Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1359

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

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: June 1359', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360, (London, 1908) pp. 587-588. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol10/pp587-588 [accessed 23 April 2024]

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June 1359

June 1.
Westminster.
To William de Otteford, escheator in the county of Buckingham. Order to make a partition of a messuage and 2 bovates of land in Borstall into two equal parts, in the presence of the parceners if they choose to attend, and to cause Edmund de la Pole, knight, and Elizabeth his wife, one of the sisters and heirs of Edmund de Haudlo, tenant in chief, to have seisin of the purparty falling to Elizabeth, retaining in the king's hand until further order the purparty falling to Margaret the other sister and heir of Edmund de Haudlo, and sending that partition to chancery to be enrolled, as of the lands which belonged to Edmund de Haudlo, taken into the king's hand by his death, the king has assigned to Edmund de la Pole, whose fealty he has taken, and to Elizabeth his wife, who has proved her age before John de Estbury, escheator in Wilts, one moiety of the said messuage and land, and to Margaret the other moiety, to hold as the purparties of Elizabeth and Margaret of that inheritance, and the bailiwick of the forestership of Bernwode to Edmund, Elizabeth and Margaret to hold in common.
Vacated because otherwise below.