1355-03-04, Westminster

To Peter de Grymesby, escheator in the liberty of Holdernesse. Order not to intermeddle further with 120 acres of land and 10 acres of meadow of Robert de Gloucestr[ia], in Coldon, restoring the issues thereof without delay to William de Walcote, archdeacon of the East Riding, co. York, as the king ordered the escheator to certify why a messuage and the said land and meadow had been taken into the king's hand by Richard de Spayne, late coroner in that liberty, and the escheator returned that the coroner had so taken those tenements because Robert demised them to the said archdeacon to hold from St. Peter ad vincula in the 27th year of the . 119 until the end of seven years, pretending that the tenements belonged de Stondon, the archdeacon s proctor, at his church of Mapelton, feloniously killed Peter Carter of Mapelton, as was found before coroner upon view of Peter's body, and afterwards at the archdeacon s beseeching the king to order his hand to be amoved as William de had no estate in the tenements whereby they ought to pertain to by reason of the said felony, the king appointed Robert Twyer, de Wylton and the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, it is found that William de Stondon who feloniously killed Peter no estate in the said land and meadow at the time of the felony, but the archdeacon was seised of those tenements at that time of Robert's to him, to hold as aforesaid, and that the premises are not held of