1275-06-14, Westminster

To John de London[ia], escheator this side Trent. Order to cause de Graveshende to have again seisin of the manor of Kannesby, the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the manor, John le Despenser, lately deceased, tenant in chief, held by the of England of the inheritance of Joan his wife, is held immediately R. bishop ae Lincoln, and that the bishop had seisin thereof as of his. for more than fifteen days after John's death, and that the bishop the said Stephen, his nephew (nepotem), thereof, who had seisin until he was ejected by the sub-escheator, and that the said held nothing of the king in chief at her death, so that nothing in the pertains to the king in name of wardship by reason of her tenure. To Thomas de Clare, keeper of the forest of Essex.