BEDFORDSHIRE.
Inquisition virtute officii [indented].
Shefford.
4 November 1443. [
Loughton].
Jurors:
William
Bedon
;
William
Fulleoflove
;
Roger
Haward
;
William
Lorde
;
Thomas
Wylteshire
;
John
Palmer
;
William
Tyller
;
Robert
Cras
;
John
Bromham
;
Henry
Boteler
;
Thomas
Plotte
; and
John
Warde
.
She held the following in demesne as of fee.
Arlesey, the manor, called ‘Etunsbury’, annual value 20 marks, held of
John, earl of Shrewsbury
, as 1 knight’s fee.
Potton, the manor, called ‘Cobhamsmaner’, annual value 10 marks, held of the king
in chief as ½ knight’s fee.
She died on 26 October 1442.
Edward
Broke, knight
, is her son and next heir, aged 40 and more.
He occupied the manors and received the issues from the time of her death.
William
Leche
, late of Arlesey, ‘husbondman’, deceased, was seised on 24 August
1434 of a messuage and 8 a. land in Arlesey, worth 6s. yearly. On that day he withdrew himself (se retraxit) and fled on account of his felony in killing
William
Clerk
alias
William
Smyth
of Arlesey.
The following entries are grouped together in the margin.
Maud, late wife of
Matthew
Stepyng
late of Blunham, ‘wedowe’, outlawed on 30 April
1442 at the suit of
Roger
Haward
, in a plea of debt, was seised for the term of her life of
33s. 4d. rent received from all the lands and tenements of
Thomas
Malyns
in Blunham, payable at Lady Day and Michaelmas, by grant of
John
Loughton
of Loughton,
Thomas
Malyns
of Willian, and
William
Wyrale
. Maud has received the rent from the time of her
outlawry.
John
Maltman
of
Forthe
, ‘husbondman’, outlawed on 20 August 1442 at the suit of
William
Sambroke
, in a plea of debt, died on 16 October last. He had at his death two
coverlets (coopertora), worth 2s.; 2 pairs of sheets, worth 3s.; a ?leaden vessel (unum plumbum) and 2 wooden vessels, [and] a ‘possenet’, worth 20d.