1358-03-01, Westminster

Commitment to Theobald Trussel and John de Bledelowe of the keeping of the manors of Langeford and Wodhull, which are held of the king in chief, for as long as they shall remain in the king's hand, together with the issues thereof since they were taken into his hand, so that they answer at the Exchequer for the above and all other issues thereof if they ought by right to belong to the king ; as the manors were taken into the king's hand, as appears by a certificate of William de Otteford, escheator in the county of Bedford, because John, son and heir of John de Wodhull, now deceased (defunctus), who took to wife Eleanor daughter of John de Molyns, while he was a minor in the king's ward enfeoffed Robert del Hay thereof without licence, and Robert granted them without licence to the said John son of John and Eleanor, the former being still a minor, in fee tail, thus defrauding the king of the profits which he should have had in name of wardship by reason of the said minority, and now the said Eleanor has given the king to understand that the above feoffments were made with his licence, and not otherwise, and has produced letters patent of such licence, praying the king to remove his hand from the manors, whereas John Gaunt, who sues for the king, asserts that other feoffments of the manors were made by John to Robert without licence, which Eleanor altogether denies, whereupon an inquisition between the king and Eleanor for the declaration of the premises remains to be taken. By C. Not sent in the estreats, because the king afterwards removed his hand from the manors and issues.