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OLIVER CERVYNGTON, ESQUIRE
240 Writ 22 Feb. 1419. [Wymbyssh]. Teste John, duke of Bedford. Addressed to the escheator in Somerset and Dorset.
Dorset. Inquisition [indented]. Shaftesbury. 29 April. [Hody].
Jurors: Richard Cressebien ; Nicholas Saundon ; John Cressebien ; John Bole ; Anselm (Ancelimus) Maners ; William Cole ; Edward Taylour ; John Mortemer ; Richard Terry ; John Archer ; Thomas Kynge ; and William Middelane .
He held the manor of Magiston of John Dynham, knight , by knight service, annual value £10. He also held in his demesne as of fee 2s. rent from a burgage in Shaftesbury called `Sadelerys place', and 4 messuages in Nyland of Thomas Hody of the manor of Kington Magna, service unknown, annual value 40s.
He died on 20 Feb. last. Oliver his son and heir is aged 40 years and more.
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241 [Writ: see 240.]
Somerset. Inquisition [indented]. Wincanton. 29 April 1419. [Hody].
Jurors: John Bonde ; John Holewey ; John Stoke ; John Brys ; John Lypeyate ; John Strode ; Thomas Lovell ; John Franke junior ; John Franke senior ; William Keche ; John Malbyng ; and John Smyth .
Long before his death he enfeoffed by his charter Walter Hungerford and William Hankeford , knights, and John Hemmyngby , in the manor of Whatley, held of the abbot of Glastonbury by knight service, to them and their heirs, on condition of re-enfeoffing him for life with remainder after his death without impeachment of waste to David and William, his sons, and the heirs of David; or if David died without heirs then the heirs of Oliver the son, with successive remainders to Roger the brother of Oliver, the heirs of his body, and the right heirs of Oliver the father.
Date of death and heir as in 240.
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242 Writ, melius inquirendo ‡ 1 June 1419. [Wymbyssh]. Teste John, duke of Bedford. Addressed to the escheator in Dorset only. Recites findings of 240 [but incorrectly states that he held the messuages in Nyland of sir John Dynham by knight service]. Inquire as to his estate in the manor and messuages.
Dorset. Inquisition [indented]. Shaftesbury. 24 June. [Hody].
Jurors: Baldwin Thornhull ; Hugh Croxale ; Anselm Drake ; Thomas Boteler ; Thomas Body ; Richard atte Welle ; William Cole ; Nicholas Saundon ; John Sondhull ; John Bole ; John Joop ’; and John Payn .
He held the manor of Magiston and the 4 messuages in Nyland in his demesne as of fee.
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243 Writ ‡ 22 Feb. 1419. [Wymbyssh]. Teste John, duke of Bedford.
Wiltshire. Inquisition [indented]. Salisbury. 20 April. [Wyke].
Jurors: Thomas Martyn ; Richard Rede ; John Gilberd ; William Peyryncort ; Thomas Horn ; William Gansape ; Thomas Shawe ; Thomas Randolf ; Walter Stodle ; John Dubbe ; Thomas Whytmersshe ; and Thomas Yonge .
He held in his demesne as of fee: West Harnham, the manor, which he held for life without impeachment of waste by feoffment of Walter Hungerford , William Hankeford, knight , and John Hemmyngby , with successive reversions to his sons Oliver, David and Roger and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to his own right heirs (long before his death he had, without charter, enfeoffed Hungerford, Hankeford and Hemmyngby of the manor on condition that they re-enfeoffed him in the above form); Chelworth, a messuage, of the king in chief in grand serjeanty and by a rent of 18d. at Michaelmas. There are there 50 a. arable, annual value 16s. 8d.; 16 a. meadow, 32s.; customary works, 30s. 3/4d.; 1/2 pasture, 6s.; pasture for 16 oxen and a bull, 5s.; and rents, 23s. 4d.; Longford castle, the manor, of the heir of Walter Estkotis , of full age, service unknown. There are there the site, annual value nil; 30 a. meadow, 60s.; 140 a. arable, 46s. 8d.; 200 a. pasture, 13s. 4d.; rents, 40s.; and a dovecot, 40d.; South Damerham, a messuage and a carucate, of whom held and service unknown, but not of the king. There are there the site; rents, 30s.; 140 a. arable, 46s. 8d.; 2 a. meadow, 3s.; 20 a. wood, 6s. 8d.; and a dovecot, 6s. 8d. ; Calcutt, 10 a. arable, held of the earl of Cornwall , service unknown, annual value 40d.; 12 a. meadow, held of the same, service unknown, 30s.; and 72s. 2 1/2d. assize rents. Long before his death by his charter shown to the jurors he granted to his son David and his wife Sibyl all his manor of North Wraxall, with the reversion of 1/3 after the death of Katharine widow of Robert Flete to them and the heirs of their bodies. The whole manor is held of the king in chief of the honor of Trowbridge of the duchy of Lancaster.
Date of death and heir as in 240.
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244 Writ, melius inquirendo ‡ 1 June 1419. [Wymbyssh]. Teste John, duke of Bedford. Recites findings of 243. Inquire of whom and by what service the manor of West Harnham is held.
Wiltshire. Inquisition [indented]. Wilton. 6 June. [Wyke].
Jurors: Thomas Gerberd ; John Gilberd ; John Parham ; William Wodemanton ; Thomas Ailwyne ; William Pokeswille ; Thomas Budeston ; John Coffe ; John Pudman ; Edmund Martyn ; John Dyer ; and Walter Smyth .
It is held of the heir of John Nevyle of Essex, who is of full age, as 1/10 knight's fee.
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