[No date]. Essex. Everard de la Beuvriere gives the king 50 m. for having the custody of the land formerly of John of Burnham and the marriage of his son and heir and of his first-born daughter, or the second-born if the first should be married. He has paid 20 m. of this fine to Earl W. Marshal and will pay 15 m. at Easter in the second year and the other 15 m. at St. John next following. ¹

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This roll has been collated with C 60/10, its duplicate, in respect of additional information and significant variants.

[No date]. Northumberland. Roger Bertram gives the king £100 to have seisin of the castle of Mitford and of all the lands and fees with their appurtenances of which he was disseised by reason of the war.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Matilda de Caux gives the king 50 m. to have seisin of the custody of the forests of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Order to the sheriff to take security.

7 Nov. Westminster. Berkshire. To the sheriff of Berkshire. Humphrey son of Alexander has made fine with the king by 50s. for his relief of half a knight’s fee in Appleton, to be rendered to the king in the octaves of Martinmas in the second year, and he has given the king surety by Fulk son of Richard. Order to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land. And because the seal etc. ¹

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This is a highly abbreviated summary of the clause with which, in one form or another, as the patent and close rolls show, nearly all royal letters probably concluded until the introduction of the king’s own seal in November 1218: ‘quia nondum habuimus sigillum, has litteras nostras sigillo fidelis nostri comitis Willelmi Marescalli, rectoris nostri et regni nostri fecimus sigillari / since we do not yet have a seal, we have caused these letters to be sealed by the seal of our faithful Earl William Marshal, the ruler of ourself and our kingdom’. See also below no.17. The date of this entry has been gleaned from C 60/10, m. 7.

Buckinghamshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire, concerning half a fee in Abingdon and Newton, by a fine of 50s. at the same term and by the same security.

[No date]. Essex. Baldwin constable of Boulogne gives the king £15 for having seisin of his land of Shopland with its appurtenances, of which he was disseised, as he says, by the will of King John. Order to the sheriff of Essex to cause him to have full seisin, having taken good surety from him for rendering the aforesaid £15 to the king.

Yorkshire. To G. de Neville. Order to distrain Geoffrey Scarpe, Geoffrey son of Odard, William de Fageling’, Achard’, Walter Novoman and Robert Dalemue, ¹ burgesses of Scarborough, that they render without delay to John Red of Ypres the £22½ which they have taken from him. Having received half of the money to the king’s use, the sheriff is to answer the king at the Exchequer on the morrow of Hilary. And because not yet etc. as above. Witness the same earl as above.

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C 60/10, m. 7 ‘de la Mue’.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Cumberland. Nicholas de Stuteville has made fine by 1000 m. for his ransom, to be rendered at four terms, namely 250 m. at mid-Lent in the second year, 250 m. at Pentecost following, 250 m. at St. Peter in Chains and 250 m. at Martinmas in the third year, namely so that if he does not keep the first term, he has bound his manors of Kirkbymoorside and Liddel under this form, that if he does not keep the first term, 50 librates of land are to be forfeited from the said manors. Similarly, if he does not keep the second term, 50 librates of land are to be forfeited from the same manors. Similarly, if he does not keep the third term, 50 librates of land are to be forfeited in the same manors. Similarly, if he does not keep to the fourth term, 50 librates of land are to be forfeited in the same manors. If the said two manors do not suffice to make good 200 librates of land, he will supplement the default from his other manors. Robert de Stuteville and Walter of Sowerby have mainperned for this fine in that if he does not keep a term, all of their lands are to be forfeited.

[No date]. Because otherwise below. William Cardun gives the king 50 m. ¹

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Entry cancelled. See 11 below

29 Nov. Lambeth. Gloucestershire. William de Gamages and Isabella, his wife, Geoffrey de Longchamp and Isabella, his wife, and Payn of Burghill and Dulcia, his wife, give the king 20 m. for having seisin of the manor of Westbury as of the right and inheritance of the women. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire that, having accepted security for paying the 20 m. to the king, he is to cause them to have full seisin of the manor and its appurtenances within his bailiwick. Witness the same earl.

[No date]. Northamptonshire. William Cardun gives the king 50 m. for having a writ of novel disseisin at Northampton 15 days after St. Andrew against Nigel de Amundeville ¹ and William de Scaffeld, Henry de Longueville, Walter de Beauvus, Ivo Monachus and John, his brother, and for having reasonable aid (racionabili auxilio) of the king in order to obtain his right. He placed all his land in counter-pledge for rendering this fine.

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Nigel de Luvetot, is crossed through.

[No date]. London. Helmewi, Markewart and Folbruth’, ¹ German merchants, give the king 100s. for having letters patent of safe conduct. They have the letters and William of Ely of London is their pledge.

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C 60/10, m. 7 Folbrucht’.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer. And before was sent all that is contained both in this roll and in the roll for 1 Henry III.

5 Dec. Westminster. Rutland. David son of Simon gives the king half a mark for having letters patent of pardon for the flight that he made and the consequent outlawry promulgated against him for a false oath sworn at Northampton in the time of King John, father of King Henry, of which he was convicted. He has the letters. Order to the sheriff of Rutland to take security from him for the half-mark. ¹ Witness the earl.

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PR 1216-25, p. 130.

5 Dec. Waltham. Amy de Bidun offers 60 m. for having an inquisition concerning that which she has in the manor of Watlington, so that if the inquisition declares that the manor is her right, she is to have seisin and pay the fine. If not, however, she is to be quit of the fine and have letters for taking the inquisition directed to the constable of Wallingford . ¹

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C 60/10 omits these dorse entries.

[No date]. The abbot of Colchester offers 40s. so that judgement [be made] in a dispute between him and […] the last presentation to the church of […] ¹ according to the words of a writ sought about this presentation. ²

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ms blank. Perhaps Oxted. See Curia Regis Rolls, viii, p. 266.

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‘Rotulus finium de Anno Domini H[enrici] Regis secundo’ inserted at the foot of the dorse.

3 Jan. Gloucester. Gloucestershire. To the barons of the Exchequer. It is evident to the king by an inspection of the rolls of the Jews that King John, his father, had granted to Mirabel, who was the wife of Elias the Jew of Gloucester , that she be quit of all the debts which Elias, her former husband, owed to the king, so that all of Elias’ charters and the debts contained within them would remain to the king’s father. And because those charters are in the custody of Earl W. Marshal, regent of the king and kingdom, at Gloucester, the king, wishing to uphold what was done by his father in this matter, order to cause the tenor of that grant to be upheld. It is also evident that Mirabel made fine with the king’s father by 15 m. for having those houses in Gloucester formerly of Elias the Jew, excepting those which the king’s father gave of his gift. Because the sheriff of Gloucestershire has already taken security for rendering the fine for which she ought to answer at the Exchequer, order to cause the tenor of the fine to be observed. But since etc. ¹ Witness the earl. By the same earl.

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A crude female head, peraps Mirabel herself, has been drawn in the margin.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The citizens of Lincoln give 200 m. to the king so that they are not tallaged on this occasion by reason of the tallage that was assessed on the king’s demesnes ¹ at St. Andrew in the second year, and so that they have their vill this year at farm as they had in the time of King John, father of King Henry, and that they be quit this year from the £40 ² of the increment of the farm of their vill, and that they have the tallages of their vill as they were accustomed to have ³ in the time of King John, father of King Henry. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to cause the citizens to have the city of Lincoln at farm and have acquittance from the aforesaid tallage.

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Corrected from ‘so that they be quit from the tallage that was assessed on the king’s demesne lands …’

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Corrected from ‘marks’.

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Corrected from ‘ought to and should have had …’

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. William de Fiennes ¹ gives the king 200 m. for having seisin of the manor of Wendover with its appurtenances. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire that, having accepted security for rendering those 200 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the manor and appurtenances. Order to William de Cantilupe to cause him to have the manor, having removed his stock and chattels.

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Corrected from ‘de Feins’; C 60/10, m. 7 ‘de Fienes’’

[No date]. Dorset, Surrey and Berkshire. Wymund of Raleigh, whose pledge is William Brewer, ¹ has made fine with the king by 100 m. for having the custody and marriage of the daughter and heiress of Michael Belet. Order to the sheriffs of Dorset, Surrey and Berkshire to cause Wymund to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements in their bailiwicks formerly of Michael, which fall to his daughter and heiress by inheritance, and to cause him to have the daughter and heiress if she is found within their bailiwicks.

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C 60/10, m. 7 ‘Briguerr’’.

17 Feb. Ilminster. Somerset and Dorset. John Marshal has made fine with the king by 60 m. for having the custody and marriage of Richard, son and heir of Richard of Wrotham, who is the heir of William of Wrotham, from the lay fees and tenements formerly of William, to whom pertained the custody of the forest of Somerset as of fee. Order to the sheriff of Dorset and Somerset to cause John to have full seisin without delay of the lands and tenements formerly of Richard and William with custody of the forest. Because etc. Witness the earl.

[No date]. Because otherwise below. Essex. Memorandum that Baldwin Filliol has made fine with the king for the custody of the land and heir of Ralph Pikoc, but it is not known by what fine and it is to be inquired through W. earl Marshal. ¹

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Entry cancelled. See 57 below.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. William son of Walter of Asgarby gives the king one mark for a pardon of the flight that he made for falsely swearing about lands in Lincolnshire, of which he was convicted during the time of King John, father of King Henry. He has letters for this, as is contained in the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take security for this mark to the king’s use. ¹

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Patent granted on 28 February: PR 1216-25, p. 140.

10 March. Gloucester. Ireland. To G. Marsh, justiciar of Ireland. ¹ Ranulf of Bradley has made fine with the king by 10 m. and two hawks for having the lands and tenements with appurtenances formerly of Hugh of Bradley, his father, in Ulster, of which Hugh de Lacy disseised the same H. of Bradley by his will, as is said. Order that, having accepted security for rendering that 10 m. and two hawks, he is to cause Ranulf to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands and appurtenances. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 7 erroneously has ‘Marescall’’.

14 March. Worcester. Oxfordshire. Hugh son of Robert Crumpe gives the king the fourth part of 24 m. for having a writ against Avenel of Eynsham, so that he answers him before the justices at Westminster at Easter in one month for a debt of 24 m. He has the writ. Witness the earl.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer.

[No date]. London. William Pollard gives the king one mark for having a writ to the constable of the Tower of London , so he does justice against Flourecoc son of Orguilus, Jew to render 4 m. to him. He has the writ. Order to the constable to accept security for this mark from the first monies.

3 April. Westminster. Hampshire. The abbot of Grestain gives a palfrey to the king for having his letters to summon: Thomas of Moulton in Suffolk at Easter in 15 days for the £27 that he owes him of the arrears of his rent in Brettenham; and Luke of Clanfield to answer him on the same day for £6 of the arrears of rent in Pennington in Hampshire; and William of Wimbourne to answer him on the same day for 60s. of the arrears of his rent in Wimbourne. He has the letters. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to accept security for rendering this palfrey to the king. Witness the earl.

4 April. Westminster. London. Nicholas Burguilun of London gives the king 20s. for summoning John de Fresnay before the justices at Westminster at Easter three weeks, in order to answer why he did not keep to the agreement between them concerning the manor of Clipsham with its appurtenances. He has the writ. His pledges are John Waler’ and Richard son of John. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Pledges added in a new hand.

5 April. Westminster. Nottinghamshire. To the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. Hugh son of William has made fine with the king by 10 m., for which Hugh de Neville is his pledge, to have seisin of the land of Hucknall and the mills of Radford with their appurtenances, of which Hugh was disseised by order of King John, the king’s father, for default of service. Order to cause Hugh to have full seisin without delay. Witness the earl.

Lincolnshire. Robert Savage has made fine with the king by 25 m. for seisin of all land ¹ formerly of Hawise daughter of William son of Walkelin in Lincoln, which King Richard, uncle of King Henry, gave to her for her marriage, ² and later Hawise was Robert’s wife. He has letters for having seisin to Simon Trussebut and Richard Clerk, escheators of Lincolnshire. His pledges for the fine are Alan de St. George and Robert son of Walkelin. Witness as above.

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Corrected from ‘ten librates of that land in Lincoln …’

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Corrected from ‘ in maritagium ’.

London. Phillip Walerand gives the king 100s. of the below-written debt, for which John Walerand is his pledge, for summoning Robert son of Richard, Amis Garnage, John son of William, Gerard de Haselwude, Edmund son of Gerard, Henry son of Wichtmer’, Bernard son of Hervey, Denis son of Ralph, Richard son of Alexander, Alexander son of Athelstan, Henry of Southwold of Dunwich, William Beche, and Robert Brown to be before the justices at Westminster at Easter in one month, ready to answer Phillip why they did not keep to an agreement made between them concerning ten lasts of herrings and three lasts and 3000 herrings. He has a writ directed to the sheriff of Suffolk. Witness as above.

Wiltshire. Honour of Wallingford. Henry de Scaccario has made fine with the king by 20 m. for having the custody and marriage of the land and heir of Milo de Merleya. Order to the keeper of the honour of Wallingford to take security from Henry for those 20 m. and to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands formerly of Milo in his bailiwick, with the marriage. Witness as above.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Wiltshire, except for taking security for the fine.

Essex. Vitalis Engayne gives to the king 10 m. for having seisin of the manor of Upminster with its appurtenances, saving rightful dower in the same manor to Ada who was the wife of William de Courtenay . Order to the sheriff of Essex to take security for those 10 m. from Vitalis. Witness as above.

Middlesex. Hugh of Norfolk gives one mark for having a writ for doing justice against Matilda de Albo Monasterio, so that she renders to him 6 m. 12s. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Middlesex to take security for the aforesaid mark. Witness as above.

6 April. Caversham. Oxfordshire. William de Esse and Margaret, his wife, give 5 m. to the king for summoning John son of Hugh before the justices at Westminster at Easter in 15 days , ready to show why he did not render to William ¹ and Margaret half a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Horspath. They have the writ. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘John’.

[No date]. Memorandum concerning the stannaries of Devon, which are in the hand of the queen by order of the king’s council until she has been assigned her dower in full. This matter is to be discussed at Oxford.

[No date]. Item, concerning the 200 m. that the men of Devon (Devonienses) offered to the sheriff before they came into the king’s peace, so that they need not give hostages as security for their faithful service, but only their charters.

[No date]. Item, concerning the oath sworn and the confederacy which the men of Devon entered into amongst themselves after the Earl Marshal was at Exeter.

[No date]. Item, concerning the vill of Shebbear of the king’s demesne, which the king’s council surrendered to William of Torrington for his sustenance in the king’s service during good behaviour. The land (sic.) he destroys and wastes.

[No date]. Item, concerning the hundred of Redlane which Robert de Courtenay says is his and pertains to his manor of Iwerne, which hundred, and the hundred of Gillingham, was withdrawn from him and his ancestors, and he offers 5 m. to have a jury.

[No date]. Memorandum that Phillip Chaucebuef has a term till Pentecost in the second year to render 20 m. of the arrears of his fine made in the time of King John, and this is to be enrolled at the Exchequer.

10 April. Hamstead. Berkshire. Thomas son of Ivo, who is underage, gives one mark to the king for having a writ for having such seisin of his land as he had at the beginning of the war, of which he was disseised by reason of the war, unless anything previously etc. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take security for this mark to the king’s use. He has the writ. Witness the earl.

11 April. Winchester. Lincolnshire. John son of Siward has made fine with the king by 5 m. to pardon his flight and abjuration of the kingdom of England that he made for the death of Gerard son of Haghemund, ¹ killed in the time of King John, as is more fully contained in the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take security for rendering those 5 m. to the king and then deliver the letters patent of pardon to him. ² Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 6 ‘Agemund’.

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PR 1216-25, p. 147

Hampshire. Esterota daughter of Isaac Red, a Jewess , gives the king 20s. for doing justice against Deulobene son of Abraham and Abraham and Elias, his brothers, heirs of Abraham son of Samuel, in order that they render 5 m. to her. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take those 5 m. ¹ to the king’s use from the first monies. ² Witness as above.

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Recte 20s.

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C 60/10, m. 6 has a much abbreviated version, omitting all bar the payer details.

22 April. Worcester. Worcestershire. S. bishop of Worcester gives the king 700 m., for himself and for all those who have lands in the forests of Horwell and Ombersley, for disafforesting the aforesaid forests according to the tenor of the charter which the king caused to be made to them, as is more fully contained in the charter roll. The chief pledges for this fine are the bishop and Walter de Beauchamp. Witness the earl.

30 April. Westminster. Because otherwise below. Essex. Herbert French gives the king two tuns of wine for having a writ for doing justice against William de Mandeville so that he renders £30 8s. to him. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take two tuns of good wine from Herbert to the king’s use from the first monies. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Entry cancelled. See 74 below.

[No date]. Because otherwise below. Robert of Cockfield gives the king 100 m. for having the custody of the land and heir of Robert Pikoc, with the marriage of the heir. He is to render a moiety of this fine at Pentecost in the second year and the other moiety at Michaelmas following. ¹

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Entry cancelled. See 56 below.

3 May. Westminster. Devon. To the sheriff of Devon. The king has accepted the fine of 20 m. and a palfrey which Phillip Chaucebuef made with King John, the king’s father, for having the lands formerly of Robert de Scohevill’, his uncle, which fall to him by hereditary right, and for having the lands which Robert had in exchange for his land in Normandy, so that he may render the 20 m. which are in arrears of the aforesaid fine within the forthcoming Pentecost in the second year. Order to the sheriff that, having accepted security from Phillip for rendering that 20 m. to the king within the aforesaid term, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the land within his bailiwick which Robert had in exchange for his Norman lands. Witness the earl.

3 May. Westminster. The count of Aumale, the earl Warenne, J. constable of Chester, the constable of Tickhill, Robert de Ros and Hugh de Balliol were summoned to come before the barons of the Exchequer at Trinity in 15 days to answer why they have hindered the sheriff of Yorkshire in taking the king’s pleas and doing as others ought to do and are accustomed to do in the same county to the king’s advantage, so that he has been and is unable to pay his farm and to answer for the debts of the king and other things for which he has summons. Witness the earl.

3 May. Westminster. Bedfordshire. Buckinghamshire. Northamptonshire. William fitz Warin has made fine with the king by 50 m. ¹ for having Agnes of Odell, sister of John of Odell, as his wife, together with the land which falls to her by inheritance. Because William has given surety to the king for rendering that 50 m., order to the sheriff to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all land within his bailiwick that falls to Agnes by inheritance. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 6 has ‘40 m.’

[No date]. Surrey. Robert of Wintershill and his wife, Margaret, give the king half a mark for having a pone against Herlewin le Troz. They have the pone. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take security from Robert and Margaret for rendering that half-mark to the king for this writ.

Somerset. Robert of Newburgh gives the king a palfrey for having a writ to summon Alice de Mohun to be before the justices at Westminster on the morrow of Trinity [to answer] concerning a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Sirineton’, into which Alice has no entry except by the intrusion which she made in that land after the death of Azalia, Robert’s grandmother , who held that fee in dower by the gift of Robert of Glastonbury, her former husband, whose heir he is, and of which he says he is unjustly deforced. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take security from Robert for the palfrey for the writ. Witness as above.

Essex. Cambridgeshire. Robert of Cockfield has made fine with the king by 100 m. for having the custody of the land and heirs of Ralph Pikoc, with the marriage of the heirs. Order to the sheriff of Essex that, having accepted security from him for rendering that fine to the king, namely a moiety of which within Pentecost in the second year and the other moiety within Michaelmas in the same year, he is to cause Robert to have full seisin without delay of all land formerly of Ralph in his bailiwick. Order to the sheriff to cause the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to know by his letters when he will have taken security from Robert, as aforesaid, because he is commanded then to cause Robert to have full seisin of the land formerly of Ralph in his bailiwick without delay. Witness as above.

4 May. Westminster. Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to distrain Baldwin Filliol to be before the barons of the Exchequer at Westminster on Sunday next after the Invention of the Holy Cross in 15 days, ready to answer for the issues of the land formerly of Ralph Pikoc which he received after this land was placed in his hand. Witness the earl.

Dorset. Hamo son of Richard gives the king a palfrey for having a writ to summon Hugh Poinz before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity , concerning two carucates of land with appurtenances in Sutton’, into which he has no entry except by the intrusion that he made in the same land after the death of Grecia, who was the wife of Robert son of Hamo , who had the land in dower by the inheritance of Hamo, and which land, after Grecia’s death, ought to descend to him. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take security from Hamo for rendering this palfrey to the king. Witness as above.

[No date]. To the barons of the Exchequer. Of the fine of £100 by which Robert of Bassingham and Agnes, his wife, made fine with the king for having half of the barony formerly of John of Odell, which falls to Agnes by hereditary right, and for relief of the same, for which they have found pledges, namely Ernald de Bosco for £60, Richard Gubiun for £20, Robert de Stuteville for £10, and John Marshal for £10, the king has given respite to William fitz Warin, his faithful man, to whom he has given Agnes in marriage, and to Agnes herself, so that they may pay £50 at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the second year and £50 at Easter in the third year. Order to cause William and Agnes to have respite from the aforesaid fine.

[No date]. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire to permit the aforesaid William and Agnes to have the aforesaid respite from the aforesaid fine.

Devon. Joan des Aliz gives the king half a mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster on the morrow of Trinity, of a plea that was in the county court of Devon in the time of King John, father of King Henry, in Devon, and stands over on account of the war, between Joan, claimant, and Ralph des Aliz, defendant, concerning two furlongs of land with appurtenances in Braundsworthy and another furlong in the same vill against Gunilda daughter of Edward. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff to take security from Joan for rendering half a mark to the king for this writ. Witness as above.

6 May. Westminster. Dorset and Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset and Somerset to place in respite the demand that he made from Roger of Clifford and Sibyl, his wife, for the 800 m. by which Sibyl made fine with King John, father of King Henry, so that she might marry at her pleasure [ad placitum suum], until the king orders otherwise. Witness the earl.

7 May. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Simon de Hale and Arnold of Broughton, heirs of John of Broughton, give the king a palfrey for summoning Richard, son and heir of William of Handred that he is to hold to the fine made before the itinerant justices in Northamptonshire in the time of King John, father of King Henry, between the aforesaid William and John, concerning half a knight’s fee in Barton, about which a chirograph was made before the aforesaid justices, as is said, and if he does not do so, he is to come before the justices at Westminster at Trinity in 15 days to show why he has not done so. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take security from Simon and Arnold for rendering one palfrey to the king’s use. Witness the earl.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. The lands of Robert de Lacelles in Fulstow and Aylesby have been delivered to Simon Trussebut to keep and make answer for.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Ralph de Rodes ought to answer for his relief for the land formerly of Gerard de Rodes, his father, of which he has seisin.

8 May. Westminster. Suffolk. William son of Aitrop gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity, of a plea that is in the county court of Suffolk between William, claimant, and William of Braham, defendant, concerning a carucate of land with appurtenances in Friston, by the king’s writ of right. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff to take security from William for this mark to the king’s use for this writ. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Entry marked with a cross in the margin.

12 May. Westminster. Staffordshire. Henry de Scaccario gives the king half a mark, for which William son of Elias is his pledge, for summoning the prior of Sandwell so that he warrants to Henry the site of a pond with appurtenances in Ellesborough that he holds, and for which he says he has his charter. And unless he does this, and because Henry gave the king surety to prosecute his claim by Matthew Brand and John de Luches, the prior is to be before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity to show why he has not done so. Witness W. Brewer.

12 May. Westminster. Worcestershire. Matilda daughter of Henry gives the king half a mark for having a pone in the octaves of Trinity against Richard de Munvirun, Felicia of Woodcote, Henry de Parco and Lucy, his wife, concerning a hide of land in Little Cooksey. ¹ She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to take security from Matilda for rendering that half-mark to the king. Witness the earl.

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An original addition of ‘… by the service of a fifth part of a knight’s fee’ has been crossed through.

[No date]. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted R. earl of Chester and Lincoln, for the costs and expenses he has incurred in keeping the king’s castles, that he and all of his bailiffs are to remain quit of all accounts, issues and farms that arise from the counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire and the honour of Lancaster up to Sunday next after the Invention of the Holy Cross in the second year, and that will arise up to the term which will be established by the Legate and the king’s council, save for the scutage assessed by the king’s council in the second year. Moreover, the king has granted that the earl and his bailiffs are to be quit from the 5 m. that he received from Baldwin of Hodnet and Adam of Brineton of a debt which they owed the king, and from 40 m. which the earl received from Vivian of Rushall of a debt he owed the king, and from 30 m. which he received from Petronella de Cumbray of a debt she owed the king, and from 38 m. which he received of the tallage of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and from 410 m. which he received from Thurstan Banaster of his fine, and the earl and his men are to answer from the Sunday aforesaid for other fines, new and old, for which no answer has yet been given at the Exchequer for the aforesaid counties. ¹ However, the escheats pertaining to the king from the aforesaid counties are to be saved for the king. The earl and his men are to send someone to the Exchequer at the set terms by the customs of the Exchequer, but are not to pay anything of the farms and issues of the counties, nor will they remain in arrears of the farms and issues up to the term which will be set, as aforesaid. The earl will hold up to that term all manors that Thomas of Erdington held of the king’s demesne in Shropshire and Staffordshire on the day he died, excepting those manors for which Thomas had a charter of King John, father of King Henry. Order to the barons to permit the earl and his men to be quit of the aforesaid and to cause them to be enrolled as quit.

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C 60/10, m. 6 omits the following sentence and the man to be sent to the Exchequer.

13 May. Westminster. Close. Order to Walter Bastard to cause Master Simon Cook to have the livery of 2d. a day which Alexander Harper was accustomed to receive from the manor of Brill. Witness the earl.

15 May. Westminster. Sussex. Cecilia who was the wife of Roger of Woolbeding gives the king 40 m. for having the custody of the land and heirs of Roger, with the marriage of the heirs, and so that she might marry whom she pleases except enemies of the king. She is to render 10 m. of this fine to the king at Pentecost in the second year, 10 m. at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, and the remaining 20 m. at Michaelmas next following. Order to the sheriff of Sussex that, having accepted security for rendering that fine to the king at the aforesaid terms, as aforesaid, he is to cause her to have full seisin of the custody of the aforesaid land and heirs. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘to let her have …’

Yorkshire. Henry de Neufmarché gives the king 40 m. for having as his wife Frethesenta ¹ who was the wife of Geoffrey Luttrell , if she wishes. He is to render 20 m. of this fine at Trinity in the second year and 20 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take security from Henry for rendering that 40 m. to the king, as aforesaid, and to cause him to have full seisin of all his lands that fall to Frethesenta by her inheritance without delay, if she will show her assent to this. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 6 Freþesenta.

[No date]. Because otherwise below. Warwickshire. Lincolnshire. Gloucestershire. Robert Marmion junior has made fine with the king by £500 for having custody of Tamworth castle and of the lands formerly of Robert, his father, of which he was seised on the day he died, until the time when the lands of England and Normandy will be together (communes), so that Englishmen will then hold lands in Normandy ... ¹

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Entry cancelled. See 75 below.

[No date]. London. Herbert French, merchant of the King of France , gives the king two tuns of good French wine for summoning Peter de Brus to be before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity to answer him for 10 m. which he owes him , as he says, and for summoning William de Mandeville to be at the same time and place to answer Herbert for £30 8s., and for summoning W. earl of Arundel to be before the aforesaid justices at the same time and place to answer Herbert for 10 m. that he owes him, as he says. His pledges for this fine are William Hardel and Michael de Waterville, citizens of London.

Warwickshire. Lincolnshire. Gloucestershire. Robert Marmion junior has made fine with the king by £500 ¹ for having custody of Tamworth castle and of the lands formerly of Robert, his father, of which he was seised on the day he died, until the time when the lands of England and Normandy will be together, so that Englishmen will have their lands in Normandy and Normans their lands in England. If by chance before the lands are together in the aforesaid manner, his brother, Robert senior, shall come to the king’s peace, so that he recovers the lands formerly of their father in England, of which he was vested on the day he died, Robert senior is to render to Robert junior as much of the aforesaid fine as he will have paid to the king before he recovers the lands, the issues of the lands which Robert junior previously received being allowed in the fine owed then by Robert senior, who is then to pay the remainder of the fine to the king, by which fine he will recover the aforesaid lands. If by chance the lands of England and Normandy are together in the aforesaid manner before that fine has been paid to the king, Robert senior is to pay to Robert junior as much as he has paid of the aforesaid fine over and above the issues arising from the lands. If by chance death befalls Robert junior before Robert senior makes peace with the king for having the lands, William, brother of Robert junior, will hold the lands by the same fine until Robert senior satisfies the king for having seisin of the lands, and Robert will then answer William in the same manner for the remainder of the fine paid by Robert junior or by William over and above the issues arising from the lands, and Robert senior will then pay the rest of the fine to the king. And it is to be known that if Robert senior shall recover the lands in England, there will remain to Robert junior and William the lands of which they were seised before Robert, their father, died, namely that the vills of Winteringham and its appurtenances in Lincolnshire, the vill of Coningsby ² in the same county, the vill of Quinton in Gloucestershire and Berwick in Sussex will remain to Robert junior, and the vill of Torrington ³ in Lincolnshire and 10 librates of land in the aforesaid vill of Berwick in Sussex will remain to William, concerning which they have charters of Robert, their father, and they will stand to right if anyone will wish to speak against them. The terms of the aforesaid fine are such that Robert junior shall render 100 m. at Trinity in the second year, 100 m. at Michaelmas following, 100 m. at Easter in the third year, and then 100 m. at the Exchequers of Michaelmas and Easter from year to year at each Exchequer until the debt of £500 will have been paid. Robert junior will also give the king good surety that he will faithfully keep Tamworth castle. And if it happens that the king wishes to have the castle, if necessary he will render it to him without difficulty and contradiction. ⁴ Witness as above.

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Corrected from ‘500 m.’

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Corrected from ‘Cnutingeby’; C 60/10, m. 5 ‘Cungreby’.

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Corrected from ‘Hiteham’; C 60/10, m. 5 ‘Torinton’.

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C 60/10, m. 5 ‘without distraint and surety’. For Robert’s pledges see 79, 80 & 81 below.

[No date]. Kent. John son of Theobald gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity, of a plea in the county court between John, claimant, and the prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England , defendant, concerning 100 acres of land with appurtenances in Sutton’, by the king’s writ of right. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take security from John for the mark to the king’s use for this writ. The pledges for this fine are written on the dorse of this roll. ¹

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Final sentence added in a new hand.

[No date]. Order to Phillip of Oldcoates ¹ to place in respite the demand that he makes against John son of Robert for the tallage of Corbridge until Michaelmas in the second year, to whom the king’s council has granted respite so that he might then come before the barons of the Exchequer ready to show the king’s charter that he says he has and to hear judgement as to whether he ought to be quit of the tallage according to the tenor of his charter or not.

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C 60/10, m. 5 ‘Wilecot’’.

15 May. Westminster. Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take into the king’s hand the custody of the New Forest until it has been discussed between John of Monmouth and William de Neville as to which of them the custody of the forest pertains. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Entry marked with a cross in the margin.

Pledges of Robert Marmion in Lincolnshire:

William Marmion for 60 m.Phillippa Marmion for 60 m.William de Lisures for 3 m.Rolland of Woodhall for 5 m.William Chaplain for 3 m.John of Rainton for 3 m.Robert of Coningsby for 20s.Adam of Coningsby for 20s.Thomas son of Bartholomew for 20s.Reginald de Daundreby for 1 m.Hugh Pollard for 1 m.John of Fonte for 1 m.Reginald of Torrington for 1 m.Robert Bedel for 1 m.Ralph de Cruce for 1 m.Robert of Bamburgh for 1 m.Vincent of Lyndon ¹ for 1 m.Hugh of Sturton for 1 m.

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Taken from C 60/10, m. 3d.

Pledges of the same taken by William de Cantilupe in Warwickshire and Leicestershire:

Nicholas de Verdun for 20 m.Geoffrey de Camville for 10 m.William of Hartshill for 5 m.Ralph son of Ralph for 3 m.Thomas of Offord ¹ for 2 m.John de Chuly ² for 3 m.Richard Russell for 3 m.Robert of Launde for 1 m.Robert de Passy for 3 m.William Den Feu for 3 m.Matthew de Charnelis for 5 m.

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C 60/10, m. 3d. ‘Ofirton’’.

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C 60/10, m. 3d. ‘Culi’.

Pledges of the same taken by Ralph de Neville in court:

Henry of Audley for 30 m.William of Duston for 30 m.Geoffrey de Say for 20 m.Robert of Ropsley for 10 m. ¹ Henry de Pont-Audemer for 10 m.Hugh de Neville for 5 m.Herbert de Alençon for 5 m.William Basset for 10 m.

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C 60/10, m. 3d. ‘20 m.’

[No date]. Order to Engelard de Cigogné to be at the Exchequer at Westminster at Trinity in 15 days, ready to answer the king for the farm of the avalagium on the Thames at Bray, with its appurtenances, from Michaelmas next after the death of King John, father of King Henry.

[No date]. Leicestershire and Warwickshire. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire and Warwickshire that, having accepted security from Robert Marmion junior for as much as he can at present make surety to the king for a moiety of the fine of 500 m. written a little above, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands within his bailiwick formerly of Robert, his father, of which he was seised on the day he died, and of all lands and wards that Robert Marmion junior had before his father died. He is to cause the king to know on Tuesday ¹ next after Trinity, at Westminster, how much Robert will find in pledge, who are his pledges and how much each will pledge for him, because Robert has placed all his land in counter-pledge that for the rest of the moiety of the fine for which he will not find pledges in his bailiwick, he will find safe pledges for the king on the same Tuesday. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Lincolnshire.

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C 60/10, m. 5 ‘Wednesday’.

[No date]. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to cause the aforesaid Robert Marmion junior to have full seisin of all lands formerly of Robert Marmion, his father, and of his own lands.

[No date]. The same order to the sheriffs of London, concerning the rents of the same Robert, his father, in London.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to cause the same Robert to have full seisin without delay of his lands in Quinton, of which he was disseised by reason of the death of his father.

17 May. Westminster. Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. Order to the sheriffs of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire , and R. bishop of Durham, the king’s chancellor, to take into the king’s hand all lands of Phillip of Oldcoates. They are to hold them until the king orders otherwise. Witness the earl.

Essex. Amy who was the wife of Roger of Messing gives the king 5 m. for having licence to marry whoever she wishes, save for the king’s enemies. Order to the sheriff that, having accepted security from Amy for rendering the aforesaid 5 m. to the king by Pentecost in the second year, he is to permit her to marry whoever she wishes, as aforesaid. Witness as above.

[No date]. London. Simon of Aldermanbury, citizen of London , gives the king 20s. for summoning Gilbert de Lacy, knight, to be before the justices at Westminster at Trinity in 15 days , ready to show why he does not keep to an agreement made with Simon concerning all of Gilbert’s rent in St. Osyth, Lawford and Newham, which he gaged to him at a term which has not yet expired. He has the writ. The sheriffs of London are to distrain Simon by this fine.

[No date]. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take the barony of Cary into the king’s hand without delay with its appurtenances, and to see that he knows sufficiently how to answer for the issues of this barony at the Exchequer at the summons of the Exchequer.

[No date]. Ireland. Because John de Courcy made security with the king to prosecute his claim, G. Marsh, justiciar of Ireland, is ordered to summon, by good summoners, twelve free and law-worthy men from the neighbourhoods of Logan, Ballyoran, Castelkam’, Drumlork, and Clendermot to be before the king’s itinerant justices in Ireland when they come to those parts, ready to recognise on oath whether Roger of Chester, John’s father, was seised in his demesne as of fee of the aforesaid vills on the day he died, etc., as in the writ of mort d’ancestor. He is also to summon Geoffrey de Aunteumes ¹ who holds the vill of Logan, William Haket who holds Drumlork, Roger Haket who holds Clendermot, and Martin Clerk who holds Castelcam’, that they be there ready to hear etc. Order to the justiciar of Ireland to take security from John for 10 m. to the king’s use for the writ. ²

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C 60/10, m. 5 ‘Auttumes’.

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Entry marked with a large cross in the margin.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. To the sheriff of Lincolnshire. Robert Griffin has mainperned before the barons of the Exchequer for Nicolaa de la Haye, as her steward, that she will satisfy the king at the Exchequer for the scutage she received in Lincolnshire while the county was in her custody, both her own scutage and that of others. Order not to vex or permit Nicolaa or her people to be vexed for this reason, or to cause any distraint to be made against her or her people or to permit anyone to make any distraint against them.

[No date]. Middlesex. John of Greenwich, who exacts £60 from Hamo Brand, gives the king the third part of all of the debt he can acquire from Hamo, for summoning him before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity for the aforesaid debt . He has the writ. Order to the sheriff to take security from him for the third part, as aforesaid.

[No date]. The citizens of London give the king 40 m. that they be not penalized for the sale of their burels contained within borders of cloth of less than two ells for one year from Christmas in the third year, and that they be judged by the charter of liberties whether burels ought to be of the assize of dyed cloth or not, as is more fully contained in the Patent Roll. They are to render the fine on Saturday next after Ascension. ¹

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PR 1216-25, p. 155.

[No date]. Essex. Adrian, William and Henry, sons and heirs of Ralph Eswy, give the king 50s. for summoning William of Flanders, bailiff of the count of Guines, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Trinity for a debt of 24 m. 7s. which he owes them of a debt of Ralph, their father, for the count . Order to the sheriff of Essex to take security from Adrian, William and Henry for rendering that 50s. of the aforesaid debt to the king for the writ.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer.

17 May. Westminster. Order to all of the king’s bailiffs and faithful men of Gloucestershire to be intendant and respondent to Ralph of Williton and Walter of Winchcombe, clerk , as keepers of the king’s escheats in the same county, to whom the king has committed this custody during his pleasure, as is more fully contained within the Patent Roll. ¹ Witness the earl.

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PR 1216-25, p. 154.

[No date]. Falkes de Bréauté owes ¹ the king £100 for his relief of the lands formerly of Warin fitz Gerold, by reason of the daughter and heiress of Warin whom he has taken to wife.

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Corrected from ‘gives …’

30 May. Amersham. Derbyshire. Henry of Handsacre gives the king one mark, for which William of Duston is his pledge, for pardon of the abjuration of the realm of England that he made for the deaths of Richard Frost and Geoffrey Frost, his son, of which he was accused, as is more fully contained in the Patent Roll. ¹ Witness the earl.

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PR 1216-25, p. 156.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take into the king’s hand the manor of Laceby, which Geoffrey de Neville held by bail of King John, father of King Henry, and to deliver it to Simon Trussebut, the king’s escheator, to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

Lincolnshire. Geoffrey of Osgodby , detained in the king’s prison accused of the death of Thoreword’ of Fulstow, has made fine with the king by one mark so that he be handed over to six free and law-worthy men of the county of Lincolnshire on bail. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire that, having accepted security from him for rendering that mark to the king, he is to hand him over to six free and law-worthy men who are to have him before the itinerant justices, or before the king himself, or before the king’s justices at Westminster at the king’s command, to answer Agnes who was the wife of Thoreword’ concerning his death, of which she appeals him. Witness as above.

31 May. Westminster. Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire that since William de Beauchamp has rendered 40 m. of his scutage to the king at the Exchequer and has given surety for rendering that remainder on the morrow of Trinity next forthcoming, he is to deliver the men and livestock of the same William and of his men taken by reason of the aforesaid scutage. He is to cause him to have peace until the king orders otherwise. Witness the earl.

[No date]. Devon. Alice of Dodbrooke ¹ gives the king half a mark that four law-worthy knights of the county of Devon are sent to her to hear whom she will make her attorney to win or lose between her and Eva de Gray, concerning Alice’s dower, before the king’s justices at Westminster at Trinity in three weeks. She has the writ. Henry Foliot is her pledge for the half-mark.

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C 60/10, m. 5 ‘Avice’.

Essex. Order to the abbots of Waltham and Stratford and the other executors of the testament of Thomas de Neville that, having retained 80 m. ¹ worth of the chattels formerly of Thomas to the king’s use, which Isaac of Norwich, Jew, says he had committed to Thomas to be paid to the king for him, they are to cause the remainder of the testament to be executed. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 5 has ‘40’ (‘quadraginta’ as against ‘quaterviginti’).

1 June. Tower of London. Sussex. Order to the sheriff of Sussex ¹ that since the king has received the homage of Richard de Caaigun for 7½ knights’ fees with appurtenances, which he ought to hold from the king in chief, and having accepted security for the relief due to the king from those 7½ fees, he is to signify the sheriff of Northamptonshire by his letters when he will have accepted security, because the sheriff of Northamptonshire is ordered to cause him to have full seisin of those of those fees and their appurtenances which fall to Richard by inheritance within his bailiwick. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘Essex.’

Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that once the sheriff of Sussex has sent to him by his letters that he has accepted security from Richard de Caaigun for the relief due to the king from 7½ knights’ fees, for which the king has taken his homage, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of those of those 7½ fees and their appurtenances that fall to Richard by his inheritance within his bailiwick, saving the manor of Greatworth with its appurtenances to Gunnora de Caaigun, his mother, which he assigned to her in dower. If he has caused anything to be taken or removed from the aforesaid 7½ fees after the king ordered him otherwise, he is to cause it to be rendered to Richard without delay. Witness as above.

Northamptonshire. Order to the same sheriff by other letters to cause the same Gunnora to have seisin of the manor of Greatworth with its appurtenances without delay.

[No date]. Middlesex. Richard de Coudray gives the king one mark, for which Richard son of Walter and John Smith are his pledges, for summoning Richard of Warnford before the king’s justices at Westminster at Trinity in 15 days to answer the same Richard de Coudray for 8 m. 6s. He has a writ directed to the sheriff of Hampshire.

2 June. Tower of London. Oxfordshire. William of Headington, who, it is said, is underage, gives the king one mark for having a writ to have such seisin of all of his lands with appurtenances in the bailiwick of the sheriff of Oxfordshire , which John of Headington, his brother, whose heir he is, as he says, had at the beginning of the war, unless he has had previously etc. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take security from William for rendering this mark to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

[No date]. London. Adrian, William and Henry, sons and heirs of Ralph Eswy, and Henry Galopin, who exact 1½ lasts of hides from Robert son of Sinulf, give the king 50s. of the aforesaid debt for summoning Robert before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of St. John the Baptist to answer them for the aforesaid debt. They have a writ directed to the sheriff of Norfolk. Solomon of Basing, mayor of London , is their pledge for rendering the aforesaid 50s. of the same debt to the king. ¹

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Corrected from ‘… for the aforesaid debt …’ Marginalia corrected from ‘Norfolk’.

10 June. Caversham. Worcestershire. Order to John Marshal to cause a perambulation to be made between the forest of Feckenham and the forests of Ombersley and Horwell, as they ought and are accustomed to be, and as the regards are accustomed and ought to be between the aforesaid forests according to the tenor of the perambulation, and then permit and cause the forests of Ombersley and Horwell to be disafforested, as in the charter that the king caused to be made, notwithstanding that the bishop of Worcester and Walter de Beauchamp, who are pledges for the fine made to the king, have not kept their first term. He is to take security from them for rendering a moiety of this fine to the king at the Exchequer in octaves of Trinity in the second year. Witness the earl.

13 June. Westminster. Surrey. Geoffrey Clerk gives one mark to the king for summoning William Cook before the king’s justices at Westminster in the octaves of St. John the Baptist , so that he keeps to an agreement made between them concerning twelve acres of land with appurtenances in Rotherhithe. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take security for rendering this mark to the king for the writ. Witness the earl.

Kent. The same Geoffrey Clerk gives the king half a mark for summoning the aforesaid William Cook before the aforesaid justices at Westminster at the same term , so that he keeps to an agreement made between them concerning three acres of meadow with appurtenances in Swanscombe. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take security for rendering this half-mark to the king for the writ. Witness as above.

14 June. Westminster. Huntingdonshire. Richard, son and heir of Simon son of Richard gives 5 m. to the king for having an inquisition taken by trustworthy and law-worthy men of the neighbourhood of Buckworth, as to whether Simon son of Richard established a title in the court of King Richard, uncle of King Henry, before the justices at Westminster, to the advowson of the church of Buckworth against the count of Eu and the canons of Hastings, and for having that inquisition before the justices at Westminster at St. John the Baptist in 15 days. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to take security from Richard, ¹ son and heir of Simon, for rendering those 5 m. to the king for the inquisition. He has the writ. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 4 ‘Reginald’.

14 June. Tower of London. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and the mayor and bailiffs of Lynn that since the king has constituted Henry de Pont-Audemer, Henry of Boston and Richard of Lynn ¹ to be his bailiffs to keep the fair of Lynn and to ordain all that pertains to the king in that fair, they are to offer them counsel and aid whenever they can. Witness the earl.

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‘bearers of the present’ has been crossed through.

Order to the merchants and others attending the fair of Lynn to be intendant and respondent to them in all that pertains to the aforesaid fair.

Lincolnshire. The same order concerning the same to the sheriff of Lincolnshire and the merchants and others attending the fair of St. Botulph at Boston.

Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to distrain all those who held pleas that have arisen in the fair at Boston by reason of the aforesaid fair from its beginning in the second year, and those who received any issues so arising by the aforesaid reason, to answer Henry de Pont-Audemer, Henry of Boston and Richard of Lynn, who the king has constituted as his bailiffs to keep the fair in his place, for the same issues and pleas, determined or not, without delay. Witness as above.

Order to the same sheriff to cause the aforesaid fair to be prolonged for eight days from St. John the Baptist.

[No date]. Oxfordshire. Geoffrey Clerk and William de Bosco give the king 20s. ¹ for summoning Henry de Oilly before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of St. John the Baptist to answer them for £10 10s. They have the writ. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take security from Geoffrey and William for rendering those 20s. to the king’s use for this writ.

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Corrected from ‘£10’.

Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take into the king’s hand the land with appurtenances in Cheverell, formerly of Richard de Neville, the custody of which King John, father of King Henry, committed to John de Ballon for the fine of £100 he made with him, which fine he had not kept. Witness as above.

16 June. Westminster. Suffolk. Robert son of William gives the king half a mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Michaelmas , of a plea which is in the county court of Suffolk between Robert, claimant, and Andrew Smith and Matilda, his wife, and Alice, Matilda’s mother, ¹ defendants, concerning eight acres of land with appurtenances in Fressingfield, by the king’s writs of right. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security for this half-mark to the king’s use for the writ. Witness the earl.

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Taken from C 60/10, m. 4.

[No date]. Kent. Christiana of Finglesham gives one mark for having a precipe before the justices at Westminster at St. John the Baptist in 15 days against Henry of Sandwich, concerning 50 acres of land with appurtenances in Finglesham, into which Henry has no entry unless through William Spicer, former husband of Christiana, who sold them to him, and whom she could not contradict during his lifetime. She has the precipe. Order to the sheriff to take security from Christiana for rendering this mark to the king’s use for the precipe.

17 June. Westminster. Bedfordshire. Gilbert of Hendon gives the king 20s. for summoning Geoffrey Red before the justices at Westminster at St. John the Baptist in 15 days to answer him for 6 m. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take security for rendering those 20s. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

18 June. Tower of London. Cambridgeshire. Robert son of William gives the king one mark for having a writ of inquisition whether Geoffrey, brother of the dean of Hatley appeals Robert son of William of Arrington over the death of John, his brother, out of hate and spite, or because Robert is indeed guilty. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take security from Robert for rendering the aforesaid mark to the king. Witness the earl.

Order to Peter de Maulay to take into the king’s hand all land of John of Monmouth in his bailiwick, because John is unwilling to surrender Bicknor castle , formerly of Ralph Avenel, to the king, or his son or his land. Witness as above.

[No date]. Because Robert Marmion junior has not yet found sufficient pledges for his fine to the king of £500, order to the sheriffs of Warwickshire and Leicestershire and Lincolnshire still to take several pledges from him in their counties and then cause the council to know at St. John the Baptist in three weeks, in London, of the names of his pledges and what of each of them will pledge.

21 June. Tower of London. Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire to intermeddle in no way with the honour of Boulogne, or to place it in any hand, because the king has committed the custody of the honour and its appurtenances to Walter de Verdun, sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire , for as long as it pleases the king. Witness the earl.

Norfolk. William son of Jordan gives the king one mark for summoning Geoffrey of Snoring before the justices at Westminster at St. John the Baptist in three weeks to answer him concerning 48 ¹ acres of land with appurtenances in Dersingham, into which he does not have entry unless by reason of the custody which he had when William was underage, because the aforesaid land is of his fee, as is said. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security for this mark to the king’s use for the writ. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 4 has ‘18 acres’. It is possible that the ‘l’ in the figure has been crossed out.

23 June. Tower of London. Oxfordshire. Thomas de Camville gives the king 2 m. for summoning Walter de Hauville before the justices at Westminster at St. John the Baptist in three weeks , concerning half a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Bladon, which he claims to hold of the king in chief. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take security from Thomas for those 2 m. to the king’s use for the writ. Witness the earl.

Norfolk and Suffolk. The king has attorned Ralph Hareng, together with H. de Burgh, justiciar of England, to take all assizes of novel disseisin summoned before the itinerant justices in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to cause all assizes to come before the justiciar and the aforesaid Ralph Hareng at the time and place which H. the justiciar will notify him by his letters, to be taken in the presence of the same justiciar and Ralph Hareng. Witness as above.

Kent. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Kent. ¹

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C 60/10, m. 4 has ‘Cambridgeshire’. C 60/9 has ‘Kanc’’ as opposed to the duplicate ‘Kantebr’’.

Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take into the king’s hand the land formerly of Phillip of Hardres, with their appurtenances in his bailiwick, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness as above. By the bishop of Winchester.

The same order to H. de Burgh, justiciar of England.

25 June. Tower of London. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset that, having accepted security from Richard Luvel for rendering to King Henry the relief that he owes for the barony of Cary, which is of his inheritance, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all his lands in Somerset. Witness the earl.

Cambridgeshire. Simon son of Alan de Ponte gives the king half a mark for having an inquisition whether Geoffrey of Wrestlingworth appeals him for the death of John of Hatley out of hate and spite, or because Geoffrey is indeed guilty. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take security for this half-mark for the writ to the king’s use. Witness as above.

Shropshire. Richer of Shawbury ¹ gives the king 5 m. for pardon of the flight that he made and the outlawry promulgated against him for the death of Maurice of Shawbury. ² Order to the sheriff of Shropshire that, having accepted security from Richard for rendering those 5 m. to the king, he will hand over letters patent concerning this pardon. ³ Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 4 ‘Shadebur’’.

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C 60/10, m. 4 ‘Scagebur’’.

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PR 1216-25, p. 159.

Nottinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take the land formerly of Ralph Pluket with all its appurtenances in Dunham into the king’s hand without delay, and to commit it to W. earl Marshal, or to his messenger etc., to whom he has committed it to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Witness as above.

26 June. Tower of London. Berkshire. Robert Achard has made fine with the king by 20 m. that no other services be exacted from him from any of the lands he holds of the king in chief in the bailiwick of the sheriff of Berkshire than those which are contained in the charters Robert has of the ancestors of King Henry, kings of England. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire that, having accepted security for rendering that fine to the king, for 100s. which he owes for the relief of those lands, and for 2 m. of scutage, unless he has already paid scutage, then he is not to exact or permit any other service to be exacted from Robert from any of his lands than that contained in the aforesaid charters, but he is to hold those lands from the king by the same service. Witness the earl.

27 June. Tower of London. Devon. John of Dunsland and Mabel, his wife, give the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in 15 days , of a plea between them, claimants, and Richard Beaupel, defendant, concerning six furlongs of land and their appurtenances in Cheriton and Farleigh, by the king’s writ of right, and for having another pone, before the same justices at the aforesaid term, of a plea between John and Mabel, claimants, and Roger de Parco, defendant, concerning four furlongs of land with appurtenances in Kimworthy ¹ and Newland. They have the writ. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take security for rendering this mark to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 4 ‘Kemeswrth’’.

The king has committed the custody of his demesne woodland pertaining to his manor of Bukewic’ to William de Cantilupe, so that he answers him for the aforesaid custody. Order to W. count of Aumale to permit William to keep the aforesaid wood, as aforesaid. Witness as above.

Bailiffs of the fair of Lynn. Gilbert of Lynn gives the king the third part of £25 6s. 8d., as well as the third part of £12 and 4 m., for doing justice against Augustine of Dunwich to render to him the aforesaid £25 ¹ 6s. 8d. and £12 and 4 m. to him. He also gives £12 for doing justice against Richard of Bedford to render the aforesaid £12 to him. He also gives the king the third part of 2 m. for doing justice against Hugh de Camera to render 2 m. to him. He further gives the king the third part of another 2 m. for doing justice against Roger of Berwick to render those 2 m. to him. He has the writ. Order to the bailiffs of the fair of Lynn to take security from Gilbert for rendering that third part of the aforesaid money to the king for this writ. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 4 erroneously has ‘£28’.

29 June. Tower of London. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take into the king’s hand the manor of Finedon with its appurtenances and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness the earl.

Wiltshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Wiltshire, concerning taking the manor of Mere into the king’s hand.

Knaresborough. Yorkshire. Ranulf son of Henry, who took Alice, daughter and heiress of Adam of Staveley to wife, has made fine with the king by 40 m. for having the lands formerly of Adam of Staveley in Loftus Hill and Farnham with their appurtenances, which Adam held of the king in chief and which fall to Alice by hereditary right. Order to Robert Wolf, constable of Knaresborough , that, having accepted security from Ranulf for rendering those 40 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all of the aforesaid lands with their appurtenances. Ranulf also ought to answer the king for the relief of one knight’s fee and for the fourth part of a knight’s fee that Adam held of the king in chief in Yorkshire. Witness the earl as above.

2 July. Tower of London. Cambridgeshire. Geoffrey of Flanders has made fine with the king by 20 m. for having the land with appurtenances formerly of Alard of Flanders, his brother, whose heir he is, as he says, and for his relief, so that he will answer if anyone will wish to claim it or speak against him. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire that, having accepted security from Geoffrey for rendering the aforesaid 20 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the land with appurtenances in his bailiwick ¹ and to cause the sheriff of Kent to know when he has taken security, who has been ordered that, when the sheriff of Cambridgeshire causes him to know this, then he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with appurtenances in his bailiwick. Witness the earl.

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The remainder of this entry is omitted in the duplicate roll, C 60/10, m. 4.

3 July. Tower of London. Suffolk. Elias Gubbe gives the king the fourth part of 20 m. for doing justice against Roger de Cressy to render to him chattels to the value of 20 m. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from Elias for the fourth part of this debt from the first monies for this writ. Witness the earl.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer.

3 July. Tower of London. Ireland. Order to the justiciar of Ireland to take into the king’s hand the cantreds of Slievardagh, Eoghanacht Cashel, Leyntingsy, Offa and Muscry, which King John, father of King Henry, assigned to Phillip of Worcester to sustain him in his service for as long as it pleased the king, and to keep them safely until he receives order otherwise. Witness the earl.

10 July. Tower of London. Waltham. Essex. Order to the bailiffs and reeves of Colchester to be intendant and respondent to W. bishop of London concerning the farm of the vill of Colchester, as they were intendant and respondent to Stephen Haringod while he had the custody of the aforesaid castle, because the bishop will answer for the farm by his hand at the Exchequer. Witness the earl.

11 July. Standon. Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take into the king’s hand the land formerly of Richard de Neville in Cheverell and cause it to be delivered to James of Potterne to keep, who is ordered to receive that land from the sheriff with the corn and hay found therein, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness the earl.

Because Robert of Cockfield has not kept to the fine he made with the king by 100 m. for having custody of the land formerly of Ralph Pikoc, of which he ought to have paid 50 m. at the Exchequer at Pentecost last past in the second year, but instead has refused to keep the fine, the king has granted the custody of the aforesaid land to Baldwin Filliol, who has made fine with the king for the same land by 50 m. to be paid at the Exchequer on the morrow of St. Peter in Chains next forthcoming in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to receive this fine from Baldwin and to cause it to be enrolled in their rolls, and to cause Robert, who did not keep the fine which he made with the king by 100 m., to be extracted from the rolls of the Exchequer. Witness as above.

Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex that since the king has granted to the aforesaid Baldwin Filliol custody of the aforesaid land, with the marriage of the son and heir of Ralph Pikoc, by the aforesaid fine of 50 m., and, having accepted security from Baldwin for rendering those 50 m. to the king on the morrow of St. Peter in Chains, as aforesaid, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the land with appurtenances in his bailiwick and cause the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to know by his letters whenever he accepts security for rendering the aforesaid 50 m. to the king, who is ordered that when the sheriff of Essex sends to him that he has accepted security for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king at the aforesaid term, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody of the land in his bailiwick without delay, with the marriage of the son and heir of Ralph Pikoc. Witness as above.

18 July. Grantham. Order to R. bishop of Durham that since Simon fitz Walter made fine with King John, father of King Henry, by 300 m., while the bishopric of Durham was vacant and in King John’s hand, in order to have the custody of the land and heir of Walter of Carew, with the marriage of the heir, so that in the time of King John Simon paid 300 m. at the Exchequer, according to the testimony of the rolls of the Exchequer of King John, he is to cause Robert fitz Walter, Simon’s brother, who has the custody of the heir until his full age, as per the testament of his brother, to have full seisin without delay of the manor of Seaton Carew with its appurtenances, formerly of Walter of Carew, as the king has signified to the bishop at another time. By the judgement and consideration of the Exchequer, the king is to order the sheriff of Yorkshire to give Robert the lands of the bishop in his bailiwick up to the value of the manor of Seaton until he will surrender the manor to him. Witness the earl.

Surrey. William Long gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Michaelmas, of a plea between him, claimant, and Ralph Morin, defendant, concerning a moiety of the vill of Tatsfield. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take security for rendering this mark to the king for this pone. Witness as above.

20 July. Newark. Berkshire. The king has committed to John of Wiggonholt the custody of the manor of Sutton for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the issues of the same manor to Stephen de Croy for the debt which Robert de Courtenay owes him. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to deliver the manor to John and to be before the Exchequer at Westminster at Michaelmas in 15 days to answer the king for the issues while the manor was in his hand by the king’s order. Witness the earl.

22 July. Newark. The king has given respite to Peter de Maulay from rendering his scutage to him until 15 days after Michaelmas, because he has mainperned that he will render that scutage to the king then. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire not to distrain Peter for the aforesaid scutage in the meantime. Witness the earl.

The king has also given respite to Falkes de Bréauté from the scutage he ought to render to him for the lands of William of Torrington and the lands formerly of William son of Martin in the bailiwick of the sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, because he has the custody until 15 days after Michaelmas next forthcoming in the second year, and because he will answer the king then. Witness as above.

Lincolnshire. The brethren of the Hospital in Lincoln give the king 10 m. for having their wool which was arrested at the fair of Boston for the men of Ghent for the debt the same men owed to King John, father of King Henry. Order to Henry de Pont-Audemer, Henry of Boston and Richard Clerk, keepers of the fair of Lynn, to deliver to the same brethren the aforesaid wool that they caused to be arrested by the aforesaid reason. Witness as above.

Devon. Edilda of Bradle gives the king the fourth part of 8 m. for doing justice against Walter Boschet to render to her the 8 m. that he owes. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take security for the fourth part of this debt to the king’s use from the first monies. Witness as above.

Order to Henry de Pont-Audemer, Henry of Boston, and Richard Clerk, keepers of the fair of St. Botulph , that if the £16 and 6 lbs. of pepper which they caused to be arrested at Boston pertains to the valuation of the same vill, then they are to cause them to be delivered without delay to the bailiff of the count of Brittany. If not, they are to cause them to be safely kept to the king’s use. Witness as above.

23 July. Nottingham. Lancaster. Adam of Pendlebury gives the king 5 m. for having a grant of the office of the sergeanty of Salfordshire with all its appurtenances, which is his right and inheritance, as he says, and of which he was disseised by reason of the war between King John, father of King Henry (sic.), doing him service as he ought to do, according to the charter of King John which he has and which he has shown to the king and his council. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to cause him to have full seisin and to take security for rendering those 5 m. to the king for this grant. Witness the earl.

Cumberland. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland that since it has been agreed between the king and Thomas of Moulton concerning a debt which Thomas owed to the king of a fine he made for his ransom, for which the king ordered his land be taken into his hand, he is to cause Thomas to have full seisin without delay of all of his lands and their appurtenances in his bailiwick taken into the king’s hand by this reason. Witness as above.

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

24 July. Leicester. Gloucestershire. Ralph de Lymesy gives the king one mark for having a pone , before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in 15 days, of a plea concerning half a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Salperton. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take security from Ralph for rendering this mark to the king for the pone. ¹ Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 3 erroneously dates this entry to ‘14 July’.

Leicestershire. Felicia de Sackville gives the king the fourth part of 20 m. for doing justice against Ivo de Vieuxpont to render to her those 20 m. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take security from Felicia for rendering that fourth part of this debt from the first monies. Witness as above.

The king has committed to Stephen of Seagrave and Richard de Brom, clerk , the custody of all lands which pertained to Earl Simon de Montfort in the honour of Leicester within the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, so that they answer at the Exchequer for the issues for as long as it pleases the king, as is more fully contained in the Patent Roll. ¹ Witness as above.

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PR 1216-25, p. 163 (26 July).

Huntingdonshire. The men of the county of Huntingdonshire give the king 40 m. to disafforest the forests that ought to be disafforested and separate from them those which are to remain forest according to the tenor of the charter of liberties of the forest. Order to John Marshal to cause a perambulation to be made by the view of law-worthy men of the county and cause the metes and boundaries to be made and kept between the aforesaid remaining forests and other forests which were disafforested according to the tenor of the charter in the same county. Witness as above.

28 July. Wallingford. Berkshire. Muriel daughter of William of Englefield gives the king the fourth part of 122 m. for doing justice against Cecilia de Longetot to render to her the aforesaid 122 m. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take security from Muriel for the fourth part of this debt to the king’s use from the first monies for this writ. Witness the earl.

1 Aug. Marlborough. Order to the constable of Berkhamsted that since William Kocainne has given surety to the king by Earl W. Marshal and Henry fitz Gerold that he will stand to right in the king’s court at his command for the false charters and false seals and other crimes of which he has been accused, and for which he was taken and imprisoned in the time of King John, father of King Henry, he is to cause him to have full seisin of his land with appurtenances his bailiwick, of which he was disseised for this reason. William has given surety to the king by the aforesaid Earl W. Marshal and Henry fitz Gerold for the 100s. which he promised the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

3 Aug. Hamstead. Wiltshire. The men of Bedwyn give the king 3 m. so they are not penalized until St. Andrew in the third year for selling their burels containing less than two ells. Witness the earl.

28 July. Wallingford. Leicestershire. Order to William de Cantilupe to cause Stephen of Seagrave to have, without delay, full seisin of all lands in his bailiwick that pertained to Earl Simon de Montfort by inheritance from the honour of Leicester, to whom the king has committed the custody of the same lands, so that he answers him at the Exchequer for the issues of the same. Witness the earl.

5 Aug. Caversham. Northamptonshire. Guy son of Isaac gives the king half a mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in 15 days, of a plea before the county court of Northamptonshire between him, claimant, and Richard Marshal, defendant, concerning two virgates of land with appurtenances in Kislingbury , by the king’s writ of right. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take security from Guy for rendering that half-mark to the king for this pone. Witness the earl.

Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to permit John son of Hugh to have peace from the demand of £16 that he makes from him for the manor of Ormesby, because John will answer the king at the Exchequer by his hand. Witness the earl as above.

7 Aug. Caversham. Order to Phillip d’Aubigny to cause William de Cantilupe, or his envoy bearing the king’s letters, to have full seisin of all lands formerly of Earl Simon de Montfort in Leicestershire to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Witness the earl.

8 Aug. Wallingford. Honour of Wallingford. William Fiercop and Matilda of Northampton, accused of the death of Nicholas Drye and imprisoned at Wallingford , ¹ have made fine with the king by 20s., so that they be handed over on bail to twelve law-worthy men of the bailiwick of the honour of Wallingford, who are to have them before the itinerant justices to stand to right for the death of Nicholas. Order to the bailiff of the honour that, having accepted security from them for rendering this fine to the king and having found twelve law-worthy men who are to mainpern to have them before the aforesaid justices at the aforesaid term, as aforesaid, he is to deliver them to those twelve, having delivered them from prison. Witness the earl.

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Accusation clause interlined.

9 Aug. Crendon. Devon. To the sheriff of Devon. Order that, having accepted security from Henry de Pont-Audemer that he will answer sufficiently at the Exchequer in the octaves of Michaelmas for those for whom he caused chattels and corn in the lands formerly of Luke son of John to be arrested into Henry’s hand, he is to demise the chattels and corn to the same Henry in peace without delay. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘… of which Henry had seisin by the king’s command to take them into the king’s hand, then, without delay, he is to cause Henry to be reseised of the lands and appurtenances’.

11 Aug. Oxford. Lynn. Order to the mayor and bailiffs of Lynn to cause the chattels of Simon Cancell’ de Abbeville, first arrested in the fair of Boston and then later in the fair of Lynn by the bailiffs of the same fairs for a debt that Peter Pikard, citizen of Winchester , exacts from him, and which chattels were delivered to Richard of Brettenham and William son of Milo, burgesses of Lynn, to keep, to be delivered to the same Peter without delay, because Simon did not keep the day given to him by the bailiffs to account with Peter for the debt that he exacts from him, having retained a fourth part of those chattels to the use of the king. Witness the earl.

12 Aug. Huntingdonshire. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire that if Baldwin de Redvers gives him surety that he will satisfy the king at the Exchequer in the octaves of Michaelmas in the second year for the two palfreys which he owes him and which the sheriff exacts from him to the king’s use, he is to cause him to have peace from the demand for the aforesaid palfreys that he makes of him by summons of the Exchequer up to the aforesaid term. In the meantime he is not to vex Baldwin or his men of Glatton by this reason or permit them to be vexed. Witness as above.

13 Aug. Oxford. Respite. To Falkes de Bréauté. Before the Legate , the archbishop of York, and Earl W. Marshal, on Monday next before the Assumption, at Oxford, Isabella de Mortimer gave the king surety by Hugh de Mortimer, Phillip d'Aubigny and Payn de Chaworth, that she will come to the Exchequer in the octaves of Michaelmas to satisfy the king of all that she might owe of the debt that she owes for the fines which she had made with King John, the king’s father, as can be learnt from the rolls of the Exchequer. Order to permit her to have the lands that he caused to be taken from her for this debt in peace and to cause any of his servants whom he had deputed to keep them to be removed without delay, not permitting any infraction or injuries upon her lands by this reason. All that he took from Isabella he is to render to her without delay. And that etc. Witness etc.

Because he has not obtained his letters patent. Cumberland. Thomas Blund of Clapham gives the king 4 m. for having pardon for the flight he made after the death of Simon le Gidie, as is more fully contained in the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland that, having accepted security from him for rendering that 4 m. to the king, he is to deliver to him the king’s letters patent of pardon, included with those letters under the king’s seal. ¹ Witness etc.

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Entry cancelled. See PR 1216-25, p. 166.

14 Aug. Crendon. Buckinghamshire. The men of Wycombe give the king 20s. that they be not penalized up to St. Andrew in the third year for selling their burels containing less than two ells. Alan Basset is their pledge for this debt. Witness the earl.

19 Aug. Wallingford. Norfolk. Henry Bemann’ has made fine with the king by 40s. for having his peace for the flight that he made and the outlawry promulgated against him for maiming, as is more fully contained in the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk that, having accepted security from him for rendering this fine to the king, he is to deliver to him the king’s letters patent of pardon sent to the sheriff under the king’s seal and cause him to have firm peace according to the tenor of the aforesaid letters. ¹ Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 2. records only the order that he is to take security.

Norfolk. William of Weston gives the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in three weeks, ¹ the jurors of [an assize of] novel disseisin taken in the county court of Norfolk before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between William and Vincent son of Ralph, concerning his free tenement in Dereham, to be taken by 24 law-worthy knights of the neighbourhood. He has the writ. Order the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from William for rendering those 20s. to the king for this writ. Witness as above.

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Court session clause interlined.

21 Aug. Winchester. Suffolk. Alan Outlaw gives the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint the jurors of novel disseisin before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas three weeks, as last above . Order to the sheriff to take security from Alan for rendering those 20s. to the king for this writ. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Entries 184 & 185 omitted in the duplicate roll, m. 2. Marginalia corrected from ‘Norfolk’.

23 Aug. Winchester. Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite, until he will be ordered otherwise, the demand he makes from Peter de Maulay for the 7000 m. by which he made fine with King John, father of King Henry, for having to wife Isabella, daughter and heiress of Robert of Thornham, and the demand that he makes from the same Peter for the debts of the Jews, for which he has summons of the Exchequer, and the demand of £80 44s. ¹ for the stock formerly of Robert of Thornham, and the demand of £17 2s. for Robert’s debts, and for 100s. which Robert received from the abbot of Fécamp , and the demand for the scutage of Scotland and Wales that was assessed in the time of King John, father of King Henry, and he is to inquire diligently and to cause the king’s council to know at Westminster in the octaves of Michaelmas under his seal and the seals of those by whom he will take the inquisition, whether the barony formerly of Robert of Thornham was in the hand of King John at the aforesaid time, for which the aforesaid scutage is now exacted, and if the knights of the barony rendered their scutage at that time, and to whom. Witness the earl. By the bishop of Winchester.

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C 60/10, m. 2. erroneously has ‘£4 44s.’

24 Aug. Winchester. Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire that, having accepted security from W. earl of Essex that he will answer sufficiently to the king at the Exchequer in the octaves of Michaelmas for the debts of the king, both of the Jews and of others, then he is to cause him to have respite from the demand for the aforesaid debts until the aforesaid term. Witness the earl. By the same earl.

It is written in the same manner for the same to the sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire and Essex and Hertfordshire. Witness as above.

Dorset. Phillip de Salomonville gives the king 20s. for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month, of a plea in the county court of Dorset by the king’s writ of right between him, claimant, and Jordan of Sturthill, defendant, concerning half a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Sturthill. ¹ He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take security from Phillip for rendering those 20s. to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 2 ‘Sterton’’.

25 Aug. Winchester. Norfolk. Roger de Pavilly gives the king 20s. for having a writ before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in three weeks to attaint, by 24 knights of the neighbourhood, the jurors of [an assize of] novel disseisin taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, ¹ of a plea between Roger and Osbert Gifford, concerning his free tenement in Didlington. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Roger for those 20s. to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘in the county court of Norfolk …’

Somerset. The bishop of Bath and Glastonbury gives the king a palfrey for having licence to marry Christiana who was the wife of Henry Luvel . Witness as above.

26 Aug. Winchester. Lincolnshire. Godard de Mering’ gives the king half a mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month , of a plea in the county court of Lincolnshire between the aforesaid Gerard (sic.), claimant, and Robert de Bucreville, ¹ defendant, concerning four carucates of land with appurtenances in Thurlby. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take security from Gerard for rendering that half-mark to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 2 ‘Bruchevill’’.

Devon. Edilda of Bradle ¹ gives the king the third part of 8 m. for summoning Walter Boschet before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month to answer her for the 8 m. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take security from her for rendering that third part of this debt to the king from the first monies for this writ. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 2 ‘Bradelig’’.

Devon. Memorandum that the aforesaid Edilda previously promised the king the fourth part of the aforesaid debt for doing justice against the aforesaid Walter to render the aforesaid debt to her. She had a writ directed to the sheriff and she subsequently complained that she could not have her right, and on account of this she promised the third part of this debt, as aforesaid.

26 Aug. Winchester. Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to receive the son and heir of William son of Ralph , to be kept with all of his lands to the king’s use, ¹ from Robert de Ros, who is ordered to deliver the son and heir to him with those lands. Witness the earl.

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‘… son and heir … the king’s use’ interlined.

26 Aug. Winchester. Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take into the king’s hand without delay the land formerly of Matilda de Bussai in Buckland with all its appurtenances, which she held of the king in chief, and to keep them safely to the king’s use until he will be ordered otherwise. Witness the earl.

26 Aug. Winchester. Bedfordshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Bedfordshire, concerning the lands of the same Matilda in Eyeworth ¹ and Warden. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 2 ‘Heiwrth’’.

26 Aug. Winchester. Rutland. The same order to the sheriff of Rutland, concerning land of the same in Essendine. Witness the earl.

30 Aug. Tower of London. Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to cause William de Fiennes ¹ to have respite until the octaves of Michaelmas from the demand that he makes from him for the arrears of the fine that he made with the king for his land of Wendover. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘Ferles’.

Norfolk. William de Ros gives the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, by 24 law-worthy knights of the neighbourhood, the jurors of [an assize of] novel disseisin taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between William, claimant, and William son of Humphrey, concerning his free tenement in Feltwell. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from William for that mark to the king’s use for that writ. Witness as above.

1 Aug. Tower of London. Windsor. Order to Engelard de Cigogné that, having accepted security from William de Harcourt that he will satisfy the king at the Exchequer in the octaves of Michaelmas for the debts of the Jews, which he exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer, then he is to permit William to have respite from the debts until the aforesaid term. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Recte September? August is repeated in the duplicate roll.

Essex. Ralph of Frowick ¹ gives the king half a mark for summoning Roger Ridel before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in 15 days , so that he warrants to Ralph 16 acres of land with appurtenances in St. Osyth, for which he has his charter, as he says. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take security from Ralph for rendering this half-mark to the king for this writ. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 2 ‘John’.

2 Sept. Tower of London. Hertfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take the manor of Hugh de Balliol of Hitchin ¹ into the king’s hand and place one of his servants alongside one of Hugh’s servants to keep it, so that nothing be removed until he will be ordered otherwise, because Hugh does not wish to obey the king’s order to surrender the honour of Wolverton to the archbishop of Canterbury, as he was ordered. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 2 ‘Nich’’.

26 Aug. Winchester. The king has granted to P. bishop of Winchester the custody of the land formerly of Earl Simon de Montfort for as long as it pleases the king. Order to Peter de Maulay, the earl of Salisbury, and Phillip d’Aubigny to cause him to have full seisin of all of his land in their bailiwicks. Witness the earl.

5 Sept. Winchester. Sussex. William Bernehus gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in three weeks, of a plea between him, claimant, and Henry de Chesneto, defendant, over three virgates of land with appurtenances in Clayton and Stammerham . He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take security from William for rendering that mark to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

Order to William fitz Warin to surrender to the king the son and heir of Agnes of Odell who holds of the king in chief. If he does not do so, he is to be before the king’s council ¹ at Westminster in the octaves of Michaelmas to show why he has not. Witness as above.

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Corrected from ‘justices’.

[No date]. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire ¹ to summon John of Bassingbourn to be before the king’s council in London in the octaves of Michaelmas, ready to answer the king concerning ² the heirs of Guy de Dive and William de Mare, ³ who both held of the king in chief, which heirs he detains from the king.

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C 60/10, m. 3d. ‘Herefordshire’.

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C 60/10, m. 3d. ‘and’.

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Corrected from ‘… ready to show why he deforced …’

[No date]. Order to the sheriff of Devon that, having associated himself with two or three discreet, law-worthy knights of his county, he is to go to Henry fitz Count and say to him on the king’s behalf that he is to render to the king his stannaries and demesnes in Cornwall, which he gave to his men, and, moreover, that he is to render his scutage to the king, as he agreed to render before the king’s council. If he does not do this, he is to summon Henry by the testimony of the same knights to be before the council in the octaves of Michaelmas at London to show why he has not done so. ¹

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At the very foot of the dorse is beautifully written ‘ ROTULUS FINIUM DE ANNO DOMINI H. REGIS SECUNDO.’.

Sussex. The king has committed to Earl W. Marshal the custody of the land formerly of Thomas of Erdington in Stoke. Order to the trustworthy men of Stoke to be intendant and respondent to Walter son of Hugh, the earl’s bailiff, in all that pertains to the custody. Witness as above.

Lincolnshire. Simon le Bret gives the king half a mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Michaelmas, of pleas in the county court of Lincolnshire between Simon, claimant, and the abbot of Waltham , defendant, concerning two bovates of land and a messuage with appurtenances in Wrangle, and between Simon and the same abbot concerning 40 acres of land in the aforesaid vill and in Leake. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take security from Simon for rendering that half-mark to the king for this writ. Witness as above.

7 Sept. Knepp. Northamptonshire. The abbess of St. Mary de Pré in Northampton gives the king half a mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month, of pleas currently before the county court in Northamptonshire between the abbess, claimant, and Ivo de Vieuxpont, defendant, concerning a hide of land with appurtenances in Hardingstone, and between the abbess and William de Vieuxpont, defendant, concerning a hide of land in the same vill. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take security from the abbess for rendering that half-mark to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

7 Sept. Knepp. Staffordshire and Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire that since the king has committed to his servant, Michael, for as long as it pleases the king, the custody of the lands formerly of William of Duston, now deceased, in Longnor, Ranton, Warley, Nortun’, Mess’, and Holme, to be kept to the king’s use for the debts which William owed King John, the king’s father, and the king himself, he is to cause Michael to have full seisin without delay of all aforesaid lands in the aforesaid vills with all of his chattels in his bailiwick. Witness the earl.

7 Sept. Knepp. Northamptonshire. The same order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire, concerning the lands of the same William of Duston in Duston, ¹ Weekley and Easton, which are to be delivered to Ralph Pagan and Theobald Blund, the bearers of the present, to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Witness the earl.

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Omitted in C 60/10, m. 2.

7 Sept. Knepp. Leicestershire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Leicestershire, concerning the lands of the aforesaid William in Whatton, which are to be delivered to the aforesaid Ralph and Theobald. Witness the earl.

7 Sept. Knepp. Nottinghamshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire, concerning the lands of the aforesaid William in Risley, Stanton and Whisby, which are to be delivered to Nicholas Usher. Witness the earl.

7 Sept. Knepp. Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take into the king’s hand the land of the aforesaid William in Hida and in Selewes with appurtenances, with all chattels found therein, and not to permit anything to be removed by reason of the debt ¹ that William owed King John, father of King Henry, until he has been commanded otherwise. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘until he has another order to the contrary’.

8 Sept. Bramber. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Sussex, concerning the land that the aforesaid William held of the gift of Richard de Percy in Warnham, which is to be delivered to William de Brikeville in the aforesaid manner, namely for the debt to the king. Witness the earl.

8 Sept. Bramber. Norfolk. Matthew de Gournay gives the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken in the county court of Norfolk before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between Semarus Tricus and the same Matthew, concerning his free tenement in Snathing’. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Matthew for rendering those 20s. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

9 Sept. Stoke. Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset that since Ralph Monachus has given the king surety by Walter de Verdun, Ralph de Vernay, and Ralph of Williton that he will satisfy the king at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in three weeks for the demand that the sheriff makes from him at the king’s order for the debts of Chera the Jewess of Winchester and of the heirs of Isaac the chirographer , he is to cause him to have respite until the aforesaid term. Witness the earl.

Surrey. Gervase Escurel gives the king the fourth part of 15 m. for doing justice against Reginald de Braose, so that he renders the 15 m. to him. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take security from Gervase for the fourth part of the aforesaid debt to the king’s use. Witness as above.

12 Sept. Bosham. Cumberland. Order to Robert de Vieuxpont that if Thomas of Moulton gives him surety ¹ by good pledges that he will satisfy the king in the octaves of Michaelmas for the £368 he owes him by summons of the Exchequer of his debt , and for £164 8s. 1d. of the debt of Ada de Morville, his wife, of a fine she made with King John, father of King Henry, to marry, he is to cause Thomas to have full seisin without delay of his castle and all of his land with all of their chattels and appurtenances in his bailiwick. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘surety to the king’.

14 Sept. Winchester. Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire not to permit Robert de Courtenay to place his hand upon the manor of Suttun’, which the king long ago ordered to be taken into his hand for the debt of Stephen de Gray, nor is anything to be removed by Robert or his men, and the sheriff is to be ready to answer for the issues of the manor at the king’s summons from the day upon which it was taken into the king’s hand and was in the sheriff’s custody by the king’s order. Witness the earl.

Yorkshire. Brito Crossbowman ¹ gives the king 3 m. for having a weekly market on Tuesdays at his manor of East Witton, unless this is damaging to other neighbouring markets. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause him to have the market, having taken security from him for rendering the aforesaid 3 m. to the king’s use. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 1 ‘Bucco’.

15 Sept. Ludgershall. Suffolk. Antigonia of Stonham gives the king 2 m. for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken at Ipswich before H. de Burgh, justiciar , between her and Walter of Stonham, concerning Walter’s free tenement in Stonham, and the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin between her and Matilda de Caen, concerning Matilda’s free tenement in Mickfield. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from her for rendering the aforesaid 2 m. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

Norfolk. Peter of Narford gives the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, before the same justices on the same day, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken at Lynn before the justiciar on a plea between Peter and John of Narford and others, concerning Peter’s free tenement in Panewurth’ and Tueit. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security for one mark as above. Witness as above.

16 Sept. Marlborough. Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire that if Emma Luvel gives him surety that she will satisfy the king at the Exchequer in the octaves of Michaelmas for the demand of 18 m. that he makes from her by summons of the Exchequer, he is then to leave her lands and chattels to her in peace until the aforesaid term. Witness the earl.

18 Sept. Cirencester. Gloucestershire. William of London, dean, gives the king 5 m. for summoning the abbess of Caen to be before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month, so that she holds to an agreement made between them over the manor of Hampton ¹ with appurtenances, and to render to him chattels to the value of £100. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take security from William for rendering the aforesaid 5 m. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

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C 60/10, m. 1 ‘Haneton’’.

18 Sept. Cirencester. Herefordshire. Roger of Hereford gives the king 2 m. for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in three weeks, of a plea between him, claimant, and the dean and chapter of Hereford , defendants, concerning 1½ hides of land with appurtenances in Brampton. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take security from Roger for rendering the aforesaid 2 m. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

21 Sept. Westbury. Norfolk. Roger de Pavilly gives the king 5 m. for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between Roger and Osbert Gifford, concerning Osbert’s free tenement in Didlington. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Roger for rendering the aforesaid 5 m. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

22 Sept. Strigoil. Norfolk. William of Lakenham gives the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in one month, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, at Norwich, between the same William and Stephen Fis and Agnes, his wife, concerning his free tenement in Hemsby. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from William for rendering the aforesaid 20s. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

23 Sept. Strigoil. Gloucestershire. Walter son of Robert le Heiward gives the king one mark for having a writ of inquiry as to whether he, who has been taken and imprisoned accused of the death of Simon Blund of Hardwicke, is guilty or not. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take security for the aforesaid mark. Witness the earl.

6 Sept. Bramber. Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to cause to be replevied to Thomas de Gravenel, until the octaves of Michaelmas, the land with the chattels formerly of Matilda de Bussai in Buckland, ¹ which were taken into the king’s hand, because he took to wife one of her daughters without the king’s licence, having accepted security from him by good pledges that he will be before the king’s council then ready to answer on this matter. Witness the earl.

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‘… whose daughter he took as his wife’ has been crossed through.

6 Sept. Bramber. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Rutland, concerning the land of Essendine. Witness the earl.

6 Sept. Bramber. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Bedfordshire, concerning the land of Eyeworth and Warden. Witness the earl.

1 Oct. Betchworth. Oxfordshire. Alice Clement gives the king 20s. for a pone, before the justices at Westminster on the morrow of the Apostles SS Simon and Jude, of a plea in the county court of Oxfordshire between her, claimant, and Jordan Butler, defendant, concerning a moiety of two knights’ fees and a moiety of two hides of land with appurtenances in Newington and Bodicote, and concerning a moiety of 2½ hides and ten acres of land with appurtenances in Wroxton. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take security from her for rendering the aforesaid 20s. to the king for this writ. Witness the earl.

[No date]. Warwickshire. The same Alice gives the king another 20s. for having another pone, on the same day, of a plea in the county court of Warwickshire between her, claimant, and Jordan Butler, defendant, concerning a moiety of three carucates and three virgates of land with appurtenances in Dunchurch. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take security from her for rendering the aforesaid 20s. to the king for this writ.

4 Oct. Dunstable. Herefordshire. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to cause the bishop of Hereford to have a weekly market on Tuesdays at his manor of Ross, unless that market etc. Order to the sheriff to take security from the bishop for the aforesaid 5 m. to the king’s use for having this market. Witness the earl.

Herefordshire. The same bishop gives the king another 5 m. for having an annual fair at his manor of Bromyard, to last for two days, namely the feast and the morrow of the Apostles SS Phillip and James, unless that fair etc. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take security from the bishop for rendering the aforesaid 5 m. to the king. Witness as above.

7 Oct. Dunstable. Essex. Roger of Chaureth gives the king 20s. for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of the Apostles SS Simon and Jude, of a plea in the county court of Essex between him, claimant, and Thomas de Arderne, defendant, concerning two knights’ fees with appurtenances in Chaureth. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff to take security for the aforesaid 20s. to the king’s use. Witness the earl.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer.

[No date]. Hugh Despenser owes the king 25s. for his relief of the fourth part of a knight’s fee in Arnesby, which falls to him by the death of Thomas Despenser, his eldest brother, whose heir he is.

10 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. Ralph son of William gives the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of All Saints, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken at Norwich before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between him and Henry son of Brictmar’, ¹ concerning Henry’s free tenement in Lynn. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Ralph for the aforesaid 20s. to the king’s use for the writ. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘William son of Brictmar’’.

11 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. Gilbert of Deepdale, clerk , gives the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of All Saints, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken at Norwich before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between him and Walter del Holm concerning his free tenement in Deepdale. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Ralph for 20s. to the king’s use. Witness the earl.

Kent. Henry of Guilton gives the king 10s. for having a writ to attaint, before the aforesaid justices on the same day, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken before the justiciar at Rochester between Henry and Alice daughter of Elias and Alan, William and Hugh, her sons, concerning his free tenement in Guilton. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take security from Henry for 10s. to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

Norfolk. William son of Clement gives the king 10s. for having a writ to attaint, before the aforesaid justices on the same day, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before the justiciar at Norwich between the same William and Thomas de Longueville, concerning his free tenement in Hapton. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from William for 10s. to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

Suffolk. Antigonia of Stonham and John of Narford, her son, give the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, before the aforesaid justices at the same term, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before the aforesaid justiciar at Ipswich between Antigonia and John and Matilda daughter of William de Caen and William, her son, concerning their free tenement in Ipswich. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from Antigonia and John for the aforesaid mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

12 Oct. Westminster. Suffolk. Elias de Amundeville gives the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint, before the aforesaid justices at Westminster on the morrow of All Saints, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before the aforesaid justiciar at Ipswich between the same Elias and Augustine of Blakenham, concerning his free tenement in Berenghod. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from Elias for the aforesaid 20s. to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

14 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. Ralph of Barrow and Peter, his son, Richard Curtpeil, Richard English, Ralph of Snoring, and Ralph de Pavilly give the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, before the aforesaid justices at Westminster in the octaves of All Saints, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before the aforesaid justiciar at Norwich between them and Alice of Crimplesham, concerning their free tenement in Dereham. They have the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Ralph, Peter and the others for the aforesaid mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

Suffolk. William Leveruz gives the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, before the aforesaid justices at Westminster in the octaves of All Saints, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin before the aforesaid justiciar at Ipswich between the same William and Robert Puiss, ¹ concerning his common of pasture in Blundeston which pertains to his free tenement in the same vill. ² He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from William for the aforesaid mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

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C 60/10, m. 1 ‘Puils’.

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Corrected from ‘… concerning his free tenement …’

Staffordshire and Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire to cause S. archbishop of Canterbury, R. bishop of Salisbury, and all other executors of the testament of William of Duston, to have all chattels formerly of the same William in his bailiwick, in order to make reasonable execution of the testament, having accepted security from them for rendering that debt which William owed to the king. Witness as above.

It is written in the same manner to Falkes de Bréauté, concerning the same. Witness as above.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. Witness as above.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Essex. Witness as above.

17 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. Geoffrey son of William gives the king one mark ¹ for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at Westminster in the octaves of Martinmas, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, at Norwich between Geoffrey and John son of Adam, concerning his free tenement in Ilsington. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Geoffrey for the aforesaid mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

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Corrected from ‘carucate’.

18 Oct. Westminster. Because they do not have the letters. Suffolk. Ralph son of Fred and others give the king 1 m. for having a writ to attaint, before the aforesaid justices at Westminster in the octaves of Martinmas, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, in the county court of Suffolk, between Ralph and William of Langham and Emma, his mother, concerning his free tenement in Langham. They have the writ. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from Ralph for the aforesaid mark to the king’s use for this writ. ¹ Witness the earl.

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Entry cancelled.

19 Oct. Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire that since the king has granted respite to W. bishop of Worcester and the men of the county of Worcestershire until Martinmas in the third year from the arrears of a fine that S. former bishop of Worcester and the aforesaid men made with the king for disafforesting the forests of Ombersley and Horwell, he is to permit them to have peace until the aforesaid term. Witness the earl.

Norfolk. William son of Sema gives the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, before the itinerant justices in Norfolk at the first session they take when they arrive in those parts, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, at Norwich between the same William and Edmund Sikteferling, concerning his free tenement in Norwich. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from William for that mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

Warwickshire. Petronilla de Timor gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices in Warwickshire at the first session [they take] when they come to those parts, of a plea between her, claimant, and Reginald of Broad Moor, defendant, concerning seven virgates of land with appurtenances in Honington. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take security from Petronilla for that mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

20 Oct. Westminster. Lancaster. Simon le Bret gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the itinerant justices in Lincolnshire at the first session [they take] when they come to those parts, of a plea between him, claimant, and other knights, defendants, concerning Simon’s lands in the county of Lincolnshire. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take security from Simon for that mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

21 Oct. Westminster. Norfolk. Alan of Tunstall gives the king one mark for having a writ to attaint in the county court of Norfolk, before the justices at the first session [they take] when they come to those parts, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between the same Alan and William of Tunstall and others, concerning his free tenement in Tunstall. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Alan for that mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

Margaret Fukelin gives the king half a mark for having a writ to attaint in the county court of Suffolk, before the justices at the first session they take when they arrive in those parts, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken at Ipswich before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between Margaret and William de Glanville, concerning her free tenement in Sternfield. She has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from Margaret for that half-mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

23 Oct. Westminster. [Suffolk]. Robert Brown and Beatrice, his wife, give the king 20s. for having a writ to attaint in the county court of Suffolk, before the justices at the first session [they take] when they come to those parts, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between Robert and Beatrice and Richard of Stratford, concerning their free tenement in Stratford. They have the writ. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take security from Robert and Beatrice for the aforesaid shillings to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

Yorkshire. Helewise daughter of Odo, Hugh of Newton and Agnes, his wife, and Eva, Agnes’ sister, give the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at the first session [they take] when they come to those parts, of a plea between them, claimants, and Gregory of Flamborough, defendant, concerning three bovates of land, a messuage and a mill with appurtenances in Flamborough. They have the writ. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take security from them for that mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness as above.

27 Oct. Westminster. Richer son of Gosse gives the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, before the justices at the first session [they take] when they come into those parts, the jurors of an assize of novel disseisin summoned and taken at Norwich before H. de Burgh, justiciar, between Richer and Hawise of Bradfield, concerning his free tenement in Runcton. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security from Richer for the mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl.

27 Oct. Walter de Percy gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at the first session [they take] when they come into the parts of Yorkshire, between Walter, claimant, and the prioress of Thicket , defendant, concerning a carucate of land with appurtenances in Sand Hutton, and in a further plea between him and the prioress of Sinningthwaite , concerning two bovates of land and appurtenances in Markington, and between him and the prioress of Esholt , concerning two bovates of land with appurtenances in the same vill. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take security from Walter for one mark to the king’s use for this writ. Witness the earl as above.

[No date]. Milicent who was the wife of Nigel son of Richard gives the king one mark for summoning the prior of Wymondham before the justices when they come to those parts … ¹

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Entry unfinished and cancelled. At the foot of this membrane is written: ‘ROTULUS FINIUM DE ANNO SECUNDO.’