July 17, Inquisition

Writ to Thomas de Rokeby, escheator in co. York. Westminster. April 18 Edward II. [1344.] Inquisition : York. Tuesday in Whitsun week. A messuage and 2 bovates of land in Wappelyngton were delivered by by John de Faucomberge, late escheator, to the said Thomas, that they were in the king's hand by reason of the trespass of Simon Archer, who held them of the king in chief as parcel of the king's serjeanty in alienating them without licence in the time of King Henry II to son of Albreda de Fangefosse and Beatrice his wife; the keeping was granted by letters patent to Robert de Brunneby, lately deceased, a yearly farm; the tenements are in the keeping of the escheator because executors of the will of the said Robert, after his death, would not intertherewith. The ancestors of William son of Cecily de Wappelyngton time beyond memory held the tenements of the Knights Templars and of the king in chief until the destruction of that order, by the yearly of 5s. 8d., and since that time of the prior and brethren of the Hospital St. John of Jerusalem in England until taken into the king's hand; they of the yearly value of 5s. C. Ing. Misc. File 151. (22.) 1900.