Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 66

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 6, Edward II. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1910.

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Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 66


251.	RALPH DE DYTTON.
	Writ, 25 July, 14 Edward II.
[MIDDLESEX.]	Inq. 5 August, 14 Edward II.
	Westminster. A shop held of the king in chief rendering 2d. yearly at the exchequer. John his son, aged 14, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 68. (1.)
252.	MICHAEL LE AUMONER of Bondbrustwyk.
	Writ, 12 April, 14 Edward II.
YORK.	Inq. 8 May, 14 Edward II.
	Bondbrustwyk in Holdernesse. A capital messuage, and a bovate of land, excepting a strip of land (selione) containing 2 perches by 5 perches, held of the king in chief, as of the honour of Albemarle, by knight’s service, whereof 48 carucates make a knight’s fee. William his son, aged 36 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (2.)
253.	JOHN DE PUTTON.
	Writ, 11 December, 14 Edward II.
SOUTHAMPTON.	Inq. Tuesday the feast of St. Hilary, 14 Edward II.
	Burghton. 50 1/2a. land held of the king in chief by service of keeping the forest of ‘la Bouckolte.’ William his son, aged 26 and more, is his next heir.
WILTS.	Inq. 4 January, 14 Edward II.
	Putton. A messuage and 20a. land, held of the king in chief by service of keeping the king’s park of Clarindon as a forester of fee. Heir as above.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (3.)
254.	ISABEL, LATE THE WIFE OF JOHN SON OF HUGH.
	Writ, 19 January, 14 Edward II.
[NORTHUMBERLAND.]	Inq. made at Newcastle upon Tyne, 6 Ferbuary, 14 Edward II.
	Whittyncham. The manor with two parts of the town and mill. Throunton. Two parts of the town. Bartoune. Two parts of the hamlet. Glantoune. The lordship. All held of the king in chief by service of a sore sparrowhawk yearly. Nedirtoune. The reversion of a moiety of the town, which Robert de Sancto Paulo holds for life of the inheritance of the said Isabel by the grant of John son of Hugh her husband, held of the lord of Redesdale by service of 40s. yearly. Henry, son of the said John and Isabel, aged 22 and more, is her next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (4).
255.	JOHN LE FAUKENER alias LE FAUKONER.
	Writ of (certiorari) on the complaint of Letice, late the wife of the said John, that the escheator had taken into the king’s hand the manor of Michelegrave, which the said John and Letice acquired to them and the heirs of their bodies, 18 September, 14 Edward II.
[SUSSEX.]	Inq. 15 October, 14 Edward II.
	Michelgrave. Richard de Somerbury, who held the manor of Mary de Brewosa by service of 1/2 knight’s fee and doing suit at the court of the honour of Brambre, enfeoffed thereof the said John and Letice his wife, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies, by fine levied in the king’s court, 31 Edward I.
	Writ, 18 October, 14 Edward II.
SUSSEX.	Inq. 27 October, 14 Edward II.
	Wodynton. The manor (extent given), including the advowson of the chapel, held of the king in chief by service of keeping a falcon at the king’s charges. Henry his son, aged 18 at the feast of All Saints next, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66 (5.)
256.	MADOOK AP GRIFFYN alias AP GRIFFITH.
	Writ, 14 January, 14 Edward II.
MERIONETH.	Inq. Tuesday before St. Valentine, 14 Edward II.
	Lands called Glyndouerdo, containing a fourth part of a comote within the county; and the land of Kenthlyth, containing a moiety of a comote without the county, held of the king in chief by Welsh barony which in Welsh is called pennayth, by fealty and service of going with his men in the king’s army, when reasonably warned, at the king’s costs, and doing suit at the county (court) of Merioneth for the said land of Glyndouerdo. He died on the day of St. Martin last 15 years ago; Griffith his son, aged 22 and more from the feast of St. Clement last, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (6.)
257.	GEOFFREY DE CARLETON of Soham Monachorum.
	Writ, 11 July, 14 Edward II.
SUFFOLK.	Inq. Monday after St. Margaret, 14 Edward II.
	Soham Monachorum. A messuage, 70a. land, 4a. meadow, and 20s. rent, held for life, by fine levied in the king’s court in 34 Edward I, with remainder to Richard his son and the heirs of his body; whereof the messuage, 50a. land, 2a. meadow and 9s. rent, are held of the abbot of St. Edmunds, as of his church, in socage by fealty and service of 11s. 11d. yearly; and the residue is held of John, bishop of Norwich, as of his manor of Batisford, which the said bishop lately purchased of Philip de Columbariis, by homage and fealty and service of 1/4 knight’s fee, viz:—10s. for the king’s scutage of 40s. when it shall happen, and rendering 10s. for the said bishop for the guard of the king’s castle of Dover. Richard his son, aged 17, is his next heir in blood.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (7.)
258.	ROBERT PYNKENYE of Assheby Canonicorum.
	Writ, 30 August, 14 Edward II.
NORTHAMPTON.	Inq. 26 September, 14 Edward II.
	Gildenemorton. The hamlet (extent given), held of the king in chief by service of a knight’s fee. William his son, aged 40 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (8).
259.	GEOFFREY DE FRETHORN.
	Writ, 18 August, 14 Edward II.
GLOUCESTER.	Inq. Saturday after the Nativity of the Blessed Mary, 14 Edward II.
	Frethorn. A messuage and a carucate of land, held of John de Meoles, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of 1/4 knight’s fee. He died on 3 August last; Geoffrey his son, aged 24 and more, is his next heir.
BERKS.	Inq. Saturday before the Nativity of the Blessed Mary, 14 Edward II.
	Chelereye. A messuage and a carucate of land, held of John de Meoles, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of 1/2 knight’s fee. Heir as above, aged 25.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (9.)
260.	WILLIAM DE COBEHAM.
	Writ (undated fragment).
KENT.	Inq. Saturday after SS. Peter and Paul, 14 Edward II.
	Shelve, Mondefeld and Orkesden. The manors held of Henry de Cobeham, knight, by service of a pair of gilt spurs, price 6d. yearly. Chidingeston. The manor held of the archbishop of Canterbury by service of 6s. 5 1/2d. yearly. Reginald de Cobeham, aged 25 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (10.)
261.	HUGH DE HOCHAM alias DE HOTHHAM.
	Writ, 20 November, 14 Edward II.
LINCOLN.	Inq Thursday before St. Matthias, 14 Edward II.
	West Rasen. A toft, 28a. 1 1/2r. arable, and 6a. 1/2r. meadow, held of the heir of Robert de Welle, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of 1/40 knight’s fee. Thomas his son, aged 3 on Ash Wednesday next, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (11).
262.	JOHN DE HOLTE.
	Writ, 6 January, 14 Edward II.
SOMERSET.	Inq. 2 April, 14 Edward II.
	Asshewyk. Three virgates of land, 60a. wood, and 10s. rent, held for the life of Walter Burdoun, by the demise of the said Walter, who held them for his own life by the grant of Robert Burdoun his brother, of the heir of Elias de Albiniaco, a minor and in the king’s wardship, as of the manor of Kynemeresdon by service of 1d. yearly.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (12.)
263.	KATHERINE, LATE THE WIFE OF JOHN DE DANTHORP.
	Writ to enquire concerning lands, &c., held by the said Katherine in dower, of the inheritance of William Berchaud, an idiot, whose lands, &c., are in the king’s hand, 7 October, 14 Edward II.
[YORK.]	Inq. taken at Patrington, on Sunday the feast of All Souls, 14 Edward II.
	Skeftlyng. A capital messuage, 3 1/2 bovates of land, 10a. meadow, 51a. pasture, rents, &c., held in dower by the death of the said John her husband, and demised by her for her life to Robert de Hedon and Joan his wife; all held of the king in chief, as of the honour of Albemarle, by knight’s service, whereof 8 bovates make a carucate and 48 carucates a knight’s fee. William Berchaud, aged 40, an idiot and in the king’s wardship, son of Alice daughter of the said John, and Joan the wife of Robert de Hedon, aged 30, daughter of Margery another daughter of the said John, are next heirs of the said John.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (13.)
264.	JOHN DE BERKELEYE of Erlyngham.
	Writ, 18 September, 14 Edward II.
SOMERSET.	Inq. 9 June, 14 Edward II.
	Wondestre. A fourth part of the manor, held of John de Meoles, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of 2 1/2d. yearly. Stathe. A fourth part of the manor, held of John de Moeles in socage. His daughters, Elizabeth aged 16, Felicia aged 14, Thomasia aged 11, and Margaret aged 9, are his next heirs.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (14.)
265.	EDMUND COMYN alias LE CUMYN.
	Writ of certiorari de feodis, &c., 20 October, 14 Edward II.
[ESSEX.]	Inq. Sunday the feast of St. Andrew, 14 Edward II.
	Balidene alias Balidone. The manor, which was of Giles de Monpinzoun, held of the manor of Fakenham Aspes which was of Edmund Comyn, by service of a knight’s fee.
SUFFOLK.	Extent, Wednesday after St. Lucy, 14 Edward II.
	Little Fakynham. The manor held by William de Pakinham, by the enfeoffment of Sir Edmund de Pakynham, to hold to him and the heirs of his body; and the same Edmund de Pakynham holds it of Sir Robert de Insula, and he of the manor of Fakinham Aspis, which was of Edmund Comyn, by service of 1/2 knight’s fee. Wykeskaune. The manor held by John le Bret and Isabel his wife, for the life of the said Isabel, of the said manor of Fakinham Aspis by service of 1/2 knight’s fee. Resscheworth about the water (circa aquam). The manor held by the prior of Theford of the said manor of Fakinham Aspis by service of 1/4 knight’s fee. Great Fakynham. The advowson of the church, pertaining to the manor of Fakynham Aspis.
NORFOLK.	Extent, 9 April, 14 Edward II.
	Great Riburg. A moiety of the manor held by Giles de Munpinzun by service of a knight’s fee. Inggolfisthorp. The manor held by the said Giles by service of a knight’s fee. Testirton. The manor with the hamlet of Holcham, held by Thomas de Grimston by service of 1/4 knight’s fee. Wodedallingg with the hamlets of Geystweyt, Saxlingham, Little Riburg and Rattilisdene, held by Simon de Rattilisdene by service of 2 knight’s fees.
	Writ of certiorari super vero valore on the petition of Euphemia, one of the daughters and heirs of the said Edmund, whom William de la Beche married, and who has proved her age and seeks her pourparty, 22 October, 14 Edward II.
HERTFORD.	Extent, Saturday after St. Edmund the King, 14 Edward II.
	Sauecampe. The manor (extent given), with the advowson of the church.
	Similar writ of certiorari, 22 October, 14 Edward II.
NORTHUMBERLAND.	Extent, 5 April, 14 Edward II.
	Neuham. The manor (extent given), rendering 1/2 mark yearly to the castle of Alnewik for castleguard, and 1/2 mark and 30 cartloads of wood in the autumn to the manor of Tughale.
SUFFOLK.	Extent, Wednesday before St. Lucy, 14 Edward II.
	Fakenham Aspis. The manor (extent given), with names of tenants in Ryngmergraunge, Honeweton, Walsham, Sapston, Fakynham, Fakynham Aspis, and Troston.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (15.)
266.	JOHN MALGREF alias MALEGREFFE.
	Writ, 8 April, 14 Edward II.
ESSEX.	Inq. Friday before the quinzaine of Easter, 14 Edward II.
	Horndon. A messuage, 180a. arable, 10a. meadow, 100a. marsh, a wind-mill, 20s. rents, &c., with a fourth part of the profits of toll and stallage of the market, with pleas and perquisites of the portmote of the same, held of the king in chief, as of the honour of Boulogne, by service of a knight’s fee, and suit at the court of Wyham pertaining to the said honour. Langedon. 50a. arable held of the prioress of Heghham by service of 11s. yearly; and 100a. arable held of John Gyffard by service of 5s. rent yearly, and suit at his court of Buris. Gynge Laundry. 8s. yearly rent held of the earl of Hereford by service of 7s. rent yearly, and suit at his court of Fobbingge. Orsethe. 31s. 4d. yearly rent held of the bishop of London by service of 18s. rent yearly, and suit at the court of Orsethe. Thomas his son, aged 23 and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (16.)
267.	JOHN DE BRIANZON of Canewedon.
	Writ, 28 February, 14 Edward II.
ESSEX.	Inq. Tuesday after St. Gregory the Pope, 14 Edward II.
	Canewedon. A moiety of a messuage, &c., 127a. arable, 13a. meadow, 19a. pasture, rents, &c., with the marsh of Ryngewerth containing 150a. arable, held of the heir of John de Coggeshale [a minor and in the king’s wardship], as of the manor of Bemflet by service of 1/2 knight’s fee; 20a. arable, of land called Crikeseth which was of William le Smith, held of John de Chaunceux by service of 4s. yearly; 15a. arable held of William de Sevauntz by service of 1d. yearly; 60a. of uncultivated land called Crikeseth, a marsh called ‘le Goz’ containing 100a. arable, and 11s. 10d. rent of assise of Crikeseth, &c., yearly, held of the heir of John de Briaunzon of West Thurrok by service of 3s. yearly. Bartholomew his son, aged 7 years, 32 weeks and 5 days, is his next heir. But long before his death the said John gave the said marshes of Ryngewerth and Goz to Robert de Bardelby, clerk, who granted them to the said John and Amice his wife, by fine levied in the king’s court, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies; and the said Bartholomew is their son and heir. And the said John on the day he died held of the king, as of the honour of Reylegh, a moiety of the site of his said messuage in Canewedon by service of 20d. hidage yearly, and by doing suit at the king’s hundred of Rocheford.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (17.)
268.	THOMAS DE GOLDYNGTON alias THOMAS SON OF JOHN DE GOLDYNGTON of Colleby.
	Writ, 6 August, 14 Edward II.
WESTMORELAND.	Inq. Monday after St. Gregory the Pope, 14 Edward II
	Colleby. A capital messuage, 50a. arable in demesne now lying wasted by the Scots, except 6a. let to farm this year for 18d., 3a. meadow, a messuage and 20a. land freely held by Robert del Roche of Colleby by service of 2d. yearly, 13 bovates of land sometime held by tenants but now lying waste, except 2 bovates let to farm this year for 6s., and 2 cottars, held of the heir of Robert de Clifford, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of 5s. 3d. yearly for cornage, which cornage gives wardship and marriage, and by service of 6s. 6d. for food for four of the king’s serjeants (serviencium) in Westmoreland, viz:—6d. for each bovate, and by service of 6d. of blanchfarm (alba firma) yearly. John his brother, aged 25 and more at Whitsunday last, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (18.)
269.	JOHN DE NORTHGRAVE alias DE NORTGROVE.
	Writ, 11 July, 14 Edward II.
HEREFORD.	Inq. Friday the feast of St. James the Apostle, 14 Edward II. (defaced.)
	Tadyngton. A moiety of a messuage, garden, &c., 70a. land, 6a. and two parts of la. meadow, 7a. wood, &c., held in demesne, and messuages, lands, &c. (extent given, with names of tenants). Bullyghop which is a member of Tadigtone. Two parts of a messuage, 20a. land, and two parts of 1/2a. meadow, in demesne, and messuages lands &c. (extent given, with names of tenants). All held of the king in chief by service of two parts of 1/6 knight’s fee. And 22a. land held of Sibyl [de la Barre (fn. 1) ], by service of 13d. yearly. William his son, aged 2, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (19.)
270.	ROBERT DE BAVENT alias DE BAVANT.
	Writ, 29 August, 14 Edward II.
LINCOLN.	Inq. Saturday after St. Michael, 14 Edward II.
	Marum. 111s. 6d. rent of free tenants, held of the king in chief by service of falconry, viz:—keeping two of the king’s falcons at the king’s cost. Vilkesby. 8a. land held of Ralph Boteler by knight’s service. Peter his son, aged 5 at the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula last, is his next heir.
LINCOLN.	Inq. Saturday after St. Michael, 14 Edward II.
	Marum and Wilkesby. A messuage at Marum, and 32a. arable and 10a. meadow at Wilkesby, held of the bishop of Carlisle in socage, and by service of one appearance (eventus) at his great court of Horncastre. His sons, Peter aged 5 as above, and John aged 2, are his next heirs of these lands because they are partible. Staynton. 57s. 8d. rent held of Philip de Arcy by knight’s service. Boston. 40s. rent held of William de Roos by fee farm. Peter his son as above, is his next heir of the lands in Steynton and Boston.
LINCOLN.	Inq. Friday after St. Michael, 14 Edward II.
	Billesby. A capital messuage, 6 bovates of land, 50a. meadow and 12a. pasture worth nothing this year because flooded by water, rents, &c., held of the king by service of keeping three falcons at the king’s costs, which services were anciently assigned to the king’s ancestors by the earl of Lincoln, of whom the said tenements were formerly held by the same service; 4 bovates of land, 6a. pasture flooded as above, and 20s. 2d. rent, held of John de Asfordby by service of 1/100 knight’s fee; and 4a. land held of Jolland de Bavent by service of 4d. yearly. And there are also payable to John son of the said Robert and to Katherine sister of the said John, 10 marks each yearly, which the said Robert granted to them for life out of the said lands in Billesby and Marum. Heir as above.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (20.)
271.	GEOFFREY DE ALBA MARLIA alias DAUMARLE.
	Writ, 21 February, 14 Edward II.
DEVON.	Inq. 7 March, 14 Edward II.
	Wodebury. The manor (extent given), held of the king in chief by service of three parts of a knight’s fee. Leveneston. The hamlet (extent given), held of the king in chief by service of rendering to the king whenever he shall hunt in Dertemore an oaten loaf worth half a farthing, and three barbed arrows feathered with peacocks’ feathers placed upon the loaf. William his son, aged 24, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (21.)
272.	RICHARD CROK.
	Writ, 14 July, 14 Edward II.
WILTS.	Inq. 20 August, 14 Edward II.
	Haselbury. A messuage, 1/2 carucate of land, 6s. rent, and 3a. wood, held of Peter de Gavaston, then earl of Cornwall, as of the honour of Walingford, by service of 1/12 knight’s fee. He died 21 June, 3 Edward II. Reginald his son is his next heir, and was then 16 years and 20 weeks of age; and by reason of his minority the said earl took the said messuage, &c. into his hand, and sold the wardship with the marriage of the heir, to Iseult late the wife of the said Richard: but after the death of the said Sir Peter, the king granted the said wardship and marriage by his letters patent to Alexander le Peyntour, who coming and finding it sold to the said Iseult, took nothing thereof; but when the escheator was commanded to retake into the king’s hand divers particulars given contrary to the form of the ordinances, the said wardship and marriage were included by reason of the grant to the said Alexander, and the same were taken into the king’s hand and so have remained to this time. Reginald his son, aged 26 years and 28 weeks, is his heir.
	C. Edw. II. File 66. (22.)