Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 25, 1437-42 Mapping The Medieval Countryside, a collaboration between the Department of History, University of Winchester, and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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WILLIAM MERSSHTON
22 Writ devenerunt. ‡ 21 May 1438. [Smyth].
SHROPSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Ludlow. 16 June 1438. [Fox].
Jurors: John Parys ; John Setee ; Thomas Dyer of Ludlow; John Doddemore ; John Coston ; John Doune ; William Lotewyche ; William ?P...rdy [ms torn]; John Hatton ; James Corvyser of Ludlow; Thomas Dounton ; and Thomas Walter .
Owing to the death of Thomas Mersshton and the minor age of William Mersshton , his brother and heir, the following came to the hand of ‪ Henry IV and is yet in the king’s hand. Little Sutton, a messuage and 1/2 virgate of land, annual value 3s. 4d., held of the king by petty serjeanty and rendering 5s. silver yearly to the king at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally.
He died on 6 February 1437. Maud, wife of William Aleyn , and Joan, wife of John Smalbache , are his sisters and next heirs. Maud is aged 55 years and more, and Joan is aged 50 years and more.
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