1252, membranes 14d, 12d, 11d, 10d, 9d, 7d, 6d, 5d, 4d, 3d, 2d, 1d

1252, membranes 14d, 12d, 11d, 10d, 9d, 7d, 6d, 5d, 4d, 3d, 2d, 1d

MEMBRANE14d.

1251.Dec.28.York.

Mandate to all persons to arrest John de Chelmeresford, who is travelling with a white sumpter horse of the king's, to keep him until further order, and to hand over the said sumpter to the bearer Thomas, the king's sumpter-man.

MEMBRANE 12d.

Commission to J. Gumbaud, W. de Axemue and Gilbert de Cheyles to go to the town of Hagham, and in conjunction with the coroners of that province, having summoned such knights, freemen and villeins with the wapentakes and 'treinges' as they think necessary, to enquire by the oath of all by whom the truth can be known, touching the persons who lately killed James de London, yeoman of W. de Valence, between the said town of Hagham and London, and carried away the money on him, and their aiders and abettors, and take those whom they find guilty; and the sheriff is to keep these safe until further order.

Prohibition of a tournament to be held at Cantebrig before Easter.

Commission to Roger de Wycestre and Peter de Tany, to enquire, in the presence of the keeper of the king's pleas in the county of Essex, by the oath of lawful men, touching the persons who by night burned the houses of Christiana de Plumberge in Little Beniflet; and the sheriff will attach all those guilty thereof to be before the king on the quinzaine of Easter.

MEMBRANE 11d.

1252.Feb.24.Westminster.

Commission to the abbot of Persore, the prior of Hurle and Walerand le Tieis, to extend all the lands late of William de Brause father of Maud wife of Roger de Mortuo Mari, Eve wife of William de Cantilupo and Eleanor wife of Humphrey de Boun, and to make a partition thereof according to the form of the concord made between them before the king, sent herewith.

[Feb. 25. Westminster.]

The like to S. bishop of Carlisle, R. de Turkelby, Gilbert Prestun and Adam de Hilton appointing them as justices for common pleas in the counties of Nottingham and Derby, to meet on the morrow of Easter at Nottingham; and on a day and place to be fixed by them to hold like pleas of the counties of Warwick and Leicester.

Appointment of Geoffrey de Langele, justice of the forest, to enquire who entered the park of Robert de Muscegros of Curymalet, co. Somerset, and carried away deer; and mandate to the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset to find jurors.

The like to John son of Hugh, William de Diva, Simon de Hale and Gilbert de Sancto Laudo, to deliver the gaol of Lincoln of William de Blukevill and Oliver his brother, detained there for a robbery committed against Peter le Clerk, serjeant of John le Despenser, but who were unwilling to do justice on them without the king's special precept, to do justice on them according to the law of the land and the custom of the realm on the morrow of the Close of Easter next.

And it is commanded to the sheriff of Lincoln that he have the said William and Oliver and twelve men of the hundred where the robbery took place and four men and the reeve from the adjoining townships on the said day and place.

April 18. Westminster.

Prohibition of a tournament to be held at Salisbury a month after Easter.

MEMBRANE 10d.

Commission to William le Bretun and Giles de Erdinton to hold a plea of the crown at the Tower of London touching the death of Thomas Ernaldi, yeoman of Roger de Wycestre, who hanged himself with a noose by misadventure, and touching all the persons attached for that death; and they are to meet at the Tower a fortnight after Easter.

In the place of the said William who was ill, John de Wivill was substituted.

April 1. Westminster.

Request to the king of Norwaye to take under his safe conduct until Easter next Geoffrey le Faucuner and Robert and Walter his fellows, going to his parts to buy goshawks and other things, so that the king may be bound to return like favours.

MEMBRANE 9d.

April 12. Chertsey.

Mandate to the priors of Kenilleworth and St. Sepulchre's, Warwick, to prohibit in the king's name any tournament to be held at Warwick.

Appointment of A. la Zuche, justice of Chester, James de Audithele, William de Axemue and John Gubaud to enquire touching injuries and trespasses lately committed upon the king and his men in the counties of Salop and Stafford and the march by Thomas Corbet.

MEMBRANE 7d.

June 6. Westminster.

To Peter de Burdegala. As the king has special confidence in him and he is attached (attinetis) to Arnald Willelmi de Acro Monte, the king has directed his letters to S. de Monteforti, earl of Leicester, to deliver the said Arnald, who is in prison at La Réole, to the said Peter and Walter de Arundel, king's serjeant, whom he is sending to him for this purpose. As soon as the said Arnald is delivered from prison, he is to receive from him the castle of Gramont (de Acro Monte) and cause the knights and others of the realm of France there imprisoned to be delivered, and he is to keep the said castle in the king's name until the Purification and the king will satisfy him for all costs and expenses of the keeping thereof.

Mandate to the said earl to deliver the said Arnald to the said Peter and Walter and to find them safe-conduct in leading the said Arnald through the land of Gascony, whither the king has commanded them.

Mandate to the said Peter and Walter to receive the said Arnald from the earl, and the said Walter is to bring Arnald to the king in England.

To the said Arnald. Out of pity of his imprisonment the king is sending to Gascony his serjeant Walter de Arundel for his delivery, and as he has often intimated to the king that he would willingly commit to Nicholas de Molis or some other subject of the king except the earl of Leicester or an adherent of the earl's party, and stand his trial before the king touching any trespasses committed by him in the time of the peace entered into between the king and the said Nicholas in the king's name, and the king understands that he is connected with Peter de Burdegala by kinship and affection, the king commands him to commit the said castle to the said Peter to keep in the king's name and to deliver the knights and others of the realm of France there detained, and to come with the said Walter to the king in England and the king will do him such justice touching the grievances inflicted upon him that he shall be content.

June 8. Westminster.

To L. king of France. In reply to his request that the king would hasten his departure for the Holy Land, the king remembers that he wrote back and told him that if he would restore the king's lands seized by the said king of France and his progenitors, the king would hasten his journey and expose his body and goods in the service of the cross to the increase of the honour of the said king of France. And though the king's passage is fixed, he will anticipate that date if restitution is made.

To M. queen of France. The king has appointed his journey to the Holy Land for four years from Midsummer Day, 1252, if the king of France will restore the lands seized by him and requests her to let that king know that he will anticipate that date if restitution is made.

[Fœdera.]

MEMBRANE 6d.

To the patriarch of Jerusalem, informing him that the king took the cross a fortnight after Easter and fixed the above date for his journey, which he may intimate to the magnates of the Holy Land, and that the king will anticipate that date if the king of France make restitution of his lands.

The like to :—

The archbishop of Tyre.

Th. [rectius H.] king of Cyprus.

Boemund, prince of Antioch and count of Tripoli.

Ætto, king of Armenia.

Constantinus, bajulus of Arm'.

John de Ibelin, count of Joppa (Jopen').

John de Fogiis, constable of Acre.

Philip de Monte Forti, lord of Tyre (Tarron').

J. lord of Cæsarea.

The consul and commonalty of Genoa.

The consul and commonalty of Pisa.

The consul and commonalty of Venice. [Fœdera.]

The like to:—The masters of the Temple, the Hospital, and the house of the hospital of the Teutons, with this added, to wit, a request to prepare the best ships for the accommodation of the king, so that they may be prepared and furnished with sailors and armour for one year before the king's passage, so that the horses, arms and other things which the king wishes to send beforehand to the Holy Land may be safely carried there, and care taken that when the king's serjeants arrive with the said things they may have safe houses and store-houses where they can be received with the said goods until the king's arrival. And the following year the said ships shall be sent back for the transport of the king and his following. [Fœdera.]

Mandate to the mayor, jurats and commonalty of Bayonne to protect R. bishop of Bayonne, who has come to England to the king and is staying some time, the king having taken him and his goods under his protection.

The like to the earl of Leicester.

Mandate to the mayor, jurats, and commonalty of Bordeaux to elect jurats every year according to the provision made before the king when he was last at Bordeaux, to wit, that equal numbers should be selected from each party every year.

June 12. Windsor.

Bond to William, prior of Le Mas, in the diocese of Agen, that the king will on his side cause Raymond and Donatus de Pinibus, his brothers, Arnold and Pictavius de Pinibus, his uncles, who were taken at Bordeaux by S. de Monte Forti, earl of Leicester, after the fight there with the Columbi, to be replevied without delay, and will also cause Rostand de Solio on his side to do the like, so that they shall stand their trial by the person or persons whom the king shall send to Gascony for the preservation of the truce and the execution of the articles contained therein, which after deliberation with the Council the king arranged between the said earl and his accomplices on the one side, and certain magnates and other the king's faithful subjects of Gascony on the other side, until next Purification. And the said person or persons sent to Gascony are commanded to receive the said brothers and uncles of the prior and their pledges on sufficient security for their trial.

By J. Maunsell.

Mandate to the mayor, jurats, and commonalty of Bordeaux to protect Ruffetus Lamberti, Peter Caylau and Bernard de Ayllano, their fellow citizens, whom the king has commanded to come to him in England, and they are not to be molested by reason of their coming to England.

By J. Mansell.

Mandate to S. de Monte Forti that according to the courts and customs of Gascony to cause restitution to be made of the arrested goods of Peter Bonefans and Bernard Bidau, who have purged themselves fittingly (decenter) at Bordeaux of the crime charged against them, it being unjust that as they have neither been convicted nor have confessed nor been sentenced, they should be deprived of their goods. By J. Maunsell.

As the king has heard that three years since certain words passed between the king of Navarre and the dean of St. Andrews, Bordeaux, touching the making of friendship between him and the king of England, and this would be agreeable to the king's will, the king is sending the said dean to the presence of the king of Navarre requesting [unfinished and cancelled].

June 16. Windsor.

Mandate to the mayor, jurats and commonalty of Bordeaux to prevent disturbances being made by reason of the dissensions and contentions between Gaillard Columbi and his party and Gaillard de Solariis and his party in the city of Bordeaux, but to quieten these contentions until the king's arrival in Gascony, as the king intends with their counsel and that of religious men to cause the same to be settled in his presence.

By J. Maunsell.

Appointment of Roscelin de Fos, master of the Knights Templars in England and Nicholas de Molis as conservators of the truce which the king wishes to be made between S. de Monte Forti, earl of Leicester, the king's lieutenant in Gascony, and his party, and Gaston, vicomte of Bearn, Amanieu de Lebretto and the towns of La Réole and Bazas and all others of the land of Gascony who have any complaint against the earl and his party and wish to be in the truce until the Purification.

Mandate to the earl of Leicester to permit Pernell wife of Peter de Roker, who, though bailed (manulevata) at 500 marks, is detained in the castle of Roker, to go to her husband and leave the castle.

June 22. Winchester.

Appointment of William le Bretun, Nicholas de Turri and William de Axemuth to make inquisition between the king and the abbot of Torneye and the prior of Huntedon touching a plea of land and the advowson of churches in Huntedon on Wednesday after St. Matthew's Day, and to send their inquisition to the king without delay.

Aug. 2. Woodstock.

Appointment of Gilbert de Preston and Ralph de Gayton to amerce all those of the counties of Oxford, Berks, Cambridge and Huntingdon, who have trespassed touching the exchange of the king's money; and mandate to the sheriffs to cause the same to come before them.

MEMBRANE 5d.

The like of William le Bretun and Richard de Turri to amerce all those of the city of London, who have changed money or other silver contrary to the statute of the change on Sunday after St. James the Apostle at St. Martin le Grand, London: and the king has commanded the mayor and sheriffs of London to have all such before them on that day.

July 8. Clarendon.

To S. bishop of Carlisle and Gilbert de Prestun. Although the king lately appointed them justices to take an assize of novel disseisin which Robert de Tatteshale arramed before the king by order of the king against William de Ferrariis, earl of Derby, touching a tenement in Caston, it is his will nevertheless that the said assize be taken on the morrow of St. Mary Magdelen before the justices in eyre in the county of Warwick because it was formerly summoned before the justices in eyre in the county of Leicester and it has remained there to be taken there before the same by pretext of letters patent whereby the king granted to the earl the lands of the Normans of the king's fee; and therefore he commands them not to intermeddle at present in the taking of the assize, for he has commanded the sheriff of Leicester to cause it to come before the said justices in the county of Warwick on the said day.

Appointment of Master Simon de Wautton and Giles de Erdinton as justices in a plea which the king sues against Robert de Sithing, William son of Ralph the Chaplain and others, wherefore they entered by night the land late of Thomas de Ingoldesthorp in Hillington, which is in the king's keeping, and carried away the green corn there. With mandate to the sheriff of Norfolk.

MEMBRANE 4d.

Aug. 7.Woodstock.

Appointment of Giles de Erdinton with &c. to hear and determine all strifes and contentions which have arisen between the abbot of Westminster and his men and the abbot of Persore and his men, at Persore: with mandate to the sheriff of Worcester. And if anything ambiguous arise before him on account of which these cannot be determined, let him postpone the same before the king, fixing a day for the parties to appear.

The like of Henry de Mar' and Reynold de Cobeham to enquire touching the death of Matthew the Chaplain of London and do justice on those found guilty of the death, according to law and the custom of the realm and of the city of London at the Tower of London on the octave of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: and the mayor and sheriffs of London are commanded to cause to come before them on that day all the aldermen of the said city and twelve men from every ward, as well this side of Walebroc as beyond.

Aug. 16. Woodstock.

The like of Amisius de Oryol, Robert Pyn, Buuer de Munvevre, William le Eveske, Richard de Lundrey, John de Lond[on], Adam de Geudeforth, James de Molendin', Richard de Wynghenerth, Richard de Watford, Imbert Mal. sauk, Richard le Neyr, Jordan de Flemstede, Robert de London, Adam de Flemstede, Walter de Brummeleg, Jordan de Putteham, Walter de Putteham Joh [n] de Putteham, Henry le Charetter, and Curtas le Charetter, to maintain and defend the right of advowson of the church of Flamested which the king has, by reason of his wardship of the land and heir of Ralph de Tong, and to which church he has presented Artaud de Sancto Romano, king's clerk.

Aug. 16. Woodstock.

The like of John de Lessinton as justice with the sheriff of Lincoln to make a perambulation between the land of William Bardolf in Amewik and Coteland and the land of William de Kime in Kyme and Nortkime, to which they have submitted before the king; and the king has commanded the sheriff to provide twelve knights of that county to make the said perambulation, and to summon the parties to be present thereat, and under the seals of the said John and himself and by four of the knights who took part in the perambulation to let the justices know at the first, &c.

MEMBRANE 3d.

Aug. 26. St. Alban's.

The like of G. de Langele as justice with Baldwin de Paunton to make inquisition touching purprestures made upon the king in the forest of the Peak and to revoke the same, and to make certain purveyances in those parts which the king enjoined upon him at Brehull; and mandate to the said G. to go thither with all convenient speed.

Aug. 27. Temple Dinsley.

Mandate to the barons and goodmen of Gascony that if one of the parties between whom the king has commanded a truce to be kept by R. master of the Knights Templars in England and Nicholas de Molis, is willing to keep such truce, they are to help that party. And if Simon de Monte Forti, earl of Leicester, oppose such truce or disturb the party ready to observe it they are not to obey the earl in any way or to hold him as seneschal, but they are always to observe their whole fealty to the king. By K. Geoffrey de Lezingnan, J. Maunsell, B. de Crioll.

MEMBRANE 2d.

[Sept.] 26. Windsor.

Appointment of Henry de la Mare and Roger son of Roger to enquire by jury of the city of London who killed at London Matthew the chaplain of London and by whose order.

Oct. 12. Westminster.

The like of Master Simon de Wautton as the king's superior justice to go on eyre for common pleas, with Gilbert de Preston, Alan de Wassand, Henry de Colevill and Robert de Ripariis, in the counties of Oxford, Berks and Northampton.

The like of William de Bretun and John de Wivill to enquire by jury of the county of Middlesex, who killed Thomas le Rus, the king's serjeant of Havering, at Stebbenh[ithe], and by whose order and counsel; and mandate to the sheriff to &c. and to attach all those found guilty by the inquisition to have their bodies before the king on the octaves of St. Martin to answer touching that trespass. And let them send the inquisition to the king.

Oct. 16. Westminster.

Mandate to the masters and mariners of those ships which lately came to Portesmue against the king's crossing to Gascony, that they may retire from the port of Portesmue and go where they like until further orders, as the king has put off his crossing at present.

MEMBRANE 1d.

Oct.19.Westminster.

Appointment of Henry de Mara to enquire by oath of goodmen of the vicinage of the rape of Peveneshe by what bounds and metes William, sometime count of Mortain (Morton') held his warren belonging to his warren (? barony) of Peveneshe and mandate to the sheriff of Sussex to provide jurors, and, when the inquisition has been made, to cause proclamation to be made throughout the county and prohibit on the king's behalf, upon forfeiture of 10l., anyone from entering the said warren or taking anything therein, without the will of Peter de Sabaudia, upon whom the king has conferred the said barony and warren.