1335-11-03, Alnwick

To the sheriffs of London. John de Godesfield and Emma his wife have besought the king to cause reasonable dower to be assigned to Emma, as James Beauflonr, sometime Emma s husband, after he married her, was seised in fee of a messuage in that city, which he afterwards demised, as is said, to ohn le Mazeliner for life, and after the death of John le Mazeliner the messuage was taken into the king's hands by the sheriffs for divers debts which James owed to the king, without Emma being dowered therefrom; the king therefore orders the sheriffs to cause reasonable dower to be assigned to Emma from that messuage, if the facts are as stated.