1445-03-10, Westminster

Commitment (with like clause) to John Delabere, clerk, by mainprise of Humphrey Brokas of Compton, co. Surrey, gentilman, and William East of Oundell, co. Northampton, gentilman, 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 Ippilpenne, 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 Ippilpenne, 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 last for 10 years, at a yearly farm of 50s.; provided always that if any other person shall be willing to give more by way of increment for the said keeping, then the said John shall be bound to pay such larger sum if he will have the keeping: as Peter Idle, to the end that the king should deign to commit the said keeping to the said John, has surrendered into the Chancery for cancellation the letters patent of 12 May 17 Henry VI [p. 84 above], whereby the king committed the keeping of the said lands and messuage to him, from Michaelmas then next to come for 7 years, at a yearly farm of the 50s. which John Cokworthy, the late farmer, used to render. By bill of the treasurer. Dated etc.