1341 Sept. 27. Westminster. To Henry Vavasour, John de Eland, Nicholas de Wortele, William Basset and Francis de Barneby, keepers of the peace in the West Riding co. York. Order upon pain of forfeiture to cause the peace and the statutes of Winchester and Northampton to be strictly observed and malefactors to be punished and speedy justice to be done for felonies and trespasses, knowing that unless they execute the premises with speed and diligence the king will punish them severely as adherents of the said malefactors, as the king has learned from the complaint of some that although he appointed them to keep the peace in those parts and punish delinquents and to be justices to hear and determine felonies and trespasses committed there from 6th July in the 12th year of the reign, yet on account of their negligence, assemblies and meetings of malefactors and felons are now becoming worse in those parts, and the malefactors and felons are continually committing crimes. By C. [1]
1346 Henry Vavasour held a sixth part of a fee in Cokerington in Lincolnshire. [2]
Feoda Johannis de Baiocis. ... Henricus Wawassour [tenet vj partem] j. f. in Cokeryngton, a quam Willelmus le Wawassour quondam tenuit.
Research Notes:
"m c 1326 Amabel FitzHugh, dau of 1st Lord (Baron) FitzHugh and d just before 27 Nov 1349" [3]
[1] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. VI, 1341-1343 (London: HMSO, 1902), 337, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[2] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Feudal Aids A.D. 1284-1431, Vol. III, Kent-Norfolk (London: HMSO, 1904), 254, [InternetArchive].
[3] Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage, 107th edition, Vol. 3 (Willington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry, LLC, 2003), 3984.