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ISABEL WHO WAS WIFE OF STEPHEN HAYTFELD, ESQUIRE
659 Writ. ‡ 5 May 1437. [Kirkeby].
OXFORDSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Oxford. 23 May 1437. [Somerton]. This title is not used in the first inquisition (m. 2), and in the third inquisition (m. 6) it is interlined. Marginalia: ‘examined’.
Jurors: Richard Englys ; William Ardern ; John Cornewayll ; Richard Pursell ; Robert Croxford ; Roger Radley ; James Samwell ; Richard Newby ; John Yerman ; Thomas atte Hyde ; William Hamylden ; and John Fitzaleyn .
She held the following jointly with Stephen her husband by grant of Thomas Dru and Edmund Rede by a fine levied in the king’s court in 1425 [CP 25/1/191/27, no. 8], shown to the jurors, to have to Stephen and Isabel during Isabel’s lifetime, without impeachment for waste during that period, remainder wholly to Thomas Chaucer and his heirs. Newnham Courtenay, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight service, quantity unknown. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth nothing yearly because ruinous; 400 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; £8 yearly rent, payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas; a park with a rabbit-warren, worth nothing yearly; a ferry for passage beyond the water, worth 10s. yearly; and 2 watermills with fishery, worth 4 marks yearly.
Thomas Chaucer died on 18 November 1434. Isabel died on 2 May 1437. Joan, wife of Drew Barantyn , and Elizabeth, wife of John Wenlok , are her daughters and next heirs, aged 24 years and more and 23 years and more, respectively. Alice, wife of William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk , is daughter and next heir of Thomas Chaucer , aged 32 years and more.
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660 Writ. ‡ 5 May 1437. [Kirkeby].
HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition. Basingstoke. 4 November 1437. [Roche].
Jurors: Philip Baynard ; John Sutton ; Simon Alman ; Edmund Tanke ; John Cooke ; Richard Cottesmore ; Roger Kent ; John Leche ; William Whelere ; William Langecroft ; Oliver Leche ; and Henry Parkere .
Maurice Russell, knight , now deceased, was seised of the following manors and advowsons in demesne as of fee and thus seised he granted them, among other manors, lands and tenements, by a charter dated on 10 May 1416, shown to the jurors, to William Hankeford, knight , Robert Hull , one of the king’s justices of the Common Bench, William Cheyny, knight , Maurice Brwne, knight , Robert Poynes , Hugh Deverell , John Iwn , Robert Stanshaw , Edmund Forde and John Boef and their heirs and assigns. By virtue of this grant they were seised in demesne as of fee. Afterwards, William Hankeford , Robert Hull , William Cheyny and Hugh died, and Maurice Russell similarly died. After their deaths, John Iwn , by a deed of his, likewise shown to the jurors, remised all his right and claim to the manors and advowsons, among other things, for him and his heirs and assigns, to Maurice Brwne , Robert Poynes , Robert Stanshaw , Edmund and John and their heirs and assigns. Afterwards, by a charter of theirs dated on 24 May 1432, similarly shown to the jurors, they enfeoffed Isabel, by the name Isabel, Lady Scrope , then the wife of Stephen Haytfeld, esquire , and Margaret, wife of John Kemmes, esquire , daughters and heirs of Maurice Russell, knight , and their heirs and assigns with the manors and advowsons, among other manors, lands and tenements. By virtue of this enfeoffment Isabel and Margaret were seised of the manors and advowsons in demesne as of fee. Stephen and Isabel and John Kemmes and Margaret assigned a third part to Joan, wife of John Stradelyng, knight , who had been the wife of Maurice Russell , in dower after Maurice’s death. Subsequently, by a fine levied on the quindene of Martinmas 1436 [CP 25/1/292/68, no. 195], between John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston, clerk , Richard Drayton , William Marmeon and John Stowe, querents , and John Kemes and Margaret his wife and Stephen Haytfeld, esquire , still living, and Isabel his wife, deforciants, John Kemes , Margaret, Stephen and Isabel recognised the manors and advowsons, among other things, to belong by right to John Cottesmore as that which he and Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe had from their grant. By this fine John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe granted to Stephen and Isabel 2/3 of the manors and advowsons for life. They also granted, for them and the heirs of John Cottesmore , that the 1/3 part then held by John Stradelyng, knight , and Joan his wife, still living, for Joan’s lifetime, of the inheritance of John Cottesmore , which should revert after her death to John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe and the heirs of John Cottesmore , should wholly remain to Stephen and Isabel for life, reversion of the whole to John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston , Richard, William Marmeon and John Stowe and the heirs of John Cottesmore . By virtue of this fine Stephen and Isabel were seised of two parts of the manors and advowsons, and of the reversion of the third part, in demesne as of free tenement. Isabel died thus seised. Yaverland, Rowborough and Southwade St Lawrence , 2/3 manors, on the Isle of Wight, and of the advowsons of Yaverland and Southwade St Lawrence, annual value beyond charges and reprises £20, held together with the third part of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester , as of his castle of Carisbrook, on the Isle of Wight, service unknown.
She died on 1 May last. Maurice de la Ryver , her son and next heir, is aged 30 years and more.
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661 Writ. ‡ 5 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. Addressed to the escheator of Somerset and Dorset .
SOMERSET. Inquisition. Ilchester. 23 October 1437. [Hody].
Jurors: John Gilden ; John Widecombe ; Nicholas Case ; John Welweton ; John Lymyngton ; John Bailly ; William Lumbard ; Ralph Manston ; Stephen Hoper ; Henry Messenger ; Robert Geffray ; and John Irlond .
She did not hold lands or tenements of the king in chief or of any other in demesne or in service.
Date of death and heir as 660, except Maurice’s age is here given as 28 years and more.
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662 [Writ: see 661.]
DORSET. Inquisition. Sherborne. 29 October 1437. [Hody].
Jurors: John Spencer ; John Dare ; Peter Pyneford ; John Skreveyn ; John Pupelpen ; John Milbourne ; John Kaylewey ; Thomas Wyseman ; Richard Rochell ; William Rider ; William Knaplok ; John Dene ; and Thomas Donne .
John Haket, senior , of the Isle of Wight, esquire, was lately seised of the following in demesne as of fee, which, by a charter of his, shown to the jurors, dated at Bradpole on 29 September 1436, he demised to Stephen Haytfeld, esquire , and Isabel, named in the writ, then his wife, Lady Scrope, and her heirs and assigns, to hold of the chief lord of the fee by due services. The charter described the following as all his mill, lands, pastures and reversions in Bradpole. By virtue of this demise Stephen and Isabel were then seised, viz., Stephen in demesne as of free tenement and Isabel in demesne as of fee, and Isabel died this way jointly seised with Stephen, still living. The following now belongs to Stephen by right of survivorship. Bradpole, a watermill and an acre of land, annual value 13s. 4d., held of the king in chief by rent of 6s. 8d., payable at Michaelmas. By a fine levied on the quindene of Martinmas 1436 [CP 25/1/292/68, no. 195], between John Cottesmore , Robert Rolleston, clerk , Richard Drayton , William Marmeon and John Stowe, querents , and John Kemes, esquire , and Margaret his wife and Stephen and Isabel, deforciants , relating to Bradpole, among other specified manors, John Kemes , Margaret, Stephen and Isabel recognised that the manor, among other things, belonged by right to John Cottesmore as that which John and the other querents had by their grant, to hold to them and the heirs of John Cottesmore from the chief lords of the fee by due services. Moreover, John Kemes and Margaret and Stephen and Isabel granted for them and the heirs of Margaret and Isabel that they would warrant the manor, among other things, to John Cottesmore , the other querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore against all men. By this fine John Cottesmore and the other querents granted Stephen and Isabel 2/3 of the manor, among other things, to have and hold, from the querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore for the whole of Stephen and Isabel’s lives, without impeachment for waste during Isabel’s lifetime, for a rose yearly at Midsummer, rendering to the chief lords of the fee, for the querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore , all other services belonging to them. They also granted, for them and the heirs of John Cottesmore , to Stephen and Isabel for life remainder wholly of the other 1/3 of the manor, held at the time of the fine of the inheritance of John Cottesmore by John Stradelyng, knight , and Joan his wife for Joan’s lifetime, without impeachment for waste during Isabel’s lifetime, reversion wholly to the querents and the heirs of John Cottesmore , quit of the heirs of Stephen and Isabel, to hold of the chief lords of the fee by due services. This fully appears in the one part of the fine shown to the jurors. By virtue of this fine, Stephen and Isabel were seised of the 2/3 of the manor, among other things, in demesne as of free tenement, and Isabel died thus seised jointly with Stephen. Stephen is still living and the 2/3 belongs to him by right of survivorship. Bradpole, 2/3 manor, annual value 20 marks, held together with the other 1/3 manor of William Bonevile, knight , as of his manor of Chuton, service unknown.
Date of death and heir as 660.
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