1325-02-20, Tower

To John Everard, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Order not to intermeddle further with three messuages, six ferlings land, and 21 acres of marsh in K[ ynges teyngton, and to restore the issues as the king, at the suit of Robert le Pyl suggesting that Robert de and his ancestors had always held the premises from time out of mind Nicholas Burdoun and his ancestors, and not of the king or of his proand that the escheator had taken the premises into the king's because the said Robert de Clere lately enfeoffed the said Robert le thereof, under the pretext that they were held immediately of the king not of the aforesaid Nicholas, ordered the escheator to make inquisition the same, and it is found by the said inquisition that the afore- Robert [de Clere] and his ancestors have always hithertu held the of Nicholas and his ancestors, by the service of 12d. yearly and two suits at the court of Nicholas and his ancestors at the manor of and not of the king or of his progenitors, and that the are worth 20s. yearly in all issues.