Jan. 4.
Windsor. |
To Thomas de Metham, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and a bovate of land of the prior of
the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, in Cathale Magna, co.
York, restoring the issues thereof to the prior, as John Moryn, late
escheator beyond Trent, returned that he had not taken any lands of
the prior in that town, but that William de Clapham, sometime escheator
there at the time of John's substitution in the office, had delivered to
him a messuage and 2 bovates of land there, which belonged to Master
Michael de Hartcla, asserting that they were in the king's hands by the
forfeiture of Michael, an adherent to the king's Scottish enemies; and
afterwards at the prior's suit, beseeching the king to provide a remedy
as the said tenements were delivered to him among the lands which
belonged to the master and brethren of the order of the Temple in
England, and they were seised thereof at the time when Michael joined
the Scots, the king ordered John Moryn to take an inquisition upon
the matter, by which it is found that the prior and brethren were seised
of the messuage and 2 bovates from Wednesday the octaves of Michaelmas, in the 16th year of the late king's reign, until Monday in the first
week of Lent following, when Michael forfeited to the said king, and
that Michael held them for some time, and afterwards because it was not
clear by the inquisition what state Michael had there, the king appointed William Scot, John de Shordich and Robert Parvyng to take
an inquisition thereupon, and by the inquisition taken by William and
Robert in the presence of Ralph de Hastynges, sheriff of York, it is
found that Michael held a messuage and 1 bovate in that town only,
and of the gift of Robert de Fletham, chaplain, who enfeoffed him thereof, and he was seised thereof for three years until the sheriff of York
seised them and delivered them to the prior and brethren of the
Hospital, according to the statute, before Michael forfeited, as tenements of which the Templars were seised, and William de Clapham,
then escheator beyond Trent, seised them on Monday after Michaelmas in the 8th year of the king's reign. |
