1327-02-10, Westminster

Order to deliver to William de Ayremynne, bishop of Norwich, the issues received by him from the manor of Drax Paynel, co. York, from the time when it was taken into the late king's hands, the late king having ordered the said escheator to restore to the bishop his lands, goods, and chattels and debts in co. York, together with the issues thereof since he caused them to be taken into his hands for certain reasons, whereupon the escheator returned that he had taken the aforesaid manor into the late king's hands by reason of the trespass that the bishop made in acquiring it from Jobn Paynel, who held it in chief of the late king, without the late king's licence, as the bishop has now rendered the manor to the heirs of the said John, minors in the king's wardship, wherefore the king has pardoned him the trespass committed by him in this behalf and has granted him the issues received from the manor from the time of its acquisition. By p.s. [98.] To Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Rutland, and Northampton. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage, 10 acres of land, and an acre of meadow in Castelearleton, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the late king's order that John de Meriet demised the premises to John de Ardern for life only and in no other way, and that John de Ardern died more than six years ago, and that the tenements were taken into the said king's hands by reason of this demise solely, and that they are still in the king's hands for this reason, and that they are held of the king in chief as parcels of the manor of Castelcarleton, which manor is held of him in chief by the service of one knight's fee, and that they are worth yearly in all issues 2s. and not more, because the messuage is fallen down and the land is not cultivated. To Thomas de Harpeden, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham.