1345-11-16, John Westminster

Order to the king's hand from the manor of Rokholthalle, a messuage, a mill, of land, 5 acres of meadow, 22 acres of pasture, and 44s. rent in and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues to Joan, late the wife of William de Bumpstede, as the king ordered to certify why he had taken the premises into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had so taken them for the year and waste because William was convicted and hanged for his felony in killing John de Shordych, knight, and by the transcript at the foot of a fine levied in the king's court in the 15th year of the reign before Roger Hilary and his fellows, justices of the bench, between William and Joan daughter of Nicholas de Shordych, demandants, and Nicholas de Taunton, parson of Possewyk church, deforciant, concerning the said tenements and rent in Alvythele, it is found that William acknowledged them to be the right of Nicholas as those which he held of William's gift and for that acknowledgment Nicholas granted them to William and Joan and rendered them in that court to hold for themselves and the heirs of their bodies, and by the transcript at the foot of another fine levied in that year before those justices, between John de Shordych, knight, demandant, and Nicholas de Taunton, parson of Possewyk church, deforciant, concerning the said manor, it is found that John acknowledged the manor to be the right of Nicholas, as that which he had of John's gift, and for that acknowledgment Nicholas granted the manor to John to hold for life with remainder to William de Bumpstede, the said Joan and the heirs of their bodies, and afterwards at Joan's suit showing that the manor and tenements taken into the king's hand were the same as those contained in the transcripts, and that she and William were seised of the said tenements in Alvythele by reason of one of the fines, until they were taken into the king's hand, and also of the said manor after John's death, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the manor and tenements are the same as those contained in the transcripts, that William held the lands in Alvythele in the 15th year in his demesne as of fee and granted them to Nicholas, who was seised thereof for 40 days and then granted them to William and Joan and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to William's right heirs, and that John de Shordich held the said manor in his demesne as of fee in that 15th year, and granted it to Nicholas, who was seised thereof for forty days and then granted it to John to hold for life with remainder to William and Joan and the heirs of their bodies. By C.