1439-05-12, Westminster

Commitment (with like clause) to Peter Idle, by mainprise of John Delabere, clerk, and Richard Drayton of the county of Oxford, esquire, of the keeping of (1) all the lands late of Nicholas Wodegrave in the town of Chellesworde, alias Chellesworthy, which are in the king's hand by the exile of the Jews, (2) all the lands in Le Forde, in the parish of Ippelpenne, which the alien abbot of Fougéres in Brittany alienated to Henry atte Forde and Juliana his wife in fee without licence from the king, and (3) a messuage and an acre of arable land within the manor of Ippelpenne, which Henry Snell acquired in fee from the said abbot (who held the said lands of Richard II in chief as of the foundation of his church, it is said) ; to hold the same from Michaelmas next for 7 years, at a yearly farm of the 50s. which John Cokworthy, the late farmer, used to render ; with proviso that if any other person shall be willing without fraud to give more by way of increment for the said keeping, then the said Peter shall be bound to pay such larger sum if he will have the keeping. By bill of the treasurer.