Amice Corbet

Primary Sources

CP 25/1/194/11, number 21.
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County: Shropshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: The day after St Martin, 4 Edward III [12 November 1330].
Parties: Edmund de Longedon', querent, and Roger Corbet of Cawes, deforciant.
Property: 1 messuage, 2 carucates of land and 40 shillings of rent in Legh' by Worthyn.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Roger has acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Edmund, as those which Edmund has of his gift.
For this: Edmund has granted to Roger the tenements and has rendered them to him in the court, to hold to Roger, of the chief lords for the life of Roger. And after the decease of Roger the tenements shall remain to Amice, who was the wife of Thomas Corbet of Morton, to hold of the chief lords for the life of Amice. And after the decease of Amice the tenements shall remain to Peter, son of the aforesaid Roger, and the heirs of his body, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to Roger, brother of the same Peter, and the heirs of his body, (2) to Thomas, brother of the same Roger, and the heirs of his body, (3) to Joan, sister of the same Thomas, and the heirs of her body and (4) to the right heirs of the aforesaid Roger Corbet.
Source: Abstracts of Feet of Fines