1368-07-28, Guildford

To Walter de Kelby escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to take the fealty of Philippa who was wife of Edward son of John de Bohun cf Midhurst knight, according to the form of a schedule enclosed, and not to meddle further with a manor, one bovate and a quarter of land in that county, and 281. of rent by him taken into the king's hand by the death of the said John, delivering to the said Philippa any issues thereof taken, leaving 40s. of rent in the keeping of Guy de Bryene according to the commission to him made, and keeping in the king's hand until further order certain services hereinafter specified ; as it is found by inquisition, lately taken by the escheator, that the said John formerly held the said manor and land and 301. a year of rent to be taken of divers freeholders in Waltham, Belesby, Hatclyf, Fenby and Wathe in chief by the service of the fourth part of one knight's fee, that all tenants of the said manor owe suit of. his court in Waltham every three weeks, that the said John by his charter gave to John Gogh clerk and John Seys the said manor and land and 281. of the said rent, keeping in his hands 40s. thereof, and keeping the service of William de Belesby knight who held of him a messuage, nine tofts, the site of a messuage and two bovates of land in Belesby as of the said manor of Waltham by fealty and the suit of the said John's court of Waltham as aforesaid and by the service of 8s. a year, and the service of Robert Maundeville who held a messuage and two carucates of land in Belesby as of the said manor by like suit of court and by the service of 40s., which Robert died before the said John Gogh and John Seys were enteoffed as aforesaid, that the said John de Bohun held those services in chief by knight service, that neither the said William nor the said Robert attorned tenant to John Gogh and John Seys nor did fealty [to them] nor suit of court for the tenements so held, that the said Robert at his death had a daughter named Alice then within age, who was in the nourishment and wardship of the said William de Belesby as her next friend on the mother's side to whom her heritage on the father's side ought not to descend, that neither she nor the said William for her ever did fealty or other service or attorned tenant to John Gogh and John Seys for the said lands, and that so the said John de Bohun at his death was seised of the said 40s. of rent and ot the said services, which are held in chief by knight service; and now on behalf of the said Philippa the king is informed that the said John de Bohun was sometime seised in his demesne as of fee of all the premises together with another rent of 33s, 4d. in the said towns, and gave the whole of them to Edmund de . 437 clerk and to his heirs, by virtue whereof the said Edmund seised of the rent of 31/. 13s. 4d., that all the tenants thereof tenants to the said Edmund, that the said Edmund after the said [tenements] and services to Guy de Bryene, the said de Bohun, John Gogh and John Seys and to their heirs, by - whereof all the tenants attorned tenants to them, that they by fine levied in the king's court in the 31st year of his reign to the said Edward and Philippa and to the heirs of their three bovates of land and 31/. 13s. 4d. of rent in Belesby, Fenby, Wathe and Waltham with the homages and services de Belesby knight, John de Hatclyf, Alice daughter of de Maundeville and others, by virtue whereof the said Edward Philippa were thereof seised and all the tenants aforesaid attorned to them, and that after the king by letters patent, reciting said gifts made without his licence, pardoned the said Edmund the other feoffees their trespasses in the matter, wherefore the Philippa has prayed the king for livery of the lands and rents she was jointly enfeoffed with her said husband, as those in the said fine are the same contained in the said inquisition ; the king has committed to the said Guy the keeping of the 40s. in the inquisition contained until debate be had whether they of the rent of 31/. 13s. 4d. specified in the said fine or no, he shall yearly make answer for the same during the nonage heir of John de Bohun in case it shall be adjudged that the thereof ought to pertain to the king by reason of his MEMBRANE ll.