1296-04-07, Berwick-on- Tweed

Order date: inferred Regnal year 24 Edward I · Edward I · Close Rolls · Membrane 8

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Dated in source: “April 7” · Place: Berwick-on- Tweed (Berwick)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 8 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause Richard, bishop of Hereford. to have seisin of a messuage and six acres of land in Bishop's Frome, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the sheriff that the messuage and land, which William de Pyrley, who was hanged for felony, held, have been in the king's hands for a year and a day, and that William held them of the bishop, and that the township of Bishop's Frome had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer to the king.

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