1472-05-22, Westminster
Licence for the king's kinswoman Margaret, countess of Richmond daughter and heiress of John, duke of Somerset, to grant the manors of Martok, Cory Ryvell, Kingesbury Regis and Queen's Cammell, the hundreds of Bulston, Abdyke and Horethorne and the boroughs of Langport Estover and Langport Westover, co. Somerset, and the manors of Sampford Peverell and Allerpeverell, the borough of Sampford Peverell and the hundred ot Alberton, co. Devon, with knights fees, advowsons, franchises, liberties and privileges, held in chief, to Thomas, cardinal priest of St. Ciriac s, archbishop of Canterbury, Robert, bishop of Bath and Wells, William, bishop of Winchester, John, bishop of Exeter, the king's kinsman John, earl of Wiltshire, Walter Blount, knight, lord of Mountjoye, Owen Lloyd, clerk, John Catesby, serjeant at law, Richard Page, William Hedy and Reginald Bray, gentilmen, and their heirs and assigns, to fulfil her will. By p.s.
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