1343-08-20, Westminster

To John de Alveton, escheator in cos. Oxford and Berks. Order to amove the king's hand without delay from the manor of Hertrygg and a virgate of land of William de Burton and Elizabeth his wife, in Bastilden and Assehampsted, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof, if he finds that Elizabeth is the one to whom the king gave licence to marry, as the king lately ordered the escheator to certify the cause why he had taken the premises into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that a messuage and carucate of land in Hertrugg, co. Berks, of William and Elizabeth, called by courtesy (causa laudis) the manor of Hertrugg, had been so taken by Robert fitz Elys, late escheator in those counties, by reason of the trespass of Elizabeth in marrying William without the king's licence, but on 8 March in the 14th year of the reign the king gave licence to marry to Elizabeth late the wife of John de Percy, tenant in chief, and William and Elizabeth have besought the king to cause his hand to be amoved from the premises, because Elizabeth is the same as the Elizabeth who received the said licence.