1327-10-06, William Nottingham

Trussel, escheator beyond Trent. Whereas at the prosecu- John Lestraunge and James Daudele, who is a minor in the king's suggesting that one John Mautravers lately gave by his charter of Asheton and the advowson of the church of St. Peter, Code- Elias Giffard, lately deceased, in free marriage with Alice his sister, by the charter then exhibited in chancery, and that John of Brymmesfeld, now deceased, held the manor and advowson on of his death, as kinsman and heir of Elias and Alice, according to of the grant, and that the said John Lestraunge and James are the next heirs of John Giffard for the manor and advowson to the form of the gift, the king ordered the escheator to make concerning the preiises ; and it is found by the inquisition that gave the manor and advowson to Hlias in free marriage his sister, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies of the Mautravers and his heirs by the service of a knight's fee, and Giffard held the manor and advowson on the day of his death to the form of the gift, and that John Lestfaunge and James are next heirs of John Giffard for the manor and advowson accordthe form of the gift: the king orders the escheator to retain in his the moiety of the manor falling to James until further orders, and the other moiety of the manor to John Lestraunge. bailiffs of the city of Lincoln.