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CALENDAR
OP THE
CLOSE ROLLS
HBESERVBD IN THE
G,^_P^. PUBLIC KECOKD OFFICE.
PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF
THE DEPUTY KEEPER OP THE RECORDS.
EDWAED III.
VOL. VII.
A.D. 1343-1346.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF HIS MAJESTY S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOE THE HOME DEPARTMENT.
LONDON :
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E. PONSONBY, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin.
1904.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Preface .-..----- v
COERIGENDA -------- vii
Calendar ..-.---- 1
General Index - - ... - - - 679
Wt. 3058.
( V
PREFACE
The present volume forms part of a series of Calendars of the Close Eolls 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 Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, by Mr. A. B. Hinds, M.A., and he has also compiled the Index.
H. C. MAXWELL LYTE.
Public Eecord Office, January, 1904.
( vii )
CORRIGENDA
Page 53, line 26, for Robert read Eiehard.
97, „ 81, for Launver read Lammer.
118, lines 20, 85, fur Lenneyse read Lenveyse. 114, line 15, for Lenneyse read Lenveyse. 126, ,, 8 from bottom, for Corniser read Corviser.
119, ,, 4 from bottom, for Robert le Penryth read Robert de Penryth.
150, „ 6, for Gildert read Gilbert.
225, lines 5, (i, for Margaret read Margery.
245, „ 36, 37, /")■ Peter Haynesson, Pelle Gerd, Prois Gerd, Soirwe read Peter Haynesson, pelle, Gerd Frois, Gerd Soizwe.
275, line 22, /oc Aponel read Apouel.
277, ,, 15 fir Theobald de Burgherssh read Bartholomew de Burgherssh.
30B, ,, 7, for Dynebergh read Dynebeigh. 331, ,, 38, fur Mohant read Mohaut. 344, ,, 28, for Craveleye read Craneleye. 362, ,, 22, fur Pershurst read Penshurst. 381 ,, 11, for Narmandy read Normandy. 398, lines 15, 24, 27, for Alfonso read Peter. 403, line 22, for Jerusalen read Jerusalem. 418, „ 14, for court read count. 528, ,, 10 from bottom, for Shelne read Shelve. 636, ,, 4, for Thonolio read Thovolio. 657, „ 8 from bottom, for Brenhous read Breuhous. 659, „ 3 from bottom, for earl of Warwick read de Warrewyk, knight.
669, „ 12, for Appelly read Appelby.
1343.
Jan. 28.« Westminster.
Jan. 28. Westminster
Jan. 28. Kennington.
Feb. 1. KenningtoD.
Jan. 31.
Kennington.
CALENDAR
OF
CLOSE EOLLS.
17 EDWARD III.— Part I.
Membrane 33.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to the treasurer and barons to account with Bobert Beaupel, whom the king lately appointed admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames towards the west, for his costs and expenses in arresting and collecting ships for the passage of certain of the king's lieges about to set out to Britanny in his service, from the time of the king's commission to him, and the treasurer and chamberlains shall give him payment or other satis- faction for what is found to be owing to him by such account. By C.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Geoffrey de Bares, who is attendant upon divers affairs of the king at another place so that he cannot execute the things which pertain to the office of coroner there.
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to cause the abbot of St. John's, Col- chester, to have seisin without delay of a messuage in the suburb of Colchester, which Simon Scrutyn held, who was hanged for felony, it is said, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage has been in his hand for a year and a day, that Simon held it of the abbot and that John de Fordham and William le Buk, bailiffs of Colchester and Joan late the wife of John le Dyere, had the year, day and waste thereof and ought to answer therefor to the king.
To Hugh Tyrel, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Oure or with the advowBon of the , church of that manor, restoring the issues thereof after taking the fealty of Juliana late the wife of John le Moigne, certifying the king of that fealty in chancery, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death was jointly enfeoffed with Juliana and the heirs of their bodies of the said manor and advowson, of the king in chief, by serjeanty, to wit by the service of being sub-lardiner of the king, and it is clear by letters patent shown in chancery that the said enfeoffment was made with the king's licence, and the king has given the "escheator power to receive Juhana's fealty.
To Henry Gernet, escheator in cos. Essex and Hertford. Order to amove the king's hand from 80 acres of land of the abbot of Walden in Berkeweye, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to the abbot, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him concerning the taking of the premises into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that
* Tested by Edward duke of Cornwall and earl of Chester, the king 'b son, as are all the succeeding entries.
A 3771. Wt. 3058/1249. 400—13/5/1902. M. A
CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343,
Feb. 4. Westminster.
Feb. 6. Westminster.
Feb. 1.
Westminster.
Membrane 83 — cont.
he had done so because he had learned by trustworthy testimony that a certain abbot of Mounstroil who held the said tenements in chief in the hamlet of Cokenach which is of the town of Berkeweye, co. Hertford, on which he had built a chapel, to find a chaplain to celebrate divine service for three days a week there for the souls of all the faithful departed, had alienated the tenements to the abbot and convent of Walden, and they entered upon the same without obtaining the king's licence, and they have ceased from the chantry for a great while, and the king afterwards^ ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that Eobert Burun, sometime lord of the said hamlet of Cokenach in Berkeweye, who held those tenements of the earl of Essex as of the honour of Mandevill by fealty and the service of a rose yearly, in the time of Henry sometime king of England, gave those tenements to the abbot and convent of St. Wynewall, Mounstroil, to hold of him in frankalmoin, and the abbot and convent of Mounstroil, in the time of the same king, granted the tenements to the abbot and convent of Walden, to hold in frankalmoin of Robert, and that they are worth 26s. 8d. yearly.
To Nicholas de Langeford, escheator in cos. Nottingham and Derby. Order to amove the king's hand from the advowson of Gunnolveston church, with- out delay, and not to intermeddle further therewith, as on its being found by inquisition taken by the escheator, that after the donation made by King John to Walter, archbishop of Eouen, and the canons of the same, of the chapelry of Blythe {de Blia) with all its appurtenances, in frankalmoin, which chapelry is now called the free chapel of Tykhill, the church of Gian- nolveston was alienated by the archbishop and canons of Rouen at the time when the chapelry was in their hands, which church William Bernak holds as parson thereof by the presentation of Richard de la Rivere of the right of Joan his wife, and Richard and Joan granted the advowson of the church by fine to Richard de Wylughby, without the king's licence, and the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter by which it is found that the church of Gunnolveston is of the honour of Peverel and was not in the seisin of Walter, archbishop of Rouen, the canons or their succes- sors from the time whereto the memory runs, nor was it alienated by them to any persons, but that the advowson was in the hands of Richard de la Rivere and Maud de Heriz, his wife, as of her right, and that her ancestors, in whose hands the presentation has been from time out of mind, presented William Bernak to the church, who now holds it, and that Richard de Wylughby has the advowson by the grant of Thomas de Baddesforth and the said Maud, his wife, by a fine levied in the king's court.
To William de Ravendale, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to pay to John de Codyngton, the king's clerk, appointed to supervise two ships called ' la cogg of Flanders ' and ' la Nicholas of Yarmouth,' arrested at the port of Portesmuth, and the goods and merchandise therein, and to ajjpraise the ships, goods and merchandise and deliver them to the sheriff of- Southampton for the king's use, 60.s. for his wages, for fifteen days on which he was attendant upon the premises, to wit at 4s. a day. By C.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit Giles de Bolumvilla, parson of Pdpton Abbas church, to have and hold the said church and the fruits and issues thereof, in accordance with the king's order to the sheriff of Huntingdon on 18 December in the 11th year of the reign [as in this Calendar, 11 Edward III, page 219], directing him to restore to Giles the said church with the fruits and issues and all his goods and chattels there, of the king's special favour, and now Giles has informed the king that the treasurer and barons have summoned him to come before
17 EDWARD III.— Paet 1.
1343.
Feb. 8.
Kennington.
Feb. 12.
Kennington,
Feb. 10. Kennington.
Feb. 16. Kennington.
Feb. 15. Kennington,
Membrane 33 — cont.
them to show cause why the issues of the church from the 23 July in the 11th year of the reign ought not to pertain to the king, wherefore Giles has besought the king to provide a remedy. By C.
To Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Southampton. Order to deliver to the abbot of Waverle or to his attorney, a tun of red wine of the first wine of the present season of 'reek,' in accordance with the king's grant to the abbot and convent of that place of a tun of such wine to be received yearly.
To Saier Lorymer. Order to cause two cloths and six pieces of cloth, two furs and sixteen rabbits' skins, 10 stones of wool, 80 wool-fells and 120 badger skins taken by him on the river Thames and forfeited to the king because they were taken out of the port of London to parts beyond the sea without paying the custom due thereon, to be appraised and sold, without delay, certifying the king in chancery of the price thereof and of all his action in the matter. By C.
To Thomas de Rokeby, escheator in eo. York. Order to cause Richard de Tong, son and heir of Richard de Tong, who held in chief of the late king, as of the honour of Pontefract, which is now in the hands of Queen Philippa together with the knights' fees and all other things pertaining thereto, by the king's grant, to have seisin of all the lands of which his father was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, and which were held of the said honour, as he has proved his age before the escheator.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon John de Methelaye, to whom the late king committed the custody of a third part of the lands which belonged to Richard de Tong, which were held in chief as of the honour of Pontefract, to hold until Richard the son should come of age, for rendering 5 marks yearly, for the said 5 marks, and to discharge him thereof from 10 February last, on which day the king ordered Thomas de Rokeby, escheator in co. York, not to inter- meddle further with the said lands.
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause a coroner to be elected in the full county court in place of one of two coroners for the parts this side Trent, who is insufficiently qualified, as the king has learned from the plaint of the men this side Trent of that county that there ought to be two coroners in the county, to wit, one this side Trent and one beyond, and both coroners are now appointed beyond Trent, and on account of the frequent floods of the river they cannot come this side Trent to execute the duties of their office, wherefore divers murders and felonies on this side Trent pass unpunished and felons and malefactors are rendered bolder to perpetrate such misdeeds.
MEMBRANE 82.
Jan. 31. To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to pay to
Westminster. John de Kenyngton, purveyor of the avenary of Queen Philippa, what is in arrear to him of his customary wages from 80 January last and to pay him such wages henceforth so long as he remains in the office, as on 27 July in the 13th year of the reign the king granted to him the custody of Kenyng- ton park, to hold during good conduct, receiving the customary wages, and afterwards at his supplication showing that he could not have the writ for the payment of those wages because no mention was made in the king's
CALENDAE OF CLOSE EOLLS.
1343.
Jan. 27. Kennmgton.
Jan. 26.
Westminster.
Jan. 30.
Kennington.
Feb. 1. Kennington.
Feb. 1.
Kennington.
Feb. 10. Kennington .
Membrane 32 — co7it.
letters by whose hand he ought to receive those wages, the king, by other letters patent dated 80 January last, granted that he should receive the wages by the hands of the constable of the said castle.
By letter of the keeper.
To the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order to pay to Edith late the wife of Richard Whitot, sometime butler of the king's household and of the late king, SI. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her on 20 February in the 12th year of the reign, of Ql. for the maintenance of herself and her children, to be received yearly for life by the hands of the sheriff of those counties.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to account with E. bishop of London, whom the king has ordained to set out to Brabant as envoy with other magnates and lieges, for the sums received by him for that cause upon his expenses and wages and for such wages and expenses for the time when he was on the said service, and to cause him to have payment for what is found to be due to him beyond the sums so received, and if they find that he is bound to the king in any sums, they shall cause answer to be made by him for those sums.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver the extracts of the fines and amercements adjudged before Thomas Wake of Lydell and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in co. Suffolk, to John de Wyngefeld and John de Aepale to levy and collect the money of the fines and amercements from all by whom they are owed both those staying in co. Suffolk and those staying in CO. Norfolk, who were ministers in co. Suffolk in accordance with the extracts, and to direct John and John to cause that money to be levied with all speed, as the king appointed John and John to levy that money as afore- said and cause answer to be made to the king therefor, so that John de Aspale should receive all the money and be charged therewith. By C.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account with William de Kelleseye, the king's clerk, receiver of the money arising from the king's wool in Flanders, for his costs and expenses, and to cause him to have allowance in his account for the costs and expenses which he has reasonably incurred in his office, as he has besought the king to order such allowance to be made to him, as he incurred divers expenses in the carriage of money, the hiring of houses, the sending of envoys and tolls, made by him at divers places of Brabant and Flanders for divers affairs of the king touching his office and at other times by reason of the same office.
ByC.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to William de Monte Acute, earl of SaUsbury, what is in arrear to him of 201. yearly from the time of the sheriff's appointment, and to pay the said 2,01. to the earl yearly so long as he is sheriff, in accordance with the king's grant to the earl of 20/. rent of the issues of that county to be received yearly by the hands of the sheriff.
To the sheriff' of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Thomas Mountford, who is so feeble that he cannot exercise the duties of the office.
Feb. 8. To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
Westminster, elected in place of John de Frenstede, who is attendant upon the king's
affairs at another place so that he cannot exercise the duties of the office.
17 EDWARD III.— Part 1.
1343.
Feb. 9. Kennington.
Feb. 1. Westminster.
Feb. 15. Eennington.
Feb. 6.
Westminster.
Feb. 9. Kennington.
Feb. 20. Kennington.
Feb. 18. ]^ennington.
Membrane 82 — cant.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit William de Careswell, late keeper of the town of Berwick upon Tweed, or his attorney, to lade 20 sacks of wool in that port, in sarplars as well as in sacks, provided they be well and faith- fully weighed, and take them to parts beyond the sea after paying J mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation forbidding the taking out of the realm of the King's wool assigned to others, before the Purification last, upon pain of the loss of the passage thereof, as the king assigned to William 20 sacks of the wool of co. Kent for the loth year of the reign, to be received by the hands of the assessors and collectors of wool in that county in part payment of a certain sum due to William for his wages and expenses upon the safe custody of the said town, while he was keeper, and the king ordered the said assessors and collectors to deliver the 20 sacks to William or to his attorney, by indenture.
By C. and by bill of the treasurer.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to deliver all the goods and merchandise of two ships called ' Tarites ' lately taken at sea in war near Dertemuth, to Peter de Tholosa, master of a ship called ' la Katerine ' of Bayonne and his fellows, to do their pleasure therewith, although the king lately ordered the sheriffs to cause the said goods and merchandise, brought to that city, to be arrested and detained until further order, as the king is informed that the goods and merchandise belonged to his enemies and they were taken in war by Peter. By the keeper and C.
The like to the following, to wit :
The mayor and bailiii's of Dertemuth. The sheriff of Devon.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to dearrest without delay a ship called 'la Katerine' of Bayonne, arrested by him by pretext of the king's order to arrest all ships for the passage of Kichard, earl of Arundel, and others ordained to go to the king in parts beyond the sea. By C.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account with Eobert de Watford, the king's clerk, whom he sent to divers prelates for lending money upon the tenth granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury, for his wages for the time when he was in that service, and to give him payment according to their discretion for what they find to bs reasonably due to him. By C.
To Hugh Tyrel, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further with certain tenements in Doultyng, restoring the issues thereof to Oliver son of Oliver de Dynham, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Oliver the father and Oliver the son, at the former's death, held the said tenements of the bishop of Bath and Wells as parcel of the manor of Camelarton.
To the chancellor of Ireland for the present or the future. Order not to make or permit to be made any writs of liberate for any gifts or rewards, directed to the treasurer and barons and to the chamberlains of the exchequer, Dublin, without the common assent and advice of the justiciary of Ireland or of him who supplies his place and others of the council in those parts. The king however wishes such writs of liberate, for anciently appointed fees, according to the ordinance of the said exchequer, to be paid as has hitherto been customary. Et erat patens.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to restore to I\Iartin son of William le Clerk of Haneworth, chaplain, of the diocese of Norwich, his lands, goods
CALENDAR OF CLOSE EOLLS.
1343.
Feb. 15. Kennington.
Membrane 32 — cont.
and chattels, unless he made flight by reason of felony, as he was indicted before William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas- before the king, for having feloniously killed John le Fuitz, the elder, of Haneworth, as he has purged his innocence before Anthony, bishop of Nor- wich, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
To Thomas Crosse and Peter de Guldesburgh. Order to dearrest all the goods and merchandise of two ships called ' Tarites ' which belonged to the king's enemies and were taken in war at sea, and were brought to Southampton in a ship called 'la Katherine' of Bayonne, whereof Peter de Tholosa is master, which they find by the oath of Peter and his fellows to have been sold to Peter Johannis de Cartye and William Keymundi de Beger, merchants of Bayonne, for their reasonable expenses, before the king's commission to Thomas and Peter, and to permit Peter Johannis and William to do their pleasure therewith, provided that the residue of the goods and merchandise be bought for the king's use, as the king lately ordered the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton to permit Peter and his fellows to sell so much of the said goods and merchandise as would suffice for the reasonable expenses and maintenance of the men in a galley or Peter, about to set out to the king in Britanny, in going and returning, and also of Peter and his fellows, pursuing their affairs before the council in England, for twelve days or thereabouts, and Peter Johannis and William have besought the king to provide them with a remedy, as Peter and his fellows sold a part of the said goods before any commission had been made that the goods should be sold to the king and not to others, and Peter Johannis and William satisfied Peter and his fellows for the price of the goods thus sold, and the said goods so bought have been arrested by Thomas and Peter upon pretext of a commission to them to buy for the king all the goods of the said ships brought to Southampton.
The like to the following, to wit :
The mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. The sheriff of Southampton.
Membrane 81.
Jan. 27. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Westminster. Order to allow to William de Northwell, sometime keeper of the wardrobe,
such wages upon his account as they shall find to have been allowed to
other keepers, for the time when he stood upon the rendering of that
account. By the keeper and C.
Jan. 30. To Nicholas de Langeford, escheator in cos. Nottingham and Derby.
Westminster. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to Edward le Despenser at his death, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Edward at his death held no lands in chief whereby the custody of th6 lands which belonged to the said Edmund [dc) ought at present to pertain to the king, but that he held lands of other lords by divers services.
The like to the following, to wit :
Thomas de Eokeby, escheator in co. York.
John de Hundon, escheator in cos. Lincoln and Eutland.
John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts.
John Aignel, escheator in cos. Bedford and Buckingham.
17 EDWARD III.— Paet 1.
1343.
Feb. 4. Kennington.
Feb. 1.
Kennington
Feb. 4. Kennington.
Feb. 8. Kennington.
Feb. 1.
Westminster.
Feb. 6. Westminster.
Feb. 8. Westminster.
Feb. 1. Westminster
Membrane 31 — cont.
A like writ is sent to Eichard Wawayn, escheator in co. Hereford andtbe adjacent march of Wales, not to intermeddle with the lands which belonged to Roger le Power.
To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Koger Champayne, who is so sick and broken by age that he cannot fulfil the duties of the office.
To Simon Basset, escheator in co. Gloucester. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to Henry de Grey, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry at his death held no lands in chief in that bailiwick, but that he held lands of another than the king by divers services.
The like to the following, to wit :
Thomas de Bukton, escheator in co. Northampton.
Warin de Bassyngbourn, escheator in cos. Cambridge and Huntingdon,
Henry Gernet, escheator in cos. Essex and Hertford.
To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to pay 10 marks without delay to Hugh de Eeppes, Simon de Biteryng and John de Fyncheham, whom the king has charged to make certain purveyances in that county for his use.
By the keeper and C.
Vacated because it teas surrendered in the wax.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to pay to Robert de Thynden, chaplain, what is in arrear to him of 100;!. yearly, from the time of the sheriff's appointment, and to pay the said 100s. yearly henceforth so long as he is sheriff, in accordance with the king's grant to Robert on 11 February in the 12th year of the reign, whom the king appointed to celebrate divine service in the chapel of the castle of Newcastle upon Tyne, for him and his heirs and for the souls of his progenitors and of all the faithful departed, that he should receive lOO.s. yearly for his maintenance, by the hands of the sheriff of that county during pleasure.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to pay 18Z. S-s. 5rf. to James de Brugg, John de Rerisby, Walter de Grafton, Richard de Brustwyk, John del Spense and Simon Blakhevid or to give them an assignment therefor, after viewing their bill, as they and Robert de Nessefeld have besought the king to order payment to be made to them, as he is bound to them in that sum for their wages for the time when they were in his service at Berwick upon Tweed, in the company of Peter Grethevid, sometime keeper of the king's victuals there, as may fully appear by a bill in their possession, as they assert, under the seal of Robert de Emeldon, the chamberlain there.
To the same. Like order, ' mutatis mutandis,' in favour of Andrew de Stafford and Robert de Ferrers to whom the king is bound in 43s. for the time when they were in his service in the munition of Berwick upon Tweed, as may appear by a bill under the seal of Robert de Emeldon, the king's clerk.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order not to permit any wool to be laded in that port and taken to parts beyond the sea, by virtue of any writs of the exchequer directed to them. By the keeper and C.
To the collectors of the new custom in the port of London. Order to discharge Henry Galeys, sometime attoiaiey of Robert de Artoys, deceased
CALENDAR OF CLOSE EOLLS.
1343.
Feb. 6.
Berlihamp- stead.
Feb. 1. Westminster.
Membrane 31 — co?it.
it is said, and his mainpernors, of a certain security, superseding the demand made upon him for iOd. a sack for the petty custom, as although the king lately ordered the collectors of the custom of wool, hides^and wool-fells in that port to permit Henry to lade 11| sacks of the 158 sacks of wool which the king allowed to Eobert for his wages and those of certain men at arms and archers about to set out with him to Britanny in the king's service, and to take them to parts beyond the sea, after paying at the rate of i mark a sack for the 11| sacks, yet the collectors impeded the passage of the wool until he should find security for paying 40r/. a sack in the name of the petty - custom, because Eobert is an alien, whereupon Henry has besought the king to provide a remedy. By C.
To John Aignel, escheator in cos. Bedford and Buckingham. Order to deliver to Eeginald de Grey son of Henry de Grey the manors of Eton and Waterhall, co. Buckingham, together with the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry held no lands at his death in his demesne as of fee in chief in that bailiwick, but that long before his death he gave the said manors to Eeginald, and Eeginald afterwards also demised those manors to Henry to hold for life by the king's licence, and that the manors are held in chief, to wit, the manor of Eton by the service of keeping a falcon until the time of flying {usque ad volatum) and the manor of Waterhall by the service of finding a man upon a horse without a saddle of the price of 15d. and a bow without the string and slack, without a head when the king has ordered to have them for his service of the manor in his army, and the king has taken Eeginald's fealty and has given him respite for his homage until the king's return to England.
By letter of the keeper.
To Henry Gernet, escheator in cos. Essex and Hertford. Like order to deliver to Eeginald the manor of Purle, co. Essex, together with the issues thereof, and not to intermeddle further with the lands that Henry de Grey held of other lords, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry held that manor for life by the demise of Eeginald by the king's licence, and that the manor is held in chief by the service of a knight's fee, and that Henry held lands in that bailiwick of other loirds by divers services, and the king has taken Eeginald's fealty for the manor and has given him respite as above. By the same letter.
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order to deliver to the said Eeginald the manor of Aston Grey together with the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry de Grey at his death held no lands in chief in that bailiwick in his demesne as of fee, but that he held the said manor for life of the demise of Eeginald by the king's licence, as parcel of the manor of Eton, co. Buckingham, which is held of the king together with the manor of Aston Grey by the service of mewing and keeping a falcon of the king until the time- of flying, and the king has taken Eeginald's fealty for the manor and has given him respite for his homage as above. By the same letter.
To Eichard Wawayn, escheator in co. Hereford and the adjacent march of Wales. Like order to deliver to Eeginald the castle and manor of Wilton super Waiam together with the advowson of Petrestowe church, in the said march, with the issues thereof, as the king has learned etc. that Henry de Grey held the premises for life of the demise of Eeginald, by the king's licence and that they are held in chief by the service of a knight's fee, and the king has taken Eeginald's fealty and has given him respite for his homage as above, By the same letter.
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1343.
Feb. 1.
Westminster.
Feb. 10. Kennington.
Feb. 26. Kennington.
Membrane 31 — cont.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to the treasurer and barons to account with Alexander de Cragy for his wages and retinue both in time of peace and of war from 25 May last, and the treasurer and chamberlains shall give him payment or an assignment for what is found to be due to him by that account, as on 25 May last, in recompence for the damages suffered by Alexander in totally losing the profits of his lands in Scotland because he remained in the king's faith, the king granted to him in the following form, during good conduct or until his lands should be restored, to wit, that he should receive in time of war at the exchequer AQl. yearly and customary wages for himself and the men at arms whom he took with him, and if there should be a long truce between the king and the Scots or a peace, and Alexander did not obtain restitution of his lands, then he should receive 4s. a day for himself and his two esquires, for all other necessaries, without obtaining any other fee from the king.
To the treasurer of the exchequer, Dublin. Order to pay to Master John de Burnham, the king's clerk, whom the king has sent to Ireland on certain affairs, 40 marks for his expenses in going to that land, of the king's gift. By C.
To John Aignel, escheator in cos. Bedford and Buckingham. Order to deliver to Eeginald le Muleward a moiety of an acre of land and an acre of meadow in Sutton, after taking security from him for rendering his relief at the exchequer, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator, that John le Muleward of Sutton held the said land and meadow in chief by the service of hi. yearly and paying soc and ward by the hand of the sheriff of those counties at Martinmas and coming to the hundred of Bykeleswade twice yearly and that Eeginald is his next heir and of full age, and the king has taken Reginald's fealty for the land and meadow and has rendered them to him.
Vacated because word for uord on the roll ofjine-f.
MEMBRANE 80.
Jan. 30. To the sheriff' of Dorset. Order to pay to 'William Danvers, the king's
Westminster, huntsman, Stephen Veautrer, Geoffrey Pilkyngton, berner, and Minot Casekyn what is in arrear to them for their wages and the puture of 24 do^s called ' damiers' and of 6 greyhounds, and to pay them such wages and ^d. a day for the puture of each dog, henceforth so long as he is sheriff, until further order, and to make an indenture of what is paid by him, by inspection whereof and by the showing of this order, the king may cause • him to have due allowance in his account, as the king ordered the sheriff that from 1 October last he should pay to "William or to his attorney 12(/. daily, to Stephen 2rf. daily, to Geoffrey IJd. daily and to Minot Id. daily for their wages and a \d. a day for the puture of each of the said dogs, until further order, and afterwards, at the suit of William, Stephen, Geoffrey and Minot showing that the sheriff had not cared to do anything in the matter, the king again ordered him by writ under the great seal to pay the said wages and puture from the said day, and now the king has learned from William, Stephen, Geoffrey and Minot that although the sheriff paid the said wages from 1 October to the octaves of Hilary last, yet because he delivered the said writ under the great seal at the exchequer upon his account, he has delayed to pay the wages from the said octaves, wherefore the king has been besought to cause payment for the wages and puture to be made.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
Feb. 3.
Kennington.
Feb. 6. Kennington.
March 1. Kennington.
Feb. 10.
Westminster.
Feb. 10. Kennington
Feb. 11.
Kennington.
Membrane 80 — co7it.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Berwick upon Tweed. Order to deliver to William de Snetesham, whom the merchants of Almain and Lucca have deputed for this in that port, the customs and subsidies of wool, hides and wool-fells laded there, to wit, the custom and a moiaty of the subsidy for the merchants of Almain and the other moiety for the merchants of Lucca, by indenture, and to receive the customs and subsidy of wool, hides and wool-fells and other things of Scotland to be laded there and keep it safely until further order, as in part satisfaction of divers great sums of money in which the king is bound to Henry Muddepenyng, John atte Wolde and their fellows, merchants of Almain, and to Nicholas Bertlemeu and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, the king granted to the merchants of Almain all the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells of the realm and to the merchants of Almain and Lucca the subsidy of 40s. a sack, il. a last of hides and 40s. for every 300 wool-fells, which the merchants of England granted to the king up to Midsummer next, to wit, one moiety to each, to be received by the hands of the collectors of customs in all the ports of England, and the king has now ordained and caused to be proclaimed that the passage of wool, hides and wool-fells of certain parts of England shall be made in the port of Berwick. By the keeper and C.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Like order to deliver the custom and subsidy to the said merchants, in the same form. By the keeper and C.
The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Boston.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to pay to William de Melcheburn all the money which they shall find him to have paid for the time that he was treasurer to Eobert Warthecop, late keeper of the king's victuals at Lenn, for his expenses upon those victuals, or to cause them to be allowed to him in his accounts, charging Eobert with the said money.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Henry earl of Derby or his attorney to lade 112 sacks of wool in that port and take them to Flanders, paying ^ mark a sack, without finding security according to the ordinance, notwithstanding the proclamation that all to whom the king granted a passage of wool should take it before the Purification last, as, with the advice of the council, the king assigned to the earl 36 sacks of wool in co. Sussex and 76 sacks in co. Stafford, of the wool granted for the past year, at 81. the sack in co. Stafford and Gl. the sack in co. Sussex, to be received by the hands of the collectors and receivers of that wool upon the wages of the earl and his men, who lately set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause Henry Dengayne to have seisin of a, messuage, a toft, 16 acres of land and 2i acres of meadow in Eston near Staunford, which John de Eston, chaplain, held, who was out- lawed for felony, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that the said messuage, toft, land and meadow have been in the king's hand for a year and a day, that John held them of Henry and that Kichard Whytryg had the year, day and waste thereof and ought to answer therefor to the king.
To Saier Lorimer. Order to deliver to Richard Suderland, merchant of Almain, or to his attorney, 1,500 wool-fells, without delay, as he paid to the king at the exchequer 22L for those fells, taken by Saier at Gravesend by reason of his commission and forfeited to the king because certain fells thereof were taken out of the port of London towards parts beyond the sea without
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March 1. Kennington.
Feb. 16. Kennington.
Feb. 8. Kennington.
Feb. 19. Kennington.
Mmnbrane 30 — cont.
the custom and subsidy due thereon being paid, and he also paid 81. for the price of the ship in which the fells were laded, also forfeited to the king.
By C.
Mandate to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to cause a tally for
the 80Z. to be levied for Richard in his discharge. By C.
To the assessors and collectors of wool in co. Warwick for the 15th year of the reign. Order to deliver to Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to his attorney, 26 sacks of wool of so many sacks of that year as are in arrear at 11 marks the sack, in part satisfaction of certain sums in which the king is bound to him upon the expenses of the household. By bill of the treasurer.
To the same for the past year. Order to deliver to the same Reymund or to his attorney 45 sacks of wool which are in arrear of the wool of that year at 11 marks the sack beyond the custom due thereon.
By bill of the treasurer.
To John Moueroun, warden of the silver mine in cos. Cornwall and Devon. Order to pay to John Cory his wages trom 20 November last and to pay such wages to him henceforth, as on that day the king granted to him the office of controller of the king's mine of lead and silver in those counties, to hold during pleasure, receiving such wages as others who held that office were wont to receive in the Same.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to account with Ambrose de Novo Burgo and John de Briggewauter for the days when they were in the king's service, and after allowing them reasonable wages for the time they shall be found to have remained in that service, to pay them what shall be found to be due to them by that account or to give them an assignment therefor, as the king appointed them and Matthew de Crouthorn to arrest all ships of the burthen of 40 tuns of wine and over in all ports from the port of Peveneseye towards the west and to cause those ships to be prepared for war, to be munitioned with double equipment and other things necessary and to do certain other things con- tained in the king's letters patent.
To the sheriffs of London. Order to dearrest without delay all the bales of alum among the goods found in two ships called ' Tarites,' lately taken at sea in war by Peter Bernardi de Tholosa, master of a ship called ' la Kateiiiie' of Bayonne, and his fellows, and to deliver them to William de Stanes by the view and testimony of Thomas Crosse, clerk of the great wardrobe, to be kept for the king's use, in accordance with his wish, as the said bales have been brought to London and are arrested by the sheriffs in the house of William de Preston, by the king's order. By C.
J9,n. 26. Westminster.
MEMBRANE 29.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to permit Peter de Tholosa, master of a ship called ' la Katerine ' of Bayonne and his fellows to sell and do his pleasure with all the goods and merchandise in two ships called ' Tarites,' taken by them at sea as from the king's enemies near the port of Dertemuth, and brought in the said 'la Katerine' to the port of Southampton, although the king ordered the mayor and bailiffs not to permit them to sell more of the goods than would suffice for their expenses in going to the king, as now the king is fully informed that the ships and goods belonged to his enemies at the time of the lading of the same.
By the keeper and C.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
Feb. 5. Kennington.
Feb. 15.
Kennington.
Feb. 22. Kennington.
March 1. Kennington.
March 2. Kennington.
Feb. 24. Kennington.
Membrane 29 — cont.
To John de Weston, constable of Caresbrok castle, in the isle of Wight. Order not to retain any men at arms or other archers for the munition of the said castle and island henceforth, until further order, by reason of the ■war, as a truce is begun and confirmed between the Ijing and his adversaries of France wherefore the king does not wish the men at arms and archers who were retained in the castle or island by reason of the present war at his wages, to be retained during the truce. By C.
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Because the king is informed that the abbot of Cirencestre detains a certain common pasture of the king which has pertained to his borough of Kirklad from time out of mind, without licence : the king orders the escheator to take inquisition upon the premises, and if he finds that it is so, then to do what is incumbent upon his office, informing the king of his action, in chancery, before Sunday in Mid-lent next.
To Anketinus Salvayn and his fellows, late assessors and collectors of wool for the fifteenth year of the reign in the North Riding, co. York. Order to deliver by indenture to Godfrey de Eoos and Thomas de Eoos, attorneys of Alexander de Dalmahoy, Godfrey de Eoos, Thomas de Eoos, Robert de Eoos, James de Eoos, David Comyn, Adam Whitheved, Thomas Poukyn, Adam son of Thomas Poukyn, Gilbert Macolagh, Thomas Chyry, and William Suard, 4 sacks of wool in arrear of that collection of the 15th year, at 8/. the sack beyond the custom of ^ mark due thereon in part payment of a certain sum of money for their daily wages of 12rf. each, which the king granted that they should receive at the exchequer.
By bill of the treasurer."
Mandate to the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull to permit Godfrey and Thomas or the attorneys of themselves or their fellows to lade the 4 sacks in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders after paying J mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the order that all the king's wool assigned to others should be taken out before the Purification last. By bill of the treasurer.
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to cause the cloth of George Vanderskare, burgess of Bruges, to be dearrested without delay and delivered to him to do his pleasure therewith if he has paid the custom due thereon, as the burgomasters, echevins and consuls of Bruges have besought the king to order the cloth to be delivered to George, on which he paid custom to the collectors and which is arrested by the collectors, as they assert. ByC.
To William de Northwell, the king's clerk. Order, so soon as he has received the king's great crown for which he is sent to Flanders, to hasten to London to the council there for the expedition of certain arduous affairs which will be set forth to him by the council on his arrival, notwith- standing any order to be attendant upon the king's affairs in those parts.
ByC.
To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to amove the king's hand from 5 messuages, 100 acres of land, 100s. rent in Wysete, co. Suffolk, and from divers other lands in co. Norfolk, which he took into the king's hand by reason of the death of William de Eoos, of Hamelak, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to Margery, late William's wife, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William held the premises jointly with Margery and that the messuages, land and rent are held of the king
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]^3|Q Membrane 29 — cont.
by the service of an eighth part of a knight's fee, and that the other lands are held of other lords than the king, and the king has taken Margery's fealty.
To Thomas de Bukton, escheator in co. Northampton. Like order with respect to the manor of Stoke Daubeneye in that county, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that coanty, but that he held that manor in chief and was enfeoffed jointly with Margery, of the grant of Eobert Flemyng and Hugh Flemyng, and the king has taken Margery's fealty.
Feb. 20. To John de Vieleston, escheator in co. Kent. Order not to intermeddle
Kennington. further with the manor of Chilham and divers other lands, restoring the issues thereof to Margery late the wife Of William de Eoos of Hamelak, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death held no lands in that bailiwick in chief, but that he held the said manor jointly with Margery of her inheritance, of the king, by the service of rendering 20s. to the ward of Dover castle every twenty-four weeks and divers lands of other lords, and the king has taken Margery's fealty for the manor.
To Henry Gernet, escheator in cos. Essex, Hertford and Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Chyngelford, co. Essex, restoring the issues thereof to Margery, as the king has learned by inqui- sition taken by the escheator that William at his death held no lands in chief in that bailiwick, but that he held the said manor with Margery of her inheritance, and that it is held of the heirs of Kichard Plays as of the fee of Stansted Monfichet in free socage by the service of Id. yearly.
Feb. 20. To John Dengayne, William de Thorp and John de Berneye. Order to
Kennington. assemble at the town of Northampton and to convoke before them all those who are bound to contribute to the fine wliich the men of co. Northampton made for the trespasses and excesses committed by them and to cause that fine to be assessed among them, having regard to the quantity of their delict, their estate and faculty, and to cause the portions assessed upon them to be levied without delay by the sheriff of the county, as the king lately appointed Eobert Parvyng, John de Thoresby and the said John, William and John to hear and determine divers trepasses and excesses committed by the king's ministers and others in co. Northampton, and the king has learned that those who made the said fine of 4,000 marks before John Dengayne, Robert and John de Thoresby, to be assessed and apportioned among the men of the county, were chosen and sworn before the said John, Eobert and John, could not collect the fine on account of the rebellion of some who are parceners of the fine, and refuse to contribute thereto, where- fore the fine for the most part remains to be levied. The king has ordered the sheriff of the county to levy and deliver to them, for the time when they are sitting upon the apportionment of the fine, their wages of the men of the county because it is not apportioned and levied through their default.
By the keeper and C.
The like to the same to assemble at Bedeford to assess and apportion the fine of 2,500 marks which the men of co. Bedford made for such trespasses.
By the keeper and C.
Feb. 16. To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver to Nicholas atte Tounende of
Kennington, Harewode, deceased, his lands, without delay, as Nicholas was indicted
before Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, late justices appointed to hold
pleas before the king at York, because he had ordered and abetted Thomas
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
Feb. 15.
Kennington.
Membrane 29 — cont.
Morgan, a former Serjeant of his, to feloniously kill John de Neusum at Harewode, and for receiving Thomas after the felony was done, and he was afterwards delivered by the justices to the ordinary of the place, in accord- ance with the privilege of the clergy and he purged his innocence before the official of the court of York, his commissary general, and the receiver of York, commissary of the chapter of St. Peter's, York, the dean being engaged without the province and the archbishopric being void, deputed as guardians of the spirituality thereof, as William, archbishop of York has shown the king.
To Bartholomew de Burghersh, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies, his place in Wyndesore forest. Order to bail William de Shepeye, canon of Merton, and William Bauel, chaplain, who has a corrody in that house, imprisoned at Wyndesore for trepass of venison in Wyndesore forest, if each of them shall find twelve mainpernors of co. Berks who will undertake to have them before the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in that county, to stand to right for the said trespass.
Membrane 38.
Feb. 4. To Eymund Scguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in
Kennington. the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to Joan de Carrue 6 tuns of wine of the present year in that port, as the king granted that she should receive 6 tuns of wine yearly in that port during pleasure, by the hands of the butler, and afterwards on 2 April in the 14th year of the reign he granted that she should receive the 6 tuns yearly for life, paying to the butler what he is bound to pay in the king's name to the merchants from whom the wine is taken.
Feb. 3. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to direct all the
Kennington. increment, with which the collectors of wool in co. Norfolk have charged themselves upon their account, to be delivered by indenture to Peter de Bard, Dinus Forset and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi, and to charge them therewith, discharging the collectors, as in part pay- ment for great sums which the merchants lent to him and which they undertook to pay for his last passage, the king assigned to them 800 sacks of the wool of CO. Norfolk for the present year, at &l. the sack, to be received by the hands of the collectors and receivers of wool, as is fully contained in an indenture made with the merchants, and the king ordered the collectors and receivers to deliver the wool to the merchants, or to Peter Eeynery, one of the merchants of that society or to their attorney and also the increment of wool by itself, and the collectors and receivers, because they delivered the 800 sacks to the merchants only by the right weight of the beam and not by parcels as they received it and charged themselves in their account with the increment of 2 stones the sack, refuse to deliver the increment to the merchants without the king's order of the exchequer directed to them, whereupon the merchants have besought the king to provide a remedy, and it is known to the king and council that they ordained by writ of privy seal sent to the collectors that they should deliver the increment to the mei;phants.
Feb. 22. To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to William Scot and William
Kennington. Basset, appointed with other liges to hear and determine divers trespasses in CO. York, 1 mark and i mark a day respectively for their wages for the time when they were attendant upon the premises and shall be hencefor- ward, of the issues of the extracts of fines and amercements adjudged before them in their sessions. By 0.
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Feb. 10. Kennington.
Feb. 28. Byfleet.
March 2.
Keanington
Membrane 28 — cont.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Walter Helleward of 120 marks, as with the assent of the council the king lately ordained that of the 120 marks by which certain merchants made fine with him for not unlading their wool laded in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull, before Thomas de Rokeby, sheriff of York, and Nicholas de Bokelond, appointed to unlade all wool laded in that port and to newly weigh it, and which were in the custody of Walter, then mayor of that town, in gold, as Nicholas has certified the king and council, 100 marks should be delivered to Peter Gretheved, chamberlain of Berwick upon Tweed, for the munition of that town, 101. to Nicholas de Karliolo and 5 marks to Eichard de Grymesby, the king's Serjeant at arms, then staying in that town in his service, in part satisfaction of their wages, and the king ordered Walter to pay the said sums, and he paid 100 marks to Richard de Brustwyk, Peter's attorney, 101. to Nicholas and 5 marks to Richard, as Peter, Nicholas and Richard have acknowledged before the king in chancery.
To the mayor of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order as at another time to sell a ship, lately arrested by Nicholas de Karliolo in the water of Hum- ber near Grymesby, as forfeit to the king, because wool was found therein not coketted or customed, and to pay 101. of the money to Nicholas for the expenses of the men whom he took with him to arrest the ship, in accord- ance with the tenor of a previous order, and the mayor, could not sell the ship, as the king has learned because the ship was afterwards taken from the port of Kyngeston upon Hull to Beverley and was afterwards brought back and there delivered to the mayor by William Trussel, admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames towards the North. By C.
To William de Duresme of Derlyngton, merchant. Order to pay 581. 16.s-. of the money arising from the king's wool of the 15th and 16th years of his reign in cos. Cumberland and Westmorland sold to William under a certain form, to John de Lilleburn upon his wages, in accordance with the king's grant to him, as John lately undertook before the king and council to stay in the parts of the march of Scotland with thirteen men at arms, including himself as a knight and twelve esquires, and with twenty hobelers on horse for the defence of those parts and for repelling the king's Scottish enemies for seven weeks from a day cofitained in an indenture made between the king and John, at the king's wages, John receiving 2s. a day for himself, 12d. a day for each esquire, and 6d. a day for each hobeler, and the wages are extended at 581. 16s. for the said time. By bill of the treasurer.
To the same. Order to pay to John de Lilleburn 109Z. 19s. 9d. of the money arising from the king's wool of the 15th and 16th years of the ,reign, in cos. Cumberland and Westmorland, sold to William, if he find, after viewing the letters and bills, that the king is bound to John in that sum, as lately at John's suit showing that the king was bound to him in 551. 3s. 9d. for wool taken from him for the king, as may appear by the king's letters obligatory, and in 54L 16s. for his wages and those of his men for the time when he had the custody of Ber- wick upon Tweed, as may appear by bills under the seal of the chamberlain of that town, and beseeching the king to order that he may be satisfied for those sums, as he was taken by the king's enemies of Scotland while in the king's service and is placed at a heavy ransom, which he cannot pay unless he is satisfied for the said debts, and in consideration of John's services and out of compassion for his want, the king ordered John de Thyngden, then receiver of the money arising from the king's wool appointed for the war of Scotland in the parts beyond Trent, to pay the
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE EOLLS.
1343.
Feb. 8. Kennington.
Feb. 10.
Kennington.
Feb. 1.
Kennington.
Feb. 27. Kennington,
Membrane 28 — cont.
said lOdl. 19s. 9d. to John if he found that sum to be due to him, and now John de Lilleburn has surrendered that writ enclosed in the wax, in chancery, asserting that he cannot obtain any payment from John de Thyngden, and beseeching the king to cause him to be satisfied in another place. By the keeper and C.
To Richard de Kelleshull. Order to cause the extracts of the fines and amercements adjudged before him in his sessions and afteared by the sheriff of Kent, to be transcribed and the transcript to be delivered to the sheriff of Kent without delay so that he may levy the money and answer to the king therefor, as the king appointed Eichard and certain other lieges to be justices to enquire by oath of lawful men of co. Kent concerning the names of all those by whom good money of sterling had been taken out of the realm and feeble counterfeit money of sterling had been brought into the realm, and of those who took out of the realm wool and wool-fells not customed and not coketted, or not weighed or wrongly weighed, and to do other things contained in the king's letters patent to them, and the king wishes the said fines and amercements to be levied as quickly as possible, and answer for the money thereof to be made to him speedily. The king has ordered the sheriff to receive the transcript from Richard.
To the sheriif of Kent. Order to receive the said transcript from Richard and to cause the money to be levied without delay, so that he may be able to answer therefor to the king.
To the same. Order to pay to Richard de Kelleshull, John de Geynesford and John de Bray, the sums appointed for them by ordinance of the council, to wit, to Eichard 6s. 8d. a day and to John and John, 5s. a day each for their expenses for every day spent by them in co. Kent as justices in the aforesaid matters, of the issues of the fines and amercements adjudged before them.
To the treasurer of Ireland. Whereas the king lately appointed Thomas de Barton, receiver of his victuals at Carlisle, and William de Botyngton to jointly buy and purvey 500 quarters of wheat, 200 quarters of barley and oats and 800 quarters of beans and peas in Ireland and talce them to Carlisle, to ba kept safely there as was fully enjoined upon Thomas, whereof the greater part is provided, as the king has learned, but is not yet taken to Carlisle, and on account of the lack of victuals for the maintenance of the lieges staying in the parts of Carlisle for the repulse of the Scots, the king wishes the taking of the victuals to be hastened : he orders the treasurer to cause the said wheat etc. to be bought and purveyed without delay, if they have not yet reached full measure and to be taken to Carlisle with all speed to be delivered to Thomas by indenture, to do as shall be enjoined upon him.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Queen Isabella of the portion of wool assessed upon her by reason of the grant of 30,000 sacks of wool to the king made in the last parliament, as she is exempt and is not summoned to parliament, wherefore it is not reasonable that she should be charged with wool or other subsidies granted by parliament. By the keeper and C.
[Fcedera.']
MEMBRANE 27.
Feb. 26. To the sheriffs of London. Order to arrest the persons of Gilmin Pouche
Byfleet. and his brother with all their goods and chattels found in that bailiwick and
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1343_ Membrane 27 — cont.
to keep them safely until full satisfaction is made for the king's wool and money received by Gilmin, certifying the king of the goods and chattels so received, the owners thereof and their value, as Master Paul de Monte Florum, the king's clerk to whom the king made divers assignments upon the release of the king's great crown, pledged in parts beyond the sea, delivered tallies for 4,200i:. and divers of the king's wool, assigned to him for various causes, to Gilmin upon certain agreements for making chevances to Paul at Bruges in Flanders upon the release of the crown, and Gilmin did not come to Bruges on the appointed day or send anyone in his place and he did not observe the agreements, but staying with his brother in England proposes to go to France and to defraud the king of the said money and wool, as Paul and William de Northwell, the king's clerk, whom he has sent to Flanders for this cause, have certified.
The like to the following, to wit : The bailiffs of Boston. The mayor and bailiffs of Kyngeston upon Hull.
Feb. 24. To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to Conrad Covenache,
Kennington. burgess of Bruges, 20 packs of cloth of different colours, by the view and testimony of John de Codyngton, the king's clerk, sent to those parts for the purpose, by indenture containing the number of packs and the signs with which they are signed, as Conrad has besought the king to order those packs to be restored to him 5 for himself and the remaining 15 as the proctor of John de Peroun, burgess of Bruges and Giles de Hooft, burgess of that town, as 5 packs of Conrad's cloth under his seal, 6 packs of John's cloth under his seal and 9 packs of Giles's cloth under his seal, of 35 packs of their cloth laded in a cog called ' la Juliane ' of Lescluses, arrested by the , sheriff at Portesmuth for various causes and taken thence to Farham in his custody, of the livery of the said clerk, whom the king lately appointed to survey and appraise the said cog and the other goods found therein, are detained, and at the request of the burgomasters, echevins and consuls of Bruges declaring by their letters that the packs are the property of Conrad, John and Giles and not of others and that Conrad is the proctor of John and Giles, and beseeching the king for the restitution and release of the packs, the king has considered the friendship of the men of Bruges and wishes to act favourably with Conrad, John and Giles. By C.
To the same. Order to dearrest a cog of Baldwin Golias, burgess of «« Lescluses, called ' la Juliane ' of Lescluses, with all the tackle thereof and
with the armour, boards, beds, chests and other things pertaining thereto, to be dearrested and delivered to Ernald Pyk, master of the ship, to be taken to parts beyond, as the burgomasters, echevins and consuls of Lescluses have besought the king to order this to be done, as the ship was lately laded with divers merchandise and in sailing upon the sea was driven to the port of Portesmuth and there arrested by the sheriff, and the king has considered his friendship and alliance with the men of Flanders. By C.
To the same. Order to deliver by indenture to Francis le Wyld six packs of cloth of divers colours, by the view and testimony of John de Codyngton, the king's clerk, as Baldwin Golias, burgess of Lescluses, and Lawrence Juyst, burgess of Dam {del Dam) have besought the king to order those six packs to be released, as 5 packs of Baldwin and 1 pack of Lawrence were arrested by the sheriff at Portesmuth in a cog called ' la Juliane ' of Lescluses and were taken thence to Farham and are detained in the sheriff's custody there of John's livery, whom the king appointed to survey and appraise the cog and the goods found therein, and the king
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1343.
Membrane 27 — cont.
wishes to grant the supplication, at the request of the echevins, captains and consuls of Ghent, the burgomasters, echevins and consuls of Bruges and Lescluses and the burgomasters and echevins of Dam testifying by their letters that the packs are the own goods of Baldwin and Lawrence and beseeching the king for the restitution of the packs, and because Francis has found Francis Bandini and Peter Guydy, merchants of Lucca, who have mainperned before the council to answer and satisfy Baldwin and Laurence for the said packs if they are exacted of the king in future.
ByC.
To the same. Like order, ' mutatis mutandis,' to deliver to Francis de la Quare, merchant, 7 packs of variously coloured cloth, as Francis de la Quare has besought the king to order the release of 7 packs of such cloth of his laded in a cog called ' la Juliane ' of Lescluses and arrested by the sheriff at Portesmuth, and although the king might reasonably defer the livery of the packs, on account of certain evidences shown before the council, yet he wishes to satisfy Francis at the request of the burgomasters, echevins and consuls of Bruges and because Francis has found Francis Bandini etc. to answer and satisfy Dinus de Malempris under whose name the packs were laded in the ship, for the said packs.
To the same. Like order to deliver to Francis le Wyld, burgess of Dam, 8 packs of cloth of divers colours, in accordance with the request of the echevins etc. of Ghent, Bruges, Lescluses and Dam, and by the mainprise of the same Francis Baudini and Peter as he laded 8 packs of such cloth of himself and of John Bonyn, burgess of the same town in a cog called 'la Juliane' of Lescluses. ByC.
To the same. Like order, 'mutatis mutandis,' to deliver to Conrad Covenache as proctor of John le Sage, burgess of Ipre, two packs of cloth of divers colours, in accordance with the request of the advocate, echevins and consuls of Ipre, as John laded the 2 packs in a certain cog etc.
ByC.
To the same. Like order, 'mutatis mutandis,' to deliver 2 packs of cloth of divers colours to Domicelle Truda of Hertbergh, of 3 packs laded by them in a cog called ' la Juliane ' of Lescluses, arrested by the sheriff at Portesmuth, and he has besought the king to order that they may be delivered to Walter son of Walter Puch and Henry May, as his proctors, and the king wishes to grant the supplication of Domicelle, at the request of the burgomasters, echevins and consuls of Bruges testifying that the s^ packs belong to Domicelle and to none other and that Walter and Henry are his proctors. By c.
MEMBRANE 26.
Feb. 20. To the justiciary of Ireland or to him who supplies his place and to the
Kennington. treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin. Whereas on 1 June in the 10th year of the reign, the king gave licence to John son of William Jurdan to demise to whom he would the 12L 12s. 6d. yearly of the ferm of Dublin which the mayor, bailiffs and citizens of Dublin are bound to render yearly at the exchequer, Dublin, which yearly sum the king previously granted to John to hold for life, for a term of seven years, and that those to whom John so granted the rent should hold it until the end of the said term even if John died in the meantime, and now John de Leycestr[ia] and Milana his wife have besought the king to order his hand to be amoved from the
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1343.
Feb. 20.
Kennington.
Feb. 12. Kennington.
Feb. 1. Westminster.
Membrane 26 — cont.
said rent, which John demised to them to hold for a term of seven years by virtue of the said Ucence, and the rent is taken into the king's hand by the justiciary and others by virtue of an order to revoke all donations and grants of lands and liberties in Ireland made by the king and his father, and to take them into the king's hand : the king therefore orders the justiciary and others to view the grant and licence and the deed of John son of William to John and Milana, and if they find that the rent was demised as aforesaid and that the term is not yet elapsed, then to take security from John and Milana for the rent, in case it be found that the demise was made unjustly or by false suggestion and to deliver the rent to them together with the arrears thereof, by that security.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause wages to be levied of the men of that county for John Dengayne, William de Thorp and John de Berneye, appointed with Eobert Parvyng and John de Thoresby to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses committed in that county by the king's ministers and others, and to pay those wages to them, to wit to John Dengayne 1 mark and to William and John de Berneye 5.s. each for every day when they were attendant upon the premises, as the king has learned that those who were chosen and sworn to assess and apportion the fine of 4,000 marks which the men of the county made for such trespasses before Eobert, John de Thoresby and John Dengayne cannot apportion that fine on account of the contrariety and rebellion of certain who are parceners of the fine and who refuse to contribute thereto, wherefore the fine remains for the most part to be levied, and the king ordered John Dengayne, William and John de Berneye to assemble at Northampton to summon before them all those who are bound to contribute to the fine and to cause the fine to be assessed on them with regard to the quantity of the delict, and their estate and faculty, and to discharge all things contained in the commission to them. . By the keeper and C.
To the sheriff of Bedford. Like order, ' mutatis mutandis,' as the king has learned that those who were sworn to assess the fine of 2,500 marks which the men of the county, etc. By the keeper and C.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to allow 601. to William de Kelleseye, the king's clerk, in part satis- faction of 164L 6s. Id., and to discharge him and the prior of Watre thereof, endorsing William's bill with the 60Z. if upon viewing the bill and the letters of assignment made by Henry de Percy and Ealph de Nevili they find that the king is bound to William in 164Z. 5s. Id. for his wages and that QOl. were assigned to him thereupon by Henry and Ealph, as William has besought the king to cause such allowance to be made to him in the 164L 5s. Id. in which the king is bound to him for his wages and those of his men in garrison at Berwick upon Tweed, by a bill of John de Burden, then chamberlain of Berwick upon Tweed, as Henry and Ealph, whom the king appointed to ordain concerning the ninth in certain counties and places beyond Trent, reserved for the war of Scotland, assigned GOl. to William, then chancellor of Berwick upon Tweed, upon such wages, upon the said ninth in the East Eiding, co. York, and they ordered the prior of Wartre and his fellows, collectors of the ninth in the East Eiding, to deliver the said GOl., and the prior delivered them to William and the 601. are now exacted of him by summons of the exchequer.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to Margaret late the wife of Ranulph de Dacre all the issues received by John de Wodehous and Hugh de Moriceby, a former and the present escbeator
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
Mi'iiihraih' 2G — coiit.
in COS. Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancaster, and to discharge the escheators thereof, as on its being found by inquisition taken by John that William de Multon held the manor of Laysyngby co. Cumberland for life of Margaret's inheritance by the grant of Thomas de Multon his late brother, in chief, by homage and fealty, with reversion to Thomas and his heirs, by- the late king's licence, and that Margaret was Thomas's next heir and of full age, the king ordered Hugh to take Margaret's fealty, the king having given her respite for her homage until Whitsuntide next, and to cause her to have seisin of the manor, and now Margaret has besought the king to order the issues to be restored to her, as she and Eanulph acquired the manor of William de Burgh, parson of Dacre church, and of Eobert Parvyng, to whom they previously granted the reversion of the manor after Thomas's death, by the king's licence, by a fine levied in the late king's court, and so the manor pertains to Margaret by that acquisition and not of hereditary right, as is contained in the inquisition, and it is clear by part of the fine and by the late king's letters of licence, shown before the king in chancery, that the premises contain the truth, and after deliberation upon this with the justices and others of the council it is agreed that the said issues ought to be delivered to Margaret.
Feb. 26.
Kennington,
Feb. 20.
Westminster.
Membrane 25.
To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to assign dower to Isabel late the wife of William Creketot, tenant in chief, in the presence of William son and heir of that William, if he choose to attend, of all the lands which belonged to William at his death, upon her taking oath that she will not niarry without the king's licence.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to the treasurer and chamberlains to inspect the writs and payments made to certain persons upon the office of keeper of the wardrobe, to cause the payments to be deducted from the sums contained in the writs and the writs to be so endorsed, so that no future payment may be made by virtue of the writs, and for debts still due the king wishes the following methods to be observed, to wit : that before payment, allowance or other satisfaction is made to any creditor, the account shall first be seen, and the sum paid or allowed shall be deducted from the surplus contained in the account, and the bill shall be received or another made for the debt and delivered at the king's receipt and there remain condemned, and express mention of that satisfaction shall be made in the rolls of the exchequer that William de Cusaunce, the late keeper of the wardrobe, rendered account thereof at the exchequer of accounts, and they shall cause the premises to be observed and enrolled, as William has shewn the king that whereas he delivered his final account at the exchequer and the names of those to whom the king was bound in divers sums of money, yet because divers writs of liberate for paying certain sums to William from the treasury, and other writs for making payments to divers creditors whose names are noted in that account, are still pending unpaid at the exchequer, the treasurer, barons and chamberlains have charged William with those sums, paid by them to the said creditors by virtue of the said writs, wherefor he has besought the kind to provide a remedy.
Feb. 17. To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to sell all the goods
Kennington. and merchandise of two ships called ' Tariten,' which belonged to the king's
enemies, for a competent price to be immediately paid, and to permit Peter
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Feb. 20.
Kennington.
Feb. 22. Kennington.
Feb. 20. Kennington.
Jan. 30. Kennington.
Feb. 26. Byfleet.
Membrane 25 — cont.
Bernardi de Tholosa, master of a ship called 'la Katerine' of Bayonne and his fellows, to do their pleasure with the said goods after three days have elapsed, as the king lately appointed Thomas Crosse and Peter de Gildes- burgh to buy for the king all the said goods of those ships, which were taken at sea in war by the said master and his fellows and brought to Southampton, if Thomas and Peter go to that town to buy the goods and merchandise within three days after the arrival of Peter at the town.
To Thomas de Ponte Fracto, appointed to make purveyances for the king's horses. Order to deliver by indenture to William de Fremelesworth, keeper of the king's horses, all the purveyances made by him for those horses and those which he shall purvey henceforth. By C.
To Saier Lorimer of Colchester. Order to receive that part of the whalebone {hallenc) lately arrested by him and deposited at Esttillebury m the custody of Adam de Asshehurst, whom the king has ordered to deliver it, and to have it brought to London to be delivered to the king t^ef • ^ By the keeper.
Mandate to Adam to deliver the said part to Saier to be taken to London and delivered to the king.
To Eeymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place, in the port of London. Order to deliver to William de Stokton, vicar of St. Paul's church, London, a tun of wine of ' reek ' of the present season, in accordance with the king's grant to him on 6 March in the 14th year of the reign of two tuns of wine to be received yearly, to wit two tuns of wines of ' reek ' for that year, and thenceforth one tun of the vintage between Michaelmas and Christmas and one tun of ' reek ' between Christmas and Easter, to be received for life in the port of London by the hands of the chief butler.
To Eeymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the town of Southampton. Order to deliver to the abbot and convent of St. Edward, Lettele, a tun of wine of the right prise for the present year for celebrating masses in their church, in accordance with the grant of Henry III to them of a tun of such wine, to be received yearly at Southampton between Christmas and the Purification.
The like to the same to deliver a tun of wine to the abbot and convent of King's Beaulieu.
To Thomas de Eokeby, escheator in co. York. Order to permit the executors of the will of William de Eoos of Hamelak to fish in the lakes, ponds and fisheries which belonged to him and to take away the fish, and also brushwood fit for fuel in the woods which belonged to William, for his funeral, according to the honourable estate {decenoiam) of such a man.
ByC.
Membrane 24.
Feb. 6. To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
Westminster, of London. Order to permit Maurice de Berkele or Eobert White, his attorney, to lade 28 sacks of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea, after paying | mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation that the king's wool assigned to others must be taken out of the realm before the Purification last, upon pain of the loss of the passage thereof, as the king lately assigned to Maurice 28 sacks of the wool of co. Sussex for the past year, at 61. the sack, to be received by the hands of the
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
134S.
Feb. 4. Westminster.
Feb. 12. Westminster.
Feb. 12. Westminster.
Feb. 20. Westminster.
]\Iarch 1. Kennington.
March 1. Westminster.
Membrane 24 — cont.
collectors and receivers of wool in that county, upon the wages of Maurice and his men about to set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service, and the king ordered the collectors and receivers to deliver that wool to Maurice by indenture. By the keeper.
To the same. Order to permit William Casse, merchant of Gascony, or his attorney, to lade 49 sacks 9 cloves 2i pounds of wool, in that port, and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying at the rate of { mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the said proclamation, as the king sold the said wool to William of the wool of co. Kent for the 15th year of the reign, at the price of Ql. the sack beyond the custom of i mark.
By bill of the treasurer.
To the same. Order to permit John Malewayn, merchant, or his attorney, to lade 6 sacks 10 stones 7 pounds of wool in that port and take them to' the staple in Flanders, after paying at the rate of | mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation, as for a certain sum of money which John paid down at the receipt of the exchequer, the king sold to him 6 sacks 10 stones 7 pounds of the arrears of wool for the 15th year of the reign, in co. Wilts, as may appear by the account of Eobert Selyman and his fellows, late collectors of wool in that county.
By bill of the treasurer.
. To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to permit Ralph de Ufford or his attorney to lade 16 sacks of wool in that port and take them to Flanders after paying \ mark a sack for the custom, as the king lately ordered the collectors of customs in the port of London to per- mit Ralph to take in the form aforesaid 16 sacks of the wool of co. Kent of the 15th year of the reign, which the king assigned to him upon his fee of 200Z. yearly to be received at the exchequer, granted to him by letters patent, and now Ralph has surrendered the writ, enclosed in the wax; to chancery to be cancelled, beseeching the king that he may lade the 16 sacks in the port of Boston.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Richard de Wotton to lade in that port and take to Bordeaux, 5 lasts of hides, receiving from him U. for each last for the subsidy, as he has besought the king to grant that he may so take the said hides for buying wine with the money arising from the sale thereof and bringing it to England. By C.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to permit Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or his attorney to lade 71 sacks of wool in that port and take them to Flanders, after paying ^ mark a sack for the custom, as the king assigned to him 26 sacks of the wool of the 15th year and 45 sacks of the wool of the past year in co. Warwick, at 11 marks the sack beyond the custom, in part payment of certain sums of money in which the king is bound to him upon the expenses of the household.
To Thomas de Swanland and John Hoddyngges, collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit Master Paul de Monte Florum to lade 14 sacks of wool which still remain to be laded of 60 sacks, in that port, as may appear by the certificate of the said John and Thomas le Botiller, late collectors of customs in the port, sent into chancery, if the 14 sacks were not laded in whole or in part in their time, and to take them to Flanders after paying \ mark a sack, making letters for the passage of the 14 sacks under the part of the coket seal in their possession, if the merchants of Almain refuse to affix the part remaining in their custody, as the king
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Feb. 10. Kennington.
]^343. Membrane 24 — cont.
assigned to Paul 600 sacks of the wool reserved to the king in the agree- ments made with certain alien merchants, for the payment of 1,000Z. for the redemption of certain of the king's jewels, and Paul has now sold the passage of 860 of those sacks to certain merchants, as he says, for 2| marks a sack beyond the custom due, and the king ordered the said late collectors to permit Paul to lade GO of the 360 sacks in that port and take them in the form aforesaid.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Henry earl of Derby or his attorney to lade 112 sacks of wool in that port and take them to Flanders, paying ^ mark a sack for the custom, without finding security of a plate of silver for each sack in accordance with the ordinance, and notwithstanding the proclamation that all such wool must be taken out of the realm before the Purification last, as by the advice of the council the king assigned to the earl 36 sacks in co. Sussex and 76 sacks in co. Stafford of the wool granted for the past year, the wool of co. Stafford at 81. the sack and that of co. Sussex at 61. the sack, to be received by the hands of the collectors and receivers of that wool, upon the wages of the earl and his men who lately set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service. By C.
Feb. 30 (sic). To the same. Order to permit Master Paul de Monte Florum or his Kennington. attorneys to lade 273i sacks of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea, after paying the ancient custom of i mark a sack, notwith- standing the proclamation, as with the assent of the council the king assigned to Paul 278i sacks of the wool granted for the past year in co. Northampton to be received by the hands of the assessors, collectors and receivers of wool there, at llj marks the sack beyond the ancient custom of J mark, which said wool was ordained by the council to be delivered to Paul for the redemption of the king's great crown and of two crowns of Queen Philippa and other jewels, and although Paul received that wool from the assessors, collectors and receivers, he has not yet caused it to be taken to parts beyond the sea, wherefore he has besought the king to accelerate the passage of the wool. By bill of the treasurer.
Membrane 23.
March 6.* Here the great seal which the king took with him to Britanny and thence Westminster, to England, was delivered to Robert Parvyng the chancellor, as appears by a memorandum on the dorse of this roll.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Bartholomew Thomasyn, spicer, of London, or his attorney, to lade 60 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying 4 mark a sack for the custom, notwithstand- ing the king's order that such wool should be taken out of the realm before the Purification last, as the king sold to Bartholomew 60 sacks of the wool of CO. Surrey granted for the past year, at 61. the sack beyond the custom of i mark due thereon. By bill of the treasurer.
Mandate to the collectors of the new custom in the port of London to supersede the demand made upon Bartholomew for paying 40rf. a sack on the said wool for the new custom. By the same bill.
♦ Tested by the king, as are all the entries of this and subsequent dates.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
March 12. Westminster.
March 13. The Tower.
May 15.
Westminster.
March 16. The Tower.
March 16. Westminster,
Membrane 23 — cont.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Reginald de Cobeham or his attorney to lade 54 J sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders after paying j mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation that all the king's wool assigned to certain persons should be taken out of the realm before the Purification last, as the king assigned to Reginald 544 sacks of the wool of the past year, at &l. the sack beyond the custom of i mark the sack due thereon, upon the wages of himself and his men, about to set out in the king's service to parts beyond the sea.
By bill of the treasurer.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Great Yarmouth. The king sends to them Robert de Wardecop his clerk, with the seal called coket deputed in that port to cause to be laded the wool assigned to the earls of Warwick and Pembroke upon the wages of themselves and their men, about to set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service, and to the merchants of the Bardi for certain causes, which the king has ordered to be taken from that port, and to supervise the weighing of that wool and to cause the seal to be opened and letters of coket, containing the sum of wool so laded, to be duly made, and to bring the seal back to the king, and the king therefore orders the collectors that when the wool has been weighed in Robert's presence and the letters of coket sealed, they shall permit the earls and merchants or their attorneys to lade the said wool and take it to the staple in Flanders, after paying the custom of i mark the sack, in accord- ance with the tenor of the king's orders directed to the collectors before these times. By C.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit David Mareschal or his attorneys to lade 4 sacks 10 stones 5f pounds of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying at the rate of J mark a sack for the custom, as the king assigned to David 4 sacks 10 stones 6f pounds of the wool granted in the North Riding CO. York for the 15th year of the reign, which were due to the king by Anketinus Salvayn and his fellows, late assessors and collectors of wool in that Riding, of the remainder of their account rendered at the exchequer, at 81. the sack beyond the custom of i mark due thereon, to the price of 35Z. 3.9. lOfZ. in part satisfaction of those 100 marks which he received from the king yearly, and of the wages due to him for the war of Scotland.
By bill of the treasurer.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Hugh de Reppes or his attorney to lade 16 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying A mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation, as in part satisfaction of a great sum of money in which the king is bound to Hugh for certain causes, as may fully appear by his account rendered at the exchequer, the king assigned to him 16 sacks of the increment of his wool for the past year, in co. Norfolk, in the hands of the sheriff of Norfolk and of bis fellows, assessors, collectors and receivers of wool in that county, at 61. the sack beyond the customs due thereon. By bill of the treasurer.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit Ralph de Stafford or his attorney to lade 11 sacks of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea, after paying I mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation, as the king assigned to Ralph 57 sacks of the wool of co. Stafford for the past year, at 12 marks
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March 2i. The Tower.
March 8. Westminster.
March 25. Westminster.
March 25.
Westminster.
April 6.
Havering atte Bower.
Membrane 23 — cont.
the sack beyond the custom of J mark due thereon, upon his wages and those of his men then about to set out to parts beyond the sea, of which 57 sacks the king has ordered 42 to be tairen to parts beyond the sea. By C.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to permit John atte Fenn of Lenn, the king's merchant, or his attorneys to take 36 sacks of wool beyond the 100 sacks which the king ordered to be laded in that port, and to take them to Flanders, after paying i mark a sack for the custom due thereon, notwithstanding the proclamation, as the king sold to John 136 sacks which were in arrear of the quantity of the wool of co. Norfolk for the 15th year, for a certain price agreed upon with him, as is fully contained in an indenture made with him, and the king ordered the collectors of customs in the port of Great Yarmouth to permit John to take 36 sacks of the 136 sacks from that port to the staple in Flanders in the form aforesaid, and John laded nothing of the 36 sacks in that port as the collectors there have certified to the king in chancery, and he has besought the king to order that he may lade the 86 sacks in the port of Boston. The king has ordered the said collectors in the port of Great Yarmouth to supersede the lading of the 36 sacks in that port.
To the collectors of the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Eobert de Ferrariis or his attorneys to lade 42 sacks of wool in that port and take them to parts beyond the sea, after paying i mark a sack for the custom, without finding security of a plate of silver, in accordance with the ordinance, and notwithstanding the proclamation, as the king lately assigned to him 42 sacks of the wool of CO. Worcester for the, 13th year of the reign, at 8/. 6s. 8'/. the sack beyond the custom of J mark, upon his wages and those of his men, then about to set out to parts beyond the sea.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Eichard de Wottone to lade 5 lasts of hides in that- port and take them to Bordeaux, receiving from him 4L on each last for the subsidy, beyond the custom due thereon, as he has besought the king that he may so take the hides to buy wine with the money arising from the sale thereof and to bring it to England. By C.
To the same. Order to permit William de Cusancia, the treasurer or his attorneys to lade 21 sacks 86 cloves of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders^ without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, notwithstanding the proclamation, as the king lately ordered Eichard Imberd and William de Braundeston, then collectors of customs in that port, to permit the said treasurer or Eobert Inkepenne his attorney to lade in that port 100 sacks of the 240 sacks of the wool of co. Dorset of the past year, assigned to him, and to take them to the staple in the form aforesaid, and the treasurer laded 78 sacks 16 cloves of the 100 sacks in that port and took them to the said parts by his said attorney, and 21 sacks 36 cloves still remain to be laded as Eichard and William de Braundeston have certified the king in chancery. By C.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit William de Duresme, the king's merchant, or his attorney to lade 281 sacks 16i stones 3 pounds of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying i mark a sack for the custom, notwith- standing the proclamation, as the king sold to William 87 sacks of the wool in arrear of cos. Westmoreland and Cumberland of the 15th year and
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CALENDAR OP CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
March 8.
Westminster.
Membrane 23 — cont.
194 sacks 15j cloves 3 pounds of the wool of those counties for the past year, for a certain price, as is fully contained in an indenture made with him. By C.
Vacated because othencise below.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Michael de Ponynges to lade 21 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying J mark a sack for the custom due thereon, notwithstanding the proclamation, as the king assigned to Michael 21 sacks of the wool of co. Sussex for the past year, upon the wages of himself and his men, lately about to set out to parts beyond the sea. By C.
April 6.
Havering atte
Bower.
March 4. Westminster.
Membrane 22.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Bartholomew Thomasyn or his attorney to lade 3 sacks 32 cloves of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, paying the custom of i mark a sack due thereon, notwithstanding the proclamation, as the king lately ordered Richard Imberd and William de Braundeston, then collectors of customs in that port, to permit Bartholomew to lade 40 sacks of the wool of the 15th and 16th years of the reign in co. Devon, which the king assigned to him for certain sums of money which he lent and delivered at the receipt of the exchequer, at the price of 8 marks the sack, and to take them to the staple in the form aforesaid, and Bartholomew took 36 sacks 20 cloves of the wool to the staple, as fully appears by the certificate of Richard and William sent into chancery.
By bill of the treasurer.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Oliver de Ingham or Robert Inkepenne, his attorney, to lade 2 sacks 36 cloves of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying at the rate of J mark the sack for the custom, as the king lately ordered Richard Imberd and William de Braundeston, then collectors of customs in that port, to take to the staple in the form aforesaid 17j sacks 10 cloves of those 76^ sacks of wool which the king assigned to Oliver upon the wages of himself and his men, lately about to set out to Gascony in the king's service, and Oliver caused 15 sacks of that wool to be so taken and the remaining 2 sacks 36 cloves still remain to be laded, as fully appears by the certificate of Richard and William sent out into chancery. By C.
To the collectors of the new custom in the port of London. Order to supersede the demand made upon William Casse, merchant of Gascony for 40(/. a sack on 49 sacks 9 cloves 2 J pounds of the wool of the 15th year of the reign, sold to him by the king at 6^. the sack, and to permit him to take that wool to the parts to which it is to be taken, quit of the new custom. By bill of the treasurer.
April 8. To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
Havering atte of London. Order to permit Simon de Breynesford to lade 35 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in parts beyond the sea with- out paying any subsidy thereon, receiving from him i mark a sack for the custom, as the king sold to him 35 sacks of the wool of cos. Surrey and Essex for the 15th and 16th years of the reign, to wit 20J sacks of co. Essex and 14j sacks of co. Surrey, for a sum of money paid by Simon in the wardrobe. By bill of the treasurer
March 14.
Westminster.
Bower.
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iQ^^o Membrane 22 — cont.
April 4. To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of
Westminster. London. Order to permit Eobert de Uflford, earl of Suffolk, or his attorney, to lade in that port 76 sacks of the king's wool for the past year in co. Norfolk, assigned to him upon the wages of himself and his men, lately about to set out to parts beyond the sea, and take them to the staple in Flanders after paying ^ mark a sack for the custom due thereon, notwith- standing the proclamation. By C.
April 18. Westminster.
To John del Wolde and Tidemannus de Lymbergh, to whom the king granted a moiety of the subsidy of 40«. a sack, lately granted by the merchants for a certain time. Order to supersede the demand made upon the bishop of Sabina, cardinal of the Holy Eoman Church, for 20s. a sack for part of the subsidy granted to the king, and to permit him or his attorneys to take 60 sacks of wool to the staple in Flanders, as the king gave licence to the bishop that he should buy and purvey every year 60 sacks of wool for the clothing of his servants, and take them to parts beyond without paying the custom due thereon, for life, and the king ordered the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London to permit the cardinal or his attorneys to take the 60 sacks from . that port to the said staple without paying the custom, and although the collectors are ready to fulfil the order John and Tidemannus impede the passage of the wool until 20s. a sack are paid for part of the subsidy granted to them, whereupon the cardinal has besought the king to provide a remedy. [Fcedera.]
The like to Francis Bandini and his fellows, merchants of Lucca, to whom the king granted a moiety of the subsidy of 40s. a sack lately granted by the merchants. [Ibid.]
April 20. To the collectors of customs in the port of Great Yarmouth. Order not Havering atte to permit Eobert de Ufford, earl of Suffolk, to lade any of 76 sacks of wool Bower. in that port iDy reason of any order under the exchequer seal, or to take them to parts beyond the sea, although the king lately ordered them to permit the earl so to take 76 sacks of the king's wool in co. Norfolk for the past year upon the wages of himself and his men, about to set out to parts beyond the sea, after paying the custom due thereon, because, at the earl's request, the king has granted that he shall have the passage of that wool in the port of London in the same form. By C.
April 26.
Havering atte Bower.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Thomas de Bradeston or his attorney to lade 28 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying -|- mark a sack thereon for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation that all wool assigned or sold to certain persons should be taken out before the Purification last, as the king assigned to Thomas 28 sacks of the wool of the past year in co. Sussex, upon the wages of himself and his men, lately about to set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service. '^y ^•
April 24 To the same. Order to permit William de Cusancia, the king's clerk, or
HaverincT atte his attorney to lade in that port and take to the staple in Flanders 67 sacks
Bower. of the wool granted in the 15th and 16th years of the reign m co. Surrey,
after he has paid i mark a sack for the custom. By bill of the treasurer.
Anril 24 To the same. Order to permit William Fitz Waryn or his attorney to
Havering atte lade 11^ sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders,
Bower after paying at the rate of i mark a sack for the custom, notwithstandmg
the said proclamation, as the king assigned to William llj sacks of the
2a
CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
May 3. Westminster.
May 19.
Westminster.
June 10. Westminster.
Membrane 22 — cont.
wool of CO. Northampton for the 15th year of the reign, upon the wages of himself and his men, lately about to set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Bartholomew Thomasin, spicer of London, to lade 25 sacks of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying J mark a. sack for the custom, notwithstanding the said proclamation, as for certain sums of money, which Bartholomew lent to the king at the receipt of the exchequer, the king assigned to him 25 sacks of the wool of co. Devon for the past year. By bill of the treasurer.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to pay to Thomas de Colleye what is in arrear to him of his wages from 16 May in the 16th year of the reign and to pay him such wages henceforth so long as they are collectors and as Thomas holds his office, as on the said 16 May the king committed to Thomas the office of controller of the custom of wine, wool, hides and wool-fells and of the custom of 3</. the pound and other small prests and customs due to the king from both native and alien merchants, to hold during good conduct, receiving the accustomed wages.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit .John de Coloign or his attorney to lade 11 sacks 2 stones 6 pounds of the wool granted to the king in the 15th year of the reign, assigned to him in part satisfaction of the debts due to him by the king for divers things taken and brought from him, after paying at the rate of i mark a sack for the custom, and to take them to the staple in
Flanders.
By bill of the treasurer.
Membrane 21.
May 3. To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
Westminster, of London. Order to permit the merchants of the society of the Bardi or their attorney to lade 143 sacks, 3 stones 8 pounds of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, having there paid at the rate of J mark a sack for the custom, as on 12 April in the 16th year of the reign the king ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and the chamberlains to deliver to the said merchants S,OOOL or to give them an assignment in places where they should speedily be satisfied for the same, in part satisfaction of the debts in which the king is bound to them, and the treasurer and barons certified the king in chancery that on inspecting the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer it was found that the merchants had an assignment of wool in the following counties, of the remainder of the accounts of divers assessors, collectors and receivers of wool in the 14th, , 15th and 16th years of the reign, paying at the price of the sort of the
county and 40s. a sack beyond for the subsidy above the ancient custom of i mark, to wit, in co. Somerset 126 sacks, in co. Southampton 88 sacks, in CO. Dorset 13 sacks 6 stones 6f pounds, in co. Oxford 53 sacks, in co. Hereford 23 sacks, in co. Suffolk 32J sacks 9 stones 9J pounds, in co. Norfolk 14 sacks 6 stones 4f pounds, in co- Essex 18 sacks 6i pounds of the wool collected in the 15th year ; and of the receivers of wool for the 14th year, in CO. Oxford 15 sacks, and in co. Wilts of wool collected for the 16th year 19^ sacks 6i stones 2 J pounds, and also of 30|^ sacks arrested in a ship of the parts of Scotland going to the parts of Caleys laden with divers goods and chattels of the men of Scotland, at the Rode of Kyrkeley, to the price
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1343.
May 2.
Westminster.
May 18. Westminster.
May 18.
Westminster.
May 18. Westminster.
Membrane 21 — cnnt.
of 61 Z. in gross, paying to the king the ancient custom of J mark on each sack, of which 428J sacks 3^ stones 1 pound of wool the king has ordered 285^ sacks to be laded in the ports of Great Yarmouth, London and Boston.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit William de Duresme, merchant, or his attorney, to lade 281 sacks 15| stones 3 pounds of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying at the rate of i mark a sack for the custom, not- withstanding the proclamation that all the king's wool assigned or sold to divers persons, shall be taken out before the Purification last upon pain of the loss of the passage thereof, as the king sold to William 87 sacks of the wool in arrear of the quantity apportioned to cos. Westmorland and Cumberland for the 15th year of the reign, and 191 sacks 15^ stones
3 pounds of the wool in arrear of the quantity apportioned to those counties for the past year, for a certain price agreed upon, as may appear in an indenture made with him. By C.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to permit Thomas de Berewyk of Pokelyngton, merchant of co. York, to lade 80 sacks of 211 sacks 4 stones Ij pounds of wool in that port and take them to the staple in Flanders, after paying a mark a sack for the custom, notwith- standing the said proclamation, as the king sold to Thomas 211 sacks
4 stones 1| pounds of the wool of co. York of the 80,000 sacks granted by the community of the realm, due to the king by the account of divers receivers and collectors of wool in that county, for paying a certain price contained in an indenture made with him, paying at the rate of i mark a sack for the custom. The king has ordered the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull to permit Thomas to take in the form aforesaid the remaining 131 sacks 4 stones Ij pounds of wool. By C.
Mandate in pursuance to the collectors in the port of Kyngeston.
ByC.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Thomas de Berkele to lade 35 sacks 9 stones 10 pounds of wool in that port and take them to Flanders quit of the subsidy, paying at the rate of J mark a sack for the besought the king to grant that he may which he has caused to be carried from town, as William de Duresme delivered to 10 pounds of the king's wool of that county, sold to him, in part satisfac- tion of 322Z. K)s. which the king ordered to be delivered to Thomas upon his wages and those of his men staying in the march of Scotland upon the safe custody of those parts, of the money arising from the sale of that wool, to wit, at 8 marks the sack, as the wool was sold to William by the king, and Maurice de Berkele of co. Gloucester and Peter Tilliol of co. Cumber- land have mainperned for Thomas to answer for the subsidy of 40s. a sack on the said wool if it be found that William did not deliver that subsidy to him in the price of the wool. By C.
Vacated because on 3 February in the 18th year of the revjn it was surren- dered in the wax, and is otlierwise in the said year and the same month.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit William de Duresme to lade 246 sacks 6 stones of wool and no more in that port and take them to Flanders after paying i mark a sack for the subsidy, after subtracting 35 sacks 9 stones 10 pounds of wool from 281 sacks 15^ stones 3 pounds, and if he has laded any of that wool before the receipt of these presents, they shall certify the king thereof, as the
custom, as he has so take the said wool CO. Cumberland to that him 35 sacks 9 stones
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CALENDAE OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
June 8. Westminster.
June 19.
Westminster
Membrane 21 — cont.
king lately ordered them to permit William to take 281 sacks 15J stones 3 pounds of the wool of cos. Cumberland and Westmoreland sold to him, to the parts of Flanders, but Thomas de Berkele has informed the kmg that William has delivefed to him 35 sacks 9 stones 10 pounds of that ■wool [as above], and the king ordered the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton to permit Thomas to take the said wool from that port to Flanders. By C.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Order to cause all the wool laded there before Midsummer next to be weighed and customed in the presence of Eichard de Eouclif, the king's clerk, and indentures thereupon to be made with him, and when the wool is weighed and- the custom and subsidy are paid, to permit the wool, hides and wool-fells for which they have received the subsidy and custom, to be laded in that port and taken to the staple in Flanders, so that after the said feast the coket seal may be brought back to the exchequer by Kichard, and that from that feast no wool, hides or fells may cross from that port without the king's special order, as the king wishes that all who wish to lade such wool, etc., and take them to the staple shall do so before the said feast, paying 40s. a sack, il. for each last of hides, and 40.s. for every 800 wool-fells beyond the custom due thereon in accordance with the agree- ment, and the king sends Eichard to them with the coket seal deputed in that port, to make letters patent for the said wool, etc., and to see that the wool is well and truly weighed and customed, and to bring back that seal to the exchequer immediately after the said feast. By K.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit Walter de Mundevill to lade in that port 8i sacks sold to them of the 30,000 sacks granted in the last parliament, apportioned in co. Essex of the 15th and 16th years of the reign, at 11. the sack beyond the custom of i mark due thereon, and to take them to the staple in Flanders after having paid the said custom.
By bill of the treasurer.
Membrane 20.
March 4. To Hugh Tyrel, escheator in co. Dorset. Order not to intermeddle further
Westminister, with a moiety of the manor of Tarente Euysshenston and a moiety of the hundred of Conekesdich, restoring the issues thereof to Margery, late the wife of William de Eoos of Hamelak, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator, that William at his Jfeath held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that county, but that he held the said moities of the inheritance of Margery of another than the king.
March 14. To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Like order not to intermeddle Westminster, further with a messuage and 2 carucates of land in Heghtredebury in that county, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that county, whereby the custody of his lands ought at present to pertain to the king, but that he held the said messuage and carucates of another than the king.
March 12. To John de Hundon, escheator in cos. Lincoln andEutland. Like order The Tower, not to intermeddle further with the manors of Freston and Boston, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator, that William at his death was seised of the said manors as in fee tail with Margery his wife, to hold for themselves and the heirs male of their bodies of the gift and grant of the late king, and that the manors are held of another than the king.
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81
1343.
March 8. Westminster.
March 14.
Westminster.
March 13. The Tower.
March 13. The Tower.
March 15. The Tower.
May 27.
Westminster.
Membrane 20 — cont.
To Thomas de Swinnerton, escheator in co. Salop. Order not to inter- meddle further with the manor of Aderdeleye, co. Salop, restoring the issues thereof to Margery late the wife of William de Eoos of Hamelak, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in chief in that bailiwick, but that he held the said manor of the inheritance of Margery and that the manor is held in chief by the service of a knight's fee, and the king has taken Margery's fealty.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Selewode in co. Wilts to be elected in place of John Waspayl of Smalebrok who has no lands in that county and does not stay there, wherefore he cannot be attendant upon the duties of the office.
To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to deliver to Isabel late the wife of William Creketot, tenant in chief, the following manois and lands, as she has taken oath before the king that she will not marry without his licence, and he has assigned to her of the lands which belonged to William, the manor of Ixworth extended at Ql. 2s. 0\d. yearly, the manor of Leveneye, extended at 61s. SJi/. yearly, a messuage in the town of St. Edmund extended at 2s. yearly and 24s. lOfrf. rent to be received yearly of the assize rents of the manor of Asshefeld to hold in dower.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to deliver to Robert de Warthecopp, the king's clerk, the coket seal deputed in the port of Great Yarmouth, which is in the treasury under their custody, upon his taking oath that he will not permit wool to cross from that port before it has been well and faithfully weighed, as the king is sending Robert to that port to cause to be laded the king's wool, which the king has ordered to be taken out of that port, and which is assigned upon the wages of the earls of Warwick and Pembroke and of their men about to set out to parts beyond the sea in the king's service and to the merchants of the Bardi for certain causes, and to take the coket seal and bring it back to the king when the wool has been laded and coketted. By C.
To the sheriff of Norfolk and his fellows, assessors, collectors and receivers of wool for the past year, in that county. Order to deliver to Hugh de Reppes, or to his attorney by indenture, 16 sacks of the increment of wool in that county, at the price of 6L the sack beyond the custom due thereon, in accordance with the king's grant to him, in part satisfaction of a great sum in which the king is bound to him, as may appear by his account rendered at the exchequer. By bill of the treasurer.
Vacated because it was surrendered in the u-ax.
To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to amove the king's hand from a messuage and 50 acres of land, meadow and pasture in Eye and Ocolt, co. Suffolk, and not to intermeddle further there- with, restoring the issues thereof, as the king lately ordered the sheriff and coroners of co. Suffolk to go in person to the prison of the abbot of St. Edmund at St. Edmund's, to see whether Richard de Carnele, who was indicted for divers felonies in oo. Suffolk and being afterwards summoned before Thomas Wake of Lidel and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine such trespasses and felonies, was delivered by the justice to the abbot in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, did not die in prison not having purged himself of the felony, and that if they could not have a view of Richard's body they should take an inquisition on the matter by the
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1 g4Q Membrane 20 — cont.
men of the count)', and the king, wishing to be certified whether the escheator took the lands which belonged to Richard into the king's hand, ordered him to certify the king in the matter, and now by the inquisition taken by the sheriff and coroners it is found that Richard, who was indicted for divers felonies in co. Suffolk and summoned thereupon before the said justices, was delivered to the abbot in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, and he died in the abbot's prison at St. Edmund's on Sunday after St. Matthew last by his own hand, his purgation not having been made, and the escheator certified the king that he had not taken the lands which belonged to Richard into the king's hand, but that William Talemache, late escheator in those counties and in cos. Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford, delivered to him by indenture the said messuage, land and pasture which belonged to Richard, asserting that they were in the king's hand in the name of a custody because Richard was in the abbot's prison as a convicted clerk, and that the said tenements are not held in chief but of Peter de Bedyngfeld by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, and that they are worth 23.s. yearly, that Richard died in prison at St. Edmund's on the said day, not having purged himself, and that Robert de Cranele is Richard's legitimate son and next heir, and aged 17 years and more.
March 23. To Walter Cuphey, weigher (trunatori) of wool in the port of Southampton,
Denny or to him who supplies his place. Order upon pain of forfeiture to permit
(Deneye). Andrew de Canterton and John de Wygan, collectors of customs in that
port, to survey the weighing of all wool weighed in that port, with which
the king has charged them, and not to permit any wool to be weighed there
without the presence of those collectors.
To John de Wold and Tidemannus de Lymbergh, merchants of Almain, appointed to receive certain customs in the port of Southampton, or to him who supplies their place. Order to deliver to Andrew de Canterton and John de Wygan, without delay, the seal appointed for the petty custom, as the king has appointed Andrew and John to collect the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells and the petty custom of 3c/. the pound and other prests, in that port.
March 24. To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to John de Thamworth, whom the Denny. king is sending to the ports of the islands of Gereseye, Gerneseye, Serk and Aureneye, on certain affairs, 10 marks for his expenses in going thither.
ByC.
The like to the same sheriff to pay 10 marks to John de Hungerford, sent to the same parts for the said cause. By C.
The like to the same sheriff to pay 20 marks to William de Cheyny sent to the same parts for the said cause. By C.
April 1. Order to restore to Edmund Tholy of Northcreyk, clerk, his lands, goods
Westminster, and chattels, which were taken into the king's hand because he was indicted before the king at Norwich upon the crime of robbery in entering the enclosure of William Athelwald the elder at Southcreyk and feloniously broke William's houses there and plundered his goods and chattels to the value of 20/. and that he was a common thief, as he has purged his innocence before A. bishop of Norwich, to whom he was delivered in accordance with the privilege of the clergy.
April 4. To Reymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place
Westminster, in the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to John de Sapy, 3 tuns of wine of
the king's prise in that port for the present year, as on 28 April in the 12th
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1343.
Membrane 20 — coiit.
year of the reign the king granted that John should receive such fees and robes yearly for life, in the household, as other knights of the king received there yearly, and afterwards John besought the king to grant him in recompence for the said fees and robes 3 tuns of wine in that port to be received yearly for life by the hands of the butler, and the king granted this in consideration of his good service and because he surrendered the king's letters to chancery to be cancelled.
March 4. Westminster,
March 6. Westminster.
March 4. Westminster.
MEMBRANE 19.
To the sheriff of Devon. Order upon pain of forfeiture to cause the ships called ' la Clemaiit ' of Dertemuth, ' la coij Seiiit Savour,' ' la Trinite,' ' la cog Johan,' 'la Seinte Marie cog,'' 'la cog Thomas,' 'la Godher,' 'la Lytfot,' 'la George,' 'la Laurans,' 'la cog Seint Andreti,' 'la Trinite,' 'la Laivrana' of Bikebury, 'la Grace Dieii,' 'la Wclyfare, ' la Nawcler,' 'la James,' 'la Katerine,' 'la Jouette,' 'la Seinte Marie cog,' 'la Seinte Marie cog,' 'la Margarete, 'la Michel,' 'la Kief Spirit' and 'la Rede cog,' a ship of Henry Wytelegh, and another ship of his, together with John Wilton, William Bacoun, Robert Boys, William Doune, Richard Wyteby, John Boys, Walter Scutere, Simon Randulf, John Scutere, Walter Toppesham, John Cole, William Bosse, John Foterel, John de Bury, Thomas Suet, William Hemmyng, William Marchant, Geoffrey Mersh, Henry Wytelegh, John Bourne, John Gourdoun, William Smale, William Asshedon, John Cotte, Michael Abraham and John Matheu, lords and masters of those ships, and to cause the ships to be appraised at their true value and to be kept safely, together with the persons of the masters until further order, certifying the king of all his action in the matter before the quinzaine of Easter next, as the said ships were forfeited to the king because they did not come to his last passage in accordance with the arrest, and the king ordered the sheriff to arrest them and the persons of the masters and the king ordered them to be dearrested by security to set out in his service with Richard earl of Arundel and other magnates and lieges, to parts beyond the sea, and the setting out of these magnates is hindered by the king's arrival in England, and the king wishes fitting answer to be made for the forfeiture of the ships. By K.
To the sheriff of York. Like order to arrest ships called 'la Blithe,' ' la Godyer,' ot Grymmesby, 'laMalyn ' of Grymesby, 'la Rode cog,' ' la Nicholas' of Swynhumbre, ' Seinte Marieship,' 'la Mariol' of Barton, 'la Godyer,' 'la Blithe' oi Skynwyne, 'le MaryoV of Botilston, ' Seinte Marie bat,' 'la Godyer Hyngeberugh,' ' Godchep' of Dordraugh, 'la Brandebergh,' 'la Leonard,' 'Joachin,' 'la Laurence' uni 'la Bartelmeu,' together with the persons of Philip de Gunorby, of Swynhavene, Henry Frelse, John Yonge, William Balderse, John Galay, Robert Wattesson, John Tredegold, William Broun, Richard de Bronholm, Robert Coupere, John de Haxflet, John de Wilflet, Seman Swarth, Peter Hayn, Tydemannus de Brandeburgh, John de Epse, Richard de Ywardby, William Page, and Richard de Potteneflet, masters of those ships, which were forfeited because they did not come to the king's last passage. By K.
To John de Aulton, escheator in cos. Oxford and Berks. Order to deliver to Hugh de Meugnel, knight, the manor of Shawes, co. Berks, except the advowson of the church of the manor, restoring the issues thereof, as the king ha^ learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor late the wife of Philip de Golumbar [iis] at her death held for life
3058 c
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CALENDAE OF CLOSE ROLLS.
134c
March 6. Westminster.
March 4. Westminster.
March 4. Westminster.
March 10. Westminster.
March 15. The Tower.
March 28. The Tower.
Membrane 19 — cont.
the said manor, except the advowson, of the grant of Lewis de Kymmeys, parson of Combemartyn church, and of Baldwin. Aylmeyr, made to her and Philip for their life, by a fine levied in the king's court before the justices of the Bench, with remainder to Ealph Basset the younger and Alesia his wife and the heirs of their bodies, and that Alesia is still living, and that the manor is held in chief by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and that Hugh married Alesia, and the king has taken Hugh's fealty.
To Eoger de Baukwell. Order to certify the king under his seal of the fealty of the said Hugh, when he has taken it, as the king has given him the power to receive Hugh's fealty for this turn.
Mandate to John la Warde, parson of Kyngesneuton church, to deliver to Hugh the said manor, except the advowson, which is in John's" custody by the king's commission.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Thomas de Melcheburn and William his brother of 20 tuns of flour, as the king ordered them to cause all the flour in their custody to be placed in ships, taken to the town of Berwick upon Tweed and delivered to the treasurer and . chamberlains there for the munition of that town, and Thomas and "William delivered 20 tons of flour to Peter Gretheved, chamberlain of that town, as Peter has acknowledged before the chancellor and treasurer. By C^
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow 151. to Eobert do Hungerford in 24Z. if they are due by him, if they find upon examination of the letters obligatory that the king is bound to him in 201. for wool taken from him, as Eobert has besought the king to cause such allowance to be made to him, as the king is bound to him in 20/. for wool taken from him, as may appear by the letters obligatory made to him thereupon, and Eobert is bound to the king in 24/. for the custody of the lands of the heir of Roger de Stocke, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, and Robert remits the remaining 51. to the king. By C.
To Bartholomew Busshon, the king's serjeant at arms, and to Berengar de Candorer. Order to dearrest and release without delay Arnald de List of Vyke, Peter Mascowe of Valence, Peter al Forge of Valence, John Joly of Geron, Jameg Bosk of Tarragon and Peter Vilar of Cardon of Catalonia, and permit them to do what they wish, except to cross freely to the king's enemies, as Arnald and the others have besought the king to order them to be dearrested, as they applied at the port of Dertemuth with certain ships called ' Tarites ' of the power of the king of Aragon, who is of the king's friendship, when coming from Flanders with certain merchandise, and there rendered themselves as hostages to Hugh de Courteneye, earl of Devon, and because the ships departed from the said port without the earl's licence they are detained under arrest in the earl's custody and were afterwards delivered to Bartholomew and Berengar to be kept, by order of the council.
ByC.
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and 2 carucates of land in Ablyngdon, restoring the issues thereof to Katherine, late the wife of Peter le Veel, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Peter at his death held no lands in chief in that county, but that he held the said messuage and land jointly with Katherine by a fine levied in the king's court of another than the king.
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1343.
April 8.
Havering atte
Bower.
April 13.
Havering atte
Bower.
April 4. Westminster.
j\[ci)ibranc 19 — emit.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Kirkham, who has no lands in that county to qualify him.
To Thomas de Bukton, escheator in co. Northampton. Order to deliver to Nicholas de Burneby without delay three parts of the manor of Watford in that county, together with the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eustace de Burneby at his death held the said three parts for life of the grant of John parson of Creek church and of Ealph parson of Buckeby church by a fine levied in the king's court by his licence, with remainder to the said Nicholas and Alice his wife and the heirs of Nicholas's body, to hold of the king, and with remainder in default of such heirs to the right heirs of Nicholas, and that two parts of the said three parts are held by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee, and the third part is held at free ferm, rendering 201. yearly at the exchequer, and the king has taken the homage of Nicholas and has rendered the said three parts to him. By p.s. [16289.]
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order to cause William son and heir of Walter Gascelyn, tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands whereof his. father was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, as Walter has proved his age before the escheator, and the king has taken his homage for the said lands and has rendered them to him. By p.s. [15279.]
To Simon Basset, escheator in co. Gloucester. Like order in favour of William, who has proved his age before John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. By the same writ.
March 13.
Westminster.
Membrane 18.
To Hugh Tyrel, escheator in co. Somerset. Order to deliver to James de Audele the manors of Netherstaweye and Puriton and the hamlet of Dounende which he took into the king's hand by reason of the death of Eleanor late the wife of Philip de Columbariis, together with the issues thereof, and not to intermeddle further with the lands held of others than the king, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor at her death held no lands in chief in her demesne as of fee in that county, but that she held for herself and the heirs male of the bodies of herself and Philip the said manors with the hamlet of Dounende and divers other lands in that county, with remainder in default of such issue to James, to hold for life, and she also held the manor of Blakedon and certain other lands in the same county, for her life, of the demise of James, with reversion to him, by fines levied in the king's court by his licence, and that the manors of Netherstaweye and Puriton with the hamlet are held of the king by the service of a fourth part of a barony, and the manor of Blakedon is held of the king by the service of the eighth part of a barony, and the other lands are held of other lords than the king, and that Eleanor died without male heirs of the bodies of herself and Philip, and the king has taken the fealty of James and given him respite for his homage until the next parliament.
By p.s.
To John de Vieleston, escheator in co. Kent. Order to deliver to James de Audele the manor of Postlyngg in that county, together with the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor late the wife of Philip de Columbariis at her death held the said manor for life with remainder to James at her death by a fine levied in the
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1343.
April 18. Mortlake.
March 16. Westminster.
Membrane 18 — co7it.
king's court, by his licence, and that the manor is held in chief by the service of a knight's fee and rendering 20s. yearly to the ward of Dover castle and making suit at the king's court of Redlevet every three weeks, and the king has taken the fealty of James and given him respite for bis homage until the next parliament. By the same writ.
To William Pipard, escheator in co. Devon. Order to deliver to James de Audele the manors of Bovy Tracy and Nymet Tracy and a fifth part of the manor of Toryton, saving any relief due to the king, and not to inter- meddle further with any lands held of other lords than the king, which he took into the king's hand by reason of the death of Eleanor late the wife of Philip de Columbariis, restoring the issues of such lands, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor at her death held the said manors and fifth part and divers other lands in that county, for life, of the inheritance of James de Audele of his demise, by a fine levied in the king's court, by his licence, and that the manors and fifth part are held of the king by barony and the other lands are held of others, and the king has taken the fealty of James and has given him respite for his homage until the next parliament. By the same writ.
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Broghton, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor late the wife of Philip de Columbariis held no lands at her death in chief in that bailiwick, but that she held the said moiety of James de Audele for life. By the same writ.
To Simon Basset, escheator in co. Gloucester. Order not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Beggeworth, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor at her death held no lands in chief, but that she held the said moiety for life of the demise of James de Audele, with reversion to him, and that the manor is held of another than the king. By the same writ.
To John Daproun, escheator in co. Cornwall. Order not to intermeddle further with certain tenements in Taikbeare in that county, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eleanor at her death held no lands in chief in that bailiwick, but that she held the said tenements for life of the inheritance of James de Audele by his demise, with remainder to him, and that they are held of another than the king. By the same writ.
To Thomas de Chisenhale, sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver by indenture to William de Edyngton, keeper of the wardrobe, all the cloth found in a cog called ' la Juliane ' of Lescluse and in a ship called ' la Nicholas ' of Jernemuth, lately arrested at Portesmuth, as the king ordered the sheriff to arrest that cloth and cause it to be delivered to William by John de Codyngton, clerk, whom the king appointed to survey and appraise the ship and cog and the goods and merchandise therein.
ByC.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to Hugh de Berewyk 5s. a day for his wages from 3 March last until the 16th day following, both inclusive, for the time when he was engaged as justice in his sessions at Winchester castle, of the issues of the fines and amercements adjudged before him and his fellows, as the king appointed Robert Parvying the chancellor. Master John de Thoresby, John de Stouford, Hamo de Derworthy
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1343.
March 17.
Westminster
March 15.
The Tower.
March 16. The Tower.
March 14. Westminster,
March 16.
Westminster!
April 7.
Havering atte
Bower.
Membrane 18 — cont.
and the said Hugh to be justices to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses committed by the king's ministers and others, in that county, and he granted to Hugh 5s. a day for his wages. By C.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Like order to pay to Hugh de Berewyk 5s. a day for his wages from 16 March last until the 19th of that month, both inclusive, as the king has appointed Eobert Parvyng the chancellor, Hugh and other lieges to hear and determine such trespasses, and he and his fellows have been attendant upon the premises for the said days at Salisbury. By C.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to receive the extracts of Eobert Parvying and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in that county, concerning the fines, issues and amercements adjudged before them, and to cause all the money which is to be levied by those extracts to be levied with all speed, so that he has all that money at the exchequer on the quinzaine of Easter next, to be delivered to the treasurer and chamberlains there. By K. and C.
To the bailiffs of the liberties of the prior of St. Swithin's, Winchester, in CO. Southampton. Order to receive the return of the extracts of the said fines and amercements which the sheriff of Southampton has delivered to them according to the liberties granted to their lord by the king and his progenitors from the said sheriff, and to cause all the money which is to be levied by that return in their bailiwick to be levied without delay and delivered to the sheriff by indentures if they do not pertain to their lord, so that the sheriff may be able to deliver that money to the king and to Philip de Weston, John de Weston and others to whom that money is assigned and so that the king may not have cause to severely punish them and the said liberty for their negligence or default, as the king ordered the sheriff to cause all the said fines and amercements to be levied and to pay to Philip and John all the money in which the king was bound to them and to have all the residue at the exchequer on the quinzaine of Easter next, to be delivered to the treasurer and chamberlains there.
By K. and C. The like to the following, to wit :
The bailiffs of the liberties of the bishop of -,
Winchester, , |
The bailiffs of the liberties of Queen Isabel, \- in the said county.
The bailiffs of the liberties of Henry, earl of
Lancaster,
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Although the king ordered them to receive from merchants and others wishing to lade wool, hides and wool-fells in that port, who have not sterling ready, to pay the custom and subsidy therewith, gold in such price as is current in Flanders, yet for certain causes the king orders them to supersede the execution of that order until the next parliament and to receive the custom and subsidy in sterlings until further order. By K. and C.
The lite to the following, to wit :
The collectors of customs in the port of Boston. The collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Brommore, who is so sick that he cannot execute the duties of the office.
The like to the sheriff of Huntingdon for John de Eavele.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343. March 80.
Westminster.
April 4.
Westminster.
April 4. The Tower.
Membrane 17.
To the sheriff of Southampton. Whereas the king appointed Robert Parvyng and Master John de Thoresby with other lieges to be justices to hear and determine the trespasses and excesses committed by the king's ministers and others in that county, and granted to Eobert 1 mark and to John J mark a day for their expenses while they should be attendant upon the premises, to be received by the hands of the sheriff of the money of the forfeited issues, fines and amercements adjudged before them, the king orders the sheriff to pay to Eobert 85 marks and to John 17J marks of the said issues for their expenses for 85 days, to wit, from 29 December last to 19 January following and from 4 March last until the 16th day of that month, inclusive, on which days they were attendant upon the premises in going from London to Winchester, staying there and returning thence to London. By K.
To the same. Like order, ' mutatis mutandis,' in favour of William de Notton, whom the king appointed with other lieges to be a justice for such trespasses in that county, granting him 5s. a day for his expenses, to pay him 70.S. for 14 days, to wit from 3 March last until the 16th day of that month, inclusive, when he was attendant upon the premises in going from London to Winchester, and staying there. By K.
To the same. Like order, 'mutatis mutandis,' in favour of Thomas de Sandford, whom the king appointed with Robert Parvyng and his fellows to be justices for such trespasses in that county, granting him 40rf. a day for the time when he was attendant upon the premises, to pay him 8. marks 10s. for his expenses for 35 days, to wit, from 29 December last and 19 January following and from 4 March last to the 16fch day of that month, inclusive, on which days he was so engaged, in going from London to Win- chester, staying there and returning thence. By K.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Like order, 'mutatis miitandis' in favour of Thomas de Sandford, to pay him 4j marks for his expenses for 18 days, to wit, from 17 March last until 8 April following, inclusive, when he was acting as justice in such trespasses, in staying at Salisbury and returning to London. By K.
To the same. Like order, ' mutatis mutandis,' in favour of Eobert Parvyng, Master John de Thoresby and William de Notton, appointed with other lieges to be justices to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses committed by tie king's ministers and others in that county, granting to Eobert 1 mark, to John J mark and to William 5s. for their expenses for every day that they should be attendant upon the premises, to be received by the hands of the sheriff of the money of forfeited issues, fines and amerce- ments adjudged before them, to pay to Eobert 18 marks, to John 9 marks and to William 4Z. IDs. for their expenses for 18 days, to wit, from 17 March last to 3 April following, inclusive, when they were attendant upon the premises at Salisbury and returning to the king to London. By K.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to pay to William de Bohun, earl of Noathampton, or to his attorney, 200Z. for Easter term next, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 400Z., to be received yearly by their hands until certain lands which others hold for life revert to him.
The like to the following, to wit : —
The collectors of customs in the port of Boston to pay the earl 151. of 150L yearly.
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3^343 Membrmie 17 — cont.
The collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull to pay
the earl 751. of ISjOl. yearly. The sheriffs of London to pay the earl lOOL of 200Z. yearly upon the
ferm or issues of that city. The sheriff of Essex to pay the earl 501. of 1001. yearly upon the ferm
or issues of that county.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Like order to pay the earl 101. for Easter term next, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 20L, to be received yearly by the hands of the sheriff of that county.
April 8. To John de Hundon, escheator in co. Lincoln. Order to deliver to Joan
Havering atte late the wife of Eobert Darcy of Stretton, the manor of Dunston in that Bower. county, together with the issues thereof, after taking her fealty, and not to intermeddle further with the lands which are held of Others than the king, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the eschefttor that Robert at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, but that he held the said manor in chief, jointly with Joan, by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, for the term of their lives, with remainder to John de Argenthain and Margaret his wife and the heirs of Margaret's body, and they held lands of other lords by divers services, and the Iting has given the escheator power to receive Joan's fealty for the manor.
To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Surrey and Sussex. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Pachevesham, co. Surrey, restoring the issues thereof to Joan late the wife of Robert Darcy, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eobert at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, but he was jointly enfeoffed with Joan of the said manor of the prior of Merton and Eobert de Northwode, by certain services.
April 10. To Roger Turtle, mayor of Bristol, and to John le Spicer. Order to Westminster, sell at the dearest possible price the goods and merchandise found in a certain ship called. 'Taryt' by the view and testimony of Francis Geffrey, retaining the money arising therefrom, causing the ship to be repaired ■ where necessary and finding reasonable maintenance for the masters and mariners until further order, as the king lately appointed Eoger and John to survey the said goods in that ship, which the king ordered to be brought from the port of Milford, where it was arrested, to the port of Bristol, by the said mayor and the bailiffs of Bristol, and to sell the goods by the view of Francis, causing the money thereof to be kept safely, by an indenture made between them and Francis. By G.
April 9. To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to release without delay from the
Westminster, prison where they are detained three men of Spain, whom the sheriff
arrested and has long detained in Winchester castle because they were of
the king's enmity, as they have not wherewith to live unless they receive
help while they are so imprisoned. By K.
April 10. To Henry Gernet, escheator in cos. Essex, Hertford and Middlesex. Havering atte Order to deliver to ,Tohn le Cok and Joan his wife, daughter of Margaret atte Bower, Doune, a messuage, a mill, 102 acres of land, IJ acres of meadow, a marsh and 3s. rent in Bradewell, but not to intermeddle further with the lands which Margaret held of other lords than the king, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Margaret at her death held in her demesne as of fee the said messuage, mill, land,
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CALENDAE OF CLOSE EOLLS.
-lOAo Metnbrane 17 — cotit.
meadow, marsh and rent in chief by the service of rendering to the king by the hands of the bailiff of the hundred of Dans [eye], 12d. yearly at Michaelmas and also of rendering a lance in the war of Wales, and that she held lands of other lords by divers services, and that the said Joan is her next heir and of full age, and the king has taken John's fqalty. Vacated bccaiinc on the roll of fines.
April 8. To the collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to pay
Havering atte to Adam Coggere what is in arrear to him of 4rf. daily from 24 July in the
Bower. i^^^^ yg^r of the reign, and to pay the said U. daily henceforth, in accordance
with the king's grant to Adam on the said day of 4rf. to be received daily
for life of the issues of the customs in that port.
April 10. To John de Vieleston, escheator in co. Kent. Order not to intermeddle
Westminster, further with the manor of Tremworth, and with the lands which Eichard de Haudlo held of the other lords than the king, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Eichard at his death held no land in chief in that bailwick, whereby the custody of his lands ought at present to pertain to the king, but that he held the said manor and other lands of another than the king for life, of the demise of John de Haudlo, his father.
Aug. 9. To Thomas de Chisenhale, sheriff of Southampton. Order to deliver to
The Tower. Thomas Crosse, keeper of the great wardrobe, without delay, by indenture, all the cloth, whether whole or cut in pieces, fur, the anchor and other things found in a certain cog called ' la Juliane ' of Lescluses, lately arrested at Portsmouth, which the king ordered to be arrested by the sheriff, and they were delivered to him by indenture by John de Godyngton, clerk, whom the king appointed to survey the said cog and the goods and merchandise therein. By K. and C.
April 15. To the mayor and bailiffs of Oxford. Order to pay to John Brocas, the
Havering atte king's yeoman, or to his attorney, IQl. of the ferm of that town for Easter
Bower. term last in accordance with the king's grant to him on 27 March in the
12th year of the reign of 20L, to be received yearly of the ferm of that
town by the hands of the mayor and bailiffs until the king should provide
him with 20Z. of land or rent yearly in the realm to hold for life.
April 6. To the collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Havering atte Order to pay to William de Felton what is in arrear to him of 20Z. yearly
Bower. a,nd to pay him the said Wl. yearly henceforth so long as they are collectors,
in accordance with the king's grant to him of 20L to be received yearly of
the custom of that town until the king shall provide him with 20/. yearly .
of land and rent.
MEMBRANE 16.
April 5. To Thomas de Bukton, escheator in co. Northampton. Order to deliver
Havering atte to Joan late the wife of Ealph Basset of Drayton the manor of Bukkeby, Bower. to hold in dower, as of the lands which belonged to Ealph, who held in chief, the king has assigned to her the said manor, in that county, ex- tended at 23Z. 3s. 'i^d. yearly, and certain other manors and lands in COS. Buckingham and Stafford extended at 20Z. lis. 9f/. yearly, to hold as dower of the said lands, rendering 14s. Id. yearly at the exchequer until Ealph's heir shall come of age, and then to the said heir, which sum ex- ceeds the dower.
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1343.
April 1. Westminster.
April 16.
Westminster.
April 19.
Havering atte Bower,
Membrane 16 — cont.
To John Aignel, escheator in co. Buckingham. Order to deliver to Joan, late the wife of Ealph Basset of Drayton, IIZ. 12s. 5id. rent in Wardyngton, la Hide and Chiryngton, which are members of the manor of Olneye in that county, which the king has assigned to her in dower, to be received of certain tenants there.
To Thomas de Swynnerton, escheator in co. Stafford. Order to deliver to the same Joan the manor of Pathyngham in that county, which is extended at 81. 1 9s. 2^d. yearly, and which the king has assigned to her to hold in dower.
To John de Hundon, escheator in co. Lincoln. Order to deliver to Margery late the wife of William de Eos of Hamelak, tenant in chief, the manors of Uflyngton and Melton in that county, which the king has assigned to her to hold as dower of the lands which belonged to William, the former extended at 181. 18s. Gd. yearly and the latter at 6/. 17s. Srf. yearly.
The like to the following escheators to deliver the following manors to Margery, to wit :
Eobert de Bereford, escheator in cos. Warwick and Leicester, for the manor of Botelesford, co. Leicester, extended at 501. 2s. 6frf. yearly.
William Lengleis, escheator in the liberty of Holdernesse, co. York, for the manor of Eosse, co. York, extended at 26Z. 6s. yearly.
Thomas de Eokeby, escheator in co. York, for the manor of Garton with the members of Brakyn, Middelton, Northdalton, Nabourn and Tibethorp and other appurtenances, extended at GSl. 8s. 5Jrf. yearly, and for the manors of Seton, Storthwayt, and Fulford with appur- tenances and with certain tenements and rents in Wartre, Methel- burn, Herlethorp and Eolkerthorp, pertaining to the manors of Seton and Storthwayt in co. York, extended at Ml. 19s. Sd. yearly.
To the treasurer of Dublin. Order to cause all the lands which belonged to Walter de la Hide, tenant in chief, to be extended by the oath of lawful men of Ireland, as to their yearly value in all issues, and to cause the extent to be sent to the chancery in England, certifying the king there of the value of the marriage of Walter's heir, taking security, for which the treasurer shall answer, from John de Berford or his attorney that he will faithfully render the yearly extent of those lands at the exchequer in England for the time when he holds the custody thereof, and will also answer to the king for the true value of the marriage, then to deliver all the said lands to John to be kept, together with the person of the heir, as the king granted that custody to John for rendering the said extent and also the said marriage for paying so much as another would pay for the same, notwithstanding certain commissions under the great seal, to John Moriz, supplying the place of the justiciary, which the king has revoked.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to William de Felton the ferms, issues and profits received by him in the accounts which he is bound to render at the exchequer, notwithstanding the commission to him of the office of sheriff of Northumberland made afterwards, as on 8 March in the 15th year of the reign the king committed to him the county of Northumberland and the castle of Newcastle upon Tyne, to k,eep until the end of five years next following, so
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
April 24. Mortlake.
Membrane 16 — cont.
that he should render the ferms due to the king yearly at the exchequer and answer for the debts and all other things pertaining to the office of sheriff of the county and to the custody of the castle, as other sheriffs and keepers have previously done, and at the suit of William beseeching the king to order payment to be made of the sums due to him, as the king is bound to him in divers sums of money both for the making of walls and other edifices at Rokesburgh castle and for the wages of the men-at-arms, hobelers and other men whom he retained for the safe custody of that castle, the king granted that he should have and receive the ferms, issues and other profits of the county for the said five years, which should pertain to the king, in part payment of the said sums, so that if they exceeded those sums he should answer for the residue to the king ; the king also granted that the ferms, issues and profits received by him, to be received in the accounts which he is bound to render yearly at the exchequer for the county and castle, should be allowed to him yearly in the said sum.
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order to amove the king's hand from a messuage and a carucate of land of Joan late the wife of Henry de Remmesbury in Idemeston, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to Joan, as the king ordered the escheator to certify why he had taken the messuage and carucate into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had not so taken the messuage and a carucate of land in Idemeston as contained in the order, but that he had so taken a messuage and 2 virgates of land in Idemeston because he had found by inquisition of office that Philippa, eldest daughter and one of the heirs of William de Hacche, who held of the abbot of Glastonbury, was an idiot, and afterwards Joan informed the king that Philippa was one of the daughters and not heir nor one of the heirs of William and had no estate in the messuage and carucate at any time, but that William and Felicia his wife held the messuage and carucate for themselves and William's heirs, and after William's death Felicia demised the estate which she had in the messuage and carucate to the said Henry and Joan, who was one of the daughters and heirs of William and Felicia, to hold for the life of Felicia, and afterwards Thomas son and heir of William released to Henry and Joan and the heirs of their bodies all his right and claim in the messuage and carucate, and Henry and Joan were seised thereof by virtue of this grant during all the life of Henry and Joan until they were taken by the escheator as aforesaid, and the king has been besought to cause his hand to be amoved ; the king therefore ordered the escheator to take an inquisition on the matter, by which it is found that William and Felicia held a messuage and carucate of land in Idemeston of the abbot of Glastonbury, and that Felicia, after William's death, demised her estate in the same to Henry and Joan, to hold for her life, and afterwards Thomas, William's son .and heir, released all his right and claim therein to Henry and Joan in the form aforesaid, and they held the premises until they were seised by the escheator, and that Philippa, one of the daughters of William, was not his heir and never had any estate in the messuage and carucate, and she was not an idiot from her birth.
March 28. To William Pipard, escheator in co. Devon. Order to deliver to John Westminster, de Clavyll, son and heir of John de Clavyll, tenant in chief, all the lands which belonged to his father which were held in chief as of the honour of Gloucester, which was lately in the king's hand, as John the son has proved his age before Edward de Stradelyng, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset.
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1343. April 26.
Mortlake.
April 27. Westminster.
April 28. Westminster.
April 28.
Westminster.
Membrane 15.
To the collectors of the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to pay to Queen Isabel, or to her attorney, 260Z. for Easter term last, as the late king assigned to her when he married her castles, manors and lands to the value of 4,500/. to hold as her dower, and she afterwards surrendered these at the request of the present king and the magnates of the realm, and the king assigned to her divers manors to the value of 3,000L yearly, and on 11 August in the 11th year of the reign the king granted to her 1,500/., to be received yearly of the customs, to wit 500/. in that port, 500/. in the port of Boston and 500/. in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull, to be received by the collectors there for her life, and afterwards thekinggranted that she should receive the 1,500/. in those ports both of the subsidy granted beyond the customs and of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the same form, and the king wished that one part of the coket seal in those ports, which usually remains in the custody of the controller of customs there, should be delivered to the queen or to her attorney to be kept under the seals of the collectors in those ports until the queen should be satisfied for what was in arrear to her of the 500/. and that she should have the custody of that seal so long as she received the customs, and the agreement made with the merchants of Alm.ain, to whom the king granted the customs and subsidies in all the ports of the realm, contains that rents and fees assigned to magnates or others in fee or for life upon those customs shall be paid to them yearly.
The like to the following, to wit : —
The collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. The collectors of customs in the port of Boston.
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause the prior of Durham to have seisin without d«lay of a messuage in Staunford which Eobert de Apethorp of Stamford held, who was hanged for felony, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage has been in the king's hand for a year and a day, that Robert held it of the prior and that the prior had the year, day and waste thereof and ought to answer for them to the king.
To the same. Order to pay to brother Alexander de Eameseye, now abbot of Barlynges, the king's chaplain, lOO-s. for Easter term last and to pay him 10/. yearly henceforth for life in accordance with the king's grant to him of 10/. to be received yearly for life of the king's alms, in aid of his maintenance, by the hands of the sheriff' of Lincoln.
To John Aignel, escheator in co. Buckingham. Order to deliver to Ralph son of Ralph son of Ralph Basset of Drayton and to Joan daughter of Thomas de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, the manor of Olney in that county, together with the issues thereof, except the lands and rents in Wardynton, la Hide and Shiryngton, which are members of that manor and which the king ordered the escheator to deliver to Joan late the wife of Ralph Basset, to hold in dower, as the king has learned by inquisition taken oy the escheator that Ralph Basset at his death held the said manor for hfe of the gift and grant of William de Herle, knight, and Thomas de Radeolyve, parson of Olneye church, by a fine levied in the king's court by his licence, with remainder to the said Ralph son of Ralph son of Ralph and Joan and the heirs of their bodies, and that the manor is held of the king by the service of a knight's fee, and the king has taken the homage of Ralph son of Ralph son of Ralph. By p.s. [15816.J
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE EOLLS.
23^3 Memh-ane 15 — emit.
To Thomas de Swynnerton, escheator in co. Stafford. Like order to deliver to the same Kalph and Joan the manor of Waleshale in that county which Ealph Basset of Drayton held for life, and which is held of the king hy the^ervice of rendering Al. yearly at the exchequer, and the king has taken the fealty of Ealph son of Ealph.
To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Dray- ton Basset in that county, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned hy inquisition taken by the escheator that Ealph Basset of Drayton, at his death, held that manor except 5 messuages and a mill in the same, for himself and the heirs male of his body, of the gift and grant of Ralph de Olneye and Robert de Burlingham, chaplains, with remainder in default of such heirs, to Ralph son of Ealph son of the said Ealph Basset of Drayton and the heirs of his body, and that the manor is held of another than the king.
April 5. To Thomas de Bukton, escheator in co. Northampton. Order not to
Havering, intermeddle further with the manor of Multon in that county, restoring the issues thereof to Joan late the wife of Ralph Basset of Drayton, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that, at Ealph's death, he and Joan jointly held the said manor in chief for their life of the gift and grant of William de Herle, knight, and Thomas de Eadeclyve, parson of Olneye church, by a fine levied thereupon in the king's court by his^ licence, and the king has taken Joan's fealty due for the manor.
May 5. To William Lengleys, escheator in the liberty of Holdernesse. Order
Westminster, not to intermeddle further with two half-bovates of land which he took into the king's hand by reason of the death of Nicholas de Holmhous of Frismareis, restoring the issues thereof to Alice late the wife of Nicholas, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Nicholas at his death held jointly with Alice |-bovate of land in Halsham, in chief as of the honour of Albemarle, by knight's service, whereof 8 carucates make a fee, and also i-bovate of land in the same town of another than the king, and the king has taken the fealty of Alice.
To the same. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Alice late the wife of Nicholas de Holmhous of Frismareis, tenant in chief of all the lands whereof Nicholas was seised in his demesne as of fee, at his death, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence, in the presence of Maud de Wyveton, sister of Nicholas and of William de Guldhous son of Alice, another sister and heir of Nicholas, and the escheator shall send the assignment to chancery under his seal, to be enrolled there as is customary.
April 27. To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to Westminster, deliver to Philip Broun son of John Broun the advowson of Shepeden church, but not to intermeddle further with the lands which John held of others than the king, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned hy inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held the said advowson in his demesne as of fee, in chief as in socage, and that he held lands in Totyngton of another than the king, and that Philip is his next heir and of full age, and the king has taken Philip's fealty for the advowson.
April 80. To Eeymund Seguyn, the king's butler, or to Eobert de Lichefeld,
Westminster, supplying his place in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to bring to
chancery in person, for the king's use, all the money which he took from
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the master of a ship called 'la Clement' of Dertemuth, arrested by him in that port by virtue of the king's order to him to arrest certain ships which did not come to the king's last passage, and which he afterwards caused to be dearrested by a mainprise, so that he have the said money in chancery on the morrow of St. Dunstan next to be dehvered to the king there.
ByC.
Membrane 14.
April 24. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order, if they find that
Westminster. 15 sacks of wool arrested in co. Hertford are of the number of the 460 sacks of wool which the king granted that Hildebrand Suderman and John atte Wolde of Almain, his merchants, should buy in the realm and take to Andewerp without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, and that the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London delivered the 15 sacks to Hildebrand and John by virtue of the king's order, then to discharge the collectors and Hildebrand and John thereof, as the king ordered the collectors of customs in that port to deliver the 15 sacks to Hildebrand and John and permit them to carry the sacks to Andewerp in accordance with the king's grant to them [as in this Calendar, 12 Edivard III, page 550].
April 23. To the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order to pay to Edith late the wife
Mortlake. of Eichard Whitot, sometime butler of the household, who long served the king and his father as such, 3Z. for Michaelmas term last, and to pay her 6Z. yearly henceforth, in accordance with the king's grant to her on 20 February in the 12th year of the reign, for the maintenance of herself and her children, of Ql. to be received yearly for her life by the hands of the sheriff of those counties.
April 25. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Westminster. Order to inspect the files and other memoranda of the exchequer and to cause all writs of allowance and other warrants found there by which the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi can have any allow- ances upon their accounts to be extracted from the files and memoranda and transcribed, and to cause the writs and warrants or the transcripts thereof, as they shall see fit, to be sent without delay under the exchequer seal to Eobert de Wodehous, archdeacon of Eichemund, and certain other lieges whom the king has appointed to hear and determine the accounts of those merchants for money, jewels and other things for which they have to account with the king, so that after examining these E^obert and his fellows may do what is just and reasonable, as the merchants have ■ besought the king to order such writs and warrants to be sent to them, as they have such writs, etc. at the exchequer, whereby divers allowances ought to be made to them of the accounts that had been rendered at the ex- chequer. By K.
To Eobert de Wodehouse, archdeacon of Eichemund, and his fellows, appointed to hear and determine the accounts of the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi. Order to receive the said writs and warrants or the transcripts thereof, to diligently survey and examine them, and to cause due allowances to be made to the said merchants upon their accounts as shall seem just and reasonable, upon the things contained in the writs and warrants and also concerning certain sums and things which they find the merchants to have delivered to certain persons by virtue of the king's orders under the great and the privy seals. By K.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE EOLLS.
1343.
April 21.
Mortlake.
April 30.
Westminster.
May 2.
Westminster.
May 7. Westminster.
Membrane 14 — cont.
To the same. Order to cause due allowance to be made to the said merchants for the sums delivered by them to WilUam de Northwell, some- time keeper of the wardrobe, and to Master Paul de Monte Florum, for which WiUiam and Paul have charged themselves in their accounts, as the merchants have besought the king to cause such allowance to be made to them, as they delivered divers sums both of money and of wool to William and Paul, at divers times, by indentures and acquittances. By K.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause a tally for 10 marks to be levied at the receipt of the exchequer and delivered to William de Eavendale, keeper of the hanaper of chancery, in his discharge, as by the order of the Council he paid 10 marks to John de Tamworth, the king's clerk, whom the king lately sent with other lieges to the parts of the islands of Gernereye, Jereseye, Serk and Aureneye, for the expedition of certain of the king's affairs there.
To the collectors of the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of Southampton. Order to cause 87 sacks of wool assigned to Hugh de Courteneye, earl of Devon, to be duly weighed by the beam ordained in that port, and to permit the earl or his attorneys to lade the wool in that port and take it to the staple in Flanders, after paying ^ mark a sack for the custom, notwithstanding the proclamation that all the king's wool assigned or sold to certain persons must be taken out before the Purification last, as the earl has besought the king to grant that he may so take the said sacks, assigned to him upon the wages of fifty men-at-arms and sixty archers on horse, then about to set out in the king's service to parts beyond the sea, to be received by the hands of the collectors and receivers of wool in CO. Devon, of the wool granted for the past year, at 8 marks the sack beyond the custom of \ mark due thereon. By C.
To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Stratton, a messuage and 30 acres of land in Freton, a messuage and 40 acres of land in Pulham and 20 acres of land in Hemphale, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John Sturmy at his death held the said manor and lands jointly with Maud his wife, and that they are held of others than the king.
To Henry Gernet, escheator in cos. Essex, Hertford and Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage called ' Pyesnest ' and 40 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 12 acres of underwood with common in the forest in the parish of Waltham Holy Cross, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John Sturmy, at his death, held the premises jointly with Maud his wife and Edmund their son for themselves and the heirs of Edmund's body and that the premises are held of others than the king.
To Ralph de Nevyll, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. Order to bail Richard Peytevyn, who is imprisoned at York for trespass of vert and venison in the forest of Galtres, if he find twelve mainpernors who will undertake to have him before the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. York, to stand to right for the said trespass, and if he be repleviable accord- ing to the assize of the Forest.
John Alays, imprisoned at Nottingham for trespass of venison in the king's forest of Shirewod, has a writ to Ralph de Nevill, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in that forest, to bail him.
A like writ is directed to the same for John de Trewell.
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1343.
May 3.
SVestminster,
May 10. Westminster.
May 13.
Westminster. May 3.
Westminster.
Meiiibrarie 14 — cont.
To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to amove the king's hand from the priory of Mendham and the possessions pertaining thereto, without delay, and further to do what has hitherto been customary by reason of a voidance, so that a porter be placed at the gates of the priory by reason of the present voidance for the preservation of the king's right and that of the heir, which porter he shall amove after he has amoved the king's hand from the priory and its possessions, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by William Trussel, sometime escheator this side Trent, that Roger de Huntyngfeld, tenant in chief, whose lanjls were taken into the king's hands by reason of the minority of his heir, and his ancestors, were patrons of the said priory, which is a cell of the priory of St. Mary, Castleacre, and that in the time of a voidance of the priory of Mendham, they used to place a porter to keep the gates of the priory during the voidance, taking nothing except his victuals, and that they might send to hold the court of the priory during a voidance, taking nothing away, and that the prior of Castel- acre and his predecessors used to present a monk of the Cluniao order to the priory of Mendham, so that he was English, in the voidances thereof, to Eoger and his ancestors, who used immediately to receive him as prior, and that they had no other profits from the priory, and the king has taken the fealty of brother Henry de Berlegh, monk of the priory of Castleacre, on whom the prior of Castleacre has conferred the priory of Mendham, now void.
To Ealph de Nevill, keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Shirewode. Order to bail John son of James de Normanton, chaplain, imprisoned at Nottingham for trespass of venison in the said forest, if he shall find twelve mainpernors of that baili- wick, who will undertake to have him before the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co. Nottingham.
The like to the same for William Bate of Carleton.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to William marquis of Juliers or to William Muchet and Tilemannus de Werda, his attorneys, 300Z. for Easter term last, in accordance with tbe king's charter to him, as the king granted him 1,OOOZ., to wit GOOl. of the customs in that port and iOOl. at the exchequer, to be received yearly until the king should provide him with l,000i. of land or rent yearly in the realm, and an indenture made between the king and certain merchants of Almain, to whom the king granted all the customs of the realm until they should be satisfied for certain sums due to them, contains that rents and fees granted to magnates and others in fee or for a term of the said customs, shall be paid to them.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to pay to William, marquis of Juliers, or to Tilemannus de Werda and William Muschet, his attorneys, 101. for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to the marquis on 7 May in the llth year of the reign of 201. to be received yearly of the issues of that county by the hands of the sheriff.
MEMBRANE 18.
April 16. To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pay to Nicholas de la
Havering atte Despense, the king's yeoman, 101. for Easter term last, in accordance with
Bower. ^^q king's grant to him of 201. to be received yearly for life of the issues of
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2343 Memh-anc 18 — cont.
those counties, in recompence for 201. yearly of the lands which belonged to William de Bredon in co. Derby, granted to him by the late king, which lands were taken from the hand of Nicholas and delivered to William by the common assent of parliament.
April 10. To the mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. Order to cause all the goods and Havering atte merchandise bought by John Foundour and John de Wigorn [ia] , merchants, Bower. ^^^^ arrested by the king's Serjeants at arms or by (the mayor and bailiffs, to be dearrested without delay and delivered to John and John to do their pleasure therewith, if Thomas Crosse and Peter de Gildesburgh have not the money ready to pay the price thereof or refuse to pay that price, as John and John have besought the king to provide a remedy, as they bought certain of the goods and merchandise of two ships called ' Tarytes ' which belonged to the king's enemies, taken at sea by Peter de Tholosa, master of a ship called ' la Katerinc ' of Bayonne, and his fellows, brought to Southampton and delivered to Peter and his fellows by the king's order, and the said goods and merchandise are arrested because the king appointed Thomas and Peter to buy all the goods of the said two ships, brought to Southampton in the said ship, for money to be paid by William de Kent or his deputies in the king's name by Bartholomew Busshon and William Arnaldi, the king's Serjeants at arms, by reason of a commission to arrest all the said goods, and John and John offered the goods so bought by them to the attorneys of Thomas and Peter for the price for which they were bought, but the attorneys detain the goods under arrest, asserting that they have no money to pay the price. By C.
April 8. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Havering atte Order to pay 2,600Z. to Bernard Ezii, lord of Lebret, or give him an -bower. assignment therefor upon the money of the yearly tenth last granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury of the second term of the grant, if 2,600Z. Os. 7^rf. have not been paid or assigned to him, as the king was lately bound to him in 2,036Z. Os. 7jrf. delivered by him on loan at the receipt of the exchequer for the expedition of the king's most urgent affairs, and the king promised to pay that sum at Hilary in the 15th year of the reign, and Bernard afterwards lent the king 1,OOOL in florins de I'escu [de scuto) at 40(i the crown {scuti) and lOQl. in sterlings and of the said 8,736Z. Os. 7j(i. 1,136Z. have been paid to him at the receipt of the exchequer, and because Bernard surrendered the letters patent for the 2,036Z. Os. 7irf. at the receipt of the exchequer, to be cancelled, the king promised in good faith to pay him the 2,600Z. Os. Tid. at London at Michaelmas last, and Bernard has not yet obtained any payment or assign- ment for that sum, as the king has learned. By p.s. [15283.]
April 15. To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Margery late the wife of Duncan Westminster, de Frendraght 24 marks 6s. 8d. for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 49 marks yearly in aid of her maintenance granted to her on 6 October in the 1st year of the reign, to be received by the hands of the sheriff of York during pleasure, in recompence for the manor of Brygestok, co. Northampton, which she held at will.
April 22. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance Mortlake. to be made to the sheriff of York in his account for what he shall be found to have paid to Margery of the said 24 marks 6s. 8d.
April 20. To the collectors of the petty custom in the port of London. Order to
Westminster, pay to Henry de Lancastrpa] earl of Derby, or his attorney, all the issues of
that custom up to the sum of 445 marks 9s. Id. which he ought to receive
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1343.
April 20. Mortlake.
AprU 23. Mortlake.
April 20.
Mortlake.
April 26. Westminster.
Membrane 13 — cont.
of the issues of that custom for Easter term last, as in creating him an earl the king granted to him 1,000 marks to be received yearly of the customs, to wit, in the port of London 400 marks, in the port of Boston 300 marks and in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull 800 marks, for the life of Henry earl of Lancaster, his father, and afterwards the king granted to the said earl of Derby the manor of Wyghton and the hundred of Northgreneho, co. Norfolk, and the manor of Laghton in Morthyng, co. York, which Ealph, count of Eu, an alien, lately held, and which the king caused to be taken into his hand, to the value of 72L 7s. Gid. yearly, in part satisfaction of the said 1,000 marks, and "in consideration of the earl's service and because he surrendered divers letters of the grant of 1,000 marks to chancery to be cancelled, the king, desiring to provide for the security of the earl, that he should obtain payment of the remaining 891 marks 6s. did. beyond the extent of the said manors and hundreds, granted on 20 September in the 13th year of the reign, that he should receive all the issues of the petty custom in the city of London yearly from Michaelmas then following, for the Life of his said father, notwithstanding any order to the contrary, and that if those issues did not attain to the said sum he should be satisfied for the deficiency of the money arising from the great custom in the port of London, but that if the money of the petty custom exceeded that sum he should answer for the surplus at the exchequer by the hands of the collectors of the petty custom.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to pay to Matthew Canaceon, the king's merchant, or to his attorney, 251. for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him for his good service in parts beyond the sea of 501. to be received yearly of the customs in that port untU the king shall provide him with 501. yearly of land or rent in the realm, notwithstanding any assignment made to other persons upon those customs.
To Eobert de Warthecopp, keeper of the coket seal in the port of Great Yarmouth, and to WiUiam Motte, John de Elyngham and John Frost, appointed to arrest all ships and boats in which wool, hides, wool-feUs or other merchandise are found not coketted or not customed. Order to cause a ship of Peter Jonessone of Seland, an alien, together with the tackle and other goods and chattels of Peter, to be dearrested and delivered to him without delay, if they find by inquisition or otherwise that two packs of wool-feUs found not coketted in his ship were placed there without his knowledge and that he notified them thereof so soon as he had knowledge of the premises, as he has besought the king to order this to be done in consideration of his ignorance and the said notification, as the packs were placed as aforesaid in his ship at Great Yarmouth with divers goods and merchandise, to be taken to parts beyond, and he notified WUliam, John and John of the matter, and they took the packs, the ship and all goods therein into the king's hands as forfeit.
To William de Ravendale, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to pay to Master John de Thoresby, the king's clerk, 30 marks for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 60 marks to be received yearly of the issues of the hanaper, until the king should provide him with a benefice exceeding that sum and the value of his benefices.
Mandate to the treasurer and chamberlains to cause a tally for the said 30 marks to be levied at the receipt of the exchequer and delivered to John in WUliam's discharge.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
April 25.
Westminster,
May 8.
Westminster.
April 22. Mortlake.
March 26.
Winchester.
May 2.
Westminster.
MEMBRANE 12.
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order to amove the king's hand from 4 acres of land of James Beuford, parson of Stupellavyngton church, in Stupellavyngton, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to James, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him without delay concerning the cause why the said land was taken into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had so taken the land because it was found by inquisition of office that Eobert de Wambergh, sometime parson of Stupellavyngton church, made a purpresture in appropriating to himself and his church the said 4 acres which are held in chief, without obtaining the royal licence, and afterwards, at the suit of James, showing the king that the 4 acres are of the endowment of his church and that he and his predecessors have held them as such from time out of mind and not of an appropriation made by Eobert or another, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that James and all his predecessors, parsons of that church, have hitherto held the said land as of the endowment of the church from time out of mind and not of purpresture or appropriation newly made by Eobert or another and that the land is not held of the king.
To the sheriff of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Eeynold, who is insufficiently qualified.
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Order to amove the king's hand without delay from a third part of the manor of Lydeyerd Tregoz and to deliver all the issues and profits of that third part for the last year to John de Wyke, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him ' upon the taking of the said third part into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had so taken the manor because it was found by inquisition of office that John had acquired the said third part, which is held of the king, for life, without the king's licence, and afterwards because John informed the king that he did not acquire the said third part for life, but that it is demised to him for a term of three years, now elapsed, and that the escheator received all the profit of the third part for the last year of the three, and beseeching the king to cause the issues and profits of that year to be delivered to him, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that John did not acquire the third part for life, but that it was demised to him for a term of three years, now elapsed, by Peter de Upton, bailiff of Margaret late the wife of Thomas de Monte Hermerii, who held the third part in the name of dower.
To Thomas de Hampton, keeper of the islands of Gereseye, Gernereye, Serk and Aureneye, or to him who supplies his place. Order to retain in the castles of those islands as many armed men and archers as may reason- ably suffice, according to the advice and ordaining of William de Cheyny, John de Thameworth and John de Hungerford, whom the king is sending to the islands for that cause and for other affairs, for the safe custody of those castles during the truces, as the king has learned that more armed men and archers are retained at the king's wages in those castles than are necessary for the munition thereof during the truces.
To the mayor, bailiffs and lawful men of Newcastle upon Tyne. Order to elect certain lawful men of that town, whom they know to be fit, with the common assent of the community, to levy and collect certain customs granted by the king in aid of enclosing the town for a term of years, until the end of the term, and to employ it on the said enclosing, so that those who are so elected shall render account to them of all the money collected
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May 3.
Westminster.
May 10.
Westminster.
Membrane 12 — cont.
and answer therefor as they ought, as on 24 March in the 6th year of the reign the king granted to the mayor and others, in aid of enclosing the town, certain customs of things coming for sale in the town to the end of ten years then following, and afterwards because the king learned that the works for enclosing the town were not finished, on 30 July in the I5th year of the reign he granted to the mayor and others that after the end of the ten years, in aid of enclosing the town, for the greater security of the town and of the adjacent parts, they should take the following customs of things coming for sale to the town up to the end of seven years after the end of the ten years by the hands of John de Denton, Waleran de Lomeleye, Eichard de Acton, Kobert de Shilvyngton and Eichard de Galewaye, to wit, of each ship laden with merchandise other than wine for sale Ad. ; of each boat laden with merchandise for sale Id. ; of each last of herrings for sale 2il. ; of each ' miliare ' of herring for sale id. of each load of sea fish for sale 1(/. ; of each sack of wool for sale 2rf. ; of each piece of wool for sale ^d.; of each horse and mare, ox and cow for sale ^d. ; of each hide of horse, mare, ox or cow, fresh salted or tanned, for sale, id- ; of each last of ox hides for sale 12^?. ; of ten sheep and pigs for sale Irf. ; of each load of corn for sale ^d. ; of each chaldron of corn for sale Irf. ; of each chaldron of salt for sale Irf. ; of four loads of charcoal for sale Jc/. ; of each cartload of peat and brushwood for sale id. • of each piece of grease, tallow, butter and cheese for sale id. ; of each chaldron of sea coal for sale id. ; of each hundred of wax for sale 2rf. ; of each hundred of pepper for sale 2rf. ; of each hundred of almonds, for sale Irf. ; for each hundred of cummin for sale hi. ; for each basket [fraella) of. figs and raisins for sale 4d. ; for each load of garlic for sale id. ; for each load of onions for sale id. ; for each tun of wine for sale %l. ; for each tun of ashes for sale Irf.; for each assize of woad for sale Irf. ; for each ' miliare ' of thistles for sale Jrf. ; for each hundred of kitchen utensils for Sale 2rf. ; for each bound truss of cloth of the value of 20.s. and more for sale Irf. ; for each load of lead for sale 2rf. ; for each truss not bound for sale |rf. ; for each tun of white peas for sale 2rf. ; for each tun of pitch, and tar and oil for sale Irf. ; for each bacon hog for sale id. ; for each hundred of alum for sale 2rf. ; for each ' miliare ' of vair work for sale 6rf. ; for each packet of squirrel skins for sale Jrf. ; for each hundred of linen cloth and canvas for sale Id. ; for each hundred nets for sale Irf. ; for each entire cloth for sale 4rf. ; for each hundred of sheep and wool fleeces for sale 2rf. ; for each packet of fox skins for sale 2rf. ; for each hundred of the skins of lambs, rabbits and hares for sale \d.\ of 20 salmons for sale Irf.; of each hundred of Melwells for sale Irf. ; of every hundred of green boards for sale Irf. ; of every hundred of boards of ' Murref ' for sale 4rf., of every hundred of boards of Estryng for sale, Irf. ; of every hundred of felt for sale Irf. ; of every sheaf of steel for sale \d. ; of each millstone for sale irf. ; of every hundred of oars for sale 2(/. ; of every bale of any merchandise for sale exceeding the value of 2s. Jrf. ; so that the money arising therefrom may be applied to the enclosing of the town and not to other uses, and because certain of the said John, Walran, Eichard, Eohert, and Eichard are now staying within the town and others staying there do not wish to be attendant upon the collection of the said customs, and John and the others retain the money collected by them of the said customs and refuse to apply them to the enclosing of the town, as the king has learned.
To the sheriff of Sussex. Order to cause a coroner to be elected for that county in place of John de Ernele, who is insufficiently quahfied.
To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of Wauberge to be elected in place of John de Bella Fago, deceased.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
May 8. Westminster.
May 8.
Westminster.
May 18. Westminster.
May 12. Westminster.
May 22. Westminster.
Memhrane 12 — cont.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to pay to Eleanor late the wife of John de Bello Monte and to the other executors of John's will, 501. for Easter term last, and to pay them lOOZ. yearly henceforth of the money which Henry de Lancastr[ia] is bound to pay at the exchequer for the ferm of the lands of Kermerdyn, committed to him under a certain form, until the executors are satisfied for the sum of 917Z. 7s. 6rf., endorsing their bills with the 50Z. and with the sums so paid and receiving those bills when the 917^. 7s. 6rf. has been fully paid, as the king was lately bound to John in that sum for the time of his stay with the king, as might appear by bills under the seals of the keepers of the wardrobe, and in consideration of John's good service the king committed to Eleanor and the other executors that they should receive lOOL yearly at the exchequer until they were satisfied for the said sum, and for their greater security the king granted that they should be satisfied for the IQQl. of the money which the earl is bound to render as aforesaid. FA eratpatens.
To Simon Basset, escheator in co. Gloucester. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Torteworth in that county, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Peter de Veel at his death held no lands in chief in that bailiwick whereby the custody of his lands ought at present to pertain to the king, but that he held the said manor of Margaret late the wife of Nicholas de Moeles by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee.
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Nicholas de la Mare, as he is so sick and broken by age that he cannot perform the duties of the office.
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of Edmund Pynson, who is insufficiently qualified.
To Simon Basset, escheator in co. Gloucester. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Charfelde in that county, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Peter de Veel at his death held no lands in chief in that bailiwick whereby the custody of his lands ought at present to pertain to the king, but that he held the said manor of Hugh de Audele, earl of Gloucester, by the service of a knight's fee.
MEMBBANE 11.
June 4.
Westminster
in
cos. Essex and Hertford. Order to a messuage of the abbot of St. Alban's
To Henry Gernet, escheator amove the king's hand from
in Chepyngbarnet, co. Hertford, and not' to intermeddle further there- with, restoring the issues thereof to the abbot, as the king ordered Richard de Monte Caniso, then escheator in those counties, to certify him of the cause why he took that messuage into the king's hand, and Eichard returned that he so took the messuage because he had learned by the testimony of trustworthy persons that the abbot and convent had acquired that messuage without obtaining the king's licence, and after- wards, at the suit of the abbot, showing the king that the messuage has been held of himself and his -predecessors in villeinage from time out of mind the king ordered the present escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that one Bartholomew le Carter held of Roger a former abbot and of the convent the said messuage, in villeinage at the lord's will, in the 47th year of King Henry HI, and after Bartholemew's death, Waltei
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his son came to the abbot's court held at Barnet in the 1st year of King Edward I and sought that he might be admitted to the messuage to hold in the form aforesaid, and he made fine for holding the messuage and was admitted, and afterwards Walter came into the abbot's court at Barnet in the 16th year of the reign of Edward I at Michaelmas term and surrendered the messuage into the lord's hands for the use of Agnes his daughter, by the abbot's licence, and the abbot demised the messuage to Agnes to hold in villeinage in the form aforesaid, and afterwards Agnes alienated the mes- suage to John Froyl and his heirs by her simple charter, and now the abbot perceiving that prejudice had been done to his church by that alien- ation has entered the messuage as in his own demesne, as was lawful for him to do, and the messuage is worth 40rf. yearly and that the abbot holds it of the king in mesne as parcel of his barony.
May 12. To Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order not
Westminster, to intermeddle further with a mill of John Michel and Richard Felix in Denham, co. Suffolk, restoring the issues thereof to them, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him of the cause why he took that mill into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that William Talemache, late escheator in those counties, had delivered the mill to him by indenture, asserting that it was in the king's hand by reason of the acquisition which the abbot of St. Osith's made thereof of Kichard de Wymbissh after the publication of the statute of mortmain, without the king's licence, and afterwards at the suit of John and Richard showing that Richard de Wymbissh lately demised the mill to the abbot for a term of three years, and that he demised the term which he had therein to the said John and Richard as aforesaid, and Robert de Wymbissh and Joan his wife released the mill, within that term, to John and Richard, by a fine levied in the king's court, and John and Richard remained in peace- ful seisin thereof until they were amoved by the escheator, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the premises, by which it is found that Richard de Wymbissh demised the mill to the abbot by deed in the 15th year of the reign, for a term of three years, and that by virtue thereof the abbot continued in possession for a year and a half and granted the remainder of his term therein to John and Richard, and that Richard de Wymbissh and Joan his wife released the mill within that term to John and Richard by a fine levied in the king's court, and that John and Richard were in peaceful possession of the mill by reason of that demise and release until the escheator took it into the king's hand, and that the mill is held of the abbot by the service of 6s. yearly and it is worth 18s. id. yearly.
May 20. To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause Edmund le Pierpount to
Westminster, have seisin of a messuage and a moiety of a bovate of land and of an acre of meadow in Sneynton, which Thomas Bateson held who was outlawed for felony, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the premises have been in his hand for a year and a day, that Thomas held them of Edmund, and that William son of William son of Beatrice had the year, day and waste thereof and ought to answer to the king.
May 20. To the same. Order to cause Edmund le Pierpount to have seisin with-
Westminster. out delay of a messuage and two acres of land in Sneynton, which John Mabely held, who was outlawed for felony, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that the messuage and land have been in the king's hand for a year and a day, that John held them of Edmund and that Richard Mabyly had the year, day and waste thereof and ought to answer therefor to the king.
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CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.
1343.
May 23.
Westminster.
June 3. Westminster.
June 8. Westminster.
June 12. Westminster.
June 3.
Westminster.
June 12. Westminster.
Membrane 11 — cont.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon the master and brethren of the hospital of St. John the Baptist, Bruggewater, for paying the tenths, fifteenth, ninth, wool and other aids granted to the king by the clergy and community of the realm, as by a certificate of the treasurer and barons sent into chancery, which the king has exemplified by his letters patent, it is found that Edward I ordered the treasurer and barons of his exchequer to discharge the master and brethren of certain tenths exacted of them, because it was shown to him by inspection of the letters patent of J. sometime bishop of Winchester and of 0. some- time bishop of Lincoln that the master and brethren made no contribution to any tenths granted for the king's progenitors or otherwise and that their faculties did not suffice for their maintenance yearly, and it has not been found at the exchequer that the master and brethren paid any tenth at the exchequer from the 28rd year of Edward I to the 10th year of the present king. By p^s.
To the same. Order to discharge the prioress and nuns of Chesthunt of all tallages, contributions and aids whatsoever which are exacted of them for the present year, of the king's special favour for this turn, as the king has learned that their goods do not suffice for their maintenance. By p.s.
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause all the fines, issues and amerce- ments by extracts of William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in that county, when they are delivered to