1306-06-21, Dunstable

To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause John de Hashlond to have seisin of seventeen acres of land and three acres of meadow in Athelardeston, as the king learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that the said land, which Hugh atte Lode, who was hanged for felony, held, has been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that Hugh held it of John de Hashlond, and that John de Monte Acuto, late sheriff of Somerset, and John Baret have had the king's year, day and waste thereof, for which they ought to answer to the king. Joan, the wife of Robert de Lasseles, imprisoned at Newcastle-upon- Tyne for the death of William Whiteside, wherewith she is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Northumberland to bail her until the first assize. Schedule. The king sent his writ to Walter de Gloucestr ia , escheator this side Trent, dated at Bishops Sutton, 6 May, in his thirty-fourth year, which is set out in full, ordering the escheator to take into the king's hands all the lands that Roger son of Peter son of Osbert held at his death both by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of Sarah, his late wife, and of his own inheritance, and to cause them to be kept safely until further orders, and to make inquisition what land Roger held of the king in chief of the said inheritance, and what he held of others, and by what service, and how much the land is worth yearly in all issues, and who is Sarah s nearest heir. By virtue of which writ Walter returned an inquisition by which it is found that Roger at his death held by the courtesy of England of Sarah s inheritance the manors of Cumbes and Helmyngham, co. Suffolk, and the manors of Hillington and Northerek, co. Norfolk, and that John de Thorp, Roesia, wife of Edmund de Pakenham, and Cecily, wife of Robert de Ufford are her nearest heirs for this reason, to wit that one Bartholomew de Crek, her father, held the said manors of Cumbes, Helmyngham and Northerek as of his inheritance, and died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, Robert his son and heir succeeding him, and that Robert enfeoffed Margery, his mother, of the manors of Northcrek, and that he died seised of the manor of Cumbes and Helmyngham in his demesne as of fee, Geoffrey, his brother and next heir, succeeding him in the manors of Combes and Helmyngham because he died without an heir of his body, and that Geoffrey died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, John, his brother, son of Margery, his next heir, succeeding him because he died without an heir of his body, and that John died seised thereof in NSchedule his demesne as of fee, the said Sarah, his sister and next heir, succeeding him because he died without an heir of his body; and that Margery enfeoffed Sarah of the said manor of Hillington and gave the manor of Northerek to John, to him and his heirs and assigns for ever, and that John died seised of the manor of Northcrek and of the manors of Combes and Helmyngham in his demesne as of fee, Sarah succeeding him as sister and heir, as is aforesaid. And as she died without an heir of her body, the fee of all the said manors reverted to her aunts Margaret and Isabel, sisters of Bartholomew, her father, and from Margaret the fee of her purparty descended to one Robert as her son and heir, and from him to the said John de Thorpe as his son and heir; and from Isabel the fee of her purparty descended to Robert de Valoyns as her. son and heir, and from him to Robert as his son and heir, and from him to the said Roesia and Cecily as his daughters and heiresses. Which manors being in the king's hands by reason of Roger's death, Robert de Lyvermere came into the king's court before him and his council at Westminster and asserted that an omission had been made of him in the inquisition, and that he is a co-heir and parcener of the manors with the said John de Thorp, Roesia and Cecily, and hereupon he says that Bartholomew had a third sister named Maud, born of the same father and mother, and that the fee of the manors reverted to her just as to Margaret and Isabel, etc., and from Maud the right of her purparty descended to Thomas as her son and heir, and from him to Robert de Lyvermere as son and heir, who now demands, etc., and this he is prepared, etc.; the said John de Thorp, Edmund, Roesia, Robert and Cecily asserting on the contrary that Bartholomew had not any sister Maud by the same father and mother to whom the manors or any part thereof could or ought to revert by right of inheritance according to the law and custom of the realm, and this they are prepared, etc. And moreover Isabel de Walpole and John son of Alice de Nugun came into court before the king and his council and asserted that Roger died seised in his demesne as of fee of the said manors of Northcrek, Combes, and Hillington, and that they are his nearest heirs, and that the manors ought to descend of right by his death to Isabel de Walpole and John de Nugun for the following reason, to wit that Margery de Crek, late the wife of Bartholomew, Sarah s mother, acquired the manors of Northerek and Combes of Robert de Crek, son of Bartholomew and Margery, to her and her heirs and her assigns for ever, and that the manor of Hillington descended to her by right of inheritance by the death of Geoffrey de Anes, her father, and that she afterwards gave the manor of Northcrek to John, son of Bartholomew and of her, for his life, with reversion to her, and that she gave the manor of Hillington to Roger in free marriage with Sarah, daughter of Bartholomew and her, and that Margery died seised of the manor of Combes in her demesne as of fee, and that John succeeded her in the same manor as her son and heir and died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, and that both the manor of Combes and the manor of Northcrek descended after his death to Sarah as his sister and heiress because he died without an heir of his body, and that Agnes, daughter of Geoffrey Godspere, was the kinswoman and heiress both of Sarah and of Margery, and that Agnes quit-claimed the manors by a fine levied in the king's court to Roger while he thus held them by the courtesy of England, and this they are prepared to yerify ; the said John de Thorp, Edmund, Roesia, Robert and Cecily contradicting Isabel and John de Nugun as to this, and saying that Margery de Crek acquired the manors of Northcrek and Combes from her son Robert, and that the manor of Hillington descended to Margery by right of inheritance as is aforesaid, and also that Margery afterwards . 395 NSchedule enfeoffed Robert of the manor of Combes and John, her son, of the manor of Northerek, and Sarah, before her marriage to Roger, of the manor of Hillington, separately by divers charters, and that Robert died seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Combes, Geoffrey, his brother and heir, succeeding him in the same because he died without an heir of his body; and that Geoffrey died seised thereof in his demesne as of fee, John, his brother and heir, succeeding him because he died without an heir of his body ; and that John died seised of that manor and of the manor of Northcrek in his demesne as of fee, Sarah succeeding him as his sister and heiress because he died without an heir of his body: and that Sarah died seised of the said three manors in her demesne as of fee, and that they are her nearest heirs, as is above expressed, and this they are prepared to verify, ete. And, moreover, it was then shown before the king and his council on behalf of Robert, son and heir of Warin de Insula, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, that the manors of Northerek, Combes and Hillington ought to revert to him of right as kinsman and heir of Margery and Sarah. As the king wishes to be more fully certified as to the premises and the rights of the said parties, and to do what is right therein to them, the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk is ordered to cause to come before the king and his council at the quinzaine of Holy Trinity next twenty-four knights and others of that county by whom the truth in the premises may be best known and enquired. At which day John de Thorp, Edmund de Pakeham and Robert de Ufford came in person, and Roesia and Cecily came by their attorneys before the king's council at Westminster, and the jurors likewise came, and Robert de Lyvermere did not come to sue. Therefore it was considered as to him that John, Edmund, Roesia, Robert de Ufford and Cecily shall have a writ to the escheator to have their seisin notwithstanding the claim of the said Robert. And Isabel de Walpol did not come, but John de Nugun came and said nothing why, etc. Therefore as to them it was considered, as above. And Benedict de Cantebrligge], who sues for Robert de Insula came, etc., but said nothing why, etc. It was therefore considered, as above, the right of Robert de Lyvermere, Isabel de Walpol, John de Nugun, and Robert de Insula and any others being saved in all things whenever they may wish to speak concerning it.