son and heir, aged 14 years and more at his father's death.
Had Livery of his father's lands 12 May 1340....
Covenant upon coming of age, John de Dynham, 3 May 1340
Parties: 1) Lady Margaret who was wife of Sir John de Dynham 2) John son and heir of Sir John de Dynham. ) Indenture
whereby party 1 testifies that party 2 is today of full age; she grants
that he from today can enter and take the lands and rents which are
the inheritance of Sir John de Dynham, and which (1) holds in ward
in Devon and Cornwall, with the appurtenances `du lees' of John de
Eltham, former Duke of Cornwall; and (2) grants that (1) shall receive
from his bailiffs the entire rents of those lands and tenements at
St John and Michaelmas, and the moiety of the rents at Christmas,
next after this, together with the help [Latin: eides] of the villeins
and other tenants at Michaelmas; also that (1) shall have freely,
without disturbance from (2), the corn growing on those lands; reserving
to (2) sufficient seed ...of all kinds of corn to sow the lands when
he is lord, and the pasture [Latin: forage] of the corn to sustain
his beasts at all times when he is lord. Party 2 has also granted
to (1) the easements of his court and of the houses in the park of
Herton [Hartland] and at the barn [Latin: graunge] called `Le Chastel'
[in Hartland] from Michaelmas next for 1 year, if she wishes to dwell
there; and also that (1) and her bailiffs, with the help of (2)'s
bailiffs, may levy and distrain the tenants for all manner of debts
due to her up till the present. Dated Wednesday Invention of the Cross,
14 Edward III; at Criditon [Crediton, Devon].
UKNA, AR/37/11
He presented to the church of Corton Dinham, Somerset,
in 1344.
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18 Feb 1346, Westminster
Exemplification, at the request of John de Dynham,' chivaler,' tenant of the advowson in question, of the transcript of the foot
of a fine made at St. Bride, London, in the quinzaine of St. John
the Baptist, 23 Henry III, before Robert de Lexinton, William de Eboraco,
William de Culewurth and Henry de Bathonia, justices, and others then
there present, between Henry de Sancto Hillario, plaintiff, and Geoffrey
de Dynham, deforciant, of the manor of Croston, whereon a plea of
covenant was summoned between them, to wit, Henry acknowledged the
manor, with the appurtenances, to be the right of Geoffrey, and in
return Geoffrey granted that the manor, with the advowson of the church
thereof excepted, should remain to Henry and his heirs, to hold of
Geoffrey and his heirs by doing the service of a fourth part of a
knight's fee ; and besides Henry granted for him and his heirs that
Richard de Dinham, the heirs of Robert de Nederton, and William de
Sutheton should retain in fee the lands which they then held of him
in Corston. And this agreement was made with the consent of the king,
of whom Henry held in chief.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw. III, vol. 7, p. 47
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Died as a result of being murdered by robbers.
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