1443-05-19, Westminster

Grant to master John Somerseth, John Hampton and Thomas Thorp of the keeping of all the lands in the counties of Kent and Surrey, late of Thomas Halle, alias Thomas Chaumbre, who held on the day of his death of the archbishopric of Canterbury, then void, by knight service, the same being in the king's hands by the death of Thomas and because the temporalities of the said archbishopric were then in the king's hand through the said voidance, and also by reason of the minority of Thomas son and . 263 heir of the aforesaid Thomas, a minor in the king's ward ; to hold the same, together with the marriage of the said Thomas the son, from the time of the death of the said Thomas the father until the full age of the said heir, and so from heir to heir until one of them shall have attained full age and the marriage shall have been duly effected, without paying or rendering anything to the king for the lands or for the marriage ; any other gifts or grants made heretofore to the said John, John and Thomas, or to any one of them, any statute, ordinance, act or appointment to the contrary, or the fact that express mention is not made in the present grant of the true yearly value of the lands or marriage, notwithstanding. By p.s. [6852/3]. Dated by authority of Parliament.