Royal writ (dated Reading, 8 August 1381). Appointment of Simon de Burgh and William Lakyngheth, the king's serjeant-at-arms, to supervise the office of Ralph Wykes, escheator in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, in respect of the taking of inquisitions ... by reason of the present insurrection and to control all escheats, forfeitures and other profits, testifying upon the said escheator's account at the exchequer.
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This writ was enrolled into the patent rolls: Cal. Pat. R., 1381-5, pp. 28-9.
