DERBYSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Bolsover
11 April 1430. [
Neville
].
[Inquisition: ms in poor condition.]
Jurors:
William
Povey
of Norton;
Ralph
Glapwell
;
Robert
Hare
of Duckmanton;
John
Whithede
;
John
Coly
of Whitwell;
Richard
Selioke
of Norton; Ingram Fraunces of Horsley;
Richard
Kays
of Kilburn;
Henry
Warnere
of Draycott;
Robert
Wynter
of Coal Aston;
John
Spencer
of Alvaston; and
William
Hay
of Boulton.
Peter
Retherby, chaplain
, was seised in demesne as of fee of two parts of the manor of Staveley and the advowson of the church of the same vill, held of the king
in chief as of his crown by knight service, quantity unknown. He gave them to
Ralph
Frecheville
and Margaret his wife, and to the heirs male of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of Ralph in perpetuity. Royal licence was obtained of
Edward
II
by letters patent dated Tower of London
18 June 1324 [CPR 1321–1324, p. 425].
[1]+Ralph and Margaret were seised in demesne as of fee tail and died seised of this estate. The two parts and advowson descended to Aucher as son and heir of Ralph and Margaret. After the death of Aucher, the above descended to Ralph as son and heir of Aucher. Ralph died seised of this estate without heir of his body. The two parts of the manor and the advowson descended to Gervase as brother and heir of Ralph son of Aucher. He died seised in demesne as of fee tail.+[1]
Staveley, two parts of the manor and advowson of the church.
There are various ruinous buildings, worth nothing yearly above maintenance, and herbage, worth 2s. yearly; two parts of a park, its herbage worth 26s. 8d. yearly above maintaining game-animals and the keeper’s fee, payable at Michaelmas only; 80 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 15 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 14 messuages and 14 bovates, each messuage with a bovate worth 5s. yearly; 10 cottages, each worth 18d. yearly; 18s. 6d. free rent taken from free tenants, payable at Martinmas and Pentecost by equal parts; and two parts of a ruinous water-mill, worth 10s. yearly. There are also two parcels of meadow in the park, one worth 6s. yearly and the other worth 5s. yearly. The advowson is of no annual value above prayers.
By a fine levied at Westminster on the octave of Hilary 1325 [CP 25/1/38/29 no. 154],
John
de
Herdeby, chaplain
, deforc., granted the manor of Alvaston to
Ralph
Frecheville
and Margaret his wife, quer., and to the heirs of their bodies, with remainder wholly to the right heirs of Ralph in perpetuity. The course of succession ran as [+[1]+](#CIPM-XREF-23-373-1) above.
Alvaston, the manor, held of
Reynold
Cobham, chevalier
, and Anne his wife as of their manor of Stoke Bardolph by knight service, quantity unknown.
There are various ruinous buildings, worth nothing yearly above maintenance, and herbage, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 80 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 5 messuages and 5 virgates, each messuage with a virgate worth 6s. 8d. yearly; and 23s. 10d. free rent taken from free tenants, payable at Lady Day and the Nativity of Mary by equal parts.
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Denby, a waste messuage called ‘le Parkehall’, 13 a. arable, 6 a. meadow, 60 a. pasture, and 6 a. wood, annual value 20s., held of
Richard, Lord Grey of Codnor
, by 18s. yearly.
Steetley, 4 tofts, 100 a. fallow, 5 a. meadow, and 6 a. wood, annual value 13s. 4d., held of the heirs of
John
Ponley
in socage, quantity unknown.
He held the following in his demesne.
Williamthorpe and Inkersall, one knight’s fee, held of
Ralph, Lord Cromwell of Tattershall
, and Margaret his wife in right of Margaret.
Thomas
Chaworth, chevalier
, held the manors of Williamthorpe and Inkersall in demesne as of fee of Gervase by knight service, quantity unknown.
He died on 31 December last.
Peter
Frecheville
is his son and next heir, and aged 2 and more.
Owing to the idiocy of Gervase,
Henry V seized all the said manors, lands, and tenements into his hands and, by letters patent, committed them to
William
Pope
for the life of Gervase [CPR 1416–1422, p. 61]. William damaged, sold, and destroyed parts of these manors, lands, and tenements. In the woods of Staveley, he cut down and sold 100 oaks, price of each 15d., and 60 ash trees, price of each 12d.; in the gardens of Alvaston, he cut down and sold 20 ash trees, price of each 2s.; and in ‘le Parkhall’ in Denby, he dismantled and sold a chamber and a grange, price of each 50s.
[Dorse:] By
William
Nevill, escheator
in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.