1444-05-25, Westminster

Commitment to William Babyngton, knight, by mainprise of Thomas Babyngton and Thomas Scot, of the keeping of a messuage, 3 cottages, 60 acres of land and 20 acres of meadow in Kellum, co. Nottingham, which, among other things, have been taken into the king's hand by colour of a certain inquisition taken by virtue of his office before John Roos, escheator in the county, returned before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer and brought before the king into the Chancery; to hold the same from the time of the taking of the said inquisition until Easter next, according to the form of the statute published in the Parliament held at Westminster 8 Henry VI; so that he answer at the Exchequer for the issues forthcoming therefrom in the mean time, if they shall be adjudged to the king, and in the mean time commit no waste.