1348-10-20, John Westminster

The like to the collectors of the same custom in the following ieee to wit : The collectors in the port of Lenn. The collectors in the port of Boston. The collectors in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. . .. 28. To Peter de Boxstede, escheator in co. Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Eggewere in that county, restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Alesia, countess of Lincoln, at her death held no lands in chief or of any other lord in that county, but that she and Ebulo Lestraunge, late her husband, then held the said manor of the king's grant for themselves and Ebulo s heirs, and Ebulo died during Alesia's life, wherefore the reversion of the manor descends to one Roger Lestraunge as Ebulo s kinsman and heir, and Roger granted, by a fine levied in the king's court, that the said manor, which Alesia held for life of his inheritance, should remain after her death to Nicholas de Cantilupo, knight, for life, and that Alesia surrendered to Nicholas the said manor and her estate therein, and the manor is held in chief by the service of rendering 4s. yearly, the king has taken Nicholas's fealty. 4.