Close Rolls, Henry IV: 1401

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 1, 1399-1402. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.

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'Close Rolls, Henry IV: 1401', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 1, 1399-1402, (London, 1927) pp. 497-498. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen4/vol1/pp497-498 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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1401

John prior of Rouchestre and the convent of the one part and William Hesille of the other part. Indenture of agreement, reciting that in the king's court the prior averred that 6½ acres of land in places called 'Pesecroft' and Stoke in the town of Darente, held by the said William, are held of the prior and convent in right of their church of St. Andrew Rouchestre by fealty, suit of their court of Darente every three weeks, the service of paying 3s. 1½d. of rent a year, by the service called 'landechepe,' namely paying 9¼d. and half a farthing after the death of every tenant and after any alienation in fee, the service called 'benerthe,' to wit ploughing one acre a year of the demesne lands of the manor at the time of sowing wheat, carrying from the barn of the prior and convent to the land so much wheat as may be sown thereupon, there sowing it, and harrowing the land after such sowing, the service of reaping, gathering and binding in sheaves in the autumn season the whole crop of 2½ acres of the said demesne lands sown with wheat, putting it in shocks, carrying three shocks to the grange and there stacking them, and of reaping, gathering and binding the crop of one rood sown with barley and half an acre sown with oats, the service of enclosing yearly with hays and ditches 2½ perches sown with pease, and the service of finding one man at the fitting time to toss, turn, dry, gather and stack all the mown grass in the meadow of the prior and convent of 'Bedemede,' and carrying one load of hay to the manor grange, as appears in a record before the justices of the Bench upon a writ of recordari between Elizabeth who was wife of John Appelton of Derteford and the said William plaintiffs and the said prior and John Redynge of Darente defendants in Hilary term 21 Richard II, roll 337; and that by mediation of counsel on either side the parties agreed, to wit that the said William and his heirs, being henceforward tenants of the said land, shall do fealty to the prior and convent and to their successors for the same, as the law requires, and suit at the said court twice a year, namely once at the court there holden next after Christmas, and again at the court next after Midsummer by three days' lawful summons to them before holding such courts, paying the rent of 3s. 1½d. a year, and doing and paying the service called 'landechepe' when a case shall occur for all services; and quitclaim by the prior and convent to the said William and his heirs of the residue of the services aforesaid, hereby discharging them thereof. Dated Rouchestre, 1 August 2 Henry IV.
[No acknowledgment.]
1402.
John de Dynham knight to James Aumarle, John Pole, Robert Maynard, Thomas Hertyscote and John Bole, their executors and assigns. Gift of all his goods and chattels quick and dead, moveable and immovable. Witnesses: John Dauney, Ralph Lapslode, William Holebem, John Crosse, John Gamboun. Dated Notewille, 1 June 2 Henry IV.
Memorandum of acknowledgment, 12 February this year.