[No date]. Suffolk. Robert Goding gives the king one mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

29 Oct. Reading. Concerning a custody which is to be delivered. To Godfrey of Liston. Because the custody and escheats of lands to be taken at farm have been committed to him, order to deliver the custody of the land formerly of Alexander of Cookham in Cookham to John de Turberville, the king’s escheator in Berkshire, without delay, so that he might answer for it at the Exchequer. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Margaret daughter of Gilbert. The king has pardoned to Margaret, daughter of Gilbert de Wrattring’, the half-mark at which she was amerced before the justices last itinerant at Catteshall in Suffolk for a default which she made there before the abovesaid justices. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause her to be quit therefrom. By the king

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

30 Oct. Wallingford. For the prior of Ivychurch. The king has pardoned to the prior and monks of Ivychurch the half-mark which they owe him for pannage. Order to Robert of Stopham, the king’s bailiff of Clarendon, to permit them to be quit therefrom on this occasion. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Hugh Herre gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. London. Peter de Frowik’, goldsmith of London, gives the king 3 m. for a writ to have an inquisition. Order to the sheriffs of London to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. The prior of Bradenstoke gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Master Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Stephen son of Ralph gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

1 Nov. Woodstock. For the prior of Sandleford. The king has granted to the prior of Sandleford that, of the 5 m. at which he was amerced before Henry of Bratton and his associates, assigned to be the king’s justices at Winchester, for disseisin made against Josceus de Brichull’, he may pay one moiety at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same prior to have the same terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take into the king’s hand all lands of Stephen de Spineto in his bailiwick together with the chattels found in the same lands, and to keep them safely until he has an order otherwise concerning this. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to take into the king’s hand the manor of Assel’ with appurtenances, the custody of which the king has committed to Imbert Gwidon and Stephen de Spineto, and to keep it safely together with all chattels found therein until he has a command otherwise. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Suffolk. Henry, son of William Fox, gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Berkshire. Thomas de Draytun’ gives the king one mark. for having an attaint before Robert Walerand. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Nicholas son of Josceus and Matilda, his wife, give the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Godfrey de Gamages gives the king 100s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Robert Walerand. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

3 Nov. Woodstock. For Guy de Rochfort. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Christmas, the demand that they make from Guy de Rochfort for 54s. for the arrears of a sergeanty in Winterburn’ in Wiltshire By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Hampshire. John de Bottelegh’ gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Hampshire to the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Herefordshire. William de Huscemayne gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Robert Walerand. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take security.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Nicholas Brother, parson of Bow Brickhill. The king has pardoned to Nicholas Brother, parson of the church of Bow Brickhill, the 20s. that the barons of the Exchequer exact from him by summons of the Exchequer of a fine for himself and his pledges because he withdrew himself. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit therefrom. By the queen.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning acquitting a charter. Richard le Marescall’ the Englishman gives the king 11 m. for acquitting a charter concerning land that the king gave him in Cheleberg’ in Dorset from [the fees of] the Chancery.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Reginald Child, William Botild, Roger de Pulham, Robert de Stanfeld’, Peter de Brecham and Katherine, his wife, Godfrey Venduyt and Clarice, his wife, William le Porter and Basilia, his wife, and Hubert Scot and Agnes, his wife, give the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Osbert, son of Henry de Walinton’, gives the king 20s. for a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Herefordshire to the justices of the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Herefordshire. William de Holeford’ and Agnes, his wife, give the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Herefordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Amanda de Henley gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

6 Nov. Winchcombe. For the bishop of Exeter. The king has given respite to E. bishop of Exeter, until one month from Easter in the thirty-sixth year, from scutage and other demands which are exacted from him and his men by summons of the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have that respite. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. For Walter de Huggeford’. Walter de Huggeford’ gives the king 10 m. for having the liberty that he be not placed upon any assizes, juries or recognitions. He has land in Shropshire.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For John de Venuz. The king has granted to John de Venuz that he may render 5 m. per annum of the £31 which he owed to Pincha, formerly a Jew of Winchester, whose debts are in the king’s hand, namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year, ¹ and 5 m. thus from year to year until the aforesaid £31 are paid to the king. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause him to have the aforesaid term and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By P. de Rivallis.

1.

‘namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Wiltshire. John de Eston’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

6 Nov. Winchcombe. For the men of Norwich. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite, until Easter in three weeks in the thirty-sixth year, the demand that he makes for tallage by summons of the Exchequer from the men of W. bishop of Norwich and the prior of Norwich in the city of Norwich. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Roger de Burgh and William of Swannington give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Hugh son of Gervase gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Roger de Mortimer. The king has granted to Roger de Mortimer that he may render 20 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas forthcoming in the thirty-fifth year of the 40 m. which he owes him for the debts of Ralph de Mortimer, his father, and which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer in Hampshire, and 20 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit him to have the aforesaid respite from the aforesaid 20 m. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Franc de Bohun. The king has granted to Franc de Bohun that he may render £40 each year of the 164 m. which he owes him for pledging, namely £20 at Easter and £20 at Michaelmas, until the aforesaid 164 m. are paid to the king, the first term beginning at Easter in the thirty-sixth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

8 Nov. Gloucester. For John le Gras. The king has pardoned to John le Gras the 20s. at which he was amerced before R. of Thirkleby and his associates, justices last itinerant to take the common pleas in Devon. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause John to be quit from the aforesaid 20s. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

9 Nov. Gloucester. For William de St. Leger. The king has given respite to William de St. Leger from the £12 12s. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer until Easter next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William to have the same respite. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Hugh de Hocour’. Hugh de Hocour’ of Staffordshire gives the king 100s. for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries or recognitions. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. The king has given respite to the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England from all debts and demands, both concerning assarts and other things pertaining to him and his men, until the quindene of Easter in the thirty-sixth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have the aforesaid respite. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. The king has given respite to the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England from all debts and demands, both concerning assarts and other things pertaining to him and his men, until the quindene of Easter in the thirty-sixth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have the aforesaid respite. ¹ By the king.

1.

This verbatim second version of this entry appears to be an error but it has not been cancelled.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. John Clerebaud’ gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before R. Walerand. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

He has paid it in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit. Gilbert de Sancto Laudo gives the king 10 m. for having the liberty that he be not placed upon any assizes, juries or recognitions. He has land in Lincolnshire. In [testimony] of which etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Sussex. Thomas de Iford’ gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Sussex to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the prioress of Aconbury. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Michaelmas in one month in the thirty-sixth year, the demand for £8 that they make from the prioress of Aconbury for the land she holds from the king at farm in Aconbury. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Surrey. John de Dunley gives the king one mark for taking an attaint before William le Breton and Reginald of Cobham. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Herefordshire. William de La Stowe gives the king 20s. for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Margaret de Geveny. The king has given respite to Margaret de Geveny, until Pentecost in the thirty-sixth year, from the half-mark that is exacted from her by summons of the Exchequer for default. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit her to have that respite. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the men of the prior of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, Gloucester. Order to the constable of Gloucester castle to place in respite, until Easter, the demand that he makes from the men of the prior of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, Gloucester, for the tine of ale, and in the meantime to deliver his goods that were seized as distress for this reason. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Surrey. Henry of Chertsey gives the king 20s. for taking an attaint before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take etc.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

12 Nov. Gloucester. For the abbess of Romsey. The abbess of Romsey gives the king 5 m. for having her liberty back that was taken into the king’s hand for a trespass. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to cause her to have that liberty back. She has land in Wiltshire. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine for the prior of Much Wenlock. The prior of Much Wenlock gives the king 300 m. that he might enclose his park of Oxonebol’ and to hold that park closed, of which the king has granted him that he may render 100 m. at Easter in the thirty-sixth year, 100 m. at Easter in the thirty-seventh year, and 100 m. at Easter in the thirty-eighth year. He has land in Shropshire. By the king and council.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning amercements before the king (coram Rege). William de Tracy is amerced before the king (coram Rege) at 40s. for a disseisin that he made against Robert Walerand in Gloucestershire. The pledges of the same W. are Thomas Tailor of Doynton and Thomas le Messer of Doynton.

a.

This is the first surviving entry on the corresponding originalia roll, E 371/17, which is very badly damaged, having lost both margins for the first half of the membrane. This means any marginal annotations for the affected entries have been lost.

13 Nov. Tewkesbury. Oxfordshire. The prior of Ogbourne and Roger de Codesford’ gives the king 2 m. for having an attaint before the king (coram Rege) upon his first arrival at Woodstock. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, and other text has also been lost.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for a charter. William d’Evreux gives the king 5 m. for a charter to have a warren in all of his demesne lands. ¹ He is to render 11 m. to the king for acquitting that charter from [the fees of] the Chancery.

1.

The next sentence is added by another hand to correct the following, which is cancelled by expunction: ‘The king has pardoned to the same the 11 m. which he ought to have paid him for acquitting that charter from [the fees of] the Chancery’.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, and other text has also been lost.

b.

At the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, is the following ‘And he has land in Herefordshire’.

Concerning a fine for the men of Archenfield. The men of Archenfield give the king 200 m. so that all of the land of Archenfield might be disafforested, of which 200 m. the king has granted them that they may render 50 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year, 50 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 100 m. thus in the following year at the same terms.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, and other text has also been lost.

Lincolnshire. Walter of Welbourn gives the king one mark for a pone [to remove a plea] before the justices of the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take security.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Lucy of Montgomery gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Master [Simon] of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

For a Jew. Samuel Blund, Jew, has asked the king that he be tallaged according to [the value of] his chattels for the tallage of 3500 m. just as other Jews of the community of London are tallaged. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews that if it seems to them that this would be to the king’s advantage, they are to cause it to be done thus. Order to the same justices to take security from the aforesaid [Samuel] Blund for half a mark of gold to the king’s use for this writ. By the king.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1. Other text has also been lost and this entry ends ‘[He has paid this to] P. Chaceporc etc. and he is quit’.

[No date]. Essex. Hervey son of Luke gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The prior of Kyme gives the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

17 Nov. Worcester. For the prioress of Amesbury. Order to the keeper of the forest of Chute and the agistors of the same forest to place in respite the demand that they make from the prioress of Amesbury for pannage for her demesne pigs, until Easter in 15 days. If they have made any distraint upon her for the aforesaid reason, they are to release it without delay until the aforesaid term. By J. of Lexington.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Herefordshire. Roger le Engleys gives the king 20s. for having an attaint before the justices at the first session. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Because otherwise below. Master Henry de Stratford’ gives the king 4 m. for having an attaint before the king (coram Rege). ¹ Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take etc. ²

1.

Corrected from ‘before Robert Walerand’.

2.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below. See no. 212.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Thomas son of William gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

19 Nov. Feckenham. Concerning the vill of Droitwich, which has been committed at farm. By the pledge of the whole of the king’s villate of Droitwich, the king has committed that vill with appurtenances to William son of Alan, Phillip Clech, Alan Coleware, Adam Buth, Hugh de Froxmere, Andrew Prior and Simon Alain, to hold at farm until the end of six years by rendering £80 blanched to the king at the Exchequer, of which they are to render a moiety at Easter and the other moiety at Michaelmas. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the abbot of Pershore.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the men of James de Cloptun’. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to place in respite, until Hilary in 15 days in the thirty-sixth year, the distraint that they cause to be made upon the men in Clopton’ of James de Cloptun’, who is in the custody of Peter de Montfort, for the debts in which John de Clopton’, James’s father, was bound to Gamalielus the Jew of Oxford, provided however that the tallage of the Jews is not diminished on account of this respite. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

20 Nov. Lichfield. For W. bishop of Worcester. Order to the king’s stewards and bailiffs of Feckenham to place in respite, until Hilary, the demand that they make from W. bishop of Worcester for his assarts in the same forest that have not been valued for rent. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For W. bishop of Worcester. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire that, having made attachment for the plea vee de naam concerning the hundred ¹ of W. bishop of Worcester of Oswaldslow, ² they are to place that plea in respite until Christmas next to come, because the king has granted that respite to the aforesaid bishop. By the king

1.

Corrected from ‘the lands’.

2.

‘of Oswaldslow’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

21 Nov. Lichfield. For Walter le Porter. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the demand for the 20 m. which remain to be rendered of the 30 m. at which Walter le Porter was amerced before the justices last itinerant in Sussex for digging up a wood and which 20 m. are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine of gold. William Bagod of La Hyde gives the king £10 for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc., of which he is to render a moiety in the king’s Wardrobe, in order to buy gold therewith, ¹ at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at Michaelmas next following. By the king.

1.

‘in order to buy gold therewith’ interlined.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, and other text has also been lost, including details of in which county he held his lands.

Worcestershire. William of Handsacre gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Robert Walerand. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to take security.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. Hugh of Mancetter owes the king 11 m. for acquitting from [the fees of] the Chancery the charter which the king granted him for having a warren, of which he is to render a moiety at Easter in the thirty-sixth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas next following. By the king.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, and other text has also been lost.

[No date]. Warwickshire. William of Hillmorton gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

24 Nov. Tutbury. Buckinghamshire. Joan, daughter of Hawise de Shirinton’ gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

Staffordshire. John Morel gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Robert de Sidenham’ gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Northamptonshire to the justices of the Bench at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Thomas, son of Ralph de Meysham’, gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. The prior of Trentham gives the king 12 m. for a charter to have a warren in his demesne lands of Trentham, Wall Grange and Elkstone in Staffordshire and for acquitting that charter from [the fees of] the Chancery. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

b.

At the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, is the following ‘And he has land in Staffordshire’.

For William of Englefield. Because the king has heard by an inquisition which he ordered to be taken by the sheriff of Norfolk that Seman of Bintree, who feloniously killed Ralph le Neuman, held one messuage and eight acres of land with appurtenances in Bintree of William of Englefield, and that the same William has made fine with the king by half a mark for having the year and day which pertains to the king therefrom, order to the aforesaid sheriff of Norfolk that, having accepted security from William for rendering the aforesaid half-mark to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid messuage and land as his escheats. By the king.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane the marginal annotations beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, and other text has also been lost.

b.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, reads ‘Berkshire’.

26 Nov. Nottingham. For Geoffrey de Burdeleys. The king has taken the homage of Geoffrey de Burdeleys, brother and heir of Hugh de Burdeleys, for all lands and tenements that Hugh, his brother, held from the king in chief, and the king has rendered all of the aforesaid lands and tenements to him. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, that, having accepted security from Geoffrey for rendering 10 m. to the king at his Exchequer, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements formerly of the same Hugh of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, reads ‘Norfolk’.

For the citizens of London. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Hilary in 15 days, the demand they make by summons of the Exchequer from the citizens of London for £7 of the farm of the sheriffs, £53 16s. 8d. for the aid to marry the king’s sister, and 200 m. of an amercement because they did not have John de Coudres. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William Spaer of Blyton gives the king 40s. for taking an attaint before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

29 Nov. Nottingham. Concerning underwood to be sold in the park of Melbourne. Order to the bailiff of Melbourne to cause the king’s underwood in his park of Melbourne to be sold by the view and testimony of law-worthy men as it will seem best to him for the king’s profit, so that he shall answer for the issues of that sale to the king at the Exchequer. By R. fitz Nicholas.

29 Nov. Nottingham. For Eudo of Shelfanger. The king has pardoned to Eudo of Shelfanger, keeper of the land and heir of Robert of Shottesbrooke, the 20s. which are exacted from the aforesaid heir by summons of the Exchequer for the debts of the aforesaid Robert, his father. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the aforesaid heir to be quit from the aforesaid 20s. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Isabella, who was the wife of Gilbert of Bedford, gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take security.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

1 Dec. Nottingham. For Ernald Cotin. The king has pardoned to Ernald Cotin the £10 which the king granted him cash down to be taken at the Exchequer over and above his annual fee of £20 that the king granted him to take each year at the Exchequer of Hilary. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Ernald to be quit from the aforesaid £10. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Rutland. Henry Muredak gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Rutland to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. William de Hagh’ gives the king one mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Rutland. Richard Basset gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Rutland to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Essex. Robert of Wimbish gives the king one mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Nicholas de Turri. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Leicestershire. John de Ledbroc and Joan, his wife, give the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for Robert Basset. Robert Basset, sheriff of Northamptonshire, gives the king 2 m. of gold, which he is to pay before Easter next to come in the king’s Wardrobe, for all trespasses of which he is accused from the time when he was sheriff of the same county up until Sunday next after St. Andrew the Apostle in the thirty-sixth year. ¹ Later, he paid and is quit, namely to E. of Westminster. By the king.

1.

Authority clause entered here. What follows is entered by another hand.

3 Dec. Nottingham. For the abbot of St. Albans. The king has pardoned to the abbot of St. Albans 10 m. of the 50 m. at which he was amerced before him (coram Rege) for several trespasses against Geoffrey of Childwick, and has granted him that he may render 20 m. per annum of the remaining 40 m., namely 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following and the remaining 20 m. in the following year at the same terms. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the aforesaid abbot to be quit from the aforesaid 10 m. and to have the aforesaid terms for the remaining 40 m. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. Robert of Ashbourne gives the king half a mark of gold for a charter to have a warren in his lands in Derbyshire and for acquitting that charter from [the fees of] the Chancery. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, reads ‘Nottinghamshire’.

Concerning a fine for having a charter. Ralph de Frescheville owes the king 11 m. for acquitting from [the fees of] the Chancery the charter that the king made for him for having a warren in all of his demesne lands. By P. de Rivallis.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, reads ‘Nottinghamshire’.

b.

At the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, is the following ‘He has land in Nottinghamshire’.

7 Dec. Nottingham. For Aubrey de Burton’. The king has granted to Aubrey de Burton’ that he may pay 40s. per annum of the £58 8s. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the arrears of the farm of the king’s manor of Silverstone, namely 20s. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year, 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 40s. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £58 8s. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Aubrey to have the same terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning underwood that is to be sold. Order to John son of Hugh, the king’s escheator of Kesteven, that, having taken with him four law-worthy knights, ¹ he is to cause the underwood of the wood of Eston’, which is in his custody, to be sold by the view of the same four knights as it will seem better for the king’s advantage, so that he shall answer the king at the Exchequer for the monies arising therefrom. By the king.

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‘knights’ interlined.

8 Dec. Nottingham. Concerning taking Westminster abbey into the king’s hand. Order to Edward of Westminster to take into the king’s hand the abbey of Westminster, vacant by the death of Richard, formerly abbot of the same, and to keep it safely so that from the issues of the lands formerly of the same abbot he causes a precious cope to be bought for the use of the same abbey, and to cause a large cloth to be made in the style of the large cloth which, at the king’s command, he caused to be made, to hang on the other side of the choir of the same abbey opposite the aforesaid cloth. He is also to cause a ¹ cloth of gold to be bought to cover the tomb of the aforesaid abbot, and he is not to omit to cause the feast of St. Edward to be celebrated as solemnly as usual on account of the death of the same abbot, so that the venerable fathers the bishops of Ely and Chichester shall lie in the aforesaid abbey. ² By the king.

1.

‘great’ crossed through here.

2.

Authorisation clause added by another hand in a slightly darker ink.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Geoffrey de St. Medard and Margaret, his wife, give the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc..

For Henry Martin and Agnes, his wife. The king has pardoned to Henry Martin and Agnes, his wife, the 6s. which are exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer for trespass of the forest. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to permit them to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Bela the Widow. The king has pardoned to Bela the Widow the 12s. which are exacted from her by summons of the Exchequer for trespass of the forest. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to permit her to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Kent. Robert de Auberville gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take security.

10 Dec. Nottingham. Concerning a fine for having a liberty. He has paid in the Wardrobe and is quit. Robert of Handascre gives the king one mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon any assizes, juries or recognitions, which he is to render to the king in his Wardrobe at Hilary. ¹ He has land in Warwickshire. ² Later, he paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper of the same, and is quit. By the king.

1.

The witness clause is entered here. What follows is added by another hand.

2.

A third hand completes this entry.

a.

In the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, the Hilary term is omitted. Instead, this entry ends ‘which he has paid to the king in his Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., and he is quit’. This is suggestive that the originalia roll in this case was drawn up at some distance in time from the fine roll.

[No date]. Derbyshire. William, son of William of Montgomery, gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to take etc.

[No date]. Derbyshire. Robert de Wynefeud gives the king 20s. for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to take etc.

[No date]. Because he has surrendered the writ. Henry Tyrel and Ralph Phillip of Eversholt give the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he has surrendered the writ. The entry is marked with a cross in the margin.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

11 Dec. Nottingham. For William of Tickencote. The king has granted to William of Tickencote that he may pay 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year of the 40 m. at which he was amerced before him (coram Rege) for several trespasses of which he was convicted before William le Breton and William of Axmouth, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-seventh year, and 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, in order to buy gold therewith. ¹ Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William to have the same terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

1.

‘in order to buy gold therewith’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Leodegar’, parson of Watton’. At the instance of A. bishop-elect of Winchester, the king has pardoned to Leodegar’, parson of the church of Whatton’, the 20 m. at which he was amerced for trespass of the forest. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 20 m. and to cause his goods and chattels, arrested for this reason, to be delivered to him. By P. de Rivallis.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Leicestershire. John de Daundeby gives the king one mark for having a writ concerning breach of the peace before him (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take security.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a liberty. Henry of Mapleton of Derbyshire gives the king 100s. for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries etc. By the king in order to buy gold.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a liberty. William de Meysham’ of Derbyshire and Leicestershire gives the king £10 for having the liberty namely that he be not placed upon assizes, juries or recognitions etc. By the king in order to buy gold.

[No date]. They have paid this in the king’s Wardrobe and are quit. The men of the manor of William de Ferrers, earl of Derby, of Higham Ferrers give the king £10 for having his confirmation of having a liberty, which they are to pay in the Wardrobe at Hilary in order to buy gold therewith. The aforesaid manor is in Northamptonshire. ¹ Later, they paid this in the king’s Wardrobe at Yardley and are quit.

1.

What follows is entered by the same hand that wrote the marginal comment.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane at this point the marginalia and some text of this entry have been lost in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

b.

In the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1, this entry ends ‘which they have paid to the king in his Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., in order to buy gold therewith’.

13 Dec. Clipstone. For W. earl of Derby. The king has pardoned to William de Ferrers, earl of Derby, the 100 m. in which he was bound to him of the £100 at which he was amerced before the king (coram Rege) for a false claim against Alan de Winterhull’. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For W. earl of Derby. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to permit him to be quit therefrom.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William Scot and Hawise, his wife, give the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

16 Dec. Hodsock. For Richard, son of John Faber of Karebroc’. The king has granted to Richard, son of John Faber of Karebroc’, that he may render half a mark at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year of the 40s. at which he was amerced before H. of Bath and his associates, justices last itinerant in Norfolk, half a mark at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-seventh year, and half a mark thus from year to year at the same term until he has paid the aforesaid 40s. to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the same terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Richard, son of John Faber of Karebroc’. Order, in the same manner, to the sheriff of Norfolk.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Peter de Cunesburg’ and Agnes, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an attaint before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Simon, son of Alexander de Northletherton’, gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin ¹ before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc.

1.

‘of novel disseisin’ interlined.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane any marginal annotation ‘S’’ beside this entry have been lost on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 1.

b.

For an entry not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see no. 1320 below.

23 Dec. York. Concerning a fine for having a charter. The prior of Warter gives the king £10 for a charter to have a market and fair at Warter, of which he has paid 100s. in the king’s Wardrobe, and he is to pay the remaining 100s. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year. ¹ Later, he paid 100 for Easter term and is quit of everything. He has a writ to the barons of the Exchequer.

1.

What follows is added in another hand.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane some text has been lost in this entry on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2. However, it is noted that the prior paid the first 100s. ‘immediately in the king’s Wardrobe’.

b.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, reads ‘Yorkshire’.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Alina Murdac gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take etc.

For R. de Quincy, earl of Winchester. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite the distraint that he makes upon R. de Quincy, earl of Winchester, for default and trespass of the forest, until Easter in one month in the thirty-sixth year. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Robert Filliol and Sabina, his wife, give the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Beatrice de Verly gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Robert of Ludford and Margaret, his wife, give the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the aforesaid Roger. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane some text has been lost in this entry on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Juliana, who was the wife of William Wambeys, gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

a.

Due to damage to the membrane some text has been lost in this entry on the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2.

26 Dec. York. For Robert de Mares. Later, he paid that half-mark in the Wardrobe and is quit. The king has granted to Robert de Mares that, for those 10 m. which he ought to have paid him at the Exchequer at Christmas in the thirty-sixth year, he may render half a mark ¹ of gold at the Purification of the Blessed Mary next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite. By the king.

1.

Corrected from ‘one mark’.

a.

This entry is rendered as follows in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2: ‘Robert de Mares has paid in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., for the 10 m. which he ought to have paid at the Exchequer at Christmas, and he is quit’.

For the prior of Bridlington. The king has granted to the prior of Bridlington that he may render £25 at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year of the £100 at which he was amerced before the justices last itinerant in Yorkshire for receiving certain malefactors, £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, £25 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

28 Dec. York. For Peter Branch. The king has pardoned to Peter Branch the £16 14s. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the surplus of his wages that he received at the Exchequer at the time when he was in the king’s service in Gascony in compensation for a horse of value that he lost there at the aforesaid time. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

29 Dec. York. For N., formerly bishop of Durham. The king has pardoned to the venerable father in Christ N., formerly bishop of Durham, the 10 m. at which he was amerced before G. de Langley and his associates, justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Nottinghamshire, for trespass of venison. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same bishop to be quit from the aforesaid 10 m. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine for having a liberty. Geoffrey de Burnavill’ gives the king £10 for having the liberty that he be not placed upon any assizes, juries or recognitions, which £10 he paid in the king’s Wardrobe on Saturday next after St. Thomas the Martyr in order to buy gold therewith, and he is quit.

For Robert de Ros. The king has granted to Robert de Ros, who has taken to wife Isabella, daughter and heiress of William d’Aubigny, that he may render 100 m. per annum at the Exchequer of all debts in which William was bound to the king, and concerning which the king had granted Robert previously that he was to render 200 m. per annum at the Exchequer, at the same terms at which he was bound to render the aforesaid 200 m. until the aforesaid debts have been fully paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By J. of Lexington.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

30 Dec. York. Concerning a fine for a charter. Gaceus de Chaumunt gives the king 11 m. for having a charter to enfeoff him with land formerly of Stephen de Spineto and for acquitting the same from [the fees of] the Chancery. That land is in Yorkshire.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Walter de Weimeles gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning the chattels of hanged men. Memorandum that Robert Vavassur, sheriff of Nottinghamshire, ought to answer the king for 48s. from the chattels of men hanged before the justices assigned to deliver the king’s gaol of Nottingham before Christmas upon the king’s arrival there.

[No date]. Lancaster. John de Cancefeud’ gives the king 20s. for having a writ ad terminum at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to take etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Richard of Cockfield gives the king 40s. for taking an attaint before William le Breton and Robert Savage. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

3 Jan. Thorp’. For John son of Bernard. The king has granted to John son of Bernard, his valet, that, of the debt in which he is bound to him, of which he pays 20 m. per annum at the Exchequer, namely 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter and 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, he may henceforth pay 10 m. per annum at the same terms, namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter, 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and 10 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debt is paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause John to have the same terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Later, he paid this in the king’s Wardrobe at Woodstock on Sunday next after St. Vincent and is quit. Rocelin de Fos, Master of the Knights of the Temple in England, gives the king one mark of gold for having his confirmation of an agreement made between him and Peter of Rochester concerning the manor of Rywehal’.

For the prioress and nuns of Sinningthwaite. To the barons of the Exchequer and the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews. The king has pardoned to the prioress and nuns of Sinningthwaite the 12 m. which are exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer for the portion of a Jewish debt falling to them from the Jewish debts in which Henry son of Guy was bound to the king for the lands and tenements formerly of the same Henry that the same nuns hold in Bilton. Order to the same justices to cause the same nuns to be quit from the same monies. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Shropshire. Ralph, son of Ralph of Re, ¹ gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Giles of Erdington. ² Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc.

1.

‘de Re’ interlined.

2.

Corrected from ‘Robert Walerand’.

[No date]. Later, he paid it in the Wardrobe and is quit. Peter of Rochester gives the king 5 m. for having remission from being distrained to take up the arms of knighthood. He has land in Essex and Hertfordshire. ¹ Later, he paid half a mark of gold in the Wardrobe for those 5 m. and is quit.

1.

What follows is added by another hand and is written at the right-hand edge of the membrane.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for a confirmation. The abbot of Furness gives the king 100 m. for having a confirmation, which he has paid in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

6 Jan. York. For William de Barton’. The king has granted to William de Barton’ that he may render £20 per annum of the £100 at which he was amerced before the justices last itinerant to take the common pleas in Yorkshire for a trespass made before them, namely £10 at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year, £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £100 are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid [terms] and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Ralph, son of Roger son of Ralph. The king has taken the homage of Ralph, son and heir of Roger son of Ralph, for all lands and tenements which Roger held from the king in chief in Northumberland, and the king has rendered all of the aforesaid lands and tenements to him. Order to Thomas of Stamford, the king’s escheator, that, having accepted security from the aforesaid Ralph for rendering £6 to the king at Easter next to come for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements which the aforesaid Roger held from the king in chief and of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee. By the king.

[No date]. The king has committed to Guy de Lusignan the custody of the land and heir of Ralph de Vernun to have and hold until […] ¹

1.

Entry marked with a cross in the margin and it is unfinished.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

8 Jan. Sherburn in Elmet. For Adam de Houton’. The king has granted to Adam de Houton’ that he may render 50s. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year of the 15 m. at which he was amerced before G. de Langley and his associates, justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in the county of Lancaster, for a trespass, 50s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 100s. thus in the following year at the same terms. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to permit him to have the aforesaid terms. ¹ Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

1.

Witness clause entered here.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Adam Daiville. The king has granted to Adam Daiville that he may render 16s. 8d. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year of the 100s. at which he was amerced before G. de Langley and his associates, justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Yorkshire, for default of the common summons, 16s. 8d. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 5 m. thus in the two following years at the same terms. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William of Sausthorpe gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before R. of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a liberty. Simon, son of William de Grinkelthorp, gives the king 10 m. for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries etc. He has land in Lincolnshire.

Concerning a fine for having a charter. John le Vavassur gives the king 20 m. for a charter to have a warren and for acquitting it from [the fees of] the Chancery. He has paid it in the king’s Wardrobe at Sherburn in Elmet and is quit.

8 Jan. Pontefract. For the abbot of St. Mary’s, York. The king has granted to the abbot of St. Mary’s, York, that he may render 50 m. at Easter in the thirty-sixth year of the 200 m. at which he and Brother Richard de Rouen, his monk, were amerced in the last eyre of the justices taking the pleas of the forest in Cumberland, 50 m. at Michaelmas next following, and 100 m. at the same terms in the following year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Bartholomew Peche. The king has pardoned to Bartholomew Peche the 40 m. which he received by the hand of John Mansel to be taken to Lyons, in order to be delivered there to a clerk of the king, and which Bartholomew retained because the aforesaid clerk could not be found there. By the king and J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. Robert Haget, treasurer of York, gives the king one mark of gold for a charter to have a warren and for acquitting the same from [the fees of] the Chancery.

Concerning a fine of Henry de Coleville. Henry de Coleville gives the king 3 m. of gold for having remission of all pleas, penalties and demands that the king has against him and his clerks or bailiffs by reason of certain trespasses perpetrated by Henry, his clerks and bailiffs while he was sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. ¹ He is to pay this to the king on the first Sunday of Lent.

1.

Witness clause entered here.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, reads ‘Cambridgeshire’.

12 Jan. Clipstone. Concerning a fine for the citizens of York. They paid in the Wardrobe and are quit. By the fine of 2 m. of gold which his citizens of York made with him, the king has granted them that they are not to be amerced or penalized before the king (coram Rege) in the eyre of the justices itinerating in Yorkshire for certain things sold in their vill contrary to the assize or for any manner of trespass pertaining to the market. Order to the same justices itinerating in Yorkshire not to amerce or penalize the same citizens in their aforesaid eyre for the aforesaid trespasses. ¹ The same citizens have paid those 2 m. of gold to the king in his Wardrobe and are quit. By the king.

1.

Witness clause entered here.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. John de Rungetun’ gives the king one mark of gold, which he is to pay in the Wardrobe at Easter, for having before the king (coram Rege) the record of an appeal that Robert de Stuteville makes against him and others in the county court of Yorkshire. ¹ He has land in Yorkshire. He has paid this in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

What follows in this entry is written by another hand.

12 Jan. Nottingham. Concerning taking a ship and wines into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take into the king’s hand a ship that has recently broken up on the coast of Sussex and 60 tuns of wine that were in the aforesaid ship, and he is to keep it safely until he has an order otherwise. By R. fitz Nicholas.

Concerning the manor of Wolverhampton, which has been committed to Guy de Rochfort. The king has committed to Guy de Rochfort all lands that are in the king’s hand in the manor of Wolverhampton by reason of the custody of the land and heir of Henry of Hastings being in the king’s hand, until the time the heir comes of lawful age, by rendering £9 5s. 9d. per annum to the king at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, to cause Guy to have full seisin of all of the aforesaid lands, as aforesaid, ¹ with all issues taken therefrom after Michaelmas last past. By the king.

1.

What follows is interlined.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, reads ‘Staffordshire’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for having a charter. He paid it in the Wardrobe and is quit. Richard Foliot of Yorkshire gives the king 2 m. of gold for a charter to have a warren and for acquitting the same from [the fees of] the Chancery. He is to pay this in the king’s Wardrobe at the beginning of Lent by the pledge of Edmund de Lacy. He paid this in the Wardrobe at Westminster on Saturday next before the first Sunday of Lent and is quit.

a.

This entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, records that he had paid this ‘in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., and he is quit’, omitting the future term for payment.

15 Jan. Nottingham. Because otherwise below and given by the same dates. The king has granted to his beloved and faithful Ralph fitz Nicholas the custody of the land and heirs of Fulk de Coudray, to have and hold until the lawful age of the same heirs together with the marriage of the same if the next heir has not yet been married, by rendering 300 m. to the king at the Exchequer within three years, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year, another 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and thus from year to year at the same terms until he has paid the said money to the king. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, that, having accepted security from him for paying the same money to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause Ralph to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody with appurtenances. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below and given by the same. See no. 206. It is marked with a cross in the margin.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. John Berry of Nottinghamshire gives the king one mark for making essoin for a default that he made in the same county court. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc.

Concerning a fine of gold for a respite. Richard de Hottot gives the king one mark of gold, which he will pay in the Wardrobe on the next Sunday of Lent, for having respite from making himself a knight for five years from the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the thirty-sixth year. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire not to distrain him in the meantime to take up the arms of knighthood. ¹ He has paid it to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

Witness clause entered here.

a.

This entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, includes the statement that ‘He has land in Northamptonshire’.

16 Jan. Croxton Kerrial. For Master Thomas the Surgeon. Because the king has heard by an inquisition that he caused to be taken that it is not to the harm of his forest of Essex to grant Master Thomas the Surgeon that he might assart a thicket of four acres by the king’s perch in Lamburn’ within the metes of the same forest, the king grants to the same Master Thomas, for himself and his heirs, that he might assart that thicket and hold it as a close bounded by a ditch and hay forever without impediment from the foresters or any of the king’s other ministers of the forest, on condition that the king’s deer might freely enter and leave that assart. Order to the steward of the king’s forest of Essex to permit this to be done thus. The same Thomas will give 12d. per annum for the aforesaid land, of which he is to pay a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas. By the king.

15 Jan. Nottingham. For Thomas son of William. The king has granted to Thomas son of William that he may render 12½m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year of the 20 m. which remain to be rendered of the 50 m. at which he was amerced before G. de Langley and his associates, justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Nottinghamshire, for trespass of the forest, and of the 22½ m. of a fine that he made before the justices last itinerant to take the common pleas in Yorkshire, 10 m. at St. John the Baptist next following, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, and 10 m. at Hilary next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By J. of Lexington.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Thomas son of William. Order to the sheriffs of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire to permit him to have the aforesaid terms.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for having a liberty. Robert de Gant gives the king one mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc., which he is to pay to the king at Easter. ¹ He paid it in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

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

a.

This entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, includes the statement that ‘He has land in Leicestershire’.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William of Denton, Bartholomew of Casthorpe, Robert Cresping’ and Isabella Cresping’ give the king 2 m. for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Ralph le Moyne gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Seagrave. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Robert de La Mare of Cromwell gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc.

[No date]. Leicestershire. John of Melton, clerk, and Juliana, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an attaint before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc.

a.

For entries not recorded in the Fine Roll but entered on the Originalia Roll in this chronological sequence see nos. 1321, 1322, 1323 below.

[No date]. Staffordshire. John son of Adam gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take etc.

19 Jan. Geddington. For the men of Brigstock. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite, until Ash Wednesday next to come, the demand that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the king’s men of Brigstock for the £10 which they have delivered to Henry de Hauville in order to mew the king’s falcons, and for the half-mark which they spent in chasing the king’s stock to Woodstock by order of the king. By the king .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Because he did not have the writ. Odo son of William gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Lincolnshire to [the justices in eyre at] Nottingham. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because he did not have the writ. It is marked with a cross in the margin.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning taking an inquisition. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to inquire by the oath of twelve of the more law-worthy Jews of Winchester by their roll whether Cressus of Stamford, Jew, violently seized and took away the apple of Eve from the synagogue of the Jews in the same city to the shame and opprobrium of the Jewish community. If, by that inquisition, he shall be found guilty of that deed, then they are to distrain Cressus immediately by his rents, houses and chattels to give one mark of gold to the king for that trespass. By the king .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine of gold for having a liberty. Hugh de Capella gives the king 20s. of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries etc., which he is to render on the eve of Easter in the thirty-sixth year. ¹ He paid it in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

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

20 Jan. Geddington. Concerning the counties of Somerset and Dorset, which have been committed. The king has committed the counties of Somerset and Dorset to Elias de Rabayn together with the castles of Corfe and Sherborne, to keep for as long as it pleases the king by paying 100 m. annually at the Exchequer for the farm of the same counties at the terms at which Henry of Earley, formerly sheriff of the same counties, was accustomed to render that money. 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.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Gilbert de Claxby gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before R. of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Thomas de la Le gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Master Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Master William de Trykeby gives the king 2 m. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

For the abbot of Kirkstead. The king has given respite to the abbot of Kirkstead, until the quindene of Easter in the thirty-sixth year, from the 5 m. at which he was amerced before Master Simon of Walton at Stamford, and from another 5 m. at which he was amerced before the justices last itinerant to take the pleas at the Tower of London for a purpresture made in the city of London. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit the same abbot to have that respite. ¹ Order, in the same manner, to the sheriff of Lincolnshire. By the king .

1.

Witness clause entered here.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. The abbot of Wardon gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. For the vicar of Geddington. The king has granted to Ralph son of Richard, vicar of Geddington, a certain plot of land in Geddington by rendering 8d. annually to the bailiffs of Geddington at Easter to the king’s use.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, reads ‘Northamptonshire’.

For the vicar of Geddington. The same Ralph gives the king 40s. for that gift and grant, which he has paid in his Wardrobe and is quit. By the king.

a.

There appears to be an erased marginal note beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, which appears to read ‘in the compendium roll’.

[No date]. Leicestershire. Ralph Basset of Drayton gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc.

For Walter le Avener. The king has pardoned to Walter le Avener, his serjeant, the 5 m. in which John Jukel was bound to Deulecresse, Jew of London. ¹ Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause John ² to be quit from the aforesaid 5 m. They are to cause any muniments that the aforesaid Jew might have concerning this to be returned to Walter. ³ By the king .

1.

Corrected from ‘the 5 m. in which he was bound to Deulecresse, Jew of London, for John Jukel’.

2.

Corrected from ‘Walter’.

3.

Corrected from ‘If the aforesaid Jew has anything containing the aforesaid debt, he is to cause that to be returned to Walter’.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. Hugh Pepin and Matilda, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to take etc.

24 Jan. Northampton. For Peter d’Aubusson and his men of the prebend of Bridgnorth. Because the king recalls that he had pardoned to Peter d’Aubusson, his kinsman, the amercement for the common summons into which he and his men of the prebend of Bridgnorth fell before the justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Shropshire, order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit therefrom. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to permit them to be quit therefrom. By the king .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William son of Reiner and Richard de Wissant. The king has given respite to William son of Reiner and Richard de Wissant from the 2 m. of gold which are exacted from them for a default and from all trespasses of which they and their bailiffs were accused by the king’s inquisitors at the time when they were sheriffs of Essex and Hertfordshire up to the octaves of the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the thirty-sixth year. Order to the sheriff of Essex to permit them to have that respite. By the king .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Thomas Champion gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Seagrave. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

For Robert de Muscegros. The king has granted to Robert de Muscegros that, of the £9 7s. 5d. of the chattels of John of Aldham in Kent, of £424 10s. of several debts, of the moiety of 25 m. 6s. 8d. of the debts of William Malet in Somerset, of £6 11s. 4d. of the aid for marrying the king’s daughter, of £100 for Herbert son of Peter in Hampshire, of 300 m. for having the custody of the land and heirs of Geoffrey Esturmy, of £37 of the debts of Bonefill’, Jewess of Bristol, and of 40 m. of the debts of Jacob of Oxford, Jew of Bristol, he may render £60 annually at the Exchequer for all of the aforesaid debts, whereas he previously ought to have rendered £40 per annum, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter, the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following and £60 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debts have been paid to the king. If Robert happens to die before he has paid all of the aforesaid debts to the king, the king, for himself and his heirs, grants that Robert’s heirs may recover and keep the same terms until the full payment of the same debts. 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.

[No date]. Devon. Alexander de Bobbehull’ gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Devon to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc.

[No date]. Shropshire. John Wyard gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Shropshire before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a respite. Simon de Borard’ gives the king 20s. for having respite from his knighting until St. Edward in the thirty-sixth year, by the pledge of John Grim who has land in Northamptonshire.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Thomas de Flamville gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Bedfordshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. The prior of Bushmead gives the king one mark for having a pone to [remove a plea to the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Herefordshire. William de Stowe of Hereford gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Simon Bascod’ and Gilbert Bascod’ give the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc.

30 Jan. Woodstock. For Geoffrey Gacelin. The king has pardoned to Geoffrey Gacelin the £12 which he received by divers instalments as a loan from the king’s Wardrobe. Order to P. Chaceporc, keeper of the Wardrobe, to cause him to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for having a charter. Hugh le Bigod gives the king 20s. of gold for having a charter of warren and for acquitting the same from [the fees of] the Chancery. He is to pay this at Easter in the thirty-sixth year. He has land in Sussex. ¹ He has paid it to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

1 Feb. Woodstock. Concerning a fine of gold for having liberties. He has paid this to P. Chaceporc and is quit. William de Curly of Warwickshire gives the king 20s. of gold for quittance from [being placed upon] assizes, juries and recognitions, which he is to render at Easter in the king’s Wardrobe.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for having liberties. Alexander, son of Alexander of Pointon, gives the king one mark of gold for having the same quittance. ¹ He paid this to the king immediately in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc at Woodstock and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for having liberties. The prior of Wroxton in Oxfordshire gives the king one mark of gold for having his confirmation of his liberties and lands which they have from the Master Michael Belet. ¹ He is to pay the mark at Easter next to come.

1.

The witness clause is entered here. What follows is entered by another hand and is wrapped beneath the line at the right-hand edge of the membrane.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Denise daughter of Roger gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. The abovesaid Denise gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take etc.

Concerning a fine for relief. Robert de Beauchamp, son and heir of Robert de Beauchamp, gives the king £100 for his relief, of which he is to render 25 m. at St. John the Baptist in the thirty-sixth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Hilary in the thirty-seventh year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, 25 m. at St. John the Baptist in the same year, and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following. By the king.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, reads ‘Somerset’.

2 Feb. Woodstock. For agistors. The agistors of the king’s woods of Silverstone and Haselberg’ paid in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper of the same Wardrobe, at Woodstock on the eve of the Purification of the Blessed Mary 14s. for the pannage of Martinmas term last past by the hand of William de Whitefeud’. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit therefrom. By P. Chaceporc and T. of Winchester.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

14 Jan. Nottingham. For Ralph fitz Nicholas. The king has granted to his beloved and faithful R. fitz Nicholas the custody of the land and heirs of Fulk de Coudray, to have and hold until the lawful age of the same heirs together with their marriage if the next heir has not yet been married, by rendering 300 m. at the Exchequer within three years, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year, another 25 m. at St. John the Baptist next following, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, 25 m. at Hilary in the thirty-seventh year, and thus henceforth at the same terms for the two following years. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, to cause Ralph to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody with appurtenances. ¹ By the king.

1.

For a cancelled version of this entry dated 15 January see no. 159 above.

[No date. Rutland. John de Midelinton’ gives the king half a mark for having the writ quare vi et armis [returnable] before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Rutland to take etc.

a.

There appears to be an erased marginal note beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2.

2 Feb. Woodstock. For Robert de Beauchamp. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, that, having accepted security from Robert de Beauchamp, son and heir of Robert de Beauchamp, for rendering £100 to the king at the terms that the king has given to him, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements which fall to him by hereditary right by the death of the abovesaid Robert and which are in the king’s hand and in his bailiwick. By the king .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning the custody of Barking abbey. The king has committed the vacant abbey of Barking to Richard Ruffus and Robert de Chiltham, his clerks, to keep for as long as it pleases him, so that they shall answer him for the issues of the same at the Exchequer. Order to all knights, free men and others holding from the aforesaid abbey to be intendant and respondent to them in this, as aforesaid. ¹ And they are patent. By the king .

1.

The witness clause is entered here. What follows, including the authority clause, is entered by another hand.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, reads ‘Essex’.

3 Feb. Woodstock. For Thomas of Hengrave. The king has granted to Thomas of Hengrave that even though he has transgressed his terms for his arrears, which he owed him for the time when he was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, he may have the same terms for the remainder that remains to be rendered of the aforesaid arrears, namely for £31 6s. 8d., and he may render them by the same particulars, until the aforesaid £31 6s. 8d. are rendered to the king in full. 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.

[No date]. Norfolk. Robert de Heylesdon’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Master Henry de Stratford’ gives 4 m. for having a certificate before the king (coram Rege) against the abbot of Winchcombe and others, concerning a tenement in Aln’. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take. ¹

1.

An earlier, cancelled version of this writ can be found at no. 61 above.

For William le Estynur. The king has granted William le Stinur two bovates of land with appurtenances in Melbourne for life ¹ by paying 3s. annually to the king’s bailiff of the same manor, namely a moiety at the Annunciation of Our Lady and the other moiety at Michaelmas. By the abbot of Pershore.

1.

‘for life’ interlined.

4 Feb. Woodstock. For the abbot of Cirencester. The king has given respite to the abbot of Cirencester from the mark which is exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for a sergeanty in the manor of Cirencester, ¹ until Easter in 15 days. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to cause him to have peace from the aforesaid mark in the meantime. By the king .

1.

‘in the manor of Cirencester’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Robert of Warwick and Isabella, his wife, and Hugh, son of William Adelard, and Alice, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Seagrave. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

For Aaron of York, Jew. To the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews. If Aaron of York, Jew, paid the king 30 m. of gold at the Exchequer for his last tallage, or shall pay it immediately, then they are to cause him to be delivered without delay, providing that he renders all of the remainder of the same tallage at Mid-Lent next to come. ¹ The same Aaron gives 3 m. of gold for having delivery, which he paid in the king’s Wardrobe at Woodstock and is quit. By the king.

1.

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

a.

This entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, simply reads ‘Aaron of York, Jew, gives the king 3 m. of gold that he be delivered from prison, which he has paid in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit’.

Concerning a fine of gold for trespasses. The prior of Hereford in Wales gives the king 2 m. of gold for certain trespasses committed by him in those parts, which he is to pay in his Wardrobe in the octaves of Easter in the thirty-sixth year.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. William of Pershore gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Robert Walerand. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take etc.

[No date]. Wiltshire. The prior of Monkton Farleigh gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take etc.

Concerning making clearings. Order to the foresters and verderers of the king’s forest of Rutland to cause seven clearings to be made in the same forest where it might be done at least cost to the king and to the least damage of the same forest, so that they shall answer him at the Exchequer for the issues of the wood felled to create the same clearings. By G. de Langley.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for a trespass. William son of Reiner gives the king 3 m. of gold for his own trespasses that he committed at the time when he was sheriff of Essex, which he is to pay to the king in his Wardrobe at the Close of Easter in the thirty-sixth year. ¹ He paid this in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc at Westminster and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

a.

The note concerning eventual payment is also entered by a hand other than that which compiled the main body of the entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for a trespass. Richard de Wissant gives the king one mark of gold for the same, which he is to pay to the king at the same term. ¹ He paid this in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

a.

The note concerning eventual payment is also entered by a hand other than that which compiled the main body of the entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for a trespass. Simon of Thrupp, formerly sheriff of Northamptonshire, gives the king 2 m. of gold for the same, which he is to pay to the king at the same term. ¹ He paid this in the Wardrobe and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. He paid 4 m. of gold in the Wardrobe and later paid the other 4 m. and is quit. Phillip Marmion, sheriff of Warwickshire, gives the king 8 m. of gold for the same, of which he is to render a moiety at the aforesaid term and the other moiety at St. John the Baptist ¹ in 15 days in the same year.

1.

Corrected from ‘Michaelmas’.

a.

A note concerning further payment is also entered by a hand other than that which compiled the main body of the entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2. It reads ‘Later, he paid 4 m. thereof in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc etc. and there still remains 4 m.’

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Phillip of Staunton, formerly sheriff of Cambridgeshire, gives the king one mark of gold for the same, which he is to pay to the king in his Wardrobe at the Close of Easter. ¹ He paid half a mark of gold to P. Chaceporc and is quit therefrom.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

a.

Phillip is named as ‘formerly the sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire’ in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2.

b.

A note concerning further payment is also entered by a hand other than that which compiled the main body of the entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2. It reads ‘Later, he paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., half a mark of gold, and he owes another half-mark’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. He paid this in the Wardrobe and is quit. The abbot of Rufford gives the king one mark of gold for having a confirmation, which he is to render in the Wardrobe on the first Sunday of Lent. ¹ He paid this in the Wardrobe and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by a third hand.

a.

On the dorse of the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 2, at this point is the following fourteenth-century note ‘Fines and other debts which were owed by this roll were extracted in the month of January in the seventeenth year of the reign of King E., son of King E. [1324]’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Adam de Hulmo gives the king half a mark of gold for having a warren in Langton by Wragby in Lincolnshire, which he is to render in the Wardrobe on the same day. ¹ He has rendered it in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

5 Feb. Woodstock. For Nicholas of Cogenhoe. He has paid in the Wardrobe and is quit. The king has pardoned to Nicholas of Cogenhoe the 30 m. by which he made fine with him for having a charter of warren and quittance from [being placed upon] assizes, juries and recognitions, for one mark of gold which is to be rendered in the Wardrobe on the first Sunday of Lent in the king’s Wardrobe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Nicholas to be quit from the aforesaid 30 m., as aforesaid. By the king .

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. She has paid this to P. Chaceporc and is quit. Agnes of Rowden gives the king one mark of gold for having a charter concerning the lands and tenements that the king granted to her and her heirs in Chippenham, which she is to render to him in the Wardrobe at Easter. ¹ She paid it to P. Chaceporc.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

a.

A note at the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, reads ‘And she is from Wiltshire’. The note concerning payment and quittance is also, unusually, entered in the margin in that roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Brian of Brampton of Shropshire gives the king 2 m. of gold for having a warren, market and fair, which he is to render in the Wardrobe at the same term. ¹ He paid it to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

a.

The note concerning payment and quittance in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, is also entered in the margin in that roll and reads ‘He has paid this to P. Chaceporc at Westminster and is quit’.

7 Feb. Oxford. For Agnes of Rowden. The king has granted to the aforesaid Agnes of Rowden all the land and tenement in Chippenham that James Hoese held of the king for life and the new street in the same vill called Horscroft, with appurtenances, which Walter de Goderville once held, to hold from the king and his heirs by Agnes and her heirs by rendering £7 10s. annually to the king’s bailiff of Melksham at four terms, namely 37s. 6d. at the Annunciation of Our Lady, 37s. 6d. at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 37s. 6d. at Michaelmas and 37s. 6d. at Christmas, so that whenever the king’s demesne lands elsewhere throughout England will be tallaged, the said lands and tenements will be tallaged to the king’s use according to the quantity of that land and those tenements and the easements of the tenants. For this grant Agnes, for herself and her heirs, has released and quitclaimed to the king and his heirs those 40s. that the king was bound to pay to her per annum for a fulling mill in Marlborough. By the abbot of Pershore.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, reads ‘Wiltshire’.

8 Feb. Wallingford. Concerning the execution of the testament of Robert de Beauchamp. Order to the barons of the Exchequer that, having scrutinised the rolls of the Exchequer [to ascertain] how much debt Robert de Beauchamp owes to the king and, when they know the sum of that debt, having accepted security from the abbot of Forde and the other executors of the testament of the abovesaid Robert for rendering that debt to the king at the terms set for them by the barons, which will seem best to them, ¹ they are to cause them to have free administation of all goods formerly of the same deceased. By the king.

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‘which will seem best to them’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William Beringer. Because otherwise below. The king has pardoned to William Beringer the 40s. at which he was amerced before Master Simon of Walton in an assize of novel disseisin against John de Camera which was taken before the same at Worcester. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William to be quit therefrom. ¹ By R. Walerand.

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Entry cancelled because otherwise below.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. The king has granted to Robert of Melbourne four bovates of land with appurtenances within the king’s manor of Melbourne […] ¹

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Entry unfinished. It is marked with a cross of cancellation in the margin but not text is crossed through. For a fuller version see no. 238 below.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Richard de Meldon’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

Staffordshire. Robert de Halenton’ gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of darrein presentment before Giles of Erdington. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take security.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Ralph de la More gives the king one mark for having a record concerning the hundred of Wormelow before the king (coram Rege). He has land in Herefordshire.

For Robert of Melbourne. The king has granted to Robert of Melbourne four bovates of land with appurtenances within his manor of Melbourne by rendering half a mark annually to the king’s use to the bailiffs of the same manor who will be at that time, whereas he was previously accustomed to render 4s. per annum, namely by rendering a moiety of that half-mark at the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary and the other moiety at Michaelmas. By the king and the abbot of Pershore.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, reads ‘Nottinghamshire’.

10 Feb. Windsor. For John Reinger. Even though John Reinger has allowed the terms of the old debts of his father to pass by unpaid on several occasions, the king, of his special grace, still grants him that he may recover and keep the terms that he previously had for this, henceforth rendering £20 per annum at the Exchequer. The king also grants him that he may render 5 m. per annum of the £41 and one mark which are newly demanded from him at the Exchequer for the debts of his aforesaid father after the time he first made fine with the king for the same debts, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas until the aforesaid £41 and one mark 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.

Concerning the vill of Oxford, which has been committed to keep. The king has committed his vill of Oxford to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the mayor and bailiffs of Oxford to be intendant and respondent to him in all things which pertain to that custody, as aforesaid. By the king.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, there is an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’.

For the men of Guy de Rochfort of Winterburn’. The king has given respite to the men ¹ of Guy de Rochfort of Winterburn’, until Easter in 15 days in the thirty-sixth year, from the demand made of them by summons of the Exchequer for a certain sergeanty. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit them to have that respite. By the king.

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‘the men’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Osbert de Longchamp of Leverington gives the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

Cambridgeshire. The same Osbert gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take security.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Richard of Handred gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take into the king’s hand all lands in his bailiwick formerly of Richard, son of William de Winnesley, who was outlawed for felony, as is said, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. By Guy de Rochfort .

12 Feb. Windsor. For a Jew. Even though the king previously granted to Aaron son of Abraham, Jew of London, that he would not be tallaged for four years following Michaelmas in the thirty-fourth year except at 100 m. per annum, at the instance of Guy de Lusignan, the king’s brother, he has granted the same Jew that he is not to be tallaged per annum for four years following Christmas last past except at 20 m. of gold, of which he is to render a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, so that he is not tallaged at a greater sum of money throughout the aforesaid period of four years. For as long as the aforesaid tallage lasts the king wishes that he shall have respite from the old debt which he owes him and that the aforesaid 20 m. of gold are to be allowed per annum to the community of the king’s Jews in their tallage. If the amount of tallage due to the king from his Jews shall fall, so shall the amount he shall pay as the portion pertaining to him in the same manner as to other Jews. Order to the barons of the Exchequer and the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ By the king in the presence of Guy de Lusignan and P. de Rivallis, and again they ordering the same on behalf of the king.

1.

The authorisation clause is added in a smaller hand.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for a confirmation. Walter Wyther gives the king 10 m. for having his confirmation of twelve acres of land with appurtenances in the vill of Melleburn’ and for having back again the bailiwick in the Forest of Dean which he and his ancestors had in the same forest and which was taken into the king’s hand for trespass of the forest, of which he was accused before G. de Langley and his associates, justices itinerating to take the pleas of the forest at Gloucester.

a.

A note at the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, reads ‘And he is from Gloucestershire’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Roger le Flemeng’ gives the king one mark of gold for the trespass that he committed in sending bad wine to the king’s use. ¹ He has land in Hampshire. ² He has paid half a mark of gold for this to P. Chaceporc, and he will pay the other half-mark in the quindene of St. John the Baptist in the thirty-sixth year.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

2.

What follows is entered by a third hand.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, reads ‘Hampshire’.

b.

The notes concerning payment are omitted from this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3.

[No date]. Shropshire. Ralph le Butiller and Matilda, his wife, give the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc.

[No date]. Worcestershire. William Cokin gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to take etc.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. The abbot of Bruern gives the king 20s. for taking an attaint before the king (coram Rege) upon his first arrival at Woodstock. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take etc.

14 Feb. Windsor. Concerning a fine of gold. John de Wattun’ gives the king 5 m. of gold for his own trespasses that he committed at the time when he was sheriff of Kent and Essex and Hertfordshire, of which he is to render 2 m. on the first Sunday of Lent and the remaining 3 m. at Easter in three weeks. ¹ Later, he paid 3 m. of gold in the Wardrobe and is quit of everything.

1.

‘at Easter in three weeks’ may be written over an erasure. The witness clause is entered here. What follows is added by another hand.

a.

This entry reads slightly differently in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3: ‘John de Watton’ gives the king 5 m. of gold for his own trespasses that he committed at the time he was sheriff of Kent and Essex and Hertfordshire, of which he has rendered 2 m. to the king in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc etc., and he is to render the remaining 3 m. in the same Wardrobe at Easter in three weeks’. A marginal note beside that entry further reads ‘Later, he rendered those 3 m. of gold and is quit from the 5 m. of gold’.

The same John paid those 2 m. of gold in the Wardrobe at Westminster and he is quit therefrom. ¹

1.

Entered, with a paragraph mark, in the margin beside the previous entry.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. William, son of Simon of Linslade, gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc.

17 Feb. Westminster. Concerning taking the manor of Lyford into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take the manor of Lyford with appurtenances, formerly of Fulk de Coudray, into the king’s hand and to keep it safely with all chattels ¹ found therein until the king orders otherwise. By the king.

1.

Corrected from ‘appurtenances’.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, is the following note: ‘The sheriff received nothing therefrom’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Memorandum that Robert Basset, sheriff of Northamptonshire, ¹ ought to answer for 4 m. from the vill of Merston’ because the men of the same vill rescued a certain man appealed of being of the confederacy of Dika de Bleseby, thief.

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‘sheriff of Northamptonshire’ interlined.

[No date]. Concerning the chattels of hanged men. The sheriff of Oxfordshire ought to answer for 1 m. 2d. from the chattels of hanged thieves.

[No date]. Concerning the chattels of hanged men. The earl of Gloucester ought to answer for 12 m. 2d. for a thief seized within his liberty in Oxfordshire from the chattels of the same thief.

Yorkshire. Gilbert de Wauton’ gives the king 20s. for having the writ quare vi et armis [returnable] before the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take security.

18 Feb. Westiminster. Somerset. The prior of Bermondsey gives the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take security.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Elias le Eveske, Jew of London, gives the king 6 m. of gold so that he is not tallaged per annum for the four years following the Purification of the Blessed Mary last past except at £100, which [6 m. of gold] he paid in the Wardrobe at Westminster and is quit. He has letters patent for this.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Henry de Toyntun’ and Richard le Faucuner give the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Dorset. Geoffrey de Mandeville gives the king one mark for having a writ ad terminum before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take etc.

19 Feb. Westminster. Suffolk. Stephen Lagoz gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Thomas of Sotterley gives the king one mark for having a writ ad terminum before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Hugh of Dodnash gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

[No date]. Staffordshire. Robert le Marescall’ gives the king one mark for a writ in the form (formato) ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Warwickshire. John son of Hawise gives the king 20s. for having the record of [an assize of] novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege). He has land in Warwickshire.

[No date]. Kent. Adam de Somery gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Robert de Vere and Alice, his wife, give the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Buckinghamshire. The aforesaid Robert and Alice give the king another half-mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before R. of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc. [They also give] another half-mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before the same in Oxfordshire and half a mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before the same. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take etc.

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This entry is split into the three individual payments in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3.

[No date]. Kent. Richard de Horsted’ gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

22 Feb. Westminster. For William Bardolf. The king has granted to William Bardolf that he may render £20 per annum at the Exchequer of the £168 13s. 4d. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the debts that William de Warenne, his grandfather, whose heir he is, owed to Cara of Winchester, Jewess, Abraham son of Athegaia and Isaac the Chirographer, Jews, ¹ whose debts are in the king’s hand, namely £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, £10 at the Exchequer of Easter and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debt is paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer and justices of the Jews ² to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ³ They are to cause any muniments that they have concerning this to be returned to William. By the king.

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‘and Isaac the Chirographer, Jews’ interlined.

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‘justices of the Jews’ interlined.

3.

Witness clause entered here.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. Sarra de Martiwast and William, her son, give the king 10s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

Essex. The same Sarra and Isabella, her daughter, give the king another 10s. for another writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take security.

For A. King of Scots and his men. The king has pardoned to A. King of Scots the arrears of the amercements ¹ which are demanded from him and his men in the county [account for] Cumberland at the Exchequer from the last eyre of the justices of the forest in the aforesaid county after the death of A., formerly King of Scots, his father. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit therefrom. By the king.

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Corrected from ‘all amercements’.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine of gold. He has paid this in the king’s Wardrobe and is quit. John le Flemeng, formerly sheriff of Gloucestershire, has made fine with the king by 3 m. of gold for his own trespasses that he committed while he was sheriff, which he is to pay on Sunday next before Mid-Lent in his Wardrobe. ¹ Later, he paid those 3 m. to P. Chaceporc on the aforesaid day at Westminster ² and is quit.

1.

Witness clause entered here. What follows, as with the marginal comment, is entered by another hand.

2.

‘at Westminster’ interlined.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. She has paid this in the king’s Wardrobe at Westminster and is quit. The abbess of Barking has made fine with the king by 2 m. of gold for having certain chattels that ought to have been put out for sale while the aforesaid abbey was vacant and in the king’s hand, which she is to pay at Mid-Lent in his Wardrobe. ¹ She has paid and is quit.

1.

What follows, as with the marginal comment, is entered by another hand.

Concerning a fine of gold. Geoffrey de Burdeleys gives the king twelve gold talents for having respite from his knighting, and he has paid them in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

Essex. The abbot of Colchester gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take security.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Elias le Eveske, Jew of London, gives the king one mark of gold that he might not be tallaged per annum from the Purification of the Blessed Mary last past up until Michaelmas next following and for the four years following the same feast except at £100. He has rendered that to P. Chaceporc etc. and is quit.

23 Feb. Westminster. For Robert de Beling’ and his associates. The king has pardoned to Robert de Beling’ and his associates who were amerced for a disseisin that they made together with William Beling’, valet of the king’s saucery, 40s. of the 10 m. at which they were amerced for the aforesaid disseisin. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit from the aforesaid 40s. By the king.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Devon. Ranulf son of John gives the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc.

Suffolk. Geoffrey son of Alan gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Suffolk to the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security.

22 Feb. Westminster. Concerning the vill of Windsor, which has been committed. The king has committed the vill of Windsor with the market, brewery and other appurtenances and the purpresture of the king’s forest there to Gilbert de Tegula to keep for as long as it pleases the king, by rendering £50 annually at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter, whereas James le Gaunter ought to have paid £44 per annum, saving to the king the pleas of the market of the same vill while the king will be there. He is to return the said purpresture to the king with the same crops as he shall receive it, on Saturday next after Ascension in the thirty-sixth year, together with eight oxen or the value of the same. ¹ He has letters patent for this. By the abbot of Pershore.

1.

Witness clause entered here. The authority clause is entered by another hand in perceptibly darker ink.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, reads ‘Berkshire’.

25 Feb. Westminster. For Nigel de Altwode. The king has pardoned to Nigel de Altwode the mark at which he was amerced before the justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Surrey for trespass of the forest. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. They have paid this in the Wardrobe and are quit. Aaron, Josceus and Vives, sons and heirs of Benedict Crespin, Jews of London, give the king ten bezants for having the terms and the same fine that their father had for his old debts.

[No date]. Because he did not have the writ. Robert de Leham gives the king half a mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon any assizes, juries or recognitions. He has land in Suffolk ¹ Later, he delivered the aforesaid half-mark to Edward of Westminster and is quit. ²

1.

What follows is entered by another hand and is wrapped around the entry at the right-hand edge of the membrane.

2.

Entry cancelled because he did not have the writ.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Surrey. Ralph Wauklin gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. John de Oyri gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, there is an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’.

Concerning the hospital of Dunwich. Because the king has heard that after the hospital of Dunwich came into his custody certain goods of the same hospital were carried off to divers places, order to the sheriff of Norfolk that, having taken an inquisition concerning this, he is to take back the aforesaid alienated goods, in whoever's hands they might then be, and keep them safely until he receives command from the king otherwise. By the king.

[No date]. Kent. Roger de Munfreard’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

26 Feb. Westminster. For Bartholomew Peche. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has given to his beloved and faithful Bartholomew Peche those 40 m. that the king caused to be delivered to him at the Exchequer in the thirty-third year to be taken to the Roman Curia, to be delivered there to Master Albert, the Pope’s notary, and which Master Albert refused to accept. Order to cause Bartholomew and his heirs to be quit from the aforesaid 40 m. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Dorset. John de Chartreyn gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Salomon le Eveske, Jew of London, gives the king 2 m. of gold for having a writ that he might not be tallaged per annum for the four years next following the Purification of the Blessed Mary last past except at £20, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit, namely the aforesaid 2 m. of gold.

[No date]. Suffolk. Richard, son of Robert de Stanesfeld’, gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Walter del Fosse gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. John son of Agnes gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to take etc.

a.

This entry has been completely erased in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3.

Concerning homage that has been taken. The king has taken the homage of Ralph Martel, son and heir of Felicia, who was the wife of William Martel, for all lands and tenements that Felicia, his mother, held from the king in chief, and he has rendered all of the aforesaid lands and tenements to him. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, that, having accepted security from Ralph for rendering half a mark of gold to the king in his Wardrobe at St. John the Baptist next to come, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements which Felicia held from the king in chief and of which she was seised in her demesne as of fee on the day she died. By the king.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 3, reads ‘Oxfordshire’.

[No date]. Huntingdonshire. John, son of Agnes de Copmanneford’, gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Huntingdonshire to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to take etc.

Concerning a fine of gold. Aaron of York, Jew, gives the king 2 m. of gold for having respite from his ¹ tallage until Easter in one month, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to permit him to have that respite. By the king.

1.

‘his’ interlined.

[No date]. Dorset. The prior of Christchurch gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take etc.

[No date]. Shropshire. Hamo de Curzun gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Master Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. He has paid it and is quit. Ralph le Brock gives the king one mark of gold for having pardon of his outlawry, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc at Westminster and is quit.

For Ernald Geroudun. The king has pardoned to Ernald Geroudun, his chamberlain of London, the 100s. at which he was amerced before J. of Lexington and his associates, justices last itinerant at the Tower of London. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Ernald to be quit from the aforesaid 100s. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Alvred son of Reginald gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Adam, son of Reginald of Walsoken, gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the same. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. They are quit. The citizens of York give the king 12 m. of gold for having confirmation of charters of the kings of England, which they are to pay on the eve of Easter. ¹ They have paid this in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand, as is the marginal note.

28 Feb. Rochester. Concerning wines to be sold. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to cause all of the king’s old wines in his city of Lincoln to be sold by the view and testimony of trustworthy and law-worthy men of the same city and to answer for the issues of that sale to Robert Dacre, buyer of the king’s wines throughout England, so that Robert might answer sufficiently for them to the king at the Exchequer. By the Steward.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, there is an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’.

Concerning homage that has been taken. The king has taken the homage of Ralph, son and heir of Ralph Pyrot, for all lands and tenements which the same Ralph held from the king in chief. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, that, having accepted security from the aforesaid Ralph for rendering £20 to the king for his relief, namely a moiety at Easter in the thirty-sixth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas next following, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements formerly of the same Ralph, his father, of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, reads ‘Essex’.

Buckinghamshire. Richard son of Adam gives the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take security. By the king.

1 March. Faversham. For Roger of Leybourne. The king has given respite to Roger of Leybourne from the 300 m. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for a prest made to Roger de Leyburn’, his father, until Michaelmas in 15 days. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the same respite. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Roger of Wickmere gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Samuel Blund, Jew of London, gives the king 20 half pennies of Murcia (xx obol’ de musc’) for having a writ concerning the assessment of his tallage, which he paid in his Wardrobe at Canterbury and is quit.

Nothamptonshire. Theobald de Broyl gives the king one mark for having a writ of trespass before the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take security.

5 March. Dover. Concerning homage that has been taken. The king has taken the homage of Josceus, son and heir of Josceus son of Gilbert, for all lands and tenements which the aforesaid Josceus, his father, held from the king in chief, and the king has rendered all of the aforesaid lands and tenements to him. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, that, having accepted security from the aforesaid Josceus for rendering 20s. to the king at Michaelmas for his relief, ¹ he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements formerly of the aforesaid Josceus son of Gilbert, of which he was seised in his demesne as of fee on the day he died. By the king.

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‘for his relief’ interlined.

5 March. Dover. For the abbot of St. Edmunds. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite, until Easter in one month, the demand that he makes from the abbot of St. Edmunds for common fines, amercements and other things for which he claims quittance by the king’s charter. By J. Mansel.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine of gold. The king’s burgesses of Huntingdon give the king 2 m. of gold for a charter to have a fair and other liberties in their vill of Huntingdon, which they paid to him in the Wardrobe at Dover and are quit.

Concerning a fine of gold. Isaac French, Jew, gives the king 20 gold talents that he might withdraw from Oxford and stay at Winchester, and he paid this in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc etc. and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Aaron le Blunt and Elias le Blunt give the king one mark of gold so that they might be delivered from the prison in which they are detained and might have restitution of their houses, cloths and chattels, which they paid to the king in the Wardrobe at Dover and are quit.

[No date]. Kent. Roger de Gatesdene gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

[No date]. Herefordshire. Adam Russell gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Master Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

Kent. Hugh, son of John de Clineshend’, gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take security.

Concerning a fine of gold. Samuel Blund, Jew of London, gives the king half a mark of gold for delivering himself and his wife from the Tower of London until one month from Easter, and he paid that in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., and is quit.

[No date]. Herefordshire. William of Bromyard and Matilda, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Master Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take etc.

For the burgesses of Huntingdon. Memorandum that the burgesses of Huntingdon give the king £20 each year of increment together with their farm for having the toll of the vill of St. Ives at the time the fair is held, and for having a fair in the aforesaid vill of Huntingdon to last for the ten days following Monday next before the Ascension. They are to pay this per annum at the Exchequer at two terms.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, there is note reading ‘£10’.

b.

The payment is said to be ‘of increment together with their ancient farm’ in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4.

For the abbot of Holm Cultram. The abbot of Holm Cultram and the convent have made fine with the king by 200 m. for having a pardon from all trespasses and wastes of the king’s forest of Inglewood of which they were accused before G. de Langley and his associates, justices last itinerant in Cumberland. They have rendered 100 m. thereof in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc etc. and will render the remaining 100 m. in the quindene of St. John next to come. By the king.

[No date]. Kent. Henry le Butiller of Ledes and Avice, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Isaac Crespin, son of Benedict Crespin, gives the king six gold talents that he may have the portion falling to him of the lands and chattels formerly of the aforesaid Benedict, his father, and he has paid them in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc etc. and is quit.

[No date]. Surrey. Walter, son of Emma de la Berelond’, gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take etc.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, there is an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’. There is also a large cross in the margin beside this entry there.

12 March. Maidstone. Concerning wines to be sold. Order to the sheriff of Kent to cause all ¹ wines in his bailiwick to be sold and to cause the monies arising therefrom to be delivered to Bertram de Criel, constable of Dover, in order to undertake the works on the castle there therewith. By the king.

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‘old’ cancelled here by expunction.

[No date]. Devon. Phillip de Beaumont gives the king one mark for having a writ concerning the escape of a thief before the justices when they come into the parts of Devon. He is distrained by the sheriff of Devon.

Devon. Alice de Ros gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take security.

Kent. John Gulafre gives the king half a mark for having a writ of trespass before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Kent to take security.

[No date]. Kent. Richard son of Audeon gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning the chattels of Geoffrey of Sawbridgeworth. The bailiff of Peter of Savoy of Cheshunt ought to answer for 8s. 8d. from the chattels of Geoffrey of Sawbridgeworth, who has been convicted of felony.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, reads ‘Essex’.

15 March. Westminster. He paid in the Wardrobe and is quit. Aaron of York, Jew, gives the king 100 bezants for having a writ that neither he nor his wife nor their children are to be imprisoned, or distrained, for the three years next following for the debts in which they are bound to the king for as long as their chattels suffice to make distraint for the king’s debts. ¹ He paid this in the king’s Wardrobe at Westminster and is quit.

1.

What follows and the marginal note are entered by another hand.

[No date]. Norfolk. Peter de Cranewiz gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The prior of Bodmin gives the king half a mark of gold for having a confirmation from him. ¹ He paid it in the Wardrobe and is quit.

1.

What follows is entered by another hand.

[No date]. Suffolk. Martin of Akenham, Alan le Heyward of Claydon and William le Provost of Akenham, taken and detained in the king’s prison of Ipswich for the death of Thomas de Craneford’, of which they are accused, give the king 20s. for having a writ of inquiry. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

Yorkshire. Thomas de Bolton’ and Eleanor, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take security.

[No date]. Essex. Emma de Beinflete gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

17 March. Westminster. For Hamo de Crèvecoeur. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite the demand that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Hamo de Crèvecoeur for the aid to marry the king’s sister, until the quindene of Easter next following. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine of gold. Aaron of York, Jew, gives the king 3 m. of gold for having a writ that he might distrain for his own chattels up to the sum of £400. He has paid this in the Wardrobe and is quit.

For Peter Chaceporc. For the £120 which Peter Chaceporc is to render to him at the Exchequer within [the next] four years, the king has granted him the custody of the land and heirs of Thomas of Ingoldisthorpe, to have and hold until the lawful age of the same heirs together with their marriage. Order to the king’s escheator in Norfolk to cause Peter to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody with appurtenances. He is to render £10 for this at Easter in one month in the thirty-sixth year, £10 at Michaelmas in one month ¹ in the same year, and thus at the same terms in the following two years, and all of the rest of that money in the fourth year at the aforesaid terms, namely a moiety at one term and the other moiety at the other term. By the king.

1.

‘in one month’ interlined.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, reads ‘Buckinghamshire’.

For Guy de Russillon and his men. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to release the distraint that he makes upon Guy de Russillon and his men of Wathill’ for the amercements of the last eyre of the justices of the forest in his county until etc. By Artald de Sancto Romano.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Kent. Nicholas of Lenham gives the king one mark for having a writ ad terminum at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

For Bartholomew le Bigod. Because Bartholomew le Bigod had no lands in Dunmow in Essex of the lands formerly of the count of St. Pol at the time when the scutage of Painscastle ran throughout England, although now the barons of the Exchequer distrain him for the same scutage, the king has pardoned him the scutage which is demanded from him there from the aforesaid time. Order to the aforesaid barons to cause him to be quit therefrom. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Essex. William de Purl’ gives the king one mark for having a writ ad terminum before the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Samuel of Stamford, Jew, gives the king half a mark of gold for having a writ that he might be delivered from the prison in which he is detained. He has paid in the Wardrobe and is quit.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, there is an illegible erased note.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Margaret de Redvers, countess of Devon, gives the king one mark for having a writ of trespass before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Thomas Talbot and Avelina, his wife, and William de Sut le Bois give the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. John, son of Alexander le Gigur, gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Suffolk. Richard de Boylund’ gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

[No date]. Middlesex. Clemencia, daughter of Nicholas of Antioch, and Alice, her sister, give the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Middlesex to take etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The prior of Alvingham gives the king one mark for having a writ ad terminum before the justices of the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The same prior gives the king another mark for having a writ of grace before the same justices. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

20 March. Westminster. For Thomas of Houghton and Lucy, his wife. The king has pardoned to Thomas of Houghton and Lucy, his wife, the half-mark at which Robert de Aspel’, Lucy’s brother, whose heir she is, was amerced before the justices last itinerant in Bedfordshire. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Thomas and Lucy to be quit therefrom. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire not to distrain them on account of this. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Samuel son of Deulesant, Jew of Stamford, gives the king 20 bezants for having a writ concerning the assessment of tallage. He has paid this to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

The same men have paid 20 m. in his Wardrobe and are quit. Order to the king’s escheator in Essex that if the men of the manor of Writtle, which is of the king’s ancient demesne and has never been accustomed to be tallaged except at the order of the king, will find sufficient security to render 20 m. to the king in his Wardrobe at the Close of Easter for that tallage that the king exacted from them after that manor was taken into his hand by the death of Isabella de Brus, then he is not to distrain the same men henceforth for the aforesaid tallage but to permit them to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

The note concerning payment is written in a hand other than that which drafts the body of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4.

[No date]. Norfolk. Nicholas, son of Richard of Docking, gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Yorkshire. John de Hay gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel dissesin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, there is an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’.

22 March. Westminster. Concerning dead wood in the park of Havering that is to be sold. Because the king has enjoined upon John le Waleys to sell the dead and windfallen wood (cablish) from his time and the coverts in the park of Havering with escheats to the king’s profit, order to the king’s bailiff of Havering to permit John to have free entry and exit into and from that park in order to make that sale by the view of the verderers and other trustworthy and law-worthy men. He is to place the monies that he shall receive towards undertaking the king’s works there by the testimony of the surveyors of the same works. Order to the verderers of the hundred of Becontree to attend to that sale together with the aforesaid John without delay. By the king.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 4, reads ‘Essex’.

[No date]. Surrey. Elias de Garschereche gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Jordan of Whitacre gives the king 2 m. of gold for having a pardon for his outlawry. He has paid this to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. William de Thorini gives the king one mark of gold for quittance from [being placed upon] assizes, juries etc., which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. The pledges of William Bluet are Henry Poitevin and Bartholomew Bigod for prosecuting concerning land in Wales.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Extracts of the amercements which are not paid on account of liberties. Order to the sheriff of Essex to make distraint for payment in the Wardrobe:

From the villate of Barking for a trespass … ¹ 4 m.; ² From the villate of Romford for a trespass of measures … 2 m.; From the abbot of St. Osyth for his liberty concerning bushels poorly kept … 40s.; ³ From the liberty of Mulesham for a trespass of measures … 40s.; From the liberty of the bishop of London of Chelmsford for the same … 5 m.; From Thomas le Viniter of Chelmsford for wines sold contrary to the assize … 2 m.; From Michael le Weydere of London, who has a tavern at Maldon, for the same, 1 m.; From the villate of Standon’ for trespass of measures … 20s.

1.

This ellipsis here and below represents a horizontal line in the manuscript.

2.

Entry marked with a cross of cancellation.

3.

Entry marked with a cross of cancellation.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

25 March. Westminster. Cambridgeshire. Robert Avenel gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. William Malesoures gives the king one mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. William le Grant gives the king 10 m. for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc., which he has paid to Edward of Westminster in order to buy gold therewith and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Andrew Luttrell gives the king 3 m. of gold for having the liberty that he will not be made a justice or any other bailiff etc. for life, and that he be not placed upon assizes, juries or recognitions, which he has paid in the Wardrobe and is quit.

Buckinghamshire. Nicholas, son of William of Emberton, gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take security.

[No date]. Essex. John del Hulle and Rose, his wife, give the king 2 m. for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

28 March. Westminster. For John le Pindere. The king well recalls that he pardoned to Richard le Pindere the half-mark at which John le Pindere, his father, ¹ was amerced before the justices at Newport. Because he is named as John le Messer in the rolls of the Exchequer, the king’s command concerning this has not yet taken effect, as is said. Order, therefore, to the barons of the Exchequer not to forgo causing Richard and John to be quit from the aforesaid half-mark on aount of this. By R. fitz Nicholas.

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‘John le Pindere, his father’ interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Richard le Waleys of Denton’ gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel dissesin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Richard Angot gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. William, son of Richard de Steresby, gives the king half a mark for having a writ ad terminum before the itinerant justices at Nottingham. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc. ¹

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A marginal heading has been partially erased.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Margaret Muschet gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Hertfordshire to the justices of the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Essex. Hugh de Mortimer gives the king 2 m. for taking an assize of novel dissesin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. Ralph, son of Robert de Tilney, gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel dissesin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

1 April. Westminster. Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to Levina atteWelhelde of Gattone the half-mark at which she was lately amerced before Henry de la Mare for a false plea against Henry de Heleg’ in the assize of novel disseisin which she arraigned before him by order of the king against the aforesaid Henry de Holeg’, concerning a tenement in Reigate. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause her to be quit therefrom. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Adam de la Dene and Agnes, his wife, and Marcelina daughter of Matilda give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel dissesin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take etc.

2 April. Merton. Concerning the works at Havering. Because John le Waleys, formerly the king’s bailiff of Havering, to whom the king has enjoined upon him several times to undertake the king’s works there, neglected to attend properly to those works, the king has absolved him from that office on condition that he shall answer at the Exchequer for the monies that he received in order to undertake those works. Order to the bailiff of Havering to attend as diligently to undertaking the same works so that the king ought with justice to commend his diligence in this matter. The king will cause that which he has spent in those works by the view and testimony of law-worthy men to be allowed to him from the issues of his bailiwick. By the king.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, there is an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’.

b.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Essex’.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Roger son of William gives the king half a mark for having a writ of inquiry. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

[No date]. Surrey. John Herminer and Emma, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an assize of mort d’ancestor before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Michael de Malis Nodariis gives the king half a mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries etc., which he paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. The king’s tin-miners of Devon and Cornwall give the king 10 m. for having confirmation of certain liberties that are contained in a charter of King John, which they are to pay in the Wardrobe at Pentecost in the thirty-sixth year in order to buy gold therewith.

a.

At the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, is the following note: ‘They are distrained because they did not pay’.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. Robert de Anestig’ gives the king half a mark for having a writ of inquiry. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

Concerning the vills of Winchelsea and Rye, which have been committed. The king has committed the custody of the vills of Winchelsea and Rye to John de Burstowe to have and hold until the end of the two years next following Easter in the thirty-sixth year, rendering 200 m. to the king per annum at the Exchequer for the aforesaid custody, namely 130 m. for the vill of Winchelsea and 70 m. for the vill of Rye, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter. By the king and J. Mansel.

[No date]. Suffolk. Margaret de Chetebire gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

6 April. Windsor. Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to William de St. Leger the £12 12s. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the surplus of his wages that he received at the Exchequer at the time he was in the king’s service in Gascony. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William to be quit therefrom. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Berkshire. Gervase de Gudeford’ gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the king (coram Rege) upon his first arrival at Reading. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take etc.

[No date]. Essex. Hugh de Arderne gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Essex. The same Hugh gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Leicestershire. William, parson of the church of Houcton’, gives the king 20s. for having a writ of grace before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc.

[No date]. Staffordshire. The abbot of Rocester gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take etc.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, there appears to be an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’.

8 April. Windsor. For John de Balliol and Dervorguilla, his wife. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has pardoned to John de Balliol and Dervorguilla, his wife, 50 m. of the £100 at which they were amerced before him (coram nobis) for default, and has granted them that they may render £10 per annum of the remaining 100 m. at the Exchequer, namely 100s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year, 100s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £10 thus from year to year at the same terms until the 100 m. are paid to the king. Order to cause John and Dervorguilla to be quit from the aforesaid 50 m. and to have the aforesaid terms for the remaining 100 m. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning distraining William de St. Ouen. Order to John of Hanborough and Peter de Legh’, the king’s bailiffs of Woodstock, to distrain William de St. Ouen to pay to the king the 16 m. which he recognised he owes him before the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, and to put those monies towards the king’s works of Woodstock by the view and testimony of law-worthy men. By the abbot of Pershore.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Oxfordshire’.

Surrey. Margaret de Cray gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Surrey to the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take security.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, the marginalia ‘S’. Essex. in the Roll’ are corrected to ‘Kent. in the compendium Roll’.

For Robert de Ros. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland to place in respite, until Easter in the thirty-seventh year, the demand for £25 2s. 1½d. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Robert de Ros from his eyre to take the pleas of the forest in the aforesaid county while he was the king’s justice. By the king and J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Robert de Ros. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland to place in respite, until Easter in the thirty-seventh year, the demand for £91 3s. 8d. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Robert de Ros for the issues of the forest while he was the king’s justice. By the king and J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. William Gernon gives the king half a mark of gold for having a charter that he might chase fox, hare and cat in Essex for life, which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. John de Mares gives the king half a mark of gold for having a charter of warren and for acquitting the same etc., which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

9 April. Windsor. For John de Grey. The king has given respite to John de Grey, until the quindene of St. John the Baptist next to come, from the 50 m. which he ought to have paid at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year of a fine of 500 m. for the trespass he made in taking to wife Joan, who was the wife of Paulinus Peyvre, who was of the king’s gift, without his licence, and from the 50 m. which the aforesaid Joan ought to have paid to the king at the Exchequer at the same term of a fine of 500 m. that she had made with him for the custody of the land and heir of the aforesaid Paulinus. He has also given John respite from the 18 m. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the abbot of Basingwerk, until Easter in one month. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid respite. By the king and J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William de Cantilupe. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand for debt that they make by summons of the Excheqer from William de Cantilupe for the heirs of [Hugh of] Kilpeck, until the octaves of the Close of Easter. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to the prior and convent of Chirbury the 40s. at which they were amerced before the justices of the Bench for unjust detention. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit from the aforesaid 40s. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. Robert de Neville gives the king 100s. for having a charter, namely that he might bring up to 200 acres of the demesne lands of his manor of Suttune within the metes of the forest of Galtres back to cultivation and for acquitting the same charter from [the fees of] the Chancery.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Yorkshire’.

10 April. Windsor. Concerning the manor of Condover, which has been committed. The king has granted the manor of Condover with appurtenances to Guy of Rochford to have and hold until the lawful age of the heir of Henry of Hastings, rendering £20 13s. 9¾d. for this each year at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter. Order to the abbot of Pershore, the king’s escheator, to cause Guy to have full seisin of the same manor with appurtenances, as aforesaid. By the king.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Shropshire’.

Because otherwise below. The king has granted to Albreda de Botreaux and Joan de Neville that they may render 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter forthcoming in the thirty-sixth year, namely 2½ m. from each of them, for the 10 m. by which Albreda made fine with him for contempt in making a of a certain perambulation made between her and John Mansel, and for the 10 m. by which Joan made fine with the king for the same contempt, 5 m. at Michaelmas ¹ next following, and 10 m. thus in the following year at the same terms. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ² By J. Mansel.

1.

Corrected from ‘the Exchequer of Michaelmas’.

2.

Entry cancelled because otherwise [next] below. It is marked with a cross in the margin.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Albreda de Botreaux. The king has granted to Albreda de Botreaux and Joan de Neville these below-written terms for the 10 m. by which Albreda made fine with him for contempt of a certain perambulation made between her and John Mansel, to which she freely agreed, and of the 10 m. by which Joan made fine with the king for the same contempt, of a perambulation to be made between her and the same John, to which she freely agreed, namely that they may render 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter forthcoming in the thirty-sixth year, namely 2½ m. from Albreda and 2½ m. from Joan, 5 m. at Michaelmas next following by the same portions, and 10 m. thus in the following year at the same terms by the same parcels and portions. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Hugh Duket gives the king half a mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc., ¹ which he has paid in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

1.

‘for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc.’ interlined.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The prior and canons of Merton give the king 2 m. of gold for having confirmation of their charters from the kings of England, which they have paid to P. Chaceporc and are quit.

11 April. Windsor. Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to Ebulo de Montibus, who has taken Joan de Somery to wife, the £10 by which Joan made fine with him for having the king’s protestation concerning the manor of Milton with appurtenances in Cambridgeshire, having been given to Robert de Muscegros. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Ebulo and Joan to be quit from the aforesaid £10. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the abbot of Pershore. The abbot of Pershore has delivered 20 m. to John of Hanborough and Peter de Lega, keepers of the king’s works at Woodstock, by order of the king, in order to undertake the same works, beyond the 46 m. which he delivered in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper of the same Wardrobe, of a fine of 132 m. that he made with the king for having the issues arising from the abbey of Pershore and the manors pertaining to it when it was last vacant and in the king’s hand, and the king has pardoned to him the other 61 m. that are left from the aforesaid fine. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same abbot to be quit from the aforesaid 132 m. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Suffolk. Richard de Ofton’ and Beatrice, his wife, give the king 20s. for taking an attaint before G. of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security.

Buckinghamshire. William Poynnaunt gives the king one mark for a pone [to remove a plea] from the county court of Buckinghamshire to the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take security.

a.

In the margin beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, there is an erased note reading ‘in the compendium Roll’.

11 April. Windsor. Concerning selling coverts. Order to the bailiff of Havering to cause the windfallen wood and the coverts in the park of Havering from his time to be sold by the view of the verderers of the hundred of Becontree and the surveyors of the king’s works of Havering, and to put the money arising from this towards the same works by the view and testimony of the aforesaid surveyors. Order to the said verderers to attend to the aforesaid sale with him. By the abbot of Pershore.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Essex’.

For Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn. The king has pardoned to Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn the 20 m. at which he was amerced before Master Simon of Walton in the assize of novel disseisin which William Gernon arraigned before him against Gruffydd and his below-written men, concerning the tenement of Bakewell. He has also pardoned to Ivo the Steward and Richard, his brother, the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Richard le Tinekere and Henry de Hille the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Walter Hody and William Inthewro the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Walter son of William and Walter de Winefeld’ the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Abel son of Eustace and Matthew, his brother, the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Simon Furet and Simon son of Robert the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Henry le Knoue and Robert Gavel’ the half[-mark] at which they were amerced for the same, to Thomas son of Eustace, Richard de Chaladon’ and Walter, his brother, the 10s. at which they were amerced for the same, to Peter le Blund and Elias de Shaladon’ half-mark for the same, to Richard, son of Richard of Ashford, and William le Fevre the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Thomas le Blund and Richard de Langedon’ the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to William le Clerk and William de Langesd’ the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, to Adam de Longedon’ and Thomas de Longed’ the half-mark at which they were amerced for the same, and to Henry Bugge, William Mazun and William son of Leticia the 10s. at which they were amerced for the same. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit therefrom. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

12 April. Windsor. For Ebulo de Montibus. The king has granted to Ebulo de Montibus that, in the five years next following, he may render the debt of £18 and half a mark which are exacted from him for Eustace, son of Hervey of Cambridge, of the debts of Jacob and Antera, Jews of Cambridge, concerning which the king had granted him that he was to render a moiety thereof at the Exchequer of Easter in the thirty-sixth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next following, namely 40s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the aforesaid year, 40s. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, £4 thus in the three following years at the same terms, and 3½ m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the fifth year. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Hake of Worcester, Jew, gives the king half a mark of gold for having a writ that he and his wife and children might be delivered from the prison in which they are detained. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to take security etc.

For David son of Thomas and Howell’, his brother. The king has pardoned to David son of Thomas and Howell’, his brother, 3 m. of the 6 m. which they owe him for an amercement, and he has given them respite from the remaining 3 m. until St. Peter in Chains. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit from the aforesaid 3 m. and to have that respite from the remaining 3 m. By R. fitz Nicholas.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Ernald Cotin. The king has granted to Ernald Cotin that he may render £40 of the prest which the king made to him beyond his annual fee of £20 in the below-written manner, namely that, in each year in which he shall receive the aforesaid £20, £5 are to be retained from the same fee to the king’s use until the aforesaid £40 are rendered to the king in full, and in the meantime he shall receive £15 each year for his aforesaid fee. By the king.

For the prior of Chirbury. The king has granted to the prior of Chirbury that he may render 2 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year of the 4 m. which are exacted from him for the aid granted by men of religion to the king and 2 m. at Easter next following. 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]. Concerning a manor that has been committed. The king has committed the manor of Condover with appurtenances to Guy de Rochfort to have and hold until the lawful age of the heir of Henry of Hastings, rendering £20 13s. 9¾d. for this each year at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Giles of Clifford gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc.

15 April. Westminster. For the abbot of Holm Cultram. The abbot and monks of Holm Cultram paid 100 m. in the king’s Wardrobe at Canterbury of the 200 m. which they promised him for trespasses made in Inglewood forest, of which they were found guilty before G. de Langley and his associates, justices, in their last eyre to take the pleas of the forest in Cumberland, and he has granted them that they may render the remaining 100 m. in his Wardrobe in the quindene of St. John the Baptist. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same abbot and monks to be quit from the aforesaid 100 m. and to have the aforesaid term for the remaining 100 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the abbot of Kirkstead. The king has pardoned to the abbot of Kirkstead the 5 m. at which he was amerced before the justices last itinerant at the Tower of London for a purpresture made in the same vill. The king has also pardoned to the same abbot the other 5 m. at which he was similarly amerced before Master Simon of Walton in the assize of novel disseisin that Master Nicholas del Wyz arraigned against him. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same abbot to be quit from the aforesaid 10 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. Robert de Hulmo gives the king £10 for a charter to have a warren, market and fair and for acquitting the same from the [fees of the] Chancery, which he has paid to Edward of Westminster in order to buy gold therewith and is quit.

17 April. Westminster. For the prior and convent of Grimsby. For the one mark of gold which the prior and convent of Grimsby rendered in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper of the same Wardrobe, the king has returned to them the corn, stock and all issues and revenues of their abbey pertaining to the king in the present vacation of the same abbey, excepting the tallage assessed and to be assessed upon the tenants of the same abbey in the time of the aforesaid vacation. Order to Thomas of Stamford, the king’s escheator, to permit the same prior and convent to have free administration of the corn, stock and all their other goods, together with the revenues of their turbary, ¹ saving the aforesaid tallage to the king. If he has taken anything therefrom, he is to cause it to be restored to them without delay.

1.

‘together with the revenues of their turbary’ interlined.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The abbot and monks of Kirkstead give the king 2 m. of gold for having confirmation of their liberties, which they paid in his Wardrobe and are quit.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Robert Dacre gives the king 3 m. of gold for having and holding the custody of the land and heir of Robert de Turp’ until the lawful age of the same heir, together with the marriage, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

a.

The marginal county heading, ‘Cumberland’, beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, has been crossed through.

[No date]. Concerning a manor that has been committed. The king has committed the manor of Bere Regis with appurtenances to Elias de Rabayne to hold at farm for as long as it pleases the king, excepting the custody of the king’s forest of Bere and the appurtenances of the same, rendering £18 each year at the Exchequer for the aforesaid manor, namely a moiety at Michaelmas and a moiety at Easter.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Dorset’.

Concerning gold paid in the Wardrobe. Aaron son of Abraham, Jew of London, has paid 10 m. of gold in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., for Easter term in the thirty-sixth year of his fine of 20 m. of gold that he made with the king so that he might not be tallaged per annum at a greater sum of money for the four years next following Christmas last past. Order to the barons to cause Aaron to be quit from the aforesaid 10 m. of gold.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Hugh de Bereford’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a liberty. Robert de Leyham gives the king 5 m. for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries etc., which he has paid at the Exchequer and is quit.

[No date]. Devon. Richard de la Busseye and Alice, his wife, give the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc.

[No date]. Somerset. Walter Chancellor gives the king one mark for having a writ of grace before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a record before the king. Robert Clericus, William son of Thomas, Jerman son of Richard and John Basset of Exton in Rutland give the king 5 m. for having a record of a false judgement of the county court of Rutland before the king (coram Rege) in the octaves of Trinity by the pledge of William of Northampton and Baldwin de Drayton’ of Northamptonshire.

18 April. Westminster. For the men of Writtle. Because the manor of Writtle, which is of the king’s ancient demesne, has never been accustomed to be tallaged save by the special order of the king when other demesne lands of the king have been tallaged, the king has pardoned to the men of the same manor the tallage assessed upon them at the time when the same manor was taken into his hand by the death of Isabella de Brus. Order to the king’s escheator in Essex to permit them to be quit therefrom. The aforesaid men give the king 20 m. for this writ, which they have paid in his Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and are quit. By the king.

a.

This entry is cancelled in E 371/17, m. 5. Because above.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for homage. The king has taken the homage of Robert de Brus, son and heir of Isabella de Brus, and he owes him £100 for his relief. He has land in Essex.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Essex’.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Ernisius Merchant gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for a warren. The prior of Panfield gives the king 10 m. for a charter to have a warren and for acquitting that charter from [the fees of] the Chancery. He has paid those to Edward of Westminster in order to buy gold therewith and is quit.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, reads ‘Essex’.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Alice, daughter of Richard Everard, gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Alan of Wassand. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take security.

Concerning distraint for underwood which has been sold. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to make distraints for the monies owed to the king from his underwood which has been sold in his bailiwick by Thomas de Gimeges and his associates assigned to this, and to cause Thomas and his associates to have the aforesaid monies to the king’s use, for which they are bound to answer to the king at the Exchequer.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Somerset. William de Marisco gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take etc.

Concerning monies to be paid in the Wardrobe. Even though the king has ordered the sheriff of Wiltshire at other times to distrain the king’s verderers and foresters of Melksham and Chippenham to render to the king in his Wardrobe all monies arising from the windfallen wood sold in the same forests, order to the aforesaid sheriff to pay this at the Exchequer without delay. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

19 April. Westminster. For Ralph of Holland. The king has granted to Ralph of Holland that he may render 100s. at this Exchequer of Easter of the 45 m. which remain to be rendered of the 60 m. at which he was amerced before him (coram Rege) in an attaint taken in the last year at Stamford between Thomas of Moulton and Henry of Bath, concerning a tenement in Holbeach, paying 100s. thus at the same term for the three years next following, and £10 at Easter in the fourth year next following. 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 Artald de Sancto Romano.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Kent. Adam de Somery gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc.

[No date]. Essex. The prior of Thoby gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Nicholas de Weston’ gives the king one mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries or recognitions, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Hugh son of Ralph gives the king 20s. of gold for a charter to have a warren, market and fair, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., and is quit.

For John de Neville. To the barons of the Exchequer. Order to cause the king’s beloved and faithful John de Neville to have respite, until Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year, from the 20s. which he owes him for the aid granted to the king to marry his first-born daughter. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the abbot and monks of Holm Cultram. On Saturday next before St. George at Westminster, the abbot and monks of Holm Cultram paid in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., the 100 m. for which the king has given them respite until the quindene of St. John next to come of the 200 m. that they promised him for trespasses committed in Inglewood forest, of which they were found guilty before G. de Langley and his associates, justices, in their last eyre to take the pleas of the forest in Cumberland. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same abbot and monks to be quit from the aforesaid 100 m.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Norfolk. Robert de Castre and Sibyl, his wife, and Andrew de Branton’ and Matilda, his wife, give the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Roger of Thirkleby. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The abbot of Glastonbury gives the king 2 m. of gold for having an inquisition concerning the hambling of his dogs and ¹ those of his men, which he has paid in his Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit. ² Order to the sheriff of Somerset to cause them to be quit therefrom.

1.

‘of his [dogs] and’ interlined.

2.

What follows is entered by a different hand below the line at the right-hand edge of the membrane.

a.

On the dorse of the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 5, at this point is the following delivery note: ‘Phillip Luvel, treasurer, received this roll on 17 November in the thirty-seventh year [1252] under the king’s seal’.

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Brian of Throcking gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for a charter. John Hay gives the king 10 m. for having a charter of warren, which he has paid to Edward of Westminster in order to buy gold therewith and is quit.

[No date]. Middlesex. Joan la Butillere gives the king half a mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Middlesex to take etc.

[No date]. For the citizens of Lincoln. The citizens of Lincoln give the king 60 m. so they might not be amerced or penalized before John Gubaud and William of Axmouth for common trespasses committed in the city of Lincoln and in the suburbs, which they are to pay at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in 15 days. By the king.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Robert of Saltfleetby gives the king one mark for having a writ of inquiry. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

22 April. Westminster. For John Haunsard’. The king has granted to his beloved and faithful John Haunsard’ that he may pay him the 100 m. he owes of a prest made to him in Gascony at the below-written terms, namely 12½ m. at Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year, 12½ m. at Easter next following, and 25 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 100 m. have been paid to the king in full, so that they are paid to the king before the time of his passage. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be enrolled and upheld thus. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. David Long gives the king one mark for having a writ of grace before the justices of the Bench. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc.

[No date]. For the abbess of Barking. Memorandum that the abbess of Barking has delivered to Edward of Westminster, in order to buy gold therewith, 20 m. of the 50 m. which she owed the king of the tallage assessed upon the men holding from the aforesaid abbey while it was vacant and in the king’s hand, and she is to render the remaining 30 m. at the below-written terms, namely a moiety at St. John the Baptist in the thirty-sixth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year. By order of the king.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘Essex’.

For Richard Savage. The king has granted to Richard Savage that he may render 10 m. per annum of the 20 m. at which he was amerced before the justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Cumberland for trespass of the same forest, namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 10 m. at the same terms in the next year following. 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 E. of Westminster.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Because otherwise below. The king has granted to R. de Quincy, earl of Winchester, that he may render 20 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas of the 20 m. at which he was amerced before the justices last itinerant to take the pleas of the forest in Cumberland, and of another 20 m. at which he was similarly amerced before the king (coram Rege) for several defaults concerning the bridge of Wares, and the remaining 20 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ By the king.

1.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below. It is marked by a cross in the margin. See no. 511.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for a liberty. William de Bikeleg’ gives the king one mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc., which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Nicholas of Emberton gives the king one mark for having the writ quare vi et armis [returnable] before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take etc.

[No date]. Essex. Phillip son of Ernisius gives the king one mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for a bailiwick. William de Lisle gives the king one mark of gold for having the bailiwick of the [sheriff of the] county of Northamptonshire, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold for a bailiwick. Oliver de Stanford’, brother and heir of Peter de Stanford’, gives the king half a mark of gold for having seisin of the lands formerly of the aforesaid Peter and the office of chaplain belonging to him, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, keeper etc., and is quit.

a.

The surname of the person making fine in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, is given as ‘Saunford’’.

23 April. Windsor. Concerning the county of Northamptonshire, which has been committed. The king has committed his county of Northamptonshire with the castle of Northampton to William de Lisle to keep for as long as it pleases the king in the same manner as Robert Basset previously held it, rendering £86 13s. 4d. per annum at the Exchequer for the profit of the aforesaid county, and he is to keep the castle of Northampton at his own costs. By the king.

23 April. Windsor. For Ralph de Gorges. Because Ralph de Gorges has not yet received £10 for Michaelmas term in the thirty-fifth year of his annual fee of £20, which the king granted him to be taken at the Exchequer and for which the treasurer and chamberlains received a writ of liberate, as is said, and because William de Guuyz has delivered 10 m. to the same Ralph upon his aforesaid fee by order of the king of the fine of 20 m. that William made with the king for the debts of Robert de Gouiz, his father, order to the same treasurer and chamberlains to cause William to be quit from the aforesaid 10 m. and, having allowed the aforesaid 10 m. to Ralph, to cause that which remains to be rendered to him of the aforesaid £10 for the aforesaid term to be delivered to him. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning a fine for renewing charters. The prior and canons of Sempringham give the king 200 m. for renewing the witnesses and changing the date on a charter of liberties that was granted to them and drawn up in the eleventh year of the reign of King Henry III, of which they are to render 100 m. at Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year and 100 m. at Michaelmas in the thirty-seventh year.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

25 April. Windsor. For the dean and chapter of York. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite the demand that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the dean and chapter of York for the chattels of fugitives and wayfs, until Michaelmas in 15 days in the thirty-sixth year.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For the dean and chapter of York. Order, in the same manner, to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Concerning the custody of islands. The king has committed to Richard de Grey the custody of his islands of Guernsey and Jersey, together with the castles, rendering 400 m. every year at the Exchequer in time of peace for the profit of the aforesaid islands, namely 50 m. per annum beyond that which Drogo de Barentin ¹ was accustomed to render for them, of which 400 m. he is to render a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter. By the king.

1.

‘Drogo de Barentin’ written over an erasure.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘Kent’.

For William of Englefield. The king has pardoned to William of Englefield the 5 m. by which he made fine with him for himself and his men of Shiplake for damage to bridges on the king’s rivers. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William and his men to be quit from the aforesaid 5 m. By the king.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Shropshire. Robert le Venur gives the king half a mark for having a writ ad terminum before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc.

Because above. The king has pardoned to William of Englefield the 5 m. by which he made fine with him for himself and his men of Shiplake for damage to bridges on the king’s rivers. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause William and his men to be quit from the aforesaid 5 m. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because above. It is marked with a cross in the margin. See no. 478.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

Oxfordshire. Phillippa Basset, countess of Warwick, gives the king 40s. for having a writ of attaint before the king (coram Rege) upon his first arrival at Woodstock against John of Elsfield. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take security.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a charter. The abbot and convent of Wardon give the king 200 m. for having a charter of liberties, of which they are to pay 50 m. in the octaves of St. John the Baptist in the thirty-sixth year, 50 m. in the octaves of Michaelmas next following, 50 m. at the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the thirty-seventh year, and 50 m. in the octaves of St. John the Baptist in the same year.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘Bedfordshire’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Robert Basset gives the king half a mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries etc., which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

27 April. Windsor. Concerning the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire which have been committed. The king has committed the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire to William Mansel at farm for as long as it pleases the king by rendering 190 m. per annum at the Exchequer for this. Order, by letters patent, to the archbishops, bishops etc. to be intendant and respondent to the same William as sheriff of the aforesaid counties in all things which pertain to the aforesaid counties. By the king.

Concerning the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire which have been committed. Order to Phillip Marmion to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the bailiwick of the same counties with the rolls, writs and all other things touching the bailiwick of the same counties.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For William de Gouiz. The king has granted to William de Gouiz that, of the £500 which he owes him of the debt of Robert de Gouiz, his father, and which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, concerning which the king had previously granted him that he was to render 20 m. per annum at the Exchequer, he may henceforth render £10 per annum at the same Exchequer, namely 100s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and 100s. at the Exchequer of Easter and £10 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid £500 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.

[No date]. Dorset. Robert Maltravers gives the king one mark for having a writ concerning breach of his peace before the king (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take security.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for having a confirmation. The men of Devon give the king 120 m. for having confirmation of certain of their liberties, of which they are to render one moiety at St. John the Baptist in the thirty-sixth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas next following.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. John son of Hugh gives the king half a mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc., which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Henry of Audley gives the king one mark of gold for a charter to have a market and fair, which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Stephen Longespée gives the king 11 m. for a charter to have a market, fair and warren, which he has paid to Edward of Westminster in order to buy gold therewith and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. William Mansel gives the king 2 m. of gold so that he might have the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire at farm as Phillip Marmion had, which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Sussex. Walter le Porter gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Henry de la Mare. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Richard son of Adam gives the king half a mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take security.

[No date]. Suffolk. John son of Hugh and Matilda, his wife, give the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Henry de la Mare. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

28 April. Westminster. Because otherwise below. The king has pardoned to the abbot of Shrewsbury and his men ¹ all but 5 m. of the amercement at which they were amerced before him (coram Rege) at Westminster in the thirty-fifth year for disseisin. Order to the barons of the Exchequer not to exact more from him by the aforesaid reason. ² By the king.

1.

‘and his men’ interlined.

2.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below. See no. 509.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Because enrolled above and for one and the same cause. Walter del Fosse gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because enrolled above and for one and the same cause. See no. 297.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Robert, son of Peter of Legbourne, gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

Concerning a pardon. The king has pardoned to Hugh son of Richard the 20s. by which he made fine with him for taking an assize of novel disseisin between him and Warin de Munchesney before R. of Thirkleby, concerning a tenement in Thorrington, which assize was later revoked by order of the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Hugh to be quit from the aforesaid 20s. By R. Walerand.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. John of Ousefleet gives the king 20 bezants for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes etc. He has paid them to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Norfolk. William of Flegg and Richard of Flegg give the king one mark for having a writ of grace before him (coram Rege). Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, is corrected from ‘Norfolk’ to ‘Kent’.

[No date]. Somerset. Stephen de Aston’ and Juliana, his wife, give the king 20s. for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take etc.

[No date]. Essex. Nicholas le Butiller gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Patrick de Chaworth gives the king one mark of gold for having a charter to enclose his wood of Howode, which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

For Elena de Percy. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Easter in the thirty-seventh year, the demand that they make from Elena de Percy for £4 from the tallage of four carucates of land in the soke of Pickering which Richard de Percy held, and for 100s. for the same of another four carucates of land in the same soke, ¹ and for 4 m. from the vill of Seamer because it did not come. By J. Mansel.

1.

The remainder of this sentence is interlined.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

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

30 April. Westminster. Because otherwise below. The king has pardoned to the abbot of Shrewsbury 32 m. of the 47 m. at which he and his men were lately amerced before him (coram Rege) at Westminster in the thirty-fifth year for disseisin, on condition that he shall render the remaining 5 m. of the aforesaid amercement. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same abbot to be quit from the aforesaid 32 m.. ¹

1.

Entry cancelled because otherwise below. It is marked with a cross in the margin. See no. 509.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

For Simon of Maidwell. It is otherwise below. The king has betaken himself for Simon of Maidwell to William Belet, his valet, for the 200 m. which Simon owed the king for the arrears of the account of Alan, his father, from the time when Alan was sheriff of Northamptonshire, and has granted William that he may render 20 m. per annum for this, namely 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 20 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 200 m. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Simon to be quit therefrom, to cause William to have the abovesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By J. Mansel.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

1 May. Westminster. For the abbot of Shrewsbury. Because the king granted that the abbot of Shrewsbury and his men shall not be amerced above 5 m. for the disseisin which he and his men made, and that his justices, not knowing this, amerced him and his men for the same disseisin at 47 m., order to the barons of the Exchequer to receive 5 m. from the aforesaid abbot and his men and cause them to be quit from 42 m. of the aforesaid 47 m., at which the aforesaid justices amerced them. ¹ By the king as above

1.

For earlier, cancelled versions of this grant see nos. 496 and 507.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Worcestershire. John de la Folye gives the king 3 m. for having a writ of grace before the justices at Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to take etc.

For R. earl of Winchester. The king has pardoned to R. earl of Winchester 130 m. of the £100 at which he was amerced before him (coram Rege) for several defaults, and has granted him that he may render 20 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year of the remaining 20 m. and of another 20 m. at which the same earl was amerced before him (coram Rege) for trespass of the forest, and 20 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 130 m. and to have the aforesaid terms for the remaining 20 m. and the other 20 m. ¹ By the king.

1.

For an earlier, cancelled version of this entry see no. 466 above.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The abbot of St. Osyth gives the king one mark of gold for a charter to have a market at his vill of Brentwood, which they [sic] have paid in his Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Sussex. Robert of Rumbridge gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The prior of Maldon gives the king one mark of gold for having an inquisition, which he has paid in his Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Richard de Bolbec gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

2 May. Westminster. Concerning the manors of Marden and Lugwardine, which have been committed. The king has committed his manors of Marden and Lugwardine with appurtenances to Henry of Monmouth, together with a meadow called Michelelongebimlt, to be held from the king at farm for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £95 for this each year at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at Michaelmas and the other moiety at Easter. By the abbot of Pershore.

Concerning manors that have been committed. The king has committed his manors of Minsterworth and Rodley with appurtenances to John le Mazun and William de Benfeud to hold from him at farm for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £70 for them each year at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at Michaelmas and the other moiety at Easter. ¹ By the abbot of Pershore.

1.

For a later version of this writ, dated 20 October, see no. 1245 below.

a.

The marginal heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘By writ. Gloucestershire’.

Concerning the fine of Alexander of Montgomery [sic]. Phillip, son of Alexander of Montgomery, has made fine with the king by 100s. so that the mill which Phillip erected above his fee next to the River Severn might be allowed to stand forever, and so that Phillip and his heirs might hold forever at fee farm another mill that is next to the same river and that pertains to the king’s castle of Montgomery, rendering one mark for this at Michaelmas and one mark at the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary annually to the king’s bailiff of Montgomery who will be at that time, and for having a charter concerning the aforesaid and for acquitting the same from [the fees of] the Chancery he gives the king 11 m. By the king and Guy de Rochfort.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘Shropshire’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. William de la Launde gives the king half a mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries, etc., which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. John Deyncourt gives the king one mark of gold for a charter to have a warren, market and fair, which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, reads ‘Lincolnshire’.

b.

At the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, is the following additional text: ‘and he owes 11 m. for acquitting that charter from [the fees of] the Chancery’.

[No date]. Norfolk. William, son of Richard de Olney, gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Thomas son of Brian gives the king 3 m. of gold for having an amendment to a charter that he has concerning the custody of the land and heir of John de Treyly, which he has paid in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. John Deyncourt, who gives the king one mark of gold for a charter to have a market and other things, as is contained a little above, which he has paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit therefrom, owes the king 11 m. for acquitting the same charter from [the fees of] the Chancery.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Aymer de Noers gives the king half a mark of gold for having the liberty that he be not placed upon assizes, juries, etc., which he has paid to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Walter le Cu gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

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

[No date]. Berkshire. William le Butiller gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take etc.

5 May. Westminster. For the prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England. The king has given respite to the prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England, until the quindene of Michaelmas, from all debts and demands, both concerning assarts and other things touching him and his men. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite. By the king .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The abbot and monks of the church of St. Mary of Newminster give the king 4 m. of gold for having a confirmation from him, which they have paid in the Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and are quit.

[No date]. Sussex. William Avenel of Angemere gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Henry de la Mare. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc.

[No date]. Somerset. William de Lisle of Brocton’ gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Henry of Bratton. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take etc.

For Walter of Clifford. The king has granted to Walter of Clifford that his lands may be extended by order of the king for the debts he owes him. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Walter to have respite from the aforesaid debts until the quindene of St. John the Baptist next to come. By the king .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William son of Walter and Reginald, his brother, give the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc.

[No date]. Norfolk. John de Bretton’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Jocelin son of William gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Simon of Walton. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Ralph, son of Alan le Champeneys of Soterton’, gives the king 3 m. of gold for having a pardon for the death of John de Couele, of which he is accused, of which he has paid one mark in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc, and he is to pay the remaining 2 m. in his Wardrobe at St. John the Baptist in the thirty-sixth year. ¹ He has land in Lincolnshire. By the king.

1.

Authority clause entered here.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The abbot and monks of Pipewell give the king 5 m. of gold for having a confirmation, which they have paid in his Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and are quit. ¹ By the king.

1.

Authority clause written below the line at the right-hand edge of the membrane, possibly by a different hand.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Robert de Pakeham gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

[No date]. Hampshire. Nicholas de Depeden’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take etc.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Ida Doyry gives the king 3 m. of gold so that she is not impleaded in the king’s court (in Curia domini Regis) by Godfrey de Millers except by common writs and according to the law of the land. She has paid this in the king’s Wardrobe to P. Chaceporc and is quit. By the king .

[No date]. Hertfordshire. Agnes, who was the wife of Geoffrey de Verly, gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before William le Breton. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take etc.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Matilda, who was the wife of Thomas de Perin, gives the king one mark for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Nicholas de Turri. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

a.

On the dorse of the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 6, at this point is the following note: ‘Sum of the first roll, 228½ m. of silver and 25 m. of gold’.

[No date]. Yorkshire. William Bertelmeu ¹ gives the king 20s. for taking an attaint before Alan of Wassand and Adam de Hultun’. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc.

1.

‘Remigius of Pocklington and’ crossed through before this name.

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

7 May. Westminster. For the heirs of Hugh of Kilpeck. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the morrow of Trinity, the demand that they make from the heirs of Hugh of Kilpeck for the amercements made upon them in the last eyre of G. de Langley in Herefordshire for trespass of the forest. By R. fitz Nicholas .

a.

This entry is not in the originalia roll.

8 May. Westminster. Concerning counties that have been committed. The king has committed the county of Gloucestershire to Adam de Netsted’ to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

Concerning counties that have been committed. In the same manner the king has committed the counties of Surrey and Sussex to William of Micheldever. ¹ He is to render 180 m. per annum at the Exchequer for the profit of the aforesaid counties, and he is to keep the castle of Guildford.

1.

Witness clause entered here. What follows is entered by a different, smaller hand.

Lincolnshire. William de Croyton’ gives the king one mark for a writ ad terminum. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take security.

8 May. Westminster. For Isabella of Everingham. The king has pardoned to Isabella of Everingham all trespasses that she made in Sherwood forest until Ascension Day in the thirty-sixth year. Order to G. de Langley, justice of the forest, to permit Isabella to hold her bailiwick in the same forest in peace just as her ancestors have held it in their times. By J. Mansel.

For Isabella of Everingham. The same Isabella gives the king 40 m. for having that writ and for a pardon of the trespass that she made in Inglewood forest. She has land in Nottinghamshire.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. Later he paid the other 2 m. and is quit. The prior of Carlisle gives the king 4 m. of gold so that a close made against the assize of the forest and 14 of his messuages at Seburgh’ might remain, of which he has paid 2 m. in the Wardrobe and will pay the remaining 2 m. in the king’s Wardrobe at St. John the Baptist in the thirty-sixth year. By the king.

a.

The note concerning full payment is added at the end of this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 7, by a hand other than that which drafts the main body of the entry.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. William de Plessetis, the forester of Somerset, gives the king 2 m. of gold so that the park of Neuton’ might remain a close. He has paid this to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine of gold. The same gives the king one mark of gold for having a judgement. He has paid this to P. Chaceporc and is quit.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for Thomas Copmanwra. Thomas de Copmanwra gives the king 20 m. for trespasses made in the forest of Lancaster in his bailiwick, of which he is to render 5 m. per annum, namely 2½ m. at Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year, 2½ m. at Easter next following, and 5 m. thus per annum for the three years next following at the same terms. ¹ He has land in the county of Lancaster.

1.

What follows is entered by a different hand.

[No date]. Concerning a fine for John de Thorenton’. John de Thorentun’, forester of Pickering, gives the king 25 m. for his trespasses of the forest and for his prises due from him and his ancestors, of which the king has granted to him he may render 6 m. 40d. per annum, namely 3 m. 20d. at Michaelmas in the thirty-sixth year, 3 m. 20d. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 6 m. 40d. per annum thus for the three years next following at the same terms. He has land in Yorkshire.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. William Wardeben gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Nicholas de Turri. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

10 May. Westminster. Essex. Isabella de Chandos gives the king half a mark for having a pone [to remove a plea] to [the justices of the Bench at] Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

a.

Two marginal county headings beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 7, read ‘Essex’, in the hand of the scribe who drafted other marginalia, and ‘Cambridgeshire’, in the Exchequer hand of the scribe who added ‘in the Roll’.

For the prior and convent of Carlisle. The king has granted to the prior and convent of Carlisle those three acres of assart which they caused to be assarted in the lawn of Sedbergh and those twelve acres of purpresture in the lawn of Rugthwayt which they caused to be occupied in the king’s forest of Inglewood, to have and hold from the king and his heirs by the same prior and convent and their successors, rendering 17s. 6d. for this per annum to the king and his heirs at the Exchequer at two terms, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter.

a.

The marginal county heading beside this entry in the originalia roll, E 371/17, m. 7, reads ‘Cumberland’.

[No date]. Essex. Hugh de Ardene gives the king 2 m. for taking an attaint before Giles of Erdington and Roger of Whitchester. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. Walter de Stacheden’ gives the king 20s. for taking an assize of novel disseisin before Gilbert of Preston. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take etc.

Concerning the heirs of Richard of Wrotham. Because there is dispute between the heirs of Richard of Wrotham concerning the bailiwick of the forest of Somerset and