1382-10-29, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 6 Richard II · Richard II · Close Rolls · Membrane 17

⚙ Machine OCR · unverified

Dated in source: “Oct. 29” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 17 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

Order to remove the hand and meddle no further with a yearly rent of 10 marks wherewith the manor of la Brodetoune is charged, delivering to the abbess and convent of Shafton any issues thereof taken ; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Gilbert le Despenser at his death held the said manor of the king as of the honour of Walyngford for life by demise of Hugh le Despenser his brother, and that the said Hugh having obtained the king's licence charged the same with that yearly pension during the life of Joan le Despenser his sister, a nun of the said house.

📄 Compare the scanned page Leaf 179 · printed p.167

This text was read by machine from the public-domain scan below. Read the original to check any word — the marginal date/place column sits to the left of the body.

Scanned image of leaf 179, printed page 167

Open the full page in the Internet Archive reader →

View on the Internet Archive → Public-domain source; full text via the Internet Archive.

People named

Also at Westminster

All entries here →

Same act type

Browse other order acts under Richard II.

See them →

Location

Flag a data issue

Spotted an error — a wrong date or place, a misread text, people wrongly combined or split? Reports keep the corpus trustworthy.