He held it for two years, but did not complete the payment. The manor then fell into a complicated contract for the future marriage of Moleyns's daughter Katherine which did not take place, and Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367–1434), Speaker of the House of Commons, and the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, acquired the manor of Gresham and sold it to William Paston. (Thomas Chaucer was married to a granddaughter of Maud Bacon, almost certainly another daughter of Edmund Bacon.)
The passage describes a series of events involving the ownership of a manor. The initial owner failed to pay off his debt, leading to complications with a contract regarding Katherine Moleyns's marriage. Thomas Chaucer acquired the manor from the previous owner and sold it to William Paston.