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WILLIAM RITHER, KNIGHT
479 Writ. ‡ 8 October 1440. [Kirkeby].
LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. The castle at Lincoln. 29 October 1440. [Percy].
William Messenger of East Kirkby; Thomas Litster of Skendleby; John Magnus of Meering (Meryng); Thomas Lowe ; John Dounham ; William Godreke ; William Fichete ; John Ward ; John Dandy ; William Gudale of Langton; Walter Spencer ; John Sariant of Carlton-on-Trent (Carlton); John Ley ; and John Barton .
He was seised of the following to him and his heirs and assigns. Celecotes, the manor, held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster as of his honour of Bolingbroke as 1/6 knight’s fee. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; 100 a. demesne land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 12 messuages, each worth 12d. yearly; 10 bovates, each worth 3s. yearly; 40s. assize rent taken by the hand of various free tenants; 50 a. meadow, each acre worth 8d. at mowing time, and worth nothing at present because mown in summer; and 300 a. pasture and marsh, common to all tenants, worth nothing yearly.
He died on 1 October last. William Rither is his son and next heir, and aged 35 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 15 November.
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480 Writ. † 8 October 1440. [Kirkeby].
YORKSHIRE. Inquisition. Ozendyke. 21 October 1440. [Ughtred]. [Inquisition: ms badly galled.]
John Scargill ; William ... [ms worn and torn]; William Marschall ; Robert Boteler ; John ...; ?Robert ?Burston; ... ...wes; William Mil...er ; John ?Holton; Thomas ...; Robert Habyrgeham ; and Robert Fleschewer .
He died seised of the following moieties in demesne as of fee tail, to him and the heirs male of his body, as son and heir male of the bodies of William Rither, knight , of Rither, and Sibyl his wife, to whom Thomas Thwaytes and William Barker granted the moieties, to hold to them and the heirs male of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of Sibyl. The grant was made by a fine levied on the octave of St John the Baptist 1403 [CP 25/1/279/149, no. 46], shown to the jurors. Royal licence was obtained regarding 1/2 manor of Harewood. Harewood, 1/2 manor, with the exception of the entire site which is a castle called Harewood Castle, and also except a close called ‘le Conynggerth’. There are 45 a. demesne land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; a close called ‘Stoktonfeld’ with a parcel of land called ‘le Fittes’, containing 200 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; a parcel of land called ‘le Sandbed’, containing 4 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly; a common pasture called ‘Harwodmore’, containing 1000 a. moor and waste wood, worth nothing yearly; 2 burgages in the vill, each worth 12d. yearly; 2 cottages, each worth 12d. yearly; a smithy, worth 12d. yearly; and 1/2 oven, worth 12d. yearly. Within the moiety, in the vill of Dunkeswick, there are 8 messuages, worth nothing yearly, and 17 bovates, each worth 4s. yearly; and in the vill of Healthwaite there are 3 messuages, each worth 6d. yearly, and 4 bovates and meadow , each worth 4s. yearly. There is 32s. service rent, taken yearly by the hand of various free tenants, payable at Martinmas and Pentecost equally. The moiety, exceptions excepted, is held of the king in chief as 1/4 knight’s fee. Kirkby Overblow, 1/2 manor, held of Henry, earl of Northumberland , as of his manor of Spofforth, service unknown. There is the site of 1/2 manor, waste and worth nothing yearly; 7 ruinous messuages, worth nothing yearly; 2 waste cottages, worth nothing yearly; 14 bovates, each worth 3s. yearly; 20 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 30 a. wood, worth nothing yearly above enclosure; and 12s. 8d. free rent and rent of a pair of gloves taken yearly by the hand of various tenants at Martinmas and Pentecost equally. He died seised of the following manors and advowsons in demesne as of fee tail by grant of John son of Robert Roos of Helmsley to William Rither of Scarcroft and Lucy his wife, and the heirs of Lucy’s body, with reversion to John and the heirs of his body, with remainder to Alexander, brother of John, and the heirs of his body, and then reversion to the right heirs of William. The grant was made by a fine levied on the morrow of the Purification of Mary 1280 [CP 25/1/266/59, no. 54], shown to the jurors. By the same fine, John granted the manors and advowsons to the same William for life if Lucy should die without heir of her body. William, named in the writ, is kin and heir of William, named in the fine, and kin and heir of Lucy, viz., son of William son of Robert son of Robert son of Robert son of William and Lucy. Ryther, the manor and advowsons of the church. The manor is held of the king in chief as of his duchy of Lancaster as of his honour of Pontefract as 1/8 knight’s fee. There is a capital messuage and 2 gardens, worth nothing yearly; 8 waste messuages, worth nothing yearly; 8 waste cottages, worth nothing yearly; 460 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 12d. yearly; and 202 a. wood, worth 100s. yearly. Scarcroft, the manor, held of Henry Vavasour in chief by service of one rose yearly for all secular services. There are 4 waste messuages and 3 waste cottages, worth nothing yearly; 202 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 320 a. moor, worth 10s. yearly; and 22 a. wood, worth nothing yearly above enclosure.
Date of death and heir as 479. [Head:] Delivered to court on 14... [ms galled].
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Described in ms as ‘advowsons of the church of Ryther’, and constently plural throughout: there was the parish church in Ryther as well as a chapel attached to Lead Hall. The reference to more than one advowson in ms may indicate both places of worship, despite only explicit reference to the parish church.