1327-08-04, Stanhope

To the keeper of the manor of Halughton, in the king's hands. Whereas king learns by inquisition taken by Ralph de Normanvill, Simon de Baldreston, and Thomas Deyvill, that Jordan de Insula, grandfather of daughter of Henry de Insula, granted to Alice by his deed 18s. of yearly rent in Halughton, to be received from certain of his free tenants of his manor of Halughton, which belonged to Jordan in fee, so that he was able to charge it, to wit from Hugh Cointe 3s. yearly, from William de Meldewode 18d., from Adam le Blake 6d., from John Elyn 6d., trom Jordan s mill there 10s., from Adam Modi 6d., from John Ladde 4d., from Robert le Fevre 24d., from the bovate called Isbeloxgang 14d. for foreign service, from the heirs of Ivo 2s., to have and to hold the aforesaid rent to her and her heirs from Thursday after Whitsuntide, 1316, until the end of thirteen years, by virtue of which deed Alice had and received the rent for four years from the time of the grant, and after that time Robert de Holand unjustly amoved her from the rent and levied the rent from the tenants for a year and a half, until all his lands and the said rent were taken into the late king's hands for certain causes, for which causes they came to the king's hands, and they are still in his hands, and that Alice did not remit her estate in the rent to Robert or to any one else, and that Jordan held the rent, together with the remainder of the manor, of the master and brethren of the order of the Temple in England, and that it is now held of the master and brethren of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and it appears by the other part of Jordan s deed, exhibited before the king in chancery, that Jordan granted the rent to Alice in form aforesaid; the king therefore orders the keeper of the manor to pay to Alice the arrears of the rent from the time when it thus came to the late king's hands, and to pay her the rent henceforth until the end of the aforesaid term. By p.s.