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

ALICE, WIFE OF GUY DE BRYENE, KNIGHT

341 Writ. ‡ 21 January 1435. [Wymbyssh].

GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inquisition. Gloucester. 7 March 1435. [Poyntz].

Jurors: Thomas Hoke ; John Wynter ; Richard Flewellyn ; John Felpes ; John Stafford ; Walter Richeman ; Richard Collewalle ; John Andrewe ; John Boure ; John Forde ; John Myle ; and John Fenne .

She held no lands or tenements of the king in chief in demesne or service. Guy de Bryene, knight, senior , Robert de Whitynton , and Morgan Gogh were formerly seised of the following manor in their demesne as of fee. By their charter, shown to the jurors, they granted it to Guy de Bryene, knight, junior , and Alice then his wife, and to their heirs together, with remainder to the right heirs of Guy, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by due service. They held the manor by grant of the said Guy. Guy and Alice were thus seised in their demesne as of fee tail, and they had issue: Elizabeth, still living. Guy, junior , afterwards died. Alice continued in her estate for her life, and died so seised. The manor then descended to Elizabeth as daughter and heir of the bodies of Guy and Alice, and right in the manor belongs to her. Oxenhall, the manor, held of Richard, duke of York , as 1/2 knight’s fee. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly as waste; 2 carucates of arable, worth 16s. yearly; 6 a. meadow, worth 9s. yearly; 30s. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas equally; 40s. rent from tenants who hold according to the custom of the manor, payable at the said terms equally; and a park containing 40 a. land, worth 40d. yearly.

She died on 11 January last. Elizabeth, lately wife of Robert Lovell, esquire , is her daughter and next heir, and aged 48 years and more.

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342 Writ. ‡ 21 January 1435. [Wymbyssh]. Addressed to Robert Otteley, mayor .

CITY OF LONDON. Inquisition. Guildhall. 16 February 1435. [Otteley].

Jurors: Richard Ashenden ; Richard Millyng ; Lawrence H... [hole in ms] ; John Child ; Simon Gauge ; John Uphaveryng ; William Herrys ; William Rede ; John Randolf ; Richard Panter ; Peter Hoke ; John Hewet ; John Derk ; William Groos ; and Thomas Twigge .

Thomas Brentyngham, lately bishop of Exeter , Walter Trote, clerk , and Richard Micheldener were lately seised of the following messuage in their demesne as of fee. They granted it to the lord Guy de Bryene , to hold for life, with successive remainders as follow: to Alice, named in the writ, described as Alice, wife of Guy son of the lord Guy, and to the heirs of the body of Alice by Guy; and to the right heirs of the lord Guy. The grant was made by indented charter dated on 18 February 1388, shown to the jurors, in which the messuage is described as a corner tenement called ‘le Cornerhall’ that they had by sale of Thomas Medelane , William More , ‘vynter’, John Reche , and Gilbert Bonet . The lord Guy was thus seised in his demesne as of free tenement, and afterwards died. Alice entered the messuage, and was seised in her demesne as of fee tail. She had issue by Guy son of the lord Guy: Elizabeth, lately wife of Robert Lovell , still living. Holy Trinity the Less, a messuage in the parish of Holy Trinity the Less in the ward of Vintry, annual value 5 marks, held of the king in free burgage as all the city is held.

Date of death and heir as 341. Elizabeth was also kin and heir of the lord Guy as the daughter of Guy, son of Guy.

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343 Writ. ‡ 21 January 1435. [Wymbyssh].

ESSEX. Inquisition [indented]. Ballingdon. 8 February 1435. [Iwardby].

Jurors: John Park ; William Manwode ; Robert Podeney ; Richard Waryn ; John Polley ; John Pyteman ; Richard Clerk ; William Goky ; Robert Goky ; John Smyth of Ballingdon; Thomas Grey ; William Hoo ; William Huntteman ; and John Crysale .

She held the following in her demesne as of fee. Brook Hall, the manor in Foxearth, with advowson of the church of Foxearth belonging to the same manor, held of Richard, duke of York , of his honour of Clare, service unknown. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 400 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 20 a. wood, each acre worth 6d. yearly; a fulling-mill, worth 20s. yearly; and £3 assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally. Weston, the manor, held of the dean and college of Stoke by Clare, service unknown. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 144 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 9 a. 3 roods of meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 10 a. wood, each acre worth 6d. yearly; and 40s. assize rent, payable yearly by various free tenants at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally. Bures St Mary, 1 1/2 a. meadow, worth 2s. 6d. yearly. Of whom it is held is unknown. Bures St Mary, 39s. 11 1/2d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally. The rent is parcel of the manor of Acton in Suffolk. Bulmer, 42s. 1d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas equally. The rent is parcel of the manor of Netherhall in Bures St Mary in Suffolk, but of whom it is held is unknown. She held the following in her demesne as of fee and right. Pentlow, Liston, and Foxearth, view of frankpledge, worth 18d. yearly.

Date of death and heir as 341.

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344 Writ. ‡ 21 January 1435. [Wymbyssh].

SUFFOLK. Inquisition. Sudbury. 8 February 1435. [Brewes].

Jurors: Gilbert Moryell ; Geoffrey Fermeer ; John Pondere ; Lawrence Martyn ; John Waryn of Long Melford, senior ; Richard Thurston ; Lawrence Quedewelle ; William Kyngesbury ; John Prykke ; John Payn of Wherstead, junior ; John Tallych ; and William Waryn.

She held the following in her demesne as of fee. Acton, the manor, held of the king of the honour of Hatfield Peverel as 2 parts of a knight’s fee. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth 5s. yearly; 2 gardens, their fruit worth nothing this year, but the herbage is worth 8d. yearly; 4 messuages, worth nothing yearly; 680 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 36 a. meadow, worth 60s. yearly, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 96 a. wood, of which 22 a. are timber trees and the underwood is worth nothing yearly, and the remaining 74 a. wood are worth 24s. 8d. yearly, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 60 a. pasture, worth 15s. yearly, each acre worth 3d. yearly; £8 5s. 2d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at the feast of St Andrew the Apostle, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas equally; rent of 19 geese, payable yearly at the feast of St Peter in Chains; rent of 9 capons, payable yearly at Easter; rent of 1/2lb pepper, payable yearly at Christmas; rent of 2lb cumin, payable yearly at Christmas; profits of the court there, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; and parcel of a certain leet court held there on the Monday called ‘hokeday’, worth 3d. yearly. Great Waldingfield, the manor, but of whom it is held is unknown. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; an old dovecot, worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 7 a. meadow, worth 14s. yearly, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 6 a. wood, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 10 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 60s. 5 1/2d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas. Netherhall in Bures St Mary, the manor, held of Richard, duke of York, of his honour of Clare, service unknown. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a watermill, worth 66s. 8d. yearly; another capital messuage called Overhall, worth nothing yearly; 160 a. land, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 5 a. wood, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 100 a. alder grove, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, worth 5s. yearly; 200 a. land, full of thorns, bracken, and broom, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; £6 9s. 10d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Michaelmas, Christmas and Michaelmas [sic] equally; and profits of the court there, worth 12d. yearly. Layham, the manor, held of the duke of Norfolk as 1/5 knight’s fee. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a watermill, worth 10s. yearly; 200 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 16 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 20 a. wood, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 70 a. pasture, truly worth 6s. yearly; 100 a. pasture, overgrown with thorns, broom, and bracken, truly worth 6s. 8d. yearly; £10 11 3/4d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Easter, Michaelmas and Christmas equally; and profits of the court, worth 12d. yearly. Raydon, the manor, with advowson of the church in the same vill, held of John de Vaux, knight , service unknown. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 2 gardens, their fruit worth nothing this year, but the herbage is worth 12d. yearly; 607 a. 1 rood and 25 perches of land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 26 a. and 33 perches of meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 80 1/2 a. wood, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 137 1/2 a. and 7 perches of pasture with fallow land, and vacant alder groves and hassocks, truly worth 6s. 8d. yearly; £9 14s. 1 1/2d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas equally; and profits of the court, worth 12d. yearly. Wherstead, the manor, held of the heirs of Robert de Tateshale as 1/4 knight’s fee. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 145 1/2 a. and 25 perches of land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 3 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; 100 a. sheep-pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 34s. 4d. assize rent, payable by various free tenants at Easter, Midsummer, Michaelmas and Christmas equally; and profits of the court there, worth 12d. yearly.

Date of death and heir as 341.

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345 Writ. ‡ 21 January 1435. [Wymbyssh].

DORSET. Inquisition. Shaftesbury. 22 February 1435. [Bythemore].

Jurors: John Latemer ; William Brounyng ; Robert Grey ; Walter Gonyt ; Thomas Manston ; John Coker ; Robert Bauent ; John Davy ; Thomas Anketill ; John Larkestoke ; W... [ms dirty and faded] Hengstrygge; and William Cole .

By a fine levied at Westminster on the morrow of the Ascension 1386 [CP 25/1/51/49, no. 50] between Walter Trote, chaplain, querent , and Guy de Bryene, knight , and William de Bryene, knight, deforciants , Guy and William recognised the manor of Hazelbury Bryan, advowson of the church there, and land in Crockern Stoke and Turberville Stoke, to be in right of Walter, as held by grant of Guy and William, and, for that recognition, Walter granted them to Guy for life, to hold of the chief lords of that fee by due service, with successive remainders, as follow: to Alice, who was wife of Guy de Bryene, knight , described as Alice de Bryene , for her life; to Philippa and Elizabeth, daughters of Alice, for their lives; to William de Bryene, knight , and the heirs male of his body; to Philip, brother of William, and the heirs male of his body; and to the right heirs of Guy, as fully apparent in the part of the fine shown to the jurors. Guy was thus seised of the manor, land, and advowson in his demesne as of free tenement, and died seised of this estate. Alice then entered the manor and land, and was seised of them in her demesne as of free tenement, and was seised of the advowson. She died so seised. Philippa died without heir of her body, and William and Philip each died without heir of his body, all while Alice was still alive. The manor, land, and advowson thus rightfully belong to Elizabeth by virtue of the remainder. Elizabeth is kin and next heir of Guy as the daughter of Guy son of Guy, named in the fine. Hazelbury Bryan, the manor and advowson of the church there, held of the abbot of Glastonbury , service unknown. There is a capital messuage and a grange, worth nothing yearly; 4 a. arable, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 18 a. meadow, each acre worth 16d. yearly; a close called ‘le Orchard’, worth 5s. yearly; a close of pasture called ‘Byryhay’ containing 16 a., each acre worth 12d. yearly; 46 a. pasture lying in 2 strips called ‘Rygge’ and ‘Combe’, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 80 a. pasture in 2 strips called ‘Fermesold’ and ‘Bury’, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 80 a. pasture in a strip called ‘Brodestokfeld’, each acre worth 5d. yearly; 80 a. pasture in a strip called ‘Esthede’, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 6 a. pasture in a strip called ‘Westbryde’, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 40 a. pasture in ‘le Southbreche’, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 13 a. pasture in a strip called ‘le Fryth’, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 12 a. pasture in a strip called ‘Medeforlang’, each acre worth 9d. yearly; 4 a. pasture in a close called ‘Dolys’, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 10 a. pasture in a strip called ‘Brynyffryth’, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 24 a. wood, worth nothing yearly, but its pasture is worth 9s. yearly; 17 messuages called ‘Halfyerdlond’, each messuage containing 20 a. arable and 4 a. meadow, each worth 10s. yearly; 6 other messuages, each worth 6s. yearly; 5 other messuages, each worth 10s. yearly; one other messuage containing 17 a. land, worth 10s. yearly; 7 other messuages, whence a watermill called ‘Ferthdelmen’, each worth 8s. yearly; 10 other messuages called ‘Ferthdelmen’, each worth 6s. yearly; 2 cottages, each worth 5s. yearly; 2 other cottages, each worth 3s. yearly; one other cottage, worth 4s. yearly; 2 other cottages, each worth 2s. yearly; a pasture called ‘Northmerssh’ for draught-animals and sheep, containing 60 a., each acre worth 1d. yearly; a pasture called ‘Suthmerssh’ containing 100 a., each acre worth 1d. yearly; and 12s. 6d. rent from various tenements, payable yearly by various free tenants at Michaelmas only. Crockern Stoke and Turberville Stoke, 3 carucates of land, annual value 60s., held of the abbot of Glastonbury , service unknown. Robert Dedewith , William Plusch , and John More , clerks, were formerly seised of the following manor and hundred in their demesne as of fee. They granted them, by charter shown to the jurors, to Guy de Bryene, knight, junior , and Alice then his wife, and to their heirs male together, with successive remainders as follow: to Guy de Bryene , father of Guy, and to the heirs male of his body; and to the right heirs of Guy, senior . Guy and Alice were thus seised in their demesne as of fee tail, and Guy died seised of this estate without heir male of his body by Alice. Guy the father died without heir male of his body, and Alice afterwards died so seised. Right in the manor and hundred now belongs to Elizabeth as kin and heir of Guy the father, as the daughter of Guy son of Guy. Sutton Poyntz, the manor with the hundred of Culliford Tree, held of Richard, duke of York , service unknown. In the manor, there is a capital messuage and stable, worth nothing yearly; 2 closes of pasture containing 12 a. pasture, attached to the capital messuage, each acre worth 7d. yearly; 400 a. fallow land, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 16 a. meadow in a meadow called ‘Lodmoysmede’, each acre worth 2s. yearly; 11 a. meadow in a meadow ‘by Southpreston’, ‘Wexmede’, and ‘Parkemede’, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 2 pastures called ‘Trymbury’ and ‘Cherlebury’ containing 14 a., each acre worth 2s. yearly; a pasture called ‘Suthdon’ by Lodmoor containing 100 a., each acre worth 1d. yearly; 2 closes beside the bercary, worth 4s. yearly; a close called ‘le Park’ containing 20 a., each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; a close called ‘Eldelond’ containing 40 a., each acre worth 1d. yearly; a pasture called ‘Cherchedonysslade’ containing 6 a., each acre worth 4d. yearly; a marsh called Lodmoor containing 22 a., each acre worth 12d. yearly; 300 a. hilly sheep-pasture, each acre worth 1/2d. yearly; a watermill for grain, a messuage, 8 a. land, and 2 a. meadow, worth 46s. 8d. yearly; a fulling-mill, nearly decayed, worth nothing yearly; 4 tofts, worth 2s. yearly; 15 messuages, each worth 10s. yearly; a messuage, worth 7s. 2d. yearly; a messuage containing a virgate of land, worth 8s. yearly; a messuage, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; a messuage, worth 5s. 4d. yearly; a messuage, worth 6s. yearly; a messuage, worth 5s. 4d. yearly; a messuage, worth 5s. 4d. yearly; a messuage, worth 8s. yearly; a messuage, worth 5s. 4d. yearly; a messuage, worth 8s. yearly; 4 messuages, each worth 5s. yearly; a cottage and 3 1/2 a. land, worth 5s. 3d. yearly; a cottage and 1 1/2 a. land, worth 3s. ?2d. yearly [ms faded and dirty]; a toft and 3 a. land, worth 2s. yearly; a toft and 16 a. land, worth 10s. yearly; a cottage, worth 12d. yearly; a cottage with curtilage and an acre of land, worth 2s. yearly; a cottage and 2 1/2 a. land and meadow, worth 6s. yearly; a cottage, worth 1d. yearly; a cottage with curtilage and 2 roods of land, worth 12d. yearly; a cottage with curtilage and 4 1/2 a. land, worth 5s. 2 1/2d. yearly; a close, worth 2s. yearly; a cottage with curtilage, 2 a. land, and a close, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; a cottage with curtilage and 6 a. and a rood of land, worth 5s. yearly; a toft, a close, and 2 a. land, worth 2s. yearly; a close, worth 18d. yearly; a toft with curtilage, worth 16d. yearly; a toft and 8 a. land, worth 5s. yearly; a cottage and rood of land, worth 12d. yearly; a cottage and 3 a. land and meadow, worth 3s. yearly; a cottage with curtilage and an acre of land, worth 12d. yearly; a cottage with curtilage, worth 3s. yearly; a close, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; a cottage with curtilage, worth 12d. yearly; a close, worth 2d. yearly; a close, worth 2s. 6d. yearly; a close, worth 2s. yearly; a court baron with view of frankpledge, worth 8s. yearly; and assize rent of 31s. 10d., 2 1/4lb pepper, 3 1/2lb cumin, and 10 capons from various tenements, payable by the hands of various free tenants at Easter and Michaelmas. There is view of frankpledge in the hundred, worth 10s. yearly.

Date of death and heir as 341.

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