1346-07-13, John Windsor

To the justices of the Bench. Whereas the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England lately sought before them against Geoffrey de Bolestrode, 2 messuages, a mill, a carucate of land, 10 acres of meadow 8 acres of pasture, 7 acres of wood and 16s. rent in Chalfhunte St. Peter as the right of his Hospital, in which tenements Geoffrey had no entry except by John de Horneby, the elder, to whom brother Richard de Pavely, sometime prior of the said Hospital, demised it for a term now past, and Geoffrey, pleading before the justices, asserted that Richard demised those tenements to John in fee and not for a term, and although it was found by inquisition taken before the justices that the demise was made to John for a certain term now past, yet they have hitherto delayed to proceed to render judgment by pretext of a writ of the king containing that the said tenements are parcel of the manor of Bolestrode, which came into the king's hand by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, and the plea thereupon before William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king, between the king and Geoffrey by writ of scire /acias is adjourned and pending there undiscussed, wherefore the prior has _ besought the king to order judgment to be rendered in accordance with the verdict of the said inquisition, having regard that the prior's suit in that Bench was begun long before any suit was instituted by the king against Geofirey: the king therefore orders the justices to proceed to render judgment without delay in accordance with the law and custom of the realm. By C. 15. To Thomas de Swynford, escheator in co. Bedford. Order not to intermeddle further with a virgate and 10 acres of land of the prior of Newenham in Stachesden, restoring the issues thereof to the prior, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him why he had taken the said land into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that a hide of land containing 15 acres, called Peretre in Stachesden, which is a virgate of land there, was so taken by reason of a trespass which the prior committed in ceasing the payment of a rent of a pair of white saddle bows at the exchequer for forty years past, and 10 acres of the prior's land in that town were so taken by reason of the prior's trespass in ceasing the payment of 44d. for ten years past, in which he was bound to the king ; and afterwards the prior informed the king that the said land is not held of the king by any service, and the prior owes no rent for the same, but that there are certain lands in Bromham in that county, whereof those rents are due, and he has besought the king to order his hand to be amoved, wherefore the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the prior never held the said virgate and land of the king but that they are held of - . Parr 2. 98 of Bedeford in frank almoin, and that Richard de Rythyn holds and 4 acres of land, Agnes le Roos holds 13 acres of land and of Bromham church holds 1 acre of land in Bromham of of Stachesden, who holds them and 33 acres of meadow in of the king by the service of two pairs of white saddle-bows, price Richard de Ruthyn holds 1 acre of land, William de Filegrave of land, Alexander de Fermorie holds 2 acres of land, Adam holds 1 acre of land, Richard le Reve holds 1 acre of land, Hulle holds one acre of land, John le Brewestere holds one acre daughter of Geoffrey le Botiler holds 24 acres of land in that said John le White, who holds them of the king by the service 43d. yearly, and that John ought to answer to the king for those