Close Rolls, Henry IV: December 1400 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 1, 1399-1402. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.

'Close Rolls, Henry IV: December 1400', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 1, 1399-1402, (London, 1927) pp. 237-238. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen4/vol1/pp237-238 [accessed 23 April 2024]

December 1400



Dec. 21. Westminster.	To the escheator in Gloucestershire and the march of Wales adjacent. Order to give Joan late the wife of Maurice de Berkeley knight, whose fealty the king has commanded John Wadham to take, livery of the manor of Rokhampton, divers lands, rents, services, feedings and pastures there called Shepardyne, a parcel called the Lese containing by estimation 20 acres, another parcel called 'Twentyacres,' a third parcel of meadow called 'Vyvetenacres' and the advowson of the church excepted, and of the manors of Kyngesweston and Ailberton, and the issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by Robert Poyns late escheator, that at his death the said Maurice held the lands, parcels and advowson above excepted in his demesne as of fee, that they were parcel of the manor of Rokhampton containing by estimation the sixth part thereof, that with those exceptions he held that and the said other manors as jointly enfeoffed with the said Joan by gift of John Berkelegh, John Denham knights, Thomas Stawell and Thomas Mullewarde chaplain made with licence of the king to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that the same are held in chief, but by what services the jurors know not; and for one mark paid in the hanaper the king has respited the homage of the said Joan until Whitsuntide next.