March 18.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Warwickshire. Order to give Richard
Beauchamp of Bergevenny knight and Isabel his wife, sister and
heir of Richard son and heir of Thomas lord le Despenser, livery
of the manors, fees and advowsons hereinafter mentioned, and
the issues thereof taken since the death of Edward duke of York;
as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator,
that at his death the duke held no lands in that county of the
king or any other in his demesne as of fee, but by letters patent of
16 April 2 Henry V held for life the manors of Solyhull and
Sheldoun, the advowsons of Solyhull church and of the free chapel
of St. Alphege there, and the knights' fees and advowsons to
those manors pertaining, with remainder to the said Richard
and Isabel and to the heirs male of their bodies by virtue of other
letters patent produced, to them made thereof and of other things
17 February 2 Henry V, by name of all castles, towns, lordships,
manors, lands, rents, forests, parks, offices, rights, customs,
possessions, jurisdictions, services etc., with the hundreds, swaynmotes, commotes, knights' fees, advowsons, reversions, etc. in
England and Wales of the said Thomas which the duke had for
life by grant of the king by reason of a judgment of forfeiture
against the said Thomas rendered, that the reversion of the said
manors, advowsons and fees after the death of Sibyl who was wife
of Hugh le Despenser knight, who held the same for life of the
heritage of the said Thomas and died 28 August last, did pertain
to the said Thomas, that the duke held the same for life by grant
of the king with remainder as aforesaid, and they that are held
in chief by knight service; and for a fine paid in the hanaper
the king respited the homage of the said Richard for the premises
and for lands in other counties until a day now past, and commanded the escheator in the counties of Suthampton and Wiltesir
to take his fealty. |
