Contemporary copy or draft of memorandum of agreement between King Edward and the...

Contemporary copy or draft of memorandum of agreement between King Edward and the lady Isabel, countess of Albemarle and Devon; the countess shall give to the earl all her inheritance, to wit both the Isle of Wytht and all other land, etc. with advowsons, knights' fees, etc. inherited or purchased, which she held in fee, except the manors of Sevehampton, Witechirche, Harewod and Tiverton, and the service of Henry Trenchard for one knight's fee, and of Richard de Affton for one knight's fee, which shall remain to the countess to be held of the king and his heirs by the services due and accustomed; the countess shall cause the king to have seisin of the said lands, the said four manors and two knights' fees excepted; the king shall hold the said inheritance as his own till some reasonable time to be fixed between them, and afterwards shall grant the same, knights' fees excepted, to the countess for life by final concord to be made in the king's court, provided however that all the tene- ments which are held in dower of the said inheritance, when they happen, shall remain to the king, as shall also the said knights' fees and their incidents; the king shall be allowed to make his profit by sale or otherwise of the woods which were in the Countess's hand of the said inheritance; the countess shall do what she pleases with the said four manors, saving the king's service; if the countess recover the manor of Navesby, which she claims to be her right, she shall assign it to the king to the value and exchange of the manor of Tiverton, and if it fall short shall make up the value from other her lands; if the countess do not recover the manor of Navesby, but recover the manor of Craft, which she likewise claims, she small make similar exchange; if she recover neither, or be remiss in the suit or die, she or her heirs shall make such exchange from other of the land remaining to her; all the lands which may hereafter come to her, to wit those which Thomas de Breaute holds or other, shall remain to the king, by the said fine; the king shall assign the countess 1,000l. of land to be held till the fine is levied, the assignment to be made before the countess puts the king in seisin of the said inheritance, lands, etc.; the king shall give the countess for her said inheritance 20,000 marks, a moiety to be paid when he shall receive seisin, and the other moiety when the said fine shall be levied; when the fine has been levied and the said countess has had again her seisin of the said inheritance, lands, etc. by the said fine, then the king shall have again the said 1,000l. of land, quit of the countess; the king and countess have covenanted to observe all the above articles. Cf. 7122. Isle of Wight, etc