SHROPSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES.
Inquisition [indented].
Shrewsbury.
8 January 1437. [
Lee
].
Jurors:
Hugh
Cresset
;
Edward
Leghton
of Marsh;
William
Mynton
;
William
Acton Scotte
;
Roger
More
;
William
Bailly
of Brockton;
John
Hatton
of Ludlow;
William
Spencer
;
Richard
Parlour
;
John
Stuyche
;
Richard
Gery
; and
John
Walker
of Walleybourne.
He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee.
Shrewsbury, a messuage, 5 shops, 6 tofts, a croft, a stable and a grange, annual value 34s. 5d., and £8 8s. 4d. rent from 11 messuages, held of the king
in free burgage.
Coleham, within the liberty of Shrewsbury, 11 messuages, a croft, 2 granges, 2 carucates of land and pasture and a certain meadow, annual value 75s. 9d., held as above.
Woodhouse, 40s. rent from lands and tenements in the hamlet, held of
John
Talbot, Lord Furnival
, as of his manor of Longden, service unknown.
Lynches, 1/3 manor, annual value 13s. 4d., held of
Richard, Lord Lestrange
, service unknown.
He died on 10 November 1418. William, his son and next heir, is aged 24 years and more.
Alice lately wife of
Thomas
Barre, knight
, took all of the profits, by unknown title, from the time of his death until Joan, lady Abergavenny, expelled her on 6 November 1421 by virtue of a lifetime grant of the profits to her by
Henry V [CPR 1416–22, p. 306]. After Joan’s death,
John
Darcy
,
Bartholomew
Brokesby
,
Walter
Kebyll
,
William
Creke, clerk
, and
John
Bultus
, the executors of Joan’s will, took the profits, and they still take them.