Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 23, 1427-32 Mapping The Medieval Countryside, a collaboration between the Department of History, University of Winchester, and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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 Claire Noble (ed.), with introduction by Christine Carpenter, Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXIII: 6-10 Henry VI (1427-1432). Boydell & Brewer2004 2013-02-28T19:07:34.1Z XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
THOMAS ILKETESHALE, KNIGHT
652 Writ mandamus . ‡ 26 March 1432. [Wymbyssh].
NORFOLK. Inquisition. Holt. 24 April 1432. [ Gray ].
Jurors: Thomas atte Bryg ; James Andru ; Laurence Mabb ; Henry Gybbys ; Robert Reede ; Adam Mannyng ; John Caus ; John Brydde ; Richard Fyssh ; John Albon ; Richard Vaux ; John Betys ; and John Skynner .
He held the following in demesne as of fee tail by grant of Richard de Estderham , chaplain, by a fine levied at Westminster on the octave of Hilary 1319 [CP 25/1/163/137 no. 701], to James Ilketeshale and Ida his wife, and to the heirs of their bodies together. Right descended from James and Ida to Robert Ilketeshale , their son and heir, and right descended from Robert to Thomas Ilketeshale , son and heir of Robert. Hedenham, the manor with advowson of the church pertaining to the same, held of the king as of the honour of Chester. There is a messuage and 12 a. land, worth 12d. yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; a close called ‘Randolf’, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 30 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. underwood, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 6 a. wood, worth nothing yearly above enclosure; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 3 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 60s. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts; 40s. assize rent payable as above; court with view of frankpledge, worth 2s. yearly; court with view of frankpledge, worth nothing yearly above the seneschal’s costs. Annual value of the advowson, £10. The manuscript of the inquisition bears no physical sign of indentation, but the inquisition is described in its text as indented. E 149/149/5 m.1: ‘40s.’
He died on 1 October 1421. Laurence Fitzpers son of Margery daughter of Idony, one of Thomas’s sisters, Margaret wife of Thomas Seyve and another of Thomas’s sisters, and Margaret wife of Richard Elliswyk and daughter of Joan, Thomas’s other sister, are his next heirs because he died without heir of his body. Laurence is aged 26 and more, Margaret wife of Thomas Seyve is aged 40 and more, and Margaret wife of Richard Elliswyk is aged 28 and more.
William Devyle and Elizabeth [recte Isabel] his wife took the issues from the time of Thomas’s death until this day.
C 139/54/27 mm.1–2
653 Writ de partitione (Norfolk). 8 May 1432. [Wymbyssh]. Order to partition lands in 652 and deliver seisin to the three heirs [CFR 1430–1437, p. 91].
E 149/149/5 m.2
654 [ Writ not required.]
NORFOLK. Inquisition ex officio . Great or Little Walsingham (Walsyngham) 5 November 1432. [ Gray ].
Jurors: Edward Wylbey ; John Molotis ; Geoffrey Snoryng ; Thomas Palmer ; Robert Ekelyston ; Nicholas Butle ; Robert Blog ; Thomas Newell ; John Newman ; Richard atte Ker ; John Barr ; Thomas Arnald ; and Hugh atte Halle .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Kelling, the manor, true annual value 20s., held of the king as of his honour of Chester, service unknown.
He died on 6 October 1421.
William Devyle and Isabel his wife took the issues from the time of his death until this day, for which they are answerable to the king.[Dorse:] Memorandum: a duplicate inquisition was sent to Chancery by authority of a writ under the great seal, directed to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer and enrolled among writs to them from Easter 1435, roll 6.
E 149/149/5 m.3