Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 4

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Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 4

60. GOSCELIN DE EYVILLE.
Writ, 16 February, 1 Edward III.
[YORK.] Inq. 1 April, 1 Edward III.
Dighton in Allertonshire. A messuage, lands and tofts (extent given), held of the bishop of Durham by service of a third part of a knight’s fee.
Goscelin his son, aged 22 years and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (1.)
61. WILLIAM GRYMBAUD.
Writ, 16 March, 1 Edward III.
HUNTINGDON. Inq. 25 March, 1 Edward III.
Dodyngton. A messuage, lands and rents, held of the heir of John de Hastyngges, [a minor and in the king’s wardship,] by service of a quarter of a knight’s fee, which quarter of a fee together with other fees was assigned to Isabel, late the wife of John de Hastyngges, knight, as dower, and as appertaining to the manor of Brampton, co. Huntingdon, which she holds as dower.
He died on Wednesday before St. Gregory last past.
William his son, aged 2 years, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (2.)
62. THOMAS COLEPEPER.
Writ, 20 February, 1 Edward III.
KENT. Inq. 25 February, 1 Edward III.
Pepyngberi, Thonebregge, Teudele and Capele. Tenements called ‘le Bayhalle,’ Dodyngebery, Chaledecote and Whetstede (extents given), including two messuages, 405a. arable, two water-mills, &c. held in gavelkind, as pertaining to the tenement called ‘le Bayhalle,’ of Clarice, daughter and one of the heirs of Rodland de Okstede, Elizabeth de Burgh, John de Mereworth, Walter de Chitecroft, and divers other lords, by service of 2s. 10d. yearly.
Walter his son, aged 22 years on the feast of the Purification last, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (3.)
63. JOHN DE NODARIIS or DE NOUERS.
Writ, 8 May, 1 Edward III.
BUCKS. Inq. 20 May, 1 Edward III.
Stoke Goldyngton. A moiety of the manor (extent given), held of the king in chief as of the honour of Peverel by service of a quarter of a knight’s fee and a half.
Gothurst. The manor, of which he was enfeoffed jointly with Grace his wife and the heirs of the said John, by fine levied in the king’s court, held of Geoffrey de Say by service of a knight’s fee.
Weston. The manor, similarly held of William Eydon by service of a tenth part of a knight’s fee.
John his son, aged 9 years a fortnight (per quindenam) before the Purification last past, is his next heir.
NORTHAMPTON. Inq. 18 May, 1 Edward III.
Cestre. The manor (extent given), including a several fishery in the Nene, of which manor he was enfeoffed jointly with Grace his wife, to hold to them and the heirs of the said John, of the gift of Robert le Fitz Neel by fine levied in the king’s court, held of William de Echingham, knight, by service of a twentieth part of a knight’s fee.
Heir as above, aged 9 years and more.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (4.)
64. RICHARD SON OF WILLIAM SON OF HENRY, of Little Sutton.
Writ, 1 January, 1 Edward III.
SALOP. Inq. 16 April, 2 Edward III.
Little Sutton. Two messuages and 3 bovates of land, held of the king in chief by service of 6s. 2d. yearly to be paid by the hands of the sheriff, suit at the little hundred of Munslowe every three weeks, and two attendances yearly at the great hundred there.
Richard his son, aged 24 years and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (5.)
E. Enrolments &c. of Inq. No. 16, m. 3d.
65. ROBERT DE ESLYNGTON or DE ESLYNTON.
Writ, 10 May, 1 Edward III.
NORTHUMBERLAND. Inq. Friday after St. Dunstan, 1 Edward III.
Eslyngton. The manor (extent given), now worth little on account of the devastation of the Scots, held of the king in chief by service of rendering 4l. yearly at the king’s exchequer of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 14d. to be paid there for cornage, and by service of rendering 16s. for truncage at the king’s castle of Baumburgh.
Whittyngeham. A capital messuage, now worth little on account of the devastation of the Scots, lands, &c. (extent given), held of the king in chief by the aforesaid service.
Throunton. 8 bondages and 2 cottages (extent given), held of the king in chief by the aforesaid service, and now worth little on account of the poverty of the country and defect of tenants.
Barton. 4 bondages (extent given) held of the king in chief by the aforesaid service.
Robert his son, aged 24 years and more, is his next heir.
Transcript of a charter of Henry III. granting Eslington to John de Eslington and his heirs rendering 3 marks yearly of the old farm, which he and his ancestors had been accustomed to render, and 3 marks of increase, and by doing the king’s foreign service of cornage, suit of the county, and truncage at the king’s castle of Baumburgh for all service and custom. Witnesses, Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester, Roger le Bigott, earl of Norfolk, William de Cantilupo, John Hansell (sic), Ralph son of Nicholas, Bertram de Cyroll, Paulinus Peyvre, Richard de Dovor, Robert de Musegros, Bartholomew Pech, and Robert de Tueng. Dated at Wodestok, 5 May, 31 Henry III.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (6.)
66. HUGH DE MERYNTON.
Writ, 12 March, 1 Edward III.
Writ, 9 April, 1 Edward III.
WARWICK. Inq. Saturday, the eve of the Invention of the Holy Cross.
Long Ychynton. 4a. arable, together with the advowson of the church, held of the king in chief by service of a thousandth part of a knight’s fee.
Coventre. A messuage, held of the prior of Coventre by service of 6d. yearly.
Dunchirche. 48s. rent from divers tenants, held of Geoffrey de Cornewal, knight, by service of 1d. yearly for all service.
Coventre. A messuage, of which he was enfeoffed jointly with Agnes his wife, who survives him, by the grant of Adam Russel to them and the heirs of the same Hugh, held of the prior of Coventre by service of 4d. yearly for all service.
John his son, aged 28 years and more, is his next heir.
Writ of certiorari de feodis &c. 19 April, 1 Edward III.
WARWICK. Inq. The eve of the Invention of the Holy Cross, 1 Edward III.
He held no knights’ fees of the king in chief.
Long Ichynton. The advowson of the church.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (7.)
67. SIMON DE CRIKETOTE.
Writ to the escheator in Ireland, 14 March, 1 Edward III.
MEATH. Inq. taken at Drogheda, 24 May, 1 Edward III.
Lystornan. Ten carucates of land, held of the heirs of Theobald de Werdoun, whose lands and tenements are in the king’s hand by reason of the minority of the said heirs, as wardship within wardship, by service of 20s. royal service (de regali cervis’) whenever it shall have been proclaimed &c., and suit at the court of Dyueleke every fortnight.
Roger de Criketot, his brother, aged 40 years at Easter last, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (8.)
68. THOMAS DE HUNTERCOMBE.
Writ, 24 March, 1 Edward III.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Inq. 30 March, 1 Edward III.
Burnham. The manor (extent given), held of the king in chief as of the honour of Wyndeshore by service of half a knight’s fee, and doing at the castle of Windeshore per quadraginta dies semper per annum 8s. 4d.; and 30a. arable and 8a. meadow, held of the heir of Ivo Andrieu by service of 1d. yearly in free socage.
John his son, aged 23 years, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (9.)
69. THOMAS DE SAUNFORD.
Writ, 11 February, 1 Edward III.
SOUTHAMPTON. Inq. 16 February, 1 Edward III. (defective.)
Dreytone. A messuage, 1 carucate of land and 40s. rent, held of the king in chief by service of a . . part of a knight’s fee.
Cosham by Wymering. A messuage, 30a. land, 8s. 3d. rent and a rent of 1 1/4lb. of pepper, held jointly with Joan his wife, by service of finding an armed foot-man for guarding the castle of Porchestre for five days in time of war at his own charges.
Pukbrouk. A messuage, 30a. land, 4a. meadow and 2a. wood, held jointly with Joan his wife of the abbot of Tichefeld by service of 2s. 6d. yearly.
Est Cosham by Wymering. A messuage, a moiety of a carucate of land, 8s. 3d. rent, and rent of 1 1/4lb. of pepper, held of the king in chief by service of finding an armed foot-man for guarding the castle of Porchestre for five days at his own costs in time of war, and by doing suit at the king’s court of the said castle every three weeks, and rendering 6s. 8d. yearly at the king’s castle of Winchester.
Richard de Saunford, his brother, aged 48 years and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (10.)
70. RICHARD DE SANDEFORD or DE SONDFORD.
Writ, 10 February, 1 Edward III.
SALOP. Inq. Friday before St. Peter in Cathedra, 1 Edward III.
Sondford. The township with the hamlet of Rothale (extents given), held of the king in chief by service of finding an armed man with an unbarded horse for the ward of the castle of Monte Gomery for forty days at his own costs whenever there shall be war in Wales.
Brocton. A capital messuage, lands and rent (extent given), held of the manor of Sutton, which is in the king’s hand by reason of the minority of John son of Fulk le Straunge, by service of 2s. 1d. to be yearly paid to the said manor.
Richard his son, aged 21 years on Monday after the Conversion of St. Paul last is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (11.)
71. MAUD DE RODBARWE or DE RODBERWE.
Writ, 7 April, 1 Edward III.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. taken at Magor in the Marches of Wales, 29 April, 1 Edward III.
Magor. A fourth part of the manor (extent given), held of the king in chief by homage and fealty and service of a quarter of a sixth part of a knight’s fee.
Thomas de Rodberwe, her son, aged 28 years and more, is her next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (12.)
72. JOHN DE BAREWE.
Writ, 28 February, 1 Edward III.
HEREFORD. Inq. 7 April, 1 Edward III. (defective.)
Shutynton. A messuage and 80a. land held of Roger Pichard, knight, by service of a moiety of a ‘garland’ of roses at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, for all service.
Netherbolynghope, Clehungre and Hereford. A messuage, land, and rent, of which he and Maud his wife were jointly enfeoffed to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies, by Roger Broun, vicar of the church of Norton Canons, by fine levied in the king’s court, 12 Edward II, held of the king in chief by service of a third part of a quarter of a knight’s fee of the fee of Cormailles.
Netherbolynghope. 36a. land held jointly as above of John de Solers by service of 3s. yearly, and suit of court every three weeks.
Home Lacy. [Tenements] held jointly as above of the dean and chapter of Hereford by service of 5s. 11d. yearly.
Norton Canons. A cottage and 15a. land, with …… held jointly as above, of [the dean and chapter?] of Hereford by service of 6s.
John de Barewe, aged 8 years, [is son and next heir] of the said John (deceased), and Maud his wife.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (13.)
73. WILLIAM DE WEYLOND, WEYLOND or WELOND.
Writ, 15 April, 1 Edward III.
SUFFOLK. Inq. 16 May, 1 Edward III.
Charsfeld. The manor, held of Thomas de Brotherton, earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, by [service of] a [fourth] part of a knight’s fee.
Brandiston. The manor, held of the heirs of William Burnel by rendering for the said manor and the manor of Folkestone, co. Kent, 10s. at the end of every 28 weeks for the ward of the castle of Dover.
Westrefeld. The manor, held of Robert de Ufford by the service of a quarter of a knight’s fee.
He died on 20 March last past.
Robert his son, aged 24 years and more, is his next heir.
NORFOLK. Inq. 26 May, 1 Edward III.
Oxeburg. The manor with certain tenements in Schipeden and Hempstede, members thereof, held of the heirs of Edward Burnel by service of a knight’s fee and of a pair of white gloves; and the said heirs hold the same of the heirs of John de Lymesy by service of a knight’s fee.
Heir as above.
SOMERSET. Inq. 10 July, 1 Edward III.
Radewell or Radewyll. The manor (extent given), held for life by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of Elizabeth his wife, deceased, of the bishop of Bath by service of half a knight’s fee.
Robert de Weylond, son of the said William and Elizabeth, aged 23 years and more, is the next heir of the said Elizabeth.
[SUFFOLK]. Memorandum (defective). Agreement between John de Monghedene or de Munghedene, knight, and John Welond, for the demise by the former to the latter his heirs or assigns of two pieces of land in Moneghedene, called Thurpines Croft and Alriricheshaghe, the said land to revert to the said John de Munghedene upon payment to the said John Welond &c. of 200s. at dates specified therein at his house at Charsfeld, and in default to remain to the said John Welond and his heirs or assigns for ever. Dated the morrow of St. Hilary, 41 Henry III.
II. Grant by Margery de Blevile, widow, to John de Colevile, her nephew, son of William de Coleville, for his service, to hold to him and the heirs of his body, of a messuage with buildings and all the land and tenements, with meadows, pastures and appurtenances, which she and Alan de Wideresdale, sometime her husband, acquired in Munegedene, rendering to her and her heirs 21d. yearly, 1lb. of cummin and 4 clove gillyflowers for all services, saving the king’s service viz.— 12 1/2d. for a scutage of 20s., with reversion, upon failure of such issue to the said John, to herself and her heirs.
III. Agreement between John …… and Ernald de Kettleber’, whereby the former binds himself and his heirs and assigns to pay at specified dates to the latter 80 marks for 22 acres of land in Mungheden with the advowson of the church, and for greater security the said land and advowson, have been delivered to the prior of Lech . . (?) to keep; and in case of default of payment the land and advowson shall revert to the said Ernald de Kettleber’ his heirs and assigns. Dated at the feast of the Annunciation, 43 Henry III.
IV. Grant by John Wygan, to John Welond and his heirs, of 6d. rent in Munegedene, which he was accustomed to receive from John Smith (Fabro) of Ho for a meadow lying by the court of the parson of Muneghedene. Incomplete and vacated. Copy.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (14.)
74. WALTER COLPEPER.
Writ, 15 February, 1 Edward III.
KENT. Inq. 25 February, 1 Edward III.
Langelegh and Bokton Monchensy. Two parts of a messuage and carucate of land, and rents, held jointly with Joan his wife, of Agnes, lady of Leybourne, by service of a pair of spurs, or 3d. yearly for all service.
Est Farlegh. A capital messuage, 70a. arable and rents, held in gavelkind of the prior of Christchurch, Canterbury, by service of 20s. yearly, and doing suit at the prior’s court of Est Farlegh every three weeks.
West Farlegh. 5s. rent and 2 hens held in gavelkind of the said prior by the aforesaid service.
Eldynge. A rent of a cock and 13 hens held in gavelkind of Hugh Daudele without any service.
Mallynge. A messuage held in gavelkind of William Large by service of 2d. yearly.
Brenchesle. Tenements called Marescales, including a messuage and lands (extent given), held in gavelkind of Sir Hugh de Audele, as of the honour of Thonebregge by service of rendering 8 1/2 hogs, of the price of 15s., at All Saints’ Day every year at the larder of the said Hugh, and of William de Ore, knight, by service of 5s. 9d. a year; 18a. arable acquired by him from Maud Salamon, held in gavelkind of Geoffrey atte Holedene by service of 5s. yearly; and 9a. arable similarly held of Richard de Sheyselle by service of 4d. yearly.
Est Pecham. A messuage, 27a. arable and 2a. meadow, held in gavelkind of John de la Chekere, as of his manor of Adynton, by service of 1d. yearly for all service, and by rendering 7s. yearly to the lord of Cosinton.
Shybourne. A yearly rent of 26s., a cock and 3 hens, held jointly with Joan his wife in free fee of Roger Bavent without any service.
He died in the time of the late king.
Thomas his son, aged 20 years and more, is his next heir of the free fee; and the said Thomas with his brothers Geoffrey, aged 10 years, and John, aged 9 years, are his heirs of the tenements held in gavelkind.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (15.)
75. JOAN DE BOHUN or DE BOHOUN, of Kilpek.
Writ, 18 December, 1 Edward III.
SOUTHAMPTON. Inq. 20 February, 2 Edward III.
Munestoke [or Moenestok]. Two parts of the manor (extent given), and of 4l. rent in Tangele, held, together with the reversion of the third part which Sibyl, late the wife of Alan Plokenet, holds in dower of the inheritance of the said Joan, of the king in chief as a member of the barony of Kylpek, out of which the service of two knights is due to the king as the jury understand.
Richard de la Bere, son of Richard de la Bere, aged 30 years and more, is her kinsman and next heir; because the said Joan died without issue, and her right resorted to one Richard de la Bere, knight, as brother and heir of Alan Plokenet, father (patris) of the said Joan, sprung (progenito) from the same father and mother; and from the said Richard the right descended to Richard de la Bere as son and heir, and from the said Richard son of Richard the right descended to the aforesaid Richard de la Bere, who now brings suit as son and heir.
Writ, 18 December, 1 Edward III.
SOMERSET. Inq. 28 June, 1 Edward III. (defective.)
Haselbere. The manor, whereof Sibyl, late the wife of Alan Plukenet, holds a moiety as dower, held of the king in chief by service of a knight’s fee.
Richard de la Bere [son of Richard de Beer], aged 32 years and more, is her kinsman and next heir.
SOMERSET. Inq. 28 February, 2 Edward III.
Haselbere. A moiety of the manor (extent given), held, with the reversion of the other moiety which Sibyl, late the wife of Alan Plukenet holds in dower, of the king in chief by service of a knight’s fee.
Heir as above, aged 30 years and more.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (16.)
E. Enrolments &c. of Inq. No. 16. m. 3.
76. JOHN DE CLAVILL or DE CLAVILE, the younger.
Writ, 8 March, 1 Edward III.
DEVON. Inq. 1 April, 1 Edward III.
Bridelescoumbe. Two parts of the manor (extent given), together with the reversion of the third part which Isabel de Clavile, mother of the said John, holds in dower, and with the reversion of a carucate of land in Lomene Clavile, which she holds for life as jointly enfeoffed with John de Clavile father of the said John, held of the king as of the honour of Gloucester, now in the king’s hand, by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, the younger, by service of three parts of a knight’s fee and doing suit every three weeks at the court of the fees of the said Hugh at Wynkelegh.
John his son, aged 3 years at Whitsunday last, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 4. (17.)
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