1359-07-10, Westminster

Order to William de Hatton, escheator in the counties of Kent and Syssex, pursuant to divers inquisitions made by him shewing that Elizabeth late the wife of Hugh le Despenser held the manors of Ereheth, co. Kent, and Drayton, co. Sussex, for life, by name of dower after the death of Giles de Badlesmere, sometime her husband, of the inheritance of Roger de Mortuo Mari, earl of March, son and heir of Elizabeth late the wife of William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, sister and one of the heirs of the said Giles, now deceased (defuncte), and that the manor of Ereheth is held of the king in chief by knight service, while the manor of Drayton is held of another than the king, and that the said earl of March is of full age to deliver the said manors to the earl, together with the issues thereof since the death of Elizabeth, which the king has granted him as a gift; as the king has respited his homage until Michaelmas next. By p.s. [24235.] Order in like terms to John de Estbury, escheator in the county of Oxford, touching two parts of the manor of Fymmere, held of the king in chief by knight service. Order in like terms to John Lovekyn, mayor of London and escheator therein, touching a tenement in the parish of St. Katharine Coleman, London, with shops and a garden adjacent, held of the king in free burgage, as is all the city of London; as the king has respited the earl's fealty therefor until Michaelmas next.