1323-06-10, Cowick

To Master John Walewayn, escheator beyond Trent. Order to restore John Pippard the manors of Twyford and Lynford, taken into the king's by him upon the death of Edmund le Boteler, as it appears by fines before the justices of the Bench, in the third year of the king's reign, the said John and Edmund concerning the said manors that John the manors to be the right of Edmund, and that Edmund, for acknowledgment, granted the manors to Johan for life, to wit to hold manor of I'wyford of the king and the manor of Lynford of the chief which fines were shewn in chancery, and John afterwards demised TT 2 the manors to Edmund for a term of years for a yearly ferm, with power for John to enter them and hold them for life in case Edmund failed to pay the ferm, in exercise of which power John entered the manors long before Edmund's death, and it appears by inquisition taken by the escheator that John demised the manors as above to Edmund for a term of years at a yearly rent of 40/., and that Edmund ceased to pay the rent for two years, for which reason John entered the manors at the feast of St. Barnabas, in the eighth year of the king's reiyn, and held them for seven years before Edmund's death and until Martinmas, in the 15th year of the king's reign, to wit for eight weeks after Edmund's death. To Thomas de Burgh, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with four messuages, 5 tofts, and 20 bovates of Jand in Hunmanby and Fulthorp, which Adam de Gaunt lately acquired from Gilbert de Gaunt for life, and with 4 tofts and 10 bovates of land in the same towns, which Adam and Agnes his wife lately acquired to them and the heirs of their bodies from Juliana de Gaunt, sister and co-heiress of the said Gilbert, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that the tenements that Adam acquired from Gilbert de Gaunt as above are held of Robert Marmyon by the service of two ounces of silk yearly for all service and not of the king in chief, and that the tenements that Adam aud Agnes acyuired from Juliana as above are held of the said Robert by the service of 2d. yearly for all services and not of the king in chief, the escheator having taken the premises into the king's hands because it was found by an inquisition of office taken by him that they were held of the king in chief.