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ELEANOR WIDOW OF IVO DE HARLESTON

1184 Writ amotus to assign dower in the presence of John Foljaumbe and John Pygot, clerk , who were granted the wardship [CFR XII, p.235; CPR 1401–5 , p.367], the former escheator having been removed before he could execute the writ.. ‡ 26 May 1405 [Gaunstede]. Referring to an earlier writ of 3 Jan. 1404 addressed to John Bedefore, escheator.

BEDFORDSHIRE. Assignment of dower in the presence of Thomas Lounde , attorney of John Foljaumbe and John Pygot, clerk , and John Croyser , attorney of Eleanor . 8 Sept [Gyffard].

Dunton, a third part of the manor called Dunton Chamberlains inside the great ditch called the ‘Mote’ on the south side, as appears by the bounds there placed, with free ingress and egress by the gate of the site; a grange called the ‘Greteberne’, a third part of the lower part of a house called ‘le Bakhous’ by the great gate of the manor, and 1 stable at the upper end of the grange called the ‘Wheteberne’ next to the same gate, all as a third part of the hall; 2 chambers, 1 kitchen, 1 house called the long ‘Shephous’, the grange called the ‘Wheteberne’, and 2 parts of the house called the ‘Bakhous’, all belonging to the manor. All the close called the ‘Foreyerd’ within the gates and houses aforesaid is in common between John Foljaumbe , John Pygot and Eleanor. Also a third part of the profits of the dovecot, a third part of a close called ‘Woderoveclos’ by the bounds there placed, and the profits of the boughs of the trees growing on the south side of the door of the great grange which opens in ‘Woderoveclos’ to a bound by the kitchen of the manor on both sides of the ditch, and all the willows growing by the way leading from the manor to Dunton; a third part of the perquisites of the court; the rents and services of Robert Laurence , Richard Saltwelle , Richard Gylle , Richard Coupere and John Paternostre, junior , free tenants of the manor, as a third part of all the free tenancies; the rents and services of John Paternostre, senior and junior, for their lands in Dunton, and of Robert Abraham and William Paton , and a third part of those of John Roger , servile tenants, as a third part of all the servile tenancies of the manor; and the following parcels of demesne arable with the meadow, pasture and headlands of each, all lying to the south of their respective parcels: 5 a. at the end as a third part of 15 a. by the manor; 13 a. 1 1/3 roods as a third of 40 a. called ‘Borende’ and ‘Eldeponde’; 4 a. as a third of 12 a. called ‘Rokisdole’; 6 a. as a third of 18 a. called ‘Ladymauncell’; 4 1/2 a. and 1/3 of 1/2 a. as a third of 14 a. called the ‘Fourteenacres’; 2 a. as a third of 6 a. called ‘Shortlond Dole’; 5 a. as a third of 15 a. called ‘Bradsik Dole’; 6 a. as a third of 18 a. called ‘Delle Dole’; 2 1/2 a. and 1/3 a. as a third of 8 a. next ‘Delle Dole’; 1 1/2 a. and 1/3 of 1/2 a. as a third of 5 a. called ‘Shor…ode’; 12 a. as a third of 36 a. called ‘Riggewey Dole’; and 1 a. of meadow called ‘Berystardy’ for a third part of 2 a. on ‘Welyforlang’.

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