1378-07-20, Westminster

To the justice, chancellor and treasurer in Ireland. Order, upon petition of Anne who was wife of John de Hastynges earl of Pembroke, to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the earl's lands in the town of Rosse taken into the late king's hand by William Ilger then escheator in Ireland, and with the issues thereof since 26 March 45 Edward III ; as her petition shews that the late king ordered the said escheator to certify in the chancery of England the cause wherefore the premises were so taken, and that he certified that Margaret Maresshall dame de Mauny held the same in chief and abode in England, so that no man repaired to Ireland to defend the same according to the ordinance made at Gildeford, and that by her attorneys the said Margaret intruded therein upon the late king's possession, and without his licence gave the premises to the said earl and Anne and to the heirs of the said Anne s body, shewing further that on the date aforesaid by letters patent enrolled in chancery the late king pardoned those trespasses, took the said Anne s fealty, and by writ close likewise . 145 commanded the said escheator to remove his hand, and the escheator died before executing that writ.