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CALENDAR

OP THE

CLOSE ROLLS

PRESERVED IN THE

Cf.i^nr. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.

PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF

THE DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE RECORDS.

EDWARD IIL A.D. 1330—1333.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORrTY OF HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOJIE DEPARTMENT.

LONDON:

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1898.

CONTENTS.

Preface corrigexda Calexdar - Index

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PREFACE.

The present volume forms part of a series of Calendars of the Close Eolls from the reign of Edward II. 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 Her Majesty's Treasury, by Mr. TT. H. Stevenson, M.A., Eellow of Exeter College, Oxford. The Index has been compiled by Mr. C. H. Woodruif, B.C.L., Mr. Stevenson having assisted him by identifying most of the places.

H. C. MAXWELL LYTE.

Public Record Office, June 1898.

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COERIGENDA.

Page 21, line 4 from bottom, for " or " read " of."

„ 48, „ 6, fur " Wonewelle " read " Bonewelle."

„ 58, „ 9 from bottom, for " be " read " de."

„ 106, „ 28, for " Tironeau " read " Tiron."

„ 114, „ 4 from bottom, /or "Roger " read "Richard."

,, 116, „ 17 from bottom, a/(er "Richard " aifti " (s!c)."

„ 143, „ 14 from bottom, for " Esmond " read " Desmond."

„ 144, ,, S, for "Cornwall" read "Kent."

„ 148, „ 8, for " Lisle " read " Lille."

„ 157, „ 13, for "Robert" read " Roger "; for "Esmond" read "Desmond."

„ 163, „ 13 from bottom, /or "Rober" read "Robert."

„ 173, „ 13, a/to- " Doatus" arfrf " (sic)."

,, 176, „ I, for " Assheworth " read " Asshewich."

„ 185, „ 4, for " Nottingham " read " Norfolk."

„ 193, „ 16 from bottom, for "Castle of Vises" read " C.istle of Devizes

{castrjim de Vises)."

„ 200, „ I, for "Dannebury" read " Danuebury."

„ 203, „ 11, a/ter "Bestburgh " odrf " (sic)."

„ 204, ,, 5 from bottom, /or " de " read " le."

„ 216, „ 25, for " Robert de Northburgh " read " Roger de Northburgh."

,, 232, ,, 25, for " Langellon " read " Langellou."

„ 236, margin, /or "Dartmouth" read " Dart [ford]."

„ 263, line 10 from bottom, for " Langellon " read " Langellou."

„ 304, „ 3, after " Haxleslee " n<Zd " (si'c)."

„ 323, „ 9 from bottom, for " his " read " her."

„ 338, „ 11 from bottom, /or "Bray" read "Bracy."

„ 344, „ 10, /or "scholar" read "secular."

„ 359, „ 32, /or "Ternyn" reod "Tervyn."

„ 369, „ 19 from bottom, /or " son " rfa(? "daughter."

„ 373, „ 17 from bottom, a/fer " Roger " insert " (sic)."

„ 414, „ 1,/or " intendentare " read "indenture."

„ 422, „ lb, for " cstat " read " estat."

,, 430, „ 5 from bottom, /or " Tenwyngeton " read "Teuwyngeton."

„ 505, „ 27, for " Lechythlenan " read "Lechythlevan."

„ 507, „ 10, insert " have " before " the said oak."

„ 513, „ 24, /or " Guytardi " read " Guycardi."

„ 526, „ 19, for "tourds" read " bourds."

„ 527, „ 11, add " («c) " after " John son of John."

„ 534, „ 34, oiirf" (si'f)" n/er "Robert."

„ 573, „ 18, add " (^sic) " after " Joan."

„ 580, „ 2, for " Suthwarneburn " read " Suthwarneburu."

„ 586, „ 17, /or "le " read "de."

CALENDAR

OF

CLOSE ROLLS.

4 EDWARD III.

-, oq/-w Membrane 42.

Jan. 26. To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order not to distrain Henry son of Henry

Eltham. de "Wilyngton for fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has done homage to the king.

Jan. 25. To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause Neugate gaol to be repaired

Eltham. out of their ferm by the view and testimony of John de Stonore aud

Robert de Notingham, as the king is given to understand that it is so

weak and threatened with ruin that the prisoners therein cannot be kept

safely unless it be speedily repaired.

Jan. 27. To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a coroner for that

Eltham. county to be elected in place of John son of Hugh, deceased.

The like to the same sheriff for the election of a coroner in place of Robert Waryn of Portesmuth, -who is blind.

Jan. 28. To Simon de Hereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to inter-

Eltham. meddle further with a toft, 8 acres of land, and an acre of meadow in Great Curborough near Lichefeld, which he has taken into the king's hands pretending that William son and heir of Walter le Venour is an idiot, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that William is not an idiot, and was not an idiot from birth, and that the premises, which are of his inheritance, are held of the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield by the service of 5s. 8d. yearly, and that William is aged 60 years and more.

Jan. 28. To the sherifi of Northumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county

Eltham. to be elected in place of Eobert de Milneburn, who is insufficiently qualified.

Jan. 30. To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to restore to Ralph de Fylynghara of

Eltham. Lincoln, clerk, his lands, goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands by reason of the robbery of 60*. in the house of William le Orfevre of Lincoln in Neuport, Lincoln, wherewith he was charged before William le Eos, Richard le Grey, and John de Cantebrigg, the king's late justices to deliver Lincoln gaol, as he has purged his innocence before H. bishop of Lincoln, the ordinary of the place, to whom he was delivered according to the privilege of the clergy.

Jan. 23. To the sheriff of Lincoln. Orfler to pay to Ebulo Lestraunge and to

Eltham. Alesia his wife, daughter and heiress of Henry de Lacy, sometime eail of Lincoln, the arrears from the time of the sheriff's appointment of 20^. yearly for the third penny of the county of Lincoln, and to pay to them that turn hereafter, in accordance with the late king's order of 20 September, in the 16th year of his reign, in Alesia's favour.

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CALENDAR OF CLOSE EOLLS.

1330.

Feb. 3. Eltham.

Jan. 30. Eltham.

Feb. 3.

Eltham.

Membrane 42 — cont.

To Simon do Bereford, escheator this side Trent-. Order not to inter- meddle further wiih certain tenements in IJaydcnstan, which he has t.aken into (he king's liands by reason of the death of John de Boklond, knight, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John heUl at his death no lands in chief by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held the aforesaid tenements in 'gavelykynd' of the archbishopric of Canterbury, then void, by the service of 5s. hd. yearly, and that Gregory, Richard, Laurence, and John his sons, and John son of John de Bocloud, the younger, are his next heirs, and that Gregory, Richard, and Laurence are of full age, and John his son is aged 8 years, and that John son of John, the younger, is aged seven years.

To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands of William le Walssh of Wolvesthorp, and lo restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the esche.ator that William held no lands in chief at his death by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, but that he held divers lands of other lords by various services, and that Andrew le Walssh, his son, is his next heir Jind is of full age.

To the same. Whereas the king lately ordered him to certify him of the cause for taking the abbot of St. Valery's lands in en. Essex into the king's hands, and the escheator has returned that, as he learned from trust- worthy inlbrmation that brother John, late abbot of St. Valery in Pieardy,' was dead, he took into the king's hands the manor of Takkeleyo and certain other lands in that county, which are temporalities of the abbey of St. Valery in England, and which are held of the king in chief, as he nnderstood, and which were in the custody of brother Andrew de Gona, prior and proctor of the abbot in England, as wardship pertaining to the king by reason of the voidance of the abbey, and afterwards the king— upon learning from the prior, that the abbot holds the manor and all the lands aforesaid in frankalmoin by the charters of the king's progenitors without doing any service therefor, and that the manor and lands were [not] taken into the hands of any of his progenitors in times past during the voidance of the abbey by the death of any abbot, and that his predecessors in the past did not receive any i.'sues or profits thereof by pretext of any voidance of the abbey — ordered the escheator to make inqui.«ition concerning the premises, and it is found by (he inquisition that the abbot of the monastery of St. Valery in Pieardy and the monks thereof were enfeoffed of (he manor and lands aforesaid in frankalmoin without doing any service therefor of the gift of, and by the charter of, Henry, king of England, (he king's progenitor, which charter Henry III. confirmed, and (hat the manor and lands were not taken or seized into the hands of the king's progenitors after the death of any abbot of that place, and that the king's progenitors did not receive any issues or profits thereof: the king therefore orders the escheator not (o intermeddle further with the manor and lands aforesaid, which the king lately ordered to be restored to the prior with the issues upon security to answer to the king for the issues iu case they ought to pertain to him, and to restore the issues to the abbot cr his said proctor, discharging him and his mainpernors of the said security.

To (he same. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Boklond and with the advowson of the church of that manor, which he has taken into the king's hands by reason of the death of John de Boklond, knight, and (o rettore the issues thereof (o Joan, late the wife of the said John, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John and .]ijan held the manor and advowson jointly on the day of John's death to them and lo the heirs of their bodies, by fine levied iu the king's court, and that the manor is not held of the king.

4 EDWARD III.

1330.

Jan. 26. Eltham.

Feb. 4. Eltham.

Jan. 25.

Eltham.

Feb. 8. Eltham.

Feb. 12.

The Tower.

Feb. 10. Eltham.

Membrane 42 — cont. ^ .

To Robert de Hornclif, constable of Baumburgb castle. Ordei' to p.iy to Roger de Horsele 40 marks for Easter and Michaelitias terms last out of the issues of that castle, in accordance with the late king's grant, of 20 November, in the 12th year of his reign, of that sum yearly from the said isaues in consideration of Roger's good service, until he should provide Roger with 40 marks of lauds yearly in England for life.

To the chamberlain of South Wales. Order to cause the king's castles in Soutli Wales to be repaired by the view and testimony of those whom Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, justice of Wales, shall appoint by letters patent to survey the castles and the defects thereof, as the king understands that the castles are so much decayed in the walls, towers, quays, gates, bridges, and other buildings that their ruin is feared until they be speedily repaired. Tlie king has ordered the justice to appoint men for the above purpose. By K.

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to Thomas de Bello Carapo, son and heir of Guy de Bello Campo, late earl of Warwick, or to one to be deputed by him, the office of the king's chamber- lainship in the exchequer, in the manner in which the office was usually delivered to his ancestors in times past, as the king, on 20 February last, took Thomas's homage for his father's lands although he had not yet come of age, and rendered the lands to him.

To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to the prior of Colne the arrears of lOx. yearly for the time that the escheator Tias liad the custody of the lands of John de Argentein, tenant in chief of the late king, and to pay to him that sum henceforth for so long as the lands shall be in the escheator's custody, as the late king — upon its being found by inquisition taken by Richard de Rodeneye, then his escheator this side Trent, that the prior and his predecessors received 10*. of yearly rent at the time of the said John's death and for a hundred years previously from 30 acres of land, pasture, and alder-holt in Fordham, which are parcels of that manor, which manor was then in the said king's hands by reason of the minority of John's heir — ordered Master John Walewayn, his late escheator this side Trent, and John de Blomvill, afterwards his escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford, to pay to the prior the arrears of the rent aforesaid for the time that they were escheators, and to pay to him the rent thenceforth.

To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to distrain John Aired for his fealty for the lands that he holds of the king, as he has done fealty to the king.

To the justices of the Bench. The abbot of Lire has shewn the king that whereas the king — at the abbot's prosecution, by petition before him and his council, suggesting that he lately impleaded Master Richard de Clare, dean of Wymbourn, that the dean should render to him 240 marks, the arrears of 8 marks of yearly rent due to him, and the justices had superseded the holding of the plea because the dean's attorney alleged before them that the dean held the deanery for life of the king's advowson by the late king's collation, and that he found the deanery discharged of the said rent, and that he could not answer to the abbot without the king, and that he prayed aid from the king — ordered the justices to proceed in this plea notwithstanding the dean's allegation or petition for aid, provided that they did not proceed to render judgment without consulting the king, and that they have deferred rendering judgment although they have pro- ceeded in the' said plea up to the rendering of judgment, and the abbot has therefore besought the king to order judgment to be rendered: the king

A 2

CALENDAR OF CLOSE ROLLS.

1330.

Feb. 21. Windsor.

Membrane 42 — cont. therefore orders the justices to proceed to render judgment with all speed, notwithstanding the dean's said allegatioa or petition or the king's order aforesaid not to proceed to render judgment.

To Simon de Bereford,escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower to Agnes, late the wife of Richard de Sancto Andrea, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence.

Membrane 41.

^ Feb. 2. To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede until

Eltham, the octaves of Holy Trinity next the demand upon William de Gosfeld for iiO marks by reason of a recognisance for that sum made by him in the exchequer to Huj^h le Despenser, the elder, after Hugh's exile, as the king, in response to William's suit, has ordered the treasurer and barous to seud to him the tenor of the recognisance so that he might cause to be done what ought to be done according to the agreement in the parliament at West- minster for the annulling of recognisances made by force and duress after the exile of the Despensers and others, and William has now besought the king, by petition before him and his council, to cause the demand to be superseded until the premises be determined (discuciantur) before the king.

Feb. 12. To the same. Whereas Edward I. before his accession, to wit on

The Tower. 5 April, 50 Henry HI., granted to the abbot and convent of Tynterne, in consideration of their merits and their good service to him, and to their church of Tynterne in frankalmoin whatever he had in the town of Huwaldesfeld, and after his accession he, on 20 March, in the 35th year of his reign, confirmed the said grant, as appears by his charter, which the king has inspected ; and the king at the prosecution of the abbot and convent, by their petition before him and his council in the parliament at Northampton — suggesting that Edwjird I. in the 8th year of his reign, caused the said town to be resumed into his hands without reasonable cause, at the procurement of certain of his ministers, and that [they] procured certain letters patent of the said king's to be made in the name of the abbot and convent without their knowledge or will, containing that the abbot and convent should render yearly (jls. 5d. to the exchequer, in order that they might aggrieve the abbot and convent, and that the said letters patent never came to the abbot and convent, by pretext of which letters the said sum has been hitherto exacted from the abbot and convent, and that they were compelled to pay certain arrears thereof by the procurement of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, who caused certain of their goods to be taken into, and detained in, the late king's hands until the said king had been satisfied for the arrears — ordered the treasurer and barons to obtain information concerning the cause of the resumption of the town into the hands of Edward I., and the cause of the exaction of the aforesaid 6 Is. 5d., and to certify the king of what they found, and they certified the king that, Laving made search concerning the premises, they found in the originalia ioriginali) of the 8th year [mem. 18.] that Edward I. on 15 November, in the same year, received into his hands for certain causes all that he had given in the said town by his charter in the time of Henry III. to the abbot and convent, which gift was worth 61i. 5rf. yearly, as the said king learned by an extent thereof that he ordered to be made by Ralph de Sandwico, then his steward, and the said king rendered all that he had taken into his hands to the abbot and convent, rendering therefor 61s. 5d. yearly to the exchequer, with which sum they are charged yearly as of a yearly ferm at the exchequer from 15 November aforesaid, and that the treasurer and barons found no other cause for the resumption of the town into the said

4 EDWARD III.

Feb. 21. Windsor.

Feb. 21. Windsor.

1330. Membrane 41 — cont.

king's hands : tlie king, having consideration to the premises and to the long service of the abbot and convent, orders the treasurer and barons to cause tliem to be discharged of the aforesaid 61.s. 5rf. thus exacted from them, and of any arrears thereof, and to release any distraint that they may have made for this reason. By p.s. [3265.]

Feb. 18. To Simon de Hereford, escheator this side Trent. Order nctf to inter-

Westminster, meddle further with the manor of Trevelowe and with other lands of Henry de Canipo Banulphi, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry at his death held no lauds of the king in his demesne as of fee, but that he held for life of the gift of William de Kancia, parson of the church of Cardiau (sic), and of Peter de Bodrigan, the manor aforesaid, as of the honour of Tremeton, in the hands of Queen Isabella, and that he held divers lands of other lords by various services by fine levied in the king's court, and that the manor and the lands ought to remain after his death to William his son and to the heirs of his body by virtue of the fine aforesaid, and that William is aged sixteen years.

To the sherifE of INTorfolk and Suffolk. Order to deliver to John filz Simond all his lands, goods and chattels, which the king lately ordered to be taken into his hands by reason of certain trespasses, excesses, and dis- obediences committed against him by John, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king has rendered them to John of his special grace. By K.

To Eoger de Chaundoys, sheriff of Hereford, keeper of the king's land of Gloumorgan and Morgannou. Order to permit William la Zcusche de Mortuo Mari and Eleanor his wife to take away and make their profit of their goods and chattels in the said land, and to levy their debts and arrears of their ferms, and to dispose and ordain of wardships and marriages without hindrance, and to restore to them any of the goods, chattels, ward- ships and marriages, and debts that may have been taken into the king's hands or levied, and to aid and counsel them in levying the debts and arrears, as it was not the king's intention, when he ordered Roger to take the land into his hands because William and Eleanor had granted it to him, that Roger should intermeddle with their goods and chattels or with the debts and arrears that were owing to them before their grant to the king, or with the wardships and marriages that fell to them before the grant.

By K. The like to the following :

The sheriff of Worcester concerning the manor of Hanla. By K.

The sheriff of Gloucester concerning the manor of Teukesbery. By K.

Feb. 13. To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to

The Tower. Benedicta, late the wife of John de Shelvyng, a rent of 40s. in Weveringge, together wilh the issues theieof, taking her fealty therefor, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held the rent jointly with Benedicta, to him and Benedicta's heirs, of the king in chief by the service of finding him in his army of Wales a horse with a sack and of carrying a spit {broch'), price Qs. id., for his scullery {esquiler'), and that John held no lands in chief at his death as of the crown by reason whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.

Jan. 26. To the .sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause the houses within

Eltham. Winchester castle to be reiiaired without delay for the king's stay there, as the king has disposed to hold a parliament (colloquium) and treaty at Win- chester on Sunday before St. Gregory the Pope, and has ordained to stay in the castle during the parliament.

CALENDAR OF CLOSE BOLLS,

1330.

Feb. 18. Westminster.

March 6.

Winchester.

March 10. Winchester.

March 8. Winchester.

March 10. Winchester.

March 12. Winchester.

March 10.

Winchester.

April 2. Woodstock .

Membrane 41 — cont.

To the sheriff of Berkshire. Or.ler to cause William de Sanota Elena to have seisin of 24.. of re..t of the 100.. of rent in Abyndon that John le Spicer of Abyndon, who was outlawed for felony held of nim, as be lung felrns by inquisition taken by John de Buklond, ate sheriff of that county, that two messuajies and the 100.. of rent aforesaid in Abyndon, which the said John le Spicer held, have been in the king's hands for a y^ar «"<? ^ day, and that John held 24.. of the rent of the said Wilhain, and that William now holds the said 24.. of rent, and that he had the king s year and day thereof, and that he ought to answei- to the king therefor.

To Simon do Boreford, escheatnr this side Trent. Order not to inter- meddle further with the lands of William le Spencer, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that William held at his death no lands of the king in chief by reason whereot the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king.

To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with the following lands of James de Norton, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that James at his death held no lands ot the king in fee, but that he held a third of the manor of Selton and a third of the manor of Fissherton near Wyly by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of Elizabeth, sometime his wife, and that the third of the manor of Selton is held of Queen Isabella as of the honour of Ciistchurche by tbe service of a third of a knight's fee, and the third of the manor o* Eissh- erton of Hugh de Poyns by knight service, and that he held for hfe the manor of Norton by fine levied in the late king's court, so that it should remain after his death to Thomas de Norton liis son, and to the heirs male of Thomas's body, and that it is held of Hugh de Braybeof by knight service.

To the same. Order to deliver to William de Walkyngton all his lands, goods and chattels, which the king lately ordered to be taken into his hands for certain trespasses, excesses, and disobediences, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king has rendered them to William of his special grace.

To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John de Irlaund, whom the king has amoved from ofiice because he understands that he is incapacitated by illness.

To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to he elected in place of William de Thurgarton, deceased.

Asolia Bonde of Fighlyngdales, imprisoned at Wliiteby for the death of Eogev Bonde, has letters to the sheriff of York to bail her until the first assize.

To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order to assign dower to Juliana, late the wife of Eoger de Melbury, tenant by knight service of the heir of John de Sancto Johanne, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence, in the presence of Thomas West, to whom the king has committed the custody of two parts of her said husband's lands, if he choose to be present.

To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be elected in place of John Stevenes, deceased.

To the bailiffs of Basyngstok. John Hodinull* has shewn the king that whereas the men of the town of Basyngstok hold that town of the king at fee-ferm for 80/. yearly, and elect bailiffs from themselves yearly, who hold the king's courts and exercise other things and do what pertains to justice in that town, and he impleads be!bre the bailiffs in tlie court of the town Philip Marmyon, the elder, by the king's little writ of right, according to

* Called HodetiL'ill in the privy seal.

4 EDWARD in.

1330. Membrane 41 — cont.

the custom of the manor of Basyngstuk, concerning a messuage, a virgate of laud, anil 24 acres of wood in Upnatelegliesestthorp, which plea still pends before them unilecided, the bailiffs have deferred proceeding in the plea because the king's writ was directed to the bailiffs of Edmund, late earl of Kent, at Basyngstok, which Edmund had naught in the said town esc 'pt the aforesaid ferm, which was assigned to him for life by the late king, and which has now come to the king by his death, wherefore John has besought the king to provide a remedy : the king therefore orders the bailiffs to pro- ceed in the said plea without delay, notwithstanding the cause aforesaid.

By p.s. [3402.]

Membrane 40.

Jan. 26. To John Mantravers, keeper of ihe Forest this side Trent. Whereas the

Eltham. hite king by his letters patent, which the king has inspected, granted to the prior and canons of Ivychurch (inonasterio Ederoso) 100.?. yearly of alms, to be received from his manor of Claryndon by the hands of his bailiffs, ia aid of the lighting {liiininaris) of that monastery; and the king after- wards, upon learning from the prior, by petition before him and his council, that the rent had been detained from them for some time, ordered tlie keeper of the manor to pay the said rent to the prior in aid of the lights out of the issues of the manor before all other payments, either from agistments, or from other profits, rents, or issues of the manor, or to signify why he had not obeyod the king's orders previously sent; and Giles de Bello Campo, keeper of the manoi', has returned that there are no issues of the manor out of which he can make the aforesaid payment except 41. of rent of assize and the agistments of cattle {averiorum) that used to be made in the park of Claryndon, extended before William la Zousch, late justice of the Forest this side Trent, in tlie king's presence at 10/. yearly, which issues, rents and profits the keepers of tlie manor have heretofore always been wont to receive and have, without diminution and without making any payment thence, for the custody of the manor, park, and forest, and that the king iti the parliament at New Sarum prohibited the making of such agistments in the park, in order to have more ample pasture for his deer {ferancm) in the park, and he assigned the said payment of 10/. to be made to Giles by the hands of the justice, in recompence for the said agistments, from the sale of wood of the forest, to be made yearly towards (super) the repair of the enclosure of the park, and that the prior and canons have not received and had the said 100.S. yearly by the hands of any keeper or bailiff of that manor from the issues, rents, or profits of the manor and forest, or from the sale of underwood made by the king's special order : (he king, wishing that the payment shall be made to the prior, considering that the grant thereof was made to holy church for the honour of God to endure for all time, orders the aforesaid John to cause the arrears of the said sum to be paid to the prior, and to pay that sum to him henceforth from the sale of such under- wood in the forest now made or to be made for this cause. By K.

Feb. 22. To the sheriffs of London. Order to release Thomas de Tyverton and

Windsor. Ilugh Dalby, lately in the company of Eleanor la Despenser, from prison,

and to permit them to go whither they wish, notwithstanding the king's laie

order to arrest and imprison them until further orders. By K.

Feb. 17. To the escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle in anywise with

The Tower, the manor of Tackele and other lands in co. Essex of the abbot and monks of

St. Yalery in Picardy, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator

that the abbot and monks were enfeoffed of the manor and lands in frank-

aliuoin without doing any service therefor, of the gift and by charter of Henry,

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Feb. 26. Guildford,

¥eh. 28. GuUdford.

Membrane 40 — cont. king of England, which charter Henry III. afterwards confirmed, and that tlie manor and lands were not taken or seised into the hands of any of the king's progenitors after the death of any abbot of that place, and that the king's progenitors have not received any issues or profits thereof, and it appears by certificate of the treasurer and barons sent in to the chancery that it was not found upon searching the rolls of the exchequer that the manor or other lands of the abbot in that county were taken into the hands of any of the king's progenitors in times of voidance of the abbey, or that any of the king's progenitors received any issues or profits by reason of such voidances. Et erat patens.

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to send some suitable person from the exchequer to supervise the estate of each of the men of the bishopric of Durham and of Richemundshir and of cos. Cum- berland and Westmoreland, who are indebted to the king for victuals bought from him and from the late king, which person shall attermine the debts according to his discretion, having consideration and advisement as to the damages and grievances that each of the men received through the frequent comings of the Scots, so that they may be able to make the payments without grievance and without impoverishment of their estate, receiving from them security for payment of the debts, certifying the treasurer and barons of the terms and securities, which they are to cause to be enrolled in the exchequer in dueform, as the said men liave besought the king to shew them favour concerning these debts. By p.s. [3270.]

To Simon de Bereford, eseheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Agnts, late the wife of Thomas Bardolf, tenant in chief, the following of her husband's lands, which the king has assigned to her as dower : the manor of Ryskyngton, with the members of Lesyngham and Digeby and otlier appurtenances, in co. Lincoln, of the yearly value of 26/. \0s. Z\d. ; the manor of Westburgh, in the same county, of the yearly value of 25Z. 18*. \0{d. ; the manor of Watton, with certain lands in the hamlet of Stapelford, co. Hertford, of the yearly value of 8/. 17*. S^rf. ; certain lands in Adynton, co. Surrey, of the yearly value of 61. 18*. Ad. ; the manor of Halghton, CO. Leicester, of the yearly value of 8/. hs. Od. ; certain lands in Edelmeton, co. Middlesex, of the yeaily value of 25s.; and 100*. of yearly rent from certain tenants in the town of Empuesworth, co. Southampton ; \d. of yearly rent from the manor of Gretham, in the same county; and 38*. \\d. of yearly rent from certain tenants in Wendovre, Huccoie, and Bledelowe, co. Buckingham: en condition that «he pay to the king or to him to whom he shall commit the custody of two-thirds of her husband's lands 4*. Id. yearly during the heir's minority, and that she pay that sum to the heir after he come of age, being the excess in value of her dower.

To the same. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Agnes the following of her aforesaid husband's knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her as dower: a fee in Wrennyngham, co. Norfolk, which Robert de Thorp, knight, holds, of the yearly value of 100*. ; a quarter of a fee in Derham, in the same county, which quarter the heirs of John de Bradecroft and Thomas Corlu hold, of the yearly value of 30*.; a fee in Thorplond, Uayton and Walyngton, in the same county, which Geoffrey de E«ton holds of the yearly value of 60*. ; a fee in Watlyngton, Foston, Wallyng- ton, Secheche and Herdewyk, in the same county, which Benedict Bussel, the prioress of Blakehergh, Edmund de Mounpyncon, and the tenants of ):!;X"?. li l',''''^' °^ ^^^ yearly value of 100*.; "a fee in Watlyngton and

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value of 5Qs, ; a fee in Kyngested, in the same county, wliich the said Rogei- holds, of the yearly value of \00s. ; a fee in Certon, Mateshalbergh, and Bichamwell, in the same county, which John Lovel holds, of the yearly value of 6/. ; two fees in Fordham, Rokesham, Barshale, and Cislerne, in the same county, which Nicholas son of Nicholas de Stradesete holds, of the yearly value of 10^. ; a fee in Loxham, Dunham, and Keineston, in the same county, which Alan le Rons holds, of the yearly value of 60*.; a fee in Bokeswell and Fransham, which the prior of Penteneye holds, of the yearly value of 100s. ; a quarter of a fee in Holkham, in the same county, which quarter William Wake holds, of the yearly value of 25s. ; two fees in Langele, in the same county, which John de Claverynge holds, of the yearly value of 20/. ; two fees in Narburgh, in the same county, which William de Narburgh holds, of the yearly value of 20/. ; two fees in Elsam, Ketelby, Glaunfordbrigg, and Wraghby, co. Lincoln, which Richard de Boselyngthorp, Walter de Persay, and Robert Breton of Elsam hold, of the yearly value of 20/.; a moiety of a fee in Brynkel, in the same county, which moiety William Breton holds, of the yearly value of 5 marks ; a moiety of a fee in Claypol, inthe same county, which moiety Ed [mund] Cre-ssy holds, of the yearly value of 100s. ; an eighth of a fee in Stubton and Claypol, in the same county, which eighth Matilda Malet, Henry de Teuton, and Richard Moit hold, of the yearly value of 20s. ; an eighth of a fee in Westburgh, in the same county, which eighth Geofirey Knyght holds, of the yearlj' value of 10s.; a moiety of a fee in Duniieshy and Brauncewell, in the same county, which moiety William de Mortuo Mari holds, of the yearly value of 5 marks ; 1^ fees in Diryngton and Amewyk, in the same county, which John Diseny of Diryngton, John Rivelyng, and John de Hightyngton hold, of the yearly value of 10 marks ; a moiety of a fee in Diggeby and Brauncewell, in the same county, which moiety Robert de Tilton of Diggeby holds, of the yearly value of 5 marks ; a moiety of a fee in Diggeby, in the same county, which moiety William son of Robert de la Bourhall of Diggeby holds, of the yearly value of 40s. ; a twelfth of a fee in Riskyngton, in the same county, which twelfth Thomas son of Martin Nichol holds, of the yearly value of 3s. ; a moiety of a fee in Brauncewell and Amewyk, in the same county, which moiety John de Amewyk holds, of the yearly value of 30s.

To the same. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Agnes the following of her husband's advowsons, which the king has assigned to her as dower : the advowson of the church of St. Martin, Fyncham, co. Norfolk, of the yearly value of 100s. ; the advowson of a moiety of the church of Ryskyngton, CO. Lincoln, of the yearly value of 20s. ; the advowson of a moiety of the church of Westburgh, in the same county, of the yearly value of 20s. ; the advowson of the church of Bradewelle, co. Essex, of the yearly value of 30/.

Jan. 25. To the sheriff of Southampton. Whereas the king — at the frequent

Eltham. complaints of Roger de la Hume and Richard de CockhuU of Southampton and of other merchants of that town and of the town of Great Yarmouth and elsewhere in the realm, suggesting that certain malefactors of France, Normandy, and Poitou had assembled in great number, and had attacked in warUke manner the said merchants, who had gone in their ships to the ports of Bune in Poitou and of Lene in Normandy to exercise their mer- chandise there, and had slain {sic) the said merchants, burnt their ships, and taken and carried away their goods and chattels found in the ships to a considerable value — ordered the sheriff to cause all goods and chattels and debts of the men and merchants of the said lands in his bailiwick to be arrested and kept safely until the king should otherwise ordain, aud the sheriff caused 90 tuns of white wine of certain merchants of France to be

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arrested in a ship of Biddwin Folron of Dordreebt {Bardragh') ; and the king afterwards ciiused tliem to be delivered to Roger and Ricbard upon their finding security before the sheriff to answer to the liing at his order for the wine or for its price when he should summon them to do so ; and the king, upon learning from Roger and Richard that Ricbard de la Pole, bis butler, caused a custom of 2s. for each tun of the wine to be exacted from tbsm for the king's use, and that he disquieted them concerning the tame, ordered the said Ricbard to supersede until otherwise ordered the exaciion of the said custom, upon Roger and Ricbard finding security to answer to the king for Ibe custom if it ouglit to pertain to him; and Roger and ]vicbavd de Cockbull have given the king to understand that Richard de la Pole has refused to receive such security from them for the custom, but distrains and molests them therefor as before : the king, because it was lately agreed, at Amiens, between Philip, king of France, and bis councillors and the king and bis councillors that certain persons should be appointed by the king of France to make enquiry and do justice to those complaining of damages, wrongs, and trespasses committed upon the king's men within the power of ibe king of France during the five preceding years, and that the king should appoint men for the same purpose to enquire and do justice concerning wrongs, etc., committed upon men of the king of France in this realm, and he wishes to put the agreement into execution, orders the sheriff to cause to be released until otherwise ordered any disti'aint that Ricbard de la Pole may liave made upon Roger aud Richard in Southampton or elsewhere in the sheriff's bailiwick for the aforesaid custom, taking security from Roger and Ricbard to answer to