1388-10-18, Cambridge

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Richard II · Richard II · Close Rolls · Membrane 36

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Dated in source: “Oct. 18” · Place: Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 36 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To William Hampton escheator in Gloucestershire. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the fifth part of one knight's fee in Shenyngton, delivering to Joan who was wife of John Salesbury knight any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said John, who forfeited to the king, held the same at his death in her right of others than the king.

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