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Writ ‡
16 April 1422. [Wymbyssh]. Teste John, duke of Bedford.
Writ mittimus
28 May 1422. [
Smyth].
Teste Humphrey, duke of Gloucester.
Encloses the tenor of a writ of Richard II enrolled in Chancery and ordering the escheator to inspect and further consider it in order to make the inquisition as full as possible.
Writ precipimus 17 July 1377.
Addressed to John de Bygot, escheator in Yorkshire and Northumberland, stating
that certain manors, lands and tenements which Mary de Sancto Paulo, countess of
Pembroke, held in dower after the death of her husband Aymer de Valence, earl of
Pembroke, of the inheritance of Elizabeth and Philippa, daughters and heirs of David
Strabolgi, earl of Atholl, kinsman and one of the heirs of Aymer, were taken into the
hand of Edward III after her death, and ordering him to assign £10 rent in Great or
Little Driffield, Beswick, Kilham, Auburn and Scoreby in Yorkshire and 5 marks rent
from a water-mill, messuage, 60 a. arable, 20 a. meadow, 2 husbandlands and 2 cottages
in Ponteland, and the manor, township and forest of Felton to Elizabeth, of full age, and
her husband Thomas de Percy, whose fealty has been taken for Elizabeth's purparty, a reasonable relief being paid at the Exchequer.
Northumberland.
Inquisition.
Morpeth.
17 June 1422. [
Cerff].
Jurors:
John
Strother
;
Robert
Corbet
;
Adam
Killyngworth
;
John
Herle
;
William
Bodenale
;
Robert
Jakson
;
William
Benet
;
John
Seytton
;
Simon
Weltden
;
Thomas
Hesilrygg
of Swarland
;
Robert
Musgraue
;
William
Carre
; and
John
de la
Vale
.
He was seised of the following in his demesne as of fee simple:
the manors of Kirkhaugh, annual value £15, and Darras Hall, annual value 30s.; the
townships of Berwick Hill, annual value £10, High
or
Little Callerton, annual value 30s.,
Throphill, annual value 100s., Newton Underwood, annual value 100s., and 1/5 township
of Benridge, annual value 12s.; and the park and water-mill of Mitford, annual value
60s. All are held in socage of
Henry
Percy of Atholl, knight
, of his lordship of Mitford,
rendering a barbed arrow on the feast of [the Nativity of] St. John the Baptist;
the township of Lynemouth, annual value 40s., held of the
earl of Westmorland
of his
lordship of Bywell
, service unknown.
He was seised of the following in his demesne as of fee:
12 burgages and 80 a. arable in Mitford, annual value 40s., the burgages held of
Henry
Percy
of his lordship of Mitford in burgage, the 80 a. of the same lord for a
service unknown;
1/2 township of Haydon, annual value 13s. 4d., held of the
lord of Ellington
, service
unknown.
Aymer
de
Valence, knight
, was seised of the manor, township and forest of Felton in
his demesne as of fee and, so seised, married Mary. After his death they ought to have
descended to
David
Strabolgi, earl of Atholl
, as his kinsman and heir, i.e. son of
David
Strabolgy
son of Joan daughter of Joan sister and one of the heirs of Aymer, but were
among lands and tenements assigned in dower to Mary. By his charter shown to the
jurors in evidence
David, earl of Atholl
, granted the reversion to his uncle
Aymer
de
Athell, knight
, who by deed shown to the jurors conveyed it to
Arnold
Pynknee, clerk
,
Richard
de
Tytynsale, clerk
, and
Thomas
de
Ingilby, vicar of Bywell St. Andrew
or
St. Peter
. By their charter shown to the jurors they regranted it to Aymer, his wife Mary
and the heirs male of Aymer, with the following reversions: to Aymer's daughter Isabel
and her husband
Ralph
de
Euere
in tail male, to the heirs male of Isabel, to
Robert
de
Isle, knight
, and his wife Mary in tail male, remainder as to one moiety to the heirs of the
bodies of Ralph and Isabel and as to the other to those of Robert and Mary, ultimate
remainder of each moiety to the other couple if either die without heirs of their bodies.
The countess attorned to Aymer de Athell and entered the manor, township and forest.
Isabel wife of Ralph died without heir male. Aymer died seised without heir male. By
virtue of the reversion Ralph entered the manor, township and forest, held in fee tail for
life and died seised. Mary wife of
Robert
de
Isle, knight
, died and so the manor, township and forest descended to Robert and his heirs male in fee simple.
There are in the manor, township and forest: a capital messuage and garden, annual
value 2s.; 240 a. demesne arable worth yearly 4d. an acre; 40 a. meadow worth yearly
16d. an acre; a water-mill, annual value 20s.; a furnace, annual value 3s.; 6 cottages
worth yearly 6d. each; a close called `Felton park', the herbage of which is worth only
10s. without being wasted; a pasture called `Felton forest', annual value of the agistment
only 6s.; various free tenants who hold in burgage in Felton by fealty and suit at 3
principal courts there and render 20s. yearly; a messuage and 10 a. arable formerly held
by
Henry
de
Strother
of the
lord of Felton
by homage, fealty and 3s. 4d. yearly at
Whitsun and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist equally; a messuage and 12 a. arable
formerly held by the same Henry of the
lord of Felton
by service of enclosing part of the
park of Felton in proportion to the size of his holding; a messuage held of the
lord of
Felton
by fealty and render of 1 lb. cumin at the usual terms. The manor, township and
forest are held of the king
in chief as part of the lordship of Mitford for 1/2 knight's fee.
He died on Tuesday before the feast of St. Gregory
the martyr [sic] last.
William
de
Eure
is his son and next heir, aged 26 years and more.
C 138/64/39 mm. 1-4
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