Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 37

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Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 37

162. William de Wyndesore, knight
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
ESSEX. Inq. (indented) taken at Brendewode, Saturday after St. Dionysius, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the town of Upmenstre in the hundred of Chafford, or elsewhere in the county.
He died on 15 September last. Isabel Wyndesore, aged 60 years, Christina wife of William de Morers, knight, aged 55 years, and Margery wife of John Duket, aged 50 years and more, are his sisters and heirs.
163.
ESSEX. Inq. (indented) taken at Maldon, Monday after St. Dionysius, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the hundred of Dansey or elsewhere in the county, except only in the hundred of Chafford, particulars and tenure not known.
Long before his death he alienated two-thirds of the under-mentioned manor, with the reversion of a third part thereof expectant on the demise of Lora late the wife of John de Haveryngg, knight, who still survives, which he had by the king’s grant, to William Beauchamp, Hugh Segrave and William Cosyngton, knights, and William Cary, John de Hanney, Nicholas Rounhey and John Bretby, clerks, and their heirs, by a fine levied in the king’s court.
Westnewlond in the hundred of Dansey. The manor, held of divers lords and by divers services, to wit, of the prior of Christchurch, Canterbury, by service of 20s. yearly at the manor of Lallyng, of the earl of Hereford by service of 2s. yearly, and of the earl of Norfolk by service of 14d. yearly.
Date of death and heirs as above.
164.
HERTFORD. Inq. (indented) taken at Baronet, Thursday after St. Dionysius, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the liberty of St. Albans or elsewhere in the county.
Long before his death he alienated the under-mentioned manor, etc., to William Beauchamp of Warewyk, knight, Hugh de Segrave, knight, William de Cosyngton, knight, William Cary, John de Hanney, clerk, Nicholas Rounhey, clerk, and John Bretby, clerk, and the heirs of the said John Bretby, by a fine levied in the king’s court.
Bournehall. The manor and a messuage, 4 tofts and 3 carucates of land in Busshey, tenure not stated.
Date of death and heirs as above.
165.
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
CAMBRIDGE. Inq. (indented) taken at Cambridge, Saturday after St. Faith, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the county.
He died on Thursday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 8 Richard II. Heirs as above, each aged 40 years and more.
166.
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
WILTS. Inq. taken at Salisbury, Thursday the morrow of All Souls, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the county.
He died on 15 October last. Isabel Wyndesore, aged 38 years, Christiana wife of William Moreux, knight, aged 34 years, and Margery wife of John Duket, aged 32 years and more, are his sisters and heirs.
167.
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
OXFORD. Inq. taken at Oxford, 14 November, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the county.
Long before his death he gave the under-mentioned messuages to William de Beauchamp and others (as the manor of Bournehall, co. Hertford, above).
Oxford. 2 messuages, held of the king in free burgage, by service of 1d. yearly.
He died on 15 September last. Heirs as last above.
168.
BERKS. Inq. taken at Walyngford, 12 November, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the county.
Date of death and heirs as last above.
169.
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
DORSET. Inq. taken at Brudeport, Saturday the morrow of St. Martin, 8 Richard II.
Robert de Asshton, knight, held the under-mentioned manors and hundred for life by demise of John Cary, John Bernys, William Mulsho, clerk, Edward de Cherdestoke, clerk, John de Freton, clerk, and Robert Broun of Warwick, with the king’s licence, the reversion after his death belonging to the said John Cary etc. and their heirs. He died in seisin of that estate, and after his death William de Wyndesore, knight, entered on the premises and had possession of them and received the issues until the day of his death, by what title the jurors know not.
Lutton. The manor, held of the lady of Chywton, as of her manor of Chywton, by knight’s service.
Porestoke. The manor and hundred, held of the king in chief by service of 18l. to be paid yearly at the Exchequer and 6d. or a pair of spurs to be paid yearly at the Exchequer by the hands of the sheriff.
He held no other lands etc. in the county.
Date of death and heirs as above (Essex inquisition).
170.
SOMERSET. Inq. taken at Yevelchestre at the full county court held on Monday before St. Katharine, 8 Richard II.
Robert de Asshton, knight, held the under-mentioned manors of Ludeford, Fodyngton and Cherleton for the life of himself and Elizabeth his wife, now deceased, by grant of John Oldelond and John Trowe, chaplain, by a fine levied in the king’s court in the quinzaine of Easter, 42 Edward III, whereby the premises were settled on the said Robert and Elizabeth for life, with remainder to John son of Thomas de Berkele, who is still living, and Eleanor his wife, now deceased, Robert’s daughter, and the heirs of their bodies, and with remainder over to the right heirs of Robert. After Robert’s death William de Wyndesore, knight, entered on the premises, and on the manor of Knoll, which also belonged to the said Robert, and had possession of them and received the issues until the day of his death, by what title the jurors know not.
Ludeford and Fodyngton. The manors, with the advowson of the church of Ludeford, held of the lord of Corymalet by service of 12d. yearly.
Cherleton. The manor, held of the prior of Bruton by service of 11s. 5d. yearly.
Knoll. The manor, held of the abbot of Athelnye, service not known.
The said William had no other lands etc. in the county.
Date of death and heirs as above (Essex inquisition).
171.
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
LONDON. Inq. (indented) taken before the mayor, 4 October, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the city or suburbs on the day of his death or long before.
He died on 15 September, 8 Richard II. Heirs as above (Wilts inquisition).
172.
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
GLOUCESTER AND HEREFORD AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inq. taken at Pembroke, Friday after St. Luke, 8 Richard II.
William de Beauchaumpe, knight, and Hugh Segrave, knight, were enfeoffed by him in fee simple of the under-mentioned castle and manors, and continued their seisin thereof all his life and after his death until they enfeoffed John Wyndesore, his kinsman, thereof, in pursuance of directions often given by him in his lifetime. After the first feoffment he received the issues of the premises, not as tenant of a freehold but at the will of the feoffees.
He held no lands etc. in the said counties and march.
Maynorbyr and Penaly. The castle and manors, held of the king in chief.
He died on Thursday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross last. Heir not known.
C. Ric. II File 37 (1)
E. Inq. P.M. File 51 (11) (Dorset)
173.
Writ, 27 September, 8 Richard II
NORTHAMPTON. Inq. taken at Assheby Canonicorum, 6 January, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the county.
E. Inq. P.M. File 51 (11)
174.
Writ of mandamus, 17 December, 9 Richard II
NORTHAMPTON. Inq. taken at Brakkele, 12 January, 9 Richard II.
He held no lands etc. in the county.
He died on 15 September, 8 Richard II. Heir not known.
C. Ric. II File 37 (1)
175. Thomas Waldyng of Staunton
Writ of mandamus, 21 October, 8 Richard II
GLOUCESTER. Inq. (indented) taken at Gloucester, Monday after St. Martin, 8 Richard II.
He held the under-mentioned manor.
Staunton in the forest of Dene. The manor, with the advowson of the church, held of Edward III, as of the castle of St. Briavels, by knight’s service, amount not known, and by service of 26s. 8d. to be paid yearly at the said castle.
He died at Michaelmas, 35 Edward III. John Waldyng, his son, aged 38 years and more, is his heir.
At the time of his death the said John was 17 years of age, whereupon Edward III, by letters patent dated 12 March, 36 Edward III, granted the custody of the manor and the marriage of the heir to Richard des Armes, his yeoman, free of rent. During the minority of the said heir the church of Staunton fell vacant by the death of John de Staunton, late parson thereof, whereupon the king presented thereto his clerk, Henry Burch, who was admitted and instituted by the ordinary. Richard des Armes had possession of the manor and received the issues thereof for 5 years after the death of Thomas; at the end of which time John Waldyng, then of full age, took possession of the manor and has received the issues ever since. The said church fell vacant about Holy Trinity, 7 Richard II, by the death of Henry Burch, whereupon the king presented thereto Thomas Woborne, his clerk, who was admitted and instituted by the ordinary, because John Waldyng has not yet sued the advowson out of the king’s hand.
C. Ric. II File 37 (2)
176. John Waldyng
Writ of diem clausit extremum. The escheator is also to enquire who has had possession of the lands of the said John since his death and received the issues. The inquisition is to be returned before the barons of the Exchequer. 8 December, 8 Richard II.
By a bill delivered at the Exchequer which is among the bills of Michaelmas term of the eighth year, and by the barons.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. taken at Lytelden, Monday after St. Vincent, 8 Richard II.
He held the under-mentioned manor and land.
Stanton. The manor, with the advowson of the church, held of Edward III in chief by knight’s service and by service of paying 26s. 8d. yearly at the king’s castle of St. Briavels in the forest of Dene.
Forest of Dene. A tenement and 30 a. land of new assart, held of Edward III in chief, as of the fee aforesaid, by service of 6s. 8d. rent yearly to be paid to the abbot of Flaxley by grant of Edward III.
He died on Thursday after Michaelmas, 13 Edward III. Thomas Waldyng, his son, then aged 30 years and more, was his heir.
The said Thomas had possession of the premises from the day of his father’s death until Thursday after Michaelmas, 34 Edward III. John Waldyng, his son, aged 38 years and more, who is still living, is his heir. On the said Thursday on which he died John his son was 17 years of age. (The subsequent possession of the manor is given word for word as in the above inquisition on Thomas Waldyng.)
177.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. taken ex officio at Lytulden, Monday after the Conversion of St. Paul, 8 Richard II.
The said John Waldyng held the under-mentioned manor and land.
Stanton. The manor and advowson, as above.
Forest of Dene. A tenement and 30 a. land, as above.
Date of death and heir as above.
Thomas Waldyng, his son and heir, had possession of the premises from the day of his death until Thursday before St. Gregory, 36 Edward III, and died on that day. From the same day until 9 March, 41 Edward III, Richard des Armes, yeoman of Edward III, had possession and received the issues by the king’s grant. Since then John Waldyng, son of the said Thomas, has had possession and received the issues, by what process the jurors know not.
E. Inq. P.M. File 51 (8)
178. Alice Warbleton
Writ, 30 September, 8 Richard II
SURREY. Inq. taken at Tanrugge, Monday before SS. Simon and Jude, 8 Richard II.
She held the under-mentioned manor jointly with John Warbleton, sometime her husband, by gift and feoffment of John Forster, deceased, to her and her said husband and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of the said John.
Tanrigge. The manor, held of the heir of the lord le Dispencer, a minor in the king’s wardship, by service of half a knight’s fee.
She died on Monday before Michaelmas last. William Warbleton son of Thomas Warbleton son of John Warbleton son of the aforesaid John is her kinsman and heir, and is 2 years of age and more.
179.
SUSSEX. Inq. taken at Warbleton, 6 November, 8 Richard II.
She held the under-mentioned manor and advowson jointly, as above, with remainder as above, by gift and feoffment of Sir William Warbleton, sometime rector of the church of Warbleton.
Warbleton. The manor, and the advowson of the church, held of the earl of Richmond, as of the barony of Hastyngges, by service of a moiety of a knight’s fee. The said barony is now in the king’s hand, by what title the jurors know not.
Date of death and heir as above.
C. Ric. II File 37 (3)
180. Thomas Wake of Blysseworth, knight
Writ, 12 July, 8 Richard II
NORTHAMPTON. Inq. taken at Norhampton, 6 August, 8 Richard II.
He held no lands in the county, because Thomas Wake, his father, long before he died, to wit, on the feast of St. Botolph, 27 Edward III, gave the under-mentioned manor by charter to John de Langeton, parson of the church of Blysseworth, who re-enfeoffed thereof the said Thomas the father and Alice his wife, who is still living, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of the same Thomas. Alice survived Thomas and is still in possession of the manor and receives the issues by reason of the above gift.
Blysseworth. The manor, held of John duke of Lancaster, by knight’s service.
He died on the eve of the Assumption, 7 Richard II. John Wake, his son, aged 9 years and more is his heir.
C. Ric. II File 37 (4)
E. Inq. P.M. File 51 (10)
181. Thomas de Normanton, ‘le piere’
Commission in the form of a writ of mandamus to John Markham, Thomas de Staunton, escheator in the county of Nottingham, and Hugh de Annesley; the king being informed that Thomas held divers lands in the county of Nottingham of the king in chief, which ought to pertain to the king as escheat because Thomas died without heir of himself. 15 July, 8 Richard II.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. taken before the said commissioners at Notyngham, Wednesday the feast of St. Laurence, 8 Richard II.
The said Thomas held the under-mentioned messuages, etc.
Notyngham. In ‘le Frencheborgh’ a messuage called ‘le Vowthall’ and a toft called ‘Instkoles’; and in ‘le Englisborgh’ a cottage in ‘le Stonstrete’, a messuage called ‘Normanton Bernes’, 49 a. land and 8 a. meadow. All the above are held of the king as in free burgage by a rent of 12s. yearly, which rent the mayor and bailiffs of the town have and possess as parcel of the king’s farm of the town.
He died on Thursday after the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 23 Edward III, and had two sons, John and Thomas. All the premises in ‘le Frencheborgh’ descended to the elder son John as son and heir; and all the premises in ‘le Englisborgh’, according to the ancient custom of the borough, descended to the younger son Thomas.
After his death John his son was seised of all the premises in ‘le Frencheborgh’ for 9 years, and then enfeoffed Richard de Pollesworth and his heirs of the messuage called ‘le Vowthall’. Richard continued his estate therein for 5 years, and then demised it to Emma his wife and her heirs. After Richard’s death the said Emma enfeoffed John de Ambaston, chaplain, and his heirs, and John thereupon enfeoffed her and Richard Hanneson, her husband, and their heirs. Richard and Emma were in possession until Emma died on Thursday after the Assumption, 47 Edward III; and then Richard was in possession until 7 Richard II, when he enfeoffed Henry de Plumptre of Notyngham and his heirs on the feast of St. Chad, 7 Richard II. As to the toft called ‘Instkoles’, the said John [the son] died in seisin thereof on Wednesday after the Purification, 47 Edward III, without heir of his body, so that it descended to Thomas his brother and heir, who on the feast of St. Gregory, …, granted it, as well as all the premises in ‘le Englisborgh’, to Roger … holme of Notyngham and his heirs. The said Roger, on Wednesday before the Invention of the Holy Cross, 47 Edward III, enfeoffed Simon Tailliour, parson of the church of Bilborogh, William … of Notyngham and John de Batell, chaplain, of all his lands etc. in Notyngham, and the said feoffees, on the feast of St. Gregory the Pope, 3 Richard II, enfeoffed thereof Agnes wife of the said Roger and her heirs. Inasmuch as by ancient custom the purchaser of any tenements in the borough of Notyngham can bequeath and demise them in his testament, the said Roger, on Easter Monday, 1377, bequeathed the said toft, lands, meadow and tenements in his testament to Agnes his wife and her heirs. Agnes entered, and enfeoffed Ralph Torkard and Cecily his wife. Ralph died on Saturday before St. Wilfrid, 7 Richard II, and since his death Cecily has continued her seisin of the premises.
C. Ric. II File 37 (5)
182. Thomas Isilham
Writ, 3 November, 8 Richard II
LONDON. Inq. taken before the mayor, 16 November, 8 Richard II.
He was a freeman of the city, and of full age, to wit, 21 years 1 month and more. He died in the city on Saturday after SS. Peter and Paul, 35 Edward III, seised in his demesne as of fee of the under-mentioned tenement.
Parish of St. Bride in the ward of Farndon Without. A tenement now [called] ‘le Horsonthehop’ in Fletestrete. By his testament proved, proclaimed and enrolled in the husting of London touching pleas of land held on Monday before SS. Simon and Jude, 35 Edward III, he bequeathed all his tenements in Fletestrete between a tenement of the church of St. Bride aforesaid on the east and a tenement of Thomas Chantecler on the west to be sold by his executors and supervisor and four men of the parish of St. Bride aforesaid, and willed that out of the proceeds of the sale his debts and then his legacies should be paid by his executors, and that with the residue, so long as it should last, his executors, supervisor and four men of the parish should provide a chaplain celebrating at the altar of St. Mary in the said church for the souls of himself, his father and mother, and all the faithful departed. After his death William Bever, citizen and corn-chandler of London, one of his executors, with the assent of William de Assh, the other executor, Ellen sometime the wife of Thomas de York, the supervisor of the said testament, and four good men of the parish (names unknown), sold all the said tenements, by the name of the brewhouse with shops adjacent and houses built over extending from east to west as above and from the highway of Fletestrete on the south to the garden formerly belonging to the earl of Lincoln on the north, to William atte Seler of Fletestrete and Joan his wife and the heirs of the said William, by a charter of feoffment read and enrolled in the aforesaid husting. The said William and Joan were in possession of the premises and received the issues from Friday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 35 Edward III, until 4 November, 40 Edward III, on which day they gave it, by their charter read and enrolled in the husting of London touching common pleas held on Monday before St. Martin the Bishop, 40 Edward III, to John atte Seler, son of the said Joan, and Alice his wife, and the heirs and assigns of the said John. The said John and Alice are still in possession and receive the issues. The proceeds of the sale of the premises were employed in payment of the testator’s debts and legacies, and the residue, so long as it lasted, in providing a chaplain to celebrate as above. The premises are held of the king in free burgage, as is the whole city of London.
C. Ric. II File 37 (6)
183. Thomas Doyle
Writ, 8 February, 8 Richard II
OXFORD. Extent (indented) taken at Henle, Monday before St. Peter’s Chair, 8 Richard II.
He died seised in his demesne as of fee of the under-mentioned manor.
Pussehull Naper. The manor, held of the king, as of the honor of Walyngford, by petty serjeanty, to wit, by rendering yearly a tablecloth, price 3s., or 3s. therefor.
He died on Friday before St. Thomas the Apostle last. William Doyle, his son, aged 24 years and more, is his heir.
C. Ric. II File 37 (7)
E. Inq. P.M. File 51 (14)
184. Master Adam de Rous, surgeon
Writ of precipimus, 2 March, 8 Richard II
LONDON. Inq. (indented) taken at the Guildhall, 10 March, 8 Richard II, by the oath of men of the wards of Langebourn, Chepe, Douegate and Crepulgate Within.
The said Adam died on 27 April, 1379, seised in his demesne as of fee of the under-mentioned tenement and shops.
Parish of All Hallows called ‘le Mechele’ at the Hay Wharf (ad fenum). A tenement situated in the corner of Douegate between the highway of Douegate on the west, the lane called ‘Cosyneslane’ and a tenement of Bartholomew de Frestlyng formerly belonging to Roger de Waltham on the east, the highway of la Roperye on the north, and a tenement of the aforesaid Bartholomew formerly belonging to William de Rokesle on the south. He purchased the said tenement from Christina, relict and executrix of John de Harpesfelde, citizen and ropemaker of London. It is worth 9 marks yearly in all issues, and from it the following yearly payments are made, to wit, 26s. 8d. by bequest of Richard de Herpesfeld, sometime citizen and ropemaker of London, for the maintenance of a chaplain celebrating divine service in the church of All Hallows aforesaid at the altar of St. Katharine under the belfry, where the body of the said Richard rests, for the souls of the said Richard, Gilbert his father, Agnes his mother, his relations, those to whom he was beholden, and all the faithful departed, 13s. 4d. to the prior and convent of Christchurch, Canterbury, and 26s. 8d. for repairs. So the clear yearly value is 4 marks and no more. John Blythe is the present chaplain of the chantry aforesaid.
The said Adam was a freeman of the city, and by his testament proved, proclaimed and enrolled in the husting of London of pleas of land held on Monday the feast of St. James, 3 Richard II, he bequeathed the said tenement to Juliana his wife for her life, and after her death to the abbot and convent of St. Albans in frankalmoin, on condition that every year on his anniversary day they should celebrate the office of the dead with note, as it is customarily celebrated on the anniversary day of an abbot of the said monastery, for his soul and the souls of Juliana his wife and all the faithful departed. And he willed that 10s. of the rent of the tenement should every year be divided among the monks present at his said obit.
Parish of All Hallows aforesaid. 2 shops situated together in la Roperye between a tenement of John Chircheseye formerly belonging to John Amoure on the north, a tenement called ‘le Hoodonthehoop’ on the east, the highway of la Roperye on the south, and a tenement of John …, ‘grocer’, formerly belonging to Isabel de Preston on the west. He purchased them from the aforesaid Christina and Thomas Hynton, supervisor of the testament of John de Harpesfeld; and by his testament proved and enrolled as above he bequeathed them to Juliana his wife for her life, and after her death to the abbess and convent of the Minoresses of St. Clare without Algate in frankalmoin in aid of clothing for the bodies of the poorest ladies of the said house, on condition that they should have his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed in their prayers for ever.
Immediately after the death of Adam the aforesaid Juliana entered into the said tenement and shops, and has been in possession and received the issues ever since. They are held of the king in free burgage, as is the whole city of London.
Adam had no other lands etc. in the city or suburbs. He has no heirs surviving, so far as the jurors can ascertain.
185.
(Writ missing)
LONDON. Inq. taken before the mayor, 26 May, 8 Richard II. (fn. 1)
By letters patent dated 4 November, 35 Edward III [Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1361–1364, p.138], the late king granted the under-mentioned messuages and shops, which were in his hand as escheat by the death without heir of Alice daughter of Peter le Rous of Grenestede, to the said Master Adam for life; and subsequently, by letters patent dated 1 September, 46 Edward III [Ibid., 1370–1374, p. 202], enlarged that grant into a grant in fee. Afterwards, by a writing dated 11 December, 1 Richard II, and enrolled in the husting of London of pleas of land held on Monday after the feast of St. Lucy the Virgin, 1 Richard II, the said Master Adam granted the messuage and three of the shops in the parish of St. Mildred, together with the reversion of the fourth shop expectant on the demise of William Algar, ‘sherman’, to William atte Vyne, John Mirfeld and Robert Brien, their heirs and assigns; and by another deed dated 19 July, 2 Richard II, and enrolled in the husting of London of pleas of land held on Monday after St. James, 2 Richard II, he granted to the same William, John and Robert, their heirs and assigns, the messuage in the parish of St. Edmund and the 3 shops (by then made into 5) in Bercherneslane. Subsequently, by a deed dated 31 March, 2 Richard II, the said William and Robert released their right in the premises to John Mirfeld, who, by a charter indented bearing date 1 April, 2 Richard II, and enrolled in the husting of London of common pleas held on Monday after St. John before the Latin Gate, 2 Richard II, granted them to John Herthull, clerk, for life, with remainder to Master Adam, his heirs and assigns. The said Master Adam, by his testament made on 27 April, 1379, and enrolled in the husting of London of pleas of land held on Monday the feast of St. James, 3 Richard II, bequeathed his reversion of the premises after the death of John Herthull aforesaid to the prior and convent of the church of St. Bartholomew, Westsmythefeld, and their successors for ever; and the said John Herthull, by his writing dated Friday before SS. Philip and James, 2 Richard II, granted the premises at farm to the said prior and convent for 12 years. The prior and convent have been in possession of the premises and received the issues since Adam’s death as farmers of John Herthull, who still survives.
Parish of St. Mildred in la Poletrie. A messuage and 4 shops.
Parish of St. Edmund the King. A messuage in Lumbardstrete.
Berchenerislane. 3 shops.
Adam died on 13 June, 2 Richard II, not seised in demesne as of fee of the premises or any part thereof.
C. Ric. II File 37 (8)
186. John Mathewe, son and heir of William Mathewe
Writ to the escheator to take proof of the age of the said John, said to have been born and baptised at Wynterbourne Lacy. 5 July, 8 Richard II.
DORSET. Inq. taken at Warham, Thursday the feast of St. Laurence, 8 Richard II.
Anketill Moigne, aged 61 years, says that the said John is of full age, having been born at Wynterborn Malruard and baptised in the church of St. Peter there on the morrow of Michaelmas, 35 Edward III. This the deponent knows because in the night following the birth the whole of his house in Wynterborn aforesaid was burnt down.
John Bromhull, aged 52 years, Robert Scot, aged 48 years, and John Stoke, aged 56 years, agree and say that towards nightfall on the said morrow of Michaelmas they met John Hobekyns, the child’s godfather, going towards the church, and asked him for news of the child’s mother, and he said that she had a son and that he was asked to be godfather, whereupon they went towards the house of the child’s father and met him, and he asked them to drink, and as they went towards his house the said William (sic) Scot fell on the highway and broke two of his right ribs.
John Chipir, aged 64 years, John Coleman, aged 58 years, William Bridde, aged 54 years, and William Michel, aged 61 years, agree and say that on the morrow of the birth a tall tree called ‘Notebemtre’ growing on the highway there was blown down by a storm of wind on to a cottage of the said William Mathewe, so that the whole house was destroyed.
John Janekyns, aged 54 years, Ralph Bailly, aged 68 years, William Tidelyng, aged 62 years, and John Chudde, aged 60 years, agree and say that the western part of the church of Wynterborn aforesaid was thrown down by the said storm on the morrow of the birth after dinner.
C. Ric. II File 37 (9)
187. Agnes one of the daughters and heirs of John Langelond
Writ to the escheator in Somerset to take proof of the age of the said Agnes, who is said to have been born at Axebrigge and baptised in the church there. The writ is issued at the request of John Fareway, who has married the said Agnes. The escheator is to warn John Roignon, in whose hands are the lands of her inheritance until her lawful age, to be present at proof of age. 20 January, 8 Richard II.
(Proof of age missing)
C. Ric. II File 37 (10)
188. Peter de Besils
Writ to the escheator in co. Oxford to take proof of the age of the said Peter, brother of John de Besils the son and heir of Thomas de Besils, knight, and uncle and heir of John de Besils the son of the said John, which John and John son of John lately died while minors in the king’s wardship. The said Peter is said to have been born at Rotcote and baptised in the church of Langford. The escheator is to warn Katherine de [Besils] (fn. 2), in whose custody are the lands of the inheritance of the said Peter by the king’s commitment, to be present at the proof of age. 12 July, 8 Richard II.
(Proof of age missing)
C. Ric. II File 37 (11)
189. John Norton
SUSSEX. Inq. (indented) taken virtute officii at Byllyngehurst, 18 February, 8 Richard II.
The said John, who held of the king in chief in the county of Southampton, made a deed to Hamo, parson of the church in Fynchampstede in the county of Southampton, of the under-mentioned land and wood, but Hamo was not seised thereof before John’s death.
Byllyngeshurst. 35 a. land and 6 a. wood, held of John atte Hall by a rent of 3d. yearly and by suit to his court of Westbourton every three weeks.
Date of death of the said John not known. John de Norton his son, who is in the king’s wardship, age not known, is his heir.
Since the death of the said John, Hamo has had possession of the land and received the issues by intrusion.
E. Inq. P.M. File 52 (4)
190. Robert Rous, knight
(Writ missing)
DORSET. Inq. taken at Blaneford, Monday after St. Peter’s Chains, 8 Richard II.
The said Robert had no lands etc. in the county.
He died on 2 December last. Heir not known.
E. Inq. P.M. File 52 (3)
191. Nesta daughter and heir of Walter son of David Vaghan
HEREFORD AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inq. (indented) taken virtute officii at Pembroke, 6 October, 8 Richard II.
The under-mentioned lands etc. came to the hands of Edward III by the death of David and by reason of the minority of Nesta, his kinswoman and heir.
Seynt Usshill. A messuage, 54 1/2 a. land and 4 perches of wood, held of John son and heir of Laurence de Hastynges, late earl of Pembroke, a minor in the wardship of Edward III, by knight’s service.
The said Nesta died on Wednesday after the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 38 Edward III. David Pontan, aged 30 years and more, is her kinsman and heir.
Since her death John … has had possession of the premises and received the issues, title not known.
E. Inq. P.M. File 49 (5)
192.
Not used.

Footnotes

  • 1. In this inquisition the deceased is referred to as ‘surgeon of Edward III.’
  • 2. Cf. Calendar of Fine Rolls, 1377–1383, p.
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