1327-02-15, Westminster

To Robert de Insula, keeper of forfeited lands in co. Northumberland in the bishopric of Durham. IL. bishop of Durham has shewn the by petition before him and his council, that whereas he has and ought have, and he and his predecessors have always had hitherto from time of mind, royal rights between the waters of Tyne and These in Norand Bedelyngtonshire, co. Northumberland, and have exercised said rights by themselves and their own ministers, and have done jusof all and singular things arising between the waters aforesaid and in said places by themselves and their ministers, without the king or his or any bailiff or minister of the king or his progenitors interin any way, except in default of the bishop or his predecessors in justice, by pretext of which royal liberties the bishop ought to forfeiture of war in the liberty and places aforesaid, and Anthony, bishop of that place, his predecessor, caused the castle and manor Bernard's Castle with appurtenances, forfeited by John de Balliolo, lord thereof, and the manor of Herte and Hertenesse, forfeited by de Brus, formerly lord of that manor, within the liberty aforesaid, be taken into his hands by virtue of such royal liberties, and held thus peacefully for some time as the right of his church, until I. caused him to be amoved from the castle and manors without and without his being called, pretending that such forfeiture of both within the liberty of the bishopric and elsewhere, ought to perto him, and caused the castle and manors to be taken into his hands, Henry III. revoked by his charter and council a collation that he to Thomas de Clare of the manor of Gretham, in the liberty of the aforesaid, which manor belonged to Peter de Monte Forti and the said king at that time believed pertained to him by Peter's when the said king granted that the bishop might have his will the manor of Gretham and of other lands forfeited and escheated within royalty aforesaid, in the same manner as the said king had of such lands to him elsewhere in his realm; and although the said bishop sued in divers parliaments of the late king for justice in the he could not obtain justice, and he has therefore prayed the king provide a remedy : as it appears by the said charter of Henry ITI., exhibefore the king and his parliament, that the said king revoked by his the aforesaid collation of the manor of Gretham, and granted that bishop should have his will thereof and of other lands forfeited within said liberty, as is aforesaid, and certain answers to divers petitions of said bishop in the parliaments of the late king have been inspected and made by the late king's council for the information of his right, answers, with other memoranda touching the matter found in the and chancery, the king caused to come before him and his council parliament, and nothing is found therein by reason whereof the bishop to be excluded from his petition, it is agreed by the king and all council in parliament that the bishop shall have his liberty cf such according to the tenor and effect of the charter aforesaid, and king therefore orders the keeper to amove the king's hand from lands