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ELIZABETH WIDOW OF ROBERT HARYNGDON, KNIGHT

121 [Writ not required.]

SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented], ex officio. Bridgwater. 28 Aug. 1400. [Lenthorp].

Jurors: Philip Pym ; William Gosse ; John Bochel ; William Gowere ; John Stone ; William Clycche ; John Milbourne ; Richard Dynghyrst ; John More ; Philip Terry ; Thomas Weston ; and William Selcok .

She held the manor of Huntspill of the king in chief by knight service. Fulk, son and heir of Fulk Fitzwaryn , has the reversion by inheritance, is the next heir, and is under age in the king’s ward. William Cogan, knight, formerly lord of Huntspill , granted and confirmed by his deed now shown to the jurors, dated 20 July 1371 , to John Elys, vicar of Meare by Glastonbury , who still lives, an annual rent of 10 quarters of corn for life from his lands in Huntspill, comprising at All Saints 2 qr. wheat and 2 qr. barley and at Candlemas 4 qr. beans and 2 qr. oats, with the carriage of it to a place that the vicar’s boat could conveniently reach, and he bound himself and his heirs to warranty by his deed. In the manor are assize rents of free tenants and villeins at the four feasts, £39 18s.; a close called ‘Calvenhey’; a small garden by the court, 2s.; 100 a. meadow in ‘Goselese’ in separate plots, worth from Candlemas until the hay is cut 8d. per a., after that nil because common; the hay was harvested long before Elizabeth died; in the meadow called Huntspill ‘mede’ 50 a. meadow from Candlemas to the hay harvest, 6d. an a.; in the field called ‘La Harth’ 140 a. arable, in that called ‘West Yalworth’ 10 a., to the north of the court 15 a., in the one to the west 22 a., and in the one called ‘Wolsshecrofte’ 24 a., all worth 8d. an a. Robert de Haryngton , late husband of Elizabeth, leased the lands from Michaelmas for the following year to various tenants for 8d. an a. payable at Lammas, which he collected and it is in his hands for the past year. There is a pasture called ‘Gossehull’, annual value 4s., another south of the court 3s., one called ‘Cothampmede’ comprising 100 a. at 12d., a dovecot 40d., and pleas and perquisites of the court, with a certain gift on the 2 law-days, 36s.

She died on 19 Aug.

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122 [Writ not required.]

SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented], ex officio. Montacute. 13 Oct. 1400. [Lenthorp].

Jurors: John Roller ; John Comelond ; John Mede ; John Spyne ; Walter Dauy ; John Bokerel ; Henry Merwod ; Nicholas Thurlok ; William Donham ; Philip Bradon ; Andrew Spore ; and Edward Pycher .

She, who elsewhere held of the king in chief, held in dower a third part of the manor of Wigborough, of whom is unknown, annual value 5 marks.

She died on 19 Aug. Fulk son and heir of Fulk Fitzwaryn , in the king’s ward, is next heir, aged 15 years and more.

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ENHANCEMENT OF TEXT: The text of this IPM which appeared in the print edition of CIPM XVIII has been enhanced in certain respects: see the About pages.