1370-02-06, Westminster

John de Rokwode escheator in Norffolk. Order in the presence Stephen de Wynselade, if upon warning he will attend, to assign and to Mary who was wife of Thomas son of Andrew Braunche in chief a third part of the lands of the said Thomas in his taken into the king's hand by the death of the said Thomas, and the said Stephen two thirds thereof, sending the assignment to be enin chancery ; as on 11 October in the 34th year of his reign, of the of the said Andrew which came to the king's hands by his death by reason of the nonage of Thomas his son and heir, who died age in the king's wardship, the king assigned to the said Mary dower the manors of Northbarsham co. Norfolk and Piperharwe Surrey and 12 marks of rent issuing from the manor and hundred Frome in Selewode co. Somerset, commanding livery thereof to be her; and after at the suit of John Giffard, who with the king's has taken her to wife, and of the said Mary, averring that Brocas clerk recovered against them the said manor of by a jury of 24 knights which by the king's writ he against them before the king to convict the jurors of an of novel disseisin concerning tenements in Piperharwe lately and taken before the king at Kyngeston upon Thames the said Thomas while within age and the said Bernard, Adymot and John de Muxenbroke, as appears by the record process of the recovery which the king has caused to come before him in chancery, and praying the king to assign to them other lands of the said Thomas in recompense for the said manor assigned to the said Mary and recovered out of her hands as aforesaid, the king ordered the sheriff of Somerset to give notice to the said Stephen de Wynselade, son of Eleanor sister of the said Andrew who was wife of Richard de Wynselade, being cousin and heir of the said Thomas, to be in chancery in the quinzaine of Midsummer last to shew cause wherefore the lands of the said Thomas, whereof the king commanded livery to be given him as cousin and heir, should not be taken again into the king's hand, and dower thereof delivered to the said John and _ Mary in recompense for the manor so recovered, and further to do and receive what the court should determine ; and because the said Stephen appearing accordingly at Westminster by John de Burton clerk his attorney said nought to the purpose wherefore the said Mary should not thereof be dowered anew, the king thought good to take the lands of the said Thomas again into his hand, as well those delivered to the said Stepehn as those formerly assigned to the said Mary the manor of Piperharwe excepted, and gave the said John and Mary a day to be before him in chancery in the octaves of St. Hilary last to receive dower to be assigned her anew, ordering the sheriff to give notice to the said Stephen to be there at that day im order to be present at the assignment of dower if he should think fit, and further to do and receive what the court should determine ; and the said Stephen being so warned appeared that day in chancery, and being asked by the court. whether he would be present at the assignment of dower said nought.