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Writ ‡
19 Feb. 1414. [Clerk].
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Northampton.
21 Sept. [
Grene].
Jurors:
Wymer
de
Preston
;
William
Fortho
;
Thomas
Wakelyn
;
John
fitz
John
;
John
Hertwell
;
Henry
Hertwell
;
John
Wykemyll
;
John
Dytton of Bradden
;
Geoffrey
Balde
;
James
Colcombe
;
Thomas
Adyngton
; and
John
Illyng
.
On 8 Feb. 1395
Lewis
de
Clyfford
,
Richard
Stury
and
Thomas
Latymer
, knights,
Richard
Dudley
,
John
Warwyk
and
William
Lane, chaplain
, by their deed shown to the jurors, granted the manor and advowson of Paulerspury, which
John
Paveley, knight
, had granted to them, to Joan his widow to hold to herself for her life and to her executors for 1 year more, without impeachment of waste and with remainder to themselves. This reversion they granted to Isabel, then wife of
John
Paveley
junior, knight
, and now the wife of
John
Seynt Johan
, to hold to her and her heirs and assigns. Joan attorned to Isabel.
Afterwards on 12 July 1403
Joan by her deed, also shown to the jurors, granted all her estate in the manor except an interior court in the house called the gatehouse with the house, and excepting the advowson and the herbage, fishery and hunting in the new park and a meadow called ‘le Newmedwe’ and a garden next the graveyard of the manor with free ingress and egress to and from all these, to
John
Seynt Johan
, Isabel his wife, Oliver their son,
Thomas
Wodevile
,
John
Wylkotes
,
William
Poulet
and
John
Bovere
for the life of Joan on certain conditions contained in the deed, provided always that immediately after the death of
Joan
John Seynt Johan
and Isabel and their heirs and assigns could enter the manor as of ancient right without any payments or claims whatsoever from Joan on account of her occupation of the manor, excepting always that her executors should have free ingress and egress and reasonable time for administration without impediment by
John
Seynt
Johan and Isabel or anyone acting in their name.
John
Seynt Johan
and Isabel are still alive, Isabel being aged 40. The whole manor should remain to them and the heirs and assigns of Isabel. It is held of the king
of the honor of Peverel as half a knight’s fee, annual value £30.
Joan died on 1 Feb. 1414. Margery wife of
John
Bryan of Worcestershire
is her kinswoman and heir, being the daughter of Sybil her sister, aged 30 years and more.
C 138/5/55 mm. 1-2
E 136/148/1
E 149/102/17
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