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 2013-02-28T19:05:12.1Z XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
WALTER ROMSEY, ESQUIRE
203 Writ. 14 February 1429. [Wymbyssh].
HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Romsey 2 July 1429. [Longe].
Jurors: John Farley ; Richard Skynner ; John Whitnale ; Thomas Veryng ; John Huse ; Nicholas Gladecheyt; Thomas Bernard ; Gregory Phil... [ms torn]; Peter Goldsmyth ; John Hore ; John Rygge ; and John Odyham .
He held the following in demesne as of fee of Robert Thorberon , keeper of St Mary’s, Winchester, service unknown. West Vernham, a site, lately with buildings but now decayed, worth nothing yearly; 4 messuages, demised for terms of years, worth 20s. yearly; a carucate containing 80 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly.
He died on 3 September last. Walter Romsey is his son and next heir, and aged 3 and more.
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204 [ Writ: see 203 .]
WILTSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Salisbury 3 July 1429. [Longe].
Jurors: John Bottenham ; John Wodehay ; John Morys ; John Alisaunder ; Thomas Durneford ; William Skynner ; John Rede ; Ralph Pakker ; Richard Peny ; Philip Burgeys ; John Preston ; and William Pelt .
He held no lands or tenements of the king or any other.
Date of death and heir as 203.
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205 Writ. ‡ 14 February 1429. [Wymbyssh].
SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Queen Camel 20 August 1429. [Melbourne].
Jurors: John Brympton ; Robert Cammell ; John Melbourne ; Robert ?Petevyn; Stephen James ; John Wayte ; John Gylberd ; George Russeley ; Walter Sampford ; Richard Wyche ; Richard Shephurd ; and John Mavyell .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Orchardleigh, ½ manor with advowson on every other presentation, held of the king in chief by knight service. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; and a carucate of arable, 12 a. meadow, 100 a. pasture, and 20 a. wood that are demised to Thomas Ferrour for a term of years for £4 yearly, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts. Annual value of the advowson when it falls, 40s. Oakley, the manor, held of Reynold Weste, knight , service unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 200 a. arable, demised for terms of years for 100s. yearly, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts; 20 a. meadow, demised for terms of years for 40s. yearly, payable at the same terms; 102s. assize rent taken from free tenants and tenants-at-will, payable at the same terms by equal parts; and perquisites of court, worth nothing yearly. Mudford-Torry, 1/3 manor, held of John Grey, knight , service unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; and 150 a. arable, 20 a. meadow, and 30 a. pasture, demised to John Chapman for a term of years for £4 yearly, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts. He held the following in fee simple in fee and by right. Adber, ½ knight’s fee appurtenant to the manor of Rockbourne in Hampshire, annual value 50s., held of the king in chief by knight service.
He died on 1 November 1428. Identity of heir as 203, except the heir is aged 2 and more.
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206 [ Writ: see 205 .]
DORSET. Inquisition [indented]. Shaftesbury 27 October 1429. [Melbourne].
Jurors: Richard Pedeworth ; Richard Fatcumbe ; John Payn ; Stephen Pertrigge ; John Buke ; Thomas Hatte ; William Burley ; William Catte ; John Sheve ; Thomas Raccheford ; John Plomer ; and John Baudewyn .
He held the following in fee simple in fee and by right. Clifton Maybank, one knight’s fee appurtenant to the manor of Rockbourne in Hampshire, annual value 100s., held of the king in chief by knight service.
Date of death and heir as 205.
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