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JOHN LOVETOFT

699 Commission . ‡ 13 May 1409 [Haseley]. Addressed to John earl of Somerset, captain , and Richard Merlawe , treasurer, of Calais. [Dorse:] Executed by Thomas Picworth, lieutenant of the earl, and Nicholas James, lieutenant of Merlawe, except for taking (capcionem) of the lands, stayed pursuant to a royal writ directed 'to us' dated 19 May 1409 (supersedimus per mandato domini regis per breve suum nobis inde directum).

CALAIS. Inquisition. 30 Aug [Picworth and James]. Before Thomas Picworth, knight, lieutenant of the earl , and Nicholas James, lieutenant of Richard Merlawe .

Jurors: William Eluere ; Robert Uriell ; Thomas Hooke ; Roger Henton ; Thomas Hiclott ; Peter South ; Richard Bollesore ; John Depewell ; Richard Coton ; Richard Bakere ; Thomas Somerford ; and John Rosett .

William Swyne gave the lands and tenements formerly held by Roger atte Stone and Margery his wife to Robert Prykett and the same Margery, then his wife, to hold for their lives with remainder to John Lovetoft , his heirs and assigns. Long before his death, he gave all his holdings in Calais and the bailiwick ( eskivinnagium ) to John Newerk , John Multon , Baldwin Rous and their heirs and assigns, and so he held nothing.

He died on 2 Nov. 1404 . Richard Norbury , citizen and burgess of London, is next heir, being the son of Agnes, sister of Margery, mother of John, and aged 60 years and more. Robert Prikett attorned to the feoffees of John Lovetoft as required by law.

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