1362-02-10, Westminster
To John de Bekynton escheator in Dorset. Order not to interfurther with a messuage and garden, 84 acres of land and 5 acres of meadow in Marnhull, and 8 acres in Todebere taken into the king's by the death of Joan who was wife of Robert atte More, delivering any issues thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken by escheator, that Joan at her death held no lands in that county chief in her demesne as of fee, but held the premises for life of the of Adam son and heir of the said Robert of the gift of John and Thomas de Blintesfeld to Robert and Joan and the heirs Robert, and that the premises in Marnhull are held of the king of the manor of Norton Bavent by the service of the eighth part one knight's fee, and the land in Todebere of another than the king ; on 6 December in the 33rd year of his reign the king granted William de Thorp and William de Peek for their lives the manor Norton Bavent together with the knights fees and advowsons belonging, with remainder to the prioress and sisters of the house the order of preachers of Dertford and to their successors.
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