1323-05-28, Bishopthorpe

James de Broghton, keeper of the lands of certain rebels in Order to deliver to Avelina, late the wife of John Giffard the manor of King's Stanleye in that county, and the thereof, together with the advowson of the church, taking from her the fealty due to the king, saving to the king the reversion of the manor and advowson after her death, as the king, on 18 April, in the 8th year of his reign, in consideration of a fine made by the aforesaid John, pardoned him and the said Avelina their trespass in acquiring the manor and advowson from Almarie le Despenser, who held them in chief, without the king's licence, and he granted that they should have the manor and advowson to them and the heirs of John, and it is found by an inquisition taken by John de Hampton and John de Fosse that Avelina was enfeoffed thereof jointly with the aforesaid John by the said Almaric at the feast of St. Leonard, in the fifth year of the king's reign, and that she continued her seisin jointly with John until the king caused the manor and adyowson to be taken into his hands by reason of John's rebellion, and that John and Avelina did not change their estate therein at any time, and that the manor and advowson are held in chief by the service of a moiety of a knight's fee.