Further Addenda

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 8, Edward III. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1913.

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'Further Addenda', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 8, Edward III, (London, 1913) pp. 518-525. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol8/pp518-525 [accessed 19 April 2024]

FURTHER ADDENDA.

713. NICHOLAS, BROTHER AND HEIR OF PETER DE GLAMORGAN, an idiot.
Writ to the escheator to take into the king’s hand the lands &c. of the said Nicholas, who by examination before the Council, has been found to be an idiot, and incapable of managing his lands; and also, to enquire what lands &c. the said Peter had in the bailiwick on the day he died. 24 May, 16 Edward III.
Endorsed by the escheator that there are no lands &c. in his bailiwick of the inheritance of the said Nicholas which can be taken into the king’s hands.
SOMERSET. Inq. taken at Jevele on Friday before the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 16 Edward III.
The aforesaid Peter held no lands &c. in the county.
DORSET. Inq. taken at Dorcestre on Friday after the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 16 Edward III.
The aforesaid Peter held no lands &c. in the county.
Writ to the escheator to enquire whether the aforesaid Peter was seised of the manor of Brompton in his bailiwick, and, if so, to take the said manor and the goods and chattels therein found into the king’s hand, the said Nicholas having upon examination before the king in the chancery, been found to be an idiot. 12 July, 16 Edward III.
Endorsed by the escheator that he has done as ordered, giving a list of the animals, goods, and crops found.
SOMERSET. Inq. taken at Ivelcestre Tuesday after St. Mary Magdalene, 16 Edward III.
Brompton. The aforesaid Peter was seised of the manor on the day he died.
SOMERSET. Writ of plenius certiorari to Thomas Cary, Robert de Hadham, Edmund Gyldene and William de Byngham, on the petition of Thomas Haket and Amice his wife showing that Peter de Glamorgan lately enfeoffed William Wayte and Richard Esmond of the manor of Brompton and the advowsons of the church and chapel there, to hold to them and their heirs, and the said William and Richard gave the said manor and advowsons to the said Thomas and Amice, to hold for the lifetime of the said Amice, and afterwards granted the reversion of the said manor and advowsons, after the death of the said Amice, to Joan, daughter of John de Glamorgan, who, having received the attornment of the said Thomas and Amice, by her writing granted the said manor and advowsons to them and the heirs of their bodies, with reversion to herself and her heirs, and that the said manor and advowsons, by virtue of a certain inquisition taken after the death of the said Peter by Hugh Tyrel, late escheator in the county, whereby it was found that the said Peter died seised thereof, and that Nicholas, his brother and heir, was an idiot, had been taken, together with the goods and chattels found therein, into the king’s hand, and praying that the king would remove his hand from the same and order them to be delivered to the said Thomas and Amice. The sheriff has been ordered to provide a jury. 20 June, 26 Edward III.
SOMERSET. Inq. taken before Robert de Hadham, Esmund (sic) le Gilden and William de Byngham, at Yevele, 7 June, 27 Edward III.
The said Peter was not seised on the day he died of the abovesaid manor and advowsons, because, five weeks and five days before his death, on Tuesday in Whitsun week, 15 Edward III, he granted them by his charter to William le Wayte and Richard Esmund and their heirs; the said William and Richard were seised thereof until Monday after All Saints, 15 Edward III, on which day they granted them by their writing to the aforesaid Thomas and Amice, to hold as above; the said Thomas and Amice were seised thereof until the Gule of August following, when Hugh Tyrel, as abovesaid, took them into the king’s hand, the following goods and chattels being there found, viz. 66a. wheat, price 30l. 12s., 30a. … price 9l., 10a. barley, price 4l., 26a. oats, price 4l. 16s., 10a. flax, price 100s., 10 oxen, price 9l. 12s., 6 cows, price 60s., 3 mares, price 55s., 2 foals, price 50s., … sheep, price 10l., a sow and nine little pigs, price 13s. 4d., 2 beds, price 30s., a waggon … s. 4d., a cart bound with iron (ferrata), price 20s., two brass pots, price 18s., two brass dishes, price 4s., one washing basin, price 6s. 8d., two ploughs, with all their gear, price 20s.; ‘cuves,’ ‘fates,’ ‘tuberels,’ ‘barels,’ price 20s., which goods and chattels belonged to the said Thomas at the time of the taking of the said manor into the king’s hand, and they came to the hands of the said Hugh Tyrel, who occupied and administered the same at his will. The jurors are altogether ignorant as to whether the abovesaid William and Richard granted the reversion of [the said manor and advowsons] to Joan, daughter of John de Glamorgan, to hold after the death of the said Amice, or not.
C. Edw. III. File 67. (17.)
714. GILBERT TALBOT or TALEBOT.
Writ, 1 March, 20 Edward III.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. taken at Westbury on Monday after St. Gregory the Pope, 20 Edward III.
Lydeneye. A moiety of a knight’s fee, held of the earl of Warrewik by knight’s service.
Longehope. The manor, held of the earl of Lancaster by service of a moiety of a knight’s fee.
He died on Friday, 24 February, 20 Edward III. Richard Talebot, aged 40 years, is his next heir.
Writ, 1 March, 20 Edward III.
HEREFORD AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inq. taken at la Mere on Monday after St. Gregory 20 Edward III.
Blanleveny and Bolkedynas. The castles and lordship,—of which lordship a certain part is in the county of Hereford and the residue in the March adjacent to the said county, without the land of the principality of Wales—held of the king in chief by service of one knight’s fee and a half.
Date of death as above. Richard his son is his next heir and of full age.
HEREFORD AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inq. taken at Rosse, Tuesday after St. Gregory the Pope, 20 Edward III.
Lynton. The manor held of the king in chief by service of a knight’s fee.
Credenhull. The manor held of the king by service of a knight’s fee.
Blanleveny and Bukedynas. The castles and lordship held as in preceding inquisition.
Date of death as above. Richard his son, aged 40 years, is his next heir.
Writ of certiorari to the sheriff and escheator in co. Hereford and the adjacent March of Wales, to enquire on what day the said Gilbert, who in his lifetime held the castles of Blenleveny and Bolkedenas of the king, died, and in what place, and if the lordship of Blenleveny and of Bolkedenas is an honour or not, and in what the profit of the said honour consists, and if the castle and lordship of Crikhowel is held of the king in chief, or of the honour or lordship of Blenleveny and Bolkedenas, and by what service, and if the recovery of the said castles and lordship of Blenleveny and Bolkedenas by Matthew fitz Herbert against Richard Talebot, before the justices of the Bench lately made, as is said, by collusion, was made to defraud the king of any right pertaining to him in that behalf, and if so, then of what right, and by whom and when the collusion was made, and if the said Matthew alienated, or not, the said castles and lordship, after the said recovery, to the said Richard, without the king’s licence, and if so, when. If it shall be found that the said castles and lordship were so alienated by the said Matthew without the king’s licence, then the escheator is to take them into the king’s hand. 27 June, 26 Edward III.
HEREFORD AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inq. taken in the castle of Hereford on Wednesday, the feast of St. James, 26 Edward III.
Sir Gilbert Talbot died on the night following Monday, 20 February, 20 Edward III, but whether he died soon after midnight, or in the last quarter of the said night, the jurors know not. He died at Ekleswalle. The lordship of Blanleveny and Bulkedenas is denominated honour and lordship, and nine knights’ fees are held in chief thereof. There are there the advowsons of two churches, one of no value, the other extended at six marks; also, pleas of the crown, with sale of felons and other pleas; likewise a forest. The castle and lordship of Crikhowel is held of the lordship and honour of Blanleveny and Bulkedenas by service of four and a half knights’ fees. The lord of Crikhowel shall do suit of court at the court of Blanleveny and Bulkedenas, from court to court. There are other services of which at present they are ignorant. As to the recovery of the said castles and lordship of Blanleveny and Bulkedenas by Matthew fitz Herberd against Richard Talbot, made before the justices, it was made by no collusion or fraud to the king. As to the alienation of the same made to Richard Talbot by the said Matthew, without the king’s licence, they know not.
Writ of certiorari super vero valore, 10 July, 26 Edward III.
HEREFORD AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inq. taken in the castle of Hereford on Saturday after St. Margaret, 26 Edward III.
The castles and manors of Blanlevene and Bulkedenas, with the demesnes, lordships, homages &c. thereto belonging, are worth 80l. 5s. 3d. yearly.
Writ of ad quod damnum to the aforesaid Richard de Brugge touching the restoration to Richard Talbot and his heirs, of the castles, manors, lordship and honour of Blenleveny and Bulkedynas, which he acquired, without the king’s licence, of Matthew fitz Herebert, who held them of the king in chief, and which by reason of the said trespass were taken into the king’s hand. The escheator is also to inquire what lands &c. remain to the said Matthew besides the aforesaid; 1 August, 26 Edward III.
HEREFORD AND THE [ADJACENT] MARCH OF WALES. Inq. taken at Gokrate by le Mere of Blaynleveny on Friday, the feast of St. Lawrence, 26 Edward III.
The honour and lordship of Blaynleveny are worth 80l. 10s. 3d. yearly. No lands &c. remain to the said Matthew. If the king grants the said lordship to the said Richard the loss to him is the aforesaid value, and there is no prejudice to others.
HEREFORD AND THE [ADJACENT] MARCH OF WALES. Inq. taken at Hereford, Sunday after St. Lawrence, 26 Edward III.
It is not to the loss or prejudice of the king or of others.
No lands &c. remain to the said Matthew.
Petition of Richard Talbot to the king and his council, that, whereas Gilbert Talbot, his father, died seised of the lordship and castles of Blaynleveny and Bolkedenas, after whose death they were seised into the king’s hand, because they were held of him, and afterwards by an inquisition under a writ of diem clausit extremum, were delivered to the said Richard as his son and heir, because it was found by the same inquisition that the said Gilbert died seised of the said castles and lordship, because they had been granted to him by the king for his life, and afterwards confirmed by letters patent to hold to him and his heirs, after which delivery the king received the homage of the said Richard for the same; which estate the said Richard continued until, with the king’s licence, he enfeoffed Thomas Talbot, clerk, of the said castles and lordship, to hold to him and his heirs; and afterwards the said Thomas, with the king’s licence, granted the same to the said Richard and Elizabeth, to hold to them and the heirs of the said Richard, which estate the king by his letters patent confirmed; afterwards Mayewe le fitz Herebert recovered from the said Richard and Elizabeth in the king’s court the said castles and lordship, by a writ of entry of disseisin made to Herbert his father by title of right, without collusion or covin, as is found by an inquisition taken and returned into the chancery, after which recovery the said Maiewe enfeoffed the said Richard of the said castles and lordship, without licence obtained of the king, wherefore the same were seised into the king’s hand, and still remain there; may it please the king and his council to command the chancellor to receive a suitable fine from him for the said trespass, and further to make restitution to him [the said Richard] according to the laws and statutes of the land, so that there may be no stay of restitution in having the said castles and lordship, because of any inquisition taken during the king’s seisin to which the said Richard was not a party, and after that restitution made to him, he will be ready to answer the king and any other where and when they please. (Undated.) (French.)
Endorsed that because, by the first charter made to Gilbert Talebot of the lordship and castles of Blenleveny and Bolkedenas for the term of his life, the reversion thereof belonged to the king, and, by the second charter of confirmation, made after the death of the said Gilbert, no right of fee simple accrued, or could accrue, to the said Gilbert or his heirs, so that the whole right of the said reversion, after the said Gilbert’s death, always remained, and still remains, in the person of the king, and since the said lordship and castles are now taken into the king’s hand for just cause, viz. for alienation thereof made without the king’s licence, which alienation the said Richard knew, and the king is now informed of his right, which accrued to him by the death of the said Gilbert, as is found by the said inquisition, the council is advised that the king ought not to take a fine for the said trespass, nor to withdraw his hand, before the said Richard has tried and discussed his right before the king in that behalf, if the said Richard wishes to sue. (French.)
Duplicate of the above Petition. (Undated.) (French.)
Endorsed, Memorandum that Richard Talbot came into the chancery at Westminster on 26 October, 26 Edward III, and exhibited this bill to J. bishop of Worcester, the king’s chancellor, praying him to do him justice on its contents.
Petition of Richard Talbot and Elizabeth his wife to the king and council.
Whereas the said Richard enfeoffed, with the king’s licence, Thomas Talbot, clerk, to him and his heirs, of the lordship and castles of Blanleveni and Bulkedinas, and the said Thomas re-enfeoffed the said Richard and Elizabeth thereof, with the king’s licence, and against them Mayeu le fiz Herbert brought his writ of entry of a disseisin made to Herbert his father by one John le fiz Reynald, of the aforesaid lordship and castles, and recovered against them by title of right, without fraud or collusion, and was seised thereof by the said judgment, and afterwards enfeoffed the said Richard and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the said Richard, of the lordship and castles aforesaid with warranty, without the king’s licence, on account of which the same were taken into the king’s hand, and for which they have proffered a fine, and cannot obtain livery, because it was afterwards found by inquisition that the king gave the said lordship and castles to Gilbert Talbot, his [the said Richard’s] father for his life, and afterwards confirmed the same to the said Gilbert and his heirs for ever, but the said Gilbert died before the said confirmation, as was found by the same inquisition, which the said Richard and Elizabeth will be ready to traverse, if they can claim the estate of the said Gilbert, which they cannot do, because of the recovery aforesaid, which was of a higher and older right, before the king or his father ever had anything therein, which right the said Richard and Elizabeth will be ready to maintain; may it please the king to order his chancellor to hear their petition, and further to do to them what reason and law demand. (Undated.) (Frenh.)
Endorsed: The king delivered this petition to the archbishop of York, his chancellor, on St. George’s day, in the 27th year of his reign, to do right and reason as touching its contents. And afterwards, on the quinzaine of St. Michael following, the said business was adjourned to the quinzaine of St. Hilary; and afterwards, on the quinzaine of St. Hilary, the said business was continued in the same state to the quinzaine of Easter next. (French.)
Duplicate of the above Petition. (Undated.) (French.)
Endorsed, Memorandum that this bill was delivered to the chancellor on 16 February, 27 Edward III, to do right to the said Richard and Elizabeth, according to the effect thereof. (French.)
Writ of dedimus potestatem to William de Chiltenham to receive the attorneys of Elizabeth, the wife of Richard Talebot, both of whom pray that the castles and lordship of Blenleveny and Bulkydenas, which for certain causes are in the king’s hand, may be delivered to them; 16 February, 27 Edward III.
Endorsed by the said William, giving the names of the attorneys.
Petition of Richard Talbot, knight, to the chancellor. Whereas the king gave the castles and lordship abovesaid to Sir Gilbert Talbot for life, and afterwards confirmed the same to him and his heirs for ever, after whose death the said Richard entered upon them as his son and heir, as is found by process made before the king in the chancery; and afterwards the said Richard by the king’s licence gave the same to Thomas Talbot, clerk, to re-feoff the said Richard and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of the said Richard, as appears by the king’s letters patent made at Calais; after which confirmation, Maiheu le filz Herberd brought a writ of entry based on the disseisin against the said Richard and Elizabeth, of a disseisin made to Herberd filz Johan his father long before the king had any possession, and the said Richard by his counsel perceiving that the said Maiheu had right in his action, and that his [own] estate was not sure, by the gift or grant or confirmation which he had of the king, unless he had estate from the said Maiheu, which estate is higher than the king’s possession was, because the king had granted the reversion of the said castles and lordship, after the death of Sir Gilbert Talbot his father, who held them for life by the king’s gift, to Sir Henry de Ferrers and his heirs for ever, before the confirmation had been made to the said Gilbert his father, or to himself, wherefore the said Richard and Elizabeth suffered the said Maiheu to recover the said castles and lordship from them as his right, by which recovery the possession of the king and of all others was undone, because the said recovery can be maintained as good and lawful, without collusion or fraud towards the king or any other, after which recovery the said Richard purchased the said castles and lordship of the said Maiheu, to him and his heirs for ever, which castles and lordship are held of the king in chief, whom [the said Richard] prays to take a suitable fine from him for the purchase, as ordained by statute. (Undated.) (French.)
Endorsed: this petition was disavowed (dedicta) by Richard Talbot and quashed by consideration of the court.
C. Edw. III. File 82. (18.)
715. ALAN LA ZOUCHE, chivaler.
Writ, 24 November, 20 Edward III.
CAMBRIDGE. Inq. taken at Cambridge on Tuesday, the eve of St. Nicholas, 20 Edward III.
Swaveseye. The manor held jointly with Eleanor, his wife, who still survives, of the gift of Nicholas Kebe, vicar of the church there, and John Kebe, brother of the said Nicholas, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of the said Alan. The said manor is held of the earl of Rich[mond] in socage.
Fulborne. A manor there held jointly as above, of the same earl, in form aforesaid, rendering yearly for the said manors a pair of gilt spurs, price 6d., or 6d.
Another manor in the said town held jointly as above, in form aforesaid, of the bishop of Ely by knight’s service.
He died on Sunday after St. Martin last. Hugh his son, aged nine years and more, is his next heir.
Writ, 13 February, 28 Edward III.
CAMBRIDGE. Inq. taken at Cambridge on Wednesday after St. Peter in Cathedra, 28 Edward III.
Fulbourn. Sixteen pounds yearly rent from free tenants in the said town, parcel of the manor of Fulbourn, which sometime belonged to William la Zouche, father of the said Alan. The manor (excepting the said rent) the said Alan held on the day of his death jointly with Eleanor, his wife, who still survives, of the gift of Nicholas Kebe and John Kebe, chaplains. A parcel of the said manor, together with 11l. of the said rent, is held of the earl of Richemond by service of one mark yearly and another parcel of the said manor, together with 100s. of the said rent, is held of the bishop of Ely by knight’s service.
He died on this side (citra) All Saints, 20 Edward III. Heir as above, aged 15 years and more.
Writ of certiorari super causa capcionis, touching the manor of Fulbourn and 16l. rent of Nicholas Damory and Eleanor his wife. 3 May, 28 Edward III.
Return by Guy Seintcler, escheator co. Cambridge, that he has not taken the said manor into the king’s hand; but, on the death of the said Alan, and by virtue of the above inquisition taken before the said escheator at Cambridge in 28 Edward III, he took into the king’s hand the above 16l. rent in Fulbourn, and, by virtue of the king’s writ directed to him, has caused the same to be delivered to John de Beauchaump, to hold as in the said writ is more fully required. Undated.
Writ of scire facias to the sheriff of Cambridge, referring to the above inquisition touching the 16l. rent in Fulbourn, the custody of which, by reason of the minority of Hugh, son and heir of Alan, ought to pertain to the king. As Nicholas Dammory and Eleanor, his wife, now hold the said rent, the sheriff is to warn them to be in the chancery on Wednesday after the Ascension next, to show cause why the said rent should not be taken into the king’s hand until the lawful age of the heir and be accounted for from the time of the said Alan’s death. 10 May, 28 Edward III.
Endorsed by the sheriff that he has warned the aforesaid Nicholas and Eleanor by Robert Frebern and William in le Netherstrete.
Memorandum that Nicholas Dammory, ‘chivaler,’ and Eleanor, his wife, have appointed William de Dyghton their attorney to sue for the restitution of certain lands &c. in Fulbourn, which have been taken into the king’s hand. Undated.
Cf. Calendar of Close Rolls, 1354–1360, p. 16.
C. Edw. III. File 82. (19.)
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