1347-04-25, Reading
Order to deliver to de Nevill and Alina his wife the tenements which he took into the hand by reason of the death of Edmund de Nevill, knight, saving lands which are held of William de Heton, and not to intermeddle therewith, restoring to them the issues of the lands held of William Heton, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator, Edmund at his death was not seised in his demesne as of fee or in of any lands in that bailiwick but that he held for life 32 messuages, 2 bovates, 423 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow, 10 acres of wood, acres of pasture, 10 acres of moor and 20 acres of turf in Ulvereston and and a sixth part of the manor of Midelton, with remainder to and Alina and the heirs of William's body, of the enfeoffment of de Baldreston, parson of Hurtheworth church and of Walter de by a fine levied in the king's court, and that the said tenements in and Midelton, except 2 messuages and 2 bovates, are held in as of the lands which belonged to William de Coucy, in the king's by his death, by homage and fealty and the service of a sparrowhawk 12d. and the service of 33s. 33d. yearly, and the said 2 messuages, and sixth part are held by the service of a pound of cumin yearly, the king has taken the fealty of William de Nevill for the lands held and has given him respite for his homage until the king's return to
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