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BRIGHT LEGACY
One h«lf the Income from thb Legacy, which waa re- ceired in l88o nnder the will of
JONATHAN BROWN BRIGHT of Waltham, Maaaachuctts, b to be expended for boolu for the College Library. The other half of the income is deroted to KholarahiiM in Harvard Unirenity for the benefit of detcendanta of
HENRY BRIGHT, JR., who died at Watenown, Maaaachuctts, in 1686. In the absence of rach descendants, other persons are eligible to the scholarships. The will requires that this announce- ment shall be made in erery book added to the Library nnder its provisions.
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CALENDAR
OF THE
CLOSE ROLLS
PHESBBYSD IN THE
1,, >vX_ PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.
PBKPABBD UMDBB THE 8UPEBINTBMDENCE OF
THE DEPUTY KEEPER OP THE RECORDS.
EDWARD I.
A.D. 1272—1279.
PUBUSHSD BY ATJTHORITT OF HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OP STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT.
LONDON:
FEINTED FOB HBE MAJESTY'S STATIONER'S OFFICE,
BY KYBE AND SPOTTISWOODE,
FBINIE28 TO THE QITEEN's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
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90, West Nile Street, Glasgow ; or
HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., Limtcbd, 104, Graiton Street, DcrBLiir.
1900.
JAN 31 lyui
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CONTENTS
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1»RE F A CE.
The present volnme forms part of a series of Calendars of the Close Bolls from the reign of Edward I. to that of Edward IV. the object and character of which are explained in the Preface to the first volume for the reign of Edward II. (a.d. 1307—1313). The text has been prepared, with the sanction of the Lords Com- missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by Mr. W. H. Stevenson, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. The Index has been compiled by Mr. 0. H. Woodruff, B.C.L., Mr. Stevenson having assisted him by identifying most of the places.
H. 0. MAXWELL LYTE.
Public Becord Office,
11 Augua 1900.
CORRIGENDA.
Psge 34, Line 1, afier Stephen add « (stc) ".
y, 144y „ 80, far Ihirham recLd Devon.
„ 146, „ 1, for (Jryt rtad Gryc.
„ 159, M Sl> for Angmundiflham read Aogmaadisliam.
,y 191, „ 4, for Ganardi read Gauardi.
„ 195, „ 24, after Flanders add " (tic) '\
„ 904, „ 16, for le read de.
„ 210, „ 9 from bottom, deiU is.
„ 931, „ 80, /or le recuf de.
,, 969, „ 10, dde de.
„ 978, „ 89, /or Robert reoJBalph.
„ 295, „ 4 from bottom, ybr Teryak read Temak.
„ 296, „' 7, for heir read their.
„ 389, „ 90 from bottom, /or and read and.
» 847, „ 14 from bottom,/or daughter read daughter.
„ 356, „ 10 from bottom,/or Swynebum read Swynebnrn.
„ 860, „ 27, cfier Hertford add " («c) ".
„ 864, „ 6, after Joan add " («c) ".
„ 369, „ 8 from bottom, cfler John add *' (sic) ".
„ 880, „ 15, for Martigny read Marcigny.
„ 889, „ 15, /or Gamhoareo^Gainhon.
„ 884, „ 6, for Dune read Anne.
„ 387, „ 13, 17, for Lenedal read Levedal.
„ 887, „ 15 from bottom, /br James read Jacob.
„ 420, „ 8 from bottom, /or Finn read Pinu.
„ 420, „ 2 from bottom,/or Gwiilemide read Gwillemi de.
„ 487, „ 1, after Helebrok add " (sic) *\
„ 448, „ 19, for Winchester read Worcester.
„ 450, „ 4, /or Annou recM^ Aunou.
„ 4.59, „ 4 and 5, /or son rea<2 daughter.
„ 471, „ 12, after Norfolk add " (sic) ".
„ 474, „ 11, /or huntsmen r«a(2 huntsman.
„ 482, „ 10 from bottom,/or Heury read Henry.
„ 496, „ 6 from bottom, after Hereford cM " (sic) '\
„ 509, „ 14,/)r Thorns recui Thomas.
., 581, „ 24, /or Belle rea<2 Bello.
CALENDAR
OF
CLOSE ROLLS.
1 EDWARD I.
Clause de anno regni regis Edwardi Jilii regis Henrici primo^ [^qtu> scilicet idem rex agebat in partibus transmarinis in redeundo a Terra Sancta.*]
1272.
Nov. 23. Westminiter.
Nov. 29. The New Temple, LfOndon.
Membranb 11.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the king's {)eace to be proclaimed and observed in his bailiwick, inhibiting all and singular, under pain of disinheritance, of life and of limbs, from infringing the king's peace, as the government of the realm has come to the king by the death of king Henrj his father by hereditary succession and by the will of the proceres of the realm and by their fealty done to the king, wherefore the magnates have caused the king's peace to be proclaimed in the king's name, who is here- after the debtor to all and singular of the realm in the exhibition of justice and in the preservation of the peace. The king is and will be prepared to exhibit justice, by the Lord's will, to all and singular in all rights and things touching them against all persons whatsoever, great and smaU. Witnesses : W. archbishop of York, E. earl of Cornwall, and Q. earl of Gloucester. [Fcedera; Prynne, Records^ iii. 117.]
The like to all the sheriffs of England. [^IbidJ]
To John de Reygate, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the Jate king ordered John to make an extent of the lands whereof Henry de Percy, tenant in chief of the said king, was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, with the exception of the manors of Petteswonh and Toppeclyve, whereof Eleanor, late the wife of Henry, was enfeoffed, and to cause dower of Henry's other lands to be assigned to Eleanor, and the escheator, asserting that he could not attend to the making ot* the extent aforesaid, deferred assigning the dower, whereupon the late king again ordered him to cause the tenements to be extended in the presence of John de Oketou, on behalf of Queen Eleanor, to whom the lato king granted the custody of the lands of the said Henry, John de Oketou being sent to those parts for this reason, and to cause dower to be assigned to the said Eleanor de Percy : the king, wishing to put the said order into execution, orders the escheator to cause the lands to be extended and to cause dower to be assigned to Eleanor, so that the dower may be assigned to her by the escheator's hands in the king's name without delay. Given by the hand of Walter de Merton, the chancellor. By C.
* The words within bracket* occur in the intitulalion at the foot of Membrane 1. 96998. Wt. 135.
CALENDAR OP CLOSE ROLLS.
Dec. 1.
The New Temple.
Dec. 2. The New Temple.
1272. Memhratie 11 — cont,
Nov. 29. To L[lewelyn] son of Griffin, prince of Wales. Order to come to the ford The New of Montgomery in person, so that he be there in the octaves of St. Hilary Temple. next, to make oath of fealty to the king before the king's envoys whom the king shall send there specially to receive the fealty, as they shall cause him to know on the king's behalf, as the government of the realm has come to the king by his father's death, and he has caused his peace to be proclaimed, and the prelates, earls, barons, and other proceres of the realm have promptly and without omission made oath of fealty and have done the other things that they could do or make to the king in his absence by reason of his crown and royal dignity, and L[lewelyn] is bound to do the like, as he knows. Witnesses: W. archbishop of York, and E. earl of Cornwall. IFoedera.]
To Master Richard do Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Alyna de Baton [ia] the manor of Redenhale, and to restore to her the issues thereof, as it appears to the king that she was enfeoffed thereof by him jointly with Nicholas de Yattingedene, her late husband. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
To John de Reygate, escheator beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Queen E[leanor], the king's mother, or to her envoy, the custody of the lands that belonged to Henry de Percy, saving to Eleanor, late the wife of Henry, her dower, which the escheator shall first assign to her as by the king's hand, as the king ordered the escheator at another time, the late king having assigned to the said queen the custody of the lands, to be held according to a form provided by him and his council. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
Nov, 29. To the abbot of Hagheman. Order to go to the ford of Montgomery The New with the abbot of Dore, as the king has ordered L[lewelyn] son of Griffin Temple. to be there to make fealty before them as they shall enjoin him on the king's behalf. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor. The like, ' de verbo ad verbum^* to the abbot of Dore.
To all, etc. Grant to the aforesaid abbots of power to receive the fealty of Llewelyn (Lenlini)^ prince of Wales, so that if both of them cannot be present, the one <vlio shall be present shall have full power to receive Llewelyn's fealty.
Dec. 2. To Llewelyn (Leulino) son of Griffin, prince of Wales. Whereas
Westminster, according to the i'orni of peace concluded between the late king and Llewelyn, the latter is bound to the king in 3,000 marks, to be paid at Christmas next, as LUiwelyn knows, and the king is bound to divers credi- tors in a great sum of money (or the discharge of the expenses incurred by him in the service of God in the Holy Land, so that he greatly needs the aforeijJiid 3,(XJ0 marks ; he tliercifore orders Llewelyn to consider the fact that the king luis been, is, and will be ready U) observe the said peace inviolably from the linn? of its conclusion, and to send the said sum to Chester at the said feast :it the latest, there to be delivered for custody to the abbot of Chester or brother Alan, his monk, as the king has enjoined upon the abbot. Tliis Llewelyn is to neglect in no wise as he loves the king and his honour, and as the king specially trusts him. The king is sending to the abbot and monk his letters pntent, which are to be delivered to Llewelyn upon piiynient of the ulbresaid sum. Witnesses : W. archbishop of York and E. earl of Cornwall. [Fwdera.]
Dec. 6. To Roger de la Lye and Elijis de Hertford, the king's clerks. Order to
The New go forthwith to th(^ chest of the chirographers at London sealed with their
Temple. seals, and after they have laid aside {depodtis) the seals, to deliver the
keys thereof to John Chipp and Robert Heyrun, the Christian chirographers,
to put in and take out charters as pertains to tlieir office. Given by the
hand of Walter de Merton, the ehancellor.
1 EDWABD I,
1272. Membrane 11 — cont.
Dec 14. To John de Beygate, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Adam de
Bolteby, son and heir of Nicholas de Bolteby, tenant in chief, to have
seisin of the lands whereof his father was s^^ised at his death in his demesne as of fee, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the CHcheator that Nicholas did not hold any lands of the king in chief except those that were of the inheritance of Philippa, formerly hiw wife, tenant in chief by barony, which the king has rendered to the said Adam, son and heir of Nicholas and Philippa.
To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to Lucy, late the wife of Herbert Peche, half a knight's fee in Preston and Fenne and the manor of Edelington, and to i-estore the issues thereof to her, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Herbert held the half -fee and manor of the inheritance of Lucy, and by no other right.
Dec. 14. To the barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the account of the
Westminster, executors of William de Glouc[estria] in accordance with the late king's order in their hands at the exchequer, as William received at divers timen great sums of money from the late king's treasury by the hands of the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer and from the said kizy^'s wardrobe and from elsewhere in order to make divers jewels of the said king, and for the repair of his jewels, and to make a frontal (spontale) for the greater altar of the church of Westminster, and to make a silver image over (ultra) the tomb of Katherine, daughter of the said king, in that church, and for the making of the shrine of St. Edward, and for divers other works, for which William in his lifetime did not render account before them at the exchequer or elsewhere, wherefore the late king ordered them to audit William's account of the said works by Henry de Otinton, clerk, and the other executors of William's will, and they have deferred doing so by reason of the late king's death. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
To John de Beygate, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause Walter de Faukenberge and Agnes his wife, one of the sisters and heiresses of Peter de Brus, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the following lands, etc., upon their finding security for payment of their relief, as the king has taken Walter's fealty for the lands, etc., and has rendered them to them, to be held of him in chief by the service of a quarter of a knight's fee, which Peter owed to the king for the inheritance aforesaid, on condition that Walter come before the king on his arrival in England to do homage : the castle of Skelton, with the park this side the castle and with the profits of the boats of Cotum and Bidekere, with the demesnes of Skelton, the meadows, dales, and rents of the town of Ske]tx)n, both of freemen and of others, and with all mills and toll, and with the manor of Mersk with all appurtenances, and with Bidekere, and with Oplyom, and with the town of Stangho, and with the town of Grenrugg, and with the forest (forr') of Skelton, to wit with the enclosure (hat/a) and great park and with Asdale, and with the chace of Westwik with the forest as the highway extends between Stangho and Elatereriding, and as the highway extends to Lardegate, and so by Skeytel^ek to Larthom, and so to the boundary (divisam) of the forest (forr*) of Daneby, and so by that boundary to Colemendale, and so that all the chaces within the boundaries, to wit Locwit, Wervelscho, Hardale, and Hale, and with the herbage of La Gren and of La Dinant, saving to Walter and Agnes and the townships common of pasture for their cattle and beasts, as Peter and the townships were wont to have, with all the town of Estbrun, except 4^ bovates of land and four tofts assigned to John de Bella Aqua and Laderona his wife, one of the sisters and heiresses of the said Peter, and with a moiety of the bailiwick
CALENDAR OF CLOSE BOLLS.
^273, Membrane 10 — cont.
the late king granted to ber for her life, in accordance with the said king's writ of liberate in their possession at the exchequer.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to pay to Henry, fletcher (attilliatort) of the king's crossbows in Gloucester castle, who receives 5d. a day for wages, his wages from St. Hilary last until Whitsuntide neirt. Jan. 27. To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Order to permit William son of
Westminster. Hugh to have hie chattels, which were confiscated for his flight upon his being indicted before the late king's justices last in eyre in those counties for homicide, arson, and other trespasses, his goods being confiscated at the suit of the peace of the said king and not at the appeal or the suit of any other, and to restore to him his lands, which were taken into the king's hands for this reason, as the king, at the instance of certain of his friends, has caused William's chattels to be restored to him. Given by the hand of W. de Merton.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to respite until the quinzaine of Easter next the demand upon Eoger de Trumpton for 252/. 0.t. dd. for the king's use of the debts of the Jews by reason of the lands and heir of Robert de Hardredeshull, which are in Roger's hatds by commission of Warin de Bassingburn, to whom the late king granted [them] during the minority of Robert's heir, and to restore Roger's goods (averia) taken for this reason.
Jan. 27. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to Hamo
Westminster. Hautayn and Robert de Ludham, whom the king has appointed his justices
for the custody of his Jews, the keys of the chest of the Jewry, together
with the rolls, writs, and other things touching the Jewry. Given by the
hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause Orabilla, late the wife of William de Staundon, to have seisin of the land in Little Cressing' that William held of the master and brethren of the military order of the Temple in England in socage, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff, whereby the custody of the land pertains to the nearest [friend] of William's heir, Orabilla being the nearest [friend] of the heir.
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to pay, out of the ferm of the city, to Matilda, late the wife of John Picard, who takes 4c?. a day, to Alice Arnald, whot akes l^d. a day, and to Edmund (£mundo) Pecok, who takes 2^d. a day, for their lives of the appointed alms of the late king, the arrears of the said sums up to Thursday the feast of St. Mary next, and from then to cause them to have the said daily sums until Whitsuntide next as they were wont to have them.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Order not to deliver
to anyone until otherwise ordered a ship laden with Flemish wool there
arrested by them.
Feb. 1. To Roger de Cliff [ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
Westminster, release Peter de Nevill, charged with Uespass in the king's forest of Roteland, who is now appealed in co. Rutland by Robert de Cleyle for robbery and breach of the peace, as Philip de Bokeland, William de Paries, John Carbonel, and Roger de Kerdingtcn have mainperned before the king to have him before the king at the pleas of the Forest in that county to stand to right concerning the said trespass, in order that he may the more freely and securely attend to his defence in the said appeal in person. Q-iven by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
Feb. 3. To Roger de Cliff [ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. As the
Westminster, king learns that Master Robert de Picheford, Master Hugh de Lynton,
Robert de Picheford and William de Prene have long been detained in
prison in that bailiwick for a trespass of the Forest chiu'ged upon them at
1 EDWARD I.
1273. Membrane 10 — cont,
the procuration of their enemies, the king orders the justice, if Robert, Hugh, Robert, and William are imprisoned for this trespass and for no other cause, and if they find sufficient mainpernors to have them before the justice at the pleas of the Forest in those parts to stand to right concerning the trespass, to deliver the said Robert, Hugh, Robert, and William in bail to the mainpernors as aforesaid, so that it may not be imputed to the justice that he has acted in a lukevrarm or remiss manner in the execution of this order out of favour or hatred of any one, whereby the king should have to extend his hands to this. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
Membrane 10. — Schedule,
Jan. 26, To Master R. de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to permit
Westminster. Peter, son and heir of Robert de la Mare, tenant in chief of the late king, to enltiviite and sow the lands whereof his father was seised in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, until Whitsuntide next, in order that Peter may come to the king to do homage for the said lands, as the late king immediately after Robert's death ordered the escheator to take all the lands whereof Robert was so seised into the king's hands, and to keep them safely until further orders, and the late king did not take Peter's homage when he after- wards came to his court to do homage, because the first seisin of those lands had not yet como into the said king's hands, as is customary in like case, becausie certain men, justifying (advocantes) themselves by Edmund de Allem[annia], earl of Cornwall, had occupied certain of the said lands. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor,
Mbmbranb 9.
Feb. 2. To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order
Westminster, to release on the following mainprise Saer de Harecurt, charged with trespass in the forest of Roteland, who is now appealed in oo. Rutland by Robert de Cleyle for robbery and breach of the peace, as William Giffard, John do Cheyneye, Thomas de Weseham and Geoffrey de Reyning' have mainperned before the king to have him before the said justice at the pleas of the forest in that county, to stand to right concerning the said trespass, in order that he may the more freely and set'urely attend to his defence in the appeal in his own person. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the ehancelloi.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to William de Middelton the rolls and writs of the king's Jewry, which are in their custody, as the king has committed to him the custody thereof during pleasure.
To the sheriff" of Southampton. Order to cause Edmund, the king's brother, and Avelina his wife, daughter and heiress of William de Fortibus, late earl of Albemarle, t*»nant in chief, to have seisin of the lands of her inheritance, which were taken into the late king's hands upon William's death by i-eason of the minority of his heir, as it appears by proofs received in the king's court that Avelina is of such age that the lands of her inheritance ought to be restored to her, and the king has taken Edmund's fealty for the said lands, and has rendered them to him upon condition that he come before the king on his next arrival in England to do homage to him for them.
The like to the sheriffs of Kent, Rutland, Lincoln, York, Buckingham, and Surrey. Feb. 7. To R<^er de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
release on the following mainprise Theobald de Nevill, charged with trespass
in the king's forest of Roteland, who is now appealed in co. Rutland by Robert de Ockeleye for robbery and breach of the peace, as William de
CALENDAR Olf CLOSE ROLLS.
1273.
Feb. 10.
V7e8tmm8tcr.
Feb. 16.
Westminster.
Feb. 27. Canterbnrj.
Feb. 28. Canterbury.
Membrane 9 — cont, Orlaveston of co. Kent, William de Braibef of co. Southampton, Ralph son Fulk of CO. Cambridge, and William de Gorham of co. Buckingham have mainperned before the king to have him before the said justice at the pleas of the Forest in that county to stand to right concerning the said trespass, in order that he may the more freely and securely attend to his own defence in that appeal in person. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Robert Walerand, tenant in chief, the manors of Sy[s]ton and Frompton. co. Gloucester, and the manors of Tadlington and Eadmundescote, co. Worcester, to hold in tenancy, as the king has committed the said manors to her in tenancy during pleasure until he cause dower to be assigned to her from her husband's lands.
To the same. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Emma, late the wife of Simon de Albiniaco, tenant in chief. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
To the same. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Burgea, late the wife of Henry le t'orcerer, who held of the king and of the priory of Wenlok, then void and in the king's hands, from the lands whereof Henry was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee. It is provided that two parts of the lands that he held of the priory shall be in the king's hands and in the custody of the escheator until further orders, so that the escheator can answer to the king for the issues thereof.
To the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Order not to distrain the abbot and convent of Stratford because of any debt of the king's Jewry concerning them, and not to exact anything from them for this reason until the coming of the king into England.
To Master Richard de Cliff [ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of the abbey of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, the lands that belonged to Stephen Soudan, tenant in chief of the abbey, which lands the escheator took into the king's hands at Stephen's death, and to deliver everything received therefrom, as the prior and convent have paid to the king's creditors at the pi^esent fail* of Lynn (Leny) 500/. in which they made fine with the king in order to have the custody of their bouse for a certain time, wherefore the king granted to them whatever pertained to him of the custody of Stephen's lands and of the relief of Stephen's heir.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause 50 marks in which Robert de Hilton, of co. Stafford, is indebted to the king at the exchequer to be levied and paid to Richard Brun, serjeant of the late king, as the king has granted the said debt to Richard for bis long service to the late king, and for all debts and arrears of his stipends for all the time daring which he was in the late king's service.
William le Gx)ld' of Ho, imprisoned at Canterbury for the death of Geoffrey le Katier, whereof he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail him.
To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Walter de Langeford to have seisin of the manor of Westtidcrl[eye], which the escheator has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Robert Waleraund, tenant in chief, if Walter restore the manor of Little Winterburn to the escheator, to be kept for the king's use until Robert's heir come of asre, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert held the manor of Westtiderlfeye] for life of the demise of Walter in exchange for the manor of Little Winterburn, which Robert demised to Walter under that form for the same term.
1 EDWARD I.
1273.
March 5. Westminster.
March 12. The New Temple, Xiondon.
March 17. The New Temple, Liondon.
March 23.
April 1. The New Temple.
April 4.
St, Paul'B,
IxrndoD.
Membrane 9 — cont.
Thomas Spademan, imprisoned at Oxford for the death of William Wyn, wherewith he is charged, has letters of the king to the sheriff of Oxford to bail him.
Richard le Charpenter of Bromham, imprisoned at Bedford for the death of Ralph son of Ralph the chaplain of Bromham, has letters of the king to the sheriff of Bedford to bail him.
John Curteys, imprisoned in the Tower of London for divers trespasses and robberies on' the sea, has letters of the king to John de Nevill, constable of the Tower, to bail him.
Walter de Farenhulle, Walter le Fevere, Walter le Sauser, Thomas Ade, John son of Walter de Farenhull, Thomas le Marescall, William le fiz le Vicarie, William Soneth, Savaric Aze, John de Toderdehull, Michael de Rossemer, John Domroock, John Cure, Adam Besraare, Robert Cukeman, Thomas Cure, Richard Hervy, William Dommock, John le Mouner and John le fiz le Vicarie, imprisoned at Salisbury for the death of Robert de Lucy wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriff of Wilts to bail them.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to release Peter de Nevill, imprisoned in the Flete prison for debts due from him to the kiog at the exchequer, until the qninzaine of Easter next, upon his finding them mainpernors to answer to the king in the exchequer for the said debts at the quinzaine aforesaid. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor. .• •• This letter is duplicated.
To Master Richard de Clitf[ord], escheator this side Trent, or to his sub-escheator in co. Hereford. Order to receive the castle of Kilpek from Alan de Plogenet, and to keep it safely in the king's name, provided that no earl, baron or knight shall enter it, whereby it might be occupied from the eschcator's hands, as the king learns that Alan detains the castle, not allowing the escheator to enter therein, as is customary, after the death of Robert Waleraund, who died seised thereof, and on Thursday after St. Gregory Alan came to London and rendered the castle to the king, to remain in his hands to be kept by the escheator or other on the king's ' behalf, so that it may not come into the hands of another, whereby danger or the eloignment of Alan's right might happen to him. For the security of the custody and for the defence of the castle, the king wills that the escheator shall retain Alan's men there, so that they may remain therein and intend the custody of the castle with the escheator in the king's name, and not in Alan's. The escheator is to commit the foreign lands belonging to the castle to some faithful man, for whom he will answer, so that no destruction or deterioration of the woods or fishponds, or any thing belonging thereto, may be made until the king have caused right to be done to Alan thereupon.
By the archbishop of York, the earls of Cornwall and Gloucester, and Thomas de Clare being previously present.
William dela Dene, Matthew Crust, Roger le Bedell, William Halfreinscb, Robert Wiant, Alexander Hareng, Henry le Shorn, Nicholas de Snodilond, Turgisius de Hertfeld, Robert de Pole, and Richard Galyot, imprisoned at (^Janterbury for the death of Geoffrey le Catiller, whereof they are appealed, have letters of the king to the sheriff of Kent to bail them.
Richard de Holte, imprisoned at Oxford for the death of Thomas de Bereford, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Berks to bail him.
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause Lumbard de Krikelade, the king's Jew of Oxford, to be released from prison, upon his finding main- prise, according to the custom of the king's Jewry, to come before the justices for the custody of the Jews in fifteeq da^s from Easter to satisfy
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the king for 50 marks specified below, unless he shall show there that not he but another ought to be charged with that sum, and to cause all his goods, which were taken into the king's hands for this cause, to be reserved in the meantime without diminution or damage, as it has been shown to the king, on behalf of the said Lumbard, that whereas Lumbard, a Jew of Bristol, was amerced before the late king's justices for the custody of the Jews in oO marks for a trespass of the late king's exchange, and Lumbard the Jew of Oxford has not been challenged for this trespass or charged with the said money, but the sheriff exacts the 50 marks from him, and has taken all his goods into the king's hands, and detains him in Oxford prison.
He gives 20s. to have this writ.
William le Loverd of Adwyk, imprisoned in the king's prison at York for the death of Henry de la Leye, wherewith he is charged, has letters of the king to the sheriff of York to bail him.
Henry Letard of Eoderham, imprisoned in the king's prison at York for the death of William Kidewylly wherewith he is charged, has lettei^s to the sheriff of York to bail him.
Richard le Forester, imprisoned, in the king's prison at Winchester for the death of Agnes Meremine, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Southampton to bail him.
Walter Fring, imprisoned at Winchester for the death of Walter Stak, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Southampton to bail him.
To the constable of Marleberge castle. Order to cause Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, to be satisfied without delay for 50/. yearly, which the late king assigned to her for life, to be received yearly by the hands of the constable or bailiff of llarleberge, in part compensation for the honour of Richmond, as contained in his letters patent, for the constable's time, so that it may not behove the king to be further solicited hereupon.
By the archbishop of York, and R. Burnel.
The like to Thomas de Langeleye, to pay 7/. yearly to the said queen from the ferm of Langeleye, in part compensation for the said honour.
By the said archbishop and Robert.
Nicholas Oky, imprisoned at Oxford for the death of Walter Aldewyn, wherewith he is charged, has letters tf» the sheriff of Oxford to bail him.
Adam son of Henry le Felter, Adam son of Henry le Chapman of Chilton, William son of Emelina, John Tancard, Robert, son of William le Despenser, Henry le Felter, Richard le Crokcre, and Adam Hervest, imprisoned at Oxford for the death of John son of Richard le Wodeward, wherewith they are appealed, have letters to the sheriff of Oxford to bail them.
To the mayor and bailiffs of London. Order to receive Thomas de Clare in the king's place to aid and counsel them concerning the defence and custody of the city, if they need aid and counsel, and to assist him faith- fully and diligently in what shall seem expedient for the premises, so conducting themselves that the king may praise their fidelity and devotion in this respect, as the king, for certain reasons, lately ordered them to provide with such diligence for the custody of the city that no one may enter it or be received therein in these times with horses and arms, or others who are in any way suspect.
Membrane 8. To the prior of BemewelL Whereas the late king ordained by his council that two parts of the 20/. yearly in which the prior was indebted to the said king for the ferm of the manor of Cestreton, which 201. the late king granted to William de Hastencot until ho should provide him with 20/. of land, should be received by Isabella, lat€ the wife of William, by the hands of the prior until William's heir came of age, for the maintenance of
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the heir, as contained in the Buid king's letters patent ; the king orders the prior to pay to Isabella, in addition to the third part thereof that she receives as dower, the other two parts for the maintenance of the heir, until the king shall otherwise ordain after his coming into England.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the prior of St. Andrew's, Northampton, to be acquitted of 13/. 6«. 8</., in which the sub- prior and convent made fine with the late king to have the custody of the said house in time of voidance, as the prior paid the said sum into the ward- robe of the late king to Feter de Wintonia, then keeper of the wardrobe, on Thursday after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, at West- minster, in the 54th year of the late king's reign, unless the prior have previously received quittance thereof by another vmt of the late king.
Hugh de Thorny of Killum, imprisoned at York for the death of Roger son of Hugh de Westhibi, wherewith he is appealed, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. It has been shown to the king on behalf of William de Stowe and his co-executors of the will of Nicholas Prat that whereas Nicholas neither abjured the kingdom nor was outlawed or hanged for felony, and did not forfeit his chattels, the sheriff, because Nicholas, when he was sick unto death, suffering from madness, wounded himself with his knife, so that he afterwards died thereof, wherefore he ought not to lose (admtttere) his chattels by the consideration of the king's court, and the chattels cannot or ought not to belcng to the king according to the law of the realm, distrains the executors to render the chattels to him, asserting that they ought to belong to the king as forfeited for the aforesaid reason ; the king, because such things usually happen to madmen in their illnesses^ and they have not undergone the judgment of the king's court or the court of another therefor, and these things ought not and are not wont to be reputed felony, orders the sheriff, if this be so and if it appear commonly by a jury (patriam), and there be no other suspicion thereof, to desist from the said distraint, and to deliver to the executors what is theirs in this respect, permitting them to execute the will without hindrance. [Ryley, Placita Parliamentarian p. 434.]
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the township of Walingford to have quittance of 100^., in which the township ihade fine with the late king to have a charter concerning certain liberties, unless they have previously received quittance thereof by writ of the late king, as Alexander le Yineter paid this sum into the late king's wardrobe at Wodestok to Peter de Wintonia, then keeper of the wardrobe, on Wednesday after St. Botolph, in the 52nd year of the said king's reign.
Warin son of Walter le Charpenter of Orewell, imprisoned at Cambridge for the death of Roger Hayle of Herdewik and Roesia de Essexa, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Cambridge to bail him.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to pay to Nicholas le Chaundeler, William de Lyming, Luke le Naper, Richard le Norreys, and Thomas de Oxon[ia], each of whom takes \\d. a day for life, by the hands of the sheriff of Gloucester for the time being, of the king's established alms, the arrears of the said alms from the day of the burial of the late king until Easter following, and to pay it thence- forth until the return of the king to England.
To the same. Like order to pay the arrears of the following alms to Roger de Stanleye and Alan de Lindes[eia], each of whom receives \\d, a day by the hands of the sheriff of Gloucester for the time being, of the said alms, and to Edith, late the wife of Walter Scot, who receives Id. a day by the hands of the sheriff, of the said alms, and to Philip le Treur, who receives l(f, a day, by the hands of the sheriff of Worcester, of the same alms.
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To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to release on mainprise Thomas son of William de Abhetoft, imprisoned at Gildeford for trespasses made in the time of the late king, whereof Permannus son of John, then approver of the late king, detained in the same prison, appealed him, upon his finding twelve mainpernors to have him before those whom the king shall appoint his next justices of gaol delivery to stand to right thereupon.
To the sheriff of Norfolk (sic). Order to desist from exacting certain sums for pontage and fines from the men of the manor and soke of Dunham, who hold of ancient demesne, and to permit them to be quit of murder-fine, pontage and fines, as thej were wont to be in times past, as it has been shown to the king by William de Valenc[ia], his uncle, that the said men, who hold of ancient demesne, ought to be quit of giving murder-fine pontage and all fines with the community of co. Nottingham, and have hitherto been wont to be quit, but the sheriff unjustly exacts certain sums for such pontage fines from them, to the damage of the said William and his men.
Mary do Valoignes, imprisoned at Canterbury for the death of Geoffrey ie Katiere, wherewitli she is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail her.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Watevill, as it is testified before the king that John cannot sufficiently execute the office.
April 28. To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a verderer to be elected for Salcey (Salseto) in place of William Hay of Quenton, deceased.
April 29. To Mast<?r Richard de Cliff [ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to Westminster, deliver the manor of Derham to Ralph Russell, together with everything received therefrom from the time of its being taken into the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Ralph gave his said manor to Robert Waleraund with Matilda his daughter, whom Robert mai['ried, to hold to Robert and the heirs of their bodies, with reversion to Ralph in default of such heirs, and that Robert died without an heir of his body, wherefore the manor ought to revert to Ralph.
April 28. To the sub-escheator in cos. Stafford and Salop. Order to take the
Westminster, castle of Certeleye into the king's hands, and to keep it f-afiely until further
orders, as it has been provided by the king's faithful subjects supplying his
place in England that the said castle shidl be taken into the king's hands
and kept by reason of certain persons who claim right therein.
May 4. To the escheator. Order to cause Matilda, late the wife of Robert
Westminster. Waleraund, tenant in chief, to have again seisin of the manors of
Lugwardyn, Wynfred, Speresholt, and Hurst, together with the issues
thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Matilda was enfeoffed of the said manors jointly with Robert.
To Edmund de Caldecote, keeper of the town of Dunwich. Order to deliver on bail Augustine sou of John, Richard and Peter, his brothers, Robert son of John, and Michael his brother, and John Arnald, lately indicted before Thomas de Clare for divers trespasses made by them in Dunwich, and detained on this account, upon their finding security, to wit twelve approved men of cos. Norfolk and Suffolk, who shall mainpern to have them before the king or his subjects supplying his place in England when ordered, and that they shall not enter Dunwich before the king's arrival in England.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the prior of Berdene to be acquitted of 40/., in which he was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Essex for default, as the king learns upon trustworthy testimony that h^ was amerced by deceit (surrepcianem) of the court
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because the priory was then void, and the king has remitted to him the said
To Geoffrey de Nev ill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to deliver to Queen Eleanor ten oaks fit for timber in the king's forest of Shirewod, of the king*s gift, in order to repair therewith her houses of Langbynyton.
To the sheriff of Cambridge and the coroners of that county. Order to desist from the distraint made upon the executors of the will of Nicholas Prat for Nicholas's chattels^ and to deliver to them what is theirs in this respect [as at page 11 above].
May 10. To the sheriff of Suffolk. Whereas Philip de Boclaund of co. Hertford,
Westminster. Richard de Deneys, Uichard de Eye, William son of John and Walter de Curcun of co. Suffolk, Ralph de Ingworth, Thomas de Noketon, Geoffrey de Middelton, Roe;er de Haneworth and Hugh de Cressingham of CO. Norfolk, and Humphrey le Marescall and Walter de Basing of CO. Middlesex have raainperued before the subjects supplying the king's place in England to have William de Benges, charged with the death of Geoffrey de Askeby, slain in the time of the late king, before the king at his order, or before his justices at the first assize when they shall come to those parts, to stand to right if any one wish to speak against him concerning the death, the king orders the sheriff to cause William to have the king's peace meanwhile.
To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Ralph Mu sard, tenant in chief, the chief messuage and demesnes of the manor of Seynbir[y], which belonged to Ralph, and which are extended at 9/., as the king has granted them to her to hold for her maintenance during pleasure, excepting the villeinage of the manor, which is extended at 13/. ]6«. 6c?., which the escheator is to retain in the king's hands. By C.
Mbmbranb 7.
William son of Adam de Leuesham, imprisoned at Canterbury for the death of Stephen Gulafre, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail him.
May 20. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to canse John de
We^tmiiister. Walingford, formerly envoy of the late king, to have the l\d. a day that Guy le Messtiger, deceased, was wont to receive in his life by the hands of the bailiffs of London, of the king's established alms, and to cause it to be thus vurolleJ, as the king has granted the said sum to John for life for his long service to the late king, to be received in the same way as Guy received it.
May 22. To Master R. de Cliff[ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver
Westminster, to Alan de Piogonet the issues of the manor of Elilpek, and to certify the king on his arrival in England concerning the sum of money arising there- from, as the subjects supplying the king's place in England rendered to Alan that manor, which the escheator had taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of Robert Waleraund, tenant in chief, and granted to Alan all the issues thereof received in the mean time, upon condition that if the king wish to have the said money on his arrival in England, Alan shall render it to him without delay.
Alan has like letters concerning the manor of Whateleye, co. Somerset. To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to replevy Gerard de Hedon and William de Covehat, if they are appealed as herein-after stated and are not
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appealed of the deed, upon their finding security by mainprise to stand to right thereupon before the first lustices of assize who shall come into those parts, or otherwise at the king's order, as Agnes, late the wife of Robert Cnout, appeals in thet county Robert de Dedel[eye] of the death of her husband and the said G-erard and William of consenting and ordering, and those who are appealed of such consenting and ordering are repleviable, and such an appeal is not held before he who is appealed of the deed is convicted thereof. [Ryley, PlacUa^ p. 433.]
May 25. To the same. Order to cause the Jands and chatteTs of William de Westminrter. Everl[e] Grele and Simon his brother to be replevied to them without delay, as William and Simon have shown the king that whereas William Prigel appeals in that county John Pudel, John Noreys and John le Welse of the death of Nicholas Waleway, kinsman of William Prigel, and the said William and Simon of consenting and ordering, and the king ordered the sheriff to cause the appeal to come before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity, and the sheriff has taken the chattels of William and Simon into the king's hands, although they are prepared to stand to right concerning the appeal in the king's court before the justices, and have not withdrawn themselves so that their lands and chattels ought to come to the king's hands or those of others for their flight, and moreover such appeals for consenting and ordering are not held untU those who are appealed for the deed have been convicted, as William and Simon have found mainpernors, to wit Ralph de Sandwyco of co. Kent, Geoffrey de Fanecurt of co, Berks, William de Bandon of co. Surrey and Richard de Keuton of CO. Wilts, to stand to right thereupon in the king's court on the day and in the place aforesaid.
To the same. Order to cause the lands and chattels of William de Everle Grel and Simon his brother to be replevied without delay, as William and Simon have shown the king that whereas Laurence de Sokenesse and Agnes his wife appeal in that county John Pudel, John le Noreys, and John le Walse of robbery and breach of the peace, and the said William and Simon of consenting and ordering, and the king lately ordered the sheriff to cause the appeal to come before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Holy Trinity, and the sheriff has taken the lands and chattels of William and Simon into the king's hands, although William and Simon are prepared to stand to right thereupon in the king's court before his justices, and have not withdrawn themselves, and althouj^h such appeals are not held until those who are appealed of the fact have been convicted, and William and Simon have found mainpernor [as in preceding order],
William de Everle Grele has a like writ to the sheriff of Sussex to replevy his lands and chattels to him by the said mainprise.
The said William has a like writ to the sheriff of Sussex to replevy his lands and chattels to him by the said mainprise.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to give the barons of the port of Sand- wich respite until Michaelmas next for 100 marks in which they were lately amerced before Nicholas de Turri and his fellows, the late king's justices in eyre in co. Kent, for default of the common summons before &e justices, and to cause their goods (averid) taken for that reason to be delivered in the meantime, as the said barons assert that they have quit- tance from the common summons before any justices by charters of the king's predecessors, and have hitherto been quit thereof, as the king, wishing to be certified concerning the premises, has granted them sudi respite.
To the sheriff of Hereford and the coroners of that county. Order to deliver to Edith, wife of John de Oxonia, for her maintenance John's goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands by them by
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reason of the withdrawal of John for the death of John de Witteneye, lately slain in the town of Hereford, and to retain in the king's hands the lancb and rents of her inheritance until John de Ozonia shall come to the king's court or be outlawed for that felony by judgment of the king's court, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff and coroners that John de Oxonia held no lands except of the inheritance of Edith, and that his goods and chattels are appraised at 22s, 6d» only, and that he is not outlawed for the said death or convicted thereof by the judgment of the king's court, and the king wishes to shew favour to Edith at the instance of friends.
Stephen de Lindeby, imprisoned at Notingham for a trespass made in the king's Hay of Lindeby, has letters to Geoffrey de Nevill {NeuuH), justice of the Forest beyond Trent, to bail him.
June 6. To Roger de Clifford, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
Westminster, deliver to the men of the king's manor of Clyve seven oaks from the foreign woods without the king's park of Olive, in order to repair the sluices of the fishpond of the manor therewith.
To the keeper of the park of Northampton. Order to deliver to Michael
de Weston, keeper of the manor of Overton, one oak for repairing the houses of the manor. •
June 10. To the escheator this side Trent. Order to cause dower to be assigned Westminster, to Robergia, late the wife of John de Turri, tenant in chief, from all the lands whereof John died seised as of fee in that bailiwick.
June 10. Matilda, daughter of Henry de Bungeye, imprisoned at Norwich for Westminster, the death of William son of Geoffrey de Holkham, formerly her husband, wherewith she is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail her.
Ralph le Pestur of Coventre, Vincent le Pestur, Geoffrey le Pestur, and Henry le Clerc, imprisoned at Warwick for the death of Thomas Chatelok, have letters to the sheriff of Warwick to bail them.
To the escheator this side Trent, or the sub-escheator in co. Suffolk. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Giles de Wacchesham, tenant in chief, the manor of Wrtham to hold as dower, retaining in the king's hands in the name of custody 4/. I2«. l^d, of the rent of assise of the free tenants of the manor until the heir of Giles come of age, as the king assigned to Joan 19/. 6s, 2\d. in the said manor, which was extended at 23/. X^s. 4</., as her dower of the lands that belonged to Giles, which were extended at 57/. 18«. 7|</., saving to him the said 4/. \2s. l\d. as above.
Memorandujn, that Joan came into Chancery and took oath that she would not marry without the king's license.
Roger Asheman of Westwik, imprisoned at Cambridge for the death of Henry Makehayt, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Cambridge to bail him.
Vacated, because it follows next below,
- To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to release Roger Asheman of
Westwik on bail upon his finding twelve mainpernors, as the king leams by inquisition taken by the sheriff that Henry Makeheyt was lately killed at Westwik by certain household servants (famifiares) of Roger whilst defending themselves in the night in Roger's house against malefactors, who wished to kill Roger and them, and Roger is charged with his death.
Reginald son of Ralph Tusard, imprisoned at Cambridge for the death of Luke son of Richard de Lyminge, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Cambridge to bail him.
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June 17- To the constable of Windsor Castle. Order to deliver to three of the
Westminster, king's chaplains celebrating divine service in the chapel of the castle, each
of whom receives 50*. yearly as his stipends, the arrears of their stipends
from the day of the late king's burial until Whitsuntide last, and from that
feast until Michaelmas next.
To Simon de Kraye, constable of Rochester castle. Order to cause the gate of that castle, which was destroyed (dtruta) in the time of the late disturbances, to be repaired, expending up to the sum of 12/. by the view and testimony of lawful men.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to give the barons and bailiffs of Romenhale respite until Michaelmas next for 40/. in which they were lately amerced before Master Roger de iSeyton and his fellows, then justices in eyre in co. Kent, for divers trespasses, by the permission of the king's subjects intending his affairs.
June 18. To Roger de ClifF[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
Westminster, permit Master Roger de Ravelingham to have the four oaks in the forest
of Wanberge that the late king before his death gi*anted to him.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the lepers of St. Julian of St. Albans, who receive 30*. 5d. yearly from the issues of co. Hertford by the hands of the sheriff there of the king's established alms, to have the aiTears of the alms from Easter last until Michaelmas next.
Simon le Fevre of Smeth, imprisoned at Maydenstane for the death of Nicholas de Richefeld, wherewith he is appealed, has letters of the king to the sheriff of Kent to bail him.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to give Simon de Kreye,
Westminster, constable of Rochester castle, upou his paying 20 marks in part payment of the money wherewith ho is charged at the exchequer for the issues of the bailiwick of the castle, to have respite f<ir the remainder of the money until the king's arrival in England, by the permission of the king's lieges supplying his place, so that Simon may then satisfy the king therefor at the exchequer. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
June 24. To the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. Order to cause an approver in Westminster. Gudeford prison to be carried to Neugate, there to be delivered to the keeper of the gaol, whom the king has ordered to receive him and keep him until further orders.
Mandate in pursuance to the keeper of Neugate gaol.
Like order to the same keeper to receive and keep until further orders Ralph le Chaumberleng, a robber, whom the king's marshal will deliver to him by the king's order.
Hugh Attewatere, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of Richard son of Ithel le Cu, wherewith he is appealed, has letters to bail him.
To the barons and bailiffs of Winchelsea. John Alard has shown the king that whereas Andrew de Fincheham, clerk, who lately served Warner, vicar of St Thomas's church of that town, and had the administration of his things, was charged with having abstracted certain of Warner s things, and was for this reason taken and imprisoned there, and that afterwards he was demanded as a clerk before the barons and bailiffs by the diocesan of the place, and was delivered to him, th(^ barons and bailiffs, charging John with having received Andrew in his dwelling after the said deed, of which Andi^ew is not convicted and is not declared a public thief, endeavour to take John and to lead him out of the liberty of the town, and imprison him unjustly: as the king wills that John or the liberty aforesaid shall not be injured or prejudiced in this behalf, he orders the barons and bailiffs to permit John, upon his finding security to stand to
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right in the king's court if any will speak against him concerning this, to have peace in the meantime.
June 25. To the sheriff of York. William Darel of Broddesworth has shown the WestmiDBter. king that whereas the escapes of thieves ought to be adjudged before the justices in ejre and not elsewhere, and the amercements thence arising pertain to the king and to no other in the realm, to be levied by summons of the exchequer for the king's use, to wit 8/. in that county for every such escape, the sheriff dmrges William and his men with the escape of two thieves, and distrains him to render to him 24 marks for the same, the king therefore orders the sheriflT to accept security from William and his men for rendering to the king the money pertaining to him for such escape, if the escape in this respect shall be adjudged against them by the justices, and to supersede the demand made upon tliem for the said cause, until it be ascertained by the office of tne king's justices aforesaid whether William and his men are held to answer to the king for such an escape or not.
Jime 24. To the barons and bailiffs of the port of Winchelsea. Warner, vicar of St.
WestnuDflter. Thomas's church, Winchelsea, has shown the king that whereas Andrew de Fincheham, clerk, who lately served him and had the administration of his goods, was charged with having abstracted some of his things, and was therefwe taken and imprisoned, and was afterwards delivered as a clerk to the diocesan of the place, the barons and bailifi^, charging Warner with having received Andrew in his dwelliug with the goods aforesaid after the deed, of which Andrew is not yet convicted and he is not said to be a public thief, have ejected Warner and his men from their houses in the town, and have caused the doors of the houses to be closed and their goods and those of the said church to be enclosed in them, and unjustly detain them so : as Warner or any other ought not to be compelled to make prosecution unwillingly for things abstracted from them, and as the king wills that they shall not be injured concerning the premises, he orders the barons and bailiffs to accept security from Warner to stand to right in the king's court according to the custom and liberty of the town, and as he ought accord- ing to the requirements of his estate, if any one wish to ^peak against him thereupon, and to cause his houses and goods and those of the church shut up in his houses to be delivered to him, and to permit him to have peace in the meantime by the security aforesaid. [Prynne, Records, iii. 127 ; Ryley, Pladtay p. 433.]
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June 27. To the sheriff of Kent. Order to deliver to Geoffrey Norman and his
Westminster, fellow, chaplains ministering in the chapel of Bc»chester castle, each of whom
receives 50«. yearly for his stipends, the arrears of their stipends from Hilary
last until St. John the Baptist next, and to pay them their stipends
thereafter until Michaelmas following.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until the king's arrival, by permission of the king's subjects supplying his place, the demand upon Alan de Plogenet, sometime constable of the castle of Cori^ fur 60/., as be says that he expended this sum in the custody of the castle by the king's order.
To Edmund, the king's brother. Order to cause the castle of Certel[e] to be delivered without delay to the sheriff of Salop and Stafford, as it was lately provided, for the conservation of the peace and that dissension might not arise between the magnates, and it was agreed by Edmund before W. archbishop of York and other subjects intending the king's affairs, that the said castle, the custody whereof Edmund had committed to Roger
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Lestrange {Extraneo)^ should be taken into the king's hands and kept ifafely until the king or the said subjects should otherwise ordain concerning the custody thereof, and certain persons justifying (advocarUes) themselves by Edmund, detain the castle against the said provision and grant, felling, selling, and wasting the wood pertaining to the castle and manor, at which the king is much astonished and moved. As it seems to be inexpedient to the aforesaid faithful that the custody of the castle shoidd not be recalled into the king's hands, the king has ordered the said sheriff, if the castle be detained against the king's order, to take it into the king's hands, taking with him the posse comitattiSy if necessary, and to keep it safely in form aforesaid.
To the sheriff of Salop and Stafford. Order to go in person to the aforesaid castle, the manor and woods, and to take them into the king*s hands, and keep them safely until otherwise ordered, so that he may answer therefor to the king at his order, taking with him, if necessary, the whole posse comitatus for this purpose. He is enjoined to act vigorously and diligently in executing this order, so that the king may commend his prudence, fidelity and dQigence. Lest harm may arise through his defaiidt in this behalf, the king has ordered Roger de Mortuo Mari to aid the sheriff, if necessary, with all his power in executing the aforesaid things, as the sheriff shall let him know on the king's behalf.
June 30. To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to deliver to Geoffrey, the chaplain
Westminster, celebrating divine service in the chapel of Northampton castle, who receives
50s. yearly for his stipends, the arrears of his stipends from the day of the
late king's burial until Midsummer, and from that feast until Michaelmas
next.
To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to cause the 10/. that the late king gave to Master Nicholas de Curteney, his clerk, to be received from the esti'eats of Master Richard de Stanes, justice to hold pleas before the late king, whereof Richard sends his estreats up to the said sum to the sheriff under his seal, to be levied without delay and paid to Richard (sic),
To the bishop of Meath, treasurer of Ireland. Order to respite
until St. Hilary next, unless the king shall otherwise ordain by his
council, the demand for 400/. on David, archbishop of Cashel, by reason of certain goods and chattels of Reginald le Macotere, usurer, which came to the archbishop's hands and which pertain to the king, and also the demand for usury (twwrar') of Regroald's debts. [Prynne, Records^ iii. 128.]
Stephen le Gardiner, William son of Henry del Brok, Richard Harding, Robert Sauvage and Hugh Rudale, imprisoned at Northampton for the death of Cicely Nitinghale, whereof they are appealed, have letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail them.
To the constable of Windesore[e] castle. Order to deliver to John le Con-
vers, formerly sergeant of the late king, who receives 6c/. daily from the
issues of the manors of Braye, Winde8or[e] and Kenynton, that sum daily from Whitsuntide last until Michaelmas following. By R. Bumel.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to respite until the king's arrival in England, by permission of the king's subjects, the demand on William de Marisco for 70 marks, in which he is bound to the king at the exchequer, and to deliver William's goods, which were taken for that cause, to him in the meantime.
July 4. To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a coroner for that
Weetminster. eounly to be elected in the place of John del Dore, deceased.
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William de Borne and William Wymund, imprisoned at Abbendon for the death of Thomas Thurstejny wherewith they are charged, have letters to the sheriif of Berks to bail them.
To Stephen de Penecestr[ia]9 constable of Dover castle and warden of the Cinque Ports. Order to provide sufficient ships and gallejs against the king's arrival in England, as he shall see fit for the king's use, and to cause the better and more faithful friends of the king in those ports to be warned secretly to prepare themselves cautiously and without tumult to meet the king on his arrival. The constable is enjoined to execute this order so diligently and circumspectly as to merit the khig's praise. [Foedera,'\
' To Boger de Cliffi)rd, justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
deliver to the keeper of the king's manor of Clyve ten oaks to repair
therewith the fishpond of that manor.
To Greoffrey de Picheford, constable of Windsor castle. Order to deliver to Geoffrey ]e Squeler, the king's serjeant of the castle, who receives 4^€f. a day for his wages, the arrears of his wages from the day of the late king's burial until Whitsuntide next following, and from that feast until the arrival of the king in England.
To John son of Nigell, keeper of the king's forest between the bridges of Oxford and Stanford. Order to deliver to the sheriff of Bedford nine oaks fit for timber, which are in arreai*, as the king learns from the sheriff, of the twenty-six oaks that the late king by divers writs ordered John to deliver to the sheriff in the woods of his bailiwick for repairing the king's houses of Brehull therewith.
July 9. To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to call to him some of the
Westminster, better and more faithful of the king's subjects in those counties, when necessarv, to aid him in executing those things that pertain to the conser- vation 01 the peace in those counties, enjoining them to assist him, informing the king of any who contemn assisting him, so that the king may know against whom he ought to proceed as trespassers of the faith due to him, as he understands that certain men of those counties contemn coming to the sheriff and assisting him in these matters, and certain others do not permit themselves to be distrained by the sheriff in the execution of the king's orders, both of judgments rendered in his court and of summonses of the exchequer.
July 10. To the barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until the quinzaine WesCmiiister. of Michaelmas next, by permission of the king's subjects supplying his place in England, the demand on the barons of Faversham for amercements made before justices and for the chattels of fugitives and of condemned persons, and for murder-fine ( murdrum) y whereof they claim to have quittance by charters of the king's predecessors, and have hitherto used such quittance, as they say.
Thomas le Clerc of Middelton, imprisoned at Oxford for the death of an
unknown man, wherewith he is charged, has letters of the king to the
sheriff of Oxford to bail him.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to deliver William Scot, John Pygun, Patrick son of the smith (fabrt), Greotfrey le Senescall, Glaricius Polike, Adam le Neuman and WiUiam Chorfin, imprisoned at Maydenstan for the death of Theobald de la Sere, slain in the time of the late king, if they be imprisoned at the suit of the late king's peace, and not by appeal or at the suit of another, in bail to six lawful men of that county who sLhU mainpern them until the king's arrival in England, to be then restored to prison to await his pleasure there.
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July 15. Westminster.
Julj 16. Westmixister.
July 16. Westminster.
Membrane 6 — cont.
Robert de Hadham, imprisoned at Gadeford for the death of Robert le Provost of WoUaventon, wherewith he is charged, has letters lo the sheriff of Sussex to bail him.
To John de Fageham. Order to restore to John de Yynun, son and heir of Hugh de Vynun^ tenant in chief of the late king, the manor of Norton, which belonged to Hugh, as John de Vynnn has proved his age in the king's court before the subjects supplying his place, and the king has taken his fealty for that manor, which is in John de Pageham's custody by the grant of Richard de Ewell, to whom the late king granted the custody thereof to hold until Hugh's heir should come of age, and the king has rendered the manor to John saving his right and the right of otliers, upon condition that he shall come to the king on his arrival in England to do to the kicg what is just therefor.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to respite the demand on William de Fednes for his relief, by the permission of the subjects supplying the king's place, until the king's arrival in England.
To the same. Order to acquit the dean and chapter of Salisbury of 3,000 marks paid by them by the late king's order to Richard, sometime king of Almain, the king's uncle, in which sum they made fine with the late king to have the custody of the bishopric of Salisbury, then void by the death of Walter, the late bishop, and for the issues and profits of the bishopric during the voidance, which sum the late king owed to Richard for a loan made to him by Richard for the expedition of his most urgent affairs.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause the defects of Notingham castle both in the bailey of the castle and elsewhere, which the king learns may easily be amended, to be repaired, and to cause the king's weirs and mills there to be repaired where necessary.
To the justiciary and treasurer of Ireland. Order to deliver to Henry de Gorham the corn for the present autumn sown in the land of Chapelizod (Capella IsoltT), upon his finding security to render to the king at the exchequer at Christmas next the money at which the corn was appraised, as the king, in coneideration of the damages sustained by Henry by reason of the ferms of the 8aid land and his corn there, which the justiciary and treasurer lately took into the king's hands after the king had demised that land to Henry at ferm^ has granted to Henry the corn sown therein for this autumn at the same appraisement and extent of acres by which the justiciary and treasurer took it for the king's use at the said time.
To the bishop of Meath, treasurer of Dublin. Order to cause [friar Walter de KJlkenny, of the order of the friars preachers, to be satisfied for 16 marks, as James de Alditheleye, bometime justiciary of Ireland, is in- debted to Simon, bishop of Kildare {DarerC)^ in 16 mai'ks for four tuns of wine that James took from Simon for his expenses in the king's service, and Simon assigned that money to Walter, if they ascertain that James be indebted as aforesaid, and that the wine was expended in the king's service.
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to deliver Thomas fiz le Provost, Robert le Jeven, Simon de la Grein, John de Blakewell, William le Jeven, 8imon le Burgeys, William le Carettcr, John le Glerc, Henry atte Burn, John le Chaucer, and Thomas de Makere!<gate from prison without delay, as John son of Adam de Burmenton was lately killed by certain felons at Burmenton, and the sheriff has imprisoned the aforesaid men at Warwick charging them with having been able to arrest and take the said felons if they had wished, upon each of them finding twelve lawful men of that county who shall mainpem to have been before the justices at the first assize when they come to those parts to stand to right on that
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charge if anyone shall wish to speak against them, as the cognizance of thid matter pertains rather to the office of the justices than to that of the sheriff. [Rylej, Fiacitay p. 432.]
Semannus de Bosco, imprisoned at Ipswich for the death of William do Oxehall, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to hail him.
July 18. Robert Bonyallet, imprisoned at Worcester for the death of Henry de
WestmiDster. Balleye, wherewith he is charged, has letlers to the sheriff of Worcester to bail him.
To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas de Belvero and Joan his wife, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Robert de Barevill, and Ralph de Hotot and Lucy his wife, younger daughter and co-heiress of the said Ralph {nc), to have seisin of all the lands whereof Robert at his death was seised in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, as the king has taken the fealty of Thomas and Ralph for all the lands that Robert at his death held of the king in ohief, and has rendered the land to them upon condition that they come lo the king at his arriyal in England to do their homages therefor; saving to the king all the things that pertain to him for the whole time during which Joan and Lucy were under age and in his wardship, so that the escheator may answer therefor to the king for his time and other escheators for their time.
July 18. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the
Westminster, account of the treasurers of the New Temple, London, and of the hospital of Glerkenwell and of Giles de Audenard, receivers of the twentieth granted to the late king, for all the receipts and payments of the twentieth. As the late king granted the whole of the twentieth in aid of the king's pilgrimage to the Holy Land, whereby divers payments, costs, and expenses were made from the twentieth by W. archbishop of York, R. de Mortuo Mari and R. Burnell, supplying the king's place in England, the king orders the treasurer and barons to allow to the said receivers in their account all such payments, etc. made by them from the twentieth by the king's order and by the letters of the said men supplying his place.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Order to cause allowance to be made to Martin de Dunstall, sometime the king's bailiff of the new aid in Ireland, in his account at the exchequer for his reasonable expenses in the king's service when he was bailiff there, as such expenses ought reasonably and of right to be allowed.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to deliver to four chaplains of the king celebrating divine service in the castle of Old Sarum for the late king's soul, each of whom receives SOs, yearly for his stipends, the an^ears of their wages from the day of the late king's burial until Midsummer, and from then until Michaelmas following.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Quernel, deceased.
Membrane 6. — Schedule 1.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to have 20 maiks at the exchequer at West- minster on the morrow of St. Laurence of the king's debts that come to him in the king's summons, and not lo omit to do this as he wishes to avoid the king's indignation, because the king owes divers merchants great sums of money for his heavy expenses in parts beyond sea, for which sums he wishes them to be satisfied before the octaves of St. Laurence without further delay.
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Debts to be levied for the king's use before St. Z^urence,
[The sheriff of] Kent, 20 marks.
The sheriff of Sarrey and Sasaex, 30 marks.
The sheriff of Southampton, 30 marks.
The sheriff of Wilts, 40 marks, on the morrow of St. Margaret.
The sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 100 marks.
The sheriff of Devon, 50 marks, on the morrow of St. Margaret.
The sheriff of Gloucester, 40 marks, on the same day.
The sheriff of Hereford, 20 marks.
The sheriff of Warwick and Leicester, 100 marks.
The sheriff of Northampton, 60 marks.
The sheriff of Nottingham and Derby, 30 marks.
The sheriff of Lincoln, 100 marks.
The sheriff of York, 100 marks.
The sheriff of Northumberland, 50 marks.
The sheriff of Cumberland, 20 marks.
The sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon, 40 marks.
The sheriff of Norfolk and Snffolt 100/.
The sheriff of Middlesex and Hertford, GO marks.
The sheriff of Oxford and Berks, 30 marks.
The sheriff of Bedford and Buckingliam, nothing, because he is sitting
upon the account. The sheriff of Salop and Stafford, nothing, because he sent 100/.
Membrane 6. — Schedule 3.
JvHj 13. To the bailiffs of Odjham. Order to permit the men of the town of Westminster. Schyrefeld, which is a member of the king's demesne -manor of Odyham, to have peace until the arrival of the king in England for the demand for 20s. yearly, so that the king may then cause to be provided what is just, as the men lately made a fine with the bailiffs in 20s, yeariy to be paid as increment of the ferm of the manor, on condition that the bailiffs should cause them to be treated (deduct) by the ancient and due customs, whereby their ancestors, when they were in the hands of the king's predecessors, were wont to be justiced, and they have not hitherto been relieved by the bailiffs or by the king's court of the grievances inflicted upon them by undue extortions.
July 20. Southampton.
Mbmbranb 5.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to respite until the king's arrival in England, by the permission of his subjects supplying his place in England, the exaction made by them on Edmund Cudel and John de Sere, barons of Sandwich and of La Bye, for the right prise due to the king on wines coming into England, whereof they and the other barons of the Cinque Ports claim to have quittance from time out of mind, and in the meantime to deliver to Edmund and John their goods arrested for this cause.
To the bailiffs of Southampton. Order to cause the goods of John Sarre, merchant of Dertemuth, and of Edmund de Sandwico, merchant of Irebuid, to be delivered to them without delay, upon their finding security for ren- dering to the king his right prise on their wines if it be due to him, as the king learns from the takers of his wines that John and Edmund, who arrived at Southampton with certain ships laden with wine, feign to be of the liberty of the Cinque Ports, and therefore refuse to render to the king his right prise on the wines in that town.
The like to the bailiffs of Portesmuth.
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to the master of the hospital of St. Giles, London, who receives QOs. yearly at the exchequer of the king's appointed aims, the arrears of that sum, and also the arrears until Midsummer last of 20^. yearly that thej (sic) receive by the hands of the sheriff of Surrey for the time being of the king's alms aforesaid. Given by R. Burnell.
July 24. To the sheriff of Nottingham. Whereas Robert de Colevill of co.
Weatminster. Middlesex, William de Colevill of co. York, William de Gememuth of co. Norfolk, Stephen de Eltof t and Walter de Kirkeby of co. York and Clement de Stafford of co. Stafford have mainperned to have Richard le Escot of Southwell (SuwelP) before the king in fifteen days from Michaelmas to stand to right concerning the trespasses charged upon him in the king's court, the king therefore orders the sheriff to permit him to have peace in the meantime.
July 24. To the barons of the exchequer. Whereas the heirs and lands of Nicholas
Westminster, de Crioill, tenant in chief of the late king, and of William de Heringaud, tenant of the archbishopric of Canterbury, parceners of the inheritance of William de Eyneford, are minors and in the king's wardship, and Nicholas and William and their ancestors, tenants by a heavy fee-farm of the manor and hundred of Wrotham, which are of their inheritance, and their men of that manor and hundred ought and were wont to make at their peril executions of judgments of thieves convicted in that manor and hundred before any justices, buying ropes and cords and hanging such thieves and homicides, so that if any of these thieves escaped after judgment was ren- dered, they are bound to answer therefor and to stand to right ; and whereas they were accustomed to receive and have, under colour of such liberty and heavy ferm, aUthe goods and chattels of condemned thieves and of fugitives, and year, day and waste of lands of such men banged and convicted, and also all the amercements of all the men of the manor and hundred, both before Henry de Bathon[ia] and his fellows, formerly justices in eyre in co. Kent, and before Nicholas de Turri and his fellows, then justices in eyre in that county, and before other justices whatsoever, amerced for whatsoever cause, and to levy such amercements for their own use, and William Bardolf , at the time when William de Eyneford [was] in his custody, was wont to have and receive such goods and chattels of the eyre of Henry de Bathonia and his fellows, and was wont to levy such amercements for his own use ; and the bailiffs of the liberty of the archbishopric now exact such chattels, goods and amercements, and distrain for them by reason of a summons of the exchequer directed to them for the levying of the king's debts within the said liberty for the time when the archbishopric was in the late king's hands and custody: the Jcing orders the barons to cause inquisition to be made by knights and other free and lawful men concerning the premises at a day to be provided by them, and to warn R. archbishop of Canterbury, in case the said matter touch him or his church in any wise, so that he may then be before the barons to propound before them for his part what shall seem fit to him, and so that the king may then cause to be done what is just, respiting meanwhile any distraints made by summons of the exchequer for this cause.
To Robert Aguillun, keeper of the lands chat belonged to John son of Alan in cO. Sussex. Order to cause R. archbishop of Canterbury to have thirteen bucks, according to the condition d the season (temparis), and in the same way as Boni»ce, late archbishop of Canterbury, was wont to receive such bucks in his lifetime, in accordance with the composition made between Boniface and the said John, tenant in chief, for twenty six bucks yearly in John's forest of Arundel, to be taken by John and delivered at the archbishop's manor of Slindon. [Frynne, Records^ iii. 123.]
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to Roger le Messeger, envoy of King Edmund (#M?),who receives \d, yearly by the hands of the sheriff
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of Kent for the time bein^ and ^d. by the hands of the sheriffs of London of the king's appointed alms, the arrears of such alms from Whitsuntide last until St. Peter ad Vincula, and from then until the king's arrival iu England.
To Master Richard de Cliff[ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Burgia, late the wife of Henry le Forcer, tenant in chief of the honour of Montgomery, and mother of William, Henry's son and heir, the lands that Henry held of the prior of Wenlok and of the abbot of Shrewsbury in Lilleye and North Leye, to be kept for William's use, so that she may answer to William for the issues thereof when he shall come of age, and to retain in the king's hands until further orders the other lands whereof Henry died seised as of fee, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry held the tenements of the prior and abbot in socage, and not by any service whereby the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king or to the prior or abbot.
July 26. To the same. Order to deliver to Margery, late the wife of Alexander
Westminster. Luterel, the following lands, etc. which the king has assigned to her as her dower ; the house roofed with stones opposite the ball of the manor that belonged to Alexander in Cantokeshevede, and another small house similarly roofed with stones, and two cowhouses and a chamber over the gate, with the old garden adjoining the said houses, and a small fishpond in the garden and another fishpond without the gate, with a small curtilage that John de la Pole held, and a third of the dovecot, with four perches of land towards the churchyard on the upper side, and with a perch and a half of land near the gate to be closed on the lower side ; a third of 20 acres of land with two crofts at La Waterlete, and 46 acres of land in Hastingeston, and 5^ acres of land in La Brombreche, and 8 acres of land in Ruggeleclive, and two acres of land in Wellespring, and 14 acres of land in the cultura of Bagheaire, and 16 acres of arable land in a furlong on the upper side of the bridge, and 7 acres of meadow in Rudalre, and 3 acres of meadow in Podhangremede, and 1^ acres of jjasture in Langeleie, and 9 acres of wood in La Knolle, and 6 acres of wood in Merswode, and 4 acres of land in Havekesyerde, and 160 acres of common pasture at Cantilok and Zs. Sd. of yearly rent of the rent of Henry de la Cumbe, Ralph de Ponte,and the rents and services of the villeins of Geoffrey de Denardescumbe, John le Frere, Gilbert le Parker, Thomas de Wincestr[ia"|, Gilbert Fichet, William son of Mabel, John Dollingo, Margery hi Vedue, John Wit, and the services of the fees of John Peverel, Henry Uvnry (sic) d(». la Cumbe, and Ralph de Ponte, with their suits, wards and reliefs when they fall in, whose lands are estimated at the sixteenth part of a knight's fee.
To the same. Order to restore the manor of Clildefrome (sic) to Robert de Bosco, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Robert lately demised the manor to Robert Waleraund, tenant in chief, deceased, for life, with reversion to Robert de Bosco.
To the same. Order to* restore to Joan, late the wife of Reginald le Alblaster, tenant in chief, certain lands in Loveton, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Reginald held the lands of Joan's inheritance, and not of his own inheritance or purchase, and that the escheator has taken them into the king's hands solely by reason of Reginald's death.
— — William Waryn of Preston, imprisoned at Gloucester for the death of
Henry son of John de Northclive, wherewith he is charged, has letters to
the sheriff of Gloucester to bail him.
To the sheriff of Buckingham. Order to expend 8/. by the view and testimony of lawful men, in repairing the king's houses of Brehull.
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John le Noreis, imprisoned at Cambridge ( Cant*) for the death of Lucy daughter of Richard, wherewith he is charged, has letters to bail him.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to bring Peter de Ki8elingbir[y] an approver, and Thomas Malecak, a common robber, imprisoned at NorUiampton, to Neugate, to be delivered to the keepers of the gaol there. Vacated, because he did not have [the writ,']
Aug. 1. To Robert de Insula, constable of Odyham castle. Order to deliver to
Went minster. Henry son of R. two bucks in Odyham park, of the king's gift.
To the escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Matilda, late the wife of Ralph Musard, tenant in chief, the manor of Sudinton, which belonged to Ralph, and which is extended at 12/. 5s, lOd,, to hold in tenancy until the king shall otherwise ordain concerning her dower, saving to the king the corn sown therein by him and the other things peitainiug to him.
William son of Fulk de Fileby, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of William son of Henry de Trikeby, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him.
Aug. 2. To all the king's subjects in co. Dorset. The king learns from the corn-
Westminster, plaint of many that many malefactors, dwelling in that county and over- running the county, commit robberies, homicides, and other enormities against his peace, which the sheriff and the said subjects are specially bound to preserve : it is manifest that such malefactors could not remain longer or be received in those parts if the sheriff and the said lubjects act^ diligently in the preservation of the peace there as they ought ; and he has ordered the sheriff to apply all diligence by himself and by all the posse of the county for the preservation of the peace and the intercepting and arrest of such malefactors, and to take steps that the peace of everyone shall be preserved : he orders the said subjects, as they wish to be iree and quit of receiving and consenting to such malefactors, to apply such diligence against them and to take steps with the sheriff iu such power that the perpetration of such things in those parts hereafter may not be attributed to their negligence.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Like order, enjoining him to make known to all the bailiffs in liberties or elsewhere and to cause to be proclaimed in all county [courts] that they shall apply all diligence for the keeping of the peace in their custodies, and to so conduct themselves that the king may not have to punish them in this behalf, and if any of these county [courts] or liberties will not behave themselves diligently in this or will not assist the sheriff at his order, the sheriff is to certify the king thereof without delay, so that the king may proceed against them as consenting to such robberies and homicides.
The like to all the sheriffs of England.
Membrane 6. — Schedule,
«luly 18. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the
Westminster, account of the treasurers of the New Temple, London, and of the hospital
of Clerkenewell, and of Giles de Audenard, receiver of the twentieth
granted to the late king [as at page 21 above] . Given by the hand of W. de
Menon, the chancellor.
Membrane 4,
Au^. 6. To the sheriff of Surrey. Order to release Walter Curton, arrested by
St. Martin's-le- the sheriff for wounding and assaulting lliomas le Serjaunt of Suthwerk, Grand, London. agp)ijiip ^^ Bocland of co. Hereford, Robert le Sor, citizen of London,
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John de Karliol[o] and Geoffrey de Middelton of co. Norfolk have main- pemed to have him before the king or his justices at his order to stand to right thereupon, in case danger arise from it. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to pay to Henry the fletcher (attillicUari) of the king's crossbows, staying in the king's castle of Glou- cester, who takes 6d. daily for his wages, a mark towards his wages until Michaelmas next.
Aug. 6. To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to
St. Martin's le restore to Margery, late the wife of John le Ferrun, citizen of London, the Grand, London, manor of Toppingho, and all things received thence since it was taken into the king's hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Baldwin Filliol, tenant in chief, demised the manor to John for the term of twenty-four years by an indenture made between them, and that Baldwin for John's greater security made a charter of enfeoffment thereof, which was delivered iato neutral custody (in equali manu)^ under the condition that if the conditions and pacts in the indenture should be observed on Baldwin's part, the charter should be restored to him at the end of the term, and that [John] restored the charter and released aU his right and claim in the manor by reason of the charter, and that Baldwin granted the manor to Margery for the unexpired remainder of the tenn in the indenture (tenendum ad predictum terminum viyinti et iiij. annorunif qui a retro fuerunt per cirograffutn)^ and that John did not die seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, and the king has restored the manor to Margery, to hold in the said form, saving to the king any right that might pertain to him by reason of wardship or otherwise.
Aug. 10. To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver John de Sherinton
St MartinVle- and William Wardeboys, imprisoned at Winchester for the death of Robert Grand, London. Qademan of Langerisse, slain in the time of the late king, in bail to six lawful men of that county who shall mainpern them until the king's arrival in England, to be restored to prison then, there to await the king's ple^isure, if they be detained at the suit of the late king's peace and not by appeal or at the suit of another.
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Henry de Pesee, who is incapacitated by infirmity.
Aug. 11. To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
St. Maitin'a-le- elected in place of William Folyot, who is incapacitated by paralysis and Grand, London, weakness.
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to deliver to Geoffrey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent, 10/. for the expedition of certain special affairs of the king.
Aug. 12. To G^eoff^ey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to
St Martin's-le- take 40 bucks and 20 harts in the woods of his bailiwick without delay, for
Grand, London. ^^ king's use and to deliver part of them to the sheriff of Cumberland to
be salted and kept until further orders. The king has ordered the sheriff
to receive them and to cause them to be salted and kept safely as aforesaid.
Nicholas le Punder, imprisoned at York for the death of John son of Stephen de Rome, whom he killed by mischance, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
John son of Walter Maning, imprisoned at St. Edmunds for the death of John de Barewe, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Suffolk to bail him.
To the keeper of the forest of Axishalt. Order to cause two bucks in his bailiwick to be taken [and delivered] to the king's children {pueris) staying in Wyndesore castle, for the expenses of their household.
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The like to the following :
John fion of Nigel, keeper of the forest of Bemewod, for two bucks. The keeper of Oette {nc) forest, for two bucks. The keeper of the New Forest, for two bucks. The keeper of Clarendon forest, for two bucks.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to deliver Simon Cbartereje, imprisoned at Exeter for the death of Bichard son of Thomas de Luscote, slain in the time of the late king, in bail to six lawful men of that county who shall mainpem him till the king's arrival in England, to be restored to prison then, there to await the king's pleasure, if he be detained at the suit of the late king's peace and not by appeal or at the suit of another.
Aug. 18. To Master R[ichard] de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to St. Mftrtin'»-]e- permit Peter de la Mare to collect and gather the corn sown by him by the Grand, London, king'g order in the bmds that belonged to Robert de la Mare, his father, tenant in chief, and to permit him to keep it safely without diminution until the quinzaine of Michaelmas next, as the subjects supplying the king's place in England have appointed that day for Peter to come before them to do his fealty for the said lands. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
Aug. 21. To the same. Order to cause Hugh de Sancta Cruce and Isabella his
St. Martin'g-le- wife, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Simon de Albiniaco, tenant in chief. Grand, London. ^/^ j^yg seisin of the following lands, which the king has assigned to Isabella, according to the partition made by the escheator of Simon's lands in Kaynho, upon their iGinding security for rendering Hugh's relief therefor to the king at the exchequer : the hall of Kaynho, with the porch, chamber, and cellar towards the east, with a bakehouse, dovecot, and a garden extending westwards to the ditch of the marsh, which ditch encloses the court, as appears by the bounds placed there, and the ditch extends to the well near the chamber, and a ditch extends from the well to the bridge of Bay- brugg, and thence a ditch near the causeway extends to a bound placed there by the jurora, and thence are placed bounds to the bottom (profunditatem) of the old ditch, and bounds are placed in the bottom of the ditch up to a wall enclosing a stable, and the stable together with a door, and from the door a bound is situated in a line in the gable {gabuld) of the little stable, and so bounds are placed from the gable to the outside comer of the chamber near the hall towards the west, which chamber is made of stone and lime, and all the herbage, trees and everything contained within the said bounds, together with a fishpond called * Walebek,' with ditches and trees adjoining the said fishpond, and a certain pigsty without the gate with a certain small vacant plot of land, as appears by the bounds. The king has also assigned to Isabella 80 acres of land and 7 acres of mowable meadow and a third part of an acre of meadow and a third part of a several pasture as it is divided by bounds and metes, and a thinl part of a meadow as appears by the bounds, and a third of two parts of two mills, and a third of the toll of ' passing carts ; and also free tenants, to wit John de Stadebrok, who
pays 2s, yearly, the prior of Chiksaund for the sheepcot of Clophull, 6<i., William le Neuman, 2«., William Spendelove, 4J., Thomas de Bray, half a pound of pepper, and a third of half a pound of pepper ; and also of the villeinage, to wit John de Flete, who holds half a virgate of land, and William the smith {fahrum), who holds a * cotland,' the land that was Baldwin's 'cotland,' Walter Cale, who holds half a Scotland,' Agnes Bertram, cotter, Cicely la Noble, cotter, a moiety of the whole rent and service of Agnes the huntress {ventiiricts)^ who holds half a ' cotland ' ; and of the arable land at Stapelford 16 acres of land, and a third of two parts of a messuage, and a third of two parts of an acre of meadow, as appears by the bounds, and 5f. 11^. to be received from William de Arleston, and the king has taken the fealty of Hugh for the said lands and has rendered them to him
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and to Isabella, on condition that Hugh come to the king on his arrival In England to do what ought to be done of right concerning it.
To the same. Order to cause Hugh de Lacy and Joan his wife, younger daughter and co-heiress of Simon de Albiniaco, tenant in chief, to have full seisin of the following lands, which the king has assigned to Joan, according to the partition made by the escheator of the lands that belonged to Simon in Kaynbo, upon their finding security for payment of relief : three barns, with an adjoining plot, as appears by the bounds there placed between the part of Christiana, Joan's sister, and that of Joan ; a part of a garden, bein^ the part nearest to the part of Christiana, with a moiety of a fish- pond called * Langepod,' as fully appears by the bounds placed there, and the garden extends in breadth to the vrall enclosing the barns ; an enclosed garden towards the west, and the old garden, and a plot called * Calvescrof,* with a pasture adjoining that plot, which plot extends to a fishpond called * Walebek ' and is enclosed on the south side by a ditch and on the north by a hedge ; and because the granges are not equal in value to the land of the part of the hall, and to the chambers and other houses of stone and lime, the king has assigned to Joan in recompense two acres of arable land in the croft of the chapel, which are extended at 8£?., and a plot called * Emelotepittel,' extended at 15€/., and two acres of the meadow of Clophull mill, which are extended at 3«., price l%d. an acre, and a moiety of a sheepcot without the gate nearest the north, as appears by the bounds. The king has also assigned to Joan 80 acres of arable land, 6 acres of meadow, and a third of an acre of mowable meadow, as appears by the bounds, and a third part of a several pasture, as appears by the bounds, and a third of two parts of two mills, and a third of the toll of passing carts. The king has also assigned to Joan these free tenants : the master of the hospital of St. John, Bedford, who pays 3*. yearly ; Thomas de Bray, who pays 22d, yearly, and a third of half a pound of pepper ; Roger the clerk, who gives half a pound of pepper yearly ; and of the villeinage : Ralph le Provost, a moat {notatn) at the chapel, which answers for half a virgate of land ; John Bruch, who holds a * cotland *; Jordan le Mouner, who holds half a ^cotland'; Richard Balingor, cotter ; Alice Eemroe, cotter ; Hugh Baud, cotter ; Isabella Shureve, cotter, who pays M, ; and of the arable land of Stapelford 16 acres, and a third of two parts of a messuage, and a third of two parts of an acre of meadow, as appears by the bounds, and 5s. lid. yearly from William de Harleston, and 4^J. yearly from Andrew le Messer, and 2\d. from Alice, mother of the said Joan. The king has taken Hugh's fealty for the lands, and has rendered them to him and Joan, on condition that he come to the king on his arrival in England to do what ought to be done of right concerning them.
There are assigned to Christiana, middle-born daughter and co-heiress of Simon, whose assignment is in the king's hand for certain causes, a moiety of a sheepcot without the gate nearest the south, as appeal's by the bounds ; 80 acres of arable land, 7 acres of meadow, a third of an acre of meadow, and a third of the several pasture as it is divided between her and her sisters by bounds ; a third of a meadow as divided by bounds ; a third of two parts of two mills and a third of the toll of passing carts; the rent of the following free tenants : Roger the clerk, 2s. and half a pound of pepper; Nicholas Russel, 12rf. ; Adam de Bovelys, 12rf.; Thomas at the pool (adpolam)^ (yd. ; William Spendelove, l^rf. ; Philip de Kaynho, l\d, ; Margery la Custresse, Id, ; Thomas de Braye, a third of half a pound of pepper ; from the villeinage, Robert le Shireve, who holds half a virgate of land, Nicholas le Venur, who holds a cotland, Joseph le Horsmanger, who holds a cotland, Simon le Shirreve, who holds a cotland, Agnes, wife of Philip, who holds half a cotland, Richard Curteys, cotter, Roger Scume, cotter ; a moiety of all the rent and service of Agnes the huntress, who holds half a cotland ; also 12 acres of arable land at Stapelford, and
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a third of two parts of a messuage and a third of two parts of an acre of meadow, and 4«. of yearly rent from Aired, and 23^^. yearly from Andrew le Messer.
Aug. 23. To the bailiffs of Whitsaund. Request to permit Thomas de Sancto St. Aiardn's-le- Martino to bring to England two horses, which he is bringing into England Grand, London. \yj ^j^^ king's licence, for his own use, and which they have caused to be
arrested at Whitsand because they were not acquainted with the king's
will in this matter.
To Roger de 01iff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to cause John de Burgo, the elder, to take two deer in the forest of Essex, of the king's gift.
To the constable of Bristol castle. Order to cause Hugh Malvern, keeper of Einseswode forest, who takes 7-^cf . a day for his own maintenance and for that of three foot Serjeants keeping that forest, the arrears of the same, and to pay him his stipends henceforth until Michaelmas next.
Walter Bety, imprisoned at Maydenesten for the death of Walter Smite of Derteford, wherewith he is chturged, has letters to the sheriff of Kent to bail him.
" Alexander Poleyn, William Prudhome and Robert Bnrei, imprisoned
at Exeter for the death of John Biycun, wherewith they are charged,
have letters to the sheritf of Devon to bail them.
Aug. 27. To the keeper of Devizes park. Order to permit the queen of Almain, St. Martin's-Ie- staying in Devizes castle, to have her desport (deductum) in that park Grand, London, ^^en she shall have need thereof.
To Stephen de PenceBtr[ia], constable of Dover castle. Whereas Ralph Perot has found pledges to appear before the king, or the subjects supplying his place in England, in three weeks from Michaelmas to answer U)t certain trespasses charged against him, if the king or others wish to speak against him concerning them, the king orders the constable to restore to him in the meantime his manor of Coronton, which the constable has taken into the king's hands by reason of certain trespasses charged against Ralph.
Membrane 4. — Schedule.
Assignment to Christina, daughter and co-heiress of Simon de Albioiaco, of her portion of her father's inheritance [a« on preceding page^ omitting the clause concerning the retention thereof in the hinges hancUi],
Mbmbranb 3.
Aug. 25. To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to St. Martin's-le- cause dower to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of Reginald le Arblaster, CraTid, I'ondon. ignant in chief, receiving security from her that she will not marry without the king's licence. Given by the hand of W. de Merton.
To the same. Order to permit the said Joan and her co-executors of Reginald's will to have free administration of the goods touching the said will, taking security from them for rendering to the exchequer in fifteen days from Michaelmas any debts that Reginald at his death may have owed to the king.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to desist from distraining the king's men of Baumburg for their ferm for two years, and to permit them to be quit thereof, as they have paid 84/. 13*. 4d. of the said ferm for two years into the treasury, as appears by the tallies made there- upon.
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To John Bossel. Order to permit Stephen de Eddeworth, who lately had the enstodj of the manor of Clarendon with the forest and all its other appurtenances of the late king's commission, to have the issues and rents thereof until Michaelmas next, so that he maj answer therefor to the Icing, as the king lately committed the manor, etc. to John during pleasure, and Stephen cannot fuUj answer for the issues thereof for the present year unless he lecttve them until Michaelmas, nor similarly for the rent for the same term.
Aug. 29. To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to deliver to GFeoffirey de Qeynvill, St. Martin's-le- justiciary of Ireland, two tents from the king's tents in the sheriff's custody, Grind, London, to take with him to Lreland and keep them for the king's use, until other- wise ordered.
To Gregory de Bokesle. Order to deliver to the archbishop of Rages (Ragen') a tun of good wine of the right prise, of the king's gift.
To John son of John. Order to go in person to the parks and chaces of Dodel[eye] and Weleye to take venison by the view of John Russel or another approved man of those parts if John cannot intend to this, and to cause the venison thus taken to be salted and kept in barrels in a safe place in those parts imtil further orders, as he may see fit without detriment to those parts.
To the keepers of the said parks and chaces. Order to admit John for the said purpose.
Like order was afterwards sent to the escheator this side Trent.
Sept. 1. To Master B. de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to take the
St. Martin'B-le- manors of Ivelden and Lotegershall, whereof John de Traylly died seised
Grand, London, j^ j^jg demesne as of fee, into the king's hands, and to keep them safely until
further orders, as the king lately, after John's death, ordered the escheator
to take all the lands whereof John was so seised into the king's hands,
and the escheator has not yet taken the said manors in the king's hands.
To Geoffirey de Nevill, justice of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to deliver to queen Eleanor, the king's mother, six on^s in Shirewode forest, for the repair of the houses and mills of her manor of Benyngton.
Sept. 2. To Master Bichard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to
St. Martin's-le- permit the executors of the will of Boger de Somery to have full and free
Grand, London, administration of Boger's goods, to make the execution of his will therewith,
as Nicholas de Segrave, Balph de Crumbewell, and Stephen de Nevill have
mainpemed for them to render to the king any debts that Boger at his death
owed to him at the quinzaine of Michaelmas next.
To the same. Order to permit Bobert de Gymynges, son and heir of Bobert de Gtymmynges, tenant in chief of the late king, to hold peacefully the lands belonging to him of hereditary right, as Stephen de Eddeworth, to whom the late king granted the custody of Bobert's lands and heirs, has rendered the lands to the said Bobert son of Bobert^ who is of full age, in the presence of the subjects supplying the king's place in England, and the king has taken Bobert's fealty for the lands upon condition that he shall come to the king on his arrival in England to do his homage to him therefor; Given by the hand, etc.
Sept. 6. To the justices for the custody of the Jews. Order to respite until the
St. Kartin's-le- arrival of the king in England all the debts that Hamo Chevere owes by Grand, London, jj^g charters to Jacob de Oxon[ia], Jew of London. Given by the hand, etc.
Sept. 18. To Master Bichard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to AmabiUa, late the wife of Boger de Somery, tenant in chief, Boger's manor of Bradef eud, which the king conmiitted to her in tenancy
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Sept. 20. Canterbury.
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fis of the value of 100/. of land yearly, when she was seeking her dower in his oourt. If the manor be not worth 100/. yearly, the escheator is ordered to assign to her what is lacking of that sum in a suitable place without the parks and chaces.
To the bailifEs and men of Oambridge. Order to pay to Queen Eleanor, the king's mother, to whom the king assigned that town in dower, their ferm and rent for the present term of Michaelmas, and thus hereafter, according to the king's letters patent of grant.
The like to the bailiffs and men of Marleberbe (nc), Lutegan>hale, Hadlegh, Porcestre, Gloucester, Fekeham, Wich, Havering, Clyve, Brikest- [oke], Aulton, Gu]def[ord], Bath and Gillingham.
To Roger de Mortuo Mari. Order to deliver to the said queen the king^s stock in the castle and manor of Merleberge at a reasonable appraise- ment to be made thereof and by indenture with the queen's bailiff, so that Boger may be able to answer for the btock to the king at the exchequer, as the king has assigned the castle and manor to the said queen in dower.
To Peter de Chaumpvent. Like ordei* regarding the castle of Gloucester, and to deliyer to her the king's weir and a half of Gloucester, of the appurtenances of the castle.
Robert de Neuby, imprisoned at York for the death of Nicholas Scot, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
The like* to the sheriff of Dorset to deliver the hundred of La Radelawe, pertaining to the manor of Gillingham, to the aforesaid queen.
Vacated.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to deliver to the aforesaid queen or to her attorney the hundred pertaining to the manor of Gillingham, if she have not had seisin thereof, and if the hundred is in the sheriff's hands, as the king assigned to her the manor of Gillingham with the hundred.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to restore to the monks of Muliecurt priory the lands and chattels of the priory, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of the larceny and other trespasses of Oliver, keeper of the priory, a clerk, whereof he was indicted before the justices, as he purged his innocence before B. bishop of Norwich, according to the ecclesiastical manner, as the bishop has informed the king by his letters patent.
The like to the sheriff of Cambridge.
To the sheriffs of Middlesex. William de Say, son and heir of William de Say, has shown the king that whereas the late king demised to Poncius de la More, merchant, the custody of the lands belonging to the said William son of William, a minor in his wardship, to hold until William should come of age, and William bought the custody from Poncius, and is still under age, and he will be of full age in a year from St. Edmund next, as appears to the king's court, the sheriffs distrain William by summons of the exchequer to render the debts that William's father at his death owed to the king (sic) at the exchequer, as if he were of full age and as if the goods of the deceased would not suffice for the acquittance thereof : as it is not usual that any men should be distrained before they come of age by reason of wardships pertaining to the king for their ancestors' debts, the king orders the sheriffs to desist in the meantime from distraining William for the said debts ; provided that they look to the executors of his father's will for the levying of the debts from the goods of the deceased so far as they suffice. This letter is triplicated, to wit to three sheriffs. [Ryley, Flacita, p. 432.]
Referring to the penultimate order to Peter de Chaumpvent.
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Oct. 2.
Westminster.
Oct. 3. Westmiofiter.
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Nicholas le Jofne, imprisoned at Eye for the death of Luke son of Richard de LymiDge, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of SiiiFolk to bail him. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
To Philip de Bye. Order to deliver the key of the treasury at West- minster with all the things in it to Brother Joseph, prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, the treasurer, to be kept during pleasure, as pertains to the office of treasurer.
To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order to deliver William son of John do Dunwic[o] to twelve lawful men of that county who shall mainpern to have him before the king or elsewhere at his order on the mon'ow of St. Edwartl next, Bs the king lately ordered the sheriff to cnuse William to be arrested and kept until further orders for certain trespasser?, and William is prepared 10 stand to right in the king's court. Given by R. Burnel.
To Ralph de Sanduic[oj, keeper of the bishopric of London. Order to permit the Friars Preachers and the Friars Minors of London to carry away the timber in Haringeye park bought by them from H. bishop of London, deceased, which they caused to be felled during the bishop's life, for which payment was made to the said bishop. [Prynne, Records^ iii. 1 27.]
William de Warleton and Hamo de Tatersete, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of Thomas son of John de Ladne, whereof they are appealed, have letters to the sheriff of Norwich to bail them.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for the town of Northampton to be elected in place of John le Estreys, who has been elected bailiff of that town, wherefore he cannot intend the office of coroner.
Oct 6. To the mayor and echevins of Abbeville. Thomas de Basing', citizen of
St. Martin'fl-le- London, and Henry le Escot, Thomas de Karl[iolo] and Richard de la Grand, London, jjaje, burgesses of Newcastle -on-Tyne, have shown the king that whereas they bought 92 sacks of wool horn John de Bolebrok and certain other merchants of Flanders, arrested by the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle by the late king's order by reason of a contention between him and the countess of Flanders, from Nicholas de la Pole and his fellows, deputed for the expedition of the affairs of the merchants of the realm against the Flemings, for a certain sum of money, for which they satisfied Nicholas and his fellows, in part recompense for the damages that they sustained within the power of the countess, and for which the king cauaed letters patent of acquittance to be made to the said Thomas, Henry, Thomas and Richard, who caused the said 92 sacks to be taken to parts beyond the sea, together with other of their wool by the king's licence, to make their profit thereof, the said mayor and Schevins arrested a part of the wool at Abbeville at the prosecution of the said John and other Flemish merchants, to whom it had belonged, and detain it from them : as the king caused the wool found and arrested within his kingdom to be sold and delivei*ed to the said Thomas, Henry, Thomas and Richard as coming to him by the forfeiture of the Flemings, he orders and requests the mayor and echevins to cause the wool, if it was arrested by them for the aforesaid reason, to be delivered to Thomas, Henry, Thomas and Richard or their attorneys, not permitting them to be molested by John or other Flemings, especially as the count of Pun tiff, their lord, has particularly requested the king to cause his merchants to take thoir wool and other goods to the port of Abbeville and trade there with them.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until the king's arrival in England, by permission of the subjects supplying the place of the king, the demand on Thomas Kyn of Northampton for 10/. in which he was amerced before the justices last in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Northampton.
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Oct. 5. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Thomas son
St MartinVle- WDliam de Dene has shov^n the king that whereas his father lately lent Grand, London. s^qqoI, to the king for the expedition of his most urgent affairs, wherefore the king several times ordered the treasurer and barons bj his letters to satisfy William for that money, or for part of it, whereof William in his lifetime or Thomas have hitherto received little or nothing, as it is said, and Thomas is indebted to the king in 300/. of his father's debts at the said exchequer, and he prays that this sum may be allowed to him in the said debts : the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause the rolls of the exchequer to be searched diligently as to what William and Thomas received of the said 0,000/., and how much is still in arrears, and to certify the king before Whitsuntide next of what they shall find, and in the meantime to release any distraint made upon Thomas to render the said 300/. to the king.
To Master Richard de CliflF[ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause the manor of Midhirst, which belonged to Frank (Franconii) de Bohun, tenant in chief, to be delivered to Nicholaa his wife, to whom the king has committed it, as of the value of 50/. of land, to hold in tenancy during his pleasure.
To the constable of Notingham castle. Order to deliver the custody of the chapel of that castle, which Roger de Harewelle, clerk, deceased, had in his lifetime, to William de Hakkeburne, to whom the king has committed it until his return to England, and thenceforth at the king's pleasure.
To the collectors of the new aid in the city of London. Order not to distrain the men of Rouen to contribute to the new aid granted to the king by the merchants, or to molest them for that cause, or to permit them to be hindered from taking their wool and other merchandise to parts beyond the seas, provided that they do not avow the goods of others (res alienas) as their own goods and merchandise, as the king, at the instance of Philip, king of France, has granted to the men of Rouen that they shall be quit of payment of the said aid throughout his realm and power, as appears in the king's letters patent thereupon made to them.
The like order to the collectors of the same aid in the town of Southampton. Oct. 7. To Roger le Bigod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England. Order to
Westminster, cause 27 sacks and a pocket of wool of Thomas de Karliolo, Henry le Scot, and Richard de la Haye, burgesses of Newcastle- on-Tyne, to be delivered to them to trade therewith as shall seem expedient to them, which wool he caused to be arrested at Herewiz because it was said by some that the ship wherein it was found is the ship of a Fleming, and that Thomas, Henry and Richard had communicated with the Flemings against the king's prohibition, as the earl has informed the king by his lettei*s ; and Thomas de Basing' and Luke de Batencurt, citizens of London, have mainperned for Thomas, Henry and Richard to answer to the king for the price of the said wool, appraised at 190 marks, when the king shall wish to speak thereof, if Thomas, Henry, and Richard be convicted by judgment of the king's court of the premises charged against them. Oct. 9. To Master John de Maydenstan, archdeacon of Oxford, collector of the
tenth in that archdeaconry and in other archdeaconries adjoining. Order to deliver all the money from the tenth to Thomas de Luk' and his fellows, merchants of the society of the Luc' of Lucca {Luk'), for the king's use, according to the tenor of the order of Master Reymund de Nogeriis, the papal nuncio, directed to him thereupon.
To the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. Order to spend 12/* in repairing the houses of Shyreburn castle by the view and testimony o£ lawful men, and as he shall see fit. « 96998. O
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Oct. 10. To Stephen de Pichef[ord], constable of Windes[ore] castle. Order to
Westmiaster. deliver to tbe two chaplains ministering in the chapel of that castle, who receive 100«. yearly for their stipends, their stipends from Michaelmas last until Michaelmas next. He is also ordered to pay to two gate-keepers of that castle, who take 4d, a day for their stipends, to John Ingelard, who takes Qd. a day, to Robert Lightefot, gate-keeper of Windes[ore] park, who takes 2d, day, to Master Gilbert the carpenter of that castle, who takes 6d, a day, and to two gardeners there, who take 6d, a day, their stipends from Sunday after St. Bartholomew last until Michaelmas next, and from the latter feast until Michaelmas following.
To Brother Stephen de Fuleburn and William de Middelton, collectors and receivers of the twentieth granted to the king in aid of the Holy Land. Order to respite until the king's arrival in England the demand on the men of religion and others who are of the fee of the earl of Gloucester for the twentieth for their lands that are of the earl's fee, and to permit them to have peace therefor in the meantime ; provided that their twentieth of lands that are of the fee of others shall be levied for the king's use.
Roger de Hedon and Isolda his wife, imprisoned at Norwich for the
death of Thomas de Hill, wherewith they are charged, have letters to the
sheriff of Norfolk to bail them.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order that the demands that they make — {^Incompleted
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to respite until the king's arrival in England, by permission of his subjects supplying his place in England, the demand on the barons of Sandwich for 100 marks, in which they were amerced before N. de Turri and his fellows, justices sometime in eyre in CO. Kent, for divers trespasses.
Oct. 20. To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the abbot of Seleby to WeetmiMter. be acquitted of tbe 50 marks in which the prior and convent there made fine with the late king to have the custody of their house in the last voidance thereof, as the prior and convent paid that sum by the late king's order to Adam de Stretton, keeper of the king's (sic) works at Westminster, at the feast of St. Matthew, in the 54th year of the late king's reign, to make the said works therewith.
Hugh son of Agnes de Riston in Holdernesse, imprisoned at York for the death of Alan de Pincebec, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail him.
Oct. 18. To Master R. de Cliff[ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver WcBtminster. to Hugh de Colewrth the manors of Shelton, Chelew)'nton and Hameden, Lutegarshale and Gyveldeu, whereof John de Trailli, tenant in chief, died seised as of fee, to be kept by Hugh in the form following, as it has been testified by trustworthy men before the king's subjects supplying his place in England that Walter, son and heir of the said John, is not of full age, and also that Matilda, countess of Gloucester, says that the custody of these manors pertains to her by reason of the minority of the said heir, and it is also said by some on the king's behalf that the custiody of the manors pertains to the king, and the king, wishing to be fully informed concerning the premises and that the manors may be safely kept in the meantime, has committed them to Hugh during pleasure.
To Robert Aguilon, keeper of the honour of Arundel. Order to deliver to R. archbishop of Canterbury thirteen bucks and thirteen does yearly from the forest of Arundel, for so long as the forest shall be in Robert's custody, in accordance with tiie composition made between Boniface, lat« archbishop of Canterbury, and John son of Alan, formerly lord of that forest, and to permit the archbishop in going to his manor of Slindon and returning
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theoce, to have a course in the forest once a year, according to the form of the said composition ; and to deliver to the archbishop the arrears of the said bucks and does as he ought to have them according to the form of the composition ; and to distrain Matilda, late the wife of John son of Alan^ and Isabella, late the wife of John son of John son of Alan, to render to the keeper the bucks and does in the portion that they hold in dower in the forest, and the arrears of the same.
To Bartholomew le Jurene. Order to answer for the issues of the manors of Luton and Weston and for the corn of th^ same in the barns to Eleanor, countess of Leicester, hereafter until further orders ; saving to the king 300 marks that the king caused to be paid for her to certain of her creditors in parts beyond sea, which sum Bartholomew is ordered to cause to be levied for the king's use from the said corn and from other first issues of these manors.
Juliana, daughter of John Shaf, imprisoned at Winchester for the death
of Nicholas le Forester, has letters to bail her.
John Mile of Brokhampton, Gilbert Vurude, Henry Magot, Bobert Mile, Hichard L} un, William Orm, Thomas Laurence, Gilbert Ravening, John Mace, Richard Gidel, William Stevene, Bobert Cosin, John Leising', Nicholas Lewyn, William Lewyn, Robert Feud, William son of Robert, Ralph Crowe, WUliam le Venur, John Matyn, Gilbert le Batur, Richard Webbe, Jordan Travail, John Oudelin, Richard Tollepayn, Robert Hente- love, William Quenild, John Vurude, William Wisedam, Adam le Fevere, and John Abbot, imprisoned at Warwick for the death of William de Hulemore, wherewith they are charged, have letters to bail them.
Walter de Afford and Alice, late the wife of William de Afford, imprifloned at Chelmeraford f or the death of Roger de Afford, have letters to the sheriff of Essex to bail them.
To Geoffrey de Geyneviil, justiciary of Ireland. Order to present Geffrey de Kilkenny, clerk, to the vicarage of Balisuthnan church, which is void, if the vicarage do not exceed the value of 10 or 12 marks yearly. If it exceed that value, the justiciary is ordered to present another fit person to it, in the king's name.
Oct. 28. To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to
Westminster, deliver 4^ virgates of land in Ayleston to Margery de Harecurt in name of wardship, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry le Forcer at his death held half a virgate of land in Broghton of the honour of Mungomery, which is the king's escheat, and that he held no lands elsewhere of the king in chief, and that he did no service to the king Jiherefor by reason whereof the custody of other lands which belonged to him could or ought to pertain to the king, and that he held the said 4^ virgates in chief of Margery, and that the custody thereof pertains to her.
Thomas de Helghton, Alice de Whitewell, Nicholas de Walsham, and William Cotun, imprisoned at Norwich for the death of Thomas de Lodnes, whereof they are appealed, have letters to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail them.
Oct. 28. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the heirs
Westmioifter. of the earl Marshal to come before them to answer to Eleanor, countess of Leicester, for the debts that they owe to her.
Oct. 28. To Master Richard de Cliff[ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to
Westmioster. deliver the lands that belonged to Robert de Burwey to Queen Eleanor, the
king's mother, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Ro&rt at his death held in chief oi William de Cheney, deceased, tenant in
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chief of the late king, by knight service, and that the wardship of the lands and heirs of Robert pertains to Queen Eleanor by reason of the grant of the wardship of William's lands and heirs during the heirs' minority made to her by the late king.
■ Robert Stalnn, impidsoned at Norwich for the death of Thomas son of
■ John, whereof he is appealed, has [letters] to the sheriff of Norfolk to bail him.
Oct 29. To Roger de Cliff[ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent. Order to
Westminster, deliver Walter Attewod of Lyndhurst, imprisoned at Winchester for trespass
of the Forest, in bail to twelve lawful men of that bailiwick who shall
mainpern to have him before the justices for pleas of the Forest when they
come to those parts to stand to right thereupon.
To the same. Like order in favour of John do Stuttefeld and Richard de Stuttefeld, imprisoned at Oxford for trespass of the Forest*
Mbmbranb 1.
Nov. 2. To Master Richard de Clifford, escheator this side Trent. Order to
Westminster, deliver to Anabel, late the wife of Roger de Somery, tenant in chief, the manor of Bradefeld for 60/. of land yearly, the manor of Swyneford for 16/. 18*. 4|c/. of land yearly, the manor of Clent for 8/. 17*. b^d. of land yearly, the manor of Bordesle for 18/. 15*. 7Jc/. o£ land yearly, the manor of Cradele for 8/. 6s. OJrf. of land yearly, and the park of Seggesle for the wood pertaining to the manor of Swyneford, in which wood Anabel shall have nothing except common of herbage, which the king has assigned to her in dower, on condition that Roger's heir, when he come of age, shall acqiut her of 2S marks due to the king of the fee-farm of the manors of Swyne- ford and Clent as long as Anabel shall hold these lauds in dower, and she shall be quit of the payment of the said 25 marks during the said custody.
— To Ralph de Sandwico, keeper of the bishopric of London. Order to
permit the buyers of timber felled in the parks of the bishopric at
Harengeye and Claketon in the time of H. late bishop of London, for which they paid in the said bishop's lifetime, to carry the timber whither they will without hindrance, to make their profit thereof.
Nov. 5. To the bailiff of Winchelese and La Rye. Order to cause the mills of La
Westminster. Rye and the sea-walls {waUias) of the same to be repaired and amended where necessary.
To the constable of Devizes castle. Order to cause the pond of the istew {stagnum oivatit) of Devizes to be repaired where necessary.
To Master H. de Bray, constable of Bergeveny castle. Order to admit Walter Pnulyn and William le Attillur, the king's serjeants-at-arms, and four footmen with cross-bows {balistarios pedites), whom the^ king is sending to him, to stay in garrison (municionem) of the castle until St. Hilary next. The king has caused them to be satisfied beforehand for theii stipends until then.
To Master Richard de ClifiX^rd], escheator this side Trent. Order to permit John de Bohun, son and heir of Frank de Bohun, tenant in chief, and the other executors of his father's will, to have free administration of the goods and chattels taken into the king's hands by the escheator by reason of the debts that Frank at his death owed to the king, upon John's finding security to render the debts at the exchequer.
To Brother Joseph de Cauncy, the treasurer Order to pay to Master Walter de Saundon, the king's cook, the arrears of 10 marks that he receives yearly for his maintenance in the king's service. The king will
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cause Joseph to have a writ of liberate when he knows how much he has paid to Walter.
To Peter de Seleburn, keeper of Beynham manor. Order to restore the said manor to Matilda, late the wife of Robert Walerand, tenant in chief, together with everjthlDg received thence since 22 May last, as the king learns bj inquisition taken by Balph de Hengham that Matilda was jointly enfeoffed of that manor with Robert in the time when Robert first had seisin thereof by the enfeoffment of Henry de Kramavill, who enfeoffed Robert and Matilda jointly thereof, which manor is in Peter's custody by the king's commission.
Nov. 7. To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Stephen de Penecestr [ia],
WestmiMter. constable of Dover castle, to be released from 1,856/. 78. dd. exacted from him by summons of the exchequer, which he received from Henry de Bum,' then fermor of the king's hundred and manor of Middelton, to wit in the 52nd year of the late king's reign, 200/. ; and in the same year from Fulk Payforer, then fermor of the earldom of Kent, 90/. ; and in the 63rd year of the said king's reign 431/. 3*. Od, from the issues of the said earldom, hundred and manor ; and in the 54th year of the said king's reign 451/. 17a\ Id. from the same issues ; and in the 55th year of the said king's reign, 350/. from the said issues ; and in tiie 56th year of the said king's reign 333/. 6^. 8d. from the same, for the munition and maintenance of the castle, as Stephen rendered an account of the money aforesaid before Ralph de Sandwyco, John de London [ia], and Adam de Wynton[ia], appointed for this purpose by the king's writ, to wit for 33/. 15;. 5c/. paid by him to certain of the king's Serjeants staying in the garrison of the castle in the time of Matthew de Bezill[e8], then constable thereof, for the arrears of their wages ; and for 508. delivered by him to a chaplain ministering in the castle, for his stipends ; and for 253/. 14^. 7c/. delivered by him to a knight, and to Serjeants on horse and foot, and to watchmen staying in the castle, from 8 Februaiy, in the 52nd yenr of the late king's reign, until Michaelmas following, both days being counted ; and for 358/. 68. 4d. delivered to the said knight, seijeants, and watchmen, in the 53rd year of the late king's reign ; and for 61/. for the acquittance of 61 tuns of wine taken at Sand- widb and expended in the garrison ; and for 12/. 10«. Od. for the robes of twenty-five foot Serjeants in the garrison at the said time acquitted by him, and for 1,123/. 85. 5d, for the wages of the said knight, Serjeants, and watchmen, in the 54th, 55th and 56th years of the late king's reign ; and for 10/. delivered by him to the chamberlain of Middelton for his wages in the 54th year of the late king's reign ; and for 20*. delivered to the envoy of Robert de Creseke returning home; and for 4s. for the passage of a certain groom bearing the king's letters to Peter de Castro Novo in France, as the subjects supplying the king's place in England learn from the testimony of the aforesaid Ralph, John and Adam, auditors of the account.
To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver Richard son of David, im- prisoned at York for the death of William son of Walter le Ru . . . . , wherewith he is charged, to twelve lawful men of that county who shall mainpem to have him before the justices of assize when they come to those parts to stand to right concerning this death, if anyone wish t.o speak against him concerning it, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sherifiT that Richard is not guilty of the said death, and that he did not slay William out of hatred, nor by felony or out of malice aforethought, but that he is charged with the death because William, a boy of 7^ years, in running fell behind Richard by mischance upon Richard's . . . .* (. . . . llum)y Richard being ignorant thereof, whereof the boy died.
* The firet part of the word (ctdtellutn ? " Ipiife ") has been erased,
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Oct. 20. To Maater R, de Cliff [ord], escheator this side Trent. Order to
St. Martin's- permit Peter de la Mare to cultivate and sow the lands that belonged to
Lod°^ Robert de la Mare, his father, tenant in chief, and to receive the rents
" ®°' thereof, until the king's arrival in England, so that he may then answer to
the king for the issues received thence in the meantime, if the king then
wish to have them, as the subjects supplying the king's place in England
have fixed a term for Peter at the king's arrival to come before the king to
do fealty to him for his father's lands.
Thomas le Clerc of Blitheswrth, imprisoned at Northampton for tres- pass of the Forest, has letters to Roger de Cliff [ord], justice of the Forest this side Trent, to bail him.
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to respite until the king's arrival in England the demand on the abbot of Grestain (Grestino) for 100«. i& which he was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Cambridge, as the late king, on 13 July, in the 52nd year of his reign, granted by letters patent, which the king has inspected, to the abbot that he should be quit for five years following of the common summonses of the eyres of the king's justices, both for pleas of the Forest and for common pleas, so that he shotdd not be amerced by reason of his absence. Nov. 17. Richard son of Ivo de Segrave, imprisoned at Warwick for the death of Westminrter. Richard son of John le Provost of Walton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Lancaster to bail him.
Membrane 1 — Schedule 1.
[This?] pari of the lands that belonged to Roger de Somery may be assigned in dower to his wife.
Bradefeud - 60/.
Swynefoni - 16/. 18«. 4|</.
Clent - - 8/. 17a 5|rf.
Bordesle - 18A 15*. I^d,
Cradele - 8/. 6*. Ojc/.
And thus 4/. are lacking to make up the total that the lady should have of fixed {certo) rent in the manor of Seggesle.
Also the park of Seggesle is assigned wholly to this part, for the wood pertaining to the manor of Swyneford, of which the said lady shall have nothing except common of pasture.
Be it known that 25 marks yearly are due to the king from the manors of Swyneford and Clent, which sum the heir, when he comes of age, shall pay from the manor of Mere, and shall acquit the said lady thereof against the king, and in the meantime the king shall acquit her thereof.
Endorsed : By the consent of Sir N. de Segrave, the manor of Neuport is estimated at 80/. and the manor of Bradefeud at 60/.
>-Total : 112/. 17*. 6i</.
1272.
Membrane 1 — Schedule 2. {Obliterated by gall,) Membrane l\d.
Memorandum, that the king granted to Ellen la Zuch, who is going to Scotland by the king's licence, that Nicholas de Vallibus, John de Oxenden, and William de Flore, whom she has appointed before the king in her place shall be admitted as lier attorneys, until Michaelmas next.
William de Montegomery acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Robert Bumell 26 marks ; to be levied, in d'ifault of pa}Tnent, of his lands and chattels in co. Northampton*
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Memoranduniy that Alger son of Richard de Fletc came before the chancellor in chancery, on Thursday after St. Nicholas, and laid claim to 20 acres of land in Flete, concerning which a fine was made in the king's court between William Brim of Flete and Margaret de Gedeneye.
Whereas the cathedral churches in England that are void (yiduatis) ought to be provided for of right and are wont of custom to l)e provided for by canonical election to be made principally by the colleges, chapters, and persons to whom the right of election pertains, after they have sought and obtained the king's licence therefor, and after the election have been celebrated, the person elected has to be presented to the king, so that the king may propound against him anything reasonable that he may have to propound ; it seems to the king and his council that prejudice would be done to him and -to the church of Canterbury, whereof he is patron and defender, in this behalf, especially if the matter were drawn into an example in other churches of England, if the pope should assume to himself the power of providing for that church, these things being omitted in this case, when no wrong {peccaiwn) has been found either in the matter or form of the election, and none is expressed in his letters ; wherefore in order that the Roman church shall not proceed to such provisions henceforth, and so " that if it do proceed to them, no prejudice shuU arise to the king thereby, so that he shall be boimd to render the temporalities of any cathedral chm-ch thus provided, the king at present grants to you, the elect of Canterbury, the temporalities of Canterbury, by special favour, and I, Itherius Bochardi, the king's clerk, protest, in the king's name, that the grant of tem- poralities made in like case to Nicholas, bishop of Winchester, but with a protest, which is now repeated in your person, shall not be drawn into a custom or example in future times. This protest wss made and read at Westminster in the chapel of St. Stephen, on Monday, the eve of St. Lucy, in the presence of Brother Robert de Kiluardeby, elect of Canterbury, there being also present and specially summoned for this purpose W. bishop of Exeter, Sir W. de Merton, the chancellor. Master John de Chi&hull, dean of St. Paul's, London, R. Burnell, arehdeacon of York, Hervey de Borham, Brother John de Derlington, Master William de Cornera, John de Kirkeby, William de Saham, John de Shamelesford, monk of Canterbury and many others, in the year 1272. [Prynne, Records, iii. 122].
The abbot of Hyde, Winchester, who caused himself to be essoined for being in sick bed against John, then prior of Bermundeseye before M. de Littleb[uri] and his fellows, justices of the Bene)), in the suit before them between John and the abbot by the late king's writ, concerning the making divisions between the lands of the prior in Werlingham ajid the abbot's lands of Sanderstede, sought by Robert de Lavorestok licence to rise I which is granted in this suit because the late king died before the abbot was seen, as is the custom, and also because John has now become prior of Wenlok and another has been set in his place as prior of Bermundeseye.
Robert Burnell acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Giles de Berkele 176 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Salop and Stiifford.
The part of Walter de Faucumberge and Agnes his wife. — The castle of Skclton witli the park about it and with the prolittj of the boats of Cotum and Bideker, with the demesnes of Skelton, with the meadows and dales, and with the rents of the town of Skelton of freemen and others, with all mills and toll, and the manor of Cresk («/c), with Rideker and Plyom, and with the town of Stangho and with the town of Grenerig, and with the forest • of Skeltoh, to wit with the enclosure and great park with Httsdal[e], and with the choce of West wye with the fore^st nn the highway extends between Stanghe
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and Kadriding, and as the way extends to Lardegate, and so by Sketebek to Karthorn, and so to the boundary of Daneby forest, and from that boundary to Colemandale, so that all the chaces within these boundaries, to wit Locwit, Wervelsco, Hardal[c], and Hahe ^»c), with the herbage of La Grene and that of Le Donant, and with all the town of Estbrunne, except '4^ acres of land and four tofts assigned to J. de Bella Aqua and to Ladereyna his wife, with the fourth part of wreck of the sea (werk de mar^), to wit from Rennewic to Jarum, and with a moiety of the advowson of Gissebum priory, and with a moiety of the bailiwick of Langberwe. Memorandutih that concerning the advowson of Gisseburn priory, it is agreed that on the first voidance thereof the prior shall be presented to Sir Walter de Faukumberge, or hb heirs, and at the next voidance to Sir Marmaduke, and 80 alternately to the end of the >vorld.
The part of Marmaduke de Tweng and Lucy his wife. — The manor of Daneby with the forest, and with Lelholm and Wolvedale [and] Manselenges, and with the ferm of Thomas de Wolvedale, and with the manor of Brochton, Skyiegrive {sic) and the boat of Skinergrive, and with the rents and demesnes of freemen and others, with the town of Jarum and the sei'vice of the free tenants of that town, and with the fishery, and with the town of Great Morsom, and with the rents and services of free tenants and others, with the forest of the chace of the dales,. to wit Swindal and Lehavenes, and with the other dales, as the high road extends from Lardethom to Skelton by Skaytebec between Katering and Stangho, and so to the wood of Liverton, and with the manor of Kirkebroun and Suthbroun, and with the mills and suit thereof, except 14 bovates of land with tofts and 70f. of yearly rent in the mills assigned to John de Bella Aqua and Ladrana his wife, and with a quarter of the wreck of the sea, to wit from Renneswic to Jarum, and with a moiety of the advowson of Giseburn priory, and with a moiety of the bailiwick of Langeberwe.
The part of Robert de Ros and Margaret hie wife, — The castle of Kirkeby in Kendale, with all Kendale, whatever pertained to Sir Peter de Brus in demesnes, villeinages, rents, and services of freemen and others, except the dale of Kentemere, which is assigned to Sir J. de Bella Aqua and to Laderana, his wife, and with the advowson of Konigesheved priory, and with a quarter of the wreck of the sea in Clivelaunde, to VTlt from Rennewyz to Jarum.
The part of John de Bella Aqua and Ladrina his wife. — The manor of Karleton in Baune with the demesnes and with all the rents of freemen and others, and the marriage of Laderina, wife of Sir John de Belewe, and the manor of Thorp de Arches and Walleton, with the park, with all demesne rents in the town of Thorp and Walelon, and the manor of Tibetorp, and in Suthbrunne, 14 bovates of land with tofts and 70». in the mill of that town, and in Estbrunne 4^ bovates of land and four tofts, and with the dale of Kentemere in Kendale, and with the advowson of Monketon priory, and a quarter of the wreck of the sea in Clivelaund, to wit from Renneswyc to Jarum, together with all lands assigned in marriage to Robert de Bos and Margaret his wife and to the other sisters and co-heiresses of the said Peter, rendered into the king's hands to be divided, as the custom is in the realm.
All the fees belonging to the castles of Skelton and Jarum are assigned to Walter de Faucumberge and Agnes his wife and to Marmaduke de Tweng and Lucy his vnfe. All the fees of Kendale and Westmerlfand] are assigned to Sir Robert de Ros and Margaret his wife. All the tees pertaining to the manor of Thorpe de Hjarches in co. Lancaster {sic) are assigned to J. de Belewe and Ladrina his wife.
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Jan. 13.
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The abbot of Badiuges puts in his phice Richard do Bippele and William Muhant in the suit before the king's subjects supplying his place in England concerning a trespass made on the abbot by Bobert de Pole, William de la Dene, Thurgisius de Herdefeud, Boger le Beddele, William le Halvefranch, Matthew Crust and Mary de Valoygnes. GFiven by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
Peter de Newy, John Beyneri, and Henry Eyr came before the king, on Thursday the eve of St. Hilary last^ and sought to replevy their land in Grimesby, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Anna, late the wife of William le Parcur.
Boger Mynnot came before the king at Westminster, on Saturday the morrow of St. Hilary, and sought to replevy his land in Kirkestede, which ' was taken into the king's hands for his default in the court of the heir of John de Verdun of Multon against Geoffrey Lenveseye. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
The king granted to Master Adam de Fileby, who is about to set out to the Boman court by the king's liceoce, that Philip le Poer and Thomas de Fileby may be his attorneys in all pleas and suits until Christmas next.
Simon Tuterell came before the king, on Thursday after St. Hilary, and sought to replevy bis land in Little Yarmouth, which was taken into the king's hands for default before the justices of the Bench against Alan son of Andrew Wolf.
Theobald {Teobald*) de Feringes acknowledges that he owes the prior of Holy Trinity, London, 10/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex.
Enrolment of agreement between Bichard, bishop of Lincoln, and lady Joan, relict of Sir William Charles, whereby the bishop sold to her the custody and marriage of Edward (Eadwardi), William's heir, which pertained to the bishop because William held his tenement of Grengham by knight service, for a certain sum of money paid beforehand to the bishop by her. The bishop also demieed to her the manor, and all the land with advowson of the church and all other things that he had in the name of the custody of the said heir in Qrengham, to be held by Joan until the heir come of age, for 7/. yearly to the bishop or to him to whom he may assign that rent. Dated 15 kalends of February, 1271 [-2]. Witnesses : Sir Walter de Merton, the chancellor ; Master John de Mayden- stan, archdeacon of Oxford ; Master Bichard de Gravesend, archdeacon of Essex ; Sir Bichard de Wyk, canon of Lincoln ; Master William de la Gare, canon of the same church ; Sir Thomas de Boulton, then sheriff of Lincoln ; Sir John Pycot ; Sir John de Bracebrig.
Memorandum^ that the bishop came into chancery, on Friday the octaves of St. Hilary, and released the custody, etc. to Joan as aforesaid, for which aclmowledgment and grant, Joan acknowledged that she owed to the bishop 7/. yearly during the said custody ; to be levied, in default of payment, of her lands and chattels in co. Lincoln.
Thomas de Furnyvall came into chancery and acknowledged that he owed to Joan, daughter of Hugh le Despen&er, 1,000 marks, on condition that if Thomas de Furnyvall, son and heir of the said Thomas, now a minor, married to Joan with his father's will, shall presume to do anything against that marriage when he shall come of age, Thomas his hither shall pay to Joan the said 1,000 marks within the first year after Thomas the son shall have protested (reclamaverit) against the marriage, which sum shall be levied^ in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in (so. York.
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Memorandum, that the abbot of Cirencestre came into chancery at West- minster, on Sunday after the octaves of St. Hilary, and offered to sue out in chancery a letter concerning a certain inquisition between him and Reginald son of Peter, concerning certain articles to be done, and requested that this might be testified lest he should incur damage thereupon ; and he put in his place Master Thomas de Soynton and Waited de Oiitcham to prosecute the letter, if Reginald wish to sue it out in chancery together with them*
Enrolment of release by Roger de Whelton, son of William de Wheltoni to Alelm his brother of all that land that Alelm holds of the gift of the said William de Whelton in the town of Toterho, co. Bedford, together with ail his right and claim thereto, and in all other things that may come to him by hereditary right or otherwise there, and also all the right that he has in the land that Helewisia, his grandmother (avuncula) holds of the dower of Roger de Whelton, the releasor's grandfather (avus)^ in that town. And for this release Alelm has given him lOOf. of good sterlings. Witnesses : Sir Robert Burnel, Sir John de Kirkeby, clerks, John de Gatesdene, Richard Gruscett, John son of Thomas de Toterho, Ralph Inge of the same, Stephen de Eglemunt, Peter de Aula, Ralph Maunsell.
Richard de Mulesham and William de Wanton acknowledge that they
owe to William de Sancta ' Ermina 25 marks ; to be levied, in default of
payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Essex.
Memorandum^ that William Giffard afterwards came into chancery and acknowledged that he had received in the name of Walter de Beche, attoi-ney of William de Sancta Ermina, 16 marks in full payment of the said 25 marks, in which OrabiUa, late the wife of William de Staund[on], made fine with W. de Sancta Ermina for her marriage, and for which Richard and William de Wauton bound themselves in the form here enrolled ; and afterwards Walter came and acknowledged that he had received the said sum from Walter Giffard.
Jan. 25. John Isenberd acknowledges that he owes to John de Hereford 20s, ; to
Westminster, be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
Enrolment of order of Henry [III.] to the sheriff of Worcester to cause an extent to be made and sent to the king in fifteen days from Martinmas of a moiety of the lands that belonged to John de Chirchehnll of the fee of William le Povre in Chirchehull and Puplanton, which Matilda, late the wife of the said John, had of the king's gift, and of a moiety of the lands that Matilda had of the gift of Hamo Lestrange (Extranet) of the fees of the said William, to whom Thomas Boterel granted it after the king had granted it during the minority of John's heir to Thomas, according to the form of the dictum of Kenill[e worth], except two mills and 6s. of rent that Master John de Farlegh, parson of Chirchehull, holds in Chirchehull. Witness R. de Stanes, at Westminster, on 20 October, in the 56th year of the reign.
[Enrolment of return of preceding writ :] The extent (eoctensio) of the lands that belonged to John de Chirchehull of the fee of William le Povre in Pupplinton was made by the following : John de Ekinton, Robert son of Stephen, Hugh Kaylleweye, Robert de Estenoure, Alexander Bataylle, John Pykun, Walter Bonham, John Aleyn of Burlingham, John Boieyns, Nicholas, clerk of Bricheclampton, Thomas de Walecote and William de Walecote, who say upon oath that there is there a certain messuage with garden and curtilage, which is extended at 6*. yearly, and that there are 2«. Id. of a rent of assize, and the service of a customary (tenant), extended at 14^., and that there is arable land in demesne that is neld for a virgate and a half, whereof 32 J acres can be sown every year, each of which acres IS extended at 8(f., and the total extent of these 32^ acres is therefore
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21«. Sd,f and that there is a certain parcel of meadow there, extended at 6s. Sum total 36f. llcf.
The extent of the landa that belonged to John de Chirchull of the fee of William le Porre in Chirchehufl is not made, because the bailiff of the bishop of Worcester, who has the return of the writ, and to whom it was returned, and in whose bailiwick is the town of Chirchehull, did not cau?e any jurors to come before me to make the extent thereof.
Jan. 27. Memorandum, that Alan le Fraunceys has acquittance for 40*. in which
Westqiinster. he was amerced before the justices last in eyre in co. Cambridge, because it
was testified by Robert -Burnell that he had the king's writ of acquittance
of the common summons of that eyre. Given by the hand of W. de Merton,
the chancellor.
The abbot of Westminster gave power, by the king's licence, to John de
Sutton, sacristan of Westminster, to Brother Alexander de Staundon and
Nicholas le Fraunceys to be his attorneys in all suits until Michaelmas next.
Thomas Trentemars, William de Havering, Edmund de Cantuar[ia], and Thomas de Faversham of co. Kent have mainpemed for the prior and convent of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, to come before the subjects supplying the king's place in England in the quinzaine of Easter next to stand to right, as is contained in the writ.
Boger de Rolling acknowledges that he owes to Stephen de Holcote 448. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Cambridge.
Cancelled on payment.
Membrane 9d.
Feb. 6. William GUffard came into chancery and released to Cok Hagyn, son of
Westminster. Cres8[eus], Jew of London, all the right in the houses that belonged to Cresseus, son of Master* Moses {Mosseiis), Jew of London, in the city of London in Melkestrete, which William claimed to have of the gift of the late king ; and William also released to the said Jew all his right and claim in 10/. of land or 10/. of fee, for the assignment whereof to him by the Jew an agreement was made in the king's court by W. archbishop of York on William's behalf, and Roger derLeyburn,on the Jew's behalf. Cok has the king's writ to the mayor and sheriffs of London to cause him to have seisin of the said houses, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of the contention between Williana and the Jew in the king's court. For this release, Cok acknowledged in chancery that he owed to William 70 marks, of which he paid to him 1 5 marks beJrorehand, and he will pay the rest at terms prescribed herein, and he grants if he do not, that the sum shall bo levied of his lands and chattels in the city of London. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, the chancellor.
Memorandum, that John de Pudercote, yeoman of the said William, came and acknowledged that he had received in his lord's name 20 marks from the said Jew for the term of three weeks after Easter last, and whereof 100*. remain to be paid, which the Jew agrees to pay at Holy Trinity next. William [afterwards] gave the Jew his letters of acquittance for 10/. and for the aforesaid 20 marks.
Afterwards the said William came and acknowledged that he had received the said 100*. /or that term.
Afterwards Peter de Qurtefeld, attorney of William, came and acknow- ledged that he had received 27^ marks thai were in arrear of the said 70 viarhs, and acquitted the Jeio thereof
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March 12.
The New Temple, London.
March 16. TheKew Temple, London.
March 17. The New Temple, London.
April 5.
St Paul's,
London.
April 13. St Paul's, London.
Membrane Sd-^cont, Master Thomas Passelewe, archdeacon of Richmond, gave power by the king's licence to Walter de Brikehull and James de Songham to be his attomies in all pleas for one year.
Memorandum^ that the subjects who supply the king's place in England granted to the prior and convent of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, in the present voidance of their abbey, for one year the wardships of knights' fees that are held of them and the wardships of their other tenants, and reliefs, marriages and escheats that shall fall in within the year, saving to the king the advowsons of churches pertaining to the abbey during the time of the voidance.
Hamo son of Richard de Shaldeford acknowledges that he owes to Peter de Ghavent 12 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Eesex, Somerset and Dorset.
Master William de la Mare acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Robert de Scardeburgh, derk, 40s. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Buckingham and Bedford.
Michael de Columbariis puts in his place Stephen de Oxonfia] and William le Lung in the suit before the king or those supplying his place in England between the said Michael and Walter de Wik and Hamelyn de Hedun concerning a trespass committed on Michael by the said Walter and Hamelin.
Ralph de Kirkeby acknowledges in chancery that he owed to Walter Wolward 10 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cqs. Northampton and Rutland.
The prior of Bermundeseye, who is going to parts beyond sea by the king's licence, puts in his place Brother Ralph de Derby, monk of Ber- mundeseye, and William Godyn in all pleas until St. Peter ad Vincula next.
Walter de Fumeus, knight, acknowledges in chancery that he owes to John Adrian, citizen of London, 75«. ; to be levied, in defalt of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Essex and Hertford.
Henry Burnell came before the king, on Wednesday after Palm Sunday, and sought to replevy to Thomas Pipard the latter's land in Bovi, Langedon, Laverkeber[y] and Blakedon, which was taken unto the king's hands for his default before the justices of the Bench against Margery, late the wife of Edmund Pipard.
Anselm GFobion came before the king, on Wednesday in Easter week, and sought to replevy to Alexander de Balliolo and Eleanor his wife their land in Mitford, Molesdon and Felton, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Robert de Nevill and Ida his wife.
Robert de Sprouton came before the king, on Friday in Easter week, and sought to replevy to J«m de Leyham, Margery and Olive, her sisters, Geoffrey de la Mare and Ida his wife their land in Leyham, Laileford and Berkefordy which was taken into the king's hands for default before the justices of the Bench against Margery, late the wife of Peter de Leyham.
Anselm Gobyun came before the king, on Friday in Easter week, and sought to replevy to Ralph de Cotun the latter's land in Banerugg, which was taken into the king's hands for his default before the justices of the Bench against Robert de Nevill and Ida (Adun) his wife.
Thomas de Prendewik came before the king, on Friday aforesaid, and ought to replevy to William de Herl the latter's land in Overgares, which
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was taken unto the king's hands for his default before the justices of the Bench against Robert de Nevill and Ida his wife.
April 18. Balph Gamel came before the king, on Thursdaj after St. Elphege, and Westmintter. sought to replevy to Balph son of Kalph, Ivo Aunger, and Henry son of Thomas le Chapelejn, Adam Wale, Bichard le Mouner, Walter Gamel, William le (sic) Welle, John le Somenur, and Henrj son of Henry their land in Cheping Norton, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Alice, late the wife of Balph le Keu.
April 28. Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, who is going to parts beyond the sea by Westminster, the king's licence, has given power to Adam le Vavasur and to Robert le Vavasur to make an attorney or attorneys in all pleas, etc«, touching the earl until Michaelmas next, unless the earl return to England in the meantime.
The said earl appointed Bichard de Dunum his attorney in the parts of Chester.
Boberi Warin of Esseby-la-Zuch, and Hugh de Franketon, vicar of that town, acknowledge that they owe to Greoffrey de Shanketon 19/. ; to be levied, in default oi payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Leicester.
Michael Picot acknowledges that he owes to Hugh de Eendale lOOs, and to John Malerbe 5 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Bedford.
Master Thomas de Glouce8tr[ia], William de LuUeworth, Master Thomas
de Sothington, and Boger de Evesham mainpemed before the king's
subjects supplying his place in England to have John son and heir of Ralph Musard before the king or the said subjects at the king's will when required. By B. Bumell.
May 3. Walter de Geyton acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Walter de
Wettminster. Merton 22L, for his corn of Chetindon ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Buckingham.
ICancelled.] Enrolment of agreement between William de Valencia and Sir Thomas de Clar[e] that 600 marks that William paid to Thomas in the Holy Land shall be allowed to William in a debt that William owes to Thomas for the custody of the lands and heirs of Maurice son of Qer[ald] in Ireland, which Thomas sold to William, and also 200 marks that William delivered to Thomas at Westminster on the preceding day shall also be allowed to William in the said debt, and Thomas gave respite to William for the remainder of the debt until Michaelmas next, on condition that if the king return to England in the mean time, he shall ordain concerning the contention between them, both concerning the remainder of that debt and concerning the warranty of the custody. Dated at Westminster, 3 May.
The mainpernors of William de Benges, charged with the death of Geoffrey de Askeby :
Philip de Bokeland of co. Hereford. Balph de [nge worth of co. Xorfolk. Thomas de !N'eketon of co. Norfolk. Bichard le Deneys of co. Suffolk. William de Eye of co. Suffolk. William son of John of co. Suffolk. Humphrey le Marescall of co. Middlesex. Walter de Curzun of co. Suffolk. Geoffrey de Middelton of co. Norfolk. Boger de Haneworth of co. Norfolk. Hugh de Cressingham of co. Norfolk. Walter de Basing of co. Middlesex.
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Richard de Merston acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Walter de Merton 35^ marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Hertford.
Catuxlled on payment,
• William de Boyvill acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Queen
Eleanor, the king's wife, 60 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of
his lands and chattels in co. Leicester.
It is said that Adam de Novo Mercato sent to Laurence de Brok by Henry Macy, his Serjeant, 40*., for the liberation of two prisoners who were in Neugate for robbing merchants between Stamford and Walmesford, and they two, so delivered, ought to acquit Adam of 100/. against a Jew of London. Let an inquisition be made with great caution concerning this.
Memorandum^ that the sheriff of Oxford presents that the steward of th« liberty of Walingford does not make any men of his bailiwi^jk come at the king's command to the county [court] for the execution of a writ of utrum odioy and has thus usurped such inquisition to himself.
The bailiffs of the liberty of Oxford do the like.
Membrane Sd.
Memorandum, that Walter de Kanc[ia] came into chancery at Westminster, and acknowledged that he had received in the name of Queen Eleanor from John le Despenser 55/. for the term of Michaelmas last and 55/. for the term of Easter following, of the fine of 220/. that John made with her for the ransom of the manor of Marteleye, according to the form of the Dictum of Kenilworth.
The abbot of Faversham, by the king's licence, gave power to Brother
— Robert de Redmersham and to Clement de Ledon to be his attorneys until Michaelmas.
The following have (sic) acquittance of the common summons for pleas of the Forest in co. Huntingdon :
Margaret de Ferrar[iis], countess of Derby.
Memorandumj that brother Roger de Ocolt, attorney of the Master of the military order of the Temple in England, came into chancery at Westminster on Wednesday the eve of the Ascension, and laid claim in the Master's name to certain land in Museleye, co. Hereford, concerning which there was a plea before the justices last in eyre in that county between Richard de la Loke and Hugh de Lacy and Ralph son of Rhys ? {Resce ?).
May 20. To Stephen de Penecestre, constable of Dover castle. Order to permit
Westminster. William de Mortuo Mari to have free passage in the port of Dover, with
his horses and equipment, in coming into the kingdom, as the king learns
by trustworthy testimony that he went on a pilgrimage to Santiago and is
in the king's faith.
May 26. To Marmaduke de Tweng and Lucy his wife. It has been shown to the
Westminster, king by Walter de Faukenberge and Agnes, his wife, that whereas in the partition lately made in the king's court of the inheritance of Peter de Brus' between the said Walter and Agnes, Marmaduke and Lucy, and the other heirs and parceners, there was assigned to Walter and Agnes the castle of Skelton, with the towns of Staughou and Grenrugg, with all appurtenances, Marmaduke and Lucy have withdrawn a certain forest, to wit Leavenes, Le Vans and Le cfardyn pertaining to the said castle and towns, and six carucates of land without the borough of Jarum, which still remain to be divided between them and Walter and Agnes, and also the suitors of the mills pertaining to the castle, to wit of Skinergreve,
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June 2. St. Paul's, liODdon.
June 5. Westminster.
Membrane Sd — cont»
Braghton, Thorp, Grant Moresum and Petite Moresum, and the toll belonging to Walter and Agnes within the honour and liberty of the castle, and Marmadake and Lucy daily cause them to be withdrawn by Eobert de Tweng, their son, and inflict other grievances on Walter and Agnes, contrary to the form of the partition : as it was granted and ordained in the partition made in the king's court that if any one should occupy or detain anything of another, and that if anything of the inheritance remained to be divided, it should be extended and divided among them, the kmg orders Marmaduke and Lucy to permit Walter and Agnes to hold in peace the things that pertain to the castle and towns that were thus assigned to them and in their purparty. If contention or dispute arise between them in this behalf, Marmaduke and Lucy are ordered to be before the king or his subjects supplying his place in fifteen days from Holy Trinity, which day the king has appointed for Walter and Agnes, to do and receive justice in the premises according to the form of the aforesaid division.
Richard de Kircham came before the subjects of the king, on Tuesday before Holy Trinity, and sought to replevy to Henry de la Pomeraye, the latter's land in Cherketon (sic)j and to John Picard {sic) the latter's land in Thetecote and Kary, and to Margery Picard (sic) her land in Little Totenays, and to Bobert Picard (sic) his land in Langedon, which were taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against Margery, late the wife of Edmund Picard.
Simon de Hulney came before the king's subjects, on Thursday before Holy Trinity, and sought to replevy to Nicholas de Basinges and Isabella his wife their land in Little Badawe, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against John de Cowe and Joan his wife.
Bichard son of Bobert came, etc., on Thursday before Holy Trinity, and sought to replevy to Nicholas de Basing* and Isabella, his wife, their land in Little Badwe, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against John de Gouwe and Joan his wife.
Nicholas Poynz came into chancery and put himself upon a certain perambulation between his lands of Sutton, co. Dorset, and the lands of the abbot of C5em' of the manor of Pockeswell, co. Dorset, and puts in his place Walter de Berewik, clerk, and John de la Haull* to prosecute the perambulation.
A day is given to Peter de la Mare, son and heir of Bobert de la Mare, tenant in chief, at the feast of St. Margaret the Virgin next to come before the king and to receive from his hands seisin of the manor of [WawA], which belonged to the said Robert, concerning which the escheator was hindered by Edmund, earl of Cornwall, who asserted that the manor is held of him, from having seisin thereof as of the other lands that belonged to Bobert, and it was granted to Peter that the rents issuing therefrom in the mean- time shall be restored to him, because it was not and is not his fault that he was not and is not ready to do what he ought to do of right.
Bichard de Kirkeby puts in his place John Dachet and William Halibred in the stiit before the subjects supplying the king's place between Bichard and the prior of Wederale, Bobert de Shipton, Henry le Vacher, William his son, Nicholas de Geytescales, William son of Alice, Stephen le Porter, Walter Shadde, William son of Reginald and Bichard Belle, concerning a trespass committed on Bichard by them.
Nicholas son of Boger de Shirleye came into chancery, and acknow- ledged that he owed to Balph le Botiller, clerk, 6 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
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Memorandum^ that John de Sancto Johanne came into chancery, and acknowledged that he had received from Lucy Peche 100/., which she owed to him, in part payment of 180/. in which she made fine with him for having the custody of the lands that belonged to Herbert Peche, which are of John's fee, until the heir of Robert (sic) shall come of age, together with the marriage of the heir. Be it known that nothing is allowed to Lucy of the goods or issues of the manors that belonged to Herbert and that are of John's fee, and for which she claims to have allowance of the remaining 80/.
June 8. Gilbert de Wik came before the king, on Thursday after Holy Trinity,
Westminster, and sought to replevy to Alan de Plogenet his land in Elyng, which was taken into the king's hands for Alan's default before the justices of the Bench against Henry le Hosee.
Adam Coly of Clayton came before the king, on Thursday before Holy
Trinity, and sought to replevy his land in Clayton, which was taken into
the king's hands for his default before the justices of the Bench against Isolda, late the wife of Adam Paynel, concerning a messuage and two bovates of land in Clayton.
Memorandum^ that the abbot of Stanleye, co. Warwick, and Henry Brond came into chancery, and granted that inquiry shall be made by twelve lawful men to be elected for this purpose with the assent of the abbot and Henry, whether or not Henry's father and grandfather and great-grandfather had the reasonable estover that Henry claims to have in the abbot's woods in Stanleye, which estover his grandfather and great- grandfather were wont to have there, as it is said, concerning which a plea was moved between them in the king's court ; and if it be found by their verdict that Henry's ancestors were wont to have such estover, the abbot grants that he will thereupon come to the king's court and will make to Henry all the security that the king's court shall provide thereupon. Vacated because otherwise below.
To the sheriff of Essex and keeper of the pleas of the crown in that county. Order not to proceed to the outlawry of those who were indicted before the late king's justices in eyre in that county for larcenies, homicide, arson, felony, and other trespasses, and who were put in exigent by order of the said justices at the suit of the late king's peace and not at the suit of another.
The like to all the sheriffs and coroners throughout England.
Membrane Sd — Schedule.
Letter of J.de Aldjthel[eye], justiciary of Lreland, to Master W.de Bakepuz, cscheator of Ireland, informing him that he has inspected the letters of his lord Edward directed to both of them, concerning a certain affair touching Roger de Leyburn, Eleanor his wife, Hugh de Mortuo Mari and Agatha his wife and their parceners of the county of Kildare, which letters the justiciary sends to the escheator to inspect, requesting him to execute the order contained therein, fully and without delay, in the names of both. Dated at Lymor', 4 July, 55 Henry III.
Letters patent of W. archbishop of York, Philip Basset, Roger de Mortuo Mari and Robert Bumel, supplying the place of Edward, the king's eldest son, to the justiciary or escheator of Ireland, or to those supplying their places. It has been shown to them by Sir Roger de Leyburn and Eleanor his wife, and Sir Hugh de Mortuo Mari and .^atha, his wife, that whereas in the partition of the lands that belonged to the earl marshal in Ireland among the heirs and parceners of Sibyll de Perar[iis], one of the heiresses and parceners of that inheritance, there were assigned to
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the aforesaid Eleanor in her purparty 14/. 5s, 0\d. yearly, and to Agatha 19s, 5s» lOd, yearly of the pleas and issues oi the county of Kildare, according to the extent made by the king's order, which Margaret, some- time countess of Lincoln, held in dower of the said inheritance and which ought, according to the assignment, to revert after her decease to Boger and Eleanor, Hugh and Agatha, as appears by the rolls of the said partition of the inheritance, Agnes de Yescy, sister of Eleanor and Agatha, and parcener of the inheritance, appropriated the said 14/. 5s, Old, yearly and 19/. 5$, lOd. yearly, with the increment and decrement oi the same, to herself after the death of the countess, contrary to the said assignment, and although Edward several times ordered his justiciaries of Ireland or those supplying their places and the aforesaid escheator to restore the said sums to Roger and Eleanor, Hugh and Agatha, the eschentor and other justiciaries of Ireland have hitherto delayed doing so ; the said subjects therefore order th<3 justiciary and eecheator to cause these sums to be restored as aforesaid without delay, together with the issues thereof from the time when Agnes or others held them first after the death of the countess. Whereas Agnes, Eleanor, and Agatha are equals {pares) and parceners as regards the pleas and assizes of the county, wherefore both they and the other parceners of the county ought to have a steward, a sheriff and other ministers there in common to hold pleas and assizes of the county, the said subjects order the justiciary and escheator to cause them and their parceners of the county to have a steward, sheriff and other ministers whom the said Agnes, Roger, Eleanor, Hugh and Agatha and the other parceners shall see fit, who shall make the due and accustomed writs under a common seal in the names of all the parceners, and who may answer to the said parceners proportionally for the pleas and issues aforesaid according to the share the the parceners have, according to the decrement and increment of tlie said pleas, assizes and issues. Given at Westminster, by the hand of Robert BurneU, under the seal of Edward that they use at present in his absence, on 8 March, 1270 [-1].
Mbmbranb Id,
June 11. Memorandum^ that the abbot of Stauleye, co. Warwick, and Henry Brond Wefltminiter. of the same county came into chancery, and granted that inquiry shall be made by twelve men of the manor of Stanley, to be chosen by the abbot and Henry for this purpose, whether or not Henry ought to have the reasonable estover that he claims to have in the abbot's woods in Stanleye and whether his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were wont to have such estov<jr, concerning which a plea was moved between them in the king's court. And the abbot granted for himBelf and his church and Henry for himself and his heirs that they would both observe the finding of the inquisition.
■ Thomas de Ardern acknowledges that he owes to Hugh de Colewrth
36/. Idi. 4<f. ; to be levied, in default of paj^ment, of his lands and chattels
in COS. Essex and Surrey.
Henry Trbne acknowledges that he owes to Michael Pycot 20 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Bedford.
June 15. Robert de la Sale acknowledges that he owes to William Yarache 2 marks ; Weitmistter. to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Berks.
June 15. To the sheriff of Salop. Order to maintain and defend the king's Jews WestminRter. of Bruggea in his bailiwick, as the king lately caused his peace to be pro- claimed throughout the realm, and ordered it to be observed for all, both Jews and Christians, so that the king's peace may be observed for them as the king proclaimed it, and not to exact or allow to be exacted from them » 96998. D
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June 15. Westmmster.
June 15. Westmioster.
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ransoms or other extortions for the king's use or the use of others, except what is owed for the debts of the kin^ or his father, or tallages, or for other things that ought of right to be levied from them, as the sheriff had warrant of the king or his father to levy from them.
The prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, who is going to parts beyond sea by the king's licence, gave power to brother Robert de Holm to make attorneys for him in pleas until Michaelmas next and for a year from then.
To Eromund le Bran, chancellor of Ireland. Order to receive the attorney whom Walter de la Haye and William de London [ia] shall appoint in the place of William de Weylaund, one of the justices of the Bench, until Michaelmas next, and for a year afterwards, and to grant to them freely the king's writs thereupon until the end of the said term, as William de Weylaund is intending other afiairs of the king in Ireland, so that he cannot be present in person at the suits moved for or against him, and the king has granted that Waiter and William de London[ia], to whom William de Weylaund has granted power to appoint attorneys for him until Michaelmas, may make attorneys as aforesaid.
~^ John le Moigne, who going on a pilgrimage to Santiago by the king's licence, has granted power, with the king's assent, to brother Peter de Hatfeld, canon of Holy Trinity, London, to make attorneys for him for one year.
Adam de Streche Benetleye, imprisoned at Gloucester, shall in no wise be delivered. .
— — Humphrey de Bohun of Brechenou puts in his place John David and Hoel
• Da in the suit before the king between him and Agnes de Vescy, Thomas
de Clar[e], Agatha de Mortuo Man, Thomas de Bohun, Eleanor, countess
of Winchester, Robert Aguyllon, and William de Mohun, concerning a
trespass committed on Humphrey by them.
Jime 17. To John de Oketon. Order not to attempt anything to the prejudice of
Westminster, the liberty of W. archbishop of York of his church of Beverley by reason of
certain assizes in co. York that the king lately appointed him justice to take,
some of which touch tenements in that liberty. [Prynne, Records^ iii. 123.]
Robert de Briwcs, who is going on pilgrimage to Pontigny (Pontin^) by the king's licence, puts in his place William and Richard del Jardyn to prosecute his right to the custody of the manor of Taydene del Munt.
To the barons and bailiffs of Winchelese. Order to cause the Jews who have recently entered that town and who dwell there to be removed thence withont delay, without any damage to their bodies or goods, as according to the custom of the king's Jewry Jews ought not to dwell in any cities, boroughs or towns except those wherein they were wont to dwell of old time, and the king understands that certain Jews have entered Winchelese and dwell therein, in which lown no Jew was wont to dwell in past times. [^Fcedera.']
Enrolment of agreement between Baldwin Fillol and Margery, relict of John le Ferrun, whereby Baldwin demises at ferm to Margery all h'is manor of Tappingeho, co. Essex, with all its appurtenances, to hold of him and his heirs from Michaelmas, in the first year of the king's reign, until the end of twenty-one years next following, rendering yearly to the chief lords of the fee the due and accustomed services. During this time Margeiy shall take nothing from the wood pertaining to die manor except ' husbote ' and ' heibote,' nor incur any expense in maintaining the manor, and if she do the expenses shall not be allowed to her« Baldwin also granted and swore on the gospels that if ho wi^jh to sell, pledge, or otherwise
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Jnne 24. Wortmhister.
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alienate the manor, Margery shall be preferred to others (prcpinquior sit omnibus aliis)^ provided that she be willmg to give as much as others will. For this demise Margery has given to Baldwin 100/. beforehand, for which sum Baldwin avowed himself satisfied. For greater security Baldwin and Margery have caused this agreement to be enrolled ' de verho fid verhum * in the rolls of chancery. Witnesses : Walter Hervy, then mayor of London ; John Horn and Walter le I'orter, then sheriffs of liondon ; John Adrian ; Bichard Bonaventure, Roger Bainard, John Fillol of Ballen- eden (sic) ; Bichard de Ewell ; Balph de Cogeshale ; Geoffrey de Angr[e] ; John Mauduit ; John de Ultingg', John Fillol of Borham ; Bichard, clerk of the sheriffs of London ; William de Sarr*, clerk.
To L[lewelyn] son of Gri£Gln, prince of Wales. Inhibition of his erecting a castle at Abrunol near the castle of Montegomery, or a borough or town there, or a market there, ordering him to supersede entirely the repair and construction of the same, so that the king may not be compelled to apply his hand otherwise to this, as the king learns that he proposes to erect anew the said castle and to erect anew a borough or town and market. \^Foedera.'\
To the prior of Wenlok. Order to go in person to the said L[lewelyn], and to show to him this letter, and to make known L[lewelyn's] answer to the king, so that the king may provide a remedy in the premises. [Ibid.]
Balph de Suff^^olkia] and Laurence Hardel acknowledge in chancery that they owe to Stephen de Eddeworth 20/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of their lands and chattels in co. Middlesex and in the dty of London.
Peter de Nevill came into chancery and acknowledged that he had received from William de Chaworces 10/« which he will pay to William at the octaves of Michaelmas next ; and he grants that if he do not, the carucate of land in Carleton Curly, whereof he h^ enfeoffed William and given him seisin, shall remain to him for ever. If Peter pay the money to William at the said term, the carucate of land shall revert to Peter quit of William.
William de Penebrugg acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Stephen de Exonia lOs. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in CO. Hereford. Moreover, he found as pledges Adi^m le Glerc of Staundon and John le Clerc of MaumeshuU, who acknowledged that they would pay the said lOs. if William did not ; to be levied, if need be, of their lands and chattels in co. Hereford.
John de Lithegreynes acknowledges that he owes to the executors of the will of Robert Waleraund 20/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Northumberland.
Walter de Basinges came into chancery and acknowledges that he owes to Peter Caku, merchant, of St. Malo {de Sancto Milone) 46/. ; to be levied, in de&ult of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Middlesex.
Lj like manner William de Bocland, Philip de Bodand, Humphrey le MarescaU, Walter le Tayllur, Bichard le Clerc, Godard Graspeis, Walter de Malsham and Walter de Cortfoun, and John de la Vynetrie acknowledged that they would pay the said money if Walter did not.
Thomas de Bray came into chancery, and acknowledges that he owes to Walter de Helyun 20/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Buckingham and Bedford.
The prioress of Aumbresbury came into chancery and acknowledges that she owes to Reginald son of Peter 160 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, af her lands and chattels in co. Southampton.
The prior of Stanes acknowledges that he owes to Thomas de Basinges, citizen of London, 16 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Stafford.
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Membrane Id — cowt, Henry de Somery acknowledges that he owes to John de («c) Lovet 10/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Essex. ^
Gilbert de Bruoesle and Richard Hay acknowledge that they owe to
John de Dingeleye 60*. ; to be levied, lands and chattels in co. Northampton.
in default of payment, of their
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In COS. Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford, are appointed justices : R. Fulc[oni8j, and W. de Saham.
In COS. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Southampton, Oxford, and Berks, are appointed justices : Master R. de Stan[e8] and Master R. de Seyton.
In COS. Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and Wilts, are appointed justices : H. de Monteforti and H. de Wolaventon.
In cos. Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, and Stafford, are appointed justices : Ralph de Hengham and Walter de Helyun.
In COS. Buckingham, Bedford, Northampton, Warwick, Leicester, and Rutland, are appointed : Gilbert de Preston and William de Weyland.
In the counties beyond Trent^ J. de Oketon and Elias de Bekingham, and [another] shall be provided (provideatur sibi).
For the gaol of Neugate, J. de Cobham and Roger de Bacheworth.
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William le Sage acknowledges in chanceiy that he owes to John le
Breton 200 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and
chattels in co. Sussex.
In like manner William de Wermynton acknowledges that the said money shall be levied of his lands and chattels in co. Sussex for John*8 use, if William le Sage do not pay. He has lands in co. Sussex.
To the justice of Chester. Order to supersede entirely the suit between Philippa de Dutton and Robert de Standover, Thomas his brother and Thomas de Dutton in the court of Chester, and to tell Philippa on the king's behalf to come or send to the king's court, where he will cause speedy justice to be done to her, as Rol^rt, Thomas and Thomas Ifave, shown the king that whereas they have no domicile in Cheshire (Cestresf^r*), and have not offended or forfeited therein in aught by reason whereof they ought to be drawn into a plea or otherwise aggrieved, and they are prepared to stand to right in the king's court and in co. Stafford, where they have a fixed domicile, if the king or any one wish to speak against them for aught, Philippa draws them into a plea before the said justice for robberies and other trespasses that she says they committed upon her at Mere, co. Stafford, so that they may be attached by their bodies by the justice for that cause in order to aggrieve them more, and it is unjust and contrary to the custom of the realm that any one of the realm shall be compelled to answer in Cheshire for things done in other counties.
July 14. Reginald de Argenteyra acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Weitminster. Robert de Monteforti 30 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Norfolk.
Cancelled on payment^ acknowledged by Henry de Fingrye (f) Roberts attorney.
July 24. James de Alditliel[eye], son of James de Alditheleye, acknowledges in Westminster, chancery that he owes to Walter de Merton 10 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos. Salop and Stafford.
Memorandum, that Walter is bound to restore to James the letter obligatory whereby James his father was bound to Walter in the sum
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aforesaid, and if be have it not at hand, Walter grants that the letter shall be null.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to execute the duty of his office by the usual distraints for the replevying of the beasts (averia) of the abbot of Thorneye that Hugh, bishop of Ely, Walter de Wylborhara, Henry de Cotenham, Reginald son of Adam, and Boger Aboveton took and unjustly detain, as the king has frequently ordered the sheriflT to cause the beasts to be replevied and to cause the abbot to be treated (deduct) justly, and the sheriff caused the order to be returned to the bailiffs of the bishop's liberty, who did nothing concerning it, as the sheriff has informed the king, where- fore the king ordered the sheriff not to omit entering the bishop's liberty, and to cause the beasts to be replevied, and he has signified to the king that he could not find or see the beasts within the liberty because they had beeu moved from place to place so that he might not find them.
— — Robert Spriugold acknowledges that he owes to Thomas de Windesorc
• 4 marks ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in
CO. Middlesex.
In like manner Bartholomew Spriugold acknowledges for Robert that the said money shall be levied from his lands, etc., in co. Middlesex if Robert do not pay it.
July 26. Brother Guy de Forr[esta]*, master of the military order of the Temple Westminster, in England, granted power to brother Warin, treasurer of the New Temple, London, and to brother Roger de Akeholt to make attorneys for him until All Saints next, unless he return to England in the meantime.
' William de Hadestok, citizen of London, acknowledges that he owes to
Master Bonettus de Sancto Quintino, dean of Bruges, 42/. ; to be levied, in
default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Middlesex and the city of London.
William son of Reginald came before the king, on Thursday after St. James the Apostle, and sought to replevy to Robert Russell the tatter's land in Stanstede, which was taken into the king's hands for Robert's default before the justices of the Bench against Margery, daughter of William Russel.
Stephen de Cheindut acknowledges in chancery that he owes to Walter de Merton 20/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in CO. Buckingham. Be it known that he made this recognisance for himself and his heirs, to wit that they shall pay this money to Walter, his executors and assigns.
Aug. 3. William le Mercer of Northampton acknowledges that he owes to
Westminster. Edmund de Bey vill 10/. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Northampton.
For this recognisance Edmund remitted to William what belonged to him of the marriage of Isolda, late the wife of Robert de Exemutb, tenant in chief of Henry III, and William's wife, which marriage the late king granted to Edmund by his letters patent, which Edmund has restored to William.
Afterwards Edmund came and acknowledged that he had received from Witliam lOOs.for one of the term of payment.
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Thomas de Stagno acknowledges in chancery that he owes to John de la Cliche, parson of Bcrniugham church, 32 marks for the fruits of John's church for the present autumn ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands asd chattels in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk-
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^"S: ^- Nicholas de Kirkham came before the king, on Tuesday before St-
G^*T^'5'^*' ^^®oce, and sought to replevy to Thomas Pipard, the latter's land in
' ^°**°°- Langedon, Northbovy, Laverokeber[y], Swindon, Wingrave, and Hintles-
ham, which was taken into the king's hands for Thomas's default before
the justices of the Bench against Margaret, late the wife of Edmund
Pipard.
Aug. 12. Simon de Thorp, clerk of Sir Alexander de Balliol[o], acknowledges in St. MartinVle- chancery that he owes to Queen Eleanor 10/. ; to be levied, in default of ixrana, ix)n<ion. payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Lincoln.
Aug. 15. John de Kerugg came before the king, on Thursday after the Assump-
St. Martin's-le- tion, and sought to replevy his land in Colelegh and Hupewill, and to
Grand, Ixindon. Nicholas de Kycecote and to Robert Cole their land in Kicecote, which
was taken into the king's hands for their default in the county [court] of
Devon before the sheriff against Joan, late the wife of Robert le Cornu.
Enrolment of agreement made on the eve of the Assumption, in the first year of the king's reign, between Walter, archbishop of York, and John son of Ralph de Picheford, witnessing that whereas the archbishop delivered to John at the said term 200 marks for his manor of Picheford, which John gave to the archbishop, the archbishop grants that if John pay to him 260 marks at Michaelmas next at the New Temple, London, the manor shall revert to John, and that if John do not pay the sum then, the archbishop shall give to John, for the remainder of the extent of 200 marks, the sum of 100 marks for each 10 marks of land yearly, 20 marks of land yearly being allowed to the archbishop in the extent of the manor for the said 200 marks that John first received. The fruits of the present autumn shall remain to John, to be collected by the hands of William de Hamelton, clerk, and to be reserved for John's use, and to be restored to him. If John pay the said 200 marks to the archbishop at the aforesaid term, then the charter of enfeoffment shall be restored to him.
Enrolment of acknowledgment of receipt by Thomas de la Dune from Sir Walter de Merton of 80 marks, in which Walter was bound to him for the marriage of Edith, Thomas's wife, Walter's niece. Dated at London, in the presence of John de Eirkeby, Thomas d« Wyndes[ore], Walter de Odyham, William de Hanjrton, and Hugh de Gei*nemuth[a], on Monday before St. Bartholomew, 1 Edward I.
Mem^yrandutny that Thomas came into chancery, on the same day, and acknowledged that he had received the said 80 marks from Walter.
Bartholomew le Especer of London acknowledges that he owes to Stephen de Eddeworth 100*. ; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in the city of London.
Grant to Walter de Fedesham, who is going to Ireland by the king's license, that John de Rugham shall be admitted as his attorney in all pleas, and that John may make attorneys when necessary in his place, until Whitsuntide next.
Sept. 3. Geoffrey Costentyn came before the king, on Sunday after St. Giles,
St. Martin'8-le- and sought to replevy to Robert le Warner his land in Geldeston, which Grand, London, ^as taken into the king's hands for Robert's default before the justices of the Bench against Roger de Thweyt.
Sept. 3. To the sheriff of Worcester. John de Breuse has shown the king that
St. Martin's-le- whereas Roger de Clifford lately arramed by the late king's writ an assize Grand, London. Qf ^Qyf^\ disseisin before Robert Waleraund, the justice appointed for this purpose, against John concerning a tenement in Glabiry, and on the day prefixed by Robert it was alleged by John before the taking of the assize that the tenement was situated in the Welchery (JValecherid)^ and not within the said county, wherefore such an assize ought not, according to
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the custom of the realm, to be talren concerning the tenement, and that Robert wishing to be informed thereof by the assize, although such excep- tion could not terminate the assize, proceeded to take the assize at the assertion of the jurors of the assize before any other discussion thereof had been taken, and adjudged the tenement and 80/. for damages to Roger by the recognition of the assize ; as an assize ought not lawfully to be taken in such case until it be ascertained by reasonable boundaries and perambu- lations made there or by other means whether the tenement was situated within that county or in the Welchery (Waleeheria), the king orders the sheriif to respite until Martinmas next the distraint upon John for the aforesaid 80/. in order that fuller certainty concerning the premises made be had in the meantime.
Philip Dilewyn came before the king, on Thui*8day the eve of the Nativity of St. Maiy, and sought to replevy to himself and Mariota his wife their land in Honeworth, which was taken into the king's hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against GeofErey Hymune.
Hugh de Bromeleye and Adam de Bromel[eye] came before the king, on Monday after the Nativity of St. Mary, and sought to replevy their land in Hughesdon, which was taken into the king^s hands for their default before the justices of the Bench against William Quenild and Agnes his wife, and John Quenild and Amice his wife.
Henry Dumblaunk and Isabella Dumblaunk came before the king, on Wednesday after Michaelmas, and sought to replevy their land in Bevers- brok, which was taken into the king's hands for their default against William Dumblaund («c).
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To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Ralph Pipard has shown the king that whereas he is indebted to the king at that exchequer in divers debts both for the debts of Stephen de Hereford, brother of Alda Pipard, his grandmother, whose heir he is, of the security (plegi- agio) of Geoffrey de Mariscis, and for his own goods, and that James de Aldithel[eye], late justiciary in Ireland, took up to the snm of 50 or 60 marks from the goods of Ralph's men in Ireland for the, expedition of the king's affairs in those parts, for which money Ralph satisfied the said men, wherefore he has besought that allowance may be made to him for that sum in the said debts ; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons, if they find that James took the goods of the men to the said sum and not for the use of any one but the king, and that the goods were afterwards used in