1409-12-10, Westminster

Commitment to Nicholas Merbury, esquire, by mainprise of John Merbury of the county of Hereford, esquire, and John Russell of the same county, of the keeping of the manors of Bertelynghope, Walton and Wymaston, in the march of Wales adjacent to the county of Hereford, and of two-thirds of 57s. of rent in Presthemde, in the said march, and also of two-thirds of the manor of Borton, a toft, 50 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, 6 acres of wood and 5s. of rent in Gerneston, co. Hereford, with the reversion of the third part of the said manor of Borton and of the said toft, land, meadow, wood and rents which is now held in dower by Isabel late the wife of Richard Lyngayn after the death of John Seyntowyn, late her husband, the said manors of Bertelynghope, Walton and Wymaston and the said two-thirds being in the king's hand by the death of Joan late the wife of Roger Dounton, who (qui) held in chief of Edmund earl of March, a minor in the king's ward, and by reason of the minority of Thomas Dounton, Joan's son and heir; to hold the same until the lawful age of the said heir, and so from heir to heir until one of them shall have attained full age, rendering the extent thereof yearly, or as much as may be agreed upon between him and the treasurer, and maintaining the houses and buildings incumbent Iv. 171 the said manors of Bertelynghope, Walton and Wymaston upon the said two-thirds. By bill of the treasurer. because otherwise this year.