1301-07-20, Coldstream

To the executors of the will of Edmund, late earl of Cornwall. Whereas it is found by an inquisition taken by Walter de Gloucfestria , escheator beyond Trent, that Geoffrey de Nevill held nothing at his death of the king in chief, but that he held on that day 5 acres and a perch of meadow and 6s. of yearly rent in the town of Appelby of Geoffrey son and heir of Hugh de Nevill by the service of rendering to Geoffrey at Midsummer a chaplet of roses (wnwmn capellum rose) for all services ; and it appears to the king by the return of the escheator that the meadow and rent were the acquisition (perquisitum) of Geoffrey, and that Master Henry de Bray, then escheator beyond Trent, took them into the king's hands with the manor of Appelby, which Geoffrey held of the king by serjeanty of the inheritance of Margaret, his wife, by reason of Geoffrey's death, which manor was afterwards delivered to Margaret at her suit as her right, the meadow and rent always remaining in the king's hands until Malcolm de Harlegh, then escheator, delivered them by the king's order to the earl with other lands in the king's hands and wardship, for a debt in which the king was bound to the earl: the king orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the meadow and rent aforesaid, which are in the hands of the executors by reason of the earl's death.