1375 "Oct. 24. Westminster. To Ralph de Thresk escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to deliver in dower to Margaret who was wife of Henry de Bello Monte tenant in chief such as are in his bailiwick of the knights' fees and parts of fees following which the king has assigned to her of the knights' fees of her said husband taken into the king's hand by his death, namely the sixth part of one knight's fee in Braytoft and Frisby now held by John de Cressy and extended at 16s. 8d. a year." [1]
CP 25/1/186/35, number 1. County: Nottinghamshire. Place: Westminster. Date: One month from St Michael, 1 Richard [II] [27 October 1377]. Parties: John de Ansley, knight, Peter de Dalton', clerk, Robert de Morton' and James de Kyneton', clerk, querents, and John Cressy, knight, and Agnes, his wife, deforciants. Property: The manor of Hodesak'. Action: Plea of covenant. Agreement: John Cressy has acknowledged the manor to be the right of John de Ansley, as that which the same John, Peter, Robert and James have of his gift. For this: John de Ansley, Peter, Robert and James have granted to John Cressy and Agnes the manor and have rendered it to them in the same court, to hold to John Cressy and Agnes and the heirs of John, of the chief lords for ever. (Standardised forms of names. Persons: John de Annesley, Peter de Dalton, Robert de Morton, James de Kineton, John Cressy, Agnes Cressy. Places: Hodsock (in Blyth)) [2] [3] [4]
1383 Nov. 18. Westminster. To William de Skypwyth the younger, escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Rysgate and a fourth part of the manor of Braytoft which is parcel thereof, delivering to Ralph de Cromwelle knight, Matthew Redeman knight, Master Richard de Wynwyk canon of Lincoln, Master Peter de Dalton parson of Surflete, Ralph de Aderleye the younger, William de Wyum, William Stephenson of Kyrketon, Thomas Pynchebek and Richard de la Launde any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that long before his death John Cressy knight granted to the said Ralph, Master Richard, Master Peter, Ralph the younger and William Stephenson, their heirs and assigns, a yearly rent of 40l. to be taken of the said manor, and after demised the said manor and fourth part for twenty years from Whitsuntide last at a yearly rent of one rose to the said Ralph, Richard, Matthew, William de Wyum, Peter, Thomas and Richard, their heirs and assigns, and that the same are held of the king in socage by the service of 40s. a year by the hands of the sheriff. [5]
[1] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. XIV, 1374-1377 (London: HMSO, 1913), 161, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[2] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/186/35, number 1, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[3] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, [AALTImage].
[4] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, (dorse), [AALTImage].
[5] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Richard II, Vol. 2, 1381-1385 (London: HMSO, 1920), 335, [InternetArchive].