28 Oct. Westminster. Yorkshire. Master Geoffrey, parson of the church of Brancepeth, gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

a.

The first membrane of the corresponding originalia roll, E 371/24 has been badly damaged. Both margins have been lost and no marginal annotations have survived.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Richard de Wyk’ gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire etc.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Geoffrey Hauberge and Joan, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Hampshire. William of Widworthy gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Devon. Lucelina of Dewdon gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the same Henry. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Somerset. William of Widworthy gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin concerning common of pasture before the same Henry. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Margery, who was the wife of Peter de Champagne, gives half a mark for a pone at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Surrey. Walter le Hore gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Surrey.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Hampshire. The abbot of Titchfield gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the same John. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

30 Oct. Westminster. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because John son of Bernard, who held from the king in chief, has died, as the king has heard, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take all lands and tenements formerly of the same John in his bailiwick on the day he died into the king’s hand without delay, and to cause them to be safely kept until the king orders otherwise. And by the oath etc.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Hugh le Breton gives half a mark for a writ of agreement at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The same Hugh gives half a mark for a writ of trespass at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Norfolk. John le Warner, Richard le Provost and Nicholas son of Eva give one mark for a writ of record at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

31 Oct. Westminster. For Bartholomew Peche. The king has pardoned to Bartholomew Peche the mark which is exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the aid for the marriage of Matilda, formerly the king’s sister, Empress of Germany, the 20s. which are exacted from him for the king’s last scutage of Wales, and the mark at which he was lately amerced before H. Bigod, justiciar, at Winchester, because he did not prosecute his writ before the same H. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause to cause Bartholomew to be quit from the aforesaid 3½ m. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

31 Oct. Westminster. For David de Asseby. By the fine of 25 m. which David de Asseby made with him, the king has rendered to him, saving the right of any man, the lands formerly of Mabel, his mother, formerly the wife of William de Bussy, who is in the king’s prison, and which by reason of the same William de Bussy the king caused to be taken into his hand. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from David for rendering the aforesaid 25 m. at the Exchequer, namely a moiety in the octaves of Hilary and the other moiety on the morrow of the Close of Easter, he is to restore the said lands with appurtenances to him without delay, as aforesaid. By Giles de Argentan, steward.

a.

Damage to both margins of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Shropshire. Simon of Pickstock gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Leicestershire. William de Camville gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

2 Nov. Westminster. Norfolk. Roger de Lyuns gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Robert Malesoures and Amice, his wife, give one mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Derbyshire. Jordan of Grendon gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Shropshire. Roger de Chelys gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Sussex. William de Ponte Fracto, chaplain, ¹ gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Sussex.

1.

‘chaplain’ interlined.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Sussex. Peter de Okeburn’ gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the same John. Order to the sheriff of Sussex.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

3 Nov. Westminster. For Drogo de Barentin. The king has pardoned to Drogo de Barentin the half-mark at which he was amerced before Phillip Lovel, formerly the king’s clerk who had been assigned to take inquisitions in Oxfordshire. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Drogo to be quit therefrom.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Shropshire. Roger de Mershe gives one mark for a pone at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

3 Nov. Westminster. Vacated because otherwise below. The king has granted to Robert de Scales that of the £80 which he owed to Salomon, Jew of London, whose debts and chattels the king has taken into his hand, he may render £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, £10 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £80 are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ By H. Bigod, justiciar

1.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below. See no.35.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Henry de Wyllays gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Somerset. Geoffrey de Mandeville gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

[No date]. Norfolk. Jordan de Syelton’ gives half a mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before R. of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means no marginal annotations have survived for this entry.

4 Nov. Westminster. Concerning a fine for the custody of the lands and heirs of Hugh of Morwick. By the fine of 1200 m. which William Latimer made with him, the king has granted him custody of the lands and heirs of Hugh of Morwick, who held from the king in chief, to have and hold with all their appurtenances until the lawful age of the aforesaid heirs, together with the marriage of the same heirs, of which monies he is to pay £50 at Hilary in the forty-fourth year at the Exchequer, £50 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, £60 at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fifth year, £60 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and £120 thus from year to year at the same terms until all of the aforesaid money is paid to the king. William has found these below-written pledges for doing this faithfully, namely Robert de Neville, Hugh de Neville, Gilbert de Briddeshal’, Richard de Styveton’, Geoffrey Aguillon, John of Reigate, William Golafre, and Ralph de Essenden’. William has sworn in the faith in which he is bound to the king that he shall never seek from the king or his council that any allowance or pardon be made to him, but he shall pay all of the aforesaid money to the king in full, as aforesaid. He has letters patent for this. By the king, Hugh Bigod, justiciar and all of the council.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means any marginal annotation, ‘S’’, has not survived for this entry.

Concerning a fine for the custody of the lands and heirs of Hugh of Morwick. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to cause the abovesaid William to have full seisin without delay in the name of custody of all lands and tenements formerly of the aforesaid Hugh in his bailiwick on the day he died and which [were taken into the king’s hand] by reason of his death, as aforesaid.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means any marginal annotation, ‘S’’, has not survived for this entry.

4 Nov. Westminster. For the men of Droitwich. The king has granted to the men of Droitwich that they may render £10 at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year for all manner of debts which they owe him at the Exchequer, £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Henry of Hanley's Erd gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire.

a.

Damage to the left margin of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, means any marginal annotation, ‘S’’, has not survived for this entry.

[No date]. Northumberland. Thomas son of Michael, Christiana de Flamville, William de Fedham, and Constance, his wife, give one mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland.

5 Nov. Westminster. For Robert de Scales. The king has granted to Robert de Scales that he may render £10 at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year of the £80 which he owed to Salomon, Jew of London, whose debts and chattels the king has taken into his hand, £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £80 are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ By H. Bigod, justiciar.

1.

For an earlier, cancelled version of this entry see no.26 above.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. James son of Gilbert gives one mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire.

[No date]. Berkshire. Emma, who was the wife of John Note, gives half a mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

[No date]. Sussex. Henry de Hidifaut ¹ gives one mark for taking an assize before H. Bigod, justiciar of England. Order to the sheriff of Sussex.

1.

Uncertain transcription of name.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Robert Burdican’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

5 Nov. Westminster. For Thomas Grelley. The king, by his council, has committed to Thomas Grelley his castle of Rockingham with appurtenances and the bailiwick of his forests between the bridges of Stamford and Oxford, to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering per annum for this as much as Robert Walerand, to whom the king had previously committed that castle with the aforesaid bailiwick to keep, was accustomed to render for the same. Order to the foresters, verderers, agistors, regarders and all other bailiffs and ministers of the aforesaid forests to be intendant and respondent to Thomas in all things which pertain to the aforesaid custody, as aforesaid.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, reads ‘Northamptonshire’.

[No date]. Herefordshire. The prior of Brecon gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire.

[No date]. Somerset. Joan, daughter of Gerald Costetyn, and John, son of Robert Moriz, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Shropshire. The abbot of Lilleshall gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire.

[No date]. Suffolk. The prior of Letheringham gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

For John de Plessetis, earl of Warwick. Whereas the king recently granted to John de Plessetis, earl of Warwick, that he might render 20 m. per annum at the Exchequer for the debts he ought to have rendered to him then at the Exchequer, namely 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter and 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, and whereas John is presently bound to the king in £60 beyond those debts, the king has granted him that he may pay him 20 m. per annum equally for those £60 and the aforesaid debts at the Exchequer at the aforesaid terms until the aforesaid debts and the said £60 are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Hugh le Botun. The king has pardoned to Hugh le Botun, his valet, the 15 m. 9s. which he owes to Crosseus son of Milo, Jew of Bristol, for the 9 m. which Hugh received from Crosseus as a loan. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause Hugh to be quit from the aforesaid 15 m. 9s. and to cause the muniments that the same Jew has concerning this to be delivered to Hugh. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

7 Nov. Westminster. Norfolk. John son of Adam gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Richard le Poher gives half a mark for having a pone at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Hampshire. Roger of Shirley gives one mark for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

[No date]. Norfolk. John Sperling’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

For Hugh Bigod, concerning a fine for the custody of the lands and heirs of William of Kyme. By the fine of £3000 which Hugh Bigod has made with him, the king, by the counsel of the magnates who are of his council, has granted him the custody of the lands and heirs of William of Kyme, recently deceased, who held from the king in chief, to have until the lawful age of the same heirs together with the marriage of the same, and he has letters patent for this. The aforesaid Hugh is to render 200 m. to the king of the aforesaid £3000 at the Exchequer at Hilary next to come, 200 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, 200 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 400 m. in the following year, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, and 400 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £3000 are paid to the king.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

7 Nov. Westminster. Concerning a fine for the abbot of Berniaco. The abbot of Berniaco has made fine with the king by one mark of gold because the king granted him that William, prior of Eye, and Matthew de Cormeilles, his fellow monks, might be attorneys in his place to win etc. in all pleas touching the same abbot for the five years next following from Martinmas in the forty-fourth year. ¹ He has paid that gold to Hugh Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

Witness clause entered here. What follows is added by another hand.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, reads ‘Suffolk’.

b.

In the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, this entry ends ‘and he is quit’.

Concerning a fine for Aaron, son of Leo Blundus, Jew of London. Aaron, son of Leo Blund, Jew of London, has made fine with Adam de Grenville and his associates, justices assigned to the custody of the Jews, by ten bezants of gold to the king’s use, for having the houses, rents and chattels formerly of the aforesaid Leo, his father, excepting chirographs and tallies from his chattels. By Simon Passelewe.

For John le Naper, the king’s huntsman. The king has given and granted to John le Naper, his huntsman, for his praiseworthy and long service, 18 acres of land, four acres of meadow and a messuage with appurtenances in the manor of Havering which Geoffrey de Buho held from the king there and which are the king’s escheats, to have to John and his heirs from the king and his heirs forever, on condition that John shall forever render one penny at Easter for his life to the king’s bailiff of Havering, whoever that shall be at the time, to the king’s use for all services, and that his heirs shall, after his death, perform to the king and his heirs all services and all customs that are owed to him for the said land according to the custom of the aforesaid manor. ¹

1.

Uncertain translation of 'for his life'.

a.

This entry is out of sequence in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, coming after no. 63 and just before the king crossed the sea (no. 64).

b.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, reads ‘Essex’.

11 Nov. Canterbury. Kent. Henry de Suineford’ gives half a mark for taking an assize. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

For the prior of Rochester. The prior of Rochester has made fine with the king by 10 m. of silver for the remission that the king made to him of the advowson of the church of [St. Werburgh] Hoo. He has letters patent for this and paid the aforesaid 10 m. in the king’s Wardrobe at Canterbury on the morrow of Martinmas and is quit.

11 Nov. Canterbury. Concerning the manor of Church Stretton, which has been committed. The king has committed the manor of Church Stretton with appurtenances to Peter de Montfort to keep until Pentecost next to come together with the castle and manor of Ellesmere, which the king had previously committed to him to keep, so that he renders to the king for the said manor of Church Stretton at the Exchequer as much as the king’s men of the same manor ought to render for it before the aforesaid feast.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, reads ‘Shropshire’.

b.

An alternative date, ‘12 Nov.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1.

11 Nov. Canterbury. For Imbert Pugeys, concerning the custody of the lands and heirs of John son of Bernard. The king has granted Imbert Pugeys the custody of the lands and heirs of John son of Bernard, who held from the king in chief, to have until the lawful age of the said heirs for the reasonable extent of the value of those lands, so that every year he pays 100 m. from the issues of the same lands to Frederick de Lavannia for his fee that the king granted him, and so that he answers the king at the Exchequer for the remainder.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, reads ‘Kent’.

For John of Somercotes. Whereas the king some time ago granted to John of Somercotes that he could render £20 per annum at the Exchequer for all debts which he owed him on Friday, the morrow of St. Valentine in the forty-second year, he has now granted him that he may pay him 10 m. per annum at the Exchequer for the same debts, similarly, and for all other debts that he owes him, at the same terms at which he was accustomed to render the said £20 until all of the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

12 Nov. Canterbury. For Robert of Cargo. Because Robert of Cargo, serjeant of Robert de Ros, has sustained the utmost damages and losses of livestock and other property by the king’s bailiffs of the county of Northumberland by reason of a dispute that the king had with Robert de Ros, as the king has been given to understand for certain, the king, in compensation for the aforesaid damages and losses, has pardoned him the 100s. at which he was amerced before Roger of Thirkleby and his associates, justices last itinerant in Northumberland, for the imprisonment of a certain man of Carham. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same Robert of Cargo to be quit from the aforesaid 100s. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

12 Nov. Canterbury. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because Oliver de Stanford’, who held from the king in chief, has died, as the king has heard, order to the king’s escheator in Berkshire to take into the king’s hand all lands and tenements of which he was seised etc. without delay, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

12 Nov. Canterbury. For Edward of Westminster. Because the king well recalls that inspired by the long and praiseworthy service Edward of Westminster he pardoned him when the king last returned into England from Gascony 200 m. of the debts that Henry of Necton owed to the king from the time he was his bailiff, and for which the king betook himself to Edward at his instance, the king, induced to renew the same pardon and because he betook himself to Edward for the 60 m. which remain to be rendered to him of Henry’s aforesaid debts, has granted him that he may render 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year, 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 10 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 60 m. are paid to the king in full. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Edward to be quit from the aforesaid 200 m., to have the aforesaid terms for the aforesaid 60 m., and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By John de Plessetis, earl of Warwick, and J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

13 Nov. Dover. For the burgesses of Ghent. On the morrow of Martinmas in the forty-fourth year, at Dover, the burgesses of Ghent paid 200 m. in the king’s Wardrobe to Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, keepers of the same Wardrobe, by which they had made fine with the king in the forty-third year for having a charter of liberties, and they are quit from the aforesaid 200 m.

Here the king crossed the sea.

22 Nov. Westminster. Somerset. Richard de Boulogne gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William, abbot of Kirkstead, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Somerset. Richard, son of Walter de Chauton’, gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Concerning wheat and wines that are to be delivered to Aymon de Turemberd. Order to Hugh Bigod, justiciar of England, to cause 100 quarters of wheat to be bought from the receipt of the Exchequer or from the issues of the counties where it seems to him it can be expedited better and more quickly, and delivered to Aymon de Turemberd, constable of the king’s castle of Windsor, in order to stock the same castle therewith. He is also to cause Aymon to have 20 tuns of wine from Peter de Gisors, the king’s chamberlain of London, demanding by his writ to the sheriffs of London that they shall cause those wines to be carried to Windsor to be delivered to Aymon, so that he may answer sufficiently at the Exchequer for the aforesaid wheat and wines.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Robert Patrik gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

[No date]. Kent. Richard Testard gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

22 Nov. Westminster. Norfolk. William, son of Robert de Scheth’, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Master Nicholas of Leicester gives half a mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

25 Nov. Westminster. Lancaster. Concerning relief. Because it is clear to the king by an inquisition that he caused to be taken by the sheriff of Lancaster and the escheator of the same county that Roger Gernet, who has recently died, held from the king in socage a certain pasture in Caton, and that John Gernet, his son, is his nearest heir, the king, on account of the infirmity by which John is detained [from coming to the king], and wishing to do him grace, orders the said sheriff and escheator to accept fealty due to the king from him on the king’s behalf, and, having accepted security from him for rendering half a mark to the king at the Exchequer at the next Nativity of St. John the Baptist for his relief, they are to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid pasture with appurtenances. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Warwickshire. Peter, son of Hervey de Sowa, gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc. Witness as above.

a.

On the dorse of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 1, is the following fourteenth-century note ‘The fines and other things which were owed by this roll were extracted in January of the seventeenth year of the reign of King E., son of King E. [1324]’.

b.

For entries not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see nos. 754, 755, 756, 757, 758, 759, 760, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 771, 772, 773, 774 below.

[No date]. Kent. Brian son of John gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

a.

An alternative witness clause, ‘Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England, at Westminster, 26 Nov.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2.

[No date]. Middlesex. Thomas Le Brun gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Middlesex.

26 Nov. Westminster. Leicestershire. Andrew of Grendon and Hawise, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Essex. Adam de Lacy gives 20s. for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Alexander Bakun gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William de Lazelis gives 20s. for a writ at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

28 Nov. Westminster. Kent. John of Cobham, Henry, his brother, Mary de Valognes, Agnes of Cobham, Alice, Joan and Mary, her daughters, Thomas of Cobham, and Nicholas de Tuillisted’ give one mark for taking an attaint before William of Wilton. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Kent. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

‘before William of Wilton’ interlined.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Master William of Clifford ¹ gives 2 m. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

1.

Name perhaps written over an erasure.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Robert Prat gives one mark ¹ for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

1.

Sum apparently corrected as it appears to be written over an erasure.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Richard of Dauntsey gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Walter de Grey gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Simon de Nortoft and Margaret, his wife, give one mark for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Sussex. Robert de Muscegros gives one mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Sussex.

4 Dec. Westminster. Somerset. Geoffrey de Mandeville gives one mark for a writ ad terminum [for a plea] concerning an escheat. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take security etc. ² Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

‘concerning an escheat’ interlined.

2.

It may be that this entry is written over an erasure.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Reginald of Stitchcombe gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Ralph of Cromwell gives 20s. for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Hugh Prilly and Maisenta, his wife, give one mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

6 Dec. Westminster. Shropshire. John the Palmer, Laurence son of Edwin and the community of Shrewsbury give 40s. for a writ of appeal at the Bench. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Shropshire. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

‘at the Bench’ interlined.

8 Dec. Westminster. Concerning the county of Kent, which has been committed. The king has committed the county of Kent with his castles of Canterbury and Rochester and the manor of Milton with the hundred to John of Cobham to keep for one year, so that he answers at the Exchequer for the profit of the same county and the issues of the said manor with the aforesaid hundred, just as Reginald of Cobham, formerly keeper of the same, was accustomed to answer, excepting the 20 m. which the king has remitted to John therefrom, and so that he answers for the wards which are owed at the aforesaid castle of Rochester. He has letters patent for this. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Suffolk. John de Cokeham gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc. Witness as above.

10 Dec. Westminster. Essex. John son of Arnulph gives half a mark for taking an attaint of novel disseisin before H. Bigod, justiciar of England, against Selvana daughter of John, concerning a tenement in Broomfield. Order to the sheriff of Essex. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

a.

The litigant is named as ‘Salviana’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2.

[No date]. Somerset. Thomas de Audham and Isabella, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

16 Dec. Westminster. Vacated because they did not have the writ. Adam de Mereleye, Peter Le Messer, Martin Main, Thomas de Monasterio, Alan son of Geoffrey and Adam Main give half a mark for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk. ¹ Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

Entry cancelled because they did not have the writ.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

16 Dec. Westminster. Yorkshire. Joan, who was the wife of Thomas de Lacelles, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

17 Dec. Westminster. Bedfordshire. William de Lisle and Mabel, his wife, give half a mark for a writ of warrant. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Essex. The abbot of Beeleigh gives half a mark for a pone at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc. Witness as above.

Essex. William de Holmo and Isabella, his wife, give half a mark for a pone at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc. Witness as above.

Yorkshire. Thomas, son of William de Wodehal’, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc. Witness as above.

Herefordshire. The prior of Llanthony Prima gives half a mark for a pone. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire etc. ² Witness as above.

1.

At this point there is an erasure that is struck through.

2.

What looks to be a hand points to this entry in the margin.

30 Dec. Westminster. Suffolk. Hubert of Thrandeston gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Sibyl de Gymiges gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Berkshire. Phillippa of Colworth gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

[No date]. Dorset. Gregory de Kingeston’ gives half a mark for an attaint. Order to the sheriff of Dorset.

[No date]. Berkshire. Phillippa of Colworth gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Emma, who was the wife of Simon de La Haye, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire.

[No date]. Berkshire. Matilda, daughter of Adam Bulge, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

7 Jan. Westminster. Devon. Thomas the Knight gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because Andrew de Soligny, who held from the king in chief, has died, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take all lands and tenements of which Andrew was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died into the king’s hand and to keep them safely until etc. He is to cause those lands to be extended by the oath etc. Witness as above.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2, reads ‘Nottinghamshire’.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Roger Russell gives half a mark for taking an attaint before the justices at the first session etc. against John Osmund, concerning tenements in Wickham, Streetly End and Horseheath. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

a.

The person making fine is named as ‘Roger son of Russell’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Phillip de Merton’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Roger Perthesuyl gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire.

[No date]. Norfolk. Hugh of Colby, Margaret, his wife, and Ralph de Roppes and Hawise, his wife, ¹ give half a mark for a writ at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

1.

‘and William de Hecham’ cancelled here by expunction.

9 Jan. Westminster. Concerning the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, which have been committed. The king has committed the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk to Hervey of Stanhoe to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers the king for the farms and other issues of the same counties according to the provision made by the magnates of the king’s council. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Berkshire. Henry de Hath’ gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire etc.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Richard, son of Richard de Forischull’, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire etc.

20 Jan. Westminster. Yorkshire. James de Calvo Monte gives half a mark for receiving a writ from his attorney via Peter de Percy. ¹ Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

Uncertain translation.

24 Jan. Westminster. Suffolk. John the Welshman gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Warwickshire. William Corbet gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

23 Jan. Westminster. For John son of Matthew. The king has granted to John son of Matthew that he may pay £10 at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year for all debts that he owes him at the Exchequer, £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until all of the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. John son of Bartholomew gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

24 Jan. Westminster. Buckinghamshire. Robert, son of Henry de Bingham, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Devon. The abbot of Newenham gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Cornwall. The same abbot gives half a mark for having a pone [to transfer a plea] to the Bench, concerning his livestock that have been seized. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Richard the Marshal gives half a mark for having a writ of record at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

28 Jan. Westminster. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because Robert de Barevyle, who held from the king in chief, has died, as the king has heard, order to the escheator of Lindsey to take all lands and tenements of which Robert was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died into the king’s hand and to keep them safely until etc. He is to cause those lands to be extended etc. by the oath etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2, reads ‘Leicestershire’.

[No date]. Norfolk. Richard the Palmer and Christiana, his wife, and Matilda and Isabella, her sisters, give half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Essex. John de Marisco gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

30 Jan. Westminster. Hampshire. Robert le Fraunceys and William le Fraunceys give the king one mark for their delivery from the prison in which they are detained for the redisseisin that they made against William de Sancto Philiberto in Clakford’. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take security etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Dorset. John Quintyn gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Master Henry de Holm gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Richard de Sanford gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Peter Basset gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Somerset. William de Marisco gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

6 Feb. Westminster. For Hugh de Galour. The king has taken the fealty of Hugh, son and heir of Sibyl de Galour, for all lands and tenements which Sibyl held from the king in chief by sergeanty in the bailiwick of William of Wendling, escheator on this side of the Trent, and the king has delivered those lands and tenements to him. Order to the aforesaid escheator that, having accepted security from Hugh for rendering 32s. 6d. to the king at the Exchequer, namely one moiety in the octaves of Trinity next to come and the other moiety in the quindene of Michaelmas next following for his relief of the aforesaid lands, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements of which Sibyl was seised in her demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day she died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of her death. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Thomas de Sancto Georgio gives 2 m. for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

[No date]. Wiltshire. The same Thomas gives one mark for another pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

10 Feb. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Eustachia de Arderne gives half a mark for having a pone. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Dorset. Juliana, who was the wife of Walter de Heyno, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

Concerning relief. John, son of Adam son of John, lately deceased, who held from the king in chief, has performed fealty to the king for all lands and tenements which Adam held from the king in chief, and the king has rendered those lands and tenements to him. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster and the escheator of the same county that, having accepted security from John for rendering 3s. 4d. to the king at the Exchequer for his relief, they are to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements which Adam held from the king in chief in the aforesaid county and of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death. Witness as above.

[No date]. Suffolk. Henry the Goldsmith gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. For John of Walton. The king has granted to John of Walton that for the £8 14s. 6d. which he owes him for Richard de Crumhale, on the one hand, for the 20 m. which the same John owes for the same ¹ Richard, on the other hand, and for the 2 m. which he owes him for Robert de Derle, he may render to him 20s. at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year, 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 40s. thus from year to year at the same terms until all of the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

1.

‘Exchequer’ entered here in error.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

10 Feb. Westminster. Concerning a fine. Robert of Cockfield has made fine with the king by 200 m. for having the marriage of the heirs of John son of Bernard, who held from the king in chief, with all things pertaining to the same marriage, of which he is to pay 100 m. at the Exchequer within the month from Easter next to come and the remaining 100 m. in the quindene of Hilary next following. He has letters patent for this. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2, reads ‘Norfolk’.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Ralph de Sancto Laudo and Agnes, his wife, give half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

a.

An alternative date, ‘9 Feb.’ is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2.

12 Feb. Westminster. For Stephen of Houghton. The king has granted to Stephen of Houghton, son and heir ¹ of Simon of Houghton, formerly sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, that he may render 10 m. per annum at the Exchequer for all clear debts which Simon owes to the king there at the same terms at which Simon was accustomed to render £10, until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England. By H. Bigod, justiciar, and J., the treasurer.

1.

‘and heir’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Stephen Sibry. Stephen Sibry has made fine with the king by £100 for having the custody of the lands and heirs of Alan de Rowell’ until the lawful age of the same heirs. He is to pay one moiety of the aforesaid fine within a month from Easter next to come and the other moiety in the quindene of Michaelmas next following. He has letters patent for this. Witness as above.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

b.

An alternative date, ‘10 Feb.’ is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Richard of Leeds and Joan, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

a.

This entry is out of sequence, being placed between nos. 215 and 216 in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 3.

14 Feb. Westminster. Concerning underwood that is to be sold. Order to the bailiff of Clarendon to cause the underwood of the king’s park of Clarendon to be sold without delay in as much as it will seem best to the king’s advantage by the oath of four trustworthy and law-worthy men of his bailiwick ¹ whom he shall assign to this, so that they answer at the Exchequer for the monies arising therefrom. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

‘of his bailiwick’ interlined.

[No date]. Norfolk. Thomas de Brom gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Concerning relief. Because the king has heard by an inquisition that he ordered to be taken by William of Wendling, escheator on this side of the Trent, that Geoffrey de Soligny, uncle of Andrew de Soligny, who has recently died and held from the king in chief, is Andrew’s nearest heir and is of full age, the king has taken Geoffrey’s fealty for all lands and tenements which Andrew held from the king in chief, and he has rendered those lands and tenements to him. Order to the said escheator that, having accepted security from Geoffrey for rendering his righful relief to the king for the aforesaid lands, and that, after the king’s return into England, he shall come to the king ready to do him his homage for the same lands as he is bound to do, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements that Andrew held from the king in chief and of all other lands and tenements of which Andrew was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 2, has been corrected from ‘Somerset’ to ‘Devon’.

For John of Littlebury. The king has granted to John of Littlebury junior that for the 100 m. which remain to be rendered to the king of the 200 m. which John mainperned to pay at the Exchequer for Roger de Luvetot, formerly sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, he may render £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, £10 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 100 m. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms ¹ and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ² Witness as above.

1.

‘to cause him to have those terms’ interlined.

2.

This entry appears to be written over an erasure.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For James Savage. The king has granted to James Savage, formerly sheriff of Hampshire, that he may render £15 at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year for all debts which he owes him at the Exchequer, £15 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and £30 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Derbyshire. Ralph de Frescheville gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire etc.

[No date]. Cornwall. William de Satchville gives 2 m. for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

27 Feb. Westminster. Somerset. Nicholas de Lambrok’ gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Somerset. William de Marisco gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

29 (xxviiij) Feb. Westminster. For Nicholas of Handred. The king has granted to Nicholas of Handred, formerly sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, that he may render 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year for all debts which he owes him at the Exchequer, 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 10 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer that, having accepted security from him for observing the said terms, they are to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Leicestershire. The abbot of North Creake gives one mark for taking an attaint before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Robert de Melewys gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire etc.

1 March. Westminster. Concerning relief. The king has taken the homage of Laurence Martin, son and heir of Barbata, who was the wife of Martin son of Simon, for all lands and tenements which Barbata held from the king in chief on the day she died. Order to the William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from Laurence for rendering his righful relief to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements of which Barbata was seised in her demesne as of fee on the day she died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of her death. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Norfolk. Juliana, who was the wife of John Le Enveyse, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc. Witness as above.

[No date]. Shropshire. Richard de Kokiseye gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

5 March. Westminster. Essex. William de Stansted’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

8 March. Westminster. Concerning relief. The king has taken the homage of Thomas of Edensor, son of Lucy, sister of William le Savage, one of the same William’s heirs, and similarly the homage of Hugh de Meynill’, who has taken to wife Phillippa, sister and another of the heirs of the same William, for all lands and tenements which William held from the king in chief on the day he died, and he has rendered the aforesaid lands and tenements to them. Order to the William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, or his sub-escheator in Worcestershire, that, having accepted security from Thomas and Hugh for rendering their righful relief to the king at the Exchequer, he is to cause them to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements which William held from the king in chief and of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of William’s death. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Concerning relief. Order, in the same manner, to the escheator beyond the Trent or his sub-escheator in Derbyshire. Witness as above.

Concerning relief. Order, in the same manner, to the escheator or the sub-escheator in Staffordshire. Witness as above.

Concerning relief. Order, in the same manner, to the escheator or the sub-escheator in Warwickshire. Witness as above.

8 March. Westminster. Norfolk. Juliana, who was the wife of John Le Enveyse, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Concerning relief. The king has taken the homage of John, son and heir of Nicholas de Bikere, for all lands and tenements which Nicholas, his father, held from the king in chief on the day he died, and he has delivered the aforesaid lands and tenements to him. Order to the William [of Wendling], the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from John for rendering 10 m. to the king at the Exchequer for his relief, namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year and 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, he is to cause him to have full seisin etc. of all of the aforesaid lands and tenements and similarly of other lands and tenements of which Nicholas was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died and which [have been taken into the king’s hand] by reason etc. Witness as above.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 3, reads ‘Cumberland’.

[No date]. Cumberland. Thomas de Goldington’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland etc.

[No date]. Essex. William de Goram gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

22 March. Westminster. Hertfordshire. Robert son of Geoffrey gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Derbyshire. Avice, who was the wife of Roger the Clerk, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. William de Millers gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Devon. David of Widemouth gives 2 m. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. The abbot of Missendon gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. The men of the abbess of Fontevraud of Leyton give 20s. for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

[No date]. Cornwall. William, son of Walter son of William, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Phillip de Chauncy and Lucy, his wife, give one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

6 April. Westminster. Warwickshire. Robert de Rakisdal’ and Matilda, his wife, and Agatha and Alice, her sisters, give half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

‘taking before Giles of Erdington’ interlined by a different hand.

[No date]. Kent. John of Ruxley gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Hugh de Westcote and Alice, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

[No date]. Shropshire. William, son of Ralph de Re, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Robert de Mara gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Kent. Adam Killy of Ospringe gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Kent. Thomas of Faversham gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

12 April. Westminster. Concerning the abbey of Malmesbury, which has been committed. The king has committed the abbey of Malmesbury, with all things pertaining to it in this vacancy, to Adam de Aston to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers him at the Exchequer for the issues of the same and for other things pertaining to the king from it. Order to the knights, free men and all other tenants of the aforesaid abbey to be intendant and respondent to Adam as keeper of the aforesaid abbey in all things which pertain to that custody, as aforesaid. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Henry, son of Richard de Walton, gives half a mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Robert Schymming gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. Null and void because below. Ralph de Waldeschelf gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk [sic] etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because below. See no. 460.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Stephen de la Esqueyle gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire etc.

[No date]. Berkshire. Milo Basset gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. The men of Walter de Grey of Hardwick give one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

[No date]. Cumberland. Henry de Den‘ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. John de Valognes gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Eudo de Sydelinch’of Sydling gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Adam son of Payn gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Sibyl, who was the wife of Stephen de Echston’, ¹ gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

1.

Uncertain transcription of name.

[No date]. Kent. Joan de Rammisleg’ gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Kent. William, son of Godfrey Polle, gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

21 April. Westminster. Concerning relief. Because the king has heard by an inquisition that he ordered to be taken by William of Wendling, escheator on this side of the Trent, that Henry of Edmundsthorpe is the nearest heir of Robert of Edmundsthorpe, his brother, who has recently died and held from the king in chief, and that Henry is of lawful age, the king has delivered to him the aforesaid lands and tenements that Robert held from the king in chief, to have in tenancy until he [the king] returns into England and Henry performs his fealty and homage to him for them as he is bound. Order to the aforesaid escheator that, having accepted security from Henry for rendering his righful relief to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all of the aforesaid lands and tenements and of all other lands and tenements of which Robert was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

Concerning relief. Order, in the same manor, to Thomas Grelley, justice of the forest on this side of the Trent, to cause the same Henry to have seisin ¹ of the bailiwick of the forest of Freemantle, formerly of the aforesaid Robert, to have in tenancy until the return etc., as aforesaid. Witness as above.

1.

‘seisin’ interlined.

[No date]. Devon. Richard Auuerey, Richard Tyrel, Robert de Ponte, Roger le Blund, Richard the Smith and Ranulf de la Pomeraie give 2 m. for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Essex. William, son of Richard of Halstead, and Joan, his wife, give the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Robert, son of Peter of Legbourne, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

23 April. Westminster. Concerning a fine. Northamptonshire. Master ¹ Henry Lovel, clerk, has made fine with the king by 5 m., which are to be rendered at the Exchequer, for trespass of venison in the king’s forest of Whittlebury, of which he has lately been accused. Order to Thomas Grelley, justice of the king’s forest on this side of the Trent, to cause the aforesaid Master Henry Luvel and his pledges to be quit from the aforesaid trespass. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

1.

‘Master’ entered in the margin.

Order, in the same manner, to the justices in eyre taking the pleas of the forest in Northamptonshire to [cause] the aforesaid Master Henry and his pledges to be quit etc. ¹

1.

Written directly following and below the previous witness clause to the very right edge of the membrane.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Richard de Sees gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

24 April. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Reginald de Waterville gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc. Witness H. Bigod, justiciar of England.

[No date]. Derbyshire. Roger de Stratton’ gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. John de Chanceaux gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Hugh de Wikham gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc. ¹

1.

This entry is followed by a space of about three lines and the heading ‘After the king’s return into England’, which is written in the middle of the membrane.

1 May. St. Paul’s, London. Yorkshire. Alan, son of Andrew of Langthorne, gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc. ¹ Witness the king.

1.

From this point on all entries are witnessed by the king unless otherwise stated.

a.

An alternative date, ‘3 May’ is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 3.

[No date]. Dorset. Phillip de St. Quintin gives one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Roger de Luton’ gives 1 m. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. Essex. Henry Pelryn gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Surrey. Walter de La Feylde and Agatha, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Surrey etc.

[No date]. Shropshire. Walter of Hopton gives 20s. for having a pone. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

3 May. St. Paul’s, London. Kent. Thomas de Ensing’ and John, his brother, give half a mark for a pone concerning livestock that has been seized. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. David, son of Peter le Poer of Drayton, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

[No date]. Essex. Richard, son of Ralph de Hauvyle, gives one mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before the same Gilbert. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Devon. William de Cruce gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. John de Valognes gives half a mark for having a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Roger, son of Robert of Marcham, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Thomas, son of Roger le Irreys, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Robert Wit gives half a mark for having a writ of record at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

[No date]. Kent. Joan, who was the wife of Ralph de Pympe, gives half a mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

[No date]. Cornwall. Walter Dyrewyne and Orgoylosa, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

3 May. St. Paul’s, London. Warwickshire. John of Ladbroke gives one mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

4 May. St. Paul’s, London. Dorset. John Lundefare gives half a mark for having a pone. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. Aymer, son of Aymer de Chanceaux, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

[No date]. Devon. Mauger de Sancto Albino gives one mark for a writ of agreement ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Alice, who was the wife of Peter de Lenton’, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Northumberland. Henry of Wrotham gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland etc.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Amy de Benetleye and Walter de Cokeseye give one mark for taking an attaint before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

[No date]. Sussex. William Fnaccard gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Sussex etc.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Alice, daughter of Richard of Loddington, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Margery, who was the wife of Robert of Bredicot, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire etc.

[No date]. Kent. James Humfrey gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Somerset. William Russel gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. William, parson of the church of Mecheton’, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Essex. Hugh de Langetweyt gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Robert de Ros, the abbot of Lilleshall and the prior of Newstead outside Stamford give 2 m. for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

8 May. St. Paul’s, London. Suffolk. John de Gedding’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Henry, son of Alan de Morton’, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Richard de Berton’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Roger de Rittyll’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Kent. Robert son of Robert and John and Hamo, his brothers, give one mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Berkshire. William de Sifflaton’ gives one mark for taking an attaint before the justices at the first session etc. against Simon, son of Roger de Gersingdon’, concerning a tenement in Pangbourne.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Nicholas Abbe of Heynton’ and Emma, his wife, give one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Richard Le Parker of Chartley, Richard Le Rus, Hugh Attemore and Richard de Fotesbroc gives half a mark for taking an attaint before the justices at the first session etc. against William de Le, concerning a tenement in Fulford. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire etc.

9 May. St. Paul’s, London. Yorkshire. Gilbert de Rougemont gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Middlesex. William le Hare gives half a mark for taking an assize before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Middlesex etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Gerard son of Gerard gives 2 m. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Kent. Edelina, who was the wife of Thomas le Sot, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Cumberland. Ralph de Bethum gives one mark for having a writ of trespass at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Jordan son of Nicholas gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Richard de Blammuster and Elena, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

[No date]. Lancaster. Jordan de Hilton’ gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Null and void because he did not have the writ. Hugh de Grescy gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he did not have the writ

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. The men of Walter de Grey of the manor of Hardwick give one mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

[No date]. Rutland. John de Curcun gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Rutland etc.

12 May. St. Paul’s, London. For William of Huntercombe. The king has granted to William of Huntercombe, who has taken to wife the other of the heirs of Isabella de Ford’, that for the £30 which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the marriage of the aforesaid Isabella he may render 50s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 50s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 100s. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £30 have been paid 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. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Nicholas son of Ralph gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Ralph de Oyldebof and Nicholaa, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. John, son of Robert Ladde, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

15 May. St. Paul’s, London. For William de Heytham. The king has pardoned to William de Heytham the 5 m. by which he made fine with him for having respite of his knighthood. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 5 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

17 May. St. Paul’s, London. Devon. Alice de Vere gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton against William de la Pomeraie, concerning a tenement in Opotery. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

1.

‘against William de la Pomeraie, concerning a tenement in Opotery’ added after the witness clause at the end of the line.

[No date]. Cornwall. Alice de Vere gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton against Henry de la Pomeraie and Herward de Marisco. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

1.

‘against Henry de la Pomeraie and Herward de Marisco’ added after the witness clause at the end of the line.

a.

The fine is given as ‘half a mark’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 3.

[No date]. Devon. Alice de Vere gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton against Henry de la Pomeraie, Signacius de Clifton’ and Mary, his wife, concerning a tenement in Buckerell. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Ralph, son of Ralph de Wylynton’, gives one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Robert son of Eadulph gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Stephen Gurneys gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

17 May. Westminster. Northamptonshire. William, son of Gilbert Beneyt, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

Derbyshire. The prior of Repton, Milo de Molton‘, Engelard de Curcun, Richard Bussun, Robert de Shopenhal’, William son of Stephen and John Chaumpeneys give 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire etc.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Ralph of Colston, clerk, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire etc.

Concerning the priory of Prittlewell. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take into the king’s hand the priory of Prittlewell, which is vacant by the resignation of Brother Peter, formerly the prior of the same, and to keep it safely without waste or destruction until the king will provide otherwise.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Hugh Le Ferun gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Roger Launceleve gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. William de Asseby gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

[No date]. Sussex. Geoffrey de Rundington’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Sussex etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Richard Braunche gives one mark for taking an assize before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Leicestershire. William dil Hulle and Maurice, Richard and Walter, his brothers, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. John Bernard gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire etc.

[No date]. For William de Lisle. The king has granted to William, son of Geoffrey de Lisle, that he may render 10 m. per annum of the 40 m. which he owes him at the Exchequer, namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 10 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 40 m. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Somerset. Robert Turgys gives one mark for taking an attaint. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Lancaster. Jordan de Hilton’ gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. John de Valognes gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

20 May. Westminster. Concerning herbage that is to be sold. The king’s men of Havering have shown to the king that the old herbage of his park of Havering still grows so that new shoots, from which the king’s deer of the same park ought to be sustained, cannot spring forth from beneath, by which the same park is not inconsiderably damaged. Order to Thomas Grelley, justice of the king’s forest on this side of the Trent, to cause the aforesaid herbage to be viewed by six or eight law-worthy men of the aforesaid manor. If it seems to them that it would be to the king’s profit and to the improvement of the aforesaid park, they are to cause the said old herbage to be grazed by the livestock of those parts as shall seem most expedient to them, so that they shall answer for the monies arising therefrom at the Exchequer.

a.

This entry is out of sequence in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, being placed between nos. 298 and 299. The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Essex’.

b.

For an entry not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see no. 775 below.

[No date]. Suffolk. John de Valognes gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Henry de Leyrton’ gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

For Thomas Grelley. The king has pardoned to Thomas Grelley, justice of the forest on this side of the Trent, the £20 at which he was amerced some time ago before Master Simon of Walton, then the king’s justice, for a certain disseisin. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid £20.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For James of Audley. James of Audley has a similar writ concerning a pardon of the £40 which he owed the king for the farm of the king’s manor of Newcastle under Lyme for Easter term in the forty-fourth year. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. William Belond’ gives half a mark for a writ concerning a false judgement. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

Concerning Clarendon forest. By the counsel of the great men who are of his council, the king has committed Clarendon forest and his houses of Clarendon to Robert Walerand to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he may take per annum for the custody of the said forest and houses, from the issues of the same, as much as Robert of Stopham was accustomed to take per annum for the same custody.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. John de Orliens gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. Walter de Chlahal’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

21 May. Westminster. For Hugh Peche. The king has granted to Hugh Peche that for the £222 5s. which remain to be rendered of the fine of £500 that he made with him for a trespass, he may render £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, £10 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £222 5s. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Hugh to have the said terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By John Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Simon son of Richard gives half a mark for a pone concerning livestock that has been seized. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

For Adam de Gerdel’. For the expenses and labours that Adam de Jerdel’, formerly the hundred-bailiff of the king’s hundred of Barlichway, recently sustained and endured in taking malefactors and disturbers of the king’s peace in Warwickshire, the king has pardoned to him the 30s. which remain to be rendered of the issues of the aforesaid hundred from the time he was keeper of the same hundred. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 30s. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Hugh, son of Walter of Crepping, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Wido Goldsmith gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Kent. Roger son of Simon gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Nicholas Daiville gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire etc.

26 May. Westminster. Concerning selling the king’s corn. The king has enjoined upon Robert of Muncaster, sheriff of Cumberland, that he is to cause all of the corn of the king’s demesne of the castle of Carlisle then in the barns of the same castle to be sold by the view of trustworthy and law-worthy men, so that he might answer for the issues arising therefrom at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next to come. Order to the constable of the aforesaid castle to permit Robert to sell the aforesaid corn, as aforesaid.

a.

An alternative date, ‘27 May’ is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Clemencia, daughter of William of Leverton, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Henry de Turkil gives one mark for taking an assize before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

26 May. Westminster. For Richard of Hereford. The king has betaken himself to Richard of Hereford for 10 m. of the debts which Godfrey de Scudamore owes the king from the time when he was sheriff of Wiltshire, which he mainperned to render to the king for the same Geoffrey [sic], ¹ and of the same 10 m. and of the 12½ m. which Richard himself owes to the king for the bishop of Hereford, and of 25 m. which Richard owes the king for Robert Malore, the king has granted him that ² he may render 40s. per annum, namely 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 20s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 40s. thus from year to year ³ at the same terms until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the justiciar.

1.

‘which he mainperned to render to the king for the same Geoffrey’ interlined.

2.

‘which Richard owes the king for Robert Malore, the king has granted him that’ written in the margin. It appears that this entry is written over an erasure up to this point.

3.

‘per annum’ cancelled here by expunction.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

26 May. Westminster. Concerning the county of Cumberland, which has been committed. The king has committed the county of Cumberland to Robert of Muncaster to keep at farm for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £40 per annum, namely £20 at Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year and £20 at the Exchequer of Easter next following.

26 May. Westminster. For Simon de Putot. Because it is attested before the king (coram Rege) by certain of the king’s faithful men that all of the land of Simon de Putot is extended at 40s. per annum at most, the king has granted him that he may render 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year of the £15 which he owes him for the debts of Salomon the Bishop, Jew of London, and 20s. thus from year to year at the same term ¹ until the aforesaid £15 have been paid to the king. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause Simon to have the said terms for this and to cause it to be done and enrolled thus.

1.

‘thus from year to year at the same term’ apparently written over an erasure.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William de Ros gives one mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

For Master John of Chishall. For the praiseworthy service that Master John of Chishall has given the king in the parts of France, the king has granted him that he may render 2 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year of the £10 13s. 4d. which he owes him for the arrears of his farm of the king’s vill of Tatehal’, 2 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 4 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £10 13s. 4d. have been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause John to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Walter of Merton. By the fine of £40 which W. of Merton has made with him, the king has granted him the custody of the lands and heirs of William de Meauling’, who held from the king in chief, together with the marriage of the same heirs with wardships, advowsons of churches and also with dowers if they fall in. He has letters patent for this.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, reads ‘Surrey’.

[No date]. Berkshire. Thomas Ferthing’ gives one mark for taking an assize before H. Bigod, justiciar of England, against the abbot of Reading and others, concerning a tenement in East Hendred. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire etc.

27 May. Westminster. Dorset. Ralph Belet gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Dorset.

28 May. Westminster. For Margery, who was the wife of John of Gatesden. By the fine of 5 m. of silver which Margery, who was the wife of John of Gatesden, who held from the king in chief, has made with him, the king has granted her that she might marry herself in the kingdom of England to whomever she wishes. ¹ She has land in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.

1.

Witness clause entered here.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, reads ‘Buckinghamshire’.

[No date]. Sussex. Joan, who was the wife of William de Netherstok’, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc.

30 May. Westminster. Norfolk. Adam, son of William de Flicham, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. ¹ Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

1.

‘for a writ ad terminum’ repeated in error.

[No date]. Norfolk. Adam de Flicham, gives one mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Henry of Earley gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take etc.

[No date]. Surrey. John de Keringeham gives half a mark for taking an assize before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Surrey etc.

a.

An alternative date, ‘31 May’ is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4.

31 May. Westminster. For Thomas de Oreford. By the fine of 40s. which Thomas de Oreford has made with him, the king has granted him the custody of the lands and heirs of Robert le Venur, who held from the king in chief, and he is to pay one moiety thereof at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next to come and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following. ¹ He has land in the county.

1.

Witness clause entered here.

[No date]. Hampshire. William Brun gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take etc.

[No date]. For the abbess of Barking. The king has granted to the abbess of Barking that she may render 100s. per annum for the 30 m. which are in arrears to him of the fine ¹ of 50 m. that Christiana, formerly abbess of Barking, made with him for having the chattels formerly of Matilda, sometime abbess of the same place, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year and the other moiety at Easter next following, and thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 30 m. have been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause her to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

1.

‘fine’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

2 June. Westminster. For William de Northye. The king has granted to William de Northye that, of the £22 which he ought to have paid him at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fourth year for the debts formerly of Salomon the Bishop, Jew of London, he may pay one moiety at the Exchequer at St. John the Baptist next to come and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause it to be done and enrolled thus. By the king and council.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For Stephen of Houghton. Whereas the king recently granted to Stephen of Houghton, son and heir of Simon of Houghton, formerly sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, that he was to pay 10 m. per annum for all clear debts which Simon owes the king at the Exchequer, the king, on account of the small size of the tenement of the aforesaid Stephen, grants him that he may pay 5 m. per annum for the aforesaid debts at the Exchequer, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 5 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause it to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William, parson of the church of Neuton’. The king has granted to William, parson of the church of Neuton’, that he may pay 2½ m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year of the 10 m. at which he was amerced before H. Bigod, justiciar of England, for a trespass, 2½ m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, ¹ and the remaining ² 5 m. at the same terms in the following year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

1.

‘next following’ interlined.

2.

‘remaining’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Berkshire. The abbot of Cirencester gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire etc.

[No date]. Devon. William the Englishman gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Devon. Richard Hereward and Hamelin Hereward give half a mark for taking an assize before the same Henry. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

3 June. Westminster. For Robert Le [sic] Brus. The king has granted to Robert de Brus that for the debts which he owes him at the Exchequer for William de Beauchamp of Bedford he may render 50 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 50 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 100 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until all of the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By R. earl of Gloucester and H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Surrey. Walter de Letton’ and Gunnora, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take etc.

[No date]. Kent. William de Horton’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Essex. John de Marisco gives half a mark for a writ at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Kent. Henry de la Porte gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Peter de Buwude gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Sussex. Agnes, daughter of John the Welshman, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Sussex etc.

[No date]. Essex. Joan, daughter of Elias of Sonning, gives 40s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

a.

It appears that the marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, may have been erased .

[No date]. Essex. William of London gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

a.

It appears that the marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, may have been erased .

[No date]. Hertfordshire. John de Cadendon’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Reginald of Sleaford gives one mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Vacated because he did not have it. Nicholas son of Geoffrey gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he did not have it.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

6 June. Westminster. Essex. Roger Le Ku gives one mark for taking an attaint before the justices at the first session when they come into the parts of Essex to recognise whether one acre of land in Little Laver is free alms pertaining to the church of John de Langetoft of Little Laver or Roger’s lay fee. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Sibyl, daughter of William of Snettisham, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

8 June. Merton. For Robert de Scales and Alice, his mother. Memorandum that at Pentecost in the fortieth year Robert de Scales and Alice, his mother, paid in the king’s Wardrobe at Westminster to Artald de Sancto Romano, then keeper of the same Wardrobe, £40 of silver for the fine of 17 m. of gold which they had made with the king some time ago for having seisin of the manors of Renhal’ and Neuseles, and £40 of silver on the morrow of St. John the Baptist next following, and £33 6s. 8d. of silver on Monday next after Michaelmas of the same year, as attested by Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks of the aforesaid Wardrobe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Robert and Alice to be quit from the aforesaid 17 m. of gold.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Stephen de la More gives one mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Stephen de la More gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire.

[No date]. Essex. Concerning relief. The king has taken the homage of John Filliol, son and heir of Richard Filliol, for all lands and tenements which Richard, his father, held from the king in chief, and he has rendered those lands and tenements to him. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from John for rendering his rightful relief to the king at the Exchequer for the aforesaid lands, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements of which Richard, his father, was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, reads ‘Essex’.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. John Pykot gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

8 June. Merton. For the burgesses of Dunwich. Vacated because otherwise below. The king’s burgesses of Dunwich have paid 50 m. in the king’s Wardrobe, namely 40 m. at the feast of St. John the Evangelist at Christmas in the forty-first year, at Westminster, and 10 m. at Windsor on Monday next after St. Faith the Virgin next following, to Artald de Sancto Romano, then keeper of the same Wardrobe, in part payment of 120 m. by which they made fine with the king some time ago for having certain liberties, as attested by Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks of the aforesaid Wardrobe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the aforesaid burgesses to be quit from the aforesaid 50 m. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below. See no. 374.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Sussex. Hamo de la Stane gives one mark for taking an attaint before the justices at the first session etc. against Denise de Northeton’ and Robert, her son, concerning a tenement in Wilindon’. Order to the sheriff of Sussex.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Phillip de Chauncy and Lucy, his wife, and Matilda de Mortimer give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Margery, who was the wife of Edmund Turle, gives one mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire.

[No date]. Devon. Mabel of Belstone gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

12 June. Westminster. For Suetona of Blyth. The king, moved by thoughts of charity, has pardoned Suetona of Blyth the 7s. which are exacted from her by summons of the Exchequer for the year and waste of a house formerly of Roger Duzemars in Blyth, the 12s. which are similarly exacted from her by summons of the same Exchequer for the rent of the same house for four years, and the half-mark at which she was amerced before the justices last itinerant at Nottingham because she entered the aforesaid house after the king’s year and day without his licence. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Suetona to be quit from the aforesaid 25s. 8d. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because William des Forz, earl of Aumale, has gone the way of all flesh, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take all lands and tenements of which the same earl was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died into the king’s hand, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because William des Forz, earl of Aumale, has gone the way of all flesh, order to William Latimer, the king’s escheator beyond the Trent, to take all lands and tenements of which the same earl was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died into the king’s hand, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

[No date]. Devon. William de Moyhun and Juliana, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Devon. Roger Le Spec gives one mark for taking an assize before the same Henry. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Devon. William de La Cumbe gives half a mark for taking an assize before the same Henry. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

12 June. Westminster. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because John de Venuz, who held from the king in chief, has died, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take all lands and tenements of which the same John was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick ¹ on the day he died into the king’s hand, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

1.

‘in his bailiwick’ interlined.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, reads ‘Hampshire’.

[No date]. Devon. Roger Eyluf gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

a.

Entries 365–67 and 370 are out of chronological sequence in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4, being placed after no. 386.

[No date]. Essex. Andrew, son of Ralph de Witton’, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

14 June. Westminster. Gloucestershire. Walter de Panes gives one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire etc.

For Richard of Cornard. On account of the poverty of Richard of Cornard, son and heir of Richard of Cornard, the king has granted him that for the £447 9s. 9d. which he owes him at the Exchequer for the debts of the aforesaid Richard, his father he may render 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 20s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 40s. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £447 9s. 9d. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king at the instance of John de Burgh, and by the earl of Gloucester and H. Bigod, justiciar and others of the council.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the king’s men of Brill. The king has granted to his men of Brill, for their poverty, ¹ that of the 60s. 14d. which they owe him for the arrears of the farm of his manor of Brill from the time when the same manor was in their hands, and of the £4 which are in arrears for the stock of the same manor from the aforesaid time they may render to him 20s. per annum, namely 10s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 10s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 20s. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid money has been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king and the justiciar.

1.

‘for their poverty’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Somerset. Thomas de Reingny gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because William Kadel, who held from the king in chief, has died, as the king has heard, order to the escheator in Gloucestershire to take all lands and tenements of which the same William was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died into the king’s hand without delay, and to cause them to be kept safely until the king orders otherwise.

15 June. Westminster. For Geoffrey de Cruce. On Monday next after Epiphany in the forty-first year, at Westminster, Geoffrey de Cruce, formerly sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, paid 66s. 8d. of silver in the king’s Wardrobe to Artald de Sancto Romano, then keeper of the same Wardrobe, for the half-mark of gold at which Geoffrey had been amerced some time ago for default in distraining for making knights. Geoffrey also paid 5 m. of silver in the same Wardrobe to the same Artald in the aforesaid year for Nicholas, son of Roger Wazelin, and Nicholas Lurdun, by which sum they made fine with the king for having a writ, as attested by Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks of the aforesaid Wardrobe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Geoffrey to be quit from the aforesaid half-mark of gold, and Nicholas and Nicholas from the aforesaid 5 m. of silver.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. John Gaugy and Petronilla, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

For the burgesses of Dunwich. At the feast of St. Botolph in the fortieth year, at Merton, the burgesses of Dunwich paid 40 m. in the king’s Wardrobe to Arcald de Sancto Romano, then keeper of the same Wardrobe, of the fine of 120 m. that they made fine with the king in the same year to welcome the king (pro bono adventu Regis) and for having charters of liberties, 40 m. at the feast of St. John the Evangelist in the forty-first year, at Westminster, 30 m. on the morrow of St. John before the Latin Gate in the same year, at Merton, and 10 m. on Monday next after St. Faith in the same year, at Windsor, as attested by Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks of the aforesaid Wardrobe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the aforesaid burgesses to be quit from the aforesaid 120 m. ¹

1.

For an earlier, cancelled version of this entry see no. 353 above.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

16 June. Westminster. Norfolk. Robert son of Reginald gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Sussex. John fitz Alan gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Sussex etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Phillip Bolloc gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Cornwall. Hugh English gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

For John de Muse. On the eve of the Conception of the Blessed Mary in the forty-second year, at Westminster, John de Muse paid 66s. 8d. in the king’s Wardrobe to Peter de Rivallis, then keeper of the same Wardrobe, for the half-mark of gold by which he made fine with the king for having respite of knighthood, as attested by Aubrey de Fécamp and P. of Winchester, clerks of the aforesaid Wardrobe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause John to be quit from the aforesaid half-mark.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Kent. Nicholas de La Masse gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. John of Everton and Eleanor, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire.

[No date]. Surrey. John de La Leye of Hadloya gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Surrey.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. The prior of Dunstable gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Richard de Cantilupe gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. John son of Stephen gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire.

[No date]. Norfolk. Milo, son of Ranulf de Ho, gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

a.

An alternative date, ‘17 June’ is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 4.

From here extracts have been sent to the Exchequer. ¹

1.

This is written at the very top of the membrane, above the stitching.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

18 June. Westminster. For William de Braose. At the instance of Edward, his son, the king has pardoned William de Braose the 50 m. at which he was amerced some time ago before Geoffrey de Langley, formerly justice of the king’s forest on this side of the Trent, for trespass of the forest, and which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William to be quit from the aforesaid 50 m. By the king and the justiciar .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William le Moyne. At All Saints in the thirty-seventh year, at Windsor, William le Moyne paid one mark of gold in the king’s Wardrobe to Peter Chaceporc, then keeper of the same Wardrobe, by which he made fine with the king for having a charter of warren, as attested by Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks of the aforesaid Wardrobe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William to be quit from the aforesaid mark of gold.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

19 June. Westminster. For Alexander de Beynflet’. Whereas the king some time ago granted to Alexander of Benfleet that he was to render 5 m. per annum at the Exchequer for the 50 m. by which he made fine with the justices last itinerant in Essex for the death of Robert Le Borne, namely 2½ m. at the Exchequer of Easter and 2½ m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, the king, having compassion for his poverty, has granted him that, even though he did not observe the same terms, he may recover them and may pay those 5 m. per annum at the Exchequer at those terms until the aforesaid 50 m. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Mary, who was the wife of Reginald of Cobham. The king has granted to Mary, who was the wife of Reginald of Cobham, formerly sheriff of Kent, that she may render 100s. per annum for the £30 which she owes the king at the Exchequer and which are in arrears of the £36 that she mainperned to pay at the same Exchequer for Reginald’s executors of a debt in which he was bound to the king for the arrears of his account from the time when he was sheriff of the aforesaid county, namely 50s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 50s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 100s. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £30 have been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Mary to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Henry de Pyrye gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

20 June. Westminster. Cornwall. Richard de Namcohuk gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Isabella, daughter of Bernard of Much Cowarne, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire.

[No date]. Devon. John Le Bastard gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Thomas, son of William de Drayton’, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Warwickshire. William Bygod gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Agnes, who was the wife of John Stekeling, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Hugh of Charlford gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Juliana of Chalcombe gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

[No date]. Cornwall. Roger le Cornu and Fyna, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall to take security etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Geoffrey le Clerk gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Dorset.

[No date]. Somerset. Robert de Bradeleya gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Surrey. Agatha de Tuggeleye gives one mark for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Surrey.

[No date]. Somerset. Because above. Robert de Bradeleya gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset. ¹

1.

Cancelled because above. See no. 403.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Dorset. Ralph de Tinden’ and Alice, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Dorset.

[No date]. For the executors of the testament of John de Venuz. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from the executors of the testament of John de Venuz, recently deceased, for rendering debts to the king at the Exchequer, if John owed him anything on the day he died, he is to permit the same executors to have free administration of the goods and chattels of the same deceased, in order to make execution of his testament therefrom.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Somerset. Agatha, who was the wife of Terricus the Fleming, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

17 June [sic]. Merton. For the prior and brethren of Hinton Charterhouse. The king has granted ¹ to prior and brethren of Hinton, of the Carthusian Order, the chattels of Jocelin de La Clive, their man, who has recently been hanged for felony, which chattels have been valued at 53s. 6d., as is said. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have this on this occasion saving the right of every man. ² By the king .

1.

A horizontal line with a squiggle through it is entered between ‘The king’ and ‘has granted’. That part of this entry appears to be written over an erasure too.

2.

This final sentence also appears to have been written over an erasure from ‘on this occasion’, ‘cause them to have’ being interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Devon. Humphrey de Northrissell’ and Eleanor, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

27 June. Merton. For the abbot of St. Albans. Because it is clear to the king by an inspection of the rolls of Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, for his army of Wales in the forty-first year that the abbot of St. Albans had his due service in that army by order of the king, on account of which the king has granted him his scutage from the knights’ fees which he holds from the king in chief, order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the aforesaid abbot to be quit from his service for the aforesaid army. By the bishop of London by his letters

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Hugh of Charlford gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Sarra de Neville gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

[No date]. Shropshire. Phillip de Grete gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire.

28 June. Westminster. Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because Roger de Mohaut, who held from the king in chief, has died, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take all lands and tenements of Roger’s inheritance in his bailiwick and of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died into the king’s hand, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. He is, however, to cause simple seisin to be made over to the king’s use of the lands that are of the inheritance of Cecilia, who was Roger’s wife, so that he takes nothing therefrom until he has command from the king otherwise. He is to say to the same Cecilia that she is to be with the king at St. John the Baptist in three weeks ready to do towards the king what she is bound to do, and he is to bring Roger’s heir with him if he can have him.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order, in the same manner, to the escheator or his sub-escheator in Norfolk.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Order, in the same manner, to the escheator or his sub-escheator in Suffolk.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Thomas Daniel gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Robert, son of Robert de Euere, ¹ gives one mark for taking an attaint of mort d’ancestor before H. Bigod, justiciar, between Thomas Le Provost and the aforesaid Robert, concerning twelve acres of land in Flaunden’. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire.

1.

‘de’interlined.

[No date]. Devon. Margery, who was the wife of Walter Gerveys, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Robert, son Robert of Wyham, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Richard Daniel gives 40s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Walter de [sic] Blund and Joan, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Devon. William of Rudway gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Norfolk. Simon Man gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Richard de Seyton’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire.

[No date]. Somerset. Hugh Fichet gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Worcestershire. John, son of Hugh Hereward, gives half a mark for taking an assize before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Peter Basset gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Kent. Godard Stibbing’ ¹ and Gunnora, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

1.

Uncertain transcription of name.

[No date]. Norfolk. The prior of Butley gives half a mark for a pone ¹ between himself and William de Burgh, so that William shall render to him the 2 m. which are in arrears to him of an annual rent of one mark. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

1.

The remainder of this sentence is added after the mandate to the sheriff by a different hand.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Walter de Hauton’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire.

[No date]. Norfolk. The prior of Butley gives half a mark for a pone between himself and Richard de Denigwoud’, Richard Le Wyte and Robert, son of Andrew le Blund, so that they shall render to him the 9 m. which are in arrears to him of an annual rent of 12s. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

5 July. Westminster. Concerning a fine. By the fine of 5 m. of silver which the prior of Newnham outside Bedford made with him, the king has granted him free ingress into that tenement which Lambert, son of Laurence le Seler of Bedford, gave to the aforesaid prior and his church of Newnham in perpetual alms in Turneye and that Lambert held from the king by sergeanty, to have and hold to the same prior and his successors and his aforesaid church forever without impediment from the king or his heirs, as Lambert’s charter, which the prior has concerning this, reasonably attests. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king, the justiciar, J. of Crakehall, treasurer and the barons of the Exchequer.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Hampshire. Alice de Sacy gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Walter de Ran gives one mark for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc.

[No date]. Vacated because above. Richard de Seyton’ gives half a mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because above. See no. 426

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Devon. Warin of Bowden gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

5 July. Westminster. The king has pardoned to William de St. Leger the half-mark at which he was amerced before Gilbert of Preston and his associates, justices last itinerant in Suffolk, for a false claim, and the mark at which he and Fulk Achard and William Brennewater, his pledges, were amerced before the same justices because William did not prosecute his plea before them. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William and his aforesaid pledges to be quit from the aforesaid 20s. By the king and the justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Suffolk. Robert Judiben ¹ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

1.

Uncertain transcription of name.

a.

The justice is erroneously given as ‘Henry of Bath’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 5.

[No date]. Devon. Richard Uppetorre gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Robert Ley of Tere ¹ gives half a mark for taking an attaint before the justices at the first session etc. against Thomas de Besemle, concerning a tenement in Lufwik’. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

1.

Uncertain transcription of name.

[No date]. Somerset. William of Corfe gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

6 July. Westminster. Oxfordshire. John of the Exchequer gives half a mark for taking an assize before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

Concerning an abbey that has been committed. The king has committed the vacant abbey of Burton to William de Hanyton’, his clerk, to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the issues arising therefrom at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 5, reads ‘Staffordshire’.

b.

An alternative date, ‘5 July’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 5.

[No date]. Norfolk. Stephen of Walsingham and Alice, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Rutland. William of Tickencote gives half a mark for taking an assize before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Rutland etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Roger del Boys gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Wiltshire. William de Langelettere and Thomas de Douer’ give one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

[No date]. Lancaster. Henry of Knowsley, the assign of Adam of Knowsley, gives one mark for a writ of agreement. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster.

[No date]. Shropshire. John de La Mare gives 20s. for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. Richard de Haverhill and Isabella, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

8 July. Westminster. Kent. Christiana, daughter of Thomas Spicer, gives one mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

[No date]. Berkshire. Robert de Anvers gives half a mark for taking an assize upon the king’s next arrival at Windsor, concerning three ponds raised in Winterbourne Danvers. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. William, son of Robert de Winterton’, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

[No date]. Kent. William, son of Peter de Boclaunde, gives one mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

[No date]. Shropshire. Robert Beysyn gives one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Henry of Cottenham gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

[No date]. Essex. Alexander le Bunch’ gives half a mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. Ralph de Waldesef gives one mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire etc. ¹

1.

For an earlier, cancelled version of this entry see no. 193above.

11 July. Westminster. Gloucestershire. William de Wiklisdon’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire.

[No date]. Somerset. Martin of Doulting, Robert of Harnhill and Joan of Harnhill give half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Norfolk. John de Gelleham gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Somerset. Hugh le Freye, Hugh Kepe, William de la Stone and Richard Fulcher give 20s. for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Gilbert Bene of Henewic’ and Lucy, his wife, and Geoffrey de Hengham and Margery, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Roger de Lacelles gives one mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

12 July. Westminster. For Walter de Burges. The king has pardoned to Walter de Burges the 2 m. at which he was amerced before Hugh Bigod, justiciar of England, at Westminster, for contempt. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Walter to be quit from the aforesaid 2 m. By the justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Devon. Martin de Blakemor’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

a.

An alternative date, ‘11 July’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 5.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Robert Salveyn gives one mark for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Surrey. Herbert de Sumerbure ¹ gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Surrey.

1.

Uncertain transcription of name.

[No date]. Devon. Martin de Blakemor gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Devon. Richard de Pyn gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Cornwall. John del Run ¹ and Alice, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before the same Henry. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall.

1.

Uncertain transcription of name.

[No date]. Devon. Matthew de Bampton’ gives one mark for taking an assize of darrein presentment before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

Concerning the fine of Hagin the Jew. Hagin son of Master Mosse, Jew of London, has made fine with the king by 50 m. of silver ¹ for having the houses, lands, rents and tenements formerly of Jacob Flory, Jew, in the city of London, which are the king’s escheats for the diverse trespasses, falsehoods and evil deeds of which the same Jacob was convicted before the king’s justices assigned to the custody of the Jews, and for which he has abjured the kingdom, and he [Hagin] has the king’s charter for this.

1.

‘by 50 m. of silver’ interlined at the level of the stitching.

13 July. Westminster. Buckinghamshire. Robert de Litlehull’ and Sibyl, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William de Sutton’ gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Nigel de Burgfeld gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Master Edmund of Massingham gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Shropshire. John ¹ of Ercall gives one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

1.

Crease on ms. Original to be checked.

[No date]. Devon. Ralph son of Walter gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Wiltshire. William, son of Nicholas de Ridlawe, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Richard, son of Robert of Hulcote, Stephen son of Geoffrey, Robert son of William and Henry atte Kyrke give half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston.

[No date]. Cornwall. John del Run and Alice, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall.

[No date]. Cornwall. William the Welshman ¹ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall.

1.

MS has 'de Waleys'.

a.

On the dorse of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 5, at this point is the following delivery note: ‘Second part of the Chancery in the forty-fourth year. John, abbot of Peterborough, treasurer, received this roll on 30 October at the beginning of the forty-fifth year of the reign of King H. III by the hand of Adam of Chesterton, clerk of Chancery’. Below this in a smaller hand is written ‘He is to be summoned to have the monies on the morrow of the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the forty-fifth year’.

15 July. Westminster. Concerning the stock of William de Bussay. Order to Thomas de Copmanwra to cause the stock of William de Bussey that is in his custody to be delivered without any delay, together with all issues and profits of the same stock, to Geoffrey de Chetham, sheriff of Lancaster, by the view of trustworthy and law-worthy men and by a chirograph to be drawn up concerning this between Thomas and the sheriff, so that the same sheriff might answer the king for this at the Exchequer. He is not to omit anything as he loves himself and his own. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. John, son of Andrew de Brauniford’, gives one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire.

[No date]. Somerset. Walter of Cheselade gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Devon. Richard de Calolye gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Richard son of Bernard gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

15 July. Westminster. Concerning Sauvey castle, which has been committed. By the counsel of the magnates who are of his council, the king has committed Sauvey castle with appurtenances to Peter de Neville to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering for this per annum at the Exchequer as much as Roger de Aubof was accustomed to render to the king for it while he had the custody of the same castle.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6, reads ‘Leicestershire’.

[No date]. Devon. Robert Le Toyns gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

15 July. Westminster. For Robert de Well’. The king has taken the homage of Robert de Well’, son and heir of Thomas de Well’, for all lands and tenements which Thomas, his father, held from the king in chief, and he has rendered those lands and tenements to him. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from Robert for rendering 100s. to the king for his relief, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all of the aforesaid lands and tenements etc. which [were taken into the king’s hand] by reason of [his] death.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6, reads ‘Essex’.

[No date]. Norfolk. Roger de Well’ and Isabella, his wife, give half a mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

For the abbot of Tavistock. Because the king well recalls that during the last vacancy of Tavistock abbey the prior and convent of the same place made fine with him by 40 m. for having the custody of the aforesaid abbey in the time of the said vacancy, and because 50 m. have, instead, been found enrolled for the aforesaid fine by an error in the writing of the rolls of Chancery, order to the barons of the Exchequer that, once the aforesaid 40 m. have been paid at the Exchequer, they are to cause Phillip, now the abbot of Tavistock, to be quit from the remaining 10 m., which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. By H. Bigod, justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Gilbert Aylof gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. William of Chalgrove gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Matilda, who was the wife of Simon de Greneleye, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

[No date]. Essex. Henry, son of Ralph the Messenger, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

16 July. Westminster. For John de Turberville concerning the custody of the land and heir of John de Venuz. John de Turberville of Berkshire has made fine with the king by 400 m. for having the custody of the lands and heirs of John de Venuz, who held from the king in chief, until the lawful age of the same heirs. He has letters patent concerning this. He is to pay 25 m. of the aforesaid fine to the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 50 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 400 m. are paid to the king. By the council.

[No date]. Norfolk. Stephen of Reedham gives one mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

18 July. Westminster. For Hugh de Bolbec. The king has granted to Hugh de Bolbec that for the 60 m. by which he made fine with him for his service due to the king ¹ in the last army of Wales, for the 100s. at which he was amerced before Geoffrey de Langley and his associates, justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Northumberland, and for the mark by which Hugh made fine before Roger of Thirkleby and his associates, justices of the Bench, which are exacted from Hugh by summons of the Exchequer he may render £10 per annum at the Exchequer, namely 100s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 100s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £10 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king and the justiciar.

1.

‘due to the king’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Suffolk. Concerning relief. The king has taken the homage of Richard of Playford, nephew and heir of Ernald of Otley, for all lands and tenements which Ernald, his uncle, held from the king in chief, and he has rendered those lands and tenements to him. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from Richard for rendering £10 to the king for his relief, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next to come and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements of which Ernald was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death.

a.

There is a lengthy, but illegible erasure tacked on to this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6.

For Nicholas of Stradsett. Because Nicholas of Stradsett has made fine with the king by 10 m., of which he is to pay 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year and 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, because he married Amice, who was the wife of Henry de Hauville, without the licence and will of the king, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to cause Nicholas to be quit from the aforesaid trespass.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6, reads ‘Norfolk’.

b.

This entry is out of chronological sequence in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6, being placed after no. 533 below.

18 July. Westminster. Kent. William de Dodemere and Cecilia, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Henry de Gant, master of the hospital of Bristol, ¹ gives one mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

1.

‘master of the hospital of Bristol’ interlined.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Walter de Sutton’ gives one mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Jocelin son of Richard gives one mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire.

For Richard de Tilbyry. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the quindene of Michaelmas next to come, all debts which Richard of Tilbury owes the king at the Exchequer. By the king and the justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Stephen Foliot gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire etc.

a.

An alternative date, ‘19 July’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6.

19 July. Westminster. Herefordshire. William Saucemarreys and Matilda, his wife, give half a mark for having a pone. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire etc.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Walter de Beyton’ gives half a mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire etc.

a.

Entries 512 and 517–20 are entered to the right of entries 510–11 and 513–16 in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Roger Durvassal gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Franc de Bohun gives one mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Hamo de Glesebrigg’ gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Shropshire. John le Pres gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire etc.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. William de [sic] Murdak and Roger de Welton’ give one mark for taking an attaint before H. Bigod against the abbot of Bruern, concerning common of pasture in Churchill. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire etc.

[No date]. Cornwall. Robert Donam gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Edmund de Multon’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Warwickshire. John son of John gives half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire etc.

20 July. Westminster. Norfolk. Robert de Tyrne and Mariota, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Norfolk. Stephen de War’ gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Surrey. Ralph de La Buruwe gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Surrey.

[No date]. Kent. Matthew de Masting’ and Andrea, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

21 July. Westminster. For Robert of Grendon. Whereas the king recently granted to Robert of Grendon, formerly sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire, that he was to render £40 per annum for all debts he owed him at the Exchequer, and whereas the king afterwards granted him that he was to render £20 per annum for the same debts at the same Exchequer until those debts had been paid to the king, now, however, the king, wishing to do him better grace, has granted him that he may render £20 per annum at the same Exchequer for both the aforesaid debts and all other debts now recognised before the barons of the Exchequer, namely £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, £10 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until all of the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king and H. Bigod, justiciar

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

21 July. Westminster. Norfolk. Margaret of Poynings gives 20s. for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Essex. John, son of Hervey de Legere, and Matilda, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Walter the Mason gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire etc.

24 July. Westminster. Sussex. Bartholomew Buchenet gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Sussex etc.

[No date]. Dorset. William, son of Emma the Brewster of Cherleton’, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Thomas de Lollington’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Essex. Roger de Brokesheued gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Denise de Weston’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Cave.

[No date]. Sussex. Because below. Roger de Horne gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because below. See no. 537.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for a charter. Robert de Beauchamp gives half a mark of gold for having a charter of market and fair. He has paid that gold in the king’s Wardrobe to Peter of Winchester, clerk of the same Wardrobe, and is quit.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6, reads ‘Middlesex’.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Roger de Grey and Sibyl, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire.

[No date]. Sussex. Roger de Horne gives half a mark for taking an assize before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Sussex. ¹

1.

For an earlier, cancelled version of this entry see no. 534 above.

[No date]. Norfolk. Roger Bolendeyn gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

26 July. Westminster. Devon. Concerning a fine for a charter. Henry de Tracy, son of Henry de Tracy, gives half a mark of gold for having a charter of market, fair and warren. He is to pay that gold in the quindene of Michaelmas next to come. Henry de Tracy, his father, is his pledge for this.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. William Danish gives one mark for a writ ad terminum ¹ against Richard Pauncefot, concerning a carucate of land with appurtenances in Hilersham. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire etc.

1.

The remainder of this sentence comes after the mandate to the sheriff.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. William Danish gives 20s. for another writ ad terminum ¹ against Isabella, who was the wife of Hugh de Ringisden’, concerning a messuage and four acres of land with appurtenances in Ufford. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire.

1.

The remainder of this sentence comes after the mandate to the sheriff.

[No date]. Somerset. William Danish gives 2 m. for a writ ad terminum ¹ against Nicholas de Boleville, concerning a messuage and five carucates of land with appurtenances, excepting five acres of land, in Sock Dennis. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

1.

The remainder of this sentence comes after the mandate to the sheriff.

[No date]. Hampshire. William Beneve gives half a mark for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

[No date]. Concerning relief. The king has taken the homage of Andrew de Vautorte, who took to wife Margaret, first born daughter and one of the heiresses of James of Eastwood, for the sixth part of a knight’s fee with appurtenances that James held from the king in Eastwood. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from Andrew and Margaret for rendering their rightful relief to the king at the Exchequer for the aforesaid share, he is to cause them to have full seisin of that share and of the share falling to Margaret from all other lands and tenements of which James was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which [were taken into the king’s hand] by reason of [his] death.

[No date]. Kent. Thomas son of William gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. James of Ponton gives one mark for taking an assize before G. of Preston.

[No date]. Somerset. Richard Crespyn and Arundella, his wife, and John Paz and Joan, his wife, give 20s. for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton.

[No date]. Norfolk. Richard the Palmer, Christiana, his wife, and Matilda and Isabella, her sisters, give half a mark for a pone.

27 July. Westminster. Concerning an abbey that has been committed. The king has committed Tavistock abbey to Roger of Evesham to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the issues of the same abbey at the Exchequer.

a.

‘in the Roll by another originalia [roll]’ is erased in the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6. The county heading ‘Devon’ is also given in the margin.

Somerset. Robert of Edington gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Devon. Walter Beupeyne gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Devon. Richard Despenser gives 2 m. for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. Wiltshire. William Maudut of Warminster gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

a.

The name of the individual making fine in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 6, reads ‘Walter Mauduit of Warminster’.

[No date]. Suffolk. Edmund de Chetesham gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Devon. Richard of Braundsworthy gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton.

28 July. Westminster. Concerning a fine of gold for a Jew. Hagin son of Master Mosse, Jew of London, has made fine with the king by 10 m. of gold for a writ and for judgement to be rendered upon Salomon the Bishop, Jew of London, and he is to pay that gold in the Wardrobee ¹ in the quindene of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year.

1.

‘and he is to pay that gold in the Wardrobe’ interlined by another hand.

For N. de Sancto Mauro. Whereas the king some time ago committed the manor of Poulton in Wiltshire to Nicholas de Sancto Mauro, to have for the five years next following Michaelmas in the fortieth year with all things pertaining to the same manor, in order to sustain him in the king’s service and for his annual fee of £20 that he takes from the king, the king, wishing to do him greater grace for his praiseworthy service, grants him that he may have and hold the aforesaid manor for the eleven years next following from the end of the aforesaid five years with all things pertaining to the same manor. He has letters patent from the king for this.

For the executors of Ralph Bigod. The king has pardoned to Berta de Furnival and her co-executors of the testament of Ralph Bigod, formerly her husband, the 40 m. at which Ralph was amerced before Geoffrey de Langley, formerly justice of the forest, in his last eyre to take the pleas of the forest at Nottingham for trespass of the forest, which 40 m. are exacted from the abovesaid executors by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Berta and her aforesaid co-executors to be quit from the aforesaid 40 m. By the king and the council.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Peter of Walthamstow gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Peter de Gournay gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Emelina, who was the wife of Stephen Longespée, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset. ¹

1.

The beginning of this entry is written over an erasure.

[No date]. Kent. John de Crevecouer and William and Henry, his brothers, who are underage, as is said, give one mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

28 July. Westminster. Yorkshire. Roger the Poitevin gives 20s. for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. William Weylond’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Essex. Ivetta, who was the wife of Richard Pykerel, gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

30 July. Westminster. Norfolk. Roger de Melkleye gives one mark for having a writ of record at the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

[No date]. Devon. Margery, who was the wife of Walter de Sully, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

For Robert Walerand. The king has granted to John Walerand, brother of Robert Walerand, that of the 200 m. which Robert owes the king for the arrears of the custody of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds from the time he had that custody by the king’s commission, and for which John, to whom Robert had committed the said custody in his place by the king’s assent, mainperned before the king (coram Rege) to acquit Robert he may render 20 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fourth year, 20 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 40 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 John to have the aforesaid terms for this and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king, the earl of Gloucester and the justiciar.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning the chattels of Richard Skirlok’. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to inquire diligently by the oath of trustworthy and law-worthy men, both Jew and Christian, from the vill of Bedford and outside, by whom the truth may be better known, to whose hands have come the goods and chattels formerly of Richard Shyrlok’, who has recently taken sanctuary in a church (fugit ad ecclesiam) for the escape of thieves in his custody who had been in the king’s gaol of Bedford, have come, and, diligent inquisition having been taken, he is to take the chattels into the king’s hand and cause them to be safely kept until the king orders him otherwise concerning this. ¹

1.

Uncertain translation of 'fugit ad ecclesiam'.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7, is the following note: ‘The sheriff received nothing therefrom as he says’. This is repeated without the last three words at the end of the entry.

[No date]. Devon. Matthew de Beaumont and Wido son of Ascelina give half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Isabella de Baldeham gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

3 Aug. Westminster. Concerning a fine of the citizens of York for tallage. The mayor and citizens of York have made fine with the king for their tallage, which is to be assessed upon them presently, by a certain sum of money to be paid at the Exchequer at the terms that others of the king's cities throughout England render the tallage. Order to John of Reigate and Robert of Crepping, who have been assigned to assess the king’s tallage in the king’s cities, boroughs and demesne lands in Yorkshire, not to concern themselves with assessing tallage upon the aforesaid citizens at present but to permit them to be quit therefrom on this occasion by the aforesaid fine. If tallage has been assessed upon the said citizens by them, they are to revoke it without delay and deliver their rolls concerning the same tallage to the said citizens. By the king and the council.

a.

Entries 572 and 573 are amalgamated and abbreviated in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7, to read: ‘The mayor ands citizens of York have made fine with the king by 350 m. for their tallage which has been presently assessed upon them, to be paid at the Exchequer at the terms [set] for [payment of] the tallage of others of the king’s cities throughout England’.

It is to be known that the said mayor and citizens made fine with the king for the aforesaid tallage by 350 m., which are to be paid to the king at the Exchequer at the abovesaid terms. ¹

1.

Entry added near the right hand edge of the membrane directly after the preceding, associated entry.

a.

Entries 572 and 573 are amalgamated and abbreviated in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7, to read: ‘The mayor ands citizens of York have made fine with the king by 350 m. for their tallage which has been presently assessed upon them, to be paid at the Exchequer at the terms [set] for [payment of] the tallage of others of the king’s cities throughout England’.

For John Daiville. John de Eyville of Yorkshire has made fine with the king by one mark of gold for a charter of warren, market and fair, and he is to pay that gold in the king’s Wardrobe at the Nativity of the Blessed Mary, together with 10 m. of silver for acquitting that charter from [the fees of] the king’s seal.

[No date]. Essex. Clarice daughter of Elias and Christiana, her sister, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex etc.

4 Aug. Westminster. For Thomas Grelley. By the counsel of the magnates who are of his council, the king has granted and demised to Thomas Grelley, justice of the forest on this side of the Trent, the custody of one carucate of land with appurtenances in Langley and of one hide of land with appurtenances in Milton [under Wychwood], both of which William of Langley, lately deceased, held from the king in chief and which are extended at 100s. per annum, together with the bailiwick of the king’s forest of Wychwood, which William held from the king there, to have and hold by Thomas with all things pertaining to the said custody until the lawful age of William’s heirs, saving to the king the marriage of the same heirs and saving to Sabia, William’s wife, her rightful dower falling to her therefrom, so that Thomas shall render 5 m. per annum at the Exchequer for two thirds of the aforesaid land and shall answer per annum at the same Exchequer for the farm that William rendered to the king for the aforesaid bailiwick, at the same terms at which William was accustomed to render that farm for the same. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to cause Thomas to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody with appurtenances, as aforesaid. ¹ He has letters patent for this addressed to all in the aforesaid form. By the justiciar.

1.

Witness clause entered here.

a.

There is a capital ‘A’ in the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7. The marginal county heading reads ‘Oxfordshire’. Moreover, ‘By the counsel of the magnates who are of his council’ is interlined there.

b.

For an entry not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see no. 776 below.

For Thomas Grelley. Memorandum that the abovesaid William held two carucates of land in Shipton’ from R. earl of Gloucester, concerning which nothing has still been done.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For John de Courtenay. The king has granted to John de Courtenay that, for all debts he owes him at the Exchequer and concerning which the king had previously granted him that he was to render 100 m. per annum, namely 50 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and 50 m. at the Exchequer of Easter, he may henceforth render 100 m. at the same terms even though he has not observed his terms up to now. Order to the barons of the Exhcequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

4 Aug. Westminster. For the bishop of Durham concerning sequestration. The bishop of Durham has made fine with the king by 1000 m. so that the king would recognise and render, for himself and his heirs, to the same bishop and his successors as the right of their church of Durham the sequestration of the churches of the bishop of Carlisle that are in the diocese of Durham, and for quittance from his service due to the king in his expedition summoned to Wales in the present year, and he is to render 600 m. of the aforesaid 1000 m. before St. Edward next to come, 200 m. at Michaelmas in the forty-fifth year, and 200 m. at Easter next following. He has letters patent for recognition of this right of sequestration. ¹

1.

Uncertain translation.

a.

Entries 579 and 580 are amalgamated in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

b.

A crudely drawn hand with a pointing finger is entered in the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

30 Aug. Winchester. Later, they paid 300 m. of the aforesaid fine in the king’s Wardrobe on the morrow of the Decollation of St. John. ¹

1.

Entered after the witness clause of the previous entry by a different hand.

a.

Entries 579 and 580 are amalgamated in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

b.

A crudely drawn hand with a pointing finger is entered in the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

5 Aug. Westminster. For Cok and Manasser, his brother, Jews of London. Whereas Cok son of Aaron, Jew of London, some time ago made fine with the king for himself and for Manasser, his brother, Jew, for all debts of the aforesaid Aaron and for having all chattels formerly of the same, and whereas Manasser recognised himself before H. Bigod, justiciar of England, to be of full age and by the king’s command had received a moiety of all lands, tenements and chattels formerly of Aaron falling to him, and whereas Manasser had similarly mainperned before the justiciar to answer the king henceforth for a moiety of all debts which Cok owed the king by reason of his father, the king has betaken himself to Manasser for a moiety of all of the aforesaid debts, both for the aforesaid fine and for other debts. Order to the barons of the Exchequer and the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to discharge Cok from the other moiety of those debts and the aforesaid fine, ¹ so that Manasser answers the king for one moiety and Cok for the other at the accustomed terms, ² and they are to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king, H. Bigod, justiciar, and the justices of the Jews.

1.

‘and the aforesaid fine’ interlined by another hand.

2.

What follows is interlined by the same later hand.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

8 Aug. Windsor. Concerning the abbey of Abingdon, which has been committed. The king has committed the vacant abbey of Abingdon to Richard Le Rus to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the issues arising therefrom at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginal county heading reads ‘Berkshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

9 Aug. Windsor. For Cok son of Aaron, Jew of London. For this writ Cok and Manasser, his brother, give 2 m. of gold, which they paid in the king’s Wardrobe at Windsor and are quit. To the barons of the Exchequer and the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews. Whereas four years ago Cok son of Aaron, Jew of London, made fine with the king for himself and for Manasser, his brother, by 2000 m. of silver, for the lands, houses, rents, debts and chattels formerly of the aforesaid Aaron, his father, excepting those chattels which the Queen wished to take for her gold, both for the aforesaid fine and for the gold if Aaron, their father, owed anything, and excepting the 1000 m. of debts which the king’s beloved brother, R. illustrious king of Germany, wished to choose for himself from the aforesaid chattels in part payment of the debts which the king owed him, and excepting the houses and rents which the king previously gave therefrom to William de Valers’, then valet of Edmund, the king’s son, and to Herman de Budbergh’, the king’s valet, and whereas the king had granted to Cok that he was to render 10 m. of gold per annum at the Exchequer for the aforesaid 2000 m. until the aforesaid 2000 m. had been paid to him, so that neither he nor the aforesaid chattels formerly of his aforesaid father would henceforth be tallaged by reason of the same chattels for as long as the aforesaid fine of 2000 m. remained in force, as is contained in the letters patent drawn up for him concerning this, the king, by the counsel of the magnates that are of his council, at the instance of the aforesaid Cok and Manasser, between whom the lands and chattels of Aaron, their father, have now been shared, has granted them, for the remission that they have made to him of all gold which they had already paid to him of the aforesaid fine of 2000 m. up to this point, and for the 2 m. of gold which they have given him in addition, that they might begin again to pay the aforesaid 2000 m., so that they are to render 50 m. of silver per annum at the Exchequer, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next to come, 25 m. at the Exhcequer of Easter next following, and 50 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 2000 m. have been paid to the king, so that the gold which Cok has paid to the king in time past of the aforesaid fine for himself and his aforesaid brother will not count towards the payment of the same fine, and that neither they not the aforesaid chattels shall henceforth be tallaged by reason of the aforesaid chattels for as long as the aforesaid fine of 2000 m. shall remain in force, saving, however, that Cok and Manasser are to be tallaged together with other Jews for other of their own chattels as shall pertain to them. Order to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king and the council.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because Walter de St. John, who held from the king in chief, has died, as the king has heard, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take into the king’s hand without delay all lands and tenements of which Walter was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

a.

An alternative date, ‘10 Aug.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

For the prior and convent of Tavistock. The prior and convent of Tavistock have made fine with the king by 30 m. of silver for having custody of their abbey during the time of the present vacancy of the same. They have letters patent for this. They are to pay one moiety of the aforesaid fine at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following.

a.

This entry is crammed in on the right hand side of the membrane in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7, and is written in an ink of much darker tone than surrounding text. In the margin beside this entry is the following note concerning entry no. 586: ‘Look on the other side for the homage of William de Lascenden’’.

b.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Devon’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

10 Aug. Windsor. For William de Lascenden’. The king has taken the homage of Hugh ¹ de Lascenden’, son and heir of William de Lascenden’, for all lands and tenements which William, his father, held from the king in chief, and he has rendered those lands and tenements to him. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from Hugh for rendering 100s. to the king at the Exchequer for his relief, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next to come and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements of which William, his father, was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died and which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death.

1.

Corrected from ‘William’ by expunction throughout this entry.

a.

This entry is found on the dorse of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

For Robert of Shottesbrooke. The king has pardoned to Robert of Shottesbrooke, formerly his valet, the 6 m. at which he was recently ¹ amerced before William of Englefield against Nigel Godard and Robert, his son, in an assize of novel disseisin that Nigel and Robert arraigned before him against the aforesaid Robert, concerning a tenement in Shottesbrooke. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same Robert to be quit from the aforesaid 6 m. By the king

1.

‘recently’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of Cress’ and Hagin. Cress’ and Hagin, sons of Master Mosse, Jews of London, have made fine with the king by 300 m. of silver for having the houses, lands, rents and tenements with appurtenances formerly of Salomon the Bishop, Jew, in the city of London, which are the king’s escheats for divers trespasses, falsehoods and evil deeds of which Salomon was convicted before H. Bigod, justiciar of England, and before the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews, and for which he has abjured the kingdom of England, excepting the site of Salomon’s tenement in the parish of St. Stephen in Coleman Street, which the king recently gave to Master Thomas de Weseham, his surgeon. They have the king’s charter for this. They have paid 50 m. of the aforesaid 300 m. cash down to H. Bigod, justiciar, and they are to pay £20 per annum at the Exchequer for the remaining 250 m., namely £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and £10 at the Exchequer of Easter until the aforesaid £250 [sic] are paid to the king. ¹ It is to be known that the enrolment of this fine was made by the testimony of Simon Passelewe at Windsor on Thursday next before the Assumption of the Blessed Mary. By this fine they have that charter quit from [the fees of] the seal.

1.

‘T[este]’ entered here. What follows appears to have been entered by a different hand.

14 Aug. Windsor. For William of Galway. Moved by the service which William of Galway, his packman, has long given him, the king has granted him that cottage and those four-and-a-half acres of land with appurtenances in the king’s manor of Geddington that Simon Bullok held from the king there and that are the king’s escheats, because Simon has abjured the kingdom for the felony he committed whereby the king might give them to whoever he wishes without doing injury to others, as the king has heard by an inquisition that he recently ordered to be taken by William of Wendling, escheator on this side of the Trent, to have and hold by the same William from the king and heirs in the same manner as Simon held them, performing to the king and his heirs for them all customs and all services which Simon ought to have performed or was accustomed to perform. Order to the aforesaid William to cause the same William to have full seisin of the aforesaid cottage and land with appurtenances, as aforesaid, together with the corn in the said land if that corn shall pertain to the king.

16 Aug. Windsor. Suffolk. William de Weylond gives 2 m. for taking an assize before Henry of Bath against Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, and Geoffrey Le Clerk, concerning a tenement in Monewden. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

For Robert Le Trehur. The king has pardoned to Robert Le Trehur, his serjeant, the mark at which he was tallaged in the last assessment of the king’s tallage upon the king’s vill of Guildford, and, by the counsel of the magnates who are of his council, the king, moved by the long service he has given him, has granted to him that he is to be quit henceforth from all manner of tallage upon his lands, houses and chattels in the aforesaid vill, as is contained in letters patent that the king has drawn up for him concerning this. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Robert to be quit from the aforesaid mark and to cause the aforesaid letters to be enrolled and upheld as witnessed.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Robert Le Trehur. Order, in the same manner, to the sheriff of Surrey to permit the same Robert to be quit from the aforesaid mark.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Suffolk. William de Weyland’ gives 2 m. for taking an assize before Henry of Bath against Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk, and Ralph de Ursted’, concerning a tenement in Brandeston. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. William of Dagworth gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk etc.

17 Aug. Guildford. Concerning the bishopric of Durham, which has been committed. The king has committed the bishopric of Durham with appurtenances to Master John Mansel to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the issues arising therefrom at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginal county heading beisde this entry reads ‘Northumberland’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

b.

An alternative date, ‘18 Aug.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Fulk of Titchmarsh gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Surrey. Waleran Trenchard and Alice, his wife, give one mark for taking a jury before Gilbert of Preston and John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Surrey.

[No date]. Essex. John of Ulting gives 20s. for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

26 Aug. Winchester. Hampshire. Nicholas de Gymeges gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Richard son of Juliana gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. William Doreward’ of Upton’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. John of Nutley, Richard the Porter, William the Clerk and Matilda of Worthy give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

28 Aug. Winchester. Somerset. He has paid and is quit. Peter de Bosco gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. He has paid that half-mark in the king’s Wardrobe and is quit.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Geoffrey, son of Andrew de Ravenisham, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Nicholas of Bodenham gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

29 Aug. Winchester. Hampshire. Roger de La Haule gives 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

[No date]. Devon. Bartholomew de Lurywell’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Wiltshire. John, son of Richard of Rushall, gives half a mark for taking an assize before the king (coram Rege) upon his next arrival at Marlborough. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Thomas of Rothwell, clerk, and Rose, his wife, give half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

30 Aug. Winchester. For the citizens of Winchester. Whereas four years ago the king granted to his citizens of Winchester that they might render 50 m. per annum at the Exchequer for the £253 6s. 6d. which were then exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer for several arrears, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas until the aforesaid £253 6s. 3d. [sic] had been paid to the king, and whereas now £33 4s. 11d. are being exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer for the arrears of the farms and tallages of their vill for the time preceding the king’s grant, but which at that time were not in the summons, as the king has heard, the king has granted them that they may render 50 m. per annum at the Exchequer for both the aforesaid £33 4s. 11d. and for the arrears of the aforesaid £253 6s. 8d. [sic] at the aforesaid terms until all those debts have been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have those terms for this and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For Ralph de Heyes and his associates. By the fine which Ralph de Heyes and his associates, who have been taken and detained in the king’s prison of Winchester for trespasses committed in the parks of the bishopric of Winchester then in the king’s hand and in the parks of others, ¹ made before Nicholas of Hadlow, keeper of the aforesaid bishopric, and Peter de Neville, marshal of the king’s household, who have been assigned to this by order of the king, namely the aforesaid Ralph by 2 m., Henry Le Francleyn of Cheriton by half a mark, Ralph de Dunstil’ by one mark, John Pruz of West Meon by 10s., Robert the Chaplain of Westburghouton’ by half a mark, William Luvers by 2 m., Clement of Woodhay by half a mark, Richard le Warner of Sutton by half a mark, Herbert Le Feuere of Crawley by half a mark, John Le Fraunceys by half a mark, James, son of Thomas de Werldam, by half a mark, Adam de Gyle by half a mark, Hugh Le Fugeler by half a mark and Thomas the Miner of Pukepol’ by half a mark, which are to be paid at the Exchequer at Michaelmas, the king has granted them that they may be placed on bail until the coming of the king’s justices to take the pleas of the forest next to be in eyre in those parts. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire that, having accepted sufficient security from them for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king at the Exchequer, if each of them can find himself twelve free and law-worthy men of the aforesaid county who will mainpern to have them before the abovesaid justices when they come to those parts in order to stand to right for this, then they are to hand all of the aforesaid over on bail, as aforesaid. They are similarly to hand over Robert de Colemere, who has been taken for the aforesaid trespass and detained in the king’s said prison, on bail in the form aforesaid, at the instance of Peter of Winchester. They are to have there the names of all of the aforesaid twelve and this writ.

1.

There is a short erasure that is struck through at this point.

a.

The short erasure, noted in footnote 1, is also made in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

2 Sept. Clarendon. Somerset. Walter de Cosington’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Suffolk. Adam of Bedingfield gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. Peter of Cosham gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Robert de La Dene gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Hampshire. Robert son of Alan gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire etc.

[No date]. Devon. William de Molis, parson of the church of Diptford, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon etc.

[No date]. For John de Watefeud’. The king has taken the homage of John de Watefeud’ for all lands and tenements which fall by hereditary right to Margery, his wife, sister and heiress of Walter de St. John, who held from the king in chief, and the king has delivered those lands and tenements to them. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, that, having accepted security from John for rendering his rightful relief to the king at the Exchequer, he is to cause John and Margery to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements of which Walter was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died and which were taken into the king’s hand by reason of his death.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Kent’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 7.

4 Sept. Clarendon. For the Jews of Winchester. Because the custody of the king’s Jewry of Winchester had always accustomed to have been in the hands of the sheriffs of Hampshire before the time of John de La Haye, keeper of Winchester castle, and the aforesaid John does not have ¹ power to make any distraint outside the gate of the aforesaid castle, and because the king, moreover, has heard divers complaints from his Jews of Winchester concerning several injuries and damages done to them by John’s ministers after he had custody of the aforesaid castle, which the king cannot and ought not tolerate, the king, in order to avert this manner of scandal to his honour and that of the aforesaid John, has committed the custody of his aforesaid Jewry to the sheriff of Hampshire for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the aforesaid John not to concern himself henceforth with that custody in any way and to cause summonses, both for other tallages and other Jewish debts and the king’s writ touching upon that Jewry, to be delivered to the aforesaid sheriff, so that he might answer the king for them at the Exchequer of the Jews. He is also to have all monies that he received from the aforesaid tallages and debts in the king’s Wardrobe on the morrow of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary forthcoming. By the king, the earl of Gloucester and J. Mansel.

1.

There is a short erasure that is struck through at this point.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For the Jews of Winchester. On account of divers complaints and disputes which the king has heard from his Jews of Winchester, he has committed the custody of his aforesaid Jewry there to the sheriff of Hampshire, so that he answers for the issues of the same custody to the king at the Exchequer, just as other keepers of the same Jewry have been accustomed to answer. Order to the aforesaid sheriff to receive that custody from the constable of Winchester castle with the summonses and writs and all other things pertaining to the aforesaid Jewry. Because the king has assigned Nicholas of Hadlow and Simon Passelewe to hear and inquire into the aforesaid complaints and disputes, order to the aforesaid sheriff to cause each and all, both Christian and Jew, to come before them at the day and place that they shall cause them to know, by whom the truth of the foregoing might be inquired into and better known.

[No date]. Hampshire. Walter Peverel gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Hugh de Neville gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Somerset. William Trendlelove gives half a mark for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Devon. Peter de la Pomeraie gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Somerset. Ralph Le Tort gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Somerset. The prior of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England gives one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Cornwall. Walter Dyrywin and Orgoylosa, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall.

a.

An alternative witness clause, ‘Ludgershall, 6 Sept.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

[No date]. Dorset. The abbot of Tewkesbury gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Vacated because pardoned. Phillip de Thurlawiston’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because pardoned.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Somerset. Alice de Wodef’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Hampshire. William Dambely gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

[No date]. Dorset. Robert de Bingeham gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Dorset etc.

[No date]. Wiltshire. John de Cuty gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire etc.

10 Sept. Clarendon. Wiltshire. Walter de Heyl’ gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take security etc.

10 Sept. Ludgershall. Concerning an erroneous sale in the Forest of Dean. Look on the back for the commission of the priory of Montacute. The king is given to understand that by an erroneous and fraudulent sale lately made in the Forest of Dean by the sellers of the king’s woods who have been deputed to this there, the king has sustained serious loss and very many damages, both in the loss of his money by the aforesaid sale and by the distruction of the aforesaid forest, concerning which the king is very much disgusted and disturbed. Wishing therefore to be more fully certified about the foregoing matter and to have the aforesaid damage and injury remedied, the king orders Thomas Grelley, justice of his forest on this side of the Trent, to go to those parts in person and inquire diligently by the oath both of foresters and verderers and of other trustworthy and law-worthy men by whom the truth of the matter might be better known as to who perpetrated that damage and trespass in the aforesaid sale, and by what right and in what manner. Having inquired into the truth of this matter, he is to make due and suitable amends for this to the king’s use, as shall seem most expedient to him at his discretion, so that he might answer for the said amends to the king at his Exchequer. ¹

1.

The marginal note refers readers to no. 658 on the dorse of this membrane. Uncertain translation.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Gloucestershire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8. There is also a cross (? of cancellation) in the margin in that roll.

12 Sept. Ludgershall. For the men of Old Sarum. On account of the poverty of his men of Old Sarum, the king has pardoned them a moiety of the 40s. at which they were lately tallaged by Godfrey de Scudamore and Thomas Trevet in the king’s last tallage. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit from a moiety of those 40s.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the men of Old Sarum. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to permit [them] to be quit from the aforesaid 20s.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Hugh Blundel of Silsoe gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Phillip, parson of the church of Treton’, gives one mark for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Robert de Sancto Paulo gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. The Master of the Knights of the Temple in England ¹ and Walter the Freeman give one mark for taking an attaint before G. of Preston and John de Cave. ² Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire.

1.

There is an erasure at this point which is struck through.

2.

‘and John de Cave’ interlined.

a.

It is probable that the erasure in this entry read ‘John Moryn’ for that name is found in this corresponding entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8. Only Gilbert of Preston, moreover, is named as a justice there.

[No date]. Hampshire. Alexander Hoese and Margery, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire.

Concerning selling cablish in the king’s forests. Because the king is given to understand that there is a great amount of cablish in his forests of Wychwood and Bernewod’ and in others of his forests and parks, ¹ both from oaks, beech and divers other woods, from which the king’s profit might not inconsiderably be made, order to Thomas Grelley, justice of the king’s forest on this side of the Trent, to cause all cablish in all forests and parks in his bailiwick to be sold without delay as shall seem best to him to the king’s [profit] ² , except for the king’s forest and park of Windsor, concerning which the king has commanded that the cablish there be carried to Westminster and Windsor, and he is to cause the monies arising therefrom to come to the Exchequer, provided that he causes Aubrey de Fécamp to have four of the better oaks more suitable for timber that he finds blown down in the king’s aforesaid park of Woodstock, together with all escheats of the same, for the repair of his houses of Wootton, by the king’s gift.

1.

There is an erasure at this point which is struck through.

2.

The right-hand edge of the membrane is worn away at this point.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Oxfordshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

17 Sept. Marlborough. For the prior of Lenton. Because Brother Roger, prior of Lenton, has made fine with the king by 30 m., of which he is to render 15 m. in the king’s Wardrobe ¹ in the quindene of Michaelmas next to come and 15 m. at the Purification of the Blessed Mary next following, for all issues and tallages of the said priory pertaining to the king in this last vacancy of the same, order to William of Axmouth, keeper of the aforesaid priory, to cause all issues that [he took] ² to the king’s use from the aforesaid priory, both from tallages and other issues, to be rendered to him without any injury by delay, and to cause him to have the estreats of the said tallage, saving to the king wardships, escheats and advowsons if they fell in during that vacancy. ³ .

1.

‘in the king’s Wardrobe’ interlined.

2.

The right-hand edge of the membrane has been lost at this point.

3.

Uncertain translation of 'sine more dispendio'

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Nottinghamshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

17 Sept. Marlborough. For the prior of Montacute. Because Brother Hugh, prior of Montacute, has made fine with the king by 10 m., which he is to pay in the king’s Wardrobe in the quindene of Michaelmas next to come, for the issues and tallages of the said priory pertaining to the king in this [last] ¹ vacancy of the same, order to Richard Oysel, keeper of the aforesaid priory, that after he has taken the said priory and the manors of the same into the king’s hand, he is to cause all issues that he took to the king’s use from the aforesaid priory, both from tallages and other issues, to be rendered to the same prior without any injury by delay, and to cause him to have the estreats of the said tallage, saving to the king wardships, escheats and advowsons if they fell in during that vacancy. ²

1.

The right-hand edge of the membrane has been lost at this point.

2.

Uncertain translation of 'sine more dispendio'.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Somerset’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

b.

The keeper is ‘to cause the said priory to be restored to the same prior without injury by delay’ in the corresponding entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

[No date]. Somerset. Simon le Gras, Hugh Laner and Alice, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. James Savage gives half a mark for an attaint. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Payn de Lee gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

Concerning the agistment of the park of Havering. Order to Richard de Montfichet, steward of the forest of Essex, to cause the king’s park of Havering to be agisted by pigs with rings through their snouts as it will seem best to him, saving sufficient sustenance for the king’s deer in the same park, so that he answers the king for the issues of the aforesaid agistment at the Exchequer.

18 Sept. Marlborough. For Geoffrey de Langley. The king has received a sore sparrowhawk by the hand of Walter de Langley, son and heir of Geoffrey de Langley, for the term of St. Peter in Chains in the forty-fourth year for his rent of the tenement that Geoffrey holds from the king in Lower Milcote, Upper Milcote and in Dorsington, and a sore sparrowhawk for the aforesaid term and year for the heirs of Walter Marshal for the tenement that he holds in Sta[…] ¹ Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Geoffrey to be quit from the aforesaid sparrowhawks.

1.

The right-hand edge of the membrane is faded and illegible at this point.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Berkshire. Giles of Clifford gives one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

[No date]. Somerset. Richard de Wytchurch’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Kent. William Fnatard gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent etc.

Concerning lands that are to be taken into the king’s hand. Because Ralph Hayres, who held from the king in chief, has died, order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to take into the king’s hand all lands and tenements of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee in his bailiwick on the day he died, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

21 Sept. Marlborough. Staffordshire. William de Parles gives one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire.

21 Sept. Marlborough. For William de Bray. William de Bray of Wollaston has made fine with the king by 10 m. of silver for having a charter of market and fair in his manor of Wollaviston’, of which he is to pay 5 m. in the king’s Wardrobe ¹ [at] Michaelmas next to come and 5 m. at the Purification of the Blessed Mary next following. ² Later, he paid 5 m. for Michaelmas in the king’s Wardrobe to Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester.

1.

‘in the king’s Wardrobe’ interlined.

2.

Witness clause entered here. What follows is added by a different hand at the right-hand edge of the membrane.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Northamptonshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Juliana, who was the wife of Elias the Palmer, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

[No date]. The king has committed the vacant priory of Montacute to Richard Oysel to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the issues arising therefrom at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Somerset’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

26 Sept. Windsor. For Henry Esturmy. Whereas the king some time ago granted to Henry Esturmy that he might render to him 50 m. each year at the Exchequer for the debts in which his father was bound to the king on the day he died until the aforesaid debts would have been paid in full, and whereas Henry ought to be girded with the belt of knighthood at the feast of St. Edward next to come in the quindene of Michaelmas together with John of Brittany, for doing which it is inevitable he will incur many and great expenses, the king, wishing to do him special grace in this matter, at the instance of the aforesaid John of Brittany, has pardoned to Henry 20 m. of the aforesaid debts, which he wishes are to be allowed to him in the forthcoming Michaelmas term, on condition, however, that he shall pay 5 m. of the same term at the Exchequer. The king has also granted him that he may render 20 m. ¹ each year of the residue of the aforesaid debts at the Exchequer, namely 10 m. ² at the Exchequer of Easter, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, and 20 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that pardon and those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ³ By the king, John Mansel and Robert Walerand, the justiciar, the earl of Gloucester and Phillip Basset.

1.

This sum here and below appears to have been written over an erasure.

2.

This sum here and below appears to have been written over an erasure.

3.

The final three authorizers for this entry are written in an ink much darker than that in which the main body of the entry and the first three authorizers were added. The date of this entry may also overwrite an erasure.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

25 Sept. Reading. Warwickshire. William Boyden of Stretton’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Walter Caperun and Margery, his wife, give half a mark for taking an attaint before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

Suffolk. William Broc, Warin Bude, Simon Brung’, Thomas Cosyn, Thomas Ofthe Busch’, Warin of Scratby, William Caperun, Walter Wyting’, Richard Brun, Hugh Brun, Reginald Drury and Richard Prynne give one mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

28 Sept. Windsor. Northamptonshire. Richard de Treyly and Christiana, his wife, and Geoffrey de Treyley and Beatrice, his wife, give 20s. for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

Cumberland. Thomas, son of Thomas of Moulton, ¹ gives 40s. for taking an attaint before Peter de Percy and John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland.

1.

‘son of Thomas’ interlined.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Thomas de Gymygis gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

a.

This entry appears to be written over an erasure in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8, an erasure which ends ‘G. of Preston’.

Concerning the houses of Claremunda of Southampton. Because the king is given to understand that all houses and rents formerly of Claremunda of Southampton in the vill of Southampton ought to be his escheats, order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take all houses and rents formerly of the same Claremunda in the same vill, which she held in her demesne as of fee on the day she died, into the king’s hand, saving the right of every man, and to keep them safely without removal of anything until the king orders him otherwise.

Concerning enclosing the park of Guildford. Order to the keeper of the park of Guildford to cause to be cut down in the same park, by the view of the sheriff, viewers and agistors of the king’s park of Guildford, where it can be done with the least damage to the same park, as many pollards as shall be necessary for the repair of the defects in the enclosure of that park. He is also to cause the work on the aforesaid enclosure to be acquitted from the escheats of those pollards and to cause the park to be agisted by pigs with rings in their snouts as best as it seems to him, saving the sustenance of the king’s deer in the same park, so that they answer for the issues of that agistment to the king at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Surrey’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

b.

Only the order concerning the agistment is included in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

For John le Fraunceys and his associates. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire that if John le Fraunceys of Clatford, Robert Le Frauncys, William son of John and Thomas Le Mouner have been taken and detained in the king’s prison of Winchester by order of the king for the redisseisin made against William de Sancto Philiberto of a tenement in Clatford and not for another trespass, then, having accepted a reasonable fine from them to the king’s use for the aforesaid redisseisin according to the manner of that trespass and the quantity of their goods, saving their contenement, he is to cause them to be delivered from the aforesaid prison, so that he shall answer for the aforesaid fine to the king at the Exchequer.

1 Oct. Windsor. For John [de] Muscegros. Because John de Muscegros, the king’s valet, is ready to receive the arms of knighthood from the king at the forthcoming feast of St. Edward, for which it is inevitable that he will apply not inconsiderable funds, the king, wishing to do him special grace, grants him that he may have respite until Michaelmas in the forty-fifth year from the £60 which he is bound to pay to him at present at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and at the Exchequer of Easter next to come of the debts of Robert de Muscegros, his father, which the king attermined some time ago at £60 per annum, so that he shall then render £30 there, £30 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £60 thus for the aforesaid debts from year to year at the same terms until those debts have been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause John to have the said respite and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Somerset. Jordan de Lisle gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

3 Oct. Windsor. Somerset. William Buues gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

4 Oct. Windsor. For Elias, chaplain of the bishop of London. The king has pardoned to Elias de Standewell’, chaplain of H. bishop of London, the 40s. at which he was amerced for a false claim before the justices last itinerant in Northamptonshire assigned to remedy trespasses against Isabella Trussel. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to permit Elias to be quit therefrom and to cause his livestock, if he seized any of it for the aforesaid reason, to be delivered to him without delay. ¹ He has letters addressed to the barons of the Exchequer that they cause him to be quit therefrom.

1.

Witness clause entered here. What follows is added by a different hand.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Robert de Pavilly. Whereas Robert de Pavilly, who has served the king laudably for a long time and in whose service he lost sight in his eyes (lumen oculorum amisit), is bound to the king in 6 m. every year by reason of Joan, his wife, daughter of William del Estre, for the arrears of William’s debt until the same debt has been paid to the king in full, the king, for the service he has performed towards him and for the maintenance in which the king is bound to Robert by his letters patent, and by the counsel of the magnates who are of his council, has pardoned Robert the said 6 m. in which he was bound to him, as aforesaid, every year for as long as he shall live, so that after his death Robert’s heirs shall render the residue of the aforesaid debt, if there is a residue, the said 6 m. having been deducted from the arrears of the aforesaid debt every year from the time of this pardon, namely 6 m. every year at the same terms at which Robert was accustomed to render them, if such remains, until the aforesaid debts have been paid to the king in full. If, after Robert’s death, less remains, they are to render less. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Robert to be quit from the aforesaid 6 m. for life and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ By the king.

1.

Uncertain translation.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Baldwin de Lisle. Because Baldwin de Lisle is ready to receive the belt of knighthood at the forthcoming feast of St. Edward, for which it is inevitable that he will apply not inconsiderable funds, the king, wishing to do him special grace, has given him respite from all debts that he owes him at the present Exchequer for two years following the aforesaid feast of St. Edward. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Baldwin to have that respite. By the king, Phillip Basset and John Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Hubert, son of James Hoese, gives 2 m. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire.

[No date]. Berkshire. Adam of Binfield give half a mark for having an assize before the king (coram Rege) upon his next arrival at Windsor. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

[No date]. Norfolk. William de Hocham gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

8 Oct. Windsor. For William de Bradeleye. Having compassion for the infirmity and poverty of William de Bradeleye, who is blind and ill, ¹ the king has granted him that he may render 10s. per annum of the 40s. at which he was amerced some time ago before the justices of the Bench, namely 5s. at the Exchequer of Easter in the forty-fifth year, 5s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 10s. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 40s. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

1.

‘who is blind and ill’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Rutland. Henry, son of Robert of Empingham, gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Rutland.

11 Oct. Westminster. Buckinghamshire. Richard son of John and Agnes, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Eustace son of Hervey gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Roger of Cadney gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Devon. Gilbert de Coueleg’ gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

13 Oct. Westminster. Yorkshire. John, son of John the Goldsmith, gives half a mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Alvred de La Forde, John de La Forde and Richard Le Crompe give half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire etc.

Concerning valuing the chattels of William des Forz [sic]. Order to William of Wendling, the king’s escheator on this side of the Trent, to cause all goods and chattels formerly of Roger de Mohaut in the manor of Castle Rising, ¹ which he took into the king’s hand by reason of the debts which Roger owed the king on the day he died, to be valued by the oath of trustworthy and law-worthy men, and, once he has valued the aforesaid chattels, he is to deliver them by the value at which they will have been valued to the executors of the testament of the aforesaid Roger, ² having first accepted good and sufficient security from them that they will answer the king for that value at the Exchequer.

1.

‘in the manor of Castle Rising’ interlined.

2.

‘in order to make execution of his testament therefrom’ cancelled here by expunction.

a.

It appears that the marginalia beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8, have been erased.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William Constable gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

[No date]. Derbyshire. Humphrey de Millcar’ and Joan, his wife, give half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Amandus de Ruda gives half a mark for taking an assize before Peter de Percy. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Norfolk. Geoffrey de Burnevill’ and Matilda, his wife, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William son of Richard gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

15 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. John de Ho gives 20s. for taking an attaint before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Geoffrey Le Ireys of Handsworth gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire.

[No date]. Suffolk. Gilbert, son of Robert de Ulendon’, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. Thomas de Fordinton’ gives 20s. for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire.

[No date]. Cornwall. Richard, son of John de Feskemmor, ¹ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall.

1.

‘son of John’ interlined.

17 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. The prior of Westacre gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Kent. John son of Alexander gives 20s. for taking an assize before John de Wyville and William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

19 Oct. Windsor. Kent. Ralph, son of William of Kensham, gives half a mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Nigel de Thorp’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Suffolk. Richard ¹ Makerel gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

1.

‘de’ cancelled here by expunction.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Osbert Gifford gives one mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Agnes Caperun gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire.

a.

An alternative date, ‘17 Oct.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8.

17 Oct. Westminster. For Henry de Clifton’. By the fine of 40s. which Henry de Clifton’ paid at the Exchequer, the king has given him ¹ respite from making himself a knight for three years following All Saints in the forty-fourth year.

1.

‘Henry de Clifton’ paid at the Exchequer’ and ‘has given him’ apparently written over an erasure.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For John de Oketon. John de Oketon has made fine with the king by one mark of gold for having a charter of warren, and he paid that gold in the king’s Wardrobe on the morrow of St. Luke the Evangelist to Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks and keepers of the aforesaid Wardrobe, and he is quit.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Yorkshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

b.

This entry is out of sequence, being placed before no. 715 at the top of the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

[No date]. Memorandum that on the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist in the forty-fourth year H. bishop of London surrendered the king’s new seal and, similarly, his old seal to the king in his chamber at Westminster in the presence of the Lord Edward, the king’s son, ¹ the archbishop of Canterbury, John Mansel, ² Robert Walerand and others, and there, by order of the king, his old seal was broken and the king, with his own hand in the presence of the aforesaid of the common council of magnates who are of his council, immediately handed over his new seal to Master Nicholas of Ely, archdeacon of Ely, to keep, and he swore an oath forthwith to keep the king’s seal faithfully, and he immediately sealed therewith. The king then handed over the pieces of the broken old seal to Robert Walerand to give to any pauper of a religious house by gift of the king. ³

1.

‘of the Lord Edward, the king’s son’ interlined.

2.

‘John Mansel’ interlined.

3.

This entry is written in a hand much larger than those which write the standard, paragraph-marked entries and it stretches across the membrane. Uncertain translation.

a.

The equivalent entry in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 8 simply reads ‘Here Master Nicholas, archdeacon of Ely, received the king’s seal’.

18 Oct. Westminster. Herefordshire. John de Baskenvill’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire.

[No date]. Norfolk. Richard Aleyn gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

[No date]. Essex. John de Thorp’ gives half a mark for a pone. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

[No date]. Northumberland. Robert de la Ferté gives one mark for a writ. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland.

[No date]. Somerset. John de Barewe gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Lancaster. Sabina, Avice and Matilda, daughters of Alexander of Extwistle, give half a mark for taking an assize before Peter de Percy. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William Le Fraunceys gives half a mark for taking an assize before the same P. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William Le Fraunceys gives half a mark for taking another assize before the same P. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire.

[No date]. Kent. Hereward de la More and Hawise, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

a.

An alternative date, ‘21 Oct.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

[No date]. Kent. The same Hereward and Hawise give half a mark for taking another assize before the same William. Order to the sheriff of Kent.

[No date]. Essex. John de Thorp’ and Marsilia, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before John de Wyville. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

18 Oct. Westminster. Essex. John of Wendover gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex.

[No date]. Suffolk. Robert de Stuteville and Joan, his wife, give 20s. for taking an assize before Henry of Bath. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

23 Oct. Westminster. Bedfordshire. Master Peter Pyvere gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire.

[No date]. Cornwall. Richard, son of John de Riskymer, gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall.

[No date]. Leicestershire. The abbot of Owston gives half a mark for having a writ of trespass at the first session. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

For Roger of Clifford. At the instance of Edward, his son, the king has granted to Roger of Clifford that for the £300 which he owes him of the debts of John Le Breton’, for which the king betook himself to Roger and which the king previously attermined at 100 m. per annum he may render 20 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the forty-fifth year, 20 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 40 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £300 have been paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have those terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning Sherborne abbey, which has been committed. The king has committed the vacant abbey of Sherborne to Roger of Evesham, his clerk, to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the issues arising therefrom to the king at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Dorset’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

[No date]. Shropshire. Angerus de Tatlincton’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. Walter, son of Thomas of Stilton, gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire.

[No date]. For Henry de la Wade. Moved by the long and laudable service that Henry de la Wade, his cook, has performed towards him, the king has given and granted him that sergeanty of Bletchingdon, formerly of Richard de Greinville and William de Greinville, his brother, which the king later committed at his will to Master John of Gloucester, mason recently deceased, and which is the king’s escheat whereby the king might give it to whom he shall wish without causing injury to any other, and it is extended at 51s. 9½d., as the king has heard by an inqusition that he caused to be taken by William of Wendling, his escheator on this side of the Trent, to have and hold to Henry and his heirs from the king and his heirs forever, ¹ performing to the king and his heirs the due and accustomed service for it. Order to the aforesaid William to cause Henry to have full seisin of the aforesaid sergeanty [with appurtenances], ² as aforesaid, together with all things taken therefrom from the time that sergeanty came into the king’s hand by the death of the aforesaid John.

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‘forever’ interlined.

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The right-hand edge of the membrane is faded at this point.

a.

William de Greinville is described as ‘his son’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

23 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. Richard de Kateston’ gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

24 Oct. Westminster. Hertfordshire. John de Vauton’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before John de Cave. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Roger de la Lawe gives one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire.

[No date]. Somerset. Richard de Karevill’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. Richard de Beinville gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Roger the Butler gives 20s. for a writ of record. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

[No date]. Devon. John Pace and Joan, his wife, give half a mark for a writ of agreement. Order to the sheriff of Devon.

[No date]. Somerset. Richard of Cheriton gives half a mark for taking an assize before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Robert de Wiston’ and Beatrice, his wife, give one mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Henry Murdac gives half a mark for a writ of trespass. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

[No date]. Norfolk. Richard de Catisdon’, parson of the church of North Burlingham, gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

a.

The person making fine is named as ‘Henry de Catisdon’’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. John, abbot of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives, gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Matthew de Galrug and Alice, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Isabella de Ryngisdon’ gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Suffolk. Peter of Burgate gives half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

[No date]. Suffolk. Robert de Leyham gives one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk.

[No date]. Somerset. William de Waumberg’ and William Willoc, men of Brian de Gouiz, give half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset.

25 Oct. Westminster. For Phillip Darcy. Whereas one year ago now the king attermined at £10 per annum the debts which Phillip Darcy owed him for his relief and for the debt of Norman Darcy, his father, the king wishes and grants that he may have and hold his terms for this as is contained in his writ addressed thereon to the barons of the Exchequer, even though the king had ordered him to be distrained to pay all of the aforesaid debts on account of the indignation he had conceived towards him. Order to the aforesaid barons to cause him to have the aforesaid terms according to the tenor of the other aforesaid writ

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning the agistment of the park of Windsor. Order to Richard of Freemantle, keeper of the king’s forest of Windsor, to cause the king’s park of Windsor to be agisted without delay as seems best to him for the king’s profit, so that he might answer for the issues arising therefrom at the Exchequer.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Berkshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

[No date]. For Henry de Montfort. Henry de Montfort has made fine with the king by half a mark of gold for having a charter of market and fair, which he paid in the king’s Wardrobe to Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks and keepers of the aforesaid Wardrobe, and is quit.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Somerset’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

b.

This entry is out of sequence in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9, being placed between nos. 750 and 751.

26 Oct. Westminster. Worcestershire. William de Logis gives 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Hugh son of Osbert and Margery, his wife, give half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire etc.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Alexander de Bromlegh’ gives half a mark for taking an assize before William of Wilton. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire etc.

27 Oct. Westminster. Nottinghamshire. Ralph of Arnold gives half a mark for taking an assize before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc.

a.

The justice is mistakenly given as ‘William of Wilton’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Andulphus of Tetbury gives half a mark for taking an assize before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire.

For the abbot of Lyre. The abbot of Lyre has made fine with the king by 5 m. of silver, which he paid in the king’s Wardrobe to Aubrey de Fécamp and Peter of Winchester, clerks and keepers of the aforesaid Wardrobe [for having] ¹ a letter patent for constituting his attorneys to prosecute and defend in his pleas etc. for four years, and he is quit. ²

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The edge of the membrane has been lost at this point

2.

Below this entry, at the foot of the membrane, is the roll footer in large capitals: ‘FINES OF THE FORTY-FOURTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING HENRY, SON OF KING JOHN’.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry reads ‘Herefordshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

b.

An alternative date, ‘28 Oct.’, is given in the originalia roll, E 371/24, m. 9.

Somerset. Dorset. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Somerset and Dorset to Phillip of Cerne to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 100 m. per annum for the profit of the same counties, and he will have the allowance that Walter de Burgh was accustomed to have. If the king gave anything to anyone else after the last year at which the same Walter held the aforesaid counties whereby any demand is made from Phillip for the profit of the said counties, this will be allowed to him by the reasonable extent. ²

1.

This roll of entries concerning the commission of the custody of counties is sewn to the foot of the first membrane of the originalia roll, E 371/24.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Wiltshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Wiltshire to John de Vernun to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 100 m. per annum for the profit, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Warwickshire. Leicestershire. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire to William Bagod to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £100 per annum for the profit, and £40 of old increment, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Herefordshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the aforesaid county [of Herefordshire] to Robert de Meysey to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 80 m. per annum for the profit, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Gloucestershire. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Gloucestershire to John le Brun to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £60 per annum for the profit, excepting Winchcombe and the three hundreds, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire to Simon of Aslockton to keep for as long as it pleases the king, and he is to render £100 per annum for the profit, on condition that nothing is allowed to him for the lands and honours given to Edward, the king’s son. He is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Lincolnshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Lincolnshire to Hamo Hauteyn to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £200 per annum for the profit, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above. It is promised to him that if he is not able to pay his farm, £20 are to be remitted to him.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Northamptonshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Northamptonshire to Simon of Pattishall ² to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 100 m. per annum for the profit, he is to keep the castle at his own costs if it is granted to him, ³ he is to take whatever pertains to the castle and is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above. It is promised to him that if he is not able to pay his farm, £20 are to be remitted to him.

1.

There is a sizeable erasure at this point, which is struck through.

2.

‘if it is granted to him’ interlined.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Bedfordshire. Buckinghamshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire to Alexander of Hampden to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 220 m. per annum for the profit, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Kent. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Kent to John of Cobham to keep for a year, together with the castles of Canterbury and Rochester and the manor of Milton with the hundred, so that he answers at the Exchequer for the farm and issues of the same county as Reginald of Cobham was accustomed to answer, and he will answer similarly for the wards owed to the castle of Rochester, ² but 20 m. of that farm are to be remitted to him.

1.

There is a sizeable erasure at this point.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Hampshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Hampshire to William of Wintershill to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 100 m. per annum for the profit of the county, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire to John de Scalariis to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 60 m. per annum for the profit, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Essex. Hertfordshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire to Richard de Tany to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 50 m. per annum for the profit of the counties, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Surrey. Sussex. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Surrey and Sussex to John of Walton to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £80 per annum for the profit of the counties, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Oxfordshire. Berkshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Oxfordshire and Berkshire to Walter de la Rivere to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 140 m. per annum for the profit of the counties, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Norfolk. Suffolk. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk to Hervey of Stanhoe to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 300 m. per annum for the profit of the same counties, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above, ² and he is to keep the castle of Norwich ³ at his costs. ⁴

1.

Another hand, that which makes the marginal addition, completes this entry.

2.

‘of Norwich’ interlined.

3.

The marginal heading beside this entry reads ‘in the Roll for three parts of the year’.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Lancaster. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Lancaster to Geoffrey of Cheetham to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 50 m. per annum for the profit of the same county, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above. He is to keep the castle of Lancaster at his costs. Memorandum also that grace is to be done.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Northumberland. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Northumberland with the castle of Newcastle upon Tyne to Thomas son of Michael to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £40 per annum for the profit of the same county, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above. He is to keep the county and castle at his costs, and he will answer for the wards due to the castle as Robert de Neville and William Heron did when they had the same wards for the custody of the castle and county.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Shropshire. Staffordshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire to William of Caverswell to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £100 per annum for the profit of the same counties, and for the forty-fourth year he will answer for three quarters of the year as the farmer, and William Bagod will answer for the first quarter as the keeper, and he is to make up the body of the counties and render the estabished alms as above. He is to keep the aforesaid counties at his costs.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Yorkshire. in the Roll. The king has committed the county of Yorkshire to John of Octon to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 350 m. for the profit from Easter in the forty-fourth year until Easter in the forty-fifth year, and he will have allowances for the wapentakes of Staincliffe and Ewcross, or he will have those in his hand. He is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms as above.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

Devon. in the Roll. The king has committed his county of Devon to Ralph of Doddiscombe to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering 100 m. for the profit of the county, and he is to make up the body of the county and render the estabished alms.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 74 above.

19 May. Westminster. The king has committed the castle of Scarborough with appurtenances to Hugh Bigod to keep in the form provided by the king and his magnates.

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 292 above.

8 Aug. Westminster. in the Roll. To all etc. Whereas the king lately committed to his beloved and faithful Robert Walerand the king’s castle and manor of St. Briavels and the king’s forest of Dean with appurtenances, to keep for the five years next following Michaelmas in the thirty-ninth year, the king, by the counsel of those magnates who are of his council, has been induced to prorogue the said commission at the end of the aforesaid five years for the three years next following, so that he shall hold that custody for the aforesaid term under the same conditions at which he previously had that custody by the five years aforesaid. In [testimony] of which etc. ²

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Beneath this entry is the beginnings of another entry that is clearly unfinished: ‘To all etc. Know that ...’

a.

For the Fine Roll context of this entry see no. 576 above.