1351-08-12, Henley

To William de Plumpton, escheator in the county of York. Order to the king's hand from a messuage and 4 bovates of land in Harpham, not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to Bigg of Harpham, chaplain, as on 8 April in the 14th year of the the king gave licence to William de Sancto Quintino of Harpham to assign the said messuage and land toa chaplain celebrating in the chapel of Harpham for the souls of William, William de Thweng and their heirs and of all the faithful departed, and afterwards at Robert's suit, showing that William de Sancto Quintino, long before his death, had enfeotfed him of the said messuage and land by virtue of those letters, and he had continued his seisin during William's life and at the time of his death, and Gerard Salvayn, late escheator in that county, had taken the messuage and land into the king's hand, pretending that William had died seised thereof, that he held them of the heirs of Herbert de Sancto Quintino, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, the king ordered the present escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter in the presence of Henry de Greystok, steward of the lands reserved to the king's chamber or of his deputy, if he choose to attend, and by that inquisition, taken by the escheator, Henry de Greystok and Peter de Grymesby, escheator of the chamber in the parts of Holdernesse, Henry's deputy, having been duly notified to be present, and not coming, it was found that William de Sancto Quintino, being of sound mind, enfeoffed Robert of the said messuage and land on Tuesday in the first week of Lent, 283 Edward III, by virtue of the said charter of licence, and Robert was seised thereof from that day until the Sunday following, when William died, and afterwards, until he was amoved by Gerard, and that the messuage and land are held of Thomas de Thweng as of the fee formerly of Peter de Bruys, by knight's service, and that William at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in the town of Harpham or elsewhere in that county of the heirs of the said Herbert.