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Source: The English Close Rolls

Description

Type Valeur
Titre The English Close Rolls

Entrées associées à cette source

Personnes
ISABEL de Merlay

Texte

Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London. Edited by Joseph Bain. Vol. I. A.D. 1108-1272 (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1881), 676 pp. including index

Notes

Evidence from the English Close Rolls
12 May 1271: Robert de Somerville narrating that the K. had given to Sir Richard de Middelton archdeacon of Northumberland his clerk, the forfeiture of the marriage of Isabella widow of Sir Robert de Eure, daughter and one of the heirs of Sir Roger de Merlay, who held and holds of the K. in capite, if she married without the K.'s or Sir Richard's licence - that he [the granter] had married Isabella after the death of Sir Robert for 80 l, good and lawful 'sterlings' to be paid to him for his attorney at Newcastle-on-Tyne; viz., 40 l. within the octaves of the Nativity of St. John Baptist 1272; and 40 l. within the octaves of St. Michael next following; under penalty of 10 l. for not keeping one or other of the said terms; one half of the said penalty to bepaid to Sir Richard, and the other half to the sheriff of Northumberland for the time - binds himself and his heirs assigns or executors, and all his lands, goods and chattels within the bailliary, for the whole sum, principal and penalty, under the distraint of the Sheriff, till payment of the same, with all expenses and damages incurred; on the simple word of the said Sir Richard or his attorney. Appends his seal. Witnesses: - Sir Philip Marmiun, knight, Sir John de Kirkeby, William de Hamelton, Robertde Scardebur', and William Bidik, clerks, and many others. [Close, 56 Hen. III. m. 9, dorso] CDS I: number 267 on p, 543