1362-05-12, Westminster

To William de Nessefeld escheator in Yorkshire. Order to remove king's hand and not to intermeddle further with a messuage, acres of land and 26s. 8d. of rent of John de Neuland in Neuland Drax, delivering to the said John any issues thereof taken; as king lately ordered the escheator to certify in chancery the cause the premises were by him taken into the king's hand, and he that he found by inquisition, before him taken of his office, John Chaumberleyn of Drax knight, who held the manor of Drax chief by knight service, without the king's licence aliened thereof rent of 26s. 8d. in Drax to John son of Thomas le Clerk of in fee, that after the death of John son of Thomas Henry his and heir entered that and other lands and tenements which were father's without process in the king's court, that after the death Henry John de Neuland, brother of John son of Thomas and uncle Henry, entered the same and other lands and tenements of Henry his heir without process in the king's court and without performing due to the king in that behalf, that John son of Thomas at his held in fee by fealty and other services a messuage and 30 acres land in Neuland and Drax of the heir of the said John Chaumberleyn, descended to Henry his son, and after the death of Henry the said John de Neuland as his next heir, and ought to pertain the king by reason of his prerogative until John de Neuland should the services due, and that for these causes he so took the and they are yet in the king's hand ; and after at the suit of de Neuland, alleging that John son of Thomas held of the said Chaumberleyn the said messuage and land and other lands 13s. only payable yearly to him and his heirs, and that John remised to John son of Thomas for life 12s. 11d. thereof his good service, without that that John son of Thomas, or Henry his death, acquired any rent in fee of John Chaumberleyn, or that said Henry or John de Neuland after his death entered any rent acquired, or claimed any right in such rent, and praying the king remove his hand, the king ordered the escheator to make inquisition the matter; and by inquisition so taken it is found that John of Drax knight aliened or remised no such rent to son of Thomas, but John son of Thomas held of him in Drax messuages and 42 acres of land by the service of 14s. 93d. a year by suit of his court of Drax every three weeks, which rent the John Chaumberleyn on Sunday after St. Martin in winter in 30th year of the reign released to John son of Thomas, his heirs assigns, for the life of John Chaumberleyn only, saving to him year ld. at Christmas, that Henry son and heir of John son of and John de Neuland did not in anywise enter that rent, for the same ought to pertain to the right heirs of the said John Chaumberleyn after his death ; and the king would not that wrong should be done to William de Swynflete (sic).