1358-10-08, Westminster

To William Fililod, escheator in the county of Northampton. Order to amove the king's hand from a messuage of Join de Broughton in Northampton, and not to intermeddle further therewith, delivering the issues thereof to John, if he find that the messuage is the same as the houses granted to William de Hamelton, sometime archdeacon of York, as the king ordered the escheator to certify why he had taken the said messuage into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that he had so taken it because he had found by inquisition of office that it formerly belonged to Moses son of Jacob, a Jew, and came into the hands of Edward I as forfeit, by the exile of the said Jew, and that king by charter granted it to the said archdeacon in fee, who afterwards alienated it without licence, and by the letiers patent of Edward I, which the king has inspected, it is found that the said king granted to the archdeacon the houses in Northampton which belonged to the said Moses, and escheated to the king by his exile, to hold to him and his heirs or any to whom he might give or assign the same according to the custom of that town, rendering to the king 1d. yearly by the hands of the bailiffs of Northampton, and now John has informed the king that the messuage so taken is the same as the houses in the patent contained, and has prayed the king to order his hand to be amoyed.