JOHN
POUGER
119
Writ.
‡
22 May 1406
[Maupas].
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Cirencester.
14 June. [
Yate].
Jurors:
John
Walker of Rendcombe
;
Nicholas
Mayhew
;
John
Haralt
;
Thomas
Corser
;
Thomas
Teynton
;
John
Eycote
;
Walter
Coburle
;
John
Hyme
;
John
?Delewyn
;
Nicholas
Stuward
;
Nicholas
Ragalay
; and
?Thomas
Colas
.
Long before his death he enfeoffed
William
Pouger
,
Robert
Elkyngton
,
Robert
Cave
and
Gerard
Sutill
in the manor of Eycot, to them and their heirs and assigns.
Eycot. It is held of
Richard
bishop of Worcester
by knight service, annual value 6 marks.
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120
Writ.
‡
27 Dec. 1405
[Maupas].
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Market Rasen.
7 Jan. 1406. [
Belle].
Jurors:
Henry
de
Walesby of Walesby
;
John
Nevyll of Faldingworth
;
William
Cauf of West Rasen
;
William
Bysshop
of the same;
John
?Rothewell
of the same;
John
Dryby of Toft next Newton
;
John
Raulyn of Newton by Toft
;
Robert
Dysney of Owersby
;
John
de
Ouresby
of the same;
John
Hunter of Middle Rasen
(Media …);
Thomas
Layceby
of the same; and
John
Osgotby of Osgodby
.
He held the manor of West Rasen, extending in West Rasen, Glentworth, Scawby, Usselby, Hainton, West Barkwith and Southrey, in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief as one knight’s fee. There are the site, with dovecot, fishpond and garden, annual value nil; 54 1/2 bovates in the east and west fields, and when the east field is sown the west field lies fallow and uncultivated for pasture because there is no other arable pasture in the summer; 10 bovates in the east field are cultivated and were sown this year, each being worth 7s.6d., total 75s.; 17 1/4 in the same are uncultivated as the greater part are flooded each year, each 15d., total 21s.6 3/4d.; the other 27 1/4 lie fallow, unbroken and uncultivated in common this year; 80 a. meadow in demesne, worth 40s. yearly and no more because the greater part is flooded each year; 1 watermill, 6s.8d.; 1 unused windmill, nil; assize rents and farms payable by equal parts at Martinmas and Whitsun, £10 17s.2d.; 22 1/4 bovates of land of servile tenure, of which 19 1/4 are in the hands of the lord owing to the plague and let to farm at 3s.4d. each, 64s.2d.; 3 are in the tenure of
Robert
Haut
and
John
Robyn
, villeins holding by ancient custom of the manor; once there were 15 villeins who held the 22 1/4 bovates, for each of which they were accustomed to do 2 boon works weekly from Martinmas to Candlemas except for a fortnight at Christmas, value 3/4d. each work, also 2 boon works weekly from Candlemas to Martinmas, except for Easter and Whitsun fortnights, value 1d. each; from the feast of Saints Peter and Paul ( 29 June) until all the corn was gathered they received a meal each day from the lord; each paid 2 bushels of malt at Christmas or 14d., and 1 cock and 3 hens, value 1d. each, at the same feast; together the 15 gave the lord 2s.9d. at Candlemas for the custom called ‘haysilver’; each bovate rendered 20 eggs at Easter, and each villein 2 geese at Lammas at 2d.; now only 2 villeins render the customs and services; view of frankpledge and pleas and perquisites of court, nil beyond the fees and expenses of the steward; and a weekly market on Thursdays, a yearly fair at All Saints for 3 days, free warren, ‘furce’, ‘infangenth’, ‘tumbrel’ and ‘pilorie’, by ancient custom from the grant of King Henry to the lord of the manor, all nil.
He also held in his demesne as of fee:
Middle Rasen, various messuages, lands, tenements and services called ‘paynelfee’, of the king in chief as half a knight’s fee, let to farm to various tenants for 40s. payable by equal parts at Martinmas and Whitsun; view of frankpledge and pleas and perquisites of court, annual value nil beyond the fees and expenses of the steward; and 2 tofts and 2 bovates there of the heirs of
Ralph
de
Nevyll
of the honour of Dover, by a rent of 6s.8d., also burdened with 4 marks payable to
Walter
de
Stokes
for life.
Newton by Toft, the advowson with 1 rood lying at ‘Galbek’ of the glebe of that church, of
John
Chaumberleyn
of Wickenby by knight service, annual value nil; the living is occupied.
Linwood, 1 toft which
William
Beverage
once held, and 10 a. wood with free ingress and egress for cart and plough by a certain way, of the lady of Bello Monte of the fee of ‘Bayous’ by a rent of 1 lb. of cumin payable on 17 June; annual values, the toft nil because ruinous, each a. of underwood 3s.4d. when 10 years old, but nil this year because it was cut last year.
He died at West Rasen on 20 Dec. last.
John his son and heir is aged 24 years and more.
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121
Writ.
‡
27 Dec. 1405
[Maupas].
WILTSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Marlborough.
20 Jan. 1406. [
Coventre].
Jurors:
Ingelram
Cook
;
Richard
Berwyk
;
John
Appulman
;
....
Wad...,
junior
;
John
Bryt of Swindon
;
John
Todworth
;
John
Ferrour
;
John
Pycot of Purton
;
Thomas
Canynges
;
Simon
Rustel...
;
....
Crypus
; and
John
...yle
.
He held in his demesne as of fee:
Chelworth, Bentham and Calcutt, 23 a. 20 perches arable in demesne, annual value 3s.4d.; 14 1/2 a. 20 perches meadow in demesne, 6s.8d.; a quarter of a pasture called ‘Doddesmere’, 12d. and no more because flooded each year and burdened with paying the king’s subsidy; assize rents of 12s. 1 1/2d. from free tenants, of which at
Michaelmas
5s.4 1/4d., Christmas 19d., Easter 18 1/2d. and
Midsummer
3s.7 3/4d.; 8 messuages, 1 croft and 4 1/2 virgates in tenure of villeins who render both for rent and for ‘shurthes’, pannage of pigs and other customs, 13s.4d. and no more because burdened with 6s.8d. rent to the
earl of Cornwall
.
Staple, profits of an eighth part of the hundred, annual value more or less ( secundum maius et secundum minus ) 3s.4d.; the court there, pleas and perquisites nil beyond the fees and expenses of the steward and clerk; of the king in chief in grand serjeanty by the service of a certain office in the forest of Braydon
, as
lord of Chelworth manor
, of which they are parcels.
Purton, a quarter of the manor, extending in Purton, Malmesbury, Brokenborough and Lea, and various portions of wood within and without the forest of Braydon, acreage unknown, of the
abbot of Malmesbury
by knight service, annual value 13s.4d.; pleas and perquisites of the court, nil beyond the fees of the steward.
Date, place of death and heir as above.
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122
Writ.
†
27 Dec. 1405
[Maupas].
YORKSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Selby.
11 Jan. 1406. [
Redeman].
Jurors:
John
Lassy of Gateforth
;
John
Piper of Airmyn
;
Richard
Olyver of Drax
;
Richard
Haxby
[?Haxhy] of Selby;
Richard
Esthorp
of the same;
Robert
Moubray
of the same;
John
Raper
of the same;
John
Copyn
of the same;
Henry
Ward of Newland
;
John
Rusholme of Drax
;
Thomas
de
Burton
of the same; and
John
de
Wod
.
He held two parts of the manor of Drax, with the soke of Drax and with its members in Drax, Newhay, Airmyn, Rusholme, Scurf, Long Drax, Lane House,
Wood
House
, Draxburgh and Newland in the soke, and outside the soke Stonegrove, Nunnington in Ryedale, Bilbrough and Moor Monkton, of the king in chief by the service of two parts of a knight’s fee and a rent of 21s. payable by the sheriff at
Easter
.
Drax, 2/3 manor. There are the site, annual value nil because flooded by the river Ouse; 53 a. 3 1/2 roods arable in demesne at 4d., 17s.11 1/2d.; a ferry with a fishery at Long Drax and a fishery at Rusholme in the Ouse, 40s.; a windmill, 3s.4d.; rents of £23 17 1/2d. from free tenants, of which 100s. is payable at Candlemas and the rest by equal parts at Easter and Michaelmas; a rent of 80 hens in the Ember days before Christmas and 340 eggs at Easter; a court every 3 weeks, value nil beyond the fees and expenses of the steward; 20s. from lands and tenements in Newhay by
John
de
Ellerton
, chantry
chaplain of Newhay
, by equal parts at Easter and Michaelmas; and the advowson of the priory of Drax.
He also held 8s. rent payable at Easter and Michaelmas from various messuages in the city of York of the king in chief by 3 1/4d. yearly for housegavel, namely: a tenement late of
Thomas
Nedeler
, 2s., a tenement formerly of
Aubrey
le
Flemyng
, 4s., and
Robert
de
Bentham
’s tenement, 2s., all in Coney Street.
Date, place of death and heir as above.
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