YORKSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Howden.
24 October 1436. [
Langton].
Jurors:
Thomas
Partryk
of Woodhall;
Nicholas
Barnhill
of Barnhill;
John
Petyngton
of Skelton;
Richard
Nelson
;
Thomas
Jonson
;
Thomas
Maweson
;
Edmund
Metham
;
Thomas
Birdesall
;
John
Soule
;
Thomas
Bekyngham
;
William
Denton
; and
Thomas
atte
Lawe
.
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Loftsome, a messuage, worth 20d. yearly, a toft and a dovecot, worth nothing yearly, 200 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly, 10 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly, and 9s. 3d. annual rent, payable by tenants there at Martinmas and Pentecost equally, held of the king
in chief as 1/16 knight’s fee.
Babthorpe, the manor with messuages, etc., in Hemingbrough, Brackenholme and Wodehede [below], held of
Thomas, bishop of Durham
, as of his manor of Howden as 1/4 knight’s fee. There is a hall, a chapel, 13 high and low chambers, a cellar, a buttery, a pantry, cook-house, a house for baking and brewing, 2 barns, 2 stables, a cattle-shed, a vaccary, a pig-sty and 2 gardens, worth nothing yearly; 140 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 100 a. pasture, each acre worth 2d. yearly; and 7 a. wood, each acre worth 2d. yearly.
Hemingbrough, 2 messuages, each worth 20d. yearly, a cottage, worth 12d. yearly, and 100 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly, held as above.
Brackenholme, 2 messuages, each worth 20d. yearly, 120 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly, and 6 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. yearly, held as above.
Wodehede, 30 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly, held as above.
He held the following in demesne as of fee tail by grant of
Roger
Ayrmyn
, viz., to
him and the heirs of his body.
North Cave, a messuage, worth 12d. yearly, 10 bovates of land, each worth 4s. yearly, a fulling-mill, worth nothing because ruinous, and 2s. annual rent from a cottage and a croft now held freely by
John
Derlyng
, payable as above, held of the master of the hospital of St Leonard
’s, York
, service unknown.
Middleton on the Wolds (Midelton), a messuage, worth 20d. yearly, 7 tofts, each worth 4d. yearly, 10 bovates of land, each worth 4s. yearly, and 17s. annual rent from 2 bovates of land formerly held by
William
Kylwardeby
, payable as above, held of the provost of the collegiate church of St John
, Beverley
, service unknown.
Hunsley, a toft, worth nothing yearly, and 2 bovates of land, each worth 20d. yearly, held of the
prior of Durham
as of his manor of Hemingbrough, service unknown.
He died on 22 August last.
Ralph
Babthorp
, his son and next heir of his body, is aged 38 years and more.