1392-02-06, Westminster

To the escheator in Northumberland. Order to give Ralph de Lomley knight livery of the manor of Stranton; as it is found by inquisition, of his office taken before Walter de Strikeland knight late escheator, that Robert Brewys knight was thereof seised, and gave it to John Fitz Marmeduce and Isabel his wife for their lives, with remainder to Richard Fitz Marmeduc and tothe heirs of his body, remainder to the grantor and his heirs, that the grantor died, that Robert Brewys his son and heir as a traitor and enemy of King Edward I adhered to the king of Scotland and to the Scots, and that the said Richard overlived John and Isabel, and died without -issue; and upon petition of the said Ralph, shewing that long before . 429 adherence to the Scots the said Robert Brewys, by name of Robert Brus, gave to the said John and Isabel, being his own daughter, to the heirs of their bodies eleven tofts, four cottages, eleven eleven bovates of land and 20 acres of meadow in Stranton, reversion to the grantor and his heirs, and after gave to the John and to the heirs of his body by the said Isabel, with as aforesaid, 102 messuages, a dovecote, eleven tofts, seven works, seventy gardens, a water mill, a windmill, 2,000 acres land, 20 acres of meadow, 1,400 acres of pasture, 800 acres of and 50 acres of marsh, by name of all the lands etc. which the had in Stranton certain services excepted, by virtue of gifts the said John and Isabel were seised of the premises mentioned, and the said John of the residue, that (im either case) the form of the gift the right descended to Richard their son and and from him to Mary as his sister and heir begotten of the said upon the said Isabel's body, for that Richard died without issue, she died thereof seised, that from her the right of all the descended to Robert as her son and heir, and from him to as his son and heir, and from him to Robert as his son heir, and from him to Ralph as his brother and heir for Robert son of Marmaduke died without issue, that he was of the premises, with the exceptions aforesaid, until by colour the said inquisition the same were seized into the king's hand name of the manor of Stranton, that the premises with the aforesaid and the manor of Stranton are one and the and Robert Brewys and Robert de Brus are the same person, that that Robert Brewys gave the manor to John and for their lives with remainder to Richard Fitz Marmeand to the heirs of his body, as by the inquisition supposed, that John and Isabel and Richard Fitz Marmeduc ever had estate in the said manor or lands or in any parcel thereof save as by the said Ralph alleged, as he was ready to prove, the king the sheriff of York to give notice to Henry de Percy earl of to whom the king committed the keeping of the by name of the manor of Stranton, to be in chancery at past in order to shew cause wherefore the said Ralph ought not have restitution thereof, and the said commission ought not to revoked; and the sheriff returned that he gave that notice by de Maiddelton, John de Rothewelle of Staynfordbrigge, del Esshe of Wilberfosse and John de Beverlay of Wilberand at that day the earl appeared by Thomas Ellerbeke his and the said Ralph in person, and neither Thomas Ellerbeke the earl nor the serjeants at law could say aught to the purposa, by advice of the justices and others of the council learned the law it was determined that restitution should be made to the Ralph, and that the commission to the said earl should be