[694] In a writ of _Computate_ in favour of the sheriff of Wiltshire, 13th November, 1222, occurs this item: “Computate et eidem in firma manerii de Merleberge c. et lx. libras blanchas, videlicet xxxii libras annuas de praedictis v. annis praeteritis, quas comes W. Marescallus senior et comes W. Marescallus junior et Johannes de Ferentino receperunt de eodem manerio per eosdem annos ad custodiendum castrum de Merleberge”; and the “past five years” are in an earlier part of the writ defined as “de anno regni nostri secundo, tertio, quarto, quinto, et sexto,” _i.e._ from 29th October, 1217, to 28th October, 1222. _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 521. [695] _Roy. Lett._, vol. i. pp. 100, 101; date, 3rd April [1220]. [696] On 24th July, 1221, “the King’s constable of Marlborough” is bidden to give the heirs of Robert of Barfleur seisin of the mill at Marlborough called Port Mill, “de quo W. Marescallus comes Penbrochiae cum habuisset seisinam castri de Merleberge eosdem heredes _pro voluntate sua_ disseisivit.” _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 466. [697] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. pp. 299 b, 305 b; _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 55. [698] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 348. Cf. above, p. 87. [699] _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 354 b, 13th March, 1218. [700] _Ib._ p. 397, 22nd July, 1219. [701] _Ib._ p. 406 b, 29th October, 1219. [702] That the Marshal had taken this oath is stated in the King’s letter of 11th September, _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 429 b. [703] Hubert held the castles of Dover, Canterbury, Rochester, Norwich, Orford, and the Tower of London (see Turner, pt. II. pp. 242, 243); the first three as sheriff of Kent, the next two as sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the last as Justiciar. [704] W. Cov., vol. ii. p. 244. [705] Pontefract, 19th June; Nottingham, 21st June; Leicester, 23rd June; Northampton, 23rd June; Rockingham, 26th June. _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 238. [706] W. Cov., _l.c._ [707] See above, p. 123. [708] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 238. [709] “Computate Falkesio de Bréauté £100 quas posuit in expensis nostris in obsidione castri de Rockingham,” 5th November, 1220, _Close Rolls_, vol. i. p. 439 b. [710] W. Cov., vol. ii. pp. 244, 245. [711] _Pat. Rolls_, vol. i. p. 239.