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| Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex. |
| de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, Humphrey |
| [Not specified]. |
| Bohun requests redress and that he have such estate as he had when the King crossed the sea concerning the following trespasses committed by the earl of Gloucester:1) although on his last journey to Gascony the King ordered his earls and barons not to bear arms against each other of do anything to disturb the peace, the Earl of Gloucester entered the petitioner's land of Brecon with 100 armoured horses and 1000 foot-soldiers and wasted and foraged his land, and when the King's council heard this news they ordered him by the King's writ not to disturb the peace but he ignored both orders and foraged 3000 acres of hay and oats took and imprisoned 32 men within Holy Church, killed 60 men, wounded 100 men, entered three churches and took chalices, books and vestments, 6000 cheeses, 200 marks worth of flour, linen and other goods worth £100, stole over 4000 beasts and burned 9 houses between Trinity and Michaelmas in the 16th year [1288], on which day a peace was made which was not upheld by the earl of Gloucester;2) 15 days before St John in the 17th year [1289] the earl of Gloucester again entered the petitioner's land in the same way and wasted and foraged it, and the King's council again ordered him by the King's writ not to disturb the peace but he again ignored them, and foraged 3000 acres of hay, oats, built a new castle in the petitioner's fee and franchise, took property and prisoners and exiled his men so that no one dares stay near the castle and church of Strackenles which used to be worth 20 marks is now worth no more than 1d., and on the earl of Gloucester's order his men took 24 cows and bulls from the petitioner's land on Christmas eve last, and on the Conversion of St Paul during the King's Parliament the same men took 60 bulls and cows from him.1) |
| Bohun's complaint against Clare; Veel, Fleming, John, Valers, Capenore and Crepyng should come to answer to the King concerning this petition, and the King orders the earls to be there on the quinzaine of Easter.2) This matter was expedited and he should have a writ. |
| Gascony, [France]; Brecon, [Brecknockshire, Wales]; Strackenles (Ystradgynlais), [Brecknockshire, Wales]. |
| [Gilbert] de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; [John le] Veel; Richard de Flemmying (Fleming); John ...; William de Valers; Stephen de Capenore; John de Crepyng. |
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| Note: |
Dated on the guard to 1290, with reference to CPR 1281-92, p.350, a mandate concerning the surrender of Clare's lands into the King's hand, p.452, a mandate to enquire into trespasses done to Bohun by Clare, p. 454, a mandate to certain men to appear before justices in case between Bohun and Clare, and to CCR 1288-96, p.47, an order enjoining Gloucester to cease building a castle in Bohun's land.
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| Publication note: |
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1288-1296, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.47 (order enjoining Gloucester to cease building a castle in Bohun's land) Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.350 (mandate re surrender of Clare's lands into the King's hand) & p.452 (mandate to enquire into trespasses done to Bohun by Clare) & p.454 (mandate to certain men to appear before justices in case between Bohun and Clare) The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 05, no.1 (proceedings on the complaint of Bohun against Clare)
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