1418-06-29, Westminster

Whereas the king ; in pursuance of an inquisition taken before late escheator in the county of Lincoln, showing that Edward duke of York on the day of his death held the manors of and Shillyngthorp, with all their appurtenances and with the fees and advowsons pertaining to them, of king's grant by letters patent dated 16 April 2 Henry V other things, for life with remainder to Richard Beauchamp of chivaler, and Isabel his wife (sister and heir of the son and heir of Thomas late lord le Despenser), and to heirs male of their bodies, by colour of certain other letters Rolls, 1413-1416, p. 286] touching the premises and other by name of all castles, towns, lordships, manors, lands, forests, parks, offices, rights, customs, possessions, jurisand services with all their appurtenances and emoluments, with franchises, royalties, counties, hundreds, swayncommotes, liberties, knights fees, advowsons of abbeys, churches and other ecclesiastical benefices, and reversions, England and Wales, late of the said Thomas late lord de which the said late duke had for life of the king's grant reason of a certain judgment cf forfeiture rendered against the Thomas, as by the said letters patent touching the grant of said remainder, which were shown to the jurors, fully appears ; that the reversion of the said manor of Bondeby after the death of Edward Boteler, chivaler, who held it for life and died on 3 March 13 Henry IV, and the reversion of the said manor of Shillingthorp after the death of Hugh le Despenser, chivaler, who held it for life and died on 12 December 1 Henry IV, pertained to the said Thomas ; and that the said late duke on the day of his death held the manors aforesaid with the said fees and advowsons for term of his life cf the king's grant by reason of the judgment of forfeiture aforesaid, with remainder to the said Richard and Isabel, as above ; and that the said manors, fees and advowsons are held of the king in chief by knight service ; on 14 February, 3 Henry V, by his writ ordered the said late escheator to deliver the said manors with the fees and advowsons aforesaid, together with the issues of the said manors from the time of the death of the said late duke, to the said Richard and Isabel, since the king had ordered Richard's fealty to be taken by the then escheator in the counties of Southampton and Wilts, and for a certain fine paid in the hanaper had respited until a day already past the homage due from Richard for the said manors, fees and advowsons and for other lands in other counties held for life by the said late p. 242]; and whereas, the said inquisition and writ, and certain other inquisitions touching the manor of Bondeby taken after the death of Hugh and Anne his sister and heir, having been read and heard in the Chancery and the matter contained in them more fully understood, after mature and diligent deliberation on the premises had with the king's justices and serjeants-at-law and other skilled persons of his council, it appeared that the said writ of livery of the manor of Bondeby had issued unduly out of the Chancery, so that by the advice of the king's justices and serjeants-at-law and others aforesaid it was awarded that the said manor of Bondeby together with the issues thereof from the time of the death of the said late duke should be taken and resumed into the king's hands: the king therefore orders the escheator in the county of Lincoln for the cause aforesaid to take and resume the said manor and issues into the king's hands without delay.