1375-07-14, Westminster

To Walter Sifrewast escheator in Dorset. Order, if the parcels hereinafter mentioned are in the king's hand for the cause stated and for none other, and if assured by oath of true menof his bailiwick that the lands recovered are parcel of the manor of Wynfred N eubourgh which is held in chief, to take the fealty of Hawise wife of Thomas son and heir of Robert de Neuburgh, and to deliver the said parcels to her according to the effect of the judgments herein recited; as on 18 March in the 11th year of his reign the king by letters patent gave licence to the said Robert to enfeoff Nicholas de Neuburgh clerk and Adam Tettebourne clerk and their heirs of the said manor, so that they having full and peaceable seisin thereof might give the same to the said Robert for life with remainder to the said Thomas and Hawise and to the heirs of their bodies ; and now the said Hawise has petitioned the king for restitution of divers parcels thereof, shewing that after the said Robert's death the said Thomas obtained possession of the said manor and without the king's licence aliened those parcels to divers persons for life, namely to John Bagge and John his son 6 acres of land, to John Tiddelyng 8 acres of land, to Richard Font 18 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to William Jattey and Joan his wife 10 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow, to Avice Saldyns 18 acres of land and 4 acre of meadow, to Edward Mantel 30 acres of land and 5 acres of meadow, to William Reynald and Joan his wife and Robert Wylly 3 acres of land and acre of meadow, to William Cod and Maud his wife 6 acres of land and acre of meadow, to Joan Bagge 16 acres of land and 3 acre of meadow, to Avice Malyns 3 acres of land, to Nicholas Malyn a messuage and 1 acre of meadow, to Maud Terryes 3 acres of land, to John Stoke 5 acres of land and 3 acre of meadow, to Henry Gylmyn and Alice his wife 18 acres of land and 3 acre of meadow, to John Penbrygge and Joan his wife 3 acres of land and 3 acre of meadow, to Avice who was wife of John Gydyion 5 acres of land and 1 rood of meadow, to Avice Shippester 3 acres of land, to Richard Duryng and Christiana his wife 8 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to William Kemere and Margery his wife 10 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to Nicholas Catour 18 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to Roger Raulys and Avice his wife 6 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to Geoffrey Warfoule 3 acres of land and acre of meadow, to John Tyte 6 acres of land and 4 acre of meadow, to John Colyns 18 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to John Beaugraunt and Agnes his wife 3 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to Isolda who was wife of William Snow 8 acres of land and 1 rood of meadow, to Avice North 3 acres of land and 1 rood of meadow, to Nicholas Tidelyng and Edith his wife a messuage, to John Possch and Christina his wife 20 acres of land and 4 acres of meadow, to Robert atte Water 3 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, to Clement Mulward and Avice his wife 3 acres of land and 1 acre of meadow, and to John Whiteclyve and Alice his wife 3 acres of meadow al] in Wynfred Neubourgh, and that although she overlived the said Thomas, and by judgments rendered in the king's court upon the records and processes of causes before the justices of the Bench by divers writs of cui in vita recovered the said parcels against the persons named, as appears by the tenor of those records and processes which the king has caused to come before him in chancery, Adam atte More late escheator took the said parcels into the king's hand, pretending that in those alienations trespasses are committed against the king, and the same are yet in the king's hand.