1320-12-18, Odiham

to Hugh le Despenser the elder, Bartholomew de John de Stonore and Robert de Malberthorp, reciting king has been given to understand that William de Brewosa, of Gower in the march of Wales, and his ancestors, alienated licence divers lands which they held in chief there by service of the king's progenitors, kings of England, and of the which still remain so alienated to the loss and in contempt for which also escheators on this side Trent, concealing have applied no remedy as pertained to their office, the king is much disturbed ; and appointing the said comto make inquisition in the said land of Gower what lands William and his ancestors in the times of the king's progenitors king have alienated in the said land, and to whom, at what in what manner, and if the said lands are held of the king in by what service and in what manner, and how much they a year, after summoning those whom the premises concern at the inquisitions so to be taken if they think fit, and into the king's hand the lands held of the king by knight service find by such inquisitions to have been alienated by the in the time of Edward I or of the king without licence, the same until further order by the keeper of the said land now in the king's hand for certain causes, so that he answer thereof at the Exchequer, and to certify the king of what herein, sending to the king the inquisitions made by them and ; the king having ordered the escheator on this side Trent, the said land, to summon before them good and lawful men and at places fixed by the said commissioners to make such By p.s.