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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.] |
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To the escheator in Oxfordshire. Like order, as the said John
has proved his age before the escheator in Essex. |
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Like writs to the escheators in the following counties: |
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Leycester. |
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Kent and Middlesex. |
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Suffolk. |
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Bukingham. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To the escheator in Lincolnshire. Like order, as William
Ingilby has proved his age before the escheator in Yorkshire. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |