1421-05-13, Westminster

Whereas of late in a suit which was before the king in the Chancery, between the king and Anne countess of Stafford, daughter and heir of Eleanor one of the daughters and heirs of Humphrey de Bohun late earl of Hereford and Essex and late the wife of Thomas late earl of Buckingham, touching the castle and manor of Plessitz, the manors of High Estre, Waltham, Wykes and Shenefeld, the court of the honour of High Estre, the fee of the earl of Essex, and the view of frankpledge of Chishull, in the county of Essex, and also touching all the rest of the castles (with their members), manors, courts, views of frankpledge and parts of manors assigned to the said late earl of Buckingham and Eleanor as Eleanor's pourparty of the castles, manors, lands and tenements late of the said late earl of Hereford, it was awarded by advice of the justices and serjeants-at-law and other learned men of the king's council, in the said Chancery, that the said castles (with their members), manors, courts, fee of an earl, views of frankpledge and parts of manors, assigned as above to the said late earl of Buckingham and to Eleanor as Eleanor's pourparty, should be taken into the king's hands, as in the record and process had before the king in the Chancery fully appears; the king now orders the escheator in the county of Essex to take the said castles (with their members), manors, courts, earl's fee, view of frankpledge and parts of manors in his bailiwick into the king's hand, in accordance with the award aforesaid.