1368-10-05, Henry Westminster

de Cantebrigge citizen and merchant of London to Geoffrey citizen and stokfisshemongere of London. Recognisance 48/. 15s., to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and in the city of London. on payment. made between Nicholas son and heir of Sir William de la of the one part and John Aubrey of London, William Newerk and Richard Toky of the other part, cancelling former inbetween the parties, enrolled in chancery, which contained conditions and covenants touching the reversion of the manor co. Essex and 20 marks of rent thereof issuing, surrenderto the said John, William and Richard the part sealed by them, release by the said Nicholas of all right and action by reason and avoiding their enrolment; and agreement between the to new covenants, to wit that if the said Nicholas, now going Gascony, shall after his passage come again to England to the of the said John in London before Michaelmas next or before following, and shall there pay or make recompense to him his executors for 1131. 6s. 8d., allowing to the said Nicholas in payment so much of the said rent or of the profits of the said in case the reversion fall in, as the said John, William and their heirs or assigns, shall have received clear of reprises, and said Nicholas shall find security not to alien the said manor, or reversion to any other but the said John, so that he the said will give as much as any other without fraud or covin, the said William and Richard, their heirs or assigns, shall within one of a year after such payment made and such security found his costs by deed in the country or by fine make him an estate said rents and reversion, or of the said manor if the reversion fall in, to the said Nicholas and his heirs for ever as fully as they the premises by his grant; in case the said Nicholas return not to England in person at London before Christmas aforesaid, but shall in his life time make payment by another in manner aforesaid, no grant of the reversion and no estate of the said rents or manor shall be made him until his return to London, but within the quarter of a year after his return, on security being found as aforesaid, he shall have an estate thereof such as was before rehearsed; in case before Christmas aforesaid the said Nicholas make not such payment by himself or another, an estate of the said rent and reversion, or of the manor if it fall in, shall by the said William and Richard, their heirs and assigns, be made to the said John Aubray and Elizabeth his wife for their lives, rendering to the said William and Richard and to their heirs during the life of Cicely wife of John de Mounteny one rose a year, and after her decease 20 marks a year at Michaelmas and Easter by even portions, and the reversion of the said manor with the said rents of one rose and of 20 marks they shall give to the said Nicholas and the heirs of his body with remainder, for lack of such issue, to the heirs male of the bodies of the said John Aubrey and Elizabeth, remainder to Hugh son of Sir Hugh de Badewe and to his heirs for ever; and in case the said Nicholas shall die before his return to London from over sea, whether payment be made as aforesaid or no, the said William and Richard, their heirs or assigns, shall make an estate of the said rent and reversion, or of the said manor if it shall fall in, to the said John and Elizabeth and the heirs male of their bodies without rent reserved, with remainder for lack of such issue to the said Hugh and his heirs; and if the said John, William and Richard shall on their part keep all the covenants aforesaid, a bond of 500 marks by the said John made to the said Nicholas shall be void. Witnesses: Sir Hugh de Badewe, Sir John de Sutton knights, Robert Mareschal, Roger Germeyn, John Ward, William Venour, William Brickles. Dated Sunday after the Translation of St. Edward the Confessor 42 Edward III. french.