1325-11-08, Cippenham

To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order to amove the king's hand from a of Richard atte Welle in Wycoumbe, co. Buckingham, as the has certified that he took the messuage into the king's hands one William Hallyng , born in Flanders, acquired it from John and William, after he had held it for a long time and had been in and scot with the burgesses of that town, bequeathed it in his will, to the custom of the town of Wycoumbe, to Margaret his wife, being seised thereof for a long time, enfeoffed Robert Ballard thereof, whose death his son and heir Robert enfeoffed the said Richard atte thereof, and it seemed to the escheator that the messuage ought be taken into the king's hands because William Hallyng was an alien; cause the king deems insufficient and frivolous.