1420-02-12, Westminster

Order to the escheator in the county of Salop and the adjacent march of Wales ; pursuant (1) to an inquisition taken before Roger Corbet, late escheator, showing that Adam_Pesale, chivaler, on the day of his death held the manor of Ydeshale, co. Salop, of the king in chief by knight service, by service of a knight's fee, for term of his life by the courtesy of England in right of Elizabeth late his wife, sometime the wife of Henry Mortymer, chivaler, with reversion to Maud wife of John Talbot, chivaler, lord de Fournyvall, and to Joan wife of Hugh Cokesey, knight, the daughters and heirs of Thomas Nevyll late lord de Fournyvall, and their heirs, of the grant made by Henry IV by taken before him (the present escheator), showing that the said Maud and Joan are of full age ; to take the fealty of John and Hugh, make a partition of the said manor into two equal parts, and cause John and Maud and Hugh and Joan to have full seisin of the pourparties of Maud and Joan respectively ; as the king for 2 marks paid in the hanaper has respited until Michaelmas next the homage due from John by reason of his having issue by Joan (sic). . 323