In this case, Richard was called the "feoffee of uses". He served as a feoffee for Thomas Kiddell and as a justice of the peace. The term is more fully stated as a feoffee to uses of the beneficial owner. The last recorded mention of him was as a feoffee to Richard Burley in 1387. By 1190 the feoffee of the Beaumont manor was a Norman, William Goher. Before 1549, Thomas Bishopp senior had acted as feoffee to Elizabeth, who was a recusant. He also acted as feoffee for estates of Sir John Passhele, his wife's brother-in-law.