1361-04-20, Westminster
Order to i to John son of Thomas Joell the manor of Joelleston in South ; which Thomas his father held of the heir of Hugh le Despenser in chief by knight service and the service of half a mark a payable at the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul for all and which was taken into the king's hand by the death and by reason of the nonage of the heir of Hugh; by inquisition, taken by Thomas Saundres late escheator, found that Thomas at his death held the said manor as aforeand held no other lands in that county of the said heir nor of in his demesne nor in service as of fee, that John is his next and of full age, and that Guy Bryan knight held the same and the profit thereof by grant of the king from the day of the of Thomas (namely 14 May in the 23rd year of the reign) for a farm to be rendered at the exchequer ; and Edward le Despenser, and heir of Hugh, has at another time proved his age,, and . 181 the king has taken his homage for the lands which Hugh his uncle held in chief, and has ordered that he shall have livery thereof.
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