Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 25, 1437-42 Mapping The Medieval Countryside, a collaboration between the Department of History, University of Winchester, and the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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 Claire Noble (ed.), Calendar of Inquisitions Post-Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office XXV: 16-20 Henry VI (1437-1442).Boydell & Brewer2009 2013-06-20T15:47:49.973+01:00 XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
RICHARD LESCROP OF BOLTON, KNIGHT
449 Writ que plura not extant.] Regarding CIPM XXI, no. 735, an inquisition taken in 1421.
YORKSHIRE. Inquisition. The castle at York. 29 March 1440. [Vghtrede].
John Laton; Ralph Doddesworth ; Edmund Poole ; Thomas Waldeby ; William Rodes ; George Palmes ; John Stilyngton ; Ralph Clifton ; Thomas Copland ; Thomas Clifton ; Henry Mauncell ; John Clifton of Bolton; and Robert Wardrop .
He held more lands and tenements in demesne as of fee than in the inquisition mentioned in the writ. Kingston upon Hull, £4 rent from lands and tenements late of William Belford, payable at Martinmas and Pentecost equally. The rent and the lands and tenements are held of the king in free burgage without rendering anything.
He died on 29 August 1420.
John Sleford of Beverley, tanner, occupied the lands and tenements from the time of Richard’s death, and took the rent. He yet takes it, title and manner unknown. [Head:] Delivered to court on 2 May 1440.
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