1335-02-18, Neweastle-on- Yas

To William de Clapham, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cum- ( berland and Westmorland. Order not to intermeddle further with a rent : of 50s. and of two quarters and two bushels of oat meal which belonged to ; John de Stirkeland, knight, in Stirkeland, restoring the issues thereof, as the escheator informed the king that he had taken that rent into the king's hand because he had found by inquisition of office that Margaret de Ros, who ; held that rent of the king in chief as parcel of the barony of Kendale, alienated the rent in fee to Richard de Preston, and that Richard alienated ; it in fee to the said John de Stirkeland, and that John alienated it in fee to 5 Edmund de Nevill and John de Louthre, who alienated it to John de Stirke- hs land and Alice his wife and the heirs of their bodies, without obtaining the , king's licence ; and afterwards, at the prosecution of John and Alice, showing that Richard de Laton, knight (who held a messuage, 44 acres of land and 6 acres of meadow in Grea , Strikeland of Thomas de Stirkeland by the service of 12d. yearly to cornage for every service), had alienated the said messuage, land and meadow to Robert de Stirkeland, John's grandfather, whose heir he is, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by the due and accustomed services, rendering to Richard and his heirs 50s. and two quarters and two bushels of oat meal yearly ; and that rent afterwards came into the hands of Margaret de Ros, as also the said tenements which were charged therewith, and the rent is held of the heirs of Thomas de Stirkeland by the said service of 12d. yearly, and not of the king as parcel of the said barony ; and the said John and Alice beseeching the king to cause his hand to be removed from that rent, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition on the matter, by which it was found that Richard held the said messuage, land and meadow of Thomas by the service of 2s. yearly to cornage for every service, and that 60 years ago Richard alienated those tenements in fee to Robert de Stirkeland, John's grandfather, whose heir he is, to hold as aforesaid, rendering the said rent yearly, which rent Margaret afterwards acquired, and that the rent is held of John son of Thomas de Stirkeland by the said service, and was held of him and his ancestors from time out of mind by the same service, and not of the king or his progenitors, and the d rent was never parcel of the said barony.