DORSET.
Inquisition [indented].
Bere ?Regis.
25 July 1426. [
Flory]
Jurors:
Thomas
Blakemore
;
John
Frye
;
John
Durneford
;
John
Jebert
;
John
Moigne
;
John
Smert
;
John
Canon
;
Clement
Morton
;
Clement
Snellyng
;
John
Lovell
;
John
Smedmore
; and
Peter
Pruet
.
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king in chief. By enfeoffment of
Nicholas
Humfray
and
Robert
Lymburgh
, he held the following in his demesne as of fee tail, to himself and his heirs by Alice, his late wife.
Bere, the manor, and
Shillingstone, a tenement and 20 a. meadow, held of
Robert
de
Ponynges, Lord de Ponynges
, in socage by a rent of a rose yearly, annual value £20.
Moor, 9 messuages, 3 carucates of land, 40 a. meadow and 200 a. pasture, and
Marnhull, 3 messuages and 100 a. land, held of
Nicholas
abbot of Glastonbury
, in socage by 2d. rent yearly, annual value 10 marks.
Todber, 4 messuages and 100 a. land, and
Stour
Provost, 6 messuages, 120 a. land and 30 a. wood, held of
Ralph
Rocheford, knight
, in socage by a rent of a pair of gloves yearly, annual value 5 marks.
Winterborne Clenston, a tenement and a carucate, held of
John
Heryng
in socage by a rent of 2 cumin seeds yearly, annual value 26s. 8d.
Shaftesbury, 2 carucates of land and 20 a. wood, held of
Margaret
abbess of Shaftesbury
, by 1d. rent yearly, annual value 40s.
He died on 4 March 1422. Edith wife of
John
Neuburgh, junior
, is the daughter and next heir of Robert and of Robert and Alice, his late wife, and was aged 19 years and no more on 1 October 1421.
Joan his widow occupied the lands and tenements and took their issues from the time of his death, and still does so.