1348-11-04, Sandwich

Order to cause Thomas son and heir of John Kaynes, tenant in chief of the late king, to have seisin of all.the lands whereof his father was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, as he has proved his age before Thomas Cary, escheator in co. Dorset, and the king has taken his homage for the - lands which his father held in chief of the late king, and has rendered them to him. By K. 5. To Aymer Fitz Waryn, escheator in co. Devon. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which are taken into the king's hand by reason of the death of John de Kaynes, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by Simon de Bereford, sometime escheator this side Trent, that John at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in chief as of the crown in co. Devon, but that he held a carucate of land in Wynkelegh in his demesne as of fee as of the honour of Gloucester, then in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser the younger, by _ the service of half a knight's fee, and he held divers other lands in his demesne as of fee of others than the king by divers services, and that Thomas de Kaynes, John's son, is his next heir and was aged six months at the feast of St. Barnabas in the 1st year of the reign, and now Thomas _ has proved his age before Thomas Cary, escheator in co. Dorset, and the said honour is now in the hands of Hugh le Despenser and others and not of the king. . Parr 2. 571