1139
Writ mandamus
.
‡
25 Nov. 1404
[Gaunstede].
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Great Limber.
26 Jan. 1405 [
Belle].
Jurors:
Robert
Skayman of Stallingborough
;
Robert
Richardson
of the same;
Walter
Totnay
of the same;
Thomas
Chaumbur of Keelby
;
Robert
Pysall
of the same;
John
Newton
of
Great Limber;
Richard
Elyson
of the same;
John
Hayryk
of the same;
John
Tomlynson
of
Riby;
Robert
Pye
;
John
?Mussaw
; and
John
Wylkynson
of
Riby.
He held in his demesne in fee simple to himself, his heirs and assigns, by the grant of
Thomas
Mountfort, knight
, his father, 12 messuages, 3 tofts, 25 bovates, 3 a. arable and meadow and 42s. rent in Riby of
Edmund
earl of Kent
of his manor of Brattleby by knight service, that is by homage and fealty alone, annual value 9 marks.
He died on 1 Oct. 1395 . Thomas his brother and next heir was of full age, 21 years, on 7 Jan. last .
Thomas
earl of Kent
held his property from the death of Alexander until his own forfeiture, owing to the minority of the heir. Since the earl’s forfeiture
Richard
Clyderowe
has held it from 26 Feb. 1400 , with all the chattels in the hands of the earl there, in virtue of letters patent of that date [ CPR 1399–1401 , p.222, letters quoted in full].
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