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5. Wenlok's Officials, Clerks and Annuitants

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page 24 note 8 W.A.M. 25908Google Scholar. Probably the Brother Alan listed in Monks, p. 61.Google Scholar

page 24 note 9 W.A.M. 4930. Steward of the abbot's household late in 1286.

page 24 note 10 Monks, p. 64Google Scholar. Steward of the abbot's household.

page 24 note 11 Ibid., p. 66. Steward of the abbot's household.

page 25 note 1 First mentioned as steward in 1286 (W.A.M. 8238). Last mentioned in the abbot's service in 1303–4 (W.A.M. 8254), but probably steward until William Merre took office in 1306. Received a fee of 20 marks a year, raised to £20 by 1299 a. 17, 53, 71, 80; W.A.M. 16921–22). Held lands in chief in Southampton, Berks, and Bucks. (C.Inq.P.M., vi, no. 571). A knight by 1307; baron of the Exchequer 1309–22 (Tout, , Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History, 2nd edn (Manchester, 1936), p. 306)Google Scholar; keeper of the temporalities of Westminster Abbey in the vacancy after Wenlok's death (C.P.R., 1307–1313, p. 225Google Scholar; W.A.M. 5435). His seal—a shield of arms, two bars—is on W.A.M. 16772; see Papworth, J. W. and Morant, A. W., Ordinary of British Armorials (London, 1874), p. 17.Google Scholar

page 25 note 2 Alias Merry. Known to be steward from 25 Dec. 1306 (I. 239), and probably steward from a date earlier in 1306 (I. 227). Last mentioned as steward in 1307–8 (W.A.M. 8230). His fee was £20 a year (I. 239,241). Formerly steward of the earl of Cornwall at Berkhampstead and constable of Berkhampstead Castle (C.P.R., 1292–1301, p. 608Google Scholar; C.C.R., 1296–1302, p. 468).Google Scholar

page 25 note 3 Except in 1298–99 and 1304–5, one of the two stewards of Wenlok's household was a monk of Westminster and the other was a stipendiary official. (In 1298–99 both were monks and in 1304–5 both were stipendiary.) Pearce's distinction between the wardens (custodes) nd the stewards of the household (Monks, p. 213Google Scholar) appears to be without foundation; the only example of the use of the former title in the thirteenth century is in Wenlok's household ordinances, where the French equivalent—gardeins de nostre hostel—is used once (below, p. 241); in the fourteenth century the titles were used without discrimination for the same official.

Repeated liveries of manorial issues and payments from the abbatial treasury to the same monk and clerk or layman are almost certain evidence that the recipients were stewards of the household; if the words pro hospicio are added the matter is usually beyond doubt.

page 25 note 4 Known to be in office from 28 Dec. 1286 until 16 Mar. 1287 (W.A.M. 24491). In 1286 the abbot's chaplain.

page 25 note 5 Known to be in office from 23 Oct. 1287 until 16 Mar. 1288 (W.A.M. 24492–93). See Monks, p. 64Google Scholar, where, however, W.A.M. 28882 is cited in error as proof that Brother Reymund was warden (i.e. steward) of the household in 1291.

page 25 note 6 Known to be in office from 13 Mar. 1288 until 20 June 1289 (II. 1–2); Brother Ralph therefore overlapped for a few days with Brother Reymund de Wenlok. He was the abbot's chaplain.

page 25 note 7 Brother Alexander's receipts and expenses accounts run from 29 Sept. 1289 to 6 Sept. 1290 (II. 3 and 5); but he had custody of the abbot's valuables from 24 June 1289 (II. 4) and probably was steward for this longer period. Brother Reginald de Hadham was given the keys of the abbot's treasure on 20 June 1289 (II. 2), but this was a temporary measure; he does not rank as a steward of the household.

Pearce's statement (Monks, pp. 64, 213Google Scholar) that Brother Thomas de Lenton was steward of the household between 1289 and 1292 appears to be a mistake. It is based on W.A.M. 31277 (I. 17), which in fact gives Brother Thomas no title, and on W.A.M. 24497, his account for work supervised in the monks' cemetery between 28 May and 20 Aug. 1290; this is not a household account, and the title senescallas abbatis which it gives Brother Thomas is added in a later hand. Brother Thomas had charge of some abbatial funds c. 1289, probably in the capacity of warden of the fair at Westminster (I. 8; below, p. 161). He may also have been warden of the walls along the Thames between 1286 and 1290 (I. 2, 9; see above, p. 19, note).

page 26 note 1 W.A.M. 27109, 16833, 25917–18, 8242, 8244; Gloucester County Records Office, 1099/M31/9. See also W.A.M. 28875, 28895.

page 26 note 2 W.A.M. 16913–14, 25920–21, 8245; Gloucester County Records Office, 1099/M31/11.

page 26 note 3 W.A.M. 25921. See also W.A.M. 16915.

page 26 note 4 W.A.M. 27111, 16837, 16839, 25924, 26859; I. 54, 57, etc. See also W.A.M. 16916, 16918, 25922, 8246, 14781. Brother Laurence was the abbot's chaplain.

page 26 note 5 The household day-account extant in the names of Brother Adam and Brother John runs from 30 Sept. 1298 to 29 Sept. 1299 (W.A.M. 24502), but references to them in manorial accounts suggest that their joint stewardship began before Michaelmas 1298 (W.A.M. 16920, 16840, 25927, 14783; Gloucester County Records Office, 1099/M31/16). I. 136–37 suggest that Brother Adam was steward as early as Jan. 1298; see also below, p. 193.

page 26 note 6 W.A.M. 26868–69, 27113, 8253. See also W.A.M. 25933–34, 8254, 16925. Included in the list of those imprisoned in the Tower after the burglary of the royal treasury in the abbey in 1303 (C.P.R., 1301–1307, p. 195Google Scholar), but no particular indictment was laid against him (Antient Kalendars, ed. Palgrave, , i, pp. 253 ff.).Google Scholar

page 26 note 7 I. 162, 189, 203. See also W.A.M. 27115, 16927.

page 26 note 8 W.A.M. 26872, 27404–6; I. 208, 259, 261–62; below, p. 211. See also W.A.M. 25936.

page 26 note 9 Called senescallus domus in the household day-account on 28 Dec. 1286 (W.A.M. 24491); still steward on 20 June 1289 (II. 2). In the year beginning in Sept. 1289, though no longer steward, he received a fee of 25s. (below, pp. 167, 176). Probably the William del Ewe mentioned in Wenlok's household ordinances (below, p. 247). He had been coroner for Westminster Abbey (Westminster Domesday, fo. 93v). A family named de la Watre held the serjeanty of the Abbey Gate (Year Books 21 and 22 Edward I. ed. Horwood, A. J. (Rolls Ser., 1873), pp. 576 ff.).Google Scholar

page 26 note 10 Known to be in office from 29 Sept. 1289 until 6 Sept. 1290 (II. 3). Described as magister.

page 27 note 1 W.A.M. 16913, 25920, 25918, 8244. See also W.A.M. 8245, 16912; Gloucester County Records Office, 1099/M31/10–11. Probably clerk to one of the stewards of the household in 1288–89 (below, p. 28 and note).

page 27 note 2 Alias Langford, Langeford, etc. See W.A.M. 16914, 16836, 25920–21, 8245; I. 54 57 etc.

page 27 note 3 W.A.M. 26869, 16925, 25933–34, 8254. Bailiff of Staines between 1292 and 1297 (W.A.M. 16913–19; see I. 73).

page 27 note 4 W.A.M. 26870, 27403; I. 142–43, 146. See also W.A.M. 27114, 25935, 8255. Gravesend is described as magister and notary (I. 222; W.A.M. 9496).

page 27 note 5 I. 162; below, p. 196; W. A.M. 26871. Gravesend remained in the abbot's service as a clerk for six months after he ceased to be steward of the household.

page 27 note 6 Alias Langford, Langeford, etc. See I. 234, 259, 261–62; below, p. 211; W.A.M. 27404–6, 25937, 26872. Though Longford received money for and made payments on behalf of the household, his annual fee was only 8s. (I. 231, 256), and this raises a doubt whether he was a fully fledged steward. A larger fee was paid in 1306–7 to John de Dodele, alias Duddele, who on one occasion received £12 19s. 2d. to acquit household debts (I. 204, 231; below, pp. 197, 206).

page 27 note 7 Substantial and repeated payments of unassigned manorial issues to monks who were not stewards of the household probably amount to evidence that these monks were the abbot's receivers; after 1295 writs ordering monks to make payments from the abbot's treasury provide the necessary evidence.

Pearce's statement (Monks, pp. 64, 212) that Brother John de Henie was receiver in 1288–89 is based on a misdating of W.A.M. 24253; in fact this account belongs to the year 1342.Google Scholar

page 27 note 8 Brother Thomas and Brother Reymund were in charge of abbatial funds in 1291 and 1292 (W.A.M. 27109, 25917–18, 8242, 8244; see also W.A.M. 26856, 16912, and I. 11, 17).

page 27 note 9 Known to be in office from 31 Oct. 1295 until 12 May 1298 (I. 52–53, etc.; II. 6).

page 27 note 10 W.A.M. 16924–25, 27400–1, 27112–13.

page 27 note 11 Known to be in office from 1 Nov. 1304 until 5 Oct. 1305 (I. 142, 146–47, 149; W.A.M. 19841, quoted in Monks, p. 63).Google Scholar

page 27 note 12 In charge of abbatial funds in Nov. and Dec. 1305 (I. 154–55). Conventual treasurers from June 1304 until June 1305 (Monks, p. 209).Google Scholar

page 27 note 13 Brother Henry's accounts as sole receiver run from 13 Dec. 1305 to 24 Dec. 1307 (II. 7–9). In 1305 and 1306 he was also sacrist (I. 156, 160, 195–96, etc.) and in 1307 sub-prior (I. 235, 256). Supported Wenlok in the quarrel of 1307 and took a prominent part in the election of Kedyngton in 1308. See also Monks, p. 71.Google Scholar

page 28 note 1 First mentioned as steward in I. 1. Last mentioned in I. 135. Received a fee of £5 a year (W.A.M. 28962). Possibly a clerk (above, p. 6).

page 28 note 2 An official of this name held the manorial courts at Bourton-on-the-Hill between 1305 and 1307 and may have been steward of the Western Parts (W.A.M. 8230, 8256). See also below, p. 200.

page 28 note 3 The dates given are those between which John de Batesford is known to have been in the abbot's service (W.A.M. 16913–14, 16916; I. 62). Called senescallus abbatis in 1293 (W.A.M. 28938). By 1293 he was receiving a fee of at least 14 marks a year (ibid.; W.A.M. 16913). If identical with the royal justice of the same name (see C.P.R., 1292–1301, pp. 48, 162Google Scholar, etc.) Batesford was probably the abbot's legistre. Two of his mandates to manorial officials, both dealing with legal matters, are extant (I. 344–45). His seal, set with an antique gem, is on W.A.M. 28938.

page 28 note 4 The warden of ‘La Neyte’ acted as bailiff of the manor of ‘Eye’. Wardens can be identified by writs addressed to them under that title or without the title but jointly with the reeve of ‘Eye’, and by references in the accounts of ‘Eye’ to their work as bailiffs. In I. 22 the reeve of ‘Eye’ is also termed warden of ‘La Neyte’.

page 28 note 5 I. 22–23, 27, 37, 39–41; W.A.M. 26858.

page 28 note 6 I.102 shows that Brother John was warden of ‘La Neyte’ in Oct. 1296. That he supervised the corn harvest at ‘Eye’ in 1294 and repairs at ‘La Neyte’ in the year 1294–95 suggests that he was already warden then (W.A.M. 26858–59). Between 1295 and 1297 he may have been almoner of Westminster Abbey as well (W.A.M. 26860–61). Pearce's statement (Monks, pp. 63, 199Google Scholar) that Brother Reginald de Hadham was almoner for the whole period from 18 June 1294 until 24 June 1305 is a mistake: Brother Reginald is known to have been almoner only between 24 June 1304 and 24 June 1305, and possibly not for the whole of this period (W.A.M. 19841).

page 28 note 7 W.A.M. 26864.

page 28 note 8 W.A.M. 26868–70. Almoner of Westminster Abbey for part of this time (see n. 6 above).

page 28 note 9 I. 153, 157, 164–66, 176, 213. Almoner of Westminster Abbey (Monks, p. 199).Google Scholar

page 29 note 10 In this section are listed those who appear to have served Wenlok as full-time clerical officials. The glimpses which we have of these clerks in Wenlok's accounts and writs show—what is implied also by differences in previous education and later careers—that they had varied duties; few were mere scribes.

page 29 note 11 Alias de Elding. In the abbot's service from 1282 (W.A.M. 25906, 27394; see also W.A.M. 28811, 28813). Frequently employed as an auditor or to make the view of account, and therefore probably the clerk des maners of Wenlok's house-hold ordinances (below, p. 247). Attorney for the abbot during his absence from England in 1286 and 1287 (C.P.R., 1281–92, pp. 224, 266).Google Scholar

page 29 note 12 Received a fee of 3 marks a year between 1288 and 1306 (W.A.M. 24495, 28946; below, pp. 166, 176; I. 67, 102, 138, 156, 224).

page 29 note 13 Proctor for the abbot and convent of Westminster in their dispute with Archbishop Pecham about visitation rights at Great Malvern Priory in 1289 (W.A.M. 22929, 22931–32). Proctor for them in their dispute with the Friars Minor about the apostate friar William de Pershore in 1291 (Monumenta Franciscana, ed. Brewer, J. S. and Hewlett, R. (Rolls Ser., 18581882), ii, p. 49Google Scholar). Said to be rector of Uppingham in 1291 and 1304 (W.A.M. 23638 d., 28049***). In 1311 Bray received papal dispensation to accept two other benefices to the value of 100 marks (Calendar of Papal Registers, Papal Letters, ii, A.D. 1305–1342, ed. Bliss, W. H., (H.M.S.O., 1895), p. 92)Google Scholar. Said to be a canon of London in 1318 (W.A.M. 9458). Described as magister (below, p. 187).Google Scholar

page 29 note 14 I. 318. The Willame fils Huge of Wenlok's livery list (below, p. 246 and note).

page 29 note 15 In the service of the abbot and convent of Westminster between 1275 and 1284 (W.A.M. 24489, 28799). Said to be rector of Paglesham in 1296 (W.A.M. 5013). (Westminster Abbey held the advowson of this church.) Acted as a witness in 1299 (Westminster Domesday, fo. 146). Possibly the scholar of Oxford named Kranesleg' to whom Wenlok gave money on one occasion (I. 297).

page 29 note 16 In the service of the abbot and convent of Westminster from 1286; received a fee of 2 marks a year, of which the abbot paid 1½ marks and the prior and convent ½ mark (W.A.M. 24490, 28815; I. 5). By 1297 Deneby had passed wholly into the service of the prior and convent and received from them 3 marks a year (W.A.M. 19838, 29026, 29030, etc.). Described as magister; said to be rector of St Laurence near Candlewick Street, London, in 1289, and of Launton in 1295 (W.A.M. 22929, 15689). (The advowson of both churches belonged to Westminster Abbey.) Proctor for the abbot and convent of Westminster against the bishop of London in 1290, and for Prior Reginald de Hadham against Wenlok in 1307 and 1308 (W.A.M. 12783, 9499E; see Pearce, , Walter de Wenlok, pp. 182, 187Google Scholar). Pearce's statement (ibid., p. 180) that Deneby was a notary is a mistake.

page 29 note 17 Received a fee from the abbot and convent of Westminster jointly between 1301 and 1304; in 1301 the amount was 5 marks, but by 1303 it was only 4 marks (W.A.M. 29095, 29148, 29153, 29171, 29176). In 1307 he received a fee of 5 marks for half a year from the abbot alone (below, p. 213). After Wenlok's death Gloucester passed wholly into the service of the prior and convent and received from them a fee of 4 or 5 marks a year until 1314 (W.A.M. 29258, 29308, 29316, 29350, etc.). Described as magister andjurisperitus (W.A.M. 29095, 9457). In 1307 one of the abbot's counsellors (below, p. 212). Nominated by Wenlok's successor, Abbot Kedyngton, for presentation by the prior and convent of Westminster to the church of Aldenham (W.A.M. 4495).

page 29 note 18 Received a fee of 10s. as a clerk for the half-year beginning on 29 Sept. 1306 (I. 235). Said to be at the papal curia in Oct. 1306 (I. 222 and below, p. 201). Formerly steward of the household.

page 29 note 19 Kent wrote the accounts of the steward of the household in 1288–89 and was probably his clerk (below, p. 158). Subsequently himself a steward of the household.

page 30 note 1 Received a fee of 3 marks a year between 1289 or 1290 and 1297 (below, p. 176; W.A.M. 24501, 28964, 28993, 29001; I. 65, 134). Fellow of Merton College, Oxford; presented to the church of Islip in 1296 (Emden, , Biographical Reg. of the University of Oxford, ii, p. 1127Google Scholar). (Westminster Abbey held the advowson of this church.)

page 30 note 2 In the abbot's service between 1305 and 1307; received a fee of 3 marks a year (W.A.M. 27114; I. 187, 240; below, p. 204). There is nothing to connect him with the William de Lutgarshale mentioned in Emden, , op. cit., ii, p. 1181.Google Scholar

page 30 note 3 Received a fee of 3 marks a year between 1287 and 1304 (W.A.M. 24492, 24495; I. 8, 72, 138, 143). Son of Geoffrey de Pitchford, constable of Windsor and keeper of Windsor Castle and Forest (W.A.M. 24492).

page 30 note 4 I. 56. Standon's service as a clerk cannot be dated precisely. Rector of Mordon from 1273 to 1301, and of Stevenage from 1277 until his death in 1315 (Registram Johannis de Pontissara, Episcopi Wyntoniensis, A.D. MCCLXXXII–MCCCIV, i, ed. Deedes, C. (Canterbury and York Soc., xix, 19131915), pp. 89, 117Google Scholar; Rotuli Ricardi Gravesend Diocesis Lincolniensis, ed. Davis, F. N., Foster, C. W. and Thompson, A. HamiltonGoogle Scholar (ibid., xxxi, 1915–24), p. 183; Calendar of Wills proved and enrolled in the Court ofHusting, London, A.D. 1258–A.D. 1688, ed. Sharpe, R. R. (London, 18891890), i, p. 250Google Scholar; see also Pearce, , Walter de Wenlok, pp. 8990Google Scholar). (Westminster Abbey held the advowson of both churches.)

page 30 note 5 Wenlok's fee of 3 marks a year is mentioned only in 1306 (I. 224), but he was still in the abbot's service in 1307, when he supervised the carrying of the corn at Pershore (W.A.M. 22093). Described as magister (I. 224).Google Scholar

page 30 note 6 A clerk of this name, who was one of Wenlok's nephews, is mentioned in his service in 1297 and 1298; his fee of £5 a year was paid by the prior and convent (W.A.M. 29025, 29065; see also Pearce, , Walter de Wenlok, pp. 60, 64Google Scholar, where the amount of the half-yearly instalment is given in error as 40s.). Perhaps the William de Wenlok mentioned in the abbot's livery list (below, p. 247 and note). A William de Wenlok was presented by the abbot and convent of Westminster to the church of St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, in 1300 (Pearce, , op. cit., p. 61Google Scholar). Abbot Wenlok himself presented a William de Wenlok to the church of Sawbridgeworth at an unknown date (W.A.M. 8606).

page 30 note 7 The terms ‘fee’ and ‘pension’ are used indifferently by Wenlok, sometimes of the same payment. Fees are distinguished from pensions in the receiver's account in 1307, but the principle behind the distinction is now obscure (below, pp. 212–13). In the present volume the former term is used throughout, because most of the payments described as fees or pensions were made in return for current or future services, not as rewards for past services.

The list includes the names of some annuitants whose fees were paid jointly by the abbot and the prior and convent of Westminster; it excludes the names of those whose entire fees were paid by the prior and convent. Since many annuitants were retained on account of their usefulness in the law courts, Wenlok's demand for or acceptance of any conventual contribution to their fees might be held to infringe the clauses in the compositions laying on the abbot the whole cost of litigation in defence of the property and liberties of the Abbey (below, pp. 220, 226, 230–31). That this was an issue in 1307 is suggested by the deposition of Robert de Sancto Martino: quod Ricardas abbas [sc. Ware] … tempore suo defendebat ecdesiam Westrr' predictam in spiritualibus et temporalibus per elencos et pugiles suos sumptibus suis propriis (W.A.M. 9497); see also below, p. 240.

page 31 note 8 Received a fee of 3 or 5 marks a year between June 1306 and Dec. 1307 (I. 205; below, p. 202). Baron of the Exchequer (Emden, , Biographical Reg. of the University of Oxford, i, p. 5).Google Scholar

page 31 note 9 Received 5 marks, being half his annual fee, on 24 Nov. 1293 (W.A.M. 28945). Part of the name on this acquittance is now illegible; Dr E. J. L. Scott, keeper of the muniments of Westminster Abbey 1891–1917, read it as Walterus de Asschewelle.

page 31 note 10 Alias Bardelby. Receivedafee of 3 marks a year from a date earlier than 1277 to 1306 (W.A.M. 28795, 29180; I. 138, 174). After 1300 the prior and convent of Westminster paid half this fee (W.A.M. 29066, 19841). A royal clerk and later keeper of the Great Seal (W.A.M. 29066; Tout, , Chapters, vi, pp. 710Google Scholar). Leased the serjeanties of the vestibule and buttery at Westminster until 1297 (W.A.M. 5783; Westminster Domesday, fo. 88v). Despite I. 174, probably not one of the abbot's full-time clerks.

page 31 note 11 Received a fee of 1 mark a year between 1287 and 1307 (W. A.M. 24679; I. 64 82, 138, 221; below, pp. 166, 176, 213). Between 1298 and 1305 this fee was paid by the prior and convent (W.A.M. 19838, 19841). Was bail for Wenlok on his release from the Tower in 1303 (Antient Kalendars, ed. Palgrave, , i, p. 298).Google Scholar

page 31 note 12 Received a fee of 10 marks a year, payable on 13 Oct., between 1289 and 1292 (below, p. 166; W.A.M. 24495, 28847, 28867, 28914). A royal clerk (C.C.R., 1279–1288, p. 273Google Scholar; C.P.R., 1281–92, p. 108Google Scholar and passim); canon of Chichester and subdean of Wells (W.A.M. 28890, 28914). See Emden, , Biographical Reg. of the university of Oxford, iii, p. 2150Google Scholar, ‘Bath’.

page 31 note 13 Received a fee of 3 marks a year between 1289 and 1306, of which, until c. 1296, half was paid bythe prior and convent (below, pp. 166, 176; I. 138, 221; see also I. 87, and W.A.M. 28947). In 1303 or 1304 five years' arrears of the conventual contribution formerly made to Bereford's fee were paid by order of the chapter (W.A.M. 19840). A royal justice (C.P.R., 1281–92, p. 407Google Scholar and passim); judge of the Common Bench from 1292 (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, ed. Sayles, G. O. (Selden Soc., lv, lvii–lviii, 1936, 19381939), i, pp. cxxxviiGoogle Scholar ff.); one of the justices appointed to hear the case of the burglary of the royal treasury at Westminster in 1303 (C.P.R., 1301–1307, pp. 194–95, 198, 271).Google Scholar

page 31 note 14 Received 1½ marks as the instalment of a fee in Oct. 1306 (I. 221), and 1½ marks in 1307 (below, p. 213 and note).

page 31 note 15 Received a fee of 1½ marks a year between 1305 and 1307 (I. 149, 221; below, p. 205). Described as magister.

page 31 note 16 Between 1289 or 1290 and 1306 received a fee of 3 marks a year, of whichhalf was paid by the abbot and half by the prior and convent (below, p. 176 ; W.A.M. 19841, 28944, 29012, 29182, 29186; I. 180, 242). Remembrancer of the Exchequer (C.P.R., 1272–81, p. 311Google Scholar; C.C.R., 1279–88, p. 320).Google Scholar

page 31 note 17 Received a fee of 1½ marks for the half-year beginning on 29 Sept. 1289 (below, pp. 175–6). Described as magister. For the name Walter see below, p. 174, note. Possibly identical with a royal clerk of the same name (see C.C.R., 1296–1302, p. 202).Google Scholar

page 31 note 18 Received a fee of 1½ marks a year between 1288 and 1292 (W.A.M. 28825, 28839, 28851, 28902, etc.; below, p. 176).

page 32 note 1 Alias Drokensford. Received a fee of £5 for the year 1305–6 (I. 219). Keeper of the king's wardrobe (Tout, , Chapters, vi, p. 26).Google Scholar

page 32 note 2 Received a fee of 1 mark a year between 1288 and 1298 (W.A.M. 24495, 28858, 29042; below, pp. 166, 176; I. 64, 82, 138).

page 32 note 3 Alias Grantham, Granham. Received a fee of 1 mark a year between 1298 and 1307 (I. 139; below, pp. 203, 213; W.A.M. 29092, 29188). Attorney in the King's Bench (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, i, p. xcixGoogle Scholar). Employed by Wenlok in his dispute with John le Duk of Gosford in 1295 (W.A.M. 28992; see I. 63 and note).

page 32 note 4 Received a fee of 10 marks for the year 1287–88 (W.A.M. 28834). In 1288 received 60s. instead of a summer robe (W.A.M. 24495). clerk, Chancery and vice-chancellor (Dictionary of National Biography, viii (London, 19211922), p. 1101).Google Scholar

page 32 note 5 Received a fee of 3 marks a year from Wenlok between 1298 and 1307 (I. 138, 221; below, p. 213). I. 87 is probably evidence that Hegham was retained by Wenlok as early as 1296, though the entry relating to him is cancelled. In 1297–98 the prior and convent of Westminster paid a fee of 1½ marks to Hegham (W.A.M. 19838). A royal justice from 1297 (C.P.R., 1292–1301, p. 316Google Scholar and passim); one of the justices appointed to hear the case of the burglary of the royal treasury at Westminster in 1303 (C.P.R., 1301–1307, pp. 194–95, 198, 271Google Scholar). On the commission of four appointed in Sept. 1307 to inquire into the disputes between Wenlok and the prior and convent of Westminster (C.P.R., 1307–1313, p. 36Google Scholar), and on the commission of five appointed in July 1308 to inquire into dissensions at Westminster during the vacancy after Wenlok's death (ibid., p. 124). See Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, i, p. lxxvii.Google Scholar

page 32 note 6 In 1307 received four years' arrears of an annual fee of 3 marks (below, pp. 212–13). A fee for him was entered in the receivers' account in 1297–98 but cancelled (below, p. 194). Justice of assize (see Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, i, pp. cix, cxliiiGoogle Scholar). On the commission of five appointed in July 1308 to inquire into dissensions at Westminster during the vacancy after Wenlok's death (C.P.R., 1307–1313, p. 124).Google Scholar

page 32 note 7 Alias Kenlowe. Received a fee of 1½ marks a year between 1288 and 1290 (W.A.M. 28855; below, p. 176).

page 32 note 8 Received 20s. from Wenlok instead of a summer robe in 1290 (W.A.M. 28870). A royal justice in 1304 (C.P.R., 1301–1307, pp. 343–44Google Scholar). Between 1301 and 1312 Adam de Kingsmead received a fee of 1½ marks a year from the prior and convent of Westminster (W.A.M. 29104, 29326). From Wenlok he received a gift of pasture at ‘Eye’ in 1298 (W.A.M. 26862). Was bail for Wenlok on his release from the Tower in 1303 (Antient Kalendars, ed. Palgrave, , i, p. 298).Google Scholar

page 32 note 9 Received a fee of li marks a year between 1304 and 1307 (W.A.M. 5726; below, p. 208). Described as magister; proctor for Wenlok at the papal curia in 1304 and 1307 (W.A.M. 5726, 29243; see also below, p. 208).

page 32 note 10 Received a fee of 1½ marks a year between 1285 and 1290 (I. 5; below, pp. 166, 176).Sonof a royal valet of the same name (W.A.M.28845; see C.P.R., 1292–1301, p. 133Google Scholar). Presented by the abbot and convent of Westminster to the church of Longdon in 1300, when he was subdeacon (Register of Bishop Godfrey Giffard, ed. Bund, J. W. W. (Worcestershire Hist. Soc., Oxford, 18981902), ii, p. 537)Google Scholar. See Emden, , Biographical Reg. of the University of Oxford, ii, p. 1118.Google Scholar

page 33 note 11 Received a fee of 5 marks a year between 1288 and 1293 (W.A.M. 28849, 5422, 28972; below, pp. 166–67). The infirmarer contributed 2 marks a year to this fee (below, p. 161). Clerk of the Common Bench between 1286 and 1290 (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, i, pp. cxxi–ii, cxlviiiGoogle Scholar). Said in 1289 to be a canon of Exeter (W.A.M. 22929).

page 33 note 12 Received a fee of 5 marks a year between 1303 and 1307 (W.A.M. 29187; I. 229; below, p. 207). Described as magister. He is described as ‘junior’ in W.A.M. 29187. See Emden, , op. cit., ii, pp. 1337–38.Google Scholar

page 33 note 13 Granted a fee of 10 marks a year on 12 Mar. 1305 for life, half to be paid by the abbot, half by the prior and convent (W.A.M. 5713). On 30 Sept. 1313 Reynolds released the prior and convent of their obligation (ibid.). In 1305 keeper of the wardrobe of the prince of Wales (Tout, , Chapters, ii, p. 171).Google Scholar

page 33 note 14 Received a fee of 1 mark a year between 1295 and 1307 (I. 82, 138, 245). Pleader, (below, p. 205)Google Scholar; later a royal justice (C.P.R., 1313–1317, pp. 248, 497Google Scholar, etc.).

page 33 note 15 Received a fee of 3 marks ayearbetween 1305 and 1307(below, pp. 197, 205). Rector of Strensham (W.A.M. 29254).

page 33 note 16 Received a fee of 3 marks a year between 1289 or 1290 and 1297 (below, p. 175; W.A.M. 28923, 29029). Royal clerk (W.A.M. 28923; see also Cal. Papal Reg., Papal Letters, i, A.D. 1198–1304, ed. Bliss, W. H. (H.M.S.O., 1893), p. 550Google Scholar). Presented by the abbot and convent of Westminster to the church of St Martin by Ludgate, London, in 1322 (Registrum Radulphi Baldock, Gilberti Segrave, Ricardi Newport et Stephani Gravesend, Episcoporum Londoniensium, A.D. MCCCIV–MCCCXXXVIII, ed. Fowler, R. C. (Canterbury and York Soc., vii, 19101911), p. 270Google Scholar). He held also the rectory of St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge, which he exchanged, however, for the church of Lydiard Tregoze in 1323 (ibid., p. 232).

page 33 note 17 Received a fee of 5 marks a year between 1301 and 1307 (W.A.M. 29084; I. 190; below, p. 213). Envoy for Edward I at the court of Boniface VIII (Treaty Rolls, i, ed. Chaplais, P. (H.M.S.O., 1955)Google Scholar, no. 381; see also ibid., nos 266–73). Canon of St Paul's and rector of Fulham (Registrum Roberti Winchelsey, Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi, A.D. 1294–1313, ed. Graham, R., i (Canterbury and York Soc., 1½, 19171936), pp. 452–53Google Scholar; see also ibid., pp. 372–73).

page 33 note 18 Received a fee of 1 mark a year between 1287 and 1298 (W.A.M. 24679, 28826, 28835, etc.; below, pp. 166, 176; I. 64, 87, 138). Later a royal justice (C.P.R., 1292–1301, pp. 516, 629–30Google Scholar); one of the justices appointed to investigate the burglary of the royal treasury at Westminster in 1303 (C.P.R., 1301–1307, p. 192).Google Scholar

page 33 note 19 Received a fee of li marks a year between 1305 and 1307 (I. 245). A fee for Spigurnel was entered in the receivers' account in 1297–98 but cancelled (below, p. 194). In 1303 received a fee of 1½ marks from the prior and convent of West-minster (W.A.M. 19839). A royal justice under various commissions from 1295 and a judge of the King's Bench from 1307 (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, i, pp. lxiilxiii, cxxxiiicxxxivGoogle Scholar; see also ibid., p. cxliii).

page 33 note 20 Received a fee of 1½ marks ayear between 1289 and 1293 (below, p. 167; W.A.M. 28874, 28889, 28918, 28940). From 1290 chief justice of the King's Bench (Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench under Edward I, i, pp. lviilviii).Google Scholar

page 33 note 21 Described as clericus; said to be receiving a fee of 3 marks a year in 1306 (W.A.M. 29208).

page 33 note 22 Received a fee of 3 marks in 1297–98, of which half was paid by the abbot, half by the prior and convent of Westminster (I. 138; W.A.M. 19838). I. 87 is probably evidence that Warwick was retained by the abbot as early as 1296, though the entry relating to him is cancelled. See also 1.197 and below, p. 199.

page 34 note 23 Granted a fee of 5 marks by Abbot Ware in 1278 until an acceptable benefice should have been provided for him (W.A.M. 5955). Willoughby drew this fee until his death in 1305; the final instalment was paid to his executors in 1307 (below, pp. 166, 176; I. 102, 241). Baron of the Exchequer in 1278, chancellor of the Exchequer from 1283 and dean of Lincoln from 1288 (Tout, , Chapters, ii, p. 7Google Scholar, note). See Smith, R. A. L., Canterbury Cathedral Priory (Cambridge, 1943), pp. 71, 7374.Google Scholar

page 34 note 24 Received a fee of ½ mark a year between 1289 or 1290 and 1295 or 1296 (below, p. 176; W.A.M. 28871, 28881, 28891, 28899, etc.; I. 61). I. 87 is probably evidence that Edmund de Wrotting was still retained by Wenlok in 1296, though the entry relating to him is cancelled.