Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 24, 1432-37 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.
University of Winchester, Winchester, SO22 4NR, England, United Kingdomhttp://www.winchester.ac.uk/academicdepartments/history/
King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England, United Kingdomhttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
 M.L. Holford, S.A. Mileson, C.V. Noble and K. Parkin (eds), Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXIV: 11-15 Henry VI (1432-1437).Boydell & Brewer2010 2013-06-19T10:06:02.227+01:00 XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
WILLIAM BERDWELL, KNIGHT
335 Writ. 29 October 1434. [Wymbyssh]. Addressed to the escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk .
NORFOLK. Inquisition. Hingham. 2 November 1434. [Drury].
Jurors: Richard Potter ; Richard Waleys ; Simon Plombe ; John Dowe ; John Coke ; John atte Ryde ; John Hendrys ; Robert Carter ; William Fraunces ; William Enges ; John Ravene ; and John Russell .
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief in demesne or service but died seised of the following in his demesne as of fee. West Harling, the manor, held of the earl of Arundel , service unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 300 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; a watermill called ‘Fullyngmylle’, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 4 marks assize rent, taken from various free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas equally; and a court held every three weeks, worth 6d. yearly above the fee and costs of the steward. ‘Bokenham’, the manor, held of the earl of Arundel , service unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 300 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 200 a. pasture, each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; 8 a. meadow fit to be mown, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 day-works in harvest, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; and 30s. free rent delivered by various free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas equally. Uphall, the manor, held of Lord Cromwell, service unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 400 a. pasture, each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; 12 a. meadow fit to be mown, each acre worth 8d. yearly; a court held every three weeks, worth 6d. yearly above the fee and costs of the steward; 20s. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally; and 12 day-works in harvest, worth 12d. yearly. East Hall, the manor, held of Lord Cromwell, service unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 10s. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 100 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; and 8 day-works in harvest, worth 16d. yearly. Bylaugh, the manor, held of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, knight , as 1/3 knight’s fee. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; £16 2s. 5d. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 400 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 400 a. heath, each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; 16 a. meadow fit to be mown, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 4 a. underwood, worth nothing this year as cut last year; an alder grove, worth nothing this year as cut last year; a court held every three weeks, worth 12d. yearly above the fee and costs of the steward; a leet court held once yearly, worth 8d. yearly; a court at Billingford held every three weeks, worth 6d. yearly above the fee and costs of the steward; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 400 day-works at harvest, each work worth 1 1/2d. daily; 20 day-works in winter, each work worth 1d. daily; and 12 day-works in summer, worth 12d. yearly.
He died on 27 October last. William Berdwell, esquire , son of John Berdwell , is his kin and next heir as the son of John, son of William, and aged 24 years and more. [Foot:] delivered to the court on 29 November 1434.
C 139/70/31 mm.1–2
336 [Writ: see 335.]
SUFFOLK. Inquisition. Fakenham Magna. 3 November 1434. [Drury].
Jurors: Michael Davy ; John Grogeman ; Robert Alcok ; William Sponer ; William Dowe ; John Gerard ; John Gebon ; William Maryot ; John Gore ; John Kynne ; David Wymer ; Richard Gerard ; and John Baa .
He died seised of the following in his demesne as of fee. Norton, the manor, held of the king in chief as 1/3 knight’s fee. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 71s. 7d. rent, payable yearly at Easter and Michaelmas equally; £4 13s. 3 1/4d. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally; a court held every three weeks, worth 6d. yearly; a leet court held once yearly, worth ?12d. yearly [ms faded]; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 200 a. pasture in a close, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 100 a. underwood, worth nothing this year as cut last year; 34 day-works in harvest, each work worth 2d. daily; rent of 31 hens, price of each 1 1/2d.; and 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly. Wyken, the manor, held of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds , service unknown. There is the site, worth nothing yearly; 63s. 4 1/2d. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 160 a. enclosed land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 12 a. marsh, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 3 a. meadow in Walsham le Willows, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 48 a. underwood, worth nothing this year as cut last year; 52 day-works in harvest, each work worth 2d.; 20 hens and a cockerel, each worth 1 1/2d., payable yearly at Christmas; and a court held every three weeks, worth 6d. yearly above the fee and costs of the steward. Bardwell, the manor, held of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds , service unknown. There is the site, worth 2s. yearly; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 300 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 24 a. marsh, each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; and 4 marks assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally. Ixworth Thorpe, the manor, held of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds , service unknown. There is the site, worth 12d. yearly; a park, worth nothing yearly above upkeep of the enclosure; 200 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 400 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 40 a. marsh, each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; 3 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because it cannot be cut; a watermill, worth 10s. yearly; and 4 marks assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally. He held the manor of Wyken alias Wykes for life by grant and enfeoffment of William Copenger, clerk , Roger Irby , and Edmund Heyford , with remainder to William Berdwell, esquire , son of John Berdwell , and to Elizabeth his wife, and to the heirs of the body of William, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by due service, with successive remainders, as follow: to Robert Berdwell, esquire , and the heirs of his body; and to Thomas Hethe, esquire , and his heirs. Wyken alias Wykes, the manor in Bardwell, held of the abbot of Bury St Edmunds , service unknown. There is 114s. 7 3/4d. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 300 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 200 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 50 a. marsh, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 3 a. meadow fit to be mown in Walsham Le Willows, each acre worth 12d. yearly; a close containing 50 a. pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 34 a. underwood, worth nothing this year as cut last year; a court held every three weeks, worth 8d. yearly above the fee and costs of the steward; 12 day-works in harvest, each work worth 1 1/2d. daily; and rent of 10 hens and a cockerel, price of each 1 1/2d., payable at Christmas only.
Date of death and heir as 335. [Foot:] delivered to the court on 29 November 1434.
C 139/70/31 mm.1, 3