1336-11-29, Bothwell

To John Moryn, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle with a messuage and a carucate of land in Nethercolewyk, the king's hand therefrom, restoring the issues thereof to John of John de Nowers, as the escheator returned that he had taken the messuage and land into the king's hands because he had found by of office, that John de Nowers, at his death held them chief as of the honour of Peverell, then in the king's hands, by service, and that John, his son and heir entered these tenements his death, without process of the king's court and without performing services due to the king; and subsequently, at the suit of John son John, showing that his father held no lands at his death in chief, that he held the said messuage and land of Grace de Nowers, lady of by the service of the fourth part of a knight's fee, the ordered the escheator to take an inquisition on the matter, by which is found that John de Nowers at his death held the said messuage and of Grace by the said service, and not of the king, as of the crown or and that the said messuage and land are worth 40s. yearly in all