Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 23, 1427-32 Mapping The Medieval Countryside, a collaboration between the Department of History, University of Winchester, and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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 Claire Noble (ed.), with introduction by Christine Carpenter, Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXIII: 6-10 Henry VI (1427-1432). Boydell & Brewer2004 2013-02-28T19:07:30.222Z XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
HUGH LUTERELL, CHEVALIER
51 Writ. ‡ 25 March 1428. [Wymbyssh].
WILTSHIRE. Inquisition. Salisbury 8 May 1428. [Veer].
Jurors: John Cuttyng ; John More ; Henry Bottenham ; John Dykeman ; John Elys ; John Newman ; John Bottenham ; William Febus ; John atte Fenne ; Peter Duke ; John Claymond ; and John Quarle .
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief or any other.
He died on 24 March last. John Luterell is his son and next heir, and aged 30 and more.
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52 Writ. ‡ 25 March 1428. [Wymbyssh].
SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Taunton 27 April 1428. [ Gregory ]. [Inquisition: ms galled and worn.]
Jurors: Edward Seynt John; Thomas Copleston ; John Dodyngton ; John Orchard, senior ; Walter Stanwall ; Richard Byckombe ; John Coker ; John Gylden ; Thomas Trowe ; Robert Pytte ; Robert Crosse ; and Hugh Kene .
He held in demesne as of fee of the king in chief the castle and borough of Dunster, the manors of Carhampton, Minehead, and Kilton, and the hundred of Carhampton... ?Bruton Priory, as an entire barony. The annual value of the hundred of Carhampton is 60s. Dunster. The castle is of no annual value but pertaining to it is a court called ‘Baronyecourt’ held every three weeks, worth 20s. yearly. There are also 12 a. sloping pasture around the castle called ‘Casteldychepastur’, each acre worth 4d. yearly. In the borough, there is assize rent of £8 7s. 5d., 2 capons, and 2lb wax, delivered by free tenants on the feast of St Martin only; rent of 14s. 3¾d. by a custom called ‘Burghryght’, delivered by the bailiffs on Hockday; a custom called ‘Burghryght’, delivered by the bailiffs on Hockday; market on Fridays, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; perquisites of court with view of frankpledge, worth 100s. yearly; and a fair held on Monday in Pentecost week, worth [at least] 10s. yearly. Carhampton. In this manor, there is assize rent of £10 5s. 7¾d., delivered by free tenants at the four terms of the year by equal parts; rents of 2lb pepper, 1lb pepper, lb cumin, 10lb wax, 1lb wax, pair of gloves, rose, 44 capons, 8 hens, and 8 pullets, payable at Michaelmas only; 66 messuages, each worth 8d. yearly; 3 water-mills, each worth 60s. yearly; two fulling-mills, each worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 1 dovecot, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 588 a. arable, each acre worth 2s. yearly; 72 a. meadow, each acre worth 3s. yearly; 4 a. reeds for thatching, each acre worth 3s. yearly; 2 parks, one called ‘Hanger Parke’, containing 100 a. pasture and wood, the pasture worth 20s. yearly above pasturing animals to hunt there, and the other called ‘Mersshwode Parke’, containing 270 a. pasture and wood, the pasture worth 40s. yearly above pasturing animals to hunt there; 203 a. wood, the pasture worth 5s. yearly; 300 a. furze, heath, and waste, each acre worth 1d. yearly; and perquisites of a view of frankpledge, worth 30s. yearly. Minehead. In this manor, there is assize rent of 7s. and 1lb of wax delivered by free tenants at Michaelmas only; a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 120 messuages, each worth 12d. yearly; a water-mill, worth 20s. yearly; 6 messuages called ‘Botehouse’, each worth 4d. yearly; 7 fishtraps next to the tideway, each trap worth 6d. yearly; a park containing 150 a. pasture and wood, the pasture worth 20s. yearly above maintaining animals to hunt there; 20 a. wood, the pasture worth 2s. yearly; an annual fair held at Michaelmas, worth 20d. yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 16d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly; and 400 a. furze, heath, and waste, each acre worth 1d. yearly. The following works are due from customary tenants: 182 manual works, called ‘Churrys’, taken at any time of the year from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, each worth ¼d., 107 harvest works taken from the feast of St Peter in Chains until Michaelmas, each worth 1d., 15 works stacking peas taken from and to the same feasts, each worth ½d., 15 works stacking hay taken from Pentecost until Michaelmas, each worth ½d., 2 ploughworks from two customary tenants, one at the winter sowing and the other at the Lenten sowing, each worth 5d.; and perquisites of court with view of frankpledge, worth 100s. yearly. Kilton. In this manor, there is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; £6 13s. 4d. assize rent delivered by free tenants at the four terms of the year by equal parts; 30 messuages, each worth 6d. yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth ?2s. yearly; 200 a. pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 40 a. wood, the pasture worth nothing above enclosure of the wood; and one dovecot, worth 6s. 8d. yearly. He held the following in demesne as of fee. Heathfield-Durborough, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; 80 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 8 a. alder, each acre worth 2d. yearly, held of the heirs of Thomas Poulet of Bathealton, service unknown. East Quantoxhead, the manor and advowson of the church there, held of Godfrey Hylton, knight , service unknown. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 50s. assize rent, delivered by free tenants at the fou terms of the yearr... 2 dovecots, each worth 6s. 8d. yearly; a water-mill, worth 12s. yearly; 33 messuages, each worth yearly...; 700 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 1000 a. furze, heath, and waste, each acre worth ?¼d. yearly; 40 a. wood, the pasture worth 6s. 8d. yearly; and perquisites of court, worth 40d. yearly. He held the following in right of Katherine his wife for her life from the inheritance of Thomas [recte John] Strecche, her former husband. Sampford Arundel, the manor, annual value £10..., held of Thomas Mylton , service unknown.
Date of death and heir as 51, except the heir’s age is 34 years.
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53 [ Writ: see 52 .]
DORSET. Inquisition. Shaftesbury 7 May 1428. [ Gregory ].
Jurors: William Godewyn ; Thomas Hody ; John Payn ; Thomas Hat ; Thomas Haselmere ; Roger Pyion ; Thomas Wyse ; William Whatyngdene ; John Forde ; John Fordyngton ; William Catte ; and William Mathewe .
Each of the following people held of him as of his manor of Dunster in Somerset by knight service and by 6d. yearly to him and his heirs at Candlemas. He thus died seised in demesne as of fee of the following rents and services. William Dackomb was seised in demesne as of fee of the manor of Iwerne Stepleton. Hugh Deverell was seised in demesne as of fee of the manor of Cruxton. John Moun was seised in demesne as of fee of the manor of Hammoon.
Date of death and heir as 52.
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54 Writ. ‡ 25 March 1428. [Wymbyssh].
DEVON. Inquisition. Exeter 17 May 1428. [Tretherf].
Jurors: John Spencer ; Gilbert Bysshop ; John Heys ; Robert Conte, senior ; John Wylssh ; Walter Buggebroke ; Robert Legh ; John Kyrton ; William Wyham ; Richard Hedman ; John Crystofor ; and John Lane .
He held the following in right of Katherine his wife, still living, for her life from the inheritance of John Strecche , her former husband. Woolston, the manor, annual value £10, held of the heir of William Wroughton , service unknown. Otterton, the manor, annual value 60s., held of the prioress of Syon as of the manor of Otterton, service unknown. Sheafhayne and Birch, 40s. rent, held of the prioress of Syon , service unknown.
Date of death and heir as 52.[The inquisition for Cornwall, ordered in the writ, is not extant.]
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55 Writ. ‡ 20 March 1428. [Wymbyssh].
SUFFOLK. Inquisition [indented]. Newmarket 15 May 1428. [Drury].
Jurors: John Rykedon ; John Mose ; John Smyth ; John Chapman ; John Passhelow ; William Myller ; Simon Dyke ; John Hadenham ; John White ; John Wymbysshe ; Robert Smyth ; Thomas West ; Thomas Skynner ; and John Apylton, senior .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Moulton, the manor called Stonehall. It is not held of the king , but of whom it is held and by what service is unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 32s. 7d. assize rent, delivered by free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts; 10 messuages, each worth 6d. yearly; a dovecot, worth 2s. yearly; 640 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 7 a. meadow, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 80 a. several heath all year, each acre worth 1d. yearly; pasture called ‘le Comewnehethe’, common for all the lands and tenements of the tenants in Moulton and its ground and freehold are part of the same manor, worth 12d. yearly above pasturing the tenants’ animals; a court held every three weeks, worth 12d. yearly; 14 tofts, each worth 4d. yearly; 3 harvest boonworks from free tenants; and free warren in all demesne lands, worth nothing yearly. Little Waldingfield, the manor called Woodhall. It is not held of the king , but of whom it is held and by what service is unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 5 marks assize rent, delivered by free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts; rent of 1lb cumin, price 2d., delivered by a certain free tenant at Michaelmas only; rent of 5 capons, price of each 2d., delivered by free tenants on the feast of St Andrew only; 1 messuage, worth 6d. yearly; 250 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 7½ a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 30 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because it cannot be felled; 10 a. pasture, each acre worth 6d. yearly; a court held every three weeks, worth 12d. yearly; and free warren in all demesne lands, worth nothing yearly.
Date of death and heir as 51, except the heir is aged 48 years.
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56 [ Writ: see 55 .]
NORFOLK. Inquisition [indented]. Weeting 16 May 1428. [Drury].
Jurors: John Alcok ; William Barbour ; John Hyve ; John Grove ; John Ermelyn ; John Shephurde ; William Inglisthorp ; William Smyth ; Robert Ermylyn ; Robert Russell ; John Cook ; Henry Smyth ; Nicholas Sherere ; and Reynold Jonesson .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Feltwell, the manor called South Hall, held of Beatrice, countess of Arundel , lately wife of Thomas, earl of Arundel , by reason of her dower. The manor was lately held of the earl of Arundel as one knight’s fee as of the honour and castle of Castle Acre. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 400 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 500 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 1 dovecot, worth 12d. yearly; £8 10s. assize rent, payable at Michaelmas and Pentecost by equal parts; an annual fair held on the feast of St Edmund the King, worth nothing yearly, and a weekly market on Monday, worth 12d. yearly, the fair and market held from time immemorial; free warren in all demesne lands, worth nothing yearly; a fishery called ‘Raggemerlake’ in ‘la South Fen’ in the vill of Feltwell, worth nothing yearly because it is not cleaned; a court held every three weeks, worth nothing yearly above the expenses of the seneschal; view of frankpledge with liberties of ‘Pyllary, Tumerell, Thewe’, and ‘Stray’, which extend throughout the demesne and fee of the same manor, worth 12d. yearly; 9 boonworks taken at harvest from tenants; and rent of one capon, price 2d., and 2 hens, price 3d., taken at Christmas from tenants.
Date of death and heir as 55.
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