1324-05-13, London

To Robert de Aston, keeper of certain forfeited rebels lands in co. Order to pay to Walter Pikerel a yearly rent of 12/. from the manor of Norton, in that county, from the time when it was taken into the king's hands, and to pay him the same henceforth, as it is found by part of a fine levied before the justices of the Bench, in the 38rd year of the late king's reign, between John Giffard, demandant, and the said Walter, deforciant, concerning a messuage, 8 carucates of land, 2 mills, aud 50s. of in Little Scherston, that Walter acknowledged the aforesaid tenements be the right of the said John, and rendered them to him in court, and John, in consideration of this acknowledgment, granted to Walter 12/. yearly life, and it is found by an inqnisition taken by the aforesaid keeper and John de Peytou that the said John Giffard, on Monday the eve of the Purification, in the aforesaid year, granted to Walter 12/. of yearly rent for life from his manor of Norton for the aforesaid 12/. yearly, and that he the manor with payment of the same, and that Walter was seised the said rent peacefully without change of his estate until the manor was into the king's hands by reason of the rebellion of John son and heir the said John. The king makes this order althongh the manor is held chief, as appears by the aforesaid inquisition, for a fine that Walter has with him for the trespass committed in this behalf. By C. and by a fine of 20s. . 97