1320-07-28, Kennington

Commission to William de Shareshull and James de Wodestok to make inquisition, in presence of the escheator, touching a petition of Roger Chaundos, shewn before the king and council in Parliament, setting forth that Nicholas le Walshe of Podyngton, deceased, held lands in Hewysh Chaunflour, co. Somerset, of the king in chief by knight service, and held other lands in Podyngton, co. Dorset, of the said Roger and Matilda his wife, also by knight service, and although the lands in Hewysh Chaunflour are not held in chief as of the crown whereby the custody of the lands in Podyngton, held of Roger and Matilda, should pertain to the king by reason of his prerogative, yet the same custody, because it was found by a certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, sent by his command before him in the chancery for information as to his right in the premises, that one Maurice de Gaunt held a moiety of a knight's fee in Cantokesheved and Hewysh, has remained in the king's hands from the time of the death of the said Nicholas, and praying that, in consideration of this that there are three towns called Hewysh, to wit Hewysh Chaunflour, Begere Hewysh and Hewysh by Cantokesheved, and the certificate does not mention in which of the three the moiety of the knight's fee is, the king would remove his hands from the custody; and to certify the king of all the circumstances. By pet. of Parliament.