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WILLIAM FYNDERN, ESQUIRE Only styled esquire in inquisition 268.
268 Writ.‡ 7 May 1445. [Bate]. Addressed to the escheator of Somerset and Dorset .
DORSET. Inquisition. Blandford Forum or Blandford St Mary. 16 October 1445. [Leyot].
Jurors: Walter Payn ; Nicholas Halle ; William Daccomb ; William Hornesbowe ; John Lovell ; William Brunsoppe [ms torn] ; Ralph Cokyr ; John Chetyll ; John Athelam ; Stephen Parterygge ; Philip Whirlygan ; and Robert Chaundeler .
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king or of any other.
He died on 13 March last. Thomas Fyndern, knight , is his son and next heir, aged 33 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 23 November 1445.
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269 Writ.‡ 22 April 1445. [Bate].
CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Inquisition. Newmarket. 16 October [1445]. [Chyshull]. ms: Saturday before St Luke, 23 Henry VI, i.e. 17 October 1444.
Jurors: John Thyknesse ; Ralph Hancok ; John Vale ; Alexander Tebbe ; William Cokerell ; John Cokerell ; John Broun ; John Cotisworthe ; William Helvy ; Robert Asshewell ; John Fynt ; John Turnefyge ; John Brit ; and Thomas Baker .
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or in service of the king in chief or of any others.
Date of death and heir as 268, heir here aged 30 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 8 November 1445.
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270 Writ.‡ 12 May 1445. [Bate].
ESSEX. Inquisition. Saffron Walden. 17 February 1446. [Skargehill].
Jurors: Nicholas Broun ; Richard Bolyton , John Fizthwilliam ; Geoffrey Janyn ; John Parker ; John Davy ; Richard Twyn ; William Wodecok ; Roger Grey ; John Veysy ; Richard Longe ; Simon Lyndesell ; and William Admond .
He held no lands or tenements in demesne as of fee or in service, of the king in chief or of any other. But long before his death, one Thomas Bataill, esquire , was seised in demesne as of fee of 3 messuages, 600 a. land, 20 a. meadow, 200 a. pasture, and 40 a. wood in Manuden, Berden, Farnham, and Rickling. By a deed shown to the jurors, he granted to William Fyndern , for the term of his life, an annual rent of 8 marks at Easter and Michaelmas from these tenements, with power of distraint.
He died on 24 March last. Heir as 268, here aged 26 and more. [Head:] Delivered to court on 4 March 1446 by John Knyghton, deputy of Thomas Scargill escheator .
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