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ISABEL WIDOW OF JOHN KENDALE

168 Writ melius inquirendo ‡ 1 Feb 1415. [Gaunstede]. Addressed to the escheator of Somerset and Dorset. Inquire by whose grant she held and the nature of her estate in tail (quem statu eadem Isabella habuit in eisdem in tallia predicta).

SOMERSET Inquisition Crewkerne 31 Jan. [Warre].

Jurors: Hugh Tort ; William Vernon ; John Saintcler ; John Saintcler junior ; Alexander Smert ; John Depe ; Thomas Lovell ; Nicholas Bulpan ; William Paytevyn ; Richard Benet ; Roger Hypwell ; and John Salter .

She held in fee tail: 1 messuage and 20 a. in Milborne Port, and 1 messuage, 1 watermill and 1 carucate in Milborne Wick, by the grant of John Wyke to John Kendale , her late husband, and herself and the heirs of their bodies by his charter shown to the jurors; and 1 messuage and 1 carucate in Lower Weare, 50 a. in Hummer, 1 messuage and 30 a. arable and meadow in East Lambrook, and 1 messuage and 30 a. in Ashton by the grant, shown to the jurors, of John Harewell, late bishop of Bath and Wells , to John, herself and the heirs of their bodies.

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169 [Writ: see 168]

DORSET Inquisition Sherborne 5 Feb. 1415 [Warre].

Jurors: Robert Bonevill ; Richard Sherer ; Robert Bonevill junior ; Robert ?Brauge ; John Haukyns ; John Chilterne ; Thomas .onn. ; Robert Godwyne ; John Walkeleyn ; Thomas Cammell ; John Robert ; and John Bettyscombe .

She held in her demesne in fee tail 1 toft and 40 a. in Fordington by a rent of 7d., by the grant of John Wyke as above.

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ENHANCEMENT OF TEXT: The text of this IPM which appeared in the print edition of CIPM XX has been enhanced in certain respects: see the About pages.