1375-09-05, Rockingham

To Richard de Waterden escheator in Norffolk. Order to deliver John fitz Johan the manor of Skulton called Burdeleys, taken into king's hand by the death of Joan who was wife of Gilbert de la together with the issues thereof taken, to hold for his by the courtesy of England ; as the king has learned by inquisition, by the escheator, that at her death the said Joan held the said in her demesne as of fee in chief by the service of being at the coronation and doing the office of lardenar, and that the said who took her to wife, ought to hold the same for his life by the by reason of issue between them begotten ; and the king has his fealty.