1349-08-06, Marlborough
To John de Wyndesore, escheator in cos. Warwick and Leicester. Order retain in the king's hand a messuage and 2 virgates of land in a rood of land in Shathewell, the advowson of the church of town and a messuage and a virgate of land at Napton, until further order, not to intermeddle further with the manors which he took into the hand by reason of the death of John de Pulteneye, restoring the thereof to Margaret, late John's wife, and to William, their son, as king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his held no lands in his demesne as of fee in chief in those counties, but he held the said tenements and advowson in Dadelyngton, Shathewell Napton, and he held the manors of Pulteneye and Munsterton in co. for life, of the gift and enfeoftment of John de Tilteye, clerk, by fine levied in the kineg s court, with remainder to Margaret and William the heirs of William's body, and that the said manors, land and are held of others than the king by divers services. To William de Middelton, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk.
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