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Membrane 17. |
Aug. 20.
Stow Park. |
To John de Louthre, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland. Order not to intermeddle with two messuages,
30 acres of land and 4s. rent in Corbrigg, which he had taken into the
king's hand because of the idiotcy of Robert son of Hugh son of Ascelin de
Corbrigg, restoring the issues, but to permit the near friends of Robert,
to whom the said tenements ought not to descend or remain, to have the
custody of them, so that they may answer for the issues thereof for the benefit
of Robert, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by that escheator
that the said Robert is an idiot, of unsound mind, and unfit to govern himself or his lands and goods, and that he was not an idiot from his birth but
only for the last 16 years, and that he enjoys no lucid intervals, and that
the said messuages, lands and rent which Hugh son of Ascelin gave to the
said Robert his son and to William, Robert's brother, deceased, and the
heirs of their bodies, with reversion to the said Hugh and his heirs, are
held of Henry de Percy by the service of rendering 11s. 7d. to him
yearly. |
Aug. 24.
Wisbeach. |
To John Womme. Order to deliver the greater piece (pecia) of the seal
for taking recognisances of debts according to the form of the law merchant,
in York city (which piece is in his custody by the king's grant) together
with the rolls and other memoranda touching that office, also in his custody,
to Nicholas de Langeton, mayor of the said city, as the aforesaid statute
provides that the greater piece of the said seal shall remain in the custody
of the mayor or chief keeper of the cities or towns where such recognisances
are taken, and the other piece in the custody of a clerk, sworn for this
purpose. By C. |
Aug. 3.
Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
To Master Gilbert de Halghton, receiver of the king's victuals at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Order to deliver to the prior and convent of Brynkebourn,
20 quarters of wheat, as they have besought the king to give them some
assistance for their maintenance, as their granges, lands, goods and chattels
in co. Nothumberland have been destroyed in the last invasion of the Scots,
so that their state is much depressed, in consideration whereof the king
has granted them 20 quarters of wheat. By K. and by pet. of C. |
Aug. 28.
Bury St. Edmund's. |
To Henry de Gulden, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Cornwall and
Devon. Order not to intermeddle further with 200 acres of land in Otery
St. Mary, restoring the issues to Geoffrey de Malherbe, as the king, wishing
to be informed why these lands were taken into his hand, and if Geoffrey
acquired them of the dean and chapter of Rouen, ordered the escheator to
take an inquisition on the matter, by which it was found that the said lands
were taken into the king's hand by reason of an inquisition of office taken
by Simon de Bereford, late escheator this side Trent, by which it was found
that Geoffrey ought to have acquired the said land from the said dean and
chapter without the king's licence, and that Geoffrey never acquired that
land or any other of the said dean and chapter but that he holds it of his
inheritance, pertaining to his manor of Vyneton Malherbe, which is held
of William de Monte Acuto by knight's service, and that those lands are
worth 3s. 4d. yearly. |
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To William Erneys, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham,
Derby and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor
of Longeleye Menill, co. Derby, restoring the issues to Joan, late the wife
of Hugh de Menill, the elder, as it is found by an inquisition taken by the
escheator, and by a part of a certain fine levied in the late king's court,
that the said Hugh and Joan held the manor for their life by the gift and
grant of William de Honore, with remainder to Robert, son of the said Hugh,
for life, and at his death to Hugh, brother of the said Robert. and the heirs
of his body, and that the said manor is held by Ranulph de Ry by the
service of the moiety of a knight's fee. |
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To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with 22s. 6d. rent in
Melton Moubray, a third part of the manor of Newehall, a third part of
the manor of Upton, and a third part of the manor of Burton Overeye,
restoring the issues to Joan, late the wife of Hugh de Meignill, the elder,
as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Hugh
held the said rent and third parts at his death of Joan's inheritance, and that
the said rent is held of the king in chief by the service of the twentieth
part of a knight's fee, and that the said third parts are held of others than
the king. |
