1303-05-17, Roxburgh

1. 33 concerning certain of the lands whereof Ralph enfeoffed him Ralph rendered them to the king, and Ralph has shown before the council certain writings of quit-claim by John to him of these the king orders the justiciary to cause the taking of the assizes to be superseded until otherwise ordered, and to warn John to to the king in England, if he see fit, to show cause why the lands not to remain to the king by the surrender aforesaid. By C. him who supplies the place of the treasurer and to the barons of the Whereas the king has pardoned Robert son of Walter, for his service in Gascony, all the arrears of the ferm due to him for the of Bere and the county of Meronnyth, which he held at ferm by the commission, for all the time, as well during the late war in Wales peace, during which he has thus held them, as contained in the letters patent: the king orders them to cause Robert to be acquitted demand for the arrears of the said ferm. the same. Whereas the king, on 14 November, in the thirtieth of his reign, granted to Ralph Pypard, among other lands that he to him for life, the ferm of the town of Aylesbury, co. which Robert de Monte Alto and Emma, his wife, hold of king at fee-farm, to have as of the value of 60/. yearly in form Rolls, 1301-1307, p. 78); and the king ordered Robert and Emma to Ralph during his life for the ferm of the town at the same as they were wont to pay it to the exchequer: the king orders to cause Ralph to have the ferm from the said day, and to discharge and Emma thereof from that day. the sheriff of Oxford. Whereas Henry le fiz Neel, who was for a trespass against Hugh le Despenser at Ottemore, in county, before William de Bereford and William Wace, justices to hear and determine the trespass, and was put in in the sheriffs county [court], has now rendered himself to at York and has found before the king mainprise by Andrew de of co. Sussex, Richard Grusset, of co. Buckingham, Michael de of co. York, John Dymmok, of co. Oxford, John Aleyn and de Rammeseye, of co. Middlesex, who have mainperned to have before the justices at the first day that they shall provide for this in the sheriff's county to answer to Hugh and to do and receive the court shall consider: the king orders him to supersede the of the exaction aforesaid, and to have this writ before the at that day. By C. the sheriff of Southampton. Whereas the king learns by inquisition by Robert de Glamorgan and John de la Lee that a certain ship La Blithe was lately about to go empty from Southampton to and that an agreement was made in that town between John master of the ship, and Pelegrinus de Castello, merchant of that John should take Pelegrinus to Devon and Cornwall, and Pelegrinus wished to carry with him to Devon and Cornwall 241. then found with him to provide lead and tin there, and that he intend to go to parts beyond sea, and also that he sent his yeoman to Devon and Cornwall to provide Jead and tin for his use against in those parts: the king orders the sheriff to pay to Pelegrinus for the said 24/., which the mayor, bailiffs and searchers of the town of Southampton arrested under the belief that Pelegrinus wished to take them to parts beyond sea, contrary to the king's inhibition of any one taking money or any silver in mass out of his realm, which sum the searchers afterwards paid into the wardrobe. By C.