396
Writ.
20 Oct. 1407
Gloucester
[Chitterne].
BERKSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Wallingford.
26 Oct. [
Chaucer].
Jurors:
Richard
Huntesdon
;
William
Derham
;
Nicholas
Willy
;
John
Reue of South Moreton
;
John
Bothelham
;
James
Secolle
;
John
Ridale
;
John
Dunt
;
William
Randolf
;
John
Moyn
;
John
Reynold
; and
Richard
Hereward
.
William
Yong
of South Moreton formerly held in his demesne as of fee 4 messuages, 1 toft, 5 virgates, 8 1/2 a. meadow, and £4 4s.3d. and 1 clove of gillyflower rent in South Moreton. By his deed dated 23 Nov. 1393 he gave them to
Walter
Yong
and Margaret his wife for their lives with remainder to Thomas their son, and the heirs of his body, with successive remainders failing such heirs to John, brother of Thomas, and the heirs of his body, Margaret and Elizabeth, sisters of Thomas, and the heirs of their bodies, and the right heirs of Walter. So Walter and Margaret held, Walter died and Thomas by a fine of 1398 [CP 25(1)/12/78, no.7] granted the reversion to
Richard
Aleyn
, his heirs and assigns, and Margaret ceded all her estate in South Moreton and Fulscot to Richard, he paying her £7 yearly for life by equal parts at Lady Day and Michaelmas. All the tenants attorned to Richard.
John
Yong
by his deed dated 18 Jan. 1404 and enrolled in Chancery released his claim to Richard with warranty, and
Thomas
Yong
likewise released his on 7 April 1404 [CCR 1402–5 , pp.294, 298, 300–1]. Thomas and John Yong died without heirs.
South Moreton. 2 messuages, 2 virgates, 3 a. meadow called ‘Louches’, and another messuage, and 3 virgates and 5 1/2 a. meadow called ‘Adreshammes’ are held of the king
in chief by the service of half a knight’s fee, annual value nil owing to the annuity. Another messuage and 3 a. called ‘Colles’ and 1 toft called ‘Frensheharries’ are held of
Thomas
Rothewell
in socage by a rent of 7s. and 2 capons yearly, annual value 3s.4d.
William
Yong
also held in his demesne as of fee one other messuage, 60 a. arable, and 3 a. meadow in Long Wittenham and Little Wittenham, and granted them to
Richard
Aleyn
, Elizabeth his wife, and the heirs of their bodies with remainder to the right heirs of Richard. They are held of the
abbot of Abingdon
by a rent of 10s., annual value 10s.
Richard and Elizabeth had a son Robert, Elizabeth died and Richard survived her.
Richard also held in his demesne as of fee 1 messuage, 2 tofts, 1 carucate and 13 a. meadow in Sugworth by Bagley Wood of the
abbot of Abingdon
rendering 17d. every 17 weeks for the ward of Windsor castle
, annual value 26s.8d.
He died on 30 Aug. last . Robert his son next heir is aged 2 years and 10 weeks.
C 137/66/24 mm. 1-2
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