DERBYSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Chesterfield.
24 March 1440. [
Neville].
Roger
Kesteuen
;
Robert
Wyng
;
William
Knyfsmyth
;
William
Bate
;
John
Segraue
;
John
Risshenden
;
John
Stanlowe
;
Henry
Merssh
;
Ralph
Wode
; Roger Hill;
Richard
Scorer
; and
Robert
Somerby
.
She held the following in dower by endowment of Ranulph Rye, her former husband, from the inheritance of Ranulph, his son and heir.
Whitwell, 1/3 manor, held of Ranulph Rye, son, a minor in the king’s wardship, service unknown. In the third, there are 40 a. arable demesne, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 3 1/3 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; 2 1/2 ruinous messuages and 26 a. land adjacent, worth 7s. yearly; a ruinous cottage, worth nothing yearly; 7s. 7d. free rent taken from various free tenants at Lady Day and the Nativity of Mary equally; and 1/3 wood, its herbage and underwood, worth 2s. 4d. yearly above the keeper’s fee.
Barlborough, 1/3 croft and 31 a. land, worth 2s. 4d.
yearly; Cresswell, a third of 2 parts of a watermill, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; and Belph, 13d. free rent, taken from various free tenants at Lady Day and the Nativity of Mary equally. The croft, land, mill, and rent are held of Ranulph Rye, son, a minor in the king’s wardship, service unknown.
She died on 27 April last. Ranulph Rye, son, as above, is her son and next heir and aged 17 and more.