Research Notes:

19 May 1382, Westminster

To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order not to suffer John de Crophulle knight hereafter to be troubled by reason of his homage for the manor of Neubold Verdoun co. Leycester, except the knights' fees and advowsons thereto pertaining and 80 acres of wood, one stewpond and 4l. of rent therein; as upon the finding of an inquisition, taken by George del Castell' then escheator, that the said John held that manor without exception in chief by knight service as parcel of the barony of Theobald Verdoun, that [by] the late king's licence he gave the same with the exceptions aforesaid to Thomas de Crophulle his son, Sibyl wife of the said Thomas and the heirs male of their bodies with remainder to himself and his heirs, and that Sibyl died in the lifetime of her husband and the said Thomas died after without issue male between them begotten, wherefore by form of the gift the premises ought to revert to the said John, on 7 March last for a fine by him paid in the hanaper the king respited the said John's homage until Midsummer, and commanded livery of the premises to be given him; and the king has taken his homage for the premises.

Calendar of Close Rolls, 5 Ric. II, p. 139