BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Newport Pagnell.
15 September
1439. [
Wenlok].
Jurors:
William
Watford
;
Nicholas
Baker
;
John
Edy, junior
;
John
Sharpe
;
Thomas
Edward
;
Nicholas
Chapell
;
Henry
Dycon
;
John
Proudfote
;
William
Mody
;
Henry
Harpcote
;
Roger
Curteys
; and
Robert
Louenoth
.
He held the following for by curtesy as [221](#CIPM-DOC-25-221)
Wolverton, 1/2 manor. There is the
manorial site in the moiety, worth nothing yearly because no-one lives there; 60 a.
land, each acre worth 2d. yearly and no more as fallow; 10 a. meadow, each acre worth
18d. yearly; 1/2 watermill, worth 6s. 8d. yearly, and no more as the neifs and those
owing suit (nativi et sectatores) at the said mill are dead, and the mill is ruinous;
10s. assize rent from free tenants, payable at 4 terms of the year, viz., Michaelmas,
Christmas,
Lady Day, and Midsummer, equally; 8 messuages and 4 virgates of land in the
hand of tenants-at-will, worth £4 yearly, payable at the said feasts; 2 cottages, worth
2s. yearly; and perquisites of court, worth 12d. yearly above the steward’s fee.
Bradwell, 1/2 advowson of St Mary
’s Priory, worth nothing.
Loughton, 1/2 knight’s
fee currently held by
John
Loughton
, annual value 14d. when it falls, and no more,
because 5s. is paid in castleward at Northampton.
Stoke Hammond, 1/2 knight’s fee
currently held by the heirs of the son of Hamon, annual value 18d. when it falls, and no
more, because 5s. is paid as above.
Thornborough, 1/2 knight’s fee currently held
by the heirs of
Reynold
de
Fraxino
, annual value 12d. when it falls, and no more,
because 5s. is paid as above.
Padbury, 1/2 knight’s fee currently held jointly by
the heirs of the son of Hamon and the heirs of
William
de
Echyngham
, annual value 12d.
when it falls, and no more, because 5s. is paid as above. Of this 5s. payment,
2d. is rendered by the heirs of
William
Trymnel
for a parcel in Hillesden, part of the
1/2 knight’s fee.
Aston Sandford, 1/2 knight’s fee currently held by the heirs of
Nicholas
de
Samforde
, annual value 12d. when it falls, and no more, because 5s. is paid
as above.
Lamport, a moiety of 1/2 knight’s fee currently held by the heirs of
Richard
de
Langeporte
, annual value 9d. when it falls, and no more, because 2s. 6d. is
paid as above.
Chalfont St Giles, one knight’s fee and a moiety of 1/2 knight’s
fee currently held jointly by the heirs of Alexander son of Hamon and the heirs of Warin
Polet, annual value 2s. 6d. when they fall, and no more, because 7s. 6d. is paid
as above.
Drayton Beauchamp, 1/2 knight’s fee currently held by the heirs of
William
de
Bello Campo
, annual value 12d. when it falls, and no more, because 5s. is paid as
above.
Simpson, 1/2 knight’s fee currently held by the heirs of
Geoffrey
de
Caus
, annual
value 18d. when it falls, and no more, because 5s. is paid as above.
Chenies, 1/2
knight’s fee currently held by the heirs of
Alexander
Cheyny
, annual value 12d. when it
falls, and no more, because 5s. is paid as above.
Ellesborough, a moiety of 1/2
knight’s fee currently held jointly by the heirs of
Alan
Maydewell
and of
Henry
de
Scaccario
, annual value 8d. when it falls, and no more, because 2s. is paid as
above.
The above 1/2 manor, advowson, knights’ fees and parts of knights’ fees are held,
together with the following in Northamptonshire, of the king in chief as 1/4 barony. In
Northamptonshire: 1/2 knight’s fee in Maidwell currently held by
Thomas
Seyton
, annual
value 12d. when it falls, and no more, because 5s. is paid yearly in castleward at
Northampton; a moiety of 1/2 knight’s fee in Thenford currently held by the heirs of
Eva
le
Grey
, annual value 6d. when it falls, and no more, because 2s. 6d. is paid yearly as
above; and 1/8 knight’s fee in Wick Hamon currently held by the heirs of the son of
Hamon, annual value 6d. when it falls, and no more, because 17d. is paid yearly as
above.
He held the following by curtesy as [221](#CIPM-DOC-25-221)
Walton, a messuage, 50 a. land, 3 a.
meadow, and 1/2 advowson of the church of Walton, annual value 20s. held of
Richard
Bannus
, service unknown.
Date of death and heir as [221](#CIPM-DOC-25-221). [Head:] Received on 23
September 1439.