1348-05-20, Westminster

Order to take the fealty of Robert son and heir of John de Rihill, certifying the king thereof in chancery, and to amoye the king's hand from the lands which ; his father held of others than the king and not to intermeddle further : therewith, restoring the issues thereof, as the king ordered the escheator to certify why he had taken John's lands in Ribill into the king's hand, and he returned that he had done so, because John being indicted for divers felonies before the justices of gaol delivery at York castle became an j approver and, not wishing to pursue his appeals, he was delivered to the archbishop of York by the justices, in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, and on learning that he had died in the archbishop's prison without having purged his innocence, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon his lands, and the king ordered the archbishop, if 4 John was delivered to him as aforesaid and died in prison, to certify the king thereof in chancery, and it is found by the inquisition taken by the escheator that John on the day of the said felony held a plot of pasture in Kayngham in a place called Foukland of the gift and enfeoftment of William son of Saier de Sutton, knight, to Robert de Rihill and Margaret his wife and the heirs of their bodies, whose son and heir John was, and that the said plot is held in chief as of the honour of Albemar by the service of rendering 83d. yearly, and it is worth 6s, yearly beyond that rent, and that he also held in fee tail in the said form two parts of a messuage and 2 bovates of land in Rihill of Margery late the wife of Robert de Botheby, by forinsee service and for rendering to her 5s. 2d. yearly and of making. suit at her court every three weeks, and they are worth 384s. yearly, , and he also held in fee tail in the said form a toft in Tunstall which is demised at ferm to William Cusays and Isabel his wife for their lives, for 5s. and that it is held of Philip Northiby by the: service of 1d. and that all the said lands are in the king's hand and in the ; escheator's custody, and that Robert, John's son, is his next heir and aged _ eight years, and the archbishop has certified that John was convicted as a clerk and was delivered to him by William Basset and his fellows, justices of gaol delivery, in accordance with the privilege of the clergy, on Thursday the feast of St. Hilary in the 18th year of the reign, and he was committed to prison and there remained until 9 October last, when he died there without having purged himself. 28.