Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 2

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Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 2

29. HENRY DE NOTINGHAM.
Writ, 8 March, 1 Edward III.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. Tuesday after the Close of Easter, 1 Edward III.
Radeclive on Trent. A capital messuage, land, and rent (extent given), held of the heirs of Richard de Byngham by knight’s service; and 8a. arable held of Sir Richard de Grey by service of paying 1lb. of cumin, price 2 1/2d., at Christmas.
Henry, son of John son of the said Henry de Notyngham, aged 12 years and more, is his kinsman and next heir.
LEICESTER. Inq. Friday before the Ascension, 1 Edward III.
Thurstanton. A third part of the manor (extent of the entire manor given), held of John Clervaus by service of a moiety of a knight’s fee and 5 marks rent yearly; and two parts of the manor held of the heir of Roger Beler, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of a knight’s fee and 6l. 13s. 4d. rent yearly; and by doing suit for the whole manor at the hundred of Gosecote every three weeks, and paying 4s. yearly to the sheriff of the county for a custom called ‘Shirrevysthoth,’ and also to the lord of Segrave 3s. yearly.
Geggeworth. 8l. 3s. 8d. rent from divers free tenants, held of Agnes de Sutton, lady of Geggeworth, by knight’s service, and by service of 10 1/4d. yearly and [1lb.] of cumin yearly at Christmas.
Geggeworth and Kynston. 10s. rent from divers tenants, held of the prior of Duram and Robert de Haustede, knight, by knight’s service and service of 7d. yearly.
Heir as above.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (1.)
30. ROBERT DE CLIFTON.
Writ, 10 October, 1 Edward III.
NOTTINGHAM. Inq. Monday after St. Nicholas, 1 Edward III.
Clifton and Wilford. The manors (extent given), and the advowsons of the churches, held for life of Thomas de Veer and Agnes, his wife, as of the right of the said Agnes, by service of half a knight’s fee, by the grant of Thomas, parson of the church of Wylford, and Robert Shipman of Wylford, chaplain, by the form of a fine levied in the king’s court, 18 Edward II. (recited), viz.—between the said Robert and Gervase his son, and Margaret the wife of the same Gervase, plaintiffs, and the said Thomas and Robert, deforciants, whereby the said manors were granted to the said Robert for life, with remainders to the said Gervase and Margaret, and the heirs of their bodies, and to the right heirs of the said Robert.
Gervase, his son, is aged 14 years, and was married by his said father to Margaret, daughter of Robert de Pirpount.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (2.)
31. HERBERT DE MARISCO OR DE MAREIS.
Writ ad melius inquirendum, on account of ambiguities contained in an inquisition taken in the time of the late king, which is sent herewith together with the said king’s writ, 26 February, 1 Edward III.
Writ, 2 June, 19 Edward II.
SOMERSET. Inq. 18 April, 1 Edward III.
Exton. 50s. yearly rent held of the king in chief by service of an eight part of a knight’s fee.
Stephen, his son, aged 22 years and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (3.)
32. EDMUND DE PASSELE or DE PASSELEE.
Writ, 27 March, 1 Edward III.
KENT. Inq. Tuesday after Easter, 1 Edward III.
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief in his demesne as of fee on the day he died in the county.
Writ, 27 March, 1 Edward III.
SUSSEX. Inq. 18 May, 1 Edward III.
Bourne or Estbourne. He held no lands or tenements in Bourn of the king in chief on the day he died, but ten days before his death he gave to Robert de Passele, his son, a messuage and a carucate of land in the same town of Estbourne, which are held of the heir of Bartholomew de Badlesmere by service of 27s. 8d. yearly rent to be paid at the manor of Estbourne, and suit of court every three weeks.
SUSSEX. Inq. 13 September, 1 Edward III.
Legh and Farlegh. The manors with their member of Redge Clayton and other rents and appurtenances, held jointly with Margaret his wife and Thomas their son by a fine levied in the king’s court, of John de Britannia, earl of Richmond, by service of three knights’ fees, and suit of court every three weeks at the earl’s hundred of Hastyngges.
Passelee and Bourne. He did not die seised of these manors, because ten days before his death he enfeoffed Robert his son of the same.
La Parrok. The manor, held of John de Seynt Low by service of an arrow price 1/2d. at Christmas for all service.
Cremesham. The manor, held of the archbishop of Canterbury by service of one suit yearly at his court of Pageham.
John, his son, is his next heir of the manors of Parrok and Cremesham, and of full age.
SURREY. Inq. 1 October, 1 Edward III.
Aldebury. The manor held jointly with John his son of the prior of Christchurch, Canterbury, by service of 16s. yearly, and suit of court every three weeks at the court of Merstham; and likewise of Simon de Northwode, lord of Gattone, by service of 4s. yearly at his manor of Gatton.
Merstham and Gatton. 40a. land, and 3s. 8d. rent held jointly with Margaret, sometime his wife, of the aforesaid lords.
Alstede. The manor is held by Custance de Passelee, sometime the wife of Robert de Passelee, as dower of the inheritance of the said Edmund de Passelee, the reversion whereof the said Edmund, ten days before his death, granted to Robert his son, by which grant the said Custance has attorned to the said Robert.
John his son, is his next heir of the manor of Aldebury, and of full age.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (4.)
33. PETER DE LYMESY.
Writ, 18 February, 1 Edward III.
WARWICK. Inq. 24 February, 1 Edward III.
Brome. 40s. rent from a messuage and a carucate of land, held of the lady of Burnel by service of 1/4d. yearly.
Sloley. Lands and rent (extent given), held of John de Odyngseles by service of a quarter of a knight’s fee.
Austeley. 40a. land, held of John de Hardreydeshull by service of 12d. yearly.
Folkeshull. 10 marks rent to be yearly received for himself and his heirs for the term of the life of Robert de Hoyland, held of William le Boteler by service of 1d. yearly.
Systok. 1a. meadow, held of John de Moubray by service of a rose yearly for all service.
John his son, aged 24 years and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (5.)
34. ROGER DE ELMERIGG or DE ELMERUGE.
Writ, 10 February, 1 Edward III.
HEREFORD. Inq. 3 March, 1 Edw. III.
Mawen Nichol. A messuage, lands, and rents (extents given), held of the late King Edward in chief by service of a sixteenth part of a knight’s fee.
Roger his son, aged 16 years at the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary last, is his next heir.
HEREFORD. Inq. taken at Leominster within the liberty of the abbot of Rading in the county of Hereford, 1 March, 1 Edw. III.
Riseburie. Richard Guyth, chaplain, was seised in fee of a messuage, land, rents, &c. (extent given), in Riseburie, within the said liberty, as of the gift of Roger de Elmeruge, and the said Richard gave all the aforesaid tenements to the said Roger, and Agnes his wife, and the heirs of the said Roger by a fine levied between them at Leoministre in the court of the said abbot, and the said Roger and Agnes on the day of the death of the said Roger so held them of the late King Edward by service of an eighth part of a knight’s fee, as of the manor of Dylewe, which was then in the wardship of the said king by reason of the minority of James de Audeleye, son and heir of Nicholas de Audeleye.
Heir as above.
WORCESTER. Inq. Monday, the morrow of St. Peter in Cathedra, 1 Edw. III.
Elmerigg. The township (extent given), including a capital messuage, held of Richard Talbot and Joan his wife as of the manor of Wychebaud by service of a third part of a knight’s fee and of finding an armed man with a barded horse for fifteen days for the ward of Richard’s Castle, whenever there shall be war in Wales.
Heir as above.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (6.)
35. JOHN DE BOYNTON.
Writ, 4 February, 1 Edward III.
YORK; NORTH RIDING. Inq. 1 March, 1 Edw. III.
‘Thornton in The Strete.’ A waste toft and 7 bovates of land, held under an entail to him and the heirs of his body, of John de Waxand in chief by service of 1lb. of pepper, and of a pair of spurs, or 3d. yearly, and by knight’s service. He died without heir of his body.
Walter de Boynton, his brother, aged 34 years and more, is his next heir.
YORK; EAST RIDING. Inq. 27 February, 1 Edward III.
Hundmanby, Boynton, and Ruddestan. Divers tenements, of which he became seised upon the death of his father, Robert de Boynton, who had acquired them of Robert de Burton, vicar of the church of Boynton, to hold for his own life with remainder to the said John and the heirs of his body, and like remainders to Lambert and Roger, his brothers, which Roger survives and now holds the same after the death of the said John, because the said Lambert is a canon and professed in the priory of Newburgh (de Novo Burgo), with like remainders to Alice, sister of the said Roger, and Constance her sister, and ultimate remainder to the right heirs of the said Roger de Boynton, viz.—
Hunmanby. A capital messuage, called ‘le Castelgarth,’ a several pasture called the ‘Oxpasture,’ subject to inundation by the river Burlyn, a meadow called ‘le Erleheng,’ subject to inundation by the sea, and rents (extents given), held of the king in chief by service of a fortieth part of a knight’s fee; and 7 tofts, a croft, 4 bovates of land, and a rent of 1d. and of a pair of gloves, held of Joan de Tatersall by service of 2s. yearly.
Boynton. A capital messuage, 9 waste tofts, and lands, some of which are subject to inundations by the river Gypse, (extent given) held by knight’s service in part of Nicholas de Menhill and the residue of Roger de Somervill.
Ruddestan. A messuage and a bovate of land, held of William de Ruddestan by knight’s service; and 6 tofts, land and rents (extent given), held by knight’s service in part of Richard Thorny and the residue of William de Ruddestan.
Thorp. 26s. rent held of Nicholas de Menill by knight’s service.
Sywardby. 2 tofts and 2 bovates of land held of Robert de Sywardby by knight’s service.
Heir as above.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (7.)
36. JOHN DE ASSHEPORDEBY or DE ASSEFORDEBY.
Writ, 22 September, 1 Edward III.
LINCOLN. Inq. 9 October, 1 Edward III.
Assefordeby. A messuage, 10a. land, 7a. pasture and rent, held of the heir of Gerard de Chancy, who is a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of a third part of a knight’s fee, and by rendering 6s. 8d. yearly to the manor of Scraythefeld, and doing suit every three weeks at the court of the said manor; which manor is assigned in part of her dower to Ada, late the wife of the said Gerard.
He died on the feast of St. Lucy the Virgin last past.
William, his son, aged 21 years and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (8.)
37. MAUD MORKER or MORKEL.
Writ, 2 April, 1 Edward III.
YORK. Inq. 13 May, 1 Edward III.
Ravenser. A cottage, held of the king in chief, as of the honour of Albemarle as in burgage, and by service of 6d. yearly to be paid to the king for all service.
Cecily, aged 40, Nicholaa, aged 31, and Constance, aged 28 years, daughters of Isabel Morkel, her sister, are her next heirs.
Certificate. The cottage contained in this inquisition has been for a long time, and still is, in the king’s hand by the death of John Morkel, a bastard, who held it of the king in chief, but it has been found by inquisition that the said John ten years before his death enfeoffed Maud Morkel, now deceased, of the same, to hold to her and her heirs for ever, who was seised of it until her death.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (9.)
38. WILLIAM LOVEDAY.
Writ, 14 April, 1 Edward III.
CAMBRIDGE. Inq. Friday after St. George the Martyr, 1 Edward III.
Great Wilburgham. A messuage and 80a. land, held of the king in chief by serjeanty of mewing a sore sparrow-hawk; and a messuage and 80a. land held jointly with Joan his wife, which had been acquired from one Walter, vicar of the church of Great Wilburgham by a fine levied in the king’s court, and which are held of the earl of Richmond by service of two attendances yearly at the turn of the said earl in the hundred of Stane. All the tenements of the said town are called socage.
He died on Monday after Easter last past.
William, his son, aged 15 years, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (10.)
39. EDMUND DE PLESCY, DE PLESCI, DE PLECI, DE PLECY or DE PLEYSITZ.
Writ, 4 May, 1 Edward III.
SURREY. Inq. 26 May, 1 Edward III.
Hedhlee. A messuage, 60a. land and 20s. rent, held of the king in chief by socage without any service.
Nicholas, his son, aged 9 years on the feast of the Circumcision last, is his next heir.
DORSET. Inq. 16 May, 1 Edward III.
Upwymbourne. The said Edmund and Maud his wife were jointly enfeoffed by William de Litteltone, vicar of Caneford, of two parts of the manor of Upwymbourne to hold to them and the heirs of the said Edmund for ever, as appears by a fine levied in the king’s Court; which two parts, together with the third part, which Ida, late the wife of John de Plesci, his father, holds in dower, are held of Elizabeth de Bourgh as of her manor of Pymperne by service of a knight’s fee.
Kynstenestone. The said Edmund and Maud also held, by joint enfeoffment of John de Gritelyngtone, chaplain, two parts of the manor of Kynstenestone, to hold to them and Nicholas their son and the heirs of the said Nicholas; which two parts and the third part which the said Ida holds in dower are held of John de Garenna, earl of Surrey, as of his manor of Kaneford, by service of 12d. yearly.
Heir as above.
NORTHAMPTON. Inq. 16 May, 1 Edward III.
Burton. Two parts of the manor (extent given with names of tenants) including a capital messuage, held of the king in chief as of the crown by service of a knight’s fee.
Nicholas, his son, aged 10 years and more, is his next heir.
Mandate from the escheator to his sub-escheator in co. Gloucester, reciting writ of plenius certiorari, dated 16 June, 1 Edward III, on the petition of Maud, late the wife of Edmund de Plescy, for dower out of the manor of Bardesle; whereof after he married her the said Edmund enfeoffed Hugh le Despenser, late earl of Winchester, by whose forfeiture the manor came to the hands of the late King Edward.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. Monday after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 1 Edw. III.
Barndesleye. Edmund de Pleysitz enfeoffed the said earl of the manor, to hold to him and his heirs for ever, eight years and more after the solemnisation of the marriage between the said Edmund and Maud his wife; which manor came into the hands of the late King Edward by the above mentioned forfeiture and not otherwise, and it is in the seisin of Edmund de Wodestok, earl of Kent, by the king’s gift; it is held of the earl of Hereford by service of half a knight’s fee.
SURREY. Assignment of dower, Saturday after St. Laurence, 1 Edward III.
Hedlegh. Assignment of dower to Maud, late the wife of Edmund de Plecy, out of two parts of the manor of Hedlegh, which the said Edmund held of the king in chief, towards the east, with free ingress and exit, viz.— a third part of a messuage, 15a. arable and a croft, a wood called ‘Costalle,’ for a third part of the wood of Hoke, a third part of a several pasture in Eldebury and Ore, rents of assize (tenants’ names given), a third part of the reliefs of bondmen, and a third part of pleas and profits of court.
NORTHAMPTON. Assignment of dower, Wednesday after St Laurence, 1 Edward III.
Burton. Assignment of dower to the said Maud out of two parts of the manor of Burton (full extent given with names of pastures and of tenants), including the new chamber, with a cellar and wardrobe there, and a long stable which was an ox house.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (11.)
40. JOHN SON OF HENRY DE BROK or DE LA BROKE, the elder.
Writ, 13 August, 1 Edward III.
SOMERSET. Inq. 16 September, 1 Edward III.
La Broke in Ievelcestre. A messuage and lands (extent given), held for life of the inheritance of the heir of Henry de Broke, a minor and in the king’s wardship, as parcel of the king’s fee-farm of Ievelcestre, in free socage by service of rendering to the said fee-farm 20s. 6d. yearly.
Sokdeneis. 30a. arable, held for life of the said inheritance, of Nicholas de Bolevile in free socage by service of 6s. 8d. yearly; and 4a. arable held of the said inheritance, of John de Chitterne in free socage by service of 1oz. of saffron yearly for all service.
C. Edw. III. File 2 (12.)
41. WILLIAM DE DENE.
Writ, 18 September, 1 Edward III.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. Monday after St. Denis, 1 Edward III.
Great Dene. A messuage and a carucate of land, held of the king in chief by service of paying 10s. yearly at Newenham to the constable of the castle of St. Briavels.
Little Dene. A messuage and 2 virgates of land, held of the king in chief by service of rendering 6d. yearly at the king’s exchequer.
Lassebergh. The manor (extent given), held of Sir Hugh le Despenser, late earl of Winchester, by service of a knight’s fee.
His daughters, Joan, aged 15 years, and Isabel, aged 11 years, are his next heirs.
Certificate that upon scrutiny of the rolls and memoranda of the time of Richard de Clare, escheator, 12 Edward II, it was found that William de Dene died in the same year, and that by an inquisition then made and returned into the chancery it was found that he held his tenements in Great Dene and Little Dene of the king in chief by homage and by service of 10s. 6d. yearly; the jury knew not whether he owed therefrom any service to the king of keeping part of the forest of Dene or not: and it was found that Joan, then aged 5 years and Isabel then aged 1 month, viz.—on 28 May, 12 Edward II, were his daughters and next heirs.
Writ of certiorari, 16 February, 2 Edward III, to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, reciting as is set forth in the foregoing inquisition and certificate, and commanding them, after examination of the rolls of such serjeanties and memoranda of the exchequer, to certify the king whether the said William de Dene held any lands and tenements of King Edward II by serjeanty or knight’s service, by reason whereof the wardship of his lands &c. ought to pertain to the king.
Endorsed. The return of this writ appears on the schedule thereto.
Enrolled in Hilary Term in the second year: roll 23.
Schedule annexed. Upon scrutiny of the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, it was found in the roll of Memoranda of 5 Edward II that William de Dene, son and heir of William de Dene, held all his lands and tenements in Great Dene of the king in chief by service of rendering 10s. yearly at the castle of St. Briavals, and 2 virgates of land in the osier bed(?) (in Riffleto) by service of rendering 6d. yearly at the exchequer, as the same William acknowledged; and that he gave the late king 10s. 6d. for his relief for the said lands; and in like manner the said William, his father, was charged with his relief for the same lands in the year 32 Edw. I; and in like manner Henry de Dene, his grandfather, was charged with his relief for the aforesaid lands in the year 15 Edward I, as is contained in the roll of accounts of that year 15 in Gloucester. They found nothing else about the same.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (13.)
42. JOAN, LATE THE WIFE OF WILLIAM ROSCELYN, ROCELYN, or ROSSELYN.
Writ, 29 May, 1 Edward III.
NORFOLK. Inq. 12 June, 1 Edw. III.
Folsham. The manor (full extent given), including a pasture called Welleparrok, and a market on every Tuesday, and a moiety of the court of the manor and no more, because the second moiety of the said court is received by Sir Robert de Morle, who holds it by the courtesy of England after the death of Hawis his wife, held for life of the inheritance of Hawis, late one of the daughters and heirs of William le Mareschale; which manor is held of Hugh de Audele, as of the right of Eleanor his wife, of the manor of Staunburne, service unknown.
She died 31 March, in the year abovesaid.
William, son of the said Hawise, age unknown, is her next heir.
NORFOLK. Inq. 9 June, 1 Edward III.
Aldebi or Aldeby. The manor (extent given), including pastures called Ladieshowe and Malwemers, held for life of the inheritance of the said Hawis, who held it in chief of the king as parcel of the barony of Ry.
Heir as above.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (14.)
43. JOHN GIFFARD, of Weston Underegge, or JOHN GYFFARD UNDEREGGE.
Writ of Amotus, 19 December, 1 Edw. III.
CAMBRIDGE. Inq. 22 February, 2 Edward III.
Wendeye and Knesworth. A messuage, lands and rents (extent given), held of the earl of Richmond in socage by a rent of 6d. yearly.
John, his son, aged half a year, is his next heir.
The said tenements had been seized into the king’s hand by William Trussel, the late escheator, and afterwards delivered by him by the king’s writ to John de Charlton.
SOUTHAMPTON. Inq. Saturday the eve of St. Valentine, 2 Edward III.
Ichull. The manor (extent given), held of the bishop of Winchester by service of a knight’s fee, and doing suit at his court of Farnham every three weeks, and at his court in the soke of Winchester every fifteen days, and one attendance yearly at the bishop’s tent (. . vilionem) on St. Giles’s hill. The manor is charged in 3s. yearly to the prior of St. Swithun’s, Winchester.
Heir as above, aged half a year and more.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. 26 December, I Edw. III.
Norton and Weston Underegge. The manors (extent given), held of the king by service of a knight’s fee and a half.
Heir as above.
The manors were taken into the king’s hand by William Trussel, the escheator, and delivered by him by the king’s command to John de Cherlton, lord of Powytz, in whose custody they remain.
The manor of Norton is charged to Simon de Aston and his heirs in 22s. yearly, and to Margery, relict of William Pikerel, in 26s. 8d. for her life.
Extent or summary of the above mentioned lands and manors, divided into two parts, and a third part.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (15.)
E. Enrolments, &c. of Inq. No. 16, m. 3.
44. HENRY GRAPENEL.
Writ de melius inquirendo 23 July, 1 Edward III. Whereas by an inquisition taken by John de Blomville, late escheator of King Edward II, it was found that the manor of Lachindon called ‘Teyledehalle,’ which is of the inheritance of Joan, late the wife of Eudo la Zouche, and daughter and heir of William Inge, deceased, and which with lands of the said Eudo, on account of a felony whereof he was indicted, was taken into the hand of the said king, and is still in the king’s hand, was bound to Margaret de Haveryngge in 4l. yearly; but there is no mention made by whom the manor was so bound, when, and for what cause, &c.
ESSEX. Inq. 10 December, 1 Edward III.
Lachendon. One Henry Grapenel held in his demesne as of fee on the day of his death the manor of Lachendon called ‘Tyghledehalle’ with other lands and tenements in the counties of Essex and Oxford, upon whose decease the same descended by inheritance (nomine hereditario) to Petronilla, Margery, Joan and Margaret, his daughters and heirs; and on St. John the Baptist’s day, 27 Edward I, a division (participatio) of the inheritance between the said daughters was agreed to; viz.—the said manor was assigned to the said Margery, mother of Joan, late the wife of Eudo la Zouche, to hold as her pourparty of the said inheritance, rendering to Margaret her sister, and her heirs, 4l. yearly as the pourparty of the said inheritance falling to the said Margaret, to be received yearly out of the aforesaid manor, and so the said manor was bound by the said Margery, and by the said partition, to the said Margaret in the above sum. The said Margaret from the date of the said division was peacefully seised of the said 4l. for her life, and (similarly) after her death for the whole time of the said Eudo la Zouche and Joan his wife, daughter of the said Margery, until the day on which the manor, together with other lands of the said Eudo, by reason of his forfeiture was taken into the late king’s hands, viz.—the eve of St. James the apostle, 19 Edward II, since when until this day the said rent has been in arrear.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (16.)
45. EDMUND DE DUDDEN.
Writ, 6 January, 20 Edw. II.
NORTHUMBERLAND. Inq. Wednesday after the Purification, 1 Edward III.
He held no lands or tenements of the heir of Ralph de Graistok [or de Greystok, a minor and in the king’s wardship] or of the king in chief.
West Dudden and Heppescotes. Certain tenements (extent given), including a capital messuage at Heppescotes, held of Elizabeth, late the wife of Robert son of Ralph, by service of a third part of a knight’s fee; which third part was after the death of her husband assigned to the said Elizabeth among other fees as dower; all which lie waste on account of the devastation of the Scots.
Blakeden. 5 tofts and 114a. land held of John de Plessys by service of a tenth part of a knight’s fee, which now lie wholly waste on account of the devastation of the Scots.
Philip his son, aged 8 years and more, is his next heir.
C. Edw. III. File 2. (17.)
46. JOHN MERIET, DE MERIET, MERYET, or DE MERYET.
Writ, 27 February, 1 Edward III.
Endorsed. Dorset, Wilts, Southampton, Bedford, Somerset and Gloucester, with the Marches.
Writ, 6 March, 1 Edward III.
Endorsed. There is another writ of prior date. Dorset, Southampton, Wilts, Bedford.
SOMERSET. Inq. 11 June, 1 Edward III.
Assheton Daundo. Certain lands and tenements, whereof he was enfeoffed jointly with Elizabeth his wife, to them and the heirs of the said John, held of the heir of Alexander Dando by knight’s service.
Hesercombe. Certain lands and tenements, whereof he was enfeoffed jointly with Elizabeth his wife as above, held of the bishop of Winchester, as of his manor of Taunton, with knight’s service.
Capelonde. Certain lands and tenements, whereof he was jointly enfeoffed as above, held of John de Actone by knight’s service.
John his son, aged 20 years at Michaelmas last, is his next heir.
BEDFORD. Inq. 19 April, 1 Edward III.
Luyton. 8a. arable, 2 1/2a. wood at Northgrave, and 6l. 3s. 4d. rent.
Flitten. Pleas and perquisites of the hundred.
All held of the inheritance of Mary his wife by the courtesy of England, of the king in chief by service of a sixth part of half a knight’s fee.
Maud de Kyme, one of the heirs of the inheritance of the said Mary, had issue Joan de Vivonia and Cecily de Bello Campo, kinswomen and heirs of the said Mary; which Joan had issue Peter son of Reginald, who had issue Roger, who had issue Henry, who is a minor and in the king’s wardship; and the said Cecily had issue John de Bello Campo, the elder, of co. Somerset, who still survives. John de Bouhon of co. Sussex, John de Mohon of Donsterre, and Hugh de Mortuo Mari of Cheilmersche, are the next heirs of the said Mary. The said Henry son of Roger son of Peter (son of) Reginald, who is in the king’s wardship, is aged 8 years; and the said John de Bello Campo, John de Bohun, John de Mohon, and Hugh de Mortuo Mari, are each aged 26 years and more.
GLOUCESTER. Inq. 29 April, 1 Edward III.
Magor in the Marches of Wales. A fourth part of the manor (full extent given), including a pasture called ‘la Grenemore,’ and a port called Aberwythel now wholly deserted, held by the courtesy of England as of the inheritance of Mary his wife, of the king in chief by homage, fealty and service of a quarter of a sixth part of a knight’s fee.
Henry called ‘Fiz Reignaud,’ John de Beauchaump of Somerset, John de Boun of Mrdhurst, John de Mooun of Dunsterre and Hugh de Mortuomari of Cheilmershe, are the next heirs of the said Mary, and are all aged 26 years and more, excepting Henry ‘Fiz Reignaud’ who is aged 8 years and in the king’s wardship.
SOUTHAMPTON. Inq. 16 May, 1 Edward III.
Greywelle. The manor, held by the courtesy of England, as of the inheritance of Mary his wife, deceased, of the king in chief, as of the manor of Odyham, which is of the king’s ancient demesne, by service of 4l. yearly, reaping the king’s corn at Odyham for one day with ten men and a reaper (messore) at the king’s costs in food and drink, and suit at the hundred of Odyham every three weeks.
He held no other lands &c. in the county.
The manor sometime belonged to a certain Reginald de Mohun, to him and his heirs in fee, who gave it to William, his younger son, and the heirs of his body. The said William had two daughters, viz.—Mary and Eleanor; Eleanor was espoused to one John de Carru and they had a son, Nicholas, who died without issue. The other daughter Mary was espoused to John de Meryet, and had a son Henry, who died without issue. Through such failure of issue, the manor ought to revert to one John de Mohun as kinsman and heir of the said Reginald. From the said Reginald the right of reversion of the said manor descended to John his son and heir, and from him to John his son, and from the said John son of John son of John to John his son and heir who now claims; he is aged 40 years and more.
DORSET. Inq. 15 April, 1 Edward III.
Sturmenstre Marschal. A messuage, lands and tenements (extent given), held by the courtesy of England of the inheritance of Mary his wife, of the king in chief by knight’s service.
Heirs, and issue of Maud de Kymes, as above given in the inquisition for the county of Bedford.
Writ concerning the lands held by him of the inheritance of Mariota, sometime his wife, 26 March, 1 Edward III.
WILTS. Inq. 14 May, 1 Edward III.
Mildenhale. The manor held, by the law of England of the inheritance of Mary, sometime his wife, of the earl of Salisbury, as parcel of the manor of Aldeburne, by service of half a knight’s fee.
One Reginald de Mohun, sometime seised of the said manor, gave it to William, his son, and the heirs of his body; which William had two daughters, Eleanor and Mary, who died without issue, upon whose death the manor by virtue of the said grant ought to revert to John de Mohun, aged 40 years and more, as kinsman and next heir of the said Reginald.
Memorandum of appointment of attorney by John de Buhoun of Midhurst, to receive his pourparty of the said inheritance.
Writ of recipiendi attornatos to John de Fosse to receive the attorneys of John de Bello Campo of Somersete, 9 June, 1 Edward III. Endorsed with names of attorneys.
Writ of recipiendi attornatos to John de Peyto to receive the attorneys of John de Mohun of Dunsterre, 10 June, 1 Edward III. Endorsed with names of attorneys.
BEDFORD. Partition [1 Edward III]. (defaced.)
Luyton. Assignment of their respective pourparties to John de Mohoun [of Dunsterre], Hugh de Mortuo Mari [of Cheilmersche], and John de Bohoun [of Sussex], of a fourth part to each of divers rents in Luton, land in the field of Courigge, and of the wood of Northgrave.
Hundred of Flitte. Nothing was delivered by the sheriff to the said co-parceners, because by the king’s writ, dated 10 April, 1 Edward III, he has delivered the said hundred, with the issues thereof from that date, to Richard de Peplesham.
BEDFORD. Writ of Scire facias, 12 March, 2 Edward III, to the sheriff, to warn Richard le Peplesham, who holds for the term of his life the hundred of Flitton by the king’s gift to be in the chancery on the quinzaine of Easter next, to show cause why the said hundred should not be resumed into the king’s hand and ought not to be petitioned between the heirs of Mary, late the wife of John Meriet.
Endorsed by the sheriff that he had warned the said Richard accordingly.
Also endorsed with appointment of attorney by Richard de Pepelesham.
C. Edw. III. File 2 (18.)
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