1440-01-27, Reading Abbey
Licence, for 5 marks paid in the hanaper, for Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, to enfeoff Reginald Cobham, knight, Thomas Cobham, knight, Richard Roos, knight, and Robert Sandeford, esquire, of the manor of . Parr 2. 887 Yenesfeld by Pensherst, co. Kent, of his pourparty of the manors of Pensherst and Havendencourt in the same county and of his pourparty in certain parcels of land, meadow, feeding, pasture, wood, underwood, heath and furze called Borels Busshes, Champyuns, Blakhoth, Neulond, Lokyersfeld, Upperletherhammes, Netherletherhammes, Ambermede, Horscroft, Combes, Marchehope and Salmonesmede, containing 219 acres and lying within the precincts of the said manors of Pensherst and Havendencourt, lately granted by the king to the duke and held in chief.
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