1346-05-03, Westminster

Order to amove the hand from the manor of Englesham and certain tenements, to restore them to the abbot of King's Beaulieu together with thereof, as the escheator certified in chancery at the king's order that because he had found by inquisition of office that the abbot appropriated to himself and his house, after the statute of mortmain, without obtaining the king's licence, the said manor of John son of Nicholas de Englesham, and a messuage and 2 acres of land of Richard Walkere in Farendon, a messuage of John Avyce, 2 acres of land of Henry de Stanford, a messuage of Robert Pynchon, a toft and an acre of land of Adam le Walkere, a toft and an acre of land of Isabel and Agnes, daughters of Laurence le Carpenter, a toft of William le Sadelere, 2 messuages, an oven and a workshop of Henry Wale, a cottage and a gate upon which a chamber is built of William Hamond, 3 cottages of John Syfred, a messuage of Robert Goldsmith (awrifabro), an acre of land of Ralph le Rook, a messuage of John le Mustarder, a messuage, 32 acres of land, and 14 acres of meadow of Robert atte Cote, 4 acres of land of John atte Grove, 2 messuages of Stacia atte Grove, a rood of land which was the common path upon le Rugges and an acre of land of William de Culnham and 6d. rent of increment of the tenement of John le Irmongere in the same town of Farendon, and also that the abbot, who is of the foundation of the king's progenitors, alienated of his manor of Farendon a messuage to William de Eggesworth, a messuage to Henry Stenyng and Alice his wife, a messuage to Juliana Emys, a messuage to John Botte and a messuage to Richard le Bocher, without licence; and afterwards at the suit of the abbot, showing the king that king J ohn] granted by charter the town of Englesham to God and the church of St. Mary, King's Beaulieu, which he founded, and that town is the said manor, and that king also gave the manor of Farendon, of which the said tenements are parcels, to the abbot and monks there, and the abbot has neither appropriated nor alienated any part thereof but that the said Richard Walkere and the others held them of his demise by roll of his court of Farendon, at his will, according to the custom of that manor, and not by any deed, and the abbot beseeching the king to cause his hand to be amoved the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the manor of Englesham is the town of Englesham, granted by King John as aforesaid, and that the tenements which Richard le Walkere and the others held are parcels of the manor of Farendon, which was granted as aforesaid, and that they held in the form aforesaid and not by deed, and because Richard and the others abandoned the said tenements the abbot entered them, as was his right, and that he did not alienate the said five tenements to William de Eggesworth Henry Stenyng, Alice, Juliana, John Botte and Richard le Bocher, but he demised them to them severally to hold at his will by the court roll of the manor of Farendon, without making any charter or other deed in fee, for life, and afterwards the king ordered the escheator to take a further inquisition by persons not related to the abbot, in the presence of Thomas de Brewosa, to whom the king committed the custody of the said tenements, to hold under a certain form, or of his attorney, if he choose to attend, by which it is found that the abbot and his predecessors have been seised of the manor of Englesham and the other tenements from the time of the said ina and they have never alienated, acquired or appropriated any part thereof. To Thomas de Brewosa. - Order not to intermeddle further with the custody of the manor of Englesham and of the other tenements aforesaid, restoring the issues thereof to the abbot. : To John de Bello Campo.