Roger de Clere of Brumlegh, Surrey and Ludborough, Lincoln. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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13 Sep 1241, Abingdon
The king has taken the homage of Roger de Clere, who has taken to wife Matilda, first-born sister and one of the heirs of John de Fay, for a moiety of the lands formerly of John which falls to her by inheritance. Order to the sheriff of Surrey that, having accepted security from them for 7½ marks for their relief, he is to cause Roger and Matilda to have full seisin of the aforesaid moiety of the rightful part of Matilda which falls to her of the aforesaid inheritance and which he is to cause to be partitioned by the oath of law-worthy men, saving to them the esnecy of the same inheritance . He is, however, to retain in the king's hand the portion which falls to Phillippa, younger sister and the other heir of the abovesaid John, and to keep it safely so that he might answer for the issues arising therefrom at the Exchequer until Phillippa comes to the king and does what she ought to do by right, and until he has command from the king otherwise.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 25 Hen. III, 645
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4 Feb 1243/4
To the barons of the Exchequer. Roger of Clere has satisfied the king for the 50 marks by which he made fine with him for crossing the sea in the debt that the king was bound to render for him for the king of Scotland , in part payment of the debt which the king owed to the abovesaid king. Order to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 50 marks.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 27 Hen. III, 148
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Roger de Clere and Matilda his Wife. Inq. p. m. 1
[34 Hen. III. No. 44.]
Writ dated at Westminster, 6 Jan., 34th year (1249-50), and addressed to Thomas de Stanford and his co-escheator in the county of York.
INQUISITION made at Pikeringe of the lands which were of Sir Roger de Clere and Matilda his wife, before T. de Stanford, Escheator of the King, and J. de Hamerton, his coescheator in the county of York, 34 Hen. son of John, by William Romanum, Peter de Neville, William Malekake, John de Neuton, Ralph de Loket[on], John de Alvestan, William de Alvestan, Robert de Karbi, Thomas son of Adam of Pikering, William Archebaud, Robert son of Walter of Thornet[on], John Campiun of the same, sworn, who say that Sir Roger de Clere and Matilda (Matildis) his wife held nothing in chief or otherwise of the King in the County of York or elsewhere to their knowledge (ut sciunt), but said Roger held a moiety of the manor of Brumelay "in Com' de Ledred' juxta London',"* of the inheritance of the lady Matilda his wife, but by what service they know not. He held of his own inheritance on the day of his death one bovate of land in Sivelington†, of lord Roger Bigot, the King's Marshal, by knight's service, and that land is worth by the year 5s. He had one daughter and heir named Agathea, whom William le Rus married, and begat on her one daughter, Alice by name, who is heir to him and Matilda his wife, and she is now, as they believe, aged two years and more.
Moreover, the said Roger and Matilda his wife at some time held in demesne, as the inheritance of Roger de Clere, five carucates of land in Sivelington, of lord Roger le Bigot, by knight's service, every carucate by the year 40s. Sum, £10. They had also service of two carucates in the town of Mart[on], that is to say, foreign service only, and this of the fee of lord Roger le Bigot ; and held at some time of the same fee in the town of Wilton six carucates by knight's service, every carucate by the yeaf £4. Sum, £24.
They formerly held in demesne, of the fee of the Earl of Albemarle, two carucates and two bovates in the town of Edestone (Edston, near Kirkby Moorside), by knight's service, every carucate by the year 40s. Sum, £4 10s.
The said Roger de Clere gave and sold all the lands beforenamed, so that he retained in his own hand or had nothing save only that bovate of land before mentioned in the town of Sivelington. (By another writ, dated at Clarendon, 20 Dec, 34th year (1249), and addressed to Henry de Wengham and his co-escheator m the County of Surrey, an extent was made of the land of Matilda de Clere, which showed that she held of the King in chief a moiety of the Manor of Bromle, by the service of one knight s fee and a half. The jurors found that Alice, daughter of William le Rus, whom he had by Agatha his wife, daughter of Matilda, was her heir, and aged two years.)
* In 1223 homage was taken of John, son and heir of Ralph de Fay, for one knight's fee which he held of the King at Bromlegh in Surrey (Excerpta è Rotulis Finium, vol. i., p. 102). Ledred' is Leatherhead, co. Surrey.
† Sinningtpn near Pickering. Matilda, wife of Roger de Clere, was a daughter of Ralph de Fay, and eldest sister and co-heiress of John de Fay. Their grand-daughter, Alice, named above, married Richard de Breuse or Braiosa, who in 1272, together with his wife, entered into an agreement with the Nuns of Yeddingham about service at the Chapel of St. Michael of Sinnington (Dodsworth MSS., xcv., 3Ib).
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