1339-03-02, Kennington

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge Joan late the wife of Adam atte Brok of Westpecham, tenant in chief of the late king, to whom the late king committed the custody of two parts of the lands which belonged to her husband for rendering 18s. 4d. yearly at the exchequer and pro rata for five parts of the said lands, from 29 May in the 5th year of the reign, and of a sixth part of their tenement from 15 February last, as on the said 29 May the king took the homage of Alice the eldest, Sarah the second, Beatrice the third, Joan the fourth and Dionisia the fifth of Adam's daughters and heirs, and took their homages for their purparties, ordering William Trussel, escheator this side Trent, to divide the lands into six equal portions in the presence of the heirs and parceners and to cause Alice and the others to have seisin of their purparties, retaining in the king's hand the purparty of Isabella, Adam's sixth daughter and heir, a minor in the king's wardship; and on 15 February last the king took Isabella's fealty, who proved her age before the escheator, and rendered her purparty to her.