1318-03-30, Hadleigh
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of to be elected in place of William Gra, whom the king has amoved he is insufficiently qualified. By testimony of the keeper of the Forest beyond Trent. To Master John Walewayn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to further with a water-mill in Bedynton called Vielmulle, with toft and croft and other appurtenances, as it appears by inquisition taken him that William Trente, late citizen and alderman of London, enfeoffed William Noyl thereof a month and more before his death, to have and to hold to the said William Noyl and the heirs of his bodies, and that William Noyl peacefully continued his seisin thereof from the time of the feoffment until Henry de Bergh, bailiff and fermer of Margaret, late queen of England, of her manor of Banstede, seised the premises into her hands on Friday after St. John the Baptist, in the 9th year of the king's reign, by virtue of his office and for 7s. of rent in arrear for the said mill for Easter term then last past, and that Henry always levied the issues of the premises from that time until now, and that the premises are held of the manor of Banstede by the service of 28s. yearly and by suit of court.
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