1327-12-24, Worcester

To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause all the lands of Robert de Holand in his bailiwick to be taken into the king's hands, in whose hands soever they may be, and to cause them to be delivered to Robert, as the king lately, in response to Robert's petition for restitution of his lands, ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to search the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer and to certify the king of the reason for the taking of Robert's lands into the late king's hands, and it is found by their certificate that the said king, in the 15th year of his reign, caused the lands, goods and chattels of Robert, together with those that belonged to Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, and to Roger de Clifford, to be taken into his hands by certain sheriffs and other of his ministers, and that answer was made to him at the exchequer for the issues of Robert's lands in the same way as for the issues of the lands of the said earl, and that Robert's lands are in the king's hands for this and no other reason, and it was agreed in the last parliament at Westminster that those who were of the earl's quarrel and those whose lands were taken into the late king's hands without any certain cause being expressed shall have restitution of their lands. By K.and ps. [1463.]