1324-01-12, Worcester

Order to receive the account of de Ellerker, late keeper of the hanaper of chancery, for the 15th, and 17th years of the king's reign and beyond that time until last in one account and not separately, the king having ordered said John to render his account before Roger for all the said time. king orders Roger to keep the account, when he has received it, his other memoranda, and to answer to the king therefor, together the account of the aforesaid John, for Roger's time in his own account exchequer. By p.s. the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas by the tenor foot of a fine levied before the justices of the Bench between Henry and Alice his wife, demandants, and Master Simon de Gledeseye, concerning the manor of Boclond, co. Hertford, the tenor the king lately caused to come before him in chancery, it was that Simon granted and rendered the manor to Henry and Alice in for their lives, with remainder to Reginald, Henry's son, and the of his body, with remainder, in default of such heir, to Richard, of Reginald, and to the heirs of his body, with remainder, in of such heir, to Eleanor, sister of Richard, and to the heirs of her with remainder over to the right heirs of Henry, and it was found inquisition taken by Walram de Rocheford and Geoffrey de la Lee, at suit of the aforesaid Richard, that Henry and Alice were seised of the manor jointly for six years and more, and that Reginald died without of his body during the life of Henry and Alice, and that, after his Alice, who thus held the manor for life, granted the manor to de Badelesmere for the term of her life, subject to a yearly of 20/., and that the manor was taken into the king's hands during her with the other lands of Bartholomew by his forfeiture, and that Alice now died, for which reason the manor ought to remain to Richard, of the said Reginald, according to the form of the fine; whereupon ordered William de Poleye, then keeper of the manor and of other lands in co. Hertford, to deliver the manor to Richard; and the now understands that Richard remitted his right in the manor to by deed, wherefore the king was deceived in the delivery of to Richard: the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons to the aforesaid deed, which is in their custody, and to do further in matter what they shall see fit to be done on the king's behalf. the sheriffs of London, Order to deliver to William de Stanford and his wife a moiety of a messuage in the parish of St. Bartholomew London, to hold during the king's pleasure in recompence for the due to them from it, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the and sheriffs that William and Roesia, at Easter in the 16th year of demised the moiety at ferm to Ralph de Bokton and Agnes his for the term of seven years, rendéring to them therefor marks yearly, the moiety is held of the king in free burgage and is worth 4 marks issues, and the two moieties render yearly in common to the wardens Bridge 5s., to the prior of Holy Trinity, London, 4s., to the of St. Giles's hospital 2s., aud that the repairing of the moiety is worth 15s. yearly, so that the moiety is worth 32s. 4d. clear yearly, and that William and Roesia made no other estate of the moiety or of the rent, and that the moiety is in the king's hands by Ralph's forfeiture because he adhered to Roger de Mortuo Mari of Wyggemor, and it appears to the king by the demise exhibited in chancery that the moiety was demised to Ralph and Agnes in form aforesaid. By C.