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June 14.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Oxfordshire. Order to give Thomas
Baldyngton, son and heir of William Baldyngton esquire, seisin
of his father's lands, saving the dower of Joan who was wife of
the said William; as he has proved his age before the escheator,
and the king has taken his homage and fealty. By p.s. [1452.] |
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To the escheator in Bukinghamshire. Like order; as the said
Thomas has proved his age before John Daunevers escheator in
Oxfordshire. By p.s. (as above). |
June 16.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Oxfordshire. Order to take of Joan who
was wife of William Baldyngton esquire an oath etc., and in
presence of Thomas Baldyngton, son and heir of the said William,
or of his attorneys, to assign her dower. |
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To the escheator in Bukinghamshire. Order to assign dower
to the said Joan, of whom the king has commanded the escheator
in Oxfordshire to take an oath etc. |
July 11.
Westminster. |
To the keepers of the ports of Dovorre, Sandewich and
Wynchilsey. Order to cause the abbot of Beaulieu and Walter
Pole knight, the ambassadors sent by the king to the pope, to have
speedy and sufficient shipping for themselves, their men, horses
and harness at their cost, that their passage be not hindered by
default of the keepers. By p.s. [1480]. |
June 20.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Somerset. Order to give the next friend of
Edward Courtenay, son and heir of Hugh Courtenay knight, to
whom the inheritance may not descend livery of two messuages
in Kyngeston, a messuage and 40 acres of land in Hille otherwise
Hulle, a messuage and one acre of meadow in Cherde and two
messuages with appurtenances in Yevele, and the issues thereof
taken, to keep until the lawful age of the said heir; as the king
has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Edward
Courtenay earl of Devon and lord of Okhampton was thereof
seised, and gave the same to the said Hugh his brother and to the
heirs male of his body, that they are held in socage of the heirs
of the earl of March by fealty only, and that Edward is son and
heir of Hugh, and was of the age of eight years and more at the
date of that inquisition. |
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July 16.
Westminster. |
To the escheator in Devon. Order to take the fealties of Master
Michael Lerchedeken, Matthew Doune, Geoffrey Veale, Thomas
Pay clerks and Richard Whytlok, and to give them livery of
100 acres of arable land, 4 acres of meadow, 200 acres of wood, 300
acres of furze and heath and 6s. of rent in Skyradoun, and the
issues thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken before
the escheator, that John Boyvyle the elder was thereof seised, and
long before the death of Hugh Courtenay knight granted the same
for 80 years from the feast of St. Bartholomew 1 Henry VI, by
name of all his messuages, lands, rents, reversions and services
in Skyradoun, to the said Hugh, by name of Hugh Courtenay of
Haccombe knight, the said Michael and the others, and to the
heirs and assigns of the said Hugh, that while in their possession
the said John after made a quitclaim thereof to them, and that
the premises are held in chief by the service of the sixth part of
one knight's fee; and for a fine paid in the hanaper the king has
pardoned the trespasses herein committed. |
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To the escheator in Devon. Order to remove the king's hand
and meddle no further with 50 acres of arable land, 12 acres of
meadow and 6 acres of wood in Dounyngeston, delivering up any
issues thereof taken; as it is found (as above) that Hugh Courtenay
knight at his death held the same of the abbot of Torre, and that
Edward Courtenay is his son and heir, and is of the age of eight
years and more. |
July 1.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Somerset for election of a verderer in the
forest of Nerecchich instead of William Neweton, who is insufficiently qualified. |
June 14.
Westminster. |
Like order to the sheriff of Norhampton in regard to Henry
Mulsho, a verderer of the forest of Rokyngham, who is dead. |
June 20.
Westminster. |
Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Leycester in regard
to Nicholas Joe a coroner, who is insufficiently qualified. |
