1323-05-11, Cowick
To Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Bolton, co. Westmoreland, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John de Derwentwater, the elder, on 11 September, in the 10th year of the king's reign, enfeotfed John de Derwentwater, his younger brother, of the said manor, and that the said John, the younger, continued his seisin thereof until 1 May following, when John, the elder, died, and that the manor was then taken into the king's hands by Robert de Sapy, then . 647 this side Trent, because it was held by knight service of Ralph de lately a minor in the king's wardship, as if John, the elder, had seised thereof at his death.
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