1361-01-26, Westminster

To William Fililode escheator in Northamptonshire. Order to Philip son of Nicholas le Porter, cousin and heir of Thomas Leycestre tenant in chief, to have seisin of two messuages two virgates of land in Horpoll taken into the king's hand by death of Thomas; as by inquisition, taken by the escheator, it found that Thomas at his death held the premises in his demesne of fee in chief as of the honour of Peverell by the service of making attendances a year at the court of the honour at Duston, that died about Easter in the 23rd year of the reign, that Philip is his heir and aged 21 and more, and that Richard Blundel late by reason of his office, and after John Sauce of Norhampton virtue of the king's commission of the wardship thereof, have the premises from the death of Thomas; and because by of the rolls of chancery the king is assured that by letters on 3 June in the 25th year of the reign he committed to (sic) the wardship of all the lands which were of Thomas in for a set farm to be rendered yearly in the wardrobe, he taken the fealty of Philip.