1298-05-28, York

Notification the king has granted licence to Henry de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, to with a wall a plot of land pertaining to the manor of Wadenham, Northampton, that Alesia de Lascy, his mother, holds in dower of his which plot is within the bounds-.of the forest of Rokingham contains thirty acres [measured] by the king's forest perch, and which earl holds of his mother's grant, and that he may make a park thereof his will, and may hold it thus enclosed and made into a park to him his heirs for ever without hindrance from the king or his heirs, or from justices, foresters, verderers and other ministers of the forest: the king orders the justice to permit the earl to enclose the plot and to a park there and to hold it. To J. de Lithegreins, escheator this side Trent. It is shown to the by the dean and chapter of St. Peter's, York, that whereas they before the king's justices at Westminster Robert le Pestour by king's writ concerning a messuage and twenty-four acres of land in and Robert, while the plea was pending in court, rendered the and land to them outside the court, the escheator has taken the and land into the the king's hands by reason of the statute of As the king wishes to show favour to the dean and chapter his behalf, he orders the escheator to restore the messuage and land to dean and chapter, if they are in his hands solely for this reason, . 165 John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. John son of Thomas has shown that when he was with the king in his service in Flanders, Irish malefactors and disturbers of the king's peace burnt his of Rathymegan, and committed homicides, robberies and arson in adjoining, and he has besought the king to grant to him service of Ireland, to have and receive for one occasion, of a fortress (/ortalicii) to be constructed anew against the in those parts, for the benefit of the king's land of Ireland and better keeping of the king's peace there hereafter: the king, to grant John's petition so faras can be done conveniently, orders to call together all those of the king's council there, and to treaty and consideration of this petition, and if it shall seem will result to the advantage of the king's land aforesaid and the keeping of his peace there, to grant to John such service according justiciary's discretion. By K. on the information of J. de Bensted. the sheriff of Southampton.