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 2013-02-28T19:08:33.776Z XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
WILLIAM POCOK
180 Writ mandamus . ‡ 1 July 1428. [Wymbyssh]. Regarding lands and tenements held of ‪ Henry V .
SUSSEX. Inquisition. Chichester 1 November 1428. [Wintereshull].
Jurors: William Skardevyle ; Roger Holte ; Robert Maudyt ; Walter atte Sto ...; John ...arbour; Henry Wendore ; Henry Syteler ; William Yulond ; Richard Bernam ; John Page ; John Stanhowe ; and Walter Crosse [ms torn].
He held the following by curtesy in right of Margaret his late wife. Willingdon, 2 a. land in a furlong called ‘le Benkhamme’, annual value 12d., held of the king in chief as 1/200 knight’s fee. He died seised of the following by curtesy. [No place given], 1½ a. land in a furlong called ‘le Undervynche’, annual value 12d. Of whom it is held and by what service is unknown. Eastbourne and Willingdon, 28 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly, formerly of Thomas Batte , but of whom they are held and by what service is unknown. Willingdon, 9 a. land, each acre worth 9d. yearly, held as of the honour of L’Aigle, service unknown. Eastbourne, 1½ a. [land] in the tithing of Lamport, annual value 6d. Of whom it is held and by what service is unknown.
He died on 20 June 1421 when William their son and next heir was aged 16 and more.
William Beek, escheator , seized the land virtute officii into the hands of ‪ Henry V in 9 Henry V [1421–1422], and took its issues for which he was answerable in his account of that year. Successive escheators have taken the issues and the Exchequer holds their accounts.
C 139/37/13 mm.1–2