1375-05-07, Westminster
To Oliver de Harnham escheator in Wiltesir. Order to take the fealty of Elizabeth wife of Geoffrey son of Edmund Gascelyn according to the form of a schedule enclosed, and to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Shulden and Chippenham taken into the king's hand by her said husband's death, delivering to her any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that by fine levied in the king's court with his licence the said Geoffrey at his death held that manor jointly with the said Elizabeth by gift of Peter de Sutton and Gilbert Prouet vicar of Preston Candevere to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that the same is held in chief by knight service.
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