1318-12-04, York

To the same. Order to inform themselves whether he who holds the manor of Littlington, near Royston (Crucem oes ), in the king's hands on account of the minority of the heir of William de Huntyngfeld, tenant in chief, holds it at the king's pleasure or not, and if they find that he holds it at pleasure, to deliver it to John de Hastyngges, executor of the will of Jobn de Hastingges, his father, to hold during the heir's minority at the extent, according to the king's order remaining in the exchequer, as he has shewn the king by his petition that whereas the king granted to him an assignment of wardships and marriages beyond Trent, in order to acquit -his father's debts, for 8147. 8s. 6d. due to his father for his service in Gascony in the late and the present king's time, he has prayed the king to grant him the said manor, the aforesaid William being his kinsman, in part payment of the aforesaid assignment, the manor being demised at ferm to others at pleasure. By pet. of C. To Ralph de Crophull, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with two messuages, 194 acres of land, and 3 acres of meadow in Helsyngton, which belonged to Robert de Gilpyn, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Sapy, late escheator this side Trent, that Robert de Cliderhou, then escheator this side Trent, took the premises into the king's hands by reason of the accusation (rettz) of Robert de Gilpyn for the death of John de Coupeland, and Robert de Gilpyn died before he was convicted of the death, by which inquisition it was found that the premises are not held of the king in chief, but of John de Lancastre and Elizabeth his wife, as of her dower of the inheritance of William de Ros, and that Richard de Gilpyn, Robert's brother, is his nearest heir.