1375-05-19, Westminster

Order to deliver to Adam Fraunceys the younger the manor of Edelmeton, 20 wain loads of brushwood to be taken yearly in the out park of Enefeld which was of Humphrey de Bohun late earl of Hereford, four messuages, four carucates of land, 934 acres of meadow in the common marsh, 166 acres 1 rood of pasture, 46 acres 3 roods of great wood, 120 acres of underwood, and 4/. 18s. 1d. of rent in Edelmeton and Totenham, a messuage, 38 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow and 2 acres of pasture in Edelmeton and Enefeld taken into the king's hand by the death of Adam Fraunceys citizen of London, together with the issues thereof taken ; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that at his death the said Adam held no lands in that county in chief nor of others in his demesne as of fee, but that he held for life the said manor with 20 loads of brushwood to be taken as aforesaid in chief by knight service by grant of Robert Bealknap and John Wroth the younger made with the king's licence, the premises in Edelmeton and Totenham by grant of William Halden and John Osekyn citizens of London, Thomas Byeston vicar of Edelmeton, Thomas Pateshull chaplain and John Ussher, and the premises in Edelmeton and Enefeld by grant of John Ussher and William de Ancroft, all with remainder to the said Adam the younger and to the heirs of his body, that the said messuages, land, meadow, pasture, wood and rent were lately held of the manor of Edelmeton, and that after the said deceased acquired that manor the same were with the said manor held in chief by the service of one knight's fee and of rendering 13s. 4d. a year at the exchequer by the hands of the sheriff of Middlesex; and the king has taken the homage and fealty of the said Adam the younger. Byp.s. 20. To Geoffrey de Dereham steward of the honour of Reylegh.