1431-07-06, Westminster
Order to the escheator in the county of Berks ; pursuant to an inquisition made by him showing that Alice late the wife of Walter Giffard on the day of her death held a moiety of the manor of Estgenge in her demesne as of fee of the king in chief by service of an eighth part of a knight's fee ; and that William Gyffard is the son and next heir of the said Alice ; to cause the said William to have full seisin of the said moiety, as the king has taken his fealty and for 6s. 8d. paid in the hanaper has respited his homage until Christmas next.
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