1376-01-30, Westminster

To Oliver de Harnham escheator in Oxfordshire. Order to take the of Margaret late the wife of Nicholas de Loveyn according the form of a schedule enclosed, and to remove the king's hand meddle no further with the manors of Barton St. John and St. John taken into the king's hand by her said husband's delivering to the said Margaret any issues thereof taken ; the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that said Nicholas at his death held no lands in that county in chief his demesne as of fee, but held the said manors jointly with the Margaret by gift of William de Wykeham bishop of Winchester and made with the king's licence, namely the manor of Barton to them the heirs of the body of the said Nicholas, the manor of Staunton their lives with remainders to Henry son of Henry Beaumond, brother of the said Henry the son, and Thomas brother of said Richard, and that the same are held in chief by knight service.