NORTHUMBERLAND.
Inquisition.
The castle at Newcastle upon Tyne
2 March 1430. [
Strother].
Jurors:
Thomas
Lilburn
;
John
Midelton
;
Nicholas
Turpyn
;
John
Mitford
of Ponteland;
Robert
Musgrave
;
William
Lawson
;
John
Herle
;
William
Musgrave
;
William
Benet
;
James
Buk
;
William
Rotherford
; and
John
Mitford
of Nunnhous.
Thomas
Gryffith, lord of Wychnor
, enfeoffed Roger,
John
de
Fenwyke, chaplain
, still living, and
Thomas
de
Chestre
, ‘vynter’, now deceased, among other things, with ½ manor of Longbenton, ½ manor of Stannington, and 6 husband-lands in Tranwell, described as all his lands and tenements, rents, possessions, and services in Stannington, Longbenton, Killingworth, Bellasis, Shotton, Plessey, Tranwell, and other places, with all their liberties, commodities, and appurtenances. The enfeoffment was made without royal licence by charter dated Wytton
18 July 1405. The charter was shown to the jurors.
Henry
IV
pardoned Roger,
John
de
Fenwyke
, and
Thomas
de
Chestre
by letters patent dated Westminster 30 January 1406 and regranted those lands and tenements that they were holding of the king to them and their heirs and assigns to hold of the king and his heirs by due service in perpetuity [CPR 1405–1408, p. 138]. The lands and tenements described in the charter and in the letters patent are the same. The letters were shown to the jurors.
He thereby died conjointly enfeoffed of ½ manor of Longbenton, ½ manor of Stannington, and 6 husband-lands in Tranwell in demesne as of fee with
John
de
Fenwyke, chaplain
.
Longbenton, ½ manor, held of the king in chief by homage and fealty, and by 7¼d. cornage and 18½d. fines of courts taken at the feast of St James, delivered by the sheriff for the king’s use.
There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 10 messuages, each worth 4d. yearly; 2 cottages, each worth 2d. yearly; ½ windmill, worth nothing yearly because the whole mill is waste; 48 a. demesne land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 15 husband-lands, each worth 4s. yearly.
Tranwell, 6 husband-lands, each worth 2s. yearly; and
Stannington, ½ manor.
There are 60 a. demesne land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 4 a. demesne meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 16 husband-lands, each worth 4s. yearly; 6 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; 8 messuages, each worth 4d. yearly; and a plot of brush-wood, worth 2s. yearly. The lands in Tranwell and ½ manor of Stannington are held of the king in chief by homage and fealty, and by 18d. castleward at Newcastle upon Tyne and 13d. cornage, taken at the feast of St James the Apostle, delivered by the sheriff for the king’s use.
There are also the following rents and services held severally of Roger by various men [and women] who continue to hold them of
John
de
Fenwyke
as of ½ manor of Longbenton and ½ manor of Stannington.
Thomas
Hesilrygg
held the manor of South Weetslade, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by homage, fealty, suit of court at Longbenton every three weeks, and 4s. 4½d., payable at the feast of St James the Apostle.
Thomas
Pityngton, chaplain
, held a messuage and 60 a. land with a windmill in Longbenton, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by homage, fealty, and 4d., payable at the feast of St Peter in Chains; and a messuage and 120 a. land in the same vill, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by homage, fealty, and 6d., payable at the feast of St James the Apostle.
Adam
Kyllyngworth
held ½ messuage and 120 a. land in Killingworth, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by homage, fealty, suit of court every three weeks, and 36s. 9d., payable at Pentecost and Martinmas by equal parts.
Robert
Kyllyngworth
held a messuage and 60 a. land in the same vill, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by fealty, 4s. 6d., payable at Pentecost and Martinmas by equal parts, and by 2lb pepper, payable at Martinmas; and a messuage and 15 a. land, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by fealty, suit of court every three weeks, and 2s. 6d., payable at Pentecost and Martinmas by equal parts.
Margaret who was wife of
John
de
Asshton, knight
, held ½ manor of North Weetslade, to her and her heirs in perpetuity, by homage, fealty, suit of court, and as 1/6 knight’s fee.
John
Wodryngton, knight
, held the manor of Plessey and the vill of Shotton, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by homage, fealty, provision of a pair of gilt spurs at Christmas, and by 20s. castleward at Newcastle upon Tyne, payable at the feast of St James.
John
Belesise
held ½ plot of arable, meadow, and pasture called Bellasis in Stannington, to him and his heirs in perpetuity, by homage, fealty, and a moiety of 13½d., payable at the feast of St James
.
Date of death and heir as [375](#CIPM-DOC-23-375).