on the east side, and to build on and retain the same, excepting the said five shops near the gate of St. Augustin's.

Membrane 20 (Schedules).

Feb. 27. Westminster.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by the prior and convent of Brumore to Robert bishop of Bath and Wells of the advowsons of the churches of Staunton Dru and Cheleworth.

Feb. 27. Westminster.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by the abbot and convent of St. Peter's, Gloucester, to the same, of the advowson of the church of Burnham.

[Feb. 28. Westminster.]

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year, for the abbot of Westminster, going beyond seas.

Feb. 28. Westminster.

Appointment of John de Kirkeby, treasurer, and Ralph de Sandwico, keeper of the city of London, to the custody, during pleasure, of the hermitage near Cripelgate.

Feb. 24. Westminster.

Letters for John de Marisco, parson of the church of Giselham, going to the court of Rome, nominating John son of William de Gyselham his attorney in England for two years.

The like for:—

Thedisius de Camilla, nominating Conrad de Villa Franca, canon of Liege (Leodien'), and Pucius de Soleria for two years.

Robert de Stutevill and Eleanor his wife, nominating Henry Espring and Thomas de Perers for two years.

The master of the hospital of St. Bernard, Mont Joux (de monte Jovis) nominating Peter de Balleus, clerk, for four years.

Albert de Lavania, nominating Master Giffred de Vezano, canon of Cambray (Cameracen'), and Master John de Luco for two years.

Agnes de Valencia, nominating Hugh de Langele in Ireland for two years.

Peter son of Peter le Botiller of Ireland, staying in England, nominating Richard de la Marche in Ireland for one year.

William de Fyenles, going beyond seas, nominating William de Medeburn and John de Tylton for one year.

March 24. Down Amney.

Nesta de Dundouenel, nominating Gilbert Launderel and Lewellin Laundery in Ireland for two years,

April 3. Chichester.

Robert de Brus and Christiana his wife, staying in Scotland, nominating Master Adam de Crokedayk and John de Garton for two years.

Feb. 24. Westminster.

Protection, with clause volumus, for two years for the above John de Marisco.

Writ of aid for Giffred de Vezano, engaged in the affairs of the Cross and of the tenth in aid of the Holy Land.

Feb. 28. Westminster.

Appointment of Hugh de Kend[ale], Master Odo de Westmon[asterio] and Walter de Noting' to open and examine all the deed-boxes of Jews (archas cyrographorum Judaeorum) in the city of London and Westminster according to the king's verbal instructions.

Simple protection, for two years, for Bartholomew de Rypar', merchant of Gascony.

Feb. 28. Westminster.

Acquittance to William de Walemount for the payment of 20 marks only on account of his poverty in full satisfaction of his debts to the king, which by concord made with him under the king's command by Henry le Waleys, citizen of London, in the court of Rouen, amounted to 61l. 13s. 10d.

Pardon to Gregory de Rokesle for surrendering the seal of the mayoralty of the city of London, in the presence of certain subjects of the king sent by him to the Tower, to Stephen de Asshewy and others of the commonalty of London, and asserting that he had resigned the said mayoralty without the king's will or knowledge.

Feb. 28. Westminster.

Signification to G. count of Flanders and to the bailiffs and echevins of Bruges of the result of the suit brought in the king's court by John le Neyr against [John] Kays[er], Alan of Lenn and Nicholas Jonismankays[er], touching 16 cart-loads (carratis) of lead of the said John, price 30l., said to have been seized by the defendants. The court found that John le Neyr gave the said Alan 36l. to purchase lead, wool and other things for. him at Stockyth. Alan bought 16 cart-loads of lead, less two weys and two stones, which he delivered to Hugh servant of John le Neyr, at Stockyth, and bought a certain part of lead for which he had formerly paid the said John, but after buying lead, wool and other merchandise to the use of the said John, and having given earnest-money, the said John le Neyr failed to advance the money on the days appointed, whereupon the said Alan returned to Stockyth and sold the lead which he had delivered for safe custody to the servant of John le Neyr to the said Nicholas, servant of John Kays[er]. The judgment of the court was that as the said lead sold to the said Nicholas had been bought with the money of John le Neyr, the said John le Neyr should recover the value of the said 16 cart-loads of lead, less two weys and two stone, and meanwhile the body of the said Alan should be kept in safe custody, and that the said John le Keys[er] and Nicholas should retain the lead which they had lawfully purchased and retire quit, and the said John le Neyr, for his false plaint against John le Keys[er] and Nicholas, be in mercy as usual in such cases.

March 3. Wycombe.

Acknowledgment of the receipt of a loan of 8,000l. from the merchants of Lucca of the society of the Ricardi dwelling in London.

Vacated because altered in schedule attached.

Membrane 20 (Schedule).

March 3. Wycombe.

Acknowledgment of the receipt of 8,000l. from Richard Guydichionis and Henry de Podio and their fellows of the society of the Ricardi of Lucca, dwelling in London.

MEMBRANE 19.

Feb. 23. Westminster.

Grant, for life, to Alan de Salopia, king's clerk, of the custody of the hospital of St. John, Noting[ham], in the king's hands by reason of the voidance of the see of York.

Exoneration of John de Sancto Dionisio, king's clerk, keeper of the Domus Conversorum, London, by appointment of Henry III. and of the king, from rendering an account to the Exchequer, as it appears that his predecessors never did so, and that the said John has administered the goods of the said house with all diligence.

March 10. Woodstock.

Pardon to Brian de Brumpton the elder of 80l. in which he is bound to divers Jews.

Membrane 19 (Schedule).

Feb. 27. Westminster.

Licence for Robert, bishop of Bath and Wells, and Hugh Burnell, his brother, in consideration of the service which the said bishop, from his earliest years, has rendered to the king, to fell and take away to the said bishop's manor of Acton Burnell great and small timber, without livery, view, or any other impediment, in their woods of Conedovere, Wolstanston, Frodesleye, Hope Bulers, Corston and Russhebury, which are within the bounds of the forest of Salop.

[March 10. Woodstock.]

Simple protection, for three years, for Adam de Clare, parson of the church of Sullaton.

Feb. 27. Westminster.

Protection, with clause volumus, for two years, for Master John de Cadamo, clerk, going to the court of Rome.

The like, for two years, for Robert de Horwode, going with the said John to the court of Rome.

March 10. Woodstock.

Exemption of Reginald de Leygrave, at the instance of Alice his wife, who is in the king's service, from being put on assizes, juries, or recognisances so long as his wife remain in the king's service.

Safe-conduct, for two years, for Master John de Cadamo, going to the court of Rome.

March 11. Woodstock.

Grant to the mayor and burgesses of Appelby of pavage for six years.

Royal assent to the marriage of John de Asceles with one of the daughters of William de Sules.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Michaelmas, for Ranulph de Dacre, going beyond seas.

Safe-conduct, for five years, for David son of Bernard de Cork, trading.

March 13. Woodstock.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Michaelmas, for the following, going beyond seas on the king's special affairs:—

John de Vescy.

Roger de Shirland.

Richard de Bamfeld, clerk.

The like, for one year, for —, going beyond seas on the king's service.

March 13 Woodstock.

Grant to the bailiffs and good men of Stanes of pontage for five years on goods passing over their bridge, for the repair of such bridge.

The like to Hugh Griffin of Whatelegh for two years for the repair of the king's bridge of Harpeford.

Membrane 19 (Schedule).

March 15. Woodstock.

Licence for Robert, bishop of Bath and Wells, to enclose the churchyard of the cathedral church of Wells and the precinct of the canons' houses in the city with a stone wall, and to crenellate the same for their better security, making sufficient gates and posterns, to be opened at dawn.

[March 13. Woodstock.]

Grant to William le Botiller of Weringon of pontage for four years on goods passing over the bridge of Werington, for the repair of the said bridge.

March 15. Woodstock.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Robert son of Ralph de Tylly to the prior and convent of St. Oswald of a toft in Gomersale and the advowson of the church of Birstal.

March 30. Marwell (Marewell).

Writ de intendendo for Richard Gudicion[is], Henry de Podio, Francis Malesard, and Baldwin Panik and their fellows, merchants of Lucca, appointed as keepers and bailiffs of the king to take throughout Ireland half a mark for every sack of wool and half a mark for every 300 wool-fells, which make one sack, and one mark for every last of hides issuing from the said land.

Henry de Dingell, one of the canons, bringing news of the cession of Ivo, late abbot of Osolveston, has letters of licence to elect.

Mandate to all persons not to refuse to sell victuals to J. archbishop of York and his household, between whom and J. archbishop of Canterbury there are or may be questions in dispute, while he is on his way to the king in England; to be in force until the Ascension.

April 4. Chichester.

Simple protection, for one year, for Hugh Bardulf, going beyond seas.

April 5. Midhurst.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Michaelmas, for Richard de Waldegrave, going beyond seas.

Simple protection, until St. Peter ad Vincula, for Hugh, prior of Horton, going beyond seas.

MEMBRANE 18.

March 30. Marwell.

Grant to the bailiffs and good men of Southampton of murage for five years from Easter.

Mandate to the same to permit the said custom to be collected by the bailiff of Eleanor the king's consort and Nicholas de Barbeflet, and applied by their direction towards rebuilding the castle there, now in ruins.

April 4. Chichester.

Letters for Hugh, prior of Horton, going beyond seas, nominating John de Chezy and Henry son of William de Horton his attorneys until St. Peter ad Vincula.

The like for:—

John de Bristoll, clerk, going beyond seas, nominating Walter de Eucheton and Roger de Duntesburn for two years.

April 5. Midhurst.

The prior of Bath, staying in England, nominating Robert Cammel and Thomas de Oddewode in Ireland for two years.

April 12. Langley.

The prior of St. Nicholas, Exeter, staying in England, nominating brother Richard de Smalefeld and Robert Everard in Ireland for three years.

William de Caune, staying in England, nominating Thomas de Staunton and John Sparwe [in Ireland] for two years.

William de Hertewell, staying in England, nominating Richard le Porter and Michael de Chilham in Ireland for three years.

April 18. Langley.

The dean and chapter of Rouen nominating William, parson of the church of Herun, priest, and Richard Clappe until two years after Michaelmas.

Joan, late the wife of Theobald le Butillier, nominating William Redhod and Peter Spacham in Ireland until two years after Christmas.

April 21. Langley.

Alexander de Balliolo, going to Scotland, nominating Nicholas de Renham and John de Esteture for two years.

April 12. Langley.

Protection, with clause volumus, until All Saints, for Hugh de Turbervill, staying in Wales.

April 10. Langley.

Signification to O. bishop of Lincoln of the royal assent to the election of Robert de Lincoln, one of the canons, to be abbot of Osolveston.

April 12. Langley.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year, for William de Breuse the younger, going beyond seas on the king's service.

April 12. Langley.

Licence for the abbot and convent of Hide, Winchester, as a means of paying the 20l. yearly in which they are bound to the dean and chapter of Salisbury, to assign in mortmain to the bishop of Salisbury and the said dean and chapter the churches of Colingburn and Peueseye, in the diocese of Salisbury, which are of the convent's patronage.

Mandate to Malcolm de Harle, keeper of the archbishopric of York during voidance, to restore the temporalities to John le Romeyn, elected archbishop and confirmed therein by Honorius the Pope.

Writ de intendendo directed to the tenants.

The like to the dean and chapter of St. Peter's, York.

April 18. Langley.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Christmas, for John Savary, going beyond seas with the king.

The like, until All Saints, for Gilbert de Bridesale, going beyond seas.

April 16. Langley.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain to the abbot and convent of Stonleye in Ardern of divers small parcels of land in Stonleye by Robert de Wyghtlokesforde, Geoffrey de Staverton, Henry le Rutur, Simon Horn, Master Thomas de Kaneleye, Henry de Crulefeld, John de Stonleye, John del Hull, Robert Osbern, Thomas de Finham, Richard Frankeleyn, Elias de Meleburn, John de Longemore, Richard Fesaunt, Emma daughter of Wychard de Asshesho and Bernard de Asshesho; also of divers parcels of land in Cubinton by Geoffrey de Simily, Alice daughter of Geoffrey Frankhome and Juliana her sister, Robert le Fevre and Matilda Blowe and Alice de Simyly, Roger de la More, Geoffrey Elys, Thomas son of Peter and Robert son of Simon.

April 18. Langley.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Easter, for :—

Baldwin Drywel, going beyond seas with the king.

Richard de Bosco, going beyond seas with the king.

Licence, after inquisition ad quod damnum by the sheriff of Buckingham, for Edmund, earl of Cornwall, to enclose the king's highway leading through his wood of Esserugge and Berchamstede with a dike and hedge for the enlargement of his park there, and to make another road of the same length and breadth, safer, smoother, and clearer, on his own ground adjoining the hedge of his said park.

Pardon to Hugh son of Hugh de Walton for breaking from the prison of Oxford.

Licence for Hugh Griffin of Whateleye, in aid of the repairs now being carried out at the king's bridge of Harpeford, to quarry stone for the same in a waste place called Charlgrove, lying within the bounds of the forest between the covert thereof and the quarry of Whateleye.

Simple protection, for three years, for the prioress of Barwe.

April 21. Langley.

Protection, with clause volumus, until Martilmas, for Alexander de Balliolo, going to Scotland.

April 18. Langley.

The like, until All Saints, for Henry de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, going beyond seas with the king.

MEMBRANE 17.

April 18. Langley.

Protection, with clause volumus, for one year, for Roger de Redleye, going beyond seas on the king's affairs.

April 20. Langley.

Acquittance to Adam de Wetenhale, king's clerk, for the payment at Carnarvon, 5 July, 11 Edward I., to Master William de Luda, king's clerk, keeper of the wardrobe, of 200l., received from S. bishop of Waterford, justiciary of Ireland, by the hands of Walter, dean of Waterford, out of the issues of the Exchequer of Dublin, for that year. By bill of the wardrobe.

April 25. Westminster.

Notification that the king, having seen a deposit of 1000 marks in the abbey of St. Edmund's arising from the tenth from the clergy in England in aid of the Holy Land, and also letters obligatory [which are recited in full] of that convent made to Master Geoffrey de Vezano, clerk of the Pope's chamber and nuncio of the apostolic see, dated in the chapter of the monastery the morrow of Easter, 1286, whereby the said abbot and convent acknowledge the said deposit, and undertake at their own risk to transfer the same to the New Temple, London, within two months after requisition by the simple word of the said Geoffrey or other the papal nuncio, submitting in case of any accident to the jurisdiction of such nuncio, as by sentence of excommunication or interdict, and renouncing any aid from the civil or canon law, or from the royal prohibitions; and that, being in urgent need of money, he has received the said sum from the said abbot and convent, and binds himself in the terms of the foregoing letters to repay the same within two months after requisition made by them or by the said Geoffrey.

The like with respect to the following sums, which have been collected for the same purpose, borrowed from the following abbeys :—

The abbey of Westminster, 1000 marks.

The priory of Ely, 500l.

The abbey of Peterborough, 500l.

The abbey of Croyland, 500l.

The abbey of Certeseye, 300 marks.

The abbey of Waltham, 300 marks. Vacated by surrender.

The abbey of Thorneye, 500 marks.

The abbey of St. Augustin, Canterbury, 500 marks. Vacated by surrender in October, 9 Edward II.

The abbey of Rameseye, 1000l.

The abbey of St. Alban's, 1000 marks. Vacated by surrender.

The priory of Merton, 300l.

The abbey of Abindon, 1000 marks.

The abbey of Oseney, 500l.

Membrane 17 (Schedules).

The abbey of Croyland, 500l.

The abbey of St. Alban's, 1000 marks. [ Crossed as though cancelled.]

The abbey of Certeseie, 300 marks.

April 25. Westminster.

Hugh de Stapelbrigge and John de Strode, monks of Shireburn, bringing news of the cession of John de Saunde, late abbot, have letters of licence to elect.

Protection, with clause volumus, until All Saints, for Philip de Albin', going beyond seas with the king.

April 20. Langley.

Pardon to Henry de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, for taking without licence two bucks in the forest of Rokingham and one buck in the forest of Rotel [and], in the thirteenth year of the reign.

Simple protection, for three years, for Robert de Bures, staying in Wales on the king's service.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Anselm de Gorney to the abbot and convent of St. Peter, Gloucester, of 5s. yearly in land and rent in Beverstan, and of the advowson of the church there.

April 24. Westminster.

Letters for Huguicio, parson of the church of Otteford, staying beyond seas, nominating Forensis Cambii and Galvanus Johannis his attorneys for five years.

The like for:—

Nutus Fulberti, merchant of Florence, staying in England, nominating James Tynache and Simon son of William de Florenc' in Ireland for two years.

Adam de la Forde, going beyond seas, nominating Thomas Crek and Thomas Attenylonde until Easter.

Master William de Luda, going beyond seas with the king, nominating Simon de Cotes and Ralph de Luttegershal for one year.

The same William, [as] dean of St. Martin's le Grand, London, nominating William de Bonevill and Theobald Sorel in Ireland for one year.

Ralph de Whaddon, going beyond seas with the king, nominating Ralph de Hamenhal and John de Caune until All Saints.

Robert son of Walter, going beyond seas with the king, nominating William de Hamfeud and Ralph de Hemenhal until All Saints.

MEMBRANE 16.

April 21. Langley.

Protection, with clause volumus, for the following, going with the king beyond seas:—

April 26. Westminster.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by William de Bodrugan to the prior and convent of St. German of a messuage and 1½ acres of land in Gonathoda and Chapellond.

Grant, after inquisition by Peter de la Mare, constable of the castle of Bristoll and the mayor of the said town, that sellers of fish shall for the future stand at the king's outer stalls in the said town on the east side, instead of where they have hitherto stood.

Simple protection, for two years, for Nutus Fulberti and Burgensius, his brother, Laurence Jacobi, Simon son of William, and James Tynachi, merchants of Florence, staying in England.

Mandate to the justiciary of Ireland, and the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer of Dublin, to pay yearly to John de Kancia, one of the barons of that Exchequer, 20 marks as his fee of office.

April 25. Westminster.

Safe-conduct, for two years, for Simon le Sauvage, going to the Holy Land.

Simple protection for the same.

Pardon to Robert de Veer, earl of Oxford, of 200l. of reliefs and other debts due to the king.

Signification to bailiffs and others of Ireland that William de Hertwell is the brother and next heir of Nicholas de Hertwell, deceased, who called himself Nicholas Achard in Ireland, as appears by inquisition of the sheriff of Buckingham.

Pardon to Brian de Brumpton the elder of 80l. in which he is bound to Joceus son of Manasses, Jew of Hereford.

April 26. Westminster.

Mandate to Master Henry de Bray, escheator this side Trent, to restore the temporalities of Osolveston abbey to Robert de Lincoln, one of the canons, abbot elect.

Writ de intendendo directed to the tenants.

Safe-conduct, for two years, for Thomas Tilly of Cyrencestre, trading.

Licence for Richard de Holebrok and Isabella his wife to retain the warren of Leventon, provided the same is not within the bounds of the forest, granted to him in fee simple by Roger Bigod, late earl of Norfolk, marshal of England, in his lifetime by a charter which the king has inspected, certain tenants, both free and villein there, and 5 acres of heath in Kilverton being granted along with the said warren.

April 27. Westminster.

Licence, after inquisition ad quod damnum by Henry le Waleys and Gregory de Rokeslegh, for Master William de Luda, dean of St. Martin's le Grand, London, and the chapter, to close a road running between their churchyard and the church of St. Leonard on the west side.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Henry le Waleys to the abbot and convent of Gerendon of two messuages and two virgates of land in Raveneston.

Safe-conduct, for two years, for William de Kenynton, merchant of Stanes, trading.

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Philip de Sutton to the prior and convent of St. Thomas the Martyr by Stafford, of a messuage, a carucate and 5 acres of land, and 5 acres of wood in Rewele.

The like to the abbot and convent of Fecamp by Geoffrey Brian, clerk, of a messuage and 50 acres of land in Brede, and by Alan le Chesemonger and Alice his wife of a plot of land containing 1 rood in Hastingges.

Pardon to Henry son of William de Oure, for the death of William son of Richard de Oure, as it appears by the inquisition of the sheriff of Cambridge that he killed him by misadventure.

Protection, with clause volumus, for three years, for John de Aqua Blanca, dean of the church of St. Ethelbert, Hereford, going beyond seas.

Pardon to Henry Gyles of Thingden for the death of Adam Wodeman, as it appears by the record of the sheriff and coroners of Northampton that he killed him in self-defence.

Exemption, for life, of Robert de la Felde from being put on assizes, juries, or recognisances, and from appointment as sheriff, &c.

Simple protection, for three years, for John son of John Mautravers, staying in England.