1392-12-24, Westminster

Licence for the alienation in mortmain by John Percy, William Wolf, Roland Damet, Richard Verdon, Henry Kele, Adam Keresley, John Wedon and William Okam of Coventre, of divers messuages, lands, etc., in Coventre, viz. 140 messuages, one mill, 924 acres of land, one acre of meadow, one acre of wood, 20/. 17s. 74d. of rent and the rent of two hens and one clove of gillyflowers; by Richard Clerc of Coventre, Richard Dodenhale, Simon de Langham of Coventre, John Stiward, Roland Damet and Henry atte Hay, mercer, of two messuages and 24s. of rent; and by the said persons last named of the reversion of one messuage after the deaths of John Andrewe of Coventre, hosier, and Alice, his wife; another after the death of Ellen, late the wife of Roger Busshell of Coventre; and by the persons first named of the reversion of another, which John Smythier holds for the life of Joan, wife of Thomas Smyth, after her death ; two after the death of Christiana Luffe; one after the death of Alice Alspathe ; a moiety of a messuage after the death of Richard that was William Prest of the Hull ; one messuage after the death of John Mathewe ; two after the death of Agnes Vyntere ; one after the deaths of Richard Teynton and Joan, his wife ; one after the deaths of Margery, wife of Robert Esterton, and John, her son; one after the death of Alexander Wyrdrawer ; and one which Robert Blatherwyk and his heirs hold for 100 years, after the expiration of that term the premises not being held in chief to the master, brethren and sisters of the gild and fraternity of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist, Coventre, in full satisfaction of a licence lately granted to them by the king to acquire lands, tenements and rents of the yearly value of 86l. 18s. 4d. For 20. paid in the hanaper. 6.