PRESiI>ENT White LfBRARY Cornell University calendar oWour^e^s ''"'nillimimLifiliite* Chancery rolls 3 1924 026 113 880 The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924026113880 : CALENDAE OF VARIOUS CHANCERY ROLLS SUPPLEMENTARY CLOSE ROLLS. WELSH ROLLS. SCUTAOE ROLLS. PRESERVED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE DP THE DEPUTY KEEPEE OF THE RECORDS. A.D. 1277—1326. PUBLISHED BY AT3THOEITY OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECEETABY OF STATE FOE THE HOME DEPABTMENT. LONDON PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from WYMAN and SONS, Ltd., Fetter Lane, E.G. ; or OLIVER and BOYD, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh ; or E. PONSONBY, Ltd., 116 Grafton Street, Dublin. printed by THE HEREFORD TIMES LIMITED, Maylord Street, Hejibfo^id, 1913. CONTENTS. Page Preface - v COEBIGBNDA ix Calendae of Sttpplbmentaby Close Rolls, 1277-1326 - 1 Calendar of Welsh Rolls, 1277-1294 157 Calendar of Sctjtage Rolm, 1285-1324 - 383 Index to Supplementary Close Rolls 403 Index to Welsh Rolls - 483 Index to Sctttagb Rolls - - 543 (V) PREFACE. The present volume deals with certain rolls of Chancery of the reigns of Edward I and Edward II which do not properly belong to any of the larger series of enrolments, and it comprises Supplementary Close Rolls, Welsh Rolls and Scutage Rolls. SUPPLEMENTARY CLOSE ROLLS. It was a frequent practice of Chancery clerks to group together entries relating to a particular subject, and it was occasionally found convenient to make consecutive entries of this kind into separate rolls, which may be regarded as supplements to the normal Patent Rolls and Close Rolls of the period. Under this heading English abstracts of the following rolls are included in the present volume. (a) 5 and 6 Edward I. I^icences for the exportation of wool. In consequence of dissensions between Henry III and the Flemish, it had been found necessary to restrict the trade between the two countries and to impose an oath on merchants to that effect and subsequently to afforce the oath by an ordinance of forfeiture. Hence a large number of licences to trade beyond seas were issued, some of which constitute the present roll, while others are found on the Patent Rolls of 1 and 2 Edward I (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1272-1281, pp. 13-27,33-39,51-52,67-68). The fact that the latter are licences to the individual merchants in the form of letters patent, whereas the entries in the present roll VI PREFACE. are in the form of mandates to the mayor and sheriffs of I^ondon and others, is the justification of their assignment to different classes of records. It is perhaps worth observing that the entries in the Patent Roll are on the face and dorse of the same membranes and could conveniently have been made into separate rolls at the time, though in one case the space left blank on the face of the membrane has been subsequently used for entries of a different nature. (&) 25 Edward I. Orders for the restitution of lay-fees of ecclesiastics and for the exemption of goods annexed to spiritu'aUties from taxation to the subsidy of a twelfth granted by the laity. Here again similar entries are found on the Close Rolls and Patent Rolls of this year. Those on the Close Rolls are clearly of the same nature. They occur on membranes 20d., lid. and 9d. and must be read in close connexion with the first entry on the face of m. 20, the purport of which is the same as that of the writ given on p. 22 of the present volume (Calendar of Close Rolls, 1296-1302, pp. 14, 88-97). On the Patent Rolls of this year will be found a large number of protections for clergy : the enrolments commence on m. 12d. and the clue to their meaning appears in the entries on m. 12, which are mandates and commissions to enquire into the alleged contumacy of a large number of clergy in re- fusing to aid in the defence of the realm and church of England, and to afford tlie king's protection to such ecclesiastics as consented to enter into recognisances. The commissioners in each county are the sheriff and a knight named to act with him ; a parsoti, for example, who PREFACE. Vll receives his exemption by the testimony of Adam de Welle, may be assigned with much probability to a I^incolnshire benefice, as the entry in the Patent Roll names Adam de Welle as assessor to the sheriff of that county. These knights are the same as those by whose ' testimony ' the orders in the present roll are issued, a circumstance which has been of the greatest assistance in identifying the places named (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1292-1301, pp. 239, 260-286). (c) 31-32 Edward I. Respites of assizes of novel disseisin in favour of persons serving in Scotland. Such assizes were excepted from the scope of the normal letters of protection, to which these respites are supplementary. (d) 31-32 Edward I. Respites of an aid in favour of persons serving in Scotland. (e) 5 Edward II. Orders for the resumption into the king's hands of grants made since 16 March, 3 Edward II, in pursuance of an ordinance of the prelates, earls and barons elected to ordain concerning the estate of the king's household. (/) 8-18 Edward II. Orders to supersede the levy of scutage from the lands of those who have performed their military service in person. This roll differs from the Scutage Rolls mentioned below in the material point that it relates only to those who did their service in person and excludes those who did their service by deputy or compounded for their service : formally, the writs are addressed in this case to the collectors of scutage and not to the sheriffs of the various counties, as is the case in the Scutage Rolls. (g) 1-20 Edward II. Orders to the sheriffs prohibiting further process in pleas brought by writ of right, in which the tenants had put themselves upon the grand assize. viii PREFACE. WELSH ROLLS. These rolls are seven in number and contain enrolments of Letters Patent, Letters Close, and Charters, issued under the Great Seal of England and of other documents directly or indirectly relating to Welsh affairs between the 6th and 23rd years of Edward I. A few of the entries on them occur also on the series of Patent, Close, and Charter Rolls, which normally contain entries relating to Wales before and after the limited period covered by these seven Welsh Rolls. The enrolments deal at some length with the following subjects : the struggle with Lleweljnti ap Griffin, the report of commissioners sitting locally as to the laws and customs of Wales, the settlement of the lands of Griffin ap Wenonwen, the rebellion of Rhys ap Meredith, the charters of Strata Florida abbey and the dissension between the earls of Gloucester and Hereford. A roll of letters patent of protection for persons going to Wales in the king's service in the 23rd year is now classed with other Protection RoUs among the Supplementary Patent Rolls. SCUTAGE ROLLS. The four Scutage Rolls calendared in this volume record the grants of scutage to those who did their service in the armies of Wales and Scotland in person or by deputy or who compounded therefor between the 10th year of Edward I and the 4th year of Edward II. The text has been prepared, with the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, by Mr. W. H. Stevenson, MA., Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, who wishes to express his gratitude to Sir John Rhys, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, for assistance in dealing with some of the Welsh names. The three Indexes have been compiled by Mr. C. T. Flower, M.A., of this Office. H. ^ ,,. C. MAXWEIfl. LYTE. Public Record Office, 13 July, 1912, (ix ) COREIGENDA Page 85, second marginal date, for May read March. 170, line 25, add [Prynne, Records, iii. p. 219]. 205, „ 28, for devisu read de visu- 259, „ 1, /or goods read com. 263, „ 4, for de read le. 267, „ 12, for their read his. CALENDAE OF CLOSE KOLLS (SUPPLEMENTARY). SUPPLEMENTARY CLOSE ROLL No. 4. 5-6 EDWARD I. Licences foe the Exportation of Wool, Etc. [For the fifth year.] [1277.] Membrane 4. This shall be the form of the oath of the merchants : that they shall not sell anything by themselves or by others in this realm to Flemings or to men of the power of the count of Flanders, or purchase anything from them ; and shall at the same time acknowledge if they owe anything to men of Flanders or if they know that others owe them anything, and [if so] how much, and to whom, and that they shall not receive anything either on this side the sea or beyond, or trade with money of men of Flanders in England, and if they know that other merchants, Lo&bards or of England or elsewhere, trade with their (i.e. the Flemings'), money, or communicate with them contrary to the king's prohibition, they shall cause this to be made known to the king or to his chancellor as soon as they can. And for the execution of these things they shall be boimd by their oath \mtil an agreement shall be made with the king for his merchants of England concerning the goods that were taken (tolez) in Flanders, or until the king shall otherwise command.