1334-04-06, Rockingham

To the sheriff of Salop. Order to permit Henry de Ferariis and Isabella wife, daughter and heir of Theobald de Verdon, sometime lord of the of Stoke-upon-Tyren in that county, to exercise infangenthef, and view of frankpledge in that manor, as the ancestors of had exercised that liberty there, as it was found by an inquisition by William le Butiller of Wemme and other lieges that Theobald all his ancestors held that liberty from time out of mind, until J. in the 6th year of his reign caused it to be taken into his hands his ministers because Stephen de Denton, who had committed a certain in that liberty and who had been taken at the suit of a party sectam partis), had been beheaded before any court was held in that or judgment made.thereupon in form of law, and that Edward I. and late king held that liberty in their hands until the 5th year of the late reign, when the said king caused the liberty to be delivered to by a fine which he made with the king, who in the same year the liberty to be reseized into his hands because Theobald married de Burgo against the king's will, at the prosecution of Bartholode Burghersshe and Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters ard co-heirs Theobald, who lately held that manor in Elizabeth's purparty, asserting the liberty was in the king's hands for the reason aforesaid, and him to order justice to be done in the premises: the king the then sheriff of Salop not to intermeddle further with that allowing Bartholomew and Elizabeth to exercise that liberty in the manor as the ancestors of Theobald had done before it was taken into late king's hands; and afterwards, for certain reasons the king ordered that manor to be taken into his hands and to be delivered to Henry and Isabella, in Isabella's purparty of the inheritance of Theobald and now the said Henry and Isabella have informed the king that the sheriff wilfully prevents them from having and exercising that liberty in that manor, as was anciently accustomed to be done.