185
Writ.
‡
27 Sept. 1414.
[Smyth].
SUSSEX
Inquisition
Chichester
22 Oct. [
Wyntereshill].
Jurors:
William
Erneley
;
Geoffrey
Ingelere
;
John
Cheyne
;
John
Cotes
;
Henry
Tyle
;
John
Watergate
;
Thomas
Hunston
;
John
Mot
;
Richard
Taylour
;
Richard
Merwe
;
Walter
Staundon
; and
Robert
Ropere
.
Jointly with Alice his wife who survives him he held the manor of Kingsham with the advowson of St. Pancras church without the East Gate of Chichester by the grant of
Thomas
Hampton, clerk
, and
John
Gurlewayn
by their charter licensed by royal letters patent [CPR 1413–15, pp.199,245], both charter and letters patent shown to the jurors, to them and the heirs of the body of John with remainder to Margaret wife of
John
Skardevile
and Joan wife of
John
Michelgrove
, kinswomen of John, and their heirs. They are held of the king
in chief by the service of providing the king with 3 spindles of linen thread when he comes to a place called ‘Isebele gages’, annual value £4 [Cf. CIPM XIV, no. 122; XVII, no. 424].
He also held jointly with Alice for their lives by the grant by charter of
Gilbert
Forstere
and Peter Bevere, 5 a. in Oving of
John
Foxle
, service unknown, annual value 40d.; and 55 a. in Portfield and Pidborough of
Thomas
earl of Arundel
and the
prior of Boxgrove
, services unknown, annual value 13s.4d.
Long before his death the tenement called the Grove and a tenement in East Street, Chichester, next the Pallant were held by
Richard
Stuecle
and Elizabeth his wife, title unknown.
He died on 2 Sept. last.
Margaret
Skardevile
and
John
Michelgrove
are his next heirs, aged 30 years and more and 24 and more.
C 138/8/24 mm. 1-2
E 152/9/452/3
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