| Description | From: Henry IV, king of England
Recites charter of king Edward [II]. This states that the king, with the consent of the prelates, earls, barons and nobles in the Parliament at York, granted to Roger Damory and Elizabeth his wife, the king's neice, the manor of 'Sandhall', Yorkshire, which the king has of the gift of Gerard Salvyn, and the manor of 'Halghton', Oxfordshire, which the Edmund of Cornwall, earl of Cornwall, acquired and afterwards gave to Bartholomew of Kent, and which came to the king after Bartholomew's death. Also the manor of Vauxhall ('Fauxhall'), Surrey, which Richard de Gersey held for life by the king's grant and which after his death came to the king. The lands are worth 50 marks a year, in part satisfaction of the king's grant to Roger of lands to the value of £100. The king also grants Roger an annual payment of 100 marks, payable as specified in the Exchequer, for as long as he has still to provide him with the additional 100 marks' worth of land. When Roger receives more lands, the payment shall be proportionally reduced. Sent patent. Dated 12 Aug 1319 at Gosforth, Northumberland.
Henry IV approves the grant and confirms it to Thomas de Bardolfe, Roger's kinsman and heir. If Edward II or Richard II have granted additional lands to Roger and his heirs, or Henry grants additional lands to Thomas, the payment of 100 marks shall be proportionally reduced. Dated at Westminster, 24 May [1400]. By writ of the privy seal and for 40s paid in the hanaper.
Copy not dated. [Date: handwriting.] Made from the 'originalia' of the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer for IHenIV.
Endorsed with description in late 16th or early 17th cent hands. |