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On 07 Feb 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23) and Isabella of France Queen Consort England (age 13) returned from their wedding in Boulogne sur Mer [Map] to Dover, Kent [Map].
07 Feb 1308. Be it remembered that on Wednesday after the Purification, Edward II, the king, returning from beyond seas, to wit, from Boulogne sur Mer [Map], where he took to wife Isabel, daughter of the king of France (age 39), touched at Dover, Kent [Map] in his barge about the ninth hour [1500], Hugh le Despenser (age 46) and the lord of Castellione of Gascony being in his company, and the Queen a little afterward touched there with certain ladies accompanying her, and because the great seal which had been taken with him beyond seas then remained in the keeping of the keeper of the wardrobe who could not arrive on that day, no writ was sealed from the hour of the king's coming until Friday following on which day the bishop of Chichester, chancellor, about the ninth hour [1500] delivered to the king in his chamber in Dover castle [Map] the seal used in England during the king's absence, and the king, receiving the same, delivered it to William de Melton (age 33), controller of the wardrobe, and forthwith delivered with his own hand to the chancellor the great seal under the seal of J. de Benstede, keeper of the wardrobe, and Master John Painter Fraunceis, in the presence of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (age 30), Peter, Earl of Cornwall (age 24), and Hugh le Despenser, William Martyn and William Inge, knights, and Adam de Osgodby, clerk; and the chancellor on that day after lunch in his room (hospicio) in God's House, Dover, sealed writs with the great seal.
16 Nov 1322. Order to William de Polhey, keeper of certain lands in the county of Hertford in the king's hand for certain causes, to deliver to William de la Doune and Ellen de Denardeston, now his wife, the manor of Welles, which is in the king's hand and in the keeping of the said William de Polhey of the king's commitment, with the issues thereof from the time of the taking of the same into the king's hand, to hold for Ellen's life, saving to the king the goods and chattels late of William Tochet found therein, so that after her death the manor revert entire to the king and his heirs by reason of the forfeiture of William Tochet; the king having learned by the tenour of the foot of a fine levied before the justices of the Bench in 3 Edward II between the said William Tuchet and Ellen, complainants, and William de Goldyngton and Margaret his wife, deforciants, of the said manor, that the said deforciants acknowledged the manor to be the right of William Tuchet as that which he and Ellen had of the gift of the deforciants, to hold to them and the heirs of William Tochet of the chief lords of that fee by the services pertaining to the manor; and by an inquisition made by John de Benestede and John de la Haie and returned to Chancery, that William Tuchet and Ellen and William de la Doune, now her husband, from the time when William de la Doune married Ellen, continued seisin of the manor until the death of William Tuchet nor changed their estate therein afterwards, and that the manor is in the king's hand by the forfeiture of William Tochet and for no other cause and is held of Robert de Kendale and Margaret his wife by certain services. By pet. of C.
20 Mar 1326. Grant for life to John de Felton, for good service, of the castle of Lethinhales, co. Hereford, late of William Tuchet, of late the king's enemy and rebel, which has come to the king's hand as an escheat by his forfeiture, to hold to the value of £40 a year, so that if the castle exceed that value he answer at the Exchequer for the surplus, and so that after his death the castle revert to the king and his heirs; and if it please the king to provide him with £40. of land elsewhere, the . king may resume the castle into his hand. By p.s. [7338.]