CUMBERLAND.
Inquisition [indented].
Penrith
12 May 1430. [
Parre].
Jurors:
William
Stapilton, senior
;
William
Rawbankes
;
William
Stapilton, junior
;
Thomas
Carleton
;
John
Boste
;
John
Forster
;
Robert
Alanby
;
John
de
Hoton
;
William
Threlkeld
;
Robert
Wilton
;
John
Briges
; and
Richard
de
Louther
.
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Newton Reigny, 6 messuages, each worth 12d. yearly; 6 cottages, each worth 8d. yearly; 6 husband-lands, each worth 4s. yearly; and 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly, held of the king
in chief as 1/50 knight’s fee and by suit at the county court of Carlisle. Total annual value, 40s.
Wythop, the manor, held of
Henry, earl of Northumberland
, as of his honour of Cockermouth by rendering 1d. yearly, if required, to the earl and his heirs at
Christmas
. There is a site with a hall, chamber, cook-house, and other buildings, worth nothing yearly above maintenance and repair; 100 a. arable demesne, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 5 messuages with 5 husband-lands adjacent, each messuage with
1 husband-land worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 2 cottages with 2 crofts adjacent, each cottage and croft worth 12d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. wood, worth nothing yearly above the keeper’s fee, its herbage also worth nothing yearly because common pasture for all the tenants of the vill; 400 a. moor, worth nothing yearly because its herbage is common pasture for use by the same tenants; and perquisites of court, worth nothing yearly above the seneschal’s fee. Total annual value, 66s. 8d.
He died on 9 April last.
Hugh
Louther
is his son and next heir, and aged 30 and more.