1356-07-26, Westminster

To Walter Parles, escheator in the county of Northampton. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Great Dodyngton, saving to the king the services due thereof to the manor of Yerdele Hastynges for the time of the minority of the heir of Laurence de Hastynges, delivering any issues levied thereof to Robert de Herle, knight, Adam Carles and Robert Mallore, clerks, as the king ordered the escheator to certify why he had taken into the king's hand the said manor, which belonged to William Caumpayn, and the escheator returned that he had so taken it because William, who held that manor by knight service of the said heir, a minor in the king's wardship, as of his manor of Yerdele Hastynges, demised it to the said Robert, Adam and Robert to hold for their lives, without obtaining the king's licence, and by the said certificate it is clear that the manor is not held in chief, wherefore the said demise might lawfully be made without licence. ;