152
Writ,
plenius certiorari
.
26 May 1405
[Shelton].
LONDON.
Inquisition.
1 June.
[
Hende].
Jurors:
Richard
Thornhill
;
Richard
Wellom
;
Richard
Hatfeld
;
John
Turvey
;
Robert
Austyn
;
Roger
Blythe
;
John
Haddon
;
Richard
Walworth
;
John
Shrouesbury
;
Richard
Rowdon
;
Simon
Frenssh
; and
Richard
?Pervile
.
He held in his demesne as of fee a brewhouse with 2 shops adjacent in Fleet Street in the suburbs outside Ludgate in the parish of St. Martin, and another shop with solars above in the bailey in the said suburb attached to it, as specified in the writ, and by his testament enrolled in the hustings on 19 Nov. 1369 willed them to his children for their lives on certain conditions there laid down, with remainder after their deaths to his brother Richard for life, and then to Geoffrey, Richard’s son, for life also on certain specified conditions, and with final remainder to the brothers of the guild of St. Hida in the church of St. Michael Le Querne, to maintain the guild and their light in the church for ever. Royal licence for this was not obtained.
Agnes a daughter of the testator survived all the others, holding the premises all her life. She died holding them on 3 May last. When let they are worth 10 marks yearly. [Cf. CCR 1405–9, pp.189–90].
[Not strictly an inquisition post mortem, but the Exchequer copy of the inquisition in CIMisc VII, no. 294.]
E 152/401/5
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