1352-10-12, Westminster

Confirmation of a grant by letters patent of Queen Philippa to her damsel Margery de Sutton of all lands late of Robert Clarell, deceased, within the queen's honor of Tykhill and in La Folde and Adewyk, which were in her hands by reason of a forfeiture and trespass done by the said Robert, to hold to the said Margery and her heirs for the life of the queen by the services due: and grant that the said Margery and her heirs shall retain the same after the death of the queen, by the services due to the king and the other chief lords. 20. Whereas the king by letters patent lately granted licence for the alienation in mortmain by Walter son of John Deneys to the vicars of the church of St. Cross, Cryditon, of an acre of landin Bradeford Dabernoun, 1352 Prestecote and Chirchedon, and the advowson of the church of All Saints, Bradeford, to find a chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, Bradeford, as contaiued in the letters patent; petition has now been made to him on behalf of John, son and heir of the said Walter praying that, masmuch as the latter died before the licence had taken effect, and it had been his principal intention, when alive, by this donation to augment in some degree the portions of the said vicars, which are very slender, and because the vicars, not being perpetual, cannot acquire to themselves in common, the king will grant licence for the same John to assign the said land and advowson to the precentor and chapter of the church of St. Cross to augment the portions of the said vicars, on condition that one of them, a priest, celebrate divine service daily in the said church for the souls of the said Walter and his wife, and of Nicholas Trote and Maud, his wife, for the good estate of the said John and his wife, and of William Sleghe and Ellen, his wife, and for their souls when the are dead, and the king for 5 marks paid by the said John, has granted the petition. 15.