1295-08-28, Westminster

To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order to resume into the king's hands all the lands that belonged to Adam le Despenser, tenant in chief, and to cause dower therefrom to be assigned to Joan, late the wife of Adam, and to restore to Almaric le Despenser, son and heir of Adam, the remaining two-thirds of the said lands, together with the issues thereof, as 1t was not the king's intention when he took Almaric s homage and ordered the escheator to deliver to him the lands whereof Adam was seised in his demesne as of fee at his death, that dower thereof should not be assigned to Joan.