594
Writ.‡
8 July 1402. [Stanley].
Writ from the escheator to the sheriff to have 12 free and lawful men at Tamworth on 10 Aug.
‡
24 July.
WARWICKSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Tamworth.
10 Aug. [
Boteler ].
Jurors:
Thomas
Malory
;
John
Lyle
;
John
Foliambe
;
Adam
Seyntclere
;
Leonard
Worthyn
;
Robert
de
Aston
;
Robert
de
Sekynton
;
John
Allerwych
;
John
Gresbroke
;
William
de
Aldestre
;
John
de
Overton of Polesworth
; and
William
Dodenhale
.
He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief as a quarter of a knight’s fee two parts of half the manor of Newton Regis, and the reversion of the third part which Mary widow of
Richard
Herthill
holds in dower; annual values, the site of the half manor nil, 2 untilled carucates with adjacent meadow 26s.8d., and assize rents of 4 marks 3s.4d. payable by equal parts at Michaelmas, St. Andrew, Lady Day and Midsummer.
The manor of Pooley was held in their demesne as of fee by
Thomas
de
Asteley, knight
,
Ralph
Baddesley
,
Robert
de
Mapull
,
John
Chaloner
and
William
de
Hethecote
, chaplains, and they by their charter gave it to
Richard
Herthill, knight
, and Alice then his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. They had issue Giles and Elizabeth. Giles married Katherine daughter of
John
Walche
, and they had issue
William
Herthill
. Alice, Giles and Richard died. The manor was then taken into the king’s hands until 21 March 1401, when William proved his age and received his grandfather’s lands. The manor is held of the heir of
Baldwin
Frevyll, knight
, a minor in the king’s ward, by the service of an unmewed osprey. Annual values: the manor nil, 2 carucates 26s.8d., 40 a. meadow nil this year because they were mown and the hay carted before the death of
William
Herthill
, and assize rents 20s. payable by equal parts at Michaelmas and Lady Day.
He died on 22 June.
Elizabeth daughter of Richard and Alice and wife of
John
Fraunceys
of Ingleby, his aunt and heir, is aged 60 years and more.
C 137/31/26 mm. 1-2
E 149/79/15
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