Robert Myte ; David Clerc ; Robert Mose ; John Ledys ; Thomas Fy...hyan [ms soiled and faint] ; Richard ?Sutluv; John West ; John Watford ; Henry Bewell ; Henry Long ; Robert Wodecote ; and Simon Sutton .

He held in his demesne as of fee a town-house in St Nicholas’s parish, Calais, situated on a corner by the road leading to the castle, of the king in chief by service of two watches yearly for the ?protection of the vill (pro iuuincione dicte ville) for all other services. The town-house in its current state is worth 40s. sterling above this service.

He died on 19 January last . Richard duke of York is his next heir, aged 14 years on 21 September last .

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John Hull, junior ; William Hull ; Richard Tugge ; John Paytevyn ; John ?Taylour; John Walker ; John Chesewyk ; William ?Masse; William Mulle ; William Graunger ; William Sheynton ; and William Hamond .

He held in his demesne as of fee the manor of ?Upper Arley or Areley Kings of the king in chief by knight service. In the manor there are the capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; £10 2d. assize rents at Michaelmas, Christmas, Easter and Midsummer in equal portions; 150 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. fallow land, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 40 a. underwood, each acre worth 12d. yearly; a water-mill for corn, worth 10s. yearly; 25s. for tenants’ customary services; and perquisites of the court, worth 2s. yearly.

Date of death as in 467 . Richard duke of York is his kinsman and next heir, aged 15 years and more.

John Silverlok ; Reginald Lauerans ; John Piers ; John Beche ; John Stokman ; Thomas Russel ; Gilbert Sporham ; John Leye ; Walter Blakewille ; Simon Wakham ; Richard Crese ; and John Blakwille .

He held part of Exmoor forest in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, service unknown, annual value 12d. He held the following knights’ fees and parts of fees in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, service unknown, annual values when they fall as shown. Dunsford with its members, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Ranscombe, a knight’s fee [held by] Reynold de Clyfforde, 100s. Bagtor, a knight’s fee, 100s. Holbeam, a knight’s fee, 100s. Mowlish with its members, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Lustleigh, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Goodrington, Boohay (Lidewycheston) and Brownstone, a knight’s fee, 100s. Huxbear, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Tormoham (Torre brwer), a knight’s fee, 100s. Aller, a knight’s fee, 100s. Charlecombe and Buckland in the Moor, a knight’s fee, 100s. Knowstone (Knouston beaupel), 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Knowstone (Knouston Botreaux), 1/9 knight’s fee, 9s. Stoke Fleming, Dartmouth and Parva Dertemouth, 2 knights’ fees, £10. Nocton fitz Stephin, a knight’s fee, 100s. Spurway Barton, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Warbrightsleigh Barton, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Holditch, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Southtown, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Raddon, 2 parts of a knight’s fee, 66s. 8d. Mohun’s Ottery and Luppitt, 2 knights’ fee, £10. Combe Raleigh (Combe Mayheu), a knight’s fee, 100s. Poltimore, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Ayschlegh, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Scobchester, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Staplehill, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. East Ogwell, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Canclenhille, 1/6 knight’s fee, 16s. North Coombe or South Coombe, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Combe Raleigh (Combe Ralegh), a knight’s fee, 100s. West Raddon, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Knowstone (Mollond Botreaux) with its members, a knight’s fee, 100s. Pilton, 2 knights’ fees, £10. Stokeinteignhead with both Gabwells, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Hele Maundevyle, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Tormoham (Torre Mohon), a knight’s fee, 100s. Witheridge, a knight’s fee, 100s. Greenslinch, Northdown and Yard Downs, a knight’s fee, 100s. Cove and East Mere, a knight’s fee, 100s. Wonford [in Thornbury] (West Woneforde), 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Wonford [in Heavitree] (Est Woneforde), 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Clyst Gerred, 3 parts of a knight’s fee, £4. Willsworthy, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Sprytown, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Ashbury, 2 parts of a knight’s fee, 66s. 8d. Warbrightsleigh Barton, West Whitnole, Blatchworthy and Stoneland, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s.

Date of death as in 467 . Richard duke of York is his next heir as son of Anne his sister and is aged 14 years. [Foot:] No advowsons.

Thomas Martyn ; Richard Morys ; John Penpol ; Robert Foterel ; Richard Taylour ; Richard Trenywyth ; William Richard ; Richard Polglas ; William Payn ; Edmund Tregantel ; John Wyse ; and John More .

He held no lands or tenements in demesne or service of the king in chief or another, or any church advowsons. But he held the following fees and parts of knights’ fees in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, service unknown, annual values when they fall as shown. Bodrugan Castle, a knight’s fee, 100s. Leo, 2 1/2 knights’ fees which the abbot of Glastonbury held, £12 10s. Leomena, 2 knights’ fees, £10.

Date of death as in 467 . Heir as in 469 , here aged 14 years on 21 September last . [Foot:] No advowsons.

Richard Parker , John Schawe , William Love and John Bosewell , of Warsop; Robert Paleser , John Danyell and Richard Scotour , of Clipstone; Aucher Caleall and William Parker , of Wellow; and John Morehaw , Thomas Sutton and John Barker , of Mansfield.

He held 35s. 8d. rent from the manor of Ollerton in his demesne as of fee tail of the king in chief, service unknown. Edward III gave the manor, amongst others, by letters patent to Edmund earl of Kent , his uncle, and his heirs [CChR 1327– 41, pp. 2–5]. From Edmund right in the manor descended successively to the following: Edmund his son and heir, who died without heir of his body; John brother and heir of Edmund son of Edmund, who died without heir of his body; Joan, late princess of Wales , sister and heir of John; Thomas son and heir of Joan; Thomas son and heir of Thomas son of Joan; and Edmund brother and heir of Thomas son of Thomas. Edmund died without heir of his body and the manor then descended to the following: Edmund late earl of March , named in the writ, son of Eleanor, late countess of March and one of the sisters and heirs of Edmund brother of Thomas; Joan duchess of York and wife of Henry Brounflet, chevalier , second sister and heir; Margaret who was the wife of Thomas duke of Clarence and third sister and heir; Eleanor late wife of Thomas earl of Salisbury and fourth sister and heir; and Elizabeth late wife of John Nevyll, chevalier , and fifth sister and heir. They were seised of the manor and of the other lands and tenements which descended to them by virtue of the same gift. Partition was made between them and Edmund earl of March was assigned as his share 35s. 8d. rent from the manor at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions, in allowance of the other lands and tenements assigned separately to Joan, duchess of York, Margaret, duchess of Clarence , Eleanor, late countess of Salisbury, and Elizabeth.

Date of death as in 467 . By virtue of the gift and the partition, and because he died without heir of his body, his next heirs are Richard duke of York , son of Anne his sister and heir and daughter of Eleanor, late countess of March ; Joan wife of John Grey, chevalier , second sister and heir of Edmund and daughter of Eleanor; and Joyce wife of John Typtoft, chevalier , third sister and heir of Edmund and daughter of Eleanor. Richard was aged 13 years on 21 September last , Joan is aged 24 years and more, and Joyce is aged 20 years and more. [Foot:] No advowsons. [The Derbyshire inquisition ordered in the writ is not extant.]

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Thomas Bunt ; John Drauswerd ; John Buk ; John Fuller ; John Hore of Quy; Robert Tyd ; John Glovere of Fulbourn; John Gate of Great Wilbraham or Little Wilbraham; William More of Grantchester; Robert atte Hill ; William Cole ; and Thomas Warwyk .

He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief £14 10s. 1d. assize rents in the vills of Bottisham, Litlington, Abington Pigotts, Harlton and Guilden Morden as parcel of the fee of Gloucester. Long before his death, described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster, lord of Wigmore and Clare , he granted by his letters patent, shown to the jurors and dated 5 August 1422 , an annual rent of 52s. 7 1/2d. from the tenement called ‘Vauses rente’ in Bottisham, to William Hasilwode , his servant, for life, for his good and acceptable service, as is contained more fully in the letters patent, the tenor of which is repeated [French version of the above]. He placed William in real seisin and possession of the annuity for a payment of 5s. and William is still seised. He held the following in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, service unknown. Royston, a three-weekly court, worth 13s. 4d. yearly. Bottisham, a three-weekly court, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and a leet worth 4s. 4d. yearly. Arrington, a leet, worth 8s. yearly. Tadlow, a leet, worth 8s. yearly. Abington Pigotts, a leet, worth 3s. yearly. Harlton, a leet, worth 8s. yearly. Toft with Hardwick, a leet, worth 4s. 2d. yearly. Litlington, a leet, worth 13s. 4d. yearly. Guilden Morden, a leet, worth 16s. 8d. yearly. Meldreth, a leet, worth 14s. yearly. He held the following knights’ fees and parts of knights’ fees in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, annual values when they fall as shown. Grantchester, a fee which Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln , formerly held, £5. Trumpington, a fee which Giles de Trumpyton formerly held, £5; 1 1/2 fees which John Caly formerly held, £7 10s.; and a fee which Roger de Quyncy formerly held, £5. Dry Drayton, a fee which Roger Giffard formerly held, £5. Babraham, 1/4 fee which John Cotenham formerly held, 25s. Cambridge, a fee which Lionel Dunnyng formerly held, £5. Trumpington, a fee which Eborard de Trumpyton formerly held, £5. Grantchester, 3 parts of a fee which Walter Michaell and afterwards Hawise de Chestre formerly held, 75s. Place unknown within the county, 1/4 fee which Richard de la Bere formerly held. He held the following advowsons in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, extended as shown. Litlington, the advowson in the hands of Clare College , Cambridge, 20 marks. Anglesey, the advowson of the priory, 40 marks.

Date of death and heir as in 469 .

John Disscher ; John Graunt ; John West ; Richard Rocher of Great Gransden; John in the Hirne ; Thomas Hendesson ; Walter Jekes ; Roger Ingram ; John Dalton ; John Hamulden ; Thomas Maryot ; and Richard Stevene .

He held a leet in Great Gransden, worth 6s. 8d. yearly, and a leet in Woolley, worth 5s. yearly, in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, service unknown. He held the following in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, annual values when they fall as shown. Southoe, 2 parts of a fee which John de Ferreriz formerly held, 50s.; 1/3 fee which Oliver la Zuche formerly held, 33s. 4d.; and 1/3 fee which Roger de Quyncy, late earl of Winchester formerly held, 33s. 4d. ?Hail or Old Weston, 2 parts of a fee which William de Sancto Georgio formerly held, 50s. Great Gransden, the advowson of the church in the hands of Clare College , Cambridge, extended at 40 marks.

Date of death and heir as in 469 , except that here heir aged 14 years and more.

Henry Lake ; Richard Wynter ; William Baker ; Giles Parker ; Walter Segrave ; John Ph...y [ms torn]; William Horne ; John Rysle[?...] ; Thomas Capron ; John Cosyn ; Philip Palmer ; Richard Parverssh ; Stephen Remenham ; Thomas Stynt ; Robert Nycolare ; John Cosyn [sic]; Robert Remenham ; Henry Kembere ; John Colyere ; Henry Stille ; William Bounde ; William Poleyne ; Walter Smyth ; and John Coshote .

He held the manor of Pirbright in his demesne as of fee tail of the king in chief by service of 1/20 knight’s fee. In the manor there are the site, worth nothing yearly; 40 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 10 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and £3 2s. 10d. assize rents at Michaelmas and Easter. Edward III gave the manor, amongst others, by letters patent to Edmund earl of Kent , his uncle, and the heirs of his body, on condition that the manor revert to the king and his heirs if Edmund die without such heirs. The manor descended according to the pattern detailed in 471 , except that after the death of John, late earl of Kent , brother of Edmund son of Edmund, Elizabeth his widow was endowed with the manor and the reversion of the manor descended according to the subsequent pattern in 471 . After Elizabeth’s death, Edmund earl of March , Joan duchess of York , Margaret duchess of Clarence, Eleanor late countess of Salisbury and Elizabeth late wife of John Neville, chevalier , were seised of the manor and other lands and tenements as in 471. Edmund, earl of March was assigned the manor as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 . He held the following in his demesne as of fee. Shere, 26 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 50 a. pasture and heath, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 26 a. wood worth nothing yearly; and 52s. assize rents at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. These are held of Beatrice countess of Arundel of the castle of Reigate by service of 2 knights’ fees and suit to the three-weekly court there. Camberwell and Rotherhithe, 70 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly. Of these, 35 a. are held of the king in chief by service of 1/20 knight’s fee, 25 a. are held of the earl of Stafford by fealty and service of 2s. 3d. rent at Michaelmas to his manor of Camberwell, and 10 a. are held of William Credy of his manor of Briddinghurst by fealty and service of 12d. rent at Michaelmas.

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs to the manor as in 471 except that here Joyce is aged 21 years and more. Richard duke of York is his kinsman and heir to the arable, pasture, heath, wood and rent in Shere and meadow in Camberwell and Rotherhithe.

The following took all issues since Edmund’s death and still do so: Walter Grene from the manor; Roger Wynter from the lands and rent in Shere; and Humphrey duke of Gloucester from the meadow in Camberwell and Rotherhithe.

John Dolyte ; John Cowpere ; Thomas Janyn ; Richard Hynon ; John Combe ; Thomas Hygon ; John Grogyn ; Robert Stryuelyng ; Walter Stapelere ; Robert Seman ; Thomas Danyell ; and Richard Marchall .

He held in his demesne as of fee tail £36 fee-farm taken yearly from the fee-farm in the city of Chichester from the city bailiffs at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. The fee-farm is held of the king in chief by service of 1/30 knight’s fee. It was given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 , and descended according to the pattern detailed in 471 , with the additional information here that Edmund son of Edmund earl of Kent, John brother of Edmund son of Edmund, Thomas son of Joan and Thomas son of Thomas are all described as earls of Kent. Edmund earl of March was assigned the fee-farm as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 . He held the manor of Drayton in his demesne as of fee of the heir of John Somery by service of 1/20 knight’s fee and performing suit to the three-weekly hundred court of Box. In the manor there are the site, worth nothing yearly; 160 a. pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly; £4 6s. 8d. assize rents at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions; and 3 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly.

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs to the fee-farm as in 471 except that here Joyce is aged 21 years and more. Richard duke of York is his kinsman and next heir to the manor.

John Pelham, chevalier , took all issues of the manor since Edmund’s death and still does so.

Richard Sampson ; Walter Kyrton ; Thomas White ; Nicholas Ravenhill ; John Stepyngle ; John Haukyns of Hockliffe; William Sandres ; John atte Welle ; John Agas ; John ...ok [ms holed ]; William Swayne of Stanbridge; and Matthew Honour .

He held in his demesne as of fee 1/2 knight’s fee, which Alan le Souche held, in Flitton by Ampthill as part of the honour of Wigmore.

Date of death as in 467 . Richard duke of York is his kinsman and next heir as son of Anne his sister, and is aged 14 years and more.

Roger Lovet ; William Parker of Eton; Thomas Caldecote ; Thomas Malyns ; John Horewode of Singleborough; John Clerk of Great Horwood; John Broun of Claydon; William Clerc of Bierton; Richard Adam of Swanbourne; Richard Symeon ; Thomas Welde ; and Thomas Woketon .

He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of the manors of Whaddon and Steeple Claydon, with a knight’s fee and 1/3 knight’s fee in Turweston, which Alan le Souche lately held and 1/2 knight’s fee in Adstock which John de Hamstede lately held, as parts of the manors, and the advowson of the priory of Snelshall belonging to the manor of Whaddon. The manors are held of the king in chief by knight service. Long before his death, by fine mor. St John the Baptist 1415 [CP 25/1/291/63 no.31] between Richard earl of Warwick , Joan widow of William Beauchamp de Bergavenny, John Pelham, chevalier , Walter Lucy , now knight, Thomas Chaucer and Richard Wyggemore , who all survive, Richard bishop of Norwich , Thomas earl of Arundel , Henry Lescrope, chevalier , Thomas de Berkeley, chevalier , Edward Charleton, chevalier , Robert Corbet, chevalier , John Greyndour, chevalier , William Walwayn and Thomas Holgote , all now deceased, quer. and Edmund deforc. and by licence of letters patent of Henry V, dated 18 June 1415 and shown to the jurors, Edmund recognized the manors to be the right of the bishop, earl of Arundel, earl of Warwick, Henry, Thomas, Edward, Joan, John, Robert, John, Walter, Thomas, William, Thomas and Richard, as is clear more fully in the record of the fine shown to the jurors. The quer. were seised of the manors in their demesne as of fee, and the survivors are still seised. Long before his death and the fine, while he was seised in his demesne as of fee of the manors, namely on 27 September 1414 , he granted by his letters patent £20 annual rent, at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions, from the manor of Whaddon by the farmers, bailiffs, reeves, minor officials or occupiers of the manor, to Thomas Hogyll , his former servant, for life, for his good service then and thereafter. Long before his death he was seised in his demesne as of fee of a toft and 2 fields in Amersham called ‘Benteleye’, which were formerly John Penyston’s, held of Anne countess of Stafford , service unknown, annual value 40s. By letters patent dated 4 January 1414 , he demised these to William Barbour , his servant, who survives, for life without paying anything to Edmund or his heirs. William was seised in his demesne as of his free tenement, reversion reserved to Edmund and his heirs. Edmund died seised of the reversion as of fee in this form.

Date of death as in 467 . Heir as in 476 .

John Wightyll ; Robert Crokkesford ; Robert Hyde ; Thomas Snareston ; William Cutteller ; James Samwell ; John Punter ; Thomas Urleton ; William Hornecastell ; John Tymmes ; John Abraham ; and Thomas Syre .

He held 2 virgates in Tew, each worth 10s. yearly, in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of the manors of Ducklington and Finmere and the following fees and parts of knights’ fees belonging to the manors. Idbury, a knight’s fee. Great Rollright or Little Rollright, a knight’s fee. Tew and Barford St John or Barford St Michael, a knight’s fee. Tiddington, 1/2 knight’s fee. Salford, 1/2 knight’s fee. Little Tew, 1/4 knight’s fee. Garsington, a knight’s fee and 1/2 knight’s fee. Tew, 1/4 knight’s fee. Great Haseley or Little Haseley, 1/2 knight’s fee. Begbroke, a knight’s fee. Lyneham, 1/2 knight’s fee. Brightwell Baldwin, 1/2 knight’s fee. Warpsgrove, 1/2 knight’s fee. Chilworth, 1/2 knight’s fee. Long before his death, by the fine detailed in 477 he recognized the manors, which the same quer. as in 477 had by his gift to hold to themselves of the chief lords of the fees by services owed and accustomed by right, to be the right of Thomas de Berkeley , as is clear more fully in the record of the fine shown to the jurors. Thomas was seised of the manors, amongst others, in his demesne as of fee; and the other quer. were seised as of their free tenement, and the same survivors are still seised as of their free tenement.

Date of death as in 467 . Heir as in 476 .

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Gilbert Hollewey ; Thomas Blannkpayn ; Thomas Punchon ; [?Alfred] Kent; Henry Horner ; Thomas Bever ; John Geffrey ; Peter Grete ; John Eles ; Robert Croke ; Henry Barbour ; John Whale ; and John Clerc .

He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service, £4 6s. 8d. assize rents in Newbury at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions with view of frank-pledge, worth £4 yearly, and profits of 1/3 market toll, worth 6s. 8d. yearly. Roger Wynter took the rent and issues and amercements from the view of frankpledge with the toll since Edmund’s death until now by virtue of letters patent [CFR 1422–30, pp.104–5]. He held the manor of Wokefield (Wokefeld) in the hundred of Theale jointly enfeoffed with Thomas Banastre, clerk , and Nicholas Clerk, clerk , who survive, by demise of Richard earl of Warwick , Joan lady Bergeveny, John Pelham, knight , Walter Lucy, knight , Thomas Chaucer and Richard Wygmore to them and their heirs, as is more clear in the feoffors’ charter, dated at Bessels Leigh, 20 September 1424 and shown to the jurors. The manor is held of William Bro[cas] [ms worn and galled] by service of 1/10 knight’s fee, annual value 5 marks. He was formerly seised of the manors of Stratfield Mortimer and ?Wokefield (Waghfeld, Weghfeld), in his demesne as of fee, held of the king in chief by knight service, and the following knights’ fees and parts of fees, belonging to the manors. Binnton, 2 parts of a fee which William Stokes formerly held. Curridge, a fee which the prior of Poughley held. Peasemore, a fee which Thomas Mountegn held. Hodcott, a fee which William Ryuer held. Burghfield (Birfeld), a fee which Isabel Lady de Scrop held. Brimpton, 1/4 fee which the nuns of Kington St Michael held. Charlton, by Wantage, a fee which William de Paveley held. Wantage, 1/2 fee which John Erle held. Tulwick, a fee which the prior of Ogbourne St George held. Charlton, a fee which Robert Martyn held. West Hendred, 1/2 fee which the prior of Wallingford held. Odstone, 1/2 fee which Gilbert Shotesbroke held. Long before his death, by the fine and royal letters patent detailed in 477 , Edmund recognized the manors to be the right of the quer. detailed in 477 , which manors, amongst others, they had of his gift to hold of the king and his heirs by the services owed and accustomed by right. The quer. were seised in their demesne as of fee and the same survivors are still seised.

Date of death as in 467 . Heir as in 476 .

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Jurors: Richard Thornyff of Carlby; Robert Porter , John Samwell , John Warner , Geoffrey Aldus and John Underwod , of Market Deeping; Nicholas Oudeby of Corby; John Wright of Castle Bytham or Little Bytham; John Mason and William Girnlyng , of Careby; Thomas Nipton of Witham on the Hill; and Richard Santre of ?Stretton [ms torn]. The Exchequer copy has Robert Bate and John Ric’ both of Corby after John Underwod ; Robert Wryght of Castle Bytham or Little Bytham after John Wright ; and Thomas Thurleby of Castle or Little Bytham after William Girnlyng .

He held the following in his demesne as of fee tail. £52 8s. 51/2d. rent from the manor of Market Deeping at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions; 6 messuages and 3 tofts in Barholm in the hands of the tenants, each worth 3s. 4d. yearly at the same feasts; 9 virgates in the same vill in the hands of the tenants, each worth 6s. 8d. yearly at the same feasts; 40 a. land in the parish of St Guthlac, namely that next to ‘Hungate croft’, in the hands of the tenants, each acre worth 4d. yearly at the same feasts; 13 a. demesne land in the parish of St James, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. meadow in ‘Northmede’ in Market Deeping, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 3 1/2 a. meadow in Barholm to the east of Lolham bridge, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 72 1/2 a. meadow in Market Deeping, parcel of a meadow called Cranmore, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 11 a. meadow in the hands of the lord, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 13s. 11/2d. assize rents from tenements in Barholm at the same feasts. These are all part of the manor of Market Deeping held of the king in chief by knight service. The manor was given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 , and descended according to the pattern detailed in 471 . Edmund earl of March was assigned the £52 8s. 51/2d. rent, messuages, tofts, land and meadows with 13s. 11/2d. assize rents, as his share according to the partition detailed in 471.

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs as in 471 except that here Richard duke of York is aged 14 years and more.

John Lewyn ; Richard Blogwyn ; William Astlyn ; John Gibson ; John Knyght ; John Overton ; Robert Cardnell ; Simon Lewen ; Robert Lewen ; Richard Belle ; John Susanne ; and Andrew Fuller .

He was formerly seised of the manor of Upton in his demesne as of fee tail, held of the abbot of Peterborough by 3 parts of a knight’s fee. The manor was given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 ,

John Smyth of Wicken; William Bend [ms faint], John Hykedon , John Warrewyk , Simon ?Buthorp, Thomas Smyth , William Warrewyk , Simon Wyhte , John ?Merston and William Attekyn , of Wyke Dyve; and Alan Attekyn and John Smyth, junior , of Wicken.

John Rome , John Ragdale and Richard Hich , of Ryhall; William atte Water of Tickencote; John Reynold and Robert atte Brigge , of Hambleton; John Bisshebrok and Richard Whitewell , of Manton; John atte Well and William Smyth , of Edith Weston ; Hugh Say of Normanton; and John Spencer of Oakham.

He held the manor of Ryhall in his demesne as of fee tail of the king in chief by knight service. The manor was given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 , and descended according to the pattern detailed in 471 . Edmund earl of March was assigned the manor as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 . Annual value of the manor, £30 5s. In the manor there are the site, worth nothing yearly; 21s. 10d. assize rents from free tenants at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas; 36 virgates in the hands of the tenants, each virgate worth 8s. yearly, sum £14 8s.; 400 a. demesne land, each acre worth 2d. yearly, sum 66s. 8d.; 18 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly, sum 36s.; 2 corn-mills, very run-down and derelict, worth 10s. yearly; a common oven, worth 5s. yearly; 300 a. land of ‘Bordelond’, each acre worth 2d. yearly, sum 50s.; 36 cottages, worth 36s. yearly; pleas and perquisites of 2 leets worth 3s. 10d. yearly after the steward’s fee and expenses; 6s. 8d. yearly from the sale of underwood; 12 virgates in the hands of the lord for want of tenants, worth 72s. yearly; a customary due called ‘Ploughsilver’, worth 5s. yearly; a customary due called ‘Hedselver’, worth 2s. yearly; and a customary due called ‘Tolcestur’ of one sester on ale sold to the reeve, worth 2s. yearly. William Porter, chevalier , holds the manor by demise of Edmund made on 25 June 1413 , paying 40 marks to Edmund at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions. William was seised of the manor as of his free tenement in this form. By his letters patent dated at London, 6 November 1416 and shown to the jurors, Edmund granted to William Tempest, chevalier , for his good and acceptable service, an annuity of 40 marks for life from the issues of the manor and lordship of Hambleton from the hands of the receivers, farmers or other occupiers at Easter and Michaelmas equally. William Porter attorned to William Tempest and the latter was seised of the annuity by the hands of the former as farmer of the manor. Edmund died seised of the reversion of the manor in fee simple to himself and his heirs. Of whom or by what service the manor is held is unknown. He held in his demesne as of fee 1/2 knight’s fee in Normanton which Margaret Basynger held, amounting to 50s. when it falls.

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs to the manor of Ryhall as in 471 , except that here Richard duke of York is aged 14 years and more. Richard is also his next heir to the reversion of the manor of Hambleton and 1/2 knight’s fee.

Philip Baynarde ; Philip Benham ; John Waspayll ; William Tauke ; Thomas Yerdelee ; Richard [?Censmere]; John ... [ms torn]; John Sopere; John Clement ; Richard Pit... ; William Knyghte ; and John atte Mulle .

He held in his demesne as of fee tail £57 4s. 1/2d. as his share of £104 fee-farm of the manor, vill and hundred of Andover, at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. The fee-farm is held of the king in chief by service of 1/20 knight’s fee. He held in his demesne as of fee £11 17s. 1d. as his share of £80 15s. fee-farm of the manor, vill and hundred of Basingstoke and [?rent of the tenements] that were Walter de Merton ’s in Basingstoke, at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. The fee-farm is held of the king in chief by service of 1/20 knight’s fee. He held in his demesne as of fee tail in joint tenancy with Joan duchess of York , Margaret duchess of Clarence , Alice wife of Richard Nevil, chevalier , and daughter and heir of Eleanor late countess of Salisbury , and Ralph Nevil , son and heir of Elizabeth late wife of John Nevil, chevalier , the following advowson, knights’ fees and parts of fees, belonging to the manor of Andover of the king in chief, service unknown, annual values when they fall as shown. Ranston and Fordingbridge, a knight’s fee which Maurice Broun formerly held, 100s. South Tidworth and Milston, 4 knights’ fees which William de Dun ’s heirs held, £20. Wallop, 1/2 knight’s fee which Clarice de Bokelond formerly held, 50s. Esshmaners, a knight’s fee which John Randolf held, 100s. Bedhampton, the advowson of the church, 20 marks. The fee-farms described as the manors, vills and hundreds of Andover and Basingstoke, knights’ fees, parts of fees and advowson were given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 , and descended according to the pattern detailed in 474 . Edmund earl of March was assigned the fee-farms as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 . He held in his demesne as of fee 20 a. meadow in Otterbourne, worth 6s. 8d. yearly, value of each acre 4d., of the king in chief by 1/60 knight’s fee. He held in his demesne as of fee of his lordship of Wigmore in the March of Wales the following knights’ fees and parts of fees of the king in chief, service unknown, annual values when they fall as shown. ?Swarraton, 1/2 knight’s fee which the master of the hospital of Godsfield held, 50s. Upper Clatford, 1/3 knight’s fee which Thomas Spurk and Clarice Saken [?...] held, 33s. 4d.; and 1/4 knight’s fee which Thomas Blonc held, 100s. [sic]. Sarson, 1/3 knight’s fee which John de Anne held, 33s. 4d. Sandford, 1/2 knight’s fee which the abbess of Godstow held, 50s. Candover, a knight’s fee, 100s. Knowl, a knight’s fee, 100s. Otterbourne, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Norton, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Stanbridge Earls, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. ?Allington (Anditon), 1/2 knight’s fee which Roger Elys held, 50s. Clifford, 1/2 knight’s fee which Richard Syward held, 50s. Lasham, a knight’s fee which John Dabernon held, 100s. He was seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Headbourne Worthy. Long before his death, by the fine, and letters patent dated 18 June 1415 , detailed in 477 , Edmund recognized the manor to be the right of the quer. detailed in 477 , which manor, amongst others, they had of his gift to hold of the king and his heirs by the services owed and accustomed by right. The quer. were seised in their demesne as of fee and the same survivors are still seised.

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs both to the fee-farms and to the knights’ fees and advowson held as above as in 471 , except that here Joyce is aged 21 years and more. Richard duke of York is also his next heir to 20 a. meadow and knights’ fees belonging to the lordship of Wigmore.

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Jurors: John Carre ; John Mermille ; John Lanneforde ; Thomas Salbyter ; William Marleburgh ; William Wigon ; Thomas Babistoke ; Richard Towker ; Henry Dible ; John Madyngton ; William Filpot ; and John Grygge .

He held no lands or tenements in his demesne or in service of the king in chief or another, nor church advowsons. He held the following knights’ fees and parts of fees, annual values when they fall as shown. ?Cuppendene, a fee, 100s. Bradfield, 1/2 fee, 50s. Alderton, 1/4 fee, 25s. Hilperton, 2 fees, £10. West Tockenham, a fee, 100s. Chirton, 1/2 fee, 50s. ?Fyfhide, 1/2 fee, 50s. Imber, a fee, 100s. Pertwood, 1/5 fee, 20s., and another 1/5 fee, 20s. Hi...enton, a fee, 100s. [?M...cre], 1/2 fee, 50s. ?S...veton, 1/2 fee, 50s. Botley Hill, 1/2 fee, 50s. ?Batisley, 1/2 fee, 50s. Stanford, 1/2 fee, 50s. Shipley Bottom, 1/2 fee, 50s. Pyryfeld, a fee, 100s. ?Pelt... Prioris, 2 fees, £10 Luckington, a fee, 100s. Sharefeld, a fee, 100s. Alderton, a fee, 100s., 1/2 fee, 50s. and another 1/2 fee, 50s. Seagry, a fee, 100s. Blunsdon St Andrew or Broad Blunsdon, a fee, 100s. Blackland, 1/2 fee, 50s. and another 1/2 fee, 50s. Compton, a fee, 100s. Shaw, 1/2 fee, 50s. Broundiswelle, 1/2 fee, 50s. Great Somerford, a fee, 100s. Broad Town, 1/2 fee, 50s., and 1/3 fee, 33s. 4d.

Date of death as in 467 . Richard duke of York is his next heir as son of Anne, his sister, and was aged 13 years on last 21 September.

John Noburgh; William Turbervill ; Thomas Faryngdon ; Robert Pokeswell ; Robert Trewy... ; John Estoke ; Brian Gerard ; Nicholas Syfrewast ; Roland Hynton ; William Tydenham ; John Jurdon ; and Robert Rampston .

He held the manor of Wilksworth [in] Wimborne Minster in his demesne as of fee. By his letters patent dated 29 March 1423 and shown to the jurors, he granted 100s. sterling rent to Leonard Hastyng ’, esquire, for life from the profits of the manor at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions. Leonard was seised of the rent and survives. The manor is worth ... yearly above this rent, but of whom it is held or by what service is unknown. He held the following in his demesne as of fee. Rushmore, Rowbarrow and Hasler, the hundreds, of the king in chief by knight service, annual values 40s., £4 and 40s. respectively. Elwell, 3 messuages, a carucate of land, 4 a. meadow and 200 a. pasture with appurtenances by Upwey, of whom and by what services unknown, annual value 5 marks. Church Knowle, the manor and advowson of the church, of the king in chief by knight service, annual value 5 marks. East Creech or West Creech, a messuage, a carucate of land, 6 a. meadow, 20 a. wood and 100 a. pasture, of whom and by what services unknown, annual value 5 marks. Pimperne, Tarrant Gunville and Steeple, the advowsons of the churches, of the king in chief, annual values nil. Cranborne, Pimperne, Tarrant Gunville, Wareham, Steeple and Wyke Regis, the manors, with the hundreds of Cranborne, Pimperne and Wareham, of the king in chief by knight service. Annual values of the manors, respectively, 100 marks, £20, 20 marks, 5 marks, 100s. and £20. Annual values of the hundreds, respectively, £20, 100s. and 100s. Isle of Portland, a messuage, 2 carucates of land, 20 a. meadow, 200 a. pasture and 20 marks rent, but of whom held or by what services unknown, annual value 20 marks above the rent. Weymouth, 20 marks rent and a court of view of frankpledge, but of whom held and by what services unknown, annual value of the court 5 marks. Alderholt and Holwell, the manor[?s], but of whom held and by what services unknown, annual value £10. By a fine levied at York, quin. Hil. 1329 [CP 25/1/49/34 no.7], and shown to the jurors, between Jordan de Byntre, chaplain, quer. and Robert Fitzpayn and Ela his wife, deforc., Jordan granted the manor of Marshwood to Robert and Ela and the heirs of their bodies, remainder in full to John Mautravers, junior , and his heirs, to hold of the king and his heirs by services pertaining to the manor. Robert and Ela were seised in their demesne as of fee tail and John Mautravers had issue Eleanor and died during their lifetime. Robert and Ela died seised of the manor and the entailed estate in it, without heirs of their body, Eleanor then being a minor. After their death, Lionel duke of Clarence and Edward III’s son, and then Philippe as Lionel’s daughter and heir, entered the manor. Philippe was espoused by Edmund de Mortuo Mari, then earl of March, grandfather of Edmund named in the writ, as father of Roger his father. Edmund and Philippe occupied the manor in Philippe’s right, and had issue Roger. After their death, Roger entered the manor as their son and heir, and then Edmund entered the manor as his son and heir and held in his demesne as of fee. Lionel, Edmund, Philippe, Roger and Edmund named in the writ, never had other right ... or claim in the manor, nor did anyone have such of them, by deed or fine of John Mautravers to whom the manor should have remained after the death of Robert and Ela, nor any of John’s ancestors or heirs nor by any other manner or title, only by virtue of Lionel’s intrusion. The manor descended, both after the death of John Mautravers and after the deaths of Robert and Ela, to Eleanor as daughter and heir of John Mautravers , and she was espoused by John Arundell , son of Richard earl of Arundel . John Arundell and Eleanor had issue John, who had issue John and then died. After the deaths of John Arundell and Eleanor, the manor descended by virtue of the fine to John son of John, their son, and then a minor. He had issue John and then died, after whose death the manor descended to John his son, a minor in the king’s wardship. By virtue of the fine, the manor belongs and should remain of right to this John son of John son of John son of John Arundell and Eleanor, daughter of John Mautravers . Marshwood. The manor is held of the king in chief by knight service, annual value 40 marks.

Date of death as in 467 . Richard duke of York is his kinsman and next heir as son of Anne, his sister, and is aged 15 years and more. [Foot:] The escheator delivered this inquisition into court by his own hands.

John Peny ; John Milborn ; John Rodberd ; Robert Hymerford ; Ralph Peny ; John Lokeyerd ; Richard Evethorne ; John Mayne ; Thomas Molyns ; John Cave ; John Th unde [ms faint]; and John Hardegrey .

He held the following in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. Bridgwater, the castle, annual value 100s., and 1/3 borough, annual value £8. Haygrove, the manor, annual value £20. Odcombe, the manor, annual value £10 6s. 8d. Milverton, the manor and hundred, annual value £12. He held the manor of Easton-in-Gordano in the hundred of Bedminster jointly enfeoffed in fee simple with Thomas Banastre, clerk , and Nicholas Clerk, clerk , who survive, by demise of Walter Hungerford, knight , Walter Lucy, knight , Thomas Wanton, knight, Richard Wyggemore and Thomas Lygon to them, as is clear more fully in the feoffors’ charter dated at Standon, 20 September 1424 . The manor is held of Richard earl of Warwick of his manor of Portbury by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, annual value £10. He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of the keeping of the forests and parks of Neroche, Exmoor, Mendip and Petherton. By letters patent dated at London, 17 September 1413 , he granted and demised to farm this custody with all fees, wards and profits pertaining to it, to Thomas Chauncer, esquire , who survives, for life, paying £50 sterling to Edmund and his heirs at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions. Thomas is still seised. By letters patent dated at London, 8 September 1413 , he granted to Richard Brigge the office of doorkeeper (janitor) of Bridgwater castle to hold for life, taking annually the fees, wards and profits belonging to the office of ancient use. Richard is still seised in this form.

Date of death as in 476 . Heir as in 486 .

Walter Tracy ; Philip Lowston; John Mone ; John Ner; Simon ?Blyke; Oliver Anke... ; John Bartelot ; Richard Sherar ; Richard Burton ; William Dauy ; Gilbert Woye ; and William Portland .

The manor of Marshwood, specified in the writ, in which Edmund late earl of March , similarly named in the writ, died seised in his demesne as of fee, is worth £37 19 3/4d. yearly. In the manor there are the site, called ‘le logh’, worth nothing yearly; a cottage, 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which Parnel Battes holds, worth 6s. 5 1/4d. yearly [ms originally: worth 6s. and 5 1/4d. for commmuted customary services]; a messuage and 30 a. land, meadow and pasture which Peter Goky holds, worth 6s. 5 1/4d. yearly [as before]; a messuage and 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which Richard Harpour holds, worth 4s. 11 1/4d. yearly; 2 messuages, 48 a. land, meadow and pasture, which Hugh Turnour holds, worth 10s. 4 1/2d. yearly; an enclosed wood and pasture called ‘Podelhurst’ containing 20 a. land, which the same Hugh holds, worth 10s. yearly; a messuage and 20 a. land called ‘Grinceresheye’, which the same Hugh holds, worth 10s. yearly; 24 a. land and pasture, which William Pamot holds, worth 5s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which William Mirfeld holds, worth 5s. 11 1/4d. yearly; 24 a. land and pasture, which Peter Smyth holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which John Look holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 20 a. land, meadow and pasture, which John Danyell holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which Nicholas Whyte holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; a croft containing 1 a. land called ‘Crokkeresacre’, which the same Nicholas holds, worth 9d. yearly; 20 a. land, meadow and pasture, which William Crokker holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which William Colfox holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 20 a. land, meadow and pasture, which William Godeale holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 20 a. land, meadow and pasture, which William Wodier holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which William Gold holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 24 a. land, meadow and pasture, which John Bestescombe holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 27 a. land, meadow and pasture, which Richard Crouche holds, worth 5s. 9 1/4d. yearly; 20 a. land, meadow and pasture, which John Berde holds, worth 5s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 12 a. land, meadow and pasture, which Robert Colfox holds, worth 3s. 3d. yearly; a messuage and 40 a. land, which Richard Robeleshey holds, worth 26s. 8d. yearly; a messuage and an estimated 40 a. land called ‘Oxheldeshey’, which John Parker holds, worth 14s. yearly; a croft called ‘Notecroft’, which the same John holds, worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. land, meadow and pasture, which William Gold holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; a croft called ‘Wildeham’, which the same William holds, worth 16d. yearly; 20 a. land, meadow and pasture, lately Henry Keche’s, which the same William holds, worth 4s. 5 1/4d. yearly; 10 a. land, meadow and pasture and a croft lately the same Henry’s, which the same William similarly holds, worth 3s. 3d. yearly; a cottage with a croft containing 2 a., which John Lacke holds, worth 4s. yearly; 3 cottages and 2 crofts containing 5 a. land, which Nicholas Mirfeld holds, worth 4s. 9d. yearly; a cottage and 3 crofts containing 8 a. land, which Richard Skynner holds, worth 3s. 3d. yearly; a cottage with a croft containing 1/2 a. land, which Richard Parker holds, worth 19d. yearly; a cottage and a croft containing 2 a. land, which Nicholas Batte holds, worth 3s. 3d. yearly; a cottage and 4 crofts of land, which William Wadier holds, worth 6s. 11d. yearly; a cottage called ‘Bollehouse’, which the same William holds, worth 19d. yearly; 10 a. land, meadow and pasture, which John Adam holds, worth 2s. 2d. yearly; a cottage with a croft beside William Wodyer ’s cottage, which the same John holds, worth 19d. yearly; a messuage called ‘Cotesplace’ with 4 crofts containing 10 a. land and pasture, which the same John holds, worth 8s. 4d. yearly; ?30 a. land, meadow and pasture caled ‘Crikkelade’ and ‘Newmede’, which Nicholas Whyte holds, worth 6s. yearly; a ... called ‘mersshe’ containing ?27 a. meadow and pasture, which William Crokker holds, worth 8s. yearly; a croft containing 5 a. land called ‘Assher...furlonge’, which Richard Crouch holds, worth 12d. yearly; a croft called ‘Stokhull’ containing 21 a. land, meadow and pasture in a close called ‘Brodmede’, which William Gold holds, worth 6s. yearly; a croft of pasture called ‘Carm...’, which Richard Parker holds, worth 12d. yearly; an enclosed meadow called ‘Brodemede’ containing 21 a. land, which Geoffrey Pe... holds, worth 6s. yearly; a meadow called ‘Chynnemede’ containing 2 a. land, and a croft called ‘Stokhull’ containing 4 a., which John Leek holds, worth 2s. yearly; an enclosed field called ‘Crykkelade’ containing 36 a. land, which Richard Harpour holds, worth 8s. yearly; 2 crofts called ‘Jerusalem’, which John Adam holds, worth 12d. yearly; a meadow called ?‘Tuppemede’ containing 1 1/2 a., worth 2s. yearly; a cottage and 2 a. land, which William Golde holds, worth 4s. yearly; a messuage and 1 a. land, which Walter Berd holds, worth 2s. yearly; a messuage and 1 a. land, which Edward Fox holds, worth 2s. yearly; a croft containing 1 a. land, and 1 a. land, which Reginald Webbe holds, worth 2s. 2d. yearly; a messuage and 1 a. land, which Christine Rathys holds, worth 2s. 2d. yearly; a toft and 1 a. land, which Henry ... holds, worth 2s. 2d. yearly; a messuage and 1 a. meadow, which Laurence Elleworth holds, worth 2s. 2d. yearly; a messuage, a curtilage and 1 a. land, which William W[?et]combe holds, worth 2s. 2d. yearly; a ?cottage with curtilage and 1 rood of land, which John ... holds, worth ... yearly; a messuage and ?2 a. land, which Geoffrey [?Pe...y] holds, worth 4s. 8d. yearly; a messuage with curtilage containing 1/2 a. land, which John Bocher holds, worth 2s. 8d. yearly; a messuage with curtilage and 8 a. land, which William [?Golde] holds, worth 5s. 2d. yearly; £21 ?11s. ... 3/4d. assize rents yearly, namely 2s. 6d. at Christmas, 10s. 1d. ...lb ?wax ... 6d. of rent at Easter, £20 2s. 61/4d. and homage (confessa) at Midsummer, 23s. and 3lb. cumin worth 101/2d. at Michaelmas by the hands of ..., £20 from John Chidre... , 6d. from Walter Hisard , 2s. from William Serle , 1d. from Thomas Forsay , 2s. from John Poyne , 2s. from Robert Forster Hey , 22d. ... from Roger [?Ere], 12d. from John atte Brygge , 6d. from Thomas Lane , 2s. 1d. from Laurence Lylley , 6d. from Richard Harpour , 18d. from Henry Schawe , 6d. from ... atte N[?a]sch, 4s. from Thomas Love , 1d. from Peter West , 18d. from ?Florice Forsax, 2s. 41/2d. from Robert Celbone , 2s. from Philip ?Bacce, 4s. from John ?Chide, 14d. from Robert Pykeys and John Jeve , 2s. 9d. from John Cary, knight , 3d. from Margaret Pyke , 3d. from Robert Wakewell , 6s. 8d. from the abbot of Milton, and 4d. from William Payne ; a three-weekly court with 2 leets held twice a year within the quindenes of Easter and of Michaelmas, the perquisites of which are worth 4s. 4d. after the steward’s fee; a three-weekly hundred court with 2 leets held similarly, the perquisites of which are worth 3s. 4d. after the steward’s fee; franchises and liberties ... worth 12d. yearly in normal years; a park called ‘le Mychelparke’, its herbage worth 6s. 8d. yearly after the maintenance of the beasts of the chase; and another park called ‘Cryklade’, its herbage worth 2s. yearly after the maintenance of the beasts of the chase. By letters patent dated 3 May 1423 and shown to the jurors, he granted to Matthew Drury an annuity of 100s. for life from the issues of the manor by the hands of the receiver, farmer, bailiff or other occupiers, at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. Matthew is still seised in peaceable possession.

William Lumbard ; John Symond ; John Bathe, senior ; John Jermyn ; William Burton ; John Broun ; John Pury ; John Cary ; John Cokk ; William Broun ; John Bathe, junior ; and Richard Brounyng .

He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief the following knights’ fees and parts of fees, all annual values when they fall as shown. Thornfalcon, a knight’s fee, 100s. Buckland and Chilton, 2 knights’ fees which the prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem held, £10. Berton, a knight’s fee, 100s.; and a knight’s fee which Nicholas de Walton alias Watton held, 100s. Chorleton, a knight’s fee which William de Staunton held, 100s.; a knight’s fee which John de Bo[?r]oy held, 100s.; a knight’s fee which the prior of ?Barlinch (Brompton) held, 100s.; a knight’s fee which Humphrey Keyll held, 100s.; and 1/2 knight’s fee which Herbert de Marreys held, 50s. Walton, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert de Braunton ’s heirs held, 50s. Binham, 2 knights’ fees which the abbot of Cleeve held, £10. Charneye, 1/2 knight’s fee which the abbot of Abingdon held, 50s. [Foot:] Martin Jacob delivered this inquisition into court.

John Lyneden ; William Knaplok ; Robert Dare ; John Leycestre ; John Kaylewey ; William Smyth ; Robert Dolyng ; John Cayl ; Thomas Draper ; John Milborn ; John Pile ; and John Broun .

He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief the following knights’ fees, parts of fees and advowsons, extended as shown. Dewlish, a knight’s fee which John Latymer and Joan his wife held, 100s. Bagber, a knight’s fee which John de Bakebere and Gilbert de Castre held, 100s. Shillingstone, 4 fees which Brian de Turburvill held, £20. Knowlton, a knight’s fee which Giles de Broovse ’s heirs held, 100s. Wimborne St Giles, Wareham and Pimperne, a knight’s fee which Giles de Pleset held, 100s. Petersham, 1/2 knight’s fee which the heirs of William Frensche son of Ellis and of John Gillyngham held, 50s. ?Witchampton with its members of Gardesham, Smilebroke and Hill Deverill, 5 knights’ fees which John Matrevers held, £25. Westport, 1/3 knight’s fee which John Kaynell and Amice Danvyll held, 33s. 4d. Tarrant Gunville, a knight’s fee which the tenants there held, 100s. Tarrant Rushton, a knight’s fee which Isabel widow of Gilbert son of Thomas de Clare held, 100s. Lytchett Matravers with its members, 6 fees which John Matrevers held, £30. Thorncombe, 1/3 knight’s fee which the abbot of Forde held, 33s. 4d. Afflington [in] Purbeck, 1/10 knight’s fee which Ralph de la Hide held, 10s. Merdon, 2 1/2 knights’ fees which John Clavyll of Merdon held, £12 10s. Ashmore, a knight’s fee which Hugh le Despencer senior held, 100s. Tollard ?Farnham, a knight’s fee which John de Lucy held, 100s. Hampreston, a knight’s fee which Hugh de Hynneton held, 50s. [sic] Thorncombe, a knight’s fee which the warden of St Nicholas, Salisbury, held, 100s. Durweston and Tymcton, 1/2 knight’s fee which Brian de Gowyz held, 50s. Frome St Quintin, 6 fees which Herbert de Sancto Quintino held, £30. Hampreston, Tarrant Rushton, Fortham and Winterbo(u)rne, 3 knights’ fees which Robert de H... and John Gong held, £15. Farnham, a knight’s fee which Ellis Deverell held, 100s. Pentridge and Sutton Poyntz, 1/2 knight’s fee which Hamon son of Richard held, 50s. West Parley, a knight’s fee which Gilbert de Ellesfeld held, 100s. Milborne, 1/2 knight’s fee which Bartholomew Turkervill held, 50s.; and a knight’s fee which the prior of Ogbourne St George held, 100s. Melbury Sampford, 1/2 knight’s fee which Hawise Samford and afterwards Alan Cheny held, 50s. Stottingway, 1/2 knight’s fee which John de Hanyngdon held, 50s. Brostwyk and Tornomon Abb’is, 4 knights’ fees, £20. Up Sydling, in Uggscombe hundred (Oterdone), a knight’s fee, 10s. Frome, a knight’s fee which John Bunvyll held, 100s. Frome ?Vauchurch, 1/2 knight’s fee which Geoffrey de Barret held, 50s. Elworth, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert son of Pain and afterwards Nicholas Pointz held, 50s. Purbeck and Swanage in Rowbarrow hundred, a knight’s fee which William de Well ’s heirs held, 100s. Mappowder, 1 1/2 knights’ fees which the heirs of Ives Martill and afterwards Thomas Blount held, £7 10s. ?Lechewey in Wichescombe hundred, 1/2 knight’s fee which John Emery held, 50s. Winterbourne Steepleton, a knight’s fee which Richard de Porter held, 100s. Galton, 1/3 knight’s fee which Robert Newber[?d] , and afterwards Robert Ba[?b]et, held, 33s.4d. ?East Waddon,1/2 knight’s fee which John Breonse ,and afterwards Robert Martyn, held, 50s. Chilcombe, in Uggscombe hundred (Ogescombe), 2 knights’ fees which the prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem held, £10. Chideock, in Whitchurch Canonicorum hundred, 2 knights’ fees, £10. Hackeridge, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Bluntshay, Moulwode and Little Dunster, a knight’s fee, 100s. Mandeville, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Colway, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Lyme Abbots, 1/60 knight’s fee, 20d. Tymberlond, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Woodlands, 1/8 knight’s fee, 12s. 6d. Beaushens, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Harpers, 1/60 knight’s fee, 20d. Colmer and Blakeworth, 1/60 knight’s fee, 20d. Babers, 1/100 knight’s fee, 12d. Lily, 1/200 knight’s fee, 6d. Attebrigge, 1/100 knight’s fee, 12d. Shave Cross, 1/60 knight’s fee, 20d. Yard, 1/100 knight’s fee, 12d. Gerneshill, 1/60 knight’s fee, 20d. Purcombe, 1/100 knight’s fee, 12d. Cards Mill, 1/60 knight’s fee, 20d. Cothays, Lynecombe and Griddleshay, 1/40 knight’s fee, 2s. Stanton St Gabriel, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. ?Wyld or Monkton Wyld, a knight’s fee, 100s. Wembeshey, 3 parts of a knight’s fee, 75s. Studley, 1/100 knight’s fee, 12d. Honkford, 1/100 knight’s fee, 12d. Harmshay and Forstershay, 1/60 knight’s fee, 20d. Hogchester, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Stockbridge, 1/200 knight’s fee which the tenants there held, 6d. Mosterton, in Broadwindsor hundred, 2 knights’ fees, £20 [sic]. Tatton, in Uggscombe hundred (Uggescombe), 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Berwyk, in Eggardon hundred, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Mangerton, in Beaminster hundred, a knight’s fee, 100s. Broadway, in Culliford Tree hundred, a knight’s fee, 100s. Bardolfeston or Burleston, in Puddletown hundred, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. St Andrew, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Rollington, a knight’s fee, 100s. Langton [?Long Blandford], a knight’s fee, 100s. Worth Matravers, a knight’s fee, 100s. Buckland Ripers and Elworth, 2 fees, £10. Bloxworth, 1/4 knight’s fee, 25s. Charmouth, in the manor of Charmouth called ‘Streth’ which John de Beuchamp held, 1/100 knight’s fee, 12d. Symondsbury, in ‘Chymmeheigh’, 1/60 knight’s fee which John Mariot held, 20d. Winterborne Whitchurch, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Picket, 1/2 knight’s fee, 50s. Pimperne, advowson of the church, 100s. Tarrant Gunville, advowson of the church, £6 13s. 4d. Church Knowle, advowson of the church, £[?6] 13s. 4d. Steeple, advowson of the church, 66s. 8d. Cranborne, advowson of the priory, 100s.

William Lychefeld, knight ; Walter Corbet, esquire ; John Walssh of Shelsley; William Spechesley of Spetchley; William Meysy of Syntley; Richard Ketelby of Martley; Edmund Pygeon of Pershore; John Col...e [ms stained]; John Thornnedon ; William Tysho ; John Purshull of Elmbridge; and John Staple of Martley.

He held in his demesne as of fee tail £68 19d. rent as his share of £100 annual farm of the vill of Droitwich, at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. The fee-farm is held of the king in chief by knight service of 1/20 knight’s fee. The fee-farm, described as the vill of Droitwich, was given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 . It descended according to the pattern detailed in 471 , except that here after the death of Thomas son of Joan, Alice his widow was endowed with the fee-farm, among other lands and tenements, [CCR 1396–9, pp.248–9] and the reversion of the manor descended according to the subsequent pattern in 471 . Alice died seised of this estate, after whose death, Edmund earl of March , Joan duchess of York , Margaret duchess of Clarence , Eleanor late countess of Salisbury and Elizabeth late wife of John Nevill, chevalier , were seised of the fee-farm and other lands and tenements as in 471 . Edmund earl of March was assigned the £68 19d. rent from the fee-farm as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 . He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service the hamlet of Edvin Loach with a toft of a messuage, 1/2 carucate of land and 2 a. meadow there. The hamlet and toft are worth 6d. yearly, the 1/2 carucate 13s. 4d. yearly, and the meadow 4s. yearly, each acre 2s. yearly. He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of the manors of Bromsgrove, King’s Norton and Clifton on Teme. Long before his death, by the fine and letters patent dated 18 June 1415 , detailed in 477 and shown to the jurors, Edmund recognized the manors of Bromsgrove and King’s Norton to be the right of the quer. detailed in 477 , and the manor of Clifton on Teme to be the right of Thomas de Berkeley . The quer. had the manors of his gift, to hold the manors of Bromsgrove and King’s Norton to themselves and their heirs of the king and his heirs by the services owed and accustomed by right, and the manor of Clifton on Teme to themselves and the heirs of Thomas de Berkeley of the chief lords of the fees for services pertaining to that manor. The quer. were seised of the manors of Bromsgrove and King’s Norton in their demesne as of fee; Thomas de Berkeley was seised of the manor of Clifton in his demesne as of fee and the other quer. as of their free tenement. The same survivors are still seised of the manors of Bromsgrove and King’s Norton in their demesne as of fee, and of the manor of Clifton on Teme as of their free tenement. The manors of Bromsgrove and King’s Norton are held of the king in chief by knight service, annual value £60. The manor of Clifton on Teme is held of Richard Cornewall, lord of Burford , service unknown, annual value 20 marks. He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of the manor of Oddingley, with a toft of a messuage, a carucate of land and 2 a. meadow in Inkberrow, part of this manor. Described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster, lord of Wigmore and of Clare , and by his letters patent shown to the jurors, he granted these, described as the manor of Oddingley except the advowson of the manor’s church, to Thomas Lygon , for life, reversion to Edmund and his heirs. He bound himself and his heirs to warrant the manor, except the advowson, to Thomas for life as is contained more fully in the letters patent. Described similarly and by other letters patent shown to the jurors, he [required] Hugh Cresset , his attorney, to deliver seisin of the manor, except the advowson, in his name to Thomas Lygon , according to the form and essoin of the letters patent, as is clear more fully in the letters patent. Hugh delivered full seisin of the manor to Thomas long before Edmund’s death. Thomas is still peaceably seised as of his free tenement, and still takes the issues. Of whom the manor is held is unknown. He was formerly seised of those lands and tenements caled ‘Dyeresplace’ in the lordship of Bromsgrove. Long before his death and by letters patent dated 15 June 1417 and shown to the jurors, he granted these to Thomas Whitegrene for life to the value of £10 yearly without payment. Thomas is still peaceably seised. Richard earl of Warwick , Thomas Berkeley, chevalier , Edward Charleton, chevalier , Joan widow of William Beauchamp of Bergavenny, John Pelham, chevalier , Robert Corbet, chevalier , Walter Lucy , Thomas Chaucer , Thomas Holgote and Richard Wyggemore , by their letters patent dated 23 June [sic] and similarly shown to the jurors, confirmed Thomas’ estate and possession in the lands and tenements, as is clear more fully in the letters patent. By his letters patent dated at his castle of Denbigh, 1 July 1424 , he granted to [kinswoman ...] Maud of York, countess of Cambridge , 100 marks sterling yearly, while she was single and unmarried, from his fee-farm of Droitwich from the hands of his receiver or the bailiffs of the vill at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions, as is contained more fully in the letters patent. Maud was seised of the 100 marks annuity from his receiver. By his letters patent dated at London, 21 February 1423 , he granted to Thomas Broune, clerk of his household, 20 marks sterling yearly for life from his fee-farm of Droitwich by the hands of the bailiff, receiver or other occupier, at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions, as is contained more fully in the letters patent. Long before his death and by his letters patent dated 22 March 1415 and shown to the jurors, he granted by his special grace to his beloved servant Simon Benet , for his good and acceptable service, the manor of Tessall, 70s. annual rent, a water-mill, 4 a. meadow, 13 a. pasture and 5 a. wood, described as those lands, tenements and pasture, called ‘Shirnokes’, ‘Mercers’, ‘Mullewardes’ and ‘Chuyndes’ in King’s Norton and the hamlet of ?Bos..., formerly those of Thomas Henley , bastard, and which came to Edmund’s ancestors as escheat. He granted these to Simon for life without any payment to Edmund or his heirs, as is clear more fully in the letters patent. Simon is still peaceably seised in his demesne as of his free tenement, and took and still takes the issues. These lands, tenements and pasture are held of the manor of King’s Norton by service of a clove at Christmas for all other services, charges and demands. He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service a wood called ‘Adammeswode’ in Alton, containing 100 a. worth nothing yearly because waste and lying in common. He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief the following knights’ fees and parts of fees, annual values when they fall as shown. Sodington, a knight’s fee which Ralph son of Richard Porter , William Doverdale and Richard Blount held, 100s. Ribbesford and Rock, a knight’s fee which Walter de Rybbesford held, 100s. Mamble, 1/4 knight’s fee which Walter Shake...hurst [ms soiled ] formerly held, 25s. Cofton Hackett and Habberley, 2 knights’ fees which Baldwin Frevill ’s heir formerly held, £10. Crowle, 1/2 knight’s fee which the prior of Worcester held, 50s. He held in his demesne as of fee the advowson of Oddingley church, worth 6 marks yearly.

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs to the £68 19d. rent from the fee-farm of Droitwich as in 471 except that here Richard is aged 14 years and more. Richard duke of York is his kinsman and next heir general to the residual lands, tenements, fees, parts of fees and advowsons contained in this inquisition. ... married Amice daughter of Edmund late earl of Stafford on ... 6 June 1416 and survives.

John Wasborn ; Walter Fitzheir ; William Solley ; John Holyn ; Thomas Walsh ; Thomas Hosyntre ; Richard Nicolettes ; William Hopton ; John Rumpney ; John Trukston ; John Smyther ; and John Cowlesdon .

Jurors: as in 492 .

John Hoke ; Henry Chamberleyn ; John Domer ; Roger Baron ; John P...g... [ms torn]; Richard Stowe ; Thomas Haccher ; Robert Graunger ; William Morys ; William Sampson ; Robert Cok ; and John Parker .

He was not seised of any lands or tenements within the liberty of the city or its suburbs and held no other lands or tenements within the liberty of the king or another which can be taken into the king’s hands.

Date of death as in 467 .

Richard duke of York is his next heir as son of Anne his sister, and is aged 14 years and more.

Robert Baker ; William Wrennie ; John Readhood ; William Bokelond ; Richard Maykyn ; Thomas Aleyn ; William Doget ; William Clerk ; Peter Hauk ; John Pope ; Richard Jocekyn ; and John Pette of Gravesend.

He held in his demesne as of fee the site of the manor called ‘le Stronde’ in West Greenwich, 3 a. arable lying at ‘Depfordestroude’ and 3 parts of a dovecot in West Greenwich, of the heir of Lord de Say by fealty and suit to his court of West Greenwich every three weeks and by service of 4s. annual rent at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. The site is worth nothing yearly, the land 18d. yearly, each acre 6d., and the 3 parts of the dovecot 5s. yearly. He held in his demesne as of fee an enclosed chase in Tonbridge, called Southfrith, in which there are tenants at will who pay £10 5s. rent for assarts at Michaelmas, Christmas, Lady Day and Midsummer in equal portions. The chase is held of the archbishop of Canterbury in right of his archbishopric by knight service, its herbage, agistment and pannage worth nothing yearly after enclosure, wages of the forester and keeper of the chase, and the maintenance of the beasts of the chase. By his letters patent shown to the jurors and dated at London, 16 September 1414 , he granted to his beloved servant Richard Maydestan for his good and acceptable service, £10 yearly for life from the issues from this chase, by the hands of the receivers, farmers, keepers or other occupiers at the usual terms, as is contained more fully in the letters patent. Richard is still seised. He held in his demesne as of fee the manor of Shillingheld of the heir of William Wylton by service of 1/20 knight’s fee. In the manor there is the derelict site, worth nothing yearly; 92 a. arable, worth 46s. yearly, each acre 6d.; pasture for 100 sheep, called ‘Sheplese’, worth 8s. 4d. yearly; 1 a. 1 rood of substantial timber and pasture in the wood, worth 6d. yearly; 4s. assize rents yearly at the four usual annual terms in equal portions; and assize rents of 11 hens at Christmas, price of each hen 2d. By his letters patent shown to the jurors and dated at London, 1 October 1423 , he granted to his beloved servant Richard Wylton for his good and acceptable service, 5 marks yearly for life from the issues of the manor by the hands of the receivers, farmers, bailiffs or other occupiers, at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions, as is contained more fully in the letters patent. Richard was seised. He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of 3 parts of the manor of Kingsdown, the manor held of the heirs of John de Sancto Johanne by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, annual value of the 3 parts 106s. 8d. Long before his death he granted these parts, described as his manor of Kingsdown, by letters patent shown to the jurors and dated at his castle of Denbigh, 28 June 1424 , to his beloved servant Richard Maydestan for his good and acceptable service, for life without rendering anything to Edmund, reserving to the late earl and his heirs all knights’ fees, church advowsons, escheat, wardship, marriage, relief and all profits of the court under the terms contained in the letters patent. By other letters patent of the same place and date and similarly shown to the jurors, he deputed his beloved Roger Wynter , his receiver in Kent, to deliver seisin to Richard, to have for life according to the tenor of the letters patent to him, as is contained more fully in these letters patent. Richard, who survives, is still seised in his demesne as of free tenement. Edmund held in his demesne as of fee 1/6 knight’s fee in Kingsdown, pertaining to these 3 parts, which Laurence Chymbeham ’s heirs held, annual value when it falls 16s. 4d. The other rights of escheat, wardship, marriage and relief reserved in the letters patent are worth nothing yearly, and the perquisites of the court are worth nothing after the steward’s expense. He held in his demesne as of fee tail the manor of Wickhambreaux with the advowson of the church, which is extended at £20 yearly, by knight service. The manor and advowson were given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 , and descended according to the pattern detailed in 471 . Edmund earl of March was assigned the manor and advowson as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 . In the manor there are the site with a hall, a chamber, a kitchen, a granary, 2 stables, a piggery and 3 barns, worth nothing yearly; 300 a. arable at ‘le Doune’, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 300 a. pasture from the salt-marsh, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 2 water-mills, one derelict, worth £4 yearly; a ferry called Grove Ferry which was formerly built in the place arranged for passage across the king’s river Great Stour and is now built in a place where there is no mooring from one bank of the Great Stour except by the grace and permission of William Bryan, whose land and sole property abutts the river on the north, and when he permits access the ferry is worth 30s. yearly; an unenclosed park called ‘Trendele Park’, its pasture worth 13s. 4d. yearly; an estimated 200 a. wood and underwood in this park, of which it is possible seasonably to fell 8 a. underwood yearly, each acre then worth 6s. 8d.; £18 assize rents, with services and customs of the tenants, levied at the four principal annual terms; perquisites of the court, worth 3s. 4d. yearly after the steward’s expenses; and rents of 100 cocks and hens at Christmas, price of each bird 2d. Annual value of the manor thus £47 16s. 8d. From time out of mind, Roger Danyell’s heirs and all his ancestors have had right of pasturage for 8 oxen and 200 sheep in ‘Grovemerssh’ and elsewhere in the manor, and 20 pigs and a boar at pannage time. By his letters patent shown to the jurors and dated at London, 28 May 1421 , Edmund granted to his beloved servant John Sevyle , who survives, for his good service past and henceforth, 10 marks legal money for life from the issues of the lordship and manor of Wickhambreaux by the hands of the bailiffs, farmers or other occupiers at East and Michaelmas in equal portions. John is still seised. By his letters patent dated at the abbey of Titchfield, 26 August 1417 , of his special grace and for the good service past and henceforth of his beloved servant John Fylzpiers [sic], Edmund granted to John the office of parker and warrener of his park and warren in the lordship of Wickhambreaux with the daily wage of 2d. for life taken yearly from the issues of the lordship by the hands of the bailiffs, farmers or other occupiers at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions, together with all appertenances and easements as clearly disclosed in the letters patent shown to the jurors. He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief the following knights’ fees and parts of fees. Wateringbury, 1 1/2 fees which Juliane de Leybourne held. Aylesford, 1/2 knight’s fee which William Baud held. Luddesdown, 1 1/4 knights’ fees which John de Bokelond held. Murston, a knight’s fee which Hugh son of Simon held. Gravesend and Milton, 1/2 knight’s fee which Thomas de Grauesende held. Swanscombe, 1/4 knight’s fee which John de Coumbe held. Addington, 4 1/2 fees which the countess of Pembroke held. [ Islingham ] , 3 parts of a knight’s fee which the same countess similarly held. Preston, 1/4 knight’s fee which John de Rendale held. Boughton Monchelsea, 3 parts of a knight’s fee which the same countess also held. Tappington, a knight’s fee of the Batelesmere inheritance which John de Tapeton and John de Erhithe held. Erith, 1/2 knight’s fee which James Burforde held. Ripple, a fee which William de Clynton, earl of Huntingdon , formerly held. Lyminge, a knight’s fee which Margaret de Kendale held. Eythorne, 1/2 knight’s fee which John de Bondon held. Tonge, 1/4 knight’s fee which Richard Stonyngton held. Stonepit, 1/4 knight’s fee which Nicholas de Cobbeham held. Ham, 1/2 knight’s fee which Richard Fitzbernard held. Bicknor, 1/2 knight’s fee which William de Clynton, earl of Huntingdon , held. Nackington, 1/4 knight’s fee which Isabel Terry held. Davington, 1/4 knight’s fee which the prioress of Guines held. Chilham, a knight’s fee which Eudes de Shillyngheld held. Ashenfield, 1/2 knight’s fee which Edmund Gaselyn held. Harty, 2 parts of a knight’s fee which Richard de Rokerwell ’s heirs held. He did not hold any more lands or tenements in his demesne as of fee or in service or otherwise of the king in chief or any others, because he was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of the manors of Swanscombe, Tonge and Erith and long before his death, by the fine and royal letters patent detailed in 477 , Edmund recognized the manors to be the right of the quer. detailed in 477 , which manors they had of his gift, to hold of the king and his heirs by the services owed and accustomed by right. The quer. were seised in their demesne as of fee and the same survivors are still seised. ms torn, identification taken from 496 below.

Date of death as in 467 . His next heirs to the manor of Wickhambreaux as in 471 , except that here Richard duke of York is aged 14 years and more. Richard is his kinsman and next heir to the other lands and tenements of which he died seised. [The inquisition for Middlesex ordered in the writ is not extant.]

Jurors: as in 495 with surname variations for William Wrenne and John Reedhood .

He held in chief of the king the knights’ fees detailed in 495 , taken into the king’s hands on his death, except that here the 1/4 fee held by the prioress of Guines is given as in Newington and 1/6 knight’s fee in Kingsdown which Laurence Chymbeham held, is given at the end. The fees have no fixed annual value however valued, but each fee is worth 100s. as relief when it falls, and each part of the fees is valued proportionately, with wardship and marriage also when it falls. He died seised in his demesne as of fee tail of the advowson of Wickhambreaux church, worth nothing yearly wherein it can be valued, but the church is worth £20 yearly. [The inquisition for Middlesex ordered in the writ is not extant.]

John England, esquire ; William Leiters ; Thomas Robyns[o]n [ms holed]; John Toyne ; John Panntre ; John Hode ; John Randolf ; John Northwod ; Richard Northwod ; Richard Hunt ; Roger Sutton ; Thomas Walker ; John Walker ; William Geffrayson ; William Walker ; John Raspyn of Dunswell; and John Seman of North House.

He held the following parcels, part of the manor of Cottingham, in his demesne as of fee tail, held of the king by service of a barony. Edward I granted these parcels together with the residue of the manor, among other lands and tenements, and described as the manor of Cottingham, to John Wake and Joan his wife and the heirs of their bodies. John and Joan died seised and the manor then descended successively to the following: Thomas their son; John son and heir of Margaret, sister of Thomas, who died without heir of his body; Joan, late princess of Wales , sister and heir of John son of Margaret; and then according to the pattern detailed in 471 , with the additional information here that the parcels of the lands and tenements were assigned in dower to Lucy widow of Edmund brother of Thomas, among other lands and tenements part of the manor, and afterwards she died. Edmund earl of March was assigned the parcels as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 . The western part of the site of the outer courtyard of the manor of Cottingham, extending from the northern end of a boundary wall capped with tiles (a fine boriali cuiusdam muri litei tegul coopert’) to a granary and from there rising in a straight line by this wall and by means of a small outhouse at the end of this wall, with the wall and gates in the wall, and from there by the trenches dug above the fishpond as far as the outer stank towards the south, and from there around by the moat (mota) as far as the western garret called ‘le Middelgaret’ beside the corner of the inner stank, with this garret, and from there to the northern end of this wall with a chapel and barns and a moiety of this outhouse and with 2 garrets on this site, with the whole site within these adjacent bounds together with the whole outer stank abutting this land with free entry and exit. This part is worth nothing yearly. Parcels of wood and of pasture in the park of Cottingham, called ‘Milnehouswod’, ‘Milnehouswod Pleynes’, ‘Milneshouswod Outpleynes’, ‘Vatherylaund’, ‘Estlannd’ and ‘Wanlas’ with attached ditches (fossati) together with other smaller pastures and woods adjacent to these ‘pleynes’ and ‘vatheryland’, as delineated by the trenches in that park, which trenches extend from a ditch called ‘Drydyke’ until the ‘Vatherilaund’ ditch, the ditch called ‘Drydyke’ together with the stank of the watercourse ‘del Sprynges’ excepted. These parcels of wood and pasture contain 80 a., being 20 a. wood and 60 a. pasture. The underwood of the wood is worth 10s. yearly and the herbage of the pasture 5 marks yearly. 3 messuages, 23 cottages in Cottingham in a place called Newgate, 17 cottages in a place called Thwaite, 40 a. meadow attached to these cottages in Cottingham, 3 cottages in a place called Dunswell, 3 messuages and 8 cottages in a place called North House, 17 bovates of land in the district of Cottingham, 129 a. land in the same place called Dunswell, 38 a. land in the same North House, 7 a. meadow of the demesne meadow in a place called Saltings. Each messuage is worth 2s. yearly, each cottage 12d. yearly, each acre of land 8d. yearly, each bovate of land 13s. yearly and each acre of meadow 3s. yearly. A pasture called ‘le Gange’ in North House for the agistment of beasts of the chase, worth 50s. yearly; 77s. 4d. annual rent from tenants in Newgate and Thwaite at Pentecost and Martinmas in equal portions with the suit of court of Robert Lyolf and Richard Anlaby ; 1/5 of 5 marks annual rent from the river-crossing (passagium aque) from Hessle at the same feasts; a fair with toll and stallage in a place called Thwaite in Cottingham, held on the feast of translation of St Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 1/5 enclosed common land there worth 12d. yearly; 1/5 turbary in a pasture called Friths, worth 12d. yearly for digging the turf; 1/5 court and leet at Cottingham held twice a year, worth 20s. yearly; 1/5 sea wreck, chattels of felons and fugitives with all liberties and franchises, worth 12d. yearly; and advowson of 1/5 Cottingham church, the second time of presentation, worth nothing except the presentation when it happens to be vacant. He held in his demesne as of fee tail in joint tenancy with Joan, duchess of York , Margaret duchess of Clarence , Alice wife of Richard Nevyll, chevalier , and daughter and heir of Eleanor late countess of Salisbury , and Ralph Nevyll , son and heir of Elizabeth widow of John Nevill, chevalier , by virtue of this same grant, the knights’ fees and parts of fees, and the advowsons of abbeys, churches and chapels belonging to the manor, detailed in 153 , with the following variations. Great Ayton, Thomas Marchant is described as of ?Ayton (Acton). Great Barugh or Little Barugh, Muscoates and Wombleton, the knight’s fee was lately held by [blank] de Vescy. Scrayingham, forename of John Dollyng ’s wife not given. Barnby, the fee which John de la Hay held is described as 1/14 knight’s fee. Willerby, Foxholes, Staxton and ?Harpham, the knight’s fee is also in Brigham. Sutton on the Forest, fee described [recte] as 1/3 knight’s fee. He held in his demesne as of fee the following knights’ fees and parts of fees, namely various tenements in various vills whereof 21 carucates make a knight’s fee. Mowthorpe, 4 1/2 carucates in the grange which the prior of Malton holds; 1/2 carucate which the same prior holds of [ Peter] de Maule and the latter of the earl; 3 bovates which William Plays held; and 2 bovates which the prior of Kirkham held. He held in his demesne as of fee the following various tenements in various vills whereof 16 carucates make 1 fee. Knapton, 16 bovates which William de Colvill held; 6 bovates which Nicholas de Swayngdon ’s heirs held; 15 bovates which William Aton held; 4 bovates which Hugh Burgoynen ’s heirs and John Tranyn held; and 8 bovates which the prior of Malton held. Sherburn, 8 carucates and 2 bovates which the heirs of Everyngham held. Wintringham, 4 carucates which William de Aton ’s heirs held; and 4 carucates which the prior of Malton held. Newsholme with Brind, 4 carucates which Robert Bertram and his wife held. Wressle, a carucate and 6 bovates which John de Moubray ’s heirs held. Breighton, a carucate which James de Roos ’s heirs held. Willitoft, 4 carucates which the heirs of Peter de Malo Lacu and of Thomas Roos held. Spaldington, 3 carucates and ?1 bovate which Thomas Roos’s heirs held. Bubwith, a carucate and 6 bovates which Thomas Roos ’s heirs held. Foggathorpe, a carucate which Thomas Roos ’s heirs held. Thornton, 4 carucates which William de Aton ’s heirs held. Storthwaite and Melbourne, 4 carucates which Thomas de Roos ’ heirs held. Wauldby, Willerby, Myton, Hessle, North Ferriby, Braffords, Swanland, Kirk Ella , West Ella, Drewton, Hotham, North Cliffe, Newsholme, Willitoft, Spaldington, Foggathorpe, Bubwith, Thornton in Spaldingmoor, and Wintringham, 14 knights’ fees which William de Veyscy ’s heirs held. Storthwaite, Melbourne and Breighton, a knight’s fee which Lord de Roos of Helmsley held. Wintringham, Newsholme, Farlington, Howe, Sn[?lend]a, North Ferriby, Lang[e...] in Ridele, Brompton, Torswait, Brompton in Pikering, Turleby in Kempeton, Aveley and Walton, 15 knights’ fees. See 498 . See 498 .

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs to the parcels above, as allocated to him, and to his part of the fees, parts of fees and advowsons belonging to the manor, as in 471 , except that here Richard duke of York is aged 14 years and more. Richard is also his next heir general, as son of Anne his sister, to those knights’ fees and parts of fees in which he died [seised] in his demesne as of fee. [Foot:] ... Walter Clauyle of Talmesforth in Kent delivered this inquisition into Chancery.

John Raspyn ; John Seman ; William Walker ; William Geffraison ; John Walker ; Roger Sutton ; Richard Hunt ; Richard Northwod ; John Randolf ; John Hode ; John Pantre ; and John Ingeland .

He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief the following knights’ fees and parts of fees, extended as shown. Mowthorpe, in the grange, 1/5 knight’s fee which the prior of Malton held, 20s.; 1/50 knight’s fee which the same prior held of Peter de Maule who held of the earl , 2s.; 1/50 knight’s fee which William Plays held, 2s.; and 1/100 knight’s fee which the prior of Kirkham held, 12d. Knapton, 1/8 knight’s fee which William Colvile held, 12s. 6d.; 1/25 knight’s fee which Nicholas de Swayndon ’s heirs held, 4s.; 1/8 knight’s fee which William de Aton held, 12s. 6d.; 1/30 knight’s fee which Hugh Burgenon ’s heirs and John Tranyn held, 3s. 4d.; and 1/15 knight’s fee which the prior of Malton held, 6s. 8d. Sherburn, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert de Everyngham held, 50s. Wintringham, 1/4 knight’s fee which William Aton held, 25s.; and 1/4 knight’s fee which the prior of Malton held, 25s. Newsholme with Brind, 1/4 knight’s fee which Robert Bertram and his wife held, 25s. Wressle, 1/10 knight’s fee which John de Mowbray held, 10s. Breighton, 1/15 knight’s fee which James de Roos held, 6s. 8d. Willitoft, 1/4 knight’s fee which Peter de Malo Lacu and Thomas de Roos held, 25s. See 497 . Spaldington, 1/5 knight’s fee which Thomas de Roos held, 20s. Bubwith, 1/10 knight’s fee which Thomas de Roos held, 20s. Foggathorpe, 1/15 knight’s fee which the same Thomas held, 6s. 8d. Thornton, 1/4 knight’s fee which William de Aton held, 25s. Storthwaite and Melbourne, 1/4 knight’s fee which Thomas de Roos held, 25s. Wauldby, Willerby, Myton, Hessle, North Ferriby, Braffords, Swanland, Kirk Ella , West Ella, Drewton, Hotham, North Cliffe, Newsholme, Willitoft, Spaldington, Foggathorpe, Bubwith, Thornton, in Spaldingmoor, and Wintringham, 14 knights’ fees which William de Veyscy ’s heirs held, £70. Storthwaite, Melbourne and Breighton, a knight’s fee which Lord de Roos of Helmsley held, 100s. Wintringham, Newsholme, Farlington, Howe, Snalonde, North Ferriby, Langton in Rydale, Brompton, Thorswayte, Brompton in Pikering, Turleby in Kempeton, Aveley and Walton, 15 knights’ fees, worth £75. He held in his demesne as of fee in joint tenancy with Joan duchess of York , Margaret duchess of Clarence , Alice wife of Richard Nevill, knight , and daughter and heir of Eleanor late countess of Salisbury , and Ralph Neville , son and heir of Elizabeth fifth sister and heir of Edmund late earl of Kent , the knights’ fees and parts of fees detailed as in 497 , except that here the fee in Great Barugh or Little Barugh, Muscoates and Wombleton is held by John de Vescy . Details of the advowsons given in 497 also repeated.

Robert Porter ; John atte Fenne ; Thomas Chercheman ; John Bryd ; [?Henry] ...; ...; John Carleton ; Henry Nottesson ; John Gardeville ; John Wynterflood ; Richard Wareyn ; and John H....

He held the following in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief. Great Bardfield, the manor, as part of the earldom of Gloucester by knight service. In the manor there are ... worth nothing yearly; ... a. 31/2 roods of arable, worth £7 18d. yearly, each acre 2[or 3]d.; 72 a. land ... worth 12s. yearly, each acre 2d.; 38 a. meadow, worth 57s. yearly, each acre 18d.; ?43 a. pasture, worth ...; ...; a park, its agistment from the Invention of the Cross to Michaelmas worth 40s. yearly after the maintenance of the beasts of the chase; an enclosed meadow within this park ... customarily mown for the maintenance of these beasts in winter; ...; ... 16 a. worth nothing yearly because there is no seasonable underwood in these groves; 2 mills – a windmill and a water-mill – worth 26s. 8d. yearly; £17 assize rents with ... and market tolls, worth 100s., from the borough at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas in equal portions; ?33 customary tenants who should do the following – perform 1,600 customary services from Lammas day to Michaelmas, worth 66s. 8d. yearly, each customary service 1/2d., mow 260 a. corn during the same period or pay 2d. for each acre, worth 43s. 4d. yearly, pay 26 capons at St Andrew, worth 4s. 4d. yearly, each capon 2d., and pay 200 eggs rent at Easter, worth 12[?d.] yearly; perquisites of the court there, worth 40s. yearly; and a leet held around Easter, worth 13s. 4d. yearly. Thaxted, 1/3 of 1/3 manor, by service of 1/3 of 1/3 knight’s fee. In the 1/3 there are 7 1/2 a. in a garden, worth 2s. 6d. yearly, each acre 4d.; 315 a. land, worth 52s. 6d. yearly, each acre 2d.; 36 a. meadow, worth 54s. yearly, each acre 18d.; 36 a. pasture, worth 18s. yearly, each acre 6d.; 260 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because there is no underwood; 58s. 23/4d. rent of free tenants at Easter, Midsummer, Michaelmas and Christmas in equal portions; 20s. 81/2d. assize rents in the borough at the same terms; £9 10s. 111/4d. rents of villein tenants at the same terms; 1/3 of 1/3 of 2 windmills, worth 10s. yearly; 1/3 of 1/3 annual leet, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 1/3 of 1/3 court held every three weeks, worth 20s. yearly; profits from 1/3 of 1/3 market-tolls and stallage, worth 8s. 3d. yearly; and 1/3 of 1/3 all common pasture outside the manor in the broad and green lanes with the trees growing in them, and fishing in all rivers of this 1/3 of 1/3, worth 2s. yearly. Stambourne, a leet held around the Invention of the Cross, and a court held every three weeks, worth 100s. yearly, held by knight service. Toppesfield, a leet held in Pentecost week, worth 2s. yearly. Shalford, a leet held the same week, worth 24s. yearly. Norton (Norton Finchyngfeld), a leet held the same week, worth 10s. yearly. Braintree, an annual leet, worth 12d. yearly. ?Hepworth, an annual leet, worth 12d. yearly. Little Wigborough, an annual leet, worth 12d. yearly. Widford, an annual view of frankpledge, worth 18d. yearly. Broomfield, an annual view of frankpledge in this vill at Patching, worth 6d. quit yearly. Ingrave, an annual view of frankpledge, worth 12d. yearly. He was seised in his demesne as of fee simple of the manor of Claret, in Ashen, held of the honour of Gloucester. By his letters patent, dated at London, 28 December 1414 , he granted the manor with all its lands, tenements, rents and profits, to his esquire Hugh Fraunceys for his good and acceptable service, to hold for life without payment, with wardships, marriages, knights’ fees, relief, church advowsons and woods reserved to the earl and his heirs under certain terms contained in the letters patent. Hugh, who survives, remains seised in his demesne as of his free tenement. The profits of the reserved rights are worth nothing yearly. By his letters patent of the same date, he granted £10 annual rent to Alice wife of this Hugh for life, to hold for life and after the death of Hugh from the manor of Claret. He placed her in seisin of the rent by payment of 6s. 8d. Hugh and Alice were seised by letters of attorney of the same date. Annual value of the manor 18 marks. Described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster and lord of Wigmore and Clare, long before his death he granted by his letters patent, dated 9 June 1413 , the office of parker and warrener of his park and warren of Great Bardfield to John Waldreff for his good service, to hold of the earl and his heirs for life with 3d. daily wage, 2d. as parker’s fee and 1d. as warrener’s fee. Described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster, he granted by letters patent dated 20 June 1414 , to the same John Waldieff for his good service then and thenceforth, the manor of Lashley, to hold of the earl and his heirs for life, paying 5 marks at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions to the earl and his heirs, and sufficiently repairing and maintaining all the manor’s houses and buildings. Lashley. The manor is worth 18 marks yearly and is held of Lord de Ferarijs , service unknown. John, who survives, remains seised of the office, wage and manor. Described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster ... [he was seised] of the manor of North Fambridge jointly enfeoffed in fee simple with Thomas Banastre, clerk , and Nicholas Clerk ... by charter of Walter Hungerford, knight, Walter Lucy, knight , Thomas Wanton, knight , Richard Wyggemore and Thomas Lygon , dated at Standon, ... 3 Henry V, as is clear more fully in the charter shown to the jurors. North Fambridge. The manor is held of ...gh, by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, annual value 20 marks. He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee simple of a messuage called ‘Bottes’ in his vill of ..., held of ... Essex by ... 2d. at Easter and Michaelmas equally. Described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster, lord of Wigmore and of Clare , by his letters patent dated at London, 20 February 1415 and shown to the jurors, he granted to his servant Stephen Melburn for his good service then and thenceforth, the messuage, to the value of 20s. yearly, for life, paying any surplus yearly to the earl and his heirs. ‘Bottes’. The messuage is worth 20s. yearly and no more. Stephen, who survives, remains seised in his demesne as of his free tenement. He was seised in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief of the following knights’ fees and church advowsons, extended as shown. Halstead, Belchamp, ?Purton (Pred[iton]), Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield (...yngfeld), Fr... and Toppesfield, 2 knights’ fees, which John le B...cher held, £10. Hals... and Chaureth, a knight’s fee, which the heirs of Abel de Sancto Martino held, 100s. Crepping, 2 parts of a knight’s fee, which the heir of Hugh ... held, 75s. Langham, a knight’s fee, which Hugh de Neuyll held, 100s. Thaxted, a knight’s fee, which the heir of [?Richard] de Beauendr held, 100s. ... Toppesfield ..., [at least ] 11/2 knight’s fee, which Richard son of ?Guncelli and the heir of Robert de Camnes held, £7 10s. Lamarsh and Alphamstone, 4 parts of a knight’s fee, which the prior of Colne held, 25s. Bardfield Saling, 1/10 knight’s fee, which the heir of Geoffrey le Botiller held, 10s.; and 1/2 knight’s fee, which the heir of ... held, 50s. Thaxted and Finchingfield, 11/2 knight’s fee, which John de Petham and Richard Co...rth held, £7 10s. Halstead, a knight’s fee, which Giles de Badeles...re held, 100s. Thaxted, Chaureth and Broxted, 3 knights’ fees, which the heir of ... de Clare held, £15. Thaxted, 1/2 and 1/4 knight’s fee, which the heirs of Agnes de [?Cornerth] and the heir of Thomas son of Stephen held, 75s. Helion Bumpstead or Steeple Bumpstead, a knight’s fee, which Simon de Henham held, 100s. Little Wigborough, 2 knights’ fees, which Robert [?Senence] held, £10. Poslingford, Shelley and Willingale Doe or Willingale Spain, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Richard de R[o]kell held, 50s. Mountnessing, 1/2 knight’s fee, which H[?amond] Ch[?eu]re held, 50s. Ramsden Crays, a knight’s fee, which Hamond Cheure held, 100s. Little Sampford, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Richard son of William held, 50s. Magdalen Laver, a knight’s fee, which Thomas de Wal[ton] held, 100s. Great Totham or Little Totham, 3 knights’ fees, which Gilbert de Clare purchased from John de Riparijs, knight , and the lord of Angr’ , and which Hugh de Neuyll held, £15. Navestock, 1/2 knight’s fee, which the same Gilbert purchased from the same John, 50s. Cavendish, Bures St Mary, Great Cornard or Little Cornard, Burstall, Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield, Brent Eleigh or Monks Eleigh, Preston, Brettenham, Lindsey, Groton, Swilland, Thorpe ?Morieux, Kettlebaston, Cockfield and Whatfield in Suffolk, Rushford in Suffolk [recte Norfolk] and Twinstead in Essex, a knight’s fee, which Thomas de Grey holds, which Richard de Cornerth held, 100s. Truton and Thorp, 1/2 knight’s fee, which [the earl] of Oxford holds, 50s. Ashen in Essex, Cotton, Hemyngford, Fornham, Ryngeston and Clare in Suffolk, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Thomas Arblaster and the heirs of the son of Adam held, 50s. Chipley, Clopton, Wilsey and Denston in Suffolk, Borley, Great Yeldham or Little Yeldham, Barrow, Toppesfield, and Ovington, in Essex, 5 1/2 knights’ fees, which Walter son of Humphrey held, £27 10s. Pebmarsh, Essex, 1/2 knight’s fee, [text omitted?] in Finchingfield, Essex, and a knight’s fee in Great Yeldham or Little Yeldham in Suffolk, 1/2 knight’s fee in Fornham, ?Higham (Hetham), Alderton, Stansfield and Tuddenham in Suffolk and Bulmer in Essex, and 4 fees and 3 parts of a knight’s fee in Poslingford [in Suffolk], which William son of Ralph held, £18 10s. ?Bobbingworth (Bollyngworth), Wande, ... [Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield], Darnford, Braham, Isham, Birdbrook, Harlow, Foxearth and Ingham in Essex and Suffolk, 5 knights’ fees, which Robert de Hastynge holds, £25. Little Sampford, ?Harefield, Chaureth, Great Cornard or Little Cornard, Great Saxham or Little Saxham, Cavendish, ?Batchworth (Bacheworth)) and Kirton in Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex, 14 knights’ fees, which Richard de Talworth , [?Roger] de Bachesworthe and the heirs of Alan de Clare held, £70. Dalham, Elveden, Bures St Mary, Little Bradley, Clopton, Gestingthorpe (West Wynthorp), Bessham, Mad...well, Hartest and Middleton in Essex and Norfolk [recte Suffolk], 5 1/2 knights’ fees, which Gilbert Pecche held, £27 10s. ?Great Dunmow, Finchingfield, Lashley and Bulmer in Essex, and Pensthorpe, Cley ?next the Sea, Threxton, Boketon, Stiffkey, West Winch, Clenchwarton, Norton, North Pickenham or South Pickenham, Wiggenhall and Fordham in Norfolk, 12 1/4 knights’ fees, which Simon son of Richard held, £70 5s. ? East Hyde and West Hyde, 1/4 knight’s fee, which John Bintorde held of the inheritance ..., 25s. Danbury and Liston, 2 knights’ fees, which Hugh Fitzsymond now Nicholas Fitzsymond ?holds, £10. Ardleigh, called ‘Bouuelles’, a knight’s fee, which Richard de Sutton held, 100s. Boreham called Walfares, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Nicholas Burne ..., 50s. Little Thurrock, a knight’s fee called ‘Berewes’, which John Squyry held, 100s. West Horndon, 3 parts of a knight’s fee, which John Nayll held, 75s. Ingrave, 1/2 knight’s fee, which Robert Gosselyne holds, 50s.; and 1/4 knight’s fee called ‘Bernehalle’, which Geoffrey Darsham held, 25s. Barstaple, 1/2 knight’s fee, which ... Walden holds, 50s.; and 1/2 knight’s fee, which Sankina de Berstaple held, 50s. Widford in Essex and ... in Kent, 2 knights’ fees pertaining to the honour of Wigmore, annual value £10, which the earl of Suffolk held, whereof Thomas Greneshende, knight , held the manor of Paddock Wood of the earl of Suffolk of his manor of Woodford ... 1/2 knight’s fee and rent of a pair of gilt spurs yearly to the earl of Suffolk, and the same earl of Suffolk held the two manors of the earl of March of his manor of Swanscombe by service of 2 knights’ fees and 23s. yearly as castle-guard at the castle of Rochester. A 1/4 knight’s fee in the same county, which Humphrey son of Walter held of the fee pertaining to the Marshal’s inheritance, 25s. Great Dunmow, the advowson of the church, of the Clare inheritance, annual value £20. Little Stambridge, the advowson of the church, of the inheritance of the earl of Mortuo Mari , assessed at £6 13s. 4d. Lashley, the advowson of the chapel, assessed at 66s. 8d.

Date of death and heir as in 467 except that here Richard duke of York was aged 13 years on 21 September last .

He held of the king in chief in his demesne as of fee various parts of knights’ fees and advowsons, namely 1/4 knight’s fee in Barrow which Nicholas Deith ’s heirs held, value 25s. He held of the king in chief the advowson of Royston priory, annual value £6 13s. 4d. when it falls, and the advowson of a chapel in Salburn, value 40s. Described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster , he held the manors of Standon and Plashes jointly enfeoffed in fee simple with Thomas Banastre, clerk , and Nicholas Clerk, clerk , who survive, by the demise detailed in 487 . The manor of Standon is held of Richard duke of York of his honour of Clare by service of 1/3 knight’s fee, annual value 40 marks. The manor of Plashes is held of Lord de Ferarijs by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, annual value 10 marks. He was formerly seised in his demesne as of fee of a tenement called Pope’s Hall, held of the king in chief of the honour of Dover by service of paying 10s. yearly for castle-ward at Dover. By his letters patent, shown to the jurors and dated at London, 4 December 1423 , he granted all lands and tenements, rents and profits whatsoever from the vill of Pope’s Hall [or Pepsal] to William Barwe his squire, for his good and acceptable service, for life without payment, reserving to the earl and his heirs perquisites of the court, wardship, marriage, relief, escheat, heriot and advowsons whatsoever, according to the form contained in the letters patent. William is still seised in his demesne as of his free tenement. All profits, court perquisites, etc. as reserved in the letters patent, are worth nothing yearly.

Date of death and heir as in 467 except that here Richard duke of York was aged 13 years on 21 September last .

Robert Porter ; Robert Lyndesell ; Walter Goodmay ; Thomas Dryvere ; Thomas Chercheman ; Nicholas Parker ; John Bryd of Bishop’s Wood; John Jenyco ; Reginald Bienge ; Thomas Drought ; John Copshef ; and John Haddestoke .

He held of the king in chief in his demesne as of fee more lands and tenements than were specified in the inquisition returned to Chancery, [see 499 ], namely 2 parts of the manor of Thaxted divided into 4 parts, held of the king in chief by service of 2 parts of a knight’s fee. In the 2 parts there are 15 a. land in a garden, worth 5s. yearly, each acre 4d.; 630 a. land, worth 105s. yearly, each acre 2d.; 72 a. meadow, worth 108s. yearly, each acre 18d.; 72 a. pasture, worth 36s. yearly, each acre 6d.; 520 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because there is no underwood; 15s. 51/2d. annual rent as rent of free tenants at Easter, Midsummer, Michaelmas and Christmas in equal portions; 41s. 5d. assize rents in the borough at the same annual terms; £19 221/2d. rent from villein tenants at the same terms; 2 parts of 2 windmills divided into 4 parts, worth 20s. yearly; 2 parts of an annual leet divided into 4 parts, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 2 parts of the perquisites of a three-weekly court divided into 4 parts, worth 40s. yearly; profits issuing from 2 parts of market tolls and stallage divided into 4 parts, worth 16s. 6d. yearly; and 2 parts of all common pasture outside the manor in the broad and green lanes with the trees growing in them and fishing in all rivers of the 2 parts, divided into 4 parts, worth 4s. yearly.

Date of death as in 467 . Richard duke of York is his heir as son of Anne his sister, and is aged 16 years and more.

Walter Lucy, chevalier , occupied the 2 parts of the manor and took all issues from Edmund’s death until 8 May when John Doreward , sheriff, took them into the king’s hands by virtue of the king’s writ dated under the Exchequer seal and directed to the sheriff. Walter and the sheriff are thus answerable to the king.

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Thomas de Ware ; William Hert ; William Herdewyk ; Robert Childe ; John Walter , ‘bocher’; William Hykeman ; John Nicoll ; Thomas Pygot ; William [?Cigne] [ms torn]; John Buskyne ; Roger Lor... ; and Robert West .

He did not hold more lands or tenements of the king in chief or of any others than were speciified in the inquisition returned to Chancery [see 500 ]. The details regarding the manors of Standon and Plashes, given in 500 , are repeated.

Date of death and heir as in 469 , except that here Richard duke of York is aged 16 years and more.

William Albreed ; John Hall ; Walter ?Tobalt [ms torn]; Richard Gosse ; Henry Derby ; Thomas Barbour ; William Shymplyng ; Richard Gissyng ; William Hoberd ; Adam Heed ; Robert Godwyn ; and John Kerman .

He held in his demesne as of fee the manors of Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham of the king in chief by service of paying 10s. yearly to Norwich castle as watchman’s fee. In the manor of Little Walsingham there are a messuage with a garden, worth nothing yearly; 76s. 71/2d. assize rents at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas; 6d. rent of 2 capons at Easter; 14s. rent of 84 hens at Christmas, price per head 2d.; 17d. rent of 338 eggs at Easter, price per hundred 5d.; 400 a. arable, worth £6 13s. 4d. yearly, each acre 4d.; 30 a. meadow, worth 60s. yearly, each acre 2s.; 300 a. fallow pasture, worth 25s. yearly, each acre 1d.; 8s. 4d. rent from the labour service of hay-making at Easter and Michaelmas; 40s. farm of the market toll at the same feasts; 162 a. arable in the hands of the lord, worth 54s. yearly, each acre 4d.; meadow and pasture in Barney called ‘Stulleschawe’, worth 6s. 8d. yearly at Easter and Michaelmas; farm of the office of reeve every two years there and every three years at Great Walsingham, worth 40s. when it falls; 63s. 9d. rent of annual labour services paid at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas; farm of 2 mills, worth 40s. yearly at Easter and Michaelmas; a windmill, worth nothing yearly for lack of repair; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth £4 13s. 4d. yearly. In the manor of Great Walsingham there are 70s. assize rents at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas; 6d. rent of 2 capons at Easter; 6s. rent of 36 hens at Christmas, price of each hen 2d.; 9d. rent of 1801/2 eggs yearly, price per twenty 1d.; 4d. rent of 100 horse nails (clav’ equin’) at the same feasts; 6d. rent of 2lb. cumin yearly, price per lb. 3d.; 96 a. heath in ‘Westerlyng’, worth 8s. at Easter and Michaelmas, each acre 1d.; 200 a. land in the hands of the lord worth 50s. yearly, each acre 3d.; 26s. 11d. rent of commuted labour services at Candlemas, Invention of the Cross, Midsummer and Michaelmas; 200 a. demesne land worth 66s. 8d. yearly, each acre 4d.; 20 a. meadow, worth 40s. yearly, each acre 2s.; 20s. 53/4d. rent of 13 qrs. 5 bu. 1 peck oats yearly, price per qr. 18d.; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth 40s. yearly. He held in his demesne as of fee the manor of Great Bircham of the king in chief as part of the barony of Clare, service unknown. There are there the capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 66s. 91/2d. assize rents at Michaelmas, St Andrew, Christmas, Pentecost and Lammas; 21d. rent of 7 capons at Easter, price per head 3d.; 2s. 1d. rent of 16 hens and 2 parts of a hen yearly, price per head 11/2d.; 3d. rent of 1lb. cumin yearly; 150 a. demesne land, worth 50s. yearly, each acre 4d.; 20 a. meadow, worth 40s. yearly, each acre 2s.; 60 a. fallow pasture, worth 10s. yearly, each acre 2d.; a windmill, worth nothing yearly for lack of repair; 5s. 5d. from 651/2 autumn labour services from customary tenants, each service worth 1d. and no more because the tenants have bread and herring from the lord for performing the services; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth 6s. 8d. yearly. He held in his demesne as of fee £6 6s. 8d. (foreign) rent from tenements in the vills of Stokesby, Oulton and others, as part of the honour of Clare, at Michaelmas and Easter equally. He held in his demesne as of fee view of frankpledge of Bale, Gunthorpe and Sharrington held on the Invention of the Cross, worth 5s. yearly. He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief the following fees and parts of knights’ fees, extended as shown. Brokhull and Weston Longville, a knight’s fee which Roger de Quency held of the honour of Wigmore, 100s. Beechamwell, Caldecote, Fordham, Upwell, Outwell, Wereham, Crimplesham, Bexwell and West Dereham, 1 fee and 1/4 and 1/16 knight’s fee which Robert Belet held, £6 11s. 3d. Norfolk, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert de Wal held of the inheritance of the Marshal, 50s. Panworth, Ashill, Saham Toney, Stoke Ferry, West Dereham, Haveringland, Eastmoor, Downham Market, Norton and Bokonwestfeld, 4 knights’ fees which Parnel de Narford held, £20. Crimplesham, 1/2 knight’s fee which William de Berford and Walter Davy ’s heirs held, 50s. Barton ?Bendish and Shingham, 1/4 knight’s fee which William de Berton ’s heir held, 25s. Eneshawe, 1/2 knight’s fee which Michael de Ponyng held, 50s. Griston and Walsingham, 1/2 knight’s fee which John de Griston held, 50s. Brettenham and Rushford, 1/2 knight’s fee which William de Brechenham and John de Brokedyssh held, 50s. Brettenham, Shadwell and Rushford, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert Baynard and others held, 50s. Little Walsingham, Great Walsingham and Briston, 11/2 knights’ fees which William Hadeshawe , Hamond Mundy and John de Floketon held, £7 10s. Sharrington, Bale and Gunthorpe, 1/4 knight’s fee which John de Brounth held, 25s. Gunthorpe and Bale, a knight’s fee which Ralph le May and John ?Audnell held, 100s. Old Buckenham, Ringstead and Hilm’, 1/4 knight’s fee which Matthew Cachevach held, 25s. Ringstead, 1/2 knight’s fee which John Boylond held, 50s. Holme ?next the Sea and Ringstead, 1/4 knight’s fee which William Baynard ’s heirs hold, 25s. Ringstead Parva, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same John Beylond [sic] held, 50s. Sall and ? Wood Dalling (Dallyng), 1/4 knight’s fee which the prior of Little Walsingham held, 25s. Wiveton, Snitterley, Ellexer, Stiffkey and Gernston, 2 knights’ fees which William de Brome held, £10. Middleton, Wiggenhall, Tymere, Clenchwarton Setchey, Saddle Bow, South Lynn, West Winch and Hardwick, a knight’s fee which Thomas de Waurlendon held, 100s. Little Carbrooke, 1/2 knight’s fee which Aymer de Valencia held, 50s. Inglefeld, Weston ?Longville (Weston), Attlebridge, Helmingham and Ringland, 1 1/2 knight’s fee which Adam de Lyouns held, worth £7 10s. Estlyngerme, Elsing, Guist, Guestwick and Lynford, 21/2 knights’ fees which Robert Filiot held, £12 10s. Letheringsett, Stiffkey, Bodham, Field Dalling or Wood Dalling and Warham, 11/2 knights’ fees which Parnel Norford and Thomas Bakon ’s heirs held, £7 10s. Stratton Strawless and Hevingham, a knight’s fee which Bartholomew Hawetyn ’s heirs, William de Markesath and Reginald Ressham held, 100s. Swannington, Great Witchingham or Little Witchingham, Alderford and Plumstead, 1/2 knight’s fee which Alan Holwell held, 50s. Great Massingham or Little Massingham, a knight’s fee which Richard son of John held, 100s. Crimplesham, Roxham and West Dereham, 1/8 and 1/15 knight’s fee which Ralph de Derham held, 18s. 9d. Little Massingham and Great Massingham, 3 knights’ fees which the prior of Castle Acre held, £15. Great Witchingham or Little Witchingham, a knight’s fee which William Geneys and his wife held, 100s. East Raynham and ?West Raynham, 1/2 knight’s fee which John atte Tounesende , William Wove and John Roy held, 50s. Itelbergh, Twyford, Bintree, Great Witchingham or Little Witchingham and Saxlingham, 2 knights’ fees which Robert de Langtoft held, £10. Bintree, 1/2 knight’s fee which Richard de Byntre held, 50s. Ingworth, 1/2 knight’s fee which Peter de Brampton , heir of Colby, held, 50s. Shouldham, Wereham and Stoke Ferry, 1 1/2 knight’s fee which the prior of Shouldham held, £7 10s. Barton Bendish, a knight’s fee which Hugh de Scalys held, 100s. Griston and Walsingham, 1/2 knight’s fee which John de Griston held, 50s. Haveringland, Norwich, Whitwell, Bawdeswell, Reepham and Great Witchingham or Little Witchingham, 4 knights’ fees which Roger de Geney held, £20. Bircham and Ringstead, 1/4 knight’s fee which Edmund T...bby, worth 25s. Carleton, Tasburgh, Ashby St Mary and Thwaite ?St Mary, 1/2 knight’s fee which Oliver de Wynch ’s heirs, worth 50s. Hunstanton, Walpole St Andrew or Walpole St Peter and East Walton or West Walton, a knight’s fee which William Lovell held, 100s. Stiffkey, Wells next the Sea and Warham, 1/2 knight’s fee which ... Geoffrey held, 50s. Bintree, Norton and Twyford, a knight’s fee which Roger de Byntre and his parceners held, 100s. Stanton and Hemyngham, 1/2 knight’s fee which Henry le Cat held, 50s. Letheringsett, Wood Dalling and Hemyngham, 21/2 knights’ fees which Thomas Jurdon of Letheringsett held, £7 10s. North Creake, a knight’s fee which Walter de Calthorp held, 100s. Stratton and ?Taverham, 1/2 knight’s fee which Roger Say held, 50s. Otley, Helmingham, Kelling, Salthouse and Cretingham, 1 1/2 and 1/4 knights’ fees which Henry Hastyng ’s heirs held of the honour of Gloucester, £8 10s. Cavendish, Bures St Mary, Great Cornard or Little Cornard, Burstall, Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield, Brent Eleigh or Monks Eleigh, Preston, Brettenham, Lindsey, Groton, Swilland, Thorpe ?Morieux, Kettlebaston, Cockfield and Whatfield in Suffolk, Rushford in Norfolk and Twinstead in Essex, a knight’s fee which Thomas de Grey held, 100s. ?Great Dunmow, Finchingfield, Lashley and Bulmer in Essex, Pensthorpe, Cley ?next the Sea, Threxton, Boketon, Stiffkey, West Winch, Clenchwarton, Norton, North Pickenham or South Pickenham, Wiggenhall and Fordham in Norfolk, 2 1/4 knight’s fee which Simon son of [?Richard] held, £61 5s. He held in his demesne as of fee the following advowsons, annual values as shown. Great Bircham, advowson of the church, of the Clare inheritance, £20. Little Walsingham, advowson of the priory, 100 marks. St Winwaloe, advowson of the priory, £40. Carbrooke, advowson of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem, £10.

Date of death and heir, because he died without heir of his body, as in 469 .

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John Parker of Hundon; Richard Rogeron ; John Smyth ; Thomas Brewster ; Thomas Bocher ; William Maister ; Robert Aluerton ; Thomas Sampson ; Richard Skot ; John Sheldrake ; Richard Brown ; and John Parker of ?Oulton (Aulton).

He held the following in his demesne as of fee. Clare, the castle and vill, of the king in chief as part of the barony of Clare. The castle is worth nothing yearly but there are there 60s. assize rents at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally; £6 fee-farm of Clare market which burgesses pay at the same feasts; and pleas and perquisites of the court with leet, worth 30s. yearly. Erbury, the manor, of the king in chief as part of the barony of Clare. In the manor there are the capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; £7 15s. 61/2d. assize rents at St Andrew, Annunciation, Midsummer and Michaelmas; 2s. 6d. rent of 2 ploughshares at Michaelmas; 4s. 6d. rent of 18 capons at Easter, price of each capon 3d.; 14d. rent of 7 hens at Christmas, price of each hen 2d.; 2d. rent of 42 eggs at Easter, price per 21, 1d.; a dovecot, worth 2s. yearly; 1,082 a. arable, worth £13 10s. 6d. yearly, each acre 3d.; 118 a. meadow, worth £17 14s. yearly, each acre 3s.; 200 a. pasture, worth £6 13s. 4d. yearly, each acre 8d.; 131/2 a. underwood, worth 6s. 9d. yearly when cut; 2 water-mills and a windmill, worth £10 yearly; pleas and perquisites of the court, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and view of frankpledge held after Easter, worth 30s. yearly. Lindsey, Thorpe ?Morieux, Cublyng, Denston, Moulton, and Gazeley, 48s. 8d. rent at Easter and Michaelmas equally, from tenements in the vills, as part of the honour of Clare. Clare, the honour court called ‘Clarecourte’, its perquisites worth 20 marks yearly. Denston, view of frankpledge held after Easter, worth 2s. yearly. Moulton, view of frankpledge held after Easter, as part of the honour of Clare, worth 18s. yearly. Hundon, the manor, of the king in chief as part of the honour of Gloucester. In the manor there are the capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 2 gardens, worth 5s. 4d. yearly at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 1,087 a. arable, worth £12 10s. yearly, each acre 2s. 6d.; 104 a. pasture, worth 52s. yearly, each acre 6d.; 2 parks, their agistment worth 40s. yearly after the maintenance of the beasts of the chase; £11 233/4d. assize rents at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas; 6s. 6d. rent of 26 capons at Easter, price per head 3d.; 2s. 4d. rent of 14 hens at Christmas, price of each hen 2d.; 51/2d. rent of 110 eggs at Easter, price per 100, 5d.; a windmill, worth 20s. yearly; £13 2s. 6d. from tenants for their customary services according to custom; and pleas and perquisites of the court with leet, worth 30s. yearly. Sudbury, the vill, and the manor of Wood Hall, of the king in chief, service unknown. In the manor there are the capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 800 a. arable, worth £10 yearly, each acre 3d.; 21 a. meadow, worth 52s. 6d. yearly, each acre 2s. 6d.; 32 a. pasture, worth 16s. yearly, each acre 6d.; 21 a. underwood, of which 7 a. 31/2 roods can be cut every sixth year and then worth 12d. yearly an acre; and 2 water- mills, a windmill and another fulling-mill, worth £10 yearly at Easter and Michaelmas equally. In Sudbury there are 40s. fee-farm of a pasture called ‘Portmannescroft’, at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 62 old stalls, worth 15s. 6d. yearly, each stall 3d. at the same feasts; £10 fee-farm of the toll of the market and fair held on the feasts of St Bartholomew and St Gregory, paid at the same feasts; 2 stalls in the market, formerly Henry son of Nigel’s, worth 10s. at the same feasts; 3lb. pepper rent, worth 3s. 6d. at Christmas; 3d. rent of 1lb. cumin at Michaelmas; 6s. 8d. farm of the fishery at Sudbury bridge at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 12 ..., worth 4s. 4d. yearly, at the same feasts; 16s. 8d. farm of the tenement called ‘Pikardes tenement’, at the same feasts; £7 7s. 4d. assize rents at 30 November, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas; and pleas and perquisites of the court with leet, worth £4 yearly. Southwold, an annual court, with view of frankpledge at the feast of St Nicholas, worth 20s. yearly. There are there 100s. rents of herring; and 6s. farm of the toll and anchorage of various merchandise within the lordship. Bury St Edmunds, stalls, worth 10s. yearly at Easter and Michaelmas equally, and a pasture containing 5 a. as estimated, worth 5s. yearly at the same feasts equally; and 43s. 6d. assize rents at the same feasts in Bury St Edmunds and Mildenhall, as part of the same barony, of the king in chief. Long before his death, he granted and demised to farm these stalls, pasture and rents for a certain term to the abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds, paying 58s. 6d. yearly to him at Easter and Michaelmas equally during this term. Babwell, 7 a. arable and 3 a. meadow, as part of the same barony, of the king in chief, worth 26s. 8d. yearly, at the same feasts. He held in his demesne as of fee the following fees and parts of knights’ fees, all values when they fall as shown. Girton, Newnham and Barton [Cambridgeshire], a knight’s fee which Roger de Trumpyngton held of the honour of Wigmore, 100s. Dry Drayton [Cambridgeshire], 1/4 knight’s fee which Roger Giffard held of the same honour, 33s. 4d. Fornham, 1/4 knight’s fee which Edward de Bretyng held of the Baddelismer inheritance, 33s. 4d. Bulley, Norton, Stansfield and Mildenhall, 1/2 knight’s fee which John Boteler held of the honours of Gloucester and Clare, 50s. Hundon, 1/4 knight’s fee which Richard son of Agnes held, 25s. Great Waldingfield, 1/4 knight’s fee which Ralph de Berneres’ heir, 25s. Hundon, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert de Brokhole and Walter Gaysle held, 50s. Stansfield, Boxted, Stoke and Little Bricett, 1/4 knight’s fee which Parnel de Narforth held, 25s. ?Westley, 1/2 knight’s fee which Aymer de Valencia held, 50s. Gazeley, 3/4 knight’s fee which Robert de Handeforth held, 62s. 6d. Cavendish, Denston, Hawkedon and Stansfield, 3 parts of a knight’s fee which John de Grassemore held, 75s. Cavendish, Kensings and Stansfield, 1/4 knight’s fee which Richard de Cornerth held, 25s. Cavenham, Gazeley, Great Bradley or Little Bradley, Horningsheath, Withersfield and Rede, 4 parts of a knight’s fee which John de Hastyng held, £8 15s. Gazeley, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert Apethorp held, 50s. Great Wratting or Little Wratting and Withersfield, 4 parts of a knight’s fee which William de Ormysby held, 75s. [sic] Purton, 1/4 knight’s fee which the heirs of Abel de Sancto Mauro held, 33s. 4d. [sic] Hawkedon, 1/2 knight’s fee which John Kersnors held, 50s. Cavenham, 1 1/6 knight’s fee which Roger de Quincy ’s heirs held, 25s. [sic] Great Wratting or Little Wratting, Haverhill, Withersfield and Helion Bumpstead or Steeple Bumpstead, a fee and 3 parts of a knight’s fee which Alfred de Capell held, £8 15s. Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield, 1/2 knight’s fee which Robert de Bures held and John Peyntour similarly, 50s. Stoke and Fornham, 1/3 knight’s fee which P... de Chippeleigh held, 25s. Flowton, 1/2 knight’s fee which Henry Cane held, 100s. [sic] Helmingham, 1/4 knight’s fee which Roger de Cressy held, 25s. Bures St Mary, 1/2 knight’s fee which Peter Silvestre ’s heirs held, 50s. Tuddenham and Hawkedon, a knight’s fee which Thomas de Burgo held, 100s. Gazeley, 1 1/7 knights’ fees which William de Haustede ’s heirs held, 116s. ?8d.; and 1/2 knight’s fee which Roger Dalham ’s heirs held, 50s. Great Bradley or Little Bradley, Brook’s Hall, Preston, Ringshall, Whatfield, Ipswich, Clare, ?Daresholt, Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield and Burstall, 4 1/2 knights’ fees which William de Badele held, £22 10s. Flowton, a knight’s fee which Giles Wachesham held, 100s. Cockfield, 1/2 knight’s fee which Adam Colcestre held, 50s. Brockley, 1/20 knight’s fee which John Cramavill held, 5s. Chedburgh and Great Livermere or Little Livermere, a knight’s fee which William de Norton and Thomas de Lyueremere held, 100s. Bures St Mary, 1/4 knight’s fee which Geoffrey Baldwyn ’s heirs held, 33s. 4d. [sic] Barton ?Mills and Herringswell, a knight’s fee which Robert de Sancto Ivone held, 100s. Wattisham, Long Melford, Bures St Mary and Scastrete, a knight’s fee which Peter de Talworth held, 100s. [Crossed out:] 2 knights’ fees which John Aignono and Robert Cokefeld ’s heirs held, £10. Braham and Great Bromley or Little Bromley [Essex], 2 knights’ fees which William de Braham held, £10. Barrow, 1/6 knight’s fee which John de Bretyng held, 16s. 8d. Beechamwell, Caldecote, Fordham, Upwell, Outwell, Wereham, Crimplesham, Bexwell and West Dereham [ Norfolk ], a fee and 1/4 and 1/6 knight’s fee which Robert Belet held , £6 11s. 3d. Crimplesham, 1/2 knight’s fee which William de Boreforth and Walter Davy ’s heirs held, 50s. Panworth, Ashill, Saham Toney, Stoke Ferry, West Dereham, Haveringland, Eastmoor, Downham Market, Norton and Bokenesfeld [ Norfolk ], 1/4 knight’s fee which Parnel de Narforth held, 25s. Barton ?Bendish and Shingham [ Norfolk ], 1/4 knight’s fee which William de Berton ’s heirs held, worth 25s. Otley, Helmingham, Kelling, Salthouse, Ashen and Cretingham, 1 1/4 knights’ fees which Henry Hastyng ’s heirs held of the honour of Gloucester, £8 10s. Cavendish, Bures St Mary, Great Cornard or Little Cornard, Burstall, Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield, Brent Eleigh or Monks Eleigh, Preston, Brettenham, Lindsey, Groton, Swilland, Thorpe ?Morieux, Kettlebaston, Cockfield and Whatfield, in Suffolk, Rushford in Northants [recte Norfolk] and Twinstead in Essex, a knight’s fee which Thomas de Grey held, 100s. Cavendish and Clare, a knight’s fee which Richard de Crowth held, 100s. Tricton and Thorp, 1/2 knight’s fee which the earl of Oxford held, 50s. Ashen, Cotton, Hemmyngford, Fornham, Ringeston and Clare, 1/2 knight’s fee which Thomas Albaster and the son of Adam’s heirs held, 50s. Chipley, Clopton, Wilsey and Denston in Suffolk and Borley, Great Yeldham or Little Yeldham, Barrow, Toppesfield and Ovington in Essex, 5 1/2 knights’ fees which Walter son of Humphrey held, £27 10s. Pebmarsh, 3 fees and 3 parts of a knight’s fee; 1/2 knight’s fee in Finchingfield and Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield; a knight’s fee in Fornham, Bulmer, Higham (Leccham), Alderton, Stansfield and Tuddenham; and 1/2 knight’s fee in Poslingford which William son of Ralph held, £28 15s. ?Bobbingworth (Gollyngworth), Wande, Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield, Darnford (Bernford), Braham, Isham, Birdbrook, Harlow, Foxearth and Ingham [in Essex and Suffolk], 5 knights’ fees which Robert Hastyng held, £25. See 503 . Little Sampford, ?Harefield (Sherfeld), Chaureth, Great Cornard or Little Cornard, Great or Little Saxham, Cavendish, Batchworth (Baccheworth) and Kirton in Suffolk, Middlesex and Essex, 13 knights’ fees which Richard de Talworth , Roger de Bacheworth and Alan de Clare ’s heirs held, £65. Dalham, Elveden, Bures St Mary, Little Bradley, Clopton, Gestingthorpe, Bestham, Madewell, Hartest and Middleton, 5 1/2 knights’ fees which Gilbert Pecche held, £28 10s. Brockley, 1/2 knight’s fee which Giles de Batelosmero held, 50s. He held in his demesne as of fee the following advowsons, annual values as shown. Stansfield, advowson of the church, £4. Sudbury, advowson of the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre, 30s. Wentford, advowson of the church, 20s. Stoke by Clare, advowson of the church, in which there are a dean and 9 prebendaries. Values when they fall: the deanship £20; the first stall on the left opposite the dean 40s.; the second stall on the dean’s side 40s.; second stall on the left side 40s.; third stall on the dean’s side 40s.; third stall on the left side 40s.; fourth stall on the dean’s side 40s.; fourth stall on the left side 40s.; fifth stall on the dean’s side 40s.; and fifth stall on the left side 40s. He held in his demesne as of fee tail the manor of Kersey of the king by service of a pair of gilt spurs price 6d. In the manor there are the capital messuage with an adjacent garden containing 11/2 a., worth nothing yearly; 520 a. arable, worth £8 13s. 4d. yearly, each acre 4d.; 10 a. several pasture, worth 15s. yearly, each acre 18d.; 30 a. pasture, worth 30s. yearly, each acre 12d.; a water-mill, worth 26s. 8d. yearly at Easter and Michaelmas; £15 assize rents at the same feasts equally; a Friday market, worth 20s. yearly; 6s. 8d. rents from tenants for their customary services by custom, paid at the same feasts; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth 30s. yearly. The abbess and nuns of St Mary’s church, Chatteris are seised in right of their church, and her predecessors likewise from time out of mind, of an annual rent of £10 from the manor, paid to them at four annual terms, namely 50s. on the feast of St Nicholas, on Palm Sunday, within eight days before Midsummer, and at Michaelmas. He held in his demesne as of fee tail the manor of Layham and the advowson of Layham church belonging to the manor, but of whom and by what service unknown. In the manor there are the capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 542 a. arable, worth £9 8d. yearly, each acre 4d.; 12 a. several pasture, worth 12s. yearly; a water- mill, worth 40s. yearly; £25 10s. assize rents at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 40 a. underwood, worth 6s. yearly; perquisites of the court, worth 6s. yearly; 12d. rent of 4 capons at Christmas, price per head 3d.; and rent of 1lb. pepper at Christmas, worth 16d. yearly. The advowson is worth £10 when it falls. He held in his demesne as of fee a knight’s fee in Layham, which Richard Holbech , Thomas Coyle and Nicholas Peke hold of the manor, to which it belongs, worth 100s. The manors of Kersey and Layham were given by Edward III to Edmund earl of Kent according to the letters patent detailed in 471 . They descended according to the pattern detailed in 491 , and were assigned to Edmund earl of March as his share according to the partition detailed in 471 .

Date of death as in 467 . Next heirs to the manors of Kersey and Layham as in 471 except that here Richard duke of York is aged 14 years and more. Richard is also his kinsman and next heir as son of Anne his sister, to the castle, manor [sic] and honour of Clare, manor of Wood Hall , vill of Sudbury and other manors, lands, tenements and services belonging to the honour of Clare. By letters patent dated 23 March 1415 , shown to the jurors, he granted to Thomas Wolf for his good service, a tenement in Clare by the road between Clare and ‘Pesonebrugge’ with a field called ‘Estfeld’, to the value of £4 yearly for life, rendering anything above this to the earl. Thomas, who survives, continues in possession, seised as of his free tenement. By letters patent dated 8 June 1413 , shown to the jurors, he granted to Hugh Fraunceys, esquire , the office of constable of Clare castle and the governance of all his parks and warrens in Norfolk and Suffolk for life, taking £23 6s. 8d. yearly from the issues of the honour of Clare from the receiver for occupying the offices. Hugh, who survives, remains in peaceable possession. By letters patent dated 27 November 1413 , shown to the jurors, he granted to the same Hugh for life reasonable profits, without injury to the earl’s farm, from the agistment of the earl’s parks within his lordship of Hundon, namely within the parks called ‘Great Park’, ‘Broxstey’ and ‘Esthey’. Hugh remains in peaceable possession. By letters patent dated 14 December 1423 , shown to the jurors, he granted to John Pelham, junior, chevalier , £20 for life from the issues of the honour of Clare from the receiver there. By letters patent dated 17 November 1413 , shown to the jurors, he granted to William Cogsale , custody of his parks within his lordship of Hundon, called ‘Great Park’, ‘Esthey’ and ‘Broxsthey’ for life, taking 3d. daily from the receiver there. By letters patent dated 28 December 1415 , he granted to the same William, land, meadow called ‘Horscroft’ and a field called ‘Cokershok’ within his lordship of Clare and Hundon for life. By letters patent dated 8 January 1423 , shown to the jurors, he granted to John Cogshale custody of the warrens within his lordships of Clare and Hundon for life, taking 2d. daily for custody from the issues of the lordships from the earl’s receiver there.

Thomas Predes ; John Bisshop ; John Seynesbury ; Geoffrey Adgor ; John Whytyng ; Nicholas ?Lunt [ms worn]; Thomas Wheye ; John Mopetyd ; John Smyth ; Thomas [?Cravener]; John Hamstedyll ; and Robert Cartere .

By his letters patent dated 28 December 1415 , he granted lands, a meadow called ‘Horscroft’ and a field called ‘Cokerishok’, within his lordship of Clare and Hundon, to William Cogsale for life, annual value 46s. 8d. [Ten red seals attached, two missing.]

[Jurors not given].

The details of the advowsons of Stansfield, Sudbury, Wentford and Stoke by Clare, contained in 504 , are repeated.

John ?Esthope; Richard Ouerton ; John Kek... ; Nicholas [?Cross]; Edward Wendlewas ; William Kynnesley ; John Bentale ; Roger Wates ; John Weston ; Hugh Lowe ; William Feldeshous ; and Thomas Hobald .

He held the castle, lordship and land of Denbigh in the March of Wales, in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. The castle is worth nothing. There are £330 from both the farm of lands, tenements and mill(s) and from the annual rent paid at Pentecost and Michaelmas equally. In addition there are the following. Ceinmeirch, in the commote – £6 4s. 21/2d. from a custom called ‘Tunk and Treth’ at All Saints, Christmas, Annunciation, Midsummer and Exaltation of the Cross; 116s. 8d. from the farm of bailiwicks in the same commote at Pentecost and Michaelmas in equal portions; and a woodland pasture called ‘Heghdenyell’, worth 30s. at the same feasts equally. Is Aled, in the commote – £7 8s. 6d. from a custom called ‘Tunk and Treth’ at the above five feasts equally; £23 16s. 8d. from the farm of bailiwicks in the same commote at Pentecost and Michaelmas in equal portions; 62s. 4d. from the farm of hevedelwey iiij Stag’ Galhed & Bund de Dinmael and pannage of Altrugg forest at the same two feasts in equal portions; £6 7s. 1d. from the rent of the borough of Denbigh at the same feasts equally; and £13 6s. 8d. from the farm of the tolls in the commote and borough at the same feasts equally. Uwch Aled, in the commote – 100s. 2d. from the custom called ‘Tunk and Treth’ as before; £7 15s. from the farm of bailiwicks as before; 13s. 4d. from the farm of the pasture of Moillessessiek at Pentecost and Michaelmas; and 15s. 2d. from the farm of pasture in Pennallugi and Manternen at the same feasts. Is Dulas, in the commote – £9 17s. 10 1/4d. from the custom as before; £4 from the farm of tolls in the commote and of the borough of Abergele at Pentecost and Michaelmas equally; and £23 15s. 4d. from the farm of bailiwicks at the same feasts equally. Uwch Dulas, in the commote – £7 7s. 5d. from the custom as before; £23 5s. from the farm of bailiwicks as before; and £10 from the farm of tolls and from the borough of Llanrwst at the same feasts equally. Dinmael, in the commote – 60s. 10 1/2d. from the custom as before; 42s. ?8d. from the farm of bailiwicks as before; and £26 13s. 4d. from the lordships, lands and tenements in the lord’s hands for want of tenants ... in the accounts of the escheator of this lordship paid at the same feasts equally. There are also the following parks. ‘Litelpark’ and Galch Hill, their herbage and agistment worth £3 yearly after the keeper’s wage and cost of their enclosure. By his letters patent dated 16 August 1413 and shown to the jurors, he granted the keeping of these parks to Thomas [?S]andwey, who survives, for life, for the office’s due and customary wage. Thomas is still in peaceable possession. Kilford, worth £7 9s. 2d. yearly after the keeper’s wage and its enclosure. By his letters patent dated 7 December 1414 and shown to the jurors, he granted the keeping of this park to William Fletcher , who survives, for life, taking the office’s due and customary wage. William is still in peaceable possession. ‘Garsnodyok’, worth 12d. yearly after the keeper’s wage and its enclosure. By his letters patent dated 7 December 1414 and shown to the jurors, he granted the keeping of this park to Thomas Newenham , who survives, for life, occupying the office himself or by sufficient deputy for whom he would be responsible, taking the office’s due and customary wage. Thomas is still in peaceable possession. Moel-y-wig, worth 39s. 2d. yearly after the keeper’s wage and its enclosure. By his letters patent dated 1 January 1423 and shown to the jurors, he granted the keeping of this park to William Forster , who survives, for life, taking the office’s due and customary wage. William is still in peaceable possession. ‘...ypark’, worth 12d. yearly after the keeper’s wage and its enclosure. By his letters patent dated ... 1 Henry VI and shown to the jurors, he granted the keeping of this park to John [?Greth], who survives, for life, taking the office’s due and customary wage. John is still in peaceable possession. By his letters patent dated 23 August ... shown to the jurors, he granted the office of parker ... the park’s herbage ... to [Richard ?...], who survives, for life, taking the office’s due and customary wage. [?Richard] was in peaceable ... of the herbage profits .... By his letters patent dated 9 June ... [he granted] the office of master of Denbigh forest to ... for life with all fees, wages, profits and other easements pertaining to the office. ... is still in peaceable possession. By his letters patent dated [on or after] 13 February 1423 and shown to the jurors, he granted [the office of] constable of Denbigh castle to John Norman , who survives, for life, taking the office’s due and customary wage. John is still in peaceable possession. By his letters patent dated ... September 1424 shown to the jurors, he granted ... of Denbigh to Roger Knowesle for his good service, taking 40s. yearly for the office at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. Roger is still in peaceable possession. By his letters patent dated 1 October 1422 and shown to the jurors, he granted to John ..., who survives, 40s. annually for his life from the issues of the manor of ... within this lordship of Denbigh by the hands of the receiver, farmer ... or other occupier at ... and Michaelmas equally. John was seised of the annuity up to the earl’s death. By his letters patent dated 10 June 1423 and shown to the jurors, he granted to Robert Adam[?son] ... of Denbigh castle ... war by Owyn de Glendour and other rebels ... and for Robert’s good service ... 1d. per day ... for his life at Denbigh’s exchequer by the hands of the receiver there at Michaelmas and Easter equally. Robert was seised up to the earl’s death. [By his letters patent] dated ... 1 Henry VI and shown to the jurors, [he granted] to John ..., chevalier, for his good service to him ... for his life from ... Denbigh by the hands of the receiver .... John was seised of the annuity up to the earl’s death. ... annual rent of [? £12 13s.] ... commotes of ... Vghanlas and Vghalos, paid at the same feasts of Pentecost and Michaelmas equally ... pleas and perquisites of the courts of the whole lordship, worth ... yearly. By his letters patent dated ... 2 Henry VI , shown to the jurors, he granted to Walter Mavyll , who survives, for his good service ... for which he took by the hands of the receiver [? of the earl] ... 2d. per day for keeping the park of ... manor of Dinorben in the commote ... at Michaelmas and Easter equally by the hands of the farmers, bailiffs or other occupiers. Walter was seised of this annuity continuously up to the earl’s death. He held the castle of Dolforwyn and the lordship of Cedewain in the March of Wales in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. The castle is totally destroyed and worth nothing yearly. There are an annual rent of £43 13s. 4d. for the customary services of tenants by custom at Michaelmas only; £18 8s. ... 1/16d. from customary services of husbandmen at Christmas, Annunciation, Midsummer and Michaelmas; £22 [or £23] from the farm ... of 11 water-mills at the feasts of St Ciric[us] and St Math’ equally; £12 [?16]s. 8d. from the farm of bailiwicks at the same feasts equally; rent of 1791/2 qrs. 21/2 bu. ... at Michaelmas, each qr. worth 5s. 4d., sum £47 18s. 7d.; 31 qrs. 2 bu. 31/2 pecks oats rent at Lady Day, each qr. worth 2s., sum 12s. 10d.; rent of 380 hens and 1/3 of 1/8 hen at Christmas, price per head 1d. sum 31s. 10d.; pleas and perquisites of the court for the whole lordship, worth £58 4s. 6d. yearly; £14 2[or 3]s. 4d. farm of the forest at the feasts of St Ciric’ & St Math’ equally; and pasture ... in Ucheldre, Bachyranelau, ?Dolforwyn (Da...ryn), ?Ffridd Penowern, Fachir or Fach-wen, with pasture in Ffridd Feander, worth 7s. 6d. at the same feasts equally. He held the lordship of Ceri in the March of Wales in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. There are £16 7s. 4d. assize rents at Christmas, Midsummer and Lammas; 73s. 4d. from ... land and meadow at the same feasts of St Ciric’ & St Math’ equally; £9[or 10] 6s. 8d. farm ...; ... £15 10s. farm of the office of forester with agistment, paid at the same feasts; and pleas and perquisites of the court of the whole lordship, worth [at least] £15 2s. yearly. He held in his demesne as of fee the castle and lordship of Montgomery and Halcetor, the advowson of the church ..., and the hundred of Chirbury of the king in chief at fee-farm, paying £56 13s. 4d. as the farm to the Exchequer yearly. The castle is worth nothing yearly. There are £42 16s. 5d. assize rents at Lady Day and Michaelmas – £24 23d. in Montgomery borough, £6 12s. in Chirbury hundred, £8 7d. in Halcetor and £4 21d. in Teirtref. In Montgomery there are 26s. 8d. from the farm of the market tolls at the same feasts of St Ciric’ & St Math’, and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth 101s. 3d. yearly. At Chirbury there is pannage for pigs, worth 2s. 6d. yearly at Martinmas; rent [? of tenants in advowry] ... at Michaelmas; and pleas and perquisites of the hundred, worth £9[or 10] 12s. 8d. yearly. At Halcetor there are 16d. rent of tenants in advowry at Michaelmas; pannage of pigs, 8s. 11d. at Martinmas; and pleas and perquisites ..., worth [at least] 14s. 5 1/2d. yearly. At Teirtref there are 20d. for pannage of pigs paid at Martinmas; a custom ... 12 tenants resident in the lordship, 12d. paid at Christmas; 5s. from the farm of pasture in the wood of Middelwode and Harlech, paid at Lady Day and Michaelmas ...; 12d. rent of tenants at advowry at the same feasts; 26s. 8d. farm of the office of ragler (Raglot) at the same feasts; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth 58s. 9d. yearly. At ‘Cornedon’ forest there is £10 13s. ... farm of the forest agistment with all profits at the same feasts. The lordship and hundred are worth £31 14s. 3 1/2d. yearly after the fee-farm. By his letters patent dated 1 October 1421 and shown to the jurors, he granted to Philip Dolger... , who survives, 9 marks yearly for his life from the issues of the lordship of Montgomery by the hands of the receiver at Easter and Michaelmas equally. Philip was seised of this annuity until the late earl’s death. By his letters patent dated 22 May 1416 likewise shown, he granted to Thomas Chirby , who survives, for his good service, the office of constable of Montgomery castle for life, taking the fee and wage customary to the office from of old. Thomas is still in peaceable possession. By his letters patent dated 9 March 1417 , similarly shown, he granted to Henry Norreis , who survives, the office of master forester of ‘Corndeon’ in Halcetor in the lordship of Montgomery, for life with all the fees, wages, profits and easements which John Chirby lately had by gift of Edmund former earl of March and uncle [sic, recte grandfather?] of this late earl. Henry is still in peaceable possession. He held the vill and manor of Leintwardine as part of the lordship of Wigmore, in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. There are £8 5s. 5 1/2d assize rents at St Andrew and Midsummer equally; 110 a. demesne arable and pasture, worth 49s. 8d. yearly, paid at Lady Day and Michaelmas ...; 26s. 8d. from the farm of 15 a. 1 rood pasture in ‘Kyngesley’, paid at Michaelmas; 13s. 4d. from the farm of 6a. meadow in ?‘Biletmede’ paid at the same feast, the meadow fallow every third year and then worth nothing; herbage of the meadow of ‘Kynghales’, worth 5s. yearly, fallow every third year and then worth nothing; 20d. from the farm of a parcel of land at ? ‘Goneshed’ and a parcel of pasture of ‘Edney’, paid at the same feasts; 8s. from the farm of the fishery in the water warren of the Teme paid at Michaelmas; houses within the manorial site, worth 8s. yearly at the same two feasts; 20d. from the farm of a parcel of land by the river Teme with willows growing there, paid at the same feasts; 10s. [?6]d. from the customary services of ploughing, harrowing, hay- making and harvest works, paid at Michaelmas only; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth 15s. yearly after the steward’s expenses. The profits in the wood and chases of R[...ing]wode and M...re are worth 26s. 8d. yearly. He held the manor of Tickenhill and the vill of Bewdley in Shropshire [recte Worcestershire], ... to the lordship of Wigmore, in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. In the manor there are houses, worth nothing yearly; £4 2s. 1d. assize rents at Lady Day and Michaelmas; 100s. from the farm of crossing over the river Severn by a barge with a small boat and all rigging, paid at the same feasts equally; 13s. 4d. from the farm of a mill in the park, at the same feasts; 5s. from the farm of a fishery at the same feasts; £4 from the farm of meadow in ‘Ladymede’ at the same feasts; 3s. 2d. from the custom called ‘Weyseluer’, namely 1/2d. yearly from every stranger; 17s. 4d. from the farm of 3 crofts called ‘Comdescroft’ with agistment of the beasts of the chase in the park; pleas and perquisites of the court, worth £6 14s. 6 1/2d. yearly after the steward’s expenses; and a park worth 6d. yearly after the keeper’s wage and the enclosure costs. By his letters patent dated 20 September 1424 , shown to the jurors, he granted to Roger Lygh now called ‘Marche Herew[?d]’, who survives, for his good service a messuage in the vill of ...ele which Henry ... for life without rendering anything to the earl of his heirs. Roger is still in peaceable possession. He held the manor of Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. There are a messuage with adjacent grange, worth nothing yearly; 2 carucates of land and 10 a. meadow, worth £6 yearly; £[?23] 19[or 20]s. annual rent at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally; a custom called ‘S[cre...]ward’ and ‘M...’ , 30s. at Martinmas and Lammas day; 2 mills – one water, the other fulling – worth 40s. yearly; a park and chase called ?‘W...ser’, worth ...2d. yearly; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth £7 18s. 1d. yearly after the steward’s expenses. By his letters patent dated 22 April 1424 , shown to the jurors, he granted to William [?Isouxhull] and Alice his wife, who survive, for their good service, £10 yearly for his life from the manor of Cleobury Mortimer by the hands of the receiver at Michaelmas and Easter. William and Alice were seised of the annuity until the earl’s death. By his letters patent dated 20 July ?1417, similarly shown, he granted to Lyonsew... an annuity for his life from the issues of the lordship of Cleobury Mortimer by the hands of the bailiffs, farmers, receivers or other occupiers at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions. ?Lyonsew was seised of the annuity until the earl’s death. By his letters patent dated 10 March 1424 , similarly shown, he granted to Richard ..., ?esquire, for his good service 10 marks yearly for his life ... [? from the lordship of Cleobury Mortimer] by the hands of the receiver at ... equally. Richard was seised of the annuity until the earl’s death. By his letters patent dated ?5 August ..., similarly shown, he granted to John M... for his good service ?5 marks yearly from the issues of this lordship of ... [John] was seised of the annuity until the earl’s death. Described as Edmund earl of March and Ulster, lord of Wigmore and Clare, and by his letters patent dated ... Henry V, similarly shown, he granted the office of keeper of the outlying wood of Hovsill and similarly the office of ... of Cleobury Mortimer to Richard Heryng for his good service, for his life with the due and customary fee and profits and wage of 2d. daily from the issues of the lordship of Cleobury Mortimer from the hands of the receiver. Richard was seised as of free tenement and continued in his estate .... By other letters patent similarly shown and described likewise, he granted to the same Richard the office of parker of Cleobury Mortimer for life with all fees, wages, easements, benefits and profits belonging to the office .... Richard was seised of the office as of free tenement and ... his estate.... Long before his death, by his letters patent similarly shown ... he [?appointed] Thomas Lygon his steward of the lordships and manors of Cleobury Mortimer, Chelmarsh, Earnwood and Highley in Shropshire and of the manors and lordships of ... de Warre for his life. He further granted for himself and his heirs, 100s. annual rent for his life to Thomas in and from the lordships ... at Michaelmas and Easter in equal portions for the good and faithful exercise of his office, and that Thomas could distrain for this rent should it be in arrears at any of these terms and keep the distraint until the rent with arrears should be paid in full, and bound himself and his heirs to warrant the rent to Thomas for his life. Thomas was seised of the office and rent of free tenement [? and continued in this estate until the earl’s death]. He was seised in his demesne as of fee of ... in Shropshire. There are a messuage ... derelict houses, worth nothing yearly; £10 8s. ?1d. rent ... Midsummer equally; 6s. 4d. rent of customary works, paid at Lady Day and Michaelmas; 38s. 8d. from the farm of the herbage of the meadow called ‘Seuer...’ of a close called ‘Lyme...attefeld’ with the meadow called ‘Culuermede’ and the farm of the manorial garden, paid at the same feasts; a park, worth 6s. ?8d. yearly; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth nothing yearly after the steward’s costs. He held the manor of Highley in Shropshire in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. There are a carucate of land with adjacent meadow, worth 13s. 4d. yearly, paid at Lady Day and Michaelmas; £8 annual rent at the same feasts; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth nothing after the steward’s costs. By his letters patent dated 1 July 1424 , shown to the jurors, he granted to Thomas Kendale, esquire , 10 marks yearly for life from the issues of the manor by the hands of the bailiffs, collectors or other occupiers, at Michaelmas and Easter equally. Thomas was continually seised of this annuity. He held the manor of Chelmarsh and Eudon George in Shropshire in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service. There are a derelict messuage, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land with adjacent meadow, worth 40s. yearly; £4 annual rent at Lady Day and Michaelmas; and pleas and perquisites of the court, worth nothing yearly. By his letters patent dated 20 September 1423 , shown to the jurors, he granted 100s. annual rent from all his lands and tenements in Chelmarsh and Nether Court at Michaelmas and Lady Day equally, to Hugh Harn... of Sh...ington, Shropshire, and his assigns, for good service, for his life. If the rent should be in arrears then Hugh and his assigns could enter and distrain and retain the distraint until the rent and arrears be paid in full. Hugh was seised of the rent until the earl’s death. He held a messuage in Shropshire in his demesne as of fee of the king in socage, worth 12d. and no more because the houses are derelict. Roger Mortymer , his ancestor and of whom he was his heir as son of Roger son of [Edmund] son of [Roger] son of Edmund son of this Roger de Mortymer , gave and granted by ... shown to the jurors, to John de la More , his heirs and assigns, keeping of the parks of Cleobury Mortimer and Bewdley and of the forest of Wyre with housebote and haybote in this forest with easements, fees and wages belonging ... John was seised in his demesne as of fee. He had issue Isabel and died seised. Isabel then entered in the keeping and occupied and exercised it peaceably and quietly and was seised in her demesne as of fee. She married Philip Wyggemore ; they had issue John and died. John then entered as her son and heir and was likewise peaceably seised in his demesne as of fee. By his charter shown to the jurors and dated 27 November 1376 , he granted the keeping with housebote, haybote, fee and wage to Hugh le Chene , ... Hugh was seised in his demesne as of fee and gave the keeping to John Chene of ?Beckford in Gloucestershire, and the male heirs of his body, reversion to Hugh and his heirs. John was seised in his demesne as of fee tail as above and had issue William, who survives, and died seised of this estate. William, as John’s son and male heir, was then seised in his demesne as of fee tail as above and continued in this estate from his father’s death and still, taking the issues. By his letters patent he granted 20 marks yearly from the issues from all his lordships in Shropshire by the hands of the receivers at Easter and Michaelmas in equal portions, to Thomas ?Wounton, esquire, for life, for his good service. Thomas was seised of the rent. He held in his demesne as of fee the following knights’ fees, parts of fees and church advowsons, values extended as shown. Brompton, a knight’s fee which Brian de Harley held, previously Brian de Brompton, 100s. Pedwardine and Meaton, 2 parts of a knight’s fee which Roger de Pedwardyn held, previously Brian de Brompton, 16s. 8d. Kinlet and ?Foxcote, a knight’s fee which Elizabeth de Cornwayle held, previously the same Brian de Brompton, 100s. Wootton, a knight’s fee which Brian de Harley held, previously the same Brian de Brompton, 100s. Leaton, 1/2 knight’s fee which ... de Letton, senior, held, 50s. Walford, ... which Walter de ... held, previously Roger .... Sheet, a knight’s fee which Thomas de le Sete held, previously .... [Other fees detailed but illegible, including citation of Assheton and a knight’s fee which the earl of Arundel held, previously Gilbert de Bokenhull ....] Stepple, 1/3 knight’s fee which John Seintgeorge held, previously Walter de St...pple, 33s. 4d. Turpelton, 1/10 knight’s fee which John de Rullesdon held, 10s.; and 1/10 knight’s fee which Thomas de Turpleton held, previously John de P..., 10s. Leintwardine, 1/10 knight’s fee which John de [M...] held, 10s. Neen Sollars, a knight’s fee which R... de Blees held, 100s. Downton or Clee Downton, a knight’s fee which Philip de ..., Thomas de Dounton held, 100s. ?L..., a knight’s fee which [?Robert] Partych held, previously Ralph de la Lowe held by a free fee of the king’s Exchequer, 100s. Baveney, 1/3 knight’s fee which Roger de Foxcotes held, previously Henry de Ribbesford, 33s. 4d. Chelmarsh, a knight’s fee which Hugh de Mortuo Mari held 100s.; and ... knight’s fee which Henry de Mortuo Mari held, ...s. Corfton, a knight’s fee which Al... Bur...ell held, 100s. H...n, a knight’s fee which William de Hopton held, 100s. Bullesdon, 1/2 knight’s fee which Roger de Bullesdon held, 50s. Henley, 1/2 knight’s fee which John S...chese held, 50s. ?Upper Hayton, 1/2 knight’s fee which William Denegoyes held, .. For gaps see CIPM XVII, no. 1214, Roger Mortimer, earl of March . ?Cressage, a knight’s fee which John Desnes held, 100s. Rushbury, a knight’s fee which [ Nicholas] Burnell held, 100s. Sutton, a knight’s fee which the same Nicholas held, 100s. Bitterley,a knight’s fee which Eleanor de ?Bitturley held,100s. Priestweston, Middleton and Marrington, a knight’s fee which Nicholas Burnell held, 100s. ..., a knight’s fee which Walter de Ho...lton held, 100s. Wotherton, 1/2 knight’s fee which Richard Hode held, 100s. ... a knight’s fee which John de Ludlow held, 100s. Hope Bowdler, a knight’s fee which W[illiam] ...che held, 100s. Harley, a knight’s fee which the same William held, 100s. Gatacre, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same William held, 50s. Stapleton, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same William held, 50s. Compton, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same William held, 50s. Weston ?Lullingfields, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same William held, 50s. Eyton, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same William held, 50s. Meole Brace, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same William held, 50s. Smethcott, 1/2 knight’s fee which the same William held, 50s. Stanwardine in the Fields or Stanwardine in the Wood, a knight’s fee which the same William held, 100s. Catsley,1/2 knight’s fee which William de Forde and Thomas de ?Basele held,50s. Highley, a knight’s fee which Robert de Woderton and Roger de Borwardesle held, 100s. ?Lingen, 1/2 knight’s fee which John de Lyngeyne held, 50s. ?Ashford, 1/2 knight’s fee which John de Esford held, 50s. Mawley, 1/3 knight’s fee which John de Melley held, 33s. 4d. ?Kinton and Norton, a knight’s fee which Ralph de Mortuo Mari held, 100s. Burley, 1/2 knight’s fee which Simon de Burley held, 50s. ?Upper Hayton, 1/2 knight’s fee which John Broun held, 50s. Calverhall, 1 1/2 knights’ fees which Laurence de [?Coluerhold] held, £7 10s. Idsall, 1/2 knight’s fee which Roger Corbet of Caux held, 50s. [Place not given], 1/50 knight’s fee which William de Leuerset held, 2s. Montgomery, the advowson of the church, £10. Cleobury Mortimer, the advowson of the free chapel in the church, 40s. Neen Sollars, the advowson of the church, 10 marks. Middleton ?Scriven, the advowson of the church, £10. Long before his death, by the fine and letters patent detailed in 477 , he recognized the castle, manor, lordship and vill of Ludlow and manor and lordship of Stanton Lacy to be the right of the quer. detailed in 477 and their heirs, and the manors of Cleeton and Farlow to be the right of the quer. and the heirs of Thomas de Berkeley , which they had of his gift, Ludlow and Stanton Lacy held of the king and his heirs by the due and customary service, Cleeton and Farlow held of the chief lords of those fees by the services pertaining to the manors. He further warranted them as above against all men, as is clear more fully in the record of the fine shown to the jurors. The quer. were seised of the castle, manors, lordships and vill of Ludlow and Stanton Lacy in their demesne as of fee and the same survivors are still seised. Thomas de Berkeley was seised of the manors of Cleeton and Farlow in his demesne as of fee and the other quer. were seised as of free tenement, and the survivors are still seised. The castle, manors, lordships and vill of Ludlow and Stanton Lacy are held of the king in chief by knight service, the manors of Cleeton and Farlow of the prior of Much Wenlock, service unknown. He married Anne daughter of Edmund, late earl of Stafford , on 6 June 1417 , and she survives.