1298-02-24, Fulham
To Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Whereas the king ordered him to take into the king's hands and keep safely until ordered all the lands that belonged to William de Mohun, in chief, which the king had ordered to be parted equally between de Meriet, who married Mary, the youngest daughter and co-heiress William, and John de Carreu, who married Eleanor, the eldest and coheiress of William, because the escheator had caused the to be made in the absence of Eleanor and Mary and without assent, contrary to the custom of the realm, and John and John came into chancery in their own persons, and Mary came by le Sauvage and John de Wyk, and Eleanor came by Robert and John Hager, their attorneys, and accepted the partition by the escheator between them and assented to it: the king orders escheator to cause John de Meriet and Mary and John de Carreu and to have seisin of their purparties again, together with the issues thence since they were taken into the king's hands. Witness: the king's son.
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