29 Oct. Westminster. Leicestershire. To the sheriff of Leicestershire. The king has granted to the venerable father W. archbishop of York that he may collect scutage from the knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief in the sheriff’s bailiwick for the army of Wales to the king’s use, namely 2 m. for each shield, and he will answer the king by his hand at the Exchequer. Order to permit him to collect the aforesaid scutage without impediment and to answer the king, as aforesaid. ¹ Witness H. etc. By the same.

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This roll has been collated with C 60/20, its duplicate, in respect of additional information and significant variants.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Yorkshire , Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire .

29 Oct. Westminster. Concerning the tallage of the bishopric of Exeter . To Herbert de Pinu and Thomas of Hertford, clerk . Order to go with the sheriff of Devon throughout all manors of the bishopric of Exeter and assess tallage to the king’s use. For the king has ordered the sheriff of Devon to attend to this with them. Witness H. etc. By the same.

Concerning tallage of the vill of Cirencester. Order to Ralph of Williton and Henry le Droeis to go with the sheriff of Gloucestershire to Cirencester and assess tallage therein to the king’s use. Witness as above.

Concerning tallage of the vill of Cirencester. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to attend to this with them.

Lincolnshire. The prior of Sixhills gives the king half a mark for having a pone against Hugh de Neville. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc. Witness as above.

Lincolnshire. Robert Chamberlain gives the king half a mark for having a pone against Isabella who was the wife of William Chamberlain , concerning the custody of Ralph, son of William Chamberlain. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc. Witness as above.

Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take into the king’s hand without delay all land that Matthew Turpin held in Tytherton Lucas and in Winterslow, and to keep it safely so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise, saving to Robert de Barville that land which he holds by order of the king in Winterslow. If anything has been removed from that land of Winterslow since Robert had seisin of it, he is to cause it to be rendered to him without delay. Witness as above.

Yorkshire. The abbot of Meaux gives half a mark for summoning Ernald de Areines to warrant to him his charter concerning land in Seaton. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc. Witness as above.

Yorkshire. To the sheriff of Yorkshire. William of Givendale has made fine with the king by 80 m. for having seisin of all land with appurtenances in Givendale which Robert Crossbowman, his father, whose heir he is, held of the king in sergeanty, the greater part of which land Robert sold without the licence and assent of King John, the king’s father, or of the king, so that 10 m. will be allowed to William in the fine of those 80 m. which is exacted from the same land at the Exchequer for a debt of the Jews. William is to render this fine to the king within two years. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering that fine to the king, as aforesaid, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all the aforesaid land with its appurtenances. Witness as above. By the same.

Concerning the castles of the High Peak and Bolsover. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted his castles of the High Peak and Bolsover to Brian de Lisle to keep for as long as it pleases the king for a farm of £100, to be rendered per annum at the Exchequer. Order to cause this grant to be enrolled and observed for as long as it pleases the king. Witness as above. By the same.

Bedfordshire. Mabel Burnard’ gives half a mark for having a writ to send four knights to her to hear he whom she will wish to attorn in her place in a plea between her and William fitz Warin and Agnes, his wife, concerning the custody of the land and heir of Milo de Bray. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc. Witness as above.

Norfolk. Walter Trussebut and Alice, his wife, give the king half a mark for having a writ to send four knights to them to hear he whom they will wish to attorn against Ralph de Alling’. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness as above.

Hampshire. Elias son of Jordan gives the king half a mark for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors of an assize of novel disseisin against Martin Palmer and Edith, his wife, concerning a tenement in Wedring. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take etc. Witness as above.

Gloucestershire. The abbot of Kingswood gives half a mark for summoning John of Acton before the justices of the Bench to warrant him his charter. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take etc. Witness as above.

Devon. Phillip de Beaumont gives one mark for summoning Alice de Beaumont to render to him the fourth part of a knight’s fee in Landcross. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness as above.

Cornwall. Robert of Winchester gives one mark for summoning William son of Richard to render to him 2400 lumps of tin and 22s. 4d. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall to take etc. Witness as above.

Cornwall. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall and Devon to cause the keepers of the bishopric of Exeter to have scutage from the knights’ fees that are held of the aforesaid bishopric, ¹ because they will answer the king for it at the Exchequer by their hand. Witness as above.

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Corrected from ‘… held of the king in chief’.

4 Nov. Westminster. Lincolnshire. To the sheriff of Lincolnshire. The king has granted to John de Baiuse that he may collect scutage from the knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief, namely 2 m. for every shield, for the king’s army of Wales, and he may answer by his hand at the Exchequer for 30 m. in the name of scutage. He has further made fine with the king by 10 m. for having peace from when he did not come to the king, or had his due service come with the king, in the aforesaid army, and for having peace from the amercement he incurred before the justices lately assigned for the disseisin he made against Robert de Gray of the tenement of Thoresway, of which 10 m. he is to render 5 m. at the Exchequer at Hilary forthcoming in the eighth year and 5 m. at the Close of Easter next following in the same year. Order that, having accepted security from John for rendering the aforesaid 30 m. to the king at the Exchequer in the name of scutage and the aforesaid 10 m. at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause him to have his scutage, as aforesaid, and permit him to have peace for having neither himself nor his service with the king in his army of Wales, and from the aforesaid amercement, so that he is to reseise him without delay of his land, which he took into the king’s hand for this reason. Witness H. etc.

Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to cause the aforesaid John to have his scutage from the knights’ fees he holds of the king in chief in his bailiwick, namely 2 m. per shield, for the king’s army of Wales, for which John will answer the king by his hand, as is agreed between the king and him. Witness as above.

Suffolk. Richard, son of Roger of Hessett gives the king half a mark for having a pone against William, son of Michael of Rushbrooke and Walter of Holme, concerning land in Hessett. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. Witness as above.

7 Nov. Westminster. Oxfordshire. Roger Gernon ¹ gives half a mark for having a pone before the king’s justices at Westminster at Hilary in one month against William of Lewknor, concerning one hide of land with appurtenances in Lewknor. ² He has the sheriff (sic.). Order to the sheriff etc. for the writ. Witness H. etc.

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C 60/20, m. 7 ‘Grun’.

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‘Lewknor’ omitted in C 60/20, m. 7.

Berkshire. William Hereward ¹ and Denise, his wife, and Henry of Pusey give half a mark for having a pone before the king’s justices at Westminster in the octaves of Hilary, concerning a hide of land with appurtenances in Keynton’, against William de Wauncy ² They have the writ. Order to the sheriff etc. for the writ. Witness as above.

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C 60/20, m. 7 ‘Hereford’.

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‘for the writ’ interlined here apparently in error.

8 Nov. Somerset. The king has committed the city of Bath to J. bishop of Bath, keeper of the priory of Bath , to keep until there is a prior there, so that he answers by his hand at the Exchequer for the farm that the prior of Bath used to render to the king before his election to the abbacy of Glastonbury . Order to the sheriff to permit the bishop to hold the aforesaid city with its appurtenances in peace, answering the king for the farm as aforesaid. Witness etc.

Suffolk. William Juvenal gives the king half a mark for having the record before the justices of the Bench of a plea that was between him and Walter de Valognes and Mary, his wife, concerning land in Churchford. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. Witness as above.

9 Nov. Uxbridge. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make from Henry de Hauville for the farm of the manor of Brigstock until Martinmas in 15 days. Witness H. etc.

12 Nov. Woodstock. Concerning the fine of Ranulf de Vernay. To William Brewer. Ranulf de Vernay, who has taken Agnes Wake to wife without the licence or will of the king, made fine with the king by 25 m. while Agnes was still alive for having the king’s grace and benevolence for that trespass. Order to cause him [the king] to have the aforesaid 25 m., without delay, from the chattels formerly of Agnes which are in his custody. Witness H. etc.

Norfolk. Simon Chaplain of Dalling gives half a mark for having a writ to warrant a charter against William son of Hamo, concerning land in Dalling. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness as above.

18 Nov. Gloucester. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Tuesday next after St. Catherine in the eighth year, the demand they make from Hugh de Vivonne at the Exchequer for the debt that William Malet, father of the wife of Vivon’ (sic.), owed the king, and for other debts which Hugh owes the king. Witness H. etc.

19 Nov. Gloucester. Gloucestershire. Concerning the vill of Winchcombe. To the sheriff of Gloucestershire. The king has granted the abbot of Winchcombe that he may have the vill of Winchcombe in his hand with all its appurtenances and with the hundreds of Kiftsgate and Holford and Greston, until the king comes of age, so that he is to render £50 each year upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas by his hand. The king also wishes that the manors of the same abbot of Sherborne and Bledington are to be quit of suits of the county and hundred until the king’s aforesaid majority. Order to permit the abbot to hold the aforesaid vill with its appurtenances and the aforesaid hundreds without delay, as aforesaid, and to cause the aforesaid manors of Sherborne and Bledington to be quit of suits of the county and hundred in the meantime. If he has taken anything from the aforesaid vill and the aforesaid hundreds since Michaelmas in the seventh year, he is to cause it to be rendered to him without delay. Witness H. etc. By the same.

Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite the tallage that the king caused to be assessed upon the vill of Cirencester, until three weeks from Hilary in the eighth year, because the abbot of Cirencester has been ordered to be before the king then or his justiciar, or the barons of the Exchequer, and is to have the charters that he has from the king’s ancestors, in order to show by the same charters whether he ought to be quit of tallage or not. Witness as above. By the same.

22 Nov. Cirencester. Somerset. To John of Monmouth. ¹ William Avenel has made fine with the king by 40 m. for having the land formerly of Ralph Avenel, his father, which he ought to hold of the king in chief and which falls to him by hereditary right, with the bailiwick and castle of Bicknor . And because William has given the king surety by John de Bernay for rendering that fine, order to cause William to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid land formerly of Ralph that falls to him by inheritance, with the aforesaid bailiwick and castle of Bicknor. Witness H. etc.

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Corrected from ‘the sheriff of Gloucestershire’.

Somerset. John de Reingny is his pledge and is in Somerset.

29 Nov. Tower of London. Sussex. Geoffrey Peverel gives half a mark for having a pone against Hubert de Warham and Eustachia, his wife, for keeping them to an agreement made between them concerning a moiety of the manor of Wyke . Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc. Witness H. etc.

Devon. Geoffrey Taverner gives one mark for doing justice against Robert de Courtenay and others to render him the money that he exacts from them. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take etc. Witness as above.

Essex. Hugh de Cantilupe gives 1 m. for having a record before the justices of the Bench of a plea that was in the county court of Essex between the same Hugh and John of Goldingham, concerning the livestock of the same John detained against gage and pledge, about which Hugh complains that a false judgement had been made in the same county court. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc. Witness as above.

Norfolk. Adam son of Deodatus gives half a mark for having a pone against Charles son of Robert and Alice, his wife, concerning a messuage in Lynn. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. Witness as above.

[No date]. Sussex. Nicholas Haringod gives half a mark for summoning Thomas de Prunhull’ and others to warrant to him his charter concerning land in Prunhull’. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc.

[No date]. Sussex. The abbot of Fécamp gives the king 100 m. for having seisin of all his lands and rents in England, of which he is to render a moiety at the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the eighth year and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter next following, allowing 10 m. 8s. to the abbot in the same 100 m., which Robert of Narford took from the rent of the manor of Brede while it was in the king’s hand.

Suffolk. Hugh Tollemache gives half a mark for having a pone against the prior of Holy Trinity, Ipswich and others, concerning the customs and services that he exacts from them. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. Witness as above.

Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand he makes from Ralph de Tany by summons of the Exchequer for horses of value (de precio), palfreys and hawks, until Easter in the eighth year. Witness as above.

7 Dec. New Temple, London. Cambridgeshire. Agnes who was the wife of Nicholas le Moyne has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of the same Nicholas, with the marriage of the heirs. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire that, having accepted security from her for rendering those 10 m. to the king, he is to cause her to have full seisin. Witness H. etc. By the same.

Hertfordshire. Jordan son of William gives half a mark for having a pone against John son of William, concerning five acres of land with appurtenances in Dareworth’. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take. Witness as above.

[No date]. For having carucage. Order to the bishop of Durham to cause the carucage assessed in the kingdom of England in aid of the king to be collected throughout each of his fees, and to be ready to answer the king by his hand at the Exchequer at Hilary in 15 days.

27 Dec. Northampton. Somerset. To the sheriff of Somerset. The king has granted the vill of Bath to the prior of Bath to keep for as long as it pleases the king by the same farm that the abbot of Glastonbury, formerly prior of Bath, was accustomed to render at the time when he was prior there, for which the same prior is to answer the king at the Exchequer by his hand. Order to permit the aforesaid prior to hold the said vill by the aforesaid farm, as aforesaid. If he has taken anything therefrom since he took the vill of Bath into the king’s hand, he is to cause it to be rendered to him without delay. ¹ Witness the king (Teste me ipso) in the presence of H. de Burgh, justiciar, and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

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This is the first writ on the Fine Rolls witnessed by the king following the partial lifting of the restrictions of the minority; see Carpenter, Minority, p.321.

28 Dec. Northampton. Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite, until the Close of Easter in the eighth year, the demand for debt that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Alice countess of Eu from the time of King John. Witness H. etc. (sic.) in the presence of H. de Burgh, justiciar.

30 Dec. Northampton. Gloucestershire. To the sheriff of Gloucestershire. The king has granted to Osbert Gifford, in order to sustain him in the king’s service for as long as it pleases the king, that land with appurtenances which Ralph de Vernay had by bail of King John, the king’s father, to sustain him in the king’s service for as long as it pleased him, from the king’s demesne of Barton outside Gloucester in the vill of Wick, so that he is to render 60s. to the king each year by his hand at the Exchequer, saving the chattels formerly of the same Ralph in the same land to his wife and children, as well as the executors of his testament. Witness the king. in the presence of H. de Burgh, justiciar, and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

Concerning respite. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order to place in respite, until the octaves of Hilary, the demand he makes from W. earl of Ferrers and his men for the fine which the men of his county made with Brian de Lisle for placing the pleas of the forest in respite, so that it may be inquired more fully then at the Exchequer whether they ought to be partners for that fine or not. Witness as above.

1 Jan. Northampton. Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to take into the king’s hand the land that Alice de Bella Aqua held of the king in chief in his bailiwick, so that nothing is removed from the chattels found therein until the king orders otherwise. Witness the king.

31 Oct. Westminster. To the sheriff of Suffolk. Order, without delay, to reseise David de Lindes’, who is in the custody of A. King of Scots, of all his lands with appurtenances in his bailiwick that he took into the king’s hand by his order, because he was not with, nor did he have his due service with, the king in his army of Wales. ¹ Witness H. etc.

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Entry cancelled.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire .

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Suffolk for Henry of Eleigh. ¹

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None of these dorse entries are recorded on the duplicate roll (C 60/20).

13 Jan. Westminster. Kent. Robert of Wheatacre and John, his brother, give the king half a mark for having a pone against Osbert Chaplain of Barefeld’, concerning land in Barefeld’. They have the writ. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc. ¹ Witness the king.

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From this point onwards the witness to the letters on the Fine Rolls is almost invariably the king. Accordingly from henceforth in the calendar, reference to the witness is only made when it is someone other than the king. Where no date is given to an entry in the calendar it is witnessed ‘as above’ save if it begins [No date] where there is no indication of date save the place on the roll.

14 Jan. Westminster. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to place in respite the demand of 20 m. and two palfreys that he makes from Robert Wolf by summons of the Exchequer, until one month from Easter in the eighth year.

[No date]. Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. William, son and heir of William de Keu ought to answer the king for his relief of the lands that William, his father, held of the king in chief in Wighton in Norfolk, and of the lands that he held in Morden in Cambridgeshire. The same William says that he holds a knight’s fee in Wighton and half a knight’s fee in Morden and Cottered.

[No date]. Buckinghamshire. In the same manner, William de Sunilly, son and heir of William de Sunilly, ought to answer for his relief of the lands that his father held of the king in Isemberg’. The same William says that he holds a knight’s fee in the same vill of the king.

19 Jan. Westminster. The honour of Montgomery . The king has committed the manor , honour and castle of Montgomery to Hubert Hoese and Godescallus de Maghelvis’ to keep for as long as it pleases the king . ¹

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This entry is clearly a late addition. Not only is it crammed between those surrounding it, but C 60/20, m. 7 omits it entirely.

22 Jan. Westminster. Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite the demand for relief that he makes from G. count of St. Pol by summons of the Exchequer, until 15 days from Easter in the eighth year.

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

Sussex. John son of Urban of Hastings gives half a mark for having a pone against Laurence of Horsey, concerning land in Horsey. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to take etc.

Because he did not promise. Kent. Reginald of Totnes gives 20s. for summoning Ralph son of Bernard to render £11 to him. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take etc. ¹

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Entry cancelled. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 7. The marginal annotation was possibly meant to indicate ‘because he did not have that for which he promised’.

Yorkshire. Richard de Percy gives one mark for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors, concerning a hay in Langstrothdale levelled to the harm of the free tenement of William de Percy in Buckden. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc.

The king has committed the bishopric of Coventry to Master Michael Belet to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. William of Campden and Matilda, his wife, and Eva of Horton give the king half a mark for having a pone against Godwin of Coldicote, concerning land in Horton. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take etc.

3 Feb. Westminster. Staffordshire. Phillip, son and heir of Richard of Rugeley has made fine with the king ¹ by 6 m. for having seisin of the land that Richard held of the king in chief in Rugeley, which falls to Phillip by inheritance . Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire that, having accepted security from Phillip for rendering those 6 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all the aforesaid land that Richard held of the king in Rugeley, which is in the king’s hand.

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Corrected from ‘with the Pope’.

5 Feb. Westminster. Warwickshire. William of Hardwick gives half a mark for summoning Richard son of Turkild to render to him one virgate of land with appurtenances in Caldecote. He has the writ. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take etc.

6 Feb. Westminster. Cambridgeshire. To the sheriff of Cambridgeshire. The king has granted to the prior of Barnwell that he may have the manor of Chesterton with appurtenances at fee farm for £30 yearly, to be rendered at the Exchequer by his hand according to the tenor of the charter of King John, the king’s father, that he has for it, saving the £10 to him annually that he used to take for the king’s alms established in the same manor. Order to cause the prior to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances without delay, as aforesaid. In the presence of the archbishop of Canterbury and H. de Burgh, justiciar.

Devon. Matthew of Torrington has made fine with the king by £100 for his relief of the land formerly of William of Torrington, his nephew, whose heir he is, and the king has taken his homage and fealty, and he has found the king Earl W. Marshal as pledge for 100 m. Order to the sheriff of Devon that, having accepted security from him for rendering 50 m. ¹ to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with its appurtenances in his bailiwick without delay.

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Corrected from ‘those £100’.

Devon. Order to William Brewer to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with appurtenances, which is in his custody.

7 Feb. Westminster. Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite, until Easter in 15 days in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Phillip Marc by summons of the Exchequer for the debt of Andrew Luttrell, who is in his custody.

The honour of Marlborough . The king has committed the castle of Marlborough to Robert Wolf with the honour of Marlborough , to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

Essex. Alveva and Edith, daughters of Eva daughter of Wulveva, and Leticia daughter of Liveva give half a mark for having a pone against Alan Palmer, Gilbert Gos and Robert Post, concerning a messuage in Horndon. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

9 Feb. Westminster. Essex. To the sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire. Order to cause Stephen of Seagrave to have the moiety of the farms of sergeanties, frankpledges and aids of sheriffs, sursises and perquisites and other issues of the aforesaid counties for half a year, namely from Michaelmas in the seventh year to Easter in the eighth year, so that he might answer the king sufficiently for the moiety of that half-year, namely for a quarter of a year. Alternatively, the sheriff is to retain fully the aforesaid issues of the aforesaid half-year, so that Stephen renders to him that which he receives of the issues of the same half-year, and then the sheriff is to be respondent [answer] to the king for all issues of the whole of the half-year aforesaid.

Essex. To the same sheriff. Order to cause Stephen of Seagrave to have all his arrears due to him in the aforesaid counties from the time before Michaelmas last past in the seventh year, for which he has answered the king at the Exchequer. If he ought to answer for the time after the same Michaelmas, then the sheriff is similarly to cause him to have all his arrears from all of the time for which he is to answer the king.

Essex. To Stephen of Seagrave. Order to cause the king’s manors of Writtle and Newport to be delivered, by the view of trustworthy and law-worthy men, to Richard de Argentan, sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire , ¹ to keep for as long as it pleases the king with the stock and corn of the same manors and with the issues that have arisen since Michaelmas in the seventh year, so that he can answer the king in full for the whole year from Michaelmas aforesaid, and he is to cause it to be distinctly and openly recorded by the view of the aforesaid trustworthy and law-worthy men how he delivers the aforesaid manors to Richard and how Richard receives them, so that he has one roll and the aforesaid Richard the counter-roll.

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C 60/20, m. 6 ‘Robert de Argentan’.

Essex. Order to Richard de Argentan to receive the aforesaid manors with their appurtenances, as aforesaid, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

12 Feb. Westminster. The fine of William son of Daniel Butler. William, son and heir of Daniel Butler gives the king 15 m. for having seisin of the mill of Worm Hill, which King John, father of the king, gave to the same Daniel, father of William, whose heir he is, by his charter, as he says, of which he is to render 5 m. at Easter in the eighth year, 5 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and 5 m. at Hilary in the ninth year. Order to Robert of Lexington that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king, as is aforesaid, he is to cause him to have full seisin.

23 Feb. Westminster. Lancaster. To the sheriff of Lancaster. The king has taken the homage and fealty of Thomas, son and heir of William son of William for the land that he ought to hold of the king in chief in Riton’. Order that, having accepted security from him for his relief of as much as pertains to that land which he ought to hold of the king in the aforesaid vill, for which the king has taken his homage, he is to cause him to have full seisin and to inquire diligently how much land Thomas ought to hold of the king in chief in the aforesaid vill, and by what service, and how much that land is worth per annum, and whether he ought to hold it of the king by a service of 20s. or by a greater service, and, the inquisition having been taken, he is to send it to the king under his seal and the seals of those by whom the inquisition will have been taken. ¹

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This entry is marked with a marginal cross resembling a mathematical addition sign.

29 Feb. Marlborough. The fine of Osbert Gifford. Osbert Gifford has made fine with the king by 200 m. for having custody of the land and heir of William of Hastings, with the marriage of the heir of the same William. Order to the sheriffs of Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire to cause him to have full seisin of all lands formerly of William in their bailiwicks.

Order to Ralph Musard to cause him to have the son and heir of the same William.

The aforesaid Osbert has found pledges for rendering this fine, namely:

William Brewer for 20 m. Ralph fitz Nicholas for 20 m. Waleran Teutonicus for 20 m. Robert Mauduit for 20 m. Henry of Walpole for 60 m. Eustace de Greinville for 10 m. Robert de Vaux for 20 m. Wymund of Raleigh for 10 m. William of Rowden for 10 m. Eustace de Laval for 10 m.

[No date]. John of Bassingbourn offers the king 100 m. for having custody of the land formerly of Guy de Dive, with his sons and heirs, whose first-born married John’s daughter , so that, of those 100 m. and, moreover, of the debt mentioned above that the heir owes the king for his father, he is to render 100 m. each year until he has paid that fine of 100 m. and all of the aforesaid debt in full.

[No date]. Robert of Narford is his pledge for 10 m.

29 Feb. Marlborough. Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire that, immediately after having viewed these letters of the king, he is to take into the king’s hand the vills of Calstone and Calne, which William de Cantilupe held by bail of King John, and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed therefrom, and to answer for the issues of the same vills at the Exchequer until the king orders otherwise.

Wiltshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take the vill of Upavon, which Peter de Maulay holds by bail of King John, into the king hand.

Hampshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Hampshire, concerning the vill of Titchfield, formerly of John de Gisors, which Robert de Vieuxpont holds by bail of King John.

Oxfordshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning the vills of Kirtlington and Ducklington, which William de Bréauté holds by bail of King John.

Essex. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Essex, concerning the lands of the Normans and Bretons in his bailiwick, which William de Bréauté holds by bail of King John or King Henry, his son, and he is to cause the king to know the names of those lands and how much they are worth per annum.

Dorset. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Dorset, concerning the vill of Melborne, formerly of Guy de la Val, which Robert de Vieuxpont holds by bail of King John.

Cambridgeshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire, concerning the lands of the Normans and Bretons in his bailiwick, which William de Bréauté holds by bail of King John or King Henry, his son, and he is to cause the king to know the names of those lands and how much they are worth per annum.

Concerning the land of the earl of the Isle [of Wight]. The king has committed to Waleran Teutonicus the land formerly of the earl of the Isle [of Wight] in Surrey, Hampshire, and Dorset to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriffs of Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset to cause him to have full seisin.

1 March. Marlborough. Sussex. To the sheriff of Sussex. Reginald de Berneval is in the king’s service in Ireland by his order. Order to place in respite the demand for 30 m. that he makes from him by summons of the Exchequer until one year from Easter in the eighth year. He is also not to distrain him in the meantime to perform suits at the county and hundred until the aforesaid term.

1 March. Marlborough. Sussex. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire similarly not to distrain the same Reginald to perform suits at the same until the same term.

2 March. Marlborough. Concerning the vill of Marlborough. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted to his trustworthy men of Marlborough that they are to have the vill of Marlborough at farm for as long as it pleases the king for £50, to be rendered by their hand at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, namely so that they are to render 100s. at the Exchequer from St. Peter in Cathedra in the eighth year until Easter in the same year, at which term they will receive that vill from the king at farm, and from the same Easter they will answer the king for £25 until Michaelmas in the same year, and they will answer thus by their hand each year for £50 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas for as long as it pleases the king. Order to receive the aforesaid farm from them each year, as aforesaid. In the presence of H. de Burgh, justiciar, J. bishop of Bath, and William Brewer

Order to the constable of Marlborough to permit the aforesaid men to hold the aforesaid vill, as aforesaid.

7 March. Bristol. Somerset. William son of John of Harptree has made fine with the king for the 280 m. that he owes him of the fine he made with King John for having the custody of the land and heir of William of Carew, and for the 5 m. that he owes the king for having the writ that he had for doing justice against Roger of Hazeldon to render him a debt that he owed him, namely so that he is to render 50 m. to the king each year. In this the eighth year he is to render the first 50 m. to the king at Michaelmas, and each year thereafter 25 m. at Easter and 25 m. at Michaelmas. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to make no distraint upon him for this, but permit him to answer the king for that fine at the Exchequer, as aforesaid.

9 March. Bristol. Concerning the assarts of the Forest of Dean . Order to Roger of Clifford that, having taken with him the verderers and foresters of the fee of the Forest of Dean and other trustworthy and law-worthy men, he is to inquire diligently what assarts were made in the Forest of Dean after the war began between King John and his barons of England, and who made them and by what warrant, and he is to cause this to be distinctly and openly recorded, and how much they contained by the number of acres, and who holds them, and he is to take those assarts into the king’s hand without delay and keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

Staffordshire. Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire to take the manor of Newborough into the king’s hand without delay, which Henry of Audley holds by bail of King John, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.

[No date]. To the archbishop of Dublin, justiciar of Ireland. Know that Nicholas … ¹

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Entry unfinished and cancelled. It is omitted in C 60/20, m. 7.

11 March. Bristol. Concerning £140 from the High Peak. Robert of Lexington ought to answer at the Exchequer in this the eighth year for £140 from the High Peak, and the king has committed his castle of the High Peak to the same Robert with its appurtenances, to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

11 March. Bristol. Concerning the castle of Bolsover . Similarly, the king has committed the castle of Bolsover with its appurtenances to William Brewer to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

12 March. Bristol. Concerning the manor of Crowell . The king has committed the manor of Crowell with its appurtenances, formerly of the earl of the Isle [of Wight], to Waleran Teutonicus to keep for as long as it pleases the king and to answer for it at the Exchequer. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to cause him to have full seisin.

Concerning the vill of Portbury. The king has also committed the vill of Portbury, formerly of Herbert de Morville, a Norman , which ought to be in the king’s hand as an escheat by reason of the land of the earl of the Isle [of Wight] being in the king’s hand, to keep etc. and to answer then etc. as above. Order to the sheriff of Somerset ¹ to cause him to have seisin.

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C 60/20, m. 6 appears to have muddled this entry with the end of that following, placing the below order to the sheriff of Hampshire at the end of this entry in error whilst omitting all of the first half of the same entry.

Concerning the land of Gatcombe. The king has similarly committed all land formerly of Baldwin son of Estur in Gatcombe, and all land formerly of William of Afton in Afton, the custody of which ought to be in the king’s hand by reason of the aforesaid land of the said earl of [the Isle of] Wight being in the king’s hand, to keep etc. and to answer for it etc. as above. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to cause Waleran to have full seisin of all land formerly of Baldwin in Gatcombe, with the daughter and heiress of the same, and of all land formerly of William in Afton, with the son and heir of the same.

Concerning the vill of Bristol. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has committed the vill of Bristol with its appurtenances to the burgesses of Bristol for one year from St. Gregory in the eighth year by the farm of £245, for which they will answer the king by their hand for two parts of that farm at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and for the remainder at the Exchequer of Hilary. Order to receive the aforesaid farm from them thus. In the presence of H. de Burgh, justiciar, and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

Concerning the vill of Bristol. Memorandum that the king has committed the aforesaid vill to them for the aforesaid farm, saving prise of ale to the king to the use of the constable and the king’s watchmen staying in Bristol castle in as much as they will have use, so that the burgesses are to have the rest, and saving to the king the bailiwick of the barton of Bristol and of the chases of Brull’, Keynsham and the wood of Furches , which the king has retained in his hand.

14 March. Marlborough. Berkshire. To the sheriff of Berkshire. Josceus son of William has shown the king that the sheriff exacts £59 and more from him by summons of the Exchequer for John of Wiggonholt from the time during which John was sheriff of Berkshire for the reason that Josceus is the nephew of the same John, as he says. Order to the sheriff, if this is true, to cause his livestock taken for this reason to be replevied to him, having accepted good security from him that he will come upon the sheriff’s next account at the Exchequer ready to satisfy the king by the consideration of the barons of the Exchequer. ¹

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‘barons’ appears to be a later addition, not being recorded in C 60/20, m. 6 and being interlined in a fainter hand in the ‘master’.

22 March. Reading. Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand for debt that he makes from John of Wiggonholt by summons of the Exchequer for the time during which he was sheriff of Berkshire, having accepted security from him that he shall satisfy the king then. ¹

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At this point on the duplicate roll (C 60/20, m. 6) there is a cancelled entry, which reads ‘Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand for 70s. that he makes from Godfrey de Hauville ...’ See 114 below.

[No date]. The king has committed to Robert de ... ¹

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Entry crossed through and cancelled. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 6.

Bedfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to cause to be replevied to Matilda who was the wife of Roger de Beauchamp , until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the land that she held in dower of the gift of the same Roger in Sandy, which has been taken into the king’s hand by reason of the debt of Hugh de Beauchamp, grandfather of the aforesaid Roger, whose heir he is. In the presence of H. de Burgh, justiciar, and the bishop of Salisbury.

Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to cause to be replevied to Robert of Newburgh, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, his lands and fees of Winfrith, which have been taken into the king’s hand because Robert, it is said, sold them to the abbot of Bindon , and which Robert held of the king by the service of sergeanty. In the presence of H. de Burgh, justiciar, and the bishop of Salisbury.

Because in the Close Roll. Order to the constable of Montgomery to cause the land of John fitz Alan of Kerry, which he took into the king’s hand, to be replevied to the same John until the king orders otherwise. ¹ In the presence of the same.

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Entry cancelled. This entry was made on C 60/20 m. 6 but it has not been cancelled, although John’s name is omitted. The entry does not appear to be on the Close Roll.

22 March. Windsor. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the abbot of Croxton for the last tallage assessed upon the land of the abbot in Finedon, until upon his next account at the Exchequer.

[No date]. Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Peter fitz Herbert by summons of the Exchequer for the last scutage of Poitou from the time of King John, until upon his next account at the Exchequer.

23 March. Kingston. Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand for 70s. that he makes from Geoffrey de Hauville by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then. ¹

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This entry is dated ‘13 March’ in C 60/20, m. 6.

Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause the stock of Brian de Lisle extracted from the castle of Knaresborough , which he found near the castle and caused to be arrested for the demand he makes from him by summons of the Exchequer for the £204 which he owes the king of the arrears of his account from the time when he had the custody of the archbishopric of York, to be kept safely so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

25 March. Westminster. Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite the demand for £42 that he makes from Count Robert de Dreux by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at the Exchequer.

25 March. Westminster. Yorkshire. To the sheriff of Yorkshire. Nigel de Mowbray has made fine with the king by £500 for his relief and for having seisin of all lands and tenements of which William de Mowbray, his father, whose heir he is, was seised on the day he died and which fall to Nigel by inheritance. He is to render each year from Michaelmas in the eighth year £80 of those £500 and, moreover, to render £20 at the Exchequer of the debt that the king exacted from William, his father, by summons of the Exchequer, by which William previously made fine, ¹ namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter, until he will have paid to the king the aforesaid £500 and, moreover, the aforesaid debt which his father owed to the king, in full. Order that, having accepted security from Nigel for rendering the aforesaid £500 and the aforesaid debt to the king, as aforesaid, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all lands and tenements in his bailiwick, of which William was seised on the day he died and which fall to him by inheritance. Once he has accepted such security from him, he is to signify to the sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Kent by his letters that he has accepted such. He is also to cause the barons of the Exchequer to know upon his next account the names of the pledges by whom he has accepted security. If he has taken anything therefrom since he took his land into the king’s hand, he is to cause it to be rendered to him without delay.

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Details of previous fine interlined.

Norfolk. Sarra daughter of William gives half a mark for having a pone against Thomas de Amary and Basilia, his wife, concerning the moiety of a fourth part of a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Shingham. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take into the king’s hand the lands of Emedeswurth’ and Morden, which Peter Russell holds of the fee of William de Lanvallay, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

Because in the Close Roll. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to cause William de Bréauté to have his plough-oxen, cows and affers and his other chattels that were found in the manor of Kirtlington on the day upon which the sheriff took that manor into the king’s hand. ¹

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Entry cancelled and omitted in C 60/20, m. 6. See RLC, i, p. 589b.

Dorset. Richard le Gol gives the king half a mark for having a pone before the justices of the Bench between him and Roger of St. Edward and Leticia, his wife, and others, concerning land in Puddle. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take etc.

27 March. Westminster. Cambridgeshire. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to keep safely the vill of Swavesey, which is worth £30 per annum, and certain land in Fulbourn worth £20 per annum, which William de Bréauté held by bail of King John and which the sheriff took into the king’s hand, until the king orders otherwise.

Shropshire. The king has given respite to Henry of Audley from 100 m. of a prest which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, so that, namely, Henry is to render a moiety within 15 days from Easter shortly forthcoming in the eighth year and the other moiety within 15 days from Michaelmas next following. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to permit him to have that respite.

Honour of Boulogne . Order to the keeper of the honour of Boulogne to place in respite the demand of 8 m. that he makes from Earl H. Bigod for the first scutage of the king by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at the Exchequer. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand of £10 for a prest that he makes from Guy de la Poscener’ by summons of the Exchequer, until St. John the Baptist in the eighth year.

Devon. The king has committed to the elect of Exeter the abbey of Tavistock, vacant by the resignation of the abbot of the same place, to keep for as long as it pleases the king so that he answers for it at the Exchequer. Order to the sheriff of Devon to cause him to have full seisin of all lands, property, rents and all possessions pertaining to the same abbey.

Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to place in respite the demand he makes from the prior of Merton by summons of the Exchequer for a debt of William de Turville in Taplow, until upon his next account at the Exchequer.

Norfolk. To the sheriff of Norfolk. William de Burdeleys has made fine with the king by 10 m. for his relief of the land formerly of Lauretta Pycot, his grandmother, whose heir he is, which she held of the king in chief and which falls to William by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage for this. Order that, having accepted security from William for rendering those 10 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all land formerly of the aforesaid Lauretta, which she held of the king in chief and which falls to William by inheritance in his bailiwick. ¹

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This entry is marked with a cross within a circle in the margin.

Cumberland. To the sheriff of Cumberland. Robert of Wampool and Margaret, his wife, have made fine with the king by 2 m. for their relief for having seisin of two carucates of land with appurtenances in Cummersdale, which Richard son of Truca held of the king in chief, concerning which the king has heard by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that that land is worth 24s. 6d. per annum and that Margaret is Richard’s nearest heir . Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering that fine to the king, he is to cause Robert and Margaret to have full seisin.

Warwickshire. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire that if William son of William of Studley, taken and detained in the king’s prison for the death of Peter de Brok , for which Helewise who was [the wife] of Peter appeals him, will find him twelve trustworthy and law-worthy men of his county who will mainpern to have him before the justices at the first session [they take] when [they come to] those parts etc. to stand to right concerning that appeal, then he is to hand him over on bail to those twelve men until the arrival of the aforesaid justices, and he is to take security from William for one mark to the king’s use for having this writ.

Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to cause the livestock and chattels of Engelard de Cigogné, which the bailiffs of Odiham took for the demand that he made from him by summons of the Exchequer for 6 m. on the one hand and £15 16s. 10d. on the other, to be delivered to him, having accepted security from him for satisfying the king of the aforesaid debt upon his next account at the Exchequer. When he has taken that security, he is to signify this to the sheriff of Oxfordshire by his letters.

Oxfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that when the sheriff of Hampshire will have signified to him by his letters that he has accepted security from Engelard de Cigogné for satisfying the king upon his next account at the Exchequer of 6 m. on the one hand and £15 16s. 10d. on the other, which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, then he is to cause his livestock and chattels, which he took by reason of that debt, to be delivered to him without delay.

The fine of Geoffrey de Lisle. Notification to Waleran Teutonicus that Geoffrey de Lisle has made fine with the king by £100 for having custody of the land formerly of Baldwin son of Estur, with the marriage of the daughter and heiress of the same Baldwin, of which he is to render 40 m. to the king per annum, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter, until he will have paid those £100 to the king. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering that fine, as aforesaid, then he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all land with appurtenances formerly of Baldwin which is in Waleran’s custody. ¹ In the presence of the same.

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‘And similarly he is to cause him to have the daughter and heiress of the same Baldwin’ crossed through.

To the sheriff of Essex. Order to place before the justices at Westminster at Easter in one month the plea that is in his county court between Richard Pikoc and Goldcorna, his wife, and William Pikoc and Isabella, his wife, and Alice, her sister, claimants, and Ailwin atte Strete, defendant, concerning a fourth part of a virgate of land with appurtenances in Havering, and to take security from Richard and the others for half a mark to the king’s use.

To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted to Roger of Clifford that, of the debt of 30 m., on the one hand, and of 25 m., on the other, which he owes the king and which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, he may render 100s. to the king each year until he will have paid that debt to the king in full. Order to cause that debt to be enrolled thus and to cause it to be done.

31 March. Westminster. Buckinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to cause the livestock of Peter Blund, which he took for the debt that is exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, to be replevied to him until upon his next account at the Exchequer, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then.

1 April. Westminster. Bedfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to cause the chattels formerly of Phillip Stettel, which are in the king’s hand because he abjured the realm for the death of Richard, his son, to be valued by the view of the coroners and trustworthy men, and to demise them by that value to Meisenta, wife of the same Phillip, having accepted security from her that she will answer for the aforesaid value before the itinerant justices when they come into those parts. Witness the king. In the presence of the justiciar.

1 April. Westminster. Warwickshire. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire that, immediately after having viewed the king’s letters, he is to take into the king’s hand all lands of the Normans in his bailiwick and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise. Witness as above. In the presence of the same and the bishop of Bath.

Wiltshire. William de Pont-de-l’Arche has made fine with the king by 5 m. for having seisin of his land of Swindon, which was taken into the king’s hand by his order, because he was not in the army of Wales. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take security for rendering a moiety of the aforesaid 5 m. to the king at St. John the Baptist in the eighth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas next in the same year, and then to cause him to have full seisin. Witness as above. In the presence of the justiciar.

31 March. Westminster. Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from the men of church of St. Peter of York and the men who are in parts remote from the forest for the amercement of the forest that B. de Lisle imposed upon them, and who have never been amerced thus, as they say. Witness the king. By the justiciar.

Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to place in respite the 9 m. which are exacted from William de Mohun by summons of the Exchequer, of which he ought to have rendered a moiety at Mid-Lent in the eighth year and the other moiety at Easter next following, so that he renders the moiety of the aforesaid debt at Michaelmas in the same year and the other moiety at Easter next following.

Because in the Close Roll. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take into the king’s hand the land of Drogo son of Simon in his bailiwick and to keep it until he has rendered the son and heir of Robert of Tintagel to William Brewer junior, as the king had ordered the same Drogo. ¹

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Entry cancelled and omitted in C 60/20, m. 6. It does not appear to be on the Close Roll.

Hertfordshire. Hugh son of Walter ¹ gives the king half a mark for having a pone, concerning half a virgate of land with appurtenances in Sawbridgeworth, against Ernulf Blund. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to take security from Hugh for the aforesaid half-mark.

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Corrected from ‘To the sheriff of Hertfordshire …’

2 April. Waltham. Essex. Hertfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire to take into the king’s hand all lands of the Normans and Bretons in his bailiwick, to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise, and to cause the king to know upon his next account at the Exchequer where they are, what they are, how much they are worth per annum, who had them, and by what warrant.

5 April. Exning. Suffolk. Adam of Moulton gives half a mark for summoning Robert French and Leticia, his wife, before the justices at Easter in one month to render to him certain land in Moulton. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc.

4 April. Walden. Cambridgeshire. To the sheriff of Cambridgeshire. Order to take into the king’s hand without delay all lands of the Normans and Bretons which are the king’s escheats in his bailiwick and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. He is to cause the king to know upon his next account at the Exchequer where they are, what they are, how much they are worth per annum, who had them, and by what warrant.

6 April. Exning. Essex. Sibyl de Fraunchetere gives 1 m. for summoning Henry of Bures and others before the justices of the Bench to answer her concerning land in Sutton. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take etc.

7 April. St. Edmund’s. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand for 10 m. that he makes from William of Sapiston and Mabel, his wife, by summons of the Exchequer, until the octaves of Easter in the eighth year, because they have mainperned before the king that he will satisfy him then at the Exchequer.

8 April. Ely. Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to place in respite the demand for one hawk that he makes from William of Felsham by summons of the Exchequer until Michaelmas in the eighth year, because Hamo Peche ¹ has mainperned for him before the king that he will come then to the Exchequer ready to satisfy the king, and in the meantime he is to cause his livestock taken for this reason to be replevied to him. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishop of Bath.

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Corrected from ‘Bartholomew’.

9 April. Ely. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand he makes from Theodoric of Crimplesham by summons of the Exchequer for 5 m., which he promised the king for taking an assize of novel disseisin before four knights , which was placed in respite by reason of the liberty of the abbot of Ramsey , until that assize will have been taken. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishop of Bath.

10 April. Ditton. Herefordshire. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to place in respite the demand for scutage that he makes from Reginald de Braose for Brecon, Radnor and Kington until upon his next account at the Exchequer. In the meantime, he is to inquire diligently whether the aforesaid lands were in the king’s hand at the time when that scutage was exacted, so that he is to certify the king and his barons of the Exchequer thereupon.

Northumberland. Order to Roger of Hodsock to answer the king for the 4 m. he received by reason of a melee between the men of Bamburgh and the men of Alnwick.

[No date]. Bedfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from the men of Bedford by summons of the Exchequer for the arrears of the farm and tallage from the time during which the vill of Bedford was in the hand of Falkes de Bréauté, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then, and to cause their livestock taken for this reason to be replevied to them.

13 April. St. Albans. Bedfordshire. Cecilia who was the wife of Walter de St. Rémy has made fine with the king by £10 for having the custody of the land and the daughters and heiresses of William de St. Rémy, formerly her husband, with the marriage of the same heiresses. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take security and cause her to have full seisin.

13 April. St. Albans. Hertfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from the executors of the testament of Thomas de Neville by summons of the Exchequer for the debt that he owes the king. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishop of Bath.

15 April. St. Albans. Northamptonshire. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order to place in respite, until upon his first account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from Richard de Gray by summons of the Exchequer for the fine which the knights of the honour of Leicester made with King John, the king’s father, for his passage to Poitou, and the demand he makes from the same Richard by summons of the Exchequer for a loan made to John de Humet, whose land he has, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then.

15 April. St. Albans. Northamptonshire. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order to place in respite the demand for 35s. that he makes from Henry de Hauville by summons of the Exchequer until upon his next account at the Exchequer, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then.

Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the account of Phillip Marc, sheriff of Nottinghamshire , until Easter in 15 days.

14 April. Hatfield. Yorkshire. Order to the elect of Chichester, under the seal of the justiciar, to cause Fulk fitz Warin to have letters sealed with the Great Seal directed to the sheriff of Yorkshire, that he is to place in respite the demand of 5 m. that he makes from Fulk by summons of the Exchequer for an amercement of the forest until upon his next account at the Exchequer, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then. By the justiciar.

Hertfordshire. It is written in the same manner for Baldwin de Tany for having respite, until upon the next account of the sheriff of Hertfordshire, of the half-mark ¹ that the same sheriff exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer for waste of the forest, having accepted security from him, as above.

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[No date]. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order that, of the demand he makes from Ralph de la Haye by summons of the Exchequer for the fine he made with the king … ¹

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Entry cancelled and unfinished. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 6.

14 April. Hatfield. Northamptonshire. Order to the elect of Chichester, under the seal of the justiciar, to cause Ralph de la Haye to have letters sealed with the Great Seal directed to the sheriff of Northamptonshire, that he is to place in respite the demand he makes from the same Ralph by summons of the Exchequer for a fine made with King John, the king’s father, for the passage to Poitou, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then. By the justiciar.

Warwickshire. The abbot of Combe gives the king 1 m. for having a writ before the justices of the Bench to warrant a charter against Reginald Basset. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take etc.

24 April. Westminster. Berkshire. To the sheriff of Berkshire. The king has given respite from the moiety of 4 m. 10s., of which Richard Walensis ought to have paid that moiety at Easter last past in the eighth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year, until St. John the Baptist in the same year. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid moiety to the king, which he ought to have paid at Easter aforesaid, at St. John the Baptist aforesaid, he is to cause him to have that respite, as aforesaid.

26 April. Westminster. Cornwall. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Henry de la Pomeraie by summons of the Exchequer for the debt his father owed to the king.

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

30 April. Westminster. The fine of William of Edmundsthorpe. To Hugh de Neville . William of Edmundsthorpe has made fine with the king by 5 m. for having the bailiwick of Wittingley and of La Wesse with appurtenances, to keep until the king comes of age. Order to cause it to be seen and enrolled by the view and testimony of trustworthy and law-worthy men in what manner that bailiwick is kept in vert and venison, and, having accepted security from William for rendering those 5 m. to the king and for keeping the aforesaid bailiwick well and faithfully, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid bailiwick, as aforesaid. ¹

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In the duplicate roll (C 60/20, m. 5) entries 168 & 169 below appear before this entry on the previous membrane, m. 6.

Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand he makes from G. count of St. Pol by summons of the Exchequer for his relief, until St. John the Baptist in the eighth year. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

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

Herefordshire. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Walter de Lacy by summons of the Exchequer for £10 of the first scutage of the king, until Michaelmas in the eighth year. In the presence of the justiciar.

2 May. Westminster. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Robert Passelewe to have respite until Michaelmas in the eighth year from the 50 m. that he owes the king.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to place in respite the demand for 20 m. and two palfreys that he makes from Robert Wolf by summons of the Exchequer, until Michaelmas in the same year.

[No date]. Norfolk. Hugh Dod gives 3 m. for summoning Ralph Cosman of Lynn to render to him a certain debt that he exacts from him. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

Concerning the windfallen wood of Staffordshire. Order to the vendors of the windfallen wood in Staffordshire to cause all windfallen wood in Staffordshire to be sold and to cause the monies thus received to come to the Exchequer.

Northamptonshire. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. John of Bassingbourn has made fine with the king by 100 m. for having custody of the land formerly of Guy de Dive, with the sons and heirs of the same, whose first-born son married the daughter of the same John, so that he is to render to the king 100 m. each year of those 100 m. and, moreover, of the debt that the heir owes the king for his father, namely £372 17s. 9d., until he will have paid that fine of 100 m. and all of the aforesaid debt in full, and for rendering that fine and the aforesaid debt he has found the king pledges for 425 m. Order to cause John to have full seisin without delay of all land formerly of Guy in his bailiwick, with his sons and heirs. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Oxfordshire and Sussex .

Pledges of John of Bassingbourn:

Simon Passelewe for 5 m.William Mauduit for 10 m.Richard de Percy for 10 m.Robert de Percy for 5 m.Geoffrey de Neville for 20 m.

W. earl of Salisbury for 50 m., for which he has pledged to him his manor of Hoddesdonbury .Henry de Scaccario for 20 m.Fulk fitz Warin for 10 m.Reginald de Albo Monasterio for 5 m.Robert de Rokeleia for 10 m.

William Talbot for 5 m.Nicholas of Bassingbourn for 40 m.Geoffrey of Caxton for 20 m.Stephen Haringod for 10 m.

Lambert of Moulton for 5 m.Robert Marmion junior for 10 m.Robert de Crèvecoeur for 5 m.Richard de Aundeville for 10 m.Waleran Teutonicus for 10 m.Ernald de Bosco for 10 m.William of Whiston for 5 m.Gilbert of Hemingford for 10 m.

Robert Arsic for 10 m.Phillip d’Aubigny for 10 m.William Luvel senior for 5 m.Jollan de Neville for 10 m.Hugh de Vivonne for 10 m.William de Cantilupe for 10 m.Simon de Hale for 5 m.

Ralph de Berners for 5 m.Gilbert of Abinger for 10 m.Robert de Mare for 5 m.Engeram de Préaux for 10 m.Ralph son of Bernard for 10 m.Phillip of Kyme for 10 m.Hugh son of Ralph for 5 m.George of Kennett for 5 m.

Aymer de Sacy for 5 m.

Westminster. Concerning five tuns of wine. To the king’s bailiffs of Bristol. Order to cause G. earl of Gloucester to have five tuns of the 40 tuns of wine that he lately took to the king’s use in the vill of Bristol at the same market price (forum) at which others have been bought and retained to the king’s use. He is also to cause the bearer of the present, who will deliver the price of the same wines to the sheriff, to deliver the wine to him without delay.

4 May. Westminster. Cornwall. To the sheriff of Cornwall. The men of Stoke Climsland have made fine with the king by one palfrey for having the vill of Stoke Climsland from the king at farm for £12 per annum, so that they answer the king at the Exchequer by their hand for that for which they previously were accustomed to answer by the hand of the sheriff of Cornwall of £11. Order that, having accepted security from the same men for the aforesaid palfrey to the king’s use, he is to cause them to have full seisin of the aforesaid vill with appurtenances so that they answer by their hand at the Exchequer, as aforesaid. Witness R. bishop of Salisbury, in the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Salisbury and London .

8 May. Westminster. Lancaster. To the sheriff of Lancaster. Adam of Pendlebury has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having the bailiwick of the sergeanty of Salfordshire with all its appurtenances, which is of his right and inheritance, as he says, performing the service that he ought according to the charter of King John, the king’s father, that he has. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering those 10 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid bailiwick with all its appurtenances without delay. Witness R. bishop of Salisbury. In the presence of the bishop of London.

9 May. Westminster. Yorkshire. Robert Engeram and Joan, his wife, give the king 10 m. for summoning Richard de Percy to render to him the 38 m. that was awarded to him for the damages caused to them by the same Richard by disseisin. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take etc. Witness R. bishop of Salisbury.

[No date]. Norfolk. Fulk son of Ivo gives 1 m. for summoning William de Amblie to render 113s. 8d. to him Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc.

14 May. Westminster. Concerning the scutage of Robert of Cardinham. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has remitted and granted to Robert of Cardinham the third part of the scutage that he owes him from the knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief, namely 2 m. per shield, for the king’s army of Wales, in which he had Andrew, his son, in his place with Earl W. Marshal, and the king has retained two parts of the aforesaid scutage to his own use, to be collected by the hand of the same Robert, from rendering which two parts the king has given Robert respite until Michaelmas in the eighth year. Order to cause the aforesaid grant to be enrolled thus. Witness R. bishop of Salisbury. By writ of the king.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer and before it had been sent by the hand of the bishop of Chichester. ¹

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Omitted in C 60/20, m. 4.

8 May. Wallingford. Concerning the fine of Robert de Courtenay. Robert de Courtenay has made fine with the king to render £30 to him annually at the Exchequer of the £190 8s. 7d. due from him to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer, by writ of the justiciar, to cause that fine to be enrolled and observed thus and to cause Robert to be allowed the costs he incurred, by order of the king and the same justiciar, to re-fill a breach in the wall of Exeter castle , by the view and testimony of law-worthy men. ¹ Witness the king.

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Here the king resumes as witness.

14 May. Brill. Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, by writ of the justiciar, to take into the king’s hand all land formerly of Matilda de Caux, who was the wife of Ralph son of Stephen , who is dead and held from the king in chief in his bailiwick, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. ¹

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‘A’ is written in the margin.

The same order to the sheriffs of Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire .

Hugh de Neville is enjoined to take the custody of the forest that the same Matilda had in her hand in the counties of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset, by writ of the justiciar, ¹ that since the king, at the instance of William of Rowden, has given respite to Robert Belet from the 10 m. that he owes the king for his relief, so that he may render 5 m. at Michaelmas in the eighth year and 5 m. at Easter next following, , having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid 10 m. at the aforesaid terms, he is to permit him to have peace therefrom, and he is not to cause any distraint to be made against him or permit any to be made.

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‘by writ of the justiciar’ interlined.

20 May. Westminster. Berkshire. Adam son of Hervey, who took to wife the daughter and heiress of John son of Hugh, has, by order of the king, made fine with the king by 100s. for his relief of one knight’s fee in Tidmarsh, which Adam and Juliana ought to hold of the king in chief and which falls to Juliana by inheritance, and the king has taken Adam’s homage. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to cause Adam and Juliana to have full seisin of the aforesaid knight’s fee with its appurtenances without delay.

William de Putot and Robert of Narford are pledges for rendering this fine to the king.

21 May. Westminster. Nottinghamshire. The prior (sic.) of Wallingwells ¹ gives half a mark for summoning Richard son of Hervey to warrant him pasture for eight oxen with appurtenances in Sutton. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc. ²

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Wallingwells was a priory of Benedictine nuns. The ‘prior’ may be a reference to a master of the nuns, such as they certainly had at a later date.

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Entry preceded by a crossed through ‘Richard son of Hervey gives …’

22 May. Westminster. Nottinghamshire. The king has committed to Robert of Lexington all the land formerly of Matilda de Caux ¹ to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers the king therefor at the Exchequer. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire to cause him to have full seisin of all the aforesaid land without delay.

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‘in his bailiwick’ crossed through in the original, but not in the duplicate, C 60/20, m. 4.

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

25 May. Westminster. The fine of John of Birkin. To Robert of Lexington. John of Birkin, heir of Matilda de Caux, has made fine with the king by 300 m. for his relief of the lands formerly of Matilda that fall to John by inheritance, and, similarly, for having custody of the forest of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, which falls to him by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage. John is to render 50 m. of the aforesaid fine at St. John the Baptist in the eighth year, 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, 50 m. at Hilary in the ninth year, 50 m. at Easter in the same year, 50 m. at St. John the Baptist in the same year, and 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year. Order to cause John to have full seisin without delay of all lands formerly of Matilda that are in his custody and that fall to him by inheritance, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king at the aforesaid terms, and to cause the barons of the Exchequer to know the names of the pledges for that fine. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

The fine of John of Birkin. Order to Hugh de Neville to cause the same John to have full seisin of the custody of the aforesaid forest without delay, having retained in the king’s hand his demesne hays until it will be inquired whether the custody of those hays pertains to him by inheritance with the custody of the aforesaid forest or not, because if it is evident to the king by the inquisition so taken that their custody, with the custody of the aforesaid forest, pertains to him by inheritance, then he will have their custody with the custody of the aforesaid forest by the aforesaid fine. In the presence of the same.

26 May. [Westminster]. Nottinghamshire. To the sheriff of Nottinghamshire. Geoffrey of Eccleston has made fine with the king by £10 for having seisin of the land that Avice who was the wife of Richard de Camera held of the king in chief in Stapleford, which falls to Geoffrey by inheritance, so that the aforesaid Richard may then hold that land according to the fine made between him and Avice and Geoffrey before the king’s justices at Westminster. Order that, having accepted security from Geoffrey for rendering those £10 to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid land, namely so that Richard may hold that land for all of his life, as aforesaid.

4 June. Winchester. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to place in respite the demand he makes from Alan Basset by summons of the Exchequer, for which he did not make fine with the king, until upon his next account at the Exchequer. ¹

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This entry is marked with a scribal reference mark resembling the mathematical division sign in both rolls.

Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand they make from Godfrey de Lovano for the scutage of Poitou from the time of King John.

6 June. Southampton. Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from the men of Langley and Rumbridge, who are in the custody of Waleran Teutonicus by order of the king, for the escape of thieves.

8 June. Eastleigh. Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite, until one month from Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from A. countess of Eu for the debt due to the king from the time of King John, the king’s father. By the king’s letters under the seal of the justiciar.

9 June. Eastleigh. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to place in respite, until upon his account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand of 17s. 8d. that he makes from Phillip d’Aubigny by summons of the Exchequer for the first scutage assessed in the time of the king.

16 June. Brill. Wiltshire. The king has committed to Thomas of Cirencester all lands that the count de la Marche and the queen, his wife, had in England in the name of dower of the same queen, to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to distrain the men of Wilton, without delay, to render to Thomas all arrears, tallages and rents and all other things that they ought to have rendered to the count and the queen, so that he answers for them at the Exchequer. In the presence of the justiciar.

Lincolnshire. Norfolk. Leicestershire. Order to the sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Leicestershire to place in respite, until upon their next account at the Exchequer, the demand they make from Robert of Tattershall by summons of the Exchequer for the moiety of scutage from the knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief in their bailiwicks for the army of Wales, in which he was with King John.

Cambridgeshire. The king has given respite to Hamo Peche from the 20 m. that the sheriff of Cambridgeshire exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer for the king’s prest, namely that he may render a moiety at Michaelmas in the eighth year and the other moiety at Easter in the ninth year. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take security for rendering those to the king at the aforesaid terms and to permit him to have the same terms. ¹

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Entry preceded by a crossed through ‘Order to the sheriff …’

Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite, until upon his account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from William d’Avranches for the king’s scutage of Montgomery by summons of the Exchequer.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Norfolk

Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the account of the earl of Chester for the time at which he was sheriff of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Lancaster, until 15 days from Michaelmas in the eighth year.

23 June. Bedford. Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Peter de Maulay by summons of the Exchequer for Nicholas Avenel, until 15 days from Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Concerning respite. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has given respite, until Michaelmas next to come in the eighth year, from the 20 m. that Peter de Brus ought to have rendered to him at Easter last past in the eighth year of the fine he made with him for several debts that he owed, so that he may then render those 20 m. at the Exchequer and another 20 m. which he ought to render at the same term of the same fine. Order to cause him to have that respite, as aforesaid. In the presence of the bishops of Bath and Salisbury and the justiciar.

The fine of Matthew of Torrington. To the barons of the Exchequer. Matthew of Torrington has made fine with the king for the debt that William of Torrington, whose heir he is, owed the king by rendering £10 to the king at the Exchequer per annum, namely 100s. at Michaelmas and 100s. at Easter, and thus from year to year until all that debt has been paid in full to the king. Order to cause that fine to be enrolled and held, as aforesaid. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

25 June. Bedford. Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Fulk d’Oyry for the debt that he owes the king by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Lancaster. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from Matthew of Hathersage by summons of the Exchequer for the last scutage of King John in Poitou. In the presence of the justiciar.

Norfolk. Martin de Bella Fago gives the king 100s. for having justices to take an assize of novel disseisin, as is more fully contained on the dorse of the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take security etc. ¹

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This entry appears to have been inserted at a later date than those surrounding it, as it is written in a darker ink and is squeezed between entries in both the ‘master’ and duplicate (C 60/20, m. 5). See PR 1216-25, p. 487 (31 June 1224 – sic.)

Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make from Henry Bishop until upon the account of the sheriff of Hertfordshire at Michaelmas next following.

25 June. Bedford. Concerning taking the lands of Falkes de Bréauté. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire to take into the king’s hand without delay all lands of Falkes de Bréauté, Gilbert de Bréauté, Hugh Graundin, Robert de Beaumeis and Ralph Tyrel in his bailiwick, and to keep them safely with all chattels found therein until the king orders otherwise, saving wainage of the aforesaid lands.

It is written in the same manner, concerning the lands of Falkes de Bréauté, Robert de Marisco and Gilbert de Bréauté in the counties of Somerset, Devon, Wiltshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. ¹

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The final two counties are interlined and have not been included in C 60/20, m. 5, while Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire have been crossed through here.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, concerning taking the lands of Falkes de Bréauté and of William and Gilbert, his brothers, Walter de Goderville, Robert de Mare, William Martel, William de Caen, Hugh Graundin, Geoffrey of Roxhill and John of Woodlow into the king’s hand. ¹ Order to the same sheriffs to inquire diligently where their livestock and chattels are stored in their bailiwicks and in whose custody. When they know this, they are immediately to take them into the king’s hand and keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

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‘Teste ut supra’ originally entered here but subsequently crossed through.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Northamptonshire, ¹ concerning the land of Falkes de Bréauté in his bailiwick.

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‘Warwickshire’ has been added above the line, but then crossed through. It is not recorded in C 60/20, m. 5.

Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to place in respite the demand he makes from William de St. John for the debts that he owes the king by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his account at Michaelmas in the eighth year.

4 June. Winchester. Concerning rendering the price of wines. Order to the bailiffs of Bristol to cause J. bishop of Bath to have five tuns of the better wines out of the 35 tuns of wine that were purchased near them to the use of the king, for the bishop will satisfy the king for their price.

Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to cause his land of Winfrith, which he took into the king’s hand by order of the king, to be replevied to Robert of Newburgh until upon the account of the sheriff at Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Aymer de Sacy for the 40 m. that he owes the king of a prest made to him.

Bedfordshire. Roger Burnard gives the king 100s. for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors of an assize of novel disseisin before the justices of the Bench at Michaelmas in 15 days, ¹ concerning common of pasture in Everton, against Robert of Everton, clerk . Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take etc.

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Term interlined.

1 July. Bedford. Hertfordshire. Nicholas of Anstey has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having seisin of the land that Berner’ de Rouen, who is with Falkes de Bréauté, the king’s enemy, held of his fee in Aspenden, with the chattels of the same Berner’ found in the same land, as aforesaid. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire that, having accepted security from Nicholas for rendering the aforesaid 10 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with appurtenances with the chattels of the same Berner’ found in the same land, as aforesaid.

Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. To the sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Order that, immediately after having viewed these letters, he is, by the view of trustworthy and law-worthy men of his counties, to sell the property and all chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, both his plough-oxen and plough-horses and all his other chattels wherever and in whoever’s hand they will be found in his bailiwick, and to cause the king’s advantage to be made diligently, and to cause the monies that he will take to be safely kept under his seal and the seals of the aforesaid trustworthy and law-worthy men, until the king orders otherwise.

It is written in the same manner to the same sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, concerning the property and chattels of William de Bréauté, Walter de Goderville, Robert de Mare, William Martel, William de Caen, Hugh Graundin, Geoffrey of Roxhill and John of Woodlow. ¹

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Entries 226-32 have clearly been added after the original compilation of the roll, as they are crammed into an ever decreasing section of the membrane.

Concerning the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, William de Bréauté and their associates. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, Somerset , Devon , Wiltshire , Northamptonshire , Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire .

Concerning the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, William de Bréauté and their associates. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning the chattels of William Martel.

Concerning the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, William de Bréauté and their associates. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Hertfordshire and Yorkshire , concerning the chattels of Walter de Goderville.

Concerning the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, William de Bréauté and their associates. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Hertfordshire, concerning the chattels of Robert de Mare.

Concerning the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, William de Bréauté and their associates. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Devon and Kent , concerning the chattels of the same Falkes.

Concerning the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, William de Bréauté and their associates. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Yorkshire and Norfolk and Suffolk, concerning the chattels of the same Falkes. ¹ They are to take the lands of the same and keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

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‘… and Walter de Goderville’ crossed through. Only the following sentence survives from this entry in C 60/20, m. 4. The earlier text does not appear to have been entered there.

Godfrey son of Martin gives half a mark for having a pone against the prior of St. Frideswide , concerning a messuage in Oxford. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take etc.

2 July. Bedford. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to place in respite, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from William de Cantilupe by summons of the Exchequer for the debt that is exacted from him for William de Courtenay.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Northamptonshire for the same.

Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take into the king’s hand the lands with appurtenances that Ernald de Bosco holds in his bailiwick of the lands of the Normans, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

3 July. Bedford. Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to place in respite, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Gilbert of Kentwell by summons of the Exchequer for the 20s. that he owes of the debt of Roger of Kentwell, his father, having accepted competent security from him that he will answer sufficiently then for the aforesaid 20s.

Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in respite, until upon his account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand of £16 6s. 6d. that he makes from Engelard de Cigogné by summons of the Exchequer for the pannage of the forest of Windsor .

Gloucestershire. It is also written to the sheriff of Gloucestershire for the same, concerning placing the demand of 7 m. that he makes from him for the custody of the bishopric of Hereford in respite until the same term.

Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from John de Chanceaux for the fine of 100 m. which the knights and free tenants of the county of Northamptonshire made with Brian de Lisle, then justice of the forest , for placing the pleas of the forest in respite.

5 July. Bedford. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Vitalis Engayne for William de Courtenay, until upon his account at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Nottinghamshire. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to place in respite the demand for scutage that he makes from William Bardolf by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.

It is written to the sheriff of Lincolnshire for the same.

Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from H. earl of Norfolk for several debts.

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriffs of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire not to distrain Gilbert de Gant to render more than a moiety of the scutage from the knights’ fees he holds of the king in chief in their bailiwicks.

Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to take into the king’s hand all lands and rents of Falkes de Bréauté in his bailiwick, to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise, and to sell his property and all his chattels etc., as is contained above in letters directed to other sheriffs concerning the chattels of the same and of others of his knights. In the presence of the justiciar.

Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Jollan [de] Neville for the debts that he owes the king.

Essex. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Essex for William de Hay, concerning placing the scutage of Poitou in respite until that feast in the same year.

Kent. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Kent for Ralph son of Bernard, concerning placing in respite the debts he owes the king until that feast in the same year. In the presence of the justiciar.

Oxfordshire. Matthew of Bigstrup has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having his grace and benevolence for trespass, ¹ in that he was of the familia of Falkes de Bréauté, enemy of the king. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that, having accepted security from him for rendering those 10 m. to the king, he is not to place his hand upon the property, chattels and lands of the same Matthew in his bailiwick, and if he has taken anything therefrom by the aforesaid reason, he is to cause it to be rendered to him.

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A cancellation at this point in the entry reads ‘… for a certain trespass that he made towards the king. Order to …’

Buckinghamshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire, but he is not ordered to take security etc.

Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to place in respite the demand of 60s. that he makes from Hugh de Vivonne, who is in the king’s service in Poitou, until upon his next account at Michaelmas next to come in the eighth year.

Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take 200 of the sheep of Falkes de Bréauté, which are in the custody of Robert of Leicester junior, and to sell them without delay by the view of trustworthy and law-worthy men of his county, being diligent to cause the king’s advantage to be made, and to cause the monies that he will take to be kept safely under his seal and the seals of those trustworthy and law-worthy men, until the king orders otherwise.

Warwickshire and Leicestershire. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire not to permit the property or chattels formerly of Reginald Basset in his bailiwick to be sold by the executors of the testament of the same Reginald or by others, or to be removed in any other manner until he satisfies him for the debts that Reginald owed the king, but he is to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire .

Yorkshire. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause the king’s advantage to be made from the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté in his bailiwick by the view of trustworthy and law-worthy men of his county wherever and in whoever’s hand they will be found, and to cause the monies that he will take to be safely kept under his seal and the seals of those trustworthy and law-worthy men, until the king orders otherwise. ¹ He is also to take the lands of the same in his bailiwick [into the king’s hand] and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

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‘Teste ut supra’ initially entered here but subsequently crossed through.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, concerning the chattels and lands of Walter de Goderville.

11 July. Bedford. Concerning attaching William Joynier. To the mayor and sheriffs of London . The king is given to understand that a short while ago Falkes de Bréauté, the king’s enemy, committed many of his chattels, both money and other things, to William Joynier to keep, which are still in his custody. Command, firmly ordering, that, immediately after having viewed these letters and as they love themselves and all their men, they are to cause William to be attached by his body, so that they are to be sure to have him at the king’s command wherever and whenever the king will wish, and they are to take into the king’s hand without delay all chattels that will be found with him or in his custody, both money and other things, and cause it to be distinctly and openly recorded what those are and what William says are his, and what are of the same Falkes.

Because above. Norfolk and Suffolk. Martin de Bella Fago gives the king 100s. for having four justices to take the assize of novel disseisin that he arraigned against Hugh of Ricklinghall and Reginald of Bures, concerning a tenement in Grenstein in Norfolk, and concerning a tenement in Debenham in Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to take security for that assize etc. ¹

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Entry cancelled. See 213 above. This entry has not been cancelled in the duplicate roll, C 60/20, m. 4.

Huntingdonshire. Order to the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to place in respite the demand for 4½ m. that he makes from William Pateric by summons of the Exchequer until upon his account at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the eighth year. In the presence of the justiciar.

Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand of 14 m. that they make from Hamo de Crèvecoeur for the debt that he owes the king of the scutage of Montgomery.

For the countess of Oxford. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted to the countess of Oxford that, of the moiety of 80 m. of the scutage which she owes him for the army of Montgomery from the knights’ fees that she holds in chief, she may render a moiety on Thursday next after the Translation of St. Benedict in the eighth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year. Order to permit her to render the aforesaid monies at the same terms. In the presence of the justiciar.

Berkshire. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite the demand for 2½ m. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Richard Walensis until the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.

[No date]. Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Nicholas of Anstey by summons of the Exchequer for the king’s first scutage. ¹

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Corrected from ‘... of the last journey of King John into Poitou’. This has not been corrected in C 60/20, m. 4.

Westmorland. Order to the sheriff of Westmorland to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from William of Lancaster by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Montgomery.

18 July. Bedford. For the men of Guildford. The men of Guildford have made fine with the king by 40s., to be rendered to him on Thursday next before St. Margaret in 15 days in the eighth year, for having licence to go towards their own parts and to be quit, so that they are not to come on this occasion to the king’s army by the general summons made to all those who hold of the king chief to come to his army, and for having two sergeants in the aforesaid army in their place for 20 days.

Devon. Order to the sheriff of Devon to place in respite the demand of 7 m. that he makes from William Paynel by summons of the Exchequer for the king’s scutage of Wales, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the eighth year. By the justiciar.

Because in the Patent Roll. To the barons of the Cinque Ports. Because, as the king has heard, certain of his enemies set ambushes to do harm to him in his isles of Guernsey, the king causes them to know this, as he specially trusts them, and complains about this. Order and request to do all they can in the faith in which they are bound to the king, and as he trusts in them, and to cause two great ships and boats, ten little boats and ten sorneteas to be readied to go the aforesaid isles to keep them safely and defend them against the king’s enemies for the service that they owe him in England from the Cinque Ports on this occasion, and to make a stay there until the octaves of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary in the eighth year. They are therefore to act in such a manner that the king ought to commend them with great thanks and award them suitable remuneration. In testimony of this thing the king sends these letters patent to them. ¹

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Entry cancelled. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 4. See PR 1216-25, p. 435.

Hampshire. To the sheriff of Hampshire. Hugh of Wingham has made fine with the king by one mark for having seisin of the land that Roger But held of the fee of the same Hugh in Somershill, so that Hugh is to answer the king each year at the Exchequer for half a mark for as long as it pleases the king for the debt that Roger owed the king, as the same land was previously accustomed to answer. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering that mark to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land. ¹

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A cancelled entry follows this, beginning ‘To the sheriff of Hampshire, greetings. The king has ordered ...’

19 July. Bedford. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite the demand for 20 m. that he makes from W. archbishop of York by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.

19 July. Bedford. Cornwall. Robert of Cardinham gives one palfrey to the king for having a weekly market on Thursdays at his manor of Lostwithiel , until the king comes of age, and for having an annual two-day fair on the eve and feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, unless etc. Order to the sheriff of Cornwall to cause the aforesaid market and fair to be cried and held, as aforesaid, and to take security for the aforesaid palfrey. ¹

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C 60/20, m. 4 omits the order for proclamation.

Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex that since the king has granted that, from the stock of oxen and affers formerly of Richard Carpenter, who is with the king’s enemies in the castle of Bedford , which Paulinus of Theydon took in his bailiwick, Paulinus is to have four oxen and two affers to stock his land, he is to permit him to have the aforesaid oxen and affers, and, with the rest of the aforesaid stock and from his other chattels in his bailiwick, to cause it to be done to the king’s advantage without delay by the view of trustworthy and law-worthy men of his county, and to cause the monies that he will take to come to the king safely at Bedford under his seal and the seals of the aforesaid trustworthy and law-worthy men.

Concerning respite. Order to the keeper of the honour of Boulogne to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from Baldwin de Redvers by summons of the Exchequer for the first scutage of the king.

20 July. Bedford. Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to place in respite, until 15 days after Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from P. bishop of Norwich by summons of the Exchequer for the amercements of his men from the eyre of the king’s justices in the time of the king. Order not to distrain the bishop’s men to answer him for the monies which are owed to the King of Jerusalem, but to permit the monies to be collected by the hand of the bishop and his bailiffs. If he has received any of the aforesaid monies, he is to cause them to be rendered to the bishop without delay.

Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent ¹ to take into the king’s hand all lands that Adam Butler, who is dead, held of Falkes de Bréauté ² and of Margaret, his wife, in his bailiwick, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise, saving to Joan who was the wife of the same Adam the rightful portion that falls to her and that the king ordered to be assigned to her in the name of dower from the lands formerly of Adam in his bailiwick for her sustenance, until her dower is reasonably assigned to her from the aforesaid lands by the son and heir of the same Adam.

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Corrected from ‘Herefordshire’.

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Corrected from ‘... of the king in chief’.

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

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Corrected from ‘It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Kent’.

21 July. Bedford. Lincolnshire. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to place in respite the demand for £12 that he makes from Alexander of Pointon by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, because he has mainperned to pay the aforesaid £12 to him then without delay.

Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand for £20 that he makes from Guy de la Poscener’ by summons of the Exchequer for the king’s prest. In the presence of the justiciar.

[No date]. Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to demise in peace to Brother Roger de la Bruwer’, monk of Bernay , the land of the abbot of Bernay in Creeting St. Peter, which he took into the king’s hand after the death of the same, to keep with four trustworthy men of the vill of Creeting, so that nothing is removed until he has another order from the king. He is similarly to demise in peace the demand of 2 m. that he makes from him for the promise the aforesaid monk made to him after the death of the same abbot, so that he is to take nothing therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand he makes from Rose of Essex by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Poitou, until upon his next account at the Exchequer.

25 July. Bedford. Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire that, notwithstanding the king’s command to him to attach Walter le Fleming for the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté, the king’s enemy, that were in his custody, he is to cause them to be replevied to Walter and the aforesaid chattels to be delivered to twelve trustworthy and law-worthy men of the vill of Southampton to answer for them the king whenever he orders, and he is to cause the king to know the names of Walter’s pledges.

27 July. Bedford. Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Hugh de Cantilupe for one mark, which he promised to the king for having a writ, and for one mark of the king’s scutage.

Northumberland. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland to place in respite the demand he makes from Hugh de Balliol for scutage for the army of Wales until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Essex and Kent. Order to the sheriffs of Essex and Kent to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand they make from the count of St. Pol by summons of the Exchequer for his relief which the count owes the king. By the justiciar.

Concerning respite. Order to the keeper of the honour of Berkhamsted to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Ralph Phillip for 2½ m. of the last tallage of Wilton, and to cause Ralph’s houses, which he took into the king’s hand by reason of the aforesaid debt, to be replevied to him.

Because in the Close Roll. To the barons of the Exchequer. On Tuesday next before St. Peter in Chains in the eighth year Henry son of Sigar rendered 40s. to the king in his Wardrobe at Bedford by the hand of Walter de Kirkham and Walter of Brackley for the men of Guildford, by which the aforesaid men made fine with the king for having licence to go towards their own parts and to be quit from coming to the army of Bedford on this occasion by the general summons that all those who hold of the king in chief were to come to the said army, and for having two sergeants in the aforesaid army in their place for 20 days. Order to cause them to be quit hereafter. ¹

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Entry cancelled. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 3. See RLC., i, p. 614.

31 July. Bedford. Hertfordshire. To the sheriff of Hertfordshire. Order to cause Hugh Graundin to have, without delay, all oxen and all affers that were his, wherever they will be found in his bailiwick, by the same price for which they were sold by order of the king to the king’s use, having accepted security from him that he will answer the king for the same price at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the eighth year.

1 Aug. Bedford. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer after Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes from Roger de Cressy by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Poitou.

1 Aug. Bedford. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand for two hawks that he makes from William Blund by summons of the Exchequer until upon his next account at the Exchequer. ¹

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C 60/20, m. 3 ‘... at the Exchequer of Michaelmas’.

Order to John de Venuz … ¹

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Entry unfinished, having been crossed through. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 3.

2 Aug. Bedford. Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take into the king’s hand all land formerly of Roger son of Henry in his bailiwick and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.

[No date]. Concerning the fine of Colin de Bréauté. Colin de Bréauté gives the king 80 m. for having his grace and benevolence, of which he is to render a moiety to the king at Michaelmas in the eighth year and the other moiety at the Nativity of the Lord in the ninth year. The bishops of Norwich and Lincoln have mainperned for him.

Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand for £20 that he makes from Robert of Cockfield by summons of the Exchequer until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then.

Lancaster. Roger of Notton gives 10 m. for having justices to take an assize of novel disseisin, as is more fully contained on the dorse of the Patent Roll. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster to take security etc. ¹

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Patent granted on 5 August: PR 1216-25, p. 488.

6 Aug. Bedford. Concerning the fine of Geoffrey de Lisle. Geoffrey de Lisle has made fine with the king by £35 for his relief of the land formerly of Walter de Lisle, his father, on the Isle of Wight, which falls to Geoffrey by hereditary right. Order to Waleran Teutonicus that, having accepted security for rendering a moiety of that fine to the king at Michaelmas in the eighth year and for rendering the other moiety at Easter in the ninth year, he is to cause him to have full seisin thereof.

7 Aug. Bedford. Hertfordshire. To the sheriff of Hertfordshire. Order to hand over the manor of Sawbridgeworth , which Falkes de Bréauté held of the fee of Geoffrey de Sacy and which the sheriff took into the king’s hand by his order, to four of the better and more law-worthy men of that manor to keep, having accepted an oath from them that they will keep it well and faithfully and that they will answer Geoffrey for all those issues in full, who will then answer the king by his own hand, so that he is to make a tally concerning all these issues, which Geoffrey is to receive by the hands of the aforesaid four men, between him and the same men.

Norfolk and Sussex. Order to the sheriffs of Norfolk and Sussex to take into the king’s hand all lands formerly of the earl of Arundel, with all chattels found therein, in his bailiwick, and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

Concerning the corn of the assarts made in the bailiwick of Feckenham. To Hugh de Neville . Order to cause all corn of the assarts made in the bailiwick of Feckenham, which have been taken into the king’s hand because the assarts were made without the licence and order of the king, to be valued by trustworthy and law-worthy men. He is to hand over that corn to them by the same value, having accepted good security from them that they will answer the king at the Exchequer at Michaelmas shortly forthcoming in the eighth year.

9 Aug. Bedford. Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to cause all lands and wardships of Henry de Frankesney, which were taken into the king’s hand because he was with Falkes de Bréauté, to be handed over without delay to Milo de Frankesney, his brother, with all chattels found therein, having accepted security from Milo that he will answer the king whenever he will wish and order.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Devon and Somerset .

Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Aymer de Sacy by summons of the Exchequer until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take into the king’s hand the manor of Radstone which William de Bréauté held of the pledge (de invadiatione) of Lisewus Hermit, and hand it over to four of the better and more law-worthy men of the manor to keep safely with all issues arising therefrom and to answer the king whenever it will please him.

10 Aug. Bedford. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite, until at his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Reginald Aguillon, keeper of the land and heir of Hervey Engelose, for a debt of the Jews.

12 Aug. Bedford. Buckinghamshire. To the sheriff of Buckinghamshire. The king has given respite from the 20 m. which Walter de Ridon’ owes him for the amercement in which he was amerced at Dunstable ¹ before Henry of Braybrooke and his associates, justices assigned to take the assizes of novel disseisin there, until 15 days after Michaelmas in the eighth year, to be rendered by his hand. Order that, having accepted security from him for paying the aforesaid 20 m. to the king at the aforesaid term, as aforesaid, he is to cause him to have peace.

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Corrected from Bedford (Bed’). This is clearly a later correction as it has not been altered in C 60/20, m. 3.

Cambridgeshire. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire that, immediately after having viewed these letters, he is to take into the king’s hand all lands of the king’s enemies against him in Bedford castle and marching with the same Falkes, the king’s enemy. He is to sell moveable chattels found in the same lands without delay by the view and testimony of trustworthy and law-worthy men, and [to cause] the monies arising therefrom to be delivered into the king’s Wardrobe. He is also to cause their corn in the same lands to be collected and stacked together by the view etc., in order to do the king’s will at his command.

Lincolnshire. William son of Hugh gives the king half a mark for having a pone against Nigel son of Richard, concerning a tenement in Spalding. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to take etc.

17 Aug. Bedford. For Peter de Brus. Order to the barons of the Exchequer that since the king has given such respite to Peter de Brus from the 20 m. which he ought to have paid to him at Easter last past in the eighth year, and from the 10 m. that the king lent to Peter in the siege of Bedford castle , namely that he is to render 15 m. to the king at Michaelmas in the same year and 15 m. at Easter next following in the ninth year, they are to permit him to have that respite.

Concerning the land of Falkes de Bréauté. The king has committed all land formerly of Falkes de Bréauté in Devon to Thomas of Cirencester to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Devon to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid land with the corn and all chattels found therein.

For Nigel of Pinchbeck. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted that, of the debt of 22½ m. that is exacted at the Exchequer from Nigel of Pinchbeck for the fine which Walter of Pinchbeck, his father, made with King John, the king’s father, for having his grace and benevolence, he may render 100s. to the king each year, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter, until the aforesaid debt is paid to him. Order to cause this to be enrolled and done thus.

For William d’Aubigny. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted William d’Aubigny that, of the debts that were exacted from him at the Exchequer, for which he made fine with the king to render 40 m. per annum, he is to render 15 m. to the king each year, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter, until all aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to cause it to be enrolled and done thus.

For Peter de Brus. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has given such respite to Peter de Brus from the 20 m. that he ought to have paid to him at Easter last past in the eighth year, and from the 10 m. that the king lent to him in the siege of Bedford castle , namely that he may render 15 m. to the king at Michaelmas in the same year and 15 m. at Easter next following in the ninth year. Order to permit him to have that respite. ¹

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This entry is crossed through ‘because otherwise above’ in C 60/20, m. 3. There, it is curtailed before the terms of the debt are detailed.

Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk that if Geoffrey, bailiff of Robert Passelewe will give him surety by safe pledges for the debt of 50 m. that he owes the king for a prest made to him that he will satisfy the king upon his next account, then he is to cause his chattels, which Thomas de Burgh took, to be replevied to him, and if anything has been removed therefrom, he is to cause it to be returned.

20 Aug. Dunstable. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take into the king’s hand the manor of Stowe , which Roger de Neville held, with all chattels found in the same manor, for the debt that Roger owed the king, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.

For the prior of St. Neots . To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has pardoned the prior of St. Neots 3 m. of the 33 m. that he recognised he owes to William Martel, who was in Bedford castle against the king, and the 10 m. that the same prior recognised he owes to Ernisius de Boneville, who was similarly against the king in the aforesaid castle, and he has granted him that may render 5 m. of the remaining 40 m. at this Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, and 5 m. thus from Exchequer to Exchequer, namely at each Exchequer, until he will have paid the aforesaid 40 m. to the king thus within four years. Order to cause the prior to be quit of the aforesaid 3 m. and cause the aforesaid grant of the aforesaid terms to be enrolled and upheld.

Northumberland. To the sheriff of Northumberland. Roger Bertram has made fine with the king by 10 m. so that another four days might be added to his fair of Mitford , which used to be held for four days from the eve of the Ascension, so that henceforth it is held for eight days from the aforesaid eve, unless the addition of those four days is to the harm of neighbouring fairs and neighbouring markets. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid 10 m. to the king, he is to cause that which the king granted him concerning the addition of those four days to be proclaimed throughout his county and to cause him to have it, as aforesaid.

Concerning the fine of John son of Richard. To the barons of the Exchequer. John son of Richard has made fine with the king for the £86 that he owes of the debt of King John, the king’s father, for his arrears for the time at which he was his bailiff in the parts of Cornwall, so that he is to render £10 to the king per annum, namely 100s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and 100s. at the Exchequer of Easter, and thus from year to year and from Exchequer to Exchequer until he has fully satisfied the king of the aforesaid debt. Order to cause this to be enrolled and done thus.

22 Aug. London. Wiltshire. The king has committed the manor of Sevenhampton to W. earl of Salisbury to sustain him in his service for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to cause him to have full seisin without delay. ¹

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There is an X in the margin beside this entry, which may or may not be contemporary. It is certainly as faded as the main body of the surrounding entries.

22 Aug. London. Norfolk. Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from Peter of Narford by summons of the Exchequer for the debt that he owes the king, so that it can then be inquired at the Exchequer how much debt Peter owes to the king.

Hertfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire to place in respite, until upon his next account, the demand he makes from Ralph de Tany by summons of the Exchequer for the debts that he owes the king.

Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Robert fitz Walter for the scutage of Poitou from the time of King John, the king’s father.

22 Aug. Westminster. Northamptonshire. The king has committed half a carucate of land with appurtenances and corn in Helmdon, which William de Bréauté held of Matthew de Rumilly, to Walter of Brackley, clerk , to keep for as long as it pleases the king, in order that he answers for it at the Exchequer. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to cause him to have full seisin.

Concerning the manor of Winterslow. The king has committed the manor of Winterslow with appurtenances to W. de Mandeville, earl of Essex, so that he answers the king per annum for the farm of £20 for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the constable of Berkhamsted to cause the same earl to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances, as aforesaid.

22 Aug. London. Oxfordshire. To the sheriff of Oxfordshire. Order to cause it to be diligently inquired, and to cause the king to know distinctly and openly without delay, what and how many lands Falkes de Bréauté and those who were with him had in his bailiwick either by fee, wardship or any other manner whatsoever, and also what and how many chattels they had, and to take them into the king’s hand immediately and keep them safely until the king orders otherwise, saving another command or order from the king, if he has made any at another time.

Gloucestershire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Gloucestershire, Yorkshire , Buckinghamshire , Kent , Cambridgeshire , Huntingdonshire , Somerset , Essex and Hertfordshire, Devon and Wiltshire .

Oxfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Henry de Oilly by summons of the Exchequer for the debts that he owes the king, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.

For Geoffrey de Lucy. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted Geoffrey de Lucy that, of his debts that he owes the king, of which he ought to have paid 50 m. each year, he may render 20 m. to the king each year, namely 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter, until the aforesaid debts are paid. Order to cause this to be enrolled and done thus.

25 Aug. London. Kent. Concerning the scutage of Nigel de Mowbray. To the sheriff of Kent. The king has granted to Nigel de Mowbray a moiety of his scutage from his knights’ fees that he holds of the king in chief in his bailiwick, namely 2 m. from each shield, for the king’s army of Bedford in which he was with the king by his order. Order to cause him to have the aforesaid moiety and to collect the other moiety to the king’s use, so that he answers the king for it at the Exchequer. ¹

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Place of witness corrected from ‘Bedford’.

Kent. Concerning the scutage of Nigel de Mowbray. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Cambridgeshire , Huntingdonshire , Lincolnshire , Essex , Warwickshire , Leicestershire , Yorkshire , Nottinghamshire , Sussex , Northamptonshire and Kent .

26 Aug. London. The fine of Richard de Aundeville. Richard de Aundeville has made fine with the king, by John of Bassingbourn, ¹ by £50 for having seisin of his lands that he held of Falkes de Bréauté and Margaret, his wife, in Knebworth and Clopton, which were taken into the king’s hand, because the lands, wardships and farms of Falkes and Margaret were seized into the king’s hand by his order, so that he is to render the aforesaid fine to the king within the next one-and-a-half years at three Exchequers, namely a third at the Exchequer of Michaelmas next to come in the eighth year, a third at the Exchequer of Easter in the ninth year, and a third at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire ² that, having accepted security from Richard for rendering the aforesaid fine at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of his land in Knebworth with the corn of this autumn found in the same land, which was taken into the king’s hand for the aforesaid reason. Moreover, he is to cause the timber that Falkes cut down in the wood of the same Richard of Knebworth, which is upon Richard’s fee and has not yet been sold, to be delivered to him without delay. When he has accepted security from Richard for rendering that fine, he is to signify this to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire, whom the king has ordered that, when he has signified to him that he has received such security, he is then to cause him to have full seisin of his land in his bailiwick.

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‘John of Bassingbourn’ interlined.

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Sheriff interlined in another, now faded hand and omitted in C 60/20, m. 2.

The fine of Richard de Aundeville. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire that when he has accepted that security, he is to signify it to him.

Northamptonshire. The fine of Simon son of Simon. Simon son of Simon has made fine with the king by £200 for having seisin of his land, wardships and farms in Brixworth, which he demised to Falkes de Bréauté at a term that has not yet passed, and which have been taken into the king’s hand because the lands, wardships and farms of Falkes have been seized into the king’s hand by his order, so that Simon is to render those £200 to the king at four terms, namely £50 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, £50 at the Exchequer of Easter in the ninth year, £50 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and £50 at the Exchequer of Easter in the tenth year. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that, having accepted security from him for rendering that fine to the king at the aforesaid terms, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with its appurtenances, saving to the king the corn of this autumn found in the same land. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishop of Bath.

Northamptonshire. The fine of Geoffrey de Armenters. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Geoffrey de Armenters has made fine with the king by £100 for having seisin of the manor of Stowe with appurtenances, which Geoffrey mortgaged to Roger de Neville for a term of 16 years. During his last days Roger entrusted that manor to Walter of Bisbrooke, John de Neville and Robert Prendergast until the aforesaid term, from whom Falkes de Bréauté bought that manor and demised it to Ralph de Bray to hold for the aforementioned term. Order that, having accepted security from Geoffrey for rendering the aforesaid £100 to the king at the below-written terms, namely 50 m. ¹ within one month after the forthcoming feast of Michaelmas in the eighth year, 50 m. at Easter next following in the ninth year, and 50 m. at Michaelmas next following in the same year, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances and with the hay of this the eighth year, saving the corn from the same manor of the same year to the king.

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Corrected from ‘£50’.

27 Aug. London. The fine of Hugh de Neville. Hugh de Neville has made fine with the king by 100 m. for having a moiety of the manor of Stogursey with the castle of Stogursey , and with a moiety of the service of knights and others pertaining to the said moiety, which falls to Joan wife of the same Hugh by hereditary right. Hugh is to render 25 m. of those 100 m. at the forthcoming Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the ninth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the tenth year, and he has given the king surety for this. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to cause Hugh to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid moiety of the same manor with the castle and with the moiety of the knights and other things pertaining to the same moiety, as aforesaid, by the view and testimony of law-worthy men of his county, saving to the king the chattels, stock, corn and the corn of this autumn found there. In the presence of the justiciar and the bishop of Bath.

Concerning the abbey of Gloucester . The king has committed the vacant abbey of Gloucester to Robert of Mountsorrel, clerk , and Brother Robert de Girunde, monk of Gloucester, to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriffs of Gloucestershire, Shropshire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Hampshire , Devon and Wiltshire to cause them to have full seisin of all lands, property, rents and all possessions pertaining to the same abbey, and if they have taken anything since the death of the same abbot, they are to render it without delay.

For the prior of Newnham . To the sheriff of Bedfordshire. The king has granted to the prior of Newnham , for as long as it pleases the king, the land that is called ‘ La Sele ’ and the meadow that is called ‘ Kingsmead ’, which are worth 60s. per annum according to an inquisition which the king caused to be taken by him, to be held of the king for 60s. a year, for which the prior will answer the king by his hand at the Exchequer. Order to cause the prior to have full seisin of the aforesaid land and meadow, so that he answers the king at the Exchequer by his hand, as aforesaid.

Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Oenius de Ayham, man of the prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England, for a debt of the Jews, to the king’s use, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then.

Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Robert de Hauville and the men of Westhall for the arrears of the farm of the vill of Westhall, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Concerning the land of Robert Norris, committed to the archbishop of Canterbury. The king has committed to the archbishop of Canterbury all land formerly of Robert Norris, to keep for as long as it pleases the king with all corn and chattels found therein. Order to the sheriffs of Norfolk, Kent and Essex to cause him to have full seisin thereof with all chattels and corn found therein, as aforesaid.

30 Aug. Westminster. Surrey. William del Teyll’ has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having his grace and benevolence, because he was with Falkes de Bréauté, and for having his lands, corn and chattels which were taken into the king’s hand by the aforesaid reason. Order to the sheriff of Surrey that, having accepted security from William for the aforesaid 10 m. and for being faithful in the king’s service henceforward, he is to cause him to have full seisin of his lands with appurtenances and his corn and chattels in his bailiwick.

Order to Waleran Teutonicus, similarly, to cause him to have full seisin of his lands with appurtenances and his corn and chattels in his bailiwick.

Northamptonshire. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Because it is clear to the king by an inquisition that the sheriff has sent to him that, in the time of King Richard, the king’s uncle, the hundred of Willybrook was in the hand of the same and, afterwards, in the time of King John, the king’s father, was in the hand of the same King John, and afterwards it was in the king’s hand until the county of Northamptonshire came into the custody of Falkes de Bréauté, order to take the aforesaid hundred into the king’s hand and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.

Concerning respite. To the sheriffs of London. Order to place in respite the demand they make by summons of the Exchequer from William Blund for the debts of the Jews until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, ¹ having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then.

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[No date]. The fine of Walter de Goderville. Walter de Goderville has made fine with the king by £100 for having his grace and the seisin of his lands that were taken into the king’s hand because he was with Falkes de Bréauté, so that he is to render those £100 to the king this year, namely £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, £25 at Hilary ¹ in the ninth year, £25 at Easter in the same year, and £25 at St. John the Baptist in the same year, and also so that he is to render 200 m. to the king in the second year, by which he made fine for having to wife Joan who was the wife of Phillip of Oldcoates . Order to the sheriffs of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Dorset , Leicestershire , Northumberland , Bedfordshire , Kent , Lincolnshire , Northamptonshire , Hertfordshire and Wiltshire to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements in their bailiwicks of which he was disseised by order of the king, with all corn and chattels found there that have not yet been sold.

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Corrected from ‘Christmas’.

[No date]. Pledges for the fine of £100:

Osbert Gifford for 30 m.Simon de Heddun’ for 10 m.Nicholas de Mare for 10 m.

Hugh Graundin for 10 m.Henry del Ortiay for 20 m.Eustace de Greinville for 10 m.

John de Beauchamp for 10 m.William de Mesnil Hermer for 10 m.Ralph de Tany for 30 m.Geoffrey d’Avranches for 10 m.Milo de Frankesney for 10 m.

Hampshire. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take into the king’s hand the lands and chattels of Nicholas of Shirley, Walter of Gloucester, Richard Seur’, Richard Depsert, Walter Bolle, Henry Wise, William Heiward, William Brond, Roger Hasard, Richard le Pastur, Henry son of Wulgar’, William Wulgar’, ¹ Wuluric’ man of Nicholas of Shirley, Denis Fortin and Godfrey de la Grave, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

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This name may be a mistake as it is not recorded in C 60/20, m. 2.

2 Sept. London. The fine of Henry de Trubleville. Henry de Trubleville has made fine with the king by 200 m. for having custody of the land and the son and heir of William son of Martin, with the marriage of the same heir, so that he is to render 25 m. of the aforesaid fine at the Exchequer of Easter in the ninth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and thus from year to year until the aforesaid 200 m. are paid to the king in full, and he has given surety to the king for that fine. Order to the sheriffs of Devon and Dorset and Somerset to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all land formerly of the aforesaid William in their bailiwicks, with all corn and chattels found there after the receipt of these letters.

Pledges of the said Henry:

W. de Mandeville, earl of Essex, for 40 m.Robert de Turville for 10 m.Hugh of Windsor for 10 m.John de Beauchamp for 20 m.William of Rowden for 10 m.Nicholas de Lettres for 10 m.Geoffrey de Lucy for 20 m.Eustace de Greinville for 10 m.Richard de Redvers for 20 m.Henry son of Reginald for 10 m.Hugh de St. Philibert for 10 m.John son of Richard for 10 m.Roger of Acaster for 10 m.

The fine of Gilbert de Bréauté. Gilbert de Bréauté has made fine with the king by 120 m. for having his grace and benevolence. Order to the sheriff of Essex that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid 120 m. to the king at these terms, namely 20 m. at Michaelmas in one month in the eighth year, 20 m. at Hilary next following in the ninth year, 20 m. at Easter next following, 20 m. at St. John the Baptist next following, 20 m. at Michaelmas next following, and 20 m. at Hilary next following in the tenth year, he is then to cause him to have full seisin of all his lands, of which he was disseised by order of the king by reason of Falkes de Bréauté, his brother, who was against the king.

Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take into the king’s hand all chattels formerly of Roger of Paulton in his bailiwick until the king will be satisfied at the Exchequer of the debt that Roger owed him.

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 Walter of Brackley for a certain fine and for the scutage of King John’s last voyage into Poitou from the land formerly of Matthew de Rumilly in Helmdon, which is in Walter’s custody by order of the king.

6 Sept. London. Bedfordshire. To the sheriff of Bedfordshire. Order to permit G. earl of Gloucester to hold in peace the land formerly of Walter de Treyly in Southill, formerly of Falkes de Bréauté, whose son and heir the same earl has in custody by order of the king, until 15 days after Michaelmas in the eighth year, so that it may then be discussed before the king’s council whether Falkes de Bréauté had that land by the gift of the aforesaid Walter or not. He is also to cause the corn found in the aforesaid land to be valued by trustworthy and law-worthy men of the same vill and, having accepted security from the aforesaid earl for answering the king thereafter for the value of the aforesaid corn at the Exchequer, he is to permit the same earl to have the aforesaid corn.

Essex. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite, until the king orders otherwise, the demand he makes from the land in his bailiwick of John of Tew, who is in Ireland by order of the king and holds of the fee of Robert fitz Walter, by the summons of the Exchequer made to him to distrain the fees of the same Robert for the scutage of Poitou.

Oxfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to inquire by law-worthy men of the neighbourhood of Weston if Maurice de Gant handed over the manor of Weston at farm to Ralph de Bray at a term, and if the term of that farm had elapsed in the octaves of Trinity when the king was last at Northampton, and whether Ralph or Maurice was in seisin of the aforesaid manor on that day, and the inquisition etc., and he is to ensure that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

Kent. Order to the sheriff of Kent to place in respite, until the octaves of Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand for 500 m. that he makes from Phillip de Hampton for the debt of William de Turville by summons of the Exchequer.

[No date]. The king has committed to ... ¹

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Entry cancelled. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 2.

Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to cause the land of Wimbotsham, which has been taken into the king’s hand for the debts of the Jews, to be replevied to the Earl Warenne until upon his next account at the Exchequer, so that it may then be inquired before the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews whether the earl ought to answer for that debt or not.

9 Sept. London. Essex. Robert de Turville has made fine with the king by 100s. for having seisin of the land that Richard Carpenter held in Harlow by bail of Falkes de Bréauté, which falls by inheritance to Nicholas, son and heir of Henry son of Fulcher, who is in the custody of the same Robert. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take security and cause him to have full seisin.

Buckinghamshire. Beatrice who was the wife of Ranulf de Carun has made fine with the king by 80 m. for having custody of the land and the son and heir of the same Ranulf, with the marriage of the same heir. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take security and cause her to have full seisin.

12 Sept. Windsor. Oxfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from the prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England for the amercements made before the justices last in eyre in his county. In the presence of the justiciar.

[No date]. Cambridgeshire. Alan son of Gunnilda gives the king half a mark for summoning Eustace son of William before the justices of the Bench to render to him half a virgate of land in Orwell. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to take etc.

Devon. Order to the sheriff of Devon to cause Thomas of Cirencester to have scutage from the knights’ fees that are held in chief of the honour of Plympton , which is in his custody, in order that he answers for it by his hand at the Exchequer.

13 Sept. Reading. Northamptonshire. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite the demand for 6 m. that he makes from Baldwin de Vere until upon his next account at the Exchequer.

14 Sept. Wallingford. Half a mark. Sibyl of Caversfield gives the king half a mark for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors, by 24, against William de la Merse, concerning her common of pasture in Chetwode, which pertains to her in the same vill, beyond etc. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take etc.

15 Sept. Oxford. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset not to permit Robert de Courtenay to distrain Robert de Vaux to render scutage for the army of Bedford from his tenement that he holds of the fee of the earl of the Isle [of Wight], which is in the king’s hand, which scutage pertains to the king, but he is to cause it to be collected to the king’s use so that he may answer for it at the Exchequer.

15 Sept. Woodstock. Oxfordshire. Joan who was the wife of Adam Butler has made fine with the king by 5 m. for having seisin of one carucate of land with appurtenances in Wilcote, which is the marriage portion of the same Joan, as is clearer to the king by an inquisition that the sheriff sent to him, and which Adam demised to John de Bréauté for a term of eight years, four of which have passed. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take security etc. and cause her to have full seisin of the aforesaid land. He is also to cause the corn of the same land to be valued and to demise it to her by the same value, having first accepted security from her that she will answer the king for that value at the Exchequer.

[No date]. Because the writs have not been sent. Northamptonshire. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Order that, as he loves himself and all of his own, he is to have upon his next account at the Exchequer all monies that he has received and that he has not yet paid into the king’s Wardrobe, ¹ either from the chattels of Falkes de Bréauté or from those who were with him, namely both from oxen, cows, horses, draught animals, sheep, pigs and corn, and from other things, and at his account he is to know how he can distinctly and openly show from which chattels he has received those monies, so that he is able to render his account sufficiently, lest, for his default, after his account another inquisition ought to be taken, and he is to have four trustworthy and law-worthy men with him upon his aforesaid account who were with him at the sale of the aforesaid chattels. ²

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Failure to pay interlined.

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Entry cancelled, though not in C 60/20, m. 1.

[No date]. Because the writs have not been sent. Northamptonshire. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Essex, Hertfordshire , Somerset , Devon , Wiltshire , Gloucestershire , Oxfordshire , Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Sussex , Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Yorkshire , Kent , and Norfolk and Suffolk. ¹

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Entry cancelled, though not in C 60/20, m. 1.

16 Sept. Evesham. Leicestershire. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, ¹ the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Amabilia who was the wife of Richard of Foxton for the debts of the Jews from the land that she holds of the tenement formerly of Richard in Foxton.

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Corrected from ‘15 days after Michaelmas’.

[No date]. Warwickshire. John of Warwick, accused of the death of Richard son of Ernisius, gives half a mark to be on bail until the arrival of the itinerant justices. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take etc.

21 Sept. Kidderminster. Bedfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire to take into the king’s hand the land that William de Caen had at farm from Peter de Maulay in Wilden, of which Peter disseised William before his term, as he says, and to inquire diligently what chattels were in the same land on the day upon which he disseised him, and who has them.

21 Sept. Kidderminster. Worcestershire. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to place in respite, until five weeks from Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Phillip of Hanbury for the agistment of the forest of Feckenham from the time at which that forest was in the custody of John Marshal.

22 Sept. Bridgnorth. Leicestershire. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to place in respite, until upon his account at Hilary in the ninth year, the demand for £12 that he makes from Walter de St. Ouen, who is in Bristol castle with the king’s niece, for the debt that John de Joye, whose land Walter has by bail of King John, owed the king. By the justiciar.

Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite the demand he makes from Ernald de Bosco for the scutage of Montgomery, until upon his next account at Michaelmas in the eighth year. By the justiciar.

22 Sept. Bridgnorth. Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Ralph de Tany for horses, birds and other debts, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year. In the presence of the justiciar.

Norfolk. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Geoffrey of Cavenham for the debts of the Jews, until upon his next account at the Exchequer at Michaelmas next to come in the eighth year. By the justiciar.

23 Sept. Shrewsbury. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until three weeks from Michaelmas in the eighth year, the lying by of the sum of the account of William de Cantilupe, because William was at Shrewsbury with the king, so that he and his bailiffs could not come before them at Michaelmas in the same year to lie that sum by.

Staffordshire. Margaret Bagot gives half a mark for summoning Roger Martel before the justices at Westminster to acquit her of the service that Milicent of Stafford exacts from her for her free tenement in Blymhill and Brineton. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take etc.

25 Sept. Shrewsbury. Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from John Lestrange for the farm of the vill of Wrockwardine, until the king orders otherwise.

Leicestershire. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to place in respite, until 15 days from Michaelmas in the eighth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the earl of Chester and Lincoln for his fees.

Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer ¹ to place in respite, until the king orders otherwise, the demand they make from John Lestrange for the farm of the vill of Wrockwardine.

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Corrected from ‘the sheriff of Shropshire’.

Concerning respite. Order to the same to place in respite the account of the sheriff of Nottinghamshire for this Michaelmas term in the eighth year, until 15 days from Michaelmas in the same year.

Concerning respite. Order to the same to place in respite the account of the sheriff of Herefordshire until three weeks from Michaelmas in the eighth year.

Concerning respite. Shropshire. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from John fitz Alan for his debts to the king, until the octaves of Hilary in the ninth year.

Concerning scutage to be collected. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to permit Maurice de Gant to collect scutage from the knights’ fees he holds in his bailiwick ¹ of the land that he holds in dower of Margaret, his wife, so that he answers by his hand.

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Corrected from ‘that are held of the king in chief’. Not corrected in C 60/20, m. 1.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Surrey, Berkshire and Middlesex .

Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the account of the sheriff of Shropshire until three weeks from Michaelmas in the eighth year. In the presence of the justiciar.

28 Sept. Shrewsbury. The fine of Ralph de Bray. To the sheriff of Northamptonshire. Ralph de Bray has made fine with the king by £200 for having his grace and benevolence and for having seisin of his lands, wardships and farms that were taken into the king’s hand, except for the vill of Stowe which Ralph previously had in his hand, and for having his chattels that have not been sold by order of the king, and for having his chattels that he has in the said vill of Stowe, excepting the hay of this the eighth year, which the king has granted to Geoffrey de Armenters, who has made fine with him for having seisin of the said vill, namely so that he is to render the fine to the king within two years, namely £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the eighth year, £25 at the Exchequer of Easter in the ninth year, £25 at St. John the Baptist in the same year, £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, £25 at Hilary in the tenth year, £25 at Easter in the same year, £25 at St. John the Baptist in the same year, and £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, and he is to give the king surety for this at Michaelmas in 15 days in the eighth year. Order to cause him to have full seisin of his lands, wardships and farms, with his corn and chattels in his bailiwick that, by order of the king, have not been sold, and with his chattels that he has in the vill of Stowe, excepting the aforesaid vill and hay. The names of his pledges for this fine are to be sought on the dorse. ¹

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See 426 below. This addition concerning the pledges is made in a different, now faded hand and is not repeated on C60/20, m. 1.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire , Huntingdonshire , Devon , Norfolk , Suffolk , Cumberland , Northumberland and Oxfordshire , concerning the wardships, lands and farms etc. of this year, excepting the vill of Stowe and the hay that are written in the first writ.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Herefordshire, concerning his farm of Mathon. ¹

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This entry is added by the same hand as that which notes the pledges for this fine on the dorse in no. 387 above and is likewise not recorded in C 60/20, m.1.

The fine of William de Cantilupe. William de Cantilupe has made fine with the king by 100s. for having seisin of the land that William Martel had in Tattenhoe, which is of the fee of the same William de Cantilupe, as he says. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take security and then cause him to have full seisin. In the presence of the justiciar.

29 Sept. Shrewsbury. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make from W. earl Warenne for the old scutage, until the arrival of the justiciar at the Exchequer.

1 Oct. Montgomery. Shropshire. Baldwin of Hodnet gives 20s. for having a writ to attaint, before the itinerant justices, the twelve jurors of the assize that was summoned over a pond raised in Weston to the harm of the free tenement of Thomas of Lee in the same vill. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take etc.

Concerning respite. Notification to the barons of the Exchequer that the king has given respite until Hilary to Thomas Corbet from the debt that he ought to have paid to him at Michaelmas in the eighth year.

1 Oct. Montgomery. Because in the Patent Roll. The abbot of Cwmhir has letters of protection to last for four years from Michaelmas in the eighth year. ¹

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Entry cancelled. Omitted in C 60/20, m. 1. See PR 1216-25, p. 473. This entry is followed in this “master” roll by ‘The king has pardoned ...’, which is crossed through.

2 Oct. Ludlow. Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Adam son of Hervey by summons of the Exchequer until upon his next account at the Exchequer at Hilary in the ninth year.

2 Oct. Ludlow. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until the octaves of Martinmas in the ninth year, the account of Thomas of Cirencester for the honour of Berkhamsted and for the land formerly of Falkes de Bréauté in Devon, which are in the king’s custody. They are similarly to place in respite his account for the scutage that pertains to the king from the aforesaid land of the same Falkes until the same term.

3 Oct. Hereford. Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make from Robert Wolf for the debt that he owes the king, until the octaves of Hilary in the ninth year.

Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Hugh de Mortimer by summons of the Exchequer until Hilary in the ninth year. In the presence of the justiciar.

Concerning keeping the chattels of John Russell. To the sheriff of Somerset. John Russell is dead. Order that, as he loves himself and all of his own, he is to cause all chattels formerly of the same John, both in his lands and in his wardships in his bailiwick, to be kept safely so that nothing is removed until the king orders otherwise, and if anything has been removed since John’s death, he is to cause it to revert without delay.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Dorset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire .

The abbot of Cwmhir gives the king £10 for having seisin of his land in Baghewenith’ and Drosunehaul’, which was taken into the king’s hand because, it was said, the land pertains to the honour of Montgomery . ¹

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The right-hand edge of membrane is missing from this point on and many of the missing or illegible details have to be made up from the final membrane of C 60/20, the duplicate roll.

7 Oct. Gloucester. Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to cause Godfrey of Crowcombe to have the king’s corn and hay of Ampney, formerly of Falkes de Bréauté, for such a price for which it could be sold to others.

Concerning rent to be assigned. To the constable of St. Briavels . Order, without delay, to cause [four acres of land] to be assigned to Maciana who was the wife of Walding’ son of John, the king’s miner , who died in the king’s service at Bedford, [in the same place] where the king ordered land to be assigned to other miners who were with him in his service there, which four acres of land the king granted to Maciana to sustain her and her children, and [he is to assign a rent to that land] as rent is assessed in other similar lands.

[? Oct]. Cirencester. Concerning respite. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to place in respite the demand for 40s. he makes from Hamo of Denton by summons of the Exchequer until upon his next account at the Exchequer.

Wiltshire. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to retain the vill of Corsham, which the king committed to John Russell to sustain him in his service, in the king’s hand. In the presence of the bishops of Salisbury and Chichester .

Concerning carucage. Order to the archbishop of Canterbury, the archbishop of York, and all bishops of England to have all their carucage, which they granted to the king from their demesne lands, knights and free tenements, and [from the men of the knights and] free tenants and for which they have not yet answered in full in the king’s Wardrobe or elsewhere, at the New Temple in London at Michaelmas in the eighth year in one month, and that the same are to cause it to be done [from abbots and priors within] their bishoprics concerning their carucage [from ...] of knights fees and free tenants, and of the men of the same knights and free tenants.

9 Oct. Fairford. Oxfordshire. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer, the demand he makes from Hugh de Gournay by summons of the Exchequer for 10 m. of a prest made at Worcester to the same Hugh.

8 Oct. Cirencester. Gloucestershire. To the barons of the Exchequer. It is clear to the king by an inquisition taken by order of the king that the abbot of Cirencester used to answer by his attorney at the Exchequer for the debts of the king’s predecessors, [kings of England, from the bailiwicks of the seven hundreds …] by the return of the summonses of the Exchequer received by the hand of the sheriff of Gloucestershire from the bailiwicks of the seven hundreds of Cirencester which the abbot has by the gift of the king’s predecessors, until the time at which Gerard d’Athée [had the custody of the county of Gloucestershire …] who disseised the abbot. Order to permit the abbot to answer the king at the Exchequer for the king’s debts from the bailiwicks of the seven hundreds of Cirencester, as aforesaid.

Gloucestershire. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to cause the same abbot to have the return of the summonses of the Exchequer concerning the king’s debts from the bailiwicks of the said seven hundreds, and to collect those debts and to permit him to answer the king by his hand at the Exchequer without impediment.

Gloucestershire. The same gives 100s. so that he might answer thus for the debts of the king of the bailiwick from the said seven hundreds.

15 Oct. Westminster. Concerning Queenhithe in London. To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause Thomas of Cirencester, constable of the castle of Berkhamsted , to have the farm of Queenhithe in London without delay, [with other lands] formerly of the count de la Marche and Queen I., his wife, in England, which the king committed to him to keep for as long as it pleases him. In the presence of the justiciar.

Concerning respite. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Easter in the ninth year, the demand they make from Theobald Walter, who is in the king’s service in Ireland with Earl W. Marshal by order of the king, for the scutage of the last journey of King John into Poitou and for the scutage of the king of Bytham.

[17 Oct]. Westminster. Cambridgeshire. To the sheriff of Cambridgeshire. The men of Cambridge have made fine with the king by 40 m. ¹ for having the house formerly of Benjamin the Jew in Cambridge, which is in the king’s hand, for making a gaol in the vill of Cambridge, doing [service of] one mark [annually] to the king and 2s. to the chief lord of the same house. Order that, having accepted security from the aforesaid men for rendering the aforesaid fine and rent to the king, he is to cause them to have full seisin of the aforesaid house without delay. In the presence of the justiciar.

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Corrected from ‘two palfreys’. Not corrected in C 60/20, m. 1.

Norfolk. Martin of Bristol gives the king 4 m. for summoning Matthew of Gunton, Robert of Mautby and others before the justices at Westminster at Martinmas in 15 days to answer him for [the debt that he exacts from them]. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. ¹

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20 Oct. Westminster. Concerning the fairs and market of the bishop of Worcester. The bishop of Worcester gives the king two palfreys for having an annual three-day fair, until the king comes of age, on the eve, feast and morrow of Trinity at his manor of Stratford, and an annual two-day fair at his manor of Blockley on the eve and feast of Michaelmas, and for having a weekly market on Wednesdays at his manor of Alvechurch, unless those are to the harm of neighbouring fairs and the aforesaid market is to the harm of neighbouring markets. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to cause him to have the fair of Stratford. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to cause him to have the aforesaid fair at Blockley and the aforesaid market at Alvechurch. ¹

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[No date]. Because in the Close Roll. Order to the sheriff of Northumberland that since the king has given respite to Roger of Hodsock from rendering his account until the quindene of Hilary in the ninth year, he is to not to distrain Roger to render his account in the meantime. Also, the trespass that Roger made in taking […] to wife. ¹

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No name given. Entry unfinished and cancelled. This entry does not appear in C 60/20, m. 1. See RLC, i, p. 626.

[No date]. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the demand they make from Reginald de Berneval, who is in Ireland by order of the king, for the debt that he owes the king, to be placed in respite until the Close of Easter […] ¹

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This entry is written in a conspicuously different hand from those surrounding it, but has similarly been cancelled. It is omitted in C 60/20, m. 1.

23 Oct. Westminster. The fine of William de Ferrers. William de Ferrers has made fine with the king by 200 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of Cecilia de Longetot, with the marriage of the same heirs, so that he is to render that fine to the king within two years at two Exchequers, namely 50 m. at Easter in the ninth year, 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, 50 m. at Easter in the tenth year and 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and he has given the king surety for that fine. Order to the sheriffs of Hampshire and Berkshire to cause him to have full seisin of all land formerly of Cecilia in their bailiwicks without delay.

Pledges of William de Ferrers for this fine:

The earl of Chester for 40 m.The earl of Gloucester for 40 m.The earl de Mandeville for 20 m.William Brewer for 30 m.The bishop of Exeter for 10 m.The constable of Chester for 30 m.Robert de Ferrers for 15 m.Ralph fitz Nicholas for 15 m.

To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has pardoned to William de Cantilupe junior a moiety of the 18 m. which they exact from him to the king’s use for the king’s first scutage from the land formerly of [Henry de Stuteville] in his bailiwick, and the king has given him terms for the other moiety, namely that he is to render the moiety, 9 m., to the king at the Exchequer of Easter in the ninth year, and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year. Order to cause the same to be quit of that moiety and to have the aforesaid terms for the other moiety. ¹ In the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

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Because the king has pardoned him. The fine of Alan Basset. To the sheriff of Dorset. Alan Basset has made fine with the king, by Richard Talbot, by 5 m. for having the king’s benevolence because he took to wife [ Alina who was the wife of Drogo] de Montagu , who was of the king’s gift, without the king’s licence. Order that, having accepted security from Richard for rendering the aforesaid 5 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of his land with appurtenances in Puddletown, of which he was disseised by order of the king for the reason aforesaid. ¹ In the presence of the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury .

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Entry cancelled, but it is recorded on C 60/20, m.1, suggesting the cancellation came at a later date.

Bedfordshire. To the sheriff of Bedfordshire. Order to cause the corn of autumn last past of the land of Aspley Guise, formerly of Falkes de Bréauté, which the king granted to Henry de [Capella] to sustain him in the king’s service for as long as it pleases the king, to be valued without delay by the view of law-worthy men, and to cause Henry to have it by the same value in order that he answers the king for it at the Exchequer.

Devon. William Bozun has made fine with the king by 30 m. for having custody of the land formerly of Walter Gifford in Whitchurch, [Lamerton] and Wear, which W. earl of Devon gave to him and of which Falkes de Bréauté disseised him. Order to the sheriff of [Devon] to take security etc. and cause him to have full seisin. ¹ In the presence of the justiciar and the barons of the Exchequer.

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Witness clause corrected from ‘before the justiciar and the bishops of Bath and Salisbury ’.

[No date]. John of Woodlow gives 60 m. for having the king’s grace and benevolence, because he did not […] ¹

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Illegible. Neither this nor the final entry are recorded on the duplicate roll, C 60/20, m. 1.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer and before it had been sent by the hand of the bishop of Chicester.

Pledges of Ralph de Bray for £200:

William de Cantilupe junior for 20 m.Baldwin de Vere for 20 m.Richard son of Simon for 10 m.John son of Richard for 20 m.Godfrey of Crowcombe for 40 m.Aymer de St. Amand for 15 m.Geoffrey le Fleming for 10 m.Robert de Champagne for 100s.Jordan Oliver for 10 m.William Albanc for 5 m.John d’Athée for 10 m.Hubert of Bransford for 5 m.John de Hacot’ for 100s.Godfrey de Aulnay for 100s.Roger of Torpel for 20 m.William de Tremelet for 100s.William Bozun for 10 m.Robert de Amary for 5 m.Walter le Fleming for 100s.Baldwin of Raddon for 20 m.Richard Foliot for 10 m.William de Percy for 5 m.Ralph Hoese for 10 m.Henry Foliot for 10 m.Ralph son of Bernard for 5 m. ¹

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Neither this nor the following, cancelled entry are recorded on the duplicate roll. Instead, an entry concerning amercements taken at Shrewsbury (no. 428 below) sits in their place, a record which survives only in the duplicate roll (C 60/20, m. 1d.).

[No date]. To the archbishop of Canterbury, greetings ... ¹

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[No date]. Amercements from the assizes of novel disseisin taken at Shrewsbury before R. bishop of Chichester and William of Howbridge, justices, in the eighth year:

From Richard de Conwoud’, half a mark, for a false claim, by the plevin of Randulf de Solers and Walter de Estbech’.From Ralph of Hodnet, half a mark, because he did not prosecute.From Simon son of Edwin, half a mark, for plevin.From William of Churchyard, half a mark, for the same.From Roger de Fonte, half a mark, for the same.From Gilbert son of Gilbert, half a mark, for the same.From Richard son of Odo, half a mark, for the same.From Robert de Aldelegh’, half a mark, for the same.From Roger Clerk, half a mark, for disseisin.From Herbert le Bedel, half a mark, for the same.From William Buche, half a mark, for the same.From Ralph of Clee and Sibyl, his wife, half a mark, for disseisin.From Robert of Chignall and Cecilia, his mother, half a mark, because they did not prosecute, by the plevin of William of Aston and Reginald of Gatacre.From Adam son of Matilda and Isolda, his wife, half a mark, for a false claim.From William Serjeant, half a mark, for disseisin.From William son of Geoffrey of Tettenhall, half a mark, for disseisin.From Thomas Craddoc, half a mark, because he did not prosecute, by the plevin of William Griffin and Nicholas of Hadley.From Roger of Leyburn, half a mark, for disseisin, by the plevin of William of Hadnall and Adam del Eaton.From Hugh de Berkebir’, 2 m., for the same.From Baldwin of Hodnet, 3 m., for the same.