Close Rolls, Henry VI: February 1424

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: February 1424', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 1, 1422-1429, (London, 1933) pp. 99. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen6/vol1/p99 [accessed 19 April 2024]

February 1424

Feb. 18.
Westminster.		 To the escheator in Staffordshire. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manors of Fysshereswyke and Wednesbury, a messuage, 200 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture and 30s. of rent in the towns or hamlets of Fynchpath, Tybynton and 'Netherpenne,' delivering to Thomas Wydevylle, John Longeville, John Barton the younger, William Thommes clerk, William Palmer and Gilbert Bury clerk any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that Elizabeth dame Clynton was long ago seised of the premises, and gave the same, by name of the manor of Fysshereswyke and all her lands etc. in Wednesbury, Fynchepath, Tybynton and 'Netherpenne,' to Thomas Wydevylle and the others and to Robert Sywarde clerk now deceased, their heirs and assigns, and that the same are not held of the king.
Feb. 5.
Westminster.		 To the escheator in the county of Suthampton. Order, upon petition of Elizabeth who was wife of Henry Beaumont knight, to give her livery of dower of a messuage and other lands in the town of Alton called 'Trenchauntis place,' saving to every liege and to his heirs such right, title, action, entry and demand as they now have therein; as her petition shews that by her husband's death and by reason of the nonage of John his son and heir divers lands etc. in divers counties came to the late king's hands, and are yet in the king's hand, and among others lands in the said county and in the city of Lincoln, that on 12 August 1 Henry V she sued writs for assignment of her dower in Leycestershire and Lincolnshire to the then escheators addressed, and was there dowered, that after on Monday after St. Dionysius the same year it was found before William Werbleton, then escheator in the county of Suthampton, that at his death her husband held the premises in Alton in fee tail, and at Lincoln on Monday after Michaelmas before William Caden', then mayor of the city of Lincoln and escheator therein, it was found that he died seised in his demesne as of fee of two messuages and appurtenances within that city, and that the same are in the king's hands, and she has yet no dower thereof, praying the king therefore to grant several writs by authority of this parliament to the escheators in the said county and city for livery of her dower, her previous suit for dower in Leycestershire and Lincolnshire notwithstanding.
By K. and C. in parl. (See Ancient Petitions 4558.)
Like writ, mutatis mutandis, to the mayor of the city of Lincoln, being escheator therein.
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