1345-07-13, Southwick

Order to take an inupon the following matter, and send it to the king in chancery delay, as the king is informed that John de Britann [ia], earl of at his death, held for himself and the heirs of his body, by the grant, a mill in Stratford in Richemundshire and 2 marks rent of the manor of Ekelton near Doncaster which was held of the earl, the mill and rent ought to remain to the king because the earl such heirs, and that certain men of the said parts entered the rent immediately after the earl's death and have appropriated and profits thereof, and that the tenants of the manor have not rent from the time of the earl's death and the king wishes to be upon the matter.