1386-03-07, Westminster
. 57 the said Humphrey at his death was seised of the said castle town and of that whole lordship in the said march, not contained the inquisition taken after his death, that they are held in chief, are worth 80/. a year, that Eleanor one of his daughters of full whom Thomas earl of Bukingham took to wife, and the said Mary other daughter, then within age, are his next heirs, that the late occupied the premises after the said Humphrey s death, for time is not known, and Humphrey de Bohun knight for the last years at the date of that inquisition, but how or by what title not known; and at the petition of the earl of Bukingham and the king after ordered the sheriff to give the said knight to be in chancery in the quinzaine of St. Hilary 4 Richard IT shew cause wherefore the same ought not to be seized into the hand and livery of Eleanor's purparty given to the petitioners, which day he came not, wherefore by advice of the council it was that such livery should be given, saving the said Joan's ; and the said Eleanor's age being proved, on 22 June 4 Richard IT king took the fealty of the earl of Bukingham, and on 10 February ordered Hugh de Bysle late escheator in presence of the of Bukingham and Eleanor and of the next friends of the said and Mary to make a partition of the premises into two equal and to give the earl of Bukingham and Eleanor livery of her leaving the said Mary's purparty until further order in the of the earl of Bukingham, to whom the king granted the until her lawful age of all castles, manors, lands etc. of her in England and Wales falling to her, rendering nought to the saving the said Joan's dower; and the said Mary's age being the king took the fealty of the earl of Derby, and on 22 Decem- 8 Richard IT commanded livery of her purparty to be given to him the said Mary. Hugh Yonge the king's clerk, chamberlain of Suthwales. Order, petition of Master John David the king's clerk now archdeacon Kermerdyn, to remove the king's hand and meddle no further 22 acres of land called Larchedeakeneslond annexed to the archdeaconry from the foundation thereof ; as upon the finding an inquisition, taken in 10 Edward III before Rees ap Griff of the justice of Suthwales, that in 24 Edward [I] ap Gourwared sometime archdeacon of Kermerdyn demised premises to Owen ap Griff then archdeacon of Cardigan to farm fifteen years, and not otherwise in fee, and that the same were into that king's hand for that in 25 Edward [I] the said Owen Maelgon ap Rees then lord of the commote of Generglyn levied against that king, and remained in the hands of King Edward IT of the late king, and upon a plea after moved between the late and Griffin de Caunton late archdeacon of Kermerdyn concerning same, Adam Fyncham suing for the king said that the said ought not to have the premises out of that king's possession reason of the said inquisition for that it was one taken of office, no man ought to be put out of his freehold by virtue of such an that the said Mereduc at the time of the demise was seised the premises in his demesne as of fee and of right, and made that to the said Owen, his heirs and assigns, and that the same in the king's hands by reason of Owen s forfeiture, and the said
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