Grant by Walran de Lumley to Thomas de Umfram ville of £10 yearly. Acknowledgment of the same. Indenture between Thomas de Umframville and Walran de Lumley as to security for £100. Acknowledgment of the same. Commission for enquiry as to interference with the Bishop's waters in Southern half of the Tyne. Commission of enquiry as to those who have broken in on an enclosure of waste at Chester. Grant to Ralph de Neville of wardship of part of the lands of late Richard de Kellewe. License to Wm. de Graystoke to alienate land, and to Robert son of Ralph de Neville, etc., to take the name of Graystoke. Mandate to Sheriff of Durham to carry out a composition between the Bishop and the Prior of Durham. Appointment by John de Langton of Robert Lucas as his attorney. Appointment of Wm. de Blaykestone as sheriff and escheator for Durham and Sadberge. Mandate thereon. Mandate to William de Mordon (late Sheriff) to give up rolls, etc. Authority to the new Sheriff for gaol delivery. Oath for the new Sheriff, etc. Writ of Diem, etc., on death of Wm. Barker. Ditto of Robert de Helmesley. Mandate as to men charged with larceny, etc. On fealty of Thomas son of Sir Thomas Surteys and Writ of Diem, etc., of Hugh of Teesdale. License to alienate granted to John son of Henry of Kellawe. Exemplification of a fine levied in 21st year of Antony, late Bishop, in Coxhowe. Mandate as to dower for Ismannia, wife of late Henry of Aslakby. Writ of Diem, etc., of Thomas Surtays. Mandate to the escheator to take possession of the lands lately held by Joan of Birtley for her life. Of an agreement between Marmaduke Fitz-Geoffry and Richard, Warden of Werhall Hospital. License to Walter Smyth of Monketon to assign certain rents to the Prior and Convent of Durham, and to Robert of Dalton to grant a messuage and 20 acres. Roger de Esshe is to be removed from the office of justice. Notice to the officials of Hertilpole to arrest ships for the King's service. Revocation of a grant of murage to the borough of Durham. Record of the death of Richard of Bury. Followed by the roll of the Liberty of Durham during voidance of the See, until the temporality should. be granted to the successor of Richard of Bury. DOCUMENTS BEARING ON THE EPISCOPATE OF BISHOP BURY (1334-1345). PETITION OF RICHARD OF BURY, THAT (IN VIRTUE OF THE GRANT TO BISHOP PEWSEY) HE MAY BE RELIEVED FROM A YEARLY PAYMENT TO NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE (1334). [Reg. Pal. Dur., iv, 180.] A nostre seigneur le Roi et a son Conseil monstre Richard Evesque de Duresme que come Hughe Pusace jadis Evesque de Duresme pourchacea du roi Richard le Wappentak de Sadberge* ove les fees appertenauntz a lui et ses successours a tenir auxi franchement come il meismes le tyent ou que le dit evesque tyent ses autres terres ou tenementz dedeinz sa franchise de Duresme, (come plus pleinement piert par la chartre et par le confermement le roi Johan le transescritz de queles est consu a cele peticion), dedeinz quele Wapentak Johan de Baillol tient cink fees des chivalers et la quarte partie dun fee de chartre le dit Johan devoit a la garde du chastel de Neof Chastel sur Tyne cink marz et quaraunte deners par an, et apres le dit Johan se attorna de ses services a un Robert Evesque de Duresmet par comendement le roi Henri besael nostre seigneur le roi, qore est par sa lettre patente et par reson dun enrollement qest enrolle en la Chauncellerie en le role de fins lan xviij du dit roi Henri, (le transescrit de quel est cosu a cest peticion) si ad la somme avantdite de cink marz et quaraunt deners corvee sur le dit Evesque et sur ses predecessours par quel . . . . dit Evesque prie a nostre seigneur le roi et a son conseil que pleise aver regard a les chartres et confermementz de ses progenitours queux lui acquitent de totes tieux services et *The Wappentage of Sadberge was purchased from King Richard I by Bishop Pudsey, who (we are told by Mr. Lapsley, County Palatine of Durham, p. 162, note 5) "was outrageously swindled in the transaction "; he was certainly in debt for it till he died. It is said that Bishops of Durham sit in Parliament as Earls of Sadberge as well as in their rights as Bishops. The district of Sadberge lies in the south-eastern part of the county, stretching from about Sedgefield to the shores of the sea; it included the manor of Hart, and the town of the Hartlepools. In Bury's time we find him issuing his commission for two wards of Sadberge, as distinct from the four wards of Durham County (Reg. Palat. Durham, iv, p. 273). Lambarde's Dictionary, p. 324, says: 'This Sadberge was at that time and long since called a countye, conteyninge, as I think, the greatest portion of that which we now call the byshopricke of Durham." A Palatine Court was held here, with powers similar to those of the Palatinate proper. It became afterwards a curacy of Houghton. † In the reign of Henry III the only Bishop Robert was Robert Stichill. quil puis aver brief as T[resorer] et Barons quil puis est requit de la summe avantdite solunc le purport des chartres et confermementz avantditz. [Indorso.] Soit mande par bref contenant leffect de ceste peticion as Tresorer et Barons que vewes des chartres et les autres evidences le dit Evesque, et oie sa pleinte et ses resons et serchez les remembrances del Escheke et appellez a eux les justices sils poessent trover par inspeccion des dites chartres evidences et remembrances que le dit Evesque doit estre de droit descharge de les dites cynk mars et xl d. annueles qui couront en demande sur lui par les ditz fees que adonques ils lui deschargent. Et eit le dit Evesque un respit de cele demande tanque a la feste de Noel issi quil pourra endementers sure. [This petition is followed by another, asking for Bury's reinstatement in the Manor of Hert, just as Piers de Montfort had to give up the Manor of Gretham, under orders from Henry III to the Bishop; and Edward III replies that justice should be done to him in the case of the Manor of Hert and Hertenesse. Soon after this, by a Royal Writ, the Bishop is made Treasurer of the Exchequer,* and about the same timet the men of Durham were relieved from a fine of 1,000 marks; and a levy of twenty pounds was also deferred; it had been charged on the vill of North Alverton.] INDULGENCE FOR ALL WHO HELP THE BUILDING AND ADORNING OF THE SHRINE OF ST. CUTHBERT (7 June, 1334). [Printed already in Canon Fowler's edition of the Rites of Durham, p. 157.] Indulgentia Ricardi Dunolmensis Episcopi conferentibus ad fabricam ecclesiae vel ad fenetrum Sancti Cuthberti cum ratificatione omnium indulgentiarum praecedentium. Universis Ricardus permissione divina Episcopus Dunelmensis salutem. Cum ad promerenda sempiterna gaudia Sanctorum sint nobis suffragia plurimum opportuna, loca Sanctorum omnium pia sunt devotione fidelium veneranda, ut dum Dei veneramur amicos, ipsi nos amicabiles Deo reddant, et illorum quodammodo vendicando patrocinium apud Deum, quod merita nostra non obtinent eorum *Rot. Pat., 8 Edw. III, p. 1, m. 40. + Close Roll, 8 Edward III, m. 29 dorso. Breve Domini Ricardi de Bery episcopi directum vicecomiti de Norhame ad liberandum hominem prioris ad Curiam mereamur intercessionibus obtinere. Cupientes igitur ut ecclesia Dunelmensis in qua venerabilis patris nostri Cuth berti incorruptum corpus honorifice collocatur, congruis honoribus et crebris populorum accessibus frequentetur, omnibus vere poenitentibus quadraginta dies, etc. Data Dunelm. viio Junii 1334, anno pontificatus primo. EVIDENTIAE PRO CURIA TEMPORALI PRIORIS (26 June, 1334). [Cartuarium primum (f. 187 b).] Ricardus Dei gratia Episcopus Dunelm. vicecomiti Norham salutem. Cum in carta bonae memoriae Ricardi* quondam Episcopi Dunelm. praedecessoris nostri, quam inspeximus, contineatur quod idem Ricardus concessit priori Dunelm. qui tunc fuit,† et Capitulo ejusdem loci, quod ejusdem prioris. si quis de terra vel feodo prioris Dunelmensis attachiatus fuerit per ballivos Episcopi pro aliqua re pertinente ad curiam ipsius prioris, prior vel ballivus suus curiam suam exiget, et habebit sine contradictione, si eam exigat ad horam et terminum. Et si latro captus fuerit in terra ipsius priori[s]‡ et in curia ipsius fuerit adjudicatus, executio judicii fiet per ballivos prioris ad furcas Episcopi § libere et sine contradictione. Et idem prior habebit liberam curiam cum soc et sac thol et theme et infangthef, et etiam in quibusdam literis celebris memoriae Ricardi nuper Episcopi Dunelmensis praedecessoris nostri quas inspeximus contineatur quod idem praedecessor noster volens quietudini praedictorum prioris et conventus Dunelmensis prospicere, concessisset pro se et successoribus suis et declarasset quod ubicunque contingeret aliquem de hominibus et tenentibus ipsorum prioris et conventus in terram ipsius Episcopi tunc praedecessoris nostri vel in feodo capi et inprisonari occasione quacunque, praeterquam si aliquis appellatus forte fuerit per appellatorem in curia ipsius praedecessoris nostri, praefati prior et conventus curiam suam habebunt de eisdem, si per ballivos eorum petantur ante judicium loco et tempore oportunis; et jam intelleximus quod quidam Johannes Wydowsone, homo et tenens praedicti prioris judicatur coram te de latrocinio, et ea occasione captus et in custodia * R. Kellow. In the time of Kellow, W. of Tanfield was prior till 1313, and G. de Burdon after that date, and it might be either of these two. Added secunda manu. § This was the Palatine Bishop's feudal right to hang people. |