Sir Adam Redman

From Greenfield's 1905 The Redmans of Levens and Harewood, pp. 50-51 (scanned, resulting in many typos and transliteration errors):

The Redman moiety of Yealand descended from father to heir until, as we have seen, it fell to Adam, second son of Matthew II., who in 1327 had a grant of free-warren in his lands of Yealand (Cal. Rot. Chart.).

Adam, who is described as the " King's Yeoman," probably held some Court appointment. In 1327 we find (Close Rolls, 20 Edw. III.) an order to John de Lancaster, keeper of certain lands in the King's hands in the county of Lancaster, to pay Adam Redman, the King's yeoman, ^fioo out of the ■issue of the said lands, to be brought by him to the King -and to be delivered to Robert de Wodehous, keeper of the -wardrobe.

In the same year (Pat. Rolls) appears a grant to Adam de Redman, King's yeoman, for service to John de Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, the King's brother, that he shall hold for life rent-free the custody of the lands in " Tibbeie and Runnerthwayt," Co. Westmorland, of the lands in " Kirk- levyngton and Kirk Andres." (There was a confirmation of this grant in 1331.)

His brother William had died several years earlier, for in 1318 we find Adam acting as his executor and there ^^'as a direction for the payment of arrears of William's wages. (Close Rolls, II Edw. II.)

In 1328 the sheriff of Westmorland -was ordered to take into the King's hands lands in Tybay and Ronnerthwayt, and deliver them to Robert de Sandford, to whom the late "King, in the seventeenth year of his reign, granted custody for seven years, and afterwards granted the same to Adam de Redeman during pleasure. (Close Rolls, 21 Edw: III.')

In 1331 Adam acknowledges that he owes to Robert de Sandford five marks to be levied in default on his chattels and lands in Co. Westmorland ; and, seven years later, he too was sleeping with his forefathers, for on February I2th, 1338, William Langleys received a grant of his lands in Tebay, &c., (mentioned above) " coming into the King's hand on the death of Adam de Redeman."

Adam left a son and successor, John, and two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth. For thirteen years John, who seems to have led rather an unenterprising life, retained his hold of the Yealand moiety, and then, on the 4th April, 1351, he too died, leaving not a chick behind him ; and his estates went to his two sisters and co-heiresses, (i) Margaret, born 1335, who, according to Dodsworth, (108, f. 114) married John Boteiler, of Merton ; and (2) Eliza- beth, born 1336, who found a husband in Roger de Croft.

In his post mortem inquisition (MS. Dods. 108, f. 114) the jurors found that John, son of Adam de Redman, held on the day on which he died two-thirds of the manor of Yeland Redman, together with a reversion of the other third part on the death of his mother, Elena ; that John died on the 4th day of April last, and that Margaret, aged sixteen, one of his sisters, and Elizabeth, aged fifteen, wife (at that tender age) of Roger de Croft, are his heirs.