DORSET.
Inquisition.
Sherborne. [2
or]
16 July 1427.
[
Twyneho]
Wednesday before feast of St Margaret
.
Jurors:
John
... [ms torn]
;
John
Keylewey
;
Richard
Rochell
;
William
Knaplok
;
Ralph
Manston
;
John
Gold
;
John
Mark
;
William
Hoggesworthy
;
John
Hoggesworthy
;
William
Mantell
;
Alexander
Chepman
; and
John
Ede
.
He held the manor of Broadwindsor with the entire hamlet of Attisham, part of this manor, together with rents and services of all tenants belonging to the manor and hamlet, for life by grant and demise of Master Richard Courtenay, son and heir of my lord (mon ser)
Philip
de
Courtenay
, to William and Joan his wife, long since deceased, wardships, marriages and reliefs excepted and reserved to Richard, as is contained more fully in the indenture dated 12 January 1409 shown to the jurors.
Richard died and the right of reversion then descended to
Philip
Courtenay, esquire
, who survives, aged 24 years and more, as kinsman and heir of Richard as son of
John
Courtenay, knight
, brother and heir of Richard.
The manor with hamlet is held of the king
by service of paying £4 9s. legal English money at Michaelmas by the hands of the sheriff.
Henry V pardoned William for every kind of gift, alienation and purchase of lands and tenements held in chief of Henry V or his ancestors, as is clear fully in his letters patent shown to the jurors [CPR 1413–16, p.390].
In the manor there are the capital messuage with curtilage and a garden, worth nothing yearly; a messuage with curtilage and a garden in the hamlet, worth nothing yearly; 33 tofts, worth 8d. yearly; a grist-mill, worth 2s. 4d. yearly; a dovecot, worth 12d. yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 55 a. meadow, each acre worth 9d. yearly; 1,490 a. pasture, each acre worth 1/4d. yearly; a wood, worth nothing yearly except in the year when pannage occurs, and then worth 8d. in pannage; £24 2s. 8d. assize rents from certain tenements at Christmas,
Easter,
Midsummer and Michaelmas in equal portions; perquisites of the manorial court, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; and perquisites of the hundred court, part of this manor, worth 13s. 4d. yearly.
He held no other lands or tenements of the king in chief of another in demesne or in service because long before his death, namely before last Easter, by a charter dated at Brimbley, 4 May 1412, and shown to the jurors, he enfeoffed the following men with the following, to hold to the respective feoffees, their heirs and assigns of the chief lords of those fees by the due and customary rents and services. They were and are still seised in their demesne as of fee. The manor, lands and tenements in the hands of these feoffees are held of others other than the king. He enfeoffed
William
Ekerdon, clerk
,
Matthew
Stoke, clerk
,
John
Colyn
,
Thomas
Norres
, all deceased, and
John
Trelay
who survives, with the following.
Brimbley alias
Bromley, his manor, in the parish of Stoke Abbott.
Furleigh and Kingsland in Netherbury parish, all his lands and tenements.
He enfeoffed
Peter
Sturt, chaplain
,
Thomas
Hertescote
,
Henry
Whytyng
and
John
Trelay
, who all survive, with the following.
Purse Caundle, all his lands and tenements.
Broadwindsor parish, a messuage, 15 a. land and 3 a. meadow, which he had lately purchased.
He died on 26 June last.
John
Frye
son of Thomas son of John brother of this William is his kinsman and next heir, aged 18 years and more.