Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1363 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1909.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1363', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 11, 1360-1364, (London, 1909) pp. 381. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol11/p381 [accessed 24 April 2024]

January 1363



Jan. 20. Westminster.	To William de Otteford escheator in Bukinghamshire. Order to remove the king's hand and not to intermeddle further with 24 acres of land of the abbot of Mussenden in Byerton and Broghton, delivering to the said abbot any issues thereof taken; as the king lately ordered the escheator to certify in chancery the cause wherefore the same were by him taken into the king's hand, and he returned that he so took the premises for that it was found by inquisition, before him taken of his office, that the abbot appropriated to him and his church 12 acres of land in Byerton and 12 acres of land in Broghton without the king's licence; and after the abbot gave the king to understand that one of his predecessors acquired the premises to him and his successors long before the statute of mortmain, praying that the king's hand should be removed, and the king ordered the escheator to make inquisition thereupon; and by inquisition so taken it is found that the sometime abbot appropriated the premises long before the said statute, that Robert son of Nicholas de Aylesbury gave 17 acres thereof to the said abbot to hold of the said Robert and his heirs by the service of 22d. a year, which he after released to the said abbot by charter long before the said statute, that Richard la Tour by charter enfeoffed the same abbot of the remaining 7 acres to hold in almoin long before the said statute, and that as well William sometime [count] of Boulogne and [earl] of Gwarenne, of whom the premises were held, as King Henry [II] after confirmed the same by charter to the said abbot.
Jan. 23. Westminster.	To John de Estbury escheator in Oxfordshire. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Maud who was the wife of John de Sancto Johanne of the lands of her said husband which came to the king's hands by his death and by the reason of the nonage of John, son of the said John and Katherine his wife sister of Thomas de Langelee tenant in chief, and cousin and heir of the said Thomas, a minor in the king's wardship, sending the assignment to be enrolled in chancery.