1354-04-15, Westminster

Order to pay to William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, to his attorney 37/. 11s. for Easter term last, as the king similarly to him and to the heirs male of his body the reversion of the castle, and town of Staunford, and of the manor and town of Grantham Lincoln, which John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, held for life, to the of 2251. 6s. yearly, in part satisfaction of 1,000/. of land and rent with the king promised to provide him, and ordered that he should have thereof, but afterwards Joan late the wife of the said earl of Surrey against William before the justices of the Bench a third part of manors of Staunford and Grantham, as her dower, as appears by the and process of the recovery which the king caused to come before into his chancery, and the said third part was delivered to Joan on after the Invention of the Holy Cross in the 25th year of the reign, the sheriff of Lincoln, as he has certified in chancery, and the king the earl to be recompensed for what has been so recovered out of hands, which extends to 75/. 2s. yearly, and has granted that he shall that sum yearly of the issues of the customs in the port of London the third part comes into his hand by Joan's death. the sheriffs of London.