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JOHN POTESMORE
607 [Writ not required.]
BERKSHIRE. Inquisition ex officio. Newbury. 1 November 1430. [Fynderne].
Jurors: Nicholas Fayrefaxe; John Bolter; Thomas Marchall; Nicholas Webbe; Vincent Waldry; John Devenyssh; John Smyth, senior; Hugh Wynnet; John Smyth, junior; John Hamond; Richard Bosser; and John West, junior.
He held in demesne as of fee a messuage, 20 a. land, and 5 a. meadow in Brimpton, annual value 6s. 8d.
He died on 19 April 1421. John Potesmore, still living and an idiot since birth, is his son and next heir, and aged 28 and more.
John Stokes of Brimpton, ‘gentilman’, has taken the issues since the death of John the father, for which he is answerable to the king. The fact of the idiocy was not made clear to the escheator before the inquisition.
E 149/147/12 m.1