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WILLIAM SON AND HEIR OF MARY WIDOW OF THOMAS HOLGYLL
41 Writ melius inquirendo. ‡ 3 March 1423. [Mapilton] Of whom the manor of Radwinter was held and by what service and manner, and regarding additional lands which came into the hands of ‪ Henry IV and ‪Henry V‬ and are in those of ‪ Henry VI owing to the death of Mary and minority of William.
ESSEX. Inquisition. Saffron Walden. 20 March 1423. [Kyrkeby]
Jurors:as in 40.
As specified in the writ, the inquisition held ex officio by John Hotoft , ‪Henry V‬’s escheator, by order of ‪Henry V‬ and returned to his Chancery [CIPM XXI, no. 238] found that, owing to the death of Mary widow of Thomas Holgyll and the minority of William her son and heir, a tenement called Crouchmans in Hempstead, which she held by knight service of Richard son and heir of Aubrey de Veer, late earl of Oxford , and a minor in the wardship of ‪Henry IV‬ , came into the hands of Henry IV , then Henry V and ‪ Henry VI. Also that William died seised in his demesne as of fee of 37 a. arable, 3 a. meadow and 1 a. wood in Little Radwinter, held of John Oldecastell, chevalier , of Cooling in Kent , of his manor of Radwinter, by service of rendering 12 barbed iron arrow-heads yearly or 6d. at Christmas, saving the service to the king, namely that which pertains to the tenure of this fee in that vill. The manor of Radwinter alias Little Radwinter, is held of the king of his duchy of Lancaster by knight service. A wood called ‘Spayneswode’ in the vill of Finchingfield came into the hands of ‪ Henry IV and subsequently ‪Henry V‬ and ‪ Henry VI owing to the death of Mary and William’s minority, details as in 40. It is part of those lands and tenements mentioned in the inquisition held after William’s death before John Hotoft, former escheator , by virtue of a writ of ‪Henry V‬, returned to his Chancery, and specified in the writ [see above].
Joan his daughter is his next heir to the wood and was aged 8 years on 11 June last.
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