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June 3.
Westminster. |
To Richard de Ravensere, the king's clerk, keeper of the hanaper of
chancery. Order to deliver to James de Loreyns of Scotland certain letters
patent in Richard's custody by which the king granted to James the barony
of Caverton in the county of Rokesbourgh in Scotland, quit of the fee
which pertains to the king therefor. By K. and C. |
June 4.
Westminster Palace. |
To the burgomaster, échevins and consuls of the town of Cirse in Seland.
Request to deliver to Stephen Romyloue, the king's yeoman, whom he is
sending for the purpose, to be brought to the king, the value in money of
certain corn of the king arrested by them, informing him by Stephen of
what they do thereupon, the king being ready to do the like for them in
similar case, as the king lately caused a certain ship, whereof a fellow
burgess of theirs was master, to be freighted to take certain corn out of the
realm to Cales, and the said burgess, scheming to defraud the king, took the
corn and abandoning the voyage which he had undertaken, carried the same
to the town of Cirse that he might there convert it to his own use, in
consideration whereof the burgomaster and others immediately arrested and
are keeping that corn, for which the king gives them many thanks. |
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By K. |
June 4.
Westminster. |
To William de Shareshull and his fellows, justices appointed to hold
pleas before the king. Order to be at Westminster with the court (placea)
of King's Bench on Wednesday after the quinzaine of Trinity next at latest
and to hold pleas there, as for certain causes shown before the council the
king wishes the court to be held there on that day. By K. and C. |
June 13.
Westminster. |
To Henry Pycard, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in
the port of London. Order to deliver to the abbot and monks of St. Peter's,
Westminster, for the morrow of St. Botolph next, one tun of wine of the prise
of London towards the celebration of divine service in that church, in
accordance with the grant to them by charter of Henry III, out of reverence
for King Edward the Confessor, of one tun of wine to be received yearly
as aforesaid. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in the county of York. Order not to
intermeddle further with certain lands in Scalby, Brymston, Cloughton and
Aton taken into the king's hand by the death of Ralph de Cloughton,
delivering up the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken
by the escheator that Ralph at his death held no lands in that county in his
demesne as of fee or in service of the heir of William Barde, a minor in
the king's wardship, whereby the custody of his lands ought to pertain to
the king, but that he held the premises of others than the king. |
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Membrane 19. |
May 4.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in the county of York. Order not to
intermeddle further with a messuage, 4 tofts and 18 bovates of land in
Muston, delivering any issues levied thereof to Walter de Bukton, as the king
ordered Peter de Nuttle, late escheator, to certify why he had taken into
the king's hand the lands of the said Walter in Muston, and Peter returned
that he had not so taken any lands of Walter in Muston, but that Miles de
Stapelton, late escheator, delivered to him by indenture at the time of his
substitution in that office a messuage, 4 tofts and 18 bovates of land in
Muston, asserting that they were in the king's hand by reason of the
trespass of Gilbert de Gaunt, who held them of King Henry III, in chief,
as parcel of the manor of Hundemanby in alienating them in fee to Walter
de Bukton, now deceased, then his steward, without obtaining that king's
licence, and that for that cause they were in the king's hand, and afterwards
Walter de Bukton aforesaid, son and heir of the said Walter deceased,
informed the king that the said tenements are held of the heir of John de
Orreby and not of the king, and in the time of Henry III were held of the
ancestors of that heir, and petitioned the king to order his hand to be amoved
therefrom, and the king ordered the present escheator to make inquisition
upon the matter, by which it is found that the said messuage, toft and
land were held in the time of Henry III of Robert de Tatersale, then lord of
the manor of Hundemanby, by knight service, and not in chief, that after
Robert's death that service was assigned to John de Orreby, now deceased,
one of Robert's heirs, to his purparty of the fees which belonged to Robert,
that the said tenements are now held of the wife of John de Orreby, now
living, who holds John's lands and fees in that county for her life of the
inheritance of John's heir, and not in chief, and that those tenements were
held of Robert de Tatersale, ancestor of John's heir, in the time of Henry
III, and not of that king, and are now held of the inheritance of the heir of
John de Orreby by knight service, and not in chief. |
May 4.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Bourton of Ateward near Bradeford, Robert Blake and
Roger Godefrey. Order to be attendant with all diligence upon taking
inquisitions concerning the escapes of prisoners except those of convicted
clerks from the prisons of prelates, taking the chattels of felons and fugitives
in the hands of the king's ministers or others in Wilts, and levying money
arising therefrom and upon the distribution of the money among the townships, in aid of the payment of the tenth and fifteenth granted by the commons
of England in the parliament held at Westminster on Monday after Easter
week in the 31st year of the reign, without awaiting the presence of Peter
Pipard, although the king lately appointed them with Peter to levy and
collect the said tenth and fifteenth in that county to the king's use, and to
levy and distribute as should be necessary that which pertains to the king
of such escapes and chattels in aid of that payment, by information of the
justices appointed to preserve the peace in that county, by whom the king
ordered inquisition to be made concerning such escapes and chattels, and
the estreats thereof to be delivered to Robert, Robert and Roger, and
afterwards, because the said justices did not care to make such inquisition
and deliver such estreats as aforesaid, the king ordered Robert, Robert,
Roger and Peter to make inquisition concerning all such escapes and
chattels accruing before the said parliament, to cause them to be enrolled,
to levy what pertains to the king thereof, and distribute it among the
townships in aid of the payment of the tenth and fifteenth in accordance
with their necessity, but the king has discharged Peter of the premises
because he is occupied upon the king's business in another place, so that
he cannot be attendant thereupon. |
April 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the prioress of Swyne to have
seisin of a toft and one bovate of land in Wylesthorp which John Prestsone
held, who was outlawed for felony, it is said, as the king has learned by
inquisition taken by the sheriff that those tenements have been in the
king's hand for a year and a day, that they are held of the prioress by the
service of 3d. yearly, that the king had the year, day and waste thereof
and that answer has been made to him therefor by Peter de Grymesby,
late escheator in the liberty of Holdernesse, and that the toft and land are
now in the keeping of Isabel, the king's daughter, by his commission. |
May 1.
Westminster. |
To William de Dalton, [appointed] to enquire in the counties of Norfolk,
Suffolk and Essex concerning wool and other customable merchandise
[taken] to parts beyond without [payment] of the custom and subsidy due
thereon. Order to deliver, by indenture, to the collectors of customs in
the port of Great Yarmouth, to be sold for the king's use, as they shall be
enjoined, a small ship called a 'hakebote,' 5 pockets and one stone of wool
and a moiety of one quarter of wheat, arrested by him at Kirkele, because
the wool was laded in the ship, not customed or coketted, to be taken to
parts beyond, as he has certified to the king. |
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Mandate to the said collectors to receive the ship, wool and wheat from
William and to sell them in the form aforesaid, so that they answer at the
exchequer for the money arising therefrom. |
June 18.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Wolfreton, escheator in Suffolk. Order to take the fealty of
David Gilboun in accordance with the form of a schedule enclosed and to
cause him to have seisin of 3 acres of land in Great Fakenham taken into
the king's hand by the death of John Gerard, as the king has learned by
inquisition taken by the escheator that John, at his death, held the premises
in his demesne as of fee in chief, by the service of ¼d. yearly to the ward of
Norwich castle for all service, that David is his next heir and of full age,
and that the sheriffs and escheators of that county for the time being have
occupied that land from the time of John's death and have charged
themselves therewith in the exchequer. |
June 26.
Westminster. |
To Guy de Brian, keeper of the forest of la Bere. Order to cause twelve
oaks fit for timber to be cut down in that forest and delivered to the sheriff
of Southampton in aid of the repairs of houses and other buildings in
Winchester castle, which are ruinous, as the king has charged him therewith. By K. |
June 28.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool fells in the port
of London. Order to pay to Edward, prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall
and earl of Chester, or to his attorney, 500 marks for Easter term last, as
on 21 June in the 29th year of the reign, in recompense for 1,000 marks
which William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury, received yearly under a
certain form of the issues and profits of the stannary in Cornwall and
of the stampage of that stannary lately granted by the king to that prince,
the king granted to him 1,000 marks to be received yearly of the customs in
that port so long as the earl of Salisbury shall receive the 1,000 marks
yearly of the said stannary and stampage. |
June 20.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in the counties of York and Northumberland. Order to assign to Peter de Malo Lacu and Elizabeth his
wife, late the wife of John Darcy, tenant in chief, Elizabeth's dower of the
lands which belonged to John at his death, in the presence of the attorney
of Queen Philippa, to whom the king has granted the wardship of two
thirds of those lands, to hold until the heir of John come of age, if he
choose to attend, certifying the king of that assignment when made so
that it may be enrolled in chancery, as for 100l. which Peter has paid the
king has pardoned him and Elizabeth their trespass in marrying without
the king's licence. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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Walter de Kelby, escheator in the county of Lincoln. |
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Philip de Lutteleye, escheator in the counties of Nottingham and
Derby. |
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Roger de Wolfreton, escheator in the county of Hertford. |
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Membrane 18. |
May 30.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the
prior of Toby and the coroners of Essex of 8l. found upon a man killed by
thieves in a ditch at Gyngmonteny in the prior's lordship, and delivered to
the prior by the coroners to be kept for the use of him to whom it pertains;
as the king ordered the sheriff of Essex to supersede the demand for payment
thereof until the month of Easter next, and afterwards to supersede
altogether the said demand, as on examination before the council it seemed
that the money does not belong to the king. |
June 1.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order upon receiving
from Alice late the wife of Robert Stuffyn of Newerk bills of the wardrobe
and letters patent under the great seal containing clear and true sums due
by the king to divers persons to the amount of 168l. 9s. 7d., and upon these
being cancelled and condemned at the exchequer to discharge Robert, his
heirs and executors and the tenants of the land which belonged to him of
the sum of 168l. 9s. 7d. and to amove the king's hand from those lands,
as Alice has petitioned the king to grant that she may surrender such bills
and letters up to the said sum and to discharge Robert and the others
as aforesaid, as all the lands which belonged to Robert have been taken
into the king's hand for 168l. 9s. 7d. which he owed to the king at his
death for the price of his forfeited wool, so that she has nothing whereon
to live, and the king has had compassion on her estate. By K. and C. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Wolfreton, escheator in Essex. Order not to intermeddle
further with the manor of Foxhird, called 'Borlehalle,' a messuage and
120 acres of land with view of frankpledge in the town of Foxhird, a
messuage, 80 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow and a water mill in a hamlet
in that town, and a messuage and 60 acres of land called 'Merseyes' in
Pontelowe taken into the king's hand by the death of Katherine late the
wife of John Fermer, delivering up the issues thereof, as the king has
learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Katherine at her death
held the manor aforesaid for her life, of the demise of Andrew de Bures,
knight, to her and John for their lives, with reversion to Andrew, and the
said lands to Katherine and John and the heirs of their bodies, of the
demise of John Cavendissh and William Doreward, with remainder, in
default of such heirs, to the said Andrew and Alice his wife and to Andrew's
heirs, that the manor and lands aforesaid are held of others than the
king, and that John and Katherine died without an heir of their bodies. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To William de Nessefeld, escheator in the county of York. Order to
deliver to Margaret late the wife of Peter de Malo Lacu 'le quynt' the
manors of Hexthorp, Balby and Rosyngton, the fishery and pond in the
manor of Rosyngton excepted, as the king has learned by inquisition taken
by the escheator that Robert de Malo Lacu at his death held for life the
said manors, the fishery and pond excepted, of the demise of Peter de Malo
Lacu, the elder, with remainder to Margaret and the heirs of her body and
of Peter's body, by the king's licence, and that those manors are held in
chief by the service of an eighth part of two serjeanties, which whole
serjeanties are held in chief by the service of finding two armed men at
their own cost in any war of Wales for forty days, and the king has taken
Margaret's fealty. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To John de Estbury, escheator in Berks. Order not to intermeddle
further with a messuage, one carucate and three virgates of land, 3 acres of
meadow, 15 acres of pasture, 8 acres of wood, 5s. 4d. rent in Aldermanston
and Burghildebury and one virgate of land in Wenham taken into the
king's hand by the death of Agnes late the wife of Robert Achard, delivering
up the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the
escheator that Agnes at her death held the premises to herself and the heirs
male of her body and of the body of Robert, with remainder in default of
such heirs to Peter de la Mare and Joan his wife for their lives and after to
Thomas son of Peter de la Mare and his heirs, that Peter and Joan are
dead, that Robert and Agnes died without an heir male of their bodies, and
that the tenements are held of others than the king. |
June 12.
Westminster. |
To Philip de Luttele, escheator in the county of Nottingham. Order to
amove the king's hand from 2 messuages, 240 acres of land, 48 acres of
meadow and 40s. rent of William de Staunton in Goverton, Blesby and
Gibsmere, and not to intermeddle further therewith, delivering the issues
thereof to William, as the king ordered the escheator to certify in chancery
why he had taken the premises into the king's hand, and the escheator
returned that he had not so taken any lands of William, but had taken
into the king's hand a messuage, 60 acres of land and 20 acres of
meadow in Goverton which belonged to John Alewys, because he found
by inquisition of office that John was outlawed for felony, by reason of
which outlawry the year, day and waste of those tenements pertained to
the king, and for that cause and no other they are in the king's hand; and
afterwards, at William's suit, showing that John was never outlawed for
felony and the lands taken into the king's hand were not his but William's,
and praying the king to order his hand to be amoved from those lands
and to cause them to be restored to him, the king ordered the escheator to
make inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that John was
not outlawed for felony, but was outlawed for a trespass in that county by
the king's writ at the suit of William de Lughteburgh of Goverton, on
Monday after St. Katherine in the 28th year of the reign, and that outlawry
was returned by John Waleys then sheriff of Nottingham before the justices
of the Common Bench, that John Alewys had no lands, goods or chattels in
that county on the day of the said outlawry or before, and at the time of
the outlawry was out of England in the parts of Brittany, that those
tenements are the tenements of William de Staunton and he has an estate
therein for the life of John Alewys as testified by deeds thereof made to
him, dated at Goverton on Monday after the Annunciation in the 27th year
of the reign, and that all the tenements aforesaid are held of the archbishop
of York by homage and fealty and service of 16d. yearly and by three
appearances at the court of Suthwell, and are worth 16s. 8d. yearly in all
issues. |
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Membrane 17. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To Henry de Prestwode, escheator in the county of Stafford. Order to
cause John son of John de Blount of Sodynton to have seisin of one
messuage, 2 bovates of land, 80 acres of moor and 119s. 9d. rent in
Baltederleye, 41s. 1d. rent in Fenton, 13s. 4d. rent in Bydulf and 19s. 2d.
rent in Romesore taken into the king's hand by his father's death, as the
king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John the father
at his death held the premises for his life, with remainder to John the son
and his heirs by the king's licence, and that the messuage, land, moor and
rents aforesaid are held in chief as parcel of the barony of Alveton, and for
20s. which John the son has paid in the hanaper of chancery, the king has
given him respite, he being now under age it is said, for his homage for
those tenements until he come of age. |
June 8.
Westminster. |
To Richard de Ravensere, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to
pay to William bishop of Winchester, the chancellor, 22l. 6s. 8d. which
he has paid for cloth, fur and sendal for the livery of the king's clerks of
chancery for the winter and summer seasons last past, beyond the customary
fee, on account of the exceptional dearness of cloth, fur and sendal. By C. |
June 13.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Warwick. Order to deliver to William de Shareshull
or to his attorney all the goods and chattels lately stolen from him at
Barton, co. Oxford, while he was in the king's service by certain thieves,
and since arrested with the bodies of certain of the thieves in that bailiwick
at the suit of William's servants and men, and delivered to the sheriff to
be kept safely. By K. |
April 20.
Windsor. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas, on learning
that the men of the liberties of Tyndale, Hextildesham and other liberties
in Northumberland had not hitherto paid the portions falling to them of
the tenths and fifteenths, wool and other subsidies granted by the commons
of England at divers times, from the time when the king took up the
government, because, upon search of the chancery rolls, it was not found
that any liberties or privileges were granted to the men of those liberties
whereby they ought to be quit of such tenths, fifteenths, wool and subsidies,
the king ordered the treasurer and barons to cause all such subsidies, etc.,
hitherto granted from the first year of the reign, and not paid, to be levied
of those men unless they should show cause whereby they ought to be
discharged of such payment, and now John, archbishop of York, lord
of the liberty of Hextildesham, has petitioned the king to provide a
remedy, because William la Zouch, the late archbishop, was at the point
of death at the time of the warning and all that county was in war, so
that the said men did not dare to leave those parts for fear of the Scots,
who had invaded the same, and by reason of that default it had been
determined that execution should be made against those men because they
did not come when warned, and the king, considering the premises and out
of affection for the archbishop, has granted that such execution shall cease
and that the said men shall be in the same state in which they were
before the warning, that the archbishop and those men shall be newly
warned to answer upon the premises, and after their reasons have been
heard, justice shall be done to them: order to supersede the further
execution of the said judgment, and to notify the archbishop and his men
of the liberty of Hextildesham to be in the exchequer on the quinzaine of
Michaelmas next to show cause why they should not be charged with the
tenths, fifteenths, wool and other subsidies, and further to do and receive
what the king's court shall determine. By K. and C. |
June 18.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand which they are making upon John de Cobham for 60l. as he has
petitioned the king to order him to be discharged of that sum, as 60l. which
John de Cobham, his father, when supplying the place of Bartholomew
de Burgherssh, late constable of Dover castle, expended upon the wages of
himself and twenty men at arms and forty archers, whom he retained by
the king's order, for the safe custody of that castle while the king was
absent in parts beyond the sea, are now running in demand upon John the
son, and the king is informed that John the father faithfully expended that
sum for the said wages. By K. and C. |
June 20.
Westminster. |
To William de Hatton, escheator in Sussex. Order not to intermeddle
further with divers lands taken into the king's hand by the death of Thomas
de Benton, delivering up the issues thereof, as the king has learned by
inquisition taken by the escheator that Thomas at his death held no lands
in chief in his demesne as of fee or in service, but held lands in that county
of others than the king. |
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To John de Estbury, escheator in Wilts. The like order. |
June 21.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Kelby, escheator in the county of Lincoln. Order to cause
Thomas de Roos, brother and heir of William de Roos of Hamelak, tenant
in chief, to have seisin of all the lands whereof his brother was seised at his
death in his demesne as of fee saving to the king the corn growing in those
lands and his other goods and chattels there, as Thomas has proved his age
before William Fililode, escheator in the county of Northampton, and the
king has taken his homage for all the lands which his brother held in chief. |
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By p.s. [23864.] |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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William de Nessefeld, escheator in the county of York. |
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John de Wyndesore, escheator in the county of Leicester. |
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Philip de Lutleye, escheator in the county of Nottingham. |
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Roger de Wolfreton, escheator in Essex. |
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John de Stodeye, mayor of London and escheator in that city. |
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To Robert de Flaynburgh, keeper of the lands in the county of York
which belonged to William de Roos of Hamelak, tenant in chief, in the
king's hand by reason of the minority of Thomas, William's brother and
heir. Order not to intermeddle further with the said lands, saving to the
king the corn growing there and his other goods and chattels therein, as
Thomas has proved his age before William Fililode, escheator in the county
of Northampton, and the king has taken his homage for the lands which
his brother held in chief at his death. |
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The like, to the following, to wit:— |
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Simon de Thorle, keeper of the lands which belonged to William in the
county of Nottingham. |
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Robert de Hadham, keeper of the lands which belonged to William in
the city of London. |
June 21.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln for the time being. Order to pay
150 marks yearly to Thomas de Ros, brother and heir of William son of
William de Ros, tenant in chief, whose homage the king has taken for all
the lands which his brother held in chief, and to be answerable to him for
that yearly sum, as the late king, for the castle of Werk which William
the father granted and quitclaimed to him, granted to William 300 marks
to be received yearly of the ferm of that city and of the city of York, to wit,
150 marks of each. By p.s. [23864.] |
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Memorandum that Thomas brother and heir of William de Roos of
Hamelak, tenant in chief, his age being proved and his homage and fealty
done, came into chancery on Monday the morrow of Midsummer, to wit,
25 June, in the presence of William bishop of Winchester, the chancellor,
John bishop of Rochester, the treasurer, and others of the chancery, and
took an oath that he would not marry without previously obtaining the
king's licence, and if he married without licence he should incur a penalty
of 5,000 marks to the king, and the king should seize again into his hand
all Thomas's lands, which he bound to pay that penalty, and retain them
until fully satisfied for the 5,000 marks. |
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Vacated as appears in the memorandum written below. |
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Afterwards the king sold the marriage of Thomas to Ralph earl of Stafford
for 1,000 marks, whereof 300 marks are assigned to the earl for his wages for
his passage to Ireland in the king's service, and the remaining 700 marks are
atterminated at the exchequer, as William bishop of Winchester, the chancellor,
and Simon bishop of Ely, the treasurer, have testified, and therefore the
memorandum of the penalty aforesaid has been cancelled by order of the
chancellor. |
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Membrane 16. |
June 27.
Westminster |
To William Fililod, escheator in the liberty of Holdernesse. Order to
cause William son and heir of Hugh de Ulram, tenant in chief, to have
seisin of all the land whereof his father was seised at his death in his
demesne as of fee, as William has proved his age before the escheator, and
the king has taken his homage for the lands which his father held in
chief. By p.s. [23871.] |
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To William de Nessefeld, escheator in the county of York. The like
order for the same William, who has proved his age before William Fililod. |
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By the same writ. |
