Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 26, 1442-48

JOHN, DUKE OF SOMERSET

178 Writ.‡ 18 June 1444. [Bate].

BEDFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Biggleswade. 20 October 1444. [Nowers].

Jurors: John Estwyk ; Richard Westerdale ; Thomas Henxworth ; William Rysby ; William Myles ; John Peckeworth ; William Worlyche ; Thomas Burgoyn ; John Peeke ; Stephen Browney ; Thomas Horley ; and George Beton .

He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king in chief or of others.

He died on 27 May last. Margaret is his daughter and next heir, aged 1¼. [Head:] Delivered to Chancery on 10 November 1444.

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179 Writ.‡ 18 June 1444. [Bate].

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Rockingham. 26 October 1444. [Palmer].

Jurors: John Brewe and William Bate of Ashley; Thomas Hunt and John Bellers of Stoke Albany; William Hayward and John Asshewell of Wilbarston; Robert Page of East Carlton; William Johnson of Cottingham; John Carter of East Carlton; John Aleyn and John Davy of Corby; and Philip Steynesmore of Cottingham.

He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king or of any other.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 1½. [Head:] Delivered to court on 12 November 1444.

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180 Writ. 18 June 1444. [Bate].

DEVON. Inquisition [indented]. Exeter. 20 October 1444. [Menwynnek].

Jurors: Nicholas Colbrok ; John Myrefeld ; John Beer of Huntsham; John Eston, junior ; William Dolbeare ; John Aysh of Escot; John Gove, senior ; Richard Gyffard ; John Lorywyll ; Robert Counte, junior ; John Ypocras ; and William Botour .

Findings as 179. [Head:] Delivered to court on 16 November 1444.

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181 Writ. 18 June 1444. [Bate].

LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. ?Market Deeping (Depyng). 12 November 1444. [Hawley].

Jurors: John Baker of West Deeping; Stephen Gryndell of Market Deeping (Estdepyng); John Clerke of Tallington; William Soherwynd of Market Deeping (Estdepyng); Robert Wodeman of Barholm; John Godefelowe of Baston; Henry Newman of Thurlby; John Trygge of Hanthorpe; Richard Toterich , William Honour , John Gardiner , and John Stekenay of Bourne; and Richard Rych of Morton.

He held the following in demesne as of fee. Marginal note: demesne. Spalding, a messuage, annual value 2s., held of the prior of Spalding , service unknown. Billingborough, the manor, annual value £7, service and of whom held unknown.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 2. [Head:] Delivered to court on 5 February.

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182 Writ amotus .† 12 December 1445. [Bate]. Referring to an earlier writ of 18 June 1444 [for which see CFR 1437–45, p. 276]

WORCESTERSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Droitwich. 1 July 1446. [Rudyng].

Jurors: John Lenche ; Richard Acton ; Richard Sheldon ; Henry Lenche ; John Bachecote ; John Pery ; John Somery ; Richard Wythe ; Roger Sharpe ; John Phelyppus ; Richard Tomson ; and Robert Hamond .

He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The fee-farm was granted among other things by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416]. After the deaths of Edmund; of Edmund, his son and heir; of John, brother and heir of Edmund; of Joan, sister and heir of John; of Thomas, son and heir of Joan; of Thomas, son and heir of Thomas; and of Edmund, brother and heir of Thomas the son of Thomas, it descended to the kin and heirs of Thomas, son and heir of Joan, namely: [1.] Richard, duke of York , son and heir of Anne, one of the daughters and heirs of Eleanor, first sister and one of the heirs of Edmund, brother of Thomas; [2.] Joyce, wife of John Tiptoft, knight , another daughter and heir of Eleanor; [3.] Henry Grey, knight , son and heir of Joan, third daughter and heir of Eleanor; [4.] John, late duke of Somerset , son and heir of Margaret, late duchess of Clarence , another sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas; [5.] Alice, wife of Richard, earl of Salisbury , daughter and heir of Eleanor, the third sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas; and [6.] Ralph, earl of Westmorland , son and heir of Elizabeth, the fourth sister and heir of Edmund, brother of Thomas. The sum below was allotted to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty. £21 18s. 5d. parcel of an annual farm of £89 5s. from the fee-farm of Droitwich, held of the king in chief, service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 3¼.[Head:] Delivered to the court of Chancery on 15 July 1446. Altered in C 139 from £22 6s. 3d. E 149: £21 18s. 5d., written over an erasure. Elsewhere in both C 139 and E 149 copies the sum is given as £22 6s. 3d. without alteration.

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183 Writ. [8] July 1444. [Bate]. [Writ damaged. See CFR 1437–45, p. 276]

NORFOLK. Inquisition [indented]. Winterton-on-Sea. 2 September 1444. [Clere].

Jurors: William Stotevyle ; Thomas Mamason ; Robert Marche ; John Kechon ; Robert Hesele ; John Copy ; John Wacy ; John Rychers ; Thomas Broun ; Walter Heylok ; John Barkyng ; Nicholas Pekeryng ; John Chapell ; John Jekkes ; and William Stywardson .

He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. Marginal note: entail (tall’). The farm of £16 was granted by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [cf. CFR 1319–27, p. 68; CChR, IV, 3], and descended as in 182. The sum below was allotted to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty. £11 16s. parcel of an annual farm of £16 from the fee-farm of the manor of Ormesby, held of the king in chief, service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 2 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 18 June 1445.

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184 Writ.‡ 18 June 1444. [Bate].

KENT. Inquisition. Dartford. 14 September 1444. [Frogenhall]

Jurors: John Styvour ; Thomas Revet ; Thomas Danyell ; Richard Bodman ; John Chapman ; Richard Fostere ; John Drewery ; Henry Trevell ; Reynold Weveryng ; Henry Gray ; John Drewe ; John Sherwode ; and John Buxston .

He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Dartford, the market, with the view of frank-pledge there and in the hamlets of Stone, Wilmington, Upstreet, Chislehurst, ‘Stonham’ and elsewhere in Kent held each year at Dartford at Easter and Michaelmas, annual value with amercements and other profits 40s. He died seised of the following. Cobham, £4 rent received from various tenants at Easter and Michaelmas. Chislehurst and Combe , £5 rent received from various tenants at the same terms. Chislehurst, 16s. a year issuing from certain lands which came to the duke as escheats and which Bernard Cavell and others occupy. Dartford, 20s. rent issuing from various tenements, payable at Easter and Michaelmas. All the above are held of the king by service of 1d. only at Michaelmas.

Date of death as 178. Margaret, his daughter and next heir, was then aged 1 and more. [Head:] Delivered to Chancery on 6 November 1444.

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185 Writ amotus.‡ 12 December 1445. [Bate]. Referring to an earlier writ of 18 June 1444 [for which see CFR 1437–45, p. 276].

SUSSEX. Inquisition [indented]. Robertsbridge. 17 February 1446. [Dautre].

Jurors: John Tamworth ; William Thomset ; Laurence Courteys ; Richard Buksell ; Michael Grove ; Robert Pypesden ; John Hermer ; William Toughton ; John Recheman ; Richard Ward ; Thomas Fynhawe ; Thomas Catteman ; William Martyn ; and William Bukholt.

He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs of his body. The rent of £8, amongst other things, was granted by Edward III to Edmund de Wodestoke, earl of Kent , and the heirs of his body [CChR, IV, 3]. It descended as in 182 [except that John, brother of Joan, princess of Wales , is called the son, not the brother, of Edmund son of Edmund de Wodestoke ]. The 63s. 4d. descended to the duke of Somerset as one of the kin and heirs of the body of Edmund de Wodestoke , and was allotted to him to hold as his purparty. 63s. 4d. annual rent or farm, parcel of an annual rent or farm of £8 issuing from the manor of Iden and delivered by its farmer or occupier at the four usual terms, held in chief of the king by knight service, quantity unknown. John Metford, esquire , received the rent from the day of the duke’s death until the taking of this inquisition, and still receives it.

Death of death and heir as 178. She is aged 3 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 16 March 1446 by William Est deputy of the escheator.

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186 Writ amotus . 12 December 1445. [Bate]. Referring to an earlier writ of 18 June 1444 [for which see CFR 1437–45, p. 276].

GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Inquisition. Tetbury. 31 January 1446. [Holford].

Jurors: John Clayvile ; Thomas Wymbold ; Richard Proute ; John Wymbold ; Robert Warner ; Robert Knolles ; Nicholas Roke ; John Thansy ; John Webbe ; William Horner ; John Elyot ; and John Hunt .

He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The farm, among other things, was granted by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416], and descended as in 182. Among other things, it was allotted to the duke to hold as his purparty. £30 annual farm which the abbot and convent of Cirencester paid at the Exchequer for the vill of Cirencester and for seven hundreds in the county, held of the king in chief, service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 3. [Head:] Delivered to court on 14 February 1446.

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187 Writ.‡ 18 June 1444. [Bate].

HAMPSHIRE. Inquisition. Southwick. 26 September 1444. [Baynard].

Jurors: John Fawconer ; William Barell ; Robert Snokeshull ; John Wanstede ; John Frelond ; Baldwin Farle ; Simon Horsey ; Thomas Jaye ; William Maffey ; John ?Eyre [ms torn] ; John Moraunte ; John Roole ; and John Sampson .

He held the following in demesne as of fee. £15 annual rent, parcel of the fee-farm of Andover; and £12 3s. ¼d. annual rent, parcel of the fee-farm of Basingstoke, held of the king in socage. He held the following jointly with his wife Margaret, who survives, by grant of John Stourton, knight , William Carant , Thomas Wake , and Thomas Everyngham , esquires, Gilbert Kymer, clerk , and John Bayeux , to the duke, Margaret, and the heirs male of their bodies, with successive remainders to the heirs of the duke’s body, and to the right heirs of the duke. The duke and Margaret were seised in demesne as of fee tail. The charter was shown to the jurors. Bedhampton, the manor, annual value 20 marks, held of the prior of Sheen , service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 1¼ and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 12 November 1444.

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188 Writ.‡ 18 June 1444. [Bate].

MIDDLESEX. Inquisition. Whitechapel. 28 August 1444. [Frogenhall].

Jurors: Richard Briton ; Philip Taillour ; Robert Brampton ; Henry Abrey ; John Kent ; Roger Withebergh ; Reynold Kirtton ; John Birstall ; Henry Symmes ; Thomas Atkyns ; John Fullere ; Richard Hille ; and William Man .

He was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Uxbridge, a messuage, and 10 a. land, annual value 20s. The jurors do not know of whom it is held. ‘He was seised... of whom it is held’ is an interlinear addition in C 139 and does not appear in the E 149 copy. On 12 November 1404, by letters patent shown to the jurors [CPR 1401–5, p. 477], Henry IV , of his special grace and with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the community of the realm of England then at his parliament at Coventry, granted to John, late earl of Somerset and the heirs male of his body £1000 a year to maintain him in comital status. The sum was to be received from the Exchequer, from the preceding Michaelmas and then at Michaelmas and Easter, until the king or his heirs should provide the earl or his heirs male with lands and tenements to the value of £1000 that were not parcel of the crown. The earl was seised of this sum to him and the heirs male of his body until, on 25 October 1409, by letters patent shown to the jurors [CPR 1408–13, p. 147], Henry IV of his special grace granted the earl, described as the king’s dearest brother, £500 a year. The sum was granted to the earl and his heirs male in part satisfaction of the earlier £1000, and was to be received from the petty customs in the port of the city of London, delivered by the collectors, farmers or other occupiers, from the preceding Michaelmas and then at Easter and Michaelmas, notwithstanding any contrary assignments on the customs. The earl was to be satisfied at the Exchequer if the sum or any parcel of it could not be paid. Of the £1000, the earl was therefore seised in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body of £500 at the Exchequer according to the terms of the first grant. The earl had issue: John, named in the writ, and Edmund, marquess of Dorset , and died seised of such estate. The £500 descended to John as son and heir, who died seised of such estate without male heir of his body. By virtue of the first letters patent, the £500 descended to Edmund, as son and heir of the earl. Marginal note: tail to heirs male. ‘Without heir male of his body’ omitted in the E 149 copy and interlined in C 139.

Date of death as 178. Margaret, his daughter and next heir, was then aged 1 and more. According to the terms of the first letters patent, Edmund, marquis of Dorset is his brother and heir male, aged 38 and more at his death.

‘his brother and heir male’: E 149 reads ‘son and heir male of the said John late earl ’.

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189 Writ.‡ 18 June 1444. [Bate].

HERTFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Ware. 22 September 1445. [Grysacre].

Jurors: Nicholas Selby ; William Lytster ; John Lynden ; Thomas ?Cokkeshewe ; John Dolfyn ; John Partrich ; John Inglyssh ; John Parker ; John Smyth ; William Hauer ; John Sonder ; and Thomas Hull .

He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief or of any other.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 2½ and more.

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190 [Writ: see 189.]

ESSEX. Inquisition. Colchester. 30 September 1445. [Grysacre].

Jurors: Geoffrey Janyn ; John Rau... [ms torn]; Thomas Cornyssh ; John Miles ; John Beston ; John Draper ; John Higham , ‘bocher’; John Hanhamson ; John Garlond ; John Langham ; William Fuller ; and John Nyghtyngale .

He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The farms, among other things, were granted by Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416]. Marginal note: entail. They descended as in 182. The sums below were allotted to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty. £50 annual rent or farm, parcel of a farm of £57 10s. 8d. which the abbot and canons of Waltham Holy Cross paid to the Exchequer for the manor of Waltham; and £11 12d. annual rent or farm, parcel of a farm of £22 2s. which the abbot and convent of Stratford Langthorne paid to the Exchequer for the manors of Sudbury and ?West Ham (Hamme), held of the king in chief, service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 2½ and more. [Head:] Returned on 19 October 1445.

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191 Writ.‡ 18 June 1444. [Bate]. Addressed to Thomas Catworth, mayor and escheator.

CITY OF LONDON. Inquisition. The guildhall. 8 September 1444. [Catworth].

Jurors: John Merssh ; Roger Laurence ; Thomas Wodeland ; John Walssh ; William Anneys ; William Burton ; William de Lynne ; Thomas Partrissh ; Thomas Bee ; Nicholas Sparowe [ms torn] ; John Laurence ; and Nicholas Dey .

[The grants of 12 November 1404 and 25 October 1409 to John, earl of Somerset are described as in 188.] John, earl of Somerset was therefore seised in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body of £500 a year from the petty customs of the port of the city of London according to the terms of the later grant. The earl had issue: John, named in the writ, and Edmund Beaufort, marquis of Dorset , and died seised of such estate. After his death, the £500 descended to the duke as son and heir according to the later letters patent, and he died seised of such estate without male heir of his body. The sum descended to Edmund, as son and heir of the late earl.

Marginal note: tail to heirs male. ‘without male heir of his body’ omitted in E 149 copy and interlined in C 139.

Date of death as 178. His next heir is his daughter Margaret, aged 1 and more at his death. According to the terms of the later grant, Edmund is his brother and heir male, aged 39 and more. [Head:] Returned on 9 October 1444 .

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192 Writ. 18 June 1444. [Bate].

SOMERSET. Inquisition [indented]. Ilchester. ... October 1444 [ms torn]. [ Roger ]. [Inquisition: ms torn and galled in places.] ‘........ [ms torn] before St Luke the Evangelist, 23 Henry VI.’

Jurors: Thomas Huntley ; Thomas Blaneford ; John Flory ; Robert Camell ; John ?Lyte ; Thomas ?Lyte ; John Lymyngton ; Tristram ?Burnell ; Robert Goolde ; John Welweton ; William Mountagu, junior ; Richard Jayberd ; and Richard Walton .

He held the following in demesne as of fee. Burton, the manor, annual value 100s, service and of whom held unknown. He held in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body the style, name and honour of earl of Somerset , and £20 yearly from the issues of the county of Somerset, delivered by the sheriff at Easter and Michaelmas. This had been granted in letters patent of Richard II to John, late earl of Somerset and the heirs male of his body [cf. RDP, v, 115–7]. Marginal note: tail to heirs male. He held the following to him and the heirs of his body. The farms were granted by Edward ?III to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [cf. CChR, III, 416], and descended as in 182 above. They were allotted among other things to John, duke of Somerset to hold as his purparty. £20 annual farm recieved from the prior of ?Bath for the vill of [Bath]; and £8 annual farm from the vill of Milborne Port delivered by the burgesses; held of the king in chief, service unknown. Supplied from the charter roll. He was seised at his death of a yearly payment of 50 marks 8s. 10d. This sum was paid to the king by Thomas Radclyff, knight , and Thomas Haryngton, esquire , for two parts of the manor of Nether Wyresdale in Lancashire demised to them for a term of years, to be delivered by Thomas and Thomas or other occupiers. By letters patent dated 2 May 1438 [CPR 1436–41 , p. 161], the sum among other things, together with the reversion of the two parts of the manor, had been granted for life to the king’s dear and faithful kinsman Humphrey, earl of Stafford . By letters patent dated 25 September 1443 [ C 66/457 , mm. 18–19], shown to the jurors, the king granted to John, duke of Somerset and the heirs male of his body, the reversion of the two parts of the manor and the lands, tenements, rents, farms, meadows, pastures, services, reversions, mills, vivaries, rivers, pastures, parks, warrens, forests, chases, woods, mines, hundred courts, views of frankpledge, courts, bailiffs, officers, rights, free customs, castle-wards, fines, heriots, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forfeited lands and tenements, goods and chattels of outlaws, felons, fugitives and condemned, fairs, markets, liberties, franchises, knight’s fees, advowsons of churches, abbeys, priories, chapels, chantries, hospitals, ecclesiastical benefices and all other issues pertaining thereto. By the same letters patent he granted to the duke and the heirs male of his body an annual payment of 50 marks 8s. 10d., to be received from 30 March 1443 from the farm of the subsidy and ulnage of cloth for sale in Somerset at Easter and Michaelmas, delivered by the receivers or other occupiers of the subsidy and ulnage, during the term of years granted to Thomas Radclyff and Thomas Haryngton , and during the life of the earl of Stafford if he should outlive the term, as a recompense for the two parts of the manor of Nether Wyresdale which had been granted to the earl of Stafford . The reversion of the payment and of the two parts of the manor pertains to the king because the duke died without heir male of his body.

Date of death as 178. Edmund, marquis of Dorset , aged 30 and more, is his brother and next heir as to the name, style, dignity and honour, and the fee farm of £20. Margaret is his daughter and the heir of his body, aged 1½. [Head:] [Delivered to] court on 16 November 1444

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193 Writ. 18 June 1444. [Bate].

WESTMORLAND. Inquisition [indented]. Kendal. 12 November 1444. [Belyngeham].

Jurors: John Leugeus ; Robert Brygges ; Richard Preston ; Thomas Wylson ; Thomas Dokwraa ; William Gylpyn ; Robert Tunstall ; Robert Jopson ; Thomas Sterkelond ; William de Sterkelond ; John de Redmond ; and John Warynar .

He held the following in demesne as of fee tail to him and the heirs male of his body. Grasmere, 2/3 lordship or vill, annual value £6 10½d. Loughrigg, 2/3 lordship or manor, annual value 29s. 1d. Langdale, 2/3 lordship or vill, annual value £4 11s. 6d. Casterton, 2/3 lordship or vill, annual value 63s. 10d. Kendal, 2/3 borough with toll, annual value £4 5s. 9d. Ambleside, 2/3 lordship or manor, annual value £16 5s. 9½d. Troutbeck, 2/3 lordship or manor, annual value £17 8s. 6d. 2/3 office of serjeanty in the county of Westmorland, annual value 8 marks. The above were granted by royal letters patent dated at Westminster, 25 September 1443 [CPR 1441–6 , pp. 223–4], shown to the jurors. These letters patent also granted to the duke and his same heirs the following yearly payments and reversions pertaining to the king and his heirs. [1.] 43s. 4d. paid at Easter and Michaelmas by Robert Ingilton for the custody of the herbage of ‘la Dalehede’ for the term of forty years; and the reversion of the herbage, of no annual value beyond the farm. [2.] 40s. paid at the same terms by Henry Waren , who survives, for the custody of the park of Troutbeck and the herbage and pannage therein, for the term of his life, which he held by royal grant [CPR 1441–6, p. 93]; and the reversion of the park, herbage, and pannage, annual value £13 13s. 2d. beyond the rent. [3.] 5 marks paid at the same terms by Walter Strykland , who survives, for the keeping of the king’s park of Calgarth and the herbage and pannage therein, and fishery of and in the water of Windermere, and all the king’s lands and tenements in the hamlets of Applethwaite and Undermillbeck in the parish of Windermere, for the term of his life, which he held by royal grant [CPR 1441–6, p. 149]; and the reversion of the same, annual value £18 14s. 4d. beyond the rent. [4.] The reversion of two parts of the water of Kent and of the manors of Helsington, Crosthwaite, Hutton, Frosthwaite, and Strickland Ketel, which the king granted to his justice William Ayscogh for life free of rent [ CPR 1441–6, p. 131], annual value £23 12s. 10d. The reversion of all the above now pertains to the king because the duke died without heir male of his body.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 2. [Head:] Delivered to court on 12 February 1445.

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194 Writ.† 8 July 1444. [Bate].

YORKSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Hessle. 20 October 1444. [Portyngton]. [Inquisition: ms damaged and galled in places.]

Jurors: Robert Hawdenby, esquire ; Peter atte Well, senior ; William Barkyn ; Thomas Johnson ; William Appilby ; Peter atte Well, junior ; John Preston ; Robert [?Deft] [ms damaged; about 18 words missing]

‪ Henry VI , by letters patent dated at Westminster 25 September 1443 [CPR 1441–6 , pp. 223–4], shown to the jurors, granted the following to the duke and the heirs male of his body. [1.] £8 11s. ½d. paid yearly at Easter and Michaelmas by John Claghton to the receiver of the king’s lordship of Kendal for the custody for forty years of two parts of the manor of Thornton in Lonsdale, with the mines of ‘la lede ure’ in the lordship of the same manor; the ten measures [of lead] rendered to the king’s use by Claghton every ten years to the king’s officers there as is the custom in the Peak; and the reversion of the two parts of the manor. [2.] £4 8s. 10d. paid yearly at the same terms by Christopher Boynton for the custody of two parts of the manors of Kneeton and Middleton Tyas from 29 September 1440 for twelve years; the reversion of the two parts; and the lands, tenements, rents, farms, meadows, pastures, services, reversions, mills, vivaries, waters, stanks, river- banks (ripariis), fisheries, parks, warrens, forests, chases, woods, mines, ..., offices, rights, free customs, castle-wards, fines, heriots, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, forfeits of lands, goods and chattels of outlaws, felons and condemned, fairs, markets, liberties, franchises, knight’s fees, advowsons of churches, abbeys, priories, chapels, chantries, hospitals, and other benefices, profits and appurtenances of the two parts of the all the above manors. By the same letters patent, the king also granted the duke and his same heirs two parts of the lordship or manor of Bowes, annual value £18 13s. 4d, to hold from 30 March [?1443] during the life of [ Walter Strikland, esquire .] This was granted [in recompense for] the herbage and pannage of the king’s park of Calgarth, the king’s fishery of and in the water of Windermere, [and all the king’s lands and] tenements in the hamlets of Applethwaite and Undermillbeck, and on the south side of the water called Mill Beck in the parish of Windermere, all in Westmorland. By royal letters patent [CPR 1441–6, p. 149] shown to the jurors the keeping of the park had been granted to Walter Strikland for life, to hold himself or by sufficient deputy from 29 September 1443, together with the herbage, pannage, fishery and lands, for an annual payment of 5 marks only at Michaelmas and Easter. By virtue of these grants the duke held all these two parts (omnes predictas duas partes) at his death in the above forms. The reversions pertain to the king because he died without heir male of his body. The two parts of the manors of Thornton in Lonsdale, Kneeton, and Middleton Tyas are worth nothing beyond the above farms. He also held the following to himself and the heirs of his body. The farm was granted by ‪ Edward II to Edmund de Wodestoke and the heirs of his body [CChR, III, 416], and descended as in 182. The sum below was allotted to the duke to hold as his purparty when the farm was divided among the heirs. £5 5s. 9d. parcel of an annual farm of £90 which the abbot and convent of Kirkstall pay for the manor of Collingham, held of the king in chief, service unknown.

Date of death and heir as 178. She is aged 1½. [Head:] Delivered to court on 13 November 1444.

The summary of this grant in CPR 1441–6, pp. 223–4 is misleading. Error for fisheries (piscariis). E 149: Thomas Levens . E 149: Redman. Text supplied from CPR 1441–6, p. 224.

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