1316-02-06, Lincoln

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas Eleanor, late the wife of Henry de Percy, lately sought before the justices of the Bench against William de Percy a third of the manor of Wresel and of the moiety of the manor of Erghes, in the county of York, and a third of the manors of Claxeby and Slotheby, in the county of Lincoln, as her dower; and William produced a deed of her late husband containing warranty, and vouched to warranty Henry, son and heir of the said Henryga minor in the king's wardship ; and it was considered by the court that William shonld hold in peace a third of the manor of Wresel and of the moiety of the manor of Erghes, and that Eleanor should have their value out of the heir's lands in the county of York, and because the king had no lands of the heir's inheritance in the county of Lincoln in his hands, he ordered the sheriff of Lincoln to cause the said manors of Claxeby and Slotheby to be extended, and to return the extent thereof before the said justices, and afterwards, as it was found by the extent that the manors were of the yearly value of 201. 19s. 73d., the court considered that William should hold the said two manors in peace, and that Eleanor should have the value of her dower thereof out of the heir's lands in the county of York; afterwards, at the petition of Eleanor, stating that the sheriff of York had, under pretext of a writ of judgment witnessed by William de Bereford, chief justice of the Bench, directed to him, assigned and delivered to her lands of the said inheritance in Wyndonsom, Naffreton, Kirclevynton, and Routhemel, in the county of York, of the yearly value of 22/. 2s. 0 d., and praying that the king would cause this sum to be allowed to her out of the 4007. yearly rendered by her for the custody of the Jands of the heir in the county of York during his minority, the king ordered the sheriff of York to certify him of the extent of the manor of Wresel and of the moiety of the manor of Erghes, and of the lands that he had assigned and delivered to Eleanor for her dower thereof and of the manors of Claxeby and Slotheby; who returned that, by virtue of a writ of judgment witnessed by the said William de Bereford addressed to Nicholas de Menill, late sheriff of that county, the said Nicholas, on Thursday before St. Margaret the Virgin last, caused the manor of Wresel and the moiety of the manor of Erghes to be extended, and they were found to be of the yearly value of 45/. 8s. 10d., and that Nicholas, by virtue of the said writ and of another writ of judgment witnessed by the said William, caused, on 8 September following, certain lands in Wyndonsom, Naffreton, Routhemel, and Kirclevynton, of the yearly value of 22/. 2s. Old., to be assigned and delivered to the said Eleanor for her dower of the manors of Claxeby and