1347-02-11, Reading

To Thomas Cary, escheator in co. Somerset. Order not to intermeddle with the manor of Westchynnok in that county, restoring the issues to Joan late the wife of Ralph Mareschal, after taking her fealty to the form of a schedule enclosed with these presents, as the has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Ralph at his held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, but that he jointly with Joan the said manor except 2 messuages, a Common oven 25 acres of land therein, which Richard atte Slade holds for life of the of Nicholas le Mareschal, and that the manor is held of the heir of de Seint Clere, who held in chief, a minor in the king's wardship, by service of a knight's fee of Mortain.