1325-07-12, Westminster

To Roger de Whatton, keeper of the rebels lands in co. Northampton. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by Robert de Thorp and John de Assheton that Robert de Watervill, in the first year of the king's reign, granted to Bartholomew de Badelesmere and Margaret his wife a moiety of the manor of Milton, and a moiety of all the land that he had on the day of the grant in Milton, Peterborough, Castre, Thorp, and Marham, and Robert granted by the same deed that the other part of the said manor and lands which was lately assigned to John de Insula for a debt in which John Russel, the feoffor of Robert of the manors and lands aforesaid, was bound to the said John de Insula by recognisance before the barons of the exchequer, and which the executors of John de Insula now hold because the debt is not levied should remain, after the aforesaid debt had been levied, to Bartholomew and Margaret, to hold with thé other moiety, rendering therefor to the said Robert for his life 107. yearly, and that Robert should have power to levy for the said rent in the aforesaid manors and lands and in Bartholomew's manor in the town of Badelesmere, which manor Bartholomew charged to the distraint of the said Robert, and that Robert was seised of the aforesaid 10/. yearly by the hands of Bartholomew until the moiety of the manor and lands was taken into the king's hands by Bartholomew's forfeiture, and that Robert has not changed his estate therein in any way, and: has always remained in seisin of the rent, and that the manor of Milton and the lands aforesaid are held of the abbot of Peterborough by the service of 24s. and 1 Ib. of pepper yearly, and that the manor with the other lands in the aforesaid towns is worth yearly 62. in all issues, after the deduction of the services aforesaid: the king orders the keeper to deliver the moiety of the manor and lands to Robert, to hold at the king's pleasure in allowance for the 10J. aforesaid. By pet. of C.