1359-02-07, Westminster

Order to the king's hand from a messuage of Margaret Bray in Northampton, to intermeddle further therewith, delivering the issues thereof to he find by inquisition or otherwise that it is the same as the houses in a grant to Simon Baud, as the king ordered the escheator to why he had taken that messuage into the king's hand, and the returned that he had so taken it because he had found by of office that Edward I granted that messuage by charter to to hold in fee, which messuage formerly belonged to Isaac son of a Jew, and came into the king's hand as forfeit by the exile of that and that Simon alienated the messuage in fee without obtaining the licence, and by the letters patent of Edward I which the present inspected, it is found that Edward I granted to Simon the houses in Berewardstrete, which belonged to the said Isaac, at 3s. yearly, and which that king recovered as forfeit against by judgment of his court, to hold to Simon and his heirs or those to he would assign them in accordance with the law and custom of that rendering to the king yearly at Easter 1d. by the hands of the sheriff and now Margaret has informed the king that the messuage by the escheator is the same contained in the grant to Simon to be to whom he would, and she has petitioned the king to order his to be amoved. William de Nessefeld, escheator in the county of York. Order not William de Percehay for his homage, as the king has taken for the manor of Leuesham, which he holds in chief. By p.s. [24105.] the sheriff of York.