Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 24, 1432-37

HENRY PERCY OF ATHOLL, KNIGHT

58 Writ. ‡ 6 November 1432. [Ardern]. Addressed to escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk.

SUFFOLK. Inquisition. Eye. 12 December 1432. [Roys].

Jurors: William Barell ; John Fyn ; Thomas Smyth ; William Broun ; John Fasselyn ; William Kyppyng ; William Clerk ; John ?Hare [ms worn and soiled] ; Edmund Pertrych ; Richard Coytyf ; John Baldre ; and Roger Walssh .

He held no lands, tenements, rents or services of the king in chief in demesne or service. Described as Henry Percy of Atholl, knight , he held the manor of Cratfield jointly with Elizabeth his wife, who survives, by a fine levied on the quindene of Martinmas 1431 and afterwards recorded on the octave of Trinity 1432 [CP 25/1/292/67, no. 129], between Guy Fayrfax , Alexander Neuill , Guy Rouclyff and Thomas Mitford, querents , and Henry and Elizabeth, deforciants , regarding the manors of Hunmanby in Yorkshire, Toft in Lincolnshire, Isleham in Cambridgeshire and Cratfield in Suffolk. The querents granted the manors to Henry and Elizabeth and the male heirs of his body, remainder to Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland , and his male heirs, and then to the earl’s right heirs, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by the services belonging to the manors, as is clear in the fine shown to the jurors. The manor of Cratfield is held of Constance, countess of Norfolk , in socage by service of a pair of gilt spurs worth 6d., annual value 20 marks.

He died on 25 October last. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Burgh, esquire , and Margaret, her sister, are his daughters and next heirs, aged respectively 20 years and more and 17 years and more.

The dorse of the writ makes it clear that only one inquisition was returned. Exchequer copy gives Margery for Margaret.

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59 Writ. ‡ 6 November 1432. [Ardern].

CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Inquisition. Newmarket. 15 December 1432. [Ansty].

Jurors: John Bate ; Thomas Bulsham ; Thomas Maryot ; John Mindon ; John Cowhyrd ; John Crystymasse ; John Glouer ; Robert Rose ; John Vale ; Richard Wregge ; John Prat of Wood Ditton ; and John Pershevall .

He held no lands, tenements, rents or services of the king in chief in demesne or service. He held the manor of Isleham jointly with Elizabeth his wife, who survives, by the fine detailed in 58. The manor is held of John, earl of Arundel , in socage by service of a lance, annual value 40 marks.

Date of death and heirs as in 58.

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60 Writ. ‡ 6 November 1432. [Ardern].

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Dunham. 30 January 1433. [Babyngton].

Jurors: John Wastnes of Headon, esquire ; Robert Dunham of Darlton; William Crecy of East Markham or West Markham; John Croftes of Ragnall; Peter Crecy of East Markham or West Markham; John Moreby of Dunham; Robert Olyuer of Ragnall; Nicholas Wieston of Thrumpton; William Menote of East Drayton or West Drayton; William Gabitus and Hugh Barthorp , of Darlton; and Robert Marchall of Dunham.

He was seised of the manor and soke of Dunham in his demesne as of fee tail. By a fine levied [on the morrow of All Souls] in 1388 [CP 25/1/289/55, no. 178] between Elizabeth, lately wife of Thomas Percy, junior, querent , and John de Lyncoln, clerk , and Walter Topclyff, deforciants , the deforciants granted the manor and soke to Elizabeth and the heirs of her body. She was seised in this form and died seised of this estate, after whose death the manor and soke descended to Henry Percy as her son and heir according to the grant, and he died seised of this estate. After his death they descend to Elizabeth and Margaret his daughters and heirs. Dunham: the manor and soke are held of the king in chief by service of a knight’s fee. In the manor there is the site, worth nothing yearly; a toft, with a garden, and a plot called ‘le Vyner’, worth 6d. yearly; the following meadows – ‘Kyngesmore’ worth 40s. yearly, ‘Hall Carr’ worth 26s. 8d. yearly, ‘Brodynge’ worth 13s. 4d. yearly, ‘Fouracre’ containing 4 a. meadow, each worth 2s. yearly, 2 a. meadow – one called ‘Inghalfacre’ worth 3s. yearly, the other ‘Nethiracre’ worth 3s. yearly, ‘Pasikes’ and ‘Tukholme’ worth 10s. yearly, and ‘Smalyng’ worth 20s. yearly; a crossing across the river Trent called ‘le Fery’ with a fishery there demised to John Clerke , ‘feryman’, for £10 13s. 4d. paid at Easter and Michaelmas equally; a fair held at Lammas, its tolls and profits worth 20s. yearly; a market every Tuesday, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; assize rent from free tenants within the soke of £45 3s. yearly, at Easter and Michaelmas equally; fines for suit to the wapentake court of 20s. yearly, at Michaelmas only; various fines from bakers and brewers of 26s. 8d. yearly, at Easter and Michaelmas; 2 great tourns, at Easter and Michaelmas, worth 30s. yearly; and 1 a. land at Little Gringley (Grynley), worth 2d. yearly.

Date of death as in 58. Elizabeth, lately wife of Thomas Burgh, esquire , and Margaret, now wife of Henry, Lord Grey , are his daughters and next heirs, aged now and on the day of the inquisition 20 years and more and 17 years and more respectively.

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61 Writ. 6 November 1432. [Ardern].

YORKSHIRE. Inquisition. York, the castle . 9 December 1432. [Mauleuerer].

Jurors: William Soulby ; William Stansfeld ; Thomas Serffe ; Henry Botson ; Nicholas Chapman ; William Hatirbargh ; Thomas Byrdsall ; William Keld ; John Bell ; William Fulschawe ; Thomas del Hill ; and John Bradlay .

He was seised to himself and the heirs of his body of £30 rent from lands and tenements in Thixendale, Auburn, Foston on the Wolds, Scorborough, Argam, Beverley, Filey, Beswick, Nafferton, Lowthorpe, Thwing, Kilham and Burnby, the lands not held immediately of the king by any services. He held by grant of John Conyers , Gilbert Eluet , William Mitford and Thomas Clerk of Newton to Aymer Dathells, chevalier, for life, remainder to John Lescrope, chevalier , and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of her body by Thomas Percy, chevalier, junior , her former husband. Henry is the son and heir of Elizabeth by Thomas and died seised in this form. He was seised of the manor of Hunmanby jointly enfeoffed with Elizabeth his wife, who survives, by grant of Guy Fairfax , Alexander Nevile , Guy Rouclyff and Thomas Mitteforth , by the fine detailed in 58. Hunmanby. The manor is held of Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland , service unknown, annual value £40.

Date of death and heirs as in 58.

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61a Writ. ‡ 6 November 1432. [Ardern].

LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Gainsborough. 30 January 1433. [Haltoft].

Jurors: John atte Hall and John Guype , of Gainsborough; Robert Patefyn ; Thomas Brounflete ; John Walker ; John Crosby ; Thomas Skydgate ; John Brigge ; John Hornclyf ; John Smyth of Gainsborough; Robert Hertilpole ; Robert Hall of Aisby; and Thomas Hyde of Morton.

He held no lands or tenements in demesne or service of the king in chief. He held the manor of Gainsborough to himself and the heirs of his body by grant to Elizabeth his mother, of whom he was heir, and the heirs of her body, by John Lincoln, clerk , and Walter Topclyf by a fine levied in 12 ‪ Richard II [22 June 1388 – 21 June 1389]. Gainsborough: in the manor there is the site, worth 6s. 8d. yearly and as demised to farm yearly; 12 bovates of arable of the demesne lands demised to tenants, each bovate worth 10s. yearly, paid at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 3 plots of meadow called ‘Humbilcar’, ‘Escroft’ and ‘le Mer’ and containing 57 1/2 a., each acre worth 20d. yearly, paid at Michaelmas; 3 other plots of meadow called ‘Spetelhenge’, ‘Northmersh’ and ‘Horsbeke’ and containing 12 a. and 3 roods, each acre worth 20d. yearly, paid at Michaelmas; a plot of meadow called ‘Covpasture’ and containing 24 a., each acre worth 20d. yearly, paid at Michaelmas; £6 13s. 5 1/2d. rent called ‘Burghrent’ paid at Easter and Michaelmas equally; £14 5d. rents from free tenants, at Easter and Michaelmas equally; a windmill, waste, worth nothing yearly; 2 woods, called ‘Lordeswode’ and ‘Ladyeswode’, the underwood worth 26s. 8d. in normal years; a close called ‘Spytilwode’, demised yearly for 13s. 4d.; 2 crossings across the river Trent with 2 boats, demised yearly for £4; a fair (nundine) at the feast of St James and a market every Tuesday, worth 13s. 4d. yearly in stallage, tolls and other profits; and perquisites of the courts – of 2 leets and 2 other courts – worth 40s. yearly after the fees of the steward, bailiffs and other minor officials deputed to this. The manor is held of the manor of Epworth by service of 2 knights’ fees. He died seised of the manor of Toft jointly enfeoffed with Elizabeth his wife, who survives, by the fine detailed in 58. The manor is held of Lord Beaumont of his castle and manor of Folkingham in socage, annual value £10.

Date of death as in 58. Heirs as in 60.

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61b Writ. ‡ 6 November 1432. [Ardern].

NORTHUMBERLAND. Inquisition. Newcastle upon Tyne, the castle. 10 December 1432. [Whelpyngton].

Jurors: Robert Swynburn ; Nicholas Turpyn ; Robert Musgraue ; Roger Vsher ; Adam Killyngworth ; Henry Brotherwyk ; William Benet ; William Rotherford ; Robert Jakson ; Gerard Mitford ; Robert Langwath ; and William Lawson .

He was seised in his demesne as of fee tail, to himself and the heirs of his body, of the castle and manor of Mitford with castle-ward from Longframlington, Esthaldeworth and North Milbourne, the vills of Ponteland, Little Eland, High Callerton and Mason, and 6d. rent in Molesden, as follows, by grant of John Lincoln, clerk , and Walter Topclyff to Thomas Percy, junior , and Elizabeth his wife and the heirs of their bodies. Henry was seised as their son and heir. Mitford, the castle and manor, worth nothing yearly because ruinous and waste. There is there a close with garden around the castle, worth 3s. 4d. yearly in herbage, which should be paid at Michaelmas; 320 a. land by the long hundred, in demesne, each acre worth 2d. yearly, sum 63s. 4d.; 15 a. meadow in demesne, each acre worth 8d. yearly, sum 10s., at Michaelmas; free tenants who hold in burgage tenure and render 38s. 1d. yearly, at Pentecost and Martinmas equally; 25s. 4d. from the rent of John Mitford ’s burgages, at the same terms; 24s. 3 3/4d. at Pentecost and Martinmas equally from the free farm of John Mitford with his rent of 6d. yearly for the vill of Molesden with newly won land; an annual rent of 4s. 11d. of the same John’s called ‘le Ekmale’ at Lammas; a rent called ‘le Ekmale’ from free tenants of 6s. 8d. at Lammas; 6s. 8d. rents of free tenants at Longframlington for castle-ward at Mitford, at the feast of St Cuthbert in September; 6s. 8d. rents of free tenants at Esthaldeworth for castle-ward similarly; and 12d. at the same feast from free tenants at North Milbourne and for a moiety of the vill of Bitchfield. He also died seised in the above form of the advowson of the hospital of St Leonard by Mitford, worth 20s. yearly, and of the advowson of the chapel of St Cuthbert super le Cause [ms stained and galled], worth 40s. yearly. The castle and manor, with the members, are held of the king in chief by service of paying 31s. 4d. to the king for cornage at the two feasts of St Cuthbert , and are held of the king in chief by service of 2 whole knights’ fees. Ponteland, the vill. There is the site of the capital messuage, its herbage worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 200 a. land by the long hundred, each acre worth 4d. yearly, sum £4; 50 a. meadow, each acre worth 2s. yearly, sum 100s., at Michaelmas; a small park, its herbage worth 2s. yearly at the same feast; a ruinous watermill, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; 5 1/2 bond lands, each worth 5s. yearly, sum 27s. 6d., at Pentecost and Martinmas equally; 6 waste cottages, each worth 6d. yearly, sum 3s.; and ?5s. 4 1/2d. rent of free tenants, at Pentecost and Martinmas equally. Little Eland, the vill. There are 180 a. land by the long hundred, each acre worth 2d. yearly, sum 33s. 4d.; and 3 waste cottages, each worth 4d. yearly, sum 12d. High Callerton, the vill. There are 300 a. land by the short hundred, each acre worth 1d. yearly, sum 25s.; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly, sum 4s., at Michaelmas; 8 husband-lands, waste and lying fallow, collectively worth 26s. 8d. yearly; and 2s. 8 1/2d. rent of free tenants, at Pentecost and Martinmas equally. Mason, the vill. There are 19 husband-lands, each containing a toft and 30 a. land and in the hands of tenants-at-will, rendering 76s. at Pentecost and Martinmas equally; and a free tenant who pays 1d. at Christmas.

Date of death as in 58. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Burgh, esquire , one of his daughters, and Margaret, his other daughter, are his next heirs, aged as in 58.

Exchequer copy is dated 4 December 1432.

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61c Writ de partitione. 20 February 1433.[Wymbyssh]. Separate writs addressed to the escheators of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire. Lands of Henry Percy of Atholl to be partitioned in two equal parts between Elizabeth, lately wife of Thomas Burgh, esquire , and Henry, Lord Grey , and Margaret his wife, in presence of Henry and Margaret, and seisin delivered [CFR 1430–37, p. 140].

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