1300-11-01, Linlithgow

To the executors of the will of Edmund, late earl of Cornwall. The king learns by an inquisition taken by Master Richard de Haveringe, escheator this side Trent, that Roger de Moubray long before his death eranted to Ralph de Kirketon for hfe the forestry of Hovyngham, together with the trees thrown down by the wind and the branches and bark of all trees there given, and with a quarter of wheat every ten weeks to be received from Roger's manor of Hovyngham, and also a robe of the suit of Roger's esquires, or 20s. for it, to be received at Christmas at the said manor, rendering therefor to Roger 1d. yearly at Christmas, and that Ralph was in full and peaceful seisin of the forestry and the other things aforesaid from the time of the making of the charter ; until the day of Roger's death, and that John de Lythegrayns, late . escheator this side Trent, took the forestry, etc. into the king's hands -by reason of Roger's death with the other lands that belonged to Roger in his bailiwick, and that he delivered them to the earl among other wardships of lands and heirs under age and in the king's wardship, which were granted to the earl by the king by his letters patent in part payment of a debt in which the king was bound to him; and Ralph has shown to the king that although the forestry has been restored to him, the executors do not permit him to receive the aforesaid wheat and robe in the manor, which is in their hands by virtue of the delivery aforesaid: the king orders them to cause Ralph to have the wheat and robe or 20s. and the arrears thereof from the manor from the time when the manor came to their hands by the king's grant, and to cause him to have it henceforth for so long as the manor shall be in their hands. Geoffrey Beaugrant, imprisoned in Warwick gaol for the death of Richard de Assheby, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Wary ick to pail him until the first assize.