1277-09-02, Chester
To the sheriff of Stafford. Order to cause Thomas Tochet to have seisin of a messuage, 24 acres of land and 44 acres of meadow that John de Langenovere, who was outlawed for felony, held in Langenovere, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that they have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that John held them of the said Thomas, and that William de Longenovere is bound to answer to the king for the year, day and waste thereof. Given by the hand of R. bishop of Bath and Wells, the chancellor. William Pauncefot, imprisoned at Hereford for trespass of the Forest, has letters to the sheriff of Hereford to bail him.
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