1316-06-18, Westminster

To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to further with the lands of Alan de Sancto Claro and Joan his in Theddyngworth, and to restore the issues of the same, which, it by his certificate to the king, he took into the king's hands because was found by inquisition that William de Assheby (of whose inheritance de Assheby and Joan de Bedeworth held the premises in dower, which held of the king as of the honour of Albemarle by the yearly service of . 295 for craneward and 10s. of sheriff's aid in the hundred of Gertre) felony and was outlawed, the said Joan de Assheby and Joan de being then alive and seised, and that after their death John de brother of William, entered the premises by intrusion and enfeoffed de Assheby his son and Margaret, daughter of Roger Hymayns, in free marriage; after whose death Joan, daughter of the said and wife of the aforesaid Alan, entered the premises, which the took into the king's hands as escheat by the felony committed by said William ; whereupon, because it appeared by the rolls of chancery Henry IIL., that the said king pardoned one William son of William of Assheby the suit of his peace for the death of Hugh le Rus, provided he stood to right if any one should speak against him, and granted that should retain all his lands except the lands and fees in Cateby and Assheby granted by the said king to Edmund his sen and to Thomas de the king commanded the said escheator to make inquisition, in presence of Alan and Joan, whether the said William son of William of Assheby was the same as the William of whom the escheator made in his return as above, and if so, whether he died in the said king's and whether John his brother entered the lands in Theddyngworth his nearest heir ; by which inquisition it was found that the two Williams the same person, and that he died in the king's peace, and John his entered the lands in Theddyngworth as his next heir.