1359-05-02, Westminster

To John fitz Johan, keeper of the king's manor of Childrelangele. Order ; to amoye the king's hand from a tenement in Childrelangele which 7 belonged to John Janet, and not to intermeddle further therewith, deliver- d ing the issues thereof to John Rolf of Childrelangele, as the king lately . ordered John Sergeaunt, then keeper of that manor, to certify why he had 5 taken into the king's hand the lands of the said John Rolf in Childre- 2 langeleye, and that keeper returned that no lands of John Rolf in the said ; town had been so taken by him, but an enrolment in the king's court held there on 6 March in the 31st year of the reign by Robert de Hadham, then steward there, was made in the following form, a tenement which belonged to John Janet was taken into the king's hand as a purchase of the king's bondman, because Cristiana Reynel, the king's bondwoman of that manor, recovered that tenement on the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle in the 30th year of the reign before William de Thorp and his fellows, justices of assize in the county of Hertford by verdict of an assize of mort d ancestor, in which tenements John Rolf asserts that he has a right, but by what title the keeper did not know, and afterwards John Rolf petitioned the king to order the tenements to be restored to him, as the said Cristiana at the time of the recovery aforesaid was covered by John Proudfot, her husband, who was named with her as a party in the king's writ for the said assize, and after the recovery she and the said John Proudford (sic) enfeoffed John Rold (sic) of those tenements, and the said John Rolf continued in seisin by virtue of that feofiment until the tenements were taken by Robert de Hadham as aforesaid, and the king appointed John Sergeaunt and John de Ardern to take an inquisition thereupon by the oath of lawful men of that county, by which it is found that John Proudfot and Cristiana recovered the tenements which formerly belonged to John Janet in Childrelangele by verdict of an assize of novel disseisin taken before William de Thorp and his fellows justices of assize in that county on Wednesday the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle in the 30th year of the reign, and had seisin thereof by William Bybet, then bailiff of the liberty of the honour of Berkhampstede by virtue of the writ of seisin to him directed thereupon on the following Thursday, and on that day John Proudfot and Cristiana enfeoffed John Rolf of those tenements, and he continued in seisin thereof for nine