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WILLIAM SALESBURY alias WILLIAM GILBERT
584 Writ mandamus . ‡ 12 Feb. 1402. [Kirkeby]. Addressed to the mayor and escheator of Calais, regarding lands held of Richard II
CALAIS Inquisition. 20 June. [Wotton].
Jurors: John Dene ; John Thorp ; Roger Bradley ; Walter Thorney ; John Amory ; John Carro ; William Witton ; Thomas Hickelott ; Theobald Wellis ; Roger Hayward ; Peter South ; and Roger atte Spence .
He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief 4 tenements in the parish of St. Mary by a rent of 14s. and the service of providing 4 watchmen for the defence of the city, annual value £10.
He died on 16 April 1393 . Joan wife of John Ramessey of Calais, shearman, is his kinswoman and heir, aged 34 years and more.
From his death for five years Richard Cliderowe occupied all the tenements and took the profits, title unknown. After that he sold 2 to the duke of Norfolk , and 1 to John Ramessey . The fourth he still occupies.
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585 melius sciri . ‡ 22 Oct. 1402. [Bubbewyth]. It was found by an inquisition before John Neuport, escheator, on 18 July 1394 that William Salesbury alias Gilbert held in his demesne as of fee all his lands in Calais and left no will, and that Joan, wife of John Ramesey, daughter of Alice Middelton, daughter of Margaret, sister of William, was one heir, and John Gilbert, son of Constance the other sister, was the other heir; and afterwards by another inquisition by Lawrence Wotton on 20 June last it was found as above [no. 584]; and John Ramesey and Joan have petitioned that John Gilbert died in the lifetime of William, and that Joan was the sole heir and so remains; order to enquire when he died and how Joan is his kinswoman and heir.
CALAIS Inquisition. 27 Nov. [Newerk].
Jurors: John Thorp ; John Emery ; Thomas Hiclotes ; Theobald Wellys ‘barbier’; William Barbier ; Roger atte Spence ; Peter South ; Roger Bradlee ; Roger Heyward ; John Carr ’; Walter Thorney ; and John Dene ‘drapier’.
John Gilbert , son of Constance, one sister of William Salesburialias Gilbert, died on 12 March 1392 on his journey to Rome with the said William Gilbert . Joan wife of John Ramsey is his kinswoman and sole heir, namely the daughter of Alice, daughter of Margaret, the other sister of William.
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