1389-01-16, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 12 Richard II · Richard II · Close Rolls · Membrane 26

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Dated in source: “Jan. 16” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 26 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the escheator in Herefordshire and the march of Wales adjacent. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Coghan in the said march, delivering to Robert Coghan whose fealty the king has taken any issues thereof received ; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Geoffrey Coghan at his death held the same in fee tail of the heir of Edward le Despenser knight tenant in chief of the late king, a minor in the king's wardship, by the service of one rose a year, and that the said Robert son of the deceased is his next heir and of full age.

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