Close Rolls, Henry VI: July 1429

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 1, 1422-1429. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1933.

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'Close Rolls, Henry VI: July 1429', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 1, 1422-1429, (London, 1933) pp. 440-444. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen6/vol1/pp440-444 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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July 1429

July 8.
Westminster.
Order to the sheriff of York for election of a coroner in the Westrithing instead of William Brohagh, who is insufficiently qualified.
July 4.
Westminster.
To the escheator in Essex and Hertfordshire. Order to give John son and heir of Richard de Veer earl of Oxford seisin of all lands held by the earl in fee and in fee tail, and of those of his heritage whereof John Brerelee, William Ingham and Roger Eston were tenants for life; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and the king has taken his homage and fealty due for the same. By p.s. [2085.]
To the escheator in Oxfordshire. Like order, as the said John has proved his age before the escheator in Essex.
Like writs to the escheators in the following counties:
Leycester.
Kent and Middlesex.
Suffolk.
Bukingham.
Cantebrigge.
July 8.
Westminster.
To the escheator in Kent. Order to take of Joan who was wife of Hamon Bealknap esquire an oath etc., and in presence of the next friends of John Bealknap son and heir of the said Hamon, or of their attorneys, to assign her dower.
July 8.
Westminster.
Order to the sheriff of Notyngham for election of a coroner instead of Ralph Byngham, who is too sick and aged to travail in exercise of that office.
Membrane 4.
July 12.
Westminster.
Order to the sheriff of Notyngham for election of a coroner instead of John de Byngham, who is insufficiently qualified.
June 28.
Westminster.
To the escheator in Yorkshire. Order to give William Ingilby, son of Eleanor daughter of William Moubray and of Margaret his wife who was wife of William Cheyne knight, she being cousin and heir of William Moubray and Margaret, seisin of all lands whereof the said Margaret was seised in fee and in fee tail, and those of his heritage which she held for life after the death of William Moubray; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and the king has taken his homage and fealty.
To the escheator in Lincolnshire. Like order, as William Ingilby has proved his age before the escheator in Yorkshire.
Like writ to the mayor of the city of York, being escheator therein.
Feb. 20.
Westminster.
To the escheator in Somerset. Order to take the fealty of Alice late the wife of Thomas earl of Salisbury, and to give her livery of the manor of Donyate with Donyate park adjacent, and the manors of Jerlyngton, Gothulle and Knolle; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that at his death the earl held the said manors and park, among other things, jointly with her by feoffment of Henry bishop of Winchester and others, made without licence of the king to them for life with remainder to the earl's heirs, that those manors are held in chief by knight service, and that they are taken into the king's hand by the earl's death and by reason of that trespass; and for a fine paid in the hanaper the king has pardoned the said trespass.
June 10.
Westminster.
To the escheator in Leycestershire. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with 100 acres of arable land, 24 acres of pasture and 12 acres of meadow in Cullesthorp (sic), delivering to the said George (sic) and Philippa any issues thereof taken since the death of George Burneby esquire; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that at his death George Burneby held the premises jointly with Mary his wife, yet living, by gift of Richard Stafforde esquire and others to them during the life of the said George, by name of a moiety of the site of the manor of Oulsthorpe and demesne lands in Oulsthorpe, with remainder to Eustace Burneby and Philippa his wife and to the heirs of their bodies, and that the same are not held of the king.
To the escheator in Norhamptonshire. Order to take the fealty of Mary who was wife of George Burneby esquire, and to give her livery of the manor of Watforde, and the issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that at his death George Burneby held that manor jointly with her by feoffment of John Daudlin to them and the heirs of the said George, that two thirds thereof and two thirds of two mills in Watforde are held in chief by service of half a knight's fee, and the third part of the said manor and mills in chief at fee farm, rendering 20l. a year at the exchequer, and that Queen Joan holds that fee farm in dower.
July 15.
Westminster.
To the escheator in Lincolnshire. Order to take of Elizabeth who was wife of John Saltby an oath etc., and in presence of John Saltby, son and heir of her husband, or of his attorneys, to assign her dower.
Membrane 3.
July 1.
Westminster.
To the escheator in Yorkshire. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manors of Denton in 'Wharledale' (sic) and Wolfeston, four messuages, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow and 10s. of rent in Asskwyth, delivering to William Brocas any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Joan who was wife of Bernard Brocas knight at her death held the manor of Denton in her demesne as of fee, the manor of Wolfeston and premises in Asskwyth to her and the heirs of her body by the said Bernard by gift of Bernard Brocas knight his father to them made, that the same are not held of the king, and that William Brocas is son and next heir of Bernard the son and the said Joan, and is of full age.
To the escheator in Surrey. Like order, mutatis mutandis; as the king has learned that the said Joan at her death held no lands in Surrey in chief nor of others in her demesne as of fee, but held for life a third part of all lands forfeited to King Henry IV by reason of a judgment rendered against her husband, namely a third part of the manor of Peperharwe, a meadow called Wanmede, a field called the 'Longfelde,' another called Moudene, 40 acres of pasture in that town, and 54s. 8d. of rent of assize in Guldeforde, Ertyngton and Peperharwe by letters patent whereby the said king granted to her for life, among other things, a third part of all manors, lands, rents and services to him forfeited as aforesaid, and by assignment of William Weston then escheator, that after by other letters patent the said king gave to William firstborn son of the said Bernard and to his heirs all manors, lands, rents, services, fees and advowsons of the said Bernard, with all reversions so forfeited as fully as the said Bernard held them before his forfeiture, that the said third part, land, meadow etc. are and were parcel of the manors and lands of the said Bernard, and after her death pertain to William Brocas and his heirs by virtue of the said grant, and that they are not held of the king.
To the escheator in Berkshire. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning a third part of the manor of Clyware, a garden in Dydeworth Mauncell, 5 acres of land below the same, 7½ acres of land in the Werthe with half an acre of meadow there, two virgates of land in Clyware and Dyddeworth sometime held of the said Bernard by William Hervy and others, and the third part of a rent of assize of 1 lb. pepper in Wyndesore from Thomas Hyrstede, which she held by the said grant and by assignment of Thomas Gloucestre then escheator, and which are not held of the king.
To the escheator in the county of Suthampton. Like order, mutatis mutandis, concerning two chambers on the west side of the hall at 'Northfarham' with the houses thereto annexed, the whole garner and the house wherein it was, a house leading from the end of a barn on the west side of the court to the end of the privy of the great gate, a third part of the byre by the said gate on the west side, a third part of the great barn on the south side, a third part of the 'shephous' on the south side, the chapel and dovecote in common with free ingress and egress, a garden called the 'Chapelgardyn,' 13 acres of arable land and a third part of one acre on the south side in length in 'Wodegarstonfelde,' 17 acres and a third part of one acre on the north side in the field called 'Blechemerche,' 22 acres of land towards the south in the field called Wykes, 6 acres of land in the common fields, two fields called Horgastus, a meadow called 'Knyghtesmede,' a wood called 'Byrchstryche' and the third part of a heath there, a third part of the perquisites of the court, the following tenants and their rents, namely Richard Elyot freeholder there, rent 2s. 3d. a year, and neif tenants namely Geoffrey Dore 13s. 10d., John Haywarde 13s., William atte Putte 40d., John Elyer 40d. and Robert Davy 6s. 8d. a year, and the advowson of a free chapel there called Whipstrode, to present at every third turn, at Brokkeshede in Hedle Simon Thecchere freeholder, rent 2s. 6d. a year, and neif tenants namely John Sleyworthe 2s. 6d., Richard Dounore 3s. 2d., John Lythyare 3s. 2d., and Magot Trottesworthe 12d., the third part of a yearly rent of 13s. 4d. of a meadow called 'Brodemede,' a meadow called 'Rogerusham' containing 3 acres, another called 'Lytelmede' containing 2 acres, a wood called 'Westwode' containing 2 acres, with 'Westmore' 1 acre, 2 acres of land on the east side of a field called Holecroft, 2 acres on the east side of 'Burwestfelde,' 1 acre 1⅓ rood on the south side in 'Bechefelde,' 1 acre in 'Godenofelde' on the west side, 10 acres of heath there on the west side by a bridge called 'Lynfordebrygge,' a third part of the new chamber on the south side, a third part of the hall on the north side, a third part of the byre on the north side, a third part of the garden on the north side, and a third part of the perquisites of the court there, which the said Joan held by the said grant and by assignment of John Chaumflour then escheator, and which are not held of the king.