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JOHN POKESWELL

684 [Writ not required.]

SOMERSET Inquisition ex officio. Ilchester. 23 Jan. 1402 [Manyngford].

Jurors: Nicholas Edmond ; Richard Hopekyns ; John Wardrobe ; Richard Odam ; William Forster; John Ridel ; John Chynnok ; Nicholas Hardyng ; William Tokel ; Thomas Ponton ; Richard Lacy ; and John Trente .

He held by the courtesy of England in right of the inheritance of Eleanor, sometime his wife: Woolmersdon, a third part of half the manor, of the manor of Nether Stowey by knight service. Stowey was in the king’s hands by reason of the death of Lady Daudele. John Tochet, knight , has now secured it in right of his inheritance. Annual value of the third part, 33s.4d. Uphill and Christon, a quarter of the manor, of the manor of Blagdon, annual value 60s.; and a fifth part of a rent of 40d. from 1 messuage and 40 a. arable, meadow and pasture in West Lydford, of the manor of West Lydford. All the fees of the manors of Blagdon and West Lydford were in the king’s hands owing to the forfeiture of the earl of Huntingdon , or by his death and the minority of the heir; and now by the king’s grant [ CPR 1399–1401 , pp.274, 397, 457] these fees and manors are held by the abbot of St. Mary Graces; and of these manors John and Eleanor held all their lands, rent and revenues in Uphill, Christon and West Lydford, by priority of all other lords of whom they held elsewhere in the county, in right of Eleanor. Bedminster, a third part of the manor, of Thomas Beauchamp, knight , of the manor of White Lackington by knight service, annual value 50s. Compton Durville, a third part of the manor, of Baldwin Malet, knight , of the manor of Sutton Mallet by knight service, annual value 4 marks. Cossington, a third part of a toft and a third part of a carucate, of John Brente, lord of that manor, by knight service, annual value 15s. West Chilton, 1 carucate called ‘Chaldecote’, of the manor by knight service, of the heir of Thomas Tryvet, knight , not in the king’s hands at the time of John Pokeswell ’s death, annual value 40s. Huntspill, 1 messuage and a third part of a carucate in the manor, in the hands of the earl of Somerset with knight’s fees until the full age of Fulk Fitzwaryn , by the king’s grant, annual value 20s. Burnham, 1 carucate, of the bishop of Winchester of that manor by knight service, annual value 40s. Churchill, 1 toft and 1 virgate called ‘Lyncombe’, of Ellis Fitzpayn of that manor in socage, annual value 5s.

He died on 13 Dec. 1400. John the son and next heir of both Eleanor and John is aged 17 years and more.

C 137/33/70 m. 1

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