1331-04-22, Wingham

Order to take the fealty of Margaret de Mello, late the wife of Maurice de Credonio, for the lands that she holds of the king, and to certify the king thereof, as the king has given to him power to receive her fealty and has respited ber homage until Michaelmas next and for a year from then, because he wishes to shew her grace as she lives in parts beyond sea and is so grievously ill that she cannot come to him to do her homage for the lands that she holds of him in England and Treland. By K. To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Whereas the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry de Kellygreu at his death held of him 24 knights fees of Mortain in Rescradek as of the honour of Launceton castle, in the king's hands, and an acre of land of Cornwall in Pengelly as of the manor of Helliston, likewise in the king's hands, by the service of 12d. yearly for all service, and divers other lands and fees of other lords by various services, and that John son of Henry is his next . Parr I. 227 is aged sixteen years, the king orders the escheator to retain in his the said foes and land that are held of him until otherwise ordered, to intermeddle further with the lands thus held of other lords, the issues of the latter.