Fine Roll C 60/18, 7 HENRY III (1222–1223)

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Roll of fines from the seventh year of King Henry son of King John.

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28 Oct. Westminster. Malmesbury abbey . The king has committed the vacant abbey of Malmesbury to Alexander de Wictun’, clerk, R. de Neville and Richard of Malmesbury, clerk, to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriffs of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Dorset to cause them to have full seisin of all lands, tenements, property and rents pertaining to the abbey without delay. If they took anything after the abbey became vacant, they are to cause it to be returned to them without delay. 1 2 Witness H. etc. By the same.
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This entry appears to have initially been started at the head of the membrane, but there is a large blank space for the first ten or so lines, after which the entry is written out in full.
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This roll has been collated with C 60/19, its duplicate, in respect of additional information and significant variants.
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29 Oct. Westminster. Lincolnshire. Phillip of Kyme gives the king one mark for having a pone before the justices of the Bench at Hilary in 15 days against Robert Chamberlain, concerning the land of Marston. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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Rutland. To the sheriff of Rutland. The king has granted to Henry of Audley the custody of the land formerly of Warin de Glapion in Cottesmore with its appurtenances for as long as it pleases the king, for the seisin of which land Robert de Coudray, who is dead, had made fine with the king by 50 m. at the pledge of William de Cantilupe, Stephen of Seagrave and Walter Daiville, of which Robert has rendered 10 m. and Henry of Audley, to whom the king has betaken himself, is to render the remaining 40 m. at the Exchequer. Order to cause Henry to have full seisin without delay of the land of Cottesmore with its appurtenances and to cause William de Cantilupe, Stephen of Seagrave and Walter Daiville to be quit of the pledge. Witness H. etc. By the same and the king's council.
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Concerning the corn and chattels formerly of Master Robert of Gloucester. To W. bishop of Worcester. Order to cause all corn and chattels formerly of Master Robert of Gloucester, former chancellor of Chichester, in his diocese to be valued by law-worthy and discreet men, both clerks and laymen, and, once they have been valued, to cause them to be delivered to H. chancellor of the church of London and A. archdeacon of Shrewsbury, executors of the testament of the same R., or their messengers bearing their letters to the bishop. They have mainperned before the king and his council to answer the king at the Exchequer for the value of the aforesaid corn and chattels in part payment of the debt that Master R. owed the king, and he is to cause the barons of the Exchequer to know of the value of the aforesaid corn and chattels by his letters patent. Witness as above. By the same.
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It is written in the same manner to the bishops of Salisbury and London, Thomas de Blundeville, keeper of the bishopric of Chichester , and the official of Norwich.
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5 Nov. Westminster. Dorset. To the sheriff of Dorset. The king has committed the manors of Gillingham and Powerstock with their appurtenances to Brian de Lisle, together with the custody of the king’s houses there, to hold for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers for the farm of the same vills at the Exchequer by his hand, as those who held them in the time of King John, the king’s father, answered at the Exchequer by their hand. Order to cause Brian to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid manors with appurtenances and the custody of the king’s houses, as aforesaid. Witness H. etc. By the same and the king’s council.
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6 Nov. Westminster. For Walter of Clifford. To the barons of the Exchequer. It has been attested before the king’s council that Walter of Clifford junior does not hold of the king in chief in the counties of Wiltshire and Shropshire, save for a knight’s fee, for which he owes 100s. for his relief. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering the 100s. for the same relief, they are to cause him to be quit of the £100 that they exact of him for the relief of the lands he holds of the king in chief in the aforesaid counties. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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7 Nov. Westminster. Essex. To the sheriff of Essex. The king has committed his manor of Havering to his trustworthy men of Havering, to have and hold at farm for as long as it pleases the king for £110 blanched, to be paid by their hand at the Exchequer with all that pertains to the manor beyond the king’s houses, park and pond, and external wood in which they will only have pannage and herbage, and there shall be allowed them each year what was accustomed to be allowed to other farmers in their farm. In which manor they received in stock ten oxen each valued at 3s., an affer valued at 3s., five cows valued at 30d. per cow, four calves valued at 6d. each, 99 pigs valued at 6d. each, and 163 sheep valued at 4d. each. When they surrender the manor to the king, they are also to surrender the aforesaid stock or its value, as aforesaid. Order to cause the aforesaid men to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor without delay, as aforesaid. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar. By the same.
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8 Nov. Westminster. Hampshire. To the sheriff of Hampshire. The king has committed his manor of Odiham with its appurtenances to Engelard de Cigogné, for as long as it pleases the king, for £50 blanched, to be rendered to the king each year by his hand at the Exchequer. Order to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with its appurtenances without delay, as aforesaid. Witness H. etc. By the bishop of Winchester and W. Brewer.
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Order to the trustworthy men of Odiham to be intendant and respondent to him in those things which pertain to that manor. Witness as above. By the same.
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Concerning the abbey of Milton . The king has committed the vacant abbey of Milton to Master Henry of Cerne to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands, tenements, property and rents pertaining to the said abbey. If anything has been removed therefrom since that abbey became vacant, he is to render it to him without delay. Witness as above. By the same .
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Norfolk. To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to take into the king’s hand the land formerly of Oliver de Tinteniac, Breton , in Gillingham and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. as above. By the same .
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9 Nov. Westminster. Berkshire. Edelina and Cecilia, daughters of Roger, give the king half a mark for having a pone before the Bench at Hilary in one month against Hugh del Hec, concerning 50 acres of land with appurtenances in Windsor. They have the pone. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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Shropshire. Thomas Mauduit gives the king one palfrey for having a weekly market on Thursdays at Castle Holdgate until the king comes of age, unless that market etc. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc. Witness as above.
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12 Nov. Westminster. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take into the king’s hand the lands formerly of Robert son of Ernisius in Wells and Warham and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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13 Nov. Westminster. Yorkshire. To the sheriff of Yorkshire. The men of Driffield have made fine with the king by 20 m. for having the manor of Driffield at farm for £72, to be rendered to the king per annum by their hand at the Exchequer for as long as it pleases the king. Order that, having accepted security from them for rendering the aforesaid 20 m. to the king, he is to cause them to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with its appurtenances without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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16 Nov. Westminster. Yorkshire. To the sheriff of Yorkshire. Order to take into the king’s hand the land formerly of William son of Ralph in his bailiwick, the custody of which pertains to the king because William held in chief, and to keep it safely to the king’s use until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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Kent. The king has granted to B. bishop of Rochester that he may have seisin of that land with appurtenances which Thomas of Nashenden, who was lately hanged , held of him by the service of 40d., which land is worth 3s. per annum above that service according to an inquisition that has been taken. He is similarly to have seisin of that land with appurtenances which Thomas held of him by the service of 5s. per annum, which is worth 12d. per annum above the same service according to the same inquisition. Order to the sheriff that, having accepted security from the bishop for rendering the value of those lands for one year, namely 4s., he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands with their appurtenances without delay. Witness H. de Burgh etc.
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22 Nov. Westminster. Sussex. William of Hautbois gives the king 2 m. for having a pone at Hilary in one month against Simon de Herbetinges, concerning two knights’ fees with appurtenances in Piddinghoe. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc. 1 Witness H. etc.
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It appears that this entry has been cancelled, as the first few words are struck through and it does not appear in the duplicate roll (C 60/19). However, the usual marginal explanation may have been erased.
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Cornwall. Edward de Wothelgam gives 20s. for having a pone before the king’s justices at Westminster at the Purification of the Blessed Mary in three weeks against Oger de Kernick, concerning the fourth part of a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Crawle, and against Nicholas son of William, concerning 1½ acres of land with appurtenances in Treweruthyn, and against Ralph de Tregwigan, concerning an acre of land with appurtenances in Tregwigan. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff etc. 1 Witness ...
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This entry and no. 24 below are marked with a scribal reference note resembling the mathematical division symbol.
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26 Nov. Westminster. Sussex. Phillip le Child gives half a mark for having a pone against Robert Falconer, concerning two hides of land with appurtenances in Heene. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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27 Nov. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Nicholas of Bassingbourn and Alice, his wife, give half a mark for having a pone against Gilbert de Punteis’, concerning Gilbert’s livestock that was unjustly taken and detained from Nicholas and Alice. 1 Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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Corrected from ‘concerning the customs and services that they exact from him’.
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28 Nov. Westminster. Suffolk. William de Criketot gives half a mark for having a pone before the itinerant justices 1 against Peter of Thelnetham and Matilda, his wife, concerning land in Ousden. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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Corrected from ‘justices of the Bench’.
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24 Nov. Westminster. Derbyshire. The abbot and convent of Merevale have surrendered to the king, by their own spontaneous will, all land with appurtenances that they had in the forest of the High Peak , and they later received the aforesaid land from the king to have until Easter in the seventh year, so that, then, that land ought to revert into the king’s hand, as is more fully contained in the Close Roll. 1 Witness H. etc.
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RLC, i, p. 523.
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In the same manner the prioress and convent of St. Mary of Derby surrendered all land they had in the same forest and they later received it to have until the aforesaid term, as is more fully contained in the Close Roll. 1
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RLC, i, p. 523.

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29 Nov. Westminster. To the barons of the Exchequer. It has been attested before the king’s council at Westminster that Richard Morin does not hold any of the land of Richard Morin, his grandfather, whose heir he is, save for a knight’s fee in Newnham, for which he owes the king 100s. for his relief. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering those 100s. to the king, they are to cause Richard to be quit of the 20 m. by which he first made fine with the king for having seisin of the lands formerly of the same Richard. Witness H. etc. By the same in the presence of W. Brewer.
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6 Dec. Westminster. Herefordshire. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to cause the corn and hay of the castle of Pembridge to be valued and to deliver them to William de Cantilupe, so that he answers the king for their value, which he is to cause the barons of the Exchequer to know. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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8 Dec. Westminster. Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to place in respite, until upon his account, the demand he makes from Richard Marshal in his county for the debt of Earl W. Marshal, his father. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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To the barons of the Exchequer. The sheriff of Herefordshire came to the king at Westminster in the octaves of St. Andrew ready to render his account when they had left the Exchequer. Therefore, the king has given the sheriff a day to render his account at Hilary in one month. Order to permit him to have this day. Witness as above. By the same.
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9 Dec. Westminster. Bedfordshire. Roger son of William gives the king half a mark for having a pone before the justices of the Bench against Henry son of Hugh, concerning three virgates of land and the fourth part of a virgate of land and a mill with appurtenances in Sandy. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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12 Dec. Westminster. Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to place in respite the demand he makes from William de Cantilupe and his men of the hundred of Calne, until upon his next account for his arrears at the Exchequer in the octaves of Hilary in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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26 Dec. Oxford. Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take into the king’s hand without delay all land formerly of Ralph of Haddenham in Burnham and to keep it safely so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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25 Dec. Essex. To the sheriff of Essex. Richard Pirot has performed his homage and fealty to the king for two knights’ fees formerly of Ralph Pirot, his father, whose heir he is, which he held of the king in chief, in Lindsell and in Hawkwell. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering £10 to the king for his relief, he is then to cause him to have full seisin thereof with all their appurtenances in his bailiwick. Witness H. de Burgh etc. By the same.
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Cambridgeshire. Same order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire for the same, concerning two knights’ fees in Sawston, having accepted security from him for another £10 for his relief of the same land.
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27 Dec. Woodstock. Bristol. Order to the constable of Bristol to take all land of Hugh de Gournay in his bailiwick into the king’s hand and to keep it safely with all property and chattels found therein, so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise, because Hugh hunted in the chase of Bristol with a pack of hounds, a horn, buck-stall and cry for three days against the prohibition of the king’s foresters and without the king’s warrant. Witness H. etc.
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28 Dec. Woodstock. Devon. Roger of Halse gives the king one mark for having justices to take the assize of novel disseisin that he arraigned against Joel de Vautorte, concerning a tenement in Tawton. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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4 Jan. Wilton. Cambridgeshire. The prior of Ixworth gives the king one mark for having a writ to attaint, before the justices of the Bench at Easter in 15 days, the twelve jurors of the assize of darrein presentment to the church of Wimpole. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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8 Jan. Ilchester. Somerset. To the sheriff of Somerset. The king has taken the homage of Robert de St. Claro for the land of Stapleton, which he ought to hold of the king in chief by sergeanty, and for two virgates of land in Somerton, which he ought to hold of the king in socage, according to the inquisition that the sheriff sent to the king. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering 10 m. to the king for his relief of the aforesaid land of Stapleton and 20s. for his relief of the aforesaid land of Somerton, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of both lands with appurtenances. Witness H. etc.
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Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to cause the aforesaid Robert to have full seisin without delay of the land formerly of Geoffrey de St. Claro, his father, in Standen, which is of the fee of the daughter and heiress of the earl of the Isle [of Wight] , 1 and which he took into the king’s hand because Geoffrey held of the king in chief. Witness as above.
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Clause interlined. The ‘earl’ here is William de Redvers, late earl of Devon (d. 1217), to whom the Isle of Wight pertained. The title is one the earls of Devon appear to have frequently adopted. The reference to his ‘daughter and heiress’ is confusing, but Margaret, daughter of Warin fitz Gerold, wife of Falkes de Bréauté, is almost certainly intended. Margaret was the mother of Baldwin, son and heir of Baldwin de Redvers, her late husband (d. 1216), who was the son and heir of William de Redvers. Both she and her son and his patrimonial lands were in the custody of Falkes at this time.
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14 Jan. Blandford. Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to place in respite the demand he makes from Robert de Gouiz by summons of the Exchequer for the debts of Jews, until the Close of Easter in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. By the same
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It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Dorset. 1
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Omitted in C 60/19, m. 7.
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17 Jan. Winchester. Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to keep safely in the king’s hand the lands, property, rents and all possessions of the abbey of Selby, which is vacant , in his bailiwick, because Master R., formerly abbot of the same abbey, has transferred himself to another order, so that nothing is removed therefrom, saving the necessary expenses of the prior and convent of the same abbey. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire .
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18 Jan. Alton. Odiham. Order to the constable of Odiham to place in respite, until 15 days after Sunday next after the octaves of Hilary in the seventh year, the demand for 60s. that he makes from the men of Bentworth, because the aforesaid men have mainperned before the king to come in the meantime to the Exchequer to do to the king what they ought rightfully do. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in respite, until 15 days from the octaves of Hilary in the seventh year, the demand of £40 that he makes from William de St. John by summons of the Exchequer, because William has mainperned before the king to come then to the Exchequer ready to satisfy the king. Witness as above. By the same.
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22 Jan. Westminster. Norfolk. Richard of Broome gives half a mark for having a pone at Easter in three weeks against Margaret of Poynings and others, concerning land in Wrentham. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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24 Jan. Westminster. Norfolk. Ranulf Picot gives half a mark for having a pone before the justices of the Bench at Easter in three weeks against Robert de Curcun, concerning land in Yaxham. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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27 Jan. Westminster. Oxfordshire. To the sheriff of Oxfordshire. Richard de Harcourt has made fine with the king by 50 m. for his relief of two thirds of a knight’s fee that he ought to hold of the king in chief, and the king has taken his homage for this. Order that, having accepted security from Richard for the aforesaid 50 m. to the king’s use, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid fee with appurtenances in his bailiwick. He is also to cause the sheriff of Leicestershire to know, by his letters, when he will have taken security from Richard for the aforesaid 50 m., to whom the king has ordered that, once he has taken such security and has signified this to him, he is to cause Richard to have full seisin of that fee which is in his bailiwick. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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Leicestershire. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire that once the sheriff of Oxfordshire will have caused him to know by his letters that he has taken security from the aforesaid Richard for the aforesaid 50 m., then he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the land that is of that fee in Stretton in his bailiwick. Witness as above.
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Berkshire. To the sheriff of Berkshire. William Mauduit has made fine with the king by 30 m. for having seisin of the manor of Letcombe, which Thurstan Basset gave him for his homage and service, without prejudice to anyone else's right. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid 30 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with its appurtenances without delay, as aforesaid. Witness as above. By the same.
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27 Jan. Westminster. Essex. Roger of Shimpling has made fine 1 with the king by 20s. for having to wife Alice de Reimes, who was the wife of William of Woodham and is of the king’s gift. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take security from him for rendering those 20s. to the king and to permit Roger to have Alice as his wife. Witness H. etc.
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Corrected from ‘gives’.
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Derbyshire. The abbot of Chester gives one palfrey for having a weekly market on Tuesdays, until the king comes of age, at his manor of Aston, unless it is to the harm etc. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to take security etc. Witness H. etc. as above.
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Cambridgeshire. Roger of Torpel gives half a mark for having a precipe against Hamo Peche and others, concerning the customs and services that Roger exacts of them from the free tenement that they hold of him in Bourn, and from other vills. He has the precipe. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc. Witness as above.
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29 Jan. Westminster. Concerning the chamberlainship of London. To Richard Reinger and R. Clerk. The king has committed the chamberlainship of London with its appurtenances to William Joynier, to hold for two years from the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary in the seventh year for £100, to be rendered to the king each year at the Exchequer, saving the king’s prise of greyskins, wax and silken cloths to the king, to be delivered by his hand to the king’s use. Order to deliver the chamberlainship, which the king had committed to them to keep, to William with its appurtenances without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same and the king’s council.
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Honour of Wallingford . To the keeper of the honour of Wallingford . Isabella who was the wife of Robert Mauduit, who is one of the heirs of Thurstan Basset, has made fine with the king by 20 m., to be rendered at two terms, namely 10 m. at Easter in the seventh year and 10 m. at Michaelmas next in the same year, for having her rightful portion that falls to her of the lands formerly of Thurstan, her father. Robert of Burnby and Joan, his wife, sister of Isabella, who is one of the heirs of Thurstan, have made fine with the king by 30 m. and one palfrey, to be rendered to the king at the same terms, for having the rightful portion of the same Joan that falls to her of the lands formerly of Thurstan, her father. Richard Burdun and Egelina, his wife, sister of Isabella, who is one of the heirs of Thurstan, have made fine with the king by 30 m. and one palfrey, to be rendered to the king at the same terms, for having the rightful portion of Egelina that falls to her of the lands formerly of Thurstan, her father. John le Brun and Alice, his wife, sister of Isabella, who is one of the heirs of Thurstan, have made fine with the king by 30 m. and one palfrey, to be rendered to the king at the same terms, for having the rightful portion of Alice that falls to her of the lands formerly of Thurstan, her father. Order that, having accepted security from Isabella, Robert and Joan, Richard and Egelina, John and Alice for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause them to have full seisin without delay of their rightful portions that fall to Isabella, Joan, Egelina and Alice of the lands formerly of Thurstan, their father, in his bailiwick. He is to take into the king’s hand, and keep safely until the king orders otherwise, the rest of the lands formerly of Thurstan which fall to Matilda and Laurencia, daughters of Thurstan, who married after Thurstan’s death without the assent and will of the king. Witness H. etc. By the same and the king's council.

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London. William le Petit gives the king the fourth part of 11½ m. for having a precipe to summon Ralph de Beauchamp before the justices of the Bench at Easter in 15 days to render those 11½ m. to him. Thomas le Mutun and Alexander Painter, 1 citizens of London, are his sureties for rendering this debt to the king from the first monies. Witness as above.
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Corrected from ‘Pistor’ – ‘Baker’. C 60/19, m. 6 has ‘Sutor’ - ‘Tailor’.
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29 Jan. Westminster. Marlborough. To the constable of Marlborough . The king has granted his vill of Marlborough to the trustworthy men of Marlborough, to have at farm for as long as it pleases the king for £50, 6000 herrings and two bezants, to be rendered per annum to the king by their hand at the Exchequer. Order to cause the aforesaid men to have full seisin of the aforesaid vill without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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30 Jan. Westminster. Berkshire. Warin of Wentworth gives half a mark for having a pone before the justices at Westminster at Easter in one month against Ralph de Alre, concerning land in Southcote. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
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Wiltshire. To the sheriff of Wiltshire. Andrew de Herpestorp and Beatrice, his wife, have made fine with the king by 5 m. for their relief of the half a knight’s fee with appurtenances that Humphrey de St. Vigor, brother of Beatrice, whose heir she is, held of the king in chief in Stoke and that falls to Beatrice by hereditary right, and the king has taken Andrew’s homage for this. Order that, having accepted security etc., he is to cause them to have full seisin of the aforesaid half a knight’s fee with its appurtenances in his bailiwick. Witness as above. By the same.
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1 Feb. Westminster. Wiltshire. To the sheriff of Wiltshire. The king has learnt that the market of Walter de Dunstanville of Heytesbury is not to the harm of neighbouring markets. Order to cause the same market to be proclaimed and held on Wednesdays, as it was previously accustomed to be held, until the king comes of age, notwithstanding the king’s order to prohibit that market. He is to take security from Walter for one palfrey to the king’s use. Witness H. etc.
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Sussex. Robert de Butebrugge gives the king half a mark for summoning James of Chichester, clerk , before the justices of the Bench to answer him for land in Duncton. He has the precipe. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc. Witness M. of Pattishall as above. By the same.
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Norfolk. Roger of Lenham has made fine with the king by three palfreys for having seisin of the land formerly of Walter de Ainnaus 1 in Redenhall, which was taken into the king’s hand by reason of the land of the Normans. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk that, having accepted security from Roger for rendering those three palfreys to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land of Redenhall with its appurtenances without delay. Witness as above. By the same and the king’s council.
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C 60/19, m. 6 ‘Amyens’.
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Devon. The abbot of Tavistock gives half a mark for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors of an assize of novel disseisin before the itinerant justices against John of Dunsland, concerning a tenement in Thorne. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness H. etc. as above.
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2 Feb. Westminster. Because otherwise below. To the sheriff of Cumberland. The king has rendered to Roger de Quincy, by a fine of 50 m. that he made with him, the custody of the land of Torpenhow, formerly of Sibyl de Valognes, which custody pertains to Roger by reason of the son and heir of Phillip de Valognes, who is the heir of Sibyl and is in Roger’s custody , and he is to render 10 m. to the king of the aforesaid 50 m. at Easter next in the seventh year, 20 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year, and 20 m. at Easter next following in the eighth year. Order that, having accepted security from Roger for rendering the aforesaid 50 m. to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the land with its appurtenances. 1 Witness H. etc. By the same.
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Entry cancelled. See 66 below.
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3 Feb. Westminster. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to place in respite, until upon his account at Easter in the seventh year, the demand he makes from Richard, the king’s brother, by summons of the Exchequer for the last scutage of Poitou from the time of King John of the honour of Eye. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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3 Feb. Westminster. Cumberland. To the sheriff of Cumberland. The king has rendered to his beloved and faithful Roger de Quincy, by a fine of 50 m. that he made with him, the custody of the land formerly of Sibyl de Valognes in Torpenhow which she held of the king in chief and the custody of which pertains to Roger by reason of Eustace de Stuteville, son and heir of Sibyl, being in Roger’s custody. He is to render 10 m. to the king of the aforesaid 50 m. at Easter next in the seventh year, 20 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year, and 20 m. at Easter next following in the eighth year. Order that, having accepted security from Roger for rendering the aforesaid 50 m. to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with its appurtenances. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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Norfolk. Ralph of Dalling gives half a mark for having a pone against Hugh de Reimes, concerning land in Overstrand and other vills. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness as above.
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Suffolk. Everard of Trumpington gives half a mark for having a pone against Gilbert de Selford, concerning land in Tuddenham. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. Witness as above.
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4 Feb. Westminster. Somerset. To the sheriff of Somerset. The king has granted his hundred of Williton to Falkes de Bréauté, rendering the farm of 60s. per annum to the king at the Exchequer by his hand for as long as it pleases the king. Order to cause him to have full seisin of that hundred without delay. 1 Witness etc.
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C 60/19, m. 6 ‘manor and hundred’.
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Wiltshire. To the sheriff of Wiltshire. The king has granted to William de Cantilupe that he may have the king’s manor of Calne in custody with the hundred pertaining to it, rendering the farm of £15 at the Exchequer by his hand for as long as it pleases the king. Order to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor and hundred without delay. Witness etc. By the same.
71
5 Feb. Westminster. Honour of Wallingford . Matthew Brand has made fine with the king by 80 m., to be rendered at two terms, namely 40 m. at Easter in the seventh year and 40 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year, for having the custody of the land and heir of Hugh of Bix, with the marriage of the heir. Order to the keeper of the honour of Wallingford that, having accepted security from Matthew for rendering the aforesaid fine at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the custody with its appurtenances without delay. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar. By the same.
72
5 Feb. Westminster. Honour of Wallingford . To the keeper of the honour of Wallingford . Ralph of Weedon junior and Laurencia, his wife, who is one of the daughters and heiresses of Thurstan Basset, have made fine with the king by 40 m. and one palfrey for having the rightful portion of the same Laurencia that falls to her of the inheritance of Thurstan, her father, in his bailiwick, so that they are to render a moiety to the king at the Exchequer at this Easter in the seventh year and the other moiety at Michaelmas next following in the same year. Order that, having accepted security from Ralph and Laurencia for rendering the aforesaid 40 m. and the palfrey, as aforesaid, he is to cause them to have full seisin without delay of the rightful portion that falls to Laurencia of the inheritance of Thurstan, her father, in his bailiwick. Witness H. etc.
73
Honour of Wallingford . It is written in the same manner to the same bailiff for Bartholomew de Rakinton’ and Matilda, his wife, one of the daughters of the same Thurstan, concerning her rightful portion etc., by rendering a fine of 50 m. and one palfrey at the same terms. Witness as above.
74
7 Feb. Westminster. Wiltshire. To the sheriff of Wiltshire. Order to have Joan who was the wife of Jordan de St. Martin before the king’s justices at Westminster at the Purification of the Blessed Mary last past in three weeks, in order to certify them whether she is pregnant or not. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take security from Christiana Wake and Roger Martel, heirs of Jordan, for one mark to the king’s use. Witness H. etc.
75
Northumberland. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland to place in respite the demand he makes from Roger of Hodsock, king’s sergeant of Bamburgh , by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his account after the octaves of the Close of Easter in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.
76
8 Feb. Westminster. London. To Alexander of Dorset and H. of St Albans. The king has given respite to Andrew Bukerel, until Mid-Lent forthcoming in the seventh year, from the £56 1 that he owes the king for the arrears of the issues of the exchange of London. Order to cause him to have that respite. Witness H. etc.
1.
C 60/19, m. 6 ‘£66’.
77
11 Feb. Westminster. Nottinghamshire. To the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. The king has taken the homage of Laurence, son and heir of William de St. Michael for all lands that he ought to hold of the king in chief, and he has given the king surety for his relief that he owes by William son of Benedict, citizen of London . Order to cause Laurence to have full seisin without delay of all land that he ought to hold of the king in chief in his bailiwick. Witness H. etc. By the same.
78
Yorkshire. Robert de Ros has made fine with the king by 50 m. for having custody of the land and heir of William son of Ralph, with the marriage of the heir, of which he is to render 25 m. to the king at Easter forthcoming in the seventh year and 25 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take security etc. and cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody with the marriage of the aforesaid heir. Witness as above. By the same.
79
11 Feb. Westminster. Concerning the castles of the High Peak and Bolsover. The king has committed his castles of the High Peak and Bolsover to Brian de Lisle to keep for as long as it pleases the king, for which Brian is to render £100 to the king at the Exchequer from the issues of the honours of the High Peak and Bolsover for this whole year. 1 Witness H. etc. By the same and the king's council.
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Corrected from ‘namely in the seventh year’.

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80
To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has pardoned £93 6s. 8d. of the fine of £100 that his beloved and faithful Walter of Clifford junior made with him for the barony formerly of Walter of Clifford, his father, which he holds of the king in chief, for his good and faithful service. Order that, having accepted security from Walter for rendering 10 m. to the king, they are to cause the aforesaid fine to be enrolled thus in the rolls of the Exchequer. Witness H. etc. as above. By the same and the king's council.
81
Herefordshire. Thomas de Danesy, clerk , has made fine with the king by 15 m. for having the custody of the land and heirs of Roger of Hereford, with the marriage of the same heirs. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire that, having accepted security from Thomas for rendering the aforesaid 15 m. to the king, namely 100s. at Easter in the seventh year and 100s. at Michaelmas next following, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the custody of the aforesaid heirs with the marriage of the same and of all lands and tenements falling to them by hereditary right which Roger held in chief in his bailiwick. Witness as above. By the same.
82
Somerset. The abbot of Forde gives half a mark for having a pone against Thomas of Arundel, concerning cattle taken and unjustly detained. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take etc. Witness as above.
83
[No date]. The fine of the countess of Winchester. Margaret countess of Winchester has made fine with the king by 400 m. that Hawise, her daughter, may be married to Hugh, son and heir of R. de Vere, formerly earl of Oxford, of which she is to render 100 m. to the king at Easter in the seventh year, 100 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, 100 m. at Easter in the eighth year, and 100 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year.
84
16 Feb. Huntingdon. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make from W. archbishop of York for the debts of G., his predecessor, until the Exchequer of Easter in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
85
Concerning respite. Order to the same to place in respite the demand of 500 m. that they make from the same archbishop until Easter in the eighth year, and to cause him to have peace in the meantime. Witness as above. By the same and the king's council.
86
18 Feb. Stamford. Herefordshire. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to take into the king’s hand the land in his bailiwick formerly of Roger of Hereford and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc.
87
22 Feb. Lincoln. Lincolnshire. To the sheriff of Lincolnshire. R. bishop of Durham, chancellor, has made fine with the king, for which he will answer at the Exchequer, for the debts of the Jews which are exacted from Henry Bec. Order to cause the bishop to have full seisin without delay of all lands formerly of Henry in his bailiwick that are pledged to the Jews for the same debts. Witness H. etc. By the same.
88
[No date]. Tallage of the king’s demesnes . Because more fully on the dorse.

From the vill of Lincoln, 300 m., of which a moiety is to be rendered at the Close of Easter and the other moiety at Trinity.From the villate of Torksey, £10.From the vill of Caistor, 10 m.From the vill of Grimsby, 60 m.

From the villate of Nottingham, 100 m. From the vill of Derby, 50 m.From the vill of Mansfield, 30 m.From the vill of Carlton, 5 m.

From the vill of Edwinstowe, 100s.From the vill of Carlton, 100s.From the vill of Melbourne, 10 m.From the vill of Rufford, 5 m.

From the vill of Ragnall, 100s.From the vill of Darlton, 100s.From the vill of Clipstone, 3 m.

From the vill of Bristol, 300 m., of which a moiety is to be rendered in the octaves of St. John the Baptist and the other moiety at Michaelmas.From the vill of Bath, 10 m. at the same terms. 1

1.
Entry cancelled. See 105 below.
89
Lincoln. Lincolnshire. Thomas, son and heir of Thomas son of Eustace has made fine with the king by 10 m. for his relief for the lands formerly of Thomas, his father, which he ought to hold of the king in chief, and which fall to him by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage for this. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire that, having accepted security from him for rendering a moiety of that fine to the king at Easter forthcoming in the seventh year and for rendering the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands formerly of Thomas, his father, which he ought to hold of the king in chief and which fall to him by inheritance, and to cause the sheriff of Northamptonshire to know when he will have accepted security, to whom the king has commanded that, when he will have accepted that security and has signified this to him, he is to cause Thomas to have full seisin of his lands in his bailiwick. Witness H. etc. as above.
90
Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire that if Walter of Sowerby gives him surety that he will satisfy the king at the sheriff’s next account at the Exchequer for the debt that he exacts from him to the king’s use by summons of the Exchequer, then he is to place the demand for that debt in respite until that account. Witness as above.
91
Northamptonshire. Richard of Glendon gives half a mark for having a pone against Ermengard of Potcote, concerning land in Braybrooke. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take etc. Witness as above.
92a
26 Feb. Southwell. Yorkshire. To the sheriff of Yorkshire. Order to take the abbey of Selby , with all lands, property, rents and possessions pertaining to it, into the king’s hand without delay, because the monks of the same house, excommunicates, have elected an abbot and sub-prior from amongst themselves, and to cause the king’s beloved and faithful Walter Mauclerk, to whom the king committed it to keep for as long as it pleases the king, to have it with all aforesaid. Witness H. de Burgh.
92b
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire , concerning the same.
93
Order to Walter Mauclerk to receive all of this and keep them safely so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise. Witness as above.
94
25 Feb. Nottingham. Northumberland. To Robert of Whitchester. Order to answer William Brewer junior, to whom the king committed the county of Northumberland to keep for as long as it pleases the king, for all issues of the county of Northumberland, which he received from Michaelmas in the sixth year, for which he is to answer at the Exchequer, as William will answer the king at the Exchequer for the same term. Witness H. etc. By the same.
95
28 Feb. Nottingham. Northumberland. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland that if the bailiffs of Newcastle upon Tyne give him surety that they will satisfy the barons of the Exchequer upon his next account at the Exchequer for the £6 10s. which he exacts from them by summons of the Exchequer, then he is to place that demand in respite until that account. Witness H. etc. By the same.
96
1 March. Nottingham. Nottinghamshire. Eustace, son and heir of Eustace de Mortain has made fine with the king by three palfreys for his relief of the lands formerly of Eustace, which he held of the king in chief and which fall to him by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage for this. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire that, having accepted security for rendering those three palfreys to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands 1 that he ought to hold of the king in chief and that fall to him by inheritance in his bailiwick, with the chattels found therein. Witness H. etc.
1.
Corrected from ‘of all lands with their appurtenances and chattels in his bailiwick …’
97
Nottingham. Lincolnshire. To the sheriff of Lincolnshire. Order to place in respite, until 15 days from Easter forthcoming in the seventh year, the demand for 14 m. that he makes from the king’s beloved and faithful Jordan of Ashby by summons of the Exchequer, because Jordan has mainperned before the king that he will satisfy him then. Witness H. etc. as above.
98
Nottinghamshire. To the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. The king has granted the vill of Skegby with its appurtenances to Godfrey Spigurnel to have and hold until the king comes of age, so that he answers by his hand for the farm that he and the men of the same vill were accustomed to render. Order to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid vill, as aforesaid. Witness as above.
99
3 March. Burton. Nottinghamshire. To the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. The king’s men of Bulwell have made fine with him by 4 m., which they are to spend upon stock in order to stock the king’s manor of Bulwell, for having that manor from the king at farm for as long as it pleases the king, so that they will give 3 m. of increment to the king per annum over and above the farm of 100s., and they will answer the king annually by the sheriff’s hand for the farm of £7. Order to cause them to have the manor with its appurtenances without delay, as aforesaid. Witness H. etc. By the same.
100
12 March. Worcester. Herefordshire. Hugh of Kilpeck has made fine with the king by £20, to be rendered in 15 days from Easter forthcoming in the seventh year, for having the king’s windfallen wood from Hugh’s bailiwick in the county of Herefordshire. Order to the sellers of the windfallen wood in Herefordshire not to intermeddle with the windfallen wood of the aforesaid bailiwick. Witness H. etc.
101
20 March. Gloucester. Order to the sheriff of Rutland to take into the king’s hand the land of Richard Crossbowman and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise. 1 Witness H. etc.
1.
This entry is squeezed in quite tightly between surrounding entries here and in the duplicate roll, C 60/19, m. 5.
102
To B. de Lisle. The abbot of Merevale has made fine with the king by 10 m., of which he is to render a moiety at St. John the Baptist in the seventh year and the other moiety at Michaelmas next following in the same year, for having his cattle and sheep until Michaelmas in the pasture that he had in the forest of the High Peak by Robert de Champagne and William Basset, who had them by bail of the earl of Ferrers while the castle of the High Peak was in his hand, and for having his corn that he sowed in Mainstone Farm of the grant of the earl, and for removing his buildings and other things without impediment until Michaelmas aforesaid. Order to permit the abbot to have his sheep and cattle in pasture and the corn that he sowed in the aforesaid place, to permit him to carry and take away the same corn with his buildings, property and his other chattels freely and without impediment until the aforesaid term, as aforesaid. Witness as above. By the same.
103
Cambridgeshire. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to cause his lands and chattels to be replevied to Henry Bishop without delay, which he took into the king’s hand by reason of the 100 m. that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, until 15 days from Easter in the seventh year, because Henry has mainperned before the king that he will satisfy him at the Exchequer at that term according to that which will be just. Witness as above. By the same.
104
Gloucestershire. To the sheriff of Gloucestershire. Ernald de Bosco has made fine with the king by £10, of which he is to render a moiety at this Close of Easter forthcoming in the seventh year and the other moiety at Michaelmas next following in the same year, for having seisin of the land that Ernald de Bosco, his father, held in Pebworth and Marston, which was taken into the king’s hand by his order. Order that, having accepted security from Ernald for rendering the aforesaid £10 to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with appurtenances without delay. 1 Witness as above. By the same.
1.
Sum of the fine omitted in C 60/19, m. 5.

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[No date]. Tallage of the king’s demesnes :

Lincolnshire. Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire. A moiety is to be rendered at the Close of Easter in the seventh year and the other moiety at Trinity in the same year:

From the villate of Lincoln, 300 m. From the villate of Torksey, £10. From the villate of Caistor, 10 m. From the villate of Grimsby, 60 m. From the vill of Nottingham, 100 m. From the vill of Derby, 50 m. From the vill of Mansfield, 30 m. From the vill of Carlton, 5 m. From the vill of Edwinstowe, 100s. From the vill of Carlton, 100s. From the vill of Melbourne, 10 m. From the villate of Rufford, 5 m. From the vill of Ragnall, 100s. From the vill of Darlton, 100s. From the vill of Clipstone, 3 m. From the vill of Shrewsbury, 100 m. - Memorandum that later it was granted to them by the king’s council that they are to have those monies in aid of enclosing their vills. 1 From the vill of Bridgnorth, 10 m. - Memorandum that later it was granted to them by the king’s council that they are to have those monies in aid of enclosing their vills. 2 From the vill of Worcester, 50 m.From the vill of Feckenham, 10 m.

Gloucestershire. A moiety is to be rendered in the octaves of the Close of Easter in the aforesaid year and the other moiety in the octaves of Trinity in the same year:

From the vill of Newnham, 2 m.From the vill of Rodley, 100s.From the vill of Minsterworth, 4 m. From the vill of Cheltenham, 8 m. From the vill of Awre, 3 m. From the vill of Dymock, 100s. From Barton, 6 m.From Slaughter, 3 m. From the villate of Winchcombe, 5 m. From the vill of Gloucester, 60 m. From the vill of Marlborough, 20 m.

A moiety is to be rendered in the octaves of St. John the Baptist in the aforesaid year and the other moiety at Michaelmas:

From the vill of Bristol, 300 m. From the vill of Bath, 10 m.

A moiety is to be rendered in the Close of Easter in the aforesaid year and the other moiety on the morrow of Trinity: Northamptonshire:

From Silverstone, 2 m. From the vill of Kingsthorpe outside Northampton, 10 m.From Fawsley, 40s.From Geddington, 100s.From Finedon, 10 m.From Corby, 40s.From Brigstock, 5 m.From Northampton, 100 m.From the men whom the abbot of Croxton held in Finedon, 5 m.From Cliffe, 10 m.From Apethorpe, 6 m.

Bedfordshire:

From the vill of Bedford, 20 m.

Huntingdonshire:

From the vill of Huntingdon, 15 m. From Godmanchester. 12 m. From Ripton, 20s.

Cambridgeshire:

From the vill of Cambridge, 25 m. From Chesterton outside Cambridge, 6 m.

A moiety is to be rendered at Easter in one month in the aforesaid year and the other moiety at St. John the Baptist in one month in the same year: Oxfordshire:

From the vill of Oxford, 200 m. From Woodstock with appurtenances, 8 m. 3s. 4d. From Bloxham, 5 m.

Buckinghamshire:

From the vill of Brill, 100s.

A moiety is to be paid at Easter in 15 days in the aforesaid year and the other moiety at Pentecost next following in the same year: Norfolk and Suffolk:

From the borough of Norwich, £100. From the vill of Aylsham, 20 m. From the vill of Yarmouth, 80 m. From the vill of Ormesby, 10 m. From the manor of Lothingland, 50 m. From Roger son of Osbert, 20s., because he did not wish to be tallaged amongst the others of the manor of Lothingland. From the vill of Dunwich, 60 m. From the vill of Orford, 20 m. From Hussetum, 40s.From the land of Toneyre, 10s.From the vill of Ipswich, 35 m. From Robert de Aulnay, 1 m.

A moiety is to be rendered in the octaves of Trinity in the aforesaid year and the other moiety at the Nativity of the Blessed Mary next following in the same year: Yorkshire:

From the vill of York, 400 m. From the vill of Scarborough, 100 m. From other demesne lands of the king of the county of Yorkshire, 126 m. 5s. 7d. 3 From the vill of Easingwold, 100s. From Scawsby and Clopton’ with the soke, 10 m. From Pickering, 20 m. From the external sokemen of Pickering, 20 m. From Pocklington with the land of Richer of Burnby and the land of Robert of Harston and Roger son of Roger in Meltonby, 15 m. 4

(Membrane 6d.) A moiety is to be rendered in the octaves of Trinity in the aforesaid year and the other moiety at the Nativity of the Blessed Mary next following in the same year: Yorkshire:

From the vill of Driffield with the soke, 40 m. From Robert de Ros for the land formerly of William son of Ralph of the soke of Pocklington , £6 18s. From Helewise de Stuteville for the socage that she holds in Bielby, 42s. From Robert Crossbowman for the socage that he holds in Givendale, 5s. 7d.

Northumberland:

From Newcastle, £120. From the vill of Bamburgh, 5 m. From Sunderland, 5 m. From Shoreston, 3 m. From Beadnell, 5 3 m. From Mousen, 2 m. From Roger of Hodsock, 20s.

Northumberland: Tynedale:

From William of Halton, 10 m.

Northumberland: this side of the Coquet:

From Robert of Throckley, 3 m.

Northumberland:

From John of Easington, 4 m. From Gilbert of Ryle, 1 m. From Corbridge, 25 m.

Northumberland: for having respite until Thursday next after Ascension to have their warrant concerning the tallage on the aforesaid day at Newcastle:

From Thomas of Middleton, half a mark.From John of Altera Middleton, 20s.From Constantine of Tercia Middleton, 1 m. From John of Roddam, 1 m.

Northumberland:

From Henry of Roddam, 40s. of tallage. From Whittingham with Thrunton and Barton and a moiety of Glanton, £10.

Cumberland:

From Carlisle, 50 m.From Penrith, 5 m.From Langwathby, 20s. From Salkeld, 1 m.From Dalston, 1 m.From Ousby, 1 m. From Scotby, 2 m. From Stanwix, half a mark.

1.
Memorandum omitted in C 60/19, m. 6d.
2.
Memorandum omitted in C 60/19, m. 6d.
3.
Crossed through.
4.
This account now continues on the dorse of the sixth membrane.
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Omitted in C 60/19, m. 6d.

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106
[No date]. Surrey. John, son and heir of Ralph de Fay owes [100s.] for his relief of a knight’s fee that he ought to hold from the king in chief in Bramley, for which P. bishop of Winchester ought to answer. 1

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107
21 March. Gloucester. Because otherwise below. The men of Dymock have taken the vill of Dymock at farm from the king for five years from Michaelmas last past, namely in the sixth year. They will give the king 50 m. in each of the five years for having the vill of Dymock at farm as a free borough, with the market and fair of the same vill, for which they will answer the king at the Exchequer at two terms, namely for 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter and for 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas. 1 Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
Entry cancelled. See 111 below.
108
Order to the trustworthy men of Melksham, Calne and Chippenham to cause all of the king’s wind-fallen wood of the forests of Melksham and Chippenham to be sold to the king’s profit by two trustworthy and law-worthy men of the vill of Melksham, two trustworthy and law-worthy men of the vill of Calne, and two trustworthy and law-worthy men of the vill of Chippenham, together with the constable of Devizes . 1 Witness as above.
1.
Entry omitted in C 60/19, m. 5, perhaps as the cancellation marks in the previous entry intrude upon the first few words.
109
23 March. Berkeley. Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex that since Hugh de Neville has mainperned to render £40 to the king at the Exchequer each year at the terms that the king assigned to him for the fine he made with him for the debts he owed him, he is to cause no distraint to be made, or permit it to be made, until he has order otherwise. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar. By the same.
110
24 March. Gloucester. Gloucestershire. To the sheriff of Gloucestershire. The king has granted his manor of Cheltenham to the men of Cheltenham to hold at farm for five years from Michaelmas in the sixth year, rendering £64 to the king in each of the five years at the Exchequer by the hand of each of them, of which they are to render a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, so that the sheriff or his bailiffs will have no entry into the manor, unless to make attachments pertaining to the crown and to make the view of frankpledge, and so that, then, the sheriff or his bailiffs are to have no amercement or aid by reason of that view and are not to take anything therefrom. The men of the aforesaid manor will, however, have the hundred of Cheltenham within the farm of the manor with the customs that ought to and used to pertain to that hundred. Moreover, on Thursday of each week they are to have a market at the aforesaid manor and an annual three-day fair , namely on the eve, feast and morrow of St. James, unless that market and fair are to the harm of neighbouring markets and fairs. The sheriff is also to render to them all issues of the same manor, which he has received, arising from Michaelmas aforesaid, saving arrears and debts to the sheriff from the time before Michaelmas. He is also to render to the same men the land newly brought into cultivation which he has received in the manor, and to cause the king to know how much he has caused them to have. They will also have all corn that the sheriff sowed in the land of the same manor in this the seventh year, for which they are to render to the sheriff the costs that he incurred in sowing the aforesaid land. Order to cause the men to have the manor by the aforesaid farm with the aforesaid liberty, hundred, issues, the newly cultivated land, and all corn sown in the land of the manor, and the aforesaid market and fair, as aforesaid, so that they are to be able to answer the king sufficiently for the farm at the terms given to them at the Exchequer without any impediment. Witness H. as above. By the same.
111
Gloucestershire. It is written in the same manner to the same sheriff for the men of Dymock, concerning holding the manor of Dymock from the king at farm until the aforesaid term for 50 m., to be rendered each year by their hand at the Exchequer at the same terms, so that they are to have that manor in the manner aforesaid, except that no mention is to be made in their letters of any hundred, and with the change that other days are to be constituted for having their market and fair than are contained in the letters close. 1 Witness as above.
1.
RLC., i, p. 507.
112
Gloucestershire. To the sheriff of Gloucestershire. The king wishes that Walter of Awre, who has the king’s manor of Awre at farm for £20, is to answer the king for that farm by his hand at the Exchequer. Order to permit Walter to hold that manor in peace with its appurtenances, as aforesaid. Witness as above.
113
28 March. Calne. Yorkshire. The prior and monks of Selby give the king 20 m. for having custody of their abbey for as long as it pleases the king with the lands, rents and other possessions of the same abbey, by the view of John of Birkin. Order to the sheriffs of Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire and Walter Mauclerk to cause Brother Reiner, the prior, and Brother Waleran, the cellarer of the same house, to have full seisin of the aforesaid without delay. Order to John of Birkin to see that the prior and cellarer are to keep it, as aforesaid, and that the monks and servants of the house are to have their reasonable maintenance, as they are accustomed and ought to have it, without excess or waste. If waste or excess will be made, he is to signify this to the king. These words are to be placed in the letters to Walter Mauclerk, not the others: ‘his bailiffs having been removed’. Witness H. etc. By the same.
114
30 March. Newbury. To John of Monmouth. Order to take security from those who have bought the king’s wind-fallen wood in the Forest of Dean for the fine that they made with the king, and to collect the money arising from that fine by his hand at the set terms, and then to answer the king by his hand at the Exchequer, because the king does not wish that the sheriff applies his hand to this. Further order to permit the purchasers of wind-fallen wood to make their profit from oaks that have been blown down and whose roots are not in the ground, as from other things, as seems to the king to be just. The king has also granted that he may have ten oaks beyond the 20 oaks which he had previously granted to him from the wind-fallen wood, provided he then causes more or less to be taken in divers places and in divers bailiwicks. The king has given his letters to his verderers and foresters of the Forest of Dean, ordering them to cause him to have them thus. Witness H. etc. By the same.
115
Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Ralph de St. Samson from the last eyre of the justices of the forest in his bailiwick. Witness as above.
116
Oxfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to place in respite, until upon his account for Easter term in the seventh year, the demand of 100s. he makes from Gilbert Martel by summons of the Exchequer from the eyre of the king’s justices in Oxfordshire, which he paid to Vivian, who was then sheriff of Oxfordshire, as he says, and in the meantime he is to cause his livestock taken for this reason to be replevied to him. Witness as above. By the same.
117
Surrey. To the sheriff of Surrey. The king has taken the homage of John, son and heir of Ralph de Fay for the knight’s fee which he ought to hold of the king in chief in Bramley, and he has given the king surety for his relief. Order to cause John to have full seisin of that knight’s fee in his bailiwick without delay. Witness H. etc.
118
The same John owes 100s. for his relief. The bishop of Winchester is the pledge for that relief. 1
119
Surrey. The king has committed the vacant abbey of Chertsey to Master Hugh de Capella to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements pertaining to the abbey with its appurtenances in his bailiwick. Afterwards, he was ordered that, if he had taken anything, he was to render it to the elect of the same abbey. 1 Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
This final sentence appears to be a substantially later addition in a different hand, as it does not appear in the duplicate roll, C 60/19, m. 5.
120
It is written in the same manner to Engelard de Cigogné, concerning the lands of the aforesaid abbey in his bailiwick.
121
4 April. Westminster. Oxfordshire. To the sheriff of Oxfordshire. Order to place in respite the demand he makes from R. count of Boulogne for the king’s blanched farm for the manor of Bampton, until upon his account at Easter shortly forthcoming in the seventh year. Witness H. etc.
122
Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite, until his next account at the Exchequer, the demand of 100s. he makes from W. earl of Arundel in the manor of Little Waltham for the debt of William de Kivili. Witness as above.
123
Because in the Close Roll. To E. the Treasurer. Order not to enroll in the rolls of the Exchequer the amercement of 100 m. from the last eyre of Brian de Lisle in the king’s forests in Yorkshire, which is exacted from J. bishop of Ely, and that of 50 m. that is exacted from the same eyre from R. bishop of Salisbury. If by chance they have been enrolled, he is to cause them to be removed from the rolls. 1 Witness as above. By the same.
1.
Curiously, half of this entry has been written out in the duplicate roll (C 60/19, m. 5) before being cancelled as in the original. See RLC, i, p. 539b.
124
5 April. Westminster. Rutland. To the sheriff of Rutland. At the instance of Isabella who was the wife of Richard Crossbowman, Simon de Senlis has made fine with the king by 30 m. and one palfrey for having custody of the land and heirs of the aforesaid Richard, with the marriage of the heirs, and he has given the king surety for that fine. Order to cause Simon to have full seisin without delay of all land in his bailiwick formerly of Richard, saving her reasonable dower to Isabella of all that falls to her of the aforesaid land. Witness H. etc. By Stephen of Seagrave.
125
His pledges for this fine are:

Northamptonshire: William Mauduit for 10 m.; Richard de Tothal’ for 10 m.Rutland: Alan Basset for 10 m.Buckinghamshire: Godfrey Spigurnel for 5 m.

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Northamptonshire. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order to place in respite the demand of 29s. that he makes from Matilda de Lanvallay for her assarts in Wakerley, until upon his next account of the forthcoming Easter term in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.
127
Westminster. Huntingdonshire. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to place in respite the demand of 100s. that he makes from the men of the prebend of Lutton by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account. Witness as above. By the same.
128
Oxfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to place in respite the demand he makes from H. earl of Warwick for the blanched farm of the manor of Headington, until upon his next account of the forthcoming Easter term in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.
129
6 April. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that, having accepted security from Geoffrey de Lucy that he will satisfy the king for the debt that is exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer of the fine that he made for his wife on the morrow of the Close of Easter forthcoming in the seventh year, he is to place that demand in respite until the aforesaid term. Witness H. etc. By Stephen of Seagrave.
130
Suffolk. Hugh of Braham and Adam of Barningham give 20s. for having an inquisition whether William Ernald 1 and William son of Roger appeal them for robbery and breach of the king’s peace out of hate and spite, or because they are guilty. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. Witness as above.
1.
C 60/19, m. 5 ‘William son of Ernald’.
131
Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand of half a mark that he makes from Robert de Barville for the manor of Loughton, of which he was amerced before the justices of the forest. Witness as above. By the same.
132
6 April. Westminster. Essex. To the sheriff of Essex. Order to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand of £10 that he makes from the king’s beloved and faithful Walter de Verdun for the fine of £100 that he made with him for the arrears of his account of the county of Essex. Witness H. etc. By Stephen of Seagrave.
133
Oxfordshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire for the same. Witness as above.
134
Oxfordshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire for the prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England, concerning having respite from the amercements of the eyre of the justices. Witness as above.
135
Northamptonshire. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order to place in respite, until Easter in 15 days shortly forthcoming in the seventh year, the demand for amercements from the eyre of the king’s justices last itinerant in his county which he makes of the men of H. count de la Marche and Isabella, his wife, of the honour of Berkhamsted in his bailiwick. Witness as above. By the same.
136
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Hertfordshire for the same. Witness as above.
137
Leicestershire. To the sheriff of Leicestershire. Order not to permit the executors of the testament of William de Harcourt to put their hands on the corn or other chattels formerly of the same William in his bailiwick, until the king shall have been satisfied of the debt that William owed him, for which the sheriff received summons of the Exchequer. Witness H. etc. as above. By the same.
138
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Staffordshire, concerning the same.
139
Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand of £115 he makes from William son of Reiner by summons of the Exchequer for a debt of the Jews, and to cause him to have peace in the meantime. Witness as above. By the same.
140
7 April. Westminster. Yorkshire. To the sheriff of Yorkshire. Walter Mauclerk has signified to the king that the sheriff, Walter and others assigned by the king’s order have imposed 400 m. on the city of York in the name of tallage , 100 m. on the vill of Scarborough, and 126 m. 5s. 7d. on other demesne lands of the king in his county. But because, by Walter’s message, the king has heard that, on account of the brevity of the time of the term first assigned to them for this, they could not render that tallage, order to fix the following terms for the aforesaid vills and demesne lands, namely that the king will have one moiety in the octaves of Trinity in the seventh year and a moiety at the Nativity of the Blessed Mary following at the Exchequer. Witness H. etc. By the same.
141
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Northumberland and Cumberland , concerning the tallages assessed in their counties.
142
Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand of 40 m. that he makes from John de Baiuse by summons of the Exchequer for his relief, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then. Witness as above. By the same.
143
Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand that he makes from the abbot of St. Edmund’s by summons of the Exchequer for assarts made in Harlow, until 15 days from Easter in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.

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8 April. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite the demand that he makes from Henry de Hauville by summons of the Exchequer for the farm of Brigstock for two years, until upon his account of Easter term in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
145
Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand that he makes from Geoffrey de Hauville by summons of the Exchequer for the debt of William de Hauville, his brother, until upon his next account at the Exchequer. Witness as above. By the same.
146
Worcestershire. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to place in respite the demand that he makes from Aymer de St. Amand by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at the Exchequer after the Close of Easter shortly forthcoming in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.
147
10 April. Westminster. Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to place in respite the demand of 6 m. that he makes from the abbot of Malmesbury for the first scutage of King Henry, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, because the abbot has mainperned that he will satisfy the king then. Witness H. etc.
148
[No date]. London. William Norris 1 gives the fourth part of 180 m. for summoning William de Marisco before the justices at Westminster at Easter in three weeks to render him that debt. John of Trumpington and Richard Norris, citizens of London, are his pledges for rendering that fourth part to the king.
1.
C 60/19, m. 4 ‘Walter’.
149
Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand that he makes from Guy de Châtillon, son of the count of St. Pol, for his relief, until Trinity in the seventh year. By the same.
150
Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to place in respite the demand of 2 m. that he makes from Peter Blund by summons of the Exchequer, until his next account at the Exchequer at Easter shortly forthcoming in the seventh year. By the same.
151
13 April. Westminster. Essex. To the sheriff of Essex. If Henry de Merc gives him surety that he will satisfy the king upon the sheriff’s next account at the Exchequer for the 4 m. that he exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer and that Henry paid to Walter de Verdun at the time when Walter was sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, as he says, then he is to permit H. to have peace therefrom in the meantime, and if he has taken anything by reason of that demand, he is to cause it to be restored to him without delay. Witness H. de Burgh etc. By the same.
152
17 April. Kempton. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire that if Robert de Ameneville gives him surety for rendering to the king the 20s. that he exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer upon the sheriff’s next account at the Close of Easter shortly forthcoming in the seventh year, then he is to cause him to have respite in the meantime. Witness H. etc. By the same.
153
19 April. Kempton. Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire that if Robert de Ferrers gives him surety that he will satisfy the king upon the sheriff’s next account at the Exchequer for the demand that he makes from him by summons of the Exchequer, then he is to respite that demand until that account. Witness H. etc. By the same.
154
20 April. Westminster. Yorkshire. To the sheriff of Yorkshire. Order that if William Luvel, Nicholas Maupas, Stephen son of Jer, William Constable, William of Barton, Walter le Enfant, Emma of Butterwick, William of Etton and Geoffrey son of Basilia give him surety by good pledges that they will be before the barons of the Exchequer upon the sheriff’s next account of this Easter term in the seventh year, in order to satisfy the king according to the judgement of the Exchequer for the demand that he makes from them by summons of the Exchequer for Thomas of Etton for a debt of the Jews, then he is to place that demand in respite until that account and cause their livestock taken for this reason to be replevied to them. Witness H. etc. By the same.
155
22 April. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that if William de Cantilupe junior gives him surety that he will satisfy the king upon the sheriff’s next account at the Exchequer for the demand of 10 m. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer for an amercement of the king’s forest, then he is to place that demand in respite until that account. Witness H. etc. By the same.
156
23 April. Waltham. Gloucestershire. To the sheriff of Gloucestershire. The king wishes that Walter Blund of Awre is to answer at the Exchequer for the annual farm of the king’s manor of Awre. Order not to place his hand upon that manor by reason of that farm, and if he has taken anything of the chattels of the men of the manor or of Walter by reason of the aforesaid farm, he is to cause it to be rendered to them without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same.
157
27 April. St. Albans. Essex and Hertfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire to cause the demand that he makes from Stephen d’Evreux by summons of the Exchequer for several scutages from his land of Trumpington to be placed in respite until upon his next account. Witness H. etc.
158
10 May. Westminster. Kent. To the sheriff of Kent. Baldwin de Guines, son and heir of Ernald, formerly count de Guines, has made fine with the king by £100 for his relief, for which he has given the king surety, of the lands formerly of Ernald, his father, which he ought to hold of the king in chief in England and which fall to Baldwin by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage for them. Order to cause Baldwin to have full seisin without delay of all lands formerly of Ernald in his bailiwick that Baldwin ought to hold of the king in chief and that fall to him by inheritance. Witness H. etc. By the same.
159
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Bedfordshire and the keeper of the honour of Wallingford .
160
Pledges for the fine of the aforesaid Baldwin:

G. earl of Gloucester for £20. W. earl of Salisbury for £20. Peter de Maulay for £10. William Bardolf for £10. Aymer de St. Amand for £10. Robert Aguillon for £10. Robert Marshal for £10. Robert of Narford for £10.

A moiety of this fine is to be rendered at Michaelmas in the seventh year and the other moiety at Easter next following in the eighth year.

161
11 May. Westminster. Lancaster. To the sheriff of Lancaster. The king has inspected a charter of King John, his father, which he made for the abbot of Cockersand , concerning two carucates of land with appurtenances in Newbiggin near Singleton, to have and hold forever at fee farm, rendering 20s. per annum. Order to cause the abbot to have such seisin, without delay, of the aforesaid land with its appurtenances as he had before he was disseised by reason of the order that the king made for taking his demesne lands into his hand. Witness H. etc. By the same.
162
Norfolk and Suffolk. To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to permit the scutage of the last journey of King John, his father, into Poitou, which he exacts from the knights of the honour of Eye , which is in the custody of Richard, the king’s brother, to be collected by the hand of Richard’s bailiffs, who will answer the king at the Exchequer, so that he is not to intermeddle in the collection at present. Witness as above. By the same.
163
12 May. Westminster. Lancaster. Matthew, son and heir of Richard of Bold has made fine with the king by 3 m. for his relief that he owes him for three carucates of land with appurtenances in Bold, which he ought to hold of the king in chief. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with its appurtenances without delay. Witness H. etc.
164
Kent. William, son and heir of Thomas of Merston has made fine with the king by 100s. for his relief that he owes him from a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Merston. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc. and [cause him to have] full seisin etc. Witness as above. By the same.
165
Lancaster. Bruno son of Gospatric has made fine with the king by 2 m. for his relief that he owes him from one carucate of land with appurtenances in Chorlton. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to take etc. and [cause him to have] full seisin etc. Witness as above. By the same.
166
Lancaster. Hugh Norris, son and heir of Hugh Norris, has made fine with the king by 10 m. for his relief that he owes him from one carucate of land with appurtenances in Blackrod. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to take etc. and [cause him to have] full seisin etc. Witness as above. By the same.
167
Nottinghamshire. To the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. The king has granted to his trustworthy men of Bulwell that they are to have his vill of Bulwell for as long as it pleases him at farm for 100s. , to be rendered to Phillip Marc, in order to sustain him in the king’s service for as long as it pleases the king, saving to Phillip the king’s demesne in the same vill and saving its tallages and aids to the king. Order to cause the same men to have full seisin of the aforesaid vill with appurtenances without delay, saving the king’s demesne to Phillip and saving tallages and aids to the king, so that he is to take nothing unless by the king’s order. Witness H. etc.as above. By the same.
168
Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand that they make from G. earl of Gloucester for several debts, until the octaves of Michaelmas in the seventh year. Witness as above.
169
Norfolk. Robert of Narford gives the king 5 m. for having an annual fair , until the king comes of age, at Burnham Thorpe, to last for two days, namely the eve and feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, and for having another annual fair there to last for two days, namely the eve and feast of St. Nicholas, 1 and for having a weekly market there on Wednesdays, unless those fairs and that market are etc. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness as above. By the same.
1.
This second fair is interlined.
170
Lancaster. To the sheriff of Lancaster. Henry of Whittington has made fine with the king by 20 m. for having custody of the land and heir of Richard son of Swain, namely of both that land which falls to him by inheritance from his father and of that land which falls to him from Isolda, his mother, with the marriage of the same heir, and the king has taken the homage of the heir for the land that he ought to hold of the king in chief. Order that, having accepted security from Henry for rendering that fine, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all the aforesaid land with its appurtenances in his bailiwick. Witness as above.
171
Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite the demand that he makes from William de Cantilupe junior for trespass of the forest, until upon his next account at Michaelmas forthcoming in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.
172
15 May. Westminster. Worcestershire. Robert of Morton gives the king half a mark for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors of an assize of novel disseisin against Geoffrey de Neitheburn’, concerning a tenement in Bredon. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
173
Norfolk. Henry de Vere gives half a mark for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors of an assize of novel disseisin against the prior of Sporle , concerning a tenement in Sporle. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness as above.
174
Suffolk. William son of Joldwin of Manston gives 2 m. for having a pone at Michaelmas in one month against Robert of Halstead, concerning a knight’s fee in Somerton. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. Witness as above.
175
16 May. Westminster. Northumberland. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland to place in respite, until the king orders otherwise, the demand that he makes from the lands of Earl Patrick for the last tallage assessed in Northumberland by Walter Mauclerk and Simon de Hale. Witness H. etc.
176
Yorkshire. William of Tatham gives one mark for having a pone at Michaelmas in one month against Alice daughter of Gilbert, concerning land in Thornton. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc. Witness as above.

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17 May. Westminster. Leicestershire. Thomas of Lincoln gives one mark for having a record, before the justices at Westminster at Michaelmas in 15 days, of a plea that was in the county court of Leicestershire between the same Thomas and Robert de Normanville and Gilbert de Bisethe, concerning land in Thorpe, about which Thomas complains that a false judgement had been made against him in the same county court. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
178
Kent. Manasser of Peckham, son and heir of Emma de Bendeville, has made fine with the king by 100s. for his relief that he owes him from the land that falls to him by inheritance from Emma, his mother, and that he ought to hold of the king in chief by sergeanty, in Peckham. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering those 100s. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land without delay. Witness as above. By the same.
179
From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer and before it had been sent by the hand of R. elect of Chichester. 1
1.
Entry omitted in C 60/19, m. 4.
180
20 May. Westminster. Rutland. To the sheriff of Rutland. Order to cause the demand that he makes from the men of Horn, who hold of the fee of the bishop of Durham, for the 10s. that he exacts from them for the view of frankpledge that they ought not, and are not accustomed, to give, as they say, to be placed in respite until it is provided by the king’s council whether the aforesaid fee of Horn owes those 10s. to the bishop for view of frankpledge or not. Witness H. etc. By the same.
181
21 May. Westminster. London. Geoffrey of London, the Red (Ruffus), gives the king one mark for having a precipe upon Robert de Crek, for the 7 m. that he owes him. James de Haverhill and William de Bosco, citizens of London, are his sureties for that mark. Witness H. etc.
182
24 May. Westminster. Dorset. To the bailiffs and the trustworthy men of Dorchester. The king has granted to Ralph Gernon, sheriff of Dorset , that he may answer for the farm of the king’s vill of Dorchester for as long as it pleases him by his hand at the Exchequer. Order to be respondent 1 to Ralph for the same farm. Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
C 60/19, m. 4 ‘intendant’.
183
26 May. Westminster. Kent. To the sheriff of Kent. Peitevin, Vivard and Angevin, the sons of Isaac the Jew of Canterbury , have made fine with the king by 20 m. for having the houses formerly of Isaac, their father, in Canterbury, which were in the king’s hand by reason of the general seizure of the Jews at Bristol in the time of King John, the king’s father, as the king’s escheats, because Isaac was hanged. Because Peitevin, Vivard and Angevin have given the king surety for the aforesaid 20 m., order to cause them to have full seisin of the aforesaid houses with their appurtenances without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same.
184
27 May. Westminster. Norfolk. Theodoric of Crimplesham gives the king 5 m. for having justices to take the assize of novel disseisin that he arraigned against Walter of Wereham, concerning a tenement in Wereham. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness H. etc.
185
31 May. Westminster. Suffolk. To the sheriff of Suffolk. The king has granted the land formerly of William of Charsfield, lately hanged for the death of John of Manston, in Charsfield, which is in the king’s hand and ought to be so for a year and a day according to the custom of England, to William, the marshal of the king’s beloved and faithful H. de Burgh, justiciar, to have for a year and a day, in order to sustain him in the king’s service, saving the chattels 1 formerly of William of Charsfield to the king. Order to cause William to have full seisin of the aforesaid land formerly of William of Charsfield in Charsfield without delay, as aforesaid, saving the chattels formerly of William of Charsfield to the king. Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
C 60/19, m. 4 ‘tallages’.
186
Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand that he makes from Walter of Clifford for the rent of the manor of Dymock from the term of St. John the Baptist. 1 Witness as above.
1.
C 60/19, m. 4 ‘William de Cliff'’.
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Kent. Gervase of Aldermanbury gives the king 100s. for summoning, at Michaelmas in 15 days, 1 Thomas de Balinghem and Mabel, his wife, Beatrice who was the wife of Ralph de Fay , Adam de Bendenges and Joan, his wife, and Ralph son of Thomas son of Bernard 2 and Eleanor, his wife, to render 46 m. to him. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc. The pledges for those 100s. are John of Dodingdale for 1 m., John Lardur for 1 m., and Hamo de Valognes for 23s. 4d. 3 Witness as above.
1.
Term interlined.
2.
C 60/19, m. 4 ‘Robert’.
3.
C 60/19, m. 4 omits the pledges.
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Concerning the chattels formerly of William de Harcourt. To the executors of the testament of William de Harcourt. Order to arrest such of the chattels formerly of William de Harcourt up to the sum of £40, which William owed the king, until they will satisfy the king of those £40. Witness as above. By the same.
189
Yorkshire. The king has committed the vacant abbey of Whitby to Thomas of Hertford, his clerk , 1 Brother Roger, the prior, and Brother William, the cellarer of Whitby, and Alan of Wilton, to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause them to have full seisin of all lands, property, rents and all possessions pertaining to the same abbey. If he has taken anything since that abbey became vacant, he is to cause it to be rendered to them without delay. Witness as above.
1.
Interlined, probably as a replacement for ‘Edmund of London, clerk’, whose name has been crossed through.
190
4 June. Westminster. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take into the king’s hand the land formerly of Oliver de Tinteniac in Gillingham, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc.
191
7 June. Westminster. Sussex. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the distraint of £15 that he makes upon the land that Robert le Achatur has at farm from William Bernehus in Chilgrove up to Michaelmas. Witness H. etc.
192
10 June. Westminster. Derbyshire. Henry of Buxton gives 1 m. for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors of an assize of novel disseisin against Hugh of Strelley, concerning a tenement in Breaston. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
193
Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer in the octaves of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand of £100 that he makes from G. son of the count of St. Pol by summons of the Exchequer for his relief. Witness H. etc. as above.
194
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Essex.
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7 June. Westminster. Sussex. Hugh Esturmy has made fine with the king for the 100s. that he owes him and that the sheriff of Sussex exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer, by rendering 2 m. each year, namely 1 m. at Michaelmas and 1 m. at Easter. Order to the sheriff of Sussex that, having accepted security from him for rendering those 100s. to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to permit him to have peace therefrom. Witness H. etc.
196
15 June. Wycombe. Gloucestershire. William of Dean gives 3 m. for having justices to take the assize of darrein presentment to the church of Dean , as is more fully contained on the dorse of the roll of letters patent. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take etc. 1 Witness H. etc.
1.
PR 1216-25, p. 395.
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18 June. Woodstock. Devon. Reimund of Leigh, detained in the king’s prison at Exeter for the death of a man named Richard, 1 of which he is not guilty as the sheriff of Devon has signified to the king by an inquisition that he has taken, gives 3 m. that he may be handed over on bail to twelve trustworthy and law-worthy men, who are to mainpern to have him before the itinerant justices to stand to right. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness H. etc.
1.
Corrected from ‘gives 3 m. so that he is handed over …’ The name of the victim has been corrected from ‘William of Colyton’.
198
21 June. Woodstock. Because otherwise in the Close Roll. To the sheriff of Cumberland. The bishop of Carlisle is dead. Order to take the bishopric of Carlisle into the king’s hand with all lands, rents and possessions pertaining to it, causing all property and chattels found therein and all issues arising to be distinctly and openly recorded under the testimony of trustworthy and law-worthy men, so that nothing is taken or removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise. He is also to prohibit his bailiffs, who he will send to attend to this, and strictly ensure that they are not to cause any waste to be made of any of these things or chattels aforesaid, or to behave immoderately in anything whereby a complaint may reasonably be brought. He is also to cause the king to know distinctly and openly by his letters all that he will find there of corn, stock, other things or chattels. 1 Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
Entry cancelled. See RLC., i, p. 552.
199
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. 1
1.
Likewise cancelled.
200
23 June. Woodstock. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to cause their livestock to be replevied to the men of Cheltenham, which he took by reason of the last tallage assessed upon the demesne lands of the king by his order, because they will answer the king at the Exchequer for this grant. Witness H. etc.
201
Cumberland. To the sheriff of Cumberland. The king has committed the vacant bishopric of Carlisle to Theobald de Valognes, archdeacon of Essex , 1 to keep with all things pertaining to the bishopric, both ecclesiastical and temporal. 2 Order to cause him, as keeper of the same bishopric, to have full seisin without delay of those things which pertain to the bishopric in his bailiwick. Witness as above.
1.
Keeper omitted in C 60/19, m. 3.
2.
The initial grant was made ‘for as long as it pleases the king’, but this is now crossed through.
202
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Derbyshire, Northumberland and Westmorland .
203
It is written in the same manner to the archbishop of Canterbury, concerning those things which are in the diocese of Coventry, which is under his rule, and to the bishop of Durham concerning those things in his diocese.
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28 June. Woodstock. Concerning the abbey of St. Edward . Order to Ralph Gernon, sheriff of Dorset , to take the vacant abbey of St. Edward into the king’s hand with all property and chattels found therein in his bailiwick, so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. By the same.
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It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Wiltshire, Somerset and Sussex that they are to take all lands and tenements pertaining to the same abbey in their bailiwicks into the king’s hand, with property etc. as above. Witness as above. By the same.
206
30 June. Woodstock. Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand of 40 m. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from W. earl of Arundel for trespass of the forest, until the octaves of Michaelmas in the seventh year. Witness ... By the same.
207
Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the view of the account of the sheriff of Berkshire and his account for carucage, until Michaelmas in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.
208
1 July. Cold Norton. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire, as he has been ordered at other times, that, as he loves himself and his own, he is to satisfy the men of Cheltenham for the £29 3s. 3d. which he received from the farm of Cheltenham from Michaelmas in the sixth year until Easter in the seventh year, for which the men ought to answer at the Exchequer, and that he is so to satisfy them lest the king betake himself to his property and chattels. Witness H. etc.
209
Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand of £29 3s. 3d. that they make from the men of Cheltenham for the farm of the same vill, concerning which a dispute has arisen between the same men and the sheriff of Gloucestershire, so that it is provided then whether the aforesaid men ought to pay those monies or the sheriff of Gloucestershire. Witness as above. By the same.
210
3 July. Worcester. Cumberland. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland to permit nothing to be removed from the property or chattels formerly of H. former bishop of Carlisle, until the king will have been satisfied of the debt that he owed him. Witness H. etc.
211
6 July. Worcester. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the view of the account of the sheriff of Herefordshire for Easter term in the seventh year, until Michaelmas in the same year. Witness H. etc.
212
Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite the demand that he makes from Walter of Clifford for the farm of Dymock, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas term in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. as above.
213
7 July. Worcester. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until 15 days after Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand that they make from Reginald de Braose by summons of the Exchequer for the last scutage of Poitou from the time of King John, the king’s father. Witness H. etc.
214
Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the account of the sheriff of Wiltshire for carucage, until Michaelmas next in the seventh year. Witness as above.
215
11 July. Worcester. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand of 60 m. that he makes from Robert of Tattershall for the debt of Robert of Tattershall, his grandfather, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas term in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
216
12 July. Worcester. Leicestershire. To the sheriff of Leicestershire. Order to cause the land formerly of Isolda Pantulf, mother of the king’s beloved and faithful Robert of Tattershall, who is in the king’s service with horses and arms by the king’s order, which has been taken into the king’s hand by reason of the debt that Isolda owed the king, to be replevied to Robert without delay, because he has mainperned before the king that he will satisfy him for that debt at the Exchequer at the set terms. Witness H. etc. By the same.
217
[No date]. Prest. At Worcester, on Wednesday next after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 1 Hamo Peche received £20 out of the king’s Wardrobe as a prest upon all of his lands, to be rendered to the king at Michaelmas in the seventh year.
1.
Date and location of prest interlined.
218
[No date]. Prest. Hugh de Gournay received 10 m. there out of the same Wardrobe as a prest upon all of his lands, to be rendered at the aforesaid term.
219
14 July. Worcester. Shropshire. To the sheriff of Shropshire. Order not to take £50 from the vill of Shrewsbury, which the king ordered to be taken from it for the tallage of the king’s demesne lands of his bailiwick, but to take it from other demesne lands of his bailiwick, because the king has given the men of the same vill respite from their tallage until Michaelmas in the seventh year. Witness H. etc.
220
Derbyshire. Roger le Breton has made fine with the king by £10 for his relief and for having seisin of a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Walton formerly of Robert le Breton, his father, whose heir he is, which falls to him by hereditary right, and the king has received his homage and fealty. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire that, having accepted security from him for those £10, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the knight’s fee with appurtenances in his bailiwick without delay. Witness as above. By the same.
221
Norfolk and Suffolk. To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to cause the chattels formerly of Robert Deacon of Norton, accused of the death of John of Manston, which are in the king’s hand, to be valued by the view and testimony of trustworthy and law-worthy men, and to hand them over to Peter Leveroc, the king’s sergeant , by that value, having first accepted security from him that he will answer the king for that value. Witness as above. By the same.
222
Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to permit William de Cantilupe to have the hundred of Calne pertaining to the manor of Calne by the annual farm that he renders, as the king has ordered him at other times. Witness as above. By the same.

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21 July. Gloucester. Yorkshire. The abbot of Roche gives the king 40s. for having justices to take the assize that he arraigned against Stephen (sic.) John le Franceys and others, as is more fully contained on the dorse of the Patent Roll, concerning a dyke in Ernaldethorp’ 1 levelled to the harm of the abbot’s free tenement in the same vill. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take security etc. 2 Witness H. etc.
1.
ms ‘fossato’. C 60/19, m. 3 ‘Raffleto’.
2.
See also PR 1216-25, pp. 396-7.
224
23 July. Cirencester. Warwickshire. To the sheriff of Warwickshire. The king has committed the custody of the bridge of Marton to the abbot of Sulby 1 to keep for as long as it pleases the king, paying as much farm to the sheriff to the king’s use as another will wish to give. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering the farm to the sheriff to the king’s use, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody. Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
C 60/19, m. 3 ‘Seleby’.
225
24 July. Abingdon. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand that he makes from Richard son of Osbert by summons of the Exchequer for a fine and amercements of the forest, having accepted security that he will satisfy the king then upon the aforesaid account, and the sheriff is to cause his livestock taken for this reason to be replevied to him in the meantime. Witness H. etc.
226
28 July. Tower of London. Lincolnshire. The king has committed the vacant abbey of Bardney to Richard de Acston’ and Brother William, former chaplain of Matthew abbot of Bardney, to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to cause them to have full seisin of all lands, property, rents and all possessions pertaining to the abbey in his bailiwick. Witness H. etc.
227
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Yorkshire.
228
28 July. St. Paul's. Surrey. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take into the king’s hand without delay the land formerly of Ralph of Imworth in Imworth, with the hundred of Elmbridge , which land and hundred the king committed to Robert de Barville for as long as it pleases the king, in order to sustain him in the king’s service, and the sheriff is to keep it safely so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc.
229
31 July. Lambeth. Concerning the assarts of Essex. To Colin of Barrington. Order that, having taken with him the king’s beloved and faithful Ralph son of William, Hamo de Marcy, Michael of Mountnessing and Phillip de Rokele, and the regarders of each bailiwick of the king’s forest of Essex, together with Richard son of Simon, who the king’s beloved and faithful Brian de Lisle sends to him in his place, he is to go without delay throughout the king’s forest of Essex and view all assarts that have been made in the forest without warrant after the peace made between the king and his barons, and to cause it to be distinctly and openly recorded by the view of the aforesaid men how many acres the assarts sown with corn contain, with what manner of corn they have been sown, both in winter and summer crops, to cause that corn to be valued and distinctly and openly enrolled, and to cause those who make and cultivate those assarts to have them by that valuation, if they wish, having accepted security from them by good pledges that they will answer the king at the Exchequer for that value at Michaelmas in 15 days in the seventh year. If they do not wish to have them, then he is to cause them to be sold as best he can and cause the king to have the money arising therefrom on the aforesaid day by the view of the aforesaid knights, and he is to have there the roll of those assarts and their value distinctly and openly enrolled, as aforesaid, and the names of those who make those assarts and purchase the corn, and the sheriff is to have one roll and Richard the other in the place of Brian. Further order to Ralph, Hamo, Michael, Phillip and the regarders to meet at a suitable day and place, of which the sheriff and Richard are to cause them to know, in order to do all of the aforesaid. Witness H. etc. By the same.
230
4 Aug. Tower of London. Suffolk. To the sheriff of Suffolk. The king has granted to Richard de Argentan that he may have a market each week on Tuesdays at his manor of Halesworth and an annual fair at his manor of Newmarket to last for three days, namely the eve, feast and morrow of St. Giles, unless that market and that fair are to the harm of neighbouring markets or fairs. Order to cause the market and fair to be cried and held, as aforesaid. Order to take security from Richard for two palfreys to the king’s use for this writ. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar. By the same.
231
Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to place in respite the demand of 101 m. he makes from H. bishop of Coutances until Michaelmas in the seventh year upon the account of the sheriff at the Exchequer. Witness as above.
232
4 Aug. Tower of London. Lincolnshire. To the sheriff of Lincolnshire. Order that if Ralph de la Bruere finds him sufficient security that he will answer the king upon the sheriff’s account at the Exchequer for the debt that he exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer to the king’s use, he is to cause his land of Hunune, which he took into the king’s hand by reason of that debt, to be replevied to him without delay. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar. By the same.
233
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Sussex for the same.
234
5 Aug. Tower of London. Concerning respite. To the keeper of the honour of Boulogne . Order to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer at the term of Michaelmas shortly forthcoming in the seventh year, the demand that he makes from the Master of the Knights of the Temple in England by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Bytham to the king’s use. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar.
235
Suffolk. William of Sapiston gives the king 10 m. for having justices to take an assize of novel disseisin against Adam Priest of Fakenham and others, as is more fully contaned on the dorse of the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. 1 Witness as above.
1.
PR 1216-25, p. 397.
236
10 Aug. Kempton. Lincolnshire. The abbot of Selby gives a palfrey for having justices to take an assize of novel disseisin against Adam Paynel, concerning a tenement in Glandford, as is more fully contained on the dorse of the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc. 1 Witness H. etc.
1.
PR 1216-25, p. 397.
237
12 Aug. Guildford. Sussex. To the sheriff of Sussex. Order that, immediately after having viewed these letters, he is to take into the king’s hand all land formerly of William de Fraxineto in his bailiwick, which Robert de Vilers, who is dead, held and which ought to be in the king’s hand by reason of the lands of the Normans. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar.
238
14 Aug. Winchester. Concerning Shrewsbury abbey . The king has committed the vacant abbey of Shrewsbury to Brother Andrew, sub-prior of Shrewsbury, and Master John of Wilton 1 to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriffs of Shropshire and Staffordshire, Lancaster and Cambridgeshire to cause them to have full seisin without delay of all lands, property, rents and all possessions pertaining to the same abbey. Witness H. etc.
1.
Corrected from ‘Stephen of Frankton’.
239
Devon. William le Fleming gives 20s. for having justices to take an assize of novel disseisin against Archibald le Fleming and Gervase son of Henry, concerning a tenement in Ash. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness as above.
240
Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to place in respite the demand of 5 m. that he makes from Baldwin of Hodnet by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventh year, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then upon the aforesaid account. Witness as above. By the same.
241
17 Aug. Winchester. Devon. Roger de Reimes gives the king 5 m. for having a market on Wednesday at his manor of Churchstanton until the king comes of age, unless that market etc. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness H. etc.
242
19 Aug. Winchester. Essex. To the sheriff of Essex. Order to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand that he makes from Geoffrey de Hauville by summons of the Exchequer for a debt of a certain Jew, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar. By the same.
243
Because in the Patent Roll. Adam of Ness, clerk of the earl of Chester , has letters of presentation to the portion that Peter of Shrewsbury had in the chapel of St. Juliana in Shrewsbury . Order to the bishop of Coventry to execute his duties in this matter. 1 Witness as above. By the same.
1.
Entry cancelled. PR 1216-25, p. 382.
244
20 Aug. Alton. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to place in respite the demand that he makes from William de Marisco by summons of the Exchequer for the debt that he owes the king, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas term in the seventh year, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then. Witness H. etc.
245
20 Aug. Guildford. Cornwall. Andrew of Bodmin, clerk , gives the king 40s. for having justices to take an assize of novel disseisin between him and John son of Ranulf, concerning a tenement in Bodmin, as is more fully contained on the dorse of the Patent Roll of the seventh year. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall to take etc. 1 Witness H. etc.
1.
PR 1216-25, p. 408.
246
21 Aug. Kempton. Staffordshire. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to place in respite the demand of 10s. that he makes from the abbot of Bordesley for view of frankpledge, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas term in the seventh year, so that it may be known then by a charter of King Henry, the king’s grandfather, that he has, whether the aforesaid monies ought to be given or not. Witness H. etc.
247
22 Aug. Kempton. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite, until Easter in the eighth year, the demand of 15 m. that he makes from Robert of Muskham for default of the last eyre of the justices of the king’s forest. Witness H. etc.
248
24 Aug. Westminster. The king has committed the bishopric of Coventry to the bishop of Winchester to keep for as long as it pleases the king. 1 Witness H. etc.
1.
This appears to be a later addition as it does not appear on the duplicate roll, C 60/19, m. 3.
249
25 Aug. Westminster. Bedfordshire. Richard son of William and Eva, his wife, give the king half a mark for having a pone against Elias de Capella, concerning a messuage in Dunstable. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
250
Hampshire. Order to Engelard de Cigogné to take security from the men of Odiham for 2 m. of a gift, and also for rendering 10s. each year at the Exchequer, for having the pasture of Horsedown for as long as it pleases the king, and to cause them to have full seisin thereof. Witness as above.
251
26 Aug. Westminster. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from J. constable of Chester and his men of Naseby for the promise that they made to the king before Brian de Lisle for placing the pleas of the forest in his bailiwick in respite. Witness H. etc. By the same.
252
Leicestershire. Robert son of Richard gives the king 1 m. for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors before the itinerant justices as to whether half a virgate of land with appurtenances in Oadby is the lay fee of Robert or free alms pertaining to the church of Oadby . Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take security etc. Witness as above.
253
Kent. To the sheriff of Kent. Order to cause the demand for the debts of the Jews that he makes from Robert son of John and Henry of Oxford for the marsh of Elmley , formerly of Robert Arsic, from whom those debts are exacted, to be placed in respite until 15 days from Michaelmas in the seventh year before the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews, and in the meantime he is to cause that marsh to be replevied to Robert and Henry. Witness as above. By the same.
254
29 Aug. Westminster. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the account of Robert de Vieuxpont until three weeks from Martinmas in the eighth year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
255
Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to place in respite the demand that he makes from Ralph de Tany by summons of the Exchequer for horses of value (de precio), palfreys and hawks, until upon his next account of Michaelmas term in the seventh year. Witness as above.
256
Leicestershire. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to place in respite, until upon his account on the morrow of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand he makes from the knights of the honour of Leicester for scutage both from the time of King John, the king’s father, and from the time of King Henry. Witness as above.
257
30 Aug. Rochester. Warwickshire. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand of £10 10s. that he makes from Alice de Harcourt by summons of the Exchequer for debts of the Jews. Witness H. etc. By the same.
258
1 Sept. Canterbury. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite the demand of 100s. that he makes from Ernald de Bosco by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at Michaelmas shortly forthcoming in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
259
30 Sept. (sic.) Canterbury. Devon. Hilary who was the wife of Robert d’Aumale gives the king one mark for having a pone, before the justices at Westminster at Martinmas in 15 days, [of a plea] which was previously summoned before the justices at their first session when [they came into those parts], between Hilary, claimant, and Martin son of Martin, defendant, concerning five furlongs of land with appurtenances in Twiscombe. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness H. etc.
260
6 Sept. Westminster. Lincolnshire. John of Bratoft has made fine with the king by 5 m. for his relief of the lands formerly of Walter of Bratoft, his father, which he ought to hold of the king in chief and which fall to him by hereditary right, and the king has taken his homage for this. Order to the sheriff that, having accepted security from John for rendering the aforesaid relief to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid land with all appurtenances formerly of Walter, his father, in his bailiwick. Witness H. de Burgh etc. By the same.
261
Essex. Augustine of Blackham gives 1 m. for having a pone, concerning one carucate of land with appurtenances in Bergholt, against Geoffrey of Badley. He has the pone. Order to the sheriff etc., as above. For the dispute arisen in the same county, the writ is to be seen. Witness as above.
262
Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand of £6 10s. 10d. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Aymer de Sacy for the debt of William de la Barton, and the demand of 100s. for a prest that he makes from the same A. by the same summons. Witness as above.

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7 Sept. Westminster. Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite the demand that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Eustachia de Courtenay for debts of the Jews, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the seventh year etc., so that it may then be decided before the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews whether she ought to answer for those debts when she holds nothing of the lands formerly of William son of Ancelin, formerly her husband, who owed those debts, except by way of dower. Witness H. etc.
264
Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite the demand of 46s. 8d. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from William, the king’s tailor for debts of the Jews, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the seventh year. Witness as above. By the same.
265
Leicestershire. Richard Scrogan and Matilda, his wife, give the king half a mark for having a pone against Sabina Peche, concerning half a virgate of land with appurtenances in Sheepy Magna. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to take etc. Witness as above.
266
10 Sept. Westminster. Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take all lands of Llywelyn into the king’s hand without delay and all lands of other Welshmen in his bailiwick, and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise. 1 Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
This and 268 are reversed in C 60/19, m. 2.
267
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Warwickshire and Leicestershire and Worcestershire .
268
11 Sept. Westminster. Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite the demand that he makes from Guy count of St. Pol by summons of the Exchequer until Hilary in the eighth year. Witness H. etc.
269
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Essex.
270
12 Sept. Westminster. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the account of the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk until 15 days from Martinmas in the eighth year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
271
Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand that he makes from Geoffrey de Hauville for debts of the Jews, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, and to cause the land of the same Geoffrey in Takeley, which is said 1 to be the gage of the Jews for the aforesaid debt, to be replevied to him in the meantime without delay. Witness as above. By the same.
1.
C 60/19, m. 2 ‘is recognised’.
272
13 Sept. Westminster. Concerning the bishopric of Exeter . The king has committed the vacant bishopric of Exeter to William Brewer to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriffs of Cornwall, Devon , Sussex , Hampshire and Middlesex to cause him to have full seisin of all lands, property, rents and all possessions pertaining to the bishopric. If they have taken anything since the bishop’s death, they are to cause it to be rendered without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same.
273
Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from John Haunsard by summons of the Exchequer for debts of the Jews, of which John says that Aaron and Elias, Jews of York, ought to acquit him, so that it may then be known before the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews whether John ought to pay the aforesaid debt or not, and in the meantime he is to cause the land of John in his bailiwick, which was taken into the king’s hand for this reason, to be replevied to him, having accepted security from John that he will satisfy the king for that demand upon his aforesaid account. Witness as above. By the same.
274
It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Yorkshire.
275
Rutland. To the sheriff of Rutland. Order to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand that he makes from Simon de Senlis by summons of the Exchequer for the fine that he made with the king for having custody of the land and heir of Richard Crossbowman, so that it may be ordained before the justiciar 1 at what terms he might be able to answer for that fine. Witness as above. By the same.
1.
Corrected from ‘barons of the Exchequer’.
276
15 Sept. Windsor. Concerning the assarts of Earnshill. To Brian de Lisle. Order to place in respite, until the king commands otherwise, the demand that he makes from H. de Neville and his men concerning new assarts made at Earnshill, the corn found in the same assarts having been valued and recorded in his rolls, and having accepted security from them for rendering the value of that corn to the king at his command. Witness H. etc. By the same.
277
It is written in the same manner to the bailiffs of the same Brian of Sherwood forest .
278
15 Sept. Windsor. Buckinghamshire. Guinda of Windsor 1 gives the king half a mark for having a pone against Robert of Boveney, concerning the customs and services that she exacts from him. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
1.
C 60/19, m. 2 ‘Gunilda de Gwindlesores’.
279
21 Sept. Brenles. Gloucestershire. Ralph Juvenis gives the king half a mark for having a pone before the justices of the Bench in the octaves of Martinmas against the prior of Bath , for two solidates of rent with appurtenances in Alveston. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take etc. Witness H. etc.
280
Berkshire. Order that, having accepted security by pledges from Warin Bastard for rendering to the king the debt that is exacted from him at the Exchequer at the sheriff’s next account of Michaelmas term shortly forthcoming in the seventh year, he is to cause no other distraint to be made upon him until that term and, in the meantime, is to cause his livestock taken for this reason to be delivered to him without delay. Witness as above.
281
24 Sept. Hereford. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite, until the octaves of All Saints in the eighth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Humphrey de Bohun for the scutage of Poitou from the time of King John. Witness H. etc. By the same.
282
25 Sept. Leominster. For having a term. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit Phillip Marc to have a term for rendering his account at 15 days from Michaelmas in the seventh year, he having sent his clerk to the Exchequer on the morrow of Michaelmas to render all the monies that he can there. Witness H. etc.
283
Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the account of the sheriff of Herefordshire until the morrow of All Saints in the eighth year, he having sent his clerk to the Exchequer so that he is there on the morrow of Michaelmas to render all monies he can of debts, farms and other things. Witness as above.
284
Concerning the fine of Roger of Clifford. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted Roger of Clifford that, of the debt of 25 m., of which he ought to have acquitted Elias Martrin, Jew of Lincoln , at the Exchequer at Michaelmas term in the sixth year, 1 he is henceforth to render 10 m. per annum at the Exchequer, so that at Michaelmas shortly forthcoming in the seventh year he renders 5 m. at the Exchequer and 5 m. at Easter next following in the eighth year, and 10 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until he will be quit of the aforesaid fine. Order to cause this grant to be enrolled and observed. Witness as above. By the same.
1.
Corrected from ‘… he is to render 10 m. per annum at the Exchequer instead of 20 m. to be rendered annually at the Exchequer by his hand of the fine he made with the king for the debts of the Jews that he owed …’ This appears to be another later emendation, because the unexpunged entry still appears in C 60/19, m. 1.
285
26 Sept. Ludlow. Cambridgeshire. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take into the king’s hand all lands that William de Ros, who is dead, as is said, held in chief of the king in his bailiwick, and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. By the same.
286
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Kent and Suffolk .
287
28 Sept. Shrewsbury. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until three weeks from Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand that the sheriffs of Hampshire, Suffolk , Essex and Gloucestershire make from G. earl of Gloucester by summons of the Exchequer for murder fines made in their counties, which the earl is not obliged to give by his liberty that he has, as he says. Witness H. etc. By the same.
288
30 Sept. Montgomery. Order to the same barons to place in respite, until three weeks from Michaelmas in the seventh year, the demand that they make from Waleran Teutonicus at the Exchequer of this Michaelmas term in the seventh year for the stannaries of Devon. Witness H. etc. By the same.
289
1 Oct. Montgomery. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the octaves of Hilary in the eighth year, the demand of 5 m. for the debts of the Jews that they make from William de Stuteville at the Exchequer. 1 Witness H. etc. By the same.
1.
This entry is recorded between those numbered 286 & 287 above on C 60/19, m. 1.
290
Sussex. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take into the king’s hand without delay all land in his bailiwick of the abbot of Fécamp , who is dead, as is said, and to keep it safely with the chattels found therein so that nothing is removed by the view of Robert of Amberley, steward of the elect of Chichester , whom the elect has sent to look after this with him, until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. as above.
291
3 Oct. Montgomery. Kent. To the sheriff of Kent. The king has given respite to A. countess of Eu from the demands that the sheriff makes from her by summons of the Exchequer for debts of the king, until the octaves of Hilary in the eighth year. Order to cause or permit no distraint to be made upon her in the meantime. Witness H. etc.
292
Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to place in respite the demand for one palfrey that he makes from Baldwin of Hodnet by summons of the Exchequer until the octaves of Hilary in the eighth year. Witness as above.
293
3 Oct. Montgomery. The fine of Roger de St. Vedast. To William Brewer, keeper of the bishopric of Exeter . Roger, son and heir of Hugh de St. Vedast has made fine with the king by 30 m. for having seisin of the manor of Colebrooke with appurtenances, formerly of Hugh de St. Vedast, his father, who is dead, which falls by hereditary right to Roger, whose custody pertains to the king by reason of the bishopric of Exeter being vacant and in his hand. Henry de Coleville is his pledge for which 30 m. Order to cause Roger to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same.
294
The fine of William d'Aubigny. To the barons of the Exchequer. William d'Aubigny has made fine with the king by 40 m., to be rendered each year at the Exchequer for as long as it pleases the king, for the 6000 m. that he owes of the fine that he made with King John, the king’s father, for his ransom, of which he is to render 20 m. at Easter forthcoming in the eighth year, 20 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year, and 40 m. from year to year at the same terms for as long as it pleases the king. Order to cause the aforesaid fine to be enrolled and observed for as long as it pleases the king. They are not to penalize his steward because he did not pay any money at the Exchequer at this Michaelmas term in the seventh year. Witness H. etc. as above. By the same.
295
5 Oct. Montgomery. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand that they make from John de Venuz at the Exchequer for the debt that he owes the king, until the morrow of All Souls in the eighth year. Witness H. etc.
296
6 Oct. Montgomery. Concerning respite. Order to the same to place in respite the demand of 100 m. that they make from H. bishop of Coutances at the Exchequer, until the octaves of Easter in the eighth year. Witness H. etc. By the same.
297
6 Oct. Montgomery. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the morrow of All Souls in the eighth year, the demand of 10s. that the sheriff of Staffordshire makes from the abbot of Bordesley for view of frankpledge, which the sheriff was ordered at other times to place in respite until his next account at the Exchequer. Witness H. etc.
298
6 Oct. Montgomery. Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to place in respite, until the octaves of Martinmas in the eighth year, the demand that he makes from William d'Aubigny by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Poitou from the time of King John. Witness H. etc. By the same.
299
Concerning respite. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Yorkshire.
300
9 Oct. Montgomery. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the octaves of All Saints in the eighth year, the demand that they make from Ralph son of Bernard at the Exchequer for the debt that he owes the king. Witness H. etc. By the same.
301
Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Ralph de Hauterive to have respite from the debts of the Jews which he owes the king, until St. Andrew next to come in the eighth year. Witness as above. By the same.
302
Dorset. To the sheriff of Dorset. Order to take into the king’s hand all lands and all tenements that are held of the king in chief by knight service in his bailiwick by those who did not come, or send someone for them, into the king’s army of Wales at his summons made to them to come into his service with horses and arms towards the parts of Gloucester, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. Witness H. etc. By the same and the king’s council.
303
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of:

Somerset . Wiltshire . Hampshire . Sussex .

Surrey . Kent . Berkshire . Middlesex .

Essex and Hertfordshire. Suffolk and Norfolk. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.

Northamptonshire . Rutland . Lincolnshire . Staffordshire and Shropshire.

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Warwickshire and Leicestershire. Devon . Cornwall .

Gloucestershire . Herefordshire . Worcestershire .

304
11 Oct. Montgomery. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand of 5 m. that they make from Walter de Envermeu at the Exchequer, until the octaves of Martinmas in the eighth year. Witness H. etc.
305
Pardon. The king has pardoned Thomas Corbet 20 m., in aid of strengthening his castle, of the 100 m. that he owes him for his relief, and, of the remaining 80 m., the king has granted that he may render 20 m. each year at the Exchequer, namely 10 m. at Easter next following in the eighth year, 20 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year, and thus from year to year at the same terms until he will have satisfied the king of the aforesaid 80 m. Order to cause Thomas to be quit of the aforesaid 20 m. and cause the aforesaid grant to be enrolled thus. Witness H. etc. as above. By the same.
306
12 Oct. Shrewsbury. Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to place in respite, until Hilary in the eighth year, the demand that he makes from Robert Wolf by summons of the Exchequer for the 20 m. and two palfreys which he owes the king. Witness H. etc.
307
[No date]. Norfolk and Suffolk. The king has granted to Richard, his brother, the scutage of the knights’ fees that are held in chief of the honour of Eye , which is in his hand, to be collected by the hands of his bailiffs, namely 2 m. per shield for the army of Wales, in which etc., from which the king has granted him 100 m., saving the rest to the king.
308
[No date]. Concerning the scutage of the earl of Arundel. The earl of Arundel will answer the king by his hand at the Exchequer for 100 m. of the scutage of the knights’ fees which he holds of the king in chief for the army of Wales, of which he is to render a moiety at St. Andrew in the eighth year and the other moiety at the Purification of the Blessed Mary next following.
309
[No date]. Concerning the scutage of Gilbert de Gant. Gilbert de Gant will answer the king by his hand for the moiety of the scutage of the knights’ fees, namely 62 fees, which he holds of the king in chief, for the same army.
310
16 Oct. Evesham. Northumberland. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland to cause to be replevied to Roger of Hodsock his land in Callaly and Yetlington, which he took into the king’s hand by order of the barons of the Exchequer, because Roger has mainperned before the king that he will come to the Exchequer on the morrow of St. Andrew ready to render his account and ready to satisfy the king for the other things by reason of which that land was taken into the king’s hand. Witness H. etc.
311
[No date]. Concerning the scutage of Ralph Musard. The king has granted to Ralph Musard 10 m. from the scutage of twelve knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief for the army of Wales, and he is to render the remaining 14 m. to the king by his hand.
312
18 Oct. Oxford. Westmorland. John of Newbiggin gives the king 3 m. for having justices in Westmorland to take an assize of novel disseisin at Appleby in the octaves of Hilary against Robert de Vieuxpont. Order to the sheriff of Westmorland to take etc. Witness H. etc.
313
20 Oct. Windsor. Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite the demand of 2½ m. that he makes from Richard Walensis by summons of the Exchequer, namely so that he renders a moiety to the king at the Exchequer at Hilary in the eighth year and the other moiety at the Close of Easter in the same year. Witness ... By the same.
314
22 Oct. Westminster. Essex. Sibyl of Burwash gives the king half a mark for having a pone against William of Burwash and Joan, his wife, concerning half a carucate of land with appurtenances in Burwash. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc. 1 Witness H. etc.
1.
Recte Sussex.
315
[No date]. Concerning the countess of Winchester. The king has granted licence to the countess of Winchester to collect her scutage by her hand from the knights’ fees that she holds of the king in chief, so that she will have a moiety of the scutage and the king will have the other moiety. 1
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‘of the honour of Leicester ’ crossed through.

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316
23 Oct. Westminster. Concerning the testament of the bishop of Exeter. To William Brewer, keeper of the bishopric of Exeter . S. archdeacon of Exeter and S. archdeacon of Cornwall and the other executors of the testament of S. formerly bishop of Exeter have made fine with the king by 50 m., to be rendered at Martinmas in 15 days in the eighth year, for having the chattels formerly of the bishop that are in the king’s custody, in order to execute the testament of the same bishop, all horses, oxen, cows, pigs and sheep in the manors of the bishopric that the bishop received upon his first arrival into the bishopric having been retained. Diligent inquisition concerning the same receipts having first been made by trustworthy and law-worthy men of the bishopric, they are also to mainpern to render to the king on the same day by their hand one silver flagon and two silver bowls, which the bishop gave to King John, the king’s father, and which remained in the bishop’s custody. Order to cause the executors to have full seisin of the aforesaid chattels in order to execute the testament of the bishop, as aforesaid. Order to distrain all of the bishop’s debtors, who are in his custody, to render to the executors all arrears of their debts which they ought to have rendered to the same bishop. Witness H. etc.
317
[No date]. Norfolk. Robert of Twyford gives the king half a mark for having a precipe 1 against Isabella de Curcun, concerning land in Snareshill. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.
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Corrected from ‘pone’.
318
[No date]. Concerning the scutage of William Bardolf. William Bardolf has licence to collect scutage from the knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief for the army of Wales, so that he will have a moiety and the king will have the other moiety.
319
Somerset. Robert de Morcellis gives half a mark for having a pone against Jordan Ridel, concerning land in Cossington. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take etc. Witness as above.
320
[No date]. Concerning the scutage of William de Braose. William de Braose has licence to collect scutage from the knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief, and he will have a moiety of the scutage and the king will have the other moiety.
321
24 Oct. Westminster. Nottinghamshire. Robert of Salcey, son and heir of Robert of Salcey, has made fine with the king by 10 m. for his relief of one knight’s fee formerly of Robert, his father, which he ought to hold of the king in chief, and the king has taken his homage for this. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc. and cause him to have full seisin of the three parts of one knight’s fee in his bailiwick formerly of Robert, his father. Witness H. etc.
322
Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to cause [the same Robert] to have full seisin of the fourth part of a knight’s fee formerly of the same Robert in his bailiwick. Witness as above.
323
Sussex. Order to the sheriff of Sussex and Robert of Amberley to have all money from fixed rents of the lands of the abbot of Fécamp from Michaelmas term last past in the seventh year at the Exchequer on the morrow of St. Andrew. Witness as above.
324
Sussex. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take into the king’s hand the land formerly of Matilda de Cheyney in his bailiwick and to keep it safely with all chattels found therein, so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise. Witness as above. By the same.
325
25 Oct. Westminster. Nottinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from William Bardolf for the king’s first scutage, until upon his next account at the Exchequer. Witness H. etc. By the same.
326
Henry of Eleigh, who holds three knights’ fees of the king, has made fine with him by 4 m. for having seisin of his lands that were taken into the king’s hand by reason of the order the king made to take into his hand the lands of all those who did not come to the army of Wales at his summons.
327
[No date]. Lincolnshire. Amercements made before Robert of Lexington and his associates, justices constituted to take an assize of novel disseisin between Robert de Gray and Amice, his wife, and John de Baiuse and Ralph Reeve, concerning the free tenement of Robert and Amice in Thoresway:

John de Baiuse, the principal disseiser, is to be amerced before the king because he is a baron. From Ralph, his reeve, 10 m. for disseisin. From Geoffrey of Thorpe, half a mark, because he withdrew himself and had been present. From John Eskavin, 1 m. for the same. From William, son of Hamo of Walesby, half a mark for the same. From Robert of Otby, 40s. for the same. From Thomas of Willingham, half a mark for the same. From Hugh of Benniworth, half a mark for the same.

328
These are the fines of the seventh year of the reign of King Henry son of King John. From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer and before it had been sent by the hand of the elect of Chichester. 1
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Entry omitted in C 60/19, m. 1.

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