1318-10-16, Burstwick

the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the Eleanor 113s. 4d. yearly from 28 July, in the 10th year of the reign, for so long as she has the custody of her husband's lands as for her dower of 17/. of rent in Leqenfeld and Ergom near Legenwhich she sued for before the justices of the Bench against Agnes de as her dower of her husband's tenements in those towns, in which Agnes asserted that she held the said rent for the term of her life by 1818. Henry's gift, and she proffered his deed containing a clause of warranty, and vouched to warranty Henry his son and heir, a minor in the king's custody ; and afterwards, at Eleanor's prosecution that the justices had superseded the suit on this account, the king ordered them to do justice to Eleanor concerning her dower notwithstanding this allegation; by reason whereof, and because it was testified in the king's court that the king hadin his hands sufficient of the heir's inheritance in the county of York, it was considered that Agnes should hold in peace and that Eleanor should have the value of her dower aforesaid from the heir's land in the king's hands, as appears by the record and process of the suit, which the king caused to come before him ; and afterwards, because the king was given to understand that the sheriff of York had delivered certain of the heir's tenements to Eleanor for her aforesaid dower by virtue of the writ of judgment directed to him, the king ordered him to certify him concerning this matter; and the sheriff returned that he had, by virtue of a writ of judgment under the testimony of William de Bereford, chief justice of the Bench, delivered to Eleanor, on 28 July aforesaid, lands of the said heir in Kirkelevyngton, co. York, to the value of a third of the said 17/. of yearly rent; whereupon Eleanor prayed the king to allow her this sum out of her ferm of 400/. for _the custody of her husband's land beyond her dower in co. York, as the said lands in Kirkelevyngton were committed to her with the other lands of her husband beyond her dower. 6.