1355-06-22, Westminster

Order to in the king's hand until further order a messuage and 2 bovates in Acle, Brehull and Burstall and the bailiwick of the forestership and not to intermeddle further with the other lands taken king's hand by the death of Edmund de Haudlo, delivering the thereof to Alesia late his wife, as lately at the suit of Edmund and Alesia, by their petition before the king and council in parliament, showing that whereas by a writ under the testimony of William de Thorp, then chief justice, the king ordered the sheriff of the said county to take into the king's hand the said bovates and bailiwick, which are held in chief, and were then in the hands of Edmund and Alesia, so that answer should be made to the king for the profits arising therefrom until Edmund, then a minor, should come of age, the sheriff, exceeding that order, took into the king's hand the manor of Burstall of Edmund and Alesia, which is not parcel of the said bovates or bailiwick as it was said, and delivered the manor to Robert de Hadham to be kept for the king's use, the king appointed Nicholas de Bokelond and certain other lieges to take an inquisition upon the matter by the men of that county, and on its being afterwards found by inquisition taken by those lieges that a certain part of the manor of Burstall, to wit, the site of the manor within a moat with ditches on the east, west and north and entry to the moat and garden adjacent, containing 3 acres 1 rood 4 perch and 6 feet, which are worth nothing yearly beyond the reprise and 60 acres of demesne land with appurtenances in three fields of Burstall, to wit in a field called Frithfeld 80 acres, in a field called Armegrove 15 acres, in a field called Northcroft 15 acres, 50 acres in a field of Burstall called la Vente and 25 acres of wood in Hulwode there whereof the yearly underwood is worth 10s. according to the bounds thereof, 2s. 10/. rent with the appurtenances of a certain cottage which William le Smyth holds in Burstall and the office of the bailiwick of the said forestership, which are all held in chief, are the said two bovates and bailiwick and are worth 67s. 10d. in all issues, and that the residue of the manor of Burstall, to wit a plot without the moat in which a grange and a long stable are situate, and the garden adjacent containing 2 acres and a certain parcel within the moat and ditch on the south side of the moat, a new garden and the old garden adjacent, containing 3 acres, with appurtenances as the boundaries run, and 8 virgates of land with appurtenances in Burstall containing 255 acres of demesne land, 58s. 10d. rent in Burstall, 41. 6s. 6d. rent in Brehull and 18s. 5d. rent in Acle which are held of the manor of Brehull, and a toft anda carucate of land in Burstall containing 120 acres of land of demesne and 24s. of rent and customs with appurtenances in Burstall, which are held of the prince of Wales as of his honour of Walyngford, are not parcel of the 2 bovates or bailiwick, and are worth yearly in all issues 191. 5s. 8d., the king ordered Robert de Hadham not to intermeddle further with the residue of the manor of Burstall or with the other premises which are not parcel of the said bovates and bailiwick, retaining in the king's hand until further order those which are the said bovates and bailiwick, and now it is found by inquisition taken by Peter that Edmund is dead and that at his death he held a messuage, 2 bovates of land, 622 acres 84 roods of pasture, and 115s. 5d. rent in Acle, Brehull and Burstall, the bailiwick of the forestership of Bernwode with appurtenances, the manors of Burstall, Musewell, Adyngrave, Acle and Thomele, and 12 tofts, a carucate and 10 acres of land and 70s. rent in Astclaydon, Botulclaydon, Middelelaydon and Ikford jointly with Alesia, to hold to themselves and Edmund's heirs by a fine levied in the king's court, and that the said messuage, 2 bovates of land and the bailiwick of the forestership are held in chief by the service of grand serjeanty and all other the premises of others than the king.