1281-06-10, Westminster

To the same. Order to cause William de Farnedon and Nicholas de Wintonia, sheriffs of London, to be acquitted of 5 marks for a horse of that value of the goods and chattels that belonged to William de Brightmereston, who was hanged for felony, which horse they delivered to Hugh son of Otto, then steward of the king's household, at Westminster, on Tuesday after Holy Trinity, in the 9th year, for one of the carts of the king's wardrobe, as is testified before the king by Hugh. To Thomas de Normanvill, the king's steward. Whereas the king, at the prosecution of Margaret de Brus, sister and co-heiress of Peter de Brus, tenant in chief, many times ordered the steward to warn Walter de Faucumberg, who married Agnes, the other sister and co-heiresss of Peter, and the other heirs and parceners of Peter's inheritance to be before the king at a certain day to receive their purparties of the knights fees that belonged to Peter, which had been insufficiently divided between the heirs and parceners, as it was said; and the heirs and parceners, although the steward has several times warned them, contemned coming at the days prefixed ; the king, not wishing to wrong Margaret, who has much less of the fees than she ought to have and has besought the king to cause her purparty to be assigned to her, has committed to her the following fees, three fees held by William de Percy of Kyddale, two fees held by William Stormy and his parceners, 14 fees held by John Mauleverer, half a fee held by Robert de Holaund, William de Catherton, Roger de Slene, Adam de Cuton, Ralph de Caterale, Hugh de Mytton, John de Eston, Roger de Balerug, and Roger le fiz Aylward, three quarters of a fee held by William de Stirkelaund, Thomas de Pykering, Roger son of Gilbert de Lancastria, Gilbert de Brimolesheved (sic) and Thomas de Cheney, half a fee held by Richard Malebris, half a fee held by Adam de Seyton and Matthew de Gaphou, to have at the king's pleasure, on condition that if Margaret have more by this commission than she ought to have, and if the other heirs and parceners come to the king's court and complain thereof, the king shall cause all these fees and all the others that belonged to Peter to be taken into his hands: the king orders the steward to deliver the aforesaid fees to Margaret. To John son of Hugh, steward of the Long Forest.