1336-11-24, Bothwell

Order to cause John son of to have seisin of his purparty of the lands which Isabella, late the of Alexander de Crokedayk held in dower of the inheritance of John tenant in chief of the late king, according to the partition as on it being found by inquisition taken by the escheator by the order that Isabella held three messuages and 184 acres of land in Thore, co. Westmorland, and two messuages and 38 acres of land and Grenryg, co. Cumberland, and that these messuages and are held of divers lords by divers services, and that John son of John John son of William de Eglesfeld, and Cristiana daughter of de Crokedayk, whom Michael le Taillour of Appelby married, . 635 and Margaret daughter of Joan de Crokedayk, deceased, tenant in chief, whom John de Moriceby married, and Elena and Alice, sisters of Margaret, are kin and next heirs of John de Crokedayk, and on it being also found by inspection of the chancery rolls of the late king that the partition of the lands which belonged to John de Crokedayk among the heirs and parceners of that inheritance being made, the late king took the homage of Thomas de Neubiggyng, now deceased, who married Joan, and of Michael, for the purparties of Joan and Cristiana, and ordered these purparties to be delivesed to them; the present king has taken the fealties of John de Moryceby for the purparty of Margaret of the lands which belonged to Joan and of Elena for her purparty of the same lands, Margaret and Elena having proved their ages before the escheator, and the king ordered the escheator to cause Michael and Cristiana, John de Moriceby and Margaret and Elena to have seisin of the purparties touching Cristiana, Margaret and Elena, of the lands which Isabella held in dower, having made a legal partition thereof in the presence of William de Eglesfeld, to whom the late king committed the custody of the lands which are of the purparties of John son of John and of John son of William, until their heirs should come of age, and in the presence of Hugh de Moriceby, who holds the custody of the lands which belonged to Joan until her heir come of age, by the grant of John de Burgh, to whom the king committed that custody, if they chose to attend ; the purparties of John son of John, John son of William and Alice being demised in the custody of William and Hugh until further orders ; and afterwards the king took the fealty of John son of Robert, who has proved his age before William Trussel, escheator beyond Trent, for his purparty of the lands which belonged to John de Crokedayk, and gave him respite until Easter next for his homage, as appears by inspection of the chancery rolls.