1369-03-20, Windsor

feit the same but for his life only being by the said fine entailed, and that by his death they pertain to her as his cousin and heir, the king ordered the sheriff of Wiltesir to give notice to the said Thomas [Spigurnell] to be before him in chancery in the quinzaine of Easter last to shew cause wherefore livery of the premises ought not to be given as aforesaid, and further to do and receive what the court should determine ; and the sheriff returned that he gave notice accordingly by Thomas Grenehull and Robert Good; and at the day appeared as well the said John Wrenche and Margaret as the said Thomas Spigurnell in person, and the said John and Margaret craved livery of the premises as the heritage of the said Margaret to hold according to the said fine, and whereas Thomas Spigurnell said nought in effect wherefore livery thereof ought not to be given them, the king took the fealty of the said John Wrenche and rendered the premises to him and the said Margaret. To Thomas de Musgrave escheator in Yorkshire. Order not to meddle further with a messuage and two bovates of land in Rillyngton taken into the king's hand by the death of Robert de Langthwayt of Xillyngton and by reason of the nonage of Margaret his daughter, saving to the king the issues thereof taken, and the marriage of the said Margaret if that ought to pertain to the king; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by William de Raygate late escheator, that the said Robert, who died in the plague on 20 August in the 23rd year of the reign, at his death held no lands in that county in chief, but held the premises by homage and fealty of the heirs of William de Roos of Hamelak tenant in chief who were within age and in the king's wardship, that the said Margaret is his next heir and now of full age, and that the escheators for the time being have by reason of her nonage taken all profit of the premises since the said Robert's death, charging themselves therewith in their accounts at the exchequer; and on 21 June in the 32nd year of the reign the age of Thomas de Roos brother and heir of the said William de Roos was proved, and the king took his homage and fealty, and commanded livery to be given him of his said brother's lands.