WARWICKSHIRE.
Inquisition [indented].
Kenilworth.
23 April 1442. [
Cotes].
William
Raves
of Canley;
Geoffrey
Burell
,
Richard
Marchalle
,
John
Gunwer
,
Henry
Cheryour
, and
Thomas
Napton
, of Kenilworth;
John
Botyllere
of Coventry;
John
Ruyding
and
William
Barres
, of Exhall;
John
Starky
of Berkswell;
and
John
Smyth
and
Thomas
Grene
, of Foleshill.
Long before Isabel’s death,
John
Botiller, knight
, lately her husband, was seised in demesne as of fee of the manor of Exhall and, by indented charter dated at London on 3 April 1430, shown to the jurors, he granted it – with all its lands, tenements, rents, services, reversions, meadows, pastures, with neifs and their families, and all liberties and customs belonging to the manor – to
William
Estfeld, alderman of the city of London,
Richard
Dene of Coventry, mercer
, and
William
Arosmyth
of Warrington in Lancashire, ‘marchant’, and their heirs and assigns. William, Richard, and William were thus seised in demesne as of fee. Thus seised, by charter dated on 10 March 1439, shown to the jurors, they demised and enfeoffed the manor to
Isabel
Botiller
, lately wife of
John
Botiller of Bewsey, knight
, for life, with
remainder to
John
Botiller , son of John Botiller of Bewsey, and his heirs. She was thus seised in demesne as of free tenement.
Exhall, the manor, true annual value 40s., held of the king as of his manor of Cheylesmore, parcel of the principality of Wales, by service of one red rose at Midsummer from the manor of Exhall for all services, exactions, suits of courts and demands.
She died on 15 May 1441.
John
Botiller
, son and heir of
John
Botiller
is her next heir by virtue of the remainder, and
aged 12 and more.
[Head:] Delivered to court on 4 May 1442.