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 2013-06-20T15:48:09.329+01:00 XML generated from GATE information extraction pipeline
JOHN SPEKE, KNIGHT
538 Writ. ‡ 8 February 1442. [Bate]. Addressed to the escheator in Devon and Cornwall.
The dorse of the writ makes it clear that only one inquisition was returned.
DEVON. Inquisition. Exeter. 24 November 1442. [Cornu].
Richard Fortescu ; John Harry ; John Bury ; William Mey ; Walter Lywer ; Robert Spry ; Robert Wode ; Baldwin Vyell ; Richard Badeworthy ; Richard Denshill ; John Clyfton ; and John Eyr .
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief, or any other, in demesne or service.
He died on 27 October 1441. John is his son and next heir, and aged 20 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 8 December.
C 139/105/3 mm. 1–2
539 Writ. 8 February 1442. [Cammell].
SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Castle Cary. 18 October 1442. [Karant].
Richard Baylly ; William Harryes ; Thomas Broune ; Thomas Towker ; John Membury ; William Northe ; Nicholas Mey ; John Andrewe ; Nicholas Ketyll ; John Ketyll ; Stephen Clerke ; and William Smytht .
Findings as 538.
He died on 5 October 1441. John Speke, esquire , is his son and next heir, and aged 20 and more.
C 139/105/3 mm. 3–4