1280-04-04, Gloucester

the justices appointed for the custody of the Jews. Belia, late the James Coperun, a Jew of Gloucester, has shown the king that according to the law and custom of the Jewry, Jewesses ought not after the deaths of their husbands in the dowers that they of the tenements, goods and chattels of their husbands for any in which their husbands were amerced, the justices cause her in the dower that she has by the king's assignment of her tenement, goods and chattels, for certain amercements in he was amerced: the king orders them, if it be so, to cause the distraint to be released to Belia, and not to vex or molest her contrary to the law and custom aforesaid. Philip de Mattesdon acknowledges that he owes to Robert Martin of Gloucester 7 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Gloucester. Adam le Despenser acknowledges that he owes to Reginald le Draper of Gloucester 111. 6s. Od.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Gloucester. Robert le Clerk of Hanneye came before the king, on Palm Sunday, and sought to replevy to Master Robert de Hanneye the latter's land in Esthanneye, which,was taken into the king's hands for his default against the abbot of St. Evroul (KHbrulpho). Enrolment of release from Alice de Buterley, late the wife of Stephen de Buterley, to Sir Roger de Butterleye, her eldest son, of her right and land in Butterley and Russebury, which land she ought to hold by indenture between Sir Stephen de Butterlegh, her late husband, and Stephen of the same her son, which land Stephen her son quit-claimed to her husband. If Roger die before her, his heirs shall be bound to her in 501. yearly. Witnesses: Sir William de Hugeford, Sir Ives de Clynton, Sir William de Middeshope, Nicholas de Hynt , Philip de Radenovere, and Richard Body.