The Close Rolls dated [1209] name "Nicholao de Stuteville" as "nepoti Hug de Gurnai" and names "Nicholaus pater eius". "Nicholas de Stuteville" paid a fine for his ransom, "Robert de Stuteville and Walter of Sowerby have mainpermed for this fine", dated to [1217/18]. Henry III King of England issued an order relating to property of "S. comitem Wintonie…Rogerum de Quenci filium et heredem ipsius comitis" at "Lidel", which "Nicholaus de Stutevill" had assigned to "Eustachio filio Roberti de Stutevill fratris sui" and which after his death was given to "predicto S. comiti Wintonie", dated [Jul] 1220. 1
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After 17 Jul 1219
Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire that the king wishes him to answer him for the 12 m. which were received from the manor of Brinklow after the king ordered seisin of that manor to be handed over to Nicholas de Stuteville.
12 Oct 1219, Westminster
Nicholas de Stuteville gives the king 5 m. for having an inquisition, by discreet and law-worthy men of the neighbourhoods of Kimberley and Badingham, whether King John, father of King Henry, conferred the churches of Kimberley and Badingham upon John of Brancaster by reason of the lands of Nicholas de Stuteville [snr] then being in his hand or because those churches were of his patronage. Order to the sheriff of Norfolk to cause the barons of the Exchequer to know, in the octaves of Martinmas, of the inquisition that he takes, under his own seal and the seals of those who were present to take the inquisition. Order to the same sheriff to take security etc. Witness H. de Burgh, justiciar.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 3 Hen. III, 335, 419
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19 Oct 1233
Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Hugh Wake, who married one of the daughters and heiresses of Nicholas de Stuteville , and William de Mastac , to whom the king gave another daughter and heiress of the same Nicholas, to have full seisin of all the lands formerly of the same Nicholas.
Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to cause the younger daughter and one of the heiresses of Nicholas de Stuteville , who is in the custody of D., who was the wife of the same Nicholas , to be delivered without delay to William de Mastac , the king’s kinsman, to whom the king has given the marriage of the aforesaid heiress.
21 Nov 1233, Hereford
Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to permit the executors of the testament of Nicholas de Stuteville to have free administration of the goods and chattels formerly of the same Nicholas, in order to make execution of his testament, saving to the king the £10 which Nicholas ought to render to him at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the seventeenth year of the debts in which he was bound to the king.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 17 Hen. III, 370, 372; 18 Hen. III, 44
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