1335-06-14, Pickering
Order to cause Almaric son and heir of John de Sancto Amando, tenant in chief, to have full seisin of all the lands of which his father was seised in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick at his death, restoring the issues thereof to him, as he has proved his age before Ralph de Middelneye, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Cornwall and Devon, and on 16 March last the king took his homage for the said lands. To Gilbert de Ledred, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton and Rutland. Order not to molest the prioress of Gloukwelle or her successors for two tofts and 43 bovates of land in Glentworth, by reason of the statute of mortmain, because the king has iearned by inquisition taken by the escheator that certain prioresses of Gloukwelle acquired those tenements 40 years and more before the publication of the said statute of the heirs of Henry de Horkestowe of Filingham and of William son of Ernesius and of Adam Randolf; and they have continued to have seisin thereof hitherto, and that the said tenements are held of Jollanus de Nevill and are worth 13s. 4d. yearly in all issues according to their true value. To William de Northo, escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham.
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