1338-02-08, Westminster

To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause a messuage, 53 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow and 4 acres of pasture in Renham, wo. Essex, to be vesumed into the king's hand and the king's hand to be afterwards amoved therefrom, so that the prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England may hold the custody until the heir of William Jarpevill shall come of age, restoring the issues thereof, as on it being lately found by inquisition taken by the escheator, that William held at his death in his demesne as of fee a moiety of the manor of Wodebergh, co. Wilts, and the said messuage, land, meadow and pasture, which moiety is held of the king by the service of rendering a pair of gilt spurs yearly of the price of 6d., and the tenements in Renham are held of the prior by the service of a 20th part of a knight's fee, and that Joan, William's daughter, is his next heir and was then aged 10 years and more, at the prior's suit, beseeching the king to cause his band to be amoved from the lands which are held of the prior, the king ordered the escheator to make known to William le Bruere, who married Matilda, late the wife of William, and to Matilda, to whom the king committed the custody of two parts of the land which belonged to William Jarpenill, to hold under a certain form, that they should be in chancery on the morrow of the Purification last, to show cause why the said tenements in Renham should not be resumed into the king's hands and his hands afterwards amoved therefrom, so that the prior should have the custody thereof, and to do and receive what the king's court should determine, and the escheator returned that he had made this known to William and Matilda by Richard de Edersete and Henry le Clerk, and William and Matilda did not come on the said day or send any one for them. . Parr I. 299