1361-03-26, Westminster

Order to John de Estbury, escheator in the counties of Oxford, and Wilts, to take seisin in the king's name of all the lands late the said duke in those counties, and deliver them to Walter or his together with the issues and profits thereof since the duke's ; and to meddle therewith no further. The king wills, however, the inquisitions which the escheator has been ordered to take the said lands be taken and returned into Chancery as By the same letter. like orders to the following escheators : John de Bekynton, escheator in the counties of Somerset and Dorset. Thomas Cheyny, escheator in the county of Devon. John de Skirbek, escheator in the county of Cornwall. Thomas de Monyton, escheator in the counties of Gloucester and Hereford and the march of Wales adjacent. Leo de Perton, escheator in the county of Worcester. John atte Wode, escheator in the county of Salop and the march of Wales adjacent. E The like commissions and orders to the following to keep the said castles etc. in the counties named for the earl's use : William de Hatton ; Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Middlesex. Walter de Haywode ; Southampton. Edmund de Ufford and Richard de Rougham; Norfolk and Suffolk. Walter Parles; Northampton and Rutland. Robert de Erneby ; Leicester and Warwick. Henry de Haydok, clerk, and John Cokayn ; Stafford, Nottingham, Derby and Lancaster. William de Hatfeld; Cambridge, Huntingdon, Bedford and Buckingham. Robert de Elkyngton ; Lincoln. William de Mirfeld and John de Laysyngcroft ; York. Roger de Wyderyngton and Thomas Galoun ; Northumberland.