1333-09-22, Norwich

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to John de Nevill of Horneby the hundred of Bradefurd, co. Salop, worth 24 marks yearly, together with the issues thereof from the time of its being taken into the king's hand, to be held until the next parliament, so that it may then be ordained what shall be done, notwithstanding the king's order to take such hundreds into his hand, discharging the sheriff of that county towards the king in the meantime ; as the king lately granted the said hundred to Jolin with the consent of the prelates, earls, barons, and other magnates of the realm, for his good and laudable service, and chiefly on account of the dangers to which John exposed himself in Nottingham castle in arresting certain persons by whom the affairs of the kingdom and the people were suffering great harm, at the king's command and wish and with certain other lieges, to hold for himself and the legitimate male heirs of his body, with reversion to the king in default of such issue; and John has besought the king to cause the said hundred to be delivered to him, as it is now taken into the king's hand by virtue of the statute for taking hundreds which were annexed to the ferms of counties into the king's hand, and for rejoining them to those counties. [Federa.]