1252/3 March 13. Westminster. "Appointment of John Lestrange and William Trussel to enquire who killed William de Albo Monasterio, steward of William de Albo Monasterio and by whose command and who afterwards received the evil doers, and the sheriff of Salop is commanded &c. and to send the inquisition when made to the king. Afterwards James de Aldithele was associated with him." [1]
1260 June 11. Westminster. "Whereas a contention has arisen between John de Warenna and James de Alditheleg touching the wardship of the lands and heirs of William de Albo Monasterion and the castle of Whitchurch (de Albo Manasterio) late of the said William, which warship the said John asserts to belong to him, whereby disturbance of the realm might arise; the king has provided by his council, in order to avoid this peril, that the said castle shall be committed to his knight Peter de Neyvill until Midsummer, so that then it may be discussed by the council to whom the said wardship ought to belong. The king therefore commands the said James to deliver the castle to Peter to keep until the said term. And as the king has commanded the said John to be then before him and his council to show his right in the said wardship, he also commands the said James to be there to receive justice." June 15. Westminster. Mandate to Peter de Nevill, by the counsel of the magnates of the council, to deliver to Hugh le Bygod, justiciary of England, the castle of Whitchurch, which the king lately commanded James de Alditheleg to deliver to him; to be kept as above. By C." [2]
1260 June 30. Westminster. "Whereas, after the decease of William de Albo Monasterio, between John de Warenna, asserting that the castle of Whitchurch belonged to him as chief lord, and James de Aldithele, a dispute arose over the keeping of the castle, and the king, to pacify the dispute, ordered the castle to be delivered to H. le Bygod, as above mentioned, and it now appears that the said William held it of the said John by knight service, it has been provided in the presence of the said John and James by the council that seisin thereof be given to the said John, to wit, such seisin, as belongs to the chief lord of the fee upon the death of a tenant so that Bertreia the eldest born and one of the daughters and heirs of the said William, who is of full age, and who after the death of her father kept herself in the said castle, shall remain therein in the same seisin in which she was when it was delivered to the said justiciary, and that the said John do for the said Bertreya and her co-heirs, as regards the inheritance which the said William held of him, swift justice according to law and the custom of the realm. And that no prejudice may arise to the said John or his heirs by reason of the king's taking the said castle into his hands, the king has caused these letters patent to be made for the said John. Mandate to the said justiciary to cause the said castle to be delivered to the said John." [3]
[1] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry III, Vol. 4, 1247-1258 (London: HMSO, 1908), 226, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[2] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry III, Vol. 5, 1258-1266 (London: HMSO, 1910), 77, [HathiTrust].
[3] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry III, Vol. 5, 1258-1266 (London: HMSO, 1910), 80, [HathiTrust].