29 Writ,
devenerunt
‡ 23 May 1413. [
>Wymbyssh].
Inquire what lands came into the hand of Richard II when William Magot (who has died), indicted for various felonies, was put in exigent before the justices of the peace at Bridgwater on 29 March 1398, and are in the present king’s hands.
SOMERSET.
Inquisition.
Ilchester.
4 Aug. [
Stucle].
Jurors:
John
Bochell
;
William
Note
;
John
Tytysbyry
;
John
Ca3elond
;
John
Warde
;
William
Wegge
;
John
atte
Wille
;
John
Magot
;
John
Vycary
;
John
Cokayn
;
John
Rycher
; and
William
Snyffamour
.
James
Daudeley
, by the name of
James
Daudeley, lord of Red Castle and Heighley
, granted to
William
Magot
and Agnes then his wife by charter, dated at Nether Stowey on 8 Nov 1384 and shown to the jurors, the reversion of 2 cottages, 24 a. arable and 2 a. meadow in Cossington, described as all that he had acquired from
Edmund
Barry, chaplain
, in Cossington, and which he formerly gave to
Maud
de
Heyghworth
for her life, to hold to them after her death for their lives, rendering a rose at Midsummer to James. Maud attorned to them. She died and they entered and held the premises.
Owing to the felony of
William
Magot
the premises came into the hands of
Richard II
and are now in the present king’s hands, held of the heir of
John
Brent
, service unknown, annual value 13s.4d.
He died on 3 May 1403. Alice wife of
John
Hoggekyns
is his sister and heir, aged 32 years and more.
C 138/2/22 mm. 1-2
E 149/101/15
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