1320-02-18, Westminster

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas John de Gyseburn and Beatrice his wife lately sought in the king's court before the justices of the Bench against Eleanor, late the wife of Henry de Percy, a third part of 12 messuages, 4 bovates and 12 acres of land, and 12 acres of meadow in Buckeden, co. York, as Beatrice s dower of the gift of Rayner de Knoll, her late husband, and Eleanor vouched to warranty Henry, son and heir of Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, a minor then in the king's wardship, and a certain part of the lands of the heir was in the custody of Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, then summoned in co. Sussex, and another part was in Eleanor's custody, then summoned in co. York, and the aforesaid keepers, having consulted the king, warranted Eleanor in the king's court, the archbishop saying that he had then nothing in his custody, and Eleanor, as keeper of certain of the heir's lands in co. York, rendered to the aforesaid John and Beatrice the said Beatrice s dower; whereupon it was considered in the same court that John and Beatrice should recover their seisin against Eleanor the tenant, and that Eleanor should have the value of the dower from the heir's lands in co. York in her custody, as appears in the record and process of the suit which the king caused to come before him ; by pretext whereof, and by virtue of the king's order under the testimony ofthe aforesaid justices directed to the sheriff of York, the sheriff delivered to John and Beatrice the said third of the aforesaid 12 messuages, 4 bovates and 12 acres of land, and 12 acres of meadow ; whereupon Eleanor prayed the king to cause.due allowance to be made to her for the land thus delivered out of the land held by herastenart ; in response to which the king ordered the sheriff to certify him concerning the deliveries of the lands ; who has returned that, by virtue of a mandate under the testimony of the said justices of the Bench, on 6 March, in the 12th year of the king sreign, thesaid messuages, land, and meadowin Buckeden were extended at 9/. 16s. Od., whereof a third part amounted to 65s. 4d., and that, on the same day, the same third was delivered to John and Beatrice, and that on 18 March following he caused certair lands of the aforesaid heir in Secorburgh in Eleanor's custody to be extended to the value of the dower aforesaid and to be delivered and assigned to Eleanor: wherefore the king orders the treasurer and barons to cause allowance to be made to Eleanor in her ferm . 179 lands of the said Henry in co. York, which she holds by the king's for the said 65s. 4d. for the dower thus recovered from her, aforesaid 6 March for so long as she have the custody of the afore- Gilbert de Stapelton, escheator this side Trent.