28 Oct. Westminster. Concerning a pardon for the abbot of Westminster. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has pardoned to the abbot of Westminster the 100 m. at which he was amerced before the justices of the Bench for an assize of darrein presentment against the abbot of Pershore, for a false claim in a grand assize against the same abbot before the justices at Worcester, for a false claim against Richard de Muscegros and William [de] Sausmarez, for disseisin against Walter Tresbell, and unjust detention against William, son of William Not, and for a false claim against William de Beauchamp. The king has also pardoned to the same abbot of Westminster the £10 at which he was amerced for false claim against Fulk Basset, dean of York. Order to cause the same abbot of Westminster to be quit from the aforesaid 100 m. and the aforesaid £10.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

29 Oct. Westminster. For Roger, son of Henry de Croft. The king has taken the homage of Roger, son and heir of Henry de Croft, for the lands that Henry held of the king in chief and that fall to Roger by inheritance. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster that, having taken security from him for 10s. for his relief, he is to cause him to have seisin of the lands formerly of the same Henry, of which he died seised as of fee.

a.

There is an early fourteenth-century (1310–40) membrane containing extracts of fines from 13 and 14 Edward I sewn to the first membrane of this originalia roll (E 371/11), possibly as a wrapper for it.

b.

The entries on the first membrane of the originalia roll, E 371/11 are both faded and truncated by damage to both edges of the membrane.

2 Nov. Westminster. For Thomas of Poynings. The king has granted to Thomas of Poynings that he is to render 12½ m. at Hilary in the twenty-eighth year and 12½ m. at the Close of Easter in the same year for the 25 m. he owes to him by reason of a novel disseisin that he made together with Robert Savage for the timber of Broadwater. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning corn which is to be sold. Order to the keeper of the bishopric of London that, notwithstanding the king’s order that he made to him for selling the corn of the aforesaid bishopric, he is to retain all the oats to the king’s use and to sell the other corn.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

4 Nov. Croydon. Concerning monies that are to be paid. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to cause William de Cumton’, now keeper of Bardney abbey, to have the £14 9s. that he received from the kitchen of the same abbey whilst it was in his custody, so that he answers to the king for them at the Exchequer together with the other issues of the aforesaid abbey.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

5 Nov. Otford. Because in the Close Roll. To Edward son of Odo. Order, as he loves the king and his honour, to omit in no manner to come to the king on Friday or Saturday in the morning at Faversham and to bring with him to the king’s use a certain necklace of gold with precious stones valued 30 m., another necklace of gold similarly with precious stones valued 20 m., and a third necklace of weight (de pondere) valued 6 m, on condition, then, that he does not omit, if it shall have been necessary, to spend up to 80 m. in buying these three necklaces. He is also to buy to the king’s use, and to bring with him, a case-box of medium quality samite, providing that the orphreys of the same case-box should be wide, and the king will cause the value of the same necklaces and case-box to be rendered at once to the keepers of the archbishopric of Canterbury. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because in the Close Roll. See CR 1243–47, p. 133.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Because in the Close Roll. Order to the constable of St. Briavels, in divers bailiwicks of the Forest of Dean, to cause the Friars Preacher of Gloucester to have 15 oaks as timber with all their escheats towards the fabric of their church and the construction of their houses, wherever they may be taken more profitably and more close by to their use in the aforesaid forest. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because in the Close Roll. See CR 1243–47, p. 133.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Because in the Close Roll. Order to the constable of the castle of Dover that if Gascon wine has landed in his parts, he is to cause 20 tuns to be taken to the king’s use, which he is to deliver to the sheriff of Kent to be carried to where it has been provided, namely 16 tuns to Canterbury and four to Faversham, and if the Gascon wine did not land in his parts, then he is to cause 20 tuns of white French wine to be taken and carried to the aforesaid places, namely 16 tuns to Canterbury and four to Faversham. Moreover, similarly, if the new Gascon wine shall not have been found, he is to cause eight tuns of wine from the stock of Dover castle to be reloaded (reccari) and carried to Canterbury together with the aforesaid 20 tuns of French wine. When the king shall have caused the keepers of the aforesaid wines and their cariage to know this, he is to cause those to be rendered [to them]. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because in the Close Roll. See CR 1243–47, p. 134.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Because in the Close Roll. Order to the bailiffs of Canterbury to cause all wine found in the city of Canterbury to be arrested to the king’s use in preparation for his arrival. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because in the Close Roll. See CR 1243–47, p. 133.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning oats that are to be sold. Order to the keepers of the bishopric of London that, notwithstanding the king’s order made to them for retaining the oats of the aforesaid bishopric to the king’s use, they are not to retain them to the king’s use, except a moiety ¹ of the oats of the manor of Fulham and a moiety of the oats of the manor of Stepney, but are to cause the remaining oats to be sold with all the wheat.

1.

‘moiety’ interlined.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

15 Nov. Dover. For Richard Bakesman and wife. The king has taken the homage of Richard Bakesman, who has taken to wife Joan, sister and heiress of Alice, daughter of Warin Doynel, for the lands and tenements which Alice held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire that, having accepted security from Richard and Joan for rendering 1 m. to the king for their relief, he is to cause the same Richard and Joan to have full seisin of all the lands and tenements of which Alice was seised as of fee on the day she died and which fall to Joan by hereditary right.

a.

This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Sussex. Emma, daughter of Remigius de Bosco, gives 1 m. for having four justices. Order to the sheriff of Sussex etc.

a.

This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Kent. William de Muntes gives the king half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take security.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

22 Nov. Westminster. Hampshire. Nicholas Cupping’ gives 5 m. for having a precipe concerning debt against the prior of St. Swithun’s, Winchester. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take etc.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

24 Nov. Westminster. For the archbishop-elect of Canterbury. To the keepers of the archbishopric of Canterbury. Because the king has learnt for certain that the Pope has confirmed the election made of B. of Savoy as archbishop of Canterbury, the king, wishing to do special grace to the same archbishop-elect in matters which pertain to him, has granted him of his special grace seisin of all things pertaining to the aforesaid archbishopric, saving to the king his chattels in the same archbishopric. Order to cause P. bishop of Hereford, as proctor of the aforesaid archbishop-elect, to have full seisin of all things pertaining to the aforesaid archbishopric without delay, as aforesaid.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

This writ will not be placed in the estreats on account of a certain writ that follows below. ¹

1.

See no. 25 below.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

25 Nov. Westminster. For William Longespée. The king has granted to William Longespée that he may render £30 per annum, namely £15 at the Close of Easter in the twenty-eighth year, £15 at Michaelmas in the same year, and £30 thus from year to year at the same terms until all debts are paid to the king, for all debts which he owes him, both the prest of Gascony and other debts that are now found at the Exchequer or which will happen to be found. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William Longespée. Order to the sheriffs of Berkshire and Wiltshire not to distrain the same for the aforesaid debts. ¹

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This entry is squeezed in between other entries.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a distraint that is to be made. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire to distrain she who was the wife of John son of Phillip by her lands and chattels, in all manners that he is able, to render to the king the son and heir of the same John whom W. de Ferrers, earl of Derby, has committed to her, as she says, and to send him safely to the king. He is also to distrain John Lestrange by his lands and chattels to be before the barons of the Exchequer on the morrow of Hilary to render his account for the issues of the lands formerly of the abovesaid John for the time when he had the custody of the same lands.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Suffolk. The prior of Hatfield Peverel gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Concerning a distraint that is to be made. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to distrain N. bishop of Durham by his lands in his bailiwick to surrender custody of the manor of Greatham to the king, which the king deforces and which belongs to the king because the aforesaid manor is of the barony that Roger Bertram held of the king in chief, which is in the king’s custody.

a.

This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

26 Nov. Westminster. For Roger of Calstone. Because it is considered in the king’s court that Roger of Calstone, son and heir of Walter of Calstone, is of full age with regard to socage, order to the sheriff of Wiltshire that, having accepted security from Roger for 50s. to the king’s use for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all the land which Walter, ¹ his father, held of the king in chief in socage and of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which is in the custody of his mother. By P. Peyvre.

1.

Corrected from ‘Roger’.

a.

This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

[No date]. For Reginald de Mohun. Reginald de Mohun gives the king 100 m. because he has remitted his anger towards him.

[No date]. For William de Ros. The king has remitted his anger towards William de Ros and he gives the king 100 m.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1 also have ‘Yorkshire’.

For the archbishop-elect of Canterbury. Order to B. de Criel and Jeremy of Caxton to cause all corn and all stock of the archbishopric of Canterbury, namely oxen and horses for plough-teams and other animals which they have in custody, to be valued by trustworthy and law-worthy men, and when they shall have caused all the aforesaid, both corn and stock, to be valued, they are to deliver them to P. bishop of Hereford, proctor of the archbishop-elect of Canterbury, at that value.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

For John of Jersey. The king has given respite to John of Jersey, until Hilary in the twenty-eighth year, from the 50 m. which he ought to have rendered to him at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-seventh year and from another 50 m. which he ought to have rendered at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following of a fine of 300 m. that he made with him for the custody of a moiety of the land and one of the heiresses of John Danish. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Derbyshire. Gilbert de Barewe gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Derbyshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire etc.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Concerning 500 m. William bishop of Exeter gives the king 500 m. for having his confirmation of the chapelry of Bosham and the manors of Chidham, Farringdon and Horsley, as appears in the principal Charter Roll of the twenty-eighth year. ¹ He will render 50 m. of the aforesaid 500 m. at Easter in the twenty-eighth year, 50 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 100 m. thus from year to the year at the same terms until the aforesaid 500 m. are paid to the king.

1.

See CChR 1226–57, p. 276.

a.

This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

29 Nov. Westminster. Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to John de Plessetis and Margaret, his wife, sister and heiress of Thomas, formerly earl of Warwick, 200 m. of the debts which the abovesaid earl owed to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit from the aforesaid 200 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Robert, parson of Onehouse, gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

30 Nov. Westminster. For the chapter of Evreux. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk that, together with the proctor of the chapter of Evreux, he is to hand over the manor of Bramford at farm to the trustworthy men of the same manor, having accepted security from them that they will answer the king for a moiety of the farm of the same manor which belongs to the bishop of Evreux and to the proctor of the aforementioned chapter for the other moiety to the use of the same chapter. He is to do similarly concerning all the issues of the same manor from the time when the church of Evreux was made vacant by the death of the aforesaid bishop.

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This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane. It is also heavily abridged to read: ‘The men of the manor of Bramford ought to answer for a moiety of the farm of the same manor which … chapter of Evreux by the death of the bishop of the same place. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security etc.’

2 Dec. Westminster. Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned Peter of Legbourne 15 m. of the 20 m. at which he was amerced before the justices of the Bench. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit of the aforesaid 15 m.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Kent. Isaac of Lewes gives the king 20s. for having a writ against Richard of Chilham relating to the county of Kent [before the justices of the Bench] at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

a.

This entry is faded and truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

3 Dec. Westminster. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take into the king’s hand all manors of the bishop of Norwich in his bailiwick and to commit them to abbot of St. Benet of Hulme and the prior of the monks of Thetford to be kept to the king’s use.

a.

This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to John fitz Geoffrey 50 m. of the 100 m. which he owes him for the arrears of the farm of Aylesbury ¹ and other debts besides other debts which he owes to the king and for which he renders £10 per annum at the Exchequer. The king has granted him that he is to render the other 50 m. to him in the aforesaid fine, so that the aforesaid fine shall not increase by reason of the aforesaid 50 m. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 50 m., permitting him to render the remaining 50 m. to the king as aforesaid. By Robert Passelewe.

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‘of Aylesbury’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

5 Dec. Westminster. For Guy de Roussillon. The king has granted to Guy de Roussillon all lands formerly of Peter de Maulay, to have at farm until the lawful age of the heirs of the same Peter for 500 m., of which Guy will have 200 m. therefrom each year in place of the 200 m. he was accustomed to take per annum at the Exchequer, and he will pay the remaining 300 m. to the king at the Exchequer at two terms, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-eighth year ¹ and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and thus from year to year at the same terms for as long as the aforesaid lands are in the Guy’s hand, on condition that, however, he will keep the castle of Mulgrave at his own expense and all the houses in those lands in a good state, and he will make no sale of woods or destruction of men or fish-ponds, saving to the king the wardships, escheats, marriages and reliefs arising from those lands, and the advowsons of churches. Order to Gerard la Grue to cause Guy to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of the aforesaid Peter which are in his custody, and Gerard is to come to the king without delay or send another in his place who shall have full power to surrender to the king the castle of Mulgrave.

1.

‘in the twenty-eighth year’ interlined.

a.

This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

For Guy de Roussillon. He has letters patent for this.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Guy de Roussillon. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire that if the aforesaid Gerard shall not have caused the same G. to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands, the same sheriff is to cause the same G. or his certain messenger bearing the king’s letters to have seisin of the aforesaid lands.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

9 Dec. Kempton. For Phillip Basset. Order to William son of Richard to cause to be valued by the oath of trustworthy and law-worthy men the oxen formerly of Matilda de Lucy in Chipping Ongar which the king caused to be bought after Matilda’s death to his use from her executors, and to demise those by the same value at which they shall have been valued to Phillip Basset, having accepted security from him for the aforementioned value, so that he is able to answer for them to the king at the Exchequer upon his account. By Robert Passelewe.

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This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

14 Dec. Windsor. Concerning selling the corn of the bishopric of Winchester. Because the writ was surrendered. To the keepers of the bishopric of Winchester. Order to cause to be sold, by the hands of Richard Wastehus’ and Godfrey of Clere, all the king’s corn of every single manor of the bishopric of Winchester, saving the seed for sowing the demesnes lands of the same bishopric and saving the maintenance of the livestock and the liveries of the sergeants of every single manor until Easter, providing that the abovesaid Richard and Godfrey answer them together with the sergeants of every single manor for the monies received for the aforesaid corn at the Exchequer of Wolvesey. ¹ By Paulinus Peyvre.

1.

‘at the Exchequer of Wolvesey’ interlined. Entry cancelled because the writ was surrendered.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

15 Dec. Windsor. Concerning taking the manor of Poulton into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take the manor of Poulton, formerly of Gwenllian Teg, into the king’s hand, and to keep it safely until he shall have had a command from the king otherwise.

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This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Concerning taking the manor of Poulton into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

14 Dec. Windsor. For Maurice of Berkeley. The king has taken the homage of Maurice of Berkeley, son and heir of Thomas of Berkeley, for all lands which Thomas held of the king. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire that, having accepted security from Maurice for rendering £100 to the king for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands that Thomas held of the king in chief in his bailiwick and of which he was seised in demesne as of fee on the day he died.

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This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

17 Dec. Windsor. Concerning the manor of Glatton. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to take the manor of Glatton into the king’s hand and keep it safely until he has command from the king otherwise.

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This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

19 Dec. Windsor. For Patrick de Chaworth and his wife. Patrick de Chaworth and Hawise, his wife, have made fine with the king by 100 m., of which they are to render 50 m. at Easter in the twenty-eighth year and 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, for having seisin of the land of Kidwelly which falls to Hawise by inheritance. Order to John of Monmouth to cause Patrick and Hawise to have full seisin of the aforesaid land, because the sheriff of Gloucestershire is commanded to accept security from them for rendering the aforesaid 100 m. to the king, as aforesaid.

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This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

26 Dec. Wallingford. Yorkshire. Geoffrey of Upsall gives 1 m. for having a writ of entry against the abbot of Byland [removed] from the county court of Yorkshire to Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

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This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Wallingford. Ireland. Order to M. fitz Gerald, justiciar of Ireland, to cause Henry le Bret to have at farm the land formerly of Richard ¹ Marsh, who is in the king’s prison of Chester because, as was said, he had been of the confederacy (societate) of William Marsh, so that each year he is to render to the king for the same land as much as any other would wish to give for it until he has command from the king otherwise.

1.

Corrected from ‘Fulk’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

27 Dec. Reading. Devon. Geoffrey de Lisle gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Devon to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

Gloucestershire. Roger de Somery gives 3 m. for having a writ [to remove a plea] from the county court of Gloucestershire before the king (coram rege) against Maurice of Berkeley to show why by force and arms (quare vi et armis) etc. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire etc.

Lincolnshire. Gilbert Selvein gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] against Alexander of Brauncewell from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

28 Dec. Reading. Devon. Alvred Attesone Stone, Reginald de Echeston’, Robert le Fleming and other men of the manor of Langford Barton give 5 m. for summoning William del Estre of the county of Devon to Westminster to show why he exacts from the aforesaid men other customs and services then they ought and are accustomed to do from the times when the aforesaid manor was in the hands of the king’s predecessors, kings of England. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. ¹

1.

There is a small circle in the margin beside this entry.

a.

This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

Yorkshire. Because he will render it in the Wardrobe by the pledge of John Mansel. William de Vescy gives 5 m. for having judgement before the king (coram Rege) concerning a certain assize of mort d’ancestor which has been summoned before Henry of Bath in the county of Yorkshire between Gerard, son of Gerard de Furnival, demandant, and the prior of Old Malton, claimant, concerning two carucates of land in Swanland, Braffords and North Ferriby. Order to the aforesaid Henry to take etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he will render it in the Wardrobe by the pledge of John Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the Earl Marshal. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to place in respite, until 15 days from Hilary, the distraints which by writ of the Exchequer he ordered to be made upon W. Earl Marshal for the debts which he owes to the king. If he has taken the chattels of the same earl for this reason, he is to deliver them in the meantime.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the Earl Marshal. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Sussex and Lincolnshire.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Lincolnshire. Hugh son of Ralph gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

29 Dec. Reading. Concerning a pardon for Thomas Grelley. The king has pardoned to Thomas Grelley 20 m. of the 120 m. which he owed to Aaron, Jew of York, and the king has retained the remaining 100 m. to his use, which Thomas Grelley will render to the king at the Exchequer at the below-written terms, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-eighth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Thomas to be quit from the aforesaid 20 m. and to have the abovesaid terms for the aforesaid 100 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a pardon for Thomas Grelley. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause his charter which the aforesaid Jew has concerning the aforesaid debt to be rendered to the same Thomas Grelley and, moreover, to cause a starr of the same Jew to be made for him. ¹

1.

A ‘starr’ was a Jewish deed or bond.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a toll that is to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland to retain in the king’s hand the toll on herrings newly coming into the city of Carlisle until he has command from the king otherwise.

a.

This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Avice, daughter of Gernegan son of Hugh, gives the king 5 m. for having confirmation of a charter of King Henry, grandfather of the king, concerning having warren in certain of her lands in Yorkshire, as appears in the Charter Roll for the twenty-eighth year etc. ¹

1.

See CChR 1226–57, p. 276.

[No date]. For Robert of Tattershall and Roger de Mohaut. Robert of Tattershall and Roger de Mohaut give the king three palfreys for making a partition between them of the lands formerly of the sometime earl of Arundel [which] fall to them as inheritance. ¹

1.

Although there are no obvious marks of cancellation, this entry appears to be unfinished.

a.

This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

b.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, have ‘Norfolk’.

1 Jan. Windsor. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland ¹ to take into the king’s hand the lands of John Vicecomes in his bailiwick for the debts in which he was bound to Leo, Jew of York, whose debts the king has taken into his hand to his use.

1.

Corrected from ‘Yorkshire’.

a.

This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

b.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, have ‘The sheriff received nothing.’

Order to the same sheriff not to permit the same John to make any sale or alienation of the barony which he holds of the king in chief.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

2 Jan. Windsor. Sussex. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to render to Geoffrey de Langley, so that he answers for them at the Exchequer, those 20 m. which H., formerly earl of Arundel, was accustomed to receive by the hand of the same sheriff ¹ from that county under the name of the earl of Sussex.

1.

‘by the hand of the same sheriff’ interlined.

a.

This entry is truncated in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, by damage to both edges of the membrane.

7 Jan. Westminster. Concerning a pardon for S. de Montfort. The king has pardoned to Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, and Eleanor, his wife, sister of the king, £1000 of the debts of the same earl and the debts of the abovesaid countess from the time of her widowhood. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the abovesaid earl and countess to be quit from the aforesaid £1000. By John Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

11 Jan. Westminster. For Agnes of Mansbridge. The king has taken the homage of Agnes, sister and one of the heiresses of John of Mansbridge, for the lands and tenements which John held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire that, having accepted security from Agnes for rendering 20s. to the king for her relief, he is to cause her to have seisin of half of all the lands and tenements which John held of the king in chief and of which he was seised as of fee on the day he died, together with the chief messuage, by reason of the esnecy of the aforesaid inheritance, having retained in the king’s hand the other moiety of the aforesaid inheritance until Juliana, cousin of the same Agnes and the other heiress of the aforesaid John, shall come to the king and do to the king what of right is to be done for the portion of the aforesaid inheritance falling to her.

20 Jan. Canterbury. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order, immediately after having viewed these letters, to take into the king’s hand all lands of those who are of the power of the king of France, whoever they are, excepting men of religion. He is also to inquire diligently by the oath of trustworthy and law-worthy men of his bailiwick by whom the truth might be better known if those who had such lands in his bailiwick sold them, or alienated them in another manner, or committed them fraudulently to men of religion or to any other, so that they thus fraudently and secretly received the fruits or farm thereof, and he is similarly to take those into the king’s hand. He is also to make inquisition diligently as to whether there are concealed escheats or marriages in his bailiwick which ought to pertain to the king and whether any alienation has been made in his same bailiwick of the king’s sergeanties that are held of the king in chief without the king’s will and confirmation, and he is to take into the king’s hand both all escheats and marriages aforesaid pertaining to the king and the aforesaid lands alienated thus from his sergeanties. He is also to certify the king distinctly and openly under his seal and the seals of those by whom the foregoing has been inquired about all the foregoing, and how much each land so taken into the king’s hand is worth, and of whom the aforesaid lands [were held], the names of the vills in which the aforesaid lands are, and what chattels have been found in each of the lands, sending this writ to the king with the abovesaid inquisition. He is to know for certain that if anything should be omitted in the execution of the foregoing, of which he and the inquisitors might be convicted, the king will betake himself to him in such a manner that the example of their punishment will inspire perpetual terror in all those hearing about it. He is to cause the corn, plough-beasts, stock and all moveables found in the aforesaid lands to be recorded before the bailiffs or keepers of each of the lands, and he is to commit them to four law-worthy and discreet men of each of the vills to keep, so that nothing is removed therefrom without the king’s special order.

It is written in the same manner to all the sheriffs of England except the sheriff of Cornwall.

For the citizens of Canterbury. The citizens of Canterbury have made fine with the king by 50 m. for a trespass which they made concerning a merchant who they seized and imprisoned, and for another trespass which they made in buying whalebone without the king’s licence, so that William Jay is to be quit of contributing to it. Order to the sheriff of Kent that, having accepted security from the aforesaid citizens for rendering the aforesaid 50 m. to the king, he is to cause the same citizens to have the city of Canterbury, which the king took into his hand for this reason, just as they had it previously.

12 Jan. Rochester. For Robert of Stopham. The king has given respite to Robert of Stopham, until Trinity in the twenty-eighth year, from the 20 m. which he ought to have rendered at the Exchequer of Hilary of the fine of 60 m. that he made with him for having custody of the manor of Allerton Bywater until the legal age of Edmund, son and heir of J., formerly earl of Lincoln. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the men of Rochester. The men of Rochester have made fine with the king by £10 for a trespass which they have made against a clerk of the Emperor, for which their vill was taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Kent that, having accepted security etc. he is to cause them to have their vill just as they previously had it.

[No date]. Norfolk. Simon of Wighton gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Norfolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Berkshire. Phillip of Cumberwell ¹ and Matilda, his wife, give half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] against William of Seacourt from the county court of Berkshire ² to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire etc.

1.

Corrected from ‘Sevekeuurth’.

2.

Corrected from ‘Westminster’.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Roger of Huntingfield gives 1 m. for having a writ against Robert Revel relating to the county of Northamptonshire [before the justices of the Bench] at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Walter of Swineshead gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Bedfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

2 Feb. Reading. For Ralph fitz Nicholas. The king has given respite to Ralph fitz Nicholas, until the quindene of Easter in the twenty-eighth year, from the arrears of the farm of the manor of Great Linford which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to permit him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Ralph fitz Nicholas. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire for having respite from the arrears of the farm of the manor of Crowmarsh Giffard.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Baldwin of Wayford gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Northamptonshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

4 Feb. Reading. For the Earl Marshal. The king has given respite to W. Marshal, earl of Pembroke, until the quindene of Easter ¹ next to come, from the third part of the 40 m. which he ought to render to him of the 40 m. that were awarded to Robert de Greinville for the damages that he sustained by a disseisin which the same earl made against him and which Robert granted to the king in order that he would cause him to have two thirds of the aforesaid 40 m. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to permit him to have this respite, having accepted security from him that he will pay the third part of those 40 m. to the king at the aforesaid term.

1.

‘anno etc.’ is crossed through.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Baldwin Teutonicus gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Yorkshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

5 Feb. Reading. For the earl of Norfolk. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until five weeks from Easter, the demand for scutage from 100 knights which they make by summons of the Exchequer from R. le Bigod, earl of Norfolk.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

6 Feb. Reading. Concerning a pardon for Peter of Savoy. The king has pardoned to Peter of Savoy 1000 m. of the 2000 m. that he received from him as a prest out of the king’s treasure deposited at the Tower of London, and the king has granted him that he is to render 100 m. per annum of the remaining 1000 m., namely 100 m. at Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 100 m. Michaelmas in the twenty-ninth year, and 100 m. thus from year to year at the same term until the aforesaid 1000 m. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 1000 m. and to cause him to have the aforesaid terms for the remaining 1000 m., as aforesaid.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a pardon for Peter de Savoy. He has letters patent concerning this.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Thomas of Berkeley. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause it to be scrutinised by the rolls of the Exchequer in how much debt Thomas of Berkeley was bound to the king, and when they shall have made certain thereof, they are to signify it to the sheriff of Gloucestershire that, having accepted security from the executors of his testament for rendering the aforesaid debts to the king at the Exchequer at Easter in 15 days in the twenty-eighth year, he is to cause the same executors to have full administration of all property and chattels formerly of the same Thomas, which have been taken into the king’s hand for those debts, in order to make execution of his testament.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

6 Feb. Reading. For Richard de Clare. Richard de Clare has made fine with the king for having the oxen, plough-teams, corn and all manner of stock that the king had in the lands formerly in the custody of Richard de la Lade together with the same Richard de Clare, by 1200 m., of which he is to render 400 m. at Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 400 m. at Easter in the twenty-ninth ¹ year and 400 m. at Michaelmas in the same year. Order to Richard de la Lade to cause the same Richard to have the oxen, plough-teams, corn and all manner of the king’s other aforesaid stock, as aforesaid.

1.

Corrected from ‘twenty-fifth’.

8 Feb. Reading. For William Bardolf. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until one month from Easter, the demand for all debts which they make from William Bardolf for the debts of William de Warenne, his grandfather, and of Beatrice, his mother.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Because he did not have it. Peter son of Peter gives 40s. for attaching certain people from the county of Somerset to be before the king (coram Rege) to show why they ejected him by force and arms from the manor of Foxcote. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he did not have it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the heirs of H., formerly earl of Arundel. Order to G. de Langley to deliver three parts of the manor of Waderington’ formerly of H., sometime earl of Arundel, to three of the heirs of the same earl to be divided between the same, having retained in the king’s hand the fourth part of the same manor to the use of John fitz Alan, the fourth heir of the same earl, who is in the king’s custody.

For Alice, who was the wife of Robert le Archer. Alice, who was the wife of Robert le Archer, has made fine with the king by 15 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of the aforesaid Robert until the lawful age of the aforesaid heirs, and that she might marry whom she will wish, of which she is to render a moiety at Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and the other moiety at Easter in the twenty-ninth year. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that, having accepted security for rendering the aforesaid 15 m. to the king, he is to cause her to have seisin of the aforesaid custody, as aforesaid. ¹

1.

This entry is written in a different hand from those surrounding it.

7 Feb. Reading. For W. de Cantilupe. The king has granted to W. de Cantilupe senior that he is to have seisin of the manor of Lydham until one month from Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to permit him to have that seisin.

For W. de Cantilupe. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Wiltshire concerning the manor of Poulton.

For Phillip Marmion. The king has taken the homage of Phillip Marmion, who has taken to wife Joan, the younger daughter and the other heiress of Hugh of Kilpeck, for the rightful share which falls to her of the lands formerly of the aforesaid Hugh her father, and the king has committed the share of the aforesaid lands falling to Isabella, the first-born daughter and other heiress of the same Hugh, to W. de Cantilupe to keep until Isabella shall have come to the king and do what she ought to do for it. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to cause the said land to be partitioned by the oath of trustworthy men, to cause the rightful part falling to Joan to be assigned to Phillip and Joan, his wife, and to cause them to have full seisin thereof, having accepted security from them that they will answer the king for the relief due to the king for this, saving esnecy to the aforementioned Isabella, and he is to cause him to have full seisin of the share falling to the same.

For Warner Engayne. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Warner Engayne to have respite, until one month from Easter, from all debts and demands which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William Red. Order to the same to place in respite, until 15 days from Easter, the demand which is made by summons of the Exchequer from William Red for the time when he was king’s escheator under Peter de Rivallis.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Jews. The king has granted to all the Jews of England that they are not to be distrained for any debts in which they were previously bound to the king until they shall have rendered to the king the 60000 m. which they are to render to him within five years from Trinity in the twenty-eighth year next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

8 Feb. Reading. For Jews. To the barons of the Exchequer. Samuel son of Leo, Jew of York, has made fine with the king by 7000 m. for the relief of the chattels of the aforesaid Leo his father, and for the chattels of his abovesaid father and his own found outside the arches, and so that he may be quit from the tallage of 60000 m. that the king will cause to be assessed upon the Jews of England, which 7000 m. he will render to the king within five years at the same terms at which the king’s abovesaid Jews will render the aforesaid 60000 m., namely at Trinity and at Hilary. Order to cause it to be done and enrolled thus and to cause his chattels and goods to be delivered to him. ¹

1.

This entry, and those down to 103 inclusive, are written in a smaller hand than much of the rest of the membrane.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For Godfrey of Crowcombe. Godfrey of Crowcombe and Joan, his wife, give the king 5 m. for having a writ concerning liberties.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2, also have ‘Wiltshire’.

9 Feb. Wallingford. For Henry Delespeis. The king has taken the homage of Henry Delespeis, nephew and heir of John Delespeis, for the lands which John held of the king in chief in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, as has been testified by Drogo de Barentin and William de Cheyney before the king (coram Rege). Order to the same Drogo, keeper of the same islands, that, having accepted security from the aforesaid Henry for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 1.

b.

This entry and nos. 98 and 99 are entered between nos. 65 and 66 in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1. However, it is uncancelled in its correct position in the chronological sequence.

Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to Ralph de Mirival, his saddler, the 20s. at which he was amerced before the justices who last itinerated in the county of Middlesex. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit therefrom.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 1.

b.

This entry is entered between nos. 65 and 66 in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Sibyl daughter of Ranulf and Katherine, her sister, give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin against Alan son of Brian before Henry of Bath at a time and place he will assign for this, concerning a tenement in Excho in Yorkshire.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 1.

b.

This entry is entered above no. 66 above in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 1, where it is cancelled. However, it is uncancelled in its correct position in the chronological sequence.

10 Feb. Oxford. For W. de Ferrers. The king has granted to W. de Ferrers, earl of Derby, that the fine which he made before the archbishop of York whilst the king was in Gascony for rendering at the Exchequer £50 per annum for all manner of debts he owed to the king, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, is to stand until all of the aforesaid debt is paid. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause it to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Nicholas de Boleville. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Nicholas de Boleville, whom the king has sent as his envoy to parts overseas, to have respite from the 25 m. which he owes him for the corn of Hope until he shall have returned.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

12 Feb. Woodstock. Gloucestershire. William of Durnford gives the king half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] of mesne from the county court of Gloucestershire before the justices of the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire etc.

12 Feb. Woodstock. Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to the prior of Tickford 31 m. of the 62 m. which he owes him for R. Bigod, earl of Norfolk. He has given him respite from the remaining 31 m. until Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 31 m. and to cause him to have the aforesaid respite from the remaining 31 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the sheriff of Oxfordshire. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the morrow of the Close of Easter in the twenty-eighth year, the demand which they make from the sheriff of Oxfordshire for rendering his account to the king for the mill of the castle of Oxford.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Because otherwise in the Close Roll. The king has pardoned to Simon de Montfort and E., the countess, his wife, the £400 which are exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer and which the king mainperned to pay to the same countess for G. Marshal because the king did not distrain him, and the king wishes that W. Marshal, earl of Pembroke, is to render those £400 to the king at the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same earl and countess to be quit therefrom and to exact them from the aforesaid Earl Marshal after the quindene of Easter. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because otherwise in the Close Roll. See CR 1243–47, p. 164.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Robert de St. Amand gives 40s. for having a writ relating to the county of Hertfordshire [removed] to Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire etc.

13 Feb. Woodstock. For Robert de Wendevalle. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to cause Robert de Wendevalle to have all stock which is in the lands that were his in the bailiwick of the same sheriff and that have been taken into the king’s hand, having retained to the king’s use as many and as much of the plough-teams and corn as will be necessary for sowing the lands and for the maintenance of the king’s sergeants until the new grain [is harvested].

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Robert de Wendevalle. All is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Kent.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Robert de Greinville. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire for Robert de Greinville.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

14 Feb. Woodstock For the abbot of Chertsey. The king has given respite to the abbot of Chertsey, until one month from Easter, from the scutages and amercements which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Henry of Necton and Master William Brown. Order to the same to place in respite, until one month from Easter, the demand which they make by summons of the Exchequer from Henry of Necton and Master William Brown for debts and arrears from the time when they were keepers of the bishopric of Durham and of the lands formerly of Earl Warenne and the earl of Lincoln and of the king’s escheats in the province of York.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

15 Feb. Woodstock. For Matilda, who was the wife of John le Mire. Matilda, who was the wife of John le Mire, has made fine with the king by 60 m., of which the king has granted 24 m. to John of Frethorne, for having the custody of the land formerly of the aforesaid John, her former husband, in Lyneham which pertains to the king by reason of the land and heir of J., formerly earl of Lincoln, being in the king’s hand until the lawful age of the heir of the aforesaid John. The king has granted to Matilda that she may render 6 m. of the 36 m. pertaining to the king from the aforesaid fine at Easter in the twenty-eighth year, 10 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, 10 m. at Easter in the twenty-ninth ¹ year, and 10 m. at Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that, having accepted security from Matilda for the aforesaid 36 m. to the king’s use and that she will satisfy the aforesaid John for the aforesaid 24 m., which the king has granted to him of the aforesaid fine, he is to cause her to have full seisin of the aforesaid land.

1.

Corrected from ‘twenty-seventh’

a.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, this entry is written on a schedule attached near to the top of m. 2 along with no. 120.

Concerning dower that is to be assigned. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire ¹ to cause to be assigned to Margery, who was the wife of Nicholas son of Bernard, her rightful dower from the lands and tenements formerly of the aforesaid Nicholas, formerly her husband, in Ellesborough, having retained in the king’s hand two thirds of the same lands until the heir of the aforesaid Nicholas comes of age.

1.

‘Buckinghamshire’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Peter de Geneva and his wife. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to cause the lands formerly of W. de Lacy in the same county to be extended by the oath of trustworthy and law-worthy men of his county and be divided into equal portions, to cause the share which falls therefrom to Peter de Geneva and his wife to be assigned to his certain messenger, and to retain the other portion, which falls to the sister of the wife of the same Peter in the king’s hand.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2, read ‘Concerning partition of lands. They have no lands in Bedfordshire’, the second sentence of which is added by a scribe using a thicker nib reminiscent of that which enrols the Pipe Roll. The entry itself is accompanied by a similar order to the sheriffs of Herefordshire and Shropshire.

b.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2, the following alternative date and place of witness are given: ‘9 Feb, Wallingford’.

9 Feb. Wallingford. Concerning the custody of the bishopric of Chichester. Bernard of Savoy and Simon Passelewe have custody of the bishopric of Chichester.

17 Feb. Woodstock. For Simon of Stonegrave. The king has granted to Simon of Stonegrave that he is to render to the king 10 m. per annum of the debts which he owes him, of which he first rendered 10 m. per annum to him and afterwards, for a certain trespass on account of which the king was moved against him, he rendered 30 m. per annum for the same debts, at the same terms at which he first used to render 10 m. to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause thus to be done and upheld thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Benedict Dod of Northampton. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite, until one month from Easter, the demand for 50 m. which he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Benedict Dod of Northampton, so that it may be inquired then by the king’s council whether he ought to be quit therefrom or not.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For the men of Brill. The men of Brill give 2 m. for having a writ of inquiry.

a.

This entry comes between nos. 106 and 114 in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2.

19 Feb. Woodstock For the Earl Marshal. The king has given respite to W. Marshal, earl of Pembroke, until 15 days from Easter, from all the debts which he owes him that are not attermined. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the heirs of Roger of Burwardsley. The king renders to Mabel, Alice, and Margery, sisters and heirs of Roger of Burwardsley, all the land which Roger held of the king in chief in Ashley, and he has taken their homage for this. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire that, having accepted security from Mabel, Alice, and Margery for rendering 100s. to the king for their relief, he is to cause them to have seisin of the aforesaid land, saving to the aforesaid Mabel, the first-born sister, the esnecy of the aforesaid land.

a.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, this entry is written on a schedule attached near to the top of m. 2 along with no. 112.

b.

Rather than ‘Witness as above’, in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2 (schedule), the alternative date ‘18 Feb’ is given.

Concerning the partition of lands. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to cause the lands formerly of W. de Lacy in the same county to be extended and to be divided into equal shares; and to cause the share falling to Matilda, wife of Peter de Geneva, niece and one of the heirs of the aforesaid Walter, to be assigned to the same Peter and Matilda or to their messenger, and he is to retain the other portion falling to the sister of the same Matilda in the king’s hand and keep it safely until he shall have had command from the king otherwise.

Concerning the partition of lands. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Shropshire.

21 Feb. Woodstock. For William Dod. The king has taken the homage of William Dod, son and heir of Isolda Mussun, for all lands and tenements which Isolda held of the king in chief in Shropshire. Order the sheriff of the same county that, having accepted security from William for rendering half a mark to the king for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements of which William Marshal, who took Isolda to wife, was seised of her inheritance on the day he died and which fall to the same William Dod by hereditary right.

a.

This entry follows no. 115 in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2.

24 Feb. Woodstock. For John of Jersey. The king has granted to John of Jersey that he is to pay 50 m. per annum for the 200 m. that he owes him of a fine of 300 m., for which he ought to have paid 100 m. per annum, which he made with him for having the custody of the land and of Joan, youngest daughter and one of the heirs of John Danish, together with the marriage of the same, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and 50 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 200 m. have been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Great Faringdon. For the executors of P., formerly bishop of Winchester. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until 15 days from Easter, the demand which they make by summons of the Exchequer from the executors of the testament of P., formerly bishop of Winchester, for the debts which the abovesaid bishop owed to the king, because the king had previously given the same day to them to answer for them at the Exchequer.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

26 Feb. Marlborough. For Andrew Wake. The king has taken the homage of Andrew, son and heir of Hawise ¹ Wake, for the lands formerly of the same Hugh [sic] which she held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Dorset that, having accepted security for 25s. for his relief, he is to cause him to have such seisin of the aforesaid lands as the aforesaid Hawise, his mother, had on the day she died.

1.

Corrected from ‘Hugh’.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take into the king’s hand the land that Nicholas of Londonthorpe bought from a certain man ¹ of Thomas de Aunow, because the same vendor had previously agreed to sell it to the same Thomas (eo quod idem venditor eam eidem Thome prius conventionaverat), ² and he is to keep it safely until he has command from the king otherwise.

1.

‘a certain man’ interlined.

2.

‘by Nicholas’ crossed through here.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take into the king’s hand all lands which Nicholaa de Stuteville held in dower of the inheritance of Eustace de Stuteville, formerly her husband, in the bailiwick of the same sheriff, and to keep them safely until he has command from the king otherwise.

Somerset. Agnes of Elstow gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Robert of Lexington during his passage towards the parts of Cornwall. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Shropshire. Giles of Erdington gives 10 m. for a charter to have a warren, a fair and a market in two manors in the county of Shropshire, as appears in the Charter Roll. ¹

1.

See CChR 1226–57, p. 277.

For the men of Norwich. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until one month of Easter in the twenty-eighth year, the demand which they make by summons of the Exchequer from the trustworthy men of Norwich for arrears of their farm, which was accustomed to be allowed to them, as they say, for lack of a moneyer (pro defalta menotarie), who used to be in their vill, so that it may be discussed then at the Exchequer whether they ought to answer the king for the aforesaid arrears or not.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

2 March. Marlborough. Essex. Geoffrey de Mandeville gives 20s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

For Stephen of Savoy. Order to J. Lestrange, justice of Chester, to deliver the lands of John de Walton that he had in custody to Stephen of Savoy to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

[No date]. Northumberland. William Heyrun gives 40s. so that he might sow and till to the king’s use, or to his use if he ought to have those lands, ¹ the lands formerly of Thomas of Warenton in Bamburgh in Northumberland, by the pledges of Ingeram of Warenton and Adam Robaud, who are of the same county.

1.

‘or to his use if he ought to have those lands’ interlined.

a.

The interlineation is not in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2, meaning it was added before that roll was drawn up.

7 March. Clarendon. Concerning the custody of the abbey of Cerne. The king has committed the abbey of Cerne to John Beleiaumbe to keep.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Christiana, who was the wife of Robert de [sic] Gentil, gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Wiltshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

8 March. Clarendon. Concerning dower that is to be assigned. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to cause rightful dower to be assigned without delay to Olive, who was the wife of Ralph de Soligny, according to the extent made of the lands formerly of the aforesaid Ralph in his bailiwick, notwithstanding another command previously directed to him, having retained in the king’s hand two thirds of the aforesaid lands until the lawful age of Ralph’s heir.

For Bartholomew de Turberville. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to place in respite the demand for all debts which they make by summons of the Exchequer from Bartholomew de Turberville, until the octaves of Easter. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

9 March. Clarendon. For Herbert fitz Peter. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has betaken himself to Robert de Muscegros for the £100 which Herbert fitz Peter ¹ owes to the king for his relief, and the king has granted him that he is to render the aforesaid £100 within four years, namely £12 10s. at Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, £12 10s. at Easter next following, and £25 thus from year to year at the same terms until the abovesaid £100 are paid to the king. Order to cause Herbert to be quit from the aforesaid £100 and to cause Robert to have the aforesaid terms.

1.

Corrected from ‘son of Matthew’ in text and marginalia.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Herbert fitz Peter. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to permit him to have the aforesaid terms.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning handing over on bail. Roger son of Roger, taken and detained in the prison of Shrewsbury for the death of William son of Ralph, of which he is appealed, gives 1 m. so that he might be handed over on bail because he is appealed of that death out of hatred and malice etc. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc.

15 March. Ludgershall. Because he did not have it. William of Pointon gives 20s. for having an assize arraigned before the justices next itinerant in Lincolnshire before Jollan de Neville and others at Newark on the morrow of the Close of Easter. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he did not have it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

17 March. Reading. For Sibyl of Croydon. Sibyl of Croydon gives 1 m., by the pledge of Simon of Norwich, for having a precipe [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2 add ‘Buckinghamshire’.

b.

The order of nos. 143 and 144 is reversed in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2.

Surrey. Hilary of Gomshall gives half a mark for having a writ relating to the county of Surrey [transferred before the justices of the Bench] at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Surrey etc.

18 March. Windsor. Suffolk. Bartholomew de Crek’, Ralph de Berners, William de Beaumont and Agnes la Enveise give 20s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] against the abbot of St. Edmunds and others from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

21 March. Windsor. For the abbot of Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Middlesex to place in respite, until the morrow of the Close of Easter in the twenty-eighth year, the distraint for amercements which he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the men of the abbot of Westminster in his bailiwick by reason of the eyre of justices last itinerant in that Middlesex.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Yorkshire. Ralph de Ingleby and Dervorguilla, his wife, give 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

25 March. Windsor. For Nicholas de Boleville. The king has given respite to Nicholas de Boleville, until Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the 25 m. which he owes him for corn of the manor of Sock Dennis bought from the king, and from the 20 m. which he ought to render to the king at Easter in the same [year] of a fine which he made with him for having custody of one of the heirs of John Danish with her share of his inheritance. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to permit him to have this respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

25 March. Westminster. For Thomas Grelley. The king has given respite to Thomas Grelley, until one month from Easter in the twenty-eighth year, from the 11½ m. at which the men of the same Thomas of Swineshead and of Wigtoft were amerced before Robert of Lexington. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to cause him and his aforesaid men to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Sussex. William Aguillon gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Sussex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Sussex etc.

30 March. Westminster. Kent. Henry de Burn’ gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Kent to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

Essex. Geoffrey de Mandeville gives 5 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jeremy of Caxton and those who he will associate with himself. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

Concerning the custody of lands which has been committed to John Lestrange. The king has committed the custody of the lands formerly of John son of Phillip, together with the forest of Kinver, to J. Lestrange, justice of Chester. Order to Stephen of Savoy to cause the same John Lestrange to have full seisin of all lands formerly of the same John, which the king had committed to him to keep, so that he answers for them at the Exchequer as the king has enjoined upon him.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2, read ‘Concerning the custody of lands. Staffordshire’.

5 April. Westminster. Suffolk. Agnes la Enveise gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

Essex. The prior of Blackmore gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

5 April. Westminster. For lay prisoners at Oxford. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to hand over on bail the lay prisoners who have been taken and detained in the king’s prison for robbery from the Jews of Oxford ¹ for a reasonable fine to the king’s use to as many and such men of their county and of the vill of Oxford who will mainpern to have them before those whom the king will send there for this to stand to right for it before the same, and he is to have there the names of the aforesaid men and the king’s writ.

1.

‘of Oxford’ interlined.

Bedfordshire. Because he did not have it. The prior of St. Neots gives half a mark for having an assize of novel disseisin before W. of York. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire ¹ etc. ²

1.

Corrected from ‘Yorkshire’.

2.

Entry cancelled because he did not have it.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 2. Because he did not have it.

Suffolk. William Mauveisin junior gives 20s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

6 April. Westminster. For the men of Dunwich. The king has given respite to the men of Dunwich, until three weeks from Trinity in the twenty-eighth year, from the arrears of the farm of their vill which are exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have that respite.

For the men of Dunwich. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk that, having accepted security from them that they will answer for this then at the Exchequer, he is to deliver to them their livestock or their chattels taken for this reason.

7 April. Westminster. Concerning a pardon for the bishop of Hereford. Because he did not wish to receive the writ. The king has pardoned to P. bishop of Hereford 500 m. of the debts which he owes him. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 500 m. ¹ By the king.

1.

Entry cancelled because he did not wish to receive the writ.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Bedfordshire. Robert de Belaunay gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Bedfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

Norfolk. Richard son of Robert, Roger Beneit and Walter, his brother, give 1 m. for having two justices to take an assize of novel disseisin. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take.

10 April. Westminster. Concerning manors that are to be kept. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to hand the manor of Martock with appurtenances, formerly of Enguerrand de Fiennes, which he took into the king’s hand by reason of an inquisition into the lands of the Normans and of aliens, to John Reeve and William Freuwar’ to keep until Trinity, in order to do with the issues of the same manor that which the king has enjoined upon them. He is to permit Agnes, mother of the same Enguerrand to have free administration of all chattels and property, namely both of corn and of other things, formerly of the aforesaid Enguerrand in the same manor, and, moreover, of the rents of the same manor from Easter term past.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 2.

Concerning manors that are to be kept. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Surrey, concerning the manor of Clapham.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 2.

Concerning manors that are to be kept. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire for handing over the manor of Wendover to Walter Dyer and William Purcel.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 2.

Concerning manors that are to be kept. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Essex for handing over rents formerly of the same Enguerrand in his bailiwick to Guy of Hatfield, which are to be kept until Trinity, and he is to permit the same Agnes to have those rents from Easter term past.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/11, m. 2.

Northumberland. William son of Henry gives 40s. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Northumberland to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland etc.

For Fulk fitz Warin. The king has given respite to Fulk fitz Warin, until Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the 30 m. which he ought to have paid to him at Easter in the same year for the debts that [he owes] him at the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the men of Cannock. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to place in respite the demand which he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the men of Cannock for several debts, ¹ for as long as the bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield is vacant and in the king’s hand.

1.

Corrected from ‘prests’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Essex. Jordan Fode, Matilda daughter of Godthiva, Richard son of John and Agnes, his wife, give half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

12 April. Kempton. Essex. Roger de Hamsted’ gives 20s. for having the justices who the king is about to send into Essex ¹ to take an assize of novel disseisin. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

1.

Corrected from simply ‘for having four justices’ by the deletion of ‘four’ and an interlineation of ’who the king is about to send into Essex’.

a.

Rather than ‘justices’, in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2, the assize of novel disseisin is to be taken ‘before four knights’.

14 April. Windsor. For the prior of St. Swithun’s, Winchester. The king has granted to the prior of St. Swithun’s, Winchester that he is to render 50 m. on this side of Pentecost in the twenty-eighth year and 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year 50 m. ¹ of the 100 m. which his predecessor owed to the king for a prest which the king made to him from the bishopric of Winchester. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

1.

Terms corrected from ‘the Exchequer of Easter’ and ‘the Exchequer of Michaelmas’ respectively.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

15 April. Windsor. Lincolnshire. Robert of Willoughby gives 1 m. for having a writ for summoning Gilbert de Gant from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster to show by what warrant he raised a warren in the land of the same Robert and took and detained the dogs of the same. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

Suffolk. Robert de Knebbedich’ gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

For Richard of Clifford. Richard of Clifford has made fine with the king by 20s. for having from the land formerly of Walter of Colesbourne in Colesbourne, who withdrew himself [from the king’s peace] for the death of a man, of which he is accused, that which pertains to the king from the aforesaid land. Order to the sheriff of sheriff of Gloucestershire that, having accepted security for rendering the aforesaid 20s. to the king, he is to cause him to have seisin of the aforesaid land.

a.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 2, Richard merely ‘gives’ 20s.

18 April. Windsor. Middlesex. John of Cowley gives half a mark for having a writ relating to the county of Middlesex at Westminster for attaching Michael of Warwick and others for robbery and breach of the king’s peace, for which John appeals them. Order to the sheriff of Middlesex to take.

For the men of Guernsey. The king has given respite to the trustworthy men of Guernsey, until Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the 50 m. which are exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer for the king’s tallage. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Amercements. He is dead and the king pardoned has it. The sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire was amerced at 10 m. because he had not sent an inquisition to the king concerning the lands of the Normans and of aliens, which he ought to have sent to the king with haste, for undertaking which inquisition he had received command in January, until the quindene of the Close of Easter. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he is dead and the king has pardoned it. It is crossed through up to ‘Huntingdonshire’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Amercements. The sheriff of Worcestershire was amerced at 100s. ¹ for all [of the above] and on account of the same cause because the inquisition etc.

1.

Corrected from ‘10 m.’

Amercements. The sheriff of Essex was amerced at 100s. ¹ for an inquisition concerning the hundred of Rochford, for undertaking which inquisition he had received command in January, etc.

1.

Corrected from ‘10 m.’

[No date]. Amercements. The sheriff of Oxfordshire is amerced at 10 m. on account of the same inquisition which was not sent to the king until Ascension. ¹

1.

Entry unfinished and cancelled.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Suffolk. The abbot of Bury St. Edmunds gives 1 m. for having a writ relating to the county of Suffolk against John de Berners and others [removed] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Manasser Marmion gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Essex. John de Nassandres gives half a mark for having two justices to take an assize of novel disseisin. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

24 April. Westminster. Shropshire. Ralph Butler and Matilda, his wife, give half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Shropshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

For the earl of Norfolk. The king has given respite to R. Bigod, earl of Norfolk, until three weeks from Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the demand that he is to make from him by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Poitou and for many several scutages from certain knights’ fees which he does not acknowledge. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

25 April. Westminster. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take into the king’s hand all the lands which William, son of William Pipard, holds in Little Totnes, Langdon, North Bovey, Tetcott, [and] Levere Keber’, which lands he ought to have taken into the king’s hand by reason of an inquisition made into the lands of the Normans and of aliens, and to keep those lands safely until he has command from the king otherwise.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 3, add ‘The sheriff received nothing’. For ‘Tettecot’, the variant for ‘Tetcott’, this roll reads ‘Toteton’’, and for ‘Nortbovi’, the variant for ‘North Bovey’, this roll reads ‘Northom’.

[No date]. Amercement. Because the king has pardoned it. The same sheriff of Devon was amerced at 10 m. because he did not take those lands into the king’s hands when he made the inquisition into the lands of aliens by the king’s order. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because the king has pardoned it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Alexander son of Robert gives 1 m. that the assize of novel disseisin which he arraigned against Gervase of Bradfield and Adam, his brother, concerning a tenement in Drayton at the first session etc. shall come before Roger of Thirkleby at Norwich on the morrow of Trinity. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Robert Werepeloc gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Baldwin of Wayford gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Somerset to [the justices in eyre at] Exeter. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Surrey. John of Burstow ¹ gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Surrey to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Surrey etc.

1.

Corrected from ‘Bristol’.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. John of Sudborough and Matilda de Wascoil give 20s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Northamptonshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

30 April. Westminster. For Nicholas Spigurnel. Nicholas Spigurnel has made fine with the king by 100s. for having custody of the lands formerly of Nicholas son of Bernard, which he held of the king in chief, until the lawful age of the heirs of the aforesaid Nicholas, together with their marriage. The king has granted to him that he is to render one moiety of the aforesaid 100s. in the octaves of Hilary in the twenty-ninth ¹ year and the other moiety in the octaves of Trinity in the same year. Because the same Nicholas has given surety to the king for rendering the aforesaid 100s. by Peter de Sampford’ and Gervase Spigurnel, order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to cause him to have seisin of all lands and tenements which the abovesaid Nicholas held in his bailiwick and of which he was seised as of fee on the day he died. If he has taken anything from the aforesaid lands, he is to cause it to be rendered to him.

1.

Corrected from ‘twenty-fifth’.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Alexander del Hill’ gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Gilbert son of Thomas and Fluoria, his wife, give 1 m. for having a similar assize before the same Henry. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Osbert son of Adam gives half a mark for having a writ of attaint. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Because otherwise below. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take into the king’s hand the manor of Hintlesham with appurtenances, which he ought to have taken into the king’s hand by an inquisition that the king ordered to be taken concerning the lands […] ¹

1.

Entry unfinished and cancelled because otherwise below. See no. 207.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

30 April. Westminster. For William de Boville. The king has taken the homage of William de Boville, son and heir of Ranulf de Boville, for six-and-a-half virgates of land with appurtenances ¹ that he ought to hold from him in chief in the bailiwick of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Order to the bailiff of the same castle that, having accepted security from William for 10s., by which he made fine with the king, ² for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid six-and-a-half virgates of land with appurtenances.

1.

Corrected from ‘six virgates of land’ by an interlineation.

2.

‘by which he made fine with the king’ interlined.

[No date]. Northumberland. Master John le Fort gives 20s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Northumberland to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William, son of Ralph de Hag, ¹ gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

1.

‘de Hag’ interlined.

3 May. Westminster. Because otherwise below. The king has granted to Robert of Stafford that he is to render 20 m. per annum to him at the Exchequer, namely 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and 20 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the whole of the debt has been paid to the king, for the £336 17s. 1d. that he owes him for several debts. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause thus to be done and enrolled thus. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below. See no. 275.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William de Percy. William de Percy has made fine with the king by 100 m. for the trespass which he made in taking Nicholaa de Stuteville, who was of the king’s gift, to wife without the king’s licence. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire that, having accepted security from William for rendering the aforesaid 100 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all his lands which the sheriff took into the king’s hand for the aforesaid reason. Once he has taken that security, he is to signify this to the sheriff of Cumberland who has been commanded to cause him to have seisin of all [his] lands in his bailiwick once he shall have signfied this to him.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take into the king’s hand the manor of Swindon with appurtenances, which he ought to have taken into the king’s hand by reason of an inquisition made into the lands of the Normans and of aliens, and to keep it safely until he has command from the king otherwise.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Suffolk concerning the manor of Hintlesham, and to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire concerning the manor of Wingrave. ¹

1.

For an earlier unfinished and cancelled version of this entry, see no. 200 above.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 3, have ‘The sheriffs received nothing’.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. And each of the aforesaid three sheriffs was amerced at 10 m. because they did not take the aforesaid manors into the king’s hand by means of the aforesaid inquisition. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

5 May. Westminster. For Robert of Shottenden. The king has placed in respite, until the Exchequer of Michaelmas, ¹ in the twenty-eighth year the £20 which Robert of Shottenden ought to have paid him at the Exchequer of Easter in the same year of £109 2s. for several debts. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

1.

Corrected from ‘the feast of Michaelmas’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

6 May. Windsor. For Fulk fitz Warin. The king has granted to Fulk fitz Warin that, of the debt which he owes him, for which he made fine with him to render 60 m. per annum, he is henceforth to render per annum at the Exchequer 40 m. at the same terms at which he was accustomed to render the aforesaid 60 m. to the king, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

8 May. Windsor. Concerning a pardon for the abbot of Thame. The king has pardoned ¹ to the abbot of Thame £60 of the £160 and 28 quarters of wheat in which he was bound to David, Jew of Oxford, and the aforesaid 28 quarters of wheat. The king has granted to the same that he is to render £50 of the aforesaid £100 to him at Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and £50 at Easter in the twenty-ninth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid £60 and the aforesaid 28 quarters of corn and to have the aforesaid terms for the aforesaid £100.

1.

Corrected from ‘granted’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a pardon for the abbot of Thame. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to deliver tallies, chirographs and all muniments which the aforesaid Jew had for the aforesaid debt to him.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

10 May. Reading. For Warner Engayne. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, all demands which they make from Warner Engayne by summons of the Exchequer both for arrears and for other things.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Warner Engayne. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Richard le Tus gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Buckinghamshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc.

12 May. Reading. For John fitz Geoffrey. Order to the former keeper of the bishopric of Bath to cause all the corn sown in the manor of the same bishopric of Pucklechurch to be sold at a reasonable price to John fitz Geoffrey.

For Warin de Munchesney. The king has given respite to Warin de Munchesney, until one month after Michaelmas next, from the £20 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for an amercement of the justices of the forest. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

14 May. Reading. For Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause it to be inquired by an inspection of the rolls of the Exchequer by what cause they cause £10 to be exacted from Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn by summons of the Exchequer, for which, as he says, he is distrained by reason of two tallages assessed upon his manor of Ashford, ¹ and if in the time of the aforesaid Gwenwynwyn any tallage shall ever have been assessed upon the aforesaid manor, they are to certify this to king, and whether they shall have made the aforesaid demand from him for tallage or for another reason, and they are place that demand in respite until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year.

1.

Corrected from ‘Clifford’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the abbot of Notley. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demand for £91 which they make by summons of the Exchequer from the abbot of Notley.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Walter of Clifford. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Walter of Clifford to have respite, until the quindene of Trinity, from the £20 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer of the £100 by which he has made fine with the king for the custody of the manor of Slaughter, and afterwards to cause him to have the judgement of the Exchequer concerning the same £20.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. John Quatermayns gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege) at the king’s first arrival at Oxford. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

a.

This entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 4, has ‘John Quatermars’.

18 May. Kempton. Suffolk. Sarra, daughter of William de Pirho, gives 10s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

22 May. Westminster. Yorkshire. Alan son of Brian gives 20s. for having a writ relating to the county of Yorkshire [removed] to Westminster to attach Henry son of Ranulf and others because they entered his free warren and took hares and roebucks therein against the king’s peace. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc.

23 May. Westminster. For the abbot of Reading. The abbot of Reading has made fine with the king by £100 for the homicides and not inconsiderable trespasses which his men lately made in Berkshire, of which he is to render 50 m. to the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 50 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and 50 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to cause the same abbot to have such seisin of all his liberties, which he took into the king’s hand for the aforesaid reason, as he had thereof when he seized them into the king’s hand.

For the abbot of Reading. He has letters patent for this.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Reginald Scherewind’ gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege) upon his first arrival in the parts of Cambridge. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

For Walter de Scotney. Walter de Scotney has made fine with the king by 40 m. for regaining seisin of the lands of Bivelham and Filsham, which the sheriff of Sussex took into the king’s hand by reason of an inquisition made concerning the lands of the Normans, and of his other lands, and for having the king’s confirmation concerning the aforesaid lands. Order to the same sheriff to cause him to have seisin of the aforesaidlands, and, if he has taken anything therefrom, he is to cause it to be rendered to him.

a.

This entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 4, does mention lands in ‘Suffolk’, as noted in no. 228. It also says that Walter ‘gives’ rather than ‘has made fine’.

For Walter de Scotney. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Suffolk to cause him to have seisin of the manor of Haverhill.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Gilbert de Gant. The king has granted to Gilbert de Gant that he is to pay him £50 per annum, namely £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, £25 at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and £50 thus from year to year at the same terms until all the debt is paid to the king, for the £790 2s. 7d. which he owes him for several debts, both from the time of his father and from his own time. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

22 May. Westminster. For Richard de Clare. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until three weeks from Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demands which they make by summons of the Exchequer from Richard de Clare for 40 m. ¹ still of the debts of his father, for 8 m. for a murder fine in Worcestershire and for 20s. for a murder fine in Hampshire.

1.

‘for 40 m.’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Robert Blund gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Wiltshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to [the sheriff] of Wiltshire etc.

24 May. Westminster. For the men of Dunwich. The king has given respite to the trustworthy men of Dunwich, until Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the £47 10s. which they owe him for the arrears of their farm. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to permit them to have that respite. In the meantime, however, he is not to bring them trouble or injury in relation to their liberties, but the same liberties are to be used peacefully up to the aforesaid term.

26 May. Westminster. For John fitz Alan. John fitz Alan, son and heir of John fitz Alan, has made fine with the king by £1000 for having seisin of all castles and lands formerly of the abovesaid John, his father. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire that, having accepted security from the aforesaid John for the rendering the aforesaid £1000 to the king, namely 500 m. at the Assumption of the Blessed Mary ¹ in the twenty-eighth year, 333 m. 4s. 6d. at Easter next following in the twenty-ninth year, 333 m. 4s. 5d at Michaelmas in the same year, and 333 m. 4s. 5d. at Easter next following in the thirtieth year, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all castles and lands formerly of the aforementioned John, his father, in his bailiwick, of which he was seised in demesne as of fee on the day he died and which fall to the abovesaid John by hereditary right, together with the king’s corn and plough-teams in those lands. He is to signify the names of the pledges to the barons of the Exchequer.

1.

Corrected from ‘Michaelmas’.

For John fitz Alan. Order to Geoffrey de Langley, keeper of the honour of Arundel, to cause the same John, similarly, to have full seisin of the abovesaid honour together with the king’s plough-teams and corn in the same.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For John fitz Alan. It is written in the same manner to Robert de Dandely for making over seisin to him of the manor of Kenley with appurtenances together with all of the king’s corn and plough-teams etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For John fitz Alan. It is written in the same manner to J. Lestrange, justice of Chester for making over seisin to him of all the lands and castles formerly of the abovesaid John, his father, of which he was seised etc. and which are in the custody of the same John Lestrange, together with all of the king’s corn and plough-teams etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For John fitz Alan. It is written in the same manner to Bernard of Savoy for making over seisin to the same John, who is of full age, of the manor of Chipping Norton which the king had committed to Bernard until the [lawful] age of the same John.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Hugh de Plukenay. Hugh de Plukenay gives the king 5 m., by the pledge of Fulk fitz Warin, for having seisin of all the land which he held in Upper Lambourn, to be held for as long as it pleases the king, ¹ which has been taken into the king’s hand by reason of the king’s order that the lands of the Normans be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to cause him to have such seisin thereof as he had before they had been taken into the king’s hand, and if he has taken anything therefrom he is to cause it to rendered to him.

1.

‘to be held for as long as it pleases the king’ interlined.

a.

The interlineation is not interlined in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 4, meaning it must have been made before that roll had been compiled.

[No date]. Somerset. Mabel, who was the wife of Robert Martini, gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Somerset to [the justices in eyre at] Sherborne. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Somerset. The same Matilda [sic] gives another half-mark for having another precipe etc. as above.

a.

‘Mabel’ is correct in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 4, meaning it must have been altered before that roll had been compiled.

For Patrick de Chaworth. The king has granted to Patrick de Chaworth that he is to render to him at the below-written terms the 200 m. which he owes him, namely 50 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 50 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, 50 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 50 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirtieth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms for the aforesaid 200 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Wiltshire. John of Elsfield gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Wiltshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

Essex. Geoffrey de Whithefeld’ gives half a mark for having a writ [to remove a plea] against John son of Roger from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

28 May. Westminster. For Phillippa de Tilly. Order to Bernard of Savoy that, having accepted security from Phillippa de Tilly for rendering 10 m. in the king’s Wardrobe at St. Peter in Chains and for rendering another 10 m. at the Exchequer of Hilary, he is to cause her to have full seisin of all the lands which she held in Upton in Nottinghamshire and in Old Malton in Yorkshire, which the same sheriffs took into the king’s hand by reason of an inqusition made concerning the lands of the Normans, and if he has taken anything therefrom, he is to cause it to be rendered to her.

[No date]. For the brethren of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon. It is paid in the Wardrobe. The brethren of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon ought to render 100 m. in the king’s Wardrobe at St. Peter in Chains for having the king’s charter concerning all of the land in Melton Mowbray which Jollan de Fontibus held, as appears in the Charter Roll for the twenty-eighth year. ¹

1.

See CChR 1226–57, p. 278.

[No date]. For the prior of the Hospital. The prior of the hospital of the St. John of Jerusalem in England ought to render etc. for having the king’s confirmation concerning the manor of Swaraton and other lands, as appears in the Charter Roll etc. ¹

1.

See CChR 1226–57, p. 278.

a.

The originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 4, confirms this debt as ‘100 m.’

For Hamo de Crèvecoeur. The king has given respite to Hamo de Crèvecoeur, until Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from all the debts which he owes him. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Devon. William of Leigh gives half a mark for having a writ to attaint jurors of an assize of novel disseisin before the justices in Devon. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Simon de Vere gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Nottinghamshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshireetc.

For Roger Gernet. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demand for £12 which they make by summons of the Exchequer from Roger Gernet for the farm of the forest of Lancaster.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

30 May. Westminster. For the executors of the testament of H., formerly earl of Kent. The executors of the testament of H. de Burgh, formerly earl of Kent, have made fine with the king by 300 m. for the demand for the chattels formerly of Nigel de Mowbray, and for the scutage of Poitou which the same earl received from knights’ fees that the same Nigel held of the king, ¹ [both of] which are exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer and which came into the hand of the same earl and ought to have been yielded to the king’s use in part payment of the debts which Nigel owed to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer that, having accepted security from the aforesaid executors for rendering the aforesaid 300 m. to the king, they are to permit the same executors to have free administration of all the goods and chattels formerly of the same earl towards making execution of his testament.

1.

‘and for the scutage of Poitou which the same earl received from knights’ fees which the same Nigel held of the king’ interlined. It is, however, separated off by a paragraph mark.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the executors of the testament of H., formerly earl of Kent. Order to the same barons that, having inquired into which of the chattels formerly of the aforesaid Nigel, and which of the aforesaid scutages, ¹ came to the use of the same earl, which he ought to have yielded to the king’s use in part payment of the debts which Nigel owed to the king, they are to cause the same chattels to be allowed to Roger de Mowbray, brother and heir of the aforesaid Nigel, in part payment of the aforesaid debts.

1.

‘and which of the aforesaid scutages’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Suffolk. The prior of Ely gives 40s. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jollan de Neville. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

3 June. Westminster. For Nicholas de Girunde. Nicholas de Girunde has made fine with the king by 5 m. for having respite from Pentecost in the twenty-eighth year until two years following ¹ from making himself a knight, of which he will render one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter following. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc. and to permit him to have that respite.

1.

‘until two years following’ interlined.

[No date]. London. Thomas, son of Thomas of London, gives 40s. for having a writ against Geoffrey Esturmy by the pledge of Humphrey Smith and Alan Balun of London.

Hertfordshire. Everard the Linen Draper gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Hertfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire etc.

For Robert de Guines. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demand for £44 40d. which they make by summons of the Exchequer from Robert de Guines for many scutages.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Alan son of Brian gives half a mark for having an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. The prior of Walsingham gives 20s. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

Devon. Order to the sheriff of Devon to have a moiety of the perquisites in this eyre of the justices in his county ready to be paid at the Exchequer on the morrow of St. Mary Magdalene, and the other moiety on the morrow of Michaelmas.

5 June. Westminster. For the Earl Marshal. The king has given respite to W. Marshal, earl of Pembroke, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from all the debts which he owes him at the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Master Ralph de Juvigny. Master Ralph de Juvigny gives 20 m., of which he will render 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter following, for having seisin of a certain carucate of land with appurtenances in Cretingham which was taken into the king’s hand by reason of an inquisition made concerning the lands of the Normans. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security etc., to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land, and, if he has taken anything therefrom, to cause it to be rendered to him.

For Robert of Stopham. The king has given respite to Robert of Stopham from the 22½ m. which he owed him at Pentecost in the twenty-eighth year, until 15 days from Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Richard of Narford gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Norfolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Alan son of Brian gives 100s. for having the king’s confirmation of a charter concerning a warren in Yorkshire.

8 June. St. Albans. For Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. The king has given respite, until Martinmas in the twenty-ninth year, to Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn ¹ from the £25 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

1.

Corrected from ‘Gruffydd of Bromfield’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Roger of Aston gives 4 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Herefordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Ernisius de Cotes and Matilda, his wife, give 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jollan de Neville. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

10 June. St. Albans. For William, son of Thomas Mauduit. The king has rendered to William, ¹ son and heir of Thomas Mauduit, all lands which the aforesaid Thomas held of the king in chief and which fall to the same William by inheritance, and he has taken his homage for this and he has given surety to the king for his relief. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to cause William to have full seisin of all lands which Thomas held of the king in chief in his bailiwick and of which he was seised as of fee on the day he died.

1.

Corrected from ‘Thomas’.

For William, son of Thomas Maudit. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Wiltshire and Shropshire.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William, son of Thomas Maudit. And [these] are the pledges for rendering his relief to the king: Thomas of Warblington, Alan fitz Warin, William de St. George, Robert of Tothall and Fulk fitz Warin.

[No date]. Essex. William of Ayot gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

For Bartholomew Peche. Bartholomew Peche has made fine with the king by £7 12s. 4½d. for the chattels formerly of Amice Porter who, for a felony that she committed, has abjured the realm. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to cause Bartholomew to have all the chattels formerly of the same Amice in his bailiwick.

a.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 5, Bartholomew simply ‘gives’ rather than makes fine.

For executors of the testament of Thomas Mauduit. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to permit the executors of the testament of Thomas Mauduit to have free administration of all goods and chattels formerly of the same Thomas in his bailiwick towards making execution of his testament, having accepted security from them that they will render the debts which he owed to the king from the first goods formerly of the same Thomas.

11 June. St. Albans. For Robert of Stafford. The king has granted to Robert of Stafford that he is to render £17 to him per annum, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter in the following year, and £17 thus from year to year at the same terms until the debt is paid to the king, for the debts which he owes him both for Hervey, his brother, and for other things. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹

1.

For an earlier, cancelled version of this entry, see 204 above.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Alice of Writtle. To Isabella de Brus. Because Alice of Writtle has complained to the king that in the plea which has been moved in Isabella’s court of Writtle by the king’s writ between the same Alice, claimant, and Roger of Ashwell and certain others, defendants, no right could be established, for when others placed themselves upon the oaths of twelve sokeman, as is their right according to the customs of her abovesaid demesne lands, the twelve did not wish to swear an oath, either for Isabella or for her steward, to speak the truth without the king’s special order, as the same Alice says; order to [Isabella to] cause the aforesaid parties to come before the justices of the Bench in the octaves of St. John the Baptist in order to determine the aforesaid plea. She is also to cause those of the faithful sokemen of the same manor who happen to be impartial to come before the same justices at the same term, so that the truth might be inquired by right for both parties. She is to have there the names of the sokemen and this writ. ¹ She is to take security from the aforesaid Alice for 3 m. for this writ. By W. of York.

1.

Witness clause inserted here.

a.

This entry is heavily abridged in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 5, to read ‘Alice of Writtle gives 3 m. for having a writ against Roger of Ashwell [removed] from the court of Isabella de Brus of Writtle before the justices of the Bench. Order to the same Isabella to take etc.’

12 June. St. Albans. Because the same John had the corn and stock. Because the king has granted and rendered to John fitz Alan all his lands by a fine made with the king, order to Robert de Dandely to sell all the corn and stock that he has in his custody upon the lands of the same John and to make the king’s profit therefrom. ¹

1.

‘and to keep safely the monies arising therefrom’ additionally crossed through here. Entry cancelled because the same John had the corn and stock.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For John Morel. The king has granted to John Morel that he is to render one moiety at St. Peter in Chains in the twenty-eighth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas following of the 26 m. which he owes him for a debt of David, Jew of London. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews that, having accepted security from the aforesaid John for rendering the aforesaid debt to the king at the aforesaid terms, they are to cause his lands and chattels, which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of the aforesaid debt, to be delivered to him.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Stephen Longespée. The king has granted to Stephen Longespée that he is to render one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter following of the £30 and a palfrey priced 5 m. which he owed to David, Jew of London. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause him to have those terms.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Stephen Longespée. The king has granted to the same that he is to have the same terms for two palfreys priced 10 m. which he owes to the king for the marriage of the heir of William de Luveres. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Kent. Robert de Wendevalle gives 5 m. for having seisin of a carucate of land in Northfleet in Kent which was of the lands of the Normans.

[No date]. For John of Debenham. John of Debenham gives 1 m. for having a writ of protection [to last] from St. John the Baptist in the twenty-eighth year until the end of the four years following, and the lands of the same John are in Suffolk and Norfolk.

14 June. Temple Dinsley. For William Red. The king has granted to William Red that he is to render 50 m. [sic] at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, 25 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and 50 m. thus per annum henceforth, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, and 50 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until all of the debt is paid to the king, for the £307 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the arrears of his account for the time when he was keeper of the king’s escheats. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning corn which is in purprestures. Order to G. of Seagrave, justice of the forest, and his associates to cause all the corn which they have found sown in the purprestures made in the king’s demesne within the king’s forest to be valued by trustworthy and law-worthy men, and to hand it over at the value at which it has been valued to those who caused that corn to be sown, so that they may answer the king for that value in the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year. And concerning other external purprestures made outside the king’s demesne, they are to fix a day for those who sowed those purprestures to be before the king (coram Rege) in the aforesaid quindene wheresoever the king shall be in England in order to answer for them.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Christiana, who was the wife of John of Hyde, gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Bedfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

[No date]. Essex. The abbot of Tilty gives 10 m. for having the king’s confirmation concerning land which Ralph le Moyne has given him in Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Richard of Croydon gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Cambridgeshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

17 June. Chippenham. For Robert of Halstead. The king has granted to Robert of Halstead that he is to render £10 per annum at the Exchequer, namely 100s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, 100s. at the Exchequer of Easter, and £10 thus from year to year at the same terms until the debt is paid to the king, for the £40 which he owes him for a debt that Samuel son of Isaac, Jew of Norwich, exacts from him before the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews and that was awarded to the king before the same. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Robert of Halstead. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause the charter of Robert, his father, and other muniments which the same Jew has to be surrendered to him.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

18 June. Bury St. Edmunds. For Walter of Clifford. The king has given respite to Walter of Clifford, until the quindene of Michaelmas, from the 23 m. which he owes him for the debt of his father and for scutage, and from the 30 m. which he owes him for the wardship of [the manor of] Slaughter, which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For John Mansel. John Mansel ought to answer at the Exchequer each year for the £10 at which the manor of Wepham was extended, which manor the king has demised to him at farm.

a.

The marginalia for this entry read ‘Sussex’ in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 5.

[No date]. Hampshire. Hugh de Portun’ gives 1 m. for having the assize of novel disseisin that he arraigned against Adam de Haldeweye and others, concerning a tenement in Dene, before Roger of Thirkleby at Winchester on a day when he might be free to attend to this. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Stephen of Brockdish gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Norfolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Robert of Crepping gives 1 m. for having a writ against Nicholas de Cerne relating to the county of Bedfordshire at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

21 June. Bury St. Edmunds. For Alice de Hodeng and Ralph, her son. The king has granted to Alice de Hodeng that her son Ralph may render to him for her the £30 that remain to be rendered to the king of a fine of £60 by which she had made fine with the king for having custody of the aforesaid Ralph, son and heir of Hugh de Hodeng, at the same terms at which Alice ought to have rendered them to the king, and the same Ralph has given surety to the king for this. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Alice de Hodeng and Ralph, her son. The pledges of the same Ralph are Phillip Basset, Paulinus Pevyre, Peter Branch and Martin Gulafre.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Bury St. Edmunds. Concerning custody of the bishopric of Norwich. The king has committed the custody of the bishopric of Norwich to William of Well to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for it at the Exchequer.

a.

The originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 5, gives an alternative date, ‘21 July’, presumably in error.

24 June. Ely. Norfolk. Ralph of Buckenham gives 40s. for having respite from his knighthood until St. John the Baptist in the twenty-ninth year. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. and to permit him to have this respite.

For a Jew. The king has given respite to Aaron of York, Jew from the 250 m. which he ought to have paid to him at Trinity for the last tallage of the Jews of 60000 m., until the king’s next arrival at York, namely so that upon the king’s arrival there he is to pay that money to the king on pain of 50 m. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit him to have that respite, as aforesaid.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Norfolk. Walter of Mautby gives 5 m. for having respite from his knighthood until St. John the Baptist in the twenty-ninth year. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. and permit him to have that respite.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. William de Baiuse gives 1 m. for having before the king (coram Rege) at Huntingdon on Sunday next after St. John the Baptist the assize of novel disseisin which the same William has arraigned against Agnes of Covington and others, concerning a tenement in Covington. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to take etc.

[No date]. Richard Angod gives half a mark for having … ¹

1.

Entry unfinished and cancelled.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

26 June. Ely. For Thomas of Hengrave. The king has granted to Thomas of Hengrave that notwithstanding he has not observed his terms for the fine which he made with him for rendering 30 m. per annum of the debts he owes to him at the Exchequer, he is to render 20 m. at St. John the Baptist in the twenty-eighth year, 20 m. at Michaelmas next following, 10 m. at Easter in the twenty-ninth year, 10 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and 20 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until he shall have paid the debts which he owes to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms for this and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Ralph de Asse. Order to the abbot of St. Edmunds that as soon as he shall have received 5 m., to be rendered in the Wardrobe to the king’s use from Ralph of Ash, who has been taken and detained in the king’s prison for a trespass, he is to deliver the same from prison.

a.

The marginalia for this entry read ‘Norfolk and Suffolk’ in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 5.

Ely. For the abbot of Bury St. Edmunds. The abbot of St. Edmunds has made fine with the king by £50 for quittance from the [demand relating to the] expedition of the king’s army, which the king made from him for 20 of his knights holding from him and not from the king, so that namely if all the aforesaid 20 knights will wish to enter into that fine against the aforesaid abbot, the same abbot will pay the whole [£50] at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, and if all the aforesaid knights do not wish to enter into the fine, for each of them who will not enter into the fine 50s. will be deducted from the fine of the aforesaid abbot, and so the king will cause him to be quit at the Exchequer, and those who enter into that fine shall be quit from the scutage for the aforesaid army, if there shall have been assent to that army. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to aid the aforesaid abbot to distrain his knights, or, if he does not suffice, to aid those who will not wish to enter into that fine to go at their costs in the aforesaid army.

a.

For an entry not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see no. 502 below.

Lincolnshire. Jocelin of Elsham gives 1 m. so that the sheriff of Lincolnshire may inquire whether he may have 20 librates of land or not, and if not then he is not to distrain him to take up arms. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

For Licorice the Jewess. Order to the barons of the Exchequer and the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews that, having accepted all manner of security which can be provided, both by themselves and by eight of the more wealthy and more discreet Jews of London, or that which shall have been provided by Licorice the Jewess, who was the wife of David, Jew of Oxford, for paying 5000 m. to the king at the terms assigned for paying the tallage of the Jews, by which [sum] the same Licorice has made fine with the king for having the debts and chattels of the aforesaid David, her husband, then they are to cause those chattels to be delivered to her together with the books that are in the king’s custody, which the king shall cause to be delivered to her, saving to the king a certain Bible, a glossed psalter and certain decretals, and saving remittances made by the king before that fine for those debts, so that she pays 500 m., allowing therein the 300 m.which they received by the hand of the sheriffs, by her hand or by the hand of the sheriffs before St. Peter in Chains in the twenty-eighth year, and they are to cause it to be investigated whether any book can be found which is against the law of the Christians or Jews, ¹ and if such is found, it is to be condemned, and they are to cause the body of the aforesaid Licorice to be delivered from the king’s prison.

1.

‘of the Jews’ was initially written before ‘of the Christians’ and was crossed through

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. John of Sudbury gives 1 m. for having respite from his knighthood until Michaelmas in the twenty-ninth year. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

a.

The originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 6, has ‘for having an assize of novel disseisin’.

b.

There is no mention of his wife in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7.

c.

This entry is given in full in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 8: ‘Afterwards the same were ordered to cause the same bishop to have all the corn of the aforesaid bishopric from this autumn last past, except for the corn of winter, and to cause him to have a moiety of all other issues of the same bishopric from St. Andrew in the twenty-eighth year until St. Bartholomew in the same year, and from St. Bartholomew they are to cause him to have all issues of the same bishopric until the day upon which he received him into his grace’.

d.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 8, the testament is that of ‘Engelard de Cigogné’.

e.

For an entry not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see no. 503 below.

30 June. Geddington. For Walter de Merc. The king has given respite to Walter de Merc, until the quindene of Michaelmas, from the demand for several scutages which is exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Jews. The commune of Jews of Stamford gives the king half a mark of gold, to be rendered to the king at Nottingham in his Wardrobe on Sunday next after the Translation of the Blessed Thomas the Martyr, for making an inquisition into whether the £13 which are exacted from the same commune have been assessed upon Genta, who was the wife of Mairi son of David, Jew, for a promise made to Richard earl of Cornwall or not. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take that inquisition and to take security ¹ for the aforesaid half a mark of gold.

1.

‘for the aforesaid 13’ crossed through.

[No date]. Because below. The abbot of Wardon gives 50 m. to the king for having a charter concerning all the land which he had in Meppershall as a gift from several [persons], which was taken into the king’s hand by reason of alienated sergeanties. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because below. See no. 318 below.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Somerset. John Comyn gives the king 1 m. for having the assize of novel disseisin that he arraigned against Joan Comyn, William Comyn and others, concerning his free tenement in Langford, before Roger of Thirkleby at the time and place which he will be available to attend to this. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Henry Buttor gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Joseph Havere and Cecilia, his wife, give 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before the same. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

For the abbot of Chertsey. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until one month from Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demand which they make by summons of the Exchequer from the abbot of Chertsey for several scutages.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Godfrey Falconer. The king has taken the homage of Godfrey Falconer, son and heir of Robert Falconer, for all his land which the same Robert held of the king in chief and which falls to him by hereditary right. Order to the sheriff of Sussex that, having accepted security from Godfrey for 10 m. for his relief, he is to cause him to have seisin of all lands which Robert held of the king in chief in his bailiwick of which he was seised in demesne as of fee on the day he died. Once he has taken that security, he is to signify it to the sheriff of Kent, who has been commanded that, once the same shall have been signified to him, he is to cause Godfrey to have full seisin of all of the aforesaid lands in his bailiwick.

[No date]. For Godfrey Falconer. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For the abbot of Wardon. The abbot of Wardon gives 50 m., of which he will render a moiety at Michaelmas and a moiety at Easter, for having the king’s charter concerning all of the land in Meppershall which he has of the gift of Gilbert of Meppershall and others. ¹

1.

For an earlier, cancelled version of this entry, see no. 311 above.

[No date]. Norfolk [sic]. The prior of Daventry and Hugh de Capes give 3 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege) upon his first arrival at Northampton against Ralph Darel and others, concerning common of pasture in Badby. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Nicholaa de Sancta Maria gives 2 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Yorkshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. John de Brampton gives 100s. for having two assizes of novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege) at Geddington on Monday next after the feast of the Apostles SS Peter and Paul. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Humphrey de Orcard gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby at the time and place that will seem most expedient. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

2 July. Geddington. For William [de] Gaugy. Memorandum that he paid it in the Wardrobe at Geddington. William [de] Gaugy, burgess of Northampton, has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having seisin of all the land which he held in Old until the end of his term, which land has been taken into the king’s hand by reason of an inquisition made concerning the lands of the Normans. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that, having accepted security for rendering the aforesaid 10 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have such seisin of all the aforesaid land, together with the chattels in the same land, as he had thereof on the day he took it into the king’s hand.

a.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 5, William simply ‘gives’ rather than makes fine.

3 July. Geddington. For the men of Hertford. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until three weeks from Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demand which they make by summons of the Exchequer from the trustworthy men of Hertford for the arrears of the farm of their vill.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Hamo le Venur gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Worcestershire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire etc.

For the abbot of Abingdon. The abbot of Abingdon has made fine with the king by £40, which are to be paid at Newcastle upon Tyne at St. Peter in Chains, so that he may be quit from the service of 30 knights which he owes to the king in the expedition of the army in Scotland and, similarly, in Wales if the summons of the army happens to be made before Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, so that if the scutage shall have been assessed for that army the same abbot will have his scutage and his fine will increase to £60, to be paid to the king at the king’s will, and by means of this fine he will be quit from ward of Windsor castle for 40 days. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to permit him to have peace from the aforesaid service.

For the abbot of Abingdon. Order to the constable of Windsor to permit the same to be quit from the ward of the aforesaid castle for 40 days.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

5 July. King’s Cliffe. For the bishop of Worcester. To the barons of the Exchequer. The bishop of Worcester has, with the king’s permission, ceased to pay the 100 m. which he ought to have rendered to the king for two debts at Easter in the twenty-eighth year. The king has granted him that he is similarly to cease in the payment of 100 m. which he is bound to render to him at Michaelmas in the same year for the same debts, on condition, nonetheless, that in each year following he is to render to the king 200 m. for the same debts at the same terms until those debts are paid to the king. Order, notwithstanding the cessation of the aforesaid payment in the two aforesaid terms, to cause him to have the same terms for the payment of the abovesaid debts.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William de Cantilupe. The king has granted to William de Cantilupe that he is to render £10 each year of all the debts which he owes him from the time of W., his father, ¹ together with the arrears of the farm of Calne, both from his own time and from the time of his father, namely 100s. at Easter in the twenty-ninth year, 100s. at Michaelmas in the same year, and £10 thus from year to year at the same terms until the whole debt is paid. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

1.

‘he is to render to the king each year’ crossed through here.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Henry of Hastings. The king has granted to Henry of Hastings that he is to render 50 m. at Easter in the twenty-ninth year, 25 m. at Michaelmas next following, 25 m. at Easter following, and 50 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the debt is paid to the king, for the £169 which he owes him for the debts of R. and J., ¹ formerly earls of Chester. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

1.

‘and J.’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Alice Archer. The king, moved by charity, has pardoned to the pledges of Alice Archer 100s. of the fine of £10 which she made with him for the custody and marriage of Nicholas, son and heir of Robert Archer. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that, having accepted security from Master John of Aylesbury, executor of the aforesaid Alice, for rendering the remaining 100s. to the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, he is to permit the aforesaid pledges to have peace therefrom.

For Alice Archer. Order to the sheriffs of Herefordshire and sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire to permit the same executors to have free administration of all the property and chattels formerly of the aforesaid Alice towards making execution of her testament.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

6 July. King’s Cliffe. Concerning a Jewess. To the barons of the Exchequer and the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews. Order to deliver Licorice the Jewess, who was the wife of David, Jew of Oxford all the chattels and gages formerly of the aforesaid David, except for the £3 which the king has retained to his use, to six of the more wealthy and more discreet Jews of England who shall wish to answer the king at fixed terms for a fine of 5000 m. which the aforesaid Licorice made with the king for the aforesaid chattels and gages.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Cecilia of Sutton gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Cambridgeshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

[No date]. For the abbot of Biddlesden. The abbot of Biddlesden gives 10 m. for having the king’s confirmation of certain land which was taken into the king’s hand by an inquisition made for taking alienated sergeanties and lands of the Normans into the king’s hand.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Ralph of Arbury gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Warwickshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Richard of Habblesthorpe gives 1 m. so that the assize of novel disseisin which he has arraigned against John son of Walkelin and Robert, his brother, concerning a tenement in New Hay shall come before the king (coram Rege) at York at his first arrival there. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

8 July. Stamford. Lincolnshire. The prior of Kyme gives half a mark for having four justices. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

Northamptonshire. Ralph de Carun gives 20s. for having a writ relating to the county of Northamptonshire before the king (coram domino Rege) against William Lapiun of Eston’, concerning a trespass which the same William is said to have committed against him. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

9 July. Croxton Kerrial. For Walter de Baskerville. The king has taken the homage of Walter, son and heir of Walter de Baskerville, for all the lands and tenements which the same Walter held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire that, having accepted security from the aforesaid Walter for rendering the 40s. by which he made fine with the king for his relief to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all the lands and tenements of which the aforesaid William [sic], his father, was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which fall to the same William [sic] by hereditary right in his bailiwick.

For Patrick de Chaworth. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has pardoned 100 m. for the first terms of the 200 m. which Patrick de Chaworth owes him, concerning which he has made fine with him to render 100 m. per annum at two terms. Order to cause him to be quit therefrom.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Joan of Berkeley and Margery, her sister, give 10 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby and Gilbert of Preston at the time and place etc. against Maurice of Berkeley. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire etc.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Geoffrey of Shelton gives half a mark for having a writ of attaint before the justices at their first arrival in Nottinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire etc.

[No date]. For William de St. Leger. William de St. Leger of Wartling gives 12 m., to be rendered at All Saints, for having the king’s confirmation of two manors in Sussex which had been of the lands of the Normans.

11 July. Nottingham. For the executors of the testament of Thomas de Aunow. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire that, having accepted security from the executors of the testament of Thomas de Aunow for rendering debts to the king if he owed anything to him, he is to permit them to have free administration of all the goods formerly of the same Thomas towards making good the execution of his testament.

For the executors of the testament of Thomas de Aunow. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

11 July. Nottingham. For Robert Savage and Olympia of Williton. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to cause the crop of 15 acres of land in Sandhurst that Robert Savage held, and similarly the crop of eleven acres of land in the same vill that Olympia of Williton held, which he took into the king’s hand by reason of an inquisition for taking alienated sergeanties into the king’s hand, to be valued, and to hand them over to aforesaid Robert and Olympia, having accepted security from them for rendering that value at the Exchequer in three weeks of Michaelmas unless they first make fine with the king for having the aforesaid land with the crops.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William, parson of the church of Patrick Brompton, gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege) upon his first arrival at York. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

11 July. Nottingham. For Richard de Gray. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until three weeks from Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demand which they make by summons of the Exchequer from Richard de Gray, who the king has sent as his envoy to the parts of Scotland for corn, oxen and other goods which he received from Brian son of Alan together with the castle of Bamburgh.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Stephen de Grafham gives 1 m. for having four justices. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. The prior of Beckford gives 10 m. for having a writ relating to the county of Gloucestershire at Westminster against Adam de Utlewe and others to show why they did not perform to him the due and accustomed customs and services. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William of Denton gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Leicestershire. The prior of Launde gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Leicestershire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Henry of Bayworth gives 20s. for having a writ of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

a.

The originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 6, has ‘for having an assize of novel disseisin’.

[No date]. For the bishop of Lincoln. R. bishop of Lincoln has made fine with the king by 60 m., to be paid to him at Newcastle upon Tyne on the morrow of St. Peter in Chains, for the service of 60 knights which he ought to have sent in the king’s service in the expedition of the army to Scotland, on condition that the king is to have his scutage for the same knights if scutage shall have been assessed for that army.

14 July. Nottingham. For the bishop of Lincoln. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to distrain the knights of the same bishop who will not wish to assent to the abovesaid fine or pay the portion thereof falling to them to come in the aforesaid army, having allowed to the aforesaid bishop in the abovesaid fine the service of the aforesaid knights who shall come in the aforesaid army.

For the bishop of Lincoln. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, and Rutland.

For the abbot of Winchcombe. The abbot of Winchcombe has made fine with the king by 10 m., to be paid at Newcastle upon Tyne at St. Peter in Chains, for the service of two knights who he ought to have sent in the king’s service in the expedition of the army of Scotland, on condition that the king is to have the scutage etc. as above.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 6, also have ‘Gloucestershire’.

[No date]. Surrey. John Carpenter gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Surrey to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Surrey etc.

For Robert of Barming. Robert of Barming has made fine with the king by one mark for his service which he ought to have done in the king’s army of Scotland, saving scutage to the king if scutage ought to be given.

[No date]. Norfolk. Roger of Alderford gives 20s. for a writ by the pledge of Wybert of Kent. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. For the prior of Haverholme. The prior of Haverholme gives 40s. for having an assize of novel disseisin concerning common of pasture in Coteland against John of Everingham and others before Jollan de Neville and those who he shall have associated with him at the time and place which he shall have provided. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. For Lambert of Moulton. Lambert of Moulton of Lincolnshire gives 5 m. for having a charter to have a market and fair and free warren in the manor of Fleet, as appears in the Charter Roll for the twenty-eighth year. ¹

1.

See CChR 1226–57, p. 280.

17 July. Nottingham. For Ralph de St. Amand. The king has granted to Ralph de St. Amand that he is to render £60 per annum, namely £30 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, £30 at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and £60 thus from year to year at the same terms until the whole of the debt is paid, for the £20 which he owes him for many trespasses of the Forest of Dean, for the £62 14s. 5d. which he owes him for many debts for his father, for the £84 17s. 11d. which he owes him similarly for his father and concerning which the king had granted to him that he was to render per annum 50 m., for the £15 6s. 7d. which he owes him for the residue of his account for St. Briavels, for the 20 m. for having custody of Abenhall in the Forest of Dean, for the 4 m. 10s. which he owes him for several scutages from the fee that he holds in Alberbury formerly of Richard de Oilly, for the 25 m. which he owes him for his relief of a moiety of the land of John de Beauchamp, for the 6s. 3d. which he owes him for a common fine of the county of Herefordshire, and for the £13 22d. which he owes him for Richard de Fardingeston’, his under-sheriff of [the Forest of] Dean, which he received for a common fine by the men of Archenfield. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause it be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the bishop-elect of Bath. The king has granted to R. bishop-elect of Bath, by a fine of £400, all the corn sown in the lands of the manors of the bishopric of Bath which pertained to the king, unless he had made fine for them with the king, of which fine he will render £100 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, £200 at the Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and £100 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the sheriff of Somerset that, having accepted security from the same bishop-elect for rendering the aforesaid £400 to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to permit him to dispose of all the aforesaid corn by his will, and he is neither to impede the same herein nor permit him to be impeded by another.

For the bishop-elect of Bath. Order to Robert Passelewe to permit the same bishop-elect to have free administration of all the aforesaid corn.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

19 July. Nottingham. For the bishop-elect of Norwich. W. bishop-elect of Norwich has made fine with the king by £100 for having the corn which is sown in the lands of the manors of the same bishopric, of which he will render one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following. And because the same bishop-elect has given surety ¹ by John de Burgh and William Bardolf for rendering the aforesaid £100 to the king at the same terms, order to the abbot of St. Benet of Hulme and William of Well, keepers of the bishopric of Norwich, to cause the same bishop-elect to have full seisin of all the corn of the manors of the same bishopric and to permit him to dispose of them by his will.

1.

Corrected from ‘made fine’.

[No date]. For Geoffrey of Stapleford. Geoffrey of Stapleford of Nottinghamshire gives 1 m. so that he need not come to the king’s service in Scotland, saving his scutage to the king.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William le Ostricer gives 20s. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Thomas of Boothby gives 40s. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jollan de Neville. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

21 July. Nottingham. For Gilbert of Seagrave. The king has given respite to Gilbert of Seagrave, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the £40 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for several demands. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to permit him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Gilbert of Segrave. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. John de Dunheued and Christiana, his wife, give 3 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Oxfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

27 July. York. Norfolk. Robert, son of Hamo of Foulden, gives 20s. for having before Roger of Thirkleby at the time and place he shall have provided the assize of novel disseisin which Robert has arraigned against Alexander son of Hamo and others, concerning a tenement in Foulden. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc. Order to the same Roger to take that assize.

4 Aug. Newcastle upon Tyne. For Robert [de] Punchardon. The king has granted to Robert [de] Punchardon that he is to render 5 m. per annum, namely 2½ m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 2½ m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 5 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the debt is paid to the king, for the 15 m. by which he made fine with him before the itinerant justices at Exeter for a trespass. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For the abbot of St. Benet of Hulme. The abbot of St. Benet of Hulme has made fine with the king by 20 m. for the service of two-and-a-half knights that he owes to him in his expedition against the king of Scotland, saving his scutage to the king, and he has paid those 20 m. in the Wardrobe at Newcastle upon Tyne by the hand of John de Mundehery.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 6, have ‘Norfolk’.

5 July [sic]. Newcastle upon Tyne. For the men of Andover. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the morrow of Hilary in the twenty-ninth year, the distraint which they make upon the trustworthy men of Andover by summons of the Exchequer for the £100 which Hubert Hoese takes per annum from the farm of their vill.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For John fitz Geoffrey. The king has granted to John fitz Geoffrey that he is to render the £62 17s. 8d. which he owes him of the fine of 200 m. that he made with him for the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vieuxpont, and the £13 6s. 8d. which he owes him for the arrears of the farm of Rockingham, in the fine which he made with the king for rendering £10 per annum for his debts, so that his fine is not to increase by reason of the aforesaid debts. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Thomas of Newhay gives 1 m. for having a writ to attaint the [twelve] jurors of an assize of novel disseisin. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

10 Aug. Newcastle upon Tyne. Hampshire. Bern’ Cambis gives 1 m. for distraining Geoffrey de la Geston’ and Alice, his wife, to render 100s. to him if the same G. and A. shall recognise they owe them to him. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take etc.

Yorkshire. Roger of London gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Yorkshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Geoffrey of Benniworth gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] against the abbot of St Mary’s, York, from the county court of Yorkshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

Concerning corn that is to be sold. Order to the bailiffs of Scarborough to make the king’s advantage there or elsewhere from the 1000 quarters of wheat and 500 quarters of oats, which they received by the king’s order from the sheriff of Yorkshire to be carried to the king’s army, of which they sent 100 quarters of wheat to the king at Newcastle upon Tyne, because peace has been arranged between the king and the king of Scotland, and they are to ensure that they have the monies arising therefrom at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in 15 days in the twenty-eighth year.

For Elizabeth Corbet. Because the king has learnt by an inquisition that William Corbet held one carucate of land with appurtenances in Aldworth from Roger Bertram, whose heir is in the king’s custody, and that Elizabeth, daughter of the aforesaid William, who is of full age, is William’s heir, order to Robert of Crepping that, having accepted security from Elizabeth for rendering 8s. 4d. to the king for her relief, he is to cause her to have full seisin of the aforesaid land.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 6, also have ‘Northumberland’.

[No date]. Somerset. Thomas of Perdham gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Somerset to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

14 Aug. Durham. For Robert of Kelsey. The king has granted to Robert, clerk of Kelsey, that he is to hold for his whole life those two bovates of land in North Kelsey which have come into the king’s hand as his escheats by the death of Osbert and Thomas, sons of Richard Peche, who held that land from the king and who died without heirs of themselves, as is said, rendering half a mark for this per annum at the Exchequer by the hands of the bailiffs of Caistor at the same terms at which the aforesaid Osbert and Thomas were accustomed to render that, and, moreover, he will render 8s. to the king as increment for the aforesaid land each year for as long as he shall live at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, and after the death of the aforesaid Robert the aforesaid land is to revert to the king and his heirs. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to cause him to have seisin of the aforesaid land, as aforesaid.

For Robert de Kelsey. He has letters patent for this.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northumberland. Walter Swethog and Isabella, his wife, give 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland etc.

17 Aug. Darlington. For William de Criketot. The king has given respite to William de Criketot from the 10 m. which he ought to hand over to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to the king’s use at Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, until Easter following. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to permit him to have this respite.

18 Aug. Northallerton. For the executors of the testament of Richard de Percy. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to permit the executors of the testament of Richard de Percy to have free administration of all the goods formerly of the same Richard towards making execution of his testament, having accepted security from them that they will answer firstly from those goods for the debts which Richard owed to the king at the Exchequer.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take into the king’s hand all the lands formerly of Hugh de Plessetis in his bailiwick and to keep them safely until he shall have order from the king concerning this otherwise.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, also have ‘[He received] nothing because he delivered it to the Countess Warenne by the king’s writ.’

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, also have ‘Nothing by two writs.’

For Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. The king has given respite to Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, until the quindene of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, from the £75 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

18 Aug. Ripon. For William Longespée. The king has granted to William Longespée that he is to render at the Exchequer within the five years next following those £250 in which he was bound to Aaron of York, Jew, Garsye le Eveske of Lincoln, Jew, and Abraham, son of Sampson of London, Jew, for Walter of Clifford, namely £50 each year at two terms, namely £25 at Hilary in the twenty-ninth year, £25 at Trinity, and £50 thus from year to year at the same terms; and that the aforesaid £250 are to be allowed to the aforesaid Jews in the tallage assessed upon them, namely £169 16s. 8d. for the aforesaid Aaron, 55 m. for the aforesaid Garsye, and 80 m. for the aforesaid Abraham, so that in each of the aforesaid years at the same terms as much as £50 are to be allowed to the same Jews, as long as William will pay those at the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus and to cause the aforesaid £250 to be allowed to the same Jews.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William de Ros. The king has given respite to William de Ros, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the 100 m. which he owes him and which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for his crossing to Gascony. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Nottinghamshire. The abbot of Beauchief gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before R. of Lexington at the time and place he shall provide against Robert of Lathom, concerning common of pasture in Alfreton. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc.

Nottinghamshire. Order to the same Robert to take that assize.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

20 Aug. Fountains. For Ingeram of Warenton. The king has taken the homage of Ingeram, son and heir of Thomas of Warenton, for all lands which Thomas held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland that, having accepted security from Ingeram for 20s. for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all the lands and tenements of which Thomas was seised on the day he died.

22 Aug. Sherburn in Elmet. Concerning stock that is to be sold. Order to the mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne and Robert of Crepping, keepers of the provision of stock in the same castle, that they are to make the king’s profit, by making a sale thereof, from the remainder of 100 quarters of wheat delivered to them by the sheriff of Yorkshire for the aforesaid stock, out of which they have delivered 30 quarters by order of the king to the nuns of Newcastle, and 30 quarters to John Luveyn of the king’s gift, and from the remainder of 300 tuns of wine delivered to them by the sheriff of Lincolnshire and from 20 tuns bought at Newcastle and delivered to them, out of which they have delivered 34 tuns into the king’s buttery and 41 tuns in gifts made there by the king, which remainder were 40 quarters of wheat and 245 tuns of wine in the said stock after the king’s departure, so that they are to have the monies arising therefrom at the Exchequer on the morrow of All Souls.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, instead read ‘Concerning wheat and other things that are to be sold.’

23 Aug. Doncaster. For William of Lancaster. The king has granted to William of Lancaster the custody of the land and heirs of Richard de Cateshal’ with the marriage of the same by a fine of 40 m., of which he will render 20 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year and 20 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to cause him to have seisin of all the lands formerly of the aforesaid Richard in his bailiwick of which he was seised as of fee on the day he died.

For William of Lancaster. The king has granted to William of Lancaster that he is to render 100 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year and 100 m. at the Exchequer of Easter following for the 200 m. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause it to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Richard le Gramaire of Yorkshire gives 10 m., of which he will render a moiety at Martinmas in the twenty-ninth year and a moiety at Hilary in the same year, for a charter to have a warren.

For Godfrey de Buron. The king, at the instance of Earl Richard and the count of Flanders, has granted to Godfrey de Buron that, for the 10 m. owed to Isaac son of Elias, for the 10 m. 10s. owed to Benedict, son of the same Isaac, for the mark owed to Samuel of Grimsby, and for the 30s. owed to Josceus son of Pict’, Jews, [debts] owed by Walter de Cheyney, he is to render 4 m. to the king at the Exchequer for Walter, namely 2 m. at the Exchequer of Hilary in the twenty-ninth year, 2 m. at the Exchequer of Trinity in the same year, and 4 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the whole of the aforesaid debt has been paid. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus and to cause the aforesaid 24 m. to be allowed to the same Jews in the tallage of 60000 m. assessed upon the Jews at terms fixed for them in respect hereof.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Godfrey de Buron. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause the same Walter to be quit from the aforesaid 24 m. and to cause the muniments which the same Jews have concerning this to be surrended to him.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

25 Aug. Hodsock. For John de Bendenges. The king has given respite to John de Bendenges from the 10 m. which he owes him of a fine that he made before the itinerant justices at Winchester, for as long as he shall be in the king’s service in the parts of Wales. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. The abbot of Sulby gives 20s. for having an assize of darrein presentment before Robert of Lexington and Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. For Walter son of Robert. Walter son of Robert gives 20 m. for having a writ that it be inquired concerning the liberties of Pontefract. ¹ Order to the keeper of the honour of Pontefract to take etc.

1.

‘writ’ interlined.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, have ‘Yorkshire’ corrected from ‘Essex’.

27 Aug. Nottingham. For John of Lexington. Order to the keepers of the king’s wines of Blyth to deliver those three tuns of the king’s wines which remain in their custody to John of Lexington by the price of £6, for which he will answer to the king at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, also have ‘Nottinghamshire’.

For John of Lexington. Order to the keepers of the king’s wines of Doncaster to cause the same J. to have a tun of wine for 40s. from the king’s wines which are in their custody, for which he will answer to the king at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, also have ‘Yorkshire’.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Robert de Brus gives 2 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Robert of Lexington. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, also have ‘Essex’.

For the executors of the testament of Hugh Paynel. The executors of the testament of Hugh Paynel have made fine with the king by 5 m. because, during his lifetime, he did not repair the castle of Sauvey, as he ought to have done, for rendering which to the king they have given surety to the king by the prior of Launde. Order to G. of Seagrave, justice of the forest, or his bailiffs of castle of Sauvey to permit the same executors to have free administration without delay of all goods formerly of the same Hugh Paynel in order to make execution of his testament.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7, also have ‘Leicestershire’.

[No date]. Lancaster. The prior of Lancaster gives 20s. for having an assize of darrein presentment before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster etc.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. The prior of Launde gives 20s. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Nottinghamshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Robert Child of Sutton gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Somerset to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

Because he did not have it. The prior of Shelford gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin against John of Crakehall and others, concerning a tenement in Rauceby, before Jollan de Neville and those whom he shall have associated with himself at Sleaford on Saturday next after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc. ²

1.

The word ‘Cross’ is represented by the mathematical addition sign.

2.

Entry cancelled because he did not have it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Because he did not have it. Order to the same Jollan to take that assize. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he did not have it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Lincolnshire. Gilbert de Gant gives half a mark for having a similar assize before the same at the said time and place against William, clerk of Claxby, concerning a tenement in Claxby.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William son of Roger gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take into the king’s hand all the land which the advocate of Bethune held in Boothby Graffoe and Navenby, to cause them to be extended and to cause that extent to be sent to the king.

a.

Rather than ‘Witness as above’, E 371/11, m. 7, gives an alternative date, ‘26 Aug.’

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Theophania, who was the wife of John son of Robert, gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jollan de Neville and others at Sleaford on Saturday next after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross against Laurence de Thornwik’ and Margery, his wife, concerning a tenement in Kirton. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

Lincolnshire. Order to the same Jollan to take that assize.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

30 Aug. Oakham. Concerning distraining debtors of the king. Order to the keepers of the fair of St. Giles, Winchester, to distrain the debtors who Michael the Butler will name to render to the king the debts which they owe to him for wines that they bought from the king by the hand of the same Michael.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Ranulf de Lung gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jollan de Neville. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Robert Basset gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Northamptonshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Henry de Oseville gives half a mark, by the pledge of Phillip de Couel’ and Nicholas de Oseville of Northamptonshire, for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Hugh le Breton and Joan, his wife, give 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jollan de Neville. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The prior of Newstead by Stamford gives half a mark for having an assize of novel disseisin before the same. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. Richard of Irchester and Joan, his wife, give 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Huntingdonshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire etc.

a.

There is no mention of his wife in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 7.

3 Sept. Hanslope. Concerning the custody of the abbey of York. The king has committed to Simon of Norwich the custody of the vacant abbey of St Mary’s, York, for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the knights, free men and all others holding of the aforesaid abbey to be intendant and respondent to him.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Samuel of Aylesbury and Lucy, his wife, give 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston at Thame on Saturday next after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross against Gilbert Wayte, concerning a tenement in Tythrop. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

Oxfordshire. Order to the same Gilbert to take that assize.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

10 Sept. Windsor. For the men of the earl of Leicester. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to place in respite, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, the demand which he makes from the men of S. de Montfort, earl of Leicester, of Shapwick for a murder fine.

[No date]. Hampshire. Roger de Sifrewast gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Hampshire before the king (coram Rege) in the quindene of Michaelmas. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Robert de Pont-de-l’Arche gives 20s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Wiltshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. William of Pagham and Joan, his wife, give 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of ¹ Hampshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

1.

‘the court of’ repeated in error.

[No date]. Norfolk. Roger son of Wido and Hugh, his brother, give 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. Thomas de Sifrewast gives 40s. for having an assize of novel disseisin before William of St. Edmunds. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

For the bishop of Worcester. The king has granted to W. bishop of Worcester that he is to render 100 m. per annum for all the debts which he owed him on Sunday the eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary in the twenty-eighth year, so that he is to begin to render 50 m. at the Close of Easter in the twenty-ninth year and 50 m. at Michaelmas next following, and 100 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the abovesaid debts shall have been paid; and if the same bishop should happen to die, the king has granted that his successors as bishop of the same place are to have the same terms for the abovesaid debts. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Berkshire. Natalia, daughter of Robert de Herpenham, gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Berkshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire etc.

10 Sept. Windsor. For the bishop of Winchester. To Paulinus Pevyre and John of Gatesden, keepers of the bishopric of Winchester. At the instance of the Pope, the king has received W. bishop of Winchester into his grace and has rendered the manors and castles and all other temporalities pertaining to the same bishopric of Winchester, which were in the king’s hand, to the same. Order to cause the same bishop to have full seisin of all the manors and castles aforesaid that are in their custody, together with the stock that P., formerly bishop of Winchester, left behind in the same bishopric to the use of his successors and that they received by the hands of the executors of the testament of the same bishop by a chirograph made between them concerning this, having retained in the king’s hand the residue of the stock being in the same bishopric and, similarly, having retained the corn of this autumn in the king’s hand until the king orders otherwise.

Afterwards the same were ordered to cause him to have all the corn from this autumn last past, except for the corn of winter, and to cause him to have a moiety etc., as appears in the Close Roll. ¹

1.

See CCR 1242–47, p. 227.

a.

This entry is given in full in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 8: ‘Afterwards the same were ordered to cause the same bishop to have all the corn of the aforesaid bishopric from this autumn last past, except for the corn of winter, and to cause him to have a moiety of all other issues of the same bishopric from St. Andrew in the twenty-eighth year until St. Bartholomew in the same year, and from St. Bartholomew they are to cause him to have all issues of the same bishopric until the day upon which he received him into his grace’.

For John Mansel. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to permit John Mansel to have respite, until one month from Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the 100 m. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for Felicia de Millers, and from the £30 3s. 4d. which are exacted from him by the same summons for the farm of the manor of Preston.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Roger of Ashwell, who complains false judgement had been made against him in the court of Isabella de Brus of Writtle, gives 1 m. that the record of the plea which was in her court between the same Roger and Alice, daughter of Geoffrey Baret, shall come before the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Gervase of Ashwell gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] concerning an agreement and another precipe [to remove a plea] concerning warranty of a charter against Stephen son of Sampson from the county court of Hertfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire etc.

15 Sept. Windsor. For William de Percy. The king has taken the homage of William de Percy, nephew and heir of Richard de Percy, for all lands which Richard held of the king in chief and which fall to William by hereditary right. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire that, having accepted security from William for rendering his relief to the king, he is to cause him to have seisin of all lands which Richard held of the king in chief in his bailiwick and of which he was seised as of fee on the day he died, saving to she who was the wife of the aforesaid Richard her rightful dower if it shall have been assigned by him as the king had ordered, and saving the king’s right that he exacts in the manor of Topcliffe, formerly of the same Richard, and of all others who shall claim right in the same manor.

For the executors of the testament of Engelard de Athée. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to permit the executors of the testament of Engelard de Athée to have full administration of all the goods formerly of the aforesaid Engelard towards making execution of his testament, having accepted security from them that they will render debts to the king if he was bound to him in anything.

a.

In the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 8, the testament is that of ‘Engelard de Cigogné’.

For the executors of the testament of Engelard de Athée. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Hampshire and Gloucestershire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The abbot of Peterborough gives three palfreys to the king for having a writ against the abbot of Crowland and others relating to the county of Lincolnshire [removed] before the king (coram Rege). ¹ Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

1.

‘for having a writ’ interlined.

[No date]. Surrey. William of Wintershill gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Surrey to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Surrey etc.

25 Sept. Guildford. For S. de Montfort. Order to sheriff of Hampshire to deliver the plough-teams and all the stock, which he received at Odiham from the executors of the testament of Engelard de Cigogné to the king’s use, to Simon de Montfort by a chirograph to be made between them concerning this, so that Simon is to be able to answer by means of the same chirograph whenever the king shall take that manor into his hand.

[No date]. Somerset. William de Sancto Petro gives 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Somerset to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Concerning the king’s wines that are to be sold. Peter le Poitevin is assigned to sell the king’s wines which are at Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury, Much Wenlock, Hereford, Gloucester, Worcester and Kidderminster.

a.

For an entry not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see no. 504 below.

[No date]. Suffolk. Richard of Dalham gives 1 m. for having a writ relating to the county of Suffolk moved to Westminster against Roger of Poslingford and others. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Essex. Robert, son of Richard Forester, gives 20s. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jeremy of Caxton. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. For Richard of Tong. Richard, son and heir of Richard of Tong, who held of the earl of Lincoln, whose heir is in the king’s wardship, has made fine with the king by 30 m. for his relief, of which he will render 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, and 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas following, and his lands are in Yorkshire.

a.

On the dorse of E 371/11, m. 8, at this point is the following delivery note: ‘W. de Haverhill, treasurer, received this roll on 5 October in the twenty-eighth year’.

b.

For entries not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see nos. 505, 506, 507, 508, 509 below.

For Richard de Tong. Order to the keeper of the lands formerly of J., formerly earl of Lincoln, in Yorkshire to permit him to have those terms.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

1 Oct. Westminster. For Roger de Mohaut. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause Roger de Mohaut to have respite, for 15 days from the octaves of the Michaelmas, from the £50 which he owes to Aaron son of Abraham, Jew of London, which he ought to have paid to him at the aforesaid feast last past, so that interest does not run up on it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Kent. Eustace de Eusing’ gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin against Walter of Hoke and others, concerning a tenement in Chilham, before W. of St. Edmunds on the morrow of Martinmas. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

3 Oct. Westminster. For Robert Aguillon. To the sheriff of Surrey. The king has received the homage of Robert Aguillon, son and heir of William Aguillon, for all the lands and tenements which the aforesaid Robert [sic] held of the king in chief, and he has given surety to the king for the £10 by which he made fine with him for his relief. ¹ Order to cause Robert to have full seisin of all lands and tenements formerly of the aforesaid William, his father, in his bailiwick, of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died.

1.

Corrected by an interlineation from ‘he has given the king surety for rendering his relief to the king at the Exchequer’.

For Robert Aguillon. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Herefordshire and Hampshire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Geoffrey Burdel’ gives half a mark for having a writ against Nicholas, son of Robert Savage, and others relating to the county of Northamptonshire moved to Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Thomas de Rouville gives half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Dorset to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Master John Bacon gives half a mark for having a precipe ¹ [to remove a plea] from the county court of Somerset to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

1.

Corrected from ‘pone’.

[No date]. Somerset. Robert de Beauchamp gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Somerset to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

For the men of Shrivenham. The men holding of Warin de Munchesney in the manor of Shrivenham give 20 m. for having a writ against Warin de Munchesney that he be before the justices at Westminster to show why, against the king’s prohibition, he exacts from them other customs and services than those which they were accustomed to perform from the time that manor was in the hands of the predecessors of the king, kings of England. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take etc.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Rose, who was the wife of Richard le Warre, gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Gloucestershire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire etc.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Millicent of Teversham gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby at the time and place etc. against Robert de Maneriis and others, concerning a tenement in Teversham. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

Order to the same Roger to take that assize etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Humphrey son of Walter gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

[No date]. Norfolk. William of Bures gives 1 m. for having a writ of attaint. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Theodoric of Crimplesham gives 1 m. for having a writ of attaint. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Essex. Ralph son of William and William son of Ralph give 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Essex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

13 Oct. Westminster. For Robert de Guines. The king has given respite, until the quindene of Hilary in the twenty-ninth year, to Robert de Guines, who is in the king’s service by his order, from the scutage which is exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the manors of Little Tolleshunt and Gayton. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Suffolk. Henry, son of Roger of Stoke, and Ivetta, his wife, give 1 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. John of Cornhill gives half a mark for having another precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Buckinghamshire etc. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire.

[No date]. Surrey. The same John of Cornhill gives another half-mark for having another precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Surrey etc. as above. Order to the sheriff of Surrey etc.

16 Oct. Westminster. For Drogo de Barentin. The king has given respite to Drogo de Barentin from ¹ the farm of the islands of Jersey and Guernsey until the octaves of All Saints in the twenty-ninth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

1.

‘rendering account’ crossed through here.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Shropshire. The abbot of Haughmond gives 20s. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Shropshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

For the bishop of Winchester. Order to P. Peyvre and John of Gatesden to cause all winter corn of the bishopric of Winchester, which is in their custody, excepting 300 quarters of wheat and all stock animals, save for 250 wethers and 250 ewes, to be delivered to W. bishop of Winchester, having retained in the king’s hand the stock of pigs, and to cause the aforesaid 300 quarters of wheat together with the aforesaid 500 sheep to be handed over to Richard Wastehus’ to do therewith what the king has ordered him.

Concerning underwood that is to be sold. Order to G. of Seagrave, justice of the forest, that, given the opportunity, he is to cause the king’s underwood in the wood of Southgrove to be sold by the view of four law-worthy men, and to cause the monies arising therefrom to be delivered by tally to the constable of Ludgershall towards undertaking the king’s works there.

a.

The marginalia for this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/11, m. 9, have ‘Leicestershire’.

19 Oct. Westminster. For Robert de Wendevalle. Robert de Wendevalle has made fine with the king by £100 for regaining seisin of all the lands and tenements which he had of the gift of his brother in Norfolk and which the king caused to be taken into his hand by reason of an inquisition made into the lands of the Normans, and the king has taken his homage for them. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to cause him to have full seisin of all the aforesaid lands and tenements.

For Robert de Wendevalle. He will moreover render 50 m. of the aforesaid £100 in the octaves of Hilary in the twenty-ninth year, 50 m. in the octaves of the Close of Easter in the same year, and 50 m. in the octaves of Michaelmas following. ¹

1.

Entered immediately after the witness clause of the preceding entry on the right-hand edge of the membrane.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Peter of Goldington, Peter of Legbourne, Henry of Caistor and Margaret, his wife, William de Neville and Elizabeth, his wife, and Laurence, son of Alan of Coates, give 40 m. for having a precipe [to remove a plea] against Agatha Trussebut and others from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Matilda, who was the wife of Robert de Reingny of Surrey, ¹ gives 1 m. by the pledge of Martin of Massingham of Middlesex and Robert son of Henry of Berkshire for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Wiltshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. ²

1.

Corrected from ‘Berkshire’.

2.

‘Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.’ crossed through here.

[No date]. Dorset. John de Thorinny gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Dorset to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. The abbot of West Dereham gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Norfolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Cumberland. Alan of Wassand gives 1 m. for having a writ against Thomas Peram of Brigham relating to the county of Cumberland [moved] to Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland etc.

20 Oct. Westminster. For Isabella d’Aubigny. The king has granted to Isabella d’Aubigny that she is to render 10 m. per annum at the Exchequer, namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twenty-ninth year, 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 10 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the whole of the debt is paid to the king, for the 60 m. by which she made fine with him for marrying whom she will wish, and of which she has rendered 40 m. at the Exchequer, for the 25 m. by which she made fine with him for her relief of the lands formerly of Joan de Beauchamp, one of whose heirs she is, and of which she has rendered 10 m. to the king at the same Exchequer, for the £12 5s. that she owes him for the scutage of Gascony, and for the 9 m. that she owes him for the relief of William of Houghton, formerly her husband, for the lands of the same Isabella. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus and to cause her to have the aforesaid terms. ¹

1.

The date for this entry has been corrected from ‘20 May’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Isabella d’Aubigny. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to permit her to have the aforesaid terms. ¹

1.

This entry is squeezed in between those either side of it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Patrick de Chaworth. The king has given respite to Patrick de Chaworth, until Easter in the twenty-ninth year, from the £35 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer in divers counties. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Margery, Matilda, Sibyl and Joan, daughters of William of Marston, give 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Hertfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Geoffrey de Caux gives 1 m. for having an assize of novel disseisin before Jollan de Neville. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. The same gives half a mark for having a similar assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc.

25 Oct. Guildford. For Reginald de Drumar. Because Reginald de Drumar has given the king surety by William de Cheyney and John of Jersey that he will faithfully cause corn, hay and other stock formerly of W. de la Launde at Bradninch to be sold, and to cause the monies arising therefrom to come under the seal of the sheriff of Devon and his [Reginald’s] seal, so that the king may take debts therefrom, if he owed anything to the king, order to the sheriff of Devon to permit the same Reginald to sell the corn, hay and other stock, as aforesaid.

[No date]. Suffolk. John son of William gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

27 Oct. Chertsey. For Richard of Stockton. The king has taken the homage of Richard, son and heir of Walter of Stockton, for all the lands and tenements which the same Walter held of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire that, having accepted security from the aforesaid Richard for rendering 20s. for his relief to the king, he is to cause him to have seisin of all the lands and tenements of which the same Walter was seised as of fee on the day he died and which fall to him by hereditary right.

[No date]. Berkshire. Matilda of Abingdon gives half a mark for having a precipe [to remove a plea] from the county court of Berkshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire etc.

[No date]. Lancaster. Alan Tailor gives 1 m. for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lancaster to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster etc.

a.

On the dorse of E 371/11, m. 9, is the following delivery note: ‘W. de Haverhill, treasurer, received this roll on 16 January in the twenty-ninth year by the hand of Silvester of Everdon’.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer. ¹

1.

At the foot of the roll is a fourteenth-century heading ‘Fines of the twenty-eighth year of King Henry’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. in the Roll. John de Weston’, clerk of the sheriff of Devon, £20, to be taken to the isle of Lundy for construction of the tower in the twenty-seventh year.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 305 above.

29 April. Alton. in the Roll. H., by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine and count of Anjou to the sheriff of Devon, greetings. Order to cause the 2500 rabbit-skins taken in the isle of Lundy, which the king’s constable of the aforesaid island will deliver to him, to be sold by the view and testimony of law-worthy men, and to cause the monies arising therefrom to be applied, by the view of the constable and of another on the sheriff’s behalf, ² towards strengthening the king’s tower, which the king ordered to be strengthened on the aforesaid isle. Witness W. archbishop of York.

1.

‘by the view of the constable and of another on the sheriff’s behalf’ interlined.

2.

The dorse of this schedule bears the note: ‘£11 5s.’

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 308 above.

[No date]. Yorkshire. S’, in the Roll. William de Percy gives 100 m. freely ³ of a promise he made when the king took his homage.

1.

‘and voluntarily’ is crossed through.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 453 above.

Dorset. in the Roll. From John de Baiuse for disseisin ––– 40 m.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 456 above.

Dorset. in the Roll. From the abbot of Sherborne for trespass ––– 10 m.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 456 above.

Dorset. in the Roll. From the bishop of Exeter for disseisin ––– 60 m.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 456 above.

Somerset. S’, in the Roll. From Geoffrey de Mandeville for several trespasses ––– 15 m.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 456 above.

These aforesaid four were amerced before the king in the eyre of R. of Thirkleby and his associates in the counties of Somerset and Devon. ¹

1.

The dorse of this schedule bears the note ‘W. de Haverhill, treasurer, received this schedule on 16 October in the twenty-eighth year by the hand of Jeremy of Caxton’.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 456 above.