NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Bulwick.
14 May
1438. [
Calcrofte].
Jurors:
John
Seyton
and
William
Potton
of Nassington;
Nicholas
Durant
and
Robert
Orwyne
of
King’s Cliffe;
Thomas
Baxter
and
John
Toly
of Bulwick;
William
Tayllour
and
Peter
Pelle
of Deene;
John
Baxter
of Kirby;
Richard
Wright
and
John
Mabely
of Great or Little Weldon
(Weldon); and
Richard
Drew
of Ashley.
John
Henege
,
Richard
Lumbard
, and Richard Fryth demised the manor of Wakerley, and
advowson of the church there, to
Thomas, bishop of Durham
, for life, without impeachment
of waste, with remainder to
Reynold
West, knight, Lord La Warre
,
William
de la
Pole,
earl of Suffolk
,
William
Wenard
,
John
Westbury
,
Richard
Wentworth
, and
Thomas
Fychet
,
and their heirs, to hold of the king and his heirs by due service. The grant was made by
indented deed dated at Wakerley on 9 June 1429, shown to the jurors. Royal
licence was obtained [CPR 1422–29, pp. 485–6].
Wakerley, the manor and advowson of the
church there, annual value £10, held of the king
in chief as 1/4 knight’s fee.
He died
on 20 November last.
Henry
Langley
is his next heir, as the son of
Henry
Langley
brother
of the bishop, and aged 40 years and more.