October 7, 1297
St Paul's
To John de Lythegr[aynes], escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the escheator assigned to Hawysia, late the wife of Ralph de Goushill, tenant in chief, dower of her husband's lands by the king's order, as appears to the king by inspection of the assignment sent to the king by him, and the escheator has taken the lands thus assigned to her in dower into the king's hands by virtue of a writ called 'diem clausit extremum' concerning Ralph's death, as he has signified to the king, which cause the king considers null: he therefore orders the escheator not to intermeddle further with the lands thus assigned in dower, if they have been taken into the king's hands solely for this reason, or with the issues thereof since the time when the lands were taken into the king's hands.