1422-03-29, Westminster
_ Commitment to Henry Chancy of Colyngborn, co. Wilts, and John Benger, the younger, by mainprise of Robert Halswell of the county of Somerset and Robert Cuttyng of the county of Wilts, of the keeping of all the lands late of Cecily late the wife of Henry Thorp of the said county of Wilts, esquire, which came to the king's hands and are in the king's hand by the death of Cecily, who held of the king in chief, and by reason of the minority of Ralph Thorp the son and heir of Cecily and of the said Henry Thorp; to hold the same, with the issues from the time of Cecily s death, until the lawful age of the said Ralph, together with his marriage, paying and rendering for the keeping and marriage as much as may be agreed upon between them and the treasurer by Pentecost next, maintaining the houses and buildings belonging to the said lands, supporting all charges incumbent on the lands, and finding fit maintenance for Ralph. By bill of the treasurer.
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