Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1347

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1905.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1347', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 8, 1346-1349, (London, 1905) pp. 350-351. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol8/pp350-351 [accessed 24 April 2024]

December 1347



	Membrane 4.
Dec. 20. Westminster.	To John de Coggeshale, escheator in co. Middlesex. Order not to intermeddle further with a third part of a third part of the manor of Totenham, restoring the issues thereof to Nichola late the wife of John de Mockyng of Somersete, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee or in service, in chief, in that county, but that he held the premises there jointly with Nichola, of the gift of Richard Spigurnel, to hold for their lives, by a fine levied in the king's court, and that the premises are held in chief by the service of a third part of a knight's fee, and the king has taken Nichola's fealty.
Dec. 21. Chertsey.	To Henry Sturmy, escheator in co. Southampton. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Shaldene, a messuage and a carucate of land and 14 acres of meadow in Shirefeld, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Margaret late the wife of Robert de Kendale held no lands at her death in her demesne as of fee, in chief, or of any other, in that county, but that she held the said manor of the enfeoffment of Nicholas de Bosco by a fine levied in the king's court, for herself and Robert her husband and the heirs of their bodies, and that she held the said messuage land and meadow, and that the manor, messuage land and meadow are held of others than the king.
	To John de Frenyngham, escheator in co. Kent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manors of Petham and Leghe, restoring the issues, as the king has learned that Margaret late the wife of Robert de Kendale at her death held nothing in chief, or in demesne or in service in that county, but that she held the manor of Petham in the last of Sutton of John Kiryel, knight, by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, and the manor of Leghe in the parish of Lymynge in the last of Shewynghope of the earl of Northampton by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee, as dower after the death of John de Leghe formerly her husband.