520
Writ ‡
8 Nov. 1420.
[Wymbyssh]. Teste Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
Leicestershire.
Inquisition.
Melton Mowbray.
28 Nov. [
Burgh].
Jurors:
Walter
Boskyn of Melton Mowbray
;
John
Lathom
;
John
at
Tales
;
Roger
Sharp
;
John
Spicer
;
Henry
Colston
;
John
Broun
;
Robert
Smyth
;
John
Webster
;
John
Leyke
;
Robert
Spicer
; and
John
Tabert
.
Variant spellings in E 149: Buskyn, Spycer (both).
William
de
Leke
,
Thomas
de
Derby
and
Thomas
de
Assheby
of Quenby were
formerly seised in their demesne as of fee of the manor of Kirby Bellars, 18 messuages,
7 tofts, 2 shops, 25 virgates, 40 a. meadow and £10 rent in Leicester, Somerby, Goadby,
Eastwell, Holwell, Ab Kettleby, Melton Mowbray, Thrussington, Grimston, Thorpe
Satchville, Little Dalby and Framland hundred in Leicestershire and by a charter shown
to the jurors dated 8 Sept. 1396 demised the manor and its appurtenances to
John
de
Eyllesford
and his wife Margaret and Margaret's heirs. John died and after Margaret's
death
Robert
Swillyngton, knight
, named in the writ, entered as her kinsman and heir,
i.e. son of
Roger
de
Swillyngton, knight
, son of Margaret, and was seised in his demesne
as of fee tail according to the form of the gift.
The manor of Kirby Bellars is held of the
master of Burton Lazars
by service of 7s.
yearly, annual value £16 7s. There are in the manor a hall, 14 chambers, a malt-kiln, a
`malthous', 3 stables, a building called `le feehous', a piggery, 3 barns, a granary, a
dovecot, and 2 gardens, annual value nil. There are also 4 carucates worth 10s. each,
40 a. meadow worth 18d. an acre, 2 crofts, 3 closes of several pasture, annual value
53s. 4d., a plot with a croft adjoining called `Newegore', annual value 20s. and held of
the
prior of Monks Kirby
, service unknown, £4 rent from free tenants, i.e. 10s. at
Martinmas, 16s. at the Purification, 28s. at Easter, 8s. at Whitsun, 12s. at St. James and 6s. at
Michaelmas, 74s. rent from bond tenants and cottagers, and perquisites of courtwith view of frankpledge, annual value 6s. 8d.: annual total of the foregoing £16 14s.
There are in Leicester a messuage and 2 shops, held of the king
of the honor of Leicester,
service unknown, annual value 30s.
There are in Somerby a site and 2 cottages, annual
value nil, and 6 virgates each worth 10s. yearly, all held of
Thomas
Maureward, knight
,
service unknown.
There are in Goadby 20 a. arable worth yearly 2d. an acre and 4 a.
meadow worth 14d. yearly an acre, also held of
Thomas
Maureward
, service unknown.
There are in Eastwell 4 tenements which are held for life by
Richard
Pratte
by grant of
John
de
Eylesford
, held of
William
de
Sixtynby
, service unknown, annual value 13s. 8d.
There are in Holwell 2 a. arable, annual value 4d., and a rood of meadow, annual value
4d., both held of the
prior of Kirby Bellars
, service unknown. There are in Ab Kettleby a
croft, held of the heirs of
John
Tatyssale
, service unknown, annual value 4d. There are in
Melton Mowbray a messuage, 2 tofts and 4 virgates, held of the
prior of Lewes
, service
unknown, annual value 24s. paid at the above-mentioned terms in equal portions; there
are also 14s. 6d. assize rents of free tenants at Martinmas,
Easter and Michaelmas in
equal portions; there are also a barn, annual value 3s., held of Lord Mowbray
by fealty
and suit of court at Melton Mowbray twice a year and by service of 2s. yearly. There is a
yearly rent of 10 marks from tenements formerly held by
Henry
Notyngham
in
Thrussington paid at St. Andrew
, Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions and held
of the heir of
Walter
Wappunbury
, service unknown. There are in Grimston a messuage
and a carucate, annual value 10s., held of the heir of
John
Segrave
, service unknown.
There is in Thorpe Satchville a messuage, annual value 2s., 4 virgates, annual value nil
because they lie fallow, and 10s. rent from 2 bond tenants at the Purification, the
Ascension and Michaelmas in equal portions, with a rent of 5 hens at Christmas, annual
value of each hen 1d., total 5d., all held of the
lord of Oakham
, service unknown. There
are in Little Dalby a messuage, annual value nil, and 9s. assize rents from free tenants,
held of the
prior of Kirby [?Bellars]
, service unknown. Annual value of perquisites of the
hundred of Framland 40s. There are the following rents in the hundred: £4 called
`palfraysylver' at Easter and Michaelmas; £7 2s. 10 1/2d. called `shirryftothe' at the same
terms; and 29s. 5d. called `palfraysilver' at Michaelmas. The hundred and rents are held
of the king
at fee-farm, rendering £12 18s. 5 1/2d. yearly by the sheriff of Leicestershire,
annual value above the farm 33s. 4d.
Date of death as in [518](#CIPM-DOC-21-518).
Margaret wife of
John
Gra
of Ingleby in Lincolnshire, knight,
daughter of
Roger
Swillyngton, knight
, is his sister and next heir by form of the gift,
aged 32 years and more.
C 138/48/71 mm. 6-7
E 149/122/1 m. 3
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