Close Rolls, Henry VI: July 1433 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 2, 1429-1435. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1933.

'Close Rolls, Henry VI: July 1433', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 2, 1429-1435, (London, 1933) pp. 217-219. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen6/vol2/pp217-219 [accessed 23 April 2024]

July 1433



July 28. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Salop for election of a coroner instead of John Grete, who is insufficiently qualified.
Aug. 3. Westminster.	Like order to the sheriff of Leycester in regard to Richard Acton.
Aug. 7. Westminster.	To the escheator in Essex. (fn. 1) Order to give Henry Bourghchier, son of William Bourghchier knight, (fn. 2) seisin of the manors of Morton, Little Maldoun, Tolleshunte and Little Fordham, and to give the said count livery of the manors of Ouesey and Manhale, and of other the manors, tenements, shambles, quay, crane and advowsons hereinafter mentioned, and the issues thereof taken; as it is found by inquisition, taken before the escheator, that in the quinzaine of Trinity 8 Henry VI a fine levied at Westminster between John Malton, William Menston and William Savage plaintiffs and Lewis Robessart knight, Elizabeth then his wife (now deceased), the said Henry and William Bourghchier his brother deforciants of the manors of Assheldam, Little Maldoun, Langeforde, Ouesey, Great Totteham, Tolleshunte, Bourghchiers in Messynge, Little Fordham in Aldham, Stanestede, Abeles in Halstede, 'Wodehalle, Pacchynghalle,' Morton, Grynstede and Manhale, and of thirty messuages, fourteen tofts, eight water mills, four dovecotes, thirty shambles, one quay, one crane, 4,680 acres of land, 218 acres of meadow, 680 acres of pasture, 200 acres of wood, 540 acres of marsh, 54l. of rent and rents of sixty geese, a hundred capons, a hundred hens, a hundred eggs, twenty races (racemos) of ginger, 10lb. of pepper, 12lb. of cumin and twenty red roses in Assheldam, Tilyngham, 'Seyntlaurens,' Maylonde, Lallynge, Stanesgate, Lachyngdoun, Maldoun, Ultynge, Hatfelde Peverell, Langeford, Great Totham, Tollesbury, Tolleshunte Tregos, Bradewelle, Falkebourne, Great Braxstede, Little Braxstede, Wykham, Rowenhale, Kryssynge, Witham, Messynge, Inworth, Ferynge, Kelledene, Fordham, Aldham, Chelmeresforde, Bromfelde, Great Waltham, Writele, Halstede, Hengham Sybele, Toppesfelde, Colne Engayne, Stistede, Great Reyne, Markeshale, Gosfelde, Branketre, Bokkynge, Whetheresfelde, Little Lavare, Waldene, Asshedoun, Lytlebury, Great Chesterforde, Great Mapeltrestede, Little Mapeltrestede, Tillebury by Hornedoun, Pekemersshe (sic), Bulmer, Mydelton, Alfampston, Twynstede, Great Henye, Little Heyne (sic), Gestyngthorp White Colne, Fynchyngfelde, Manwedene and Pakenho, a fair and market in Halstede, free warren in all lands, woods, marshes etc. aforesaid, views of frankpledge in the manors of Assheldam, Little Maldoun, Langeforde, Ouesey, Great Totteham, Tolleshunte, Little Fordham, Stanestede and Abeles, common of pasture in Walden, Great Chesterforde, Lytlebury, Asshedoun, Great Totham, Langeforde, Hebregge, Typtre, Messynge, Inworthe, Tolleshunte Tregos, Tolleshunte Bushe and Wykham, and the advowsons of Bykeleghe abbey, the hospital of St. Giles Maldoun and the churches of Grynstede, Little Lavare and Langeforde, by which fine the deforciants acknowledged the right of John Maldoun, and the plaintiffs granted all the said manors etc. to the said Lewis and Elizabeth and to the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the heirs of the body of the said Elizabeth, remainder to Henry Bourghchier and to the heirs of his body, that the said Lewis and Elizabeth were thereof seised in fee tail, that the said Lewis died, and the premises were seized into the king's hand, that the said Elizabeth overlived him, and sued with the king for removal of his hand, that she died so seised without issue, that the manor called Morton is held in chief, the manor of Little Maldoun of the honour of Peverell, the manors of Oueseye and Manhale of the honour of Boulogne, the manors of Tolleshunte and Little Fordham of the honour of Boulogne by knight service, and the other manors etc. and the advowson of Langeforde church of others than the king, and that by death of the said Elizabeth and by reason of the trespasses aforesaid the manors of Morton, Little Maldoun, Tolleshunte and Little Fordham are taken into the king's hand; and for a fine paid in the hanaper the king has pardoned those trespasses, granting so far as in him lies that the said Henry may hold the same to him and the heirs of his body without let of the king or his heirs, his justices, escheators, sheriffs, or other his bailiffs or ministers whatsoever; and the king has taken his homage and fealty. By p.s. [2761.]
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July 11. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Dorset for election of a verderer in the forest of Gillyngham instead of William Godewyn, who is insufficiently qualified.
July 8. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Cornwall for election of a coroner instead of James Nanfan, who is too sick to travail in the business of that office.
July 23. Westminster.	To Richard duke of York. Order to deliver by indentures Maurice ap Madok ap Eyngnoun, a prisoner in his custody, to the custody of Richard earl of Warrewyk. The king has commanded the earl to receive him, and keep him in custody until further order. By C.
	Mandate to the earl (as above). By C.
July 13. Westminster.	To the escheator in Salop and the march of Wales adjacent. Order to give John Troutebeke and Margery his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas Holes, seisin of the lands of the said Thomas; as the said John has proved his wife's age before Geoffrey Rokelle escheator in Hertfordshire, and the king has taken his fealty.
	Like writs to the escheators in the following counties:
	Hereford and the march of Wales adjacent.
	Wiltesir.
	Gloucester and the march of Wales adjacent.
	Devon.
July 14. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Wiltesir for election of a verderer of the forest of Milchet instead of John Stratforde, who is dead.
July 14. Westminster.	To the escheator in Herefordshire. Order to take the fealty of William son of Roger Hereforde, and to give him livery of the manor of Syfton with the exception hereinafter mentioned; as upon the finding of an inquisition, taken before Edmund Morys late escheator on Saturday in Whitsun week 5 Henry VI, that at his death the said Roger held that manor in chief by knight service, except the third part of two thirds thereof held in dower by Katherine who was wife of Thomas Hereforde, and the reversion of that part, and that the said William was his next heir, and was of the age of seventeen years and a half, and upon the petition of the said William, shewing that he proved his age before Ralph Lyngeyn the escheator, that the manor of Sifton was called the manor of Mordeforde, that they were one and the same manor, and held of the king by one pair of gilt spurs price 40d. for all service, and not in chief by knight service, as he was ready to prove, the king ordered the sheriff to give notice to Edmund Morys, to whom he committed the ward of two thirds of the said manor, by name of the manor of Sifton except a third part of two thirds thereof, to be in chancery at a day now past, in order to shew cause for the king or for himself wherefore his commission ought not to be revoked, and the said William ought not to have livery thereof out of the king's hands, and the sheriff returned that he gave him notice by John Wolrych, John Stevenes, Richard Gogh and Richard Yarvarde; and at that day the said Edmund came not, wherefore by advice of the justices, serjeants at law and others of the council learned in the law it was determined that his commission should be annulled; and the said William, appearing by John Shawe his attorney, craved livery, and John Vampage suing for the king said that he ought not to have livery, for the manor of Sifton is a manor by itself, as by the inquisition supposed, and the manor of Mordeforde another manor by itself, and that the former is held in chief by knight service, and not by the service alleged; and the cause was after sent for debate before the king, and after view of the pleas and allegations made for the king and by William Hereforde, in presence of the serjeants at law and the king's attorney it was determined that the said William should sue for livery of the manor with the exception aforesaid out of the king's hands, as appears by the tenor of the record and process which the king has caused to come before him in chancery.