1326-09-24, Westminster

To Thomas de Harpeden, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. The king has assigned to Margaret, late the wife of William de Bereford, tenant in chief, the following of the said William's lands as her dower, by the assent of Ed[mund] de Bereford, son and heir of William: the manor of Newenham near Walingford, co. Oxford, of the yearly value of 109s. 4d.; the manor of Brightwell, in the same county, of the yearly value of 111s. 8d.; certain in Cadewell, in the same county, of the yearly value of 12d.; the manor of Bykemers, co. Warwick, of the yearly value of 8/. 15s. 6d.; certain lands in Wythinghas, in the same county, of the yearly value of 4l. 6s. 8d.; and 47s. 8d. of yearly rent in Alton, co. Leicester; 33s. 4d. of yearly rent in Britewell, co. Oxford; 10/. of yearly rent in Croumers near Walyngford, in the same county: he therefore orders the escheator to to her the said manors of Newenham and Brightwell, the tenements Cadewell, and the rent in Britewell and Croumers. To John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Notting- Derby, and Lancaster. Order to deliver to the aforesaid Margaret the manor of Bikemers, the tenements in Wythinghas, and the rent in To the same.