1305-05-05, St Albans

To Walter de Glouc/estria), escheator this side Trent. Order to restore to Ralph de Monte Hermerii, earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and to Joan, his wife, the manor of Desenyng, together with any issues that he may have received thence, to be held by them in the same way as it was held before it was taken into the king's hands, although the king lately, believing that Gilbert de Clare, late earl of Gloucester and Hertford, was seised of the manor in his demesne as of fee at his death, by reason whereof the wardship of the manor would have remained to the king by reason of the minority of Gilbert, the said earl's son and heir, until the heir came of age, ordered the escheator to take the manor into the king's hands, as it appears to the king by inspection of the rolls of chancery that the earl rendered the manor with his other lands into the king's hands, and that the king afterwards gave it with the said lands to the earl and to the aforesaid Joan, his wife, the king's daughter, to have to them and to the heirs of their two bodies.