1419-08-10, Westminster

Order to Thomas Straunge, escheator in the county of Rutland ; pursuant (1) to an inquisition taken before him showing that Joan de Bohun late countess of Hereford held on the day of her death of the endowment of Humphrey de Bohun, late earl of Hereford and Essex, sometime her husband, and of the assignment of Edward IIT, as her dower of the castle and manor of Okeham and the shrievalty of Rutland, all the lands and rents which the said late earl held in tail male in the town of Langham, which is parcel and a member of the said castle and manor, (except the 131. 6s. 8d. which the bondmen of Langham pay yearly for an aid called skorfe, and the perquisites of court of the whole soke of Okeham), and, as her dower of the knights fees and advowsons late of the said late earl pertaining to the said castle and manor, a knight's fee in Glaston which Thomas de Haryngton held and the advowson of the church of Luffenham, with reversion to Anne countess of Stafford, daughter and heir of the body of Thomas late duke of Gloucester (whom William Bourchier, chivaler, has now taken to wife), since . 287 IT, on 12 June 13 Richard II, among other things gave, and confirmed to Thomas late duke of Gloucester, by of his uncle, Thomas, then duke of Gloucester, the reversion the castle, town, lordship and manor of Okeham, co. Rutland, the shrievalty of the county and the office of sheriff, which de Bohun late earl of Northampton held in tail male of grant of Edward ILI, by name of the castle and manor of and the shrievalty of the county of Rutland, whereof then held in dower the said lands and rents, as above, in town of Langham, and John de Overton, esquire, then held the issues and profits of the fairs and markets of the town of for life of the grant of Richard II, and Edward earl of (by the grant of Richard II made, after the assignment the dower and the grant to John Overton, to the said Edward name of his cousin Edward earl of Rutland son of his uncle duke of York), then held the castle, town and lordship of and the office of sheriff of the county, with all manors, hamlets, lands, rents, services, knights fees, homages, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forests, chaces, parks, warrens, moors, marshes, fisheries, meadows, pastures, services of free tenants and of bondmen, fairs, markets, liberties, reversions, commodities, emoluments and other profits, and all other things then pertaining to the said town, lordship and office, during his father's life, as fully, and wholly as the said late earl of Northampton held the after the death of the said Joan, John, Edmund duke of and Edward (if he should die in his father's life-time), to the same to the said Thomas then duke of Gloucester and heirs of his body, together with the members, hamlets, fees, advowsons of churches, abbeys, priories, hospitals chapels, with hundreds, wapentakes, fisheries, reversions of held in dower and for life, and with all other reversions, chaces, parks, woods, warrens, fairs, markets, liberties, customs, wards, reliefs, escheats, services of free tenants of bondmen, and all other things pertaining to the said castle, town, lordship and shrievalty, as wholly and freely as said earl of Northampton held them, (except the said late forest of Rutland which at that time was not parcel of the or manor), of the said late king Richard and his heirs by services due and customary, as in the letters patent, made to said late duke of Gloucester and shown in evidence to the of the inquisition, more fully appears; and that the said and rents in the town of Langham and the said knight's in Glaston and the advowson of the church of Luffenham the time of the assignment in dower and also at the time the making of the said letters patent to the said late duke Gloucester were, and still are, parcels and members of the castle, manor, town and lordship; and that afterwards said Thomas died, after whose death the right of the said of the castle, town, lordship and manor aforesaid to the said countess of Stafford as his daughter and the heir of his body; and that afterwards the said Edmund, Edward and John died, after whose death the said William and Anne, in right of Anne, by virtue of the said gift, grant and confirmation to the said late duke of Gloucester made, after due suit out of the king's hands, entered into two-thirds of the said castle, town, lordship and manor, and were and still are seised thereof ; and that the said lands, rents, fee and advowson are held of the king by knight service ; and (2) to another inquisition taken before him showing that 55 messuages, 55 virgates of land, 51 cottages, 65 acres 34 roods cf meadow, 42 acres 14 roods of pasture and 7s. and a pound of pepper of free rent in the said town of Langham comprise the lands and rents which the said late countess held in dower on the day of her death and which the said late earl of Hereford held in tail male in the said town of Langham, parcel and a member of the said castle and manor of Okeham ; to cause the said William and Anne to have full seisin of the said land and rent in Langham and of the said knight's fee and advowson, as the king for 40s. paid in the hanaper has respited until Easter next the homage due from William by reason of his having issue by Anne.