1320-11-16, Westminster

Order to the same to go in person to the lands in the county Lincoln of the inheritance of James de Ros, son and heir of Robert d Ros, tenant in chief, a minor in the king's ward, and to see the wast destruction and ruin which, as the king has learned, the merchant of the society of the Spini of Florence, to whom the king granted th wardship of the said lands to hold until the full age of the said hei have done in the houses, woods, gardens, turbaries, fisheries and me in the said lands to the prejudice of the king and the disherison the heir, and, if need be, to make inquisition thereon, and if he fin that such waste, destruction or ruin has been done therein by the sai merchants, to resume the said lands into the king's hand, so that h can answer for the issues thereof at the Exchequer; the king bein held to render and restore to heirs, minors in his ward, all their lanc in the king's hand by name of wardship, as entirely as the same cam to his hands, when such heirs come of age.