1361-02-19, Westminster

To William de Fililode escheator in Northamptonshire. Order take security of John de Stretton, cousin and heir of Thomas Byfle for payment of his relief at the exchequer, and to deliver him one messuage and three quarters of a messuage, and one carucate three quarters of a carucate of land in Houghton, taken into the hand by the death of Thomas; as the king has learned by taken by the escheator, that Thomas at his death held lands in that county in chief, but held the premises of the heir of de Hastyngges earl of Pembroke tenant in chief, a in the king's wardship, by the service of the twentieth part one knight's fee, and that John is his next heir and of full age; the king has taken the fealty of John.