Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1368

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 12, 1364-1369. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1910.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: November 1368', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 12, 1364-1369, (London, 1910) pp. 456-458. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol12/pp456-458 [accessed 20 April 2024]

November 1368



	Membrane 2.
Nov. 20. Westminster.	To John Evesham escheator in Wylts. Order of the heritage of John Paveleye tenant in chief [to deliver] to John de Seintlou to hold by the courtesy of England the manor of Westbury, the hamlets of Hevedynghull, Stoke Milbourn and Lygh, a moiety of the profits and perquisites of the view of frankpledge, of the hundred, fair, market and 'portmote' of Westbury, and all the rent arising of the 'shamelhous' in the town of Westbury, assigned by the king for the purparty of Joan, Elizabeth and Ela his daughters, rendering to Ralph Cheyne and Joan his wife daughter of the said John Pavely and to the heirs of the said Joan 6l. a year at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas by even portions, [and to deliver] to the said Ralph and Joan the manors (sic) of la Broke, the hamlets or [ ] (fn. 1) and Hauekerygge, the other moiety of the said profits and perquisites, 2 marks of rent to be taken by the hands of the prior of Charleton by Uphaven and of his successors, the said 6l. of rent of the manor of Westbury and the hamlets aforesaid, mast or pasture for their pigs and the pigs of the said Joan's heirs in the wood of Westbury called 'le Holt,' and a piece of ground to build their piggery there by the king assigned for the said Joan's purparty; as on 20 November in the 35th year of his reign, with the assent of William late bishop of Winchester to whom [the king committed] the wardship of the purparty of Joan daughter and one of the heirs of John Paveleye tenant in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, and of the said John de Seintlou who took to wife Alice his other daughter and heir (now deceased) and by her begot the said Joan, Elizabeth and Ela her daughters and coheirs and parceners of the said Joan, the king assigned to John de Seintlou the manor of Broke and the hamlet of Dycherigge with a moiety of the said profits and perquisites, 11l. 9s. 1½d. of rent of the said Joan's moiety which by so much exceeded the yearly value of that purparty, and to Joan daughter of John Paveley the manor of Westbury, the hamlet of Hefdynghull, and the other moiety of the said profits and perquisites, so that her purparty should be bound to John de Seintlou for his life and after his death to his said three daughters in the rent aforesaid for excess of the yearly value thereof, and the king ordered John de Estbury then escheator to deliver those purparties to John de Seintlou and to the said bishop respectively, saving the right of either party to other lands of that heritage if it should be found that John Paveley at his death had any to be parted between the said heirs; and lately at the suit of the said Ralph, who has now taken to wife the said Joan daughter of John Paveley, alleging manifest errors in the record and process of the said partition and in the livery made to John de Seintlou, willing to correct such errors if any there were and to do justice to the parties, the king ordered the sheriff of Wiltes to give notice to John de Seintlou to be before him in chancery in the octaves of Martinmas last to hear the same, and to shew cause wherefore the said lands ought not to be taken again into the king's hand and a new partition made by reason thereof, and to do and receive further what should be lawful in the premises; at which day appeared in chancery as well John Seintlou by Hugh de Gouteby clerk his attorney according to the warning given him by the sheriff as the said Ralph in person and Joan daughter of John Paveley by John Auncel her attorney, and the said Ralph and Joan alleged that the value of the lands assigned to the purparty of his said three daughters and delivered to John de Seintlou is in excess of the value of those kept in the king's hand and committed to the said bishop for the purparty of the said Joan by 13s. 4d. yearly, and that so there was error in the partition and in the livery thereof, praying that the same should be taken again into the king's hand and parted anew, and this excess John de Seintlou by his attorney did not gainsay, wherefore the king took the lands of the said heritage again into his hand, and by assent of the said heirs and parceners assigned to the said daughters of John de Seintlou the manor of Westbury with the hamlets first mentioned, a moiety of the said profits and perquisites and the whole of the said rent of the 'shamelhous' to their purparty, rendering to Joan daughter of John Pavele and to her heirs 6l. a year as aforesaid with power to her and her heirs to distrain for arrears in the said manor and purparty, so that the steward and bailiff for holding hundreds and 'portemotes' should be at the choice of John de Seintlou to whom that purparty pertains for his life, and after his death at the choice of his said three daughters and their heirs for ever, and assigned to Joan daughter of John Paveley now wife of the said Ralph, who has now proved her age before the escheator, the manor of Broke with the hamlets of Bicherigge (sic) and Hauekerigge etc., a moiety of the said profits and perquisites, 2 marks of rent of the said prior, 6l. of yearly rent of the purparty of the said three daughters of John de Seintlou, mast and ground for their piggery as aforesaid, with power to distrain as aforesaid for arrears of the said rent of 6l.