1302-01-30, Linlithgow

Order to cause Richard de Hoghton to have seisin of a 24 acres of land and four acres of meadow and fifty acres of in Wythenill, if it be evident to him that Adam son of Adam de is dead and that Richard is his brother and next heir, as the learns by an inquisition taken by the sheriff that the premises, which de Bromicroft, who was outlawed for felony, held, have been in the hands for a year and a day, and that Hugh held them of Adam of Adam] de Hoghton, brother of Richard de Hoghton, of whom is the heir, and that the township of Wythenill now holds them has had the king's year and day thereof, for which it ought to answer king.