YORKSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Leeds
10 October 1430. [
Mauleverer].
Jurors:
Peter
Rom
;
William
Lepton
;
William
Tyrsall
;
John
Rothley
of Rodley;
John
Crosselay
;
Robert
Luff
;
Thomas
Claton
;
John
Studlay
of Pudsey;
John
Ive
;
John
Fox
;
John
de
Lay
; and
John
Tonge
.
He did not hold any lands or tenements in demesne or service of the king in chief or any other, but he was formerly seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Eccleshill, the manor, annual value 40s., held of
Henry
Broumflete, knight
, and Joan his wife,
duchess of York
, in right of Joan, service unknown.
Farsley, a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 60 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; and 4 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly, held of the king in socage by fealty and rendering 1d. yearly at Martinmas; 2 messuages, 30 a. land, and 3 a. meadow, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and 17s. 5½d. rent, payable at Martinmas and Pentecost by equal parts, held of the prior of St John of Jerusalem in England, service unknown.
Calverley, a messuage called ‘Wadlandes’, 50 a. land, 3 a. meadow, and 2 crofts, worth
20s. yearly, held of
Walter
Calverlay
, service unknown.
Pudsey, a messuage, bovate, and a croft, worth 40d. yearly, held of the same Walter, service unknown.
Thorner, 10s. rent, payable at Martinmas and Pentecost by equal parts, held of
Thomas
de
Metham
, service unknown.
He granted the above to
Thomas
Thunstall, knight
,
William
Skargyll
,
Thomas
Haryngton
,
John
Haryngton
,
Robert
Passelew
,
John
Frankes
, and
Henry
Scalwra
and to their heirs and assigns in perpetuity. The grant was made by charter, shown to the jurors, in which he was described as
Robert
Thornour
son and heir of
Thomas
Thornour
, and the manor etc. were described as his manor of Eccleshill, and all his lands and tenements, rents, and services in Eccleshill, Farsley, Calverley, Pudsey, and Thorner. Thomas, William etc. [as above] are still seised in their demesne as of fee.
He died on 18 June last.
Elizabeth
Thornour
, his daughter and next heir, is aged 10 and more.