1320-11-05, Richard Westminster

de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to infurther with the lands of Richard Crok, and to restore the issues as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the Crok, who died 21 June, in the 3rd year of the king's reign, his death certain lands in Haselbury by knight service of Peter de then earl of Cornwall, as of the honour of Walyngford, and that Crok, his son and heir, was then a minor, for which reason the earl custody of the said lands, and that he sold the custody together with marriage to Isolda, late the wife of the said Richard, and that, after s 2 the earl's death, the king granted the custody and marriage as if they were in his hands to Alexander le Peyntour, upon his suggestion that the lands were held in chief and that the custody thereof was in the king's hands, and that when Alexander was unable to have the custody and marriage according to the king's grant by reascn of the above sale thereof, the king ordered the custody of the said lands, then in Isolda s hands, to be resumed into his hands amongst other things resumed by pretext of the ordinances as if they had been in Alexander's hands by the king's grant, and that they are on that account still in his hands, and that Richard held no lands in chief, and that Reginald is his son and heir, and is aged 26 years and 8 weeks.