1365-12-16, Westminster

. 155 the keeping thereof to John the elder according to the statute, so that he should answer at the exchequer of Dublin for the issues or the value thereof if it should be adjudged that the said manor or the keeping thereof ought to pertain to the king ; and now on behalf of John de Keynes knight and Joan his wife one of the cousins and heirs of John Mautravers the elder, John Darundell and Eleanor his wife the other cousin and heir, and Agnes who was wife and is executrix of the said John the elder, petition is made to the king to send the said record and process (given up to the king in chancery under his seal by the said heirs) to be debated in the court of Ireland before the lieutenant, justiciary and justices aforesaid, and meantime to stay the distraint made upon the said Agnes to render an account in the exchequer of England of the said issues or value for the time the manor was in the hand of John the elder by the king's said commission, as John the elder died before he could come to Ireland for execution, and after his death the manor is taken into the king's hand and the said Agnes by exchequer summons is distrained as aforesaid. The king has commanded the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer of England to stay until Michaelmas next their distraint made by exchequer summons upon the said executrix to render account there. To Leo de Perton escheator in Worcestershire. Order not to meddle further with a messuage, one carucate of land and 30s. of rent in Little Sapy taken into the king's hand by the death of Elizabeth who was wife of William Pychard, delivering to Walter son and heir of Hugh de Cokeseye any issues thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Elizabeth at her death held no lands in that county in chief in her demesne as of fee nor in service, but held the premises for life of others than the king, with remainder to the right heirs of the said Hugh, whose heir was then a minor in the king's wardship ; and on 10 July last the age of the said Walter was proved, the king took his homage and fealty, and commanded livery to be given him of his father's lands. To Roger de Wolfreton escheator in Norffolk.