1326-02-20, Barnwell

To Thomas Deyvill, keeper of the castle and honour of Pontefract. not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Polyngton, to restore the issues thereof to Sibyl, late the wife of John de Metham, the king learns by inquisition taken in the keeper's presence by William Herle and John de Denum that the said John de Metham and Sibyl jointly enfeoffed of the said moiety by Thomas de Metham, father of said John, who granted it to them by charter in the 26th year of tho king's reign, to have to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that continued her seisin thereof by virtue of the said feoffment jointly the said John from the time of the feoffment until John's death, and his death until the said keeper took the moiety into the king's hands Thomas de Metham, son of the aforesaid Sibyl, was outlawed in Nottingham, and that the moiety is in the king's hands for this and for other reason, and that Sibyl made no estate thereof to her son, and that moiety is held of the king and other lords by divers services. By pet. of C. [3013.]