1384-12-20, Westminster

Order to John de Mitford, escheator in the county of Northymberland, pursuant to an inquisition made by him shewing that two-thirds of a moiety of the manor of Neuton by the Sea, two-thirds of a moiety of the manor of Hibbourne, two-thirds of 3 husband-lands in the town of Hibbourne, two-thirds of 3 husband-lands, 6 acres of land and meadow, and 4 cottages in Yerdhill, and two-thirds of a watermill in Yerdhill, which are held of the king in chief by knight service, and two-thirds of 2 carucates and 36 acres of land and meadow in Yerdhill, 8 husband-lands in Estdechebourne, a cottage in Alnewyk, and a messuage and 18 acres of land in Ellyngton, which are held of others than the king, came into the hands of Edward III by the death of John Wendoute and by reason of the minority of Robert Wendoute, his son and heir, who lately died while a minor in the king's ward, and are still in the king's hand, and that Alice daughter of John Syward the son of Alice Syward, one of the said John Wendoute s sisters, Robert de Hibbourne the son of Isabel, John's second sister, John de Graham the son of Mary, John's third sister, Margery daughter of Robert de Lilbourne the son of Elizabeth, John's fourth sister, Margery wife of Richard -de Wetewang and Elizabeth her sister, daughters of Agnes, John's fifth sister, and Margaret late the wife of Thomas Sampson and Agnes, her sister, daughters of Christiana, John's sixth sister, are kinsfolk and next heirs of the said Robert Wendoute, of whom Alice and Margery the daughter of Robert are minors and the others of full age, to make a partition of the premises into six equal parts, deliver to the said Robert de Hibbourne, John de Graham, Richard de Wetewang and Margery his wife and Elizabeth sister of the said Margery, and Margaret late the wife of Thomas Sampson and Agnes her sister, their respective pourparties thereof, as the king, for mark paid by them in the hanaper, has respited their homage and fealty until the quinzaine of Easter next, and retain the other pourparties in the king's hand until further order ; provided always that each of the said heirs and parceners have in his or her pourparty a share of the lands held of the king in chief, and so be the king's tenant.