1346-07-15, Windsor

To William de Keynes, late keeper of the lands which belonged to Roger then in the king's hand. Order to supersede the execution of king's order to deliver the manors of Norton Skidemor, Billeye, Trowe Emwell to Roger, and if he have delivered them to Roger by virtue of order, then to cause them to be resumed into the king's hand without and to deliver them to John, archbishop of Canterbury, Elizabeth de Acuto and Edward de Monte Acuto, and the king wishes the residue Roger's land to be restored to him, as the king lately granted to Roger the manors and lands which he lately granted to the king in fee, to for life without rendering anything to the king, and the king ordered to deliver those manors and lands to Roger, but the aforesaid were granted by the king to the archbishop, Elizabeth and Edward before the grant to Roger, to hold for the life of Hawisia, Roger's To the justices of the Bench. Whereas the prior of the Hospital of St. of Jerusalem in England lately sought before them against Geoffrey Bolestrode, 2 messuages, a mill, a carucate of land, 10 acres of meadow acres of pasture, 7 acres of wood and 16s. rent in Chalfhunte St. Peter the right of his Hospital, in which tenements Geoffrey had no entry by John de Horneby, the elder, to whom brother Richard de Pavely, prior of the said Hospital, demised it for a term now past, and Geoffrey, pleading before the justices, asserted that Richard demised those to John in fee and not for a term, and although it was found inquisition taken before the justices that the demise was made to John a certain term now past, yet they have hitherto delayed to proceed to judgment by pretext of a writ of the king containing that the said are parcel of the.manor of Bolestrode, which came into the hand by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, and the thereupon before William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to pleas before the king, between the king and Geoffrey by writ of scire is adjourned and pending there undiscussed, wherefore the prior has the king to order judgment to be rendered in accordance with the of the said inquisition, having regard that the prior's suit in that was begun long before any suit was instituted by the king against Geoffrey: the king therefore orders the justices to proceed to render without delay in accordance with the law and custom of the By C. To Thomas de Swynford, escheator in co. Bedford. Order not to intermeddle further with a virgate and 10 acres of land of the prior of Newenham in Stachesden, restoring the issues thereof to the prior, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him why he had taken the said land into the king's hand, and the escheator returned that a hide of land containing 15 acres, called Peretre in Stachesden, which is a virgate of land there, was so taken by reason of a trespass which the prior committed in ceasing the payment of a rent of a pair of white saddle bows at the exchequer for forty years past, and 10 acres of the prior's land in that town were so taken by reason of the prior's trespass in ceasing the payment of 44d. for ten years past, in which he was bound to the king ; and afterwards the prior informed the king that the said land is not held of the king by any service, and the prior owes no rent for the same, but that there are certain lands in Bromham that county, whereof those rents are due, and he has besought the king to order his hand to be amoved, wherefore the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the prior never held the said virgate and land of the king but that they are held of . Parr 2. 93 barony of Bedeford in frank almoin, and that Richard de Rythyn holds messuage and 4 acres of land, Agnes le Roos holds 14 acres of land and vicar of Bromham church holds 1 acre of land in Bromham of le White of Stachesden, who holds them and 3 acres of meadow in town of the king by the service of two pairs of white saddle-bows, price and that Richard de Ruthyn holds 1 acre of land, William de Filegrave 14 acres of land, Alexander de Fermorie holds 2 acres of land, Adam Wilyden holds 1 acre of land, Richard le Reve holds 1 acre of land, atte Hulle holds one acre of land, John le Brewestere holds one acre land, Alice daughter of Geoffrey le Botiler holds 24 acres of land in that of the said John le White, who holds them of the king by the service the said 43d. yearly, and that John ought to answer to the king for those