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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 2013-06-20T15:48:01.38+01:00 XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
ELLEN WHO WAS WIFE OF PHILIP CHETEWYN, KNIGHT
496 Writ. ‡ 27 November 1440. [Bate].
HUNTINGDONSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. St Neots. 6 December 1440. [Burgh].
Richard Wright of Eynesbury; Robert Dernewell ; John Okeham ; John Bailly of Fenstanton (Stanton); John Dalton of Midloe; Walter Smyth of Keyston; John Bruys ; Richard Crosse ; John Beveryche ; William Beverych ; John Brewster ; William Smethe ; and Robert Olyver .
She held the following in dower from the inheritance of William Ferrers , son and heir of Edmund Ferrers, knight, lately her husband. Keyston, the manor, except the rent from free tenants and their services, and advowson of the church there. There is a site, worth nothing yearly; 32 messuages and 24 cottages, worth nothing yearly; a windmill, worth 10s. yearly; 200 a. land, each acre worth 3d. yearly; 35 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 14 a. wood, worth nothing yearly; £4 rent called ‘le mycheyelderent’, payable at Michaelmas and Easter equally; view of frankpledge held twice yearly, viz., after Michaelmas and after Easter, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and a court baron held every three weeks, worth nothing yearly above the fees of steward and bailiff. The manor is held of the king in chief as a knight’s fee.
She died on 4 November last. William Ferrers is her son and next heir, and aged 28 and more.
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497 Writ. ‡ 9 November 1440. [Bate].
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Northampton. 10 December 1440. [Boughton].
Nicholas Horncastell ; Ives Cheselden of Whiston; Richard Slade ; Richard Frere ; Richard Chestr of West Farndon (Farndon); Thomas Walker ; Thomas Bokeland ; Nicholas Lawe ; William Andrewe ; Richard Lucas ; John Parker ; John Childe ; and John Barbour .
She held the following in dower as above. Bugbrooke, the manor, held of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster as 1/20 knight’s fee. There is a site, worth nothing yearly; 40 messuages and 20 cottages, worth nothing yearly; a dovecot, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; a watermill, worth 26s. 8d. yearly; 200 a. land, each acre worth 2d. yearly; 40 a. meadow, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 20 a. pasture, each acre worth 1d. yearly; £21 assize rent, payable at Michaelmas and Lady Day equally; a court baron held every 3 weeks, worth nothing yearly above the fees of steward and bailiff; and view of frankpledge there held twice yearly, viz., after Michaelmas and after Easter.
Date of death and heir as 496.
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