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1356 Feb. 8. Roxburgh.To Thomas de Fulnetby, escheator in the county of Lincoln. Order to take the fealty of John de Cressy in accordance with the form of a schedule enclosed, to deliver to him the manor of Risgate together with the issues thereof, and not to intermeddle further with the manor of Braytoft, delivering the issues thereof to John, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Maud late the wife of Hugh de Cressy, held the said manors for her life of the grant of Edmund de Cressy, knight, Thomas de Neumarche, knight, Thomas de Ros, knight, and Hugh de Wytteleseye, parson of a mediety of Claypole church, made to her by the king's licence, with remainder to John de Cressy, that the manor of Rysgate is held in chief by the service of 40s. yearly, and the manor of Braytoft of another than the king, and that John is aged seventeen years. [1]


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[1] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. X, 1354-1360 (London: HMSO, 1908), 245, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].