1314-02-20, Canterbury
To John de Evre, escheator beyond Trent. Order to make partition of the lands of Robert de Ros of Werk, deceased, a Scotch rebel of the late king, into two parts in the presence of his heirs, if they choose to attend, and to cause John Salvayn and Margaret his wife, the eldest daughter of the said Robert, to have seisin of her purparty as her esnecy, retaining in the king's hands the purparty of John de Knoches and Isabella his wife, the youngest daughter of the said Robert, the said Margaret and Isabella, who were born and baptized in Scotland, having proved their age before William de Bevercotes, chancellor of Scotland, and the king having taken homage for Margaret's purparty, as it appears to the king that Margaret and Isabella were under age when the late king granted, whilst in Scotland, to John Comyn of Badenauh, for himself and his men of Scotland who had been at war with the late king, that their lives and limbs should be saved, that they should be quit of imprisonment, and that they should not be disinherited, and that their heirs then under age should enjoy the same conditions. It. 41
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