1347-01-18, Westminster
John de Coggeshale, escheator in cos. Essex, Hertford and Middle- Order to deliver five shops in the town of Westminster, co. Middlesex, nearest friend of John son of Bonadyenture Benyntende of Florence Wimarea his wife, to whom the inheritance cannot descend, without to be kept for the heir's use, as the king has learned by inquisition by the escheator that Wimarca at her death held no lands in her as of fee or in service, in chief, in that county, but that she held said shops together with Bonadventure of the gift of John le Clere of for themselves and the heirs of their bodies, by the king's licence, that the shops are held of the king by the service of 2. yearly, and is the next heir of Bonadventure and Wimarca and aged eight years the king has taken his fealty.
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