Feb. 16.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Wiltesir. Order to give Richard Beauchamp of Bergevenny knight and Isabel his wife livery of the
third part of two thirds hereinafter mentioned, and the issues
thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the
escheator, that Thomas late lord le Despenser, sometime husband
of Constance late his wife, was seised in fee simple of two thirds
of the lordships, manors and towns of Sherston, Brodeton and
Wyntreslowe, and of the reversion of a third part thereof then
held in dower of his heritage by Elizabeth who was wife of
Edward le Despenser and mother of the said Thomas, that
Elizabeth overlived the said Thomas, and died on the feast of
St. Anne 12 Henry IV, that of his great trust in them the said
Thomas made a feoffment of those two thirds, by name of his
manors of Sherston, Brodeton and Wyntreslowe, to Thomas
Percy knight now deceased, Hugh Tildesley, Thomas Lawton,
John Cors clerk and Thomas Faukener and to their heirs, to
his own use and profit, that he had the issues and profits all his
life the said feoffment notwithstanding, that he died 5 January
1 Henry IV, that with advice and assent of the lords and commons
in the parliament holden at Westminster in 5 Henry IV that
king made a grant and order that the said Constance should be
enabled and should be admitted and restored at the common
law to sue for and recover her dower of the lordships, lands, fees
and advowsons of her husband against the said king and others,
any judgment of forfeiture or ordinance of parliament against
him notwithstanding, and notwithstanding that by reason of
such forfeiture she was not thereof dowable, as by an act of the
roll of parliament produced does appear, that after her husband's
death a third part of the said two thirds was by the then sheriff
assigned in dower to the said Constance by virtue of a writ of
the late king, and that by letters patent of 16 April 2 Henry V
the king granted to Edward then duke of York for life those
lordships etc. among others, by name of all lordships, manors and
towns and all reversions of which other persons were jointly seised
with the said Thomas to his use, and of which on 5 January
aforesaid or after other persons alone were by fine or otherwise
seised to his use, and which were forfeit by virtue of his forfeiture
and of a judgment thereupon rendered, and of an ordinance, act or
declaration published in the parliament holden in 7 Henry IV,
and descended to the king, and by letters patent of 17 February
2 Henry V produced the king granted to the said Richard and
Isabel, being sister of Richard son and heir of the said Thomas,
and to the heirs male of their bodies among other things, the
remainder of the premises after the said duke's death, by name
of all castles, towns, lordships, manors, lands, rents, forests, parks,
offices, rights, customs, possessions, jurisdictions and services,
with the emoluments, liberties, royalties, counties, hundreds,
swaynmotes, commotes and the knights' fees, advowsons and
reversions which were of the said Thomas in England and Wales,
and which the said duke had for life by grant of the king, that the
duke died 25 October 3 Henry V, that the said Constance on the
day of her death held the said third part of those two thirds as
her dower with reversion to the said Richard and Isabel and to
their said heirs, and that the lordships etc. whereof that third part
is parcel are held in chief by knight service; and for a fine paid
in the hanaper the king has respited the homage of the said
Richard for the premises and for other lands in other counties
held by the said duke for life with remainder as aforesaid, and
has taken his fealty. |
Feb. 23.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order not
to trouble Robert de Wylughby knight lord of Eresby for his
homage; as upon the finding of an inquisition, taken before
Thomas Hethe late escheator in Suffolk, that Isabel who was
wife of William Ufforde sometime earl of Suffolk at her death
held the castle and town of Orforde, the manor of Perham with
the advowson of Caumpesse priory, the manor and advowson of
Ufforde, the manors and lordships of Sogonho and Wyndyrville
and the quay and pool of Wodbrugge for her life by demise of
William Phelipp, Robert Asshefelde, Thomas de Wroxham and
Henry Sergeant, with reversion to the said Robert de Wylughby by
virtue of certain grants (produced) by them made of the reversions
thereof after her death to William de Wylughby lord of Eresby,
father of the said Robert, and to the heirs male of his body, that by
virtue of those grants she attorned tenant to William de Wylughby,
that he died long before her death, that the said Robert is his son and
heir male and of full age, and that the castle and town of Orforde,
the manors and lordships of Sogonho and Wyndyrville, the said
quay and pool are held in chief, the manors of Ufforde and Perham
and the said advowsons of others than the king, and for a fine paid
in the hanaper the king respited to a day yet to come the homage
of the said Robert due in that behalf; and the king has taken
his homage. By p.s. [780.] |
Jan. 26.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Devon. Order to remove the king's
hand and meddle no further with the church of Whitefelde, a
tenement and 16 acres of land adjacent, delivering up any issues
thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, by virtue of his office
taken before Robert Hulle late escheator, that Sir Hamon
Brereton rector of Whitefelde died in 10 Henry IV, that the
church is in the king's hands after his death with the said tenement
and land as of the dower thereof, that at the date of that inquisition the church was void of any presentation whatsoever, and
that the advowson has fallen to the king by reason of the nonage
of Fulk Fythwaryn son and heir of Fulk Fithwaryn, who is in
ward of the king; and that inquisition being read in chancery
and the matter understood, after deliberation with the justices,
serjeants at law and others of the council learned in the law, it
seemed to them that the seizure thereof is of no force, wherefore
by their advice it was determined that the king's hand be removed. |
