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MAUD WIFE OF
JOHN
DYNHAM, KNIGHT
50
Writ mandamus
.
‡
18 May 1406
[
Smyth].
Addressed to the escheator of Somerset and Dorset. The endorsement of execution does not indicate whether an inquisition was produced for Dorset.
SOMERSET.
Inquisition.
Crewkerne.
12 June [
Grey].
Jurors:
John
Mede
;
Nicholas
Thurlok
;
William
Bonham
;
John
Bokerell
;
Alexander
Hull
;
Thomas
Smyth
;
Henry
Merewode
;
Robert
Hardyng
;
Philip
Bradon
;
William
Peytevyn
;
John
Doudyng
; and
John
Symond
.
She held in her demesne as of fee 6s.8d. rent from a half toft and 36 a. arable and meadow in Highbrooks by Somerton with the reversion of the half toft and 36 a. after the deaths of
John
Sutton
, Joan his wife, and John and Richard their sons, all of whom are still living and hold for the term of their lives. Owing to the death of
John
Mautravers
, father of Maud, who held of the king
in chief by knight service, this rent, being her portion as one of the daughters and heirs of
John
Mautravers
, was taken into the king’s hands and so remains.
She died about 1 Nov. 1402 .
Elizabeth, the other daughter of
John
Mautravers
, who married
Humphrey
de
Stafford, junior, knight
, is her heir, aged 22 years and more.
Since her death the rent has come to the king by the escheator owing to her minority and the partition of the inheritance.
C 137/53/24 mm. 1-2
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