1372-10-12, Richard Westminster

Order to deliver to Katherine as eldest daughter and heir of William de la Plaunke tenant in chief, and to John son of Fulk de Bermyngham and Elizabeth his wife the other daughter and heir of the said William, the advowson of Haveresham church taken into the king's hand by his death, to hold to the purparties falling to them according to a partition between them made; as lately upon the finding of divers inquisitions, taken by the king's command after the said William's death, that he held two thirds of the manor of Haveresham in chief by the service of two thirds of one knight's fee, and that the said Katherine who was taken to wife by William de Bermyngham and the said Elizabeth were his daughters and next heirs, the age of the said daughters being proved, the king took the fealties of the said William de Bermyngham and John, and by divers writs commanded his late escheators to make a partition of the said two thirds between the said heirs and parceners, and to cause the said William de Bermyngham and Katherine as the eldest daughter and the said John and Elizabeth to have seisin of their respective purparties; and it is found by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said deceased held thethe said advowson in his demesne as of fee. 22.