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JOHN CORNEWAILL, KNIGHT, LORD FANHOPE Styled simply ‘ John Cornewaill ’ in inquisition 201.
201 Writ. 20 December 1443. [Bate].
CORNWALL. Inquisition. Launceston. 4 August 1444. [Mewynnek].
Jurors: Edward Coriton and Oliver Wyse , esquires; Thomas Carwen ; William Benalva ; Nicholas Kympe ; John Tregeryek ; Nicholas Stevyn ; John Reynward ; Otes Trefusys ; John Palmer ; Stephen ?Carbyk ; and Richard Tyrell .
He held no lands or tenements of the king in chief in demesne or in service. But he held the following of the king, of the duchy of Cornwall, for the term of his life [services not specified]. Calstock and Trematon, the manors, annual value 200 marks. Restormel, the manor, annual value £12. Tewington, the manor, annual value £20 6s. ½d. Moresk, the manor, annual value £12 8d. Penknight, the manor, annual value 41s. 7½d. Penlyne, the manor, annual value £5 6s. 8d. Tintagel, the manor, annual value £16 5s. Lostwithiel, the borough, annual value £8. Camelford, the borough, annual value £4.
He died on 10 December last without any heir. [Head:] Returned on 14 August 1444.
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202 Writ.‡ 20 December 1443. [Louthe]. Addressed to the escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire .
BEDFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Ampthill. 10 February 1444. [Nowers].
Jurors: John Enderby , Thomas Reynes , Thomas Ragon , John Conquest , John Sewell , John Estwyk , William Britevile , and Richard Westurdale , esquires; William Wassyngle , John Malyns , Richard Merston , and Richard Goldston , all styled ‘gentilman’.
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king or of any other. Long before his death he was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Thus seised he feoffed Nicholas Aysheton and Walter Moyle , serjeants-at-law, John Wenlok, esquire , John Hamwell , and John Gyst , citizen of London, and their heirs and assigns, so that they were seised and still are in demesne as of fee. By letters patent dated at Westminster 28 January 1444 [not found], shown to the jurors, the king, of his special grace and for 20 marks paid in the hanaper, pardoned their trespass in acquiring without licence from John Cornewaill, knight, late lord Fanhope , and in entering into, the manors and advowsons of Ampthill and Millbrook, and ‘la Graunge’ by Millbrook, with all lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, woods, warrens, rents, and services of free and neif tenants; and granted that the manors, etc., could be held of the king and his heirs by due and customary services without impediment from the king or his officers. Ampthill, the manor, annual value £30, and the advowson; Millbrook, the manor, annual value £10, and the advowson; and ‘la Graunge’ by Millbrook, annual value 100s., held of the king in chief by knight service. Houghton Conquest (Houghton), Tingrith, Flitwick and Pillinge, the manors, annual value £20, held not of the king but of Nicholas Boras , service unknown.
He died on 11 December 1443. The jurors are ignorant as to his heir. [Head:] Delivered to court on 20 February 1444.
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