1326-05-24, Croydon

To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middleand in the city of London. Whereas the king learns by inquisition by the escheator that Ralph de Cobham held on the day of his death lands in the city of London of the king in free burgage, and certain in Worth, Wyveleston, and Botteleg of John de Warenna, earl of John atte Bisse, Simon de Perepount, and Nicholas de Shelvestrode socage, and certain lands in Westerham and Dertford of the bishopric of the heirs of John de Hastinges, Henry de Sancta Ositha, de Grandisono, the prior of St. John of Jerusalem in England, the abbot and convent of Westminster in gavelkynde, and that he no other lands in chief on the said day as of the crown by reason the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king, and that de Cobham, son of the said Ralph, is his next heir and is aged one the king orders the escheator to deliver the said lands and the issues to Mary, late the wife of the said Ralph, mother of the heir, as [friend] of the heir, to be held for the heir's use, saving to her her thereof. To the same. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by Richard Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, Buckingham, that Ralph de Cobham held on the day of his death in bailiwick the manor of Ardinton of the king as of the honour of Walby the service of a knight's fee, and it is found by inquisition taken the said William by the king's order that Ralph held on the aforesaid day tenements in Claytone, Peccham, and Bolneye of John de Warenna, of Surrey, by knight service, and that he held no other lands in chief the day of his death as of the crown by reason whereof the custody of other lands ought to pertain to the king, and that John de Cobhan, his is his next heir and is aged one year; the king orders the escheator to intermeddle further with the lands that Ralph thus held of the earl, he has taken into the king's hands by reason of Ralph's death, and restore the issues thereof.