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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 2013-02-28T19:05:51.467Z XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
WILLIAM ELAND, ESQUIRE
329 Writ mandamus . ‡ 28 November 1429. [Wymbyssh].
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Nottingham 14 January 1430. [Bowes].
Jurors: John Botery ; John Moresse ; John Willughes ; Richard Richardson ; William Stapleford ; Robert Hadnot ; William Auntre ; Richard Dayson ; William Ferthinge ; Thomas Faucunberd ; Henry Maire ; and William Trusley .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Peverel, the bailiwick of the honour in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire , held as whole of the king in chief in socage by rendering 14 marks fee-farm to the Exchequer at Easter and Michaelmas equally. The annual value of the entire bailiwick is 6s. 8d. above the said 14 marks.
He died on 5 October 1428. William Eland is his son and next heir, and aged 9 and more.
Since William’s death, Henry Knyveton, esquire , uncle and next of the blood of William Eland , son, as the brother of Joan mother of William, has taken the issues of the bailiwick for the use of William. The bailiwick cannot descend to Henry Knyveton by hereditary right.
E 149/145/5 m.1: ‘ Ralph Richardson ’.
C 139/43/4 mm.1–2 E 149/145/5 m.1
330 [Writ: see 329 .]
DERBYSHIRE. Inquisition. Derby 16 January 1430. [Bowes].
Jurors: Richard Husse ; William Bailly ; Henry Milner ; Henry Tomlynson ; John Bate ; Thomas Spenser ; John Bollowe ; John Smalley ; John Forthe ; John Spenser ; John Lowe ; and Richard Sutton .
Findings as 329.
C 139/43/4 mm.1, 3