1334-03-26, Rockingham

To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed to render judgment and do justice to the parties in a suit before them which Sibyl, late the wife of John de Mohun brings against Hugh de Courtenay the elder and Agnes his wife, for the third part of the manor of Cadeleye, as Sibyl s dower from the freehold of her husband, as the said Sibyl has shown the king that whereas she sought that third part before these justices against Hugh and Agnes, and Hugh and Agnes called John, kinsman and heir of John de Mobun, whose person and part of whose lands are in the custody of Bartholomew de Burewassh, and another part in the custody of William de Ayrmynne, bishop of Norwich, to warranty against Sibyl, and the bishop pleading before the justices alleged that he held the custody of two parts of all the lands which belonged to John de Mohun, by the king's grant, uutil the heir should come of age, and produced the king's letters patent thereupon, asserting that he could not answer anyone thereupon without the king, wherefore the justices have hitherto delayed to proceed further in that plea, and Sibyl, by her petition before the king and his council in parliament, bas besought the king to provide a remedy. By pet. of C. Like order to the same on behalf of the said Sibyl, mutatis mutandis, concerning a third part of the manor of Mildenhale, which she seeks as her dower against John de Mere and Eleanor his wife.