1418-10-14, Westminster

Commitment to Thomas Parker, by mainprise of Malcolm and William Wynsley of the county of Hereford ; of keeping (1) of a messuage, a dove-cot, 64 acres of land, 6 acres pasture and 66s. 8d. of yearly rent in Magor in the march of adjacent to the county of Gloucester, together with the and perquisites of courts, profits, and other commodities to the said messuage, dove-cot, land, pasture and rent, Hugh Mortimer, chivaler, held on the day of his death his demesne as of fee of Henry IV in chief by knight service, which by the death of Hugh came to the late king's hands are now in the king's hands; and (2) of another court, Le Roiall Court, which pertains to the king's lordship of as a royal lordship, together with the royalties, regalia, liberties, weifs, streifs, amercements, fines, redempperquisites of courts, and other issues, profits and pertaining to the said court, called Le Roiall or to the said lordship (wards, marriages and reliefs to the said lordship only excepted) ; to hold the same Michaelmas 1 Henry V, for 20 years, rendering for (1) the which he formerly rendered for the same, and an increment 5 marks for (2) above, yearly by equal portions at the Easter Michaelmas Exchequers,. maintainmg the houses and pertaining to the said messuage and dove-cot, and all other charges incumbent on them; as the said has surrendered in the Chancery for cancellation the patent of 18 July 2 Henry V [p. 77 above], whereby the ; in pursuance of the surrender by the said Thomas of the letters patent (a) of 5 November, 1 Henry V, [p. 45 above] committing to him the keeping of the said messuage, dove-cot, land, pasture and rent from the previous Michaelmas at a yearly farm of the 100s. which the last farmers rendered and an increment of 6s. 8d., and (b) of 19 May following [recte 18 May ; p. 66 above] committing to him the keeping of the said messuage, dove-cot, land, pasture and rent, together with the courts and all other profits pertaining to the lordship of Magor, for the same terms and at the same farm ; committed to him the keeping of the said messuage, dove-cot, land, pasture and rent, to hold the same from the said Michaelmas together with the wards, marriages and reliefs, and with the courts and all other profits pertaining to the lordship of Magor, he rendering for the messuage, dove-cot, land, pasture and rent the 106s. 8d. which he rendered for them before, and for the said courts and other profits pertaining to the said lordship, an increment of 4d. By bill of William Kynwolmerssh, the treasurer's deputy. Be it remembered that Nicholas Wotton, late mayor of London and escheator therein, on 24 October, 6 Henry V, was amerced at 40s., paid in the hanaper, for the insufficient return of a certain inquisition taken before him touching the lands late of Drew Barantyn, since William Pynwell, late under-escheator, in the writing of the said inquisition of his ignorance negligently omitted the names of three persons, who were summoned and sworn in the said inquisition together with nine other persons, and who gave a verdict thereon together with the said nine.