1363-05-10, Westminster

To William de Nessefeld escheator in Yorkshire. Order to remove the king's hand and not to intermeddle further with a messuage and four bovates of land of Richard de Holdich of Conyngesburgh in Conyngesburgh, delivering to him any issues thereof taken; as the king lately ordered the escheator to certify in chancery the cause wherefore the premises were by him taken into the king's hand, and he certified that he so took them for that he found by inquisition, before him lately taken of his office, that John de Warenna sometime earl of Surrey, father of John the late earl, who held the castle of Conyngesburgh in chief, in the time of King Edward I without licence aliened the same in fee to Reynold Cok then his constable, which messuage and land was lately held by Richard and other heirs of Reynold. and that for that cause they are in the king's hand; and after at the suit . 459 of Richard, alleging that William sometime earl of Warenne aliened the premises to the said Reynold in the time of King Henry III, to hold to him and his heirs of the said earl and his heirs, and praying the king to remove his hand, the king ordered the escheator to make inquisition touching the circumstances ; and by inquisition so made it is found that in the time of King Henry IIT and not after William de Warenna late earl of Surrey, not John de Warenna sometime earl, who held the said castle in chief, thereof aliened in fee to Reynold Cok, by the name of Reynold son of Ellis de Conyngesburgh, a messuage and four bovates of land in Conyngesburgh, which are the same as the said Richard now holds; and in the statute published at Westminster in the 35th year of the Leign it is contained that alienations made by people who held of the said King Henry and his preshould stand in force, saving the king's pierogative for the time of later kings.