June 16, Inquisition

Writ to John Everard, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Cornwall, Westminster. 10 February 18 Edward IT. [1325.] : Wymbourne Ministre. 28 March. sometime lord of Hyneton, granted to Christ Church Twynham C. Ing. Misc. File 98. (8.) Commission to Robert de Aston and John le Botiller of Lanultyt. 22 August 18 Edward II. [1324.] q : Gloucester. Saturday the feast of the Nativity of St. tenements in Uphatherleye were charged with a yearly rent of 101. 2s. C. Ing. Misc. File 98. (9.) Writ to John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cam- Essex, and Hertford. Certeseye. 28 May 18 Edward II. By p.s. : Dockyng. Monday before St. Luke 19 Edward IT. late the wife of Roger Bigod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, dower, of the inheritance of John Lovel of Tychemerssh certain called Sunderlone in Dockyng, parcel of the manor of Suthmere ; on Wednesday before All Saints 11 Edward IL; after her death, Valencia entered by colour of wardship of two parts on Monday after next following, and held the same until Wednesday after Epiphany, gave the tenements to John Paignel, who held them for 3 years until when his executors entered and have held them until now. follows. Sum 6/. 13s. 4d. : Suthmere. 21 July 19 Edward II. Lovel of Ticherssh was seised on the day of his death of two parts of the Suthmere co. Norfolk, whereof Maud his wife now holds a third part follows. Sum 15/. 19s. 7d. C. Ing. Misc. File 98. (10.) Commission to Adam Walrand and Robert de Hungerford. 4 May 18 Edward II. [1325.] : Salisbury. Wednesday after St. John before the Latin de Sancto Martino on Thursday before Whitsun 11 Edward II. a messuage and 2 carucates of land in Knouke to Nicholas de Percy who continued his seisin until the tenements were taken into the king's his forfeiture. : INQUISITIONS de Sancto Martino, grandfather of Laurence son of Laurence de Martino, in the year 1 Edward IT. demised a messuage and half a of land in the same town to Richard de Sancto Martino for life, who conhis seisin for twelve years, and then demised the tenements to the said for the lifetime of the said Richard ; the said Nicholas continued his until the tenements were taken into the king's hand by his forfeiture. the said tenements are held of Elizabeth de Bourgh by the service of suit court of Craneborn ; the messuage and 2 carucates are of the yearly of 8/., and the messuage and half a virgate are of the yearly value of 8d. de Sancto Martino died at York on St. Simon and St. Jude II. by a natural death ; Nicholas de Percy was struck on the head a stone so that his brain came out, and died at Melane on Monday after Peter's Chains 18 Edward IT. son of Laurence de Sancto Martino is the next heir of the said and Reynold. C. Ing. Misc. File 98. (11.) Commission to John Loveday and John de Benham. Tower of 16 March 18 Edward IT. [1325.] of venire facias in pursuance to the sheriff of Berks. from the said commissioners to the said sheriff. of jurors. : Rading. Tuesday in Whitsun week. de Ofton on the Purification 8 Edward II. granted to John de la and Isabel his wife for their lives, a meadow with a pightle (pika) thereto in Ofton Roberd at a yearly rent of a rose for the ten years following and afterwards 10 marks. tenements with other lands were taken into the king's hand by the of the said John. said William holds the manor of Ofton Roberd, whereof the tenements parcel, of Walter de Everoys by the service of half a knight's fee. tenements are of the yearly value of 24s., and were afterwards with lands of the said John in co. Berks, delivered by Thomas de Luda to de la Rokele and Ralph le Taylur at a yearly rent of 35/. to John de Weston, constable of the Tower of London, ordering him the said John, who is imprisoned there. Westminster. 15 June. C. Ing. Misc. File 98. (12.) Commission to William de Hardene, Ralph de Bereford, and Robert Hungerford. Winchester. 2 May 18 Edward II. [1325]. before the said Ralph and Robert. Salisbury. Tuesday after Ascension. de Insula Bona granted to Henry Tyeys and Margaret his wife certain C. Ing. Misc. File 98. (13.) Commission to John de Ifeld and Stephen atte Dane. Westminster. 17 Edward II. [1324.] By petition of the Council. : Rochester. Monday after St. Mary Magdalene 18 Edward I. Colpeper held certain tenements in Est Farlegh and Lose of the prior C. Ing. Misc, File 98. (14.) MISCELLANEOUS 207 Commission to Henry de Cobeham and Stephen de Delham. Tower 16 October 18 Edward II. [1325.] : Strode. Tuesday before the Purification. needed at the manor of Strode by Rochester. C. Ing. Misc. File 98. (15.) Inquisition .. . 18 Edward II. [1324.] of the castle of Skipton in Craven. membranes, mostly illegible. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (1.) Writ to John de Bolyngbroke, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Derby and Lancaster. Westminster. 10 May 17 Edward II. : Wolrynton. Thursday after St. Peter's Chains 18 Edof Stonleye, who is lord of the soke of Stonleye, took into his C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (2.) Commission to Henry de Cobeham, William de Northho and William Roberti. Westminster. 24 May 17 Edward II. [1324.] before the said Henry and William. Rochester. Thursday Peter's Chains 18 Edward II. de Chitecrofte and Agnes his wife acquired certain tenements in Egerton, Lamberherst and Peapyngbery from Robert son of C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (3.) Writ to William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and London. Porcestre. 21 July 18 Edward II. [1324.] : St. Helen's, London. Tuesday before St. Peter's Chains. de Sancto Albano, late parson of Essenden, on St. Matthew s day II gave without licence to brother John de Clare, prior provincial of St. Augustine in England and the friars of that order, and a messuage and 26s. 8d. of rent in the parish of St. Augustine London, in aid of the foundation of a house of the order at Boston. are held of the king, and are charged with a yearly rent of to the bishop of London ; the messuage is of the yearly value are in the hand of the said Robert for life by gift of the prior whose house they do not adjoin. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (4.) Writ to John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Salop and Stafford. Westminster. 6 February 18 Edward II. : Worfeld. 6 March. Hasting the elder, deceased, granted to Amabilla, mother of John de Bagesore, for life, his mills of Worefeld at a yearly rent of 40s. INQUISITIONS Commission to Martin de Fishacre, John de Denham and Stephen Haccumbe. Brustlesham. 8 June 18 Edward II. [1325.] of venire facias in pursuance to the sheriff of Devon. in pursuance to John Everard, keeper of certain forfeited lands in before the said Martin and John de Denham. Plumpton. June. de Prestesbury had no rent or land in Plumpton, co. Devon, by of William de Brewouse or Elizabeth his wife; but the said William the said Robert his steward in the parts of Wales and in the said during pleasure, at a yearly fee of 10 marks. said Robert two years and more before his rebellion left the service of said William. During his rebellion he forcibly and without right occupied of the said William, which were taken into the king's hand on after St. Gregory 14 Edward II. tenements are of the inheritance of the said Elizabeth, and are held of Sir Hugh de Courtenay by the service of 6d. and suit of court. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (6.) Commission to Henry de Cobeham and Henry de Sarden. La 30 June 17 Edward II. [1324.] By p.s. : Maydestane. Monday after St. Faith 18 Edward IT. atte Londe demised to Henry de Notingeham, skinner of London, a watermill, and 20 acres of land in Pecham for a term of ten years past during which the said John died; after his death and after the of the term in the year 12 Edward II Walter and Gilbert, his and next heirs, entered the tenements, and continued their seisin until by Henry, who enfeoffed thereof Walter Colpeper, after whose death tenements were taken into the king's hand for his rebellion. of privy seal to Master Robert de Baldok, archdeacon of Middlesex, ordering him to do right to the said Walter and Gilbert. West- 13 November. French. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (7.) Commission to Henry de Gilden and John de Brideport. Tower of 18 October 18 Edward IT. [1325.] : Dorchester. Monday the morrow of St. Matthias. [1326.] de Whytefeld and Margery his wife, by their writing, bound themand their heirs to John de Mulborn for a yearly payment to him during life of 10 marks from their manor of Mulborn Micheleston, and for his in food and drink with a groom and a horse, and for a yeoman s and a mark for shoes, and other 10 marks yearly for the maintenance, did not stay with them, and for a coloured robe for Amice his wife, and fuel for the said John and Amice; by pretext whereof the said John, held the manor for life, granted it for his life to the said William and The said John continued to receive the payments and maintenance the forfeiture of the said William for rebellion. manor is now in the king's hand, and is held of the heirs of Henry le by the service of a knight's fee, and is of the yearly value of 101. 10s. C, Ing. Misc. File 99. (8.) MISCELLANEOUS 209 Commission to Richard de Bere and John de la Haye. West- 10 February 18 Edward II. [1325.] : Burecestre. Thursday in Easter week. Gerard of Sulthorn, lately deceased, on the day of his conviction the king's seal for merchants at Oxford, had no lands in except a messuage, a mill, 36 acres of arable land and 10 acres of of the inheritance of Alice, his wife. tenements are held of Richard de Albirbiri by the yearly service of are of the yearly value of 66s. 8d. of certiorari to the coroners of co. Oxford. Westminster. 5 July. endorsed. John Gerard died at Sulthorne on Friday after the Annunciation II. of certiorari to Geoffrey Lescrop, chief justice. Westminster. of Placita coram Rege. Quinzaine of Easter 11 Edward II. Inquisition before John de la Hoese and John de Insula, keepers of shores, and maritime lands in the Isle of Wight. Schidhambrigge. after St. Peter's Chains 18 Edward IT. [1324.] who have 20/. a year of land or rent, should have a mount suitable for one man according to the statute of Winchester. and others of the liberty of Freskewatere have been sworn and arrayed by the constable of the peace. liberty there is a fire on Scharpenorde and watch ought to be made men at night and two men by day ; there is another fire on Hetdone ought to be made as before. : Schidhambrigge. Thursday after St. Peter's Chains. freeholders of the isle of Wight have been sworn in arms and by the constables of the peace. hundred of Estemedine there are fires and watches : the bridge on Puttokesdone. St. Helen's at Yarneforde. Sandham on Rodesburghe. Schencling on the hill above la Chyne. Smeredone. la Wytedich by Apuldercame. Nywetone at la Wirdde. Athertone on Beredone. At Staundone. At Woditone at la Ode. At Wyppingham on Rodmeresdone. At la Ryde. hundred of Westmedine there are fires and watches : Chaledone. Atherfelde. L.. . kedone. La Wyrde. 414 INQUISITIONS At Lusburghe. At Gerthholl. At Hamstede. At Hauedburghe. At Thornheye. At la Roghelonde. At Wyghtbergh. At Emedone. covering letter. French. of ecclesiastical persons in the Isle of Wight. Number of men Parsons of : Value. at arms. Brerdyng a Be he: ev GOL: ah Godeshull me fk Ao a LOOn Aye ic) Nywchurche .. Sei a -. 100 marks eee, Atherton Be is oH Sw" aOR ey a Wyppyngham .. of .. 401. ar Gatecombe and Chale . As oed0L paris Freskewatere .. ae oe 40 ee Pe i Schaldeflet ae bas oe .. - 400. eel Caulborn we Ae oe . 401 Siam Caresbrok eH Oe ae aie PALE, Beaty) St. Helen's ae a i ee 4015 Saks Nyweton z a i . 308 a Bryghteston .. os s a 14028 Bs i The proctor of Lyre .. Be e 4008 C. Ing. Mise. File 99" 7103) Commission to Richard de Whatton and Richard de Wilughby. 12 December 18 Edward II. [1325.] : Wilford. Tuesday after St. Hilary. trenches were made through the meadows of Robert de Clifton by of Nottingham Castle, and 4 weirs were raised by which the water was diverted from its proper course and flooded his ground, and to submerge the town of Wilford ; they also dug turf in his pasture repair of the weirs. from the said Robert to the king and Council. French. transcripts of the foregoing commission and inquisition. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (11.) Commission to William de Cotes, Thomas de Faveresham and atte Dane. Westminster. 27 February 18 Edward II. [1325.] before the said William and Thomas. Larkefeld. Thursday the Annunciation. year 24 Henry III there was in Pecham near the bridge now called on the soil of the prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, a way the river Medway where men on horse or on foot could cross except in weather. MISCELLANEOUS 211 Woderoue of Uppecham of his alms assigned a sum of money in making a causeway and bridge, and because men with carts carrying from Sussex and the Wealds to the port of Newehethe perceived that and bridge would be for their convenience they gave aid for them. John ate Broke, and then Thomas Malle stayed there to look and to ask and exact aid from carriers and passengers for the of the work, and so the causeway and bridge were maintained years past, when nobody stayed there to seek aid from passengers bridge of Twiferde is distant a league and is passable; the repair of of Brantebrigge will cost 40 marks, and its maintenance 40s. yearly ; is bound to repair it. C. Ing. Mise. File 99. (12.) Commission to Henry de Campo Arnulphi, Stephen de Haccombe de Crauthorn. Winchester. 28 April 18 Edward IT. [1325.] : Lyskirret. Wednesday before Trinity. weights for weighing tin in Cornwall were in the time of Richard, king of Almain and earl of Cornwall, agreeable to the London but are now broken and diminished by age, carrying from town and frequent use, and also by a falsification made by William de sometime sheriff of Cornwall and keeper of the stannary under sometime earl of Cornwall, and Benedict Reneward then receiver, they were convicted and heavily punished, so that from that time and the earls have used false weights. the time of the said king of Almain, there have been 9 weights, viz. 200/bs. each, the third of 100/bs., the fourth and fifth of 50/bs. each, 32/bs., the seventh 16/bs., the eighth 8/bs., and the ninth 4lbs. king ought to renew the weights when insufficient. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (13.) Writ to John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Beaulieu. 10 April II. [1325.] : Fyncham, co. Norfolk. 2 May. the time of its foundation the patrons of the abbey of West Derham C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (14.) Writ to Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton Westminster. 30 October 18 Edward II. [1324.] : Boston. 25 February. [1325.] and other ministers of the king or his ancestors have in no way with the temporalities or other goods of the priory of Freston, a cell of Croyland, in times of voidance of the abbey. of certiorari to the treasurer and barons. Beaulieu. 18 April. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (15.) Writ to John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Nottingham, Derby, Leicester and Lancaster, Guldeford, 10 October 18 Edward IT, INQUISITIONS : Hatton. Saturday after the Epiphany. nuns of the priory of Wroxale have been wont to receive all the issues C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (16.) Commission to Ingelram Berenger and Robert de Hungerford. of London. 4 March 18 Edward II. [1325.] : Shastebury. Monday the morrow of St. Dunstan. hermit chaplains of the hermitage of Blakemor in time of voidance been wont from the foundation to prefer one of themselves to be prior asking the assent of the patron. the time of Randolph, sometime earl of Cornwall, patron, they preferred de Pountfret to be prior; in the time of Richard, sometime earl of patron, the hermitage being void by the death of the said Ellis, preferred Roger de Cornwaylle; in the time of Edmund, sometime Cornwall, patron, the hermitage being void by the death of the said they preferred William de Cerne. the said patrons, nor their ancestors, nor the king, nor his ancestors, had any custody or issues of the hermitage during voidance. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (17.) Writ to the sheriff of York. Notingham. 30 December II. [1324.] : Seleby. Monday after Candlemas 18 Edward II, [4 February ship of Richard de Wodehouse was floating in the Ouse in the town and Richard's son William was sitting on the gunwale (super navis), when a post set (fixus et erectus) in the water struck William him into the water, so that he was drowned, viz., on Thursday Michaelmas in the same year. [27 September 1324.] No man in procured his death. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (18.) Writ to the sheriff of Warwick. Winchester. 7 May 18 Edward II. before Oliver le Waleys, sheriff, the coroners, and Robert de : Coventry. Friday after Trinity 18 Edward II. [7 June 1325.] Dunheved, chaplain, came, in the king's peace, to Dunchurch on of Candlemas last past [9 February 1325] to demand the rent lord Sir John Pecche and lodged at the house of William Mori in And John Dunheved, designing Oliver s death, came by night others unknown and attacked the house and would have set it on fire. frightened William Mori so that he opened the door that Oliver might : but thereupon John shot Oliver to the heart with a bow and a barbed so that he died. No man received John, and it is not known who C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (19.) Writ to the sheriff of Northumberland to enquire who slew Robert at Wulloure and robbed him of his goods and chattels. Cyppenham., 18 Edward II. [1325.] MISCELLANEOUS 213 : Newcastle-on-Tyne. On the Friday after Lammas, II. [2 Aug. 1325.] de Wodeford killed Robert de Lynby with the assistance and advice Kyngdebodi, William de Gledestanes, Arnald Lytel, John son of John de Tesdale, Robert de Scorton, and others unknown at on Friday after the Ascension, 18 Edward II (17 May, 1325) Robert de Lynby, Robert Kerre and others had taken in the field in England two hundred sheep belonging to the said John de a Scot, the enemy of the English king and driven them as far as where Robert was killed. John de Wodeford and others carried head to the gallows of Wollover and without delay drove the sheep No one procured the murder or received the murderers. C. Ing. Misc. File 99. (20.) Writ 18 February 19 Edward II. [1326.] Mostly illegible. before Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton Louth. 18 March. of 24s. in Aghthorp is held of William de Kyme and not of the king Writ to the sheriff of Northampton. Cippenham. 26 October II. [1325.] : Lodinton. Wednesday before the beheading of St. John the 20 Edward II. [1326.] and a virgate and 6 acres of land in Lodinton, held by Robert who was outlawed for felony, have been in the king's hand for and a day. tenements were held of Richard de Lungespy, who held them of the of Rothewelle, formerly Hugh Daudele s, and now in the king's hand by de Neubottle now holds them ; John de Sancto Mauro, late the of co. Northampton, had the year, day and waste, and ought to answer C. Ing. Misc. File 100. (2.) Writ to John de Bolyngbrok, escheator in cos. Nottingham, Derby, Warwick and Lancaster. Westminster. 29 May 17 Edward II. : Baucwell. 7 August 19 Edward II. Gernoun the elder of Bauquell demised the manor of Bauquel to C. Ing. Misc. File 100. (3.) Writ to William de Weston, escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and in the city of London. Marsefeld. 4 October 19 Edward II. : Tanrugge. Sunday after St. Nicholas. the escheator in Surrey found by inquisition that the prior appropriated to himself and his house 5 acres of land in Okstede INQUISITIONS of Henry atte Doune of Warlyngham after the publication of the of mortmain ; nevertheless the prior held the same as parcel of a of land which he has by grant of William de Okstede. C. Ing. Misc. File 100. (4.) Writ to Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Northumber- Westmoreland and Cumberland. Westminster. 9 July 19 Edward II. : Selby. Thursday before St. Matthew. manor of Berlay is not held of the king in chief but of Sir William de Commission to Robert de Stokheye and Henry de Bokerel. 6 October 19 Edward II. [1325.] : Barnestaple. 11 November. son of Philip de Bello Monte in the year 12 Edward II granted to de Langedon for life 2 ferlings of land in Slolegh. Cf. Close Roll p. 429. C. Ing. Misc. File 100. (6.) Commission to Robert de Daventre and Eustace de Burneby. 1 October 19 Edward II. [1325.] : Stowe. Sunday after St. Thomas the Apostle. buildings in the manor of Stowe were burned in the time of Nicholas C. Ing. Misc. File 100. (7.) Writ to John de Blomvyll, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, Essex and Hertford. Kenylworth, 25 April II. [1326.] : Norwich. 19 May. acres of marsh with a fishery belong to a mill in Horsham acquired by and convent of St. Faith from John de Claveryngge. Cf. Patent p. 295. C. Ing. Misc. File 100. (8.) Commission to John de Sancto Mauro and Robert de Touthorp. 12 July 19 Edward Il. [1325.] of venire facias in pursuance to the sheriff of Northampton. from the said commissioners to the said sheriff. Herdwyk. 27 July. of jurors. : Thrapston. Thursday after St. Peter's Chains. de Briscogh was with Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, in the office and wore his robes ; but never was with him in his rebellion, nor to other rebels. C. Ing. Misc. File 100. (9.) Commission to Robert de Scorburgh, Richard de la Pole, and John St. Neot s. 22 February 19 Edward II. [1326.] By the of mitiatis to the same. Kenilworth. 8 April. in the full wapentake of Holderness. Hedon. Thursday after of Easter. MISCELLANEOUS 215 of Nicholas de Auclem, master of the ship Feireweder of Lubyk, Helward, bailiff of the liberty of the town of Ravenserod, who by the king to search the ship for letters or other things prejudicial king and his faithful subjects. before John de Thweit, bailiff of Brustwike. Ravensere. after the Ascension. to the arrest of the said ship. French. of privy seal to Master Robert Baldok, archdeacon of Middlesex, ordering him to call Geoffrey Lescrop and others to consider what ought to do in the matter. Caversham. 22 May. French. Cf.