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RALPH
BASSET, KNIGHT
536
[Writ not required.]
STAFFORDSHIRE.
Inquisition ex officio [indented].
Stafford.
10 Aug. 1401. [
Hervile].
Jurors:
Richard
Jurdan
;
James
de
Moorton
;
Roger
de
Burton
;
William
de
Salt of ?Rickerscote
;
Thomas
de
Bykynton
;
John
Parker of Salt
;
William
de
Middleton
;
John
de
Inggestre
;
William
?Rutitri
;
Richard
de
Eggeley
;
Richard
Ferrur
; and
Roger
Kyng
.
Ralph
Basset of Drayton Bassett, knight
held in his demesne in fee simple of the king in chief by knight service:
Walsall, half the manor, with 1 messuage, 120 a., 20 a. meadow, 4 a. pasture and 10 a. wood which
Ralph
Basset, knight
, his grandfather, acquired from
Alice
Archer
; 10 a. called ‘Godfordesland’ which his grandfather acquired from
Richard
Hillori, parson of Wolstanton
; 12d. rent from lands and tenements held by
Adam
de
Wytton
there and in Wyrley; 2 messuages, 1 toft and 1/2 virgate which
John
Petyt
and
Adam
Tailour
once held there, which he gave to
William
Coleson
and the heirs of his body, with reversion failing such heirs to himself and his heirs; and 1 messuage and 1 garden lying in ‘Russhehalestrete’ which he granted to
John
Flecher
of Walsall and Alice his wife and John their son for their lives for a rent of 6s.8d., which rent and reversion he held at his death. Annual value of all, apart from the reversions, £20.
He died on 5 May 1389 without heirs of his body.
Edmund
earl of Stafford
, son of Hugh, son of Ralph, son of Margaret, sister of
Ralph
Basset
, father of Ralph, father of Ralph, is heir, aged 23 years and more.
Thomas
de
Bello
Campo, formerly
earl of Warwick
, by colour of a fine of 1339 to
Ralph
Basset
by
William
Heerle, knight
, and others [CP 25(1) 287/40, no. 255] intruded upon the half manor, lands and tenements over the royal possession, which pertained to the king owing to the successive minorities of Thomas and William, late earls of Stafford, and Edmund now
earl of Stafford
, who were all in the king’s ward, and took the issues and profits, until the death of
Thomas
earl of Warwick
on 8 April. For the issues he is answerable to the king.
C 137/29/73 m. 1
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