1407-08-24, Westminster
Licence for John Gowayn, John Wykyng and Walter Hert, chaplain, to grant in mortmain to the prior and convent of the house of leprous women of St. Mary, Maydenbradelegh, a toft, 26 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture and 18 acres of wood in Hulle Deverell, not held in chief, worth 18s. 4d. yearly, as appears by an inquisition taken by Nicholas Bray of Andevere, escheator in the county of Wilts, and the reversion on the death of Thomas Brys the elder of a messuage and 2 acres of land in Maydenbradelegh and Yernefeld, not held in chief, worth 8s. yearly, as appears by the same inquisition, to hold to the value of 20s. yearly, in part satisfaction of a licence by letters patent of Edward III.
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