weight to Simon de Montfort, its viceroy. Nicholas de Crioll was in Gascony with him for the same period. He made arrangements for the transport of Earl Richard "and others of the king's faithful men on his errand over seas", and for two voyages of John de Newburgh (the king's chaplain) as king's messenger, in the following year. In February 1251 a delegate for the bailiwick of the Cinque Ports was required of him to join the sheriffs in their commission into money counterfeiting and false exchange. Great were the arrangements of August and September 1252, when the port barons were to make ready 60 ships to cross from Portsmouth in the first week of October. As the crisis in Gascony came to a head, de Criol witnessed the King's mandate requiring support for a truce among that people, instructing them not to obey Simon de Montfort if he oppose it. After witnessing special privileges granted to William of Kilkenny, soon to be the king's Chancellor, in the summer of 1253 he was to prevent any count, baron or magnate leaving for France without royal licence. On 2 October Queen Eleanor and Earl Richard sent orders requiring him to oversee in person the preparation at Winchelsea and Rye of two ships and crews, armed with crossbowmen, to carry the king and his treasure ("thesaurus") to Gascony from Portsmouth 11 days later. Services and rewards Meanwhile, he was granted further wardship of the Bendenges estates, and rights to a market and annual fair at his manors of Monigeham and Shoueldon, Kent, and at his manor of Poppeshall (Buckland, Kent), with free warren there and in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire (which he had acquired by exchange with Peter of Savoy) in September 1252. In June 1252 he witnessed the King's Letters Patent of Incorporation to Faversham, and in August his confirmation charter to Bristol. He was made King's Justice to receive William Pundelarche, an outlaw, into the king's peace, and with his son Simon and kinsman Nicholas he witnessed the resultant grant to William de Valencia. He was not, however, to permit the Earl of Pembroke to make any embarcation. He was granted wardship and marriage of Helen and Isabel, daughters of Maud de Avranches, one of whom married his grandson. Seizures of ships, imprisonments of men, manslaughter, and other claims of damages and injuries arose between the barons of Winchelsea and the