1321-02-17, Richard Westminster

de Rodeneye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to interfurther with the lands in Thingden, co. Northampton, that John de and Alice his wife, Alice, late the wife of Ralph de Sancto Mauro, and Amice his wife, and John son of Robert de Lancastre hold and to restore the issues thereof, as it appears by inquisition the escheator and Robert de Thorp, as ordered by the king, that nothing in chief in Thingden, but that they hold the aforesaid other lords, they having shewn to the king that although they hold separately, to wit John de Thorp and Alice his wife, and Alice, wife of Ralph de Sancto Mauro, of Robert son of Walter, and the John Poleyn and Amice his wife and John son of Robert de hold them of John son of Roger de Lancastre, and previous have held them of the said Robert and John and their ancestors of the king from time out of mind, the escheator has taken the lands king's hands on the grounds that they held the lands in chief and them without the king's licence. de Rodeney, escheator this side Trent. Order not to interfurther with a messuage and a virgate of land in Assheshe, which Fylel, who held in villeinage of the abbess of Wherewell, left necessity, and to restore the issues thereof to the abbess, she shewn the king that she seised them into her hands, and that Richard de Clare, late escheator this side Trent, took them into the because he supposed that the abbess had acquired them in fee publication of the statute of mortmain without licence from the present king, and it appears by an inquisition taken by the escheator of the king's order that the aforesaid Geoffrey held the messuage in villeinage of the abbess and her predecessors by the service of and of holding her plough (carucam suam), reaping her corn, her meadows, and hoeing (sarclandi) her corn, and carrying in and other villein services, and that they were so held from time out as in the abbess s manor of Assheshe, and that Geoffrey left the and land on account of necessity in the hands of the abbess.