July 17, Inquisition

Commission to Henry Husee, knight, John de Bohun, knight, Gaynesford and William de Fyfhide to survey the buildings and the priory of Lewes. Westminster. 12 February 22 Edward III. p.s. venire facias in pursuance to the sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. from the commissioners to the sheriff. Midhurst. 11 March. jurors. C. Ing. Misc. File 160. (22.) Commission to Thomas de Haukeston, Saer de Rocheford, William and Thomas de Nesfeld. Westminster. 6 April 22 Edward III. the council. venire facias in pursuance to the sheriff of Lincoln. the commissioners to the sheriff. jurors. : Boston. Thursday after the Nativity of St. Mary. INQUISITIONS The earl of Richmond is lord of Skirbek (from the west side of the water of Wyberton, Frauncton, Kirketon, Soterton and Algerkirk except carucates and 3 bovates of land; he and Joan late the wife of John de la are lord and lady of Swynesheved and Wyggetoft except a carucate of which towns beforenamed contain 8 hundreds, each hundred containing carucates ; in those hundreds the said Joan holds in demesne and service carucates and a bovate only ; to those towns and hundred a marsh called Egthundirdfen belongs, and so she is lady of an eighth part of the said and hundred and a bovate more, and an eighth part of the marsh and much more as pertains to a bovate of right belongs to her; the earl holds residue. The earls of Richmond have always hitherto taken the profits and amerceof their tenants and of strangers for trespasses committed in the marsh to their proportion as aforesaid, but in the time of John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, when his bailiff demised to farm the agistment of his John de la Ware, then lord of the eighth part and bovate, demised the of his share for so much as the earl received, and by colour of such claimed a moiety of the marsh and the profits thereof ; when the tenants were attached and amerced at his court the said John amerced same tenants at the same sum, viz. since the earldom came to the king's by such extortion claiming a moiety as above. Whereas the said lords ought to have the profits of impounding strange within the marsh according to their shares, the said John de la Ware his ministers in the king's time have received and detained the whole. Whereas the said earl is lord of two parts of the town of Wyggetoft and said Joan is lady of the third part, and the earl ought to have two parts the waste of that town, viz. a plot called Wyggetoftmersh the said John la Ware and the said Joan in the king's time have occupied the whole, a plot of waste called Egthundirdfen in Swynesheed. The said John and Joan and their ministers have thus hindered the king queen from receiving their profits and have taken from the marshes C. Ing. Misc. File 160. (23.) 2079.