1382-07-30, Westminster

To Robert de Loxle escheator in Surrey. Order to take the fealty Edward de Sancto Johanne knight, to take of him security for of his relief at the exchequer, and to give him livery of acres of land and 4 acres of meadow, parcel of the manor of Apse ; upon the finding of an inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Brokas at his death held the premises by divers services of the of Humphrey de Bohun ear of Hereford and Edward le Despenser are minors in the king's wardship, and divers other lands of than the king, and that Edward de Sancto Johanne, being of Joan sister of Thomas de Hevere father of Margaret mother the said John, is his next heir and of full age, and upon the finding another inquisition taken by John Brode of Smethe late escheator Kent, that John Brokas at his death held the manor of Ifeld by of others than the king, and that the said Edward, son of Joan daughter of Ralph de Hevere knight father of father of Margaret mother of John Brokas, and Elizabeth wife Edmund Herneys, being daughter of John son of Alice daughter of said Ralph, are cousins and next heirs of John Brokas and of full and upon petition of Edward de Sancto Johanne, shewing that by of the second inquisition, which contains not the whole truth it is he is unlawfully hindered from having livery of the said land meadow although he is the sole heir of John Brokas, the king ordered the sheriff of Surrey to give notice to the said Edmund Elizabeth to be in chancery on the morrow of St. James the last in order to shew cause wherefore the king ought not to the petitioner livery thereof; and the sheriff returned that he John Heyne bailiff of the liberty of Kyngeston to have the of that writ, who answered that he gave them notice as required; and at the day named the said Edmund and came not, wherefore it was determined that livery be given aforesaid.