1405-11-24, Westminster

emoluments, and with all issues, profits, agistments, pannages, waifs, strayes, perquisites of court and other commodities whatsoever of and in the said forests and park, during Edmund's minority, and so from heir to heir until one of them shall have attained lawful age, rendering 401. yearly, as Peter Courtenay was wont to render for the same. By writ etc. [p.s. 4596.] Whereas on 15 July, 17 Richard II, the king committed to the prior of Tynemouth, William de Elmeden, Thomas de Heryngton, William de Redmershill, Thomas Clerk of Alnewyk, William Hatter, chaplain, and Hugh Cotelere, chaplain, the keeping of certain messuages, shops, mills, gardens, lands, and rents in Gesmouth, Bikare, Heton, Little Neweton by Corbrig, Wytwam and Neweastle-upon-Tyne, which had been taken into the king's hand by Sampson Hardyng and John Bridlyngton by virtue of a commission directed to them, to hold the same with all things pertaining to the keeping and together with the issues thereof from the time of the taking of the same into the king's hand, until it should be decided in the king's court whether the premises ought of right to have pertained to the king or to them, with proviso that they should answer at the Exchequer for the said issues and all other issues, if it were adjudged that those issues 1399, p. 89]; and whereas the king has now learnt that they have alienated a very great part of the premises to divers persons in fee and have pledged and mortgaged part thereof for certain sums of money to be expended in and applied to defeating the king's royal right in this behalf, and that the said Thomas de Heryngton William de Elmeden, Thomas Clerk and William Hatter are dead and in their wills have devised certain of the premises to their wives and parcels thereof to certain other persons to maintain a suit in the premises against the king's royal right, to the manifest loss and prejudice of the king and contrary to the tenor, force and. effect of the letters aforesaid : the king therefore orders William Mitford, escheator in the county of Northumberland, if this is so, to take the messuages, shops, mills, gardens, lands and rents aforesaid into the king's hand and to cause them to be kept safely and answer to be made at the Exchequer for the issues thereof, until further order. Order in like terms to the mayor and escheator of Newcastleupon-Tyne.