William de Ayremynne (Airmyn), Bishop of Norwich. de Ayremynne (Airmyn) William King...

Petitioners

William de Ayremynne (Airmyn), Bishop of Norwich.

Name(s)

de Ayremynne (Airmyn), William

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Bishop of Norwich

Nature of request

William, bishop of Norwich, requests satisfaction of £500 due to him. Formerly Newport and Brown without reasonable cause seized into the King's hands the manors of Willoughby, Silk Willoughby, Marston, a third of the soke of Waltham, the manors of North Driffield, Thornton Steward, Crathorne, Rounton, Long Preston, Drax, Yokefleet, Bradbury Isle, Coxhoe and Snape Gate and the farm of the church of Estrington, which he had by lease of the prior and convent of Durham, and levied issues from the same to the value of £500, to the great damage and destruction of the manors and to the loss of his husbandry, seed, horses, beasts, oxen and draft-horses of 17 ploughs and carts. Although the said lands, with their goods and chattels, were restored to the bishop by writ and it was ordered that the issues should also be returned, payment has not been made of the said £500 which had been paid into the Wardrobe or Treasury.1)

Nature of endorsement

Let the keepers be ordered that if anything remains to be paid, they should pay it to the bishop or his attorney, and that which remains to be levied should be assigned to the bishop.2) And concerning that which was levied in the time of the King's father, it seems to the council that he should have restitution if it pleases the King.3) Concerning that which was levied and paid into the Wardrobe or Treasury, allowance should be made in wardships or marriages or other things or assignment.

Places mentioned

Norwich, [Norfolk]

Lincolnshire

Yorkshire

County Durham

Willoughby, Lincolnshire

Silkeby (Silk Willoughby), Lincolnshire

Marston, Lincolnshire

Waltham, Lincolnshire

North Driffield, [East Riding of Yorkshire]

Thornton Steward, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

Crathorne, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

Rounton, [North Riding of Yorkshire]

Preston in Craven (Long Preston), [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Drax Paynel (Drax), [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Yokefleet [East Riding of Yorkshire]

Bradbury Isle, County Durham

Coxhoe, County Durham

Snape Gate, County Durham

Eastrington, [East Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

William de Neuport (Newport)

Thomas Broun (Brown)

Prior and convent of Durham.

For another petition from the same petitioner before he was a bishop, see SC 8/89/4425

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.24 (order to pay the bishop of Norwich in accordance with the petition) & p.65 (order to make assignment to the bishop of Norwich in accordance with the petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.241 (grant of issues from said manors) & p.464 (pardon re bishop's lands in Yorkshire)