Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 13

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 7, Edward III. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1909.

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J E E S Sharp, A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 13', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 7, Edward III( London, 1909), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol7/pp130-142 [accessed 3 December 2024].

Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 13


161.	MARGERY, DAUGHTER AND HEIR OF THOMAS FITZ AER.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said Margery, and warn Roger de Mortuo Mari and William le Botiller of Wemme, in whose hands are part of the said Margery’s lands, to be present, 9 July, 2 Edward III.
	Endorsed by the escheator that he warned the said Roger and William, who appeared by their attorneys, and could say nothing why the king should not render the lands to the aforesaid Margery as of full age.
SALOP.	Proof of age taken at Wenlok, 25 August, 2 Edward III.
	Walter le Scot, aged 60 years, says that the aforesaid Margery was fourteen years of age on the day of St. Ambrose the bishop last, for she was born at Wistannestowe in the said county on the said day, 7 Edward II, and baptized on the same day in the church there, and this he knows because Reginald his son married on that day a certain Alice. Peter de Muneton, aged 44 years, says the like, and knows it because he buried Reginald his father on that day. William Attewode, aged 40 years, says the like, and knows it because he buried Margery his mother at Christmas next before the said feast of St. Ambrose. Hugh de Patynton, aged 50 years, says the like, and knows it because he married Mabel, daughter of Roger de Wilmescote, at Whitsunday next after the said feast of St. Ambrose. Reginald de Chelmondwik, aged 40 years, says the like, and knows it because his wife lifted the aforesaid Margery from the sacred font. Roger de Assecote, aged 48 years, says the like, and knows it because William his brother took priest’s orders at Easter next before the feast of St. Ambrose. William Bastard, aged 52 years, says the like, and knows it because he was with his father before the king’s coroner at Wistannestowe on the very day on which the aforesaid Margery was born, through a certain accident (infortunio) that had happened there. Walter de Kelmescote, aged 42 years, says the like, and knows it because his own daughter Maud was born in the same week. John de Acton, aged 41 years, says the like, and knows it because he was (stetit) with Thomas FitzAer, father of the said Margery, and announced her birth to him. Robert Attewode, aged 54 years, says the like, and knows it because he took a certain field for a term of twenty years from the aforesaid Thomas at the Ascension next after the aforesaid feast of St. Ambrose. Richard de Holicote, aged 43 (?) years, says the like, and knows it because Hugh, his first-born son, was born in the same year. John Engelard, aged 54 years, says the like, and knows it because Isabel his lady died in the same year in which the said Margery was born.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (1.)
162.	JOAN, LATE THE WIFE OF THOMAS DE GRIMSTEDE or DE GRYMSTEDE.
	Writ (missing), [4 August, 2 Edward III. (fn. 1) ]
WILTS.	Assignment of dower. 10 August, 2 Edward III.
	Comptone Chaumberlayn. A third part of the whole capital messuage, viz. the middle chamber over the granary and larder, with the granary and larder, the chamber called Cokayne, the grange called Overbern, a carthouse, a cowhouse with 2 piggeries, an ox house, with a third part of the sheepcot, garden and dovecot, and divers lands (extent given with field names and names of tenants). Fallardestone. A third part of the said Thomas’s lands, &c. viz.—a third part of the capital messuage, a chamber with chimney and wardrobe and a cellar; which chamber is situated by St. Andrew’s chapel on the west, and the cellar is below that chamber, and abuts on the high road on the south; also, a house called the Little Grange, by the aforesaid chamber, on the west of the said chapel, and a house for a granary opposite the door (host’) of the said chamber (boundaries specified), a garden, and a third part of the sheepcot, rabbit-warren, &c., and lands in the field of Fallardestone (extent given with field names). Cruchestone. A third part of a carucate of land (extent given with field names). Throp. A third part of the said Thomas’s arable land in the field of Throp &c. (extent given with field names and names of tenants).
SUSSEX.	Apsele. A third part of the said Thomas’s lands, &c. viz.—part of a capital messuage and divers lands (extent given with field names and names of tenants), including a grange, oxhouse, and garden.
BEDFORD.	Dountone. A third part of the capital messuage of the manor (measurements given), with the fishponds and garden in that part, a grange, oxhouse, and a third part of a dovecot, lands, rents, &c. (extent given with field names and names of tenants).
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (2.)
163.	ISABEL LATE THE WIFE OF EDMUND CLERE.
	Assignment of dower, 25 September, 2 Edward III.
NORFOLK.	Strystone. A moiety of the grange on the east side of the messuage of the manor, with free ingress and egress by the gates and court of the heir; and all that part of the court of the messuage, which is enclosed by ditches, leading by the entrance of the manor on the east side to the bounds, which extend to the oxhouse standing on the east side of the hall; the court called Dauwesyer, a way called Milnegate, and the court lying on the north side of the aforesaid hall, as appears by the bounds there placed; and an oxhouse and three houses; also all the lands which lie in crofts at the gates of the hall, between the church and the aforesaid manor; pieces of pasture, and divers other lands (extent given with field names); a third part of a fishery and of the profits of the weir thereof; and rents and services of divers tenants (named).
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (3.)
164.	WARIN or WARESIUS DE VALOIGNES, SON OF HELEN DE BOURNE, AND KINSMAN AND ONE OF THE HEIRS OF ROBERT DE HUGHAM, deceased.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said Warin, whose pourparty is in the king’s wardship, 3 May, 2 Edward III.
KENT.	Proof of age, 13 October, 2 Edward III.
	William de Chilton, aged 54 years, says that the said Waresius was 21 years old on Wednesday before Michaelmas last, for he was born at Petham on the eve of St. Michael, 1 Edward II, and was baptized in the church there; and this he knows because on the same eve Michael le Bakere, of Canterbury, married Denise his sister, in the church of Petham. John de Kenefeld, aged 50 years, says the like, and this he knows because, on Monday before the birth of the said Waresius, Joan his own daughter was born in the same town, and baptized in the same church. John Gace, aged 42 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on the same eve, John his father was buried in the cemetery of the said church of Petham. William de Staple, aged 50 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on the feast of St. Margaret next before the birth of the said Waresius, Joan his daughter took the garb of religion in the order of nuns of Shepeye, in which order she was professed. Giles Cokkel, aged 60 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on Saturday next before the birth of the said Waresius, Simon his own son was born in the town of Chertham, and baptized in the church of the same. Simon Mol, aged 55 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on Thursday next before the birth of the said Waresius, his own houses were burned. William Hamund, aged 40 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on Monday next after the birth of the said Waresius, Joan, his own mother, died. Miles Neve, aged 60 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, at the feast of the Purification next before the birth of the said Waresius, Richard, his own brother, set out for Santiago, on which journey he died. Henry Formentyn, aged 40 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, at the feast of All Saints next after the birth of the said Waresius, Henry his own father died. Andrew atte Mede, aged 40 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on the morrow of All Souls next after the birth of the said Waresius, William his son took the garb of religion in the order of friars preachers at Canterbury, in which order he was professed. Nigel Poukel, aged 60 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on the same eve, Nicholas his own son was born, and was baptized in the said church of Petham. Richard de Wodeton, aged 40 years and more, says the like, and this he knows because, on Tuesday next after the birth of the said Waresius, he married Cecily, daughter of Robert atte Hull.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (4.)
165.	ROBERT, SON AND HEIR OF ROBERT BERTRAM, deceased, of Bothale.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said Robert, whose lands &c. are in the wardship of the executors of the will of Michael de Whitton, who had them by the grant of the king’s father, 28 March, 2 Edward III.
NORTHUMBERLAND.	Proof of age taken at Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 April, 2 Edward III.
	Robert de Cressewell, aged 50 years and more, says that the said Robert Bertram was born on 24 March, 1 Edward II, at Bothale, and was baptized in the church there, and Robert de la Vale and Robert de Mora lifted him from the sacred font, and that on 24 March last he was 21 years of age; and this he knows because on the day of St. Mark next after the day of the said Robert’s birth, he married Isabel, daughter of John de Dudden, and since then 21 years have elapsed. Simon de Welteden, aged 50 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because he had a daughter, Alice, born on the said 24th of March, who was 21 on 24 March last. Robert de Milnburn, aged 50 years and more, agrees; and knows it because his father, Thomas de Milnburn, died on the said 24th of March, [1] Edward II. John de Plessys, aged 60 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because he had a son named Richard drowned by accident in the river Blud, on the morrow of the birth of the said Robert. Robert de Byker, aged 55 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because William his son was born on the 24th of March in the year in which the said Robert Bertram was born, and so they are of equal age, and the said William was 21 years old on the 24th of March last. Thomas de Hydewyne, aged 50 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because, at Whitsunday next after the birth of the said Robert, he came into the service of Adam Baret his master, and now at next Whitsunday he will have been 21 years in that service. John de Kynton, aged 50 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because, on the morrow of the birth of the said Robert, he made his journey towards the court of Rome, 21 years ago on the 25th of March last. Thomas de Wintriton, aged 50 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because Agnes, his wife, died on the third day after the birth of the said Robert, and now, since the said Agnes died, twenty-one years have elapsed on the 27th of March last. John de Bakworth, aged 58 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because Nicholas his brother was slain in the field of Tynemuth by some one unknown, on the day of the birth of the said Robert, 21 years ago on the 24th of March last. Thomas de Wodeburn, aged 50 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because, on the day of St. Mark next after the birth of the said Robert, Joan de Wodeburn, his mother, gave him all her land which she had in Tirtlyngton. Nicholas de Eland, aged 50 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because Peter de Eland, his father, at Whitsunday next after the birth of the said Robert, was appointed bailiff of Sir Aymer de Valencia, late earl of Pembroch, in South Tynedale. Alan de Wytton, aged 60 years and more, agrees; and this he knows because, on the day of the Invention of the Holy Cross next after the birth of the said Robert, there were stolen from him eight oxen in the woods of Wytton, and that will be 21 years ago at the said feast next coming.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (5.)
166.	ADAM DE CLIFTON or DE CLYFTON, KINSMAN AND HEIR OF THOMAS DE CAYLLY, deceased.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said Adam, whose lands and tenements are in the wardship of Robert de Ufford, Constantine de Mortuo Mari, and William Giffard, by the grant of the king’s father, 1 May, 2 Edward III.
NORFOLK.	Proof of age taken at Swafham, 17 December, 2 Edward III.
	Peter Bozoun, knight, aged 60 years and more, says that the said Adam was born at Denever, and baptized in the church of St. Mary there, on the day of St. Gregory the Pope, 34 Edward I; and this he knows because Laurence his own son was born at the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross in the same year. Edmund de Illeygh, knight, aged 42 years and more, says as the aforesaid Peter; and this he knows because he was in the wardship of Ralph de Hemynhale, and in the same year at Easter his lands and tenements were delivered to him by the said Ralph, as to one who was of full age. John de Bergham, aged 50 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because John, his firstborn son, was born in the same year at the feast of the Holy Trinity. Adam Page, of Saham, aged 40 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because Alice, his sister, was married to a certain Roger Cherville in Bickham Welle, and she brought forth a son named John on the same day on which the said Adam de Clifton was born, and he (Adam Page) lifted the said John from the sacred font. John de Norwyco, aged 56 years, says the like; and this he knows because, on Tuesday next after the Close of Easter in the same year, he married Margery, sister of Edmund Copso. Walter de Geyste, aged 60 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because King Edward, the king’s grandfather, died on the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr next after the birth of the said Adam. Andrew de Nethergate, aged 60 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because his wife brought forth a daughter named Joan at the feast of the Purification next before the feast of St. Gregory, on which day the said Adam was born. Robert le Wodehed, aged 50 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because Cecily, his wife, lifted the aforesaid Adam from the sacred font; and it was 21 years ago at the aforesaid feast of St. Gregory last past. William atte Wode, of Elyngham, aged 40 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because John, his brother, was born in the same year on Palm Sunday next after the birth of the said Adam; and he was at the said feast last past 21 years old. Alexander Curzoun, aged 40 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because Christina, his sister, was born on Sunday next before the feast of St. Gregory in the same year. Robert de Baydele, aged 50 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because he was staying, at the feast of St. Gregory in the same year in which the said Adam was born, with the abbot of St. Edmund’s, at Rungeton Holm by Denever, and at the Michaelmas following the said Robert withdrew from the service of the said abbot; and it was 21 years ago at the said feast [last past]. Robert atte Water, aged 56 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because Emma, his wife, brought forth a daughter named Joan on the feast of the Annunciation next after the said feast of St. Gregory; and she was at the said feast [last past] 21 years old. Memorandum by the escheator. that he gave notice to Robert de Ufford, Constantine de Mortuo Mari, and William Giffard, and that the said Constantine was present and shewed no reason why the said lands and tenements should not be delivered to the said Adam.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (6.)
167.	JOHN DE BELLA AQUA, deceased.
	Writ of certiorari super modo et forma captionis, 27 June, 2 Edward III.
YORK.	Escheator’s return (undated).
	Boulton on Dirne. He has not taken two parts of 6s. 8d. rent of the prior of Munkbretton into the king’s hand, but has found by inquisition that John de Bella Aqua, who held of the king by knight’s service two parts of the manor of Boulton on Dirne, except a plot of land called ‘le Esthalleyerde’ and 9 acres of meadow in the said two parts, as of the manor of Bentele, which is in the king’s hand by reason of the minority of the heir of Payn de Tibetoft, died, his heir John being within age, and that the said plot of ground and meadow are held of the said prior by service of two parts of 6s. 8d. yearly; which two parts of the said manor the king granted to John de Carleton, his clerk, to hold until the lawful age of the heir of the said John de Bella Aqua; and because no mention was made, in the extent returned into the chancery of the lands and tenements of the said John de Bella Aqua, that the said plot of land and meadow were held of the said prior by the said service, therefore the said two parts of 6s. 8d. rent have been detained from the said prior since the death of the said John de Bella Aqua.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (7.)
168.	WILLIAM, SON AND HEIR OF NICHOLAS DE CHEIGNY, deceased.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said William 2 September, 2 Edward III.
DEVON.	Proof of age, 8 September, 2 Edward III.
	Philip de Cranlysworthy, aged 48 years and more, says that the said William was 22 years of age on the feast of the Assumption last, and this he knows because the said William was born at Upotery, and baptized in the church there on the morrow by Robert, vicar of the said church, 1 Edward II. Asked how he remembers, he says that he was at that time beyond the sea at Montpellier, and on the morrow of the said Assumption he returned home to Upotery. William Tril, aged 60 years and more, says the like; and this he knows because he married his wife Joan on the eve of the aforesaid Assumption. John de Bitellisgate, aged 50 years and more, agrees, and recollects it because his wife Joan brought forth a son named John, who was baptized in the said church on the said feast of the Assumption, 1 Edward II. Robert de Greneweie, aged 60 years, agrees, and recollects it because he had a son named John, who was ordained chaplain at Exeter on Sunday next before the said feast, 1 Edward II. Robert de Pomeray, aged 60 years, says the like, and recollects it because he at that time served the aforesaid vicar. Robert de Clyve, aged 50 years and more, agrees, and recollects it because his wife Joan died on the feast of the Purification next before the aforesaid feast of the Assumption, 1 Edward II. Robert de Okebeare, aged 60 years, Walter de Batteshorne, aged 50 years and more, John Fisschacre, aged 60 years, William Beffyn, aged 60 years, Roger Caperoun, aged 50 years, and John Mone, aged 60 years, say the like, and recollect it because, at Michaelmas next after the said feast of the Assumption, 1 Edward II, there came by night divers robbers to the priory of Otritoune, and there spoiled and slew the prior, whose anniversary is written in the missal of the church of Upotery.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (8.)
169.	MARGARET DE BOVILL, DAUGHTER AND HEIR OF JOHN DE BOVILL, deceased who held of the king in chief.
ESSEX.	Proof of age, 12 April, 2 Edward III.
	John de Lyston, knight, aged 60 years, says that the said Margaret was sixteen years of age on Monday the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary last, for she was born on the said feast, 5 Edward II, at Lyes, and was baptized in the church there. Asked how he knows this, he says that he was steward at that time of the household of John de Bovile, who then held the aforesaid manor of Lyes, and by the dates of the rolls of the aforesaid household he can verify the same. Edmund le Boteler, aged 50 years, agrees in all things with the said John, adding yet another cause for his knowledge, viz.—that Simon de Overton married Margaret, his sister, at the time when the aforesaid Margaret [de Bovile] was born, and baptized in the said church, and by the date of the agreement between the parties he can verify the same. Thomas Baynard, knight, aged 60 years, agrees, adding also that he was then of the household (de familia) of Sir Hugh de Nevile, who at that time was making a pilgrimage to St. Thomas of Hereford, and was in his suite. William Morel, aged 40 years, agrees, adding that, in the same year in which the said Margaret was born, John Morel, his father, gave to him and his heirs a messuage and a carucate of land in Mapeltrestede, co. Essex, and by the date of the enfeoffment he can verify the same. John de Polhey, aged 50 years, agrees, adding that, on the Monday when the said Margaret was born, he was in the hall of Lyes, and when Petronilla, mother of the said Margaret, was delivered, her midwives came into the hall, and announced the birth to him and others. Ralph Doreward, aged 60 years, agrees, adding that on Monday next after the birth of the said Margaret, in the year aforesaid, he married Decima, his wife, and so the birth of the said Margaret often recurs to his memory. Henry de Naylinghurst, aged 50 years, says that the said Margaret was 16 years of age on Monday, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary last, for she was born at Lyes, in the large chamber in the upper part of the hall, and baptized in the church of the said town, on Monday the said feast, 5 Edward II; and this he knows because he was staying for a long time in the realm of France, and, at Michaelmas before the birth of the said Margaret, he returned into England, and came to Leys on the Saturday before her birth. Thomas Warde, aged 40 years, agrees in all things with the aforesaid Henry, adding that William Warde, his father, died on Thursday next before the birth of the said Margaret. Richard de Chelmesho, aged 50 years, agrees, adding that he was at Lyes with Sir Philip de Virli when Petronilla, mother of the said Margaret, was purified from her. Richard le Duk, aged 50 years, agrees, adding that he was the king’s bailiff of the hundred of Chelmesford, in which the aforesaid manor of Lyes is situated, and by the dates of his extracts he has clear knowledge (noticiam) of her age. William de Pervile, aged 40 years, agrees, adding that, in the year when the said Margaret was born, William de Morton married Helen, his sister, and by the date of the agreement made between them, the [date of the] birth of the said Margaret is manifest to him. Peter de Barutun, aged 50 years, agrees, adding that, at the time when the said Margaret was born, he acquired to himself and his heirs nine acres of land from William Jordon, and by the date of the enfeoffment he has clear knowledge of the age of the said Margaret. The sheriff of Suffolk also returned that he had warned Richard de Wyngefeld, guardian of the lands and tenements of the said Margaret, of the day and place for taking this proof, but he came not.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (9.)
170.	WILLIAM, SON AND HEIR OF WILLIAM DE STOPPEHAM, deceased.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said William, 14 May, 2 Edward II.
YORK.	Proof of age. Wednesday after St. Barnabas, 2 Edward III.
	The said William, the elder, held by knight’s service of the heir of William de Vescy, deceased, who held in chief of King Edward II; which heir was lately within age, and in the wardship of the said king. Richard le Saucer, aged 40 years, says that the said William was born at York, in Conyngestrete, on the eve of the Invention of the Holy Cross, 35 Edward I, and was baptized in the church of St. Martin in Conyngestrete in the said city, and William de Sothill and William Fairfax lifted the said William from the sacred font, and he was 21 years of age on the eve of the Invention of the Holy Cross last past; and this he knows because the same King Edward died on the feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury next after the birth of the said William. William de N ……, aged 52 years, says the like, and knows it because he had a daughter Helen born in the same year. William Odeson, aged 50 years, says the like, and knows it because in the same month he married Alice his wife. Peter de Eseby, aged 41 years, says the like, and knows it because in the same year he married Isabel his wife, who still survives. Roger le Mareschal, aged 60 years, says the like, and knows it because he was then in the retinue (comitiva) of Walter de Langeton, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and had a certain palfrey of the bishop in his charge (in marescalcia) in the same week in which the said William was born. John le Lumynour, aged 64 years, says the like, and knows it because, within fifteen days after the birth of the said William, he went to Canterbury on pilgrimage. Richard de Sancto Oswaldo, aged 51 years, says the like, and knows it because, when the said William was born, the said Richard had a maid (ancillam), named Maud, whom he took to wife in that same year. William de Bossale, aged 56 years, says the like, and knows it because he had a son named Robert, who was born on the feast of St. Paul next after the birth of the said William de Stoppeham; and he will be 21 years of age [at the said feast] next to come. Walter de Marton, aged 50 years, says the like, and knows it because, in the same week in which the said William was born, he had a daughter Alice, now dead. William de Hundmanby, aged 66 years, says the like, and knows it because, in the same year in which the said William was born, he came to abide in the city of York, and there he still remains. John son of Denis, aged 40 years, says the like, and knows it because, in the year in which the said William was born, the said John was apprenticed to shear cloth in the city of York. Nicholas Brad, aged 48 years, says the like, and knows it because he had a son Roger who died fifteen days before the birth of the said William.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (10.)
171.	ROBERT DE LA LEGH, BROTHER AND HEIR OF JOHN DE LA LEGH, deceased.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said Robert, 2 April, 2 Edward III.
DURHAM.	Proof of age, 12 April, 2 Edward III.
	The said John held of Sir Henry de Percy, who was lately within age and in the wardship of King Edward II. John de Aleynscheles, aged 55 years and more, says that the said Robert was born 2 November, 34 Edward I, at ‘le Pavylion’ by Suthwermuth, and was baptized in the church of the said town of Wermuth, and Robert de Hilton and William de Suthewik lifted him from the sacred font, and he was 24 years of age on 2 November last past. Asked how he knows this, he says that on the same day he had a son born, named William, who was baptized in the same church, and who has completed the age of 24 years. Walter de Ludewrth, aged 33 years, says as the said John; and this he knows because a certain Walter Man had a daughter born, named Alice, and took the said Walter [de Ludewrth] with him to the aforesaid church of Wermuth, and caused him, then aged nine years, to lift the said daughter from the sacred font, on the same 2nd of November, and then and there he saw the aforesaid Robert baptized before the said Alice, whereby a long delay occurred, for which cause she wept, and he knows by the age of the said Alice, who survives, that the aforesaid Robert has completed the age of 24 years, as they have often computed among themselves. John de Hewrth, aged 50 years, says the like, and knows it because on the same 2nd of November his sister Iseult died, whose death is inserted in the calendar (kalendario) of the church of Suthwermuth, and because on the 2nd of November 24 years will have elapsed. He then saw the said Robert baptized with great solemnity, the priest sprinkling the holy water excessively (superflue) in his face and in his eyes from the sacred font, wherefore he was angry for a long time with the aforesaid priest; and therefore he well knows that the said Robert has completed the age of 24 years. William de Sancto Paulo, aged 50 years and more, says the like, and knows it because he had a daughter born on the same 2nd of November, who was on the said day last past aged 24 years. Adam de Elyngeham, aged 48 years, says the like, and knows it because William de Suthewik, his beloved neighbour, begged him to eat with him on the same 2nd of November, where he remained the whole of that day, and accompanied him to the church of Suthwermuth, where he saw the said Robert baptized and lifted [from the sacred font] by Robert de Hilton and the said William de Suthewik, now twenty-four years ago. Roger de Weston, aged 60 years, says that the aforesaid Robert is aged 24, because on the morrow of All Saints, 24 years ago, he [Roger] set out for the fair of Derlington, and stayed the night at ‘le Pavilon’ aforesaid, on which day he found the mother of the said Robert lying in her bed on account of the birth of the said Robert; and at that time he had a certain bond of Peter de Morpath, a horsedealer, for 6 marks, for a horse sold to him there, and now, as appears by the date of the writing, 24 years have elapsed. Walter de Dichand, aged 54 years, says that, on the 3rd of November, he was giving evidence at Sunderland on the condition of the will of Richard de Wermuth of the said parish of Suthwermuth, now 24 years ago. He was 30 years old on that day, when a certain Sir Laurence de Akley, then chaplain of the parish church of Wermuth aforesaid, was present, having been summoned (vocatus), and said that he had baptized a certain beautiful little male child of Roger de la Leygh, named Catherine (sic), on the day the aforesaid Robert [was baptized]. The same Walter Dychand, as he said, gave and sent two quarters of corn on the same 3rd of November, and was at the feast of the purification of the mother of the said Robert. Whence he knows by the date of the will that the said Robert is 24 years of age. John de Midilton, aged 52 years, says that on the morrow of All Saints, the 2nd of November last, 24 years had elapsed since a certain John Makman was found slain in the field of Suthwermuth, at the inquest on whom he was present, and he has a copy of the same; on which day he was eating with John de la Leygh, brother of the aforesaid Robert, whose heir the aforesaid Robert is, in the house of the father and mother of the said John, and on the same day the said Robert was baptized, and he gave 18d. to the same little brother of the said John lying in his cradle. William de Ellewik, aged 57 years, agrees in all things with the aforesaid first witness John; and he knows this because Thomas his father died on the aforesaid 2nd of November, 34 Edward I, whose death is testified in writings, so that on the same 2nd of November last past he well knows that 24 years had fully elapsed. Hugh Stamp, of Belforth, aged 50 years and more, agrees and knows it because, on the same 2nd of November, Agnes his daughter was born, and was baptized, and died, now 24 years ago; and on the same day and year, he was enfeoffed by the charter of Robert Scholl of a messuage in the town of Bellefurth. Alexander de Preston, aged 45 years, agrees, and knows it because he rendered his account then in the church of Suthwermuth before Master Richard de Morpath, then official of [the diocese of] Durham (Offic’ Dunelm’), when the said Robert was baptized on the day and year aforesaid, as is shown by the date of his account, whence he knows surely (fideliter) that the said Robert is 24 years of age. Adam de Doxforth, aged 56 years and more, says that at the feast of St. Martin in the winter, 34 Edward I, in which year the said Robert was born, on the morrow of All Saints, viz.—the 2nd of November, then next preceding, he gave all his land which he had in the town of Sunderland, of the parish of Suthwermuth, to Reginald his son, and to the heirs of his body; who lived but one year after that enfeoffment. So he knows by inspection of the charter, and by the death of the said Reginald, that the aforesaid Robert de la Leygh has completed the age of 24 years.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (11.)
172.	RICHARD HERIZ, SON AND HEIR OF RICHARD HERIZ, deceased, who held of King Edward II, in chief.
	Writ to the escheator to take the proof of age of the said Richard, whose lands are in the wardship of John de Mounteneye by the said king’s commission … November, 2 Edward III. (defective.)
DERBY.	Proof of age, Thursday next before Christmas, 2 Edward III.
	John de Brokestouwe, aged 50 years and more, says that on the morrow of St. Leonard, 1 Edward II, the said Richard was born at Stapelford, co. Derby, in the manor[-house] of the said town, in the large stone chamber by the hall, and was baptized in St. Helen’s church there, and that Sir Richard, then prior of Newstead (de Novo Loco) in Shirewode, and William de Cobbeleye, then chaplain of the parish, lifted him from the sacred font; and, on the morrow of St. Leonard last, the aforesaid Richard was 21 years of age; and this he knows because King Edward II. was crowned at Westminster, on Sunday next after the Purification next before the aforesaid feast of St. Leonard. Geoffrey de Bronnesle, aged 48 years, says the like, and knows it because, on Sunday next after the Purification, 1 Edward II, before the said feast of St. Leonard, the said king married Isabella, queen of England, at Westminster; and he (Geoffrey?) passed the night before the celebration of the said nuptials at the Tower of London. Roger de Mamcestre, aged 50 years and more, says the like, and knows it because, on Saturday next after St. Mark in the same year, Roger Hare slew Robert Daubene in Stapelford, and on Saturday next before St. Mark last 21 years will have elapsed. John de Burton, aged 42 years, says the like, and knows it because, on Wednesday next before St. Nicholas, 1 Edward II, he left the school of Nottingham by the advice of Thomas de Stapelford, rector of the church of Trouwell, and became clerk with the said Thomas from the aforesaid day to the same day seven years after, on which day he married Joan, daughter of Nicholas de Sandiacre, with whom he has lived now for 14 years. John de Strelle, aged 60 years, agrees, and knows it because at that time he was bailiff with Robert de Strelleye, knight, of the manor of Schippele, co. Derby, and on Thursday next before St. Edmund, the King and Martyr, 1 Edward II, there came robbers by night to the said manor, and made assault, and, whilst he was defending the manor, one of the robbers struck him through the middle of the arm with an arrow. Hugh Abbot, aged 50 years, agrees, and knows it because, on Sunday next after St. Leonard, 1 Edward II, he had a son, named Robert, born and baptized and dead on the same day, 21 years ago. William Torcard, aged 60 years, agrees with the said Hugh, and knows it because Marjory his mother died on St. Swithun’s day in the year following, and on the same feast next it will be 22 years ago. William Estwheit, aged 40 years, agrees with the said William Torcard, and knows it because, on the day after St. Andrew, 1 Edward II, he had a daughter, named Alice, espoused to Robert de Bilburgh; and at the feast of St. Andrew last 21 years had elapsed. Geoffrey son of Richard, aged 50 years, agrees with the said William Estwhayt, and knows it because, on the day on which the said Richard Heriz was born, viz.—on the morrow of St. Leonard, 1 Edward II, the said Geoffrey had a son, named Richard, who on the said day celebrated his first mass in the parish church of Stapelford. John Gerveys, of Chylewelle, aged 40 years, agrees with Geoffrey son of Richard, and knows it because, on the third day after the birth of the said Richard, viz.—on the fourth day after St. Leonard, 1 Edward II, Cecily his wife, was engaged (attachiata) for the nourishment of the aforesaid Richard, and stayed for three days as his nurse, but the stay did not please her, for on the fourth day she withdrew from her service, and returned home to her husband. Robert son of Thomas of Bramcote, aged 52 years, agrees with the said John, and knows it because, on the Sunday before St. Leonard, 1 Edward II, Roger his firstborn son was born, and on Sunday before the said feast last past the said Roger was 21 years of age. Stephen Paule, aged 43 years, agrees with the said Robert, and knows it because, on the morrow of St. Leonard, 1 Edward II, he received the office of bailiff of the honour of Peverell, by the demise of Richard Martel, and, by the date of his commission, he has knowledge of the age of the said Richard. John de Mounteneye, being warned to be present at the taking of this proof, did not appear, nor did any one on his behalf, to shew cause why the said lands and tenements should not be restored to the aforesaid Richard Heriz, as of full age.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (12.)
173.	ROBERT DE COURTENAY.
	Writ, 5 [October (fn. 2) ], 2 Edward III. (defective.)
DEVON.	Inq. (undated.)
	Morton. A messuage, a carucate of land, 9a. meadow, two water-mills, and 100s. rent, held of the king in chief, by service of mewing a sparrow-hawk yearly. Hugh de Courtenay, his brother, aged 21 years and more, is his next heir.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (13.)
174.	JOHN DE KYNGESTON, SON AND HEIR OF JORDAN DE KYNGESTON, deceased, who held of Edward II in chief.
	Writ to the escheator to take the age of the said John, whose lands and tenements are in the wardship of Ralph de Wolverton, by the demise of William Russel, to whom the king has granted the wardship, 21 December, 2 Edward III.
SOUTHAMPTON.	Proof of age taken at Neuport, in the Isle of Wight, on Thursday before St. Gregory the Pope, 2 Edward III. (defective.)
	Robert de Harslade, aged 60 years and more, says that the said John is 21 years of age and more. Asked how he knows this, he says that the said [John] was born at Kyngeston, in the Isle of Wight, on Tuesday, the feast of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist, 34 Edward I. Asked further how he knows this, he says that he was in the church of St. Peter, Shorewelle, to hear mass, at the time when Robert Urry, John le Martre, and Joan the wife of Richard le Palmere, lifted the said John de Kyngeston from the sacred font. Richard de Hoghton, aged 50 years and more, says the said John is 21 years of age and more; and this he knows because he was in the hall of the aforesaid Jordan in Kyngeston, and talked with him, when the aforesaid Jordan said that on that day he had had a son born named John. Walter Noreys, aged 48 years and more, says the like, and knows it because Jordan de Kyngeston, knight, father of the said John, asked him to the purification of his wife, after [the birth of] her firstborn son, the said John; and further he had a brother John, who died and was buried at Karesbrouk on the morrow of the birth of the aforesaid John de Kyngeston. Robert Urry, aged 60 years and more, says that John de Kyngeston is of full age, for he lifted him from the sacred font on Tuesday, the feast of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist, 34 Edward I, in the church of St. Peter, Shorewelle, at the first hour of the day. Richard le Someter, aged 50 years, says that the aforesaid John is 21 years of age and more; and this he knows because he has a son, named John, of the same age. Henry de Butebrigge, aged 58 years, says as Robert de Harslade; and he was present at the baptism. Walter de Sydelinge, aged 40 years and more, says that the same John de Kyngeston is of full age; and this he knows because Margaret, his own mother, died in the same month in which the said John was born. Nicholas de Chiverdon, aged 60 years and more, says the like, for he was with Jordan the father on that day; and, further, he had a son Nicholas of the same age. Henry atte Hale, aged 54 years and more, says the like, and knows it because he made his homage to the said Jordan in the same year in which the said John was born, viz.—in the time of the king’s father, but he knows not the year. Richard le Palmere, aged 60 years, says that the said John was of full age last year; and this he knows because he saw Robert Urry, John le Martre, and Joan, his own wife, lift the said John from the sacred font, on Tuesday, the feast of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist, 34 Edward I. John le Martre, aged 66 years and more, says the like, for he with others lifted the aforesaid John from the sacred font, and he gave him his name. Walter de Kyngeston, aged 60 years, says the like; and knows it because he was with the aforesaid Jordan when the said John was born; and further, he married Margaret, daughter of John de la Hurst, …… . John was born, 34 Edward I.
	C. Edw. III. File 13. (14.)