LINCOLNSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Lincoln, the castle.
5 August 1433. [
Haltoft].
Jurors:
William
Tillye
,
William
Eclesale
,
Martin
Andrewe
and
John
West
, of Coleby;
John
Blake
of Harmston;
Thomas
Multon
and
John
Manfeld
, of Bracebridge;
Nicholas
Mason
and
John
Hochonson
, of Blankney;
Alexander
Heruy
of Canwick;
Robert
Dykes
of Boothby Graffoe;
John
Skeleynghope
of Dunston;
Robert
Sotheby
of Potter Hanworth;
John
Pyncard
of Waddington; and
Thomas
Conyngeston
of Washingborough.
She held the following in dower by endowment of
William
Deyncourt, knight, senior
, her former husband, of the inheritance of Alice, wife of
William
Louell, knight
, and Margaret, wife of
Ralph
Cromwell, knight
. The manors of Blankney and Branston are held of the king
by baronial tenure, amount unknown.
Blankney, the manor, in which there is the site containing 1 a. land, worth nothing yearly after its enclosure costs; within the site 2 granges and a cattle-shed, run-down and ruinous, worth nothing yearly; 3 carucates of the demesne lands, each containing 40 a. and each acre worth 1d. yearly; 23 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 100 a. marsh, worth nothing this year because inundated for the whole year, but the cut and seasonable marsh can be and should be valued at 1d. at farm
in normal years, each acre 1d.; a wood called ‘Blankeney Hawe’ containing 40 a., worth nothing yearly because it has no underwood; and £14 19s. rent of free tenants at Michaelmas,
Christmas,
Easter and the feast of St Botulph in equal portions.
Branston, the manor, in which there is the site containing 2 a. land worth nothing yearly after the site’s enclosure; within the site a hall and 2 chambers, run-down and ruinous, and a grange and 2 stables, old, run-down and ruinous, worth nothing yearly;
2 carucates, each containing 40 a. and each acre worth 1d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 4d. yearly; a wood called ‘Braunceton Wode’ containing 200 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because it has no underwood for felling or sale; 2 mills – a watermill and windmill – run-down and ruinous, worth nothing this year; 100 a. marsh, worth nothing this year because inundated but in other, normal years the cut and seasonable marsh are and can be valued annually, each acre 2d. at farm; and £18 free rents from free tenants at the same four annual terms in equal portions.
Lincoln bailiwick, a messuage, held of the king
of his duchy of Lancaster, service unknown, worth nothing.
Scopwick, 1/4 knight’s fee, which the
prior of Thurgarton
holds (ten’), worth 25s. when it falls.
She died on 20 June last.