Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 21, 1418-21

JOAN WIDOW OF ROBERT CORBET, KNIGHT

151 Writ to assign dower. ‡ 9 Oct. 1417. [Wymbyssh]. Teste John, duke of Bedford. The escheator ordered to take her oath not to marry without royal licence and then to assign dower from the lands taken into the king’s hand owing to the death of her husband Roger. Assignment to be in the presence of John Grevell, who married Sibyl, his daughter and heir. [CCR 1413–19, p.402.]

Gloucester. Assignment of dower. Farmcote. 10 May [1418]. [Lisle].

She is assigned 1/3 manor of Farmcote: i.e. an out-building on the site of the manor which extends from the grange as far as the new building; 1/3 part of vacant land on the site of the manor with free ingress and egress; 1/3 of the profits of 2 dovecots, annual value 2s.; 1/3 of the croft on the north with 1/3 of the curtilage on the north side, annual value 8d.; a meadow called `Northmede', annual value 20s.; a croft called `Undurpiesleycroft' as far as the stream called `Pyesleybrok' which is surrounded by hedges, annual value 13s. 4d.; in the north fields, 1/3s of the following strips, all of which can be sown each year: `Wythybedfurlong' on the south part, annual value 12d.; `Farndeswellefurlong' as far as the hedge of the manor on the south part, annual value 12d.; `Shepcroft' on the east part, annual value 6d.; in the same fields, 1/3s of the following strips, all of which can be sown every other year: `Abovethecourt' on the south side, annual value 12d.; `Myddylfurlong' on the east side, annual value 6d.; `Grendenfurlong' on the east side, annual value 12d.; `Bekkeburyfurlong' on the west side, annual value 12d.; the old castle on the north side, annual value 4d.; in the south fields, 1/3s of the following strips: `Whytbarghfurlong' on the south part, annual value 12d.; `Oldedychfurlong' on the south side, annual value 2d.; `Underwykeoverhull' on the north side, annual value 2s.; `Abovewykeoverhull' on the south side, annual value 6d.; `Otfurlong' which extends from the wood to `B...wellesbrok' on the south, annual value 12d.; `Borbetesleye' on the south side, annual value 12d.; a strip next the wood `Abovethewode' on the east, annual value 4d.; `Bicotesdenefield' next the out-building of the abbot of Winchcombe on the south, annual value 2d.; `Middelfurlongabovethwode' on the south, annual value 4d.; `Holeforlong abovethwode' on the north, annual value 2d.; `Pykes abovethwod' on the west, annual value 2d.; `Forlongattegale [?Wee]' on the south, annual value 4d.; `Grensclade' on the north, annual value 4d.; `Nethurforlong of Grensclade' on the east, annual value 8d.; `Poughendenforlong' on the north, annual value 4d.; 1 a. arable in the strip called `Shawfurlong' and `Est Forera', annual value 4d.; a piece of pasture called `Hankerhay', annual value 8d.; 1/3 wood called `Gorbeenswode' on the east of the wood, 103 a., annual value [?40s.]; 1/3 wood and underwood growing on the lord's waste and 1/3 of the waste itself; [parts of the right-hand side of the document are missing from here on] 1/3 of a warren; 1/3s of the perquisites and customary payments from the following: a messuage and a virgate held at will by John Hale, annual value 12s.; a [?messuage] and a virgate held at will by Walter Hale, annual value 12s.; a messuage and a virgate held at will by John Hewes, annual value 12s.; a messuage and a virgate held at will by [missing] men, annual value 12s.; part of a messuage and 1/2 virgate held at will by [missing] Baker, annual value 3s. 10d.; 13d. rent from a [burgage in ?Winchcombe] held freely by Walter Eburton; 1/3 of the service from a messuage and a carucate and from a messuage and a virgate held by knight service by Richard Bailly; 1/3 of the service from a messuage and a virgate held of the manor by knight service by Robert Puser.

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