1375-05-26, Westminster
To John Sayville escheator in Yorkshire. Order not to meddle further with the manors of Raskelf and Crakhall and divers lands in Carleton and Coverdale, Welle, Newebiggynge, Thoraldby and Burton and a third part of the pasture of Wensladale upon the earl's soil held in dower by Alice who was wife of Ralph de Neville tenant in chief of the heritage of John de Neville son and heir of the said Ralph, and taken into the king's hand by her death, delivering up any issues thereof taken ; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator that the said Alice at her death held no lands in that county in chief nor of others in her demesne as of fee, but held in dower of the right and heritage of the said John de Neville the manor of Raskelf of the heirs of the lord de Moubray tenant in chief being within age and in the king's hand, the manor of Crakhall and other the premises of others than the king ; and on 10 October in the 41st year of his reign the king took the homage and fealty of the said John [de Neville] and commanded livery to be given him of the premises.
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