1363-02-12, Westminster

To Roger de Wolfreton escheator in Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to cause William de Ufford and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Alice who was wife of Edward de Monte Acuto and one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas earl of Norfolk tenant in chief, to have seisin as well of the castle of Framelyngham, the manors of Framelyngham, Soham, Hoo, Holislee, Donyngworth and Cratefeld co. Suffolk, Halvergate and Suthwalsham co. Norfolk, and the two thirds of four pieces of marsh and pasture in Halvergate aforesaid containing 980 acres, assigned to the said Joan as her purparty and kept in the king's hand by reason of her nonage, as of all the lands which the said Edward at his death held by the courtesy of England of the said Joan's heritage after the death of Alice his said wife, taken into the king's hand by the death of Mary who was wife of the said earl and of the said Edward respectively and by reason of the said Joan's nonage ; as on 1 August last, partition being made of the lands which the said Mary at her death held in dower and for life of the heritage of Margaret daughter and one of the heirs of the said earl, whom Walter de Mauny has taken to wife, and of the said Joan, and which by her death were taken into the king's hand, with the assent of the said Walter and Margaret, and of the said William to whom the king committed the wardship of Joan's purparty in his hand for the cause aforesaid, the king assigned to Walter the castle and manor of Strugoil and the town of Shepestowe with the members, hamlets etc. in the march of Wales, the manors of Weston co. Hertford, Stonham and Waltham and the moiety of the manor of Kenet co. Suffolk and the other moiety thereof co. Cambridge to Margaret's purparty, and to William and Joan to her purparty the castle and manors aforesaid, and the said pieces of marsh (which Joan who was wife of Robert de Morlee deceased held for life of the grant of the said earl with reversion to the said heirs, one moiety whereof after the death of Joan wife of Robert was by the king assigned to Walter and Margaret to her purparty and by them surrendered to the king's hands to be delivered to William and Joan, for that the purparty of Margaret by so much exceeds the other purparty in value), commanding the purparty of Margaret to be delivered to Walter and Margaret, and the purparty of Joan wife of William to be kept in his hand until further order ; and now Joan wife of William has proved her age before the escheator, and the king has taken the , fealty of William as well for the said purparty of Joan as for all the f lands which the said Edward de Monte Acuto held by the courtesy : as aforesaid, Joan being sole heir of the said Alice for that Margaret F one of the daughters of Alice died without an heir of her body and ; Maud another daughter has taken the habit of religion, as is found ; by divers inquisitions taken by the escheator at the king's command, i respiting his homage until the feast of St. George next.