1420-06-26, Westminster

Order to the escheator in the county of Devon ; pursuant to an inquisition made by him showing that John Keynes, the younger, on the day of his death held no lands of the king in chief, in demesne or in service, in the said county ; but that by a fine levied in the king's court at Westminster in the quinzaine of Easter, 7 Henry V, before Richard Norton and his fellows, justices of the Bench, between John Keynes, the elder, querent, and John Bruer, clerk, Robert Spret, clerk, Richard Holt, clerk, Hugh Ponchardon and John Roller, deforciants, touching the manor of Wynkelegh Keynes and the hundred of Wynkelegh, 2 messuages, a toft, a carucate of land, 30 acres of meadow and 4 acres of alder-grove in Exeter and Weryngeston, co. Devon, and touching other manors and lands in the counties of Dorset and Somerset, the said John Keynes, the elder, among the other manors and lands in the same fine contained, acknowledged the said manor of Wynkelegh and the hundred, messuages, toft, land, meadow and alder-grove aforesaid to be the right of the said Richard, of which the said Richard, John Bruer, Robert, Hugh and John Roller, among other things in the same fine contained, by the same fine had the said manor and hundred of Wynkelegh and a messuage in Exeter of the gift of the said John Keynes, the elder, for which acknowledgement, fine and concord the said John Bruer, Robert, Richard, Hugh and John Roller, among other things in the same fine contained, by the same fine granted the said manor, hundred and messuage in Exeter to the said John Keynes, the elder, and the heirs male of his body ; and that by virtue of this fine the said John Keynes, the elder, was seised in his demesne as of fee tail, to himself and the heirs male of his body, of the said manor of Wynkelegh Keynes, the hundred, and the messuage in Exeter; and that the said John Keynes, the elder, died so seised, after whose death the manor of Wynkelegh, the hundred, and the messuage in Exeter descended to the said John Keynes, the younger, as son and heir male of John Keynes, the elder ; and that the messuage in Exeter is held of the king in socage, and the manor of Wynkelegh Keynes and the hundred another than the king ; and that Richard Keynes, who is of full is the brother and heir male of John Keynes the younger, the said John died without heir male of his body ; to take fealty of the said Richard Keynes for the said messuage in and cause him to have full seisin of the same, removing the hand from the said manor and hundred, which are held of than the king, if they are in the king's hand for no other than the death of John Keynes, the younger, and delivering Richard Keynes any issues taken therefrom since the time of death of John Keynes, the younger.