July 17, Inquisition

Commission to John de Stonore and William de Shareshull. 12 May 18 Edward III. [1344.] Inquisition : Westminster. Tuesday after the Translation of St. Martin. On the eve of the Purification 16 Edward III Edmund le Barber of Eye killed Hugh his brother at Eye, for which felony he was afterwards to be hanged; he then held of the king in chief a messuage, acres of land and a moiety of an acre of meadow in Eye by Westminster, by yearly service of a clove-gillyflower; the yearly value of the messuage outgoings being 12d., of every acre of land 4d., and of the meadow ; the tenements belong to the king as escheat. The said Edmund then had chattels to the value of 40s. in Eye, which are to the king. The abbot of Westminster immediately after the felony entered the teneand still detains them, together with the chattels. Cf. Patent Roll pp. 238, 297, 321. C. Ing. Misc. File 151. (9.) 1887.