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 2013-02-28T19:05:07.646Z XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
WILLIAM CROMWELL, KNIGHT
191 Writ. 30 October 1428. [Wymbyssh].
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Retford or West Retford (Retford) 7 April 1429. [Bowes].
Jurors: John More of Wellow; William Aston of Clarborough; John Kyrkeby of Retford or West Retford (Retford); Richard Gree of Torworth; Robert Blakeburne of Beckingham; John Aston of Hayton; John Thorpp of Scaftworth; William Bolton of Clayworth; John atte Well of Everton; John Hesyll of East Markham; Ralph Wylbram of West Markham; and Robert Thoresby of Sturton le Steeple.
Ralph Cromwell, chevalier, late lord of Tattershall , was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. He gave it to William his son and to the heirs male of his body, with remainder to the right heirs of Ralph in perpetuity. William died seised of this estate. Tuxford, a third of 1/3 manor, held of the king in chief by knight service. There are 6 messuages and 6 bovates, each messuage and its adjacent bovate worth 6s. 8d. yearly; a toft, worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 3 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and a wood called ‘le Westrake’, worth nothing yearly above enclosure because completely felled.
William died on 4 September last. Robert Cromwell , his son and next heir, was then aged 15 and more.
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192 Writ. † 30 October 1428. [Wymbyssh].
BERKSHIRE. Inquisition. Newbury 8 April 1429. [ Rede ].
Jurors: William Covyntr ; Nicholas Messenger ; John Benet ; John Magot ; Robert Croke ; Edward Townysende ; John Grenehill ; Richard Tekyll ; Richard Rider ; Roger Chillond ; Thomas Marchall ; and John Smyth .
He held no lands or tenements of the king in demesne or service. He held the following to him and the heirs male of his body, as enfeoffed by Lady Maud, late wife of Ralph Cromwell , with remainder to Maud’s heirs in perpetuity. Shalbourne, the manor, held of the heirs of Peter son of Herbert by one rose yearly. There is a grange, worth nothing yearly; an adjacent close, worth 6d. yearly; a carucate containing 100 a. arable lying in common of which a moiety may be sown each year, each sown acre worth 4d. yearly ; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 18d. yearly; 40 a. several pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 20 a. wood with no underwood, its pasture worth nothing yearly as common all year; a water-mill, worth nothing yearly because ruinous; £8 10s. assize rent from tenants, free and villein, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts; and 6s. rent called ‘lader silver’, payable at Martinmas.
He died on 1 September 1428. Heir as 191, except that he is aged 16 and more.
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