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Description
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Petitioners:
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William
Ecchyngham (Etchingham), son and heir of William Ecchyngham, knight.
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Name(s):
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Ecchyngham
(Etchingham), William
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Addressees:
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King.
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Nature of
request:
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Ecchyngham
requests that the chancellor be commanded to enquire of the matter of the
manor of Hemsted and do justice to him. The manor descended to his father
who enfeoffed Belknap who was then seised of it, but it was seized into the
king's hand by Belknap's attaint.
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Nature of
endorsement:
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[None].
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Places
mentioned:
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Hempstede
(Hemsted), Kent; Lydd, Kent; Promhelle (Broomhill), Kent; Holewest, Kent;
Dymchurch, Kent.
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People
mentioned:
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John de Ore;
James de Ecchyngham, knight; Joan de [Ecchyngham], wife of James de
Ecchyngham; William Ecchyngham, father of the petitioner; Robert Bealknap
(Belknap), knight.
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Date
derivation:
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The petition
dates to 1389 as a commission was granted into the matter on 1 December
1389 (CPR 1388-92, pp.210-11).
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