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

MAUD WHO WAS WIFE OF THOMAS CHAUCER

680 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby].

CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Inquisition. Linton. 4 June 1437. [Alyngton].

Jurors: Simon Smyth of Longstowe; John Baye ; Thomas Ma ...[hole in ms]; Thomas Chiche ; John Auncell ; John Bailly ; Ralph Bette ; John Hornewold ; John Cosyn ; John Bovuse ; John Yukflete ; and Robert Hawekyn .

She held half of the following in demesne as of fee. The other half she held in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife by a fine levied in the king’s court in 1417 [CP 25/1/291/64, no. 69], shown to the jurors, to Thomas and her, both now deceased, and the heirs of their bodies, reversion to John and Margaret and the heirs of Margaret. Bourn, 120 a. land, worth 40s. yearly, viz., each acre worth 4d. yearly, 3 a. meadow, worth 3s., viz., each acre worth 12d. yearly, and 3s. rent, held of Warin Ingryth as of his manor of Bourn, called ‘Rykesby Manoir’, by fealty.

The fine specifies a moiety of 100 a. land, 3 a. meadow and 42s. rent in Bourn (Brunne).

She died on 27 April last. Alice, wife of William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk , is daughter and next heir both of Maud and of Thomas and Maud, and is aged 32 years and more.

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681 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby].

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Inquisition. Aylesbury. 27 May 1437. [Hanham].

Jurors: Thomas Bylyndon ; Nicholas Baroun ; William Pede ; Richard Olyvere ; John Frankeleyn ; Ralph Tibbes ; Thomas Kybold ; Henry Lane ; William Tempell ; John Hogges ; Robert Rawlyn ; and John Howes .

She held the following in demesne as of fee jointly with John Hampden , Thomas Bretton , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe and John Seynesbury, clerk , still living, by grant of Henry Somer , Richard Wyot , Henry Aston , John Warfeld and Geoffrey Prentys, clerk , to John Hampden , Thomas Bretton , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe and John Seynesbury, clerk , still living, and Thomas Chaucer , Maud his wife and William Hervy , now deceased, and their heirs, as fully contained in a charter of theirs dated on 1 August 1431, shown to the jurors. Hambleden, 100 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly, and no more because stony, 6 a. meadow, worth 3s. 4d. yearly, and 10s. rent, held of Lord Scrope , service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 680, except that Thomas is not mentioned.

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682 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby].

LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition. Lincoln, the castle. 3 June 1437. [Langholme]. Marginalia: ‘examined’.

Jurors: William Fychet of Skendleby; Simon Johnson of Ashby by Partney; Richard Daly and John Dandy of Partney; John Warde of Skendleby; Thomas Rysyll of Ashby by Partney; John Grene of Partney; Thomas Gryseby of Donington; Roger Clerk of Oxcombe; William Cok of Huttoft; William Hawberd of Skendleby; and Robert Gentyll of Beesby.

She held the following in demesne as of fee. Skendleby, a moiety of 1/3 manor, held of the king in chief as 1/20 knight’s fee. There are 4 tofts, each worth 12d. yearly; 30 a. land and pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 10 a. meadow and pasture, each acre worth 10d. yearly; 60s. rent, payable at Michaelmas only; and 4 1/2 a. wood, worth nothing beyond enclosure. She died seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Partney, a moiety of 1/18 of the profits of the Saturday market, a moiety of 1/18 of the profits of the tolls of the fairs (nundinarum) held yearly on the vigils and days of St Mary Magdalene, the Assumption and the Nativity of Mary, worth 9d. yearly, and 5s. rent from free tenants, payable yearly at Michaelmas, the feast of St Andrew the Apostle, Easter and the feast of St Botulph equally, held of Lord Beaumont by knight service.

Marginalia: ‘demesne’.

Date of death as 680. Alice, wife of William, earl of Suffolk , is her daughter and next heir, and is aged 32 years and more.

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683 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby].

SUFFOLK. Inquisition. Botesdale. 7 June 1437. [Rippeley].

Jurors: Thomas Goldfynch ; William Herman ; John Rampoyll ; John Fitz John ; Simon Yonge ; Walter Leche ; John Pope ; John Vale ; John Candeler ; Thomas de Tovune ; Edmund Tabour ; and Edmund Sutburne .

She held the manors of Henham and Bulcamp and 1/2 manor of Stratford St Andrew in demesne as of fee. The other half of the manor of Stratford St Andrew, with advowson of the church, she held in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife, etc., as 680. Henham, the manor, not held of the king but of others, service unknown. There is a site, worth nothing yearly; 80 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 12 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 50 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 24s. 6d. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally. Bulcamp, the manor, not held of the king but of others, service unknown. There is a manorial site, worth 20d. yearly; 160 a. arable, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 5d. yearly; 140 a. pasture and heath, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 6 a. underwood, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 60s. 4d. assize rent, payable as above; a rabbit-warren, worth nothing beyond its custody; and a court baron held every 3 weeks, worth nothing yearly. Stratford St Andrew, the manor, with advowson of the church, held of the prior of the monks of St Mary’s, Thetford as 1/2 knights fee and for 20s. yearly rent. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 90 a. arable, each acre worth 3 1/2d. yearly; 8 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly; 40 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 36s. 4d. assize rent, payable as above.

Date of death as 680. Alice, wife of William, earl of Suffolk , is daughter and next heir of both Thomas and Maud and of Maud, and is aged 32 years and more.

Marginalia: ‘examined’. Except that here reversion is described as wholly to John and Margaret and Margaret’s heirs. Marginalia: ‘demesne’.

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684 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby].

ESSEX. Inquisition. Chelmsford. 28 May 1437. [Paule].

Jurors: William Spenser ; Richard Sawyer ; Thomas Fuller ; Thomas Chapman ; Robert Brydde ; John Rouchestr ; John Hawkyn ; John Spilman ; John Carter ; John Mason ; William Bernard ; and John Smerman .

She held half the following in demesne as of fee. The other half she held in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife, etc., as 680. Hatfield Peverel, the manor, held of the king as of his manor of Pleshey, which is parcel of the earldom of Hereford, by fealty and by service of 12d. yearly, payable at Michaelmas only. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 100 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; 30 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 200 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because sold and coppiced, without pasture; and 100s. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally. She held the following in demesne as of fee. Hatfield Peverel, a messuage, worth 20s. yearly, and a carucate of landworth 40s. yearly, called ‘Termyns’, not held of the king , but of whom held or by what service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 683.

Marginalia: ‘examined’. See note 260 above.

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685 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby].

HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition. Alton. 5 June 1437. [Roche].

Jurors: Edward atte Rithe ; Stephen Jeweler ; William Mory ; Richard Osbarne ; Thomas atte Loode ; John atte Rever ; William Petham ; William Bannebury ; Robert Plouker ; Perceval Diker ; John Sendale ; and John Mounter .

She held half the following in demesne as of fee. The other half she held jointly enfeoffed with Thomas, lately her husband, deceased, by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife, etc., as 680. East Worldham, the manor, with custody of the forest of Woolmer and Alice Holt belonging to it, held of the king in chief by knight service, quantity unknown. There is a park with beasts, worth nothing yearly beyond their sustenance; 100 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 5 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 36s. 8d. rent, payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally; and custody of the forest, worth nothing yearly. She held the following jointly with Thomas, lately her husband, deceased, and John Hampden , Thomas Bretton , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe and John Seynesbury, clerk , still living, by grant of Henry Somer , Richard Wyot , Henry Aston , John Warfeld and Geoffrey Prentys, clerk , to Thomas Chaucer and Maud, John Hampden , Thomas Bretton , William Borde , Thomas Ramsey , William Rasshe and John Seynesbury , and William Hervy , now deceased, and their heirs, as fully contained in a charter of theirs dated on 1 August 1431, shown to the jurors. West Worldham, the manor, not held of the king , but of whom held or by what service unknown. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 80 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 20 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because not seasonable for cutting; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; and 10s. 4d. rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas equally. East Worldham, West Worldham, Alton and Hartley Mauditt, 2 carucates of land, each worth 16s. 8d. yearly, 20 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly, and 20 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because not seasonable for cutting, not held of the king , but of whom held or by what service unknown. She held no other or further lands or tenements in demesne as of fee or in demesne as of free tenement of the king or of any other, but she held and occupied the following, as in right of the king, from 14 November 1435 up until her death. After her death the park, land and meadow were taken into the king’s hand, where they remain. What title or estate she had in the same is at present unknown. ‘Sandelesinhome’, 29 a. 3 roods of land, by the perch, so-called, next to the wood of Binswood, together with 6 a. 20 perches of land and 1/2 a. 1 rood meadow in the forest of Woolmer, imparked and enclosed in the park of East Worldham. Each acre of the land is worth 1d. yearly, the 20 perches of land are worth 1/2d. yearly, and the 1/2 a. 1 rood meadow are worth 1/2d. yearly, and no more because the land and meadow lies fallow (warect’) and the land is watery and rushy.

She died on 27 April 1437. [Heir not mentioned.]

Marginalia: ‘examined’. See note 260 above. Marginalia: ‘jointly’.

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686 Writ. ‡ 2 May 1437. [Kirkeby]. Addressed to the escheator of Berkshire and Oxfordshire .

BERKSHIRE. Inquisition. Grandpont. 23 May 1437. [Somerton].

Jurors: William Walrond ; John Fetyplace ; William Aumeney ; John George ; John Coventre ; Richard Shayll ; Thomas More ; Thomas Hammes ; John Warfeld ; Richard Kene ; Thomas Absolon ; and John Medford .

She held and occupied the following at the will of William, earl of Suffolk , and Alice his wife by demise made by Alice while she was single to Thomas Chaucer and Maud. Hatford, the manor, near Buckland, not held of the king , but of whom held or by what service unknown. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 300 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 60s. yearly rent, payable at the said feasts [sic].

Date of death and heir as 681.

Marginalia: ‘examined’.

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687 [Writ: see 686.]

OXFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Oxford. 23 May 1437. [Somerton].

Jurors: Richard Englys ; William Ardern ; John Cornewayll ; Richard Pursell ; Robert Croxford ; Roger Radeley ; James Samwell ; Richard Newby ; John Yorman ; Thomas atte Hyde ; William Hamylden ; and John Fitz Aleyn .

She held the following in demesne as of fee jointly with John Hampden , etc., as 681. Hook Norton, the manor, held of the king in chief as 1/4 knight’s fee. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 180 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 60s. rent, payable at the feast of St Thomas the Apostle, Lady Day, Midsummer and Michaelmas equally. Kidlington, the manor, held of the king in chief as 1/4 knight’s fee. There is a manorial site, worth 20d. yearly; 191 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 60 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and £4 rent, payable as above. Garsington, the manor called Louches, held of Thomas Blount, knight , and Elizabeth his wife, as in right of Elizabeth, of their manor of Bullingdon. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 160 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 14 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 40s. rent, payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally. Garsington, the manor called Havels, also known as the manor of Garsington, held of the abbot of Abingdon , service unknown. There are 80 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 30s. rent, payable as above. Ewelme, the manor called ‘Waces Court’, not held of the king , but of whom held unknown. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 140 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 60 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 1 a. meadow, worth 12d. yearly; and 40s. rent, payable as above. Swyncombe, the manor, with the advowson of the church, not held of the king , but of whom held unknown. There are 100 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 300 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 100 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because not seasonable for cutting; and the advowson of the church, worth nothing yearly. Hanwell, the manor, with the advowson of the church, not held of the king , but of whom held unknown. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 170 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 10d. yearly; and 60s. rent, payable as above. Hook Norton, Kidlington, Garsington, Ewelme, Swyncombe, Nuffield, Benson, Mongewell, Newnham Murren, Tackley and Nethercott, 10 messuages, each worth 4s. yearly; 5 tofts, each worth 2s. yearly; 6 carucates of land, each worth 20s. yearly; 100 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 60 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 100 a. wood, worth nothing yearly because not seasonable for cutting; and £20 rent, not held of the king , but of whom held unknown. Cote, Wootton and Begbroke, 6 messuages, each worth 4s. yearly, 4 tofts, each worth 2s. yearly, 100 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly, and 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly, not held of the king , but of whom held unknown. She held the following in demesne as of fee. Ewelme, the manor called ‘Burgherssh Maner’, together with half the advowson of the church, held, with the moiety of 100 a. wood in Ewelme, etc., [below], of the king as of his honour of Wallingford as 1/4 knight’s fee. There is a manorial site, worth nothing yearly; 120 a. arable, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 200 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 100s. rent, payable as above; and the advowson of the church, worth nothing yearly. She held the following in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John Arundell and Margaret his wife, etc., as 680. Ewelme, Swyncombe and Nuffield, a moiety of 100 a. wood, annual value nil because not seasonable for cutting. She held the following in demesne as of fee. Woodstock, a tenement with an adjacent garden called ‘Hanwell’, situated next to the park on one side and extending along the king’s road to the gate of the park which leads to the vill of Woodstock and along the king’s road next to ‘le Baye’ towards the mill of Woodstock, annual value 13s. 4d., held of Joan, queen of England , as of her manor of Woodstock by fealty and by service of rendering 19 1/2d. yearly. Within the said tenement is a dovecot, worth nothing yearly because ruinous.

Date of death and heir as 680.

Marginalia: ‘examined’. Marginalia: ‘jointly’. Marginalia: ‘demesne’. See first part of note 260 above.

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