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Greenwich

County: Kent. 70 entries. geocoding: low confidence Search all entries for this place →

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Greenwich John 2Greetham Rutland 2Greenford Middlesex 13Greenstead Essex 16Great Compton 4Great Clerk Yarmouth 5Great Yarmouth Norfolk 2
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The printed indexes cite Greenwich in 15 entries beyond those issued here — lands, churches and commissions touching the place.

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Summary

41Documents
0Discrete acts
15People named
1291-12-12 – 1431-12-12Date range

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  • Patent Rolls 29
  • Close Rolls 7
  • Fine Rolls 5

Entries

Years 1291–1431

  1. 1291-12-12 date: inferred

    Order to the escheator on this side Trent to take into the king's hand the lands late of Thomas de Blakeneye, deceased, tenant in chief.…

  2. 1291-12-12 date: inferred

    Order to the same to take into the king's hand the lands late of Hugh son of Hugh, deceased, tenant in chief.…

  3. 1291-12-12 date: inferred

    Order to the escheator beyond Trent, after taking security from the executors of the will of Richard Knut for rendering his debts, to permit them to have free administration of his goods.…

  4. 1291-12-13 date: inferred

    To the sheriff of Devon. Order to cause Ranulph Spridel to have seisin of a messuage and a carucate of land in Lippeston, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage and land, which William d…

  5. 1297-06-17 date: inferred

    Order to the escheator on this side Trent to take into the king's hand the lands of Thomas de Otteleye, deceased, tenant by knight service of the heir of Edmund, the king's brother, a minor in the king's ward. . 387…

  6. 1297-06-17 date: inferred

    of Hugh de Gayteford to the church of Wokyadon ad in the diocese of London. in the king's gift by reason of the lands de la Rokele, deceased, tenant in chief, being in his handy.…

  7. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Pardon to Henry de Foxwode, on testimony by Roger de Mortuo Mari that he has done good services in Scotland in Roger's company, for the death of Roger Taccok. By K., on the information of J. de Benstede. 18.…

  8. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Pardon, at the instance of Amadeus, count of Savoy, to the prior of Leuesham, of 402. as above. By K. 16.…

  9. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Grant to Nicholas de Avorta, clerk, by reason of his services and his fitness for the office, of the scrivenership (scribanse) of the mayor s court of Bayonne; until the king thinks fit to revoke this grant. By K., on th…

  10. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Protection with clause volumus, until St. Peter ad Vincula, for Edmund de Ellesworth, going beyond seas on the king's affairs with Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln. By K. 15.…

  11. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Association of Roger de Hegham, in the room of Richard de Coleshill, with John Randolf, in a commission of oyer and terminer touching goods taken in churches, and wools and other goods taken for the defence of the sea in…

  12. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Grant, during pleasure, to William Bleyth, yeoman of John Butteturte, for his long service to the king of the bailiwick of the forestership of Dene, late of Richard le Rydere,and now in the king's hands, to hold in like …

  13. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Letters for Otto de Grandisono, going beyond seas on the king's service, nominating William de Grandisono and Henry, prior of Wenlok, his attorneys for one year. By K. 15.…

  14. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Presentation of Roger Burel to the church of Martherkeler, in the diocese of St. Davids. By p.s. 16.…

  15. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Protection with clause volumus, for two years, in Ireland, for Peter de Abynton, staying in Enyland on the service of Edward the king's son. By K., on the information of J. de Benstede. 17.…

  16. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Letters for Adam de Biddik, by reason of his weakness, nominating Peter Wynd and Reginald son of Robert his attorneys until a year after Midsummer. 14.…

  17. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Pardon, at the instance of Robert de Veer, earl of Oxford, to Adam Erik of Wykingeston, for the death of Simon the clerk, of Wykingeston. By p.s. [2002. ] 2.…

  18. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Presentation of John de Berewyk, king's clerk, to S. bishop uf Salisbury for admission to the prebendal church of Chak, in the king's gift by reason of the voidance of the abbey of Wylton. 14.…

  19. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Protection with clause volumus, in Ireland, for two years, for James de Keting, staying in England. 4 By K., on the information of the bishop of Durham.…

  20. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    The like in Ireland for Thomas de Multon of Egremund staying in England. By K., on the information of the bishop of Durbam. 15.…

  21. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Association of Henry Spigurnel, in the room of Lambert de Trikingham, king's clerk, heretofore appointed with John de Berewyk, William de Ormesby, John de Lithegreynes and John de Banquell, as a justice, to go on a gener…

  22. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Grant to the citizens of Bayonne, to whom the king is bound in divers, debts, by letters patent under the seal of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, sometime his lieutenant in the duchy of Aquitaine, of the issues of the wh…

  23. 1299-05-17 date: inferred

    Presentation of William de Paylington, chaplain, to the vicarage of the church of Swafham, in the king's gift by reason of his custody of the priory of Ely.…

  24. 1299-05-18 date: inferred

    To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin. Whereas the king has appointed and granted to his citizens of Bayonne the money arising from his custom of wool, wool-fells, and hides in Ireland going to parts bey…

  25. 1299-05-18 date: inferred

    Pardon, at the instance of Amadeus, count of Savoy, to the abbot of St. Peter's, Ghent, of 40/., in which he was amerced before John de Berewyk and his fellows, justices last in eyre in the county of Kent, by reason of a…

  26. 1299-05-18 date: inferred

    at the instance of Amadeus, count of Savoy, to the abbot of Ghent, of 40/., in which he was amerced before John de and his fellows, justices last in eyre in the county of Kent, by a toll which the prior of Leuesham Prior…

  27. 1299-10-07 date: inferred

    Order to the same to deliver to Thomas, son and heir of Bartholomew de Aneseye, tenant in chief, the lands late of his said father, he having done homage. By p.s.…

  28. 1300-03-01 date: inferred

    John de Seint Johan. The king understands all the articles that has sent by Walter de Bedewynd, king's clerk, and has given credence the clerk has told him on John's behalf. In regard to what John shown by the clerk as t…

  29. 1300-03-01 date: inferred

    Richard Colle, imprisoned at Stafford for the death of Richard Page, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Stafford to bail him until the first assize.…

  30. 1300-03-01 date: inferred

    Henry Waryn of Northwell acknowledges that he owes to Nicholas de (Guildeford, parson of the church of Chestreton, 100s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Nottingham.…

  31. 1300-03-01 date: inferred

    To the keeper of the Hospital of St. Giles without Lincoln. Order to receive into the hospital William de Wherewell, who has long and faithfully served the king, and is now smitten with leprosy, so that he cannot serve t…

  32. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    Commiesion to John de Berewyk and Roger de Hegham, on complaint by Hugh le Poter of London, brother aud heir of Alexander le Poter, that F 2 1302. Grays 10. 18. 18. 24. 18. whereas Alexander had entered a messuage, four …

  33. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    Association of Luke atte Gate, in the room of William Colebrand, deceased, with Robert de Setvans and William Maufe in a commission de wallsis et fossatis in the counties of Kent and Sussex.…

  34. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    Commission of oyer and terminer to John Buteturte, William Inge, and Henry Spigurnel, on complaint by Peter de Huntingfeld and Ismannia his wife, touching the persons who entered their court at Certeseye on the confines …

  35. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    The like to Lambert de Trikyngham and Richard Oysel, on complaint by William Fiz Glay that Robert son of Walter de Scures, Thomas and William his brothers, John Walkelyn of Halton, Robert son of Robert son of John de Hal…

  36. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    Commission to John Rand[olf] and Philip de Heivill to enquire touching the persons who killed Henry de la Dane, collector of the fifteenth at Havehinte, co. Southampton, and carried away 15/. of the king's money and 15/.…

  37. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    Commission to Guichard de Charrum and Hugh Gubiun to deliver the gaol of the town of Newcastle-on-Tyne of John Yeland, William de Horsford, and Stephen Jonesman de Yeland, in custody there for larcenies, &c.…

  38. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    Commission of oyer and terminer to William Inge and John Randolf, on complaint by John de Ebroicis touching the persons who lately Lesieged his manor of Est Lecche, co. Gloucester, and afterwards entered it and carried a…

  39. 1302-05-26 date: inferred

    Commission to Gilbert de Knovill, John Randolf, and John de Kirkeby, or two of them, to enquire if the manors of Brymmore and Lymynton, co. Southampton, are and used to be appurtenant to the manor of Christchurch ) I. 85…

  40. 1302-10-10 date: inferred

    To the justices in eyre for common pleas in co. Cornwall. As the has caused Walter de Aylesbury to be summoned to the coming at Westminster for certain affairs specially touching the king, he cannot be present in person …

  41. 1431-12-12 date: inferred

    John Bentham, in the port of Southampton. By bill of the butler.…

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