July 17, Inquisition

Commission to William Basset, Thomas Surteys, Thomas de Fen- Roger de Blakeston, John de Menevill and Thomas de Seton. West- 16 July 18 Edward IIT. [1344.] Inquisition : Newcastle-on-Lyne. Friday after the Exaltation of the Cross. MISCELLANEOUS 477 and Friars Minors of Newcastle-on-Tyne had a conduit for a well called Sevenwelhevedes without the town to their dwelling held the well closed and locked and kept the key thereof. III in the tenth year of his reign conferred the conduit upon it was built on the king's soil ; the well is formed by an aggregation the pipe was always placed on the king's highway before the and the burgesses had no conduit from the well to the town of the warden and friars. de Wydryngton and others (named) have broken the conduit and Richard de Emeldon, when mayor, covered part of the well will of the friars so that their servants could not repair it. are hindered from repairing their pipe near the town wall in the St. Andrew, and the said Edmund and others hinder them from near Newegate, and have broken it near the gate of Sir Wichard Richard de Galway, mayor, and the bailiffs of the town have C. Ing. Misc. File 152. (1.) Writ to John de Alveton, escheator in cos. Oxford and Berks. 2 May 18 Edward III. [1344.] : Islep. 18 October. de Curtlynton, sometime abbot of Westminster, improved a croft built thereon from the waste of Morcote, and not from the C. Ing. Misc. File 152. (2.) Writ to the sheriff of Lincoln. Melford. 18 November III. [1344.] : Louth. Wednesday after St. Andrew. son of John Wymark of Somercotes, John son of William Fraunceis dwelling in Somercotes, John de Shirwode of Yerdeburgh, and of Somercotes on Monday after St. Leonard 18 Edward III into the house of Richard de Cateby the elder at Louth and his cloth and that of Richard de Cateby the younger and Walter the value of 20 marks. C. Ing. Misc. File 152. (3.) Inquisition before Hugh de Louthre and John de Orreton, knights. the Ascension 18 Edward III. [1344.] defects of the towers, battlements and walls of Carlisle castle with stone work for 200/.; the defects of the great tower, the kitchen and other buildings can be repaired with timber marks; the roof of the great tower can be repaired with lead ; the king has 9 bushels of oats there, worth 18d., which Matthew the present keeper of the king's victuals, received from Thomas rector of Levington, former keeper; there are no arms except in an indenture of the bishop ; there were once divers arms, seized into the king's hand after the death of Andrew de Hartecla de Walden and William de Aykehevid, and afterwards London by John de Routheclif by the king's order. defects of the enclosure of the city of Carlisle, as in the walls, and three gates, can be repaired with stone work for 2001. ; of the gates, bridges, towers, stockade, portcullises (portarwm steps can be repaired with timber work for 1001. INQUISITIONS There are no victuals, armour, engines or springalds in the city belonging the king. Parts of the walls are ruinous for want of repair and by default of the king's . . . and others, who dig so near the walls that the foundation is C. Ing. Misc. File 152. (4.) 1904.