ECR 39 72
Reference code
ECR 39 72
Title
Royal Patents: Grant of the reversion of Deerhurst priory
Level
Item
Date
4 March 1447
Content description
Grant in frankalmoign, with the authority of Parliament, to the Provost and College of Eton of the reversion of the alien priory of Derhurst [Deerhurst], which Hugh Maugason, prior of the same, a fellow monk [commonachus] of St Denis in France, holds for life; and the manor of Langley Marreys [Langley Marish], co. Bucks, with the reversion of the manor of Wyrardesbury [Wraysbury], a member of the said manor, which manor of Wyrardesbury John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer, holds for life, the manor of Langley with its members having come into the hands of Edward I by the minority of Ralph Plaiz, heir of Aveline Montfichet, and being still in the hands of the crown though recognised as belonging to Elizabeth, wife of John, earl of Oxford, as heir of the said Ralph; and all the lordship, lands, tenements, rents etc of the late Robert Hungreford, Knight, lord of Moleyns, in Eton and New and Old Windesore [Windsor], which belonged to the said Robert by right of Eleanor, his wife, daughter and heir of William Moleyns, Knight, late lord of Moleyns, deceased. With warranty. And if the grantees should be justly evicted from any of the premises, the crown will give them property of the same value.
And grant of two fairs within their lordship of Leghton Busard [Leighton Buzzard], co. Beds, one on the vigil of the Ascension, on Ascension Day and on the three days following, and the other on the vigil of St Edward, King and Confessor, on St Edward's day and on the four days following.
With the proviso that no English liege by reason of the foregoing grants shall be deprived of any legitimate annuity or rent from the premises, and that, upon the death or vacation of the said prior, the Provost and Scholars of the College of the Blessed Mary and St Nicholas of Cambridge [King’s College] are to have lands of the said priory to the value of 100 marks a year, to be defined by the bishop of Lincoln at the time.
Witnesses: the archbishops, the bishops of London, Exeter, Carlisle, Lincoln, Rochester, Salisbury, Durham, Bath and Wells, Llandaff, Worcester, Chichester and Norwich, the abbots of Glastonbury, St Peter's Gloucester, Beaulieu, St Alban's, Hide by Winchester, Abyndon [Abingdon], St Augustine's Canterbury, St John’ s Colchester, Redyng [Reading], Malmesbury, Wynchecombe [Winchcombe], Waltham St Cross, Peterborough and Ramsey, the dukes or York, Exeter, Norfolk and Buckingham, the marquesses of Dorset and Suffolk, the earls of Arundel, Devon, Salisbury, Oxford, Westmorland and Northumberland, the viscounts Beaumont and d'Eu, Edmund Gray of Ruthyn, James Audeley, Reginald la Warr, John Lescrop, Leo de Wellys, Walter Hungreford, Ralph Cromwell, John Sutton of Dudley and Ralph Botiller, Knights, John Fortescu and Robert Neuton, justices, and John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer. Given at Bury St Edmunds, by petition in Parliament.
The Great (Golden) Seal, green wax, on plaited blue and white silk cords and gold thread. A good deal of the upper right side missing. Ornamental penwork on top line.
And grant of two fairs within their lordship of Leghton Busard [Leighton Buzzard], co. Beds, one on the vigil of the Ascension, on Ascension Day and on the three days following, and the other on the vigil of St Edward, King and Confessor, on St Edward's day and on the four days following.
With the proviso that no English liege by reason of the foregoing grants shall be deprived of any legitimate annuity or rent from the premises, and that, upon the death or vacation of the said prior, the Provost and Scholars of the College of the Blessed Mary and St Nicholas of Cambridge [King’s College] are to have lands of the said priory to the value of 100 marks a year, to be defined by the bishop of Lincoln at the time.
Witnesses: the archbishops, the bishops of London, Exeter, Carlisle, Lincoln, Rochester, Salisbury, Durham, Bath and Wells, Llandaff, Worcester, Chichester and Norwich, the abbots of Glastonbury, St Peter's Gloucester, Beaulieu, St Alban's, Hide by Winchester, Abyndon [Abingdon], St Augustine's Canterbury, St John’ s Colchester, Redyng [Reading], Malmesbury, Wynchecombe [Winchcombe], Waltham St Cross, Peterborough and Ramsey, the dukes or York, Exeter, Norfolk and Buckingham, the marquesses of Dorset and Suffolk, the earls of Arundel, Devon, Salisbury, Oxford, Westmorland and Northumberland, the viscounts Beaumont and d'Eu, Edmund Gray of Ruthyn, James Audeley, Reginald la Warr, John Lescrop, Leo de Wellys, Walter Hungreford, Ralph Cromwell, John Sutton of Dudley and Ralph Botiller, Knights, John Fortescu and Robert Neuton, justices, and John Fray, chief baron of the Exchequer. Given at Bury St Edmunds, by petition in Parliament.
The Great (Golden) Seal, green wax, on plaited blue and white silk cords and gold thread. A good deal of the upper right side missing. Ornamental penwork on top line.
Existence and location of copies
Enrolled, as indicated by an endorsement, on the King’s Remembrancer‘s Memoranda Roll among the recorda of Hilary 32 Henry VI [P.R.O., E.159/230 rot.66].
There is a copy of this document on ECR 39/108
There is a copy of this document on ECR 39/108
Publication note
The Latin text is printed in Rotuli Parliamentorum vol. V, pp.130-1, and in Heywood and Wright, the Ancient Laws...for King’s College and Eton College, pp.460-4
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