BERKSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Wantage.
2 October 1432. [
Fetplace].
Jurors:
William
Walrond
;
John
Metford
;
William
Logge
;
John
Touke
;
Peter
Manne
;
Thomas
Wynterbourne
;
John
Sexteyn
;
William
Pleystowe
;
Henry
Herdyng
;
William
Clement
;
John
Gyles
; and
John
Cheveyn
.
He held in his demesne as of fee 5 messuages, 3 tofts, 5 virgates and 3 a. arable, 8 1/2 a. meadow, and £4 4s. 3d. and a clove assize rent, from free tenants at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally, in South Moreton as follows.
‘Lowches’, 2 messuages, 2 virgates of arable and 3 a. meadow, so called, and ‘Adreshammes’, a messuage, 3 virgates of land, 5 1/2 a. meadow and £4 4s. 3d. and a clove assize rent, so called, and ‘Harwardeys’, a messuage so called and 2 tofts, all held of the king
in chief by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, annual value 60s.
‘Colles’, a messuage and 3 a. arable so called, and ‘Frenssharries’, a toft so called, all held of
Thomas
Rothewell
in socage by service of rendering 7s. and 2 capons, annual value nil.
He held 5 cottages in Wantage in his demesne as of fee of queen Joan of her manor of Wantage, service unknown, annual value 13s. 4d.
He died on 1 May 1432.
Thomas
Broun
is his son and next heir, aged 9 years and more.