[No date]. For Thomas of Warwick. Thomas of Warwick has made fine with the king by £100 for the relief of lands formerly of Henry de Oilly, his kinsman, which fall to Thomas by hereditary right, and the king has taken his homage and, moreover, Thomas has given the king two palfreys. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid relief and the palfreys to the king, he is to cause Thomas to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of Henry, of which he was seised on the day he died. Once he has taken that security, he is to cause the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to know etc. ¹ Witness as above (sic.).

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This roll has been collated with the corresponding Originalia Roll for this regnal year, E 371/2, and all additional information taken from this roll is noted below. Those entries which are not listed in the originalia are specified by a footnote, while the annotations beside each entry in that roll are placed after each affected entry here in square brackets. For a fuller discussion of these annotations and the relationship between the Fine and Originalia rolls see the Introduction to this volume.

[No date]. For Thomas of Warwick. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire etc.

[No date]. Concerning the lands formerly of R., former earl of Chester. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to take into the king’s hand all the lands formerly of Ranulf, earl of Chester and Lincoln, and to deliver them to P. de Rivallis to answer for them at the Exchequer, saving to the executors of the testament of the same earl all chattels and wardships that he had in the abovesaid lands, in order to make execution of his testament, saving to Clemencia, who was the wife of the same earl , the lands, rents, services and other things that Bertrada, formerly countess of Chester, had ¹ in the manor of Repton with the appurtenances that the king assigned to the same Clemencia in dower. Witness as above.

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‘the lands … had’ interlined.

[No date]. Concerning the lands formerly of R., former earl of Chester. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Lincolnshire, saving to the same Clemencia the manors of Bennington and Limber, which were her marriage portion, and other lands that the aforesaid Bertrada held in dower in Waddington, Normanby, Benteford’, Donington and Habrough. ¹

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The individual dower lands are squeezed in before the next entry, suggesting they were added slightly later.

[No date]. Concerning the lands formerly of R., former earl of Chester. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Northamptonshire , Rutland , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire , ¹ Lancaster , Staffordshire , Worcestershire , Gloucestershire , Oxfordshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire , Hampshire , Dorset and Somerset, Kent and Sussex , except for the clause ‘saving to Clemencia’. Witness as above.

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‘… and Derbyshire’ cancelled by expunction.

2 Nov. Lambeth. For Ralph of Birling. The king has taken the homage of Ralph of Birling, son and heir of William of Birling, for the knight’s fee that William held of the king in chief in Birling, which falls to Ralph by hereditary right. Order to the sheriff of Kent that, having accepted security from him for 100s. for his relief, he is to cause Ralph to have full seisin of all the lands that fall to him by inheritance in his bailiwick, of which William was seised on the day he died.

2 Nov. Lambeth. Concerning underwood to be sold in the forest of Bere. Order to William Brewer, firmly enjoining him, to send one of his men in whom he fully trusts to his bailiwick of the forest of Bere without delay, and he, with the mayor of Winchester , ¹ or another on his behalf, to whom the king has ordered this, is to cause the underwood in the aforesaid forest of Bere to be sold, so that all monies thus arising are to be delivered to the mayor, by a tally made between them for them, to be put towards the works on the king’s hall and other buildings of Winchester castle , and the same W. is to cause such business to be expedited in such a way and so speedily lest by his default the works suffer delay. ²

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Corrected from ‘Lincoln’ by expunction.

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Date corrected from 3 Nov.

3 Nov. Lambeth. For Gilbert Basset. The king has taken the homage of Gilbert Basset, son and heir of Alan Basset, for the lands that Alan held in chief of the king and that fall to Gilbert by inheritance. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Gilbert to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of Alan, of which he was seised on the day he died. An inquisition is demanded concerning how much he held of the king on account of relief. ¹

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The final sentence of this entry is added after the witness clause, suggesting it could have been entered slightly later.

For the chancellor of St. Paul’s, London . Henry, chancellor of St. Paul’s, London , has made fine with the king by £10 for having custody of the lands and heirs of Robert de St. John until the full age of the aforesaid heirs, together with their marriage, which lands, together with the heirs, the king caused to be taken into his hand because they were in the custody of H. de Burgh etc. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause the same chancellor to have full seisin of all lands formerly of the aforesaid Robert, of which he was seised on the day he died, as aforesaid, and to cause one of the sheriffs in whose bailiwick the aforesaid lands are to know that he is to take security from the aforesaid chancellor for rendering the aforesaid £10 to the king at two terms, namely a moiety at Easter in the seventeenth year, and the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year. ¹ And he has the letters patent for them. Before the bishop of Winchester, Richard, earl Marshal, the justiciar and others.

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The following sentence is entered after the witness clause.

4 Nov. Weston. Concerning the dower of the wife of Roger de Montbegon . Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take into the king’s hand the £20 per annum which Olive, who was the wife of Roger de Montbegon , had in the manor of Oswaldbeck in the name of dower, so that Olive is henceforth not to receive them because the king caused seisin to be made over to her of a third part of the manor of Hornby in the name of dower.

Concerning the dower of the wife of Roger de Montbegon. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause the same Olive to be have full seisin of the third part of the manor of Hornby with appurtenances, to whom the king has assigned it, to be held in the name of dower.

[No date]. For the prior of Wymondley . The king has granted to the the prior of Wymondley and his successors in perpetuity, and has confirmed it by his charter, one virgate of land with appurtenances in Dinsley, which William Pollard once held by the charter of King John, the king’s father, rendering ten capons per annum at the Exchequer, and which afterwards came into the king’s hand by the default of that same William, to have to the aforesaid prior and his successors in pure and perpetual alms to celebrate the anniversary of the king’s father each year, and of the king himself after his death, rendering 5s. for it to the king and his heirs at the Exchequer by his hand at Easter for all services. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

4 Nov. Westminster. Concerning selling the corn and stock of H. de Burgh. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause all the corn in the manors that were in the hand of H. de Burgh, earl of Kent, to be sold to the king’s use, having retained seed to sow the lands of the manors and for the sustenance of the servants, and all sheep and wethers that are in the same manors, except for those that had been farmed out with the manors by the view and testimony of law-worthy men.

7 Nov. Westminster. Concerning the manor of Sedgebrook, committed to Earl Richard. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to cause R. earl of Cornwall to have full seisin of the manor of Sedgebrook, which is of the honour of Eye as the king has learnt by an inquisition taken thereupon, saving to Alice, who was the wife of Reginald de Vou , a third part of £4 of rent with appurtenances in the same vill in the name of dower.

[No date]. Concerning the vill of Dymock. The king has granted the vill of Dymock to the trustworthy men of Dymock to hold from the king at farm for two years from Michaelmas in the sixteenth year, rendering £33 and half a mark at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to permit this to be done thus.

For Robert le Moyne. Norfolk. Robert le Moyne has made fine with the king by two palfreys, to be rendered to him at Hilary in the seventeenth year, so that the king considers pleasing and acceptable the fine of 132 m. that he made with H. de Burgh, earl of Kent, for custody of the lands and heirs of William, son of Peter of Watlington, so that Robert is to render the said money at set terms, as he ought to have rendered it to the earl, namely 12 m. at St. Andrew in the aforesaid year, which he ought to have rendered at Michaelmas past; 20 m. at Hilary next following in the same year, which he ought to have rendered at Christmas last past; 20 m. at Easter next following in the same year; 20 m. at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist next following; 20 m. at St. Peter in Chains next following in the same year; 20 m. at All Saints next following in the eighteenth year; and 20 m. at Christmas next following in the same year. Robert has letters by the same words. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security for rendering the aforesaid palfreys and the aforesaid money to the king, as aforesaid, he is to cause Robert to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody.

11 Nov. Lambeth. Because he did not have it. Bertram de Criel has made fine with the king by £300 for having custody of the land and heirs of Simon of Chelsfield until the full age of the heirs, together with their marriage. Bertram is to render £50 of which fine to the king at the Exchequer of Easter in the seventeenth year and £50 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and £100 thus each year from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid fine is paid to the king. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from Bertram for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king, as aforesaid, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all land formerly of Simon on the day he died and that is in Peter’s custody by order of the king, together with Simon’s heirs. ¹

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Entry cancelled because he did not have it.

[No date]. Concerning the marriage of Hugh. W. earl Warenne has made fine with the king by 300m. for the marriage of Hugh d’Aubigny. He is to render 100 m. of which fine at the Exchequer of Hilary in the seventeenth year, 100 m.at St. John the Baptist, and 100 m. at Michaelmas in the same year.

13 Nov. Westminster. For Richard, son and heir of Richard Burdun . To the sheriff of Devon etc. The king has taken the homage of Richard, son and heir of Richard Burdun , for the lands and tenements that Richard Burdun, the father, held of the king in chief. Order that, having accepted security from him for rendering the 20 m. by which he made fine with the king for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all the land and tenements that Richard, father of the same, held of the king in chief in his bailiwick, of which he was seised on the day he died.

For Richard, son and heir of Richard Burdun . It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire , excepting security.

13 Nov. Westminster. For Matilda de Mowbray. To P. de Rivallis etc. In the fine of 300 m. which Matilda de Mowbray, who was the wife of Nigel de Mowbray, made with H. de Burgh, so that she might live without a husband if she wishes, or marry whom she pleases, it is contained that the same H. would make up to her that which is lacking from her rightful dower of the lands and tenements formerly of Nigel, formerly her husband, namely in lands, rents, services of men and knights’ fees, allowing to Matilda in part of her dower the manors of Hovingham and of Burton in Yorkshire, and the manor of River in Kent, of which she was in seisin. And because the king is happy with the aforesaid fine, which falls to his use, order to cause that which is lacking to Matilda from her rightful dower beyond the aforesaid manors to be made up to her without delay, as Hubert was bound to make up. ¹

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It may have been intended to cancel this entry because of the content of the one that follows.

For Matilda de Mowbray. Hugh of Pattishall, uncle ¹ of Matilda de Mowbray, who was the wife of Nigel de Mowbray, made fine by 300 m. with Hubert de Burgh when he had custody of the lands formerly of Nigel, so that Matilda might marry whom she pleases, or else live without a husband if she wishes, and so that he was to make up to her that which had been lacking from her rightful dower of the land and tenements formerly of Nigel both in demesnes and in rents, services and knights’ fees, allowing to Matilda as part of her dower the manors of Hovingham and of Burton in Yorkshire, and the manor of River in Kent, of which she then had seisin. And because the king is happy with that fine and it falls to his use, order to P. de Rivallis that, having extended the aforesaid manors of which Matilda is in seisin by the oath of trustworthy and law-worthy men, and, in a similar manner, having extended the lands and manors that the king has in his hand of the lands formerly of the same Nigel, and having taken diligent inquisition as to what fees Nigel held of the king in chief, he is to cause to be made up to Matilda, both in demesnes and in rents, services and knights’ fees, that which is lacking to her of her rightful dower of the lands formerly of Nigel, her husband.

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13 Nov. Westminster. Because otherwise below. Order to W. bishop of Carlisle to cause the king’s corn of the manors of the archbishopric of Canterbury of Harrow and Hayes to be sold, corn having been retained to sow the lands of the said manors and for the liveries of the servants of the same manors. ¹ Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the same bishop and the justiciar.

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Entry cancelled because otherwise below. See 26 below.

15 Nov. Westminster. For Robert Aguillon. Robert Aguillon has made fine with the king by 100 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of Guy de Rocheford until the legal age of the aforesaid heirs, together with the marriage of the same heirs. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid 100 m. at two terms, namely a moiety at Easter in the seventeenth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year, he is to cause Robert to have full seisin of that custody with appurtenances, as aforesaid. Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the same and Earl R. Marshal.

For Robert Aguillon. The same Robert has letters patent for it.

14 Nov. Westminster. Concerning the corn of Harrow and Hayes. Order to W. bishop of Carlisle to cause the executors of the testament of Richard, formerly archbishop of Canterbury, to have the corn of the manors of Harrow and of Hayes, for 220 m., in part payment for the debts that the king owes them from the testament of the aforesaid archbishop, so that they are then to find corn to sow the lands of the same manors, and for the liveries of the servants of the same manors, until the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the seventeenth year. Witness P. bishop of Winchester.

[No date]. Yorkshire. Walter son of Edwin gives the king 40s. for having a writ for having four justices to hold an assize of novel disseisin concerning a tenement in Howsham.

18 Nov. Northampton. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make from the men of Dover for amercements made in the eyre of the justices in the county of Kent after the war etc., until 15 days from Hilary in the seventeenth year. ¹ Witness the king. By the bishop of Winchester.

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Henceforth, all writs are attested again by the king unless otherwise indicated.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the bailiffs of Wallingford to place in respite the demand they make by summons of the Exchequer from Ralph fitz Nicholas, keeper of the land and heir of William Pippard , for the debt of Walter Pippard, Roger Pippard and William Pippard, until three weeks from Hilary in the seventeenth year.

22 Nov. Northampton. For Hugh de Neville. Order to the barons of the Exchequer not to cause Hugh de Neville to be distrained by his demesne lands for the scutage at the king’s first crossing, or for the scutage of Poitou after the king’s first crossing until the sheriffs, in whose bailiwicks the knights’ fees he holds of the king in chief are, have rendered their account at the Exchequer, so that it may then be known whether the same received the said scutage or are to answer for it by their hand.

[No date]. Northumberland. The prior of Hexham gives the king 10 m. for having his confirmation of gifts of divers donors, as is more fully contained in the same confirmation, and for having the king’s letters patent of protection without term.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to place in respite, until 15 days from Hilary in the seventeenth year, the demand for scutage that he makes from John de Neville for the land of Grafton, which is in the hand of R. bishop of Chichester etc., so that it may then be inquired before the barons of the Exchequer whether that scutage is owed from the aforesaid land of Grafton or from the land of Homington which has John sold to the prior of Maiden Bradley .

[No date]. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Henry de la Pomeraie to have peace until the octaves of Hilary in the seventeenth year, from the debts that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer.

To all those to whom these present letters might come, Richard de St. John, chaplain , sends greetings. Know that I received from my lord, H., illustrious king of England, on 21 October in the sixteenth year of his reign, at Reading, the letters patent of my same lord for taking 100 m. as a loan in order to do his business in the Roman Curia, if it will be necessary, so that if we will spend the said 100 m. in my own business and not his, I am bound to my same lord in 100 m. And if we spend them in his business by the testimony of the lord P. Saracen or another of his faithful men, we are quit of the payment of the aforesaid 100 m. In testimony of which thing I have drawn up my letters patent for the said lord.

22 Nov. Northampton. Concerning lands to be retained in the king’s hand, which pertain to Hugh d’Aubigny. Order to P. de Rivallis to retain in the king’s hand and keep safely the manor of Barrow and the manors of Campden, Coventry and Olney, which remain to Hugh d’Aubigny, who is in the king’s custody, in pledge of his part of the inheritance formerly of R. earl of Chester and Lincoln, as is more fully contained in the Close Roll. ¹

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CR 1231–34, p. 169.

[No date]. Concerning the manor of Campden. The king has committed the manor of Campden, with its appurtenances, as in the Patent Roll, to Walter [le] Fleming of Southampton, to be held from the king at farm in this, the seventeenth year, rendering 100 m., namely 50 m. at Easter and 50 m. at Michaelmas. ¹

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CPR 1232–47, p. 3.

[No date]. Wiltshire. Thomas de Clinton gives the king half a mark for having a pone before the itinerant justices, concerning a tenement in Lydiard.

29 Nov. Wenlock. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until 15 days from Hilary in the seventeenth year, the demand of £100 that they make from Walter of Clifford by summons of the Exchequer for his debt, and the demand of 10 m. 12s. 10d. that they make from the same Walter for the debts of Roger of Clifford, his brother. By Earl R. Marshal.

Concerning respite of a demand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Shropshire, concerning respite of a demand of 10 m. for relief. ¹

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This entry is squeezed in before that which follows and was probably added at a slightly later date.

1 Dec. Wenlock. The fine of Matilda de Lucy. Matilda de Lucy has made fine with the king by 300 m., of which she is to render 60 m. per annum to him, namely 30 m. at Easter in the seventeenth year and 30 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and thus from year to year until the aforesaid money is paid, for having custody of the lands formerly of Richard son of Simon until the full age of Simon, son and heir of Richard , and for the custody and marriage of the same Simon, so that if Matilda dies before the heir has reached full age, she may give, bequeath or assign the aforesaid custody and marriage to whoever she wishes. And if the heir dies before he has reached legal age, Matilda or her assigns are nevertheless to have the custody of the aforesaid lands until the time at which the heir, if he had lived, would have been of legal age, saving to the king the marriage of the surviving heirs of the same Richard. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from Matilda for rendering the aforesaid money to the king, as aforesaid, he is to cause Matilda to have full seisin of the lands formerly of Richard that are in the king’s hand by reason of the custody of the lands and heir of G. earl of Gloucester being in the king’s hand, and of the aforesaid heir of Richard, as aforesaid.

The fine of Matilda de Lucy. Order to Thomas le Veille to deliver the aforesaid heir to the same Matilda.

The fine of Matilda de Lucy. Order to the knights, free men and all others who held of Richard son of Simon, to whom the present letter might come, to be intendant and respondent to the same Matilda as keeper of the aforesaid land and heir in all that pertains to the aforesaid custody.

Concerning the manors of Lilley and Willian. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire that, immediately after having viewed these letters, he is to take the manors of Lilley and Willian with all things found within them, into the king’s hand, and to deliver them to Peter de Rivallis to keep until the king orders otherwise.

8 Dec. Shrewsbury. For the Earl Warenne. The king has granted and given respite, until the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the seventeenth year, to W. earl Warenne from the £100 that are exacted from him and which he ought to have rendered at St. Andrew in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make by summons of the Exchequer from Henry of Audley , until the octaves of Hilary in the seventeenth year, both for the amercements and the debts he owes to the king from the time that he was sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and for all other debts they exact from him to the king’s use. And they are to cause William of Bromley, his knight, whom they arrested at the Exchequer for the aforesaid debts, to be delivered in the meantime.

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. Walter Hert and other men of Wheatley give the king a palfrey for having a writ to inquire how much land and pasture H. de Burgh took from them by his will. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire etc.

12 Dec. Hereford. For Ernald of Berkeley. Ernald of Berkeley has made fine with the king by 20 m. for having custody of the land and heir of Roger de Chandos until the legal age of the same heir, with the marriage of the same heir. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from Ernald for rendering the aforesaid 20 m. to the king at these terms, namely 5 m. at Easter in the seventeenth year, 5 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, 5 m. at Easter in the eighteenth year, and 5 m. at Michaelmas that same year, he is to cause Ernald to have full seisin of all the land of which Roger was seised as of fee on the day he died.

For Ernald of Berkeley. Ernald has letters patent for it by the same words. ¹

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For Henry de Picquigny. Henry de Picquigny has made fine with the king by £100 for his relief and for having seisin of the land formerly of Robert de Picquigny, his father, which fall to Henry by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage herein. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that, having accepted security from him for rendering those £100 to the king, he is to cause Henry to have full seisin without delay of all land formerly of Robert in his bailiwick, of which he was seised on the day he died, and which fall to Henry by inheritance. Once he has taken the aforesaid security, he is to signify that he has taken it to the sheriffs of Buckinghamshire and Essex so that, then, they are to cause Henry to have full seisin of the lands formerly of Robert in their bailiwicks on the day he died.

For Henry de Picquigny. Order to the same sheriffs of Buckinghamshire and Essex etc.

For Margaret de Redvers. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to permit Margaret de Redvers to have peace from the debts that are exacted from her by summons of the Exchequer, until the octaves of Hilary in the seventeenth year.

15 Dec. Hereford. For the bishop of Hereford. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire to place in respite, until the octaves of Hilary in the seventeenth year, the demand of 30s. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from H. bishop of Hereford, for the aid granted to the king in the fourteenth year and the scutage of Painscastle, of which Earl R. Marshal ought to have acquitted him, as he says, so that it may then be seen at the Exchequer whether the said earl ought to acquit the same bishop hereof or not.

[No date]. Norfolk. The men of Docking give 2 m. for having a pone against John Luvel concerning customs etc. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc.

16 Dec. Ross. Concerning the account of the bishop of Carlisle. Order to W. bishop of Carlisle to prepare himself to render his account to the king on the morrow of the Purification of the Blessed Mary in the seventeenth year for all that he received at the Exchequer, and for other things for which account ought to be rendered from the time when he was the king’s treasurer, for which he is bound to answer the king.

Concerning the account of the bishops of Durham and Bath . It is written in the same manner to the bishops of Durham and Bath , concerning the fifteenth and sixteenth that they received. ¹

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Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the same bishop, treasurer, to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the prior of Holy Trinity, Canterbury , for amercements, concerning which dispute arose between R., formerly archbishop of Canterbury, and the aforesaid prior, until an archbishop is appointed to the aforesaid church. ¹ If he has taken anything therefrom, he is to cause it to be rendered.

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‘Teste ut supra’ entered here initially, which suggests that the following sentence is a later addition.

Concerning respite of a demand. It is written in the same manner to W. de Haverhill and the sheriff of Kent for the prior of Dover and for the aforesaid prior of Canterbury. ¹

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Concerning respite of a demand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire. ¹

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18 Dec. St. Briavels. Concerning corn to be delivered outside the churchyard. Order to the archdeacon of Oxford to cause the corn of this autumn in the sixteenth year from the land that Roger de Chandos held of G., formerly earl of Gloucester, in Finmere, and which John de Valle, who had that land in custody of the will of H. de Burgh, who then had custody of the land and heir of the aforesaid earl, deposited in the churchyard of Finmere, to be delivered to the king’s use to P. de Rivallis, or to his attorney, the bearer of the present, with that corn and certain other things formerly of the said H. that ought to remain to the king according to the provision made between the king and the same H.

19 Dec. Strigoil. For the wife of Meredudd Seys . Nesta, who was the wife of Meredudd Seys , who held his land of G., formerly earl of Gloucester, the custody of whose land and heir is in the king’s hand, has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having custody of the land and heir of the same Meredudd until the legal age of the same heir, together with his marriage. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from her for rendering the aforesaid 10 m. to the king, he is to cause her to have full seisin without delay of all land with appurtenances which Meredudd held of the aforesaid earl and of which Meredudd was seised on the day he died.

For the wife of Meredudd Seys. The same Nesta has letters patent for it.

For the abbot of Dore . The abbot of Dore gives the king 100 m. for renewing a charter, on account of the date, that he has of the king concerning a certain part of the forest of Trivel, and for similarly renewing a confirmation that he has concerning another part of the same forest, which King John gave them, and for similarly renewing a confirmation that he has concerning the gifts of several people, which charters and confirmations the king caused to be made to that house while he was a minor.

19 Dec. St. Briavels. Concerning felling certain dry oaks. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause as many of the individual oaks that have dried out in the greater part of the forest of la Berse to be felled, and to cause the king’s advantage to be made from those that are felled. By the king.

[No date]. For the heirs of the earl of Chester. J. earl of Chester and Huntingdon , one of the heirs of R., formerly earl of Chester and Lincoln, owes the king £50 for his relief.

[No date]. For the heirs of the earl of Chester. Hawise of Chester, another of the heirs of the same earl, owes the king £50 for her relief.

[No date]. For the heirs of the earl of Chester. W. earl of Ferrers, who has to wife the third of the heirs of the aforesaid earl, owes the king £50 for her relief.

22 Dec. Ross. Concerning the manor of Easingwold. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take the manor of Easingwold into the king’s hand, with all corn, stock and chattels found therein, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.

Concerning land in Fawley. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Berkshire, concerning land that is in the hand of Henry de Heliun in Fawley.

27 Dec. Tewkesbury. For Fulk fitz Warin. The king has granted to Fulk fitz Warin that, notwithstanding that he has not kept his terms at the Exchequer for the debts he owes to the king, he may render to the king at the Exchequer each year as much as he was accustomed to render there by the king’s grant for the aforesaid debts, and at the same terms. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

30 Dec. Tewkesbury. For Ralph of Barming. The king has granted to Ralph of Barming that, of the 100s. which he owes to him of the fine that he made with him for his relief, he may render 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the seventeenth year, and 2½ m. at Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled.

31 Dec. Tewkesbury. Concerning the account of the sheriff of Lancaster . Order to the barons of the Exchequer to fix a suitable term for Adam of Yealand, sheriff of Lancaster , who is so ill that he is not able to answer at present for the account of his bailiwick, to render his aforesaid account.

27 Dec. Worcester. For Gilbert of Seagrave. The king has granted the manor of Newcastle under Lyme to Gilbert of Seagrave, with the castle , and all lands and tenements in the external vills pertaining to the manor, with the advowson of the church of Stoke and its other appurtenances, without any retention, to have and hold from the king and his heirs to Gilbert and his heirs forever at fee farm, rendering £20 each year to the king and his heirs at the Exchequer, namely £10 at the Exchequer of Easter and £10 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, and, moreover, 60s. to the abbot of Chester , which the king previously granted to him to be received per annum from the same manor to sustain a certain chaplain celebrating divine service for the soul of Ranulf, formerly earl of Chester and Lincoln. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to cause Gilbert to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances, as aforesaid.

[No date]. The fine of the Master of Sempringham . The Master of the Order of Sempringham has made fine ¹ with the king by £100 for a fortieth of his moveable goods and of the moveable goods of his men, of which he is to render £50 at the Close of Easter in 15 days in the seventeenth year, and £50 at St. Botulph in 15 days in the same year.

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Corrected from ‘gives’.

2 Jan. Gloucester. Concerning the men of Gloucester. The men of Gloucester have made fine with the king by twelve lampreys and twelve bream for 280 lampreys that are exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer from the time of King John. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit of the aforesaid 280 lampreys by the aforesaid twelve lampreys and twelve bream.

[No date]. For Thomas of Warwick. Thomas of Warwick has made fine ¹ with the king by £15 for his relief of three knights’ fees that he holds in Coventry of the lands formerly of R. earl of Chester. Coventry is in the king’s hand with the custody of Hugh d’Aubigny, one of the heirs of the said earl, to whom the manor of Coventry was assigned for the capital messuage of the lands formerly of the said earl.

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Corrected from ‘owes’.

3 Jan. Gloucester. For the men of Gloucester. The king has granted to the men of Gloucester that, in place of the six men who were summoned by the barons of the Exchequer to answer for the debts they owe to the king, two are to come to the Exchequer to answer the king for them.

3 Jan. Gloucester. For Roger Gernet. The king has granted to Roger Gernet, forester of the fee of the county of Lancaster, the custody of Wyresdale, Grizedale and Calderdale, to have in the same manner that he had them before the king granted it to H. de Burgh, in order to keep the vert and venison and the other things that pertain to the king’s forest, saving to the king his vaccaries and stock that he has in those parts, and he is to be ready to have it when he wishes. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Roger to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody, as aforesaid.

3 Jan. Gloucester. For Henry of Audley. The king has pardoned to Henry of Audley 30 m. of the 60 m. that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for an amercement of the itinerant justices in the county of Northamptonshire, and he has given him respite from the remaining 30 m. until three weeks from Hilary in the seventeenth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Henry to be quit of 30 m. and to have respite from the remaining 30 m.

For Henry of Audley. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to permit the same Henry to have peace from 30 m., and to have the aforesaid respite from the remaining 30 m.

For Henry of Audley. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire not to distrain Henry de Tybetot, pledge of the aforesaid Henry, in the meantime.

4 Jan. Winchcombe. Concerning the manor of Hailes. The king has committed the manor of Hailes with appurtenances to the men of Hailes, to be held at farm for three years from Michaelmas in the sixteenth year, rendering £60 at the Exchequer each year, namely £30 at the Exchequer of Easter and £30 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. And they have letters patent for it. By P. de Rivallis.

For the abbot of Dore . The king has granted to the abbot of Dore that, of the 100 m. by which he made fine with him for amending his charter that he has concerning Treville, he may render 25 m. to the king at the Exchequer at Easter in the seventeenth year, 25 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, 25 m. at Easter in the eighteenth year, and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

[No date]. The fine of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem for their fortieth. The prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England gives the king 300 m. for a fortieth of their moveables, and the moveables of his men.

3 Jan. Winchcombe. For certain Jews. To the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews. Isaac Poitevin and Dyay the Jew of Lincoln, heirs of Elias Martrin, each of whom were accustomed to render 12 m. per annum to the king of the £480 they owe him, have made fine with him by 100 m. so that, of the aforesaid £480 and the aforesaid 100 m., each of them may henceforth render 6 m. each year. Order to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

7 Jan. Woodstock. For Walter of Tatham. Walter of Tatham, brother and heir of William of Tatham, has made fine by 100s. for his relief of the land that William held in chief of the king and that falls to Walter by inheritance. Order to the sheriff of Lancaster that, having accepted security from Walter for rendering the aforesaid 100s. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all land with appurtenances formerly of William. of which he was seised as fee on the day he died.

[No date]. For Nicholas of Haversham. Nicholas of Haversham gives to the king 100s. for having a warren in his manor and fields of Haversham. ¹

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Corrected from ‘in his demesne lands of ...’

Concerning the custody of the castle of Oxford and the manor of Woodstock. The king has granted to Godfrey of Crowcombe, by his charter, the custody of the castle of Oxford with the park and mill pertaining to the castle, and with all other things that pertain to that castellanship, to have from the king and his heirs for life. And the king has also granted to him, for himself and his heirs, by the same charter, the custody of the manor, houses and park of Woodstock with the hamlets of Hanborough, Stonesfield, Combe, Hordley and Bermynton, and all other things pertaining to the same manor, to have and hold from the king and his heirs similarly for life, answering each year by his hand at the Exchequer for £39 4s., as other keepers of the same manor with appurtenances were accustomed to answer in the times of King R., the king’s uncle, and King John, the king’s father, as is contained in rolls of the Exchequer from the aforesaid times of the king’s uncle and father, namely £18 for the farm of Hanborough, £14 for the farm of Stonesfield and Combe, 64s. for the farm of Hordley, and £4 for the farm of Bermynton, allowing Godfrey £15 each year in the same farms, which the king has granted to him and his heirs annually for the custody of the manor of Woodstock, the hamlets, park and houses, as was accustomed to be allowed to other keepers of the same manor for the same custody in the times of the king’s aforesaid uncle and father, as is contained in the rolls of the Exchequer according to an inquisition taken by the barons of the Exchequer by order of the king. Order to the same barons to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

12 Jan. Woodstock. For William de Cantilupe. The king has granted to William de Cantilupe senior, who, by his grant, renders 15 m. each year at the Exchequer for the debts he owes the king, as is contained in the rolls of the Exchequer, that, of both the 15 m. exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for a prest made to him in the king’s wardrobe and for other debts that he owes him, he may render those 15 m. as he is accustomed to render them at the Exchequer. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

22 Jan. Westminster. For the bishops of Winchester and Durham . It is considered before the king that the bishops of Winchester and Durham are to be quit of the arrears of the farm of the vill of Alton from the time when they had custody of the county of Hampshire, and that the men of the vill are similarly to be quit of the aforesaid arrears, except for certain arrears concerning which there is dispute between the said men and John Other, John Swell’ and Adam de Gurdon, who is dead, who were bailiffs at the time when the aforesaid arrears were owed, and that the aforesaid bailiffs are similarly to be quit of the aforesaid arrears, so that if they have taken anything either from the farm of the aforesaid vill or from the market or tithingpenny, or from anything that pertains to the farm, which they have not paid at the Exchequer, they shall pay that to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause it to be enrolled and held thus, as aforesaid. Witness the bishop of Winchester.

From here it is to be sent to the Exchequer. ¹

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On the dorse of the originalia roll (E 371/2, m. 6d.) it is recorded that ‘The treasurer received this roll by the hand of the chancellor on Friday next after Ash Wednesday, 17 Henry III [18 February 1233]’.

[No date]. Suffolk. Geoffrey of Badley gives the king half a mark for having a pone concerning half a knight’s fee in Freston against William of Badley. Order to the sheriff of Suffolk to take etc. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Derbyshire. The men of Chesterfield give the king 20 m. for having his confirmation of a charter of William Brewer, their lord, and for certain liberties contained in that charter.

[No date]. Worcestershire. The prior of Great Malvern , against whom Constance of Leigh arraigned an assize of darrein presentment to the church of Eckington before Hugh le Poer, Peter de Saltmarsh, Peter de Wick and Robert of Spetchley, has fallen into [the king’s] mercy and is amerced at 2 m. [in the Roll]

20 Jan. Westminster. For Phillip d’Aubigny. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to permit Phillip d’Aubigny to have peace from all the debts that he exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer by reason of the land formerly of William de Caen that is in the hand of the same Phillip by bail of the king, for as long as the said land shall be in his hand, and he is to permit him to have peace from all other debts that he exacts from him for any reason other than the aforesaid for as long as he will be in the service of the king in overseas parts. ¹ Witness P. bishop of Winchester.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

27 Jan. Windsor. For Henry son of Nicholas. The king has given respite to Henry son of Nicholas, until 15 days from Easter in the seventeenth year, from the £8 5s. 1½d. which he ought to have paid to him at the Exchequer of Hilary in the same year for stock found in the manor of Fordington, which the king committed to him at farm. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit him to have the aforesaid respite. ¹ Witness the king. By the king’s letters, under the small seal.

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Henceforth, all writs are witnessed again by the king unless otherwise stated. This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

[No date]. For the abbot of Cockersand. The abbot of Cockersand has made fine with the king by 10 m., for himself and his men, for having peace from the fortieth of his moveables and the moveables of his men. Order to the assessors and collectors of the fortieth in the county of Lancaster to receive the aforesaid 10 m. from them and not to intermeddle with assessing and collecting the forteith. If they have received anything from them in the name of the fortieth, they are to cause it to be rendered to them. [in the Roll, S’]

For the abbot of Cockersand. Order to the assessors and collectors of the fortieth in the counties of Westmorland and Yorkshire, namely in the hundred of Lonsdale, to intermeddle in no manner concerning the fortieth of the same, and if they have taken anything therefrom etc. ¹ By P. de Rivallis.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

29 Jan. Westminster. For Walter Daiville. The king has committed to Walter Daiville the lands in Wick formerly of Robert le Bret, who took to wife Emicina, niece of the aforesaid Walter, to keep until Emicina, who is pregnant, as is said, will give birth, so that he answers at the Exchequer for the issues of the same lands for as long as they are in his hand . Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Walter to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands, as aforesaid. [in the Roll] Witness P. bishop of Winchester. Before the justiciar.

[No date]. Delivery of the gaol of Lincoln. Before Simon of Ropsley and his associates, assigned to deliver the gaol of Lincoln.

From the sheriff of Lincolnshire, 6d. of the chattels of Henry Godred of Epworth, hanged.From the same, half a mark of the chattels of Richard of Fairford, hanged. From Thomas de Woodthorpe, 3s. for having the land of the said Richard for a year from the king, by the hand of the sheriff.From William of Spalding, 17d. of the chattels of Gilbert, son of Robert of Stoke, hanged.From Andrew, son of Hugh de Haut’, half a mark because he did not have he whom he had pledged. [in the Roll, S’]

30 Jan. Westminster. Concerning the manor of Melbourne. Order to the sheriff of Derbyshire to take the manor of Melbourne into the king’s hand without delay and to deliver that contained within it to Peter de Rivallis, or to his attorney bearing these letters, to answer for the issues of the same manor at the Exchequer. Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the king’s letters under the small seal.

[No date]. Suffolk. Matthew de Lovano gives the king half a mark for having a writ before the justices of the Bench against Robert de Holme, concerning acquittal of service. [in the Roll, S’]

1 Feb. Westminster. For Roger Waspail. Roger Waspail, son and heir of Roger Waspail , has made fine with the king by 40 m. for having seisin of the lands formerly of the aforesaid Roger , who held in chief of G., formerly earl of Gloucester, the custody of whose land and heir is in the king’s hand, and which fall to Roger by inheritance, and the king has taken his fealty for it. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid 40 m. to the king’s use for his relief, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the seventeenth year, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, 10 m. at Easter in the eighteenth year, and 10 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, he is to cause the same Roger to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands with appurtenances, of which the aforesaid Roger was seised on the day he died, and which etc. ¹ Witness the king. By the bishop of Winchester. [in the Roll, S’]

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Henceforth, all writs are witnessed again by the king unless otherwise stated.

1 Feb. Westminster. For William Brewer. William Brewer has made fine with the king by 40 m. so he is quit of the demand for the issues of the manor of Kingkerswell ¹ from the time of the death of Henry fitz Count, who gave that manor to the aforesaid William until the time that the king demanded William should account for the same issues, of which 40 m. William is to render 10 m. to the king at Easter in the seventeenth year, 10 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, 10 m. at Easter in the eighteenth year, and 10 m. at Michaelmas in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit of the aforesaid issues by the aforesaid 40 m., as aforesaid. ² By the privy seal. Before the bishop of Winchester and S. the justiciar.

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‘and Diptford’ crossed through here.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

Concerning the manors of Harrow and Hayes. Order to W. bishop of Carlisle to deliver the manors of Harrow and Hayes with their appurtenances, which are in his custody by bail of the king, to P. de Rivallis without delay to answer etc. [in the Roll]

For Richard Duket. The king has pardoned to Richard Duket 11 m., which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the prest of Poitou, of the debt that he owes to the king, for which he made fine with him to render 10 m. per annum at the Exchequer until the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. The king has granted to him that for the remainder of the aforesaid debts he shall keep his terms by rendering 10 m. per annum at the Exchequer until etc. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause Richard to be quit of those 11 m. and to cause it to be enrolled thus. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

3 Feb. Westminster. For Hugh le Burdeleys. Hugh le Burdeleys, brother and heir of William le Burdeleys, has made fine with the king by 5 m. for his relief of the land that William held in chief of the king. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk that, having accepted security from Hugh for rendering the aforesaid 5 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of all land formerly of William, of which he was seised as of fee on the day he died. [in the Roll] By the king. Before the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar.

4 Feb. Westminster. Concerning the manor of Upavon. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take the manor of Upavon with appurtenances into the king’s hand without delay, and to deliver all contained therein to Peter de Rivallis to answer for it at the Exchequer. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

For Fulk fitz Warin. Fulk fitz Warin has made fine by 600 m. for having, to himself or to whomsoever he will wish to assign it, the custody of the lands and heirs of William Pantulf , who held of the king in chief, until the legal age of the same heirs, together with their marriages, so that he is to render 50 m. of the aforesaid fine to the king at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, and 50 m. at Easter in the eighteenth year, and 100 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid fine is paid. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Fulk to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody of the lands and heirs with appurtenances, and with the castle of Wem, as aforesaid. ¹ Pledges of Fulk for the aforesaid fine: William de Stuteville, present; and Henry de Tracy and William fitz Warin, by their letters. [in the Roll, S’]

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‘castle of Wem’ interlined.

[No date]. For Joan de la Rokele. Joan de la Rokele gives the king two palfreys so that she may marry herself to all but an enemy of the king, or to live without a husband if she will wish. [in the Roll, S’]

4 Feb. Westminster. Concerning the land formerly of Robert de Meysey. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take into the king’s hand the land that Robert de Meysey held in his bailiwick of the honour of Gloucester, which is in the custody of the king, and to deliver it, together with the heirs of the same R., to P. de Rivallis to answer at the Exchequer. [in the Roll]

For Robert Passelewe. Robert Passelewe has made fine with the king by 400 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of Henry de Cramaville until the heirs come of age, together with their marriage. He is to render 50 m. of which 400 m. to the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, 50 m. at Easter next following in the eighteenth year, and 100 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid 400 m. will have been paid. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Robert to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody with appurtenances. [in the Roll, S’]

For John son of Phillip. The king has granted to John son of Phillip that, of the £100 by which he made fine with him for the custody and marriage of the heirs of John de Walton , he may render £20 to the king per annum, namely £10 at Easter in the seventeenth year and £10 at Michaelmas in the same year, and £20 thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid money is paid, and he is to answer for it in the county of Staffordshire. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ By the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

6 Feb. Westminster. Concerning the castle of Carlisle. Order to Thomas of Moulton that unless the castle of Carlisle is surrendered to him, so that he has free entry therein on the first Sunday of Lent, from that day he is not to permit anything, namely neither man nor stock, to issue from the castle, but they are to be arrested and kept safely. He is also to take into the king’s hand all the lands of those who will hold the castle and refuse to surrender it, with all chattels and property found in the said lands, and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed therefrom. Similarly, if the castle is not surrendered to him on that day, he is to take into the king’s hand the lands, farms and lay wardships of the bishop of Carlisle that are not of his bishopric and to keep them safely until he receives command otherwise. [in the Roll]

7 Feb. Westminster. Concerning the manor of Horncastle. Order to P. de Rivallis to take the manor of Horncastle into the king’s hand without delay, and to keep it safely with the stocks, corn and chattels contained within it, so that nothing is removed therefrom until he has command from the king otherwise. [in the Roll]

[No date]. For Henry of Audley. The king has given respite to Henry of Audley from the demand for the debts and arrears that he owes the king at the Exchequer, until the octaves of the Close of Easter in the seventeenth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite. ¹ By R. fitz Nicholas.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

[No date]. Norfolk. Robert de Sculham, Thomas de Sculham, William French, William, son of Adam of Walpole, Peter son of Jocelin, Peter son of Laurence, Adam de Walton, Rocelin of Hackbeach, Adam Serjeant and Simon son of Adam give the king 10 m. for having a writ for having four justices to take an assize of novel disseisin against H. de Burgh and others. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Norfolk. The burgesses of Lynn give the king £60 for having his confirmation of certain liberties contained in a charter of King John that they have. [in the Roll, S’]

For William de St. John. The king has given respite to William de St. John from the 25 m. that he ought to have rendered at the Exchequer in Hilary term in the seventeenth year, until the Close of Easter in the same year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer etc. to cause him to have that respite. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

To the barons of the Exchequer. Order to allow the king’s beloved and faithful W. de Kirkham, dean of St. Martin’s, London, 40s. in the issues of the archbishopric of Canterbury which, by the king’s order, he put towards the expenses of the venerable father H. bishop of Rochester at Canterbury where, on Maundy Thursday in the sixteenth year, he consecrated the chrism in the church of Holy Trinity at the king’s petition. ¹

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Entry cancelled because in the Liberate Roll: CLR 1226–40, p. 198. This suggests that the two rolls were drawn up at much the same time. It is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

Concerning the lands of Henry de Vere, to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriffs of Norfolk and Suffolk , Yorkshire and Northamptonshire to take into the king’s hand all the lands formerly of Henry de Vere, who is dead, as is said, and to cause them to be delivered to P. de Rivallis to keep for as long as it pleases the king.

[No date]. Norfolk. Robert de Wendevalle gives the king 100 m., of which he is to render £10 at Easter in the seventeenth year, £10 at Michaelmas in the same year, £10 at Easter in the eighteenth year, £10 at Michaelmas in the same year, 20 m. at Easter in the nineteenth year, and 20 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, for having the king’s charter that as soon as Helewise de Wendevalle, his mother, shall die or assume the religious habit, Robert and his heirs of the aforesaid Isabella (sic.) shall succeed to the lands of her own inheritance hereditarily and shall enter and hold the inheritance freely and without impediment, doing due service to the lord of the fee. [in the Roll, S’]

10 Feb. Westminster. Concerning Warnell, to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to Thomas of Moulton to take into the king’s hand without delay ten acres from the edge of the king’s wood of Warnell and the close of the same edge, which the abbot of Holm Cultram held by bail of the king and which, afterwards, the king gave to John le Francis, parson of Caldbeck , by his charter, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise. ¹ Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the justiciar.

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Witness corrected from ‘the king’.

13 Feb. Westminster. For the two heirs of Matthew of Torrington. The king has taken the homage of Reymund de Suly and Gilbert de Umfraville, kinsmen and the two heirs of Matthew of Torrington, for the rightful part that falls to them of the lands and tenements formerly of Matthew. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from them for £40 for their relief of the aforesaid part, which falls to them by inheritance, he is to cause them to have full seisin, without delay, of the aforesaid lands and tenements that are in the hands of the same P. by order of the king. Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the same. Before the justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

14 Feb. Westminster. For John de Vieuxpont. The king has granted to John de Vieuxpont that, of the debts he owes him at the Exchequer, he may render 100 m. each year at the same Exchequer until the aforesaid debts are paid, namely 50 m. at Easter and 50 m. at Michaelmas. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the king’s letters, sealed under the privy seal.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

14 Feb. Westminster. Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to take the manor of Leeds with appurtenances, formerly of R. earl of Chester, who is dead, into the king’s hand, and to deliver it to Peter de Rivallis to keep, so that he answers at the Exchequer for as long as it pleases the king. Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the same bishop. Before the justiciar. [in the Roll]

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. In the same manner, order to the sheriff of Berkshire, concerning the land formerly of William de Fruges in Basildon, and he is to deliver it as above, saving to the executors of the testament of the same William the corn and other chattels that were his in the same land to make execution of his testament. Witness as above. [in the Roll]

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order in the same manner to the sheriff of Worcestershire, concerning the manor of Martley with appurtenances formerly of the same William. Witness as above. By the same. [in the Roll]

18 Feb. Westminster. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the bailiffs of Wallingford to place in respite, until three weeks from Easter in the seventeenth year, the demand they make by summons of the Exchequer from Ralph fitz Nicholas, keeper of the land and heirs of William Pippard, for the debt of Walter Pippard and William Pippard. In the meantime, they are to also cause the distress of the same Ralph, which they took for that reason, to be delivered. ¹ Witness P. bishop of Winchester. By the king’s letters under the privy seal.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 6.

22 Feb. Lambeth. Concerning the lands formerly of William Brewer. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take into the king’s hand without delay all the lands in his bailiwick formerly of William Brewer, who is dead, and to deliver them with all contained therein to Peter de Rivallis or to his bailiffs, to answer for them at the Exchequer. ¹ Witness the king. [in the Roll]

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Henceforth, all writs are attested by the king again unless otherwise stated.

Concerning the lands formerly of William Brewer. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Derbyshire , Devon , Hampshire , Northamptonshire and Somerset . [in the Roll]

25 Feb. Lambeth. For two Jews. Sampson of Canterbury and Benedict Crispin, Jews, who were accustomed to render to the king £20 per annum of the £470 14s. which they ought to render of the debts delivered to them out of the king’s treasure, have made fine with the king by £100, so that, of the aforesaid £470 14s., and of the aforesaid £100 and £60 that they owe the king for several debts, they may henceforth render £10 each year until all of the aforesaid debt will have been paid. Order to the justices assigned to custody of the Jews to cause this to be done and to be enrolled thus.

25 Feb. Westminster. For the executors of the testament of William Brewer. Order to the sheriff of Devon that, having accepted security from one or two of the executors of William Brewer for rendering £162 3s. 4d. to the king at Easter in one month in the seventeenth year, he is to permit the executors to have free administration of all goods formerly of the same William in his bailiwick, in order to make execution of his testament, ¹ and if anything has been removed therefrom, they are to cause it to be rendered to them. Order to the sheriffs of Leicestershire , Northamptonshire , Hampshire and Somerset that once the sheriff of Devon signifies to them that he has accepted security from the executors for rendering the aforesaid money at the said term, he is to permit the same executors to have free administration of all the goods formerly of the aforesaid William in their bailiwicks. ² [in the Roll]

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The remainder of this sentence is interlined.

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A small half-circle is entered in the margin here.

For Roger Carpicat . Order to Jordan Oliver and his associates assigned to deliver the gaol at Ilchester that if no one appeals Roger Carpicat for the death of Hugh of Mountsorrel, of which he is accused and for which he is held in the said prison, then, having accepted security by safe pledges for 10 m. to the king’s use, they are to cause him to abjure the king’s land for the aforesaid death, because the king has pardoned him his suit. [in the Roll]

27 Feb . Westminster. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to place in respite, until his next account, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from R. bishop of Chichester, chancellor , for the scutage of Painscastle, and the demand of 2½ m. that he makes from the same bishop by the same summons for an amercement of the justices who were lately itinerant in his county, because the bishop will answer the king for it. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire that since the king has given respite to Ralph fitz Nicholas, until one month from Easter in the seventeenth year, from the 6 m. that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Poitou from the time of King John, the king’s father, by reason of the lands of Nicholas Poinz, which are in the custody of the same Ralph, he is to permit him to have peace in the meantime. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

[No date]. Fine of the bishop of Carlisle. Walter, bishop of Carlisle, has made fine with the king by £1000 for having peace from all the quarrels and grievances that the king had towards him by reason of his treasurership, and so that he, his successor, heirs and executors, and the church of Carlisle may be quit in all things of all account for the treasurership from the time at which he was the king’s treasurer, and, similarly, for having the manor of Horncastle to himself and his heirs, with its soke and with all its appurtenances, and for having the liberties contained in the charters of the king that the same bishop has, and similarly for having wardships, farms and his other tenements which the king took into his hand, so that then the bishop may not alienate the manor of Horncastle, or give it in alms, without the assent and will of the king. He is to render at the Exchequer 500 m. of which £1000 at Easter in one month in the seventeenth year, 500 m. at Michaelmas in one month in the same year, and 500 m. at Easter in one month in the eighteenth year. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Fine of the bishop of Carlisle. The same bishop of Carlisle, of his own will, surrendered to the king at Westminster, on Friday next after St. Mathias the Apostle, two charters which he had from the king, namely one concerning the treasury, and the other concerning a certain bond, and on the same day he renounced other charters which he had concerning Carlisle castle and the county of Cumberland, and the manor of Melbourne, and thereupon he made his letters patent to the king that as soon as he can get hold of these he will surrender them to the king. And if for whatever cause they are not surrendered, wherever they may be, they are to be of no value or moment. [in the Roll]

1 March. Westminster. For William son of Richard. William son of Richard has made fine with the king to render 1 m. each year to the king at the Exchequer of the 20 m. that he owed him for the debts of Ursellus the Jew of Exeter , of which he is to render half a mark to the king at Easter in the seventeenth year, half a mark at Michaelmas in the same year, and one mark thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid debt will have been paid. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. Order to the sheriff of Devon to cause him to have full seisin of the lands of the aforesaid William, which have been taken into the king’s hand by reason of the aforesaid debt. ¹ Witness P. bishop of Winchester.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

1 March. Westminster. For Alexander of Dorset. To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has granted to Alexander of Dorset that, of the £200 he owes him for the exchange of London and Canterbury, which he ought to have paid to Richard Reinger by the king’s order and has not paid, and of the £100 which he owes the king for a fine he made with him for having his grace, he may render £150 at the Exchequer at Easter in 15 days in the seventeenth year, and £150 at Michaelmas next following in 15 days in the same year. Order to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ Witness P. bishop of Winchester.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

[No date]. For Ranulf and William le Breton. The king has pardoned to Ranulf le Breton 300 m. of the £1000 by which he made fine with him for having his grace, and to William le Breton, his brother, 200 m. of the 1000 m. by which he similarly made fine with the king for having his grace, so that Ranulf is to render 1200 m. to the king and William 800 m. for the aforesaid fines, and so that Ranulf is to render 100 m. each year and William 50 m. Ranulf is also to render 50 m. at Easter in the seventeenth year and William 25 m., and at Michaelmas in the same year Ranulf is to render 50 m. and William 25 m., and at Easter next following in the eighteenth year Ranulf is to render 50 m. and William 25 m., and thus from year to year Ranulf is to render 100 m. at the terms of Michaelmas and Easter, and William 50 m., until the fines will have been paid. It is to be known that, of the £100 which Ranulf and William paid at the Exchequer before this fine, £50 will be allowed to Ranulf in his fine and £50 to William in his fine. Order to the sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex to cause them to have full seisin of all the lands and chattels of which they were disseised by order of the king. The same order to the sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, the sheriff of Norfolk, the sheriff of Northamptonshire, and the sheriff of Sussex for the same Ranulf, and to the sheriffs of Kent , Essex , Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire for the same William. [in the Roll]

5 March. Kempton. For the Master of the Knights of the Temple. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that, having first accepted security from the Master of the Knights of the Temple in England that he will satisfy the king at the Exchequer for the £10 that he exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer for the manor of Walshford, and for 4 m. that he exacts from him for Walter of Wheatfield at Easter in 15 days in the seventeenth year, he is meanwhile to permit the same Master to have peace. Witness P. bishop of Winchester. [S’]

8 March. Kempton. For the abbot of Chertsey . Order to the sheriff of Surrey that, having accepted security from the abbot of Chertsey that he will satisfy the king upon the next account of the same sheriff after Easter in the seventeenth year at the Exchequer for all demands that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, he is to permit the abbot to have peace in the meantime. ¹ Witness the king. By W. de Kirkham.

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Henceforth, all writs are witnessed by the king again unless otherwise stated.

[No date]. Somerset. Order to the sheriff of Somerset to take security from William de Holendal’ for 1 m. for [having] a writ against Warin Basset and Katherine, his wife. [in the Roll, S’]

9 March. Kempton. Demands to be placed in respite. Order to the sheriff of Devon to place in respite, until 15 days after Easter in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes from Payn de Chaworth by summons of the Exchequer for William de la Ferté, whose daughter and heiress Payn has to wife, having accepted security from him that he will then satisfy the king for the aforesaid demand at the Exchequer. ¹ By the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar.

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Another scribal marginal mark resembling the number 9 appears beside this entry.

Demands to be placed in respite. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to place in respite, until upon the view of his account after Easter in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Andrew de Chanceaux for debts of the Jews for Henry Foliot, whose heir is in the custody of the same Andrew by the grant of R. earl of Cornwall. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

10 March. Kempton. For Roger la Zouche. The king has granted to Roger la Zouche that, of the 9 m. which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for a prest made to him in Poitou in the time of King John, he may render 4½ m. at Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, and 4½ m. at Easter next following. Order to the sheriff of Sussex to permit him to have that respite. By the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar.

[No date]. For the brethren of the Knights of the Temple in England. Brother Robert, Master of the Knights of the Temple in England, and the brothers of the same Temple, give 300 m. to the king for a fortieth of their moveables and the moveables of their men, to be rendered at these terms, namely a moiety at St. John the Baptist in the seventeenth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year. [in the Roll, S’]

11 March. Kempton. For Thomas, son of Robert of Wolford. The king has granted to Thomas, son of Robert of Wolford, that he may have full seisin of his land in Little Wolford with appurtenances, which H. de Burgh acquired in the Jewry at the time when he was justiciar of England, for 20 m., as is said, so that Thomas is to render the aforesaid 20 m. to the king to the use of clerks of Rome, Italians, and others for damages caused to them by the aforesaid H., within a term of four years, namely 5 m. each year until the aforesaid 20 m. are paid. Order to Robert Passelewe that, having accepted security from Thomas for rendering the aforesaid 20 m. to the king to the use of the aforesaid clerks within a term of four years, as aforesaid, so that he is to begin to render 2½ m. at Michaelmas in the seventeenth year and 2½ m. at Easter next following, and 2½ m. thus from year to year at the aforesaid terms until he has paid all the aforesaid debt, he is to cause Thomas to have full seisin of the land with appurtenances. By the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

14 March . Kempton. For the abbot of Bruern . The abbot and monks of Bruern have made fine with the king by 5 m. for having his charter that they be not distressed or distrained by a sheriff or by any other bailiff by their sheep, for as long as they will have other beasts or cattle, or other chattels by which they could be distressed and sufficiently distrained for any debt or service that they might owe to the king or his heirs or to any other whatsoever, as is more fully contained in the charter of the king that they have. [in the Roll, S’]

16 March . Kempton. Because in the Close Roll. The king has pardoned to Gilbert of Seagrave the 5 m. that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for a prest made to him in Brittany. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to permit Gilbert to have peace. ¹

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Entry cancelled because in the Close Roll. See CR 1231–34, p. 202. It is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

18 March . Merton. Concerning the goods formerly of Alexander of Dorset. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause R. bishop of Chichester etc. and the prior of Holy Trinity, London , executors of the testament of Alexander of Dorset, to have full seisin, by their certain messenger bearing these letters with their letters for making execution of the testament of the same A., of all the lands, chattels and other lay goods formerly of Alexander in Rotheclive and Aldborough and of 20s. rent in Minskip formerly of Alexander. If anything of the chattels of the same A. will have been removed or wasted, he is to cause them to be restored to the aforesaid executors, because they have given the king surety that they wil satisfy him in full for the debts in which the said A. was bound in the king.

Concerning the goods formerly of Alexander of Dorset. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire in Rampton, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in Winterborne and Weston, the constable of Windsor in Bagshot, and the constable of Knaresborough in the soke of Knaresborough.

19 March. Merton. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Cambridgeshire to place in respite, until three weeks from Easter in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from G. of Crowcombe for the scutage of Poitou from two knights’ fees that he holds of the bishop of Ely, and that the same bishop holds of the king in chief in his bailiwick, so that it may be inquired then whether the same G. ought to be quit or not. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

For William of Windsor. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire that, having accepted security from William of Windsor that he will satisfy the king upon the view of his account on the morrow of the Close of Easter in the seventeenth year for the £100 that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, he is to permit William to have peace in the meantime. [S’]

21 March. Merton. For Ralph Monachus. The summons of the Exchequer made in the county of Gloucestershire upon Robert Monachus for the 120 m. by which he made fine with H. de Burgh for custody of the heir of William son of Peter, and for two palfreys for having the king’s grace, ought to have been made in the county of Norfolk, where the lands of the aforesaid Robert are. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire not to distrain Ralph Monachus or any other in his county by reason of the aforesaid demand. He is also to signify to the sheriff of Norfolk by his letters that he is to distrain Robert in his bailiwick for the aforesaid debt. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

For Drogo de Barentin and John de Plessetis. The king has granted to Drogo de Barentin and John de Plessetis that they are not to be distrained for the debt that is exacted from them by summons of the Exchequer for Peter de Belaulnay, by reason of the manor of Chalgrove that is in their hand by bail of the king, for as long as they will hold the aforesaid manor. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire not to distrain them by reason of the aforesaid debt. [S’]

For Drogo de Barentin and John de Plessetis. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. [S’]

[No date]. Suffolk. Arnulf of Kettleburgh gives the king 1 m. for summoning Hugh Tollemache, William de Fraxineto and two of their associates, justices constituted to take an assize of novel disseisin against Rose de Mineres, concerning a tenement in Easton, that they are to have the record of that assize at Westminster at Easter in one month. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Norfolk. The same Arnulf gives the king 1 m. for having a writ of novel disseisin before W. Raleigh and Adam son of William at Lynn in the octaves of the Close of Easter against Robert Aguillon and John de Merlay, concerning a tenement in Harling. [in the Roll, S’]

For John de Préaux. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire that if John de Préaux gives him surety that he will satisfy the king at the Exchequer on the morrow of the Close of Easter in the seventeenth year for the 40 m. that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for John de Préaux, his uncle of a prest made to him at Dover in the time of King John etc., then he is to permit the same John to have peace in the meantime. [in the Roll, S’]

4 April. Canterbury. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite, until the octaves of the Close of Easter in the seventeenth year, the demand of 100 m. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Walter of Clifford for the fine made with the king for the manor of Slaughter. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 5.

[No date]. William son of Geoffrey, ¹ John son of Lefsi, Roger his brother, Simon son of Peter, Alan son of Geoffrey, Ralph son of Swain, Simon Male, Richard son of Gymer, Geoffrey son of Baldewar’, Simon Gouc, Geoffrey son of Matilda, Peter son of Ranulf, ² Robert son of Roger, Hamo son of Simon, Albert Carpenter, Fulk Carpenter, William Gase, Roger son of Hubert and Robert son of Geoffrey give the king £20 for having a writ to place an appeal before the justices of the Bench against William Longespée and others, concerning robbery and a breach of the king’s peace. [in the Roll, S’]

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Corrected from ‘… son of John’.

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Corrected from ‘… son of Matilda’ by expunction.

6 April. Faversham. For Brian de Lisle. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to permit B. de Lisle to have peace from that demand for 400 m. which he makes from him by summons of the Exchequer for the custody of the castle of Knaresborough, which he did not have, and if he has taken anything from his chattels or property by this reason, he is to cause them to be rendered to him without delay. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

For Brian de Lisle. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause the same Brian to be quit of those 400 m. that he ought to have rendered for custody of the said castle if he had had it. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

For Fulk of Montgomery. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit Fulk of Montgomery to have peace from the demand they make from him for the scutage that William de Caen owed to the king from his land in Morden, which the king committed to Fulk to sustain him for as long as it pleases the king, for as long as he holds that land by bail of the king. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

7 April. Maidstone. For William Longespée. William Longespée has made fine with the king to render to him the debts that he owes to him by his hand at the Exchequer at the terms the king gave him. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire not to distrain him for the £20 he owes to the king for Easter term in the seventeenth year, until the king orders otherwise. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

11 April. Otford. Concerning respite of a demand. The king has given respite to Robert de Vaux, until Monday, the morrow of the octaves of the Close of Easter in the seventeenth year, from the 20 m. that are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer for a prest made to him in Brittany. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite. ¹ By G. of Crowcombe.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

12 April. Otford. For Richard de Gray. The king has given respite to Richard de Gray from rendering his account for the custody of the castle of Devizes from the time that the castle was in his hand, and for those things that he received with the same castle, until Monday next before St. George in the seventeenth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit Richard to have the aforesaid respite, so that he be not prosecuted before them, because he was not at the Exchequer to render his account on this Monday, the morrow of the Close of Easter in the same year. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

From here etc. ¹

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On the dorse of the originalia roll (E 371/2, m. 5d.) it is recorded that ‘The treasurer received this roll by the hand of the chancellor on Saturday next after the Close of Easter, 17 Henry III [16 April 1233]’.

16 April . Westminster. Concerning the chattels of Henry de Cramaville. Order to the sheriff of Kent to cause all chattels formerly of Henry de Cramaville, whose heir is in the custody of the king, which are in the hand of the abbot of Lessness and the other executors of the testament of the aforesaid Henry, to be arrested so that nothing is removed therefrom until he satisfies the king for the debts that he owed, and similarly for debts he owed to others. [in the Roll, S’]

For the abbot of Dore . The king has granted to the abbot of Dore that, of the 100 m. by which he made fine for amending a charter of the king that he has concerning the forest of Trivel , to be rendered at the Exchequer within two years, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the seventeenth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, he may render 10 m. to the king at this Exchequer of Easter in the seventeenth year, 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 20 m. thus each year from year to year until the aforesaid 100 m. are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

18 April . Stratford. For Master Odo of Cheriton. Master Odo of Cheriton, son and heir of William of Cheriton, has made fine with the king by £25 for his relief of one knight’s fee with appurtenances in Great Delce that William, his father, held of the king in chief, for which the king has taken the homage of Master Odo, and for his relief of one knight’s fee in Farningham, and for 43s. 4d. rent in Casebourne that William held of the archbishopric of Canterbury, which is vacant and in the king’s hand, and for his relief of 2½ knights’ fees in Cheriton that William, his father, held of William d’Avranches, whose heir is in the custody of the king, and for his relief of half a knight’s fee that William, his father, held in chief of the count of Guines, and afterwards of H. de Burgh, ¹ for which aforesaid fees, which the aforesaid William held of others in chief than the king, Master Odo has performed his fealty to the king. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Master O. to have full seisin of all aforesaid fees, lands and rents formerly of William of Cheriton, of which he was seised on the day he died, which are in the king’s hand and which fall to Master Odo by inheritance. [in the Roll, S’]

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Hubert’s tenure is interlined.

19 April . Stratford. Concerning respite of demand. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from R. bishop of Chichester etc. for the debts of Aymer de Crohun, whose lands are in the hand of the same bishop by bail of the king, until the king orders otherwise.

For G. of Crowcombe. Godfrey of Crowcombe held the king’s manor of Woodstock with appurtenances by bail of the king from the sixteenth year, rendering the ancient farm at the Exchequer. And because it is contained in the rolls of the Exchequer, and the barons of the Exchequer have signified to the king that the ancient farm is £39 4s. according to the particulars of the same farm contained in the charter of the king by which he caused the custody of the aforesaid manor to be made over the same G., order to the same barons to cause him to be quit of the custody of the aforesaid manor by the aforesaid farm from the aforesaid year, allowing him £15 in the same farm for the custody of the aforesaid manor, as the king granted to him by his aforesaid charter and as they were accustomed to be allowed to other keepers of the same manor in the times of the predecessors of the king, kings of England. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

20 April . Stratford. For William d’Aumale. William d’Aumale, son and heir of Robert d’Aumale , has made fine with the king by 10 m. for having seisin of land in Ruardean that Robert, his father, held in chief of the king by sergeanty in keeping the bailiwick of Ruardean in the forest of Dean , which falls to William by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage for it. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from William for rendering 10 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with appurtenances, of which his father was seised on the day he died and which falls to him by inheritance, together with the bailiwick of the aforesaid forest. [in the Roll]

21 April. Westminster. Concerning the manor of Campden. The king has committed the manor of Campden with its appurtenances to Walter [le] Fleming at farm for 100 m. to be rendered to the king one year from Michaelmas in the seventeenth year next following. Order to P. de Rivallis to permit Walter to hold that manor thus. By the same Peter.

Concerning the manor of Campden. The same Walter has letters patent to all etc.

For Henry de Tybetot. The king has committed the manor of Shopland with appurtenances to Henry de Tybetot, with corn and one good carucate that the king gave to him, saving to the king the costs that he placed in sowing the lands of the same manor, as more fully in the Close Roll. ¹ [in the Roll]

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CR 1231–34, p. 210.

24 April. Lambeth. For Floria and Jacob, Jews of London. Floria and Jacob, Jews of London, have made fine with the king by 10 m. for having seisin of a house with appurtenances in the parish of St. Michael Paternosterchurch , which Richard Chaplain had of the king’s grant. Order to P. de Rivallis etc. that, having accepted security from the aforesaid Jews for the aforesaid 10 m. to the use of the king, he is to cause them to have full seisin of the aforesaid house with appurtenances. By the same P. [in the Roll, S’]

26 April. Lambeth. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to permit Herbert son of Matthew to have peace until St. John the Baptist from the demand he makes from him by summons of the Exchequer for the debts he owes the king. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

Concerning respite of a demand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Hampshire. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

27 April. Westminster. For John son of Phillip. The king has committed the manor of Masham with appurtenances formerly of John de Walton to John son of Phillip, to hold until the full age of the heir of the same John, who is in the custody of the same John son of Phillip, rendering £40 each year at the Exchequer beyond the 100 solidates of land that were previously assigned to John son of Phillip in the same manor for the sustenance of the aforesaid heir. Order to Peter de Rivallis to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor. The same John has letters patent by the same words, with this addition that he is to have it to him or his assigns. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Concerning the county of Yorkshire. The king has committed the county of Yorkshire to B. de Lisle to keep for life, so that he will answer at the Exchequer each year for 300 m. of the profit of the same county, and he is to keep that county and the castles of Scarborough and Pickering at his own costs. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Concerning the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire. The king has committed the counties of Warwickshire and Leicestershire to Ralph de Bray to keep for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answers at the Exchequer for 100 m. for the profit of the same counties.

27 April. Westminster. Concerning the custody of the land and heiress of William son of Simon. Egidia, who was the wife of Simon son of Richard , has made fine with the king by 40 m. for having custody of the land and of Egidia, daughter and heiress of William son of Simon, until the lawful age of the same Egidia, with the marriage of the same, so that if Egidia dies before she is of full age, the custody of the aforesaid land will remain to Egidia, who was the wife of the aforesaid Simon, or to her assigns, until the other heir of the aforesaid William, if she will be within full age, reaches full age. The king has also granted to the same Egidia that she may give and assign the same custody to whomever she will wish until the age of the aforesaid heirs, provided her assigns are in the king’s faith. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from Egidia for rendering the aforesaid 40 m. to the king at these terms, namely 10 m. at Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, 10 m. at Easter in the eighteenth year, 10 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and 10 m. at Easter in the nineteenth year, he is to cause Egidia to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of the aforesaid Simon, which fall to Egidia daughter of Simon by inheritance, and of which he was seised as of fee on the day he died, with the aforesaid Egidia daughter of Simon. Witness S. of Seagrave, justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

Concerning the custody of the land and heiress of William son of Simon. The same Egidia has letters patent containing the narratio.

Concerning the manor of Driffield. The king has committed the manor of Driffield with appurtenances to Peter Grimbald to answer for the same manor each year at the Exchequer for £72 blanched for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause Peter to have full seisin of that manor with appurtenances, as aforesaid. He is also to cause the king’s plough-oxen and other stock and corn that the king has there in the granges to be valued by the oath of trustworthy and law-worthy men, by whom the truth might be better known, and to cause the barons of the Exchequer to know how much they are worth and their value. He is also to cause it be distinctly and openly seen how many acres were sown in the demesne lands of the same manor, how many with wheat, how many with rye, how many with barley, and how many with oats, and similarly to certify the aforesaid barons thereof. Witness as above. [in the Roll]

Concerning the manor of Driffield. Order to the men of that manor to be intendant and respondent to the same Peter for as long as it pleases the king, as aforesaid.

For William the king’s tailor. The king has granted to William the king’s tailor, that he and his heirs may render at the Exchequer the pelt that he owes the king each year for a certain house with appurtenances in Winchester that is called ‘Linea Selda’ , ¹ the scissors that he owes to the king each year for land with appurtenances in Neuton’ that he holds of the king’s gift, and the sore sparrowhawk which he owes to the king each year for a caracute of land with appurtenances in Godested’, which pelt, scissors and sparrowhawk William once used to render into the king’s wardrobe ² by the order of the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ³ Witness as above. By the same king.

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Corrected from ‘Linea Tela’.

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Corrected from ‘at the Exchequer’.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

4 May. Westminster. For the abbess of St. Edward . To the barons of the Exchequer. Amy, abbess of St. Edward , has made fine with the king by £100 for having quittance of a demand that used to be exacted from her church of St. Edward by the king and his ancestors, kings of England for the service of three knights, and a fourth and a sixth part of a knight’s fee that she did not recognise, and for all arrears that were exacted from the same church by reason of the aforesaid demand for the service of the aforesaid three knights’ fees and a fourth and a sixth part of a knight’s fee, so that the abbess and her successors are henceforth, in perpetuity, not to answer to the king or his heirs, save for the service of seven knights’ fees that the abbess recognised herself to owe, and for having the king’s charter concerning the aforesaid quittance. The king has also granted to the abbess that she may render the aforesaid £100 to the king at the below-written terms, namely £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, £25 at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, £25 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and £25 at the Exchequer of Easter in the nineteenth year. Order to cause this to be done and enrolled thus and cause the aforesaid abbess and the others who will be abbess of St. Edward in future to be quit of the aforesaid demand. ¹ Witness the king. [in the Roll]

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Henceforth, all writs are witnessed by the king again unless otherwise stated.

16 May. Woodstock. Concerning wines of the king sold at Brill. Order to the keepers of the king’s wine of Brill that, having accepted security from the men of Brill for rendering 50s. to John of Colemere, keeper of the king’s wines , ¹ for three tuns of old wine that are in his custody and that the king caused to be sold to the same men, he is to cause the aforesaid tuns to be delivered to them to do with as they will wish. ²

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Corrected from ‘at the Exchequer’.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

25 May . Tewkesbury. For Henry de Balliol and his associates. Henry de Balliol and Lora, his wife, David Comyn and Isabella, his wife, and Peter de Maulay and Christiana, his wife, have made fine with the king by 60 m., namely each of them by 20 m., for their relief of the lands that Christiana, who was the wife of W. count de Mandeville , held of the king in chief and that fall to Lora, Isabella and Christiana by inheritance, and the king has taken the homage of Henry, David and Peter for them. Order to P. de Rivallis etc. that, having accepted security from them for rendering the aforesaid 60 m. to the king, namely 30 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, and 30 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, he is to cause David, Lora etc. to have full seisin of the lands formerly of the aforesaid Christiana as of fee on the day she died, namely the rightful portion of each of them. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Northamptonshire. From William Mauduit, £100 for a trespass of the king’s chamber. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Dorset and Somerset. Thomas Corbet and Matilda, his wife, Robert de Bosco, Christiana de Sunderland, Richard and Hugh, sons of Richard de Hornbanton’, give the king 4 m. for having a writ that R. of Lexington shall take four assizes, as is more fully enrolled on the dorse of the Patent Roll. [in the Roll, S’]

For the heirs of Hamo of Hereford, Jew . Ursellus, Leo and Mosse, sons of Hamo of Hereford, Jews, and Abraham, his nephew, heirs of the same Hamo, who ought to have rendered 500 m. each year by the king’s will of a fine of 5000 m. which they made with the king for having the lands, buildings, debts and chattels formerly of Hamo, and who have quitclaimed to the king the 1000 m. that they rendered to him of the same fine so that they might render to the king 300 m. per annum of the same fine of 5000 m., have made fine with the king by 300 m., which they have rendered to the king cash down, so that they might render 200 m. per annum to the king at the Exchequer of the whole fine of 5000 m., namely 100 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the sevententh year, 100 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, and 200 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid fine of 5000 m. is paid to the king in full. The king has also granted them that, until they have paid the aforesaid fine of 5000 m. to him, they are to be quit of as much of the tallages as pertains to them by reason of the debts formerly of the aforesaid Hamo, but if anything will accrue to them for another reason, such as taking money for taking wives or for any other cause whatsoever, they are to be tallaged for it when it happens that other Jews of the king throughout England are tallaged by order of the king. The king has also granted to them etc. that if he pardons anything to anyone of the aforesaid debts that were owed to Hamo, it is to be allowed to the same Jews in the aforesaid fine according to the quantity of the debt pardoned by the king. Order to the justices assigned to the custody of the Jews to cause this to be done and enrolled thus.

For the heirs of Hamo of Hereford, Jew . The same Jews have letters patent directed to all to whom etc. by the same words.

28 May. Pershore. Concerning wines to be sold. Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to cause the king’s wines at Geddington and Cliffe and Silverstone to be delivered to the vintners of Northampton, to be sold by a certain market price in the forthcoming tournament held there, or elsewhere, as will seem expedient to them. [in the Roll]

Concerning wines to be sold. Order to the mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln to deliver the king’s wines that are in their custody to the vintners of Lincoln, to be sold by a certain market price as will seem expedient to them. [in the Roll]

30 May . Worcester. For the prior of Fineshade , concerning the assart of Ranulf le Breton. The king has committed to the prior and canons of Fineshade those three carucates of land with appurtenances of the assart that Ranulf le Breton and William, his brother, caused to be assarted in the wood of Duddington, to be held from the king at farm for a term of five years from Michaelmas in the seventeeth year, rendering 100s. per annum for them at the Exchequer at two terms, namely 50s. at Easter and 50s. at Michaelmas. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

For the prior of Fineshade , concerning the assart of Ranulf le Breton. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause him to have full seisin. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

For the prior of Fineshade , concerning the assart of Ranulf le Breton. And the same prior and canons have letters patent for it. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

For John Marshal. The king has granted to John Marshal that, of the debts he owes him, of which he ought to have rendered 60 m. per annum to the king by his grant, he may henceforth render 50 m. each year until the aforesaid debts will have been paid to the king, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

30 May . Worcester. For Walter Daiville. Walter Daiville has made fine with the king by £10 for having custody of the land formerly of Robert le Bret in Wick until Alice, daughter and heiress of the same Robert, will be of such age that she can and ought to hold the land according to the law of England, which custody pertains to the king by reason of the custody of Hugh d’Aubigny being in his hand. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Walter to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with appurtenances, as aforesaid. [in the Roll, S’]

For Walter Daiville. The same Walter has letters patent by the same words. [in the Roll, S’]

For Daniel Miller of Carmarthen. The king has granted to Daniel Miller, by his charter, the mill outside the walls of Carmarthen that Daniel raised at his own costs by licence of the king over the water of Gwili , to have to him and his heirs from the king and his heirs, rendering 5s. annually by the hand of the bailiffs of Carmarthen for all services. Order to the bailiff of Carmarthen to cause him to have full seisin.

5 June. Wenlock. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to place in respite, until 15 days from St. John the Baptist in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes from Thomas, earl of Warwick, by summons of the Exchequer for a debt he owes the king, and to cause his livestock seized for this reason to be delivered to him in the meantime. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

7 June. Wenlock. Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to take into the king’s hand without delay the land formerly of Master Urricus in Sutton, which Gilbert Basset holds, and to keep it safely with all chattels found therein so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise. By the king. Before the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar.

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to:

the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning land that the same Gilbert holds in Kirtlington.the sheriff of Essex, concerning land that William de Ferrers holds in Stebbing.to the sheriff of Shropshire, concerning land that Hugh of Kinnersley holds in Wellington.to Peter de Rivallis, concerning land that the same Hugh has in the Forest of Dean.

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Because at this Pentecost last past Roger de Somery did not come to the king so that he could gird him with the belt of knighthood, order to the sheriff of Worcestershire ¹ to take the honour of Dudley and the other lands of the same Roger in his bailiwick into the king’s hand without delay, and to keep them safely with all chattels found therein, so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

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Corrected from ‘ Staffordshire ’.

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Essex, concerning the lands of Gilbert, son of John de Sampford, and to the sheriff of Dorset, concerning the lands of William, son of Drogo de Montagu.

For R. of Lexington. The king has granted to R. of Lexington, for himself and his heirs, that as long as he will hold the prebend of Bere, he may hold that moiety of the manor of Bere with appurtenances that is in the king’s hand at fee farm, rendering £12 for it to the king and his heirs each year at the Exchequer of Michaelmas by his hand, saving to the king and his heirs the tallages of his men of the aforesaid land for as long as Robert will hold it at fee farm, as aforesaid. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to cause Robert to have full seisin of the aforesaid moiety of the manor with appurtenances, as aforesaid. [in the Roll]

For R. of Lexington. The same Robert has letters patent for it from the king by the same words, and they are directed to all etc.

Wenlock. Concerning compelling the bishop of Carlisle. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire to compel W. bishop of Carlisle by his lands and chattels that he has in his bailiwick, so that he renders to the king the charter that he caused to be made for him concerning the manor of Melbourne, which he has not yet rendered to the king as he had agreed, and so that he renders to the collectors of the fortieth in Derbyshire the fortieth of his moveables that the same bishop had in the aforesaid manor.

10 June . Worcester. For the heirs of William Brewer. Hugh Wake, nephew and one of the heirs of William Brewer junior , has made fine by 100 m. for having his portion that falls to him of the lands formerly of the aforesaid William, his uncle, and the king has taken the homage of the same Hugh for it. The king has granted to Hugh that after he has rendered to the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year the £22 12s. that he owes him for his ancient debts, he is to have respite from the 15 m. that will then remain to be rendered to the king of the same debts until he will have rendered the aforesaid 100 m. to the king, of which he is to render 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the nineteenth year, and 25 m. at Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and afterwards at the Exchequer of Easter in the twentieth year he is to render the aforesaid 15 m. of the aforesaid ancient debts. Because Hugh has given the king surety by Phillip d’Aubigny and William de Percy for rendering the aforesaid debts to the king at the aforesaid terms, order to P. de Rivallis to cause Hugh to have full seisin of the manor of Chesterfield with appurtenances, as the portion that falls to him of the lands formerly of William, without prejudice to anyone else’s right. [in the Roll, S’]

For the heirs of William Brewer. Alice de Mohun, sister and one of the heirs of William Brewer junior , has made fine with the king by 100 m. for having seisin of her portion that falls to her of the lands formerly of the aforesaid William, her brother, and the king has taken the homage of the same Alice for it. The king has also granted to her that, of the aforesaid 100 m., she may render 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the nineteenth year. Because Alice has given the king surety for rendering the aforesaid 100 m. at the same terms, order to P. de Rivallis to cause her to have full seisin of the manor of Axminster with appurtenances, as the part of her portion that falls to her of the aforesaid lands, without prejudice to anyone else’s right. By the justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

For the heirs of William Brewer. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Hampshire for Margaret de la Ferté, sister and one of the heirs of William Brewer junior, concerning the manor of Somborne with appurtenances. Margaret has made fine by 100 m., to be rendered to the king at the terms contained in the next writ by the pledge of Payn de Chaworth and William de Percy. [in the Roll, S’]

12 June. Worcester. For the heirs of William Brewer. William de Percy has made fine with the king by 500 m. for having the custody of his five daughters, certain of the heirs of William Brewer junior , together with the portion which falls to them of the lands formerly of William until the lawful age of his same daughters, with their marriages. Because the same William has given the king surety for rendering the aforesaid 500 m. to the king by Reginald de Mohun, who is his pledge for first paying 100 m. of the same fine, and by Hugh Wake and Payn de Chaworth, who are his pledges for the rest of the said fine, at these terms, namely £50 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, £50 at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, £50 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, £50 at the Exchequer of Easter in the nineteenth year, and 100 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 100 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twentieth year, order to the sheriff of Hampshire to cause the same William, in the name of his aforesaid daugters, to have full seisin without delay of the manor of Ashley with appurtenances as the part of the portion that falls to them of the aforesaid lands formerly of William Brewer, saving to each her right. By the justiciar. [in the Roll]

For William de Gamages. Order to the sheriff of Herefordshire not to distrain William de Gamages for the debts he exacts from him by summons of the Exchequer, because William has mainperned before the king that he will answer by his hand at the Exchequer for the aforesaid debts at the terms given to him. ¹

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Corrected from ‘at the term contained in the same summons …’ This entry is not on the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland to place in respite the demand of 20 m. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from W. count of Aumale for the amercement of the eyre of the justices of the forest, until 15 days from Michaelmas in the seventeenth year. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Thomas son of Denis and Beatrice, his wife, give half a mark to the king for having a pone against Robert Wandard’ and Isabella, his mother, concerning one knight’s fee in Shotteswell. [in the Roll, S’]

For Robert de Courtenay. Whereas in the king’s court, before the justices at Westminster, Robert de Courtenay claimed the manor of Aylesbeare with appurtenances against William Brewer junior, except for the advowson of the church , at length it was agreed between the same Robert and William de Hampton, whom W. Brewer had called to warrant in the same court and who warranted him, by a chirograph made between them in the same court that W. Brewer was to hold the aforesaid manor with appurtenances, except the advowson of the church, to himself and the heirs of his body from Robert and his heirs forever, and if he died without heirs of his body, the manor was to revert to Robert and his heirs after the death of William. Because William has now died without heir of his body, and his other heirs have agreed that Robert shall have seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances, except for the advowson of the church, according to the tenor of the chirograph, order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from Robert for the two palfreys by which he made with the king for having seisin, he is to cause him to have full seisin. ¹ By the same king. [in the Roll, S’]

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A small circle is drawn in the margin beside this entry.

For John of Monmouth. The king has given respite to John of Monmouth from rendering his account from the time that he was sheriff of Herefordshire until 15 days from St. John the Baptist in the seventeenth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to permit him to have that respite. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

15 June . Worcester. Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire that, having viewed these letters, he is to take into the king’s hand all the lands of Gilbert Basset in his bailiwick, together with all property and chattels found in those lands, and to deliver them to a certain messenger of P. de Rivallis to keep until the king orders otherwise. If G. will be found in his bailiwick, he is to cause him to be arrested until he has acquitted himself ¹ of the disturbance of the kingdom, of which he is accused.

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Corrected from ‘… he is to take him and safely keep him, so that he is to have him before the king at his command to answer concerning ...’

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Oxfordshire, Surrey and Berkshire . ¹

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‘Buckinghamshire’ has been crossed through.

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Concerning Walter of Clifford and his lands, [it is written] similarly to the sheriffs of Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire , Shropshire , Kent and Herefordshire .

For the men of Bromsgrove. The men of Bromsgrove have made fine with the king by 5 m. for having pasture in Lickey within the forest of Feckenham , notwithstanding the closed month, namely 15 days before St. John the Baptist and 15 days afterwards. The king has also granted to them that they may have their turbary in the same forest, for having which they made fine with J. of Monmouth and his associates, justices lately itinerant to take the forest pleas. Order to the bailiff of the forest of Feckenham to permit them to have the said pasture and turbary, as aforesaid, notwithstanding that B. de Lisle has not yet received letters of the king directed to him, and he is to cause their livestock to be delivered. [in the Roll, S’]

For the men of Bromsgrove. It is written to Brian de Lisle in the same manner. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Memorandum that the bishop of Durham and the abbot of St. Mary’s, York offer the king 700 m. for disafforesting all lands between Ouse and Derwent outside the king’s demesne wood of Langwith. ¹

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This entry is written at the very top of the dorse. It is not on the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

[No date]. Memorandum that Richard de Gray and William, his brother, have offered the king 20 ¹ for having a writ of mort d’ancestor under the name of a certain lady before the justices at the first session, and that that assize is to be taken notwithstanding that she is a Norman and it is not to be placed in the roll because no one has prosecuted the writ. ²

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Not specified.

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This entry is written at the very foot of the dorse. It is not on the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

20 June. Woodstock. Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take into the king’s hand without delay the manor of Twyford, which is in the hand of R. earl Marshal by bail of the king, and to hand it over with all things found therein to P. de Rivallis to keep so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise. By the king. Before the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar. [in the Roll]

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Wiltshire, concerning the manor of West Kington. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Somerset. Walter of Edmondsham gives the king one mark for having a writ that the sheriff of Somerset is to cause the assize of novel disseisin that the same W. arraigned against Robert de Gournay and others, concerning tenements in Babington and in Middlecott to come before R. of Lexington . [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Somerset. John, parson of Henbury [in?] Corfe Mullen (Hembir’ Coffin), gives the king one mark for similarly having a writ for taking an assize before the same Robert to recognise whether a furlong of land in Witewell’ is of free alms or a lay fee of the abbot of Forde . [in the Roll, S’]

22 June. Windsor. For Gilbert de Sampford’. Gilbert, son and heir of John de Sampford’, has made fine with the king by three palfreys for having the king’s grace and for having respite from being made a knight, until Michaelmas in the seventeenth year. Order to the sheriff of Essex to cause Gilbert to have full seisin of his lands in his bailiwick, which he took into the king’s hand by the king’s order, because he was not a knight at Pentecost, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid palfreys to the king. By the king. [in the Roll, S’]

23 June . Woodstock. Concerning the lawn of Sebergham , to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to Thomas of Moulton to take the lawn of Sebergham with appurtenances into the king’s hand and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.

Concerning Peterborough abbey . Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to take Peterborough abbey with all its appurtenances into the king’s hand without delay, and to commit it to P. de Rivallis to keep for as long as it pleases the king. [in the Roll]

Concerning Peterborough abbey . It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Rutland , Nottinghamshire , Leicestershire , and Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. [in the Roll]

Concerning Peterborough abbey . Order to all the tenants of the aforesaid abbey to be intendent and respondent to the same P., as aforesaid. [in the Roll]

23 June. Woodstock. For the citizens of London. The citizens of London have rendered £1000 at the Exchequer of the tallage of £1000 and 100 m. made in the city of London before the king in the seventh year etc. ¹ Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to be quit ² of the 100 m. that they exact from them by summons of the Exchequer above those £1000, because the king has recorded that those 100 m. were granted in the name of surplus and not in the name of the debt that ought to have been rendered to the king. ³ By the bishop of Winchester and the justiciar.

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Corrected from ‘… £1000 by which they made fine with the king for the trespass made to Henry of Waltham, concerning his houses in London that they caused to be knocked down against the king’s peace’.

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Corrected from ‘permit them to have peace from …’

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 3.

Concerning a manor committed to Peter de Maulay. The king has granted the manor of Keningthorp’ with appurtenances to Peter de Maulay, which manor Baldwin de Friville held by reason of the custody of Margaret, daughter and heiress of Ralph de Keningthorp’ , who ought to hold the aforesaid manor of the king in socage, to be held to the same P. until the full age of the aforesaid Margaret, rendering to the king per annum the due and accustomed farm for the aforesaid manor for as long as it will be in his hand. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause the same P. to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor, as aforesaid. [in the Roll]

1 July . Oxford. For William of Ireby concerning a certain custody. Order to the sheriff of Cumberland to cause William of Ireby to have full seisin of the lands formerly of William of Ousby and Patrick of Ousby in his bailiwick, and of the heirs of the same William and Patrick, to keep to the use of the king for as long as it pleases the king.

For Josceus Russell. Josceus, son of Gilbert Russell, and Avice of Hacconby, heirs of Ralph of Morton, have made fine with the king by 5 m. for their relief of the lands that Ralph held of the king in chief and that fall to them by inheritance. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from them for the aforesaid 5 m., he is to cause them to have full seisin of all the lands etc. By the bishop of Winchester. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Norfolk. Walter of Ingham gives the king half a mark for having a pone against the parson of Reepham , concerning a tenement in Brumstead. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take etc. [in the Roll, S’]

2 July . Wallingford. Yorkshire. Nicholas of Boltby, who has to wife Phillippa, the first-born daughter and one of the heirs of Adam of Tynedale , has made fine with the king by 20 m. for his relief, and for having seisin of the portion that falls to Phillippa of the lands formerly of Adam, and the king has taken his homage herein. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from Nicholas for rendering the aforesaid 20 m. to the king, he is to cause him and the aforesaid Phillippa, his wife, to have full seisin of the rightful portion that falls to her of the aforesaid lands as the eldest daughter, saving to Joan, who was the wife of the aforesaid Adam , her rightful dower from the same portion. He is to retain the remaining part of the same land, which falls by inheritance to Walter, son of William of Tunstall, and Isabella, his wife, sister of the aforesaid Phillippa and one of the daughters and heirs of Adam, together with the aforesaid Walter, in the king’s hand and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise, saving to Joan, wife of Adam, her rightful dower that falls to her of the aforesaid part of the aforesaid land that falls to Walter. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Westmorland. Benedict son of Nicholas gives the king one mark for having a writ that William of Lancaster and certain others take an assize of novel disseisin against Beatrice Meldefrein, concerning a tenement in Strickland. Order to the sheriff of Westmorland to take etc. [in the Roll, S’]

6 July. Marlborough. For Henry of Audley. The king has pardoned Henry of Audley £50 of the debts he owes to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to allow him £50 in the aforesaid debts, as Henry will wish, and to cause him to have respite from the remainder until 15 days from Michaelmas in the seventeenth year. ¹ By the justiciar and the bishop of Winchester.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 2.

8 July. Reading. For Henry de Berneval, chaplain. Henry de Berneval, king’s chaplain, has made fine with the king by 100 m. for having custody of the land formerly of Hugh de Berneval in Ragr’, and for the custody and marriage of the heir of the same Hugh , of which 100 m. he is to render 10 m. to the king this first year, namely 5 m. at Michaelmas in the seventeenth year and 5 m. at Easter next following, and afterwards he is to render £12 each year at the same terms until he has paid the aforesaid fine, and he has found pledges for it. Order to Peter de Rivallis, treasurer, to cause Henry to have full seisin of the land formerly of Hugh, and of his heirs, as aforesaid. [in the Roll, S’]

For Henry de Berneval, chaplain. The same Henry has letters patent for it to his use and that of his assigns until the full age of the same heirs. [in the Roll, S’]

For Henry de Berneval, chaplain. These below-written are the pledges for the fine of Henry de Berneval:

Peter de Rivallis for 10 m.Peter de Maulay for 10 m.Fulk fitz Warin for 10 m.Bartholomew Peche for 10 m.John de Plessetis for 10 m.Robert le Lu for 5 m. ¹ Ralph of Williton for 5 m.Bernard of Grimsby for 5 m.Ralph de St. Samson for 5 m.Anketillus Mallore for 5 m.Aymer de St. Amand for 10 m.Ralph fitz Nicholas for 5 m.Thomas de Albo Monasterio for 5 m.Richard de Gray for 5 m. [in the Roll]

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Corrected from ‘10 m.’

8 July. Windsor. For David of Alkerton. To P. de Rivallis, chevecier of Poitou. The king has taken the homage of David, son of Thomas of Alkerton, for the lands that the same Thomas, his father, whose heir he is, held of the king in chief in Alkerton, and David has made fine with the king by 10 m. for his relief, of which he is to render 3 m. at the Exchequer this first year, namely 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, 20s. at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, and 3 m. in the second year, namely 20s. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year, and 20s. at the Exchequer of Easter in the nineteenth year, and 4 m. in the third year, namely 2 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year and 2 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the twentieth year, and he has found pledges for this. Order to cause David son of Thomas to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of the said Thomas in Alkerton on the day that he died which fall to David by inheritance. By the justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

For David of Alkerton. The pledge for this fine is Aymer de St. Amand. [in the Roll, S’]

7 July . Sandford. Hampshire. Henry le Martre and Alice, his wife, give the king half a mark for having a pone. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take etc. [in the Roll, S’]

Concerning the plough-teams of Gilbert Basset. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to cause it to be diligently inquired how the plough-teams that Gilbert Basset had at Kirtlington came to be driven to the manor of W. Longespée of Sutton and elsewhere, as the king well believes, and he is to cause those found there or elsewhere in his bailiwick to be arrested and delivered to the king’s escheators.

[No date]. For H. bishop of Ely. H. bishop of Ely gives the king 500 m. for having his charter that the same bishop and the prior of Ely and their successors may collect and have all amercements of all men and lands within the hundred of Mitford and Wickelawe, Trilling’ and Wineston’, both of alien fee and of their own, and that they may have all fines arising from those amercements after anyone falls into mercy, ¹ and for having the king’s confirmation of other liberties, as is contained in the same charter and in the aforesaid confirmations. [in the Roll, S’]

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The remainder of this entry appears to have been added at a slightly later date, as it is squeezed in before the next entry.

For the archbishop of York concerning a certain custody. W. archbishop of York has made fine with the king by 200 m. for having to himself and to whoever he will wish to assign, the custody and marriage of Walter, son of William of Tunstall, and Isabella, his wife, who was one of the daughters and heiresses of Adam of Tynedale , until the lawful age of the same Walter, together with the portion that falls to Walter by inheritance of the lands formerly of Adam of Tynedale, his grandfather. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from the same archbishop for rendering the aforesaid 200 m. to the king, namely 25 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year and 25 m. at the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, and 50 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid fine is paid to the king, he is to cause the archbishop to have full seisin of the aforesaid portion of the land that falls to Walter by inheritance which is in his hand by order of the king, together with the aforesaid Walter, saving to Joan, who was the wife of the aforesaid Adam, her rightful dower of the aforesaid portion, as the king has commanded him at other times. [in the Roll, S’]

For the archbishop of York concerning a certain custody. The same archbishop has letters patent.

[No date]. Devon. Henry de Tracy gives the king 10 m. for having his charter concerning having a market and fair at his manor of Ilfracombe. ¹ [in the Roll, S’]

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There is a small circle in the margin beside this entry.

14 July . Westminster. For John son of William. John son of William has made fine with the king by £10 for his relief of the land that William de Hampton, his father, held of the king in chief, and which falls to him by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage herein. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from John for rendering the aforesaid £10 to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid land formerly of William on the day he died, and which falls to John by inheritance. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Norfolk. John son of Roger gives the king half a mark for having a pone against Richard Mascerel and Botilda, who was the wife of Ralph Clerk . Order to the sheriff of Norfolk etc. [in the Roll, S’]

15 July. Westminster. For Herbert de Neville. The king has committed to Herbert de Neville, to sustain him in his service for as long as it pleases the king, the manor of Ormesby with appurtenances, which Adam son of Hervey and Juliana, his wife, held, rendering £16 each year for it at the Exchequer, namely £8 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and £8 at the Exchequer of Easter. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to cause Herbert to have full seisin of the aforesaid manor with appurtenances without delay, as aforesaid. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 2.

[No date]. Gloucestershire. Hugh of Kinnersley gives the king 40 m. for renewing a charter of the king, which he has concerning 72 acres of land in Wellington, on account of the date, and, similarly, for renewing a confirmation of the king that he has concerning 16 acres of land in Wellington that he has of the gift of Nicholas Clerk. [in the Roll, S’]

Concerning wines of the king to be sold. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to cause the old wine of the king that is in Winchester castle to be sold, to cause the king’s advantage to be made, and to keep the money he receives safely until the king orders otherwise. [in the Roll]

Concerning wines of the king to be sold. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Surrey, concerning old wines that are at Guildford. [in the Roll]

19 July. Westminster. For Hawise de Lanvallay. The executors of the testament of Hawise de Lanvallay give the king two palfreys so that the debt that was exacted by summons of the Exchequer from the aforesaid Hawise, who held nothing in dower of the lands formerly of William de Lanvallay, to whose heirs the aforesaid debt pertains, and who had made fine at the Exchequer against her will to render 100s. per annum, is to be exacted henceforth from the right heirs of the aforesaid William. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the justiciar.

23 July. Westminster. Concerning the corn of the bishop of Carlisle at Thurrock. Order to the sheriff of Essex to cause the corn and chattels of W. bishop of Carlisle, which are in the land of which he had custody in Thurrock, to be valued by trustworthy and law-worthy men, and to demise them by the same value to Geoffrey de Camera, servant of the same bishop, having first accepted security from him that he will render the same value at the Exchequer at the Decollation of St. John the Baptist in this seventeenth year, at which term he is to cause the barons of the Exchequer to know the aforesaid value. Witness S. of Seagrave.

[No date]. Worcester. The men of Worcester are in the king’s mercy and have been amerced at 100 m. because, against the prohibition of the king, they permitted Earl W. Marshal and others to enter their vill to hold a colloquium there. [in the Roll, S’]

29 July . Westminster. For Robert Red. Robert Red, son and heir of Robert Red, has made fine with the king by £10 for his relief of the lands formerly of the aforesaid Robert, his father, and the king has taken his homage herein. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security from the same Robert for the aforesaid £10, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of the aforesaid Robert, his father, of which he was seised on the day he died. ¹ Witness the king. [in the Roll, S’]

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Henceforth, all writs are witnessed by the king unless otherwise stated.

[No date]. Concerning Peterborough abbey . Order to P. de Rivallis to cause the abbot of Peterborough to have full seisin of the abbey and all the lands and other things pertaining to the abbey, saving to the king arrears of the debts from the time at which the abbey was vacant and in the king’s hand.

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Ralph de Wareville and Gilbert de Treyly give the king 5 m. for having his confirmation of the custody of the land formerly of Ralph de Wymu and the custody and marriage of the heir of the same Ralph , which custody they have of the gift of H. bishop of Lincoln, from whom Ralph de Wymu held his land. [in the Roll, S’]

From here etc. ¹

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On the dorse of the originalia roll (E 371/2, m. 2d.) it is recorded that ‘The treasurer received this roll by the hand of the chancellor on Saturday next before St. Peter in Chains, 17 Henry III [30 July 1233]’.

2 Aug. Westminster. Kent. For Nicholas de Blakedon’. Nicholas de Blakedon’ has made fine by 40 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of William of Doddington with the marriage of the same heirs, which custody pertains to the king by reason of the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury being in the king’s hand. Order to P. de Rivallis that, having accepted security for rendering the aforesaid 40 m. at these terms, namely 5 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, and 5 m. at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and 10 m. thus from year to year until the aforesaid fine is paid to the king, he is to cause the same N. to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody both of the land and the heirs. [in the Roll, S’]

6 Aug. Windsor. For James de Balinghem. The king has taken the homage of James de Balinghem for the portion that pertains to him through Hilary, his wife, who is one of the heirs of Gilbert de Tyler’, of the inheritance formerly of the aforesaid Gilbert, her grandfather. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire ¹ to cause James to have full seisin of the rightful part of the same Hilary that falls to her of the lands formerly of Gilbert, her grandfather, in his bailiwick.

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Corrected from ‘Northamptonshire’.

For James de Bavelingham. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Surrey, Suffolk and Berkshire .

[No date]. For James de Bavelingham. Memorandum that the same James is to serve the king for one year with two knights (se iij° militum), and if he needs to go to overseas parts to defend his lands, he is to find the king three knights to serve the king at James’s own cost, similarly for one year.

9 Aug. Concerning the rents of Ranulf le Breton. Order to the bishop of Chichester, asking that he cause the fruits of the ecclesiastical benefices of Ranulf le Breton in his diocese of this coming autumn to be sequestrated into his hand and kept safely, until he will have command from the king otherwise, for the debts that he owes to the king and for the fine he made with the king and did not keep, and for his account that he did not render to the king for the time that he was the king’s treasurer. ¹ By R. Passelewe.

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Authority changed from ‘the justiciar’.

Concerning the rents of Ranulf le Breton. It is written in the same manner to the bishops of London, Lincoln , Salisbury and Norwich .

13 Aug. Oddington. Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to take all the lands of Richard Siward in his bailiwick into the king’s hand without delay, and to keep them safely together with corn, stock and chattels found therein, so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire .

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire , concerning the lands of Alan Basset.

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. [It is written in the same manner] to the sheriffs of Lancaster, Rutland and Oxfordshire , concerning the lands of Thomas Grelley.

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. [It is written in the same manner] to the sheriffs of Somerset and Northamptonshire , concerning the lands of Warin Basset.

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. [It is written in the same manner to] the sheriffs of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire , concerning the lands of Phillip Basset.

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. [It is written in the same manner to] the sheriff of Northamptonshire, concerning the lands of Thomas Gulafre.

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. [It is written in the same manner to] the sheriff of Herefordshire, concerning the lands of Simon of Clifford.

Concerning the lands of Richard Siward, to be taken into the king’s hand, and similarly concerning the lands of several other people. [It is written in the same manner to] the sheriff of Gloucestershire, concerning the lands of William Crassus.

Concerning the lands of Walter of Clifford, and his corn, to be taken in the king’s castles. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take into the king’s hand all the lands of Walter of Clifford in his bailiwick for the debt that he owes to Ursellus, son of Hamo the Jew of Hereford , and to the other heirs of the same Hamo, together with all chattels found therein and the corn of the same lands, and to cause the rents, works and aids of the aforesaid lands, and the same corn, if the other does not suffice, to be collected and carried to Dover castle and safely placed in the same castle, and then to cause that corn to be valued by trustworthy and law-worthy men and to cause the king to know the value, so that he may allow the value to the said Ursellus and his associates, who sold the aforesaid corn to the king, in the debt that they owe him.

Concerning the lands of Walter of Clifford, and his corn, to be taken in the king’s castles. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning taking the lands of the same Walter into the king’s hand, and concerning collecting and carrying corn, as above, into Oxford castle etc.

Concerning the lands of Walter of Clifford and his corn, to be taken in the king’s castles. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Lincolnshire, concerning the lands and corn of the same Walter, to be carried into Lincoln castle .

Concerning the corn of William of Rowden, to be taken into Marlborough castle . It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Wiltshire, concerning the land of W. of Rowden in Rowden and in Marlborough, and concerning carrying corn into the Marlborough castle . ¹

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This entry is squeezed in after 286 above.

[No date]. Concerning the corn of Gilbert Basset, similarly to be carried into the castle . Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to cause all the corn that was in the manor of Wootton and the other lands of Gilbert Basset in his bailiwick, the rents, aids and works of the same lands, and the same corn, if other things do not suffice, to be collected and taken to Devizes castle and to be safely stored there.

Concerning the corn of Gilbert Basset, similarly to be carried into the castle . It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Surrey, concerning the land of the same G. in Woking, and concerning collecting and carrying corn into the king’s court at Guildford, ¹ and valuing it afterwards as above . ²

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Corrected from ‘… into the king’s castle of …’

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This entry is written above the former on a particularly congested part of the membrane.

Concerning the corn of Gilbert Basset, similarly to be carried into the castle . It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning the land of R. Siward of Headington, and concerning collecting and carrying corn to Oxford castle , and signifying the barons of the Exchequer of the value.

14 Aug. Winchcombe. Concerning the corn of Gilbert Basset, similarly to be carried into the castle . Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to take the lands of Gilbert Basset in his bailiwick into the king’s hand and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

[No date]. Concerning the manor of Corfham of W. of Clifford, with the castle . Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to take the manor of Corfham with appurtenances in his bailiwick into the king’s hand, with the castle , if it can be done, that is of Walter of Clifford, and to keep it safely with all corn and chattels and stock until the king orders otherwise. ¹

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Again, this entry comes to the right of the previous entry and must have been added after the compilation of the main body of material.

15 Aug. Tewkesbury. Concerning committing to divers people the lands of divers people who were with the Earl Marshal at Wycombe with horses and arms. The king has committed the land of Thomas Grelley in Tunstead to Hugh de Gournay to keep for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to cause Hugh to have full seisin of the aforesaid land with the chattels and corn found therein. He is also to take into the king’s hand the lands of all those in his bailiwick who he can ascertain by inquisition had come with horses and arms towards Wycombe to the Earl Marshal, or had been there with him, together with all corn and chattels found therein, and keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. He is to cause the king to know whose lands he has taken into the king’s hand and in which vills by that reason. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 2.

Concerning committing to divers people the lands of divers people who were with the Earl Marshal at Wycombe with horses and arms. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Berkshire, concerning the land of Robert Musard in Persora committed to Walter de Goderville. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 2.

Concerning committing to divers people the lands of divers people who were with the Earl Marshal at Wycombe with horses and arms. It is written in the same manner to:

the sheriff of Lincolnshire, concerning the land of Thomas Grelley in Swineshead, committed to William d’Aubigny. ¹ the sheriff of Rutland for the same W. de Aubigny, concerning the land of the same Thomas in Woodhead.the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning the lands of Warin and Phillip Basset in Sutton and Deddington and to the sheriff of Northamptonshire, concerning land of the same Phillip in Middleton, committed to William de Brisac.the sheriff of Gloucestershire, concerning the land of Robert Musard in Saintbury, committed to Mathias Bezill.the sheriff of Somerset, concerning the land of Warin Basset in his bailiwick, committed to Peter de Russell, with the addition that he answer at the Exchequer.the sheriff of Northamptonshire, concerning the land of Thomas Gulafre in his bailiwick, committed to John Talbot.the sheriff of Oxfordshire, concerning the land of Thomas Gredle in Pyrton, committed to Macy de Martiny. ² the sheriff of Derbyshire, concerning the land of Robert Musard, committed to Brian de Lisle, in Staveley.the sheriff of Yorkshire for the same B., concerning the land of Roger Bigod in Sedelinton’.the sheriff of Berkshire for William de Narzac, concerning the land of Richard Siward in Stoke.the sheriff of Norfolk for John de Stuteville, concerning the land of Thomas Gredle in the vill of Mor.the sheriff of Oxfordshire for Richard de Sancto Germano and Sampson Foliot, concerning the land of Alan Basset in his county.the same sheriff and the sheriff of Berkshire for Engelard de Cigogné, concerning the land of William of Huntercombe in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Lincolnshire for Robert of Kyme, concerning the land of Henry Mauveisin in Cockerington. ³ the sheriff of Staffordshire for the same Robert of Kyme, concerning the land of the same Henry in Ridware.the sheriff of Northamptonshire for Robert, son of Ralph fitz Nicholas, concerning the land of Warin Basset in Preston. ⁴ the sheriff of Wiltshire for Michael, son of Ralph fitz Nicholas, concerning the land of Richard Siward next to Marlborough.the sheriff of Lancaster for William Longespée, concerning the vill of Manchester of Thomas Gredle.the sheriff of Wiltshire for the same W. Longespée, concerning the land of W. of Clifford next to Salisbury. ⁵ the sheriff of Gloucestershire for Baldwin de Vere, concerning the land of Robert Musard in Siddington.the sheriff of Essex for Everard de Castello Vilani, concerning the land of Phillip Basset in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Warwickshire for W. de Cantilupe senior, concerning the land of Richard Siward in Brailes, with the land of Compton for as long as he will have the land of Brailes.the sheriff of Gloucestershire for W. de Stuteville, concerning the land of William Crassus in his bailiwick. ⁶ the sheriff of Lincolnshire for Robert Wolf, concerning the land of Walter of Clifford in Lindsey.the sheriff of Yorkshire for William de Dampierre, concerning the land of Robert Musard in Hazelwood.the sheriff of Hampshire for Richard de Gray, concerning the land of Peter Blund in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Lincolnshire for Saer of Huntingfield, concerning the land of Robert Musard in Pinchbeck.the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for the earl of Hereford, concerning the lands of William, son of Drogo de Montagu, in his bailiwick.the same sheriff for William de Stuteville, concerning the land of John de Harleg’ in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Berkshire for the same William, concerning the land of the same John de Harleg’ in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Wiltshire for Bartholomew Bigod, concerning the land of Thomas Blund in Sheepbridge.the sheriff of Hampshire for Joldwin de Doe, concerning the land of Henry de Brayboef, notwithstanding the order of the king to commit that land to the bishop of Winchester for a debt that he owes him.to the sheriff of Gloucestershire for Walter de Fontibus, concerning the land of William Walensis, standard-bearer of Walter of Clifford, in his bailiwick. By the justiciar.the sheriff of Oxfordshire for the same, concerning the land of the same in Chadlington. ⁷ the sheriff of Berkshire for Robert de Say, concerning the land of Geoffrey Martel in Bucklebury.the sheriff of Buckinghamshire, concerning the land of Baldwin de Béthune in Hakeneia, committed to Richard de Burgh.the sheriff of Kent for Robert Passelewe, concerning the land of Walter of Clifford in his bailiwick notwithstanding etc., and concerning carrying corn into Dover castle . By P. de Rivallis.the sheriff of Worcestershire for Gerard de Lambersach’, concerning the land of Hamo Crassus in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Wiltshire for Robert son of Nicholas, ⁸ concerning the land of Warin Basset ⁹ in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Berkshire for Hugh, the king’s janitor, concerning land of Peter Malherbe in West Hanney.the sheriff of Yorkshire for J. earl of Lincoln, concerning the land of Warin Basset in Leeds that he held of the same earl.the sheriffs of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire , Essex and Kent, concerning the lands of William of Wiggenhall, committed to Robert de Brus.the sheriff of Gloucestershire for Robert de Say, concerning the land of Geoffrey Martel in Stowell.the sheriff of Buckinghamshire for William Mauduit, concerning the land that Peter Blund holds of him in Hanslope.the sheriff of Worcestershire for Ralph of Lincott, concerning the land of William of Laughern in Laughern.the sheriff of Worcestershire for Aymer de St. Amand, concerning the manor of W. of Clifford of Tenbury, and the sheriff of Herefordshire for the same A., concerning land in Brwynllys.the sheriff of Dorset for Walter, son of Brian de Lisle, concerning the land of W. of Rowden in Okeford.the sheriff of Shropshire for William de Stuteville, concerning the land of Walter de Lesse in Lesse that is of the fee of the same W.the same sheriff for Henry de Trubleville, concerning the manor of Corfham with appurtenances that is of Walter of Clifford.the sheriff of Herefordshire for Hubert Hoese, concerning the land that William de Christchurch holds at farm in Burton.the sheriff of Wiltshire for Mathias Bezill, concerning the land of Ralph Bloet in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Hampshire for the same, concerning the land of the same in his bailiwick, and to the sheriff of Dorset and Somerset similarly for the same.the sheriff of Wiltshire for Macy de Plessetis, concerning the land of William Crassus in Brendesleg’.the sheriff of Herefordshire for Phillip le Bret, concerning the land of Roger le Poer in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Gloucestershire, concerning the land of William Crassus in his bailiwick, committed to Macy de Plessetis.the sheriff of Warwickshire for William of St. Edmund’s, concerning the land of William de Botreaux in Alcester.the sheriff of Gloucestershire for Roger de Chandos, concerning the land of Richard Tyrel in Shipton that is of his fee.the sheriff of Shropshire for William of Hodnet, concerning the land of Alexander de Cheyney in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Cambridgeshire for Robert Norris and Walter Passelewe, concerning the land of Geoffrey de Bancis in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Bedfordshire for Robert de Pavilly, concerning the land of Richard Siward in Brickhill.the same for William de Commendas, concerning the land of Baldwin de Bethune in Millbrook.the sheriff of Hampshire for P. de Rivallis, concerning the land of Gilbert Basset in Mapledurwell.the sheriff of Gloucestershire for Ferr’ Crosswbowman concerning the land of Richard Tyrel in his bailiwick.the sheriff of Shropshire, concerning the custody that Giles of Clifford holds in Hayton ¹⁰ of the fee of Walter de Lacy, committed to the same Walter.the sheriff of Gloucestershire for William de Gamages, concerning the land of Richard Siward in Chedworth.the sheriff of Worcestershire for William fitz Warin, valet of W. de Cantilupe, concerning the land of Roger Falconer in Shell. the sheriff of Shropshire for Henry de Trubleville, concerning the land of Richard Tyrel next to Corfham.

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‘land in Wudeheved’ crossed through here.

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Corrected from ‘Joldwin de Doe’.

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The first three words of this entry are crossed through, although it is not clear whether this entry has been cancelled or not.

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Cancelled ‘because he did not have it’.

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A marginal note reads ‘He does not have land next to Salisbury’.

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Cancelled ‘because he did not have it’.

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Entry squeezed in.

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Corrected from ‘Michael son of Nicholas’.

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Corrected from ‘Richard Siward’.

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Corrected from ‘… in his bailiwick’.

17 Aug. Tewkesbury. For Richard de Gray. Richard de Gray has made fine with the king by 20 m. for having the corn, hay, oxen and sheep that the bishop of Carlisle had at Thurrock. Order to the sheriff of Essex that, having accepted security for them, he is to cause Richard to have all of the aforesaid. By the justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

For Agnes, who was the wife of Reginald Basset . The king has taken the homage of Agnes, who was the wife of Reginald Basset , ¹ for the lands that Reginald held of the inheritance of the aforesaid Agnes, his wife, and that were seized in the king’s hand by reason of the death of the same Reginald. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Agnes to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands. ² He is also to cause her rightful dower of the lands formerly of Reginald, her husband, to be assigned to her.

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Consistently corrected in this entry from ‘Ralph’.

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‘Teste ut supra’ entered here.

Concerning the land of Richard Siward in Staffordshire. Order to the sheriff of Staffordshire to take the land of Richard Siward in his bailiwick into the king’s hand, with all corn and chattels and stock found therein, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise.

17 Aug. Worcester. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite the demand for scutages that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from John son of Phillip for the manor of Masham, which he holds of the king at farm, until he receives another summons. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

18 Aug. Worcester. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from W. bishop of Worcester for the scutages of Montgomery and Bedford , until upon his account after Michaelmas in the seventeenth year. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

Concerning the executors of the testament of Eleanor, countess of Salisbury. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to cause the executors of the testament of Eleanor, countess of Salisbury, to have the chattels and stock that she had in the manor of Wootton, which has been taken into the king’s hand, for the execution of the testament, saving to the king alone the corn. By [the bishop of] Winchester. [in the Roll]

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to place in respite, until upon his account after Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the bishop and prior of Worcester for the amercements from the eyre of the justices. ¹ By [the bishop of] Winchester.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

Concerning the corn of William Crassus, to be carried to Bristol castle . Because it was handed over to Macy de Plessetis. Order to the constable of Bristol to take the land of William Crassus in his bailiwick into the king’s hand, with the chattels found therein. He is also to cause the corn of the same land, as with the corn above, to be collected and carried to Bristol castle, to be safely placed there and to be valued, and he is to cause the king to know the value. ¹

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Entry cancelled because it was handed over to Macy de Plessetis. It is also omitted in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. Warwickshire. Nicholas son of Ralph gives the king half a mark for having a writ before the justices of the Bench, concerning land in Little Wolford. [in the Roll, S’]

21 Aug. Hereford. For the abbot of Evesham . Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire that if the abbot of Evesham will give him surety that he will satisfy the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas term in the seventeenth year for the scutage of Montgomery and for the scutage of Bedford , which are exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, then he is to permit the same abbot to have peace in the meantime, and to cause his livestock that the king seized for this reason to be delivered to him. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

23 Aug. Hereford. For Alan Urrici, concerning a fine of £100 for land. Alan Urrici has made fine with the king by £100 for having seisin of all the lands formerly of Master Urricus of Bruern in Sutton, Wickford and Canewdon, and order to the sheriff of Essex to cause Alan to have seisin of all the lands that Urricus held in Wickford and Canewdon with appurtenances, without prejudice to the right that anyone has in the aforesaid lands, and saving to those in whose hand the aforesaid lands are by bail of the king their corn and chattels that they had in the same lands, together with the rents of Michaelmas term. [in the Roll, S’]

For Alan Urrici, concerning a fine of £100 for land. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Surrey for the same Alan, concerning land that the aforesaid Urricus held in Sutton with appurtenances. [in the Roll]

The pledges of the aforesaid Alan for the aforesaid fine:

Ralph de Mortimer for £10.Engelard de Cigogné for £10.Robert de Tresgoz for £10.William fitz Warin for £10.Aymer de Chanceaux for £10.Matthew de Mauns for £10.Walter of Avenbury for £10.William of Ireby for 10 m.William of Burghill for 10 m.Aymer de St. Amand for 10 m.Richard de Punchardon for 100s.John son of Thomas of the county of Lincoln for 100s. [in the Roll]

23 Aug. Hereford. Concerning the lands of Earl R. Marshal, to be taken into the king’s hand. To the sheriff of Worcestershire. Although R. Marshal, earl of Pembroke, lately came against the king with horses and arms at Wycombe, and the king, at the petition of certain of his magnates, granted him that he might return to his own parts under safe conduct under a certain form, namely that certain of the king’s men who had come with the same against the king in arms and who he retained with him, and still retains, against the king’s prohibition, should subsequently come to the king ready to put themselves into the king’s mercy or ready to subject themselves to the judgement of his court. And the same earl similarly should come ready to put himself into the king’s mercy or ready to subject himself to the judgement of the king’s court, neither the earl nor any of his men cared to come to the king, as aforesaid. What is worse, the same earl seized a certain castle, namely Hay, which is of a certain baroness who had performed fealty to the king and whose heirs are in the king’s custody, and garrisoned it against the king. Later, the same earl sent his messengers to the king at Hereford to pray for his grace but, nevertheless, he seized another castle, namely the castle of Ewyas, which was in the hand of a certain other baroness by whom the marches had often been secured, and garrisoned it against the king with hostile intent. Worse still, he pulled down a certain house of Phillip le Bret by main force and caused it to be carried away. Because in each and all such excesses he presumed to come against the king’s peace, order to seize into the king’s hand all lands and tenements of the same earl that he has in his bailiwick, along with all corn, stock and all his other property and possessions, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. [in the Roll]

Concerning the lands of Earl R. Marshal, to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Berkshire, Sussex , Warwickshire , ¹ Oxfordshire , Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire . [in the Roll]

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‘Wiltshire’ is crossed through.

Concerning the lands of Earl R. Marshal, to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to take the manor of Compton into the king’s hand, of which H. de Burgh was seised on the day that he was placed in the king’s prison, with all chattels found therein, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise. ¹ [in the Roll]

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This entry is crammed in towards the right of the main entry concerning the earl’s lands.

Concerning the lands of Earl Roger Bigod. Because Earl Roger Bigod came against the king with horses and arms at Wycombe with Earl R. Marshal, although at the instance of certain magnates, the king had spared him hitherto, and afterwards he spared him, he did not come to make due amends for that forfeiture, order to the sheriff of Norfolk to take into the king’s hand without delay all the lands and possessions of Earl Roger in his bailiwick, together with all corn and chattels found therein, and to keep them safely so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise. He is to inquire diligently as to who from his bailiwick came to Wycombe with horses and arms, and to cause the king to know their names with haste, having first taken the lands of all these, with the corn and other chattels, as the king ordered him on other occasions.

Concerning the land of Robert de Ponte de l’Arche. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to take the land of Robert de Ponte de l’Arche in Morton into the king’s hand, with all chattels and stock found in the same land, and to cause the corn and other chattels of the same land to be carried to the king’s use into Gloucester castle .

28 Aug. Hereford. For Earl Richard, the king’s brother. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to cause all plough oxen that S. de Mauléon had in the Isle of Wight in the lands formerly of B., formerly earl of the Isle [of Wight], to be valued by trustworthy and law-worthy men, and to cause R., earl of Cornwall, who will answer for the same value to the king at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in one month in the seventeenth year, to have the same oxen for the same value. By P. de Rivallis. [in the Roll]

31 Aug. Hay. For Ralph fitz Nicholas. Ralph fitz Nicholas is to answer the king by his hand at the Exchequer upon the account of the sheriff of Nottinghamshire for the fine that he made with the king for having custody of the land and heir of Robert son of William . Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to cause no distraint to be made made for rendering the aforesaid fine to the king from the lands formerly of the aforesaid Robert which are in the hand of the same Ralph, and to cause his livestock taken for this reason to be delivered to him. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

Concerning the castle of Totnes and the lands of Eva de Braose. Order to the sheriff of Devon to take the castle of Totnes , which is in the hand of Eva de Braose into the king’s hand, with all appurtenances, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.

Concerning the castle of Totnes and the lands of Eva de Braose. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Herefordshire, concerning the manor of Eardisland, with corn, stock and chattels. ¹

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This entry is a slightly later addition, being squeezed in between the two surrounding entries. There is also a small circle next to this entry in the margin.

[No date]. Herefordshire. The men of Lugwardine and Marden give the king two palfreys for having a writ of the king that they may be held by the laws and customs by which they were held in the times of other sheriffs, whoever they were at those times. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. For the abbot of St. Augustine, Canterbury . The abbot of St. Augustine, Canterbury , has made fine with the king by 60 m. for the summons made to go into Ireland, since he remained in Wales, and for having his scutage, so that if the king will pardon him anything thereof, it will be allowed to the aforesaid abbot. [in the Roll, S’]

Concerning the corn of Woking and the park of Gilbert Basset. Order to the sheriff of Surrey to cause the corn that Gilbert Basset had in his manor of Woking in this seventeenth year to be sold by the view and testimony of law-worthy men, and to keep the money thus arising safely until the king orders otherwise. He is to cause the sheep and beasts that are in the park of the same manor to be taken, salted and carried to Guildford castle , keeping them there safely until the king orders otherwise. By P. de Rivallis. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Essex to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Thomas de Camville, who is in the king’s service in the parts of Wales, until the king orders otherwise, and to cause his livestock to be delivered. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. The abbot of Peterborough , who owes the king the service of 60 knights, has made fine by £100 for the summons made to go into Ireland, since he remained in Wales, and for having his scutage, as the abbot of St. Augustine, Canterbury , above. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. The abbot of Ramsey , who owes the king four knights, has made fine by 20 m. for the summons made to go into Ireland, since he remained in Wales, and for having his scutage, just as the abbot of St. Augustine, Canterbury , above. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. The abbot of St. Benet of Hulme has made fine by 10 m. for the summons made to go into Ireland, since he remained in Wales, and for having his scutage, as the abbot of St. Augustine, Canterbury , above. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Lincolnshire. Because the writ was returned. Simon son of Ralph gives the king 10 m. for having a pone against the prior of Spalding concerning a bovate of land with appurtenances in Moulton in Lincolnshire. ¹

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Entry cancelled because the writ was returned. It is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. The abbess of Wilton has made fine with the king by 20 m. for the summons made to go into Ireland, since she remained in Wales etc. as above. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. The countess of Eu has made fine by 40 m. for the summons made to go into Ireland, since she remained in Wales etc. as above. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. William Burdun has made fine by 5 m. for the summons made to go into Ireland, since he remained in Wales etc. as above. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. The abbot of St. Albans has made fine by £20 for the same. [S’]

[No date]. Concerning fines made with the king. The abbot of Westminster has made fine by 60 m. for the same. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Amercements of assizes taken at Norwich before Adam son of William, Fulk Baynard, William of Hingham and Herbert de Alençon.

From William of Reedham for disseisin, 40s., by the pledge of Robert of Stokesby.From Christiana of Hempstead for the same, half a mark, by the pledge of William of Loes.From Emma daughter of Everard for a false claim, half a mark, by the pledge of Simon, her son.From Hamo Cheure for two disseisins, 40s., by the pledge of Peter Bozun and Richard son of Juliana.From Thomas Burd for the same, 40s., by the pledge of Hamo de Brusel’.From William Cheure for the same, half a mark.From John of Garboldisham for the same, half a mark.From Robert le Muet for disseisin, half a mark.From Ralph, son of Duva of Tivetshall, for the same, half a mark.From the bailiff of the liberty of the hundred of Launditch for trespass, 1 m.From Ralph of Gateley for disseisin, one mark. ¹ [in the Roll]

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A narrow, short membrane on the originalia roll (E 371/2, m. 4) contains a list of amercements also taken in Norfolk in this year which do not appear on the Fine Roll, although in the corresponding Pipe Roll (E 372/77, rot. 11) the total sum is recorded as having been paid, the sheriff being discharged from the demand for it. On the dorse of this membrane is the delivery note: ‘The treasurer received this roll by the hand of the chancellor on Wednesday next after St. Mark the Evangelist, 17 Henry III [27 April 1233]’. The membrane read as follows: ‘Amercements from the assizes taken at Lynn by order of the king before W. Raleigh, Adam son of William and their associates, who they have taken with them, on the morrow of the Close of Easter, 17 Henry III. Summons: Norfolk:

(t – ‘totum’ – [he has paid] all) From Bartholomew de Crek, for disseisin, 40s. (t) From Roger Hengest, for the same, half a mark. (t) From Henry, son of the same, for the same, 10s. (t) From William Hengest, for the same, half a mark (t) From Simon Bonpaen, for the same, half a mark (t) From Ulfketell of Wiggenhall, for the same, half a mark (in the Roll, t) From Walter son of Simon, for the same, half a mark (t) From Ailmar Bude and William Swypel, for the same, half a mark. (t) From Simon son of Lefrich, for the same, half a mark. (in the Roll, d – ‘debitum’ – debt) From Hengest Codding, for the same, half a mark. (t) From Edmund Brunger, for the same, 10s. (t) From Robert son of Ailfric, for the same, half a mark. (in the Roll, d) From Jocelin Grey, for the same, half a mark. (t) From Robert Aguillon, for the same, 100s. (in the Roll, d) From John de Merlay, for the same, 40s. At the Exchequer: From Hubert de Burgh, for the same .

2 Sept. Hay. For the earl of Cornwall, concerning the custody of the land of Richard Neirnuit. The king has granted to R. earl of Cornwall custody of the land formerly of Richard Neirnuit, which was previously in the hand of the bishop of Carlisle, to have for as long as it pleases the king. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to cause the earl to have full seisin without delay of all the land formerly of the aforesaid Richard in Hitcham, saving to the king the corn of the same land from this autumn, the seventeenth year. By the justiciar.

For Thomas le Veille. The king has taken the homage of Thomas le Veille for a fourth part of one knight’s fee with appurtenances in Witton that Roger le Veille, his father, held of the king in chief and that falls to Thomas by inheritance. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk that, having accepted security from Thomas for 25s. for his relief, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid fourth part of a knight’s fee. [in the Roll, S’]

[No date]. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to place in respite, until upon his account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Hugh de Verly for a debt that he owes the king, having accepted security that then etc. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

6 Sept. Usk. For Henry de Tybetot. Order to the barons of the Exchequer that because Henry of Audley has given surety to the king that he will satisfy him for the 5 m. for which he has placed Henry de Tybetot in pledge, and for which reason the same H. de Tybetot is distrained, they are to cause the same H. de Tybetot to have peace. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

For Henry de Tybetot. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to permit him to have peace and to cause his livestock to be delivered. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

11 Sept. Hereford. Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire to place in respite, until the octaves of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Herbert son of Matthew, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. Kent. Bertram de Criel has made fine with the king by 60 m. for having in wife of John, his son, Matilda … ¹

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Sic. Entry appears to be unfinished but the originalia roll (E 371/2, m. 1.) has the same wording.

12 Sept. Leominster. Concerning the lands of the knights of the Earl Marshal, to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire that, having viewed these letters, he is to take into the king’s hand all the lands of William Crassus in his bailiwick with all corn and chattels found therein, and to keep them safely until the king orders otherwise. By the justiciar.

Concerning the lands of the knights of the Earl Marshal, to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to:

the sheriffs of Berkshire and Somerset for Henry of Earley.the sheriffs of Essex and Northamptonshire , concerning the lands of Phillip Basset.the sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire , Yorkshire , Gloucestershire and Berkshire for Robert Musard. the sheriffs of Somerset, Oxfordshire and Yorkshire for Warin Basset.the sheriffs of Surrey, Hampshire , Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire , Devon , Somerset and Dorset and Berkshire, concerning the lands of Gilbert Basset.

15 Sept. Montgomery. For Walter le Fleming. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire not to distrain Walter le Fleming, farmer of the vill of Campden, for the farm of the same vill, because Walter is to answer for it by his hand at the Exchequer. ¹ By P. de Rivallis.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. Worcestershire. Hamo de Curcun gives the king half a mark for having a writ that is called precipe for rendering a certain heir. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to take security etc. [in the Roll, S’]

14 Sept. Montgomery. Because it is in the Patent Roll. To all etc. The king has granted to Robert Mason of Montgomery that he may cause a mill to be raised above a certain rivulet between the vill of Montgomery and the vill of Dudinton’ at his own costs, to have and hold from the king and his heirs to him and his heirs, rendering to the king and his heirs 2 m. per annum for all services, saving to the king and his heirs free milling of corn of his castle of Montgomery in perpetuity in the same mill. In testimony etc. ¹ By P. de Rivallis. [in the Roll]

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Entry cancelled because it is in the Patent Roll. See CPR 1232–47, p. 25.

17 Sept. Shrewsbury. For William of Hoe, concerning custody of the gaol of Winchester . William of Hoe has made fine with the king by 60 m. for having seisin of the custody of the gaol of Winchester, for having which custody William has a charter of King R., uncle of the king. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire that, having accepted security from him for those 60 m. to the king’s use, he is to cause William to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody with appurtenances, saving to Thomas de Albo Monasterio his corn and chattels and the improvements he made in the land pertaining to the aforesaid custody. By the justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

17 Sept. Shrewsbury. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff (sic.) to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, the demand for scutage from the time of King J. etc. that he makes from William Mauduit by summons of the Exchequer. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

17 Sept. Shrewsbury. For Robert Butler. The king, at the instance of W. count of Aumale, lord of Robert Butler, has granted to the same Robert and Robert Butler, his son, that they may make peace with Alice, who was the wife of Peter de Crabbeden’ , and Robert de Crabbeden’, brother of the same Peter, concerning his death, of which Alice and Robert appeal them. Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire not to impede them from making peace with Alice and Robert concerning the aforesaid death, and to cause neither one of them to be outlawed. By P. bishop of Winchester and the justiciar. [in the Roll]

For Robert Butler. Order to the justices next itinerant in the county of Leicestershire that, if they will make peace with the aforesaid, they are to permit them to have peace, notwithstanding the suit that pertains to the king for the aforesaid death. ¹

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This entry is tightly crammed in between those surrounding it. It is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

For Robert Butler. Memorandum that the same Robert has made fine with the king by 20 m. for having this writ, of which he is to render 10 m. at the octaves of Hilary in the eighteenth year, and the other 10 m. at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year . ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

18 Sept. Shrewsbury. For Roger of Smethcott. Roger of Smethcott has made fine with the king by 20s. for his relief of a fifth part of a knight’s fee that Baldwin of Smethcott, his father, held of the honour of Montgomery in Chirbury, which falls to Roger by inheritance, and the king has taken Roger’s homage. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire that, having accepted security from Roger for rendering those 20s. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid sixth (sic.) part of a knight’s fee with its appurtenances. By the justiciar. [in the Roll, S’]

For the count of Guines, concerning the manor of Newton. Order to Robert Passelewe to cause Baldwin, count of Guines, to have full seisin of the manor of Newton with appurtenances that Hubert de Burgh had of the same count, to answer the king for a certain sum of money at a term that Robert gives him for making the payment of the Romans, or so that he answers the king for the issues of the same manor in order to make the same payment, as aforesaid. By the justiciar.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, the demand of 16d. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Geoffrey Griffin for four acres of meadow in the Weald Moors, of which, as he says, he is not bound to pay more than 8d. per annum, so that it may be inquired then etc. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Shropshire to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from John of Darliston for 4s., from Adam Le Jyu for 2s., from William Holyeneberd for 2s., from William Mody for 2s., from Thomas of Wheathall for 12d., from William of Wheathall for 12d., from Richard de Puteo for 1d., and from Bruno Wygge for 4s., all of whom are men of A. bishop of Coventry, and he is to place in respite until the same term the demand he makes from the prior of the Hospital of Cannock of 2s. for the farm of 12 acres of heathland in Cannock, and of 4s. for the arrears of the same farm. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

19 Sept. Shrewsbury. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite, until his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, the demand for £8 that he makes from Hubert Hoese by summons of the Exchequer by reason of the son and heir of Richard Walensis , being in his hand. ¹ By the bishop of Winchester.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

20 Sept. Wenlock. Concerning respite of account. The king has given respite to the sheriff of Staffordshire from rendering his account until three weeks from Michaelmas in the seventeenth year. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have that respite. ¹ By the justiciar.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

Concerning respite of account. It is written in the same manner to the same for the bailiffs of Bridgnorth and the bailiffs of Shrewsbury and Stafford. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

20 Sept. Wenlock. Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to place in respite, until upon his next account at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes from Simon of Tofts and his men for the amercement of the eyre of the justices last itinerant in his county. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

22 Sept. Worcester. Concerning land to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Lincolnshire that if he is able to establish that Thomas Grelley, by his own authority, violenty ejected and beat the bailiffs of William d’Aubigny that he found in the manor of Swineshead, which the king had committed to William, and put himself in seisin of the same manor, then he is to take the aforesaid manor into the king’s hand and to keep it safely to answer the king at the Exchequer.

Concerning land to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Rutland, concerning the manor of Woodhead.

Concerning respite of a demand. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to place in respite, until upon his next account after Michaelmas, the demand of 2s. that he makes from the abbot of Halesowen for an assart made in Lench. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

22 Sept. Evesham. For Walter Haket. The king has pardoned Walter Haket his anger and indignation that he conceived against him because, against the king’s peace, he killed Adam de la Kersonera, malefactor, within the term given to him after he abjured the king’s land. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire ¹ not to harm or molest Walter either in his body or in his chattels by reason of the aforesaid killing, but he is, without delay, to deliver his horses and his harness that he took into his hand for that cause. By Ralph fitz Nicholas. [in the Roll, S’]

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Corrected from ‘ Herefordshire ’.

For Walter Haket. Order to the same sheriff to take security from the aforesaid Walter for 10 m. to the king’s use for this writ. [in the Roll, S’]

26 Sept. Woodstock. For Roger de Chubbel’. Order to the sheriff of Somerset not to distrain Roger de Chubbel’ or his pledges, or permit them to be distrained, for the debts of the Jews, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

25 Sept. Woodstock. For the wife of William de Meysey . The king has given respite to Adam Esturmy and Agnes, who was the wife of William de Meysey, his wife , until the Exchequer of Easter in the eighteenth year, from the 10 m. which Agnes ought to have rendered to the king at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year of the fine of 100 m. that she made with the king for having custody of the land and heir of the aforesaid William, so that then they are to render to the king those 10 m. and another 10 m. that they will then owe to the king of the same fine. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause them to have that respite. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

For the wife of William de Meysey . Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to permit them to have that respite. ¹ By Phillip d’Aubigny.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. Dorset. Nicholas Kipping gives the king 20s. for having a precipe before the justices of the Bench, concerning a debt. Order to the sheriff of Dorset to take etc. [in the Roll, S’]

17 Oct. Westminster. Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to take into the king’s hand without delay the manor of Caversham ¹ of R. earl Marshal in his bailiwick, with all corn and chattels found therein, and to deliver them to P. de Rivallis to keep, so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.

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Corrected from ‘all lands of …’

Concerning lands to be taken into the king’s hand. It is written in the same manner to:

the sheriff of Berkshire concerning Hamstead. the sheriff of Sussex concerning Bosham. the sheriff of Worcestershire concerning Inkberrow. the sheriff of Wiltshire concerning West Kington that he had by bail of the king. the sheriff of Gloucestershire concerning Badgeworth and the hundred of Awre and the manor of Tidenham. the sheriff of Buckinghamshire concerning Grendon and Twyford that he had by bail of the king. the sheriff of Northamptonshire concerning Burton. the sheriff of Hampshire concerning Ringwood and Clatford. the sheriff of Dorset concerning Sturminster, the manor of Walter Marshal, his brother.

19 Oct. Westminster. Concerning lands formerly of Nicholas de Stuteville. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Hugh Wake, ¹ who married one of the daughters and heiresses of Nicholas de Stuteville , and William de Mastac, to whom the king gave another daughter and heiress of the same Nicholas, to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of the same Nicholas. By the justiciar.

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Corrected from ‘Hugh de Vivonne’.

For Hugh Malegreffe. Hugh Malegreffe has made fine with the king by 100s. for his relief of lands formerly of Mary Malegreffe of Horndon on the Hill, his mother, who held of the king in chief, and which lands fall to Hugh by inheritance, and the king has taken the homage of the same Hugh herein. Order to the sheriff of Essex that, having accepted security from Hugh for rendering the aforesaid 100s. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid lands of which Mary was seised on the day she died. [in the Roll, S’]

For William de Mastac. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause the younger daughter and one of the heiresses of Nicholas de Stuteville , who is in the custody of D., who was the wife of the same Nicholas , to be delivered without delay to William de Mastac, the king’s kinsman, to whom the king has given the marriage of the aforesaid heiress. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

For William de Mastac. Order, by letters patent, to the same wife of the aforesaid Nicholas to deliver the aforesaid daughter to the same William Mastac. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

19 Oct. Westminster. For Thomas de la Wyle concerning the account for stannaries. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to hear the account of Thomas de la Wyle for the stannaries of Devon, which are in his custody, for this, the seventeenth year. ¹ By P. de Rivallis.

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. Concerning the manor of Feckenham. The king has committed his manor of Feckenham to B. de Lisle, to hold for as long as it pleases the king for the same farm by which the men of that same manor previously held it. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. Order to the sheriff of Worcestershire to cause him [to have] seisin. ¹

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This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

[No date]. For William de Sifrewast and Ralph fitz Nicholas. William de Sifrewast has made fine by 100s. for having that which pertains to the king of the land that Roger of Hyde, who is with the Earl Marshal, held of the fee of the same William, if that land has been retained in the king’s hand. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire that, having accepted security from him for the aforesaid 100s. to the king’s use, he is to cause him to have full seisin of the aforesaid land. [in the Roll]

[No date]. For William de Sifrewast and Ralph fitz Nicholas. Ralph fitz Nicholas has another writ for having similarly that which pertains to the king of the land that the aforesaid Roger of Hyde held of the fee of the heir of William Pippard , who is in his custody, and the writ is to be directed to the sheriff of Oxfordshire. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Concerning the amercement of the men of Gloucester. The men of Gloucester, for a trespass made in rescuing a certain man who ought to have been hanged, have fallen into the king’s mercy and have been amerced at 100 m. [in the Roll, S’]

20 Oct. Westminster. Concerning the wapentakes granted to the count of Brittany. The king has granted the wapentakes of Gilling, Hang and Halikeld to P. count of Brittany and earl of Richmond to have and hold in this year etc., the eighteenth year, by rendering £36 to the king at the Exchequer, namely a moiety at the Exchequer of Easter and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas. Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to permit the same duke to hold the aforesaid wapentakes, as aforesaid. [in the Roll, S’]

20 Oct. Westminster. Concerning the castle and manor of Windsor, committed to Hamo Passelewe. The king has granted to Hamo Passelewe the castle and manor of Windsor with appurtenances, the castle and manor of Odiham with appurtenances, and the manors of Cookham and Bray with appurtenances, to be held for as long as it pleases the king, so that he will answer for £220 for the aforesaid each year at the Exchequer, and, moreover, he is to keep the castles of Windsor and Odiham at his own costs in times of peace. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By P. de Rivallis. [in the Roll]

Concerning the castle and manor of Windsor, committed to Hamo Passelewe. The same Hamo has letters patent for it by the same words directed to all.

For Leticia de Chevrecurt. Because the king has learnt that the land of Avice, who was the wife of Ralph de Chevrecurt , in Beighton, which she held in the name of dower and of which the king ordered seisin to be made to William de Narzac, because he believed that land to be of the lands of the Normans, is not of the lands of the Normans, and that Ralph had not been a Norman, order to the sheriff of Derbyshire that, notwithstanding the king’s order to make seisin over to William, he is to cause Leticia de Chevrecurt, sister of the same Ralph, Robert de Furneaux and Idonea de St. Quentin, kinsmen and heirs of the same Ralph, to have full seisin of the aforesaid land which falls to them by inheritance, having accepted security from Letitia, Robert and Idonea for rendering £10 to William of the king’s gift by which they made fine with the king for having seisin of the same land. [in the Roll, S’]

Concerning the vill and castle of Knaresborough. The king has committed the vill of Knaresborough ¹ to Peter de Rivallis, with the castle of the same vill and its other appurtenances, to keep for as long as it pleases the king, rendering £200 for it at the Exchequer each year, so that Peter is to cause the castle to be kept at his own costs in times of peace. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. ² By the justiciar.

1.

Corrected from ‘Scarborough’.

2.

This entry is not in the originalia roll, E 371/2, m. 1.

25 Oct. Woodstock. For the earl of Ferrers. Earl W. de Ferrers has made fine with the king by £20 for having that which pertains to the king for a year and a day of the land that H. de Burgh, who is outlawed, held of the same earl in Caldecott, Chelveston, Ringstead and Stanwick. Order to Robert Passelewe to cause the earl to have full seisin of the aforesaid land. By Peter de Rivallis. [in the Roll]

[No date]. Nottinghamshire. The bailiffs of Nottingham give the king one mark for having a writ to summon Idonea de Vieuxpont and others before the justices in Bench to show why they vex the same bailiffs against their liberties etc. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take etc. [in the Roll]

25 Oct. Woodstock. Ralph fitz Nicholas. Ralph fitz Nicholas has made fine by 100s. for having that which pertains to the king of one hide of land with appurtenances in Hyde that is of Roger of Hyde, who is against the king with the Earl Marshal, and which hide of land is the fee of another than the son and heir of William, who is in the custody of the same Ralph. Order to the sheriff of Oxfordshire to cause Ralph to have full seisin of the aforesaid hide of land with appurtenances. [S’]