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JOHN GOLAFRE, ESQUIRE Styled esquire in writ only.
149 Writ.‡ 16 March 1442. [Bate].
OXFORDSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Oxford. 7 November 1442. [Bekyngham]. [Inquisition: several large holes in ms.]
Jurors: William Ardern ; Richard Purcell ; John Cornewaill ; Roger Radley ; John Huntyngdon ; James Samwell ; Bernard Kenyngton ; Thomas Chebenhurst ; Thomas Radley ; John Trillyng ; William ?Boredon ; and John Stevenes .
Long before his death he was seised in demesne as of fee of the manors of Brize Norton, Sarsden, Asthall, Asthall Leigh, and ‘Moore’, and of a messuage and a carucate of land in Milton-under-Wychwood. He granted the above by charter dated 30 September 1434, shown to the jurors, to master Thomas Brons, late dean of Salisbury , William Danvers , William Fynderne , Thomas Fetiplace , John Stowe , John Hide , Robert Burley, clerk , Thomas Eland, clerk , William Boteler , and William Newman, junior , and their heirs and assigns. They were seised in demesne as of fee and continued in that estate for the whole of John’s life.
He died on 23 February 1442. Agnes, wife of William Brounyng esquire , is his kin and next heir, as the daughter of Richard Wyghtam , the son of Juliana, the sister of Thomas, John’s father. She is aged 24 and more. [Head:] [Delivered to court on]... ember 1442.
C 139/112/74 mm. 1, 3 E 149/176/15 m. 1
150 [Writ: see 149 .]
BERKSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Abingdon. 8 November 1442. [Bekyngham]. [Inquisition: ms galled and rubbed.]
Jurors: William Rychardes ; Nicholas Goold ; John Coventre ; John Pusey ; Richard Doo ; Robert Felice ; Thomas atte Wyke ; John Frankeleyn of Goosey; Richard Quyltere ; William atte Mille ; John Burymyll ; John Sexteyn ; and William atte Wyke .
He held the following in demesne as of fee tail jointly with Margaret his wife, who survives, to them and the heirs of their bodies, by grant of Thomas, bishop of Rochester , William Danvers , William Fynderne , Thomas Fetiplace , John Stowe , John Hide , Robert Burley clerk , Thomas Eland clerk , William Boteler , and William Newman junior , as appears by a charter shown to the jurors. The manors were held with courts, views of frankpledge, and other franchises and liberties. Fyfield, the manor, with the advowson of the church, annual value £20, held of Henry, bishop of Winchester and cardinal of England , service unknown. Eaton, the manor, annual value 100s. [tenure and service not specified]. Garford, the manor, annual value 60s. Frilford, the manor, annual value £6 13s. 4d. ?Piling, a carucate of land, 3 a. meadow, and 1 a. wood; and Appleton, a messuage and 2 virgates of land, annual value 30s. The manors of Garford and Frilford, and the carucate, etc., in ?Piling and Appleton are held of William, abbot of the house of the Virgin Mary of Abingdon, service unknown. Long before his death he granted to master Thomas Brons , and the others named in 149, and their heirs and assigns, the manors of West Lockinge, ‘Bawdewynscourt’, ‘Wyke’, ‘Detheswyke’, ‘Boteneswyke’, Wantage, Grove, Tulwick, Hampstead ?Norreys (Hampstede), and Lambourn. They were seised in demesne as of fee and continued in that estate for the whole of John’s life. This appears by a charter dated 30 September 1434 shown to the jurors. E 149 copy here annotated: ‘for the tenure of the manor of Eaton’.
Date of death and heir as 149.
C 139/112/74 mm. 1–2 E 149/176/15 m. 2