Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 7

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Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 7

78. John de Verdun.
Writ, 17 Oct. 2 Edw. I.
Wilts. Extent, Saturday after All Saints, 2 Edw. I.
Stok. The manor (extent given) held of the abbess of Wilton rendering 11l.
Theobald, his son, is his next heir and of full age.
Wilts. Extent, Saturday after All Saints, 2 Edw. I.
Wivelesford in the hundred of Wonderdich. The manor (extent given) held by service of maintaining a wax taper before the high altar of St. Mary in the church of Salisbury, to be lighted day and night for ever.
Heir as above.
Leicester. Inq. Monday before St. Leonard, 2 Edw. I.
Cotesbeche. The manor (extent given) with the fees of Alveton, Beleton, Scheftinton and Thokeby pertaining thereto.
Neubold (extent given).
All held of the king in chief for 1 knight's fee.
Lutterwrth (extent given), held of John son of Alan de Wolrinton for 10s. yearly.
Butlesby (extent given), held of the earl of Winchester for making one attendance at the court of Munsterton or Bulkynton, on summons eight days previously.
Sir Theobald de Verdun, aged 22 and more, is his heir.
Salop. Inq. Wednesday before St. Martin, 2 Edw. I.
Stok. The manor (extent given) with the advowson of the church, tenure unspecified.
Aldeleg. The manor (extent given), held of the heirs of Lacy of Ludlow (Ludel') by doing suit of court there; for he had that land in exchange for certain land in Ireland.
Heir as above, of full age.
Salop. Inq. St. Martin's day, 2 Edw. I.
Lodelawe. 23 acres land, 10l. 10s. rent of assize, 13l. from a mill and 8l. from pleas &c. and a fair; 1 ½ knight's fee held by Stephen de Buterleg', ½ fee held by Philip de Clinton, ½ fee held by Roger de Burchull, and ½ fee held by the preceptor of Lidleg'.
Lodelawe is a member of Webbele and held of the king by service of 7 ½ knights for the whole barony of Webbele and Ewyas.
Heir as above.
Stafford. Inq. Monday before St. Martin, 2 Edw. I.
Alveton. The manor (extent given with names of free tenants), including—
Heleye, Aldedeleye, Henedon and Longrisdon, held by Henry de Aldedeleye for 1 knight's fee.
Schene, held by Robert de Acover, rendering 36s. yearly.
(Unspecified.) 2 virgates land, held by Philip de Dracot, rendering 10s. yearly.
Cariswell, held by William de Cariswell, rendering 5s. yearly.
(Unspecified.) ¼ knight's fee (held by) John de Ippiston, rendering 5s. yearly.
Stanton. Part of the town held by William le Marchale, rendering 1 mark yearly.
Rounal. A small town held by Robert de Standon, rendering 7s. yearly.
Kyngisleye. 2 virgates land, held by Robert de la Ward, rendering 12d. yearly.
Farleye (extent given of free tenancies with names of tenants).
Wotton (the like extent given).
Denston (the like extent given).
Bredleye (the like extent given), held of the heir of Greseley.
Stongushull (the like extent given), held of the lord of Tutteburi in chief.
Crakemers (the like extent given), held of the earl de Ferers by doing suit at the court of Tutteburi.
Adlaxton (the like extent given), held of the heir of Hugh de Schereford.
Buccunhal. 50s. rent from free tenants.
Fenton. 40s. like rent, and pleas and perquisites.
Wiston. 10s. rent, held of James de Biseg'.
Coten. 20s. rent.
Alveton, Codusbag, Neubold, Farnam (?) and la Cere are held of the king for 1 ½ knight's fee.
Heir as above.
[Hereford.] Inq. Thursday after St. Leonard, 2 Edw. I.
Webbele (extent given).
Ewyas Lascy. A moiety (extent given).
Both held, with a moiety of Lodelouwe, for half a barony doing service of 7 ½ knights.
He died on Sunday after St. Luke, in the said year. Heir as above, aged 26.
Warwick. Inq. The morrow of St. Martin, 2 Edw. I.
Braundon with its members. 4 ½ knights' fees, held of the earl of Warwick by service of scutage, viz.—
Braundon. 4 carucates land.
Bretford. 57s. 3d. rent.
Flekeho. ½ knight's fee, viz.—2 carucates land, held of Sir Thomas de Ardena, lord of Ruton, by service of a sparrowhawk (nisi).
Heir as above, aged 22 and more.
[Oxford.] Inq. The eve of All Saints, 2 Edw. I.
Hethe. The manor, held of the king in chief by service of ½ knight's fee.
Sir Theobald de Verdun, knight, aged 22 and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (1.)
79. Roger de Luvetot alias de Luvetoft, de Luvetoth.
Writ, 22 June, 2 Edw. I.
Huntingdon. Inq. Sunday after SS. Peter and Paul, 2 Edw. I.
Southo. A messuage, 60a. arable, 3a. meadow, 4a. wood, 12a. of thicket, 2a. pasture and 57s. rent &c. held of the king in chief, and he owed scutage and suit at the county and hundred (courts); and 80a. arable and 37s. 11 ½d. rent, which he bought of Nicholas Peysun, rendering 3l. 17s. 11 ½d. yearly.
Overton Watervile. 44s. 9 ½d. rent.
The whole held by service of 3 ⅓ knights' fees.
Thomas de Luvetot, aged 26 and more, is his heir.
Writ of plenius certiorari, on the complaint of Henry de Lunggevill and Petronilla his wife, daughter of the said Roger, that the escheator had taken into the king's hand 10l. rent in Overton Watervill, of which the said Roger had enfeoffed them in free marriage, 13 July, 2 Edw. I.
Huntingdon. Inq. The day of St. James, 2 Edw. I.
Overton Watervill. The said Roger a month and three days before he died enfeoffed Henry de Lungevill and Petronilla his wife of 10l. rent there in free marriage, doing foreign service to his heirs, and they were in peaceful seisin of the fealty of the tenants and of part of the rent; whereof 4l. 6s. 8d. are held of the king in chief by foreign service, 4l. of John de Littlebyri, and 33s. 4d. of John de Cantelup, by the like service.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (2.)
80. Gilbert Talebot.
Writ, 8 Sept. 2 Edw. I.
Gloucester. Inq. Saturday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 2 Edw. I.
Longehop. Two parts of the manor (extent given) held of the gift of the king of the honour of Monem[uth] by service of two parts of 1 knight's fee, to him and his heirs until the king should provide them with 40l. land for the whole manor.
Richard his son, aged 24 and more, is his next heir.
Gloucester. Inq. Saturday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 2 Edw. I.
Redleg'. The manor (extent given) held of Sir Edmund son of king Henry for his service, excepting the fishery which Sir Edmund retained, to him and his heirs, until he shall have been provided with 300l. (?) of wardship or escheat (exch').
Heir as above.
Hereford. Inq. Saturday the morrow of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 2 Edw. I.
Egleswalle and Linton. The manor (extent given) held of the king in chief by service of 1 knight's fee.
Credehulle. The manor (extent given) held of Robert de Chandos by service of ½ knight's fee.
Heir as above.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (3.)
81. William de Plessetis alias de Plescys.
Writ, 6 Oct. 2 Edw. I.
Somerset. Inq. and extent, Wednesday the eve of St. Luke, 2 Edw. I.
Nyweton, Auekrigge and Exeton. The manors, with common in a moor called Northmora and the keepership of the park of Nyweton (extent given), held of the king in chief in serjeanty by service of ¼ knight's fee.
Richard de Barbeflut, aged 28, is his next heir.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (4.)
82. John de Burgo, the elder.
Writ (missing).
Norfolk. Inq. The morrow of the Epiphany, 2 Edw. I.
Causton. The manor (extent given) with the advowson of the church, including a water-mill and market which three years ago he demised to Master John de Brideport to be held until he should provide him with a benefice, rendering 8½ marks yearly, and the hundred of Suterpingham which he delivered three years ago to Hugh the Parker for life, rendering 4l. yearly, held of the king in chief of the king's demesne, service unknown.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (5.)
83. John Giffard of Tyringham alias John de Tyringham.
Writ, 27 May, 2 Edw. I. (fragment.)
[Buckingham.] Extent, _ 2 Edw. I.
Tyringham. The manor (extent given) with the advowson of the church, held of the heirs of Someri of the honour of Newport Paynel.
Estwod (extent given), held as Tyringham by the same knight's fee; and there is there a wood called Pirney held in socage of the lords of Emberton by service of 12d., certain lands and rents of the fee of William Rolaund, and the prior of Ravenstone pays 4s. 6d. yearly for a pond with a holm in Tyringham.
Of all which, dower (extent given with names of fields and tenants) is assigned to Cecily (late) the wife of the said John.
Roger his son, aged 13, is his next heir.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (6.)
84. Geoffrey de Mortuo Mari.
Writ, 24 March, 2 Edw. I.
Buckingham. Inq. Thursday after SS. Peter and Paul, 2 Edw. I.
(Unspecified.) A capital messuage, land and rent (extent given), held of the king in chief, through the heir of Ralph de Mortuo Mari who is under age and in the wardship of Lady Joan Wake, by service of 1/6 knight's fee.
Nigel Scaldehare was attorney to receive the issues &c. from the day the said Geoffrey died until this date, and Sibyl sometime the wife of the said Geoffrey received her third part.
He died at the feast of St. Michael in the last year of king Henry.
William his son, aged 25 and more, is his heir.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (7.)
85. Thomas Corbeth.
Writ (missing).
Salop. Extent, Tuesday after St. Luke, 2 Edw. I. (defective.)
Worthin. The manor (extent given with names of free tenants, some doing suit at the court of Caus).
Yokelthul. The manor (similar extent given).
Wontenowr. The manor (similar extent given). The church is in the gift of the lord of Caus.
Munsterleg'. The manor (similar extent given).
Caus. The manor (extent given) with names of free tenants holding knights' fees and doing suit at the court of Caus, viz.—Edmund de Hodeneth, Robert Corbeth, Fulk son of Fulk son of Warin, John de Arundel, Robert Pigot, and Robert Burnel without suit, 1 fee each; Reginald son of Peter, Robert de Witidon, Roger Burnel, Roger de Mars, and John de Hanewode, ½ fee each; Roger de Horton ¼ fee, Madoc 1 virgate land paying 5s. yearly, and William Hag' 1 virgate paying 20d. yearly.
Aston. The manor is held for 1 knight's fee of the lord of Caus, and is in the king's wardship ...
Corbeth.
Pleas and perquisites of the chief court of Caus 100s. yearly.
Peter his son is his next heir ... ought to hold the said tenements of the king in chief as of escheat through the death of Sir (Robert) sometime earl of Salopessur', and this by service of 5 knights with the king in time of war.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (8.)
86. Henry de Percy.
Letters Patent to Nicholas de Stapleton and Elias de Bekyngham, 26 June, 2 Edw. I.
Writ of venire facias to the sheriff of Lincoln, 26 June, 2 Edw. I.
Lincoln. Inq. (undated.)
Knights' fees pertaining to the manor of Luford as chief manor in Lindeseya:—
Elkington, Caltorp, Imgingham, Ouresby and Kevermund. 2½ knights' fees held by the lord of Kyme.
Roxton near Neus. ½ fee held by Peter de Gousel, and ½ fee by Peter son of Geoffrey.
Covenham. ½ fee held by John de Aulay.
Northstaynton and Frunthorp. 1 fee held by Richard de Murerers.
Frunthorp. ½ fee held by Richard de Malbys.
Kevermund. ½ fee held by the same.
Luford. 1/10 fee held by Henry West of Luford.
Houtham and Leggesby. ½ fee held by John Brand.
Wykinby, Welleton near Haumby, Someretby, Parva Carleton, Norh Riston and Luford. 1 fee held by the heirs of John le Chaumberleyn.
North Someretby. 1 fee held by Gilbert de Berivale.
The above hold by scutage.
Outhenby. 1 fee held by the abbot of Thornton rendering 40s. yearly, and by the prior of Elsham rendering 1 mark.
Luford. The manor held by the prior of Sixel rendering 8 marks yearly.
Horkestowe. The manor held by the heirs of William de Aynford in free marriage, of the fee of Percy.
The wife of the said Henry since his death has received all the rents of these fees, excepting 4 marks received by the king's escheator.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (9.)
87. Nicholas de Crioll alias de Curioll.
Writ, 2 July, 2 Edw. I.
[Huntingdon.] Inq. Thursday after St. Benedict the abbot, 2 Edw. I.
Stocton. A moiety of the manor was held by Nicholas de Curioll of the bishop of Lincoln by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of his first wife, not as pertaining to the barony of Eynesford, but of the bishop's fee; but he was not seised of the same when he died, for he gave it in his lifetime to Roger de Leyburne.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (10.)
88. Maud de Sancto Andrea.
Writ of plenius certiorari, on the complaint of Alice de Sancto Andrea, her daughter, that the escheator, by reason of the minority of the said Maud's heirs, had ejected her from the manor of Arnington of which her mother had enfeoffed her, 15 Feb. 2 Edw. I.
Cambridge. Inq. Friday before St. John the Baptist, 2 Edw. I.
Arnington. The manor was given by the said Maud on the day of St. Matthew last to the said Alice, and she had seisin thereof until Wednesday after the octave of St. Michael following, when John de Caxton the bailiff of the earl of Gloucester ejected her. The said Maud was of good memory at the time of the said gift, and so died on Tuesday after St. Michael last.
(See No. 107.)
C. Edw. I. File 7. (11.)
89. Robert Walraund.
Writ of extent and appraisement to the sheriff of Hereford of the whole land of Coytemor, whereof Maud late the wife of the said Robert claims a third in dower against Alan de Plogenet, who calls the king to warrant as guardian of Robert son of William Walraund, nephew and heir of the said Robert, 11 Feb. 2 Edw. I.
Hereford. Extent and appraisement the morrow of the close of Easter.
Coytemor. 130a. arable, 42a. meadow, 108a. pasture, and 240a. wood.
Similar writ to the sheriff of Southampton with respect to lands &c. in Retherfeld and Tystede, whereof the said Maud claims a third in dower against William de Retherfeld, who holds them and calls to warrant the said Robert the heir, who is in the king's wardship, 21 April, 2 Edw. I.
Southampton. Extent and appraisement (undated).
Retherfeld alias Rutherfeld and Tystede. A court, 100a. arable, 140a. wood, 17s. rent and aid, 2s. pleas, works worth 78s. &c.
(See No. 7.)
C. Edw. I. File 7. (12.)
90. Joyce (Jocosa) Montfichet alias Munfichet.
Writ of plenius certiorari, on the complaint of John Engaine and Joan his wife, that the escheator had detained the manor of Byfeld which fell to the said Joan as daughter and heir of the said Joyce, 12 July, 2 Edw. I.
Northampton. Inq. Sunday before St. Peter ad Vincula, 2 Edw. I.
Byfeld. Lands &c. held of the heirs of Robert de Sutton by homage and service of 1lb. cummin and suit of court, of which Joyce de Munfichet was seised in fee, belong by hereditary right to the said Joan, but were recently taken into the king's hand because the lands of the said Robert lately deceased were taken into the king's hand.
C. Edw. I. File 7. (13.)
91. John son of Alan, of Arundel.
Extract from the Records of the King's Bench at Westminster:—
Isabel late the wife of the said John seeks in dower a third of the manors of Halthamstan and Rodington, co. Salop, a third of rents in Westdene and Sengelton, co. Sussex, a third of the manor of Borhunte, co. Southampton, and a third of two parts of four water mills in Swanburne and Arundel, against divers tenants (names given) who called to warrant Roger de Mortuomari guardian of the said John's heir, who said that he held the wardship of part of the lands by the grant of king Henry and could not warrant without the king, and Robert Aguylun, who held the other parts as the king's bailiff; and a day was given them &c.
Writ of extent and appraisement to the sheriff of Salop, 27 Nov. 2 Edw. I.
Salop. Extent (undated).
Rodinton. The manor (extent given) worth 70s. 11½d., without the tallage of Rodenhurste and the dower of Agnes late the wife of Ranulph de Rodinton. Isabel late the wife of John son of Alan seeks a third part in dower.
Salop. Inq. (undated.)
Alhamstun. The manor in the hundred of Munselau (extent given) with a wood in the forest.
Similar writ to the sheriff of Sussex, 27 Nov. 2 Edw. I.
Sussex. Extent and appraisement (undated).
Swaneburn. Two parts of four water-mills.
Summary of the manors of Halchamstan and Rodinton, two parts of four mills in Suaneburn and Arundel, and 67s. rent in Westden and Sengelton.
Similar writ to the sheriff of Southampton, 12 Feb. 2 Edw. I.
Southampton. Extent and appraisement (undated).
Burhunte [alias Burghunt.] A third of the manor is held in dower by Maud de Verdun late the wife of John son of Alan the old, and two thirds only held by John le Mareschal.
Extract from the Records (of the Court of King's Bench) (see above).
The said Isabel seeks in dower a third of a water-mill and 7s. rent in Muleford against the abbot of Hagheman, who called to warrant Richard son and heir of the said John, who is within age &c, by (reason of) a deed from the said John testifying that he gave the same mill and rent to the said abbot &c.; and a day was given them &c.
Writ of extent to the sheriff of Salop, 3 May, 2 Edw. I.
Salop. Inq. (undated.)
Muleford. The mill, worth 20 soams of corn yearly, price 4s. each, and the farmer is bound to maintain the mill at his own cost.
Writ of assignment of dower to the said Isabel of 2 marks rent out of the tenements and rents late of the said John, in the king's hand, instead of a third of the mill of Muleford which the said John gave to the abbot of Hageman in frankalmoin; and 2s. 4d. rent, for a third of 7s. rent which he also gave to the said abbot, 22 Ju .., 2 Edw. I.
(See Hen. III. No. 812.)
C. Edw. I. File 7. (14.)