Research Notes:

John de Goshale...was in possession of his father's estates in thirteenth of Edward III. [1339/40], when, as John, son of Henry de Gosehale, he made an agreement with Margaret, formerly wife of the said Henry, respecting lands at St. Lawrence and Minster in Thanet... Henry de Goshall appears...to have had another son named Thomas, who must have been the eldest, married and dead before 1335, as he is not named amongst the brothers in the deed of partition aforesaid [see notes under father Henry]. We learn this from a charter of Walter, the fourth son, who, on the 12th of January, twentieth Edward III., 1348-9, having then, of course, attained his full age, as Walter, son of Henry de Gosehale, knight, gives to John de Gosehale, knight, and to Elizabeth, his wife, the third part of the manor of Goldstanton, with its appurtenances, which Beatrice, who was the wife of Thomas de Gosehale, his late brother (quondam fratris mei) held in dower by the assignment of the said Thomas, her late husband... ²