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WILLIAM SCOT OF CAMBERWELL
416 Writ mandamus. ‡ 1 July 1440. [Bate].
SURREY. Inquisition [indented]. Southwark. 31 October 1440. [Penycok].
Richard Baker of Peckham; Richard Ode ; John Drynkewater, junior ; Robert Mareys ; John Adkyn ; Richard Malpas ; John Chaundelere ; William Grenehale ; John Colcok ; John Brampton ; John Knyght ; and Walter Strange .
He held the following in demesne as of fee. Peckham and Camberwell, 1/2 tenement, called ‘Brethynghurst Tenement’, viz., 20 a. arable, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 60 a. sheep-pasture (pro ovibus) with various hedgerows, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 24 a. meadow, each acre worth 20d. yearly; and 20s. assize rent and rent at will, payable at the four principal terms of the year equally. The tenement is held of the king in chief as of his castle of Dover by service of castleward at Dover every 32 weeks. He was seised in demesne as of fee of 1/2 manor of Camberwell, and a moiety of a moiety of the site of the same manor with 3 parts of the garden in four separate parts. Long before his death, by charter, shown to the jurors, he granted 10 marks annual rent to John Wakeryng, clerk , Richard Sturgeon , and John Lane, citizen and ‘iremonger’ of London, all still living, to hold for the life of Margaret, lately wife of William Scot , described as Margaret Brayton , lately wife of William Brayton . The rent was to be taken from the moiety and three parts, described as his manor of Camberwell. He died seised of this estate, and Margaret is still living. Camberwell, 1/2 manor, and a moiety of 1/2 site of the same manor, with 3 parts of the garden there in four separate parts, worth nothing yearly above enclosure and the said burden. The manor is held of Humphrey, earl of Stafford, by service of one pair of spurs, or 6d. , for all services.
He died on 29 January 1439. John Scot , his son and next heir, was aged 2 on the feast of St Mark the Evangelist last [25 April].
By letters patent dated at Westminster on 5 February 1439 [CPR 1436–41, p. 309], shown to the jurors, the king granted to James Fenys, esquire , custody of the moiety and 3 parts – described as all the lands and tenements that were of William Scot who held of the king in chief, and that, owing to the death of William and the minority of John, his son and heir, came to the king’s hand – to have from the time of William’s death with marriage of the heir without disparagement, and so from heir to heir until the heir reaches full age. James thus occupied the moiety and 3 parts from the time of William’s death until the day of this inquisition and took, and yet takes, the issues. [Foot:] Examined.
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