[Sidenote: 1459 / NOV. or DEC.]
Mekely besechith Phelip Wentworth, Knyght, that where the warde and
mariage of Thomas, sone and heire of John Fastolf, late of Cowhaugh in
the [county] of Suffolk, squyer, and of the lond of the same John,
belonged to the Kyng of rigth, and among other by reason of the nonnage
of the sayd heir, the maner of Bradwell in the said counte was sesed in
to his handes by vertu of an enquest take a fore his Eschetour of the
seid counte. The whiche offices[199.2] John Fastolf, Knyght, and other
tented to traverse, and by that meane had the sayd maner to ferme,
accordyng to the statute in that case made, and it was founden and
jugement yoven for the Kyng in the said traverse by the labour of the
said Phelipp, which, the xviij. day of Novembre, the yer of the regne of
the Kyng the xxvj.,[200.1] bougth of Marmaduke Lampney, than Tresorer of
Englond, the said ward and mariage for an C. marc, as it appereth in the
Kynges receyte, be syde all other costes and charges that the said
Phelipp hath don uppon the same, as weel in fyndyng of the Kyngges title
of the said ward, as in the meyntenauns of all other sewtes dependyng
uppon the same, to the costes of the said Sir Phelypp more than D. marc.
And the said John Fastolf, Knyght, was adjuged in the Kynges eschequer
to pay an C.ix_li._ xiij_s._ viij_d._ _ob._ for the issuez and profites
which he had take of the londes of the same warde. And where the Kyngges
lettres patentes be entred in the remembrauns on the Tresorer parte in
the said eschequyer in this fourme:
Rex omnibus ad quos, &c., salutem. Sciatis quod per manucaptionem Thomæ
West de London armigeri, et Willelmi Barker de Norwico gentilman,
commisimus Johanni Paston armigero et Thomæ Howes clerico custodiam
omnium terrarum et tenementorum cum pertinentiis quæ fuerunt Johannis
Fastolf de Cowhaugh in com Suffolk armigeri die quo obiit et quæ per
mortem ejusdem Johannis Fastolf ac ratione minoris ætatis Thomæ, filii
et hæredis dicti Johannis Fastolf, ad manus nostras devenerunt et in
manibus nostris ad huc existunt; habendam a tempore mortis præfati
Johannis Fastolf usque ad plenam ætatem dicti hæredis, una cum maritagio
ejusdem hæredis, absque disparagatione; et si de hærede illo humanitus
contingat antequam ad plenam ætatem suam pervenerit, hærede illo infra
ætatem existente non maritato, tunc dicti Johannes Paston et Thomas
Howes habeant custodiam et maritagium hujusmodi hæredis, simul cum
custodia omnium terrarum et tenementorum prædictorum; et sic de hærede
in hæredem quousque aliquis hæres hæredum prædictorum ad plenam ætatem
suam pervenerit: Reddendo nobis prout concordari poterit cum Thesaurario
nostro Angliæ citra festum Paschæ proximo futuro, ac sustentando domos
clausuras et ædificia, necnon supportando alia onera dictis terris et
tenementis cum pertinentiis spectantia sive aliquo modo incumbentia quam
diu custodiam habuerint supradictam, ac inveniendo dicto hæredi
compententem sustentationem suam: Eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore
annuo præmissorum in præsentibus minime facta existit, aut aliquo
statuto, actu sive ordinacione in contrarium edito sive proviso non
obstante. Proviso semper quod si aliquis alius plus dare voluerit de
incremento per annum pro custodia et maritagio prædictis, quod tunc
prædicti Johannes Paston et Thomas Howys tantum pro eisdem solvere
teneantur si custodiam et maritagium habere voluerint supradictam. In
cujus &c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium vj^to die Junij anno H. vj^ti
xxxij^{do}.
And after that an accorde is entred in the sayd Eschequer in thys
forme:--_In Hillarii record’, anno xxxvj^to Regis H. vj^ti ex parte
Remembr’ Thesaurarii:_
Et modo, xx. die Februarii hoc termino, prædicti Johannes Paston et
Thomas Howys venerunt hic in propriis personis suis et optulerunt se ad
concordandum cum Thesaurario Angliæ pro custodia omnium terrarum et
tenementorum, una cum maritagio ejusdem hæredis. Et super hoc
concordatum est inter Johannem Comitem Wigorniæ, Thesaurario Angliæ et
præfatos Johannem Paston et Thomam Howys quod ipsi solvent domino Regi
pro custodia omnium terrarum et tenementorum prædictorum, videlicet a
tempore mortis præfati Johannis Fastolf usque ad plenam ætatem dicti
hæredis ac maritagium ejusdem hæredis, decem marcas tantum; de quibus
quidem x. marcis consideratum est per Barones quod prædicti Johannes
Paston et Thomas Howys et manucaptores sui prædicti pro custodia et
maritagio prædictis erga Regem onerentur prætextu Regis literarum
patentium et concordiæ predictorum ac aliorum præmissorum.
So by the sayd lettres patentez and the sayd accorde the sayd John
Paston and Thomas Howys schuld have the sayd C.ix_li._ xiij_s._ viij_d._
_ob._ and the sayd ward and mariage, the whiche is worthe CC_li._, for
the sayd x. marc only. And also, for as moche as the sayd Tresorer
recordeth in the Kyngges High Court of Parlement begonne at Westminster
the ix. day of Jule the yer of the Kyngges noble regne xxxiij., that he
made never no suche accord wyth the sayd John Paston and Thomas Howys of
the sayd ward, the whiche mater is of record in the Kyngges chauncerye
certefyed by the sayd Erle of Worceter, as weell as by other his lettres
to dyvers persones directed, sealed with his signet, wretyn and signet
with hys owen hand, as plenerly dooth appere: Where for plese it your
gret wysdams, the premisses considered, to pray the Kyng oure soverayn
Lord, that, by the advys and assent of his Lordes spirituelx and
temperelx, and by you hys comunes in the present parlement assembled,
stablysshed and inacted that the sayd entre of accord and jugement
theruppon be anulled and of non effect. And the sayd Phelyppe schall
pray to God for you, &c.
[Footnote 199.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This petition was
presented to the Parliament which sat at Coventry in 1459, and
received the Royal assent. It has already been printed in the
_Rolls of Parl._, v. 371.]
[Footnote 199.2: An inquisition taken before an escheator, by
virtue of his office, was frequently called an office.]
[Footnote 200.1: A.D. 1447.]
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