1444-07-01, Westminster

Whereas Henry IV granted the manor of Warenshale alias Warenshall, co. Salop, to the value of 6 marks yearly, to William Chetewyn, esquire, for life, which manor came to the king's hands by the forfeiture of John, son of Robert Pilleston, because of his support of Uwin de Gleydoure in the rebellion, and ought to remain to the king after William's death, as was found by an inquisition taken before Nicholas Eyton, sheriff of Salop, 19 Henry VI, and now John Pullesdon holds the manor, taking all the rents and advantages thereof from William's death: the king has granted the said manor to his serjeant Thomas Aventre, yeoman of the crown, and his assigns for eighty years, with the rents and profits from William's death hitberto; notwithstanding that he has the offices of controller of the search in the port of London and of packer in London and a corrody in Bordesley. By p.s. ete.