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 J.L. Kirby and Janet Stevenson (eds), Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXI: 6-10 Henry V (1418-1422).Boydell & Brewer2002 2013-06-19T09:53:38.352+01:00 XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
HENRY MERYFELD
363 Writ ‡ 8 Jan. 1420. [Wymbyssh]. Teste Humphrey, duke of Gloucester. Addressed to William Orewell, mayor and escheator of the town of Calais.
Calais. Inquisition. 10 Feb. [Orwell]. [The right-hand side of the document is faded and illegible.]
Jurors: [First 2 names illegible]; John W…wyk ; John … ; Thomas Midelton ; Richard de Daldon ; Roger Glatton ; William Bryan ; John Perkyn ; William Trauers ; John Abyngdon ; and … ….
He held in chief in his demesne as of fee [a messuage] and 9 cottages in the parish of St. Mary in `Fissherstret' for 31s. 6d....... in the town’s keeping, annual value of the messuage 31s. 6d. and of each cottage 10s. He held of the king in chief in his demesne as of fee 6 other cottages... formerly William Salesbury 's against the north walls for 11s. yearly, annual value of each cottage... in `? Hallyngstret' for 17s. 2d. yearly, annual value of each cottage [?10s.];... 3 other messuages on the corner of `Foxtonstret' for 12d., annual value 20s., one other messuage called `Scorthous' with 2 other messuages and 16 other cottages in `Begynstret' and in the street which leads to St. Mary 's church by service of providing 4 watchmen, annual value of each messuage 40s. and of each cottage 13s. 4d.; one other messuage and 8 other cottages... on the east side of `Wolportstret' for 6s. 8d. and the provision of a watchman, annual value of each cottage 20s.; one other messuage and 3 other cottages on the west side of the same street, annual value of the messuage 24s. 4d. and of each cottage 20s.; a principal messuage called... in which Henry Merifeld was accustomed to live, 4 cottages called `Toffalles' annexed to it, for 53s. 4d. yearly and the provision of a watchman, annual value of the principal messuage 100s., of the other messuage 26s. 8d.; 4 other messuages with a toft adjoining near `La..negate' next the north walls; a yearly rent of 13s. 4d. from [?2] messuages in `Foxtonstret';... a yearly rent of 20s. from a messuage... in the presence of Laurence Wotton, formerly mayor and alderman of the town...
He died ... May 1419. John Fourneux alias John Merifeld senior , is his uncle and next heir, i.e. brother of John Fourneux alias John Merifeld , Henry's father, aged 60 years and more.
C 138/43/80 mm. 1-2
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