1348-02-06, Westminster

Commission to Thomas de Haukeston, William de Estfeld, the elder, William de Nesfeld and John de Castelford, reciting that the king is informed that John de Warenna, late earl of Surrey, alienated to divers men in fee great part of the demesne lands in the manors of Conyges burgh, Haytfeld, Sandale, Wakefeld, Thorne, Fisshelak and Sourebyshire, and of the lands of the bondmen there, which he held for life and which after the earl's death came into the king's hands, manumitted a very large number of the said bondmen and approved great part of the wastes in those manors, without having obtained the king's licence for this, to the prejudice and danger of disherison of Edmund de Langele, the