1333-04-03, Knaresborough

To the sheriff of Gloucester. Whereas the king took into his protection and defence until Michaelmas next John de Grey, knight, John Mordak, knight, Ralph de Grey, knight, Thomas le Verdoun, William Sperner, Richard Jones, Messager de Grey and John de Solihull of Rotherfeld, parker, who are staying at present in the march of Scotland in the king's service, by his order, with their men, lands, rents and all their possessions, the king wishing them in the mean time to be quit of all pleas and suits, excepting the pleas de dote unde nichil habet, of quare impedit and the assizes of novel disseisin aud darrein presentment, and attaints, and except the suits before the justices in eyre; and now the king has learned that the said John, ete. because they did not come before Thomas Bacoun and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine a certain trespass on William la Zouche, to answer to William la Zouche for the said trespass, are placed in exigent in that county to be outlawed, and they will be outlawed on the quinzaine of Easter rext unless a remedy is provided for them; and Henry de Perey, Edward de Boun, Henry de Tancastr[ia], William de Monte Acuto, Ralph de Nevyle and Robert Dufford have undertaken to have the said John, etc. before the justices on the day on which the said exigents are returnable before them, to stand to right thereon; and the king, not wishing them to be so brought while they are in his service, orders the sheriff to supersede the said exigents, and the promulgation of outlawry against them for the said cause and to have the writ before the justices on the day on which the king's writ for the said exigents would be returnable. By K. and C. Enrolment of release by Alice daughter of Joan de Pothow, to William de Crathorn son of John le Tygheler of York, of her rights in all the lands in the towns of Estnesse in Rydale, Ormesby, and Styvelyngflet, which William holds by hereditary succession as heir of Nicholas son of Sir Gilbert de Luda of York, after the death of Alice, late the wife of the said Sir Gilbert, and of Marieria, late the wife of Sir Jordan Foliot, knight. Witnesses: Nicholas de Langeton, then mayor of York; Henry Lorbatur, William Fissh, and William de Estrington, then bailiffs of that city; Richard de Alverton, William de Friston, Nicholas Fouk, William de Redenesse, Simon Gower, John de Woume, Nicholas de Appelby, citizens of York; Sir Nicholas de Menyll, Sir Walter de Boyngton, Sir Richard Benet, Sir Thomas de Boulton, Sir John Moryn, Sir Walter Perteheye, Sir Thomas Ugtired, Sir Robert de Moreby and Sir Ralph de Lascels, knights; Robert Gretheved, John de Semer, Thomas Moubray, William de Thorneton, William Starre, William de Sproxton, William de Appelton, Henry de Moreby, John Russel of Naburn, Simon de Neuton, Henry son of Philip de Kelkfeld. Dated at York on Friday after Trinity, 1333.