1327-02-15, Westminster

The like to Simon de Grymesby, escheator beyond Trent. To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas Lecia, late the wife of Rulph de Rugemund, demanded in the late king's court before William de Bereford and his fellows, then justices of the Bench, by the said king's writ, 4 messuages, 2 tofts, 15 bovates of land, 4 acres of meadow, and 10s. 11d. of rent in Holm near Pykhale, as her right and marriage, against John de Thornton, chaplain, and Alexander le Clerk of St. Leonard's hospital, York, and the said John and Alexander said in court that they were tenants of the said tenements on the day when the said writ was sued out, and Lecia afterwards recovered the tenements against them by consideration of the court, as appears by the record and process of the suit, which the late king caused to come before him and which have been seen and examined by the king and his council, and the king learns by an inquisition taken by Thomas de Hyvyll and Adam de Hoperton by the late king's order that John and Alexander were tenants of the said tenements on the day when the said writ was sued out, to wit 10 February, in the 14th year of the late king's reign, and that they, whilst the plea was pending before the justices aforesaid, enfeofled John de Hartcla of the said tenements, to wit in three weeks from Michaelmas, 15 Edward IL., and that the said John [de Hartcla] within 15 days following enfeoffed Andrew de Hartcla, his brother, of the aforesaid tenements, who held them until his death, by whose forfeiture they came to the late king's hands, and that Lecia could not have seisin of the tenements because they were thus in the late king's hands at the time of the recovery, and that the tenements that were in the late king's hands in Holm by Andrew's forfeiture are the same tenements that Lecia recovered against John de Thornton and Alexander, as is aforesaid, and that she never remitted them to John de Hartela or to Andrew or made any estate thereof to them, and that she died whilst the matter was pending undiscussed, to wit on Monday before Christmas, 19 Edward II., in her bed by natural death, and that Richard de Ruchemund, chaplain, is her son and heir, and is aged 40 years, and that the tenements are held of Robert Coigners by knight service, and are worth yearly in all issues 100s.: the king orders the escheator to deliver the aforesaid tenements to Richard, if they are in the king's hands solely by reason of Andrew's forfeiture. By pet. of C. [3475.]