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THOMAS BROOK, KNIGHT
335 Writ amotus. ‡ 22 November 1439. [Bate].
DORSET. Inquisition [indented]. Sherborne. 10 September 1440. [Seyntbarbe]. C 139: ‘Monday 10 September 19 Henry VI’. The 10 September in 1440 was not a Monday but a Saturday. However, the word ‘September’ is a substitution over an erasure. It might have replaced ‘October’ as 10 October 1440 was a Monday.
Thomas Sympson ; Henry Baker ; Thomas Lambroke ; John Pupelpenne ; Thomas Combe ; Henry Crabbe ; John Lambroke ; Walter Tannere ; Peter Lylhey ; William Proute ; Martin Sydenham ; and John Splotard .
A fine was levied at Westminster on the quindene of St John the Baptist 1438 [CP 25/1/292/69, no. 217], before John Juyn , James Strangways , John Cottesmour , and William Paston , justices, and others present, between John Hody , John Stork , John Chirche, citizen and mercer of London , John Battescombe , John Corbrigge, clerk , and Thomas Est, querents, and Thomas Brook, knight , and Joan his wife, deforciants, regarding, among other things, the following manors, tenements, and rents. Thomas Brook and Joan recognised the manors etc. to be the right of Thomas Est, as held by Thomas and the five Johns by grant of Thomas Brook and Joan; and Thomas and Joan quitclaimed the manors etc. from them and the heirs of Thomas, to Thomas Est and the five Johns, and to the heirs of Thomas Est. Thomas Brook also guaranteed the manors etc. to Thomas, John, John etc. [as above] against all men in perpetuity, as more fully contained in the fine, shown to the jurors. John Hody, John Stork, John Chirche, John Battescombe, John Corbrigge, and Thomas Est were thus seised of the manors, tenements, and rents, viz., John, John, John, John, and John, in demesne as of free tenement, and Thomas Est in demesne as of fee. By deed dated on 14 July 1438, Thomas Est afterwards quitclaimed the manors, tenements, and rents, among other things, for him and his heirs, to John, John, John, John, and John, and their heirs and assigns, so that the five Johns were seised in demesne as of fee, as more fully apparent in the deed, shown to the jurors. The deed was enrolled on the dorse of the Close Rolls in the king’s Chancery [CClR 1435–41, pp. 190–91]. The five Johns are still living, and they have permitted Thomas Brook to occupy the manors, tenements, and rents at their will. Free tenement of the manors etc. has been continuously with the five Johns from the time of the fine and the quitclaim, and Thomas Brook has no estate nor claim unless at the will of John, John, John, John, and John. Cotleigh (Cottelegh), the manor, annual value 8 marks, held of the bishop of Salisbury, as of the manor of Chardstock, service unknown. Mangerton, the manor, annual value 10 marks, held of Walter, Lord Hungerford, as of his manor of Wootton Fitzpaine, by knight service. Cotleigh (Cottelegh), Mangerton, North Poorton or South Poorton (Pourton), North Bowood or South Bowood (Bowode), East Melplash, Loscombe, Mappowder, Lyme Regis, Colweyshome, Harmshay, Babersheyes, Pytte, and Lytell Parrok in Marshwood Vale, 20 messuages, 6 carucates and 400 a. land, 120 a. meadow, 300 a. pasture, 100 a. wood, 60s. rent, and rent of 1lb pepper, 1lb cumin, and 1 pair of spurs. Of which: 3 messuages, 4 carucates of land, 50 a. meadow, 100 a. pasture, and 40 a. wood in Mangerton, Poorton, Bowood, East Melplash, Loscombe, and Hokebere [not in original list], annual value 10 marks, are held of the bishop of Salisbury, as of his manor of Langdon, service unknown; one messuage, 2 carucates of land, 30 a. meadow, 100 a. pasture, and 60 a. wood in Mappowder, annual value 40s., are held of the abbot of Glastonbury , service unknown; 7 messuages and 4 1/2 a. land in Lyme Regis, annual value 10s., are held of the king in free burgage as all the vill is held, service unknown; and the two remaining messuages in Coleweyshome are held of Thomas Carmynowe, esquire , service unknown. The lands and tenements in Harmshay, Babersheyes, Pytte, and Lytell Parrok are held of others than the king, service unknown. Philip Holman, clerk , and John Swaldale were seised of the following manors, tenements, and rents, among other things, in demesne as of fee. By charter, dated at Blundeleshay on 22 June 1410, they granted the manors etc. to Thomas Brook, knight , and Joan his wife, described as Thomas Brook son of Thomas Brook, knight , and Joan his wife, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies, as more fully apparent in the charter, shown to the jurors. Thomas and Joan were thus seised in demesne as of fee tail. Afterwards, by indenture dated on 17 March 1439 where they were described as Thomas Brook, knight, lord of Cobham , and Joan his wife, they granted two closes of land called Monkwood in the parish of Stoke Abbott, previously held by their demise by Nicholas Gele , to John Battescombe , for counsel past and future to Thomas and Joan, to hold to him and his assigns for life, as more fully contained in the deed, shown to the jurors. John was thus seised in demesne as of free tenement, and he is still living. Thomas Brook afterwards died. Joan is still living and holds the manors, tenements, and rents by right of survivorship. The manor, tenements, and rent are held of others than the king, service unknown. Blundeleshay, the manor, annual value £10, held of others than the king, service unknown. Whitchurch Canonicorum, Symondsbury, Stoke Abbott, Marshwood, Stoke Wallis, Atrim, Morbath, Pircombe, Gerneshull, Monkwood, Yard, Rampisham, and Dunstrowe, 9 messuages, 4 tofts, 12 carucates and 40 a. land, 100 a. meadow, 60 a. pasture, 80 a. wood, 4s. rent, and rent of one rose; and Baberesheys and Pyttelond in the hundred of Whitchurch Canonicorum, one tenement, and a carucate and 40 a. land. Annual value, £10. They are held of others than the king, service unknown. Margin: ‘enfoeffment’. Hokebereis recorded only once in the inquisition, when the lands are broken down and the lord’s name and annual value are described. Margin: ‘conjointly’. Margin: ‘enfoeffment’.
He died on 12 August 1439. Edward Brook, knight , is his son and next heir, and aged 24 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 4 October 1440.
C 139/97/6 mm. 1–2