1338-01-04, Windsor

To Thomas de Metham, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to interfurther with a messuage and a bovate of land of the prior of Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, in Cathale Magna, co. restoring the issues thereof to the prior, as John Moryn, late beyond Trent, returned that he had not taken any lands of prior in that town, but that William de Clapham, sometime escheator at the time of John's substitution in the office, had delivered to a messuage and 2 bovates of land there, which belonged to Master de Hartcla, asserting that they were in the king's hands by the of Michael, an adherent to the king's Scottish enemies; and at the prior's suit, beseeching the king to provide a remedy the said tenements were delivered to him among the lands which to the master and brethren of the order of the Temple in and they were seised thereof at the time when Michael joined Scots, the king ordered John Moryn to take an inquisition upon matter, by which it is found that the prior and brethren were seised the messuage and 2 bovates from Wednesday the octaves of Michaelin the 16th year of the late king's reign, until Monday in the first of Lent following, when Michael forfeited to the said king, and Michael held them for some time, and afterwards because it was not by the inquisition what state Michael had there, the king ap- William Scot, John de Shordich and Robert Parvyng to take inquisition thereupon, and by the inquisition taken by William and in the presence of Ralph de Hastynges, sheriff of York, it is that Michael held a messuage and 1 bovate in that town only, of the gift of Robert de Fletham, chaplain, who enfeoffed him thereand he was seised thereof for three years until the sheriff of York them and delivered them to the prior and brethren of the according to the statute, before Michael forfeited, as teneof which the Templars were seised, and William de Clapham, escheator beyond Trent, seised them on Monday after Michaelin the 8th year of the king's reign.