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Entail in Tail Male: The Earldom of Salisbury 1337-1428
Posted by: mholford in Featured inquisition 10 years, 11 months ago
Michael Hicks explores the complicated history of the earldom of Salisbury as revealed in CIPM xxiii.262-85.
Unpublished IPMs: Proof of Age for Sibyl, wife of Thomas Bekyngham, esquire, 1418
Posted by: mholford in Unpublished inquisitions 11 years ago
This document is the proof of age of Sibyl, wife of Thomas Bekyngham, esquire, of Berkshire. It appears in CIPM xxi as document 146, but the evidence of nine of the twelve jurors is omitted there, and that of the other three is truncated: the full text is given here. It is of particular interest because the memory of seven of the jurors is stated to derive from the dates of written documents created on the day of the baptism, one of them a record of the baptism entered in the parish missal book.
Inheritance and Partition: The Break-up of the Holland Earldom of Kent
Posted by: mholford in Featured inquisition 11 years ago
Michael Hicks discusses CIPM xix.622-38, the IPMs for Edmund Holland earl of Kent and a case study in the division of an inheritance among co-heirs.
Unpublished IPMs: Proof of Age for William Heron, 1418
Posted by: mholford in Unpublished inquisitions 11 years ago
Matt Tompkins introduces a previously uncalendared proof of age.
The king is dead...can I have a new writ, please?
Posted by: mholford in Law and administration 11 years ago
The accession of a new monarch often had little impact on the day-to-day workings of Chancery, or the IPM process. One exception resulted from the convention that writs issued by a monarch could not be executed after their death. This history of this convention is somewhat obscured by the cursory calendaring of the writs in many early volumes of CIPMs, and in the calendared Fine Rolls, but there are several examples in the CIPMs for the early years of Henry VI, and re-examination of the IPMs for Henry IV and Henry V has brought others to light.