NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
Inquisition virtute officii [indented].
Newark-on-Trent.
2 November 1443. [
Cressy].
Jurors:
Thomas
Clerke
;
William
S... [ms illegible]
;
William
Clerk
;
Hugh
Smyth
;
John
Philipot
;
William
Cartere
;
John
Turnour
;
William
Webster
;
Robert
Greyf
;
Roger
Ferrour
;
Robert
Preist
; and
William
Horseley
.
Ellen
Vernon
, late wife of
William
Heresse
held the following, assigned to her in
dower from the inheritance of Isabel, daughter and heir of
Thomas
Matley
.
Stapleford, a messuage, worth nothing yearly; 4 bovates of land, worth ?17s. 4d. yearly; and a third part of two parts of a water-mill, worth 3s. yearly, held of the
king
in chief, of the honour of Nottingham, by knight service.
She died on 16 October last. [Heir not specified.]
Ellen
Ewer
of Nottingham, ‘wydowe’, was seised of the following in demesne as of fee. Thus seised, she was outlawed in the Hustings of London, on 19 February 1442, at the suit of
Richard
Keterich
, citizen of London. The jurors do not know who received the issues from the time of her outlawry until Easter last. But from Easter last until the day of this inquisition,
William
Clerk
of Gedling,
Thomas
Birk
, Richard ?Pert, and
William
Billy
took the issues.
Gedling, 10 a. meadow called ‘?Palmer dole’, worth 10s. yearly.