Close Rolls, March 1260
Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III: Volume 11, 1259-1261.

On the summoning of the king’s servants to London for three weeks from Easter.—It is to be remembered that on the Thursday next before Easter, Lord W. de Merton received the command of H. le Bygod, the justiciar of the king of England, in these words. H. le Bygod, justiciar of the king of England, to his beloved and special friend Mr. W. de Merton, greetings to him. We received the command of the Lord King in these words this Wednesday before Easter.—H. by the grace of God, etc. Salutation to Hugh le Bygod, justiciar of England. We command you to cause all those whose names are inserted in the enclosed schedule to be supposed to be in London for three weeks from the day of Easter, with the services they owe us, to listen to our command there and to do what you enjoin on them on our part; and this, as you love our honor, you will by no means omit it. Witness myself at Sanctum Audomarus xxvij. on the day of March in the year of our reign And therefore we command you, on the part of the lord the king, when you have seen these letters, to cause the king’s briefs to be made, by which all the contents of the same schedule which we send enclosed to you, are commanded to be in London at the aforesaid term and as aforesaid, and the same briefs without cause delay to be sent by messengers from the chancellery, as is customary, coming for our love that this business may be done in such a way that we should not and cannot be blamed for laziness or infidelity. Given at Windes’ Park on the said Wednesday.

The schedule should be kept as confidential as possible.

The names (fn. 2) of those who are in London to meet from Easter in three weeks with the king’s service.

Bishop of Salisbury
. Bishop of Exon
. Bishop of Norwich
. Abbot of Saint Edmund
. Abbot Glaston
. Earl of Albemarl
. Earl of Winton
. Earl of Oxford
. Earl of Warr
. Count Norf
. Count Gloucester
. Count Warren
. Nicholas of Segrave
. Peter of Savoy
. Ingramus of Fednes
. Johannes de Bailleol
. Robert of Bruce
. Philip Basset
. Thomas Gresley
. James de Alditheleg
. Roger de Somery
. Hugh le Despenser
. Johannes de Burgo
. William de Say
John of Verdun
. Johannes Peyvre
. Roger of Monte Alto
. Robert of Tateshal
. William Maudut de Hameslep
. Hugh of Cresy
. Roger of Saint John
. Richard of Munfichet
. Robert Waleraun
. Henry de Percy
. John, son of Matthew
. Ralph Haringod
. Thomas de Audeham
. Franco de Boun
. Henry de Heryz
. Roger de Chaundos
. Roger de Saunford
. William of Roos
. Robert, brother of the same
. Robert, son of the said William
. Peter of Bruce
. Peter of Malo Lacu
. Roger de Moubray
. Thomas son of Thomas de Moleton
. Thomas son of Lambert de Moleton
. Robert de Neville
. John of Eyville
. William de Bello Campo de Bed’
. Hamo de Crevequor
. Walter de Muscegros
. William of Wilton
. Johannes de Crioll
. Simon de Crioll
. Adam le Despenser
. Johannes le Despenser
. William le Blund
. Henry en Gayne
. Robert son of Walter de Daventry
. Peter Achard
. Robert of Stafford
. Robert de Stotevill
. Hugh of Bolebek
. Baldwin Wak’
. Roger de Merlay
. William of Huntircumb
. Alanus la Zusche
. Thomas Corbett
. Griffin son of Wenowyn
. Ralph le Botyler
. Philip Marmion
. John of Baloun
. Nicholas of Poynz
. Ralph de Gorges
. Robert de Bello Campo
. Philip of Columba
. John Lovel
. Jordanus de Saukevill
. Adam de Peryton
. Ralph Musard
. Adam de Everingh
. Ralph of Cameys
. Ralph son of Ranulf
. William of Fornivall
. William le Botyler
. Andreas Lutterell
. Ralph de Freschevill
. Hugh of the Dead Sea
. Gilbert Talebot
. William of Mount Acutus
. Galfrid de Maundeville
. Ralph son of Nicholas
. Roger of Tony
. Henry Lovel
. Hugh Peverel de Saunford
. Henry of Tracy
. Baldwin le Flemming
. Robert de Bruius
. Nicholas of Molis
. Walter de Dunstanville
. Alvredus de Line
. William of Kaynnes
. William Braunche
. Henry of Erlee
. William of Ebroici
. Baldwin of Insula
. William of Mount Canisius
. Hugh of Neyville

‘Close Rolls, March 1260’, in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III: Volume 11, 1259-1261, ed. A E Stamp (London, 1934), pp. 154-159. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen3/vol11/pp154-159 [accessed 23 May 2023].