1363-10-10, Westminster

To William de Reygate escheator in Yorkshire. Order to remove king's hand and not to intermeddle further with a messuage, bovates and 12 acres of land, and a parcel of wood containing acres in Waddeworth, and other three bovates of land in the same delivering the issues thereof taken to Master Geoffrey le Scrope, Rypers of Waddeworth and Henry de Tereswell, to each of them pertains to him; as the king lately ordered William de Nessefeld escheator to certify in chancery the cause wherefore the lands the said Geoffrey, John and Henry in Waddeworth were by taken into the king's hand, and he returned that he so the premises, and they are in the king's hand, for that found by inquisition, before him taken of his office, that well Peter le Lord of Waddeworth, tenant in chief of King I, aliened the messuage, land and wood aforesaid, as le Lord the father (sic), tenant in chief of King Edward II, . without licence aliened the said three bovates of land to divers ; ; and after at the suit of the said tenants, alleging that the : are not held of the king but of William de Langethwayt, praying that the king's hand should be removed, the king comthe said late escheator to make inquisition touching the F ; and by inquisition so made it is found that the premises i not held of the king bu) of the said William and his heirs by the i of 12d. a year to blanch farm, that he holds the same of Margaret ; Malo Lacu, and she of the king in chief. :