1370-10-30, Westminster

the bailiffs of Lincoln. Order to deliver to the keeping of John of Norhamptonshire and Walter de Askeby of Lincolnshire, containing the price, value and description thereof, the and chattels of William Belle, certifying the king of the same, of the price, value and description thereof, and to certify in under their seals if there be any reasonable cause wherefore ought not so to do, sending again this writ ; as the king has full that the said William being mad in his madness at Lincoln John Geppe of Axay otherwise called John Belle, wherefore the caused his goods and chattels to be seized as forfeit into their and are detaining them; and madmen committing crimes madness ought not by law to undergo the extreme penalty to forfeit their goods or chattels ; and the said John de Holt and appearing in person in chancery have mainperned when the William shall recover to answer to the king or any fit person the goods and chattels so seized, over and above his maintenance.