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Tenure by Courtesy of England: John of Gaunt and Henry of Bolingbroke
Posted by: mholford in Law and administration 10 years, 2 months ago
Michael Hicks explores the legal rights of widowers in their wives' estates and discusses the two most prominent widowers in late medieval England.
Eternal Trusts: The Beauchamp Trusts 1425-87
Posted by: mholford in Featured inquisition 10 years, 4 months ago
Michael Hicks explores trusts or enfeoffments, which often escaped mention in the IPMs.
Call for Papers: The Second Inquisitions Post Mortem Conference at Winchester
Posted by: mholford in News and events 10 years, 4 months ago
Unpublished IPMs: Gilbert Talbot, Gloucestershire, 1419
Posted by: mholford in Unpublished inquisitions 10 years, 5 months ago
This IPM into the Gloucestershire lands of Gilbert Talbot has been calendared as CIPM xxi.322, but only five brief disconnected phrases from its text appear there, followed by the statement ‘remainder mostly illegible'. Both the Chancery and Exchequer texts do indeed present challenges, but in fact between them the entire text can be read, with some effort and the use of an ultra-violet lamp. It appears below.
Circumstantial evidence: proving the age of the Brokholes heiresses 1426-7
Posted by: mholford in Featured inquisition, Proofs of age 10 years, 5 months ago
Michael Hicks discusses CIPM xxii.829-30, two proofs of age which bear on the legal dispute central to the Armburgh papers, one of the few surviving letter collections from medieval England.