Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1354

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1354', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360, (London, 1908) pp. 51. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol10/p51 [accessed 13 April 2024]

December 1354



	Membrane 2.
Dec. 20. Westminster.	To John de Palton, escheator in Somerset and Dorset. Order to cause Robert son of Richard le Grey of Codenore and Elizabeth his wife to have seisin of the manors of Cherleton and Cary and of the advowsons of the churches of those manors, and not to intermeddle further with the manors of Ceden, Staple and Wroxhale or with the advowsons of the churches of those manors, delivering the issues thereof to them, as the king has learned by divers inquisitions taken by the escheator that Robert fitz Payn, at his death, held the manors of Ceden, Staple, Cherleton and Cary and the advowsons of the churches of those manors in Somerset, and the manor of Wroxhale and the advowson of the church thereof in Dorset, to himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder, in default of such heirs, to the said Robert son of Richard and Elizabeth and to the heirs of the body of Robert, by a fine levied in the king's court, that the manors of Cherleton and Cary and the advowsons of the churches thereof are held in chief by knight service, and the manors of Ceden, Staple and Wroxhale and the advowsons of the churches thereof are held of others than the king, and that the said Robert fitz Payn died without an heir male of his body, and for 20s. which Robert son of Richard has paid and because he is staying in the king's service in parts beyond the sea, in the company of Guy de Bryan, the king has respited until Michaelmas next his homage for the manors and advowsons of Cherleton and Cary, unless he return to England in the meantime.
	The said 20s. were paid in the hanaper.